Microsoft will have the last laugh. Much to the delight of the recording/movie industry and most of our 'bought and paid for' congressmen, microsoft is trying to force feed the masses DRM. 'They' praise DRM because it will stop all the evil pirates from 'stealing' their cash cows. According to microsoft's EULA they want to disable any software on your machine that doesn't have DRM capabilities (to stop the evil pirates). Doesn't this sound like they're trying to quash their competition once and for all? Congress will gag any software developer or company that chooses not to implement DRM into their softwares as DMCA violations. Opt-in you say? If DRM will be Opt-in (they mean opt-out)then using the simple menu interface to disable it would be a DMCA violation. Microsoft will drastically alter the way we absorb entertainment and won't look back. By the time everyone realizes what happened, it will have been 20 years later and hundreds of thousands of people will have been put in jail for violations of laws that were unconstitutional to begin with. Our current copyright laws have evolved into a separate entity than our forefathers never intended. It's all open to your own interpretation, but they never intened for thoughts to be owned. Copyright was meant for scientific discovery and invention to be protected for the author or inventor. They were never meant to allow monopolistic greedy corporations to enslave the masses into paying them for every possible incarnation of an idea or invention. Due to the nature of human progress, we evolve. We discover and we adapt. We invent and reinvent. If we wanted to take the extreme view on copyrights that the music/movie industry has taken, then we would start charging japan for every television and radio they sell.
you are a moron. Technical skills cannot be learned unless you are a technical person. it's a fact of life. I grew up tinkering and taking every piece of electronics apart that I could get my hands on. I am technical. I think technical. I would never trust my networks to the captain of the high school football team. after age 6, if you aren't technical it's too late.
With all of the money being thrown at congressmen, what can we all do to help change their minds about downloading music? It would seem that the music industry is wasting money to keep from changing their business plan. There's an awful lot of pride going to waste.
all of this legislation and enforcement and treating normal citizens like criminals because a whole industry doesn't want to change it's outdated business plan. Of course you can't compete, because they will sue you or have you arrested because you're vilolating and/or opposing their rights to remain archaic. they figure there's too much money still to be made they way they're doing it. And we're going to buy their product or go to jail! What if I want to see a new movie but I don't want to or can't go to a theatre? what options have I?
well, I see the confusion. I'm up on my pop culture, just not my cock-culture. and of course, you're right, there's no such thing as a cowboy jew. I blame canadia!
Every situation is unique. therefore you must use your own instincts to determine the best outcome. However, it has been my experience that most companies will ask you to stay just to allow them time to find a suitable replacement at a cheaper price. This depends on where you live. My area job market is flooded with immigrants who will work for less money than I will. I this case, I can never expect a counter-offer. The extent of employee loyalty in this area is limited to the lesser of evils. Therefore in my area, I would never accept a counter-offer because I could only expect to stay around until a cheaper replacement can be found. It doesn't matter how important I am to the company. An employee who does a half-assed job cheaper than you is more valuable.
hasn't it dawned on anyone that the voice of the american people is being silenced. when napster had over fifty million users, was that not us simply choosing not to buy cds? Considering that congress is making it impossible for the american people to not buy a product, business ventures can't fail. What if we don't want to pay for it anymore? Can't we decide not to pay for a product. Can't we decide we don't want a product? Are our representatives representing their constituents interests? I guess Michael Eisner's needs are more important than mine.
as long as there are managers who just don't get it, geeks will be enslaved to do their bidding. shouldn't geeks be the ones getting rich because it can't get done without us? what would the world do if we decided to go on strike? it would stop. maybe then we would be treated like the reason amazing things got done instead of the hassle that managers have to put up with.
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Microsoft will have the last laugh. Much to the delight of the recording/movie industry and most of our 'bought and paid for' congressmen, microsoft is trying to force feed the masses DRM. 'They' praise DRM because it will stop all the evil pirates from 'stealing' their cash cows. According to microsoft's EULA they want to disable any software on your machine that doesn't have DRM capabilities (to stop the evil pirates). Doesn't this sound like they're trying to quash their competition once and for all? Congress will gag any software developer or company that chooses not to implement DRM into their softwares as DMCA violations. Opt-in you say? If DRM will be Opt-in (they mean opt-out)then using the simple menu interface to disable it would be a DMCA violation. Microsoft will drastically alter the way we absorb entertainment and won't look back. By the time everyone realizes what happened, it will have been 20 years later and hundreds of thousands of people will have been put in jail for violations of laws that were unconstitutional to begin with. Our current copyright laws have evolved into a separate entity than our forefathers never intended. It's all open to your own interpretation, but they never intened for thoughts to be owned. Copyright was meant for scientific discovery and invention to be protected for the author or inventor. They were never meant to allow monopolistic greedy corporations to enslave the masses into paying them for every possible incarnation of an idea or invention. Due to the nature of human progress, we evolve. We discover and we adapt. We invent and reinvent. If we wanted to take the extreme view on copyrights that the music/movie industry has taken, then we would start charging japan for every television and radio they sell.
in America, that will be a breach of the DMCA so you'll go to jail for that
doesn't this dispel the entire old testament?
the jews are going to be pissed off about this!
fuck capitalism
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you are a moron. Technical skills cannot be learned unless you are a technical person. it's a fact of life. I grew up tinkering and taking every piece of electronics apart that I could get my hands on. I am technical. I think technical. I would never trust my networks to the captain of the high school football team. after age 6, if you aren't technical it's too late.
With all of the money being thrown at congressmen, what can we all do to help change their minds about downloading music? It would seem that the music industry is wasting money to keep from changing their business plan. There's an awful lot of pride going to waste.
well, there's another group to that also, those who are technology savvy, like music, but have become tired of the RIAA and refuse to buy CDs.
and a final group, those who would never buy the CD to begin with. That can't be counted as a loss!
all of this legislation and enforcement and treating normal citizens like criminals because a whole industry doesn't want to change it's outdated business plan. Of course you can't compete, because they will sue you or have you arrested because you're vilolating and/or opposing their rights to remain archaic. they figure there's too much money still to be made they way they're doing it. And we're going to buy their product or go to jail! What if I want to see a new movie but I don't want to or can't go to a theatre? what options have I?
well, I see the confusion. I'm up on my pop culture, just not my cock-culture. and of course, you're right, there's no such thing as a cowboy jew.
I blame canadia!
what does pudding have to do with liking the cock?
do jews like pudding too?
Great, now Jack Valenti is going to be scouring Texas for an adolescent cowboy jew.
no no, you see ctrl-alt-del is on the stick, though you have to press them at exactly the same time or you'll launch a missile :
the NSA already has backdoors into any pc on the planet. That's what they do.
pray to the vector gods.
will they ask you to register the game? Will it install gamespy(ware) to multiplay?
Every situation is unique. therefore you must use your own instincts to determine the best outcome. However, it has been my experience that most companies will ask you to stay just to allow them time to find a suitable replacement at a cheaper price. This depends on where you live. My area job market is flooded with immigrants who will work for less money than I will. I this case, I can never expect a counter-offer. The extent of employee loyalty in this area is limited to the lesser of evils. Therefore in my area, I would never accept a counter-offer because I could only expect to stay around until a cheaper replacement can be found. It doesn't matter how important I am to the company. An employee who does a half-assed job cheaper than you is more valuable.
hasn't it dawned on anyone that the voice of the american people is being silenced. when napster had over fifty million users, was that not us simply choosing not to buy cds? Considering that congress is making it impossible for the american people to not buy a product, business ventures can't fail. What if we don't want to pay for it anymore? Can't we decide not to pay for a product. Can't we decide we don't want a product? Are our representatives representing their constituents interests? I guess Michael Eisner's needs are more important than mine.
as long as there are managers who just don't get it, geeks will be enslaved to do their bidding. shouldn't geeks be the ones getting rich because it can't get done without us? what would the world do if we decided to go on strike? it would stop. maybe then we would be treated like the reason amazing things got done instead of the hassle that managers have to put up with.