If my name was on that list I would be very very worried about my family. If it was indeed for nefarious purposes that it was stolen, then there should be even more cause for alarm.
I only hope that this allows the government to realize the enormous burden upon them to protect our information as a national security priority in a non-conspiracy theory kind of a way (is this even possible?).
I am sure that the 'package' pricing will make consumer choice still include a few channels that would otherwise not be purchased. How many cable channels rely on being packaged with other groups of channels just to get a shot at having some eyeballs watching them?
It amazes me how intelligent and qualified individuals can show time and time again how copy protections are at best a short to mid term solution to unwanted copying. On the otherhand, you have Macrovision snapping up competitors in a race to stay ahead of consumers. It is just a war of attrition which will be around long after we're all gone.
I have been trying for 2 weeks now to get my information updated for my 1 (that's single folks) domain. I have gone the through the forms and the calls, but still no love. If it takes the threat of their removal from the Domain Name business, so be it, at least they will get on the ball and get things moving.
I just went to Fry's and picked up Warcraft III. Interesting thing is that they didn't have it in the Mac section. So I happened to know that Blizzard releases for both platforms simultaeniously. I just strolled over to the 'PC' section and picked up my copy which runs just great on my PB G4. So, how hard would it be? Should be we look to Blizzard's development model for mining a lucrative vein of customers with minimal to reasonable effort and great margins? Maybe there's something in the water over there that makes them smarter than normal humans? Maybe they aren't even . . . o.. m.. g..
Now let's see how many of the unwieldly apps we have today can be shoehorned onto a freaking phone screen. I'll wait till the innovative apps that make it worthwhile show up. I mean would all the crap they put on the news channels these days (frames, quotes, scrollers) be of any use and help at all? No. That's what radio is for. Wow! Now you can pay per minute to see flesh toned blob speak to the latest suicide bombing while driving 75mph in LA giving someone the bird because you sideswiped because you were watching your phone and now they want to shoot you or run you off the road. Shit. Some people can barely drive as it is.
Well, if this is the same gentleman that I have heard about for years now in regards to OSPF, well, my hats off to him and thanks for the contributions he made that allow a goodly portion of packets make it out of autonomous systems and into BGP and the internet at large. Huge impact. How many of us can say that?
Why is it that entertainers today feel that they have a right to make all this money?
Throughout history entertainers have relied upon patrons and handouts to pursue their crafts. It is only in recent history that various technologies have allowed them to make money charging for recordings of various sorts.
Now that they only mechanism which has enabled them for the first (only?) time in history to make vast amounts money is in danger they are upset. In the David Bowie article mentioned on Slash this week stated (paraphrase) 'Get ready to tour your butts off.' Because that is called earning your money. Show up somewhere at a specific time, ply your trade and do a good job, like all the rest of us out here in the world. Not sit up in your mansion and let the money roll in while crying that people are stealing from you as you sip your margarita.
Copyright may be a thing of the past, but more fundamentally I think entertainers are going to have to earn their money like the rest of us and I for one am not crying for them at all, but I will buy concert tickets to see a good live show, or pay cover charge for a cool band playing at a bar.
I would hope that the relationship would disolve this summer. It would behoove Apple to make sure that Microsoft did not establish a toehold in the OS itself. How many Microsoft apps out there require some sort of tie into the underpinning of the OS to function? Quite a few. How long would it be before Office Mac requires you to modify OS X to run it? That would be a horrible sight. If Apple utilizes AppleWorks and OpenOffice to get the access needed to the Office and Microsoft formatted files, then that is all that is needed (assuming that MS doesn't deliberatly break/change formats to prohibit 3rd party apps from reading files). Features that only Microsoft has can be replicated with time. I am positive that with some hard work, all other Office alternatives could strive and succeed at becoming as bloated as Office. Some patience will serve Macintosh users well in this case.
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If my name was on that list I would be very very worried about my family. If it was indeed for nefarious purposes that it was stolen, then there should be even more cause for alarm.
I only hope that this allows the government to realize the enormous burden upon them to protect our information as a national security priority in a non-conspiracy theory kind of a way (is this even possible?).
Cheers,
VonKraken
I am sure that the 'package' pricing will make consumer choice still include a few channels that would otherwise not be purchased. How many cable channels rely on being packaged with other groups of channels just to get a shot at having some eyeballs watching them?
Package deal - 39.99
Individual Channels - $3.00 -$5.00 per channel.
It could add up very quickly, and I think that most consumers couldn't be bothered to pick and choose channels while taking pricing into account IMO.
Cheers,
VonKraken
It amazes me how intelligent and qualified individuals can show time and time again how copy protections are at best a short to mid term solution to unwanted copying. On the otherhand, you have Macrovision snapping up competitors in a race to stay ahead of consumers. It is just a war of attrition which will be around long after we're all gone.
What one man can hide, another can find.
Cheers,
VonKraken
I have been trying for 2 weeks now to get my information updated for my 1 (that's single folks) domain. I have gone the through the forms and the calls, but still no love. If it takes the threat of their removal from the Domain Name business, so be it, at least they will get on the ball and get things moving.
OAO,
VonKraken
I just went to Fry's and picked up Warcraft III. Interesting thing is that they didn't have it in the Mac section. So I happened to know that Blizzard releases for both platforms simultaeniously. I just strolled over to the 'PC' section and picked up my copy which runs just great on my PB G4. So, how hard would it be? Should be we look to Blizzard's development model for mining a lucrative vein of customers with minimal to reasonable effort and great margins? Maybe there's something in the water over there that makes them smarter than normal humans? Maybe they aren't even . . . o .. m .. g ..
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VonKraken
Now let's see how many of the unwieldly apps we have today can be shoehorned onto a freaking phone screen. I'll wait till the innovative apps that make it worthwhile show up. I mean would all the crap they put on the news channels these days (frames, quotes, scrollers) be of any use and help at all? No. That's what radio is for. Wow! Now you can pay per minute to see flesh toned blob speak to the latest suicide bombing while driving 75mph in LA giving someone the bird because you sideswiped because you were watching your phone and now they want to shoot you or run you off the road. Shit. Some people can barely drive as it is.
VonKraken
Well, if this is the same gentleman that I have heard about for years now in regards to OSPF, well, my hats off to him and thanks for the contributions he made that allow a goodly portion of packets make it out of autonomous systems and into BGP and the internet at large. Huge impact. How many of us can say that?
VonKraken
Why is it that entertainers today feel that they have a right to make all this money?
Throughout history entertainers have relied upon patrons and handouts to pursue their crafts. It is only in recent history that various technologies have allowed them to make money charging for recordings of various sorts.
Now that they only mechanism which has enabled them for the first (only?) time in history to make vast amounts money is in danger they are upset. In the David Bowie article mentioned on Slash this week stated (paraphrase) 'Get ready to tour your butts off.' Because that is called earning your money. Show up somewhere at a specific time, ply your trade and do a good job, like all the rest of us out here in the world. Not sit up in your mansion and let the money roll in while crying that people are stealing from you as you sip your margarita.
Copyright may be a thing of the past, but more fundamentally I think entertainers are going to have to earn their money like the rest of us and I for one am not crying for them at all, but I will buy concert tickets to see a good live show, or pay cover charge for a cool band playing at a bar.
--VonKraken
I would hope that the relationship would disolve this summer. It would behoove Apple to make sure that Microsoft did not establish a toehold in the OS itself. How many Microsoft apps out there require some sort of tie into the underpinning of the OS to function? Quite a few. How long would it be before Office Mac requires you to modify OS X to run it? That would be a horrible sight. If Apple utilizes AppleWorks and OpenOffice to get the access needed to the Office and Microsoft formatted files, then that is all that is needed (assuming that MS doesn't deliberatly break/change formats to prohibit 3rd party apps from reading files). Features that only Microsoft has can be replicated with time. I am positive that with some hard work, all other Office alternatives could strive and succeed at becoming as bloated as Office. Some patience will serve Macintosh users well in this case.
Cheers,
Von Kraken