More like she's obligated to abide by the terms of a contract in order to have any possiblity of being successful as an artist, due to monopoly control by 5 companies. Don't you read? Don't you understand that this doesn't have fuck all to do with this one artist, or anything to do with "file-sharing is theft"? This is about using an existing monopoly, and the money that it brings these companies, to enforce the power over the music industry that they've held. Successful music sharing with good quality means that artists are no longer required to submit to these types of contracts to be heard by the masses. All they need to do is put the music up on Kazaa or whatever your favorite flavor of p2p is, and edit the ID3 tag that says "if you like this artist, go here to buy a cd and support them" or "go to this website and by a t-shirt" or "go here and buy a fucking concert ticket!" And if you don't think this is a monopoly, and this isn't a problem, explain why new release music cd's cost the same, regardless of who's putting them out. Explain why a music cd costs as much or more as a new DVD release, but gives you less in return. Explain to my why these artists feel compelled to agree to contracts that give up all rights to music THEY created, and WILL create for pretty much the extent of their musical careers, for what amounts to 1% of the CD sales. Explain to me why this is a good thing.
Obviously you missed my point. My point was assuming that China uses it's captive workforce to create a version of Linux that becomes a monopoly power, and it establishes itself as a monopoly in the cpu and mainboard market, we've just traded one monopoly for another, and one that has political goals in mind that most of the rest of the world finds distasteful, to say the least. I wasn't just talking about code.
Nevermind the fact that the record label that she's stuck with now owns all of her recorded music, and she would lose it all if she moved to a different label. Her decision to stay obviously wouldn't have anything to do with that though.
In a free market, quality always rises to the surface. That's a fundamental law of economics.
True, but this isn't a free market. You want proof? Britney Spears. 98-degrees. Backstreet Boys. There's tons of documentaries out there on the manufacturing of Boy and Girl-bands for teens, and it has NOTHING to do with the quality of music. It has to do with a few recording companies with way too much influence and power cramming what THEY want you to listen to down your throat.
I could also note that in a true free-market, there is a potential for a company or group of companies to gain a significant enough amount of market share to control the market, and destroy competitors. It's not longer a free-market at that point. But, since you're a trolling AC, I'm sure you already knew that.
Which means that we're trading one OS monopoly for a OS/CPU/Mainboard monopoly, run by a foreign country that hates the US, and teaches it's citizens that we're evil and deserve to be destroyed. That makes me feel SO much better.
The point was it was like $10-12 for the DIVX DVD. And the players were shitty and expensive, and didn't meet up with specs for regular DVD's. There's a reason it failed, it was a crappy product that no one wanted to buy.
While I agree that this war has absolutely nothing to do with "freedom and democracy", your reasoning is flawed. We really don't give to shits about the oil in Iraq, there isn't much there in relation to other countries, and we never were importing much from them anyway. We DO, however, import quite a bit from Kuwait, which is where the original "Desert Storm" came from.
What this is REALLY about, is the presidential approval rating. The public tends to stop thinking about where thier rights are going and "approve" of the white house when there's a war going on. Now that September 11th is more than a year away, people are forgetting to be afraid, and starting to think for themselves again. This is dangerous for Bush, so he needs another "threat to freedom", so he can go haring off on another crusade and keep the approval up. Of course, a number of factors, including the public's general disapproval of a "pointless" war, and the fact that we're in a recession, and doing something that will cost several billion a month probably isn't a good plan.
You got to this first, damnit, so I'll just nitpick a few of your points instead of repeating.
First, They're not okay with loosing this money per console because they expect to make it up in games. It's being done because they want to get market share so they can start locking people in to "their" console, so they can nail people later. It's a good strategy, and for a group that has the money, it's a great way to get a foothold. People buying it to run Linux kind of knocks this plan in the dirt though.
Sencondly, this doesn't really have anything to do with "Microsoft's" internal motto. The X-Box group is an entirely different part of the company. In fact, Microsoft as a whole pretty much refuses to have anything to do with them. That's one of the main reasons why the X-Box shipped with such a shitty controller. Let's be honest, MS may be many things, but one of the things they're fantastic at is building a good UI, and that includes hardware that works, feels comfortable, and looks good. Do you really believe that would have happened if they'd had access to the practiced UI people?
Third, Sony loss-leads on playstations. It's not as bad now as at the release point, (they've made some hardware revisions that make them cheaper to produce), but they've never made anything close to profit on any console. In fact the only one that has consistently made money on console sales is Nintendo, and they broke that trend to smack around Sony and Microsoft in the latest console war. They aren't losing much at all, but it's big when you consider that they've never done that before. And don't expect the X-box to ever be a profit point for Microsoft, that's the price you pay when you farm out production and use a modular architecture. Consoles are cheap in part because they're proprietary and integrated, because it makes it easier to make changes in-house to knock prices down.
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I don't understand why people think it is so difficult to secure wireless. All you need to do is have encryption running on the box, and use some kind of authentication firewall between the wireless box and the rest of the network. We're doing this at my company, and so far it works great. We even set up a credit card payment system on the box, so people that don't have passwords (non-employees), can kick us a few bucks and get access to our T-1.
We're closer to a President Schwarzennegar than a President Boucher.
Except for the fact that Schwarzennaegar isn't an American citizen by birth, which is required by the constituition for a person to run for and be elected President.
For the real question, how did you manage to graduate from high school without knowing this?
It's not a jury's position to rule on whether laws are good or bad.
You are wrong on that point. A jury has the right to recognize that a law was broken, but refuse to convict a person based on a belief that the law is unjust. Prosecutors and Judges try VERY HARD to hide this, but it is a part of the process.
Because the people that tend to own the places you can live in where everything can be reached by foot tend to charge more than some people can afford. This isn't a 3rd-world socialist country like where YOU apparently live.
In a word, no. Actors get residuals every time the movie is sold on a medium, and every time it's played on T.V., in addition to the contract wage for playing the part and the residuals they tend to get from the box office take. Keep in mind, this is just the actual named actors, extras and help tend to get the big purple shaft here.
I think in this case the MPAA, irrespective of their own evils, actually understand what the customer wants in this case. Have you noticed what movies are showing up in p2p? Movies that haven't been released on DVD yet. Once it hits dvd, the files disappear, because owning the DVD and it's better video and sound quality, and all the extras you get with it, is a better value than spending the time to rip it off of p2p. RIAA needs to realize that they just have to make it cheap enough that it's less of a hassle to drive to the store and buy it.
Never mind that there's a lot more PEOPLE in Europe as a whole than in US/Canada. It would be more telling to see the ratio of Net/no Net as a percentage of population.
You obviously have no idea what "entrapment" is. Entrapment is causing or forcing someone to do something that they would not normally do, for the purpose of prosecution.
Now, the stupid analogy. A police officer posing as a heroin dealer and selling/giving you heroin is NOT entrapment, even if they offer it to you. A police officer sticking a needle in your arm without your permission and then arresting you is.
Unless of course, you download a trojaned copy of BSD from the compromised server.
You know what? ALL software has holes. The "l33t haX0r" OS'es have their fair share as well, but you fucking zealots like to try to just sweep that under the carpet. Buuuut, whenever ANY type of problem shows up in a Closed-source product, you use that to trash all over the product, the company, the company's dog, their mothers, the second grade teacher, etc.
You know something? When I installed Windows XP on my laptop, it detected and installed ALL my devices, first try. It even detects and installs my cisco Aironet PCMCIA card. And it doesn't crash, ever. Linux STILL doesn't have support for this card, even though it's been out for 2 years, and X-windows is a buggy piece of shit. Why don't you guys fix the problems with the damn operating system instead of wasting all of your time bitching about FIXED security holes?
The ericsson T68 is a nice bluetooth phone, with the exception of the odd software bugs that my friend has been experiencing. I'm thinking about grabbing that and a bluetooth Ipaq, so I can SSH in to equipment when I'm remote.
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No, they thow money at MacWorld because they make tons of money selling mac software. They don't throw money at a Linux conference, because the don't make tons of money selling *nix software.
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More like she's obligated to abide by the terms of a contract in order to have any possiblity of being successful as an artist, due to monopoly control by 5 companies. Don't you read? Don't you understand that this doesn't have fuck all to do with this one artist, or anything to do with "file-sharing is theft"? This is about using an existing monopoly, and the money that it brings these companies, to enforce the power over the music industry that they've held. Successful music sharing with good quality means that artists are no longer required to submit to these types of contracts to be heard by the masses. All they need to do is put the music up on Kazaa or whatever your favorite flavor of p2p is, and edit the ID3 tag that says "if you like this artist, go here to buy a cd and support them" or "go to this website and by a t-shirt" or "go here and buy a fucking concert ticket!" And if you don't think this is a monopoly, and this isn't a problem, explain why new release music cd's cost the same, regardless of who's putting them out. Explain why a music cd costs as much or more as a new DVD release, but gives you less in return. Explain to my why these artists feel compelled to agree to contracts that give up all rights to music THEY created, and WILL create for pretty much the extent of their musical careers, for what amounts to 1% of the CD sales. Explain to me why this is a good thing.
Obviously you missed my point. My point was assuming that China uses it's captive workforce to create a version of Linux that becomes a monopoly power, and it establishes itself as a monopoly in the cpu and mainboard market, we've just traded one monopoly for another, and one that has political goals in mind that most of the rest of the world finds distasteful, to say the least. I wasn't just talking about code.
Nevermind the fact that the record label that she's stuck with now owns all of her recorded music, and she would lose it all if she moved to a different label. Her decision to stay obviously wouldn't have anything to do with that though.
In a free market, quality always rises to the surface. That's a fundamental law of economics.
True, but this isn't a free market. You want proof? Britney Spears. 98-degrees. Backstreet Boys. There's tons of documentaries out there on the manufacturing of Boy and Girl-bands for teens, and it has NOTHING to do with the quality of music. It has to do with a few recording companies with way too much influence and power cramming what THEY want you to listen to down your throat.
I could also note that in a true free-market, there is a potential for a company or group of companies to gain a significant enough amount of market share to control the market, and destroy competitors. It's not longer a free-market at that point. But, since you're a trolling AC, I'm sure you already knew that.
Which means that we're trading one OS monopoly for a OS/CPU/Mainboard monopoly, run by a foreign country that hates the US, and teaches it's citizens that we're evil and deserve to be destroyed. That makes me feel SO much better.
The point was it was like $10-12 for the DIVX DVD. And the players were shitty and expensive, and didn't meet up with specs for regular DVD's. There's a reason it failed, it was a crappy product that no one wanted to buy.
While I agree that this war has absolutely nothing to do with "freedom and democracy", your reasoning is flawed. We really don't give to shits about the oil in Iraq, there isn't much there in relation to other countries, and we never were importing much from them anyway. We DO, however, import quite a bit from Kuwait, which is where the original "Desert Storm" came from.
What this is REALLY about, is the presidential approval rating. The public tends to stop thinking about where thier rights are going and "approve" of the white house when there's a war going on. Now that September 11th is more than a year away, people are forgetting to be afraid, and starting to think for themselves again. This is dangerous for Bush, so he needs another "threat to freedom", so he can go haring off on another crusade and keep the approval up. Of course, a number of factors, including the public's general disapproval of a "pointless" war, and the fact that we're in a recession, and doing something that will cost several billion a month probably isn't a good plan.
You got to this first, damnit, so I'll just nitpick a few of your points instead of repeating.
First, They're not okay with loosing this money per console because they expect to make it up in games. It's being done because they want to get market share so they can start locking people in to "their" console, so they can nail people later. It's a good strategy, and for a group that has the money, it's a great way to get a foothold. People buying it to run Linux kind of knocks this plan in the dirt though.
Sencondly, this doesn't really have anything to do with "Microsoft's" internal motto. The X-Box group is an entirely different part of the company. In fact, Microsoft as a whole pretty much refuses to have anything to do with them. That's one of the main reasons why the X-Box shipped with such a shitty controller. Let's be honest, MS may be many things, but one of the things they're fantastic at is building a good UI, and that includes hardware that works, feels comfortable, and looks good. Do you really believe that would have happened if they'd had access to the practiced UI people?
Third, Sony loss-leads on playstations. It's not as bad now as at the release point, (they've made some hardware revisions that make them cheaper to produce), but they've never made anything close to profit on any console. In fact the only one that has consistently made money on console sales is Nintendo, and they broke that trend to smack around Sony and Microsoft in the latest console war. They aren't losing much at all, but it's big when you consider that they've never done that before. And don't expect the X-box to ever be a profit point for Microsoft, that's the price you pay when you farm out production and use a modular architecture. Consoles are cheap in part because they're proprietary and integrated, because it makes it easier to make changes in-house to knock prices down.
I don't understand why people think it is so difficult to secure wireless. All you need to do is have encryption running on the box, and use some kind of authentication firewall between the wireless box and the rest of the network. We're doing this at my company, and so far it works great. We even set up a credit card payment system on the box, so people that don't have passwords (non-employees), can kick us a few bucks and get access to our T-1.
Uh, I think he was referring to stuff you could buy in the store, made in present day, hence the "Macy's" remark.
Not even really in favor of the inventor, in favor of whatever corporation took it from the inventor.
We're closer to a President Schwarzennegar than a President Boucher.
Except for the fact that Schwarzennaegar isn't an American citizen by birth, which is required by the constituition for a person to run for and be elected President.
For the real question, how did you manage to graduate from high school without knowing this?
It's not a jury's position to rule on whether laws are good or bad.
You are wrong on that point. A jury has the right to recognize that a law was broken, but refuse to convict a person based on a belief that the law is unjust. Prosecutors and Judges try VERY HARD to hide this, but it is a part of the process.
Because the people that tend to own the places you can live in where everything can be reached by foot tend to charge more than some people can afford. This isn't a 3rd-world socialist country like where YOU apparently live.
No, Metroid Prime is what Halo SHOULD have been like.
I don't think MS was ever accused of under pricing their software...
Bullshit. Have you forgotten about Netscape's complaints regarding MS giving away IE for free ALREADY?
In a word, no. Actors get residuals every time the movie is sold on a medium, and every time it's played on T.V., in addition to the contract wage for playing the part and the residuals they tend to get from the box office take. Keep in mind, this is just the actual named actors, extras and help tend to get the big purple shaft here.
I think in this case the MPAA, irrespective of their own evils, actually understand what the customer wants in this case. Have you noticed what movies are showing up in p2p? Movies that haven't been released on DVD yet. Once it hits dvd, the files disappear, because owning the DVD and it's better video and sound quality, and all the extras you get with it, is a better value than spending the time to rip it off of p2p. RIAA needs to realize that they just have to make it cheap enough that it's less of a hassle to drive to the store and buy it.
No, they hate us because we're allies with Israel, and Islamic Extremists hate Jews.
Never mind that there's a lot more PEOPLE in Europe as a whole than in US/Canada. It would be more telling to see the ratio of Net/no Net as a percentage of population.
You obviously have no idea what "entrapment" is. Entrapment is causing or forcing someone to do something that they would not normally do, for the purpose of prosecution.
Now, the stupid analogy. A police officer posing as a heroin dealer and selling/giving you heroin is NOT entrapment, even if they offer it to you. A police officer sticking a needle in your arm without your permission and then arresting you is.
I'd hate to break this to you, but the Ericsson phone has software on it, and it's updatable. Welcome to the 21st century.
Unless of course, you download a trojaned copy of BSD from the compromised server.
You know what? ALL software has holes. The "l33t haX0r" OS'es have their fair share as well, but you fucking zealots like to try to just sweep that under the carpet. Buuuut, whenever ANY type of problem shows up in a Closed-source product, you use that to trash all over the product, the company, the company's dog, their mothers, the second grade teacher, etc.
You know something? When I installed Windows XP on my laptop, it detected and installed ALL my devices, first try. It even detects and installs my cisco Aironet PCMCIA card. And it doesn't crash, ever. Linux STILL doesn't have support for this card, even though it's been out for 2 years, and X-windows is a buggy piece of shit. Why don't you guys fix the problems with the damn operating system instead of wasting all of your time bitching about FIXED security holes?
The ericsson T68 is a nice bluetooth phone, with the exception of the odd software bugs that my friend has been experiencing. I'm thinking about grabbing that and a bluetooth Ipaq, so I can SSH in to equipment when I'm remote.
No, they thow money at MacWorld because they make tons of money selling mac software. They don't throw money at a Linux conference, because the don't make tons of money selling *nix software.
I've got one word for you:
Ebay.
That's where I got my fiance's ring.