keep on telling yourself this and sooner or later you will believe it. As seen in numerous reports the security implemented today will not stop a determined individual. Reporters have gotten passed the measures quite easily.
These measure are there as a publicity stunt more than real security. WMD was another. Sadam who? Give me a break. The other day I heard that Timothy was muslum.
I haven't missed a single point. There is so much more to the net than music. The idea of paying this TAX is as absurd as paying a tax to the musicians for using my camera, or my car, or my phone or my house or my electricity. It has nothing to do with one another. The problem musicians are facing today is that the commodity that they are trying to sell is not worth the price that they are asking for it. That is the market speaking.
Do not be fooled by the examples you state. Prominent politicians have flown from Canada to receive medical care in the States. Even worse is that if you can pay you will receive private care in Canada. There is nothing universal in Canadian health care.
If you tax for one IP you should tax for all. $5 for the musicians $5 for the authors. $5 for the artists. $5 for the painters. $5 for the teachers. $5 for the application programmers. $5 for the web designers. $5 for the photographers. etc....
I say get a life and change the business model.....
The day that someone will collectively pay for my time I am willing to collectively pay for theirs. Since I have no use for the downloading of music I would expect that I would be exempt.
There is so much more to life than music and I just can't comprehend how this has gotten so far out of hand that we must sell our souls to meet this greed.
There is so much wrong with this that I can't even see how it can be considered. Before we pay for music IP maybe we should start collecting and paying teachers for their IP efforts to teach us how to read. I would rather pay the teachers the $5 than any musician.
I sir would like you to point out how this levy has been distributed and how you consider this fair? All I know is I paid through the @#@$$@% just to store my pictures. Now I moved on to DVDs.
The safeguards on the US nuclear arsenal are also DRM. They've worked for a long time....
So you think...But then again the safeguards are not distributed to the general public which means not necessarily available to hack. Not the same mindshare as say music. Once you gain access, publishing means running for the rest of you life or being arrested as a terrorist. No trial.
There is No "guarantee", implied or otherwise, that the hardware you own today will work in the next version of Windows as my scanner which is no longer supported and no NEW drivers will ever be released for XP or VISTA. I need to BUY, yes, buy drivers from a secondary source in order for it to work on Windows.
Unsupported Hardware exists on all platforms (oh my gosh) especially on windows. Buying hardware supported by Linux ensures that you will have support for a longer time than the artificial EOL stamp that some manufacturers like to impose on their products.
I could not imagine considering something a FEATURE as something which requires me to reacquire all media due to a disk failure. The cost, if not in money but in time, is beyond what anyone can afford.
No I'm not to fast to blame MS/Windows/DRM. As a matter of fact we are too slow. THIS IS NOT A FEATURE. Do NOT cripple the OS because someone somewhere will do something that may or may not cause financial loss.
General consumers feel the same way. Looking at my VHS collection and the DRM "MACROVISION" is what stops me from going full steam ahead into HD. I and all who cannot transfer the investment which we made into VHS or BETA into a solution to view them on current equipment will not make the investment to acquire anything which we cannot transfer once THEY decide to make it obsolete.
In order to play a movie Netflix wants access to the entire system. This shows how BROKEN the Windows environment is and it has nothing to do with technology. This is a warning to all who use Windows otherwise referred as thieves by MS. If Netflix or MS want access to my full system then they better pay for my system. Before you know it they will ask for full access to your bank account...oh look SEARS is doing it....Sony tried it... When will people put a stop to it... DON'T BUY THE PRODUCT. In this I include VISTA as well as the Netflix service. If you buy the product stop complaining about it.
You don't deserve squat -- that's why you get nothing but money for your time. You work is appreciated, but the intelectual property isn't yours, and the risk wasn't yours, and the value-rewards won't be yours. The clients aren't yours, the company isn't yours. There's an enormous risk in starting your own business, and it's a gigantic under-taking to maintain any business. Being a cog in the machine is worth the grease, and little more.
And we wonder where loyalty went? With this attitude you'll get the employees you deserve.
Funny. Always a good laugh when I see stats thrown out like that? I'll add one since we are playing this game. Did you notice that in the stats quoted in the article that MS is dropping in Market share?
I'm glad you like Vista. I don't. I'm glad you think it's fast. I don't. I have moved at least 20 people of Vista at a high price which they were willing to pay just so their systems would be productive again. If you have the hardware to run Vista good for you. If you buy a low end system with Vista because the salesperson said it will and it doesn't, or it runs slow, then you will be a bit upset. Some enough to move away from MS.
They only thing I care about a car is that it runs when I turn the key. It gets me to where I want to go safely. It's the same way with most people and computers they just want to browse the web, read their mail, type a letter. They don't care whether it's Linux, Windows or Mac.
Just to name one. The browser. It started as NCSA and the became Netsacape, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Innovation? The same logic applies in all, show me something popular and innovative in proprietary software. As you say What is it? Where is this innovative code in proprietary software? Where?
You need to read your post because you are saying the same thing as the parent post which boils down to this. It's NEW or IMPROVED.
The point is that you may own existing old hardware which you would like to use which is more than capable of meeting the requirements but are prevented in doing so because permission is not granted. What I am saying and a lot of other people are saying is that we are not interested in anything which restricts our use of the product which we have purchased. PERIOD. We will not buy anything which has NEW or IMPROVED restrictions. Which Vista does. "approved" to me is what I buy. I don't need MS's or Apple's or Joe's or Moe's permission to approve.
When I find equipment that allows me to use my purchases. I buy otherwise they are broken. I will claim so to all who care to listen. More people listen today because they have been bitten. Like my father in law who purchased an HD TV and realized when he saw my TV that the only thing HD about his TV was the price. I also leave my HDMI cable plugged in so I can show people how useless it is unless you have "approved" equipment.
It was called Lip Service. It was part of NeXT and it worked through email. It dates prior to 1996. Apple bought it when the purchased OSX/OPENSTEP/NeXT.
Visual voicemail has been around longer that than this patent. Why should Apple settle?
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keep on telling yourself this and sooner or later you will believe it. As seen in numerous reports the security implemented today will not stop a determined individual. Reporters have gotten passed the measures quite easily.
These measure are there as a publicity stunt more than real security. WMD was another. Sadam who? Give me a break. The other day I heard that Timothy was muslum.
I haven't missed a single point. There is so much more to the net than music. The idea of paying this TAX is as absurd as paying a tax to the musicians for using my camera, or my car, or my phone or my house or my electricity. It has nothing to do with one another. The problem musicians are facing today is that the commodity that they are trying to sell is not worth the price that they are asking for it. That is the market speaking.
Do not be fooled by the examples you state. Prominent politicians have flown from Canada to receive medical care in the States. Even worse is that if you can pay you will receive private care in Canada. There is nothing universal in Canadian health care.
It seams that we need communism to solve this problem. If musicians are entitled why not everyone else.
If you can't make a living maybe it's time you find a new vocation. Just don't ask me to support you.
What kind of answer is that. If you don't like it get a job! What makes the music industry feel that they are so entitled?
If you think this $60 is well spent then by all means pay it. Don't ask me to. It's $60 too much for me. Since I don't care about downloading music.
Nice idea, but why not take if full circle and declare North America a communist zone where we can all share and have equal earning guarantees...
If I don't want it I don't want to pay for it irrelevant the cost!
If you tax for one IP you should tax for all. $5 for the musicians $5 for the authors. $5 for the artists. $5 for the painters. $5 for the teachers. $5 for the application programmers. $5 for the web designers. $5 for the photographers. etc....
I say get a life and change the business model.....
The day that someone will collectively pay for my time I am willing to collectively pay for theirs. Since I have no use for the downloading of music I would expect that I would be exempt.
There is so much more to life than music and I just can't comprehend how this has gotten so far out of hand that we must sell our souls to meet this greed.
There is so much wrong with this that I can't even see how it can be considered. Before we pay for music IP maybe we should start collecting and paying teachers for their IP efforts to teach us how to read. I would rather pay the teachers the $5 than any musician.
I sir would like you to point out how this levy has been distributed and how you consider this fair? All I know is I paid through the @#@$$@% just to store my pictures. Now I moved on to DVDs.
let's make a standard by creating a none standard tag and pretend we are standard compliant.
DOCTYPE is there just for that. There's nothing imformative about this. Code for standards......
The safeguards on the US nuclear arsenal are also DRM. They've worked for a long time....
So you think...But then again the safeguards are not distributed to the general public which means not necessarily available to hack. Not the same mindshare as say music. Once you gain access, publishing means running for the rest of you life or being arrested as a terrorist. No trial.
Copyright is no longer about content creators but owners and extending ownership. It's not about the artist but the label who OWNS the artist.
Nothing stupid about cleaning up after a party.
Who me? Just here to help clean up....
There is No "guarantee", implied or otherwise, that the hardware you own today will work in the next version of Windows as my scanner which is no longer supported and no NEW drivers will ever be released for XP or VISTA. I need to BUY, yes, buy drivers from a secondary source in order for it to work on Windows.
Unsupported Hardware exists on all platforms (oh my gosh) especially on windows. Buying hardware supported by Linux ensures that you will have support for a longer time than the artificial EOL stamp that some manufacturers like to impose on their products.
In some cases it's past "there". I have a scanner that works "out of the box with SANE" but I have to buy drivers and software for XP and Vista.
Your milage may vary....
I could not imagine considering something a FEATURE as something which requires me to reacquire all media due to a disk failure. The cost, if not in money but in time, is beyond what anyone can afford.
No I'm not to fast to blame MS/Windows/DRM. As a matter of fact we are too slow. THIS IS NOT A FEATURE. Do NOT cripple the OS because someone somewhere will do something that may or may not cause financial loss.
General consumers feel the same way. Looking at my VHS collection and the DRM "MACROVISION" is what stops me from going full steam ahead into HD. I and all who cannot transfer the investment which we made into VHS or BETA into a solution to view them on current equipment will not make the investment to acquire anything which we cannot transfer once THEY decide to make it obsolete.
In order to play a movie Netflix wants access to the entire system. This shows how BROKEN the Windows environment is and it has nothing to do with technology. This is a warning to all who use Windows otherwise referred as thieves by MS. If Netflix or MS want access to my full system then they better pay for my system. Before you know it they will ask for full access to your bank account...oh look SEARS is doing it....Sony tried it... When will people put a stop to it... DON'T BUY THE PRODUCT. In this I include VISTA as well as the Netflix service. If you buy the product stop complaining about it.
The feature is implemented correctly.
For you it's a feature to me it's broken.
You don't deserve squat -- that's why you get nothing but money for your time. You work is appreciated, but the intelectual property isn't yours, and the risk wasn't yours, and the value-rewards won't be yours. The clients aren't yours, the company isn't yours. There's an enormous risk in starting your own business, and it's a gigantic under-taking to maintain any business. Being a cog in the machine is worth the grease, and little more.
And we wonder where loyalty went? With this attitude you'll get the employees you deserve.
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Funny. Always a good laugh when I see stats thrown out like that? I'll add one since we are playing this game. Did you notice that in the stats quoted in the article that MS is dropping in Market share?
I'm glad you like Vista. I don't. I'm glad you think it's fast. I don't. I have moved at least 20 people of Vista at a high price which they were willing to pay just so their systems would be productive again. If you have the hardware to run Vista good for you. If you buy a low end system with Vista because the salesperson said it will and it doesn't, or it runs slow, then you will be a bit upset. Some enough to move away from MS.
They only thing I care about a car is that it runs when I turn the key. It gets me to where I want to go safely. It's the same way with most people and computers they just want to browse the web, read their mail, type a letter. They don't care whether it's Linux, Windows or Mac.
Just to name one. The browser. It started as NCSA and the became Netsacape, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Innovation? The same logic applies in all, show me something popular and innovative in proprietary software. As you say What is it? Where is this innovative code in proprietary software? Where?
You need to read your post because you are saying the same thing as the parent post which boils down to this. It's NEW or IMPROVED.
The point is that you may own existing old hardware which you would like to use which is more than capable of meeting the requirements but are prevented in doing so because permission is not granted. What I am saying and a lot of other people are saying is that we are not interested in anything which restricts our use of the product which we have purchased. PERIOD. We will not buy anything which has NEW or IMPROVED restrictions. Which Vista does. "approved" to me is what I buy. I don't need MS's or Apple's or Joe's or Moe's permission to approve.
When I find equipment that allows me to use my purchases. I buy otherwise they are broken. I will claim so to all who care to listen. More people listen today because they have been bitten. Like my father in law who purchased an HD TV and realized when he saw my TV that the only thing HD about his TV was the price. I also leave my HDMI cable plugged in so I can show people how useless it is unless you have "approved" equipment.
Makes no diff since the transaction is a % on sales. The smaller the transaction the less risk per transaction the lower the rate charged.
This is from experience. MS is probably paying 1.50% to visa mastercard and 2.25% on amex. I never cared about the other cards....
For you sir I have some land that you could buy. You will not own it. I will not transfer the deed buy you may buy it. I'll let you set the price.
OOXML is not standard anything. It's a proprietary format owned by Microsoft. Why do people refer to this as standard?
It was called Lip Service. It was part of NeXT and it worked through email. It dates prior to 1996. Apple bought it when the purchased OSX/OPENSTEP/NeXT.
Visual voicemail has been around longer that than this patent. Why should Apple settle?