First, you get what you pay for. This cannot be said enough and tehcnology is not immune to this simple law of economics. I use an Epson Photo Stylus 2200. I bought this printer after my Epson 1520 died. I was able to print a high quality book of my design work and sent around 10 of the 18 to design firms around Boston. Every single person I sent the book to commented on the high quality of the print. Personally I was amazed by the excellent color consistency from screen to print. I give Adobe InDesign most of the credit here. My point is I paid ~$700 for this printer and it's already paid for itself. In a very dead market I was able to land a new design job. Had I bought a cheap printer the reaults would have not been as good. Cartridges are ~$10 a piece but I can replace any of the 7 tanks individually so I'm not throwing away ink.
Not only that but you can change the user's home folder through the User Properties in the MMC. You can set a local path or a path on a connected network drive.
...but isn't this the same site that claims "information wants to be free"? Which is it? Does the information want to be free or do you want to be able to control it? You can't have it both ways so it's time to put your money where your mouth is.
I agree that P2P and the internet have the potential to revolutionize music and software distribution but it's up to the copyright holders to determine when or even if they plan on using this medium. Customers can demand it until they are blue in the face but if it's not cost effective, don't expect a business to do it. AS frustrating as this may seem, it's the way things work in a free market and trying to circumvent this process creates an ugly situation for all in volved.
Ummm, no shit sherlock. However it only defines the framework, it does not enumerate the actual legal landscape itself. In the US we have a First Amendment right to free speech. Does this mean that I can say whatever I want whenever I want to? If we adhered strictly to the US Constitution then yes, this would be true. However, as the US COnstitution is only a guide for the limits to our legal system, then no, one yould then have to rely on fedreal, state and/or local laws to enumerate the areas where the US COnstitution does not go into detail. Therefore I restaet my first comment that the US Constitution is not the end all be all (last word) in our legal system. As you have so wonderfully put it, [It merely] defines the powers available to Federal and State goverments.
Actually it's not a silly number. Copyright violations in the US come with a $150,000 fine per violation. Each song would constitute a single violation. 652,000 * 150,000 per violation comes to 98.87 billion dollars. You made the silly assumption that the laws only forced the accused to purchase the works they misappropriated.
"'For nearly two weeks, he has been held as a so-called "material witness" in solitary confinement in a federal lockup in Sheridan, Oregon."
Jesus, you didn't even have to RTFA to figure this out.
Also, the Constitution is only a part of opur legal system, it is not the end all be all of laws our local, state and federal governments have at their disposal.
By this argument anything Bill Gates has to say would be equally as important and weighed as carefully. Alas double standards abound on/., home of the hypocrite.
Wrong. The XBOX would be more like a cooked dinner from Boston Market. The analogy would go more like you taking home your dinner from Boston Market and being pissed off that you can;t cook the chicken a different way. If you didn't want roasted chicken then you should have either not gone to Boston Market or you should have gone to your local grocery store and purchased raw chicken from them and cooked it the way you like.
Very backwards. The flash file format was NEVER designed to do what Macromedia has forced it to do. Flash should heva been rolled into Director a long time ago.
Despite what the HTML file is named, the page itself is not a claim from Adobe that users should be running PCs instead of Macs. The page merely highlights a benchmarking test that was found on another website, digitalvideoediting.com. This test compared rendering performance between P4s and dual-G4s on apps from Adobe commonly used by those of us who do digital video editing and post-production work.
"...but I'm trying to find out how to trickle charge the laptop battery on my bike."
You mean this didn't clue you into the fact that he's looking to recharge the laptop while on his bike? Funny, it seems to be explicitely saying just that.
There's this little place called NORAD. Perhaps you've heard of it? They track all satellites in orbit. Trust me on this, they know EXACTLY where those satellites are.
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"...but users can't get their own data."
Damn, I wish I had read this insightful comment before writing those Word documents this morning. I'm locked out of the data because MojoRilla says MS is the keeper of the keys. I guess I'll have to whip out my credit card and beg MS to let me reopen those files to print and edit them. Oh, wait. Let em see what happens when I double-click on the file. Hang on a sec....Wonder of all wonders. MojoRilla is full of shit. Good thing I checked this before sending my life savings to MS. Whew.
"...but untill I can use one for 6 hours with no eyestrain, I don't think I want one."
Damn. I guess I'll have to sell my stock in Sony now because jericho4.0 is not going to purchase a 3D monitor. You're going to bring economic ruin to the world with that attitude. Won't you please think of the children?!?!?!
"...(which seem easier at first but are a pain to use to get anything serious done)."
You're right. Can I have my next version of Photoshop in CLI mode only please? Using the mouse to design graphics is much harder than hand coding colors and pixel coordinates.
Damnit. I forgot to close the bold tag. Why can't Slashdot create an edit button and allow the author to edit the comment for up to five minutes after hitting submit? Fuck you, I know about the stupid preview button, it's not the same task based process.
...copyright needs to be protected. Bear in mind I do not agree fully with the course of action taken by the RIAA and MPAA. Then again, I don't agree at all with the course of action the P2P networks took. Pardon the tangent.
Anyway, my point is this. Red Herring might not have had information YOU find interesting, indeed not enough people found the information interesting, but the magazine would never had existed had they simply given the content away for free, sans ads, sans dead tree versions. Their message might have gotten out but it would likely have not been as widespread and it would have likely shut down a lot sooner. Salon is learning this first hand right now as well though I certainly lay some, or perhaps much, of the blame on their wasting a lot of money needlessly.
Instead of replying with the obvious, yet ridiculous, comment of "they should have found a better sustainable business model", why don't you offer a suggestion for a better business model. For if you are wise enough to question the way things work now, you should be wise enough to offer some ideas of ways to fix things in a way that is realistic.
Or these very same people, who care nothing for their own culture or heritage except to prop up dictators and make them look like liberators and heroes of the poeple, could very well do the same thing the Taliban did in Afghanistan. Even in Egypt, ancient temples were built upon by contemporary Egyptians with little care for the past. The Temple of Karnak has a modern mosque about 40 above it because they built the mosque on some ruins without first excavating the site. Abu Simbel would have been lost for all time had it not been for the efforts of the US. Now that Egypt is a more open and democratic society, archeologusts can, and have, move in and begin to resurrect the past and share it with the world.
...as many here keep saying musicians do it for the love of music, why then should it matter how much money that have in the end? If, as many here also say, it's ok for Red Hat to make money off selling Linux solutions, then why should it not be ok for the record labels to make money off the musicians? They are giving back to the community by paying artists some money and building an ever increasing stable of artists and musicians from every genre of music imaginable.
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First, you get what you pay for. This cannot be said enough and tehcnology is not immune to this simple law of economics. I use an Epson Photo Stylus 2200. I bought this printer after my Epson 1520 died. I was able to print a high quality book of my design work and sent around 10 of the 18 to design firms around Boston. Every single person I sent the book to commented on the high quality of the print. Personally I was amazed by the excellent color consistency from screen to print. I give Adobe InDesign most of the credit here. My point is I paid ~$700 for this printer and it's already paid for itself. In a very dead market I was able to land a new design job. Had I bought a cheap printer the reaults would have not been as good. Cartridges are ~$10 a piece but I can replace any of the 7 tanks individually so I'm not throwing away ink.
Not only that but you can change the user's home folder through the User Properties in the MMC. You can set a local path or a path on a connected network drive.
I had the same thought. When they can mix the robots with one of these then they will have something.
...but isn't this the same site that claims "information wants to be free"? Which is it? Does the information want to be free or do you want to be able to control it? You can't have it both ways so it's time to put your money where your mouth is.
I wonder how Adobe Encore DVD stacks up against DVD Studio Pro 2.
I agree that P2P and the internet have the potential to revolutionize music and software distribution but it's up to the copyright holders to determine when or even if they plan on using this medium. Customers can demand it until they are blue in the face but if it's not cost effective, don't expect a business to do it. AS frustrating as this may seem, it's the way things work in a free market and trying to circumvent this process creates an ugly situation for all in volved.
Ummm, no shit sherlock. However it only defines the framework, it does not enumerate the actual legal landscape itself. In the US we have a First Amendment right to free speech. Does this mean that I can say whatever I want whenever I want to? If we adhered strictly to the US Constitution then yes, this would be true. However, as the US COnstitution is only a guide for the limits to our legal system, then no, one yould then have to rely on fedreal, state and/or local laws to enumerate the areas where the US COnstitution does not go into detail. Therefore I restaet my first comment that the US Constitution is not the end all be all (last word) in our legal system. As you have so wonderfully put it, [It merely] defines the powers available to Federal and State goverments.
Actually it's not a silly number. Copyright violations in the US come with a $150,000 fine per violation. Each song would constitute a single violation. 652,000 * 150,000 per violation comes to 98.87 billion dollars. You made the silly assumption that the laws only forced the accused to purchase the works they misappropriated.
"...but unlike your average ideological Objectivist, he's also pragmatic."
That's funny because by definition Objectivists are pragmatic. Were you using the GNU dictionary where words are defined by their misuse?
"'For nearly two weeks, he has been held as a so-called "material witness" in solitary confinement in a federal lockup in Sheridan, Oregon."
Jesus, you didn't even have to RTFA to figure this out.
Also, the Constitution is only a part of opur legal system, it is not the end all be all of laws our local, state and federal governments have at their disposal.
By this argument anything Bill Gates has to say would be equally as important and weighed as carefully. Alas double standards abound on /., home of the hypocrite.
Wrong. The XBOX would be more like a cooked dinner from Boston Market. The analogy would go more like you taking home your dinner from Boston Market and being pissed off that you can;t cook the chicken a different way. If you didn't want roasted chicken then you should have either not gone to Boston Market or you should have gone to your local grocery store and purchased raw chicken from them and cooked it the way you like.
Very backwards. The flash file format was NEVER designed to do what Macromedia has forced it to do. Flash should heva been rolled into Director a long time ago.
Despite what the HTML file is named, the page itself is not a claim from Adobe that users should be running PCs instead of Macs. The page merely highlights a benchmarking test that was found on another website, digitalvideoediting.com. This test compared rendering performance between P4s and dual-G4s on apps from Adobe commonly used by those of us who do digital video editing and post-production work.
"...but I'm trying to find out how to trickle charge the laptop battery on my bike."
You mean this didn't clue you into the fact that he's looking to recharge the laptop while on his bike? Funny, it seems to be explicitely saying just that.
There's this little place called NORAD. Perhaps you've heard of it? They track all satellites in orbit. Trust me on this, they know EXACTLY where those satellites are.
"...but users can't get their own data."
Damn, I wish I had read this insightful comment before writing those Word documents this morning. I'm locked out of the data because MojoRilla says MS is the keeper of the keys. I guess I'll have to whip out my credit card and beg MS to let me reopen those files to print and edit them. Oh, wait. Let em see what happens when I double-click on the file. Hang on a sec....Wonder of all wonders. MojoRilla is full of shit. Good thing I checked this before sending my life savings to MS. Whew.
"...but untill I can use one for 6 hours with no eyestrain, I don't think I want one."
Damn. I guess I'll have to sell my stock in Sony now because jericho4.0 is not going to purchase a 3D monitor. You're going to bring economic ruin to the world with that attitude. Won't you please think of the children?!?!?!
"...(which seem easier at first but are a pain to use to get anything serious done)."
You're right. Can I have my next version of Photoshop in CLI mode only please? Using the mouse to design graphics is much harder than hand coding colors and pixel coordinates.
Only three degrees of seperation? What, the Dutch don't care about Kevin Bacon?
Damnit. I forgot to close the bold tag. Why can't Slashdot create an edit button and allow the author to edit the comment for up to five minutes after hitting submit? Fuck you, I know about the stupid preview button, it's not the same task based process.
...copyright needs to be protected. Bear in mind I do not agree fully with the course of action taken by the RIAA and MPAA. Then again, I don't agree at all with the course of action the P2P networks took. Pardon the tangent.
Anyway, my point is this. Red Herring might not have had information YOU find interesting, indeed not enough people found the information interesting, but the magazine would never had existed had they simply given the content away for free, sans ads, sans dead tree versions. Their message might have gotten out but it would likely have not been as widespread and it would have likely shut down a lot sooner. Salon is learning this first hand right now as well though I certainly lay some, or perhaps much, of the blame on their wasting a lot of money needlessly.
Instead of replying with the obvious, yet ridiculous, comment of "they should have found a better sustainable business model", why don't you offer a suggestion for a better business model. For if you are wise enough to question the way things work now, you should be wise enough to offer some ideas of ways to fix things in a way that is realistic.
Or these very same people, who care nothing for their own culture or heritage except to prop up dictators and make them look like liberators and heroes of the poeple, could very well do the same thing the Taliban did in Afghanistan. Even in Egypt, ancient temples were built upon by contemporary Egyptians with little care for the past. The Temple of Karnak has a modern mosque about 40 above it because they built the mosque on some ruins without first excavating the site. Abu Simbel would have been lost for all time had it not been for the efforts of the US. Now that Egypt is a more open and democratic society, archeologusts can, and have, move in and begin to resurrect the past and share it with the world.
Getttign to be a source? It has long been a source of FUD, people like you are finally starting to realize it though.
...as many here keep saying musicians do it for the love of music, why then should it matter how much money that have in the end? If, as many here also say, it's ok for Red Hat to make money off selling Linux solutions, then why should it not be ok for the record labels to make money off the musicians? They are giving back to the community by paying artists some money and building an ever increasing stable of artists and musicians from every genre of music imaginable.