Well, sure, if you're a cheapskate. REAL music fans go for the digital clarity of a $500 Denon Dedicated Link cable. Sure, it's only an Ethernet cable but it's worth it!
If I could get the service I get from torrents (practically any film/album on demand, at the highest available quality, with a decent download speed, in an open format) at a reasonable price from a legitimate vendor then I and a lot of other people would use it. There will always be pirates. There have always been pirates. The problem is that currently the pirates get a much better deal and often get a services that isn't provided at all by the people are trying to distribute this content through legal channels. And most of what they do to stop the pirates only harms their legitimate customers. I've never been forced to sit through a "piracy is a crime" ad at the start of a pirated film.
I don't think piracy is right. But there are some good reasons behind it and the only moves I've seen from the (for example) the RIAA and MPAA are threats rather than offers of a decent alternative service.
I can't see them sinking any time soon. Flash is a free plugin so it's not like they get revenue from selling it. They've still got Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere, Dreamweaver etc to bring the cash in.
Help! It's all too much! How do you do it? I don't want to spoil the party but I've got a feeling he'll be in misery if the piggies force him to pay back all that money (that's what I want), unless they find him not guilty. It's about time someone was fixing a hole in copyright legislation but if all music was free as a bird then the artists wouldn't get what they deserve and they'd end up making music for no one but themselves. I guess things are getting better but the question is "How do you do it?". Maybe they should just let it be. That'll be the day.
Thanks for the responses. I installed Ubuntu about a year ago and couldn't stand it - nothing worked! I couldn't get the wireless drivers working therefore couldn't get online (no wired connection at the time). Because I couldn't get online (and am a noob) I couldn't get any other other software or drivers etc... So it was a buggy, clunky and ultimately useless.
I tried again once I had a wired connection, everything worked straight away, was smooth and has worked without a hitch ever since!
You can't break a cookie in half twice. You can break it in half once and then you can break a half-cookie in half. Saying that you're breaking the [whole] cookie in half twice implies that you are making the first break and then breaking both of those halves in two.
I know a lot of "creatives" (as apposed to destructives?). A lot of them - the majority - use macs. They can and do use PCs but they prefer to use macs for two reasons. One: a lot of the software they use works a whole lot better on macs. Two: you can spend more time actually doing what you needed to do as opposed to PCs or Linux where you spend more time making it work.
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Well, sure, if you're a cheapskate. REAL music fans go for the digital clarity of a $500 Denon Dedicated Link cable. Sure, it's only an Ethernet cable but it's worth it!
(p.s. read the reviews. seriously.)
100s? Why not go all the way?
Go and listen to DJ Shadow, RJD2 and/or Kid Koala.
I have no way to zoom in to great detail on the side of my mug.
Have you tried moving your head closer?
my answer to this is the same as their proposition:
Put a soc in it!
If I could get the service I get from torrents (practically any film/album on demand, at the highest available quality, with a decent download speed, in an open format) at a reasonable price from a legitimate vendor then I and a lot of other people would use it. There will always be pirates. There have always been pirates. The problem is that currently the pirates get a much better deal and often get a services that isn't provided at all by the people are trying to distribute this content through legal channels. And most of what they do to stop the pirates only harms their legitimate customers. I've never been forced to sit through a "piracy is a crime" ad at the start of a pirated film.
I don't think piracy is right. But there are some good reasons behind it and the only moves I've seen from the (for example) the RIAA and MPAA are threats rather than offers of a decent alternative service.
By the way, power failures are normally abrupt
Just as I read that sentence my computer rebooted itself for absolutely no reason. Freaky.
yeah, I've had Pinny McPinkerton's number in my phone for a while now.
Well, that'll stop those turtles stealing it.
This a really interesting discussion but I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the "Jesus' identical twin Frank" hypothesis.
I can't see them sinking any time soon. Flash is a free plugin so it's not like they get revenue from selling it. They've still got Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere, Dreamweaver etc to bring the cash in.
MIDGET FIGHT!
Because it doesn't require proprietary software
Apart from the fact that it IS proprietary software.
Help! It's all too much! How do you do it? I don't want to spoil the party but I've got a feeling he'll be in misery if the piggies force him to pay back all that money (that's what I want), unless they find him not guilty. It's about time someone was fixing a hole in copyright legislation but if all music was free as a bird then the artists wouldn't get what they deserve and they'd end up making music for no one but themselves. I guess things are getting better but the question is "How do you do it?". Maybe they should just let it be. That'll be the day.
The End.
P.S. I love you.
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I feel it as a personal accomplishment I *dont* have social network accounts on Facebook, Myspace and alike.
Well, you say that but we all know it's because you don't have any friends.
Well I don't know about multi-platform but you can export Sketchup files to Valve's VMF format. Not that I've ever managed to do it successfully...
True, but UT did introduce *blam* "HEADSHOT!!" sound effect which seems to be on every FPS server I play on these days.
Thanks for the responses. I installed Ubuntu about a year ago and couldn't stand it - nothing worked! I couldn't get the wireless drivers working therefore couldn't get online (no wired connection at the time). Because I couldn't get online (and am a noob) I couldn't get any other other software or drivers etc... So it was a buggy, clunky and ultimately useless. I tried again once I had a wired connection, everything worked straight away, was smooth and has worked without a hitch ever since!
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Isn't a cookie of size 2 molecules technically known as a Crumb?
How should one go about finding the best choice of distro for their needs without trying them all out? This is a serious question...
You can't break a cookie in half twice. You can break it in half once and then you can break a half-cookie in half. Saying that you're breaking the [whole] cookie in half twice implies that you are making the first break and then breaking both of those halves in two.
Disclaimer: I use Windows, Linux and Mac. They all have strengths and weaknesses and each one is better for a certain value of "better".
I know a lot of "creatives" (as apposed to destructives?). A lot of them - the majority - use macs. They can and do use PCs but they prefer to use macs for two reasons. One: a lot of the software they use works a whole lot better on macs. Two: you can spend more time actually doing what you needed to do as opposed to PCs or Linux where you spend more time making it work.