No particular activity has an inherent right to compensation for time and energy expended. If no one wants to pay for the work done recording in a studio then it's too god-damned bad for that artist. He can do work that people wish to pay for, or he can starve to death. If he feels entitled, I believe he deserves to starve.
Um, virtually no one has heard that catch-phrase in association with Google. I'm willing to bet that 90% of the people I see during a typical day (and I work in IT) would not get the reference. Only little people like you hyper-focus on things like that.
If Open Source is a Movement, you should see a proctologist. SAP doesn't need to be a friend nor a foe to it. They can and should be indifferent, as should 99.9999999999% of the world.
The ideology is simply unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Only zealots feel a need to paint everyone in black and white.
Had the Government not take over Chrysler and GM, those companies would have ceased to exist several months ago. If the Government is going to waste several billion dollars on each company, I think it's rather fair that they have a say in how they are run. After all, it's rather clear that neither company's board or management have any clue as to how to run a profitable company.
Overpaying doesn't mean paying more than you'd like. It means paying more than the market value of a good. If new games only sell for $60, that is the market value, i.e. what it sells for.
I think it's fair to say that people won't pay for what they can get for free. It doesn't really matter how cheap data plans get if the alternative is using a broadband connection that would be paid for anyway to download music to a device that represents a one-time cost to obtain.
The only way this could happen is if 3G or better plus enough bandwidth was available on a plan that would be purchased for other reasons. Of course, I don't have a cell phone at all, much less one with a data plan, so you'd need a rather nice incentive to get me to purchase one. I do own an iPod Touch.
I have an iPod Touch and I am writing this on a Macbook. I don't feel violated by Apple because I am free to do whatever is technically feasible with both devices I own. I don't use Linux on the desktop (since it's utter crap to me on the desktop), so I don't care one whit as to whether or not the iPod will sync with it.
Such apps are available, at least in theory, to a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch. It's not illegal, but it's certainly similar to your example in that you have to go outside normal channels to get them.
The iPod Touch supports the Location API. I forget what is returned if no information is available, but I imagine it's the same as is done for the iPhone when GPS is turned off and you are not in a service area.
Both the Touch and the iPhone will use Wifi AP location information, if available (as a fallback in the case of the iPhone).
No, it's about exercising control to the detriment of people the world over. Today any single person with a handful of dollars and access to the internet can get a domain registered. The ONLY reason to want guardianship to change is to put a stop to this and place controls over who can register and what they can register.
If you believe that anything would change for the better, you are myopic, naive, stupid or some combination thereof.
Please just go fucking kill yourself. You are so stupid that you pollute the world around you just by breathing.
The US controls DNS because no one else can be bothered to create their own network of DNS servers with their own roots. The US cannot stop anyone from doing so. The fact is that the current state of affairs works. It works for every single internet-connected device on the planet. It is only shithead trolls like you, that just can't stand to see the US in control, that has a problem with the idea. You don't even have a problem with the implementation. You just hate the idea.
Gutenberg would have been quite within his rights to refuse anyone else access to his press. Just as the US entities who own the physical DNS servers have the right to tell people like you to fuck off.
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No particular activity has an inherent right to compensation for time and energy expended. If no one wants to pay for the work done recording in a studio then it's too god-damned bad for that artist. He can do work that people wish to pay for, or he can starve to death. If he feels entitled, I believe he deserves to starve.
You forgot the context. Or you're too stupid to understand it.
Windows, Linux and, IIRC, Mac OS X all support this natively. What OS do you run?
My mother isn't confused by the idea of each button behaving differently, but she still gets confused as to which button will do what.
Your post makes absolutely no sense. And it's wrong.
Um, virtually no one has heard that catch-phrase in association with Google. I'm willing to bet that 90% of the people I see during a typical day (and I work in IT) would not get the reference. Only little people like you hyper-focus on things like that.
If Open Source is a Movement, you should see a proctologist. SAP doesn't need to be a friend nor a foe to it. They can and should be indifferent, as should 99.9999999999% of the world.
The ideology is simply unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Only zealots feel a need to paint everyone in black and white.
Had the Government not take over Chrysler and GM, those companies would have ceased to exist several months ago. If the Government is going to waste several billion dollars on each company, I think it's rather fair that they have a say in how they are run. After all, it's rather clear that neither company's board or management have any clue as to how to run a profitable company.
I tested this with a server on a Comcast biz account (MI) going to a server on a non-Comcast network. Worked fine.
"Civilized" means living in a city. That's all.
I think you're quite missing the point. If there's no light, what's going to reflect off their clothing?
You've never used email before?
So many people in this thread have posed the same question and they ALL miss the point.
It's not only the $/hour that matters. The absolute cost of the good is a consideration as well, because the lower the cost, the lower the risk.
Overpaying doesn't mean paying more than you'd like. It means paying more than the market value of a good. If new games only sell for $60, that is the market value, i.e. what it sells for.
I think it's fair to say that people won't pay for what they can get for free. It doesn't really matter how cheap data plans get if the alternative is using a broadband connection that would be paid for anyway to download music to a device that represents a one-time cost to obtain.
The only way this could happen is if 3G or better plus enough bandwidth was available on a plan that would be purchased for other reasons. Of course, I don't have a cell phone at all, much less one with a data plan, so you'd need a rather nice incentive to get me to purchase one. I do own an iPod Touch.
That is completely unrealistic to expect in the US. Perhaps in some tiny European nation that has 5 square kilometers and 100 people to cover.
Unless by a "few years" you mean about 100.
What does P2P have to do with streaming music?
I have an iPod Touch and I am writing this on a Macbook. I don't feel violated by Apple because I am free to do whatever is technically feasible with both devices I own. I don't use Linux on the desktop (since it's utter crap to me on the desktop), so I don't care one whit as to whether or not the iPod will sync with it.
Such apps are available, at least in theory, to a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch. It's not illegal, but it's certainly similar to your example in that you have to go outside normal channels to get them.
ARM + chipset runs at less than 1 watt? Or do you not know what "order of magnitude" means?
The iPod Touch supports the Location API. I forget what is returned if no information is available, but I imagine it's the same as is done for the iPhone when GPS is turned off and you are not in a service area.
Both the Touch and the iPhone will use Wifi AP location information, if available (as a fallback in the case of the iPhone).
The idea that the US has some magical power over DNS is so silly as to make anyone espousing the idea sound like a complete idiot.
If you don't want to use our DNS servers then DO NOT USE THEM. This should be so fucking simple that even a European should understand it.
There is absolutely nothing at all stopping the UN from creating a DNS committee, setting up DNS servers and asking ISPs to switch.
And who fucking cares? Your point is as relevant to this discussion as you are to this world. In other words -- not at all.
No, it's about exercising control to the detriment of people the world over. Today any single person with a handful of dollars and access to the internet can get a domain registered. The ONLY reason to want guardianship to change is to put a stop to this and place controls over who can register and what they can register.
If you believe that anything would change for the better, you are myopic, naive, stupid or some combination thereof.
Please just go fucking kill yourself. You are so stupid that you pollute the world around you just by breathing.
The US controls DNS because no one else can be bothered to create their own network of DNS servers with their own roots. The US cannot stop anyone from doing so. The fact is that the current state of affairs works. It works for every single internet-connected device on the planet. It is only shithead trolls like you, that just can't stand to see the US in control, that has a problem with the idea. You don't even have a problem with the implementation. You just hate the idea.
Gutenberg would have been quite within his rights to refuse anyone else access to his press. Just as the US entities who own the physical DNS servers have the right to tell people like you to fuck off.