The only problem with banning Sony products, personally, is the fact that they've created my Playstation, and soon my Playstation 2, those would be impossible to give up, as a true gamer geek.
More like someone saying "Hey this bar three blocks south and one block east of here is great. You can ALWAYS meet women there." He could mean prostitutes, or he could mean sluts. Prostitution is illegal, being a slut is not. I believe this is an excellent metaphor. It could be extended in saying that this person could even introduce you to the woman, but what goes on between you and the woman is not his concern, nor will he be involved in it whatsoever.
Further supported by this metaphor is the idea that not everything on Napster is illegal. If I owned every single Rush album at home, but while I'm at work I'd prefer to have ALL their mp3s into one playlist and play them at random (simulating a 20+ CD changer with random mode) I'm very well within my legal rights to do so. And if you own all these albums, and you wanted to do the same, then come on over, I'll share the work that I've put in.
So whether Napster is stealing or not isn't the real issue. Its whether they can be considered "an accessory" to the crime, considering they make it so available to many people, knowingly. In a slightly off comparison, it could be likened to saying that you keep giving dogs to people, even if you KNEW that some of these dogs were being beaten and killed. The trick where Napster can get away is by saying that they have no ability to know WHO, and they won't get involved in such.
Getting to the crux of the article, however, is a big disagreement between the artists who copyright their work and the software copyrights that are in place. Getting back to your analogy, this is likened to me referring someone to you automaticially because you know where women are. You're not objecting to me doing this because you don't like me, or that you don't have enough time to handle all the users, but only because you want to be the only person who can introduce people to women, and you want to have facilitated the entire process. Not only that, but you won't tell anyone anything about the women you know, unless you're going to be the one introducing them, because you make money doing it.
Here the hypocracy is exposed, because musicians feel very much the same way (substitute women for music, naturally) and they want to be the ones providing you with the music so they can make the money, not somebody else. So if we are going to chastize musicians for protecting their music for the sake of making money, we must chastize Napster for doing the same with its databases and protocols.
"I got better things to do than drive around a crotchedy old file sharing system like you. From now on, my name is gnutella. And when the revolution comes, you will not be spared."
The character John Doggett has been scheduled to go for about two seasons, until he realizes that he has no hope of scoring with Scully. He then retires from the FBI at the ripe old age of 24 into the lavish underworld of New York City as a city animal catcher.
With the ignorant masses, I don't know if there really is another way to prevent people from swindling maxed out processors and pretending they're running like out of the box.
AMDs are damned reliable though, so you really can't blame them for trying to keep people honest.
It is free to use and its continuing development is undertaken by a disparate group of computer enthusiasts all over the world, whose proposed upgrades to the system are ratified by their peers.
Hey, who do they think they're calling desperate, I've had my date for the year...
I can't think of anything stupider in the entire world than to accept a product simply because its got red white and blue painted on the side of it, or would even hint at the concept.
I figured the intention of mentioning where a product was from was to show pride in a product, but in the case of my fellow Americans, the Star Spangled Banner might as well be the skull and crossbones.
Whether or like you enjoy They Might Be Giants (of which I am a HUGE fan, old and new) and their sometimes novel music is irrelevant. The fact is that They Might Be Giants have been one of the best bands in terms of dealing with the issues facing musicians today.
TMBG has gone out of their way to make their MP3 hugging fans happy. They created Dial-A-Song, which plays their music (as goofy as it is, check it out, Flash required): Dial-A-Song
They even went so far as to produce an album completely on-line that can be purchased for like $7/$8 called Long Tall Weekend
I think credit should be given where credit is due. Instead of crying like a large majority of their musical counterparts, they actually went out and did something that both sides could agree to, which earned them my admiration and respect as musicians and as human being.
Quit freakin whining, these articles are the bread and butter of what this community stands for, intelligent computing practices.
Perhaps you knew the whole article already, which makes it quite simple for you to not read it. Or, better yet, since you know so much about the article, give us some good feedback and earn yourself some mod points.
Otherwise, if you want to keep crying, you can kiss my Ars.
In the end, every company in the world is retail. As "duh" as that statement seems, its quite obvious while I sit here in my cubicle working for an ITS division of a major midwest supercenter chain.
Direct retail has always had different demands from standard industry, the attention to the hours away from 8-5 is crucial in our profit.
Yet, as obvious as that is, I still find it terrible that some of our team members have pagers that are taken home with them nightly. These pagers receive direct support calls from hundreds of stores with minor dink problems, but still wake us up at 2am to fix a broken cash register.
Quite often, people work 8-5, then go home and get paged 5 times during dinner, and 3-4 times during the night. When carrying a pager, you can't leave your house for the weekend. If you're farther than half an hour away from a terminal that you can fix the problem from, you are in violation of the policy.
The question is: Is it right for business to expect this much from their employees? These people are salaried workers who get paid an extra $30 for the entire week that they have this pager. This pager can often deliver 30-40 extra hours of work on its own, breaking spirits ruthlessly of employees who trade the pager faster than Democrats with a poorly rolled joint.
I, for one, wouldn't be caught dead with that pager, and will continue to code and create the problems for these people to fix. Nice to be on this end of the spectrum.
Kennedy motivated a nation to race the communists up to land on a huge mass of cheese floating in our night sky. However, since Mr. Mikhail killed communism for us, suddenly we're only interested in old decrepid senators search for their lost golf balls. The public has lost its interest in space travel, Hollywood has saturated our minds with farfetched, amazing ideas that won't be achieved in any of our lifetimes, and the status quo seems boring in comparison. The Challenger Space Shuttle Accident: The ultimate "blue screen"
In the article, it claims that any modern PC has enough power to run MAME and still have enough for a spreadsheet and two word processors...is that all that our modern technology can afford us? Running Nesticle (although it runs "illegal" "unoriginal" software) doesn't slow my 333 down a wink, so why would MAME take an ancient system of coding and let it completely hog up the processes of a comparitable juggernaut? On the same note, glad to hear someone remembers whats important out in the computer world, fighting Bill can only hold so much amusement.
I don't know how this business believes that society should be run, but last time I checked, the way Adam Smith thought of it, if the people have complaints, the company needs to change. From now on, I suppose we should say "The customer WAS always right." Re-education efforts? Hey, if they're going to pay for me to go back and get my masters, then let me just say how much K-Mart sucks...
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The only problem with banning Sony products, personally, is the fact that they've created my Playstation, and soon my Playstation 2, those would be impossible to give up, as a true gamer geek.
Further supported by this metaphor is the idea that not everything on Napster is illegal. If I owned every single Rush album at home, but while I'm at work I'd prefer to have ALL their mp3s into one playlist and play them at random (simulating a 20+ CD changer with random mode) I'm very well within my legal rights to do so. And if you own all these albums, and you wanted to do the same, then come on over, I'll share the work that I've put in.
So whether Napster is stealing or not isn't the real issue. Its whether they can be considered "an accessory" to the crime, considering they make it so available to many people, knowingly. In a slightly off comparison, it could be likened to saying that you keep giving dogs to people, even if you KNEW that some of these dogs were being beaten and killed. The trick where Napster can get away is by saying that they have no ability to know WHO, and they won't get involved in such.
Getting to the crux of the article, however, is a big disagreement between the artists who copyright their work and the software copyrights that are in place. Getting back to your analogy, this is likened to me referring someone to you automaticially because you know where women are. You're not objecting to me doing this because you don't like me, or that you don't have enough time to handle all the users, but only because you want to be the only person who can introduce people to women, and you want to have facilitated the entire process. Not only that, but you won't tell anyone anything about the women you know, unless you're going to be the one introducing them, because you make money doing it.
Here the hypocracy is exposed, because musicians feel very much the same way (substitute women for music, naturally) and they want to be the ones providing you with the music so they can make the money, not somebody else. So if we are going to chastize musicians for protecting their music for the sake of making money, we must chastize Napster for doing the same with its databases and protocols.
"I got better things to do than drive around a crotchedy old file sharing system like you. From now on, my name is gnutella. And when the revolution comes, you will not be spared."
Dog gett...yeah, ok, sorry.
AMDs are damned reliable though, so you really can't blame them for trying to keep people honest.
Hey, who do they think they're calling desperate, I've had my date for the year...
I figured the intention of mentioning where a product was from was to show pride in a product, but in the case of my fellow Americans, the Star Spangled Banner might as well be the skull and crossbones.
Where's my eyepatch...
TMBG has gone out of their way to make their MP3 hugging fans happy. They created Dial-A-Song, which plays their music (as goofy as it is, check it out, Flash required): Dial-A-Song
They even went so far as to produce an album completely on-line that can be purchased for like $7/$8 called Long Tall Weekend
I think credit should be given where credit is due. Instead of crying like a large majority of their musical counterparts, they actually went out and did something that both sides could agree to, which earned them my admiration and respect as musicians and as human being.
Perhaps you knew the whole article already, which makes it quite simple for you to not read it. Or, better yet, since you know so much about the article, give us some good feedback and earn yourself some mod points.
Otherwise, if you want to keep crying, you can kiss my Ars.
Direct retail has always had different demands from standard industry, the attention to the hours away from 8-5 is crucial in our profit.
Yet, as obvious as that is, I still find it terrible that some of our team members have pagers that are taken home with them nightly. These pagers receive direct support calls from hundreds of stores with minor dink problems, but still wake us up at 2am to fix a broken cash register.
Quite often, people work 8-5, then go home and get paged 5 times during dinner, and 3-4 times during the night. When carrying a pager, you can't leave your house for the weekend. If you're farther than half an hour away from a terminal that you can fix the problem from, you are in violation of the policy.
The question is: Is it right for business to expect this much from their employees? These people are salaried workers who get paid an extra $30 for the entire week that they have this pager. This pager can often deliver 30-40 extra hours of work on its own, breaking spirits ruthlessly of employees who trade the pager faster than Democrats with a poorly rolled joint.
I, for one, wouldn't be caught dead with that pager, and will continue to code and create the problems for these people to fix. Nice to be on this end of the spectrum.
But I WANT to blow up my processor...no fair.
Kennedy motivated a nation to race the communists up to land on a huge mass of cheese floating in our night sky. However, since Mr. Mikhail killed communism for us, suddenly we're only interested in old decrepid senators search for their lost golf balls. The public has lost its interest in space travel, Hollywood has saturated our minds with farfetched, amazing ideas that won't be achieved in any of our lifetimes, and the status quo seems boring in comparison. The Challenger Space Shuttle Accident: The ultimate "blue screen"
In the article, it claims that any modern PC has enough power to run MAME and still have enough for a spreadsheet and two word processors...is that all that our modern technology can afford us? Running Nesticle (although it runs "illegal" "unoriginal" software) doesn't slow my 333 down a wink, so why would MAME take an ancient system of coding and let it completely hog up the processes of a comparitable juggernaut? On the same note, glad to hear someone remembers whats important out in the computer world, fighting Bill can only hold so much amusement.
I don't know how this business believes that society should be run, but last time I checked, the way Adam Smith thought of it, if the people have complaints, the company needs to change. From now on, I suppose we should say "The customer WAS always right." Re-education efforts? Hey, if they're going to pay for me to go back and get my masters, then let me just say how much K-Mart sucks...