Great. I can't wait until these become the subject of hacks and viruses. Imagine getting shot in the head by a bullet with the following message attached:
Hi! How are you?
I send you this bullet in order to have your advice.
Actually, it's the drugs; the licensing thing is just a cover. No, really. Apple got wind of the fact that most Euros are covered in cocaine. Macs are supposed to be associated with hallucinogens, not stimulants.
But if you spend your money elsewhere, they can't do anything about it.
Yes they can. They can strangle every distribution channel except their own. If you try to distribute or download music via any channel that doesn't give the lion's share of profits to an obsolete middleman, they can call you thieves and hackers, sue everyone associated with your distribution network, and whine to every media outlet that their profits are being raped by college students who don't respect the artists' right to earn a living. It doesn't matter that you are distributing or downloading independent music. As long as there is infringing content on the networks they can make this argument. This has been the RIAA's goal all along, IMHO -- to maintain their centrality to the distribution of music. Extorting money from businesses like Napster or from college students ranks a distant second on their list of goals. They want to continue to name the next pop stars, and to continue to determine the musical tastes of the overwhelming majority of fans. Making trouble for p2p networks -- by suing them out of existence, by disrupting the networks directly, or by suing their users -- is a means to this end. It's too bad for them that it is destined to fail, but it is too bad for everyone else that many people's lives will be wrecked and many revolutionary technologies will be abandoned to satisfy the greed and ego of a few large copyright holders (most of whom did not create the work they own).
Nobody is making pornography ILLEGAL, they're making it more difficult to view in a public place.
Yeah, and "they" are the same people who try to make it illegal every chance they get. And in many cases, they're the same people who want to take books like "My Two Dads" off the shelves. You'll forgive me if I'm a bit suspicious of their motives.
It's the fast USB. Where they confuse you though is the model with the SuperDrive, which is actually the *old* superdrive, which allows you to use both 800K and 1.4M floppy disks.
You see, even if they win their lawsuit against IBM and everybody else, they will be a pariah in the tech community. Nobody will do business with them, and eventually they'll spend their $3 billion on operating expenses and tacos and go bankrupt.
Yeah, just like Microsoft's repeated and blatant anti-social behavior led to their pariah status and bankruptcy. Most businesses will make decisions like this based on rational self-interest, not politics, and if TSG/SCO wins, in a couple years people will have forgotten the politics anyway. If they win, as others have pointed out, they basically 0wnz0r the licenses for every computer not running a Microsoft OS. If the government enforces this claim, they are rolling in money and power. Very few businesses will challenge them on principle alone.
The french based their actions on their perception of their national self-interest, as any country's leaders worth their salt will do. If anti-Americanism played a role in french foreign policymaking, it was based on a belief among french leaders that it was in their national interest. And in this case it was also based on the fact that the overwhelming majority of French citizens felt this was the right stance to take.
That would be a pretty substantial discount from current prices.
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2 out of 3? What were you doing to them? I have a Power Tower Pro 225 still humming to this day; none of the above issues. Of course, it's a little slow next to my dual processor G4, and it won't run OS X, but that was a damn fine machine. And in the day I was on every PCC- and clone-related email list I could find, and read everything about all the clones that existed at the time, and I never heard of anything like a 2/3 failure rate. Which model PCC box was failing? (By the way, I also administered 2 UMAX clones at work that also ran fine with no hardware problems to speak of). I know it's not a huge sampling, but if the problems you cite were widespread I am sure I would recall hearing about them.
Don't knock my PCC:) It still boots OS 8.5.1 (my personal opinion, a better choice than 8.6+ for a 601 or 604) alongside linux (SuSE with KDE) and BeOS (you heard that right, the last version that ran on ppc's).
The article actually says "It's that kind of business savvy that helped Metallica debut at number one".... Business savvy? Are they kidding? Replacing their songs with John Denver songs as an immature prank aimed at fans is considered "business savvy"???
Metallica asked that people not share their studio-recorded albums over Napster.
No; Metallica sicced their lawyers on Napster and stormed into their offices with 60,000 printed pages of names of fans they wanted kicked off Napster. When Napster did that, they brought in another 60,000 pages worth, and when Napster did that, and blocked all their songs, they continued their high-profile whining and lawsuit, the latter of which turned into basically an orgy of extortion from the rapidly sinking company. All this while Metallica's record sales were still going up. There is a huge difference between that kind of behavior and Metallica "asking" their fans not to share their music.
Slashdot Mirror
X-Box Hacker 1 to X-Box Hacker 2: "This is a crazy plan. We're going to wind up in prison."
X-2 to X-1: "Yeah, but it's white collar prison. They even have conjugal visits."
X-3: "These conjugal visits you speak of...."
Actually, technically speaking, I suppose "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison also includes conjugal visits.
What if they have Windows?
ProTools LE with hardware runs about $500 at Guitar Center last time I checked.
The real surprise is not that there is ice there, but the fact that the presence of ice implies the possible presence of something more significant:
Scotch.
Can you please provide a link to where we can download a dollar too?
The tape is for terrorist attacks?
It's a flying bicycle, not a car, and for now it's only available to slashdot subscribers.
inet6 addr: fe80::240:93fa:fe43:6f50/64 Scope:Link
Thanks. That will be much easier to remember.
Great. I can't wait until these become the subject of hacks and viruses. Imagine getting shot in the head by a bullet with the following message attached:
Hi! How are you?
I send you this bullet in order to have your advice.
See you later. Thanks
Yes I agree. The company is downright beleagured!!!
Actually, it's the drugs; the licensing thing is just a cover. No, really. Apple got wind of the fact that most Euros are covered in cocaine. Macs are supposed to be associated with hallucinogens, not stimulants.
It's OK, we don't have to lie about this any more. Everyone knows about the kool aid that ships with new Macs.
*reaching for the glass to take another swig*
Mmmmmm, icons on the right side of the desktop. All is good with the world now.
Yes they can. They can strangle every distribution channel except their own. If you try to distribute or download music via any channel that doesn't give the lion's share of profits to an obsolete middleman, they can call you thieves and hackers, sue everyone associated with your distribution network, and whine to every media outlet that their profits are being raped by college students who don't respect the artists' right to earn a living. It doesn't matter that you are distributing or downloading independent music. As long as there is infringing content on the networks they can make this argument. This has been the RIAA's goal all along, IMHO -- to maintain their centrality to the distribution of music. Extorting money from businesses like Napster or from college students ranks a distant second on their list of goals. They want to continue to name the next pop stars, and to continue to determine the musical tastes of the overwhelming majority of fans. Making trouble for p2p networks -- by suing them out of existence, by disrupting the networks directly, or by suing their users -- is a means to this end. It's too bad for them that it is destined to fail, but it is too bad for everyone else that many people's lives will be wrecked and many revolutionary technologies will be abandoned to satisfy the greed and ego of a few large copyright holders (most of whom did not create the work they own).
Yeah, and "they" are the same people who try to make it illegal every chance they get. And in many cases, they're the same people who want to take books like "My Two Dads" off the shelves. You'll forgive me if I'm a bit suspicious of their motives.
The same fools who need more than 640K of memory.
It's the fast USB. Where they confuse you though is the model with the SuperDrive, which is actually the *old* superdrive, which allows you to use both 800K and 1.4M floppy disks.
Yeah, just like Microsoft's repeated and blatant anti-social behavior led to their pariah status and bankruptcy. Most businesses will make decisions like this based on rational self-interest, not politics, and if TSG/SCO wins, in a couple years people will have forgotten the politics anyway. If they win, as others have pointed out, they basically 0wnz0r the licenses for every computer not running a Microsoft OS. If the government enforces this claim, they are rolling in money and power. Very few businesses will challenge them on principle alone.
The french based their actions on their perception of their national self-interest, as any country's leaders worth their salt will do. If anti-Americanism played a role in french foreign policymaking, it was based on a belief among french leaders that it was in their national interest. And in this case it was also based on the fact that the overwhelming majority of French citizens felt this was the right stance to take.
That would be a pretty substantial discount from current prices.
2 out of 3? What were you doing to them? I have a Power Tower Pro 225 still humming to this day; none of the above issues. Of course, it's a little slow next to my dual processor G4, and it won't run OS X, but that was a damn fine machine. And in the day I was on every PCC- and clone-related email list I could find, and read everything about all the clones that existed at the time, and I never heard of anything like a 2/3 failure rate. Which model PCC box was failing? (By the way, I also administered 2 UMAX clones at work that also ran fine with no hardware problems to speak of). I know it's not a huge sampling, but if the problems you cite were widespread I am sure I would recall hearing about them.
:) It still boots OS 8.5.1 (my personal opinion, a better choice than 8.6+ for a 601 or 604) alongside linux (SuSE with KDE) and BeOS (you heard that right, the last version that ran on ppc's).
Don't knock my PCC
The article actually says "It's that kind of business savvy that helped Metallica debut at number one".... Business savvy? Are they kidding? Replacing their songs with John Denver songs as an immature prank aimed at fans is considered "business savvy"???
No; Metallica sicced their lawyers on Napster and stormed into their offices with 60,000 printed pages of names of fans they wanted kicked off Napster. When Napster did that, they brought in another 60,000 pages worth, and when Napster did that, and blocked all their songs, they continued their high-profile whining and lawsuit, the latter of which turned into basically an orgy of extortion from the rapidly sinking company. All this while Metallica's record sales were still going up. There is a huge difference between that kind of behavior and Metallica "asking" their fans not to share their music.
Private smoking in public, as well as public smoking in private, will remain legal for the time being.
They'll use your version when they post the dupe.
I want a wind-up mp3 player!!! Apple, are you listening?