I work in a university library, which is where I learned that, in fact, it is illegal for law enforcement to come in and ask questions like, "Who has "the anarchist's cookbook cheked out?" or "Can you tell me what books Mr. Smith has checked out right now?" Those kinds of questions were asked during the McCarthy-era, when FBI, etc. were looking for Communists under every rock, eventually, the courts held up the librarian's right to answer "I'm sorry, I can't tell you that," to those law enforcement officials. I imagine that bookstore will start answering the same way, using that same precedent to back them up.
If I'm not mistaken, it says in the article, and here in the Slashdot posting, too, that AmigaOS is being released on new PPC machines machines. Is this the lame port to the horrid CPU to which you were referring? I would hope not, as it is fairly established that the PPC is in fact a much better performing CPU than the various x86's, in terms of power consumption and performance.
furthermore, from my own experience, even musicians, DJ's, etc. who know more about audio technology than the average joe, have yet to hear of ogg, for the most part. even those musicians i know that fancy themselves computer geeks.
I doubt that will ever happen, as no one outside of computer geeks and wannabe computer geeks has heard of ogg. don't believe me?, walk around your average college student union, and ask the student populace (perhaps the people who use mp3 the most) about ogg. "ogg? what's an 'ogg'?"
think about this. time warner is obvious a big RIAA player. it's also a big player in the movie and television industry. and publishing. it's also part of AOL, which owns netscape. and not just time warner. there's universal, which has it's hands in all the major media. it's also the distributor for interscope, under which is trent reznor's nothing records (thought i'd mention that, as nin is my favorite band and new EP is due out soon, i can't boycott that). it's nearly impossible to begin an effective boycott of a large corporation because they are involved in so damn much. all the/.ers would have to stop going to movies, watching tv, listening to the radio, reading magazines, using netscape navigator, etc., in order for this boycott to even begin being effective. think about that. that's a lot of things to eliminate.
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I work in a university library, which is where I learned that, in fact, it is illegal for law enforcement to come in and ask questions like, "Who has "the anarchist's cookbook cheked out?" or "Can you tell me what books Mr. Smith has checked out right now?" Those kinds of questions were asked during the McCarthy-era, when FBI, etc. were looking for Communists under every rock, eventually, the courts held up the librarian's right to answer "I'm sorry, I can't tell you that," to those law enforcement officials. I imagine that bookstore will start answering the same way, using that same precedent to back them up.
ahh...ok. thanks for clearing that up.
that's very disappointing, then.
If I'm not mistaken, it says in the article, and here in the Slashdot posting, too, that AmigaOS is being released on new PPC machines machines. Is this the lame port to the horrid CPU to which you were referring? I would hope not, as it is fairly established that the PPC is in fact a much better performing CPU than the various x86's, in terms of power consumption and performance.
furthermore, from my own experience, even musicians, DJ's, etc. who know more about audio technology than the average joe, have yet to hear of ogg, for the most part. even those musicians i know that fancy themselves computer geeks.
I doubt that will ever happen, as no one outside of computer geeks and wannabe computer geeks has heard of ogg. don't believe me?, walk around your average college student union, and ask the student populace (perhaps the people who use mp3 the most) about ogg. "ogg? what's an 'ogg'?"
what about BeOS? it's an OS that's fairly dynamic, and it's a fairly new alternative OS (far younger than Mac, windows, or Unix). just a thought.
think about this. time warner is obvious a big RIAA player. it's also a big player in the movie and television industry. and publishing. it's also part of AOL, which owns netscape. and not just time warner. there's universal, which has it's hands in all the major media. it's also the distributor for interscope, under which is trent reznor's nothing records (thought i'd mention that, as nin is my favorite band and new EP is due out soon, i can't boycott that). it's nearly impossible to begin an effective boycott of a large corporation because they are involved in so damn much. all the /.ers would have to stop going to movies, watching tv, listening to the radio, reading magazines, using netscape navigator, etc., in order for this boycott to even begin being effective. think about that. that's a lot of things to eliminate.