It's still pilfering someone's hard work for free.
I was given to understand that Beyonce is one of the "girls (who run the world)" I wasn't informed that this meant coal mining to keep the record industry going.
No, honestly? Hard work? You really have no idea how media distribution works now, do you? The record companies have a 80% margin on their product 95% of that stays with the record company and only 5% goes to the signed artist (and that is when you stroke a good deal). So, no. You are not stealing from the artist and since the artists is the only one that could be considered working (via a proxy producer/choreographer/prman usually) You are not stealing by copying that album of the Internet.
If you want to help an artist make money go support a band on kickstarter or buy off some indie band's web shop etc. Also, that's where You usually will get good bang for Your money (limited edition vinyl + flacc downloads, etc).
The Music Industry doesn't want you discovering new music! They are afraid that, in doing so, you might actually find the good stuff and stop buying Britney Spears.
Now it's the pirate bay, tomorrow they will want to shut down all the indie bands!
No, I think he is talking about supermarket layout. In many countries the classical grocery store paradigm (ie: greengrocer) has been eliminated by the (much more capitalist friendly) supermarket franchise. So it is obvious for people of those countries to believe that a grocery store also contains a fully equipped bakery, a frozen meals department, socks, a partition for household appliances, a drugstore, a bank or atm and one_of_those_things_that_prints_photos_on_t-shirts
So, it really depends on the definition of grocery store in your culture.
I heard for example that at infinite loop the groceries consist of iPods, iPhones, iPads and macintoshes that are not edible!
AFAIK the laser app was the same ass the light app only that it used a laser to create the barrier itself and therefore needed a higher power laser beam. That makes eye injury from beams reflected off of shiny surfaces a possibility. This app uses the laser only for marking the protected volume which is doable with a "safe" low power beam.
Anyway, I'm so buying two dozen of these when they come to market!
Also I haven't seen a 3d printer or CNC to be able to deal with multiple exotic materials. Printers usually work with one flavor of polycarbonate and cncs usually work only on sheets of stuff. So, to get fully fledged marketable devices you would still need a couple of printers and half a dozen of CNCs... given that you want to create distributables. compare that to the ease of distribution of binaries and you got yourself a nice difference.
Still, knowing somebody from NZ I can very well assure everybody that they haven't pirated only 42 files in the last 2 months. In the last two miliseconds maybe...
I don't know about the general consensus on this but when I refer to Facebook as being a walled garden I am actually referring to the way people use it. they go in there, produce content (discussions, status updates, wall posts links, fan pages and most importantly: trends) and the rest of the Internet doesn't really get a whif of all that happening. Now at this point a lot of people would get started on privacy theories but the fact that matters is that applications like facebook take the Internet and turn it into an intranet. That in the long term is degenerative for the Internet and quite dangerous to communicational freedom actually. Now I won't go the route proclaiming that I don't use introversial social platforms because I do use them, since they work but I really don't think that the wide adoption of them is a productive thing. The Internet was much more productive when everybody had his personal blog.
...shill trying to push popular opinion towards a truly terrible GUI to Keep the Linux Man Down.
wha?>!!>!>T^$#!?
Second: Gnome 3 seems to work just fine. After all you are talking about a gov implementation so they probably will take advantage of the FOSSness of the whole deal and customise the hell out of it, maybe even spin out a distro (I can see "Porto'OS 19% alcohol" comming). So they probably will adjust the desktop (any desktop they choose) to their paradigm. </delusion>
AFAIK WP7 has a 380MBish Ram requirement which would make it unusable on any machine with less than 512MB... Also having had a PC in the 1990's I vividly can remember having much (much much) less than that...
I think he is mostly refering to older hardware, not modern hardware.
That is something I am curious about to. A lot of old hardware isn't supported anymore by modern drivers in new linux kernels. Possibly most of it is FOSS anyway and so you could (given the needed knowledge) recompile them to work for modern distros but I can see where a gov implementation would get stuck there. Not to say I don't like the idea, I fricking love it. Still I really don't think much of the IT skills of the gov sector (in any country).
In terms of hardware application and design they have actually been quite forthcoming. Unlike, say, Google who had you guessing about anything related to their infrastructure for a decade.
As a SW platform yes they are a walled garden (sort of).
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It's still pilfering someone's hard work for free.
I was given to understand that Beyonce is one of the "girls (who run the world)" I wasn't informed that this meant coal mining to keep the record industry going.
No, honestly? Hard work? You really have no idea how media distribution works now, do you? The record companies have a 80% margin on their product 95% of that stays with the record company and only 5% goes to the signed artist (and that is when you stroke a good deal).
So, no. You are not stealing from the artist and since the artists is the only one that could be considered working (via a proxy producer/choreographer/prman usually) You are not stealing by copying that album of the Internet.
If you want to help an artist make money go support a band on kickstarter or buy off some indie band's web shop etc. Also, that's where You usually will get good bang for Your money (limited edition vinyl + flacc downloads, etc).
You really forget one very important fact:
The Music Industry doesn't want you discovering new music! They are afraid that, in doing so, you might actually find the good stuff and stop buying Britney Spears.
Now it's the pirate bay, tomorrow they will want to shut down all the indie bands!
iSuJu?
That's the name of my girlfriend!
Turns out Nasa isn't the only one looking to go to cloud computing
good!
No, I think he is talking about supermarket layout. In many countries the classical grocery store paradigm (ie: greengrocer) has been eliminated by the (much more capitalist friendly) supermarket franchise.
So it is obvious for people of those countries to believe that a grocery store also contains a fully equipped bakery, a frozen meals department, socks, a partition for household appliances, a drugstore, a bank or atm and one_of_those_things_that_prints_photos_on_t-shirts
So, it really depends on the definition of grocery store in your culture.
I heard for example that at infinite loop the groceries consist of iPods, iPhones, iPads and macintoshes that are not edible!
I thought that applied only to "mothering" a child
Nice to know that the legal system isn't working (as described in the literature) then :-)
what about the Blind mosquito?
AFAIK the laser app was the same ass the light app only that it used a laser to create the barrier itself and therefore needed a higher power laser beam. That makes eye injury from beams reflected off of shiny surfaces a possibility.
This app uses the laser only for marking the protected volume which is doable with a "safe" low power beam.
Anyway, I'm so buying two dozen of these when they come to market!
Also I haven't seen a 3d printer or CNC to be able to deal with multiple exotic materials. Printers usually work with one flavor of polycarbonate and cncs usually work only on sheets of stuff. So, to get fully fledged marketable devices you would still need a couple of printers and half a dozen of CNCs... given that you want to create distributables. compare that to the ease of distribution of binaries and you got yourself a nice difference.
To patent hardware you have to physically build the device and provide a proof of work. To patent software you compile and send an email.
See the difference now? Software is as physical as philosophy since you cannot patent philosophy why can you patent software?
Republicans don't like children?
why aren't they extinct?
Still, knowing somebody from NZ I can very well assure everybody that they haven't pirated only 42 files in the last 2 months. In the last two miliseconds maybe...
it's that last billionth of a billionth of a gram that I just can't loose...
real pirates use scp
I don't know about the general consensus on this but when I refer to Facebook as being a walled garden I am actually referring to the way people use it. they go in there, produce content (discussions, status updates, wall posts links, fan pages and most importantly: trends) and the rest of the Internet doesn't really get a whif of all that happening. Now at this point a lot of people would get started on privacy theories but the fact that matters is that applications like facebook take the Internet and turn it into an intranet. That in the long term is degenerative for the Internet and quite dangerous to communicational freedom actually. Now I won't go the route proclaiming that I don't use introversial social platforms because I do use them, since they work but I really don't think that the wide adoption of them is a productive thing. The Internet was much more productive when everybody had his personal blog.
1st of:
...shill trying to push popular opinion towards a truly terrible GUI to Keep the Linux Man Down.
wha?>!!>!>T^$#!?
Second: Gnome 3 seems to work just fine. After all you are talking about a gov implementation so they probably will take advantage of the FOSSness of the whole deal and customise the hell out of it, maybe even spin out a distro (I can see "Porto'OS 19% alcohol" comming). So they probably will adjust the desktop (any desktop they choose) to their paradigm.
</delusion>
instead of fixing old bugs, they've taken to creating 100s more
I have been given to understand that under modern culture (the petri dish variety) this is progress!
AFAIK WP7 has a 380MBish Ram requirement which would make it unusable on any machine with less than 512MB... Also having had a PC in the 1990's I vividly can remember having much (much much) less than that...
I think he is mostly refering to older hardware, not modern hardware.
That is something I am curious about to. A lot of old hardware isn't supported anymore by modern drivers in new linux kernels. Possibly most of it is FOSS anyway and so you could (given the needed knowledge) recompile them to work for modern distros but I can see where a gov implementation would get stuck there.
Not to say I don't like the idea, I fricking love it. Still I really don't think much of the IT skills of the gov sector (in any country).
In terms of hardware application and design they have actually been quite forthcoming. Unlike, say, Google who had you guessing about anything related to their infrastructure for a decade.
As a SW platform yes they are a walled garden (sort of).
;-)
Yes You are! Not!
Yes, it is!
Dear /.
debt is a good thing, you can't have enough of it.
Yours sincerely
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