Are the bits that encode the music mine? After all, I bought the hard drive where they reside. Are the cd's that music is stored on mine? I paid for those too.
It's like you bought a book and copied a page onto notebook paper. The paper is yours, the ink is yours, the words are not. Make sense?
What *am* I buying when I buy a CD? a license to play the music? if that's the case, They shouldn't care what medium i transfer the music to. But they do care. In fact, They tax me for CDR's assuming I'm going to use them to write their music to.
That's true, but the very large, blatant (and most importantly) visible piracy that has been going on since just before the Napster days has "forced" the music industry to place inconviniences on you. Remember, it is their right to sell their music however they want, and if they want to offer it only on a crippled medium, all you can do about it is not buy it. (Unless they don't clearly mark is as such, but that's a different story)
PS: Buy CDRs labeled for "Data" use. They work just the same as "Music" CDRs but without the piracy tax (so I'm told...could be wrong?).
IE sucked horribly at least until Netscape was well declining in market share. These days, it's known for non-standard HTML (i.e. breaking the web...it's not about coding for the most popular browser. If I made a PDF reader with special docs and functions and bundled it with Windows, people would be pissed), and for the numerous security holes that guarentee every college student from now until the Earth is sucked into a black hole (who isn't a CS or IT major) will have a computer with 6 GB of spamware and viruses grinding it to such a half it makes schoolwork impossible.
RealPlayer = rubbish player
Sure, i guess the ads sucked, but I was always able to turn them all off, even in the latest version. I don't understand why people are bitching. WMV always looked pixely anyways, but the only things i usually want to watch in WMV are porn and stuff on ebaumsworld anyways. RealVideo is crap, anyways, i agree. They should focus on audio only.
Wordperfect = rubbish word processor
Based on personal preference alone. Word had leverage by being bundled with Windows by OEMs, etc. No one bothered to switch to WordPerfect because they got Word for free. Would you pay for a Nissan or just use your free Kia?
Eudora = rubbish email client
Except for the fact that Outlook is the #1 way for viruses to propagate among Windows computers, and ime, it's disorganized and clunky.
The only business practice microsoft showed in those examples was making a better product. You can't fault them for that, can you?
No, I fault them for making crap porudicts that look good at a glance, or in advertisments, and then forcing them on consumers while making it all look like it's just a big give-away because they're MS and are so good to their customers.
More important than any companies bottom line is the usefulness of technology, and if it can't interoperate then it's all pointless. Imagine having to buy a TV specific to your cable provider??!??!
Cobind Desktop takes a remarkable turn from other Linux distributions by being one of the first to include Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and Mozilla Thunderbird in their first release.
...other distro leaders and organizers complained "Well, we couldn't exactly include them in our first release because they wern't out yet!" to which the Slashdot community replied "Excuses, excuses."
(This has been a Daily Show moment with your buddy, Tokerat)
Stop letting the corporate gangsters pay off out elected officals. They should recieve a paycheck from the government and that's IT. No more of this "rich men get advantagerous laws/decidsions" bullshit, it affects far more than IP laws.
How we'd ever get the corrupt officials to make such a law is between a rock and a hard place, that's for sure. Perhaps we can sneak it into the next PATRIOT Act...
...makes it hard(er) for ordinary citizens to hold copyright on their own material. I imagine the idea of charging companies who want to hold their material for years and years isn't so bad, but ordinary people aren't going to want to get in on this is they have to shell out dough before they know they'll be making money on their creation.
Make it $10 to renew for 10 more years after then first 10 years.
I'll assume you meant "Make it $10 to renew for 10 more years after the first 10 years.". That's not such a bad idea, but I could see how it would be argued against. Still, it's better than what we have now...
How about the "REASON" that IE is about 95+% of browser usage on the net?
Oh, let's shitcan the World Wide Web Consortium because Microsoft stronghanded their own standard to the world. Forget about the fact that http_referrer can be forged, skewing the statistic.
Microsoft didn't invent the Web, therefore it doesn't belong to them. If they want to pee in our pool they'd better prepare to suffer the concequinces.
P.S. When I see them doing actual good for the Web (including security/stability) I'll gladly retract that statement.
I like Firefox, but as long as certain websites require IE you're doing your "neophyte" friend a disservice by "purg(ing) Internet Exploder from the system."
No, you'r hurting businesses that ecide to set up websites that require Internet Explorer, and I see this as a Very Good Thing (tm). Not because I'd like to specifically be anti-Microsoft, mind you, but there is absolutely NO REASON that any website this day in age shouldn't be able to funciton on all browsers. The web is designed to be a system for delivery of cross-referenced marked-up "documents", which, while having much more/different uses and purposes than their tree pulp counterparts, are quite easily designed to a specific standard. Breaking that standard is breaking the Web, same thing.
Banking on the Web should be IE only? Imagine the parking lot at the local bank will only allow Fords. What do you do with your BMW then? It runs better, smoother, faster, looks nicer, doesn't include clunky features, and follows the same 4 wheels/brake pedal/steering wheel/etc. standards needed for road use...
I'd like to hear any good reasons why a website should function in IE on Windows only. Anyone who replies "ActiveX" should be modded +1 Funny.
That would be the first thing I'd really cheer Microsoft for doing in a long time.
Of course, if XBox2 ends up being PowerPC, that might still make things difficult for the x86 game world. PowerPC isn't merely a different set of opcodes...
Not too long ago, we did rennovations to my house, including Cat-5e in the walls to a router in the basement. The Internet comes to my bedroom from the same wall jack as the phone and cable TV.
"In order to have extradition, you have to have dual criminality in both countries..."
So, this guy was pirating moves in Australia and then selling the pirated movies in America, I assume with the help of others. He is guilty of selling them here, even if he hasn't come here personally. Of course, if this is acceptable to Australia as grounds for extradition, they'll let us have him. Otherwise, they're just going to keep him and that's tough crap for us.
I'll explain further: If he was running a Nazi website, he has the right to do that here, and it's up to German citizens to not view (or at least not acknowledge) such content. He's "speaking" from America. Although I am no supporter of the Nazis, he does have the legal right to do this. If the man was using his website (or other means) to sell Nazi memorabilia inside Germany, perhaps then he could be extradited, but only if Germany requested it and the U.S. reviewed it in court and found it acceptable, just like the U.S. is doing in Australia.
It's not that I'm worried that anyone collects information on me, I'm worried what they do with it. This is an example of something that is useful. Selling my information to telemarketers to make up for all the sales some supermarket has is not a good use.
It'd be even worse if they began sharing information with the government on my buying habbits. Assuming the government wanted to try and track possible illegal activity with this, we coudl someday see "Why did you purchase fertilizer?" "Do you realize, sir, that the following cleaning products purchased on (such and such a date) can be combined to produce a bomb?", of if you wanna be a REAL ass about the possibilities; "You're buying lots of pilaf and hummus, you terrorist!";-)
It's not that I mind them watching me as long as they're watching OUT for me, which in this day in age of struggling for that dollar our previous greed made us so used to, is harder to find amongst businesses.
Frankly, for all the stupid and evil things that NetSol does, this is a brilliant marketing move and more power to them.
Yea, hopefully all the companies that can afford it re-register their names for 100 years and then Network Solutions goes under in 10 years from lack of revenue since most of the Internet is locked in until 2104, heh.
Linux costs nothing to get. It is WAY cheaper than other OS packages (enterprise or otherwise) in terms of buying site support, and either way, you're going to have to pay some geek-types to set it all up. To hire qualified people on your own instead of letting some enterprise vendor do it for the same price +profit is cheaper as well.
Any manager would realize what the real FUD is apon sitting down, looking over the actual costs, and making sure they didn't staff the place with clueless twits.
Slashdot Mirror
- Agree to music downloads for a consumer-friendly price.
- Wait until music-downloading finally starts to take the edge off piracy in terms of quality, speed, and reliability.
- Jack prices up like assholes.
- Witness a major consumer backlash and the Second Comming of Piracy?!?!?!?
Music industry execs have been in their own little world too long, methinks.PS: Buy CDRs labeled for "Data" use. They work just the same as "Music" CDRs but without the piracy tax (so I'm told...could be wrong?).
Mandatory splash screen?
More important than any companies bottom line is the usefulness of technology, and if it can't interoperate then it's all pointless. Imagine having to buy a TV specific to your cable provider??!??!
Which really doesn't seem to be a bad idea, if you think about it...
Okay, how does 10% sound?
MAN I can't STAND you PEOPLE who can't GET A JOKE ABOUT GETTING JOKES ABOUT GETTING.....oh
I don't get it.
The joke is that FLOSS programmers are so smart that programming comes that easy to them, as opposed to the braindead working for ________ Inc.
A clever line, I might add.
(This has been a Daily Show moment with your buddy, Tokerat)
What for? There is pretty much already a Google section.
Stop letting the corporate gangsters pay off out elected officals. They should recieve a paycheck from the government and that's IT. No more of this "rich men get advantagerous laws/decidsions" bullshit, it affects far more than IP laws.
How we'd ever get the corrupt officials to make such a law is between a rock and a hard place, that's for sure. Perhaps we can sneak it into the next PATRIOT Act...
...makes it hard(er) for ordinary citizens to hold copyright on their own material. I imagine the idea of charging companies who want to hold their material for years and years isn't so bad, but ordinary people aren't going to want to get in on this is they have to shell out dough before they know they'll be making money on their creation. I'll assume you meant "Make it $10 to renew for 10 more years after the first 10 years.". That's not such a bad idea, but I could see how it would be argued against. Still, it's better than what we have now...
Microsoft didn't invent the Web, therefore it doesn't belong to them. If they want to pee in our pool they'd better prepare to suffer the concequinces.
P.S. When I see them doing actual good for the Web (including security/stability) I'll gladly retract that statement.
Banking on the Web should be IE only? Imagine the parking lot at the local bank will only allow Fords. What do you do with your BMW then? It runs better, smoother, faster, looks nicer, doesn't include clunky features, and follows the same 4 wheels/brake pedal/steering wheel/etc. standards needed for road use...
I'd like to hear any good reasons why a website should function in IE on Windows only. Anyone who replies "ActiveX" should be modded +1 Funny.
That would be the first thing I'd really cheer Microsoft for doing in a long time.
Of course, if XBox2 ends up being PowerPC, that might still make things difficult for the x86 game world. PowerPC isn't merely a different set of opcodes...
Not too long ago, we did rennovations to my house, including Cat-5e in the walls to a router in the basement. The Internet comes to my bedroom from the same wall jack as the phone and cable TV.
I haven't slept in 7 months.
I'll explain further: If he was running a Nazi website, he has the right to do that here, and it's up to German citizens to not view (or at least not acknowledge) such content. He's "speaking" from America. Although I am no supporter of the Nazis, he does have the legal right to do this. If the man was using his website (or other means) to sell Nazi memorabilia inside Germany, perhaps then he could be extradited, but only if Germany requested it and the U.S. reviewed it in court and found it acceptable, just like the U.S. is doing in Australia.
Play the way you're supposed to or get screwed.
It's not that I'm worried that anyone collects information on me, I'm worried what they do with it. This is an example of something that is useful. Selling my information to telemarketers to make up for all the sales some supermarket has is not a good use.
It'd be even worse if they began sharing information with the government on my buying habbits. Assuming the government wanted to try and track possible illegal activity with this, we coudl someday see "Why did you purchase fertilizer?" "Do you realize, sir, that the following cleaning products purchased on (such and such a date) can be combined to produce a bomb?", of if you wanna be a REAL ass about the possibilities; "You're buying lots of pilaf and hummus, you terrorist!"
It's not that I mind them watching me as long as they're watching OUT for me, which in this day in age of struggling for that dollar our previous greed made us so used to, is harder to find amongst businesses.
...censored music online?
So....when where you planning on making a point?
Linux costs nothing to get. It is WAY cheaper than other OS packages (enterprise or otherwise) in terms of buying site support, and either way, you're going to have to pay some geek-types to set it all up. To hire qualified people on your own instead of letting some enterprise vendor do it for the same price +profit is cheaper as well.
Any manager would realize what the real FUD is apon sitting down, looking over the actual costs, and making sure they didn't staff the place with clueless twits.