The article leans towards the idea that the 10.3% loss in sales is due to copying/downloading music off the net. What a crock of shit.
The survey they conducted says that 23% copy/download off the net. So do the math.
23% out of 10.3% does NOT = 10.3%. Their losing alot more profit in something else then "piracy", at least with the given numbers in the article.
I love how they try to pin their "losses" on "piracy" when it could be something else entirely, such as the economy, the fact that their protection schemes suck hard, etc.
Does this make any sense? I'm bad at math, but even this doesn't sound right.
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"All the Thai food and the Must See TV, Keeps ya subdued and unable to breathe. Chase a carrot stick in your Volkswagon Bug. All the limp dicks and their verility drug. And the Chinese pugs.
Hey, come on, we're all defanged and declawed. We're creature comforted. Don't need anything, we all get what we want. And we want. Hey, come on, we're all defanged and declawed, We're creature comforted. Don't need anything, no there's nothing at all. And you're tucked in tight, you sleep alright, and you won't bite. We're all defanged and declawed.
It's the satellite, and your DVD. It keeps you inside, it keeps you off of the street. And the payments: payments keep you alive. Cell phone nation, it gets one at a time. America Online. Yeah.
Like dominoes in neat little rows, you are what you owe.
And it keeps you down in Surround Sound until you drown, We're all defanged and declawed."
Sounds interesting, though I'm not sure i see how much a difference this would make. What's the difference between remembering certian details in the image you selected as your password vs remembering a text password?? You *Still* have to remember something. I've been very fond of the fingerprint scanning system and other simular devices that allow you to access your data without having to *remember* anything.
But in any case, where there's picture passwords there's bound to be some strange tech support calls. I'd use one of those "magic eye" pictures where you have to make your eyes blurry, and cross them funky so you can see the hidden image. That way if he's a real *STUPID* tech, he'll look like it too.:)
...anyway...
A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off.
"I will NOT be told how to use something in my possession."
So I guess Gun Control doesn't apply to you? If that's the case, well me neither.
*Bang!* your dead!
See where that leads you?
You have the free will to use what you own in any way you want, so long it doesn't harm or infringe on other peoples rights or the established law.
So you don't use Redhat, Linux, or Windows at all? Since you mention of no OS your computer runs, I guess your right. No one can TELL you how to use your computer, because your computer is unusable anyway.
You have to trust something or someone somewhere down the line.
Its a shame that there isn't a federal law or NATO law reguarding spam email like California's.
I was listening to A C|Net radio show on how to prevent spamming. The covered all the basics.
Use a web-based email address when you need to give one when signing up for a service, only give out you isp email to those you fully trust,etc.
But one thing cought my attention, and that was the issue with alot of spammer's opt-out links enclosed in their emails. Reputable companies like Sears, etc (big name Co's) will remove you from their email list. They don't want to piss people off, they're just trying to make business, and this i can understand. But the majority of spammers opt-out links are either broken or don't work.
The ones that do forward you to a website where you can opt-out, alot of times continue spamming you anyway, and not only that, but when you do get the chance to opt-out the spammers see this and mark you as an active target, meaning that your opt-out is proof that you got the spam, and therefore resell your email address at a premium over non-responding email address. Which creates *MORE* spam to your inbox.
Now I know why every time i opt-out i get more spam instead of less.
I didn't find that surprising, but it was interesting.
A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off.
Actually you may be referring to the Peripheal Expansion Box.(PEB) Which isn't that far from a desktop PC. It housed various add on cards as well as a 5.25 floppy drive. You could also get a Pascal Card for it, or put a MFM hdd in it if your inclined. It was rather nifty in the day, I still own mine and the TI99/4a, since it was my first computer.
Here in Pennsylvania at least, you have to show a valid picture ID with your DOB on it for an R rated film. Everyone in your party has to, in order to see the movie.
As far as parients and kids, some of my best friends were brought up by very zealot-like parients who attempted to portect them from every little thing tht might be dangerous/offensive/questionable.
You are right in the fact that you can't protect your kids all the time. And you shouldn't, even if it was within your grasp to do so. Not allowing your children to make their own mistakes is like not sending them to school. They aren't educated first-hand by the mistakes they make themselves.
Some parients work so hard in sheltering their kids, that eventually the kids only see their parients as roadblock. Your values, pirnclples and reasons get ignored, and the kids find a way to do what they want anyway. This is not how it should be done. All the sheltering does does is make your children nieve and ignorent of the real world.
From the time their born to the time they hit 12 or so, (give or take a year or two) everything you tought your kids will be the deciding factor on their behavior.
They're like a lump of clay when their born, they need you to shape them. The more you work and interact with them..(and i stress "with" greatly) the better they turn out in the long run.
Michael Shanks was really the first star of StarGate. He played a major role in the movie and went for nearly 5 whole seasons in the TV spinoff SG1. So of course when he goes, he's going to be missed, and it's not just the women who will miss him either.
Teal'c and O'Neall are gung-ho militant, Carter is an astrophysicist, and Daniel Jackson was the expert on cultures and various languages. Always peaceful and good natured. He helped blanace the feel of the show, and kept it in a star-trek explorer's perspective.
I hope the show stays alive when Michael leaves, as long as his replacement does a decent job I don't think i'm going to stop watching anytime soon.
But I have to agree, SG-1 IS one of the best Scifi shows ever to hit tv. It's innovative, inspiring, and it tells a very deep story. I noticed alot of shows build on one another, the best way to watch SG-1 (IMHO) is from the first season to the 5th stright through. It's like a long chaptered story and keeps you waiting for the next episode.
I have the season 1 box set. I just hope that MGM still plans to release the rest of them, or i'm going to be
P-I-S-S-E-D.
Christ, get a grip. Go into Morpheus, search for a file, right click on the file you want, select "find more of the same=>user" and there you go, every file the user is sharing.
it's the same damn thing as grabbing their ip with netstat -n in dos (with the port 1214) and plopping it into your browser. Big deal. So instead of using morpheus, you use your browser and a bit more work to look at the contents a user is sharing.
The person on the other end sharing files, STILL RETAINS CONTROL OF WHAT HE OR SHE **WANTS** TO SHARE. True, some are idiots and share their entire hard drive, but that doesn't matter since you can't upload a damn thing using your browser.
Your post clearly indicates your ignorance of the topic, as well as a shameless plug for some inferior open source p2p network.
A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off
I visited Pressplay's site when they first opened. Appariently as long as you PAY for the service your mp3s will be active, but once you cut the service (as in either you've become poor or want to swtich to a new service) they DEACTIVATE your mp3s. Making them utterly useless.
I'm a biased person when it comes to these mp3 subscription services, but I gave them a look to see if i'm wrong.
I was right...your not purchasing music....Your RENTING it. Their not concerned about what the customer wants, all they want is complete control of the consumer.
I was very disappointed because I had a small hope that the music industrry was getting a clue.
ah well. IRC/FTP/HTTP/Morph/KaZAA/etc is what I'll stick with.
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I'm a windows user, always have been. It's not like i've turned my back on Linux since I have only tried it twice.
I don't follow things out of blindness and loyalty either. But I remember when I first installed 95 OSR2 back in the day. It was EASY. I never used it before but i installed it without looking at a manual, without a crash, it detected my hardware. It was simple.
I tried Corel Linux 1.0 and Caldara OpenDesktop 2.5 (I believe) Corel crashed on install, and Caldara didn't pick up my fairly good and 2-3 year old hardware.
Why can't linux be just as simple? (I haven't tried the new distros yet, but i'm willing)
It seems like there are alot of Linux elitists out there who what to keep linux to themselves.
Now, There have been a small few of Linux users who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to help me out. I'm just saying, I cought alot of hell from those other asswipes becuase they were unwiling to help me solve my problems (which i tend to believe it was childsplay to them)
You want linux to grow? You want linux to make money? You want Linux to thrive and become an OS power to be reckoned with?
Personally I like the idea of an ordinary man being able to open the hood of his operating system and do some fixing if he feels the need to and has the compacity to do so. I like the idea of open source. Now, i don't know jack from shit about how linux works, but at least if i learned how to, familiarize myself with it, use and gain my own sense of pride by doing it myself in the process. This is actually what drew me to linux in the first place, it was the philosophy of it all. Not necessarlly becuase i hate MS. (which changes with the weather, and it's usually rainy.)
I'm just tired of the cold shoulder.
I found this particular article to be very helpful (along with alot of good comments).
I also want a flavor of distro that feels and installs like windows to start off with. Not becuase i'm a wolf slipping into sheep's clothing, (or vice versa;)) but because i want to acclimate myself to it, adjust to it without getting lost in the process.
And when I feel i have hit the bounderies of that particular distro, move to something more flexable and challinging, or maybe not.
Not everyone who drives a particular car has to become the sole mechanic of that car. Not everyone who wants to use linux nessessarly wants to hack and *really* get in the mechanics of it.
Is there such a thing as a "dumb linux user" like a "dumb windows user"? What i mean by that is, A person can use windows without ever knowing how to change certian hardware settings, or without knowing how to change the startup + shutdown screens, tweak the registry and the OS. A person who doesn't use windows with a wrench but just knows how to drive it. Can't there be a linux user counterpart?
Is that so bad? I mean christ, you hand the man a OS that is in essence free, give him the tools to fix and manipulate it, So you basically give the man the *Oppertunity* to put linux through the motions. He may never get that far, but at least if he has the desire to, he can do so
and perhaps may even fix or create something great that he can then turn around and share with his fellow users.
Isn't that what Linux is supposed to be about, or am i completely missing the target here.
Well the record company's goin' out of business
They price the records too damn high
And the boys in the band could use some assistance
Well the record company's goin' out of business
They price the records too damn high
And the boys in the band could use some assistance
Get a daytime job just to get by
Well the P.D.'s they won't play the record
They're too worried about that book
And the D.J's they all hate the song
But they're in love with the hook
Chorus
So na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
I bet you've heard this song before
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Take your cocaine and hit the door
Well folk rock, punk rock, power pop music
Turned out to be the latest trends
And ther ain't no more progressive music The business has put it to an end
Ol' "Rolling Stone" has gathered some moss
No they ain't what they used to be
They try to look like "Look" with their political pages
And advertising all over T.V.
Appariently in 1983 he knew that the business would put alot of things to an end. Go figure.
Now, we got a business who wants to sell digital sheet music and kill off other simular services who offer simular stuff (albeit not exact) for FREE!!! The great thing about OLGA is that first its free, and the tablature isn't THAT BAD. Its enough to give you a feel for the chord structure, and some of them are very very close to the real thing.
Tablature is a great way for a beginner to get his feet wet playing guitar. I've personally used OLGA for a number of songs that i wanted to learn how to play, and it's a great service with a good deal of tab selections to choose from.
Most guitarists know there are songbooks out by popular artists with the exact chord structures (in the form of sheet music) in them. You need to pay for this, but it's worth it, if you want to play the song exactly how it was written musically. And i have bought a few.
However, services like OGLA, I use on the side (and a good bit) when I don't want to spend $10-$20 dollars for a whole freakin book of sheet music. I just want to learn one damn song, not the artists whole album in sheet music. It's a waste of money, unless your a big fan of that artist.
Why can't they just advertise their service by saying "it's the ORGNINAL and EXACT reproduction of the artist's music" or something to that effect instead of just crushing the tab sites? How are sites like OGLA competition? They know they got a better, truer product, why not just hype that and be done with it?...It'd be too damn easy.
- NetGyver
"A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off."
As far as i'm concerned, the Alien might as well not even bother trying to get any rights whatsoever. He'd more than likely spit in our faces becuase in some countries humans don't even give other humans the same basic rights that the Alien might be asking for.
"Second, I see a "pattern of racial discrimination" in pro sports. Blacks are "disproportionally represented" in pro sports and an equal opportunity lawsuit seems to be in order, particularly in the NBA."
Um, did you happen to look at the Raven's team, and in all sports in general? The ratio of African Americans and white people is pretty damn good IMHO. One could argue there are *more* African Americans in pro sports then in any other profession, save for perhaps Golf.
Now, if your talking about *more* African Americans in sports than whites, well your comment would seems more fitting. Asians/Latin people in American sports seems non-existiant. But I cannot say if there is none of those races in pro sports or not, mainly becuase i've never seen one in that profession.
When I watch basketball, which is occasionally, I see a good mix of black and white. To say that their are more African Americans then white people in the NBA and pro sports is unfound, unless you have other info you'd care to express.
Confused about this "All Your Base" stuff? NetGyver.com
I don't consider myself "geeky" Mainly because I don't use *nux or scripting or what have you. But I can build a PC, I can do home networking, I can find mp3s ranging from ftps to irc, I know where to get the cracks for my software, Most geeks wouldn't consider me "geeky" though.
You don't have to be a geek to find what you want online. All you need is patience coupled with curiousity and interest. seek, and ye shall find...in one way or another.:)
I saw that after I read your comment. It was under the "here" link. I clicked "washington post" first and had to sift though the page to find the related article. I goofed, should have read the post better. Thanks for pointing that out.
Don't get me wrong, you have a vaild point but consider this:
I'm 21, I don't listen to Clapton, or hardly any of the oldie/classic stuff, save for a select few. Why? Becuase these people are older then my dad. Their not in my age group, they are the peers to their generation that which I am not apart of. Granted, this is not strictly saying that Clapton et al is only for baby boomers or people that are considered his peers. But loosely...How many 12-25 listen to that kind of music? I don't see my parients asking me to borrow my CD's becuase they like the tunes. It doesn't appeal to them really either. Catching my point?
But I do understand that music, if cut free entirely would mean that only the hitmakers before any acts/laws/updates are passed would get the most airplay and use becuase the cost of royalties are down. Which would hurt the musician who is trying to make a living.
Or would it?
People are only going to listen to those hitsongs for so long. It will stagnate the market eventually. So the Labels would have to find new acts to breath life into it. The bottom line is this is just talk right now. What needs to happen is to get the consumers and the labels together and work on a deal as partners. Only then will this will be truely fair to both parties.
Perhaps that won't happen, but at least i can hope for it.
A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off.
Look at the bullcrap they pulled in Germany a while back, remember? They introduced CD's with encryption junk and some of the people were pretty pissed becuase it wouldn't play on their players. Granted alot of them could, but a good portion of them couldn't. It's only going to take a little retooling for them to get it to work and impliment it into CD's here in the US, and where ever else.
If the RIAA had its way, all of us would have to pay for super encrypted mp3s et al formats that once you download, they self distruct in 24 hours unless you pay more to keep it N more days/weeks etc. you couldn't copy them at all, for whatever reason. The CD's would be super encrypted so you could only play them yourself. Couldn't make personal compilations, or do anything that is private with them, etc etc. Personally I think the hack/crack community could get around this. But still, it's the principle of the matter.
Hatch IMHO, isn't going to rob the RIAA blindly of copyrights and toss it in the consumer's direction. All he's basically saying is that their needs to be a level playing field for both parties. If the RIAA wasn't so damn greedy/slow we wouldn't be in this mess. bah.
Good article though, at least someone cares up on the hill, at least it seems.
A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off.
It took me a little bit to find the article, becuase it's not a major headline on Washington Post's site, and I don't visit that site often enough to know where they stick their articles.
Anyway for the lazy and for the people who want to not seach the site: Link
A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off.
"Would the music execs really put up with a free music site _even if every piece on it was performed by musicians who had GPL'd their music?"
very nice analogy. However I see the Music industry as 5 pieces of a broken up Microsoft. They all do the same thing, in the same manner just with differet Musical acts.
But really, All i want is to hear all the songs before I buy a CD so i can make a damn good judgement as to weither i think a CD is worth it's weight in dollars.:)
What we really need is a reconsideration of the whole concept of intellectual property laws
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The article leans towards the idea that the 10.3% loss in sales is due to copying/downloading music off the net. What a crock of shit.
The survey they conducted says that 23% copy/download off the net. So do the math.
23% out of 10.3% does NOT = 10.3%. Their losing alot more profit in something else then "piracy", at least with the given numbers in the article.
I love how they try to pin their "losses" on "piracy" when it could be something else entirely, such as the economy, the fact that their protection schemes suck hard, etc.
Does this make any sense? I'm bad at math, but even this doesn't sound right.
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"All the Thai food and the Must See TV,
Keeps ya subdued and unable to breathe.
Chase a carrot stick in your Volkswagon Bug.
All the limp dicks and their verility drug.
And the Chinese pugs.
Hey, come on, we're all defanged and declawed.
We're creature comforted.
Don't need anything, we all get what we want.
And we want.
Hey, come on, we're all defanged and declawed,
We're creature comforted.
Don't need anything, no there's nothing at all.
And you're tucked in tight, you sleep alright, and you won't bite.
We're all defanged and declawed.
It's the satellite, and your DVD.
It keeps you inside, it keeps you off of the street.
And the payments: payments keep you alive.
Cell phone nation, it gets one at a time.
America Online.
Yeah.
Like dominoes in neat little rows, you are what you owe.
And it keeps you down in Surround Sound until you drown, We're all defanged and declawed."
-- Local H's take on Corporate America.
Sounds interesting, though I'm not sure i see how much a difference this would make. What's the difference between remembering certian details in the image you selected as your password vs remembering a text password?? You *Still* have to remember something. I've been very fond of the fingerprint scanning system and other simular devices that allow you to access your data without having to *remember* anything.
:)
But in any case, where there's picture passwords there's bound to be some strange tech support calls. I'd use one of those "magic eye" pictures where you have to make your eyes blurry, and cross them funky so you can see the hidden image. That way if he's a real *STUPID* tech, he'll look like it too.
...anyway...
A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off.
"that's no ORRRRDINARRRY RABBIT!"
:)
someone had to say it
A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off.
"I will NOT be told how to use something in my possession."
So I guess Gun Control doesn't apply to you?
If that's the case, well me neither.
*Bang!* your dead!
See where that leads you?
You have the free will to use what you own in any way you want, so long it doesn't harm or infringe on other peoples rights or the established law.
So you don't use Redhat, Linux, or Windows at all? Since you mention of no OS your computer runs, I guess your right. No one can TELL you how to use your computer, because your computer is unusable anyway.
You have to trust something or someone somewhere down the line.
Its a shame that there isn't a federal law or NATO
law reguarding spam email like California's.
I was listening to A C|Net radio show on how to prevent spamming. The covered all the basics.
Use a web-based email address when you need to give one when signing up for a service, only give out you isp email to those you fully trust,etc.
But one thing cought my attention, and that was the issue with alot of spammer's opt-out links enclosed in their emails. Reputable companies like Sears, etc (big name Co's) will remove you from their email list. They don't want to piss people off, they're just trying to make business, and this i can understand. But the majority of spammers opt-out links are either broken or don't work.
The ones that do forward you to a website where you can opt-out, alot of times continue spamming you anyway, and not only that, but when you do get the chance to opt-out the spammers see this and mark you as an active target, meaning that your opt-out is proof that you got the spam, and therefore resell your email address at a premium over non-responding email address. Which creates *MORE* spam to your inbox.
Now I know why every time i opt-out i get more spam instead of less.
I didn't find that surprising, but it was interesting.
A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off.
Actually you may be referring to the Peripheal Expansion Box.(PEB) Which isn't that far from a desktop PC. It housed various add on cards as well as a 5.25 floppy drive. You could also get a Pascal Card for it, or put a MFM hdd in it if your inclined. It was rather nifty in the day, I still own mine and the TI99/4a, since it was my first computer.
Here in Pennsylvania at least, you have to show a valid picture ID with your DOB on it for an R rated film. Everyone in your party has to, in order to see the movie.
:)
As far as parients and kids, some of my best friends were brought up by very zealot-like parients who attempted to portect them from every little thing tht might be dangerous/offensive/questionable.
You are right in the fact that you can't protect your kids all the time. And you shouldn't, even if it was within your grasp to do so. Not allowing your children to make their own mistakes is like not sending them to school. They aren't educated first-hand by the mistakes they make themselves.
Some parients work so hard in sheltering their kids, that eventually the kids only see their parients as roadblock. Your values, pirnclples and reasons get ignored, and the kids find a way to do what they want anyway. This is not how it should be done. All the sheltering does does is make your children nieve and ignorent of the real world.
From the time their born to the time they hit 12 or so, (give or take a year or two) everything you tought your kids will be the deciding factor on their behavior.
They're like a lump of clay when their born,
they need you to shape them. The more you work and interact with them..(and i stress "with" greatly) the better they turn out in the long run.
whew, ok i'm off my soapbox now
Michael Shanks was really the first star of StarGate. He played a major role in the movie and went for nearly 5 whole seasons in the TV spinoff SG1. So of course when he goes, he's going to be missed, and it's not just the women who will miss him either.
Teal'c and O'Neall are gung-ho militant, Carter is an astrophysicist, and Daniel Jackson was the expert on cultures and various languages. Always peaceful and good natured. He helped blanace the feel of the show, and kept it in a star-trek explorer's perspective.
I hope the show stays alive when Michael leaves, as long as his replacement does a decent job I don't think i'm going to stop watching anytime soon.
But I have to agree, SG-1 IS one of the best Scifi shows ever to hit tv. It's innovative, inspiring, and it tells a very deep story. I noticed alot of shows build on one another, the best way to watch SG-1 (IMHO) is from the first season to the 5th stright through. It's like a long chaptered story and keeps you waiting for the next episode.
I have the season 1 box set. I just hope that MGM still plans to release the rest of them, or i'm going to be
P-I-S-S-E-D.
Christ, get a grip. Go into Morpheus, search for a file, right click on the file you want, select "find more of the same=>user" and there you go, every file the user is sharing.
it's the same damn thing as grabbing their ip with netstat -n in dos (with the port 1214) and plopping it into your browser. Big deal. So instead of using morpheus, you use your browser and a bit more work to look at the contents a user is sharing.
The person on the other end sharing files, STILL RETAINS CONTROL OF WHAT HE OR SHE **WANTS** TO SHARE. True, some are idiots and share their entire hard drive, but that doesn't matter since you can't upload a damn thing using your browser.
Your post clearly indicates your ignorance of the topic, as well as a shameless plug for some inferior open source p2p network.
A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off
I visited Pressplay's site when they first opened. Appariently as long as you PAY for the service your mp3s will be active, but once you cut the service (as in either you've become poor or want to swtich to a new service) they DEACTIVATE your mp3s. Making them utterly useless.
I'm a biased person when it comes to these mp3 subscription services, but I gave them a look to see if i'm wrong.
I was right...your not purchasing music....Your RENTING it. Their not concerned about what the customer wants, all they want is complete control of the consumer.
I was very disappointed because I had a small hope that the music industrry was getting a clue.
ah well. IRC/FTP/HTTP/Morph/KaZAA/etc is what I'll stick with.
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I don't follow things out of blindness and loyalty either. But I remember when I first installed 95 OSR2 back in the day. It was EASY. I never used it before but i installed it without looking at a manual, without a crash, it detected my hardware. It was simple.
I tried Corel Linux 1.0 and Caldara OpenDesktop 2.5 (I believe) Corel crashed on install, and Caldara didn't pick up my fairly good and 2-3 year old hardware.
Why can't linux be just as simple? (I haven't tried the new distros yet, but i'm willing)
It seems like there are alot of Linux elitists out there who what to keep linux to themselves. Now, There have been a small few of Linux users who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to help me out. I'm just saying, I cought alot of hell from those other asswipes becuase they were unwiling to help me solve my problems (which i tend to believe it was childsplay to them)
You want linux to grow? You want linux to make money? You want Linux to thrive and become an OS power to be reckoned with?
Personally I like the idea of an ordinary man being able to open the hood of his operating system and do some fixing if he feels the need to and has the compacity to do so. I like the idea of open source. Now, i don't know jack from shit about how linux works, but at least if i learned how to, familiarize myself with it, use and gain my own sense of pride by doing it myself in the process. This is actually what drew me to linux in the first place, it was the philosophy of it all. Not necessarlly becuase i hate MS. (which changes with the weather, and it's usually rainy.)
I'm just tired of the cold shoulder.
I found this particular article to be very helpful (along with alot of good comments). I also want a flavor of distro that feels and installs like windows to start off with. Not becuase i'm a wolf slipping into sheep's clothing, (or vice versa ;)) but because i want to acclimate myself to it, adjust to it without getting lost in the process.
And when I feel i have hit the bounderies of that particular distro, move to something more flexable and challinging, or maybe not.
Not everyone who drives a particular car has to become the sole mechanic of that car. Not everyone who wants to use linux nessessarly wants to hack and *really* get in the mechanics of it.
Is there such a thing as a "dumb linux user" like a "dumb windows user"? What i mean by that is, A person can use windows without ever knowing how to change certian hardware settings, or without knowing how to change the startup + shutdown screens, tweak the registry and the OS. A person who doesn't use windows with a wrench but just knows how to drive it. Can't there be a linux user counterpart?
Is that so bad? I mean christ, you hand the man a OS that is in essence free, give him the tools to fix and manipulate it, So you basically give the man the *Oppertunity* to put linux through the motions. He may never get that far, but at least if he has the desire to, he can do so and perhaps may even fix or create something great that he can then turn around and share with his fellow users.
Isn't that what Linux is supposed to be about, or am i completely missing the target here.
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Well the record company's goin' out of business
They price the records too damn high
And the boys in the band could use some assistance
Well the record company's goin' out of business
They price the records too damn high
And the boys in the band could use some assistance
Get a daytime job just to get by
Well the P.D.'s they won't play the record
They're too worried about that book
And the D.J's they all hate the song
But they're in love with the hook
Chorus
So na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
I bet you've heard this song before
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Take your cocaine and hit the door
Well folk rock, punk rock, power pop music
Turned out to be the latest trends
And ther ain't no more progressive music
The business has put it to an end
Ol' "Rolling Stone" has gathered some moss
No they ain't what they used to be
They try to look like "Look" with their political pages
And advertising all over T.V.
Appariently in 1983 he knew that the business would put alot of things to an end. Go figure.
Now, we got a business who wants to sell digital sheet music and kill off other simular services who offer simular stuff (albeit not exact) for FREE!!! The great thing about OLGA is that first its free, and the tablature isn't THAT BAD. Its enough to give you a feel for the chord structure, and some of them are very very close to the real thing.
Tablature is a great way for a beginner to get his feet wet playing guitar. I've personally used OLGA for a number of songs that i wanted to learn how to play, and it's a great service with a good deal of tab selections to choose from.
Most guitarists know there are songbooks out by popular artists with the exact chord structures (in the form of sheet music) in them. You need to pay for this, but it's worth it, if you want to play the song exactly how it was written musically. And i have bought a few.
However, services like OGLA, I use on the side (and a good bit) when I don't want to spend $10-$20 dollars for a whole freakin book of sheet music. I just want to learn one damn song, not the artists whole album in sheet music. It's a waste of money, unless your a big fan of that artist.
Why can't they just advertise their service by saying "it's the ORGNINAL and EXACT reproduction of the artist's music" or something to that effect instead of just crushing the tab sites? How are sites like OGLA competition? They know they got a better, truer product, why not just hype that and be done with it?...It'd be too damn easy.
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"A penny for my thoughts? Here's my two cents. I got ripped off."
As far as i'm concerned, the Alien might as well not even bother trying to get any rights whatsoever. He'd more than likely spit in our faces becuase in some countries humans don't even give other humans the same basic rights that the Alien might be asking for.
it has some info to get you started, with a good amount of links to get you up to speed.
My guess: Powerman 5000? is that correct?
Um, did you happen to look at the Raven's team, and in all sports in general? The ratio of African Americans and white people is pretty damn good IMHO. One could argue there are *more* African Americans in pro sports then in any other profession, save for perhaps Golf.
Now, if your talking about *more* African Americans in sports than whites, well your comment would seems more fitting. Asians/Latin people in American sports seems non-existiant. But I cannot say if there is none of those races in pro sports or not, mainly becuase i've never seen one in that profession.
When I watch basketball, which is occasionally, I see a good mix of black and white. To say that their are more African Americans then white people in the NBA and pro sports is unfound, unless you have other info you'd care to express.
You don't have to be a geek to find what you want online. All you need is patience coupled with curiousity and interest. seek, and ye shall find...in one way or another. :)
Well how could he do that if i have children or family? Don't they fall somewhere under "prior art"? :)
I saw that after I read your comment. It was under the "here" link. I clicked "washington post" first and had to sift though the page to find the related article. I goofed, should have read the post better. Thanks for pointing that out.
But I do understand that music, if cut free entirely would mean that only the hitmakers before any acts/laws/updates are passed would get the most airplay and use becuase the cost of royalties are down. Which would hurt the musician who is trying to make a living.
Or would it?
People are only going to listen to those hitsongs for so long. It will stagnate the market eventually. So the Labels would have to find new acts to breath life into it. The bottom line is this is just talk right now. What needs to happen is to get the consumers and the labels together and work on a deal as partners. Only then will this will be truely fair to both parties.
Perhaps that won't happen, but at least i can hope for it.
If the RIAA had its way, all of us would have to pay for super encrypted mp3s et al formats that once you download, they self distruct in 24 hours unless you pay more to keep it N more days/weeks etc. you couldn't copy them at all, for whatever reason. The CD's would be super encrypted so you could only play them yourself. Couldn't make personal compilations, or do anything that is private with them, etc etc. Personally I think the hack/crack community could get around this. But still, it's the principle of the matter.
Hatch IMHO, isn't going to rob the RIAA blindly of copyrights and toss it in the consumer's direction. All he's basically saying is that their needs to be a level playing field for both parties. If the RIAA wasn't so damn greedy/slow we wouldn't be in this mess. bah.
Good article though, at least someone cares up on the hill, at least it seems.
Anyway for the lazy and for the people who want to not seach the site: Link
very nice analogy. However I see the Music industry as 5 pieces of a broken up Microsoft. They all do the same thing, in the same manner just with differet Musical acts.
But really, All i want is to hear all the songs before I buy a CD so i can make a damn good judgement as to weither i think a CD is worth it's weight in dollars. :)
What we really need is a reconsideration of the whole concept of intellectual property laws
one word man, EXACTLY.