I was GOING to complain about snl2587's unique combination of "zero content post" plus "score of insightful,"
Save your personal attacks: I'm not the moderator, and the post was never intended for an "insightful". At all. I had just spent seven hours doing full Windows re-installs on a server pool so, frankly, I was a little anti-Microsoft.
...and completely without copy protection. I can honestly say that I have only gotten cracks for games I already own a full license to, but I would have never needed to if the games hadn't been virtually padlocked with a faulty key.
I bet a lack of copy protection would also lower the number of calls to tech support as well.
The real issues are the domestic, warrantless spying and the attempt to bring down Bittorrent even for legal filesharing. Everything else is secondary.
Or that, if you really want to get technical, everything that takes place over the internet exchanges information between two or more parties. How does one quantify p2p as opposed to simply transfer of information between two people, two servers, etc?
Of course, all of this is assuming this is some extremely pure water. Otherwise fouling will occur, and in 50 micron tubes I'm fairly certain it will be hard to clean.
Yeah, I think the article completely ignored Sun's role in the OpenOffice.org project. Of course, this would be great thing if it wasn't already happening...or was the suggestion to also do a corporate takeover of Sun?
Yes, most of us want information that should be public (such as everything related to the government, which we fund and is supposed to belong to us) to be freely available. That other kind of information should not be publicly available since it is information about private citizens.
I'll be more specific. It is my understanding that the post I was referring to was expanding the acronym OODB so the summary wasn't as hard to understand. And if you're the A.C. I responded to before then...wow...
And you're saying that the only thing that stops you from not being even more active in depriving them of the choices that musicians make, is being afraid of getting caught. (emphasis mine)
It seems you've bought in to the RIAA's claim, among others, that it's wrong to buy used CDs. To legally transfer between two parties the music of an artist so that the receiving party can be exposed to it. Few artists, I'm sure, would say that's a bad thing.
And by the way, I am not a fan of pop music (i.e. the only ones who actually benefit from modern record deals), and let me state that from personal experience I know record deals do just about didly-squat for the rest, and the artists are fully aware of that (thanks for distorting the points). The smart ones either a) create their own for the sole purpose of releasing a record for exposure or b) use another for the sole purpose of releasing a record for exposure. Then they use the exposure to tour and actually make money while gaining fans.
Ideally, as a real monument to that artist, nobody would ever pay them, and they can just be your bankrupt entertainment slave.
Save for the really successful and heavily marketed artists, the record companies hardly pay them, either. Most of the money artists make come from live shows. The majority of the price of an album goes toward an overly bloated business.
Still, that mostly applies to records and not music. For movies, you do realize that the amount people who actual act in and direct the movie make from DVD sales is pretty much nil, right? I agree that copying movies still in theaters hurts the creators, as it's like their live show, but otherwise the money goes to an overly bloated business.
And given all that, I buy used CDs/DVDs on the very cheap and go to live shows/the movies for things I really want to hear/see, where artists are truly supported. The only reason I'm not running Bittorrent/Limewire is because it simply isn't worth the risk, not because I believe that it hurts the artists I support for actually creating good music/movies.
Oh well, good for Apple - they can't make computers fast enough for demand. That's really what this is about and they deserve the marketshare.
I think that's up for debate, and really, this is most likely a social prank, not a mass gathering to encourage Apple to speed up production of the i[newest-product-name-goes-here].
I think they are begrudgingly supporting ODF since their customers are demanding it, but making the implementation just irritating enough (and, I would guess, incompatible with many features of Office) that users will be inclined to just work in docx (which OpenOffice and others cannot read perfectly, if at all).
So, in case anyone was still thinking that OOXML being confirmed as a standard wasn't a bad thing...
And as far as supporting ODF goes, I'd applaud Microsoft for taking a step in the right direction if they weren't constantly declaring themselves the victors over Open Source. I only wonder how they'll spin this.
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Save your personal attacks: I'm not the moderator, and the post was never intended for an "insightful". At all. I had just spent seven hours doing full Windows re-installs on a server pool so, frankly, I was a little anti-Microsoft.
And here comes the next round from a company on it's way out the door and no longer truly innovating: litigation!
...and completely without copy protection. I can honestly say that I have only gotten cracks for games I already own a full license to, but I would have never needed to if the games hadn't been virtually padlocked with a faulty key.
I bet a lack of copy protection would also lower the number of calls to tech support as well.
The real issues are the domestic, warrantless spying and the attempt to bring down Bittorrent even for legal filesharing. Everything else is secondary.
Uh...codebreaking?
It does if you go to View->Sidebar->History (or Ctrl+H). It's slightly different to get to it, but roughly the same otherwise.
Personally, I like the database structure implemented by FF3. Especially the speed of reviewing the history and the "awesome bar".
Or that, if you really want to get technical, everything that takes place over the internet exchanges information between two or more parties. How does one quantify p2p as opposed to simply transfer of information between two people, two servers, etc?
Of course, all of this is assuming this is some extremely pure water. Otherwise fouling will occur, and in 50 micron tubes I'm fairly certain it will be hard to clean.
Yeah, I think the article completely ignored Sun's role in the OpenOffice.org project. Of course, this would be great thing if it wasn't already happening...or was the suggestion to also do a corporate takeover of Sun?
They're supposed to. But these are not the republicans your parents told you about...these are neo-cons.
Yes, most of us want information that should be public (such as everything related to the government, which we fund and is supposed to belong to us) to be freely available. That other kind of information should not be publicly available since it is information about private citizens.
...and employ hundreds of people as couriers.
I'll be more specific. It is my understanding that the post I was referring to was expanding the acronym OODB so the summary wasn't as hard to understand. And if you're the A.C. I responded to before then...wow...
And I, for one, wouldn't want to work for you for failing to understand what the GP was saying.
And they've all been coming from ScuttleMonkey. ALL of them.
FYI: That's not the only way articles can get on the front page.
So who's bribing Slashdot to put this stuff on the front page?
Our good friend Ron Paul, it turns out.
It seems you've bought in to the RIAA's claim, among others, that it's wrong to buy used CDs. To legally transfer between two parties the music of an artist so that the receiving party can be exposed to it. Few artists, I'm sure, would say that's a bad thing.
And by the way, I am not a fan of pop music (i.e. the only ones who actually benefit from modern record deals), and let me state that from personal experience I know record deals do just about didly-squat for the rest, and the artists are fully aware of that (thanks for distorting the points). The smart ones either a) create their own for the sole purpose of releasing a record for exposure or b) use another for the sole purpose of releasing a record for exposure. Then they use the exposure to tour and actually make money while gaining fans.
Save for the really successful and heavily marketed artists, the record companies hardly pay them, either. Most of the money artists make come from live shows. The majority of the price of an album goes toward an overly bloated business.
Still, that mostly applies to records and not music. For movies, you do realize that the amount people who actual act in and direct the movie make from DVD sales is pretty much nil, right? I agree that copying movies still in theaters hurts the creators, as it's like their live show, but otherwise the money goes to an overly bloated business.
And given all that, I buy used CDs/DVDs on the very cheap and go to live shows/the movies for things I really want to hear/see, where artists are truly supported. The only reason I'm not running Bittorrent/Limewire is because it simply isn't worth the risk, not because I believe that it hurts the artists I support for actually creating good music/movies.
I was referring mostly to your "they deserve the marketshare" statement...
I think that's up for debate, and really, this is most likely a social prank, not a mass gathering to encourage Apple to speed up production of the i[newest-product-name-goes-here].
I think they are begrudgingly supporting ODF since their customers are demanding it, but making the implementation just irritating enough (and, I would guess, incompatible with many features of Office) that users will be inclined to just work in docx (which OpenOffice and others cannot read perfectly, if at all).
So, in case anyone was still thinking that OOXML being confirmed as a standard wasn't a bad thing...
And as far as supporting ODF goes, I'd applaud Microsoft for taking a step in the right direction if they weren't constantly declaring themselves the victors over Open Source. I only wonder how they'll spin this.
It won't. But it sure looks good on paper to the technologically declined who are worried about their home PC security.