Make sure *nobody* signs up for this. At all. We all know how hard this will be, since everyone and their mother, and their mother's cousin loves "free money". But really, we're just saying, "Hey, it's ok to rip us off some more."
If no one agrees to the settlement, then perhaps the courts, when they try to see if the settlement is fair, will realize that it is not, and that the price fixing must be stopped.
And then I sign up for the refund, and being the only person signed up, I walk away with a cool $25 mil. Muaahahahhahahahahahahhahahaha. *cough* Ignore that last part.
According to this the US spent almost $300B on defense in just 2001. So, if you're spending $40B from 1984 to 2002, that's nothing. Would you rather be killing people, or exploring space?
They create mumbo-jumbo terms like "electromagnetic vacuum", that sound plausible to the average sucker investor that never bothered to take a high-school physics class, but are nothing but a bunch of crap.
Everyone forgets. If it plays on your computer, it can be recorded by your computer. Hell, stick a double-female connector from audio-out to line-in. Problem solved. The end-all hack. Sure. You're copying it in 1x time. But there was a point when that was the best we could do. At least we can encode it in real time too.
Anyway, its not like the processor's slowing the machine down. "It's the DRIVES, stupid!":) Actually, it's prolly the RAM, since most systems ship w/ around 128MB (for the general consumer). Spend all your time in swap space, and of course you run like shit. If you want more performance you can do weird things, like ramdisks, or tellking kjournald to only write every hour.:) And the point that AMD doesn't use a Mhz rating just validates the point that the P4 is misleading. Compare an Athlon 1500+ to a P4 1500Mhz. That's all you need.
It's the simple distinction made between someone technically proficient and someone with inspiration or whatever you want to call it.
I don't exactly agree with it, however. I feel the purest form is art for the love of art - not art with an agenda. And clearly, this artist paints because he loves to see his ideas come to life.
I've always thought that the greatest work is not the one worth the most money, or that receives the best criticism - but the one that is viewed by others, and inspires them to want to create. I have notebooks full of sketches of space ships and airplanes and wot inspired by paintings like these.
Technically, you're right. But I think we've killed enough people in the name of spreading Democracy (not a representative republic) that it's ok to call it one. Personally, I think we need to 'start from scratch' on the lawbooks. Give the politicians something to do, so they don't have to go and feel busy by making up new laws that take away our already existing rights.
Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, said that FBI should not go for casual users but but instead to go after operators of "network "nodes".
Gotta love when the message is simply: We can't prosecute everyone, let's just make examples. If something is a law, and everyone, and their mother, is busy breaking that law - perhaps it shouldn't be a law. This is a democracy after all. Or so we would claim. Heck, it doesn't even have to be everyone - just a majority. I have a feeling that those people in the RIAA aren't a majority. Even including all their artists. Even including all the casual artists.
This is one of those instances where the law must change to prepare for the times. We don't need more specific internet-only or technology-only laws. The real question is: How do you preserve someone's right to their property (in this case, music) while contending with the fact that any one, any where, at any time, may simply download it without any knowledge, much less permission.
The answer is not in mandating technological blocks. That would be a sisphyian task, as has been demonstrated already. So how do we solve the problem?
I don't really have an answer. Would you bother to buy a CD if you could download all the songs legally? Should artists become charity-only? Or rely on live tours solely (although, I've often heard that artists make no money from CDs anyway). It's a hard question. I'd be jumping the gun if I said that this marks the end of copyright law as we know it; however, it certainly warrants a rethinking of the practicals of modern law and technology.
My solution? Wait for someone at the RIAA to try and download *MY* own personally written songs, to see if they're copyrighted material, and then DoS them.:)
Or any other idea along that line. (Wait for the Gov't to download? Or anyone else?)
Replying to my own post. Yeah. I know there's no BSOD in Lindows (probably? they might include it for full compatability), but the same could be said for the first kernel panic or ext2 fsck problem. The point is, computer + redneck = doorstop (or mini beer table, or foot rest, etc).
To think of the legions of rednecks who could now possibly be running Lindows instead of Windows
Could you be more condescending?
How about this?
To think of the legions of rednecks who could now possibly be running Lindows instead of Windows. Oh wait. What am I saying? Rednecks don't know how to use computers, much less actually buying them. They might buy them if you convinced them that buying a computer would be more fun than driving their pickup truck. But even then it'd probably end up as a door stop after some redneck gets the BSOD and shoots the monitor out with his shotgun.
...saying a lot of what we all knew. I read the article on CNN about the "JPG virus", and it was obvious that they'd either got it totally wrong, or were trying to hype it.
One of my favorite quotes was: Until now, viruses infected program files -- files that can be run on their own. Data files, like movies, music, text and pictures, were safe from infection. While earlier viruses deleted or modified data files, Perrun is the first to infect them.
Uhm... see. I had always thought that Word documents were data files (text). And I remember them being particularly responsible for a whole lot of annoying macro virii.
But on the Katzian subject, at least it was obvious that michael knew more about the subject than the people who wrote (and were interviewed) for the article I quoted. And it was nice to see an article that presented a bigger picture.
However, just because everyothernewsoutlet in the world spends all their time trying to expose shocking stories about conspiracy, etc, etc -- all of which could probably be titled something like "capitalists still trying to make money off of consumers" -- doesn't mean that/. should follow suit and do the same thing. Unless, of course, michael does some actual investigative research and finds out something *new* and *exciting* or *revealing* and then has something to tell us.
What's my point? Well - Slashdot already links to other stories from other news sources. We don't need to steal their shitty journalism too. We already have our own style of shitty journalism.
"An X bug allows all available memory to be consumed, which causes the system to freeze. The behavior can be duplicated with applications like the Gimp, we're told, but these aren't remotely exploitable. But with Mozilla, a pest can easily set up a malicious Web site which will crash unsuspecting Tuxers' boxen and cause any unsaved data in open apps to go away.
Lucky for me I just got 1.5GB of RAM in my boxen. Hopefully that'll be enough for any font. I have yet to use over 1GB, most of that cache (it's just a desktop box. And before you ask: The RAM was just lying around, so I used it.) And if not. Oh well. Still beats Windows' uptime. Go figure.
And do you know what? This will flop. Terribly. Why? Because the same people who have been shouting that they'll pay for music will, in the end, not pay for music.
In my case, it'll flop because I don't even have a Windows partition, and I don't see any Liquid Audio players out there. When I first read the/. summary, I thought: GREAT! Finally high-quality mp3s of entire albums! This is what I've been waiting for! Then I read the article. So much for whipping out the ole plastic-o-matic credit card.
...
Of course, I probably would've made the whole collection of albums available through FTP or Gnutella, but that doesn't mean *I* wouldn't pay.
Sorry if you're in love with the Star Trek/Star Wars picture, but most likely if our species ever manages to send probes to the nearest 10,000 solar systems, all we'll find is unicellular life. I'll bet your great-great-great-great-great grandkids a six-pack on it!
First, I thought: How do we know that the/. archives of this article will even be readable when your great^5 grandkids are around - or any form of media we use today?
Then, I thought: If my great^5 grandkids are reading/., I'm going to come back from the grave and smack the shit out of them.
Get over yourselves - Katz AND you Hollywood movie makers - and realise that a majority of people who see your work are not of the American persuasion.
If only Hollywood movie makers read Slashdot. Hell. I'm not even sure Katz reads Slashdot.
This is the funny part. I posted it at Score: 1, and this is what happened: Moderation Totals: Offtopic=1, Flamebait=1, Troll=2, Insightful=6, Informative=1, Overrated=3, Total=14. And of course, the score is still: 1.
At any rate, I just hope some people actually go out and read some HST. There's a lot of really smart people reading/., but when it comes to being exposed to the world, many aren't very well read at all.
We all know what's *not* good writing, I just wanted to suggest some writing that is.
Slashdot Mirror
Make sure *nobody* signs up for this. At all. We all know how hard this will be, since everyone and their mother, and their mother's cousin loves "free money". But really, we're just saying, "Hey, it's ok to rip us off some more."
If no one agrees to the settlement, then perhaps the courts, when they try to see if the settlement is fair, will realize that it is not, and that the price fixing must be stopped.
And then I sign up for the refund, and being the only person signed up, I walk away with a cool $25 mil. Muaahahahhahahahahahahhahahaha. *cough* Ignore that last part.
According to this the US spent almost $300B on defense in just 2001. So, if you're spending $40B from 1984 to 2002, that's nothing. Would you rather be killing people, or exploring space?
Ever wonder if Linus cackles to himself a little bit each night before he goes to sleep?
Ah yes, the infamous, "My fun is more important than your fun." Good thinking.
They create mumbo-jumbo terms like "electromagnetic vacuum", that sound plausible to the average sucker investor that never bothered to take a high-school physics class, but are nothing but a bunch of crap.
/. article earlier today. It explains the electromagnetic vacuum (a.k.a. vacuum fluctuations).
http://physicsweb.org/article/world/15/9/6
From another
Everyone forgets. If it plays on your computer, it can be recorded by your computer. Hell, stick a double-female connector from audio-out to line-in. Problem solved. The end-all hack. Sure. You're copying it in 1x time. But there was a point when that was the best we could do. At least we can encode it in real time too.
Nice try, JVC.
Anyway, its not like the processor's slowing the machine down. "It's the DRIVES, stupid!" :)
Actually, it's prolly the RAM, since most systems ship w/ around 128MB (for the general consumer). Spend all your time in swap space, and of course you run like shit. If you want more performance you can do weird things, like ramdisks, or tellking kjournald to only write every hour.:) And the point that AMD doesn't use a Mhz rating just validates the point that the P4 is misleading. Compare an Athlon 1500+ to a P4 1500Mhz. That's all you need.
It's the simple distinction made between someone technically proficient and someone with inspiration or whatever you want to call it.
I don't exactly agree with it, however. I feel the purest form is art for the love of art - not art with an agenda. And clearly, this artist paints because he loves to see his ideas come to life.
I've always thought that the greatest work is not the one worth the most money, or that receives the best criticism - but the one that is viewed by others, and inspires them to want to create. I have notebooks full of sketches of space ships and airplanes and wot inspired by paintings like these.
Do you know how obscenely expensive hand animation is compared to acting?
Second, with motion capture, one actor can play a dozen parts.
Third: do you really think they're going to pay Tom Hanks $32 million when they can pay some actor $5000 to do the motion capture sequences?
Jesus. Think before you post.
Technically, you're right. But I think we've killed enough people in the name of spreading Democracy (not a representative republic) that it's ok to call it one. Personally, I think we need to 'start from scratch' on the lawbooks. Give the politicians something to do, so they don't have to go and feel busy by making up new laws that take away our already existing rights.
Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, said that FBI should not go for casual users but but instead to go after operators of "network "nodes".
Gotta love when the message is simply: We can't prosecute everyone, let's just make examples. If something is a law, and everyone, and their mother, is busy breaking that law - perhaps it shouldn't be a law. This is a democracy after all. Or so we would claim. Heck, it doesn't even have to be everyone - just a majority. I have a feeling that those people in the RIAA aren't a majority. Even including all their artists. Even including all the casual artists.
This is one of those instances where the law must change to prepare for the times. We don't need more specific internet-only or technology-only laws. The real question is: How do you preserve someone's right to their property (in this case, music) while contending with the fact that any one, any where, at any time, may simply download it without any knowledge, much less permission.
The answer is not in mandating technological blocks. That would be a sisphyian task, as has been demonstrated already. So how do we solve the problem?
I don't really have an answer. Would you bother to buy a CD if you could download all the songs legally? Should artists become charity-only? Or rely on live tours solely (although, I've often heard that artists make no money from CDs anyway). It's a hard question. I'd be jumping the gun if I said that this marks the end of copyright law as we know it; however, it certainly warrants a rethinking of the practicals of modern law and technology.
I have to start taking steroids.... just to pedal fast enough to get up to 55 FPS in quake3
Or stop spending every single day sitting in front of the computer eating cheetos and pudding snacks inbetween McD's and Taco Bell.
"If we kick out all the foreigners we will all have jobs again". That is a racist attitude.
Actually, it's more like a Xenophobic or Nationalist attitude, seeing as the U.S. is pretty diverse, race-wise. But who's checking?
My solution? Wait for someone at the RIAA to try and download *MY* own personally written songs, to see if they're copyrighted material, and then DoS them. :)
Or any other idea along that line. (Wait for the Gov't to download? Or anyone else?)
1. Clean yourself up.
2. Get a girlfriend (or boyfriend?).
3. Talk her (him?) into cooking you food.
4. Repeat step 3 as necessary.
I don't know about you, but I have more space than I know what to do with. Hell, 4 of my 10 desktops are empty.
Replying to my own post. Yeah. I know there's no BSOD in Lindows (probably? they might include it for full compatability), but the same could be said for the first kernel panic or ext2 fsck problem. The point is, computer + redneck = doorstop (or mini beer table, or foot rest, etc).
To think of the legions of rednecks who could now possibly be running Lindows instead of Windows
Could you be more condescending?
How about this?
To think of the legions of rednecks who could now possibly be running Lindows instead of Windows. Oh wait. What am I saying? Rednecks don't know how to use computers, much less actually buying them. They might buy them if you convinced them that buying a computer would be more fun than driving their pickup truck. But even then it'd probably end up as a door stop after some redneck gets the BSOD and shoots the monitor out with his shotgun.
Better?
...saying a lot of what we all knew. I read the article on CNN about the "JPG virus", and it was obvious that they'd either got it totally wrong, or were trying to hype it.
/. should follow suit and do the same thing. Unless, of course, michael does some actual investigative research and finds out something *new* and *exciting* or *revealing* and then has something to tell us.
One of my favorite quotes was:
Until now, viruses infected program files -- files that can be run on their own. Data files, like movies, music, text and pictures, were safe from infection. While earlier viruses deleted or modified data files, Perrun is the first to infect them.
Uhm... see. I had always thought that Word documents were data files (text). And I remember them being particularly responsible for a whole lot of annoying macro virii.
But on the Katzian subject, at least it was obvious that michael knew more about the subject than the people who wrote (and were interviewed) for the article I quoted. And it was nice to see an article that presented a bigger picture.
However, just because every other news outlet in the world spends all their time trying to expose shocking stories about conspiracy, etc, etc -- all of which could probably be titled something like "capitalists still trying to make money off of consumers" -- doesn't mean that
What's my point? Well - Slashdot already links to other stories from other news sources. We don't need to steal their shitty journalism too. We already have our own style of shitty journalism.
"An X bug allows all available memory to be consumed, which causes the system to freeze. The behavior can be duplicated with applications like the Gimp, we're told, but these aren't remotely exploitable. But with Mozilla, a pest can easily set up a malicious Web site which will crash unsuspecting Tuxers' boxen and cause any unsaved data in open apps to go away.
Lucky for me I just got 1.5GB of RAM in my boxen. Hopefully that'll be enough for any font. I have yet to use over 1GB, most of that cache (it's just a desktop box. And before you ask: The RAM was just lying around, so I used it.) And if not. Oh well. Still beats Windows' uptime. Go figure.
And do you know what? This will flop. Terribly. Why? Because the same people who have been shouting that they'll pay for music will, in the end, not pay for music.
/. summary, I thought: GREAT! Finally high-quality mp3s of entire albums! This is what I've been waiting for! Then I read the article. So much for whipping out the ole plastic-o-matic credit card.
In my case, it'll flop because I don't even have a Windows partition, and I don't see any Liquid Audio players out there. When I first read the
...
Of course, I probably would've made the whole collection of albums available through FTP or Gnutella, but that doesn't mean *I* wouldn't pay.
Be careful applying this formula. For many first posters, you will get a "divide by zero" error.
Are you saying many first posters are women?
Sorry if you're in love with the Star Trek/Star Wars picture, but most likely if our species ever manages to send probes to the nearest 10,000 solar systems, all we'll find is unicellular life. I'll bet your great-great-great-great-great grandkids a six-pack on it!
/. archives of this article will even be readable when your great^5 grandkids are around - or any form of media we use today?
/., I'm going to come back from the grave and smack the shit out of them.
First, I thought: How do we know that the
Then, I thought: If my great^5 grandkids are reading
Get over yourselves - Katz AND you Hollywood movie makers - and realise that a majority of people who see your work are not of the American persuasion.
If only Hollywood movie makers read Slashdot. Hell. I'm not even sure Katz reads Slashdot.
This is the funny part. I posted it at Score: 1, and this is what happened: Moderation Totals: Offtopic=1, Flamebait=1, Troll=2, Insightful=6, Informative=1, Overrated=3, Total=14. And of course, the score is still: 1.
/., but when it comes to being exposed to the world, many aren't very well read at all.
At any rate, I just hope some people actually go out and read some HST. There's a lot of really smart people reading
We all know what's *not* good writing, I just wanted to suggest some writing that is.