Yes, I do see some valid advantages of streaming audio, especially for radios. I use iMeem on my gPhone extensively since it plays just fine and lets me discover new music similar to my taste without forcing me to pick song by song myself. On the other hand, personally selected songs/albums will never make sense to store exclusively online. Yes, some sort of repository for me to download it do various devices would be cool but do not expect me to let go of physical posession of at least one copy of my stuff.
Unless the big record company bosses come to their senses and switch to a mass distribution model ready for this century. Make songs 10c and albums 2$ and see how your unit sales explode. If you make music so affordable and convenient to download it beats the pirate model, just as many (or close to that) people who now pirate the stuff will buy it.
I respect Sony for bringing future technology to the masses. I owned several Vaio's and they were worth every penny I paid for them. Their hardware/electronics division are sort of the AAPL of Japan. However, I hope their imaginary property division goes bankrupt as fast as Universal, EMI, and all the other leeches. Artists can sell straight to the customers, no need to give out 70% of their profits to bunch of greedy MBAs.
So whole point of the rules is that if your opponents has better track record (higher LEVEL), you get more points (EXPERIENCE) for beating him? Oh WoW, how original.
'Neanderthal decision-makers choose to offend the maximum number of participants to show power. (There is no personal power visible or shown in doing the right thing).'
Wow. I will take a good note of this into my 'future manager' notebook. Thanks man.
Exactly why I ditched it for Chrome. The damn thing just eats RAM as long as there is some left. I understand this is possibly due to way too much JavaScript used on the sites you visit (hi Slashdot), but it seems Chrome is just able to manage the resulting garbage more efficiently.
Now that the western society "wealth" generation is completely dependent on artificial scarcity, people who benefit the most from this charade will be trying very hard to protect their revenue streams. They will only fail if the "third world" manages to gather behind China's lead, emancipate itself from corporate slavery and take back what they rightfully deserve. The concept of intelectual property is flawed in surprisingly similar ways the idea of communism was. Instead of promoting well-being of the masses through supporting investment in research and creativity, it has become a tool of manipulation used by the elites.
I think you are confusing Applications and Processes. See Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) for clarification. I still think the only price they can sell that crippleware for is free. Oh, and I pray they are too stupid to do that. Imagine what free handicapped version of Windows would do to desktop Linux as a cost reduction measure.
My view on gaming addiction is that, just like any other form of escapism, it is merely a symptom caused by various physical, psychological and social factors. In many cases, the subject would be addicted to something (possibly more harmful like drugs or gambling) anyways so the addiction is actually "good for him" in a certain sense. You can just grow up from gaming, unlike booze or crack.
How about we start using a new licence: If you distrubute my work, I am entitled to 33% of your profit. Forever. If you distribute my work for free, I am therefore entitled to 0$. Do you guys think this could work?
Ahh come on. "Employers will look at me weird." is not a reason. It is just a rationalization if you don't have the balls to do it. If you are good at it (and get some portfolio together), you can always just make some stuff up about your past. Unless you had Facebook.
I am 22 and work in IT and the only reason why I disrespect any of my older colleagues is when they are the kind of people who learned one language/system 10 to 20 years ago and cling to it while furiously refusing to let go. If you go to the school, learn how to adapt to changing technologies, do not just get glued to whatever is hip at that time and you will do just fine.
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Yes, I do see some valid advantages of streaming audio, especially for radios. I use iMeem on my gPhone extensively since it plays just fine and lets me discover new music similar to my taste without forcing me to pick song by song myself. On the other hand, personally selected songs/albums will never make sense to store exclusively online. Yes, some sort of repository for me to download it do various devices would be cool but do not expect me to let go of physical posession of at least one copy of my stuff. Unless the big record company bosses come to their senses and switch to a mass distribution model ready for this century. Make songs 10c and albums 2$ and see how your unit sales explode. If you make music so affordable and convenient to download it beats the pirate model, just as many (or close to that) people who now pirate the stuff will buy it.
I respect Sony for bringing future technology to the masses. I owned several Vaio's and they were worth every penny I paid for them. Their hardware/electronics division are sort of the AAPL of Japan. However, I hope their imaginary property division goes bankrupt as fast as Universal, EMI, and all the other leeches. Artists can sell straight to the customers, no need to give out 70% of their profits to bunch of greedy MBAs.
So whole point of the rules is that if your opponents has better track record (higher LEVEL), you get more points (EXPERIENCE) for beating him? Oh WoW, how original.
'Neanderthal decision-makers choose to offend the maximum number of participants to show power. (There is no personal power visible or shown in doing the right thing).' Wow. I will take a good note of this into my 'future manager' notebook. Thanks man.
Exactly why I ditched it for Chrome. The damn thing just eats RAM as long as there is some left. I understand this is possibly due to way too much JavaScript used on the sites you visit (hi Slashdot), but it seems Chrome is just able to manage the resulting garbage more efficiently.
Now that the western society "wealth" generation is completely dependent on artificial scarcity, people who benefit the most from this charade will be trying very hard to protect their revenue streams. They will only fail if the "third world" manages to gather behind China's lead, emancipate itself from corporate slavery and take back what they rightfully deserve. The concept of intelectual property is flawed in surprisingly similar ways the idea of communism was. Instead of promoting well-being of the masses through supporting investment in research and creativity, it has become a tool of manipulation used by the elites.
I think you are confusing Applications and Processes. See Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) for clarification. I still think the only price they can sell that crippleware for is free. Oh, and I pray they are too stupid to do that. Imagine what free handicapped version of Windows would do to desktop Linux as a cost reduction measure.
My view on gaming addiction is that, just like any other form of escapism, it is merely a symptom caused by various physical, psychological and social factors. In many cases, the subject would be addicted to something (possibly more harmful like drugs or gambling) anyways so the addiction is actually "good for him" in a certain sense. You can just grow up from gaming, unlike booze or crack.
you totally deserve the name dude
I don't think many CEOs would have the guts to say the truth so clearly.
How about we start using a new licence: If you distrubute my work, I am entitled to 33% of your profit. Forever. If you distribute my work for free, I am therefore entitled to 0$. Do you guys think this could work?
communists, terrorists and now hackers, what is next, aliens?
Professor Barton? Oh the ironing xD
Ahh come on. "Employers will look at me weird." is not a reason. It is just a rationalization if you don't have the balls to do it. If you are good at it (and get some portfolio together), you can always just make some stuff up about your past. Unless you had Facebook.
I am 22 and work in IT and the only reason why I disrespect any of my older colleagues is when they are the kind of people who learned one language/system 10 to 20 years ago and cling to it while furiously refusing to let go. If you go to the school, learn how to adapt to changing technologies, do not just get glued to whatever is hip at that time and you will do just fine.