Or we could make a website where we all chill and talk about the latest news! Yeah, and we could come up with a bunch of lame meems that spread through the internet, just to show how influential we really are! Sounds kick ass to me.
What clueless drivel. If Google and Microsoft were actively publishing information required to pirate music - not just picking up information, but actively publishing it - they would get sued to hard they'd have string coming out of their ass.
Try and get a sense of santiy before drooling out the "OMG they dun it again" nonsense that spews out of the anti-slashdot brigade who hate this website so much they post every five minutes about how shitty it is.
I'm not taking a side in the matter, but the forking idea seems like the best plan. As an end user, I could care less, and I just want the bickering to stop. forking would be the best way to keep things separated but moving.
Which is why Google's CEO had a point, however close he was to the idea that mattered - if you don't want Google to know something, don't tell them. The same goes for the rest of the internet. Hopefully common sense prevails - it doesn't take a brain surgeon to know what you might want to keep tucked away, out of your logged-in Google searches. Searches for anything Google doesn't need to know about are better left to an anonymous search engine.
I don't think Google is any different from any company, to be honest, and I don't tell them anything they don't need to know about me. I still think Schmidt's quote was turned from a fairly mild statement (if it had been communicated properly) into a fearmongering rampage, but if it made somebody wake up and start being smart about what they post, I'm all for it.
What keeps me in the iTunes ecosystem is the podcast section where you get a centralized database of different media you can listen to for free. If one of these readers made an open format for reading blogs or other podcast equivalents in the literary world (serial novels?) so that I can download and read a ton of content I may just be persuaded to buy one. That's something a real, physical book cannot do economically.
Well, that's after they come down in price. Those things are expensive!
Christ, settle down. I use Fedora and even I didn't want to go nitpick his simple little example. Do you get your underwear in a bunch every time someone says that, instead of saying "I'm going to the movies" they say "I'm going to go see Speed Racer" instead? Jesus H. Christ, get a fucking grip.
Of course it does. You're not really a hipster douchbag unless you have all of the last ten albums that Pitchfork Media gave good reviews of (and a few from Stereogum as well) in vinyl. Walking around with a turntable playing Animal Collective is pretty high on the list, but even Devo just smacks of so many levels of irony that you're required by hipster law to have a picture taken of you and posted on the internet somewhere.
Of course they're trying, but the different distributors (especially Sandisk, who is usually so smart and should be ashamed of themselves for SlotRadio) are so in love with DRM that nothing can possibly displace the DRM-free iTunes and Amazon duo at this point. For those that want a physical version, CD's are fine.
Hell, have you used a SlotRadio card? You can't go backwards in the playlist. You can't take the songs off the card. Waste of time.
Well spoken. Portal was three hours. Half-Life 2: Episode 2 was five. Both games cost about twenty each (Okay, the Orange Box distribution changed that) but hell, by the end of it you're not even thinking about money. Those games were fucking brilliant.
He can back it up on his computer, but if he tries to use the backups when a DVD gets damaged, he'll have to break the DRM to make a new disc copy. He probably just broke the DRM before he needed to, knowing that it would have to happen eventually.
Of course someone will argue that he could just buy a DVD program that lets him watch the unaltered DVD iso on this hand drive (because VLC Player and its family are also de-DRM-ing the DVD iso without premission) but that still won't let him watch it on his DVD player.
I have seen it myself. Either you're buying an iPod Nano with your six years worth of savings, or you're buying it with the coinage you got stuck underneath your fingernail from breakfast
As consumers, brands are very important, nationality be damned. That's not what he was saying, though. The Chinese companies do not see brands as important, which is a cultural thing that the OP is claiming is holding these companies back. They're effective, but culturally, they're oblivious.
That's not to say I agree, it's just what he said.
No, you've got it wrong. Right wing likes the growth of power in business (fascism) and left wing likes the growth of power in government (socialism, communism). Both inherently flawed, but in this case, it's the growth of business, so it's right wing policy.
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Or we could make a website where we all chill and talk about the latest news! Yeah, and we could come up with a bunch of lame meems that spread through the internet, just to show how influential we really are! Sounds kick ass to me.
What clueless drivel.
If Google and Microsoft were actively publishing information required to pirate music - not just picking up information, but actively publishing it - they would get sued to hard they'd have string coming out of their ass.
Try and get a sense of santiy before drooling out the "OMG they dun it again" nonsense that spews out of the anti-slashdot brigade who hate this website so much they post every five minutes about how shitty it is.
Can we replace the summary of the story with this comment?
I'm not taking a side in the matter, but the forking idea seems like the best plan. As an end user, I could care less, and I just want the bickering to stop. forking would be the best way to keep things separated but moving.
And sing nothing but the Freedom Software Song. Bonus points for sounding as close to RMS as possible.
Which is why Google's CEO had a point, however close he was to the idea that mattered - if you don't want Google to know something, don't tell them. The same goes for the rest of the internet. Hopefully common sense prevails - it doesn't take a brain surgeon to know what you might want to keep tucked away, out of your logged-in Google searches. Searches for anything Google doesn't need to know about are better left to an anonymous search engine.
I don't think Google is any different from any company, to be honest, and I don't tell them anything they don't need to know about me. I still think Schmidt's quote was turned from a fairly mild statement (if it had been communicated properly) into a fearmongering rampage, but if it made somebody wake up and start being smart about what they post, I'm all for it.
It does! And in 64-bit natively, too!
I'm a PC, and Fedora 12 was my idea.
It's a feature, not a bug.
What keeps me in the iTunes ecosystem is the podcast section where you get a centralized database of different media you can listen to for free. If one of these readers made an open format for reading blogs or other podcast equivalents in the literary world (serial novels?) so that I can download and read a ton of content I may just be persuaded to buy one. That's something a real, physical book cannot do economically.
Well, that's after they come down in price. Those things are expensive!
You forgot the porn. Once you factor that in, it makes perfect sense.
Christ, settle down. I use Fedora and even I didn't want to go nitpick his simple little example. Do you get your underwear in a bunch every time someone says that, instead of saying "I'm going to the movies" they say "I'm going to go see Speed Racer" instead? Jesus H. Christ, get a fucking grip.
Of course it does. You're not really a hipster douchbag unless you have all of the last ten albums that Pitchfork Media gave good reviews of (and a few from Stereogum as well) in vinyl. Walking around with a turntable playing Animal Collective is pretty high on the list, but even Devo just smacks of so many levels of irony that you're required by hipster law to have a picture taken of you and posted on the internet somewhere.
Of course they're trying, but the different distributors (especially Sandisk, who is usually so smart and should be ashamed of themselves for SlotRadio) are so in love with DRM that nothing can possibly displace the DRM-free iTunes and Amazon duo at this point. For those that want a physical version, CD's are fine.
Hell, have you used a SlotRadio card? You can't go backwards in the playlist. You can't take the songs off the card. Waste of time.
Well spoken. Portal was three hours. Half-Life 2: Episode 2 was five. Both games cost about twenty each (Okay, the Orange Box distribution changed that) but hell, by the end of it you're not even thinking about money. Those games were fucking brilliant.
He can back it up on his computer, but if he tries to use the backups when a DVD gets damaged, he'll have to break the DRM to make a new disc copy. He probably just broke the DRM before he needed to, knowing that it would have to happen eventually.
Of course someone will argue that he could just buy a DVD program that lets him watch the unaltered DVD iso on this hand drive (because VLC Player and its family are also de-DRM-ing the DVD iso without premission) but that still won't let him watch it on his DVD player.
Furthermore, the Real Sex may not be applicable to Slashdot readers.
$yum install potato-pancakes
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
You need to be root to perform this command.
Related: How's the battery life on those things?
I have seen it myself. Either you're buying an iPod Nano with your six years worth of savings, or you're buying it with the coinage you got stuck underneath your fingernail from breakfast
I'm stupid. Swap the first and second sentence.
As consumers, brands are very important, nationality be damned. That's not what he was saying, though. The Chinese companies do not see brands as important, which is a cultural thing that the OP is claiming is holding these companies back. They're effective, but culturally, they're oblivious.
That's not to say I agree, it's just what he said.
Sheen, have you ever been in a Turkish Prison?
You can't be brought back to a place you never left.
No, you've got it wrong. Right wing likes the growth of power in business (fascism) and left wing likes the growth of power in government (socialism, communism). Both inherently flawed, but in this case, it's the growth of business, so it's right wing policy.