I've seen the XGL video, there's nothing in there that Vista can't do and in fact some of the stuff Longhorn did but was removed from Vista. The rest was OSX and we know that Windows XP can do everything OSX does though you need to download third party utilities to do them. Eye candy is not necessarily productive and remember the businesses are Microsoft's biggest client base.
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Putting small busineses and independent singer/songwriter and artists isn't physical harm? Must be nice to live in your world.
Electronic distribution is occurring but people don't like the way it's happening. Too bad. Start your own label and show us all how to do it right. When your business goes under you'll learn the hard way that it's not as easy as you think. if the labels sold uncompressed, unprotected audio tracks for 10 cents a piece, giving 90% to the artists, a handful of people would purchase the songs and distribute them via P2P. Know why? Because these people secretly like Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson and they can obtain them anonymously vs P2P and put them on their iPods without anyone knowing they listen to that kind of music.
So, you're OK with using blackmail and other illegal means to conduct business? I mean, you're not really hurting anyone when you bride someone or threaten to whack someone in the kneecaps are you? You shouldn't see any problem with monopolies either I guess.
Their business model is not outdated and I really wish you stupid geeks would quit parroting this stupid mantra. I know you think if you say something over and over enough times you are bound to finally be right but it's not going to happen. There has been no conclusive proof that alternatives like distributing via P2P and selling concert tickets or merchandise is a legitimate business model. This also assumes that all businesses which rely on copyrights will be able to do the same. What are authors supposed to do? Go on reading tours? Until then our current system works just fine unless you simply want shit for free and are willing to illegally distribute intellectual property over the internet.
Different kind of fighters, different kind fo war. To those people, propaganda is just as effective a weapon as gullets. It's an effective recruiting tool as well.
Last I checked the Zune never claimed to be compatible with the PlysForSure marketing campaign. Perhaps Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot by not supporting this endeavor but maybe this was the compromise they made to assuage the fears their PlaysForSure competitors may have concerning Microsoft' entry into the audio player markret.
So you're OK with blackmail as an interruptive business model? I'm all for new business models superseding current ones, but I am not OK with illegal business methods being touted as business models and forcing legitimate businesses to either cut and run or seek alternatives to turing a profit with their product. Your horse and buggy example is a straw man, nothing more, but to put it into context of my argument, there was nothing illegal about automobiles. They simply provided a better, faster and more convenient mode of transportation. If you want to create your own content and distribute it via P2P or by offering services to support it, fine, but don't expect all the other media companies to follow suit until the business model can be proven to work. I can get filet mignon at a nice restaurant. Does this mean I can force McDonald's to offer it on their menu as well? No, I cannot. I can stop giving McDonald's my patronage until they start offering filet mignon on the menu. If you don't like the way current media companies are distributing their content, then don't give them your patronage, but don't expect to be able to legally procure their content simply because you disagree with the means in which they distribute it.
PlaysForSure was not a format, it was a marketing device to let people know that if they purchased a device with that logo, the music they purchased on like-branded stores would work on the device. It was designed to create more of an ecosystem of content providers instead of the single point of purchase iPod+iTunes has created. I'm a little disappointed that Microsoft is not ensuring Zune is not a part of the PlaysForSure campaign but then again, I don't purchase digital music. I buy CD's and rip the content however the hell I choose, not the way some RIAA marketroid or snot-nosed geek who can barely wipe his own ass, much less hear the difference between 64 and 128 kbps audio, thinks I should be listening to. If I want 64 kbps files to rip larger compilation CDs and 128 kbps files to transfer to my audio player, I can easily do that from a CD. I cannot do that from a compressed file, regardless of the format (OGG, AAC, WMA, MP3).
"I think American IP laws are ridiculously imbalanced. If American companies can't come up with a better business plan than "rip off the consumers", they deserve to be beaten down."
Please tell us what that better business plan is? Why should a company direct resources toward research and development only to have another company come along and cheaply manufacture the exact same thing without having to worry about recouping the R&D? If the company that developed the product competed on cost they woudl take far longer to turn a profit and be able to reinvest in future projects but the rip-off company can just move along to something else to rip-off.
The iTV is nothing more than a Media CP extender. You still need to have the main system that captures the audio/video or handles the DVDs. The iTV lacks a tuner card and DVD player. While you can put one of these in every room of your house that has a TV, you wouldn't get the same functionality as a Media PC in every room of your house with a TV.
It is far moire likely that designers have studied and understand interface design than for a programmer to have done so given that it is the very thing we do, we do not just "draw pretty pictures". Design is a commercial art for which I make no apologies. We utilize type and image to interact with people in a myriad of ways. If it's print, then the use of paper, folds, and design all come into play to guide the audience through the piece. If it's broadcast design then understanding how to fit a huge amount of information in as tight a space such as tickers or lower thirds requires a bit more knowledge than how to draw pretty pictures. Same goes for the web. I'm sure you coudl find examples of designers who used pretty pictures on the web simply to use pretty pictures. However, I point to sites like http://www.geoterra.com/, or http://www.bmwusa.com/allnew3 for examples of excellent design with human interaction in mind (both won top honors in Communication Arts - you can view more great sites by following this link). If you want to see a coupe excellent examples of design studios who do web sites very well hop on over to http://www.secondstory.com/, http://www.terraincognito.com/,
Iraqis are not attacking US troops, foreign insurgents are. Your Country X analogy would be more like if Iraq sent troops to the US to help topple the current administration we would sit idly by while South/Central Americans and Canadians crossed the border and started attacking the Iraqi troops because they wanted the old administration back.
They did not make a new product and add new features, they released an add-on for the 5th gen iPods that had absolutely no reason why it wouldn't work with 4th gen iPods. I'm not looking for a free upgrade, I'd be willing to pay a nominal fee to upgrade the iPod OS to handle games and the radio (if this is even necessary). I am not willing to scrap a working iPod and getting a 5th gen just to play radio and a couple games.
"Plus its going to be XP or Vista only and cut out everyone that doesn't upgrade."
Yeah, unlike all those neat new iPod games and radio that work on my 4th gen photo iPod. oh, wait, Apple screwed people once again and decided that backwards compatibility wasn't going to sell more iPods. Seriously, a radio requires a 5h gen ipod? By the way, that's not a click-wheel, it's an 4-way rocker button which in my opinion is much better than the click wheel.
By the way, how many people do you honestly believe are using Windows 95/98? How many of these people do you honestly think are the likely target audience for this device? Let me give you a hint, it's between 1 and -1.
That's the way it is in the U.S. The details you failed to mention however are what happens to the infringing material once it is discoverd that the seller violated copyright? In the U.S. the buyer is out the cost of the intellectual property (If you're buying a copy of Photoshtop for $150 you get what you deserve) but no other legal action can be taken as they did not violate the copyright. I'd be willing to bet that it is very similar if not identical in Turkish law as well.
Wrong. When I put up a no trespass sign I'm setting limits on who can come onto my property. I'm likely going to allow family and friends to ignore the sign but everyone else better stay off or they'll get an ass full of buckshot. If someone were to disguise themselves as my brother and come onto my property it would still be trespass, I don't care how much they look like him. E-mail works the same way. I'm willing to allow a certain amount of e-mail come onto my server as long as they properly identify themselves. Spammers fail to do so and in fact they purposely forge headers to get past the virtual "no trespass" sign. You're making the incorrect assumption that all spammers are going to play by the rules and properly identify their e-mail. Guess what?
...but how would Slashdot investigate terrorism? Isn't some law enforcement agency going to have to gather data and sift through it to determine who is using the system to disguise terrorist activities (and I don't just mean bomb making or kidnapping conspiracies either, funding is a large part of the issue)? If terrorists are known to be using the FAFSA process to launder funds to aid terrorist activities domestically or abroad, doesn't it make sense to further investigate these records?
Like I said, I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here. I don't like unfettered access to data for the purposes of mining and developing patterns because that can lead to McCarthyesque witch hunts. However, if the data is meaningful and is gathered with the sole purpose of looking for terrorists or drug laundering schemes then I'm all for it. It;s a matter of abuse and I'm tired of every journalist crying wolf when they discover evidence of something like this. If there's proof of abuse, investigate it, write about it. If you're just fear-mongering and trying to become the next Woodward and Bernstein, then stop. Woodward and Bernstein checked their facts and exposed the former, they did not write hack pieces trying to expose theoretical conspiracies.
Wrong, but that's another argument in itself. Your original point was that these sorts of apps allowed admins to more easily update apps in one place and I countered with the simple fact that all windows admins worth their weight in gold know, this is already possible with current MS offerings.
I worked on a film about prison rape. Many of the people ijnterviewed were white. What were you saying about them all being black? Quit using sound bites as proof of anything. All they prove is you're a fucking idiot.
You can already do this with Office and Windows Server. If you really wanted you could use Terminal Services and use thin clients as desktops. If it s true what slashbots always say, these shoudl be powerful enough to use a word processor and Outlook.
Yes, but why are they in prison? I'd wager that more, and by a huge margin, prisoner in China are there because they disagree with the State. Having a larger percentage of prisoners just means we have more criminals in our society (or are willing to incarcerate mroe of them anyway).
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I've seen the XGL video, there's nothing in there that Vista can't do and in fact some of the stuff Longhorn did but was removed from Vista. The rest was OSX and we know that Windows XP can do everything OSX does though you need to download third party utilities to do them. Eye candy is not necessarily productive and remember the businesses are Microsoft's biggest client base.
Putting small busineses and independent singer/songwriter and artists isn't physical harm? Must be nice to live in your world.
Electronic distribution is occurring but people don't like the way it's happening. Too bad. Start your own label and show us all how to do it right. When your business goes under you'll learn the hard way that it's not as easy as you think. if the labels sold uncompressed, unprotected audio tracks for 10 cents a piece, giving 90% to the artists, a handful of people would purchase the songs and distribute them via P2P. Know why? Because these people secretly like Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson and they can obtain them anonymously vs P2P and put them on their iPods without anyone knowing they listen to that kind of music.
So, you're OK with using blackmail and other illegal means to conduct business? I mean, you're not really hurting anyone when you bride someone or threaten to whack someone in the kneecaps are you? You shouldn't see any problem with monopolies either I guess.
Their business model is not outdated and I really wish you stupid geeks would quit parroting this stupid mantra. I know you think if you say something over and over enough times you are bound to finally be right but it's not going to happen. There has been no conclusive proof that alternatives like distributing via P2P and selling concert tickets or merchandise is a legitimate business model. This also assumes that all businesses which rely on copyrights will be able to do the same. What are authors supposed to do? Go on reading tours? Until then our current system works just fine unless you simply want shit for free and are willing to illegally distribute intellectual property over the internet.
Different kind of fighters, different kind fo war. To those people, propaganda is just as effective a weapon as gullets. It's an effective recruiting tool as well.
Last I checked the Zune never claimed to be compatible with the PlysForSure marketing campaign. Perhaps Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot by not supporting this endeavor but maybe this was the compromise they made to assuage the fears their PlaysForSure competitors may have concerning Microsoft' entry into the audio player markret.
So you're OK with blackmail as an interruptive business model? I'm all for new business models superseding current ones, but I am not OK with illegal business methods being touted as business models and forcing legitimate businesses to either cut and run or seek alternatives to turing a profit with their product. Your horse and buggy example is a straw man, nothing more, but to put it into context of my argument, there was nothing illegal about automobiles. They simply provided a better, faster and more convenient mode of transportation. If you want to create your own content and distribute it via P2P or by offering services to support it, fine, but don't expect all the other media companies to follow suit until the business model can be proven to work. I can get filet mignon at a nice restaurant. Does this mean I can force McDonald's to offer it on their menu as well? No, I cannot. I can stop giving McDonald's my patronage until they start offering filet mignon on the menu. If you don't like the way current media companies are distributing their content, then don't give them your patronage, but don't expect to be able to legally procure their content simply because you disagree with the means in which they distribute it.
PlaysForSure was not a format, it was a marketing device to let people know that if they purchased a device with that logo, the music they purchased on like-branded stores would work on the device. It was designed to create more of an ecosystem of content providers instead of the single point of purchase iPod+iTunes has created. I'm a little disappointed that Microsoft is not ensuring Zune is not a part of the PlaysForSure campaign but then again, I don't purchase digital music. I buy CD's and rip the content however the hell I choose, not the way some RIAA marketroid or snot-nosed geek who can barely wipe his own ass, much less hear the difference between 64 and 128 kbps audio, thinks I should be listening to. If I want 64 kbps files to rip larger compilation CDs and 128 kbps files to transfer to my audio player, I can easily do that from a CD. I cannot do that from a compressed file, regardless of the format (OGG, AAC, WMA, MP3).
"I think American IP laws are ridiculously imbalanced. If American companies can't come up with a better business plan than "rip off the consumers", they deserve to be beaten down."
Please tell us what that better business plan is? Why should a company direct resources toward research and development only to have another company come along and cheaply manufacture the exact same thing without having to worry about recouping the R&D? If the company that developed the product competed on cost they woudl take far longer to turn a profit and be able to reinvest in future projects but the rip-off company can just move along to something else to rip-off.
That wasn't the possessive form, it was merely a contraction of "it is".
The iTV is nothing more than a Media CP extender. You still need to have the main system that captures the audio/video or handles the DVDs. The iTV lacks a tuner card and DVD player. While you can put one of these in every room of your house that has a TV, you wouldn't get the same functionality as a Media PC in every room of your house with a TV.
It is far moire likely that designers have studied and understand interface design than for a programmer to have done so given that it is the very thing we do, we do not just "draw pretty pictures". Design is a commercial art for which I make no apologies. We utilize type and image to interact with people in a myriad of ways. If it's print, then the use of paper, folds, and design all come into play to guide the audience through the piece. If it's broadcast design then understanding how to fit a huge amount of information in as tight a space such as tickers or lower thirds requires a bit more knowledge than how to draw pretty pictures. Same goes for the web. I'm sure you coudl find examples of designers who used pretty pictures on the web simply to use pretty pictures. However, I point to sites like http://www.geoterra.com/, or http://www.bmwusa.com/allnew3 for examples of excellent design with human interaction in mind (both won top honors in Communication Arts - you can view more great sites by following this link). If you want to see a coupe excellent examples of design studios who do web sites very well hop on over to http://www.secondstory.com/, http://www.terraincognito.com/,
The male species wear capri pants.
Iraqis are not attacking US troops, foreign insurgents are. Your Country X analogy would be more like if Iraq sent troops to the US to help topple the current administration we would sit idly by while South/Central Americans and Canadians crossed the border and started attacking the Iraqi troops because they wanted the old administration back.
They did not make a new product and add new features, they released an add-on for the 5th gen iPods that had absolutely no reason why it wouldn't work with 4th gen iPods. I'm not looking for a free upgrade, I'd be willing to pay a nominal fee to upgrade the iPod OS to handle games and the radio (if this is even necessary). I am not willing to scrap a working iPod and getting a 5th gen just to play radio and a couple games.
"Plus its going to be XP or Vista only and cut out everyone that doesn't upgrade."
Yeah, unlike all those neat new iPod games and radio that work on my 4th gen photo iPod. oh, wait, Apple screwed people once again and decided that backwards compatibility wasn't going to sell more iPods. Seriously, a radio requires a 5h gen ipod? By the way, that's not a click-wheel, it's an 4-way rocker button which in my opinion is much better than the click wheel.
By the way, how many people do you honestly believe are using Windows 95/98? How many of these people do you honestly think are the likely target audience for this device? Let me give you a hint, it's between 1 and -1.
That's the way it is in the U.S. The details you failed to mention however are what happens to the infringing material once it is discoverd that the seller violated copyright? In the U.S. the buyer is out the cost of the intellectual property (If you're buying a copy of Photoshtop for $150 you get what you deserve) but no other legal action can be taken as they did not violate the copyright. I'd be willing to bet that it is very similar if not identical in Turkish law as well.
Wrong. When I put up a no trespass sign I'm setting limits on who can come onto my property. I'm likely going to allow family and friends to ignore the sign but everyone else better stay off or they'll get an ass full of buckshot. If someone were to disguise themselves as my brother and come onto my property it would still be trespass, I don't care how much they look like him. E-mail works the same way. I'm willing to allow a certain amount of e-mail come onto my server as long as they properly identify themselves. Spammers fail to do so and in fact they purposely forge headers to get past the virtual "no trespass" sign. You're making the incorrect assumption that all spammers are going to play by the rules and properly identify their e-mail. Guess what?
What, no ?!?
...but how would Slashdot investigate terrorism? Isn't some law enforcement agency going to have to gather data and sift through it to determine who is using the system to disguise terrorist activities (and I don't just mean bomb making or kidnapping conspiracies either, funding is a large part of the issue)? If terrorists are known to be using the FAFSA process to launder funds to aid terrorist activities domestically or abroad, doesn't it make sense to further investigate these records?
Like I said, I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here. I don't like unfettered access to data for the purposes of mining and developing patterns because that can lead to McCarthyesque witch hunts. However, if the data is meaningful and is gathered with the sole purpose of looking for terrorists or drug laundering schemes then I'm all for it. It;s a matter of abuse and I'm tired of every journalist crying wolf when they discover evidence of something like this. If there's proof of abuse, investigate it, write about it. If you're just fear-mongering and trying to become the next Woodward and Bernstein, then stop. Woodward and Bernstein checked their facts and exposed the former, they did not write hack pieces trying to expose theoretical conspiracies.
Wrong, but that's another argument in itself. Your original point was that these sorts of apps allowed admins to more easily update apps in one place and I countered with the simple fact that all windows admins worth their weight in gold know, this is already possible with current MS offerings.
I worked on a film about prison rape. Many of the people ijnterviewed were white. What were you saying about them all being black? Quit using sound bites as proof of anything. All they prove is you're a fucking idiot.
You can already do this with Office and Windows Server. If you really wanted you could use Terminal Services and use thin clients as desktops. If it s true what slashbots always say, these shoudl be powerful enough to use a word processor and Outlook.
Yes, but why are they in prison? I'd wager that more, and by a huge margin, prisoner in China are there because they disagree with the State. Having a larger percentage of prisoners just means we have more criminals in our society (or are willing to incarcerate mroe of them anyway).