Money always wins, and in our increasingly global economy, the means for the big studios to finally take them down will eventually come into being. It's just a matter of time.
I'm not saying this is a good thing. I just think it's inevitable.
How long until Amazon decides to patent "an online movie distribution system" and sue Blockbuster and Netflix for infringing on their innovative business idea?
Note: This post is half tongue in cheek, and half legitimate fear.
Well, in English, we have certain things called "tenses."
Tense is generally used to indicate a timeframe relative to the present when something happened, is happening, or will happen.
Notice how in the article, they state that AT&T is planning on acquiring Bellsouth. If you read further, you'll notice other sources say the FCC approval process could easily take around a year.
Because, if this is going to happen, it will be happening in about a year, saying "AT&T acquires Bellsouth" creates a tense error, and if you want to really get technical, yes, it is a fairly big deal especially if you consider how significant the error is.
I think the biggest problem in the past 10 years with entertainment companies AND consumers is that each side forgets it needs the other. The MPAA and RIAA fuck with their customers enough, and someday it WILL be too much for Joe Blow, and in the same turn, if we completely fuck the entertainment companies and take away their incentive to produce content, well, they'll just stop.
I don't see why we have to be enemies, and as long as each side is saying "They started it with their (piracy/DRM)!" we won't get anywhere.
These are the same idiots you can thank for making such things as ANY modification to any car illegal unless it has CARB approval and a sticker.
Yes, even a cold air intake, or any sort of aftermarket exhaust, even though both modifications to cars generally INCREASE a car's gas mileage and effeciency.
Given their track record, their use of OSS is only going to allow them to be more effecient in their ability to make and enforce more stupid policies. We cannot allow this. Californians, write to your representatives and tell them to DEMAND the ARB use only Microsoft software.
What I'm gathering from general opinions of Linux users is "people are giving bad excuses for not wanting to use Linux!"
Well guess what: It doesn't matter if their excuses are bad (even if they really are!) as long as they HAVE excuses, and telling them they're idiots isn't going to get people to join the cause anyway.
People are looking at this from the wrong angle.
Guess this is as relevant as it's ever going to be
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It's also disturbing to see human naievete is still around in spades.
Giving strangers access to your computer in any form is a stupid idea. If you thought the fallout was bad when that admin had installed SETI@Home on some computers at his office, just wait until the first story of a network admin running this program on company resources.
Back before plumbing, people had to get buckets of water out of wells and bring them inside before they could use water. Would we consider this practice absurd?
Before the advent of speedy online delivery, we go buy games at a store before we can use it. Same concept.
Working within the technological limitations of your day is never "ridiculous." I submit that making baseless predictions about the future is ridiculous!
I'd say undertaking the feat of making a desktop version of Linux that's every bit as easy to use as Windows XP (as the article states) would be more than one step farther than rolling your own distro intended for server use.
By your logic, sir, Google might as well just take the concept of the automobile one step farther and create flying cars.
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Money always wins, and in our increasingly global economy, the means for the big studios to finally take them down will eventually come into being. It's just a matter of time.
I'm not saying this is a good thing. I just think it's inevitable.
How long until Amazon decides to patent "an online movie distribution system" and sue Blockbuster and Netflix for infringing on their innovative business idea?
Note: This post is half tongue in cheek, and half legitimate fear.
Every definition I can find of acquire says "to come into possession, ownership, or control of," or something similar.
Does AT&T own Bellsouth yet? Sho' don't. The headline is not correct.
Not as badly as you need to work on your reading comprehension.
Well, in English, we have certain things called "tenses."
Tense is generally used to indicate a timeframe relative to the present when something happened, is happening, or will happen.
Notice how in the article, they state that AT&T is planning on acquiring Bellsouth. If you read further, you'll notice other sources say the FCC approval process could easily take around a year.
Because, if this is going to happen, it will be happening in about a year, saying "AT&T acquires Bellsouth" creates a tense error, and if you want to really get technical, yes, it is a fairly big deal especially if you consider how significant the error is.
"AT&T puts into motion plans to acquire Bellsouth."
Hurray for fucking retard editors who can't be bothered to check headlines for accuracy.
I don't know what you're talking about. Usually if I make an intentional troll and call it such, I just end up modded as flaimbait or redundant.
You missed the entire point of my post. I said they can stop if they're as pissed off as they're pretending to be.
We all know they aren't, but I'm raising the point that the possibility is there.
...they can just stop making movies.
I think the biggest problem in the past 10 years with entertainment companies AND consumers is that each side forgets it needs the other. The MPAA and RIAA fuck with their customers enough, and someday it WILL be too much for Joe Blow, and in the same turn, if we completely fuck the entertainment companies and take away their incentive to produce content, well, they'll just stop.
I don't see why we have to be enemies, and as long as each side is saying "They started it with their (piracy/DRM)!" we won't get anywhere.
Oh, I see you're experimenting with those newfangled things I've heard about. What're the names? "Logic" and "reason?"
Well listen here, son. We don't want your kind here. We make kneejerk posts and moderations, and that's the way we like it.
These are the same idiots you can thank for making such things as ANY modification to any car illegal unless it has CARB approval and a sticker.
Yes, even a cold air intake, or any sort of aftermarket exhaust, even though both modifications to cars generally INCREASE a car's gas mileage and effeciency.
Given their track record, their use of OSS is only going to allow them to be more effecient in their ability to make and enforce more stupid policies. We cannot allow this. Californians, write to your representatives and tell them to DEMAND the ARB use only Microsoft software.
What I'm gathering from general opinions of Linux users is "people are giving bad excuses for not wanting to use Linux!"
Well guess what: It doesn't matter if their excuses are bad (even if they really are!) as long as they HAVE excuses, and telling them they're idiots isn't going to get people to join the cause anyway.
People are looking at this from the wrong angle.
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I love you, badanalogyguy.
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Google could just start hotlinking the pics directly from their site, then resizing them to thumnails in the search.
That wouldn't be copyright infringement, right? Just yanking publicly hosted photographs from their rightful and providing owner.
It's also disturbing to see human naievete is still around in spades.
Giving strangers access to your computer in any form is a stupid idea. If you thought the fallout was bad when that admin had installed SETI@Home on some computers at his office, just wait until the first story of a network admin running this program on company resources.
What good would that be if you have to look away from the TV just to look any direction in the game?
Three moving parts (in a 2 rotor, the "standard" number for a rotary), 2 in a 1 rotor, 4 in a 3 rotor. You get the idea.
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FUCK YOU, N00B.
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Back before plumbing, people had to get buckets of water out of wells and bring them inside before they could use water. Would we consider this practice absurd?
Before the advent of speedy online delivery, we go buy games at a store before we can use it. Same concept.
Working within the technological limitations of your day is never "ridiculous." I submit that making baseless predictions about the future is ridiculous!
"Technology gets faster and cheaper with time."
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How much fossilized white-man semen was found in the remains?
It wouldn't be a bad thing, but it would be another boring Ubuntu repackage.
I'd say undertaking the feat of making a desktop version of Linux that's every bit as easy to use as Windows XP (as the article states) would be more than one step farther than rolling your own distro intended for server use.
By your logic, sir, Google might as well just take the concept of the automobile one step farther and create flying cars.
That wipe your ass for you.