I buy the media labeled 'music' on purpose actually. Then I fire up a bittorrent client, or limewire pro, and get whatever music I want. You know why? 'Cuz Fuck em, I'm not paying twice! If you treat people like criminals, then that's what you get.
Actually I don't feel like you act like a criminal. In my opinion, buying "data" CDs and burning music from P2P on them would be criminal, but you've chosen to pay the CD tax, so you should bloody well be entitled to download 700M worth of music to put on each CD.
So why in gods' names do we pay a levy on blank CDs, when blank CDs are MUCH more likely to be used for non-music purposes?
That's right, they can be used to store movies too:-)
I hate politicians and special interest groups.
There is no difference these days. One group pushes laws in favor of the other, who in turn pays them to do so. Who loses: you, the voter/taxpayer. In case you wondered, it's called corporativism.
The CPCC may be a pack of crooks, but at least my health care is paid for through taxing. If it wasn't, then I'd care about paying royalties on blank media.
I'm having trouble following your argument: unless you work for the CPCC, what has their racketeering the digital media market got to do with your health care being paid or not? These aren't the same taxes: theirs is a thug tax on blank CDs, not a legitimate government tax...
How about DAT? minidisc? Those are digital recorders too, are there levies on those?
And of course, there's the good ole cassette tape recorder. Admittedly, they're not digital recorders, so anything you copy out of a copy will get degraded. But still, many MANY people copied music on cassette, and the *AAs have stopped making a fuss over that decades ago. Digital copying is arguably no different, and anyway, the *AAs' record sales are here to show they're not harmed by copying one bit (pun intended).
STN: Identity reads like a catalog of beginning-fiction-writer mistakes, from misspellings and homophones (from Chapter 5: "He called me a Windows administrator, and it wasn't a complement"
I gather the book was made by copy/pasting Slashdot posts then? Tssk tssk, plagiarism, not good that...
Wired is lacking is a good frame of reference. I think that a lot of their predictions (and even parts of this one) could be possible (keywords: could be) by 2015, but the real question is whether they will be implemented or not.
The only question Wired is concerned about when they produce an article is whether it will bring them more readers, that's all.
McDonalds food that causes you to loose weight and reduces your cholesterol.
I was believing your predictions about flying cars, jet packs, nanobots and money trees up to that. That's so over the top you just can't miss the sarcasm...
The day that everything is 'web-based' is the day I quit enjoying computers.
Proudly posted by AC using his standalone Slashdot reader, no doubt...
Many, many things are web-based already. A browser is probably the single most used piece of software in any computer. Have you quit enjoying computers yet?
In it, he argues that in ten years the desktop OS will become obsolete in favor of a Web based one
I have heard that procecy over 10 years ago, and seen many (now failed) startups act on it. This is BS, people don't want their software and data to leave their home, even more so since most have only a limited confidence in any corporation that would offer to hold said data for them.
What's more, they don't want to be hit some-fraction-of-a-dollar per hour of word processor use, even if the deal turns out better than PC+Windows+Office financially. It's just psychological.
by 2015 it will anticipate disturbances and avoid them. It will have a robust immune system, weeding spam from its trunk lines, eliminating viruses and denial-of-service attacks
That alone should tell you how much this article is worth...
Anyway, the future of the net is clear: the corporate world will gets its hands on it more and more, as it has with radio and TV, until gradually nothing on it is truly free (as in speech) anymore. That much is obvious.
Some amateur counterfeiter was driving around the Appalachians to find some hillbillies to swindle. He found a couple of dumb-looking guys sitting on their front porch, stopped the car and said, waving a freshly printed note: "any of you guys have change for a $18 bill?". One of the guys reach in his pocket and says: "sure, d'ya want 2 nines or 3 sixes?"
My old Epson LX: printouts are so atrocious you just know they come from an LX: they embed the printer model in the form of smears and distortion in the text.
Then again, I just use it to print listings, it's not exactly photo-quality...
At some point, being both a hardware and a software company is going to be about as smart as trying to be both a heavy-weapons manufacturer and a hamburger restaurant.
Actually a more apt comparison would be a weapons manufacturer and a munition manufacturer. It actually makes sense, as they have one product tailor-made to compliment the other. I don't see why Apple should have to make a choice here, I think their "one-stop shop" approach to computing makes a lot of sense in today's world of shite PCs running a shite OS...
You seem to misunderstand the razor-blade (and printing cartridge) business model: sell a razor for little or no profit *once*, sell razor blades for said razor at a profit *many times*. Now tell me, how does that fit with Apple? How many times a year to you buy replacement computers to go with your cheap OS?
The point of having a Mac with OSX, for Apple, is that they have *one*, very well defined platform to support, therefore they can concentrate on supporting it well. I don't own a Mac (well, a Mac 128 in my collection:-) but I understand that's how they define their business.
Now if they ported OSX so it could run on every PC, that means supporting a billion devices, or letting a billion drivers do who-knows-what and it would be a mess, just like Linux and Windows are (yes, I'm a Linux fan, don't give me shit I'm just being realistic here...)
Pictures of this-or-that place? so let's see: google and MS offer images of the Earth, Yahoo (a little cheaper and crummier) would like to offer aerial images, Amazon (even cheaper and crummier) offers photos of businesses, etc... I guess that makes ratemypoo.com (no, no link for understandable reasons) a pioneer in the images-on-the-intarweb-nobody-really-cares-about market...
Slashdot Mirror
ThaT Is SO uNTruE. SurELY yoU'D feEL it If ThEy VibRAteD...
Actually they count the pins under the chip...
AMD hits milestone and cracks the 10% mark: who's gonna pay for the damage, hmm?
From TFA:
"They want this phone to do everything that their TV does and everything that their PC does."
So I guess my phone will now gets viruses, worms, spyware, while it's busy playing mindless advertising interrupting my conversation every 5 minutes?
I buy the media labeled 'music' on purpose actually. Then I fire up a bittorrent client, or limewire pro, and get whatever music I want. You know why? 'Cuz Fuck em, I'm not paying twice! If you treat people like criminals, then that's what you get.
Actually I don't feel like you act like a criminal. In my opinion, buying "data" CDs and burning music from P2P on them would be criminal, but you've chosen to pay the CD tax, so you should bloody well be entitled to download 700M worth of music to put on each CD.
So why in gods' names do we pay a levy on blank CDs, when blank CDs are MUCH more likely to be used for non-music purposes?
:-)
That's right, they can be used to store movies too
I hate politicians and special interest groups.
There is no difference these days. One group pushes laws in favor of the other, who in turn pays them to do so. Who loses: you, the voter/taxpayer. In case you wondered, it's called corporativism.
The CPCC may be a pack of crooks, but at least my health care is paid for through taxing. If it wasn't, then I'd care about paying royalties on blank media.
I'm having trouble following your argument: unless you work for the CPCC, what has their racketeering the digital media market got to do with your health care being paid or not? These aren't the same taxes: theirs is a thug tax on blank CDs, not a legitimate government tax...
How about DAT? minidisc? Those are digital recorders too, are there levies on those?
And of course, there's the good ole cassette tape recorder. Admittedly, they're not digital recorders, so anything you copy out of a copy will get degraded. But still, many MANY people copied music on cassette, and the *AAs have stopped making a fuss over that decades ago. Digital copying is arguably no different, and anyway, the *AAs' record sales are here to show they're not harmed by copying one bit (pun intended).
STN: Identity reads like a catalog of beginning-fiction-writer mistakes, from misspellings and homophones (from Chapter 5: "He called me a Windows administrator, and it wasn't a complement"
I gather the book was made by copy/pasting Slashdot posts then? Tssk tssk, plagiarism, not good that...
STN: Identity
Is that a new Star Trek movie I didn't know about?
Wired is lacking is a good frame of reference. I think that a lot of their predictions (and even parts of this one) could be possible (keywords: could be) by 2015, but the real question is whether they will be implemented or not.
The only question Wired is concerned about when they produce an article is whether it will bring them more readers, that's all.
McDonalds food that causes you to loose weight and reduces your cholesterol.
I was believing your predictions about flying cars, jet packs, nanobots and money trees up to that. That's so over the top you just can't miss the sarcasm...
The day that everything is 'web-based' is the day I quit enjoying computers.
Proudly posted by AC using his standalone Slashdot reader, no doubt...
Many, many things are web-based already. A browser is probably the single most used piece of software in any computer. Have you quit enjoying computers yet?
In it, he argues that in ten years the desktop OS will become obsolete in favor of a Web based one
I have heard that procecy over 10 years ago, and seen many (now failed) startups act on it. This is BS, people don't want their software and data to leave their home, even more so since most have only a limited confidence in any corporation that would offer to hold said data for them.
What's more, they don't want to be hit some-fraction-of-a-dollar per hour of word processor use, even if the deal turns out better than PC+Windows+Office financially. It's just psychological.
by 2015 it will anticipate disturbances and avoid them. It will have a robust immune system, weeding spam from its trunk lines, eliminating viruses and denial-of-service attacks
That alone should tell you how much this article is worth...
Anyway, the future of the net is clear: the corporate world will gets its hands on it more and more, as it has with radio and TV, until gradually nothing on it is truly free (as in speech) anymore. That much is obvious.
I like how there are AMD ads on the page about Intel.
So what? I've seen numerous Microsoft ads on Slashdot. Money is money, wherever it comes from, to whom wants/needs it badly enough...
It reminds me of the old joke (or was it true?):
Some amateur counterfeiter was driving around the Appalachians to find some hillbillies to swindle. He found a couple of dumb-looking guys sitting on their front porch, stopped the car and said, waving a freshly printed note: "any of you guys have change for a $18 bill?". One of the guys reach in his pocket and says: "sure, d'ya want 2 nines or 3 sixes?"
My old Epson LX: printouts are so atrocious you just know they come from an LX: they embed the printer model in the form of smears and distortion in the text.
Then again, I just use it to print listings, it's not exactly photo-quality...
Guy needs motor with good bearing, eyes old floppy drives, rips motor out, cleverly reuses motor for turntable.
Hardly a floppy drive hack.
Fun and Informative Way to Introduce Open Source
Oh my, when I read that title, for some reason, I thought of the goatse guy...
I feel dirty now...
At some point, being both a hardware and a software company is going to be about as smart as trying to be both a heavy-weapons manufacturer and a hamburger restaurant.
Actually a more apt comparison would be a weapons manufacturer and a munition manufacturer. It actually makes sense, as they have one product tailor-made to compliment the other. I don't see why Apple should have to make a choice here, I think their "one-stop shop" approach to computing makes a lot of sense in today's world of shite PCs running a shite OS...
You seem to misunderstand the razor-blade (and printing cartridge) business model: sell a razor for little or no profit *once*, sell razor blades for said razor at a profit *many times*. Now tell me, how does that fit with Apple? How many times a year to you buy replacement computers to go with your cheap OS?
Gilette should learn from Apple.
You should learn basic economics.
The point of having a Mac with OSX, for Apple, is that they have *one*, very well defined platform to support, therefore they can concentrate on supporting it well. I don't own a Mac (well, a Mac 128 in my collection :-) but I understand that's how they define their business.
Now if they ported OSX so it could run on every PC, that means supporting a billion devices, or letting a billion drivers do who-knows-what and it would be a mess, just like Linux and Windows are (yes, I'm a Linux fan, don't give me shit I'm just being realistic here...)
Uh... everything? What tags? Am I nuts, or doesn't s#(.*)#$1#g; always replace the entire string with itself? What could be more useless?
Hmm, perhaps s#(.*)##g; ?
Learning Perl is generally in the top three recommended books for new Perl programmers
The other two being this one, and this one.
Pictures of this-or-that place? so let's see: google and MS offer images of the Earth, Yahoo (a little cheaper and crummier) would like to offer aerial images, Amazon (even cheaper and crummier) offers photos of businesses, etc... I guess that makes ratemypoo.com (no, no link for understandable reasons) a pioneer in the images-on-the-intarweb-nobody-really-cares-about market...