It seems that he was completely correct in this case, if you read what he says. Oh, but you didn't . ..
I read what was said. The guy was unresponsive until the point where RedHat stepped in and had to negotiate a deal with another company regarding this issue. It was then that the ahole gave any useful feedback.
Government is not a productive enterprise. There's no such thing as "government money", it's all taxed, borrowed or inflated away from the people who earn it.
-jcr
The same goes for businesses. The medium of exchange has no intrinsic value. We created an artificial market to get off the barter system.
Hell, most laptops ship with gigabit ethernet cards any more. How fast is Wireless N now? And how ubiquitous is it? Is there a gigabit wireless on the horizon? Compare today's wired to tomorrows wireless, and wired is still faster.
They don't ship with cards. They ship with it built-in.
Someone please rationalize how valuable your time is, per line, from a GPL piece of software, beyond $0.00.
``Hey Bob, I've got a brilliant idea on how we can cover your mortgage and save your marriage for your zealotry and unwillingness to pimp your talents!''
``What's the idea, John?''
``We'll charge buy the line!''
``How does this keep the application GPLv3 compliant?''
``We'll call it non-profit donations! Yea! That's the ticket!''
``Oh wait! I've got a better idea, John!''
``What's that?'' skeptically replies John.
``We'll call it, `Adopt a line per month subscription!' ''
``Gawd! We suck at marketing! I mean holy s**t! Boy we suck at marketing. Oh well, at least we always have our parents homes to continue our base of operations when our wives kick our asses in divorce.''
They're military, they might not even necessarily have to obey any EULA.
In theory, the feds could invoke eminent domain and force Apple to sell the IP rights if necessary.
So Apple has every incentive to be accommodating to their needs...
But most likely they just buy the DISTRIBUTION certificates from Apple, as any developer could, so they can sign and deploy their own apps on their own without necessarily having to put anything on the app store.
Not all apps are necessarily public.
Wrong on too many levels. Your rationale with eminent domain has massive holes in it, never mind the Federal Military Top Secret IP angle. By the way, NeXT had a long history with the CIA. We worked for probably 15 years and continued after the Merger. There were custom builds for a client's need for a massive price.
There is a difference between Libertarian and libertarian,
Classical Liberalism==Old World Libertarianism (Jefferson, Paine, Franklin, etc) and finally,
US libertarian leaning Republicans who are fed up with the GOP but have only one reason for proclaiming themselves to be a member of the LP [i.e., low taxes] and feel Ayn Rand is the quintessential Libertarian when she's as far from a true Libertarian as one could possibly become are not Libertarians. They are estranged pro-Oligopolistic, authoritarian, orthodox literalists who get a tingle down their leg at the thought of defending their land with a surface to air missile over one shoulder, while raving about Thomas Paine's Common Sense, conveniently ignoring Paine's seminal work, The Age of Reason.
Having attempted to help the LP in the Pacific Northwest I'm never surprised when such ignorance of one's party history, let alone etymology of Libertarianism continues to abort new still births of ideals.
Exactly. Also, the kind of Opera that ignores all the science behind it's Archaeologically ancient Societies with Robots and Bars while wearing tights and cruising through space like one drives to the grocery store.
This is a bad move in my opinion and will only encourage piracy. If you do the math, you'll realize that for someone to legally acquire say, 20GB worth of music (3MB avg.) at $1.00 per song, it would cost nearly $7,000. The thing is that as time goes on, hard drives are only going to be getting bigger and cheaper. Additionally as fast broadband becomes even more widespread it will mean that illegal downloading will become easier and the price factor with eventually decrease to nothing.
How much do you think some TV show is worth to a typical viewer? How about a song? Even though it might be $1.00-$1.29 today, as people get more media with the same investment in space and time the value is only going to decline. Your iPod can hold more, so you want more media to fill it up. NOBODY is going to spend $6,000 on their music collection. Well I suppose SOME people might, but certainly nobody that I know would ever even think about paying that much for something they can get for free (and at the same, or near-same quality). Only a dollar per song sounds pretty reasonable, but if you have a 160GB iPod, filling it up will cost $48,000! $48,000?! Just think of what that kind of money can mean to somebody. Pay off the credit card debt. Get a new car. Remodeling. Any number of major things.
I'd say we are QUITE past the point of something "worth paying for". As soon as a person downloads a song "illegally" they cross an invisible line and are now "pirates". And of course once you do it once, it's so easy to do again. That makes it sound like a drug but it's true. If you can get something easily for free, what's the point in paying for it? The best reason I can think of is if you get a significant amount of value added by actually paying for it. When this happens people become significantly more selective about what they DO actually pay for verses what they download for free. And of course, the media itself is practically free.
Basically I think that if companies what to directly sell their media to consumers, it will have to cost fractions of a cent, and they're going to have to come up with some clever ideas on how to provide it to make it easier than simply downloading it for free. It'll probably have to offer other value as well.
For example with TV shows companies should experiment with broadcasts which actually "upgraded" for the web. The idea is that you put your show online with ads for people to see for free. In terms of music, I think bands should get "distributors" which distribute all their music in very large inexpensive packages. Then the band can offer their music for free download on their website for their casual fans, but while simultaneously selling media and merchandise to their more loyal fans (who don't mind spending a little bit to support the band) with added value. I think there are still many ways to make good money off of media, but the truth is that the pay per unit or copy model is dying and won't be around much longer.
Perhaps for the POP music lovin' hordes you find the thought of buying an artist's entire disc unconscionable but most of us who have bands we love, buying the entire disc for
Somehow, roughly 10 discs will cover your 7GB theory.
Apple's not going to complain too much. They got me to buy their player and I bought the artist's work in some other means.
We have Amazon. The only thing keeping iTunes relevant is the fact that Apple won't let anything else talk to the iPhone, and they refuse all other music players for the device.
You do well at being mentally stunted. Apple sells more music than WalMart. No way in hell will Amazon overshadow Apple's solution.
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Wow, Demi Moore? Really? Now that's an influential user!
What we want to know is , ``Does she tweet in the nude or not?''
Hmmm? I believe there is not really such a thing as a "merger". There is always a buyer. A "merger" is declared to be nice.
C//
No. A buyout is Computer Associates famous for buying corporations for their IP/Products and canning the staff. This would have been a merger with overlapping departments [accounting and human resources] being purged to keep IBM's staff. Every staff member would be interviewed to explain their justification for existing in the corporate structure moving forward. There are staff purges in mergers, just nowhere near the same level as a buyout.
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It seems that he was completely correct in this case, if you read what he says. Oh, but you didn't . . .
I read what was said. The guy was unresponsive until the point where RedHat stepped in and had to negotiate a deal with another company regarding this issue. It was then that the ahole gave any useful feedback.
The iPhone and iTouch for two.
He's not fit to write C.
Which is probably why glibc source code looks like preprocessor soup.
If I only had mod points for sarcastically insightful.
BINGO! Your last two paragraphs nails it with specifics.
not YOUR money, GOVERNMENT money
Government is not a productive enterprise. There's no such thing as "government money", it's all taxed, borrowed or inflated away from the people who earn it.
-jcr
The same goes for businesses. The medium of exchange has no intrinsic value. We created an artificial market to get off the barter system.
Hell, most laptops ship with gigabit ethernet cards any more. How fast is Wireless N now? And how ubiquitous is it? Is there a gigabit wireless on the horizon? Compare today's wired to tomorrows wireless, and wired is still faster.
They don't ship with cards. They ship with it built-in.
Let me fix that for you:
Companies like Foxconn and ASUS build Apple's hardware to Apple's specifications, as they do for Dell and just like they used to do for Packard Bell.
I'll fix it for everyone. Apple builds them, tests them and sends them to be assembled to their specs. Done. Get over it.
Microsoft should stick to innovating Mice. Perhaps they might even get risky and design a tablet and go after Wacom?
Oh come now! You know you want to fondle, ``{}.'' Oh wait! What are you doing with your other hand?
Someone please rationalize how valuable your time is, per line, from a GPL piece of software, beyond $0.00.
``Hey Bob, I've got a brilliant idea on how we can cover your mortgage and save your marriage for your zealotry and unwillingness to pimp your talents!''
``What's the idea, John?''
``We'll charge buy the line!''
``How does this keep the application GPLv3 compliant?''
``We'll call it non-profit donations! Yea! That's the ticket!''
``Oh wait! I've got a better idea, John!''
``What's that?'' skeptically replies John.
``We'll call it, `Adopt a line per month subscription!' ''
``Gawd! We suck at marketing! I mean holy s**t! Boy we suck at marketing. Oh well, at least we always have our parents homes to continue our base of operations when our wives kick our asses in divorce.''
They're military, they might not even necessarily have to obey any EULA.
In theory, the feds could invoke eminent domain and force Apple to sell the IP rights if necessary.
So Apple has every incentive to be accommodating to their needs...
But most likely they just buy the DISTRIBUTION certificates from Apple, as any developer could, so they can sign and deploy their own apps on their own without necessarily having to put anything on the app store.
Not all apps are necessarily public.
Wrong on too many levels. Your rationale with eminent domain has massive holes in it, never mind the Federal Military Top Secret IP angle. By the way, NeXT had a long history with the CIA. We worked for probably 15 years and continued after the Merger. There were custom builds for a client's need for a massive price.
Just tell them that:
Having attempted to help the LP in the Pacific Northwest I'm never surprised when such ignorance of one's party history, let alone etymology of Libertarianism continues to abort new still births of ideals.
The Libertarian Party has nothing against Abortion nor Gay Rights. In fact, they respect them both and include Drug Rights.
What part of these three do you ever see the GOP embracing?
I'll substitute a fully-loaded high-end Mac Pro thank you with all the other portions of this offering. That would be more impressive.
Or you'll smile quietly to yourself while smugly reflecting on how your organized directory structure requires no software or hardware lock-in.
Windows or OS X. I hope a reasoned mind would choose OS X for iTunes. Linux? You've got that fantastic POS Amarok. You couldn't possibly want more.
I'm writing on Debian Linux using KDE 4.2.2.
Amarok 2.0.x is a POS. It's "getting there" but to spit on iTunes and brag about Linux alternatives puts your reason on mute.
Exactly. Also, the kind of Opera that ignores all the science behind it's Archaeologically ancient Societies with Robots and Bars while wearing tights and cruising through space like one drives to the grocery store.
I suggest you branch out into other genres of fiction and non-fiction. You'll enjoy life more.
Relatives and then the Corporations who own the rights will most certainly object to that cowardly logic.
iTunes is a bloated, poorly designed turd for you to organize your collection
Corrected that for you, Captain Obvious.
Next you're going to shout at the top of your lungs how fantastic that POS Amarok software is and it will trump iTunes.
This is a bad move in my opinion and will only encourage piracy. If you do the math, you'll realize that for someone to legally acquire say, 20GB worth of music (3MB avg.) at $1.00 per song, it would cost nearly $7,000. The thing is that as time goes on, hard drives are only going to be getting bigger and cheaper. Additionally as fast broadband becomes even more widespread it will mean that illegal downloading will become easier and the price factor with eventually decrease to nothing.
How much do you think some TV show is worth to a typical viewer? How about a song? Even though it might be $1.00-$1.29 today, as people get more media with the same investment in space and time the value is only going to decline. Your iPod can hold more, so you want more media to fill it up. NOBODY is going to spend $6,000 on their music collection. Well I suppose SOME people might, but certainly nobody that I know would ever even think about paying that much for something they can get for free (and at the same, or near-same quality). Only a dollar per song sounds pretty reasonable, but if you have a 160GB iPod, filling it up will cost $48,000! $48,000?! Just think of what that kind of money can mean to somebody. Pay off the credit card debt. Get a new car. Remodeling. Any number of major things.
I'd say we are QUITE past the point of something "worth paying for". As soon as a person downloads a song "illegally" they cross an invisible line and are now "pirates". And of course once you do it once, it's so easy to do again. That makes it sound like a drug but it's true. If you can get something easily for free, what's the point in paying for it? The best reason I can think of is if you get a significant amount of value added by actually paying for it. When this happens people become significantly more selective about what they DO actually pay for verses what they download for free. And of course, the media itself is practically free.
Basically I think that if companies what to directly sell their media to consumers, it will have to cost fractions of a cent, and they're going to have to come up with some clever ideas on how to provide it to make it easier than simply downloading it for free. It'll probably have to offer other value as well.
For example with TV shows companies should experiment with broadcasts which actually "upgraded" for the web. The idea is that you put your show online with ads for people to see for free. In terms of music, I think bands should get "distributors" which distribute all their music in very large inexpensive packages. Then the band can offer their music for free download on their website for their casual fans, but while simultaneously selling media and merchandise to their more loyal fans (who don't mind spending a little bit to support the band) with added value. I think there are still many ways to make good money off of media, but the truth is that the pay per unit or copy model is dying and won't be around much longer.
Perhaps for the POP music lovin' hordes you find the thought of buying an artist's entire disc unconscionable but most of us who have bands we love, buying the entire disc for
Somehow, roughly 10 discs will cover your 7GB theory.
Apple's not going to complain too much. They got me to buy their player and I bought the artist's work in some other means.
We have Amazon. The only thing keeping iTunes relevant is the fact that Apple won't let anything else talk to the iPhone, and they refuse all other music players for the device.
You do well at being mentally stunted. Apple sells more music than WalMart. No way in hell will Amazon overshadow Apple's solution.
Wow, Demi Moore? Really? Now that's an influential user!
What we want to know is , ``Does she tweet in the nude or not?''
NeXTSTEP.
Classic.
However, can we stop with all the insightful 5 votes because 99% of them are complete BS in this thread.
It's like a couple of gentlemen proclaiming Checkers Trumps Chess. King me! No! King me! Oh yeah! Well, King me!
Reading these comments each one followed up to trash the prior one with facts is like Checkers. Eventually, we'll whittle it down to black.
Hmmm? I believe there is not really such a thing as a "merger". There is always a buyer. A "merger" is declared to be nice.
C//
No. A buyout is Computer Associates famous for buying corporations for their IP/Products and canning the staff. This would have been a merger with overlapping departments [accounting and human resources] being purged to keep IBM's staff. Every staff member would be interviewed to explain their justification for existing in the corporate structure moving forward. There are staff purges in mergers, just nowhere near the same level as a buyout.