Considering it's an optional add-on for a web browser, could you please explain how Silverlight/Moonlight would "infect" Linux with patent problems? Especially when Novell apparently has a patent license?
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Or, to quote Dilbert, "Why trade perfectly good money for something that does the same thing only less well?"
Maybe I'm missing something salient, but all this says is if you change the membership number provided to the system, the system will use that instead of any other. The only difference is that instead of the number being provided via a keyboard, it's provided via a barcode.
I agree with you entirely, but I'd just point out that the GPL doesn't really apply to music. A good analog in these situations would be Creative Commons. I especially agree with the last paragraph; if you want to fuck the RIAA, the best way is to avoid it entirely. Piracy is counterproductive.
LimeWire's real reason for existance (and the RIAA's opposition to it) is for independant artists to get their music out.
No, that's what LimeWire says their real reason for existence is, as a thin veneer of legitimacy. Most of the people I know who use LimeWire use it for getting free major label music, maybe some porn, and nothing more. LimeWire sucks ass for getting independent artists known, simply because it provides no way to look for them or even differentiate them from other artists.
Someone seeding their album on Mininova or such, however, might have a better chance; they get their album shown on the front page and can give a short description of what they sound like, where they come from, the track listing etc. I actually have the most hope that the torrent aggregators could be anything other than just a repository of pirated albums and camrips; they can be used for numerous legitimate purposes as well (the fact that 99% of the time they aren't is the main problem here).
Please, though, don't fall into LimeWire's shitty marketing trap. They know full well what their product is used for. It's like people selling vibrators as "back massagers" where vibrators are illegal. All they want to do is avoid the wrath of the law(yers).
In the UK we have a law against dangerous driving. Have you ever wondered who someone caught doing 31 mph in a non-residential area on an empty dual carriageway is charged with speeding but not dangerous driving?
They wouldn't. You get an extra few percent of the speed limit as leeway to stop such silly prosecutions going through. Stop repeating the same bollocks all the other "I want to drive as fast as I like wherever I like" idiots spout.
If you have Sky Digital TV in the UK, for £5 ($10) a month you can get Music Choice extra, which has 48 channels of music dedicated to everything from current hits to smooth jazz and everything in the middle... no DJs, no ads, no videos even. Their "Indie Classics" channel, which is actually a lovely mix of indie and old school punk/rock (David Bowie, The Smiths and XTC being a few example artists) is worth the price to me alone, imho.
It's Christmas time, so I'll dispense with the usual mean-spirited "Shut the fuck up you boring tool".
Instead, I'll just say "Merry Christmas twitter, you boring tool, shut the fuck up and go and spend time making Christmas tree decorations with your kid or something rather than flogging a dead horse."
Nobody ever has, they get bugger all in the way of promotion. I saw one of their videos on the TV *once* and that's about it. A shame, because they could be as big as Floyd or Radiohead now if they were given a bit of a push.
I totally agree, and have another act you might want to have a good look at listening through: Pink Floyd. Yeah, I know, cliche, but they're one of the best bands ever to come out of the UK, or indeed anywhere.
Porcupine Tree are excellent also, they've gone from a one-man band playing psychedelic/space rock to a progressive metal band while covering everything else in the middle over the years. Get "On The Sunday Of Life...", "Lightbulb Sun" (at least that one, easily one of my favourite albums - albeit one you will, sadly, have to pirate as it's been deleted (unless you wanna do what I did and go find it on eBay)) and "Fear of a Blank Planet" if nothing else. Very, very diverse act.
Anyone who can build their own computer and install their own operating system, can surely run one simple command.
That assumes a lot, especially about how hard it is to build PCs and install an operating system... also, how are they going to know how to download what they want? Say someone wants IE. Where does Microsoft host IE7 binaries on their FTP server? Eh? Or someone wants Safari, where's Safari on Apple's FTP servers?
Hell, how do you think people installed browsers in the first place? Everyone who owned a computer was a genius before IE was bundled?
No, Netscape and Microsoft sold their browsers on CD. Or people got a browser on a setup CD from their ISP. That's how it worked.
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I somehow find it quite hard to see how rape is an appropriate punishment for someone sending a lot of emails.
Smart people download everything for free.
I'm sorry, you misspelt "Freeloaders".
The Mighty Mouse is pretty, but a piece of shit. The scroll ball fucks up all the time and you can't click both mouse buttons independently.
My Microsoft mouse has no such problems.
Considering it's an optional add-on for a web browser, could you please explain how Silverlight/Moonlight would "infect" Linux with patent problems? Especially when Novell apparently has a patent license?
Or, to quote Dilbert, "Why trade perfectly good money for something that does the same thing only less well?"
My thoughts precisely. But hey, childish bashing is A-OK if Microsoft is the target round here...
Maybe I'm missing something salient, but all this says is if you change the membership number provided to the system, the system will use that instead of any other. The only difference is that instead of the number being provided via a keyboard, it's provided via a barcode.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I agree with you entirely, but I'd just point out that the GPL doesn't really apply to music. A good analog in these situations would be Creative Commons. I especially agree with the last paragraph; if you want to fuck the RIAA, the best way is to avoid it entirely. Piracy is counterproductive.
LimeWire's real reason for existance (and the RIAA's opposition to it) is for independant artists to get their music out.
No, that's what LimeWire says their real reason for existence is, as a thin veneer of legitimacy. Most of the people I know who use LimeWire use it for getting free major label music, maybe some porn, and nothing more. LimeWire sucks ass for getting independent artists known, simply because it provides no way to look for them or even differentiate them from other artists.
Someone seeding their album on Mininova or such, however, might have a better chance; they get their album shown on the front page and can give a short description of what they sound like, where they come from, the track listing etc. I actually have the most hope that the torrent aggregators could be anything other than just a repository of pirated albums and camrips; they can be used for numerous legitimate purposes as well (the fact that 99% of the time they aren't is the main problem here).
Please, though, don't fall into LimeWire's shitty marketing trap. They know full well what their product is used for. It's like people selling vibrators as "back massagers" where vibrators are illegal. All they want to do is avoid the wrath of the law(yers).
If the gov't ignores every statement saying almost noone wants these speed cameras, they will have to be persuaded by hitting them in the wallet.
It's you that pays for the cameras through taxes, dumbass.
In the UK we have a law against dangerous driving. Have you ever wondered who someone caught doing 31 mph in a non-residential area on an empty dual carriageway is charged with speeding but not dangerous driving?
They wouldn't. You get an extra few percent of the speed limit as leeway to stop such silly prosecutions going through. Stop repeating the same bollocks all the other "I want to drive as fast as I like wherever I like" idiots spout.
Well, that's my Christmas fucked.
And things were going so well. Why'd ya have to go and drop the T-bomb?!?!
If you have Sky Digital TV in the UK, for £5 ($10) a month you can get Music Choice extra, which has 48 channels of music dedicated to everything from current hits to smooth jazz and everything in the middle... no DJs, no ads, no videos even. Their "Indie Classics" channel, which is actually a lovely mix of indie and old school punk/rock (David Bowie, The Smiths and XTC being a few example artists) is worth the price to me alone, imho.
I think he means individual soldiers.
Hilariously, it's most likely all of the above and more.
But needless to say if you bought the song, you should have the right to listen to a 30 second segment when ever any bugger calls you.
I would argue that you DON'T have that right, not for any legally founded reason but because novelty/song ringtones annoy the bollocks off me.
It's Christmas time, so I'll dispense with the usual mean-spirited "Shut the fuck up you boring tool".
Instead, I'll just say "Merry Christmas twitter, you boring tool, shut the fuck up and go and spend time making Christmas tree decorations with your kid or something rather than flogging a dead horse."
Funny, my Windows Mobile phone is exactly the same. Strange, that... Apple being outconvenienced by both RIM *and* Microsoft.
(Disclaimer: I'm a Mac user who happens to 3 his WM6 Pocket PC phone)
There is no statutory cull of wankers at 18
And being 18, I'm eternally grateful for that fact. I'd be first for the chop, easy.
Hey, twitter! Yeah, I know, AC and all, but it's the most friggin' obvious thing in the world. Fool.
If there were no black people in America, would segregation laws be a non-issue because no one was affected?
Actually, yes.
Yeah, too bad that's an online order form. ;)
I seem to recall once seeing boxed copies of Netscape and IE, back in the olden days. That's what I was referring to.
Haven't heard of them
Nobody ever has, they get bugger all in the way of promotion. I saw one of their videos on the TV *once* and that's about it. A shame, because they could be as big as Floyd or Radiohead now if they were given a bit of a push.
I totally agree, and have another act you might want to have a good look at listening through: Pink Floyd. Yeah, I know, cliche, but they're one of the best bands ever to come out of the UK, or indeed anywhere.
Porcupine Tree are excellent also, they've gone from a one-man band playing psychedelic/space rock to a progressive metal band while covering everything else in the middle over the years. Get "On The Sunday Of Life...", "Lightbulb Sun" (at least that one, easily one of my favourite albums - albeit one you will, sadly, have to pirate as it's been deleted (unless you wanna do what I did and go find it on eBay)) and "Fear of a Blank Planet" if nothing else. Very, very diverse act.
Anyone who can build their own computer and install their own operating system, can surely run one simple command.
That assumes a lot, especially about how hard it is to build PCs and install an operating system... also, how are they going to know how to download what they want? Say someone wants IE. Where does Microsoft host IE7 binaries on their FTP server? Eh? Or someone wants Safari, where's Safari on Apple's FTP servers?
Hell, how do you think people installed browsers in the first place? Everyone who owned a computer was a genius before IE was bundled?
No, Netscape and Microsoft sold their browsers on CD. Or people got a browser on a setup CD from their ISP. That's how it worked.