You say the other side of the world...Could you please elaborate on how you do this? I ask because unless I'm doing X-forwarding on my LAN, it's too slow to be usable, even on basic graphical apps such as gedit perhaps. I just figured you couldn't do it over the internet, but it sounds like maybe you can after all.
Yeah, I'd love to leave my Linux desktop box on all the time, but it's wasteful, hot and noisy when it's on. And in the case of my Linux laptop, I can't take it on the road with it on all the time.
Of course for both of these machines suspending to ram would be great, but, as is common with many linux setups, sleep doesn't work properly. So what are you going to do?
Broaden suspend support, and you may have a point.
I bought a Dell Ubuntu laptop, which I decided to wipe clean and try a fresh Linux install with the standard image that I downloaded.
No dice. Dell shipped that with a custom install of Ubuntu that included the special drivers I needed that weren't part of the standard install. I ended up using their custom image to restore my pc, which worked perfectly. I can't imagine how long it would have taken me to get everything working otherwise. If you're going to use Linux anyway, I say it's better to get the peace of mind, for the small price difference there may be at any particular point.
And I fully agree with what others have said. Give these companies the incentive they need to get support for Linux hardware.
I have to give many more times that to scumbag corporations, who (on a lot of the music in question) long ago covered their costs and earned their profits, yet still charge me and the artist a premium for expenses, many of which no longer exist. The capitalist free-market system says; "Hi!, Where have you been all your life?"
What makes you think music corporations should or could work any differently from any other industry? No industry reaches a point where they have "earned their profits". Where is there the point that says "ok stop now, you've earned enough from that"?
I'm not the AC above, but my opinion is that the music corps should work differently. I don't blame them for the way they work, but I think that the music corporations are not needed in the same way they used to be (The same link once again.)
It is the fact that they are simply not very necessary that I think they should work differently. Corporations that make exorbitant profits do so because they have leverage of some kind. They provide something high in demand and low in supply. In the case of music, it's the supply that's artificially limited that allows them to rake in the profits.
Don't misunderstand. The point is simply that if people want to support their artists, they're going about it all wrong by purchasing from U.S. online stores, and it actually might hurt the artists by giving those record companies more leverage against the artist.
If your point is that sending money to artists is inconvenient, fine. But at least when someone purchases music from mp3sparks, they're not fooling themselves into thinking they're supporting their artist to any measurable extent.
Personally, I purchase from independent artists whenever I can, as directly as I can.
AllOfMp3, on the other hand, is profiting off these artists' work without any compensation or agreement. If you give a crap about your favorite musicians, you don't buy their stuff from AllOfMp3
That's a load of bull really. You're correct to point out that most of the money you spend is going into the pockets of the greedy companies, not into that of the artists. If you give a crap about the fact that record companies have so much leverage over the artists, you don't buy their stuff from U.S. music stores either.
I've got a better idea. If you're so interested in compensating the artists, just send the $.90 that you save on the music buying from mp3sparks and send it directly to the artist.
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You say the other side of the world...Could you please elaborate on how you do this? I ask because unless I'm doing X-forwarding on my LAN, it's too slow to be usable, even on basic graphical apps such as gedit perhaps. I just figured you couldn't do it over the internet, but it sounds like maybe you can after all.
I use ssh -X by the way.
Yeah, I'd love to leave my Linux desktop box on all the time, but it's wasteful, hot and noisy when it's on. And in the case of my Linux laptop, I can't take it on the road with it on all the time.
Of course for both of these machines suspending to ram would be great, but, as is common with many linux setups, sleep doesn't work properly. So what are you going to do?
Broaden suspend support, and you may have a point.
I bought a Dell Ubuntu laptop, which I decided to wipe clean and try a fresh Linux install with the standard image that I downloaded.
No dice. Dell shipped that with a custom install of Ubuntu that included the special drivers I needed that weren't part of the standard install. I ended up using their custom image to restore my pc, which worked perfectly. I can't imagine how long it would have taken me to get everything working otherwise. If you're going to use Linux anyway, I say it's better to get the peace of mind, for the small price difference there may be at any particular point.
And I fully agree with what others have said. Give these companies the incentive they need to get support for Linux hardware.
What makes you think music corporations should or could work any differently from any other industry? No industry reaches a point where they have "earned their profits". Where is there the point that says "ok stop now, you've earned enough from that"?
I'm not the AC above, but my opinion is that the music corps should work differently. I don't blame them for the way they work, but I think that the music corporations are not needed in the same way they used to be (The same link once again.)
It is the fact that they are simply not very necessary that I think they should work differently. Corporations that make exorbitant profits do so because they have leverage of some kind. They provide something high in demand and low in supply. In the case of music, it's the supply that's artificially limited that allows them to rake in the profits.
Don't misunderstand. The point is simply that if people want to support their artists, they're going about it all wrong by purchasing from U.S. online stores, and it actually might hurt the artists by giving those record companies more leverage against the artist.
If your point is that sending money to artists is inconvenient, fine. But at least when someone purchases music from mp3sparks, they're not fooling themselves into thinking they're supporting their artist to any measurable extent.
Personally, I purchase from independent artists whenever I can, as directly as I can.
That's a load of bull really. You're correct to point out that most of the money you spend is going into the pockets of the greedy companies, not into that of the artists. If you give a crap about the fact that record companies have so much leverage over the artists, you don't buy their stuff from U.S. music stores either.
I've got a better idea. If you're so interested in compensating the artists, just send the $.90 that you save on the music buying from mp3sparks and send it directly to the artist.