Right now, I have the primary copy (originals) on CD, secondary on a Buffalo LinkStation, tertiary on a Buffalo DriveStation (dedicated backup disk for the LS), and quadiwhatever burned to CD-R and sitting in my cube at work so I can listen to them on my Sony Discman (I *love* my model D-CJ506BK with the little red-lit LCD screen).
Wow. That's a remote-site backup, isn't it? I could be an IT department!:-):-)
1.) I have over 12,500 songs in my collection. All WMA. All play fine on my WMA playback devices, of which I have four.
My music collection is roughly the same size, but I use MP3 files instead. I have many more playback devices (two car stereos, two discman units, several PCs running various OSes, component stereo in sitting room, home theatre system in living room, and a boombox).
2.) I know well what my rights are. They are listed right in the EULA when I installed the various Music Stores. They ARE NOT MY SONGS. They belong to the artist or the record label, right or wrong.
99% of the songs I have in MP3 format are ripped from my own CDs. I also know what my rights are, and since I did not have to sign or accept a EULA I suspect I have signicantly more flexibility than you do in terms of what I can legally do with the music I've purchased over the years.:-)
3.) Define special...
It's a term I sometimes use to describe people who are willing to accept a severe curtailing of their rights and think the whole concept is a really neat idea. It isn't, except to the middle men who do the distributing, and both the artist and the listener get screwed in the process.
It seems to me the only people that have problems with DRM are the ones that think everything should be free and the ones who do regularly steal music and software.
I've been collecting LPs since 1976 and CDs since 1986, and I pirate neither music nor software. That doesn't mean I agree with DRM schemes or the rationale behind them.
I also believe that some software is far more efficiently produced in a free environment, but acknowledge that proprietary software development has its place. I don't pirate software -- open source provides most of my new applications and utilities on all of the platforms I use, but I'll register shareware I use and purchase retail software when necessary.
Face it: history is against you, and against those who would use DRM. In the end, DRM will not work. It's as effective as classic software copy protection schemes were -- only those who are legitimate customers are limited by them, and actual pirates typically have cracks to the various schemes within days if not hours.
It's fine if you accet DRM and its limitations, but that doesn't mean *I* have to.
As I found out when I was seeking work a few years ago, and as my youngest brother found out quite recently, getting to the interview stage is a challenge in itself these days. There are so many filtering mechanisms in place before the actual person-to-person interview process that it's a wonder that companies are able to find *anyone* who fits their overexacting requirements.
Companies in the US charge what the market will bear, and provide only as much bandwidth as they have to in order to keep up with the competition.
Until someone comes up with something significantly cheaper and/or faster, I'll bet that we will continue to see the status quo in the US.
I pay $45/month for 6Mbps cable here in an Atlanta suburb (metro area between 4.5 and 5 million). DSL is less expensive here than cable, but also somewhat slower.
That's only 23 miles. Lots of metro areas are deeper than 23 miles from the center in at least one direction.
Travelling northwest up Interstate 75 from the center of Atlanta to an outer Atlanta suburb like Acworth is more like 35 miles, which is a 30-minute trip at 70MPH (assuming no traffic on 75 which NEVER happens). In the real world during rush hour, it's more like a 90 minute trip.
The free market is all about the EFFICIENT allocation of goods and services.
Where did you get that idea? The free market is about the PROFITABLE allocation of goods and services, and only if efficiency brings in more profit will you see that be a focus.
If there's more profit in being less efficient, that's what the market will create.
We don't know that they didn't do that. I've seen instances in the past where red flags were presented to (and then shouted at management) without any results.
The Istari are not permitted to design or create systems directly. That would involve a direct confrontation of skill against skill, and that is forbidden. Instead, they can only provide limited assistance to those who are trying to write their own systems.
If the specifications for the system were imprecise or constantly changing (as often happens), that would limit the ability of ANY software developer to create a stable functional system on time and within budget.
I'm not going to criticise the folks who were trying to implement the system until I know a lot more about the actual conditions in which they were trying to work...
In the BSCS I went through in the early 1980's, the History of Computing half of was the first course in the BSCS core trac: Introduction to Computing 101. It was a required class, and it covered all kinds of stuff (hardware, languages, etc.). Quite informative.
Folks tend to come into college a bit more tech-savvy now, but I would still see value in such a class.
Maybe in small companies. In larger companies, the CIO is often not even in touch with major corporate IT strategy, much less day-to-day subjects like hiring criteria. Heck, director-level people are rarely involved -- that's the type of thing that Managers and team leads do, and they're in the trenches.
I'm sure Microsoft would have found a way to nickel-and-dime us to death with incremental improvements to their OS/2 variant, just as they have with their Windows variants.
At least IBM was able to add some semi-innovative technology to the OS before it left the spotlight (the WPS, DOS virtual machines that were both compatible and highly configurable, etc.).
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Right now, I have the primary copy (originals) on CD, secondary on a Buffalo LinkStation, tertiary on a Buffalo DriveStation (dedicated backup disk for the LS), and quadiwhatever burned to CD-R and sitting in my cube at work so I can listen to them on my Sony Discman (I *love* my model D-CJ506BK with the little red-lit LCD screen).
:-) :-)
Wow. That's a remote-site backup, isn't it? I could be an IT department!
Hey, I didn't say I *enjoyed* the mental image... :-)
My music collection is roughly the same size, but I use MP3 files instead. I have many more playback devices (two car stereos, two discman units, several PCs running various OSes, component stereo in sitting room, home theatre system in living room, and a boombox).
99% of the songs I have in MP3 format are ripped from my own CDs. I also know what my rights are, and since I did not have to sign or accept a EULA I suspect I have signicantly more flexibility than you do in terms of what I can legally do with the music I've purchased over the years. :-)
It's a term I sometimes use to describe people who are willing to accept a severe curtailing of their rights and think the whole concept is a really neat idea. It isn't, except to the middle men who do the distributing, and both the artist and the listener get screwed in the process.
I've been collecting LPs since 1976 and CDs since 1986, and I pirate neither music nor software. That doesn't mean I agree with DRM schemes or the rationale behind them.
I also believe that some software is far more efficiently produced in a free environment, but acknowledge that proprietary software development has its place. I don't pirate software -- open source provides most of my new applications and utilities on all of the platforms I use, but I'll register shareware I use and purchase retail software when necessary.
Face it: history is against you, and against those who would use DRM. In the end, DRM will not work. It's as effective as classic software copy protection schemes were -- only those who are legitimate customers are limited by them, and actual pirates typically have cracks to the various schemes within days if not hours.
It's fine if you accet DRM and its limitations, but that doesn't mean *I* have to.
Oh, it's not so bad. Just imagine Ballmer in a red dress. :-) :-) :-)
Just remember not to put the Bag of Holding in a Portable Hole... Or is it the reverse?
As I found out when I was seeking work a few years ago, and as my youngest brother found out quite recently, getting to the interview stage is a challenge in itself these days. There are so many filtering mechanisms in place before the actual person-to-person interview process that it's a wonder that companies are able to find *anyone* who fits their overexacting requirements.
I'm just lazy enough to write tools to do some of my work for me. :-)
I hate small cell phones. Harder to use, easier to lose.
Companies in the US charge what the market will bear, and provide only as much bandwidth as they have to in order to keep up with the competition.
Until someone comes up with something significantly cheaper and/or faster, I'll bet that we will continue to see the status quo in the US.
I pay $45/month for 6Mbps cable here in an Atlanta suburb (metro area between 4.5 and 5 million). DSL is less expensive here than cable, but also somewhat slower.
That's only 23 miles. Lots of metro areas are deeper than 23 miles from the center in at least one direction.
Travelling northwest up Interstate 75 from the center of Atlanta to an outer Atlanta suburb like Acworth is more like 35 miles, which is a 30-minute trip at 70MPH (assuming no traffic on 75 which NEVER happens). In the real world during rush hour, it's more like a 90 minute trip.
Where did you get that idea? The free market is about the PROFITABLE allocation of goods and services, and only if efficiency brings in more profit will you see that be a focus.
If there's more profit in being less efficient, that's what the market will create.
What are you talking about? That'd barely pay for a faulty CEO these days.
Justice would be nice. Perhaps also the lawful upholding of our constitution.
Not in corporate America. Most of the money tends to flow to those in the org chart who are far above the actual producers.
Democrats are moderate? Since when?
We have two major parties in this country which have major flaws, and no party which actually represents the majority of Americans. IMO, anyway.
We don't know that they didn't do that. I've seen instances in the past where red flags were presented to (and then shouted at management) without any results.
The Istari are not permitted to design or create systems directly. That would involve a direct confrontation of skill against skill, and that is forbidden. Instead, they can only provide limited assistance to those who are trying to write their own systems.
:-)
Sheesh.
If the specifications for the system were imprecise or constantly changing (as often happens), that would limit the ability of ANY software developer to create a stable functional system on time and within budget.
I'm not going to criticise the folks who were trying to implement the system until I know a lot more about the actual conditions in which they were trying to work...
In the BSCS I went through in the early 1980's, the History of Computing half of was the first course in the BSCS core trac: Introduction to Computing 101. It was a required class, and it covered all kinds of stuff (hardware, languages, etc.). Quite informative.
Folks tend to come into college a bit more tech-savvy now, but I would still see value in such a class.
We can replace you with a very small tape robot...I mean tape silo...I mean very large...I mean *WHACK*
:-)
We can replace you with a very large tape silo.
Maybe in small companies. In larger companies, the CIO is often not even in touch with major corporate IT strategy, much less day-to-day subjects like hiring criteria. Heck, director-level people are rarely involved -- that's the type of thing that Managers and team leads do, and they're in the trenches.
...there's True In A Nutshell. :-)
I'm sure Microsoft would have found a way to nickel-and-dime us to death with incremental improvements to their OS/2 variant, just as they have with their Windows variants.
At least IBM was able to add some semi-innovative technology to the OS before it left the spotlight (the WPS, DOS virtual machines that were both compatible and highly configurable, etc.).
Praise Bob! :-)
A clever boy, but those lotuses'll grow quite nicely if you spread sheets of them on the ground.
:-)
Or is it sheet-loads?
Copyright infringement is NOT theft.