Thanks for your reply. One point sticks out to me, or at least was in my mind while I read the rest of the comment:
This is the public's revenge for creating unjust terms in the first place
That is unethical. "I don't agree with your terms, so I'm going to steal your product to spite you!" isn't the answer. Boycott, and voting with your money would be both ethical and effective, if enough would engage in it. The company has not straw-man of "piracy" or "theft" to brainwash shareholders terrified by slumping profits and bamboozle courts over infringement of imaginary property rights.
The trouble is, everyone seems to want their cake, and eat it.
You can't stream to a PMP. It's pointless. If it's a streaming service, it's not going to help Zune sales, as Zune is a storage device for bought music. Spotify, if MS competing with it as the stub says, has no store. You listen at your computer in exchange for listening to some advertisments.
If it's selling music like iTunes then it'll compete with Apple and help boost Zune sales, if it's good. If it's streaming music then it'll compete with Spotify, and nobody will care as spotify is great.
Juries are populated by the populace, and the populace are sheeple. They're inconvenienced by jury duty! They hold the whole service in contempt!
I was on a jury for a GBH case, lasted 5 days. At the end of the 5 days, I realised that:
- Three of the jurors didn't understand what the judge told them or what the barristers were asking, and didn't bother to ask for clarification. They just looked at the people in the dock and made up their mind based upon whether they "looked like they did it." - Four understood, but didn't really take it seriously. It was a holiday for them, a time away from work. Needless to say these were the people who worked as a subordinate to someone else, so they still had income. - Two were self employed. They didn't talk about anything else apart from how much money they were losing, and constantly rushed any decision. - Two (myself and a young lady, of like mind to myself) took it seriously. We were deciding the far-reaching future of some young people charged with a terrible crime, and we did our best to help the others understand points of law, asked pertinent questions of the judge, and pretty much lead the deliberation.
There's one more person in this jury that i've not mentioned. I've saved the best until last. A young man, early twenties. All I can say about him is that he was bored. Bored by the whole thing. He constantly shuffled in his chair, hummed to himself in court, and as we entered court before we gave our verdict he hummed the death march.
If those are the people who decide my future, should I ever end up in court, I sincerely hope it is left up to a judge.
Right, so... Whether the terms content creators / publishers impose on your "ownership" of a product are fair or not, you still want to be able to use the product they sell? Yet you want all of this at the terms you? Who gave you the right? If you don't want to abide by a specific term or condition, you don't get to use the product. That's just not how a free market works, and you know it.
I have absolutely no issue with any of what's going on except for two things:
1. Corporate lobbying. Corporations should not be able to buy legislation. End of story. 2. Government bailouts. In a free market, a business which fails is a business which fails. There's a reason for that failure; It's a sign that the business model or product is no longer financially lucrative, and the business needs to shape up or ship out. I'm bordering on refusing to pay any tax and risking imprisonment for this blatant disregard for free market economics. If the gooberment propped up every single failing business in the western world in this time of financial crysis, the World Bank would be (metaphorically, at least) empty.
Nice rant, though. Eloquent, cites sources, and emotionally provocative. Too bad you missed the bigger picture.
3/5 of IT workforce don't plan to deploy Windows 7 by the end of next year? That's called common sense! You don't install new software in enterprise as it's buggy, unstable, and more often than not full of incompatibilities. A lot of these are fixed with the first Service Pack, which is when big business will start planning.
Sweet Jesus on a bed or roses, I work in a school with around 40 computers *total* and even I won't upgrade until SP1 is out. Doing so before is just begging to be burned.
Wasn't the second season where Hurley had flashbacks all the time? I mean I know he looks like a fat hippy, but really... That's just not politically correct, guys.
And I still don't know what that frigging black smoke was!! God damn it, that show irritated the shit out of me...
The thermite reaction has an activation energy of 145 kJ/mol for 8Al-3Fe2O3 thermite. USB2 device charging spec (highest power output) provides a maximum 9 J/s
You might get it working with a series of exothermic reactions but it would become bulky, and with that low an energy input to work with you're more likely setting it off leaving it in a car on a hot day.
Ironically, they think the same thing; That those higher up the food chain are:
- Always wrong - Have no place telling them what to do - Don't nearly give them enough pocket money, and - Make them do their work before they can watch cartoons / play on the Xbox.
He wasn't hanging out with media analysts, he was on work experience. Kids in Year 10 (14 - 15 years old) spend a week in a company of (mostly) their choosing to see what the world of work is like, and to see if they really want to be a scientist / astronaught / fireman / gaenocologist.
Consider that this story wasn't published for its insight, but to drum up media coverage for Morgan Stanley. It seems to have worked.
With this device, sunshine really will shine out of the owners' backside. Only without the whole "ring of fire" effect you'd expect from such an occurance.
Slashdot Mirror
This is the public's revenge for creating unjust terms in the first place
That is unethical. "I don't agree with your terms, so I'm going to steal your product to spite you!" isn't the answer. Boycott, and voting with your money would be both ethical and effective, if enough would engage in it. The company has not straw-man of "piracy" or "theft" to brainwash shareholders terrified by slumping profits and bamboozle courts over infringement of imaginary property rights.
The trouble is, everyone seems to want their cake, and eat it.
TNSTAAFL.
Dude... Who are you?
If you're in the UK, you're missing out. I'm serious.
Spotify I've not downloaded music in months.
You can't stream to a PMP. It's pointless. If it's a streaming service, it's not going to help Zune sales, as Zune is a storage device for bought music. Spotify, if MS competing with it as the stub says, has no store. You listen at your computer in exchange for listening to some advertisments.
If it's selling music like iTunes then it'll compete with Apple and help boost Zune sales, if it's good. If it's streaming music then it'll compete with Spotify, and nobody will care as spotify is great.
Disagreeing is not trolling.
Let the author rebut my arguement, but don't mod me down because you disagree with my point of view. Hell, reply yourself if you have an opinion.
That's how ideas are shared.
Juries are populated by the populace, and the populace are sheeple. They're inconvenienced by jury duty! They hold the whole service in contempt!
I was on a jury for a GBH case, lasted 5 days. At the end of the 5 days, I realised that:
- Three of the jurors didn't understand what the judge told them or what the barristers were asking, and didn't bother to ask for clarification. They just looked at the people in the dock and made up their mind based upon whether they "looked like they did it."
- Four understood, but didn't really take it seriously. It was a holiday for them, a time away from work. Needless to say these were the people who worked as a subordinate to someone else, so they still had income.
- Two were self employed. They didn't talk about anything else apart from how much money they were losing, and constantly rushed any decision.
- Two (myself and a young lady, of like mind to myself) took it seriously. We were deciding the far-reaching future of some young people charged with a terrible crime, and we did our best to help the others understand points of law, asked pertinent questions of the judge, and pretty much lead the deliberation.
There's one more person in this jury that i've not mentioned. I've saved the best until last. A young man, early twenties. All I can say about him is that he was bored. Bored by the whole thing. He constantly shuffled in his chair, hummed to himself in court, and as we entered court before we gave our verdict he hummed the death march.
If those are the people who decide my future, should I ever end up in court, I sincerely hope it is left up to a judge.
Right, so... Whether the terms content creators / publishers impose on your "ownership" of a product are fair or not, you still want to be able to use the product they sell? Yet you want all of this at the terms you? Who gave you the right? If you don't want to abide by a specific term or condition, you don't get to use the product. That's just not how a free market works, and you know it.
I have absolutely no issue with any of what's going on except for two things:
1. Corporate lobbying. Corporations should not be able to buy legislation. End of story.
2. Government bailouts. In a free market, a business which fails is a business which fails. There's a reason for that failure; It's a sign that the business model or product is no longer financially lucrative, and the business needs to shape up or ship out. I'm bordering on refusing to pay any tax and risking imprisonment for this blatant disregard for free market economics. If the gooberment propped up every single failing business in the western world in this time of financial crysis, the World Bank would be (metaphorically, at least) empty.
Nice rant, though. Eloquent, cites sources, and emotionally provocative. Too bad you missed the bigger picture.
What the hell?! You clearly know the word is "quit" from your first sentence, and yet you persist in typing "quite" more times than "quit" throughout!
You can't even call it a typo! E is nowhere near close enough to T to slip!
WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, MAN?!
Disclaimer: My inkblot test came out with a predisposition to fixate.
They found correlations between certain diagnoses and certain types of answers or behaviors exhibited during the test.
You might have seen this here before.
CorrelationIsNotCausation.
No, you're not conforming to socially accepted behaviour and therefore have a sociopathic disorder.
IANAP
This is a totally dogshit article.
3/5 of IT workforce don't plan to deploy Windows 7 by the end of next year? That's called common sense! You don't install new software in enterprise as it's buggy, unstable, and more often than not full of incompatibilities. A lot of these are fixed with the first Service Pack, which is when big business will start planning.
Sweet Jesus on a bed or roses, I work in a school with around 40 computers *total* and even I won't upgrade until SP1 is out. Doing so before is just begging to be burned.
So it wasn't Video which killed the Radio Star?
If only the internet could bother to get off of the internet and say "No" officially.
If they had decent filosophers to organise and index the records, they'd not have lost the tapes.
No no no, I distinctly remember Bruce Willis went there once with his geology buddies.
What's it like to not have your moon, America? Our European moon is lovely. It's a shame God wanted your race destroyed by throwing your moon at you.
Sincerely,
Every American citizen who thinks the Simpsons is real.
Wasn't the second season where Hurley had flashbacks all the time? I mean I know he looks like a fat hippy, but really... That's just not politically correct, guys.
And I still don't know what that frigging black smoke was!! God damn it, that show irritated the shit out of me...
You'd think that after one year that your boss would learn.
Oh, wait... He's a boss.
Not possible.
The thermite reaction has an activation energy of 145 kJ/mol for 8Al-3Fe2O3 thermite. USB2 device charging spec (highest power output) provides a maximum 9 J/s
You might get it working with a series of exothermic reactions but it would become bulky, and with that low an energy input to work with you're more likely setting it off leaving it in a car on a hot day.
WTF. I have my adblocker disabled for the first time in months, and the first thing I see, is an Ironkey banner. Truly a slashvertisement.
You're commenting on it. Didn't you realise?
Biometric authentication.
No problems there!
Uh oh, troll mod!
:D
Mod me back up! I vote Liberal!
Ironically, they think the same thing; That those higher up the food chain are:
- Always wrong
- Have no place telling them what to do
- Don't nearly give them enough pocket money, and
- Make them do their work before they can watch cartoons / play on the Xbox.
He wasn't hanging out with media analysts, he was on work experience. Kids in Year 10 (14 - 15 years old) spend a week in a company of (mostly) their choosing to see what the world of work is like, and to see if they really want to be a scientist / astronaught / fireman / gaenocologist.
Consider that this story wasn't published for its insight, but to drum up media coverage for Morgan Stanley. It seems to have worked.
Nobody said it was small. It's actually an iMac with a 10" touchscreen.
With this device, sunshine really will shine out of the owners' backside. Only without the whole "ring of fire" effect you'd expect from such an occurance.