The thing is unless your setting up something complex like my dual monitors that I have running then you don't need to open up terminal. Besides that when I setup ubuntu(haven't upgraded to feisty faun (sorry if I spelt that wrong) yet) everything worked great. Sound was picked up, I could go to the gui that basicly does apt-get(I don't use it though I love terminal but you don't need it) and download packages that you want. The only problem would be if you wanted to add extra repositories then you might have to open up terminal unless theres something in the gui to do that, either way it might be a turn off. I think a version of wine should be packaged by default with ubuntu so that people can try a program with the default configuration and see if it works. I currently have office xp running in ubuntu with no issues at all, well it takes about 30 seconds longer to load than anything else.
frankly you need terminal almost as much as you need the command prompt in windows. I say almost because it hasnt' got there yet.
I haven't read the artical yet, I but I did see someone mention about having to find a special driver for ubuntu in the artical. I can tell you that you will have simular issues with vista. This may have been stated already but ubuntu will have support for alot more older hardware than vista does.
I think Ubuntu is comming along great. For most people it could replace windows today. You can check your email go online and browse, without using terminal to launch the application. You can write up a document with open office, create a power point or an excel sheet. This is what most people use the computer for. Its easy and its free and its pretty.
The only problem I have is that I haven't been able to find something to replace visual studio.net on ubuntu. I have used note pad and a compiler before but it is not as nice as visual studio. But its okay I'm getting a laptop soon.
I totally agree, all I can think when I read most of these comments is HOLY SHIT. I mean most of these people on here commenting don't even know who Jack Valenti is. The ones that do shouldn't be talking smack about him either. Not because hes dead but for the fact that they didn't know the person. When someone dies you pay your respects, ALWAYS. You will see the hero, or villian in a story will always pay respects to his apponent. The way people on here are commenting it seems as though everyone is a 10 year old. I've seen a few posts where people have been honest. The guy isn't well liked among those on slashdot. I will conceed to that, but for some of these posts to say evil died today, blah blah blah piss on him blah blah blah hes going to hell. Its just rude and uncalled for.
You can say you don't like the guy, that you never agreed with his opinions and say your glad his influence is no longer there. But follow it up with RIP or condolences to his family, because even if we don't like him someone else probably did. It makes us look like assholes to them if we don't show the respect that everyone deserves when they pass, especially someone who was so influential.
I think I remember reading about a drive that did just as your talking about, it had a hard drive platter but the most used files(say your swap or cache file) would be pulled to the solid state as well as the OS so that load times with the OS were faster but you had the cheaper storage. I could be wrong on any aspect of this idea, but I think I remember that..
How could it be anybodys fault except quicktime? The problem doesn't seem to plague anything but quicktime. Maybe quicktime isn't doing something its suppose to and the driver doesn't account for it because its not suppose to be done. Maybe quicktime just has an issue somewhere that it hasn't accounted for that is associated with that chipset. If you ask me it sounds like the most likely cause is quicktime, as nothing else seems to do it.
I can tell your joking, and to go way off topic, I don't know why this activity would be so bad. People seem to think so but when you've watched it and recorded it and lent it to someone, its fair use. But when you watch something download it and send it to someone its then copywright infringement.
Back on topic, I wonder why there are trace amounts of a date-rape drug in soap to begin with. Unfortunatly I don't know much about it but what makes that drug and does it have to be in soap? Anyways I'm glad to see hes out and bringing awareness to it. If I was caught with date rape drugs my wife would probably disown me.
This is because people never elected smart people, smart people just happened to be rich being able to accumulate enough wealth because of their intelligence. Now parliament is made up of dads little boys and girls who think their opinion matters. I want a pony I want Quebec to split from Canada.
That would all make sense if: 1) a)some kid broke the law(innocent until proven guilty
b)he was the actual defendent(which he is not) 2) Its not really theft its copywright infringment (still illegal just bugs me when people say that) 3) It did not infringe on his right to an education. I wonder if he had to miss the test and wasn't able to retake it and was left behind a grade if this would violate some kind of law, or right. 4) pro-piracy is a buzz word piracy is now used to describe every kind of grey area black area activity dealing with software on the internet. If they took files for non backup purposes then fair use is out of the question, it is illegal. I won't comment on the case and say if she is innocent(The mother is going to court btw not the kid hes probably too young to be sued)
The truth I like to believe on why people on slashdot are always against these lawsuits is that it seems that they are strong arming people into paying out these lawsuits. They take screen shots of what people are downloading and say that because such and such's IP was doing it, they should be sued. We have seen multiple times where the person being sued didn't have a computer or the internet or what ever. We have also seen where they attack people who are going to have to drop out of university to pay the bills on their lawsuit(honestly they did the crime you should pay for it). The other reason is that artist don't even get a fair share of their profits from what they produce. People have this opinion that the record companies which support the RIAA are not giving their artists a fair share of the profits. They get rich and the artist may go bankrupt(even if they arn't buying 3 jags and a mansion). People have a view that the music industry is corrupt and the fact that they attack their customers(yes some people who download music do go out and buy the CD I have downloaded every foofighters song and I own ever album) doesn't help their image much.
You know I don't know if he would go with Ubuntu on the consumer side, it would be nice its what I use for a regular desktop. But you have to consider that some of their servers ship with Red Hat Enterprise and ask yourself "If I ship a Red Hat type OS with my consumer computers could I get my Enterprise people to train my Consumer call centers?" I don't know if this will be a deciding point, but the fact that he does have call centers trained in RH might factor in.
fair enough, but I bought my creative zen vision for about $400 american(not exactly sure on the exchage I'm Canadian I paid about 500 and I had to pay to get it imported when it first came out) not long after that the iPod video came out. I was disappointed until I seen the size of the screen, it was like they took an iPod and put video on it... hence the ipod video name. I guess what I'm saying is, I hope they have a PMP version of an iPod cause that is what I'm waiting for. The screen on the current iPod video kind of sucks, and they haven't really done much to improve it since its release. I know the iPhone is suppose to have a very nice screen but I don't want to be watching shows or movies on a screen that suffers from constant finger prints.
Now just to comment on your tv-out thing I thought I implied that it did have TV-Out capability on the iPod, it just doesn't come with it as far as I know.
Maybe I'm waiting for an iPMP to be released so I can get the benifits of an iPod as well as those of my current PMP(bigger screen, good resolution). I was just hoping the new iPod video would be it.
I'm not the biggest apple fan but thats because I like to piss people off on a regular basis and apple cult people seem to be a good target. I've always thought that the iPod hasn't made any huge improvements over the years since it released the original iPod. It was always good and if someone gave me one I would probably keep it. But I never really had something from apple peak my interest as much as the announced 100GB widescreen video iPod. 100GB in a video player, this sounds fantastic, but then I remember such thing as quality of screen and if it will play all the files that a creative zen vision and I've seen archos and they kill anything for apple video out right now. The screens that apple picks are not quite the best thing, and they don't come with tv-out like other players(I believe you can purchase one for the ipod video). On that note I never believed that that ipod video was a pmp it just seemed to be an add on to make people buy the next round of iPods and get into videos. I will say that if it does have a nice big quality screen like the archos or the iriver or the zen vision, I might have to consider it. 100GB is pretty kick ass, and I assume it won't be 1000 dollars to boot.
On that note it seems that apple does things in baby steps I mean they went through like 6 ipods to get to the current version and they could have added most of those features in the second version. They want to keep selling iPods so I don't know if it will be as good as I imagine.
I can see what your getting I think, and if your saying what I'm thinking I agree. The more we stop buying tracks and keep downloading them the more it looks like sales are dropping because of piracy. I always wondered if this boycott was worth its weight against the RIAA as their main argument is that they are loosing sales. Well they are but for other reasons as well as piracy(yeah I said it they do loose some sales to piracy just not the big number they believe). The biggest reason is that music on a CD(which I prefer) or record(which most people buy used so don't really factor in anymore) costs alot even after price adjustment. So while the music industry believes sales of CDs are down, the P2P networks are just as strong as ever, but is there a corrolation? maybe, the music industry thinks so. Thats why I don't use P2P networks if I can get around it. Sometimes its the only place you can find a copy of a 30 year old song no ones heard of.
Problem with the group of users your talking about is that they are just using the internet/computer for social jibba-jabbin(I like your expression) while back in the day when I used the computer I was poking around finding where things lay on the computer and being interested in how the application works. I think a greater amount of women will join the geek world which is good for everyone(hate going to work with a bunch of guys, I need a change up sometimes). I just don't think that the number of women in the field is going to increase without some help. Maybe if someone told them that they could hack into the service and find out what someone was saying to someone else they might get more interested. The women I know at least like to eaves drop.
But if you get a good iriver pmp the screen is larger and I find clearer than on the iPod video. I don't even put them in the same catagory. As for the iriver e10 thats comparible to the ipod video but I never put the two beside eachother, I have a zen vision. Hands down I would pick something not iPod because I don't use iTunes, and I like to piss of apple users by saying apple sucks. Which of course isn't true but you should see the anger and hate in their eyes:P
You can't compare that experiance with switching between QWERTY and Dvorak, hell no one besides your programming buddy probably knows about it. They probably think its some weird geek thing and just give you a funny look. Honestly though maybe Dvorak would be good for teaching those who are slow on QWERTY or peck and search too much, give them a QWERTY keyboard and tell them to use Dvorak or vise versa I guess, and I bet they would be touch-typing in no time.
Even if its plain silly, if this turns out to be a problem next year everything should be looked at. I don't see how cell phones could cause problems in some areas but not others but the same goes for anything. Chances are its just some of the same old thing that caused this to happen and it just happend to be more than usual. If its not then I say look at all the possibilites no matter how silly they are.
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I know what your saying and I agree with it, but having the legal right to make a copy doesn't mean that they don't have the right to try and stop you. I just wish that they would realize that most people like to buy stuff, I know I like to buy DVDs it makes me feel warm and fuzzy to be like "Hey I bought the whole (insert show or movie) series". But the truth is that its too expensive to buy everything I would like to. Production costs at this point of the DVD release have usually been covered(excluding making the menu releasing extra content and having a commentary that I never listen to except on south park dvds) the packaging and DVD for a season of south park is about 50 dollars canadian when it comes out. It probably cost them 5 dollars to make(my guess and some might say it was high some might say it was low theres 3 dvds in there with graphic lables and casing and maybe shipping not sure if the store pays for that or not) so lets say the store like HMV or Best Buy makes about 10 dollars off of the sale. Thats 35 dollar profit for the manufacture. Lets say you pay Matt Stone and Trey Parker to do their commentaries for it, they probably get a % of sales. so if you sell 100,000 dvds of one season you get 3.5 million dollars, say matt and trey take 10% each the studio is left with 2.8 million. if you reduced the cost so that a box set costs 40 dollars using the same numbers you end up with 2 million. This gives you less profit right? Well if people are more willing to buy a dvd at 40 dollars and you get 150 000 dvd sales you end up with a final profit of 3.75 3 million dollars. Your making more money. I know nothing and I'm bored so don't take me too cereal. I know people will still pirate dvds but people will always pirate dvds, you won't stop them. Use the money that your putting into research to reduce the cost of the product and sell it and I bet you will have less people pirating or at least buying a legit copy after pirating or before making a backup. I know I would.
I find it bad form that I've paid 8*45+20(best of volume was cheaper) for my south park dvd collection. Thats almost 400 dollars. come to think of it that seems insane, and thats not my only collection. Most people can't aford that and I can see why they pirate or make backups. Would you want to go out and spend that again if your DVD got wrecked by a scratch?
I'm stictly a linux user at home and I would have to agree with you whole heartedly with what you said. I think an important question he did bring up though, is if gamming didn't factor in then what would stop the average user from switching? Ubuntu is fairly easy to install for a first OS and setting it up doesn't always have to be a pain. If a manufacture went and set it up like they do with windows when they ship a computer would it really be much different for the home user? Drivers installed and media functions configured. Gamming is the only thing holding back linux at this point as a main stream OS. I hope the game developers see this and start doing more linux ports again, and then we won't have to pay a subscription to play a broken version of a game(thats been purchased) on linux.
I don't know how they do things where you live but you don't just become a principal where I'm from your promoted from being a teacher. To be a teacher in a highschool when I was there were two places you could go(I'm from Canada most people stay in their province when they go to school to become a teacher, and my province only has two Universities), one University was direct entry, you had to have decent highschool marks to get in as classes usually filled up quickly. The other you had to apply after having good grades in university, most people that I know that went into education had to get a degree in something, granted sometimes it was music or something, but if you went that rout there was less of a chance of getting into education because they usually took people on what they could offer and most highschools need math and science teachers. My friend has a degree in math, and I think he might have a minor in physics, he is probably alot smarter than you, but he chose to be a teacher. You make it sound like you pick people who are failing out of university who are bitter and want revenge for how they were treated in school. I think you will find that if you go to a decent school, at least around here, you will find that most teachers are fairly nice but know how to draw the line.
Our highschool starts at grade 7, this is because the junior high is connected completly and we use the same facilities as the highschool. Alot of the teachers seemed to be jerks going through until grade 11. After that more and more teachers generally start to treat you like an adult, as they should. I believe this principal went too far in taking away computer time from their students. He could have got the IT department to block the domain for myspace, anything else disrupts the students ability to learn. Not everyone has a computer at home to go and use to research class projects. I had a computer at home, but I never would have don't research in school if it hadn't been for school computers.
Its stupid, its not even real, if someone is stupid enough to pay for an imaginary object the power to them.
The long answer would be, if this were to work in any way I think that they would have to impose a tax on items in game and not tax people in the real world. Really if you use what ever currency to buy an object in the game if you tax that currency and put it into a fund then you could use that fund to pay the game tax like in real life. But unless this is just for fun I think its stupid.
I haven't read too much into the case, but do you think that might have something to do with the fact the bill that the RIAA and MPAA are trying to influence deals with this and at the time Dunn and her cohorts were caught pretexing it wasn't finished?
This bill could stand to make future people like Dunn face more penatlies than they did. The RIAA and MPAA want to get past that, but then where do you draw the line? Groups outside of government agencies should not have this kind of power. It seems more and more that the RIAA and MPAA want to become a branch of the government so that they can do what they want to find the evil pirates. It seems pretty lame when you look at it as a whole. I copied that floppy now I'm being chased through the streets, taken to court, sued, having my privacy violated, and being entraped, while billy just stole a piece of bubble gum and is getting a lecture from the store owner and his parents. That seems fair.
Outsourcing, like it or not, is just a cost of progress, and much like the Luddites, we can either accept this fact and find other jobs, or start destroying trans-Pacific fiber runs in a vain attempt to save our current ones. Okay I'll get a shovel and some un-employed people and we'll start knocking out that fiber. I figure we need three fat slow people so that if we get busted they will get caught first. This could be a problem though as people who can't aford food generally are employed.
I'm going to call it People Like Us Terminating Outsourcing. P.L.U.T.O. for short. The code word is clam chowder, color is white.
Hrmm sounds closer to my friends story, when it happend to me they said you should cut back or get a buisness line. They were much more friendly about it. Guess it depends on what twit you get, and if they are on a power trip or not.
I remember one time when I was between jobs and I was sitting on usenet downloading and burning dvds cause I was bored waiting to hear back about work. They gave me a call and said that I had used 120gig(it was the second week of the month) and told me that if it continued I would have to get a buisness line. Well I got hired that week so I never had a problem again, but I have a friend to got kicked off without warning because they couldn't contact him while he was downloading stuff(he was at work or school or something). He phoned back and I guess they said that they had emailed him warnings(that he never got he never used his shaw email) and they terminated his service. That was years ago though.
I believe that fair use laws in Canada only make downloading videos and music legal as you are not distributing it. If you are knowingly sending the files over the internet then you are a distributer and could be charged. The good thing about Canada is that we have a little more privacy than the states, as well as smart judges. I believe it went to coart over music and the Canadian version of the RIAA CRIA(I think is what they are called) and the judge said(in non quote I'm too lazy to look up stuff) that it was the same as making a photocopy of a book in the library. Its not the librarys fault that someone took that book and made a copy of it. So distribution is a very grey area(in my opinion like I said I haven't looked anything up this is what I remember) where downloading is legal for the time being(I also remember reading an artical about the MPAA trying to effect polititions so that they can change the laws, I guess Canada doesn't make it illegal to record a movie in the theater as long as you don't distribute it)
Don't take my word for it though go look around theres alot of articals on the subject, I'm just not looking them up. Its early and I'm suppose to be working.
I don't know if you can be forced to take the stand against yourself in a civil proceeding I would assume no. But what your talking about is taking the stand and testifying against yourself. This is not the same as someone confiscating your computer. To use your annalogy it wouldn't be any different than someone comming and taking your photograph collection because they figured you had kiddie porn. This doesn't violate the 5th as far as I can tell as I think you have to be on the stand.
I don't know though I'm Canadian, we do things different.
I think you can get it to run with crossover office, i've heard of a few people getting it working with that. Its basicly wine except prettier so I would assume it would work with wine, with some tweeking. Heres an artical http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=itunes6 I might try it when I get done work.
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The thing is unless your setting up something complex like my dual monitors that I have running then you don't need to open up terminal. Besides that when I setup ubuntu(haven't upgraded to feisty faun (sorry if I spelt that wrong) yet) everything worked great. Sound was picked up, I could go to the gui that basicly does apt-get(I don't use it though I love terminal but you don't need it) and download packages that you want. The only problem would be if you wanted to add extra repositories then you might have to open up terminal unless theres something in the gui to do that, either way it might be a turn off. I think a version of wine should be packaged by default with ubuntu so that people can try a program with the default configuration and see if it works. I currently have office xp running in ubuntu with no issues at all, well it takes about 30 seconds longer to load than anything else.
.net on ubuntu. I have used note pad and a compiler before but it is not as nice as visual studio. But its okay I'm getting a laptop soon.
frankly you need terminal almost as much as you need the command prompt in windows. I say almost because it hasnt' got there yet.
I haven't read the artical yet, I but I did see someone mention about having to find a special driver for ubuntu in the artical. I can tell you that you will have simular issues with vista. This may have been stated already but ubuntu will have support for alot more older hardware than vista does.
I think Ubuntu is comming along great. For most people it could replace windows today. You can check your email go online and browse, without using terminal to launch the application. You can write up a document with open office, create a power point or an excel sheet. This is what most people use the computer for. Its easy and its free and its pretty.
The only problem I have is that I haven't been able to find something to replace visual studio
I totally agree, all I can think when I read most of these comments is HOLY SHIT. I mean most of these people on here commenting don't even know who Jack Valenti is. The ones that do shouldn't be talking smack about him either. Not because hes dead but for the fact that they didn't know the person. When someone dies you pay your respects, ALWAYS. You will see the hero, or villian in a story will always pay respects to his apponent. The way people on here are commenting it seems as though everyone is a 10 year old. I've seen a few posts where people have been honest. The guy isn't well liked among those on slashdot. I will conceed to that, but for some of these posts to say evil died today, blah blah blah piss on him blah blah blah hes going to hell. Its just rude and uncalled for.
You can say you don't like the guy, that you never agreed with his opinions and say your glad his influence is no longer there. But follow it up with RIP or condolences to his family, because even if we don't like him someone else probably did. It makes us look like assholes to them if we don't show the respect that everyone deserves when they pass, especially someone who was so influential.
I think I remember reading about a drive that did just as your talking about, it had a hard drive platter but the most used files(say your swap or cache file) would be pulled to the solid state as well as the OS so that load times with the OS were faster but you had the cheaper storage. I could be wrong on any aspect of this idea, but I think I remember that..
How could it be anybodys fault except quicktime? The problem doesn't seem to plague anything but quicktime. Maybe quicktime isn't doing something its suppose to and the driver doesn't account for it because its not suppose to be done. Maybe quicktime just has an issue somewhere that it hasn't accounted for that is associated with that chipset. If you ask me it sounds like the most likely cause is quicktime, as nothing else seems to do it.
I can tell your joking, and to go way off topic, I don't know why this activity would be so bad. People seem to think so but when you've watched it and recorded it and lent it to someone, its fair use. But when you watch something download it and send it to someone its then copywright infringement.
Back on topic, I wonder why there are trace amounts of a date-rape drug in soap to begin with. Unfortunatly I don't know much about it but what makes that drug and does it have to be in soap? Anyways I'm glad to see hes out and bringing awareness to it. If I was caught with date rape drugs my wife would probably disown me.
This is because people never elected smart people, smart people just happened to be rich being able to accumulate enough wealth because of their intelligence. Now parliament is made up of dads little boys and girls who think their opinion matters. I want a pony I want Quebec to split from Canada.
I'm mostly kidding.
That would all make sense if:
1) a)some kid broke the law(innocent until proven guilty
b)he was the actual defendent(which he is not)
2) Its not really theft its copywright infringment (still illegal just bugs me when people say that)
3) It did not infringe on his right to an education. I wonder if he had to miss the test and wasn't able to retake it and was left behind a grade if this would violate some kind of law, or right.
4) pro-piracy is a buzz word piracy is now used to describe every kind of grey area black area activity dealing with software on the internet. If they took files for non backup purposes then fair use is out of the question, it is illegal. I won't comment on the case and say if she is innocent(The mother is going to court btw not the kid hes probably too young to be sued)
The truth I like to believe on why people on slashdot are always against these lawsuits is that it seems that they are strong arming people into paying out these lawsuits. They take screen shots of what people are downloading and say that because such and such's IP was doing it, they should be sued. We have seen multiple times where the person being sued didn't have a computer or the internet or what ever. We have also seen where they attack people who are going to have to drop out of university to pay the bills on their lawsuit(honestly they did the crime you should pay for it). The other reason is that artist don't even get a fair share of their profits from what they produce. People have this opinion that the record companies which support the RIAA are not giving their artists a fair share of the profits. They get rich and the artist may go bankrupt(even if they arn't buying 3 jags and a mansion). People have a view that the music industry is corrupt and the fact that they attack their customers(yes some people who download music do go out and buy the CD I have downloaded every foofighters song and I own ever album) doesn't help their image much.
You know I don't know if he would go with Ubuntu on the consumer side, it would be nice its what I use for a regular desktop. But you have to consider that some of their servers ship with Red Hat Enterprise and ask yourself "If I ship a Red Hat type OS with my consumer computers could I get my Enterprise people to train my Consumer call centers?" I don't know if this will be a deciding point, but the fact that he does have call centers trained in RH might factor in.
fair enough, but I bought my creative zen vision for about $400 american(not exactly sure on the exchage I'm Canadian I paid about 500 and I had to pay to get it imported when it first came out) not long after that the iPod video came out. I was disappointed until I seen the size of the screen, it was like they took an iPod and put video on it... hence the ipod video name. I guess what I'm saying is, I hope they have a PMP version of an iPod cause that is what I'm waiting for. The screen on the current iPod video kind of sucks, and they haven't really done much to improve it since its release. I know the iPhone is suppose to have a very nice screen but I don't want to be watching shows or movies on a screen that suffers from constant finger prints.
Now just to comment on your tv-out thing I thought I implied that it did have TV-Out capability on the iPod, it just doesn't come with it as far as I know.
Maybe I'm waiting for an iPMP to be released so I can get the benifits of an iPod as well as those of my current PMP(bigger screen, good resolution). I was just hoping the new iPod video would be it.
I'm not the biggest apple fan but thats because I like to piss people off on a regular basis and apple cult people seem to be a good target. I've always thought that the iPod hasn't made any huge improvements over the years since it released the original iPod. It was always good and if someone gave me one I would probably keep it. But I never really had something from apple peak my interest as much as the announced 100GB widescreen video iPod. 100GB in a video player, this sounds fantastic, but then I remember such thing as quality of screen and if it will play all the files that a creative zen vision and I've seen archos and they kill anything for apple video out right now. The screens that apple picks are not quite the best thing, and they don't come with tv-out like other players(I believe you can purchase one for the ipod video). On that note I never believed that that ipod video was a pmp it just seemed to be an add on to make people buy the next round of iPods and get into videos. I will say that if it does have a nice big quality screen like the archos or the iriver or the zen vision, I might have to consider it. 100GB is pretty kick ass, and I assume it won't be 1000 dollars to boot.
On that note it seems that apple does things in baby steps I mean they went through like 6 ipods to get to the current version and they could have added most of those features in the second version. They want to keep selling iPods so I don't know if it will be as good as I imagine.
I can see what your getting I think, and if your saying what I'm thinking I agree. The more we stop buying tracks and keep downloading them the more it looks like sales are dropping because of piracy. I always wondered if this boycott was worth its weight against the RIAA as their main argument is that they are loosing sales. Well they are but for other reasons as well as piracy(yeah I said it they do loose some sales to piracy just not the big number they believe). The biggest reason is that music on a CD(which I prefer) or record(which most people buy used so don't really factor in anymore) costs alot even after price adjustment. So while the music industry believes sales of CDs are down, the P2P networks are just as strong as ever, but is there a corrolation? maybe, the music industry thinks so. Thats why I don't use P2P networks if I can get around it. Sometimes its the only place you can find a copy of a 30 year old song no ones heard of.
Problem with the group of users your talking about is that they are just using the internet/computer for social jibba-jabbin(I like your expression) while back in the day when I used the computer I was poking around finding where things lay on the computer and being interested in how the application works. I think a greater amount of women will join the geek world which is good for everyone(hate going to work with a bunch of guys, I need a change up sometimes). I just don't think that the number of women in the field is going to increase without some help. Maybe if someone told them that they could hack into the service and find out what someone was saying to someone else they might get more interested. The women I know at least like to eaves drop.
But if you get a good iriver pmp the screen is larger and I find clearer than on the iPod video. I don't even put them in the same catagory. As for the iriver e10 thats comparible to the ipod video but I never put the two beside eachother, I have a zen vision. Hands down I would pick something not iPod because I don't use iTunes, and I like to piss of apple users by saying apple sucks. Which of course isn't true but you should see the anger and hate in their eyes :P
You can't compare that experiance with switching between QWERTY and Dvorak, hell no one besides your programming buddy probably knows about it. They probably think its some weird geek thing and just give you a funny look. Honestly though maybe Dvorak would be good for teaching those who are slow on QWERTY or peck and search too much, give them a QWERTY keyboard and tell them to use Dvorak or vise versa I guess, and I bet they would be touch-typing in no time.
Even if its plain silly, if this turns out to be a problem next year everything should be looked at. I don't see how cell phones could cause problems in some areas but not others but the same goes for anything. Chances are its just some of the same old thing that caused this to happen and it just happend to be more than usual. If its not then I say look at all the possibilites no matter how silly they are.
I know what your saying and I agree with it, but having the legal right to make a copy doesn't mean that they don't have the right to try and stop you. I just wish that they would realize that most people like to buy stuff, I know I like to buy DVDs it makes me feel warm and fuzzy to be like "Hey I bought the whole (insert show or movie) series". But the truth is that its too expensive to buy everything I would like to. Production costs at this point of the DVD release have usually been covered(excluding making the menu releasing extra content and having a commentary that I never listen to except on south park dvds) the packaging and DVD for a season of south park is about 50 dollars canadian when it comes out. It probably cost them 5 dollars to make(my guess and some might say it was high some might say it was low theres 3 dvds in there with graphic lables and casing and maybe shipping not sure if the store pays for that or not) so lets say the store like HMV or Best Buy makes about 10 dollars off of the sale. Thats 35 dollar profit for the manufacture. Lets say you pay Matt Stone and Trey Parker to do their commentaries for it, they probably get a % of sales. so if you sell 100,000 dvds of one season you get 3.5 million dollars, say matt and trey take 10% each the studio is left with 2.8 million.
if you reduced the cost so that a box set costs 40 dollars using the same numbers you end up with 2 million. This gives you less profit right? Well if people are more willing to buy a dvd at 40 dollars and you get 150 000 dvd sales you end up with a final profit of 3.75 3 million dollars. Your making more money. I know nothing and I'm bored so don't take me too cereal. I know people will still pirate dvds but people will always pirate dvds, you won't stop them. Use the money that your putting into research to reduce the cost of the product and sell it and I bet you will have less people pirating or at least buying a legit copy after pirating or before making a backup. I know I would.
I find it bad form that I've paid 8*45+20(best of volume was cheaper) for my south park dvd collection. Thats almost 400 dollars. come to think of it that seems insane, and thats not my only collection. Most people can't aford that and I can see why they pirate or make backups. Would you want to go out and spend that again if your DVD got wrecked by a scratch?
I'm stictly a linux user at home and I would have to agree with you whole heartedly with what you said. I think an important question he did bring up though, is if gamming didn't factor in then what would stop the average user from switching? Ubuntu is fairly easy to install for a first OS and setting it up doesn't always have to be a pain. If a manufacture went and set it up like they do with windows when they ship a computer would it really be much different for the home user? Drivers installed and media functions configured. Gamming is the only thing holding back linux at this point as a main stream OS. I hope the game developers see this and start doing more linux ports again, and then we won't have to pay a subscription to play a broken version of a game(thats been purchased) on linux.
I don't know how they do things where you live but you don't just become a principal where I'm from your promoted from being a teacher. To be a teacher in a highschool when I was there were two places you could go(I'm from Canada most people stay in their province when they go to school to become a teacher, and my province only has two Universities), one University was direct entry, you had to have decent highschool marks to get in as classes usually filled up quickly. The other you had to apply after having good grades in university, most people that I know that went into education had to get a degree in something, granted sometimes it was music or something, but if you went that rout there was less of a chance of getting into education because they usually took people on what they could offer and most highschools need math and science teachers. My friend has a degree in math, and I think he might have a minor in physics, he is probably alot smarter than you, but he chose to be a teacher. You make it sound like you pick people who are failing out of university who are bitter and want revenge for how they were treated in school. I think you will find that if you go to a decent school, at least around here, you will find that most teachers are fairly nice but know how to draw the line.
Our highschool starts at grade 7, this is because the junior high is connected completly and we use the same facilities as the highschool. Alot of the teachers seemed to be jerks going through until grade 11. After that more and more teachers generally start to treat you like an adult, as they should. I believe this principal went too far in taking away computer time from their students. He could have got the IT department to block the domain for myspace, anything else disrupts the students ability to learn. Not everyone has a computer at home to go and use to research class projects. I had a computer at home, but I never would have don't research in school if it hadn't been for school computers.
Its stupid, its not even real, if someone is stupid enough to pay for an imaginary object the power to them.
The long answer would be, if this were to work in any way I think that they would have to impose a tax on items in game and not tax people in the real world. Really if you use what ever currency to buy an object in the game if you tax that currency and put it into a fund then you could use that fund to pay the game tax like in real life. But unless this is just for fun I think its stupid.
I haven't read too much into the case, but do you think that might have something to do with the fact the bill that the RIAA and MPAA are trying to influence deals with this and at the time Dunn and her cohorts were caught pretexing it wasn't finished?
This bill could stand to make future people like Dunn face more penatlies than they did. The RIAA and MPAA want to get past that, but then where do you draw the line? Groups outside of government agencies should not have this kind of power. It seems more and more that the RIAA and MPAA want to become a branch of the government so that they can do what they want to find the evil pirates. It seems pretty lame when you look at it as a whole. I copied that floppy now I'm being chased through the streets, taken to court, sued, having my privacy violated, and being entraped, while billy just stole a piece of bubble gum and is getting a lecture from the store owner and his parents. That seems fair.
I'm going to call it People Like Us Terminating Outsourcing. P.L.U.T.O. for short. The code word is clam chowder, color is white.
Hrmm sounds closer to my friends story, when it happend to me they said you should cut back or get a buisness line. They were much more friendly about it. Guess it depends on what twit you get, and if they are on a power trip or not.
I remember one time when I was between jobs and I was sitting on usenet downloading and burning dvds cause I was bored waiting to hear back about work. They gave me a call and said that I had used 120gig(it was the second week of the month) and told me that if it continued I would have to get a buisness line. Well I got hired that week so I never had a problem again, but I have a friend to got kicked off without warning because they couldn't contact him while he was downloading stuff(he was at work or school or something). He phoned back and I guess they said that they had emailed him warnings(that he never got he never used his shaw email) and they terminated his service. That was years ago though.
I believe that fair use laws in Canada only make downloading videos and music legal as you are not distributing it. If you are knowingly sending the files over the internet then you are a distributer and could be charged. The good thing about Canada is that we have a little more privacy than the states, as well as smart judges. I believe it went to coart over music and the Canadian version of the RIAA CRIA(I think is what they are called) and the judge said(in non quote I'm too lazy to look up stuff) that it was the same as making a photocopy of a book in the library. Its not the librarys fault that someone took that book and made a copy of it. So distribution is a very grey area(in my opinion like I said I haven't looked anything up this is what I remember) where downloading is legal for the time being(I also remember reading an artical about the MPAA trying to effect polititions so that they can change the laws, I guess Canada doesn't make it illegal to record a movie in the theater as long as you don't distribute it)
Don't take my word for it though go look around theres alot of articals on the subject, I'm just not looking them up. Its early and I'm suppose to be working.
I don't know if you can be forced to take the stand against yourself in a civil proceeding I would assume no. But what your talking about is taking the stand and testifying against yourself. This is not the same as someone confiscating your computer. To use your annalogy it wouldn't be any different than someone comming and taking your photograph collection because they figured you had kiddie porn. This doesn't violate the 5th as far as I can tell as I think you have to be on the stand.
I don't know though I'm Canadian, we do things different.
I think you can get it to run with crossover office, i've heard of a few people getting it working with that. Its basicly wine except prettier so I would assume it would work with wine, with some tweeking. Heres an artical http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=itunes6 I might try it when I get done work.