You made a lot of really good points. One of my favorite artists, Moby, kept being dropped like a hot potato because of lagging sales (before Play).
Thanks for not trying to "debunk" my being a RIAA plant - this post deserves to be at +5, not the other angry post at me. I played devil's advocate, and I got the well-reasoned response I was looking for. Thank you.
Oh, jeez. My comment was made in direct reference to that last comment, and the sentence following my admission of being a "plant"...
I've been secretly infiltrating your belief system for the past few months.
Should have clued you in to the fact that I was trying to say that I was playing devil's advocate... in other words being a troll, and forcing people to defend their opinions.
If they didn't, they would have no compunction in ceasing production of the material and killing the artists' careers.
Apparently you missed the other big buzz in the record industry recently. Most labels are cutting back on their Classical and Jazz music albums, ceasing production, dumping contracts, and combining Classical and Jazz divisions. Some have even dumped their entire divisions. See the point?
There is a possibility we may lose the war, but it is certain that the RIAA is losing money as I type this.
And for every one of us, there's fifteen kids going out to purchase the newest top 20 CD right this very instant. We are outnumbered by sheer force and ingorance (indifference?) of the market.
Finally, no boycott is in vain. A boycott of one person who stops going to a store or buying a product because it offends their principles is a victor -- that person has taken proactive control of their own life, against a torrent of propoganda and marketing telling them to do otherwise.
Twenty years ago, quite a few people thought that most top 20 music was garbage. Now, that thought has been wiped from your collective memory because it's become part of our cultural heritage.
"You" are now entering into radio station ownership deals to ensure that the distribution channels force your manufactured crap on the public whether they like it or not.
We abide by all existing laws. This was an issue around 30 years ago, not today. Laws were passed to protect the integrity of the radio stations, which we always respect.
How quickly we forget what times were like 20 or 30 years ago. The record industry didn't give people what they wanted, 20 or 30 years ago. They wanted more of the same. We gave them something different, and some disliked it, just like some dislike the music of today.
If anything, the recording industry could be said to be encouraging the future music classics.
Is nVidia actually sorry about not being fair, or about being caught doing this? I have a feeling this is a "hand caught in the cookie jar" incident, and that they're only sorry for being caught.
nVidia was one of the worst offendors in telling review sites to downplay 16-bit color benchmarks on games... even on ones where the textures were in 16-bit color (so no benifit to 32 bit!) for the sole benifit of making 3dfx's faster card look worse. (ATI was particuarly bad, as well).
nVidia also "wants" reviewers to focus on speed instead of quality now - and encourages them to benchmark FSAA, because nVidia's approach is faster (and less good-looking) than 3dfx's.
nVidia has gotten used to playing a little bit dirty - that's how they managed to overthrow 3dfx. But now is the time that they need to step back and let fair reviews be fair reviews. If your card is fairly the best in the market, then you don't need to play Microsoft.
This account is a plant by the RIAA. I've been secretly infiltrating your belief system for the past few months. But, what you say here is the height of arrogance.
The RIAA does not care about your boycotts. The artists who you listen to (on average) are almost starving anyway. Your purchasing of their CD's supports their livelyhood. We don't make much money on them.
Where we make the money is in the Top 10 records - the stuff that most Slashdot readers (and other concerned citizens) don't listen to. We don't make much money off of your purchases. We make the money in the mass market. And by and large, the mass market doesn't care about your boycott.
What you face now is the immense wall of public opinion. They want their CD's. They don't care about some boycott. Others have tried and failed to get the public to listen to some viewpoint - no matter how well put together it is, because the public doesn't even listen to you. They listen to what we say because we provide them with the music that they want.
Your boycott will fail, unless what you want is to destroy the artists that you listen to - the artists who survive on a small but dedicated fan base. You are destroying the art that you love over a legal difference of opinion. We hope you're happy.
Well, I never thought I'd resort to saying something like this, but here goes:
You, signal 11, are a total dipshit. Why do the cracked boxes need more cracking? Why does the poor server farm need to be abused anymore? Post the IP's of the cracker, not the cracked boxes.
In this image, we clearly see three folders in a browser window - one named Natalie, one named Portman, and another named StarWars. What can this mean? Obviously it means that osm is a KDE developer!
They're confusing information. I'm pretty sure there's a subnotebook or tablet (I've heard one report of an optional keyboard) and the Rosetta Stone is the M100 Palm unit, due in August that features handwriting recognition. Don't try to combine information like that!
I do believe that this should say "GTK-Themes To Be Supported By QT2.1", not KDE2.
That said, horray for QT and the KDE developers - instead of a combination ugly interface (half GTK half QT) we can actually see a beautiful, eye-candy integrated desktop.
Horray! Now where is my QT theme support for GTK? And what is the status of GTK 1.4? (Random off-topic addition...)
Well, the people you describe see a butt-ugly Intel laptop that tries to look cool but fails *cough* sony *cough* and this sexy graphite iBook... and they pick the iBook.
That leaves the people who believe the Intel FUD, and a such wouldn't ever by a Mac anyway:)
That was all MOSR crack... supposedly apple-branded Palms were rolling off the assembly lines in September and we were supposed to be awash in them by December.
At MWNY, Jobs showed the product grid expanding from a 4 squared grid to a 6 squared grid - the cube fills one slot, but what goes in the other? Obviously some form of notebook.
That said, I think that the G4 powerbook will not be in the sixth square - the black units will simply move to the G4. What's coming, it's speculated, is some form of subnotebook or tablet. I'm eagerly anticipating this... watch Seybold very, very, carefully:) Jobs is on a roll.
Actually, it's also because the NSA can't work on private networks. If both I and my Iranian cohorts are on AOL, then Echelon sees (roughly) nothing. But Carnivore does indeed see something.
Not military, but national security. There's a big difference. I won't insult you too much, but obviously you are uninformed. The NSA is actually a civilian orginization, yet they make serious national security decisions. So does the CIA. Military!=National Security. Usually, in this country the millitary acts in the interest of economics, while the CIA/NSA act in the interest of our information.
The CIA and the NSA are not handled by any democratically elected official, nor by anybody appointed by such an officail. There may be an appointed person who "oversees" these branches, but they sure don't run them.
Geez. Any undergrad could write a program that could determine that that's not a coherent sentence. More like:
I'm working on a mod for Half-Life that will allow me to bribe the President for money under threat of a H-Bomb! The Rockets are controlled by terrorist teams. I'm planning on charging a lot of money for this mod.
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Sealand tops a very short list.
France is just as bad as the US. England, Australia, NZ, are all conspirators in Echelon.
Give me some time. Maybe we need a good country.
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There's another National Security State.
People seem to misunderstand. It's not about how the economy is run, or about how the figureheads get put into power, but about who has responsibility for the security of the state.
I saw a great analogy in the paper in an article about Carnivore (yes, the paper in meatspace) saying that communicating by email is like two corporations in buildings surrounded by barbed wire and machine guns communicating over postcards.
The moral of the story is that you're using a public network when you use email. While it's certainly immoral and usually illegal to snoop, governments will always do whatever it takes to insure their power. We've seen it time and time again with the US's relationships with other countries.
Knowing that, we know that in general they will be watching for all threats. If a coalition decides to form to watch these threats, like Echelon, it will happen. If you insist on using these postcards, at least encrypt your data.
Keep in mind - it's your choice to live in a National Security State. (The US is no longer a democracy, because we no longer control our security democratically). There are other nations that handle things differently. You do have the choice to leave.
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Astralwerks? Nope
Telarc? Nope
V2? Nope
Looks like I'll be sticking to Boxed (Global Underground) for a while...
Windows File Sharing's main use isn't MP3's - it's for sharing programs :) Seriously, everybody on a network does this. WFS should be illegal.
Thanks for not trying to "debunk" my being a RIAA plant - this post deserves to be at +5, not the other angry post at me. I played devil's advocate, and I got the well-reasoned response I was looking for. Thank you.
I've been secretly infiltrating your belief system for the past few months.
Should have clued you in to the fact that I was trying to say that I was playing devil's advocate... in other words being a troll, and forcing people to defend their opinions.
If they didn't, they would have no compunction in ceasing production of the material and killing the artists' careers.
Apparently you missed the other big buzz in the record industry recently. Most labels are cutting back on their Classical and Jazz music albums, ceasing production, dumping contracts, and combining Classical and Jazz divisions. Some have even dumped their entire divisions. See the point?
There is a possibility we may lose the war, but it is certain that the RIAA is losing money as I type this.
And for every one of us, there's fifteen kids going out to purchase the newest top 20 CD right this very instant. We are outnumbered by sheer force and ingorance (indifference?) of the market.
Finally, no boycott is in vain. A boycott of one person who stops going to a store or buying a product because it offends their principles is a victor -- that person has taken proactive control of their own life, against a torrent of propoganda and marketing telling them to do otherwise.
Sigh... I remember when I was that idealistic.
"You" are now entering into radio station ownership deals to ensure that the distribution channels force your manufactured crap on the public whether they like it or not.
We abide by all existing laws. This was an issue around 30 years ago, not today. Laws were passed to protect the integrity of the radio stations, which we always respect.
How quickly we forget what times were like 20 or 30 years ago. The record industry didn't give people what they wanted, 20 or 30 years ago. They wanted more of the same. We gave them something different, and some disliked it, just like some dislike the music of today.
If anything, the recording industry could be said to be encouraging the future music classics.
nVidia was one of the worst offendors in telling review sites to downplay 16-bit color benchmarks on games... even on ones where the textures were in 16-bit color (so no benifit to 32 bit!) for the sole benifit of making 3dfx's faster card look worse. (ATI was particuarly bad, as well).
nVidia also "wants" reviewers to focus on speed instead of quality now - and encourages them to benchmark FSAA, because nVidia's approach is faster (and less good-looking) than 3dfx's.
nVidia has gotten used to playing a little bit dirty - that's how they managed to overthrow 3dfx. But now is the time that they need to step back and let fair reviews be fair reviews. If your card is fairly the best in the market, then you don't need to play Microsoft.
This account is a plant by the RIAA. I've been secretly infiltrating your belief system for the past few months. But, what you say here is the height of arrogance.
The RIAA does not care about your boycotts. The artists who you listen to (on average) are almost starving anyway. Your purchasing of their CD's supports their livelyhood. We don't make much money on them.
Where we make the money is in the Top 10 records - the stuff that most Slashdot readers (and other concerned citizens) don't listen to. We don't make much money off of your purchases. We make the money in the mass market. And by and large, the mass market doesn't care about your boycott.
What you face now is the immense wall of public opinion. They want their CD's. They don't care about some boycott. Others have tried and failed to get the public to listen to some viewpoint - no matter how well put together it is, because the public doesn't even listen to you. They listen to what we say because we provide them with the music that they want.
Your boycott will fail, unless what you want is to destroy the artists that you listen to - the artists who survive on a small but dedicated fan base. You are destroying the art that you love over a legal difference of opinion. We hope you're happy.
You, signal 11, are a total dipshit. Why do the cracked boxes need more cracking? Why does the poor server farm need to be abused anymore? Post the IP's of the cracker, not the cracked boxes.
I'll take one!
In this image, we clearly see three folders in a browser window - one named Natalie, one named Portman, and another named StarWars. What can this mean? Obviously it means that osm is a KDE developer!
It was. However, does that mean that pure QT apps won't get the themeing? Particuarly project Kylix, which apparently isn't a KDE app?
Hmm... leaked information... coming palm Vc?
They're confusing information. I'm pretty sure there's a subnotebook or tablet (I've heard one report of an optional keyboard) and the Rosetta Stone is the M100 Palm unit, due in August that features handwriting recognition. Don't try to combine information like that!
That said, horray for QT and the KDE developers - instead of a combination ugly interface (half GTK half QT) we can actually see a beautiful, eye-candy integrated desktop.
Horray! Now where is my QT theme support for GTK? And what is the status of GTK 1.4? (Random off-topic addition...)
That leaves the people who believe the Intel FUD, and a such wouldn't ever by a Mac anyway :)
*hint* *hint* the new M100 palm machine, due in august for $149, will feature true handwriting recognition.
I would have complained but they would have come back and said "we are not responsible for mistakes"... yeah, right.
That was all MOSR crack... supposedly apple-branded Palms were rolling off the assembly lines in September and we were supposed to be awash in them by December.
That said, I think that the G4 powerbook will not be in the sixth square - the black units will simply move to the G4. What's coming, it's speculated, is some form of subnotebook or tablet. I'm eagerly anticipating this... watch Seybold very, very, carefully :) Jobs is on a roll.
Actually, it's also because the NSA can't work on private networks. If both I and my Iranian cohorts are on AOL, then Echelon sees (roughly) nothing. But Carnivore does indeed see something.
The CIA and the NSA are not handled by any democratically elected official, nor by anybody appointed by such an officail. There may be an appointed person who "oversees" these branches, but they sure don't run them.
I'm working on a mod for Half-Life that will allow me to bribe the President for money under threat of a H-Bomb! The Rockets are controlled by terrorist teams. I'm planning on charging a lot of money for this mod.
France is just as bad as the US. England, Australia, NZ, are all conspirators in Echelon.
Give me some time. Maybe we need a good country.
People seem to misunderstand. It's not about how the economy is run, or about how the figureheads get put into power, but about who has responsibility for the security of the state.
The moral of the story is that you're using a public network when you use email. While it's certainly immoral and usually illegal to snoop, governments will always do whatever it takes to insure their power. We've seen it time and time again with the US's relationships with other countries.
Knowing that, we know that in general they will be watching for all threats. If a coalition decides to form to watch these threats, like Echelon, it will happen. If you insist on using these postcards, at least encrypt your data.
Keep in mind - it's your choice to live in a National Security State. (The US is no longer a democracy, because we no longer control our security democratically). There are other nations that handle things differently. You do have the choice to leave.