Who does that? The younger generation doesn't seem interested really. They're more interested in playing Minecraft.
There's more than enough free and cheap content to keep most people away from "geeky" file transfer protocols.
THAT is the point.
When I was their age, I was already buying my own music. The youth of today are distracted by other things entirely.
The great tragedy here isn't the narrative that the losers in the music industry want you to believe. The real tragedy is that they have lost mind share.
They are failing because they are losers, not because people are thieves.
Except we have this quaint notion that the system should be stacked in favor of the accused. There is supposed to be a bias for the defendant. The system is actually designed and intended with that in mind.
It's just that decades of subtle propaganda in the media, including entertainment, has eroded this idea.
The networks are dependent on public easements that the network "owners" have been granted access to by many local jurisdictions.
They are much like your local water and power company in this regard. It's long past time these other utilities (telcos) were actually treated as such.
> or to the Internet Service Providers competing with each other?
What "competing" ISPs?
If you are LUCKY, you will have the choice between competing physical monopolies that will both treat you like sh*t and otherwise act like they don't have to compete for your dollar.
Bullshit. Intel lives on the bleeding edge. Patents don't do squat for their bottom line. Keeping ahead of their rivals is what creates their bottom line. A 20 year long monopoly is meaningless in a world where yesterday's technology is considered stale.
Intel is perhaps the WORST example you could have come up with.
Patents exist to encourage the disclosure of trade secrets.
> It's a semantic game around terminology that ignores the real issues
Semantics are the issue. Corporate shills pretend that copyright is a natural right to align their interests with the Bill of Rights when the exact opposite is the case.
Semantics is at the center of the pro-corporate propaganda here.
Knocking down this propaganda is the first step to restoring balance to this situation.
Except the differences between copyright and property are not subjective. That was the entire point of the OP.
The differences here are very real.
Plus the corporate interests want to have it both ways. They want all of the advantages and none of the downside. They also want rights only for them and no one else.
It really doesn't work that way. Trying to will bring the whole house of cards down for everyone.
The Saudi regime doesn't act like crazy paranoid nutbags out to get us or out to convince their own citizens that we are out to get them.
That does alter the equation a bit.
As far as "atttacks on Venezeula" go, I see much more of that in European news sources as American ones just tend to ingore Venezeula and leave them to their self inflicted misery.
If anything, you're the frothing bigot here distorting reality by whatever means necessary to justify your little hate-gasm.
The real problem is that you can't charge anyone for the Black Album again. The copy you bought 20 years ago is still good today. There's no more media churn to make your old copy worthless.
Beyond that, the record industry has to compete with LOLCats and Netflix.
Rules matter. Laws matter. These things exist for a reason. They usually have some well thought out motivation behind them. There may even be a great deal of shared experience and tradition behind them.
NO ONE is above the law.
That includes the King/President and the Congress/Parliment. That is a very old idea that goes back way further than just 1776.
Ignoring the rule of law to suit your fetish of the moment just means that the government can abuse you at will in the future.
> I am sure the plan was great until you had to use it to actually cover stuff.
Cue variations on "we know better than you do".
No, the plan doesn't suck. You can't know that without actually having some real information about it. You're willingness to declare something in the absence of any actual real information here what Nixon called "liberal elitism".
"You can't be trusted to decide for yourself. We will run your life for you."
The original site design seems intended to funnel the largest amount of personal information to Experian Corp. It's a shopping site. Therefore you're going to get a lot of people just looking around to see what's for sale. What these guys have thrown together is probably exactly what the vast majority of visitors to the real Obamacare site want.
What can I buy? How much does it cost? What discount can I get?
The "ground troops" for this thing probably should have been insurance salesmen rather than a bunch of do-gooders.
> Careful. These are consumer grade drives. In other words, they're meant for use by typical consumers, where the disk spends 99.9999% of its time track following and running in a relatively low power state
In other words, the drives are total crap and the manufacturers are just hoping that that sheeple consumers won't notice.
If you have to cool it to transport it, then that's part of the transportation cost. The energy to cool something doesn't come for free. The fact that it costs a tremendous amount of energy to cool stuff doesn't alter the basic problem except to make it more dire.
Anyone with a real education relevant to environmental issues is likely to get chased off by "environmentalists" for not buying into the kool-aid too much and confusing the issue with things like facts and what's actually technically feasible.
"Environmentalism" might sound nice from a clueless do-gooder perspective but the politics of well intentioned idiots tends to get in the way.
> If you have figured out the magic formula to never ever hire a bad employee, we'd all love to hear it and how well it has worked at the scale of a large company.
I dunno. Perhaps actually put that probationary period to good use and actually fire people that aren't good enough.
However, the real problem here are managers that will hire idiots and avoid competent people. Others have mentioned about how quality often breaks down by teams with entire teams being good or bad because it's the manager that's driving things.
On the subject of Oracle killing things... it really doesn't matter if anyone is is contributing. That's not what Oracle is about. Oracle is about selling expensive licenses and support contracts. If Oracle can make money in this manner, I doubt that they would care about "who else is contributing".
That justification is just a specious red herring.
It's like they're trying to pretend that they're not the embodiment of Crassus Maximus when everyone already knows better.
Larry is all about how much he can squeeze out of you. If something isn't PROFITABLE, it will get dropped.
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Never been into a bookstore or news stand?
Your remarks could easily translate to "I am not aware of any Linux magazines at all". You probably never ever bothered to look.
That's more a reflection of publishing in general, rather than Linux in particular.
> You can tell the difference with 4k.
Under ideal conditions.
In actual real world conditions, not so much. The experience quickly degrades as soon as people aren't totally committed to it.
Then there's the audio side of things which opens up an entirely different can of worms (and another source of neglect).
> Buy music? Who does that? You just download
Who does that? The younger generation doesn't seem interested really. They're more interested in playing Minecraft.
There's more than enough free and cheap content to keep most people away from "geeky" file transfer protocols.
THAT is the point.
When I was their age, I was already buying my own music. The youth of today are distracted by other things entirely.
The great tragedy here isn't the narrative that the losers in the music industry want you to believe. The real tragedy is that they have lost mind share.
They are failing because they are losers, not because people are thieves.
Except we have this quaint notion that the system should be stacked in favor of the accused. There is supposed to be a bias for the defendant. The system is actually designed and intended with that in mind.
It's just that decades of subtle propaganda in the media, including entertainment, has eroded this idea.
The networks are dependent on public easements that the network "owners" have been granted access to by many local jurisdictions.
They are much like your local water and power company in this regard. It's long past time these other utilities (telcos) were actually treated as such.
> or to the Internet Service Providers competing with each other?
What "competing" ISPs?
If you are LUCKY, you will have the choice between competing physical monopolies that will both treat you like sh*t and otherwise act like they don't have to compete for your dollar.
Bullshit. Intel lives on the bleeding edge. Patents don't do squat for their bottom line. Keeping ahead of their rivals is what creates their bottom line. A 20 year long monopoly is meaningless in a world where yesterday's technology is considered stale.
Intel is perhaps the WORST example you could have come up with.
Patents exist to encourage the disclosure of trade secrets.
Intel makes money by SELLING THINGS.
> It's a semantic game around terminology that ignores the real issues
Semantics are the issue. Corporate shills pretend that copyright is a natural right to align their interests with the Bill of Rights when the exact opposite is the case.
Semantics is at the center of the pro-corporate propaganda here.
Knocking down this propaganda is the first step to restoring balance to this situation.
Necessity is the mother of invention, not avarice.
The same argument you use in favor of patents run amok can also be applied to the victims of patent trolls.
Except the differences between copyright and property are not subjective. That was the entire point of the OP.
The differences here are very real.
Plus the corporate interests want to have it both ways. They want all of the advantages and none of the downside. They also want rights only for them and no one else.
It really doesn't work that way. Trying to will bring the whole house of cards down for everyone.
> Every day in Saudi Arabia
The Saudi regime doesn't act like crazy paranoid nutbags out to get us or out to convince their own citizens that we are out to get them.
That does alter the equation a bit.
As far as "atttacks on Venezeula" go, I see much more of that in European news sources as American ones just tend to ingore Venezeula and leave them to their self inflicted misery.
If anything, you're the frothing bigot here distorting reality by whatever means necessary to justify your little hate-gasm.
Yawn.
The real problem is that you can't charge anyone for the Black Album again. The copy you bought 20 years ago is still good today. There's no more media churn to make your old copy worthless.
Beyond that, the record industry has to compete with LOLCats and Netflix.
> Do you also support the ridiculous use of the phrase "fetus"
He isn't the one engaging in that kind of nonsense. If anything, YOU are the one pulling that kind of dishonest nonsense.
> "emergency contraception" is abortion, there's no two ways about it, and we shouldn't hide behind euphemisms.
What euphemism? You would be "aborting" a Zygote.
That's at least two stages before being a fetus.
Rules matter. Laws matter. These things exist for a reason. They usually have some well thought out motivation behind them. There may even be a great deal of shared experience and tradition behind them.
NO ONE is above the law.
That includes the King/President and the Congress/Parliment. That is a very old idea that goes back way further than just 1776.
Ignoring the rule of law to suit your fetish of the moment just means that the government can abuse you at will in the future.
> I am sure the plan was great until you had to use it to actually cover stuff.
Cue variations on "we know better than you do".
No, the plan doesn't suck. You can't know that without actually having some real information about it. You're willingness to declare something in the absence of any actual real information here what Nixon called "liberal elitism".
"You can't be trusted to decide for yourself. We will run your life for you."
The original site design seems intended to funnel the largest amount of personal information to Experian Corp. It's a shopping site. Therefore you're going to get a lot of people just looking around to see what's for sale. What these guys have thrown together is probably exactly what the vast majority of visitors to the real Obamacare site want.
What can I buy? How much does it cost? What discount can I get?
The "ground troops" for this thing probably should have been insurance salesmen rather than a bunch of do-gooders.
...or just assumed user error.
The site returns a blank page if you suppress all of the scripts on it. Debugging should be a more thorough than just declaring "it sucks".
> Careful. These are consumer grade drives. In other words, they're meant for use by typical consumers, where the disk spends 99.9999% of its time track following and running in a relatively low power state
In other words, the drives are total crap and the manufacturers are just hoping that that sheeple consumers won't notice.
No. Actually USING a product is not "abusing" it.
If you have to cool it to transport it, then that's part of the transportation cost. The energy to cool something doesn't come for free. The fact that it costs a tremendous amount of energy to cool stuff doesn't alter the basic problem except to make it more dire.
Anyone with a real education relevant to environmental issues is likely to get chased off by "environmentalists" for not buying into the kool-aid too much and confusing the issue with things like facts and what's actually technically feasible.
"Environmentalism" might sound nice from a clueless do-gooder perspective but the politics of well intentioned idiots tends to get in the way.
> Want to kill babies?
You are free to try and adopt one of those "babies" and care for it yourself if you can.
The two Bobs!
> If you have figured out the magic formula to never ever hire a bad employee, we'd all love to hear it and how well it has worked at the scale of a large company.
I dunno. Perhaps actually put that probationary period to good use and actually fire people that aren't good enough.
However, the real problem here are managers that will hire idiots and avoid competent people. Others have mentioned about how quality often breaks down by teams with entire teams being good or bad because it's the manager that's driving things.
On the subject of Oracle killing things... it really doesn't matter if anyone is is contributing. That's not what Oracle is about. Oracle is about selling expensive licenses and support contracts. If Oracle can make money in this manner, I doubt that they would care about "who else is contributing".
That justification is just a specious red herring.
It's like they're trying to pretend that they're not the embodiment of Crassus Maximus when everyone already knows better.
Larry is all about how much he can squeeze out of you. If something isn't PROFITABLE, it will get dropped.
The CEO putting his butt on the line to fire the thing would have been a much more convincing testimonial.