sue the RIAA for impersonating a law enforcement agency? Its a crime for me to impersonate a law enforcement officer, should it be illegal for a corporation to impersonate a law enforcement agency?
Jobs did not suddenly decide DRM was bad. He has always stated that piracy is a social issue and not a technological issue, and DRM is definately not the answer.
Well unfortunately until this last week, Apple Inc. was forbidden to sign and promote bands via a deal they made with Apple Records. Now that Jobs and Co. have control of Apple Records we will see what they do with it, Apple may be in a position to usurp the RIAA, we will see.
Ok, I was around back then. I dont remember the particular event but it was some random press conference right after DOS was released. Some reporter asked Gates why the 640K memory limit and this was his answer. It wasnt any sort of prediction, it was just an offhand comment to a reporter, from what I assumed at the time was a CEO who didnt really know all of the technical details behind what he was talking about. And dont forget that in 1981 640K was a helluva lot of memory (Apple II's shipped with 24K and were upgradable to 128K).
I dont recall ever seeing MS give their users the ability to add features from their newer os's to their older os's. When is the last time you saw MS provide a patch for NT that would add a new feature found only in XP?
Not being a laywer, could Apple be doing this to negotiate a better licensing contract with Cisco? Or could this just be a Homer move on Apples part thinking they had longer to sign the contracts since they arent releasing the phone until June? (hard to believe) Apple must be intentionally letting this go to court for some reason, since they have been negotitiating with Cisco over the iPhone name for awhile now. One would think Apple would know exactly what would happen if they released another companies licensed product name without that companies approval.
arrogance and lack of communication, from anyone in the development chain. Of course in any field of endeavor these two factors only make life more difficult, they just seem to manifest themselves in software development more often.
US companies generally pay wages that are higher than the local standard,
Back that one up please, in my travels to several 3rd world countries, US companies are the bottom of the bucket. They dont offer any benefits, the hours are long and they pay just enough for someone to survive. Jobs in Japanese companies are probably the most desirable jobs in the world right now in third world countries, they usually give health care benefits, education benefits and tend to pay considerably higher than the national average. To someone in the third world it is a no brainer, go to work for Nike and at least you wont starve, go to work for Neikke and you are set for life (sorry couldnt help that).
Oh YEAH!! Earthlink definately takes the prize as worst to cancel service. I still get bills from earthlink and letters from lawyers saying they are going to sue me on earhlinks behalf(4 years after cancellation) for a charge earthlink tried to charge me 3 months after my account had been canceled. Thank goodness I canceled over the phone, recorded the phone call and made sure I recieved a confirmation number, I bet somebody at earthlink knows my name and wishes I would loose that damn tape (I have since converted it to MP3). You would think they would just drop it, after 4 years it seems to me they have spent much more than the $21.00 they are trying to collect.
Well at least in one respect they would be better off without the company there because they wouldnt be getting "the cough".
You do realize that most third world countries allow these companies to operate tax free for so many years dont you? This is done in hopes that in the future when they do have to pay taxes the company is so entrenched in the country they cant easily pull out, which they do anyway. Any "taxes" levied are usually only called that on paper because bribery is considered unethical, and would probably cause a civil war. Nothing is going into improving education, quality of life for the people or developing the countries social infrastructure. If you actually think these companies are doing anything but just keeping these people alive so they can have a pool of cheap laborers is naive at best and outright blind idealism at worst. I know there are exceptions to the rule (companies that actually help third world countries, not sure if ENI is one of them or not but it doesnt sound like it in the article), but the number of companies just looking for a cheap labor pool far outnumbers the companies actually helping to improve conditions in any of these countries.
It is unethical for these foundations to be investing and supporting companies that are harming the very people they are trying to help, do you not see this? This is a very difficult issue to resolve, these foundations need to make money in order to keep up their humanitarian activities, but is maximizing profits really a necessary motivation behind a huminitarian organization? They should only be striving to break even each year and this should be easily attainable without having to invest in companies based on maximum return.
Yes but no one is doing anything to rectify this problem in the future either. So 10 years from now, Americans will still be under educated and there still wont be any skilled 25-year-old workers. The only solution? Stop trying to show the world how tough we are and start educating our own citizens.
I never said anything alarmist, I never said the world is going to end, I never even said that I believe or dont believe the global warming theorys. What I did say was that 2 very prestigious scientific organizations, have identified Exxon as a leader in the anti global warming camp and they are spreading mis-information about it. These arent a bunch of "leftists?" (I take you are an american conservative), they are well respected organizations (by both conservative and liberal scientists) in the scientific community (at least the Royal Society is, not sure if the NCS has been bought by the current admin yet, but I dont think so). If what Exxon was doing was scientific and had any credibility they wouldnt have even said anything.
I also asked you a question. Again, what will it take for you to admit that there may be a problem and it has to be taken seriously and investigated? When it is too late to do anything about it? Remember it is a majority of the scientific community claiming that global warming is a major contributor to the climate changes we have been expieriencing and that community is comprised of both conservative and liberal scientists. But it is just wrong to turn this into a liberal/conservative thing (both sides use it to push their agendas), it affects us all equally.
So both the Royal Society and UCS are saying that Exxon is deliberately confusing the issue to make an extra buck and you still support them? Your a stock holder arent you? They arent saying that Exxon is doing alternate research, Exxon is not even attempting to hire outside researchers to back up their claims to give themselves some credibility. They are releasing FUD plain and simple. What is it going to take to make you believe that global warming is an issue that needs to be addressed, watching your children die of melanoma? I personally would like to find a solution before things like that start happening.
Yup, the only way to fight copying/sharing/pirating is to offer the movies at a reasonable price and allow users to use them they way the users want to use them.
"If we lock everyone up, there would be no crime! Can you argue against that?"
Yes I can. Crime exists in prison already, in fact by locking everyone up you probably would remove the one factor that keeps many people from committing crime (fear of losing their freedom) and in the end create more criminals.
Because everyone is different? - one mans crime is another mans challenge Because people are emotional beings? - crimes of passion Because people are lazy? - breaking into a house and stealing a stereo is easier than working 40 hours a week for months on end to afford said stereo. Because people need to eat? - our whole concept of free enterprise and economy is based on the fact that a few succeed while the majority do not Because some people are just good at it? Because we perpetuate a society that is based on keeping up with the Jones? etc, etc, etc...
I think what the blogger is doing is noble, he doesnt need the laptop so he is selling it and donating the money to a worthy cause who has helped him in the past. Where is the anger on the bloggers website? (I dont even need to look to find the anger(angst) on slashdot) In fact laughingsquid states right in his blog that he is not sure why he was sent a laptop, he also states that he is going to buy Vista when it comes out, how is this slamming MS in any way? Personally I think this makes MS look like a bunch of children who are angry because the other kids arent playing the way they want to so they want their toy back.
There ya go, make the criminals shoot first then rob you, hopefully they put the power supply somewhere that wont instantly kill you when the muggers try to disable your shirt alarm. Though for older people and people with health problems something like this could be cheaper than having to hire a full-time nurse.
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sue the RIAA for impersonating a law enforcement agency? Its a crime for me to impersonate a law enforcement officer, should it be illegal for a corporation to impersonate a law enforcement agency?
Unfortunately unabashed greed and market domination at any cost are the American way today.
Jobs did not suddenly decide DRM was bad. He has always stated that piracy is a social issue and not a technological issue, and DRM is definately not the answer.
Well unfortunately until this last week, Apple Inc. was forbidden to sign and promote bands via a deal they made with Apple Records. Now that Jobs and Co. have control of Apple Records we will see what they do with it, Apple may be in a position to usurp the RIAA, we will see.
"You can take the boy out of the trailer park, but you cant take the trailer park out of the boy!"
Ok, I was around back then. I dont remember the particular event but it was some random press conference right after DOS was released. Some reporter asked Gates why the 640K memory limit and this was his answer. It wasnt any sort of prediction, it was just an offhand comment to a reporter, from what I assumed at the time was a CEO who didnt really know all of the technical details behind what he was talking about. And dont forget that in 1981 640K was a helluva lot of memory (Apple II's shipped with 24K and were upgradable to 128K).
I dont recall ever seeing MS give their users the ability to add features from their newer os's to their older os's. When is the last time you saw MS provide a patch for NT that would add a new feature found only in XP?
Not being a laywer, could Apple be doing this to negotiate a better licensing contract with Cisco? Or could this just be a Homer move on Apples part thinking they had longer to sign the contracts since they arent releasing the phone until June? (hard to believe) Apple must be intentionally letting this go to court for some reason, since they have been negotitiating with Cisco over the iPhone name for awhile now. One would think Apple would know exactly what would happen if they released another companies licensed product name without that companies approval.
arrogance and lack of communication, from anyone in the development chain. Of course in any field of endeavor these two factors only make life more difficult, they just seem to manifest themselves in software development more often.
Um, thats "What makes software development so hard", not "What makes software developers so hard"!
US companies generally pay wages that are higher than the local standard,
Back that one up please, in my travels to several 3rd world countries, US companies are the bottom of the bucket. They dont offer any benefits, the hours are long and they pay just enough for someone to survive. Jobs in Japanese companies are probably the most desirable jobs in the world right now in third world countries, they usually give health care benefits, education benefits and tend to pay considerably higher than the national average. To someone in the third world it is a no brainer, go to work for Nike and at least you wont starve, go to work for Neikke and you are set for life (sorry couldnt help that).
Oh YEAH!! Earthlink definately takes the prize as worst to cancel service. I still get bills from earthlink and letters from lawyers saying they are going to sue me on earhlinks behalf(4 years after cancellation) for a charge earthlink tried to charge me 3 months after my account had been canceled. Thank goodness I canceled over the phone, recorded the phone call and made sure I recieved a confirmation number, I bet somebody at earthlink knows my name and wishes I would loose that damn tape (I have since converted it to MP3). You would think they would just drop it, after 4 years it seems to me they have spent much more than the $21.00 they are trying to collect.
Well at least in one respect they would be better off without the company there because they wouldnt be getting "the cough".
You do realize that most third world countries allow these companies to operate tax free for so many years dont you? This is done in hopes that in the future when they do have to pay taxes the company is so entrenched in the country they cant easily pull out, which they do anyway. Any "taxes" levied are usually only called that on paper because bribery is considered unethical, and would probably cause a civil war. Nothing is going into improving education, quality of life for the people or developing the countries social infrastructure. If you actually think these companies are doing anything but just keeping these people alive so they can have a pool of cheap laborers is naive at best and outright blind idealism at worst. I know there are exceptions to the rule (companies that actually help third world countries, not sure if ENI is one of them or not but it doesnt sound like it in the article), but the number of companies just looking for a cheap labor pool far outnumbers the companies actually helping to improve conditions in any of these countries.
It is unethical for these foundations to be investing and supporting companies that are harming the very people they are trying to help, do you not see this? This is a very difficult issue to resolve, these foundations need to make money in order to keep up their humanitarian activities, but is maximizing profits really a necessary motivation behind a huminitarian organization? They should only be striving to break even each year and this should be easily attainable without having to invest in companies based on maximum return.
Dont worry, this is the attitude revolutions are born of.
Yes but no one is doing anything to rectify this problem in the future either. So 10 years from now, Americans will still be under educated and there still wont be any skilled 25-year-old workers. The only solution? Stop trying to show the world how tough we are and start educating our own citizens.
Not sure what you are talking about, the people here on H1Bs I work with claim its gotten tougher to switch employers in the last 3-4 years.
I never said anything alarmist, I never said the world is going to end, I never even said that I believe or dont believe the global warming theorys. What I did say was that 2 very prestigious scientific organizations, have identified Exxon as a leader in the anti global warming camp and they are spreading mis-information about it. These arent a bunch of "leftists?" (I take you are an american conservative), they are well respected organizations (by both conservative and liberal scientists) in the scientific community (at least the Royal Society is, not sure if the NCS has been bought by the current admin yet, but I dont think so). If what Exxon was doing was scientific and had any credibility they wouldnt have even said anything.
I also asked you a question. Again, what will it take for you to admit that there may be a problem and it has to be taken seriously and investigated? When it is too late to do anything about it? Remember it is a majority of the scientific community claiming that global warming is a major contributor to the climate changes we have been expieriencing and that community is comprised of both conservative and liberal scientists. But it is just wrong to turn this into a liberal/conservative thing (both sides use it to push their agendas), it affects us all equally.
So both the Royal Society and UCS are saying that Exxon is deliberately confusing the issue to make an extra buck and you still support them? Your a stock holder arent you? They arent saying that Exxon is doing alternate research, Exxon is not even attempting to hire outside researchers to back up their claims to give themselves some credibility. They are releasing FUD plain and simple. What is it going to take to make you believe that global warming is an issue that needs to be addressed, watching your children die of melanoma? I personally would like to find a solution before things like that start happening.
I've often thought you could run a music store this way, burning CD's on site, on demand.
We would see this if the RIAA didnt exist, piracy? hah! this is what they are really fighting against.
Yup, the only way to fight copying/sharing/pirating is to offer the movies at a reasonable price and allow users to use them they way the users want to use them.
"If we lock everyone up, there would be no crime! Can you argue against that?"
Yes I can. Crime exists in prison already, in fact by locking everyone up you probably would remove the one factor that keeps many people from committing crime (fear of losing their freedom) and in the end create more criminals.
why does crime occur?
Because everyone is different? - one mans crime is another mans challenge
Because people are emotional beings? - crimes of passion
Because people are lazy? - breaking into a house and stealing a stereo is easier than working 40 hours a week for months on end to afford said stereo.
Because people need to eat? - our whole concept of free enterprise and economy is based on the fact that a few succeed while the majority do not
Because some people are just good at it?
Because we perpetuate a society that is based on keeping up with the Jones?
etc, etc, etc...
The aristocrats? Where is the beastiality? The sodomy? The incest? The aristocrats would be ashamed to attach their famous moniker to this post.
I think what the blogger is doing is noble, he doesnt need the laptop so he is selling it and donating the money to a worthy cause who has helped him in the past. Where is the anger on the bloggers website? (I dont even need to look to find the anger(angst) on slashdot) In fact laughingsquid states right in his blog that he is not sure why he was sent a laptop, he also states that he is going to buy Vista when it comes out, how is this slamming MS in any way? Personally I think this makes MS look like a bunch of children who are angry because the other kids arent playing the way they want to so they want their toy back.
Why exactly did you draw that comparison?
Maybe because the current administration started this asshat war on the lie that Saddam had something to do with 9/11?
There ya go, make the criminals shoot first then rob you, hopefully they put the power supply somewhere that wont instantly kill you when the muggers try to disable your shirt alarm. Though for older people and people with health problems something like this could be cheaper than having to hire a full-time nurse.