This is exactly what happens when corps decide that the consumer can't be trusted. It's funny that our money got them all to where they are today and it's our money that is attempting to make a consumer proof consumer product. It really surprises me how the enemy went from the college student (with their dorm and net access) to Joe Average User with his cable/dsl connect. Bandwidth is what escalated this bottle. Forget putting the genie back in the bottle, their trying to keep everyone from getting their wishes.
I try to keep rants out of my posts but what really pisses me off isn't the RIAA's arrogance that drives them to sue 2600 and confiscate napster clients. What really makes me mad is that they are succeeding.
Not only are they not permitting players diaries but any web page reporting on the games is also in violation of their copyright.
And if copyleft tries to print the DNA sequence that the IOC uses to verify Olympic merchandise, Copyleft will lose custody of employee first borns.
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I think a lot of people will find my situation to be very common to theirs... No one else does what I do in this company. I'm either in the server room or my office debugging this or tweaking that. The major diff between me and everyone else is that I always have something to do. I'm usually so entrenched in my work that I hardly notice what happens around me socially. If no one would bother me all day I'd get by saying all of 10 words to 5 people on the way to the coffee machine and back. They're all really cool people but they are still "users". This isn't a professional caste system but a matter of priority. They have all day to process checks and fill in the blanks. I'm the one who has to have this research completed by then and be ready to implement that while fixing a BSOD'd server.
When I used to intern at an ISP I remember the disk pack we/they had to use for the news host. Something like 20 1gb Fujitsu HD's. The thing had it's own UPS, weighed in around 300 pounds and was as noisy as freight train. Something like this Maxtor devise would have been a godsend. The power draw alone is enough to justify the cost.
... someone who is more or less a celebrity standing up for the little people.
I might see mp3.com getting hurt in all this because in order for Courtney Love to get her $$$ she would have to justify the amount she deserves (right?). In order to do that she'd could probably file a motion of discovery and have mp3.com disseminate its records as to how many Hole/Courtney Love songs they've ever hosted. I could see the admins/dba's at mp3.com quitting before they'd have to dig up that kind of info.
Of course, I'm closer to being a crack smoker then a lawyer so I could be completly wrong.
It sounds like this book's bottom line is that despite the fact that the "computer culture" is relatively new, the persistence of human nature can't be denied. As humans we're doing the same thing we did 2000 years ago except we're doing it better and with more ppl.
5 dollar words aside, if we figure out how to communicate, we'll take advantage of it. It's the natural curiousity to learn and know that drives us forward.
I wonder how all these settlements are going to affect prices of SDRAM... If I were Rambus, besides expecting to spend an eternity in a lake of fire, I'd charge royalties high enough to inflate the price of SDRAM in order to make the price of RDRAM artificially competitive.
I really really hope Micron can win this one and put RAMBUS in its place. Either that or we'll see ppl talking about boycotting memory purchases the way it was talked about when ASUS announced "cheating drivers" for 3d games.
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This is exactly what happens when corps decide that the consumer can't be trusted. It's funny that our money got them all to where they are today and it's our money that is attempting to make a consumer proof consumer product. It really surprises me how the enemy went from the college student (with their dorm and net access) to Joe Average User with his cable/dsl connect. Bandwidth is what escalated this bottle. Forget putting the genie back in the bottle, their trying to keep everyone from getting their wishes.
I try to keep rants out of my posts but what really pisses me off isn't the RIAA's arrogance that drives them to sue 2600 and confiscate napster clients. What really makes me mad is that they are succeeding.
Not only are they not permitting players diaries but any web page reporting on the games is also in violation of their copyright.
And if copyleft tries to print the DNA sequence that the IOC uses to verify Olympic merchandise, Copyleft will lose custody of employee first borns.
Michael Keaton, where art thou?!
I think a lot of people will find my situation to be very common to theirs... No one else does what I do in this company. I'm either in the server room or my office debugging this or tweaking that. The major diff between me and everyone else is that I always have something to do. I'm usually so entrenched in my work that I hardly notice what happens around me socially. If no one would bother me all day I'd get by saying all of 10 words to 5 people on the way to the coffee machine and back. They're all really cool people but they are still "users". This isn't a professional caste system but a matter of priority. They have all day to process checks and fill in the blanks. I'm the one who has to have this research completed by then and be ready to implement that while fixing a BSOD'd server.
When I used to intern at an ISP I remember the disk pack we/they had to use for the news host. Something like 20 1gb Fujitsu HD's. The thing had it's own UPS, weighed in around 300 pounds and was as noisy as freight train. Something like this Maxtor devise would have been a godsend. The power draw alone is enough to justify the cost.
Napster CEO: "Artists suing labels...argghghggh "
I think it has more to do with M$ owning a piece of Apple. It was only a couple of years ago when M$ gave Apple about $15 million.
... someone who is more or less a celebrity standing up for the little people.
I might see mp3.com getting hurt in all this because in order for Courtney Love to get her $$$ she would have to justify the amount she deserves (right?). In order to do that she'd could probably file a motion of discovery and have mp3.com disseminate its records as to how many Hole/Courtney Love songs they've ever hosted. I could see the admins/dba's at mp3.com quitting before they'd have to dig up that kind of info.
Of course, I'm closer to being a crack smoker then a lawyer so I could be completly wrong.
It sounds like this book's bottom line is that despite the fact that the "computer culture" is relatively new, the persistence of human nature can't be denied. As humans we're doing the same thing we did 2000 years ago except we're doing it better and with more ppl. 5 dollar words aside, if we figure out how to communicate, we'll take advantage of it. It's the natural curiousity to learn and know that drives us forward.
How long before someone makes a joke about the airplane running windows and cra.... forget it.
I wonder how all these settlements are going to affect prices of SDRAM... If I were Rambus, besides expecting to spend an eternity in a lake of fire, I'd charge royalties high enough to inflate the price of SDRAM in order to make the price of RDRAM artificially competitive.
I really really hope Micron can win this one and put RAMBUS in its place. Either that or we'll see ppl talking about boycotting memory purchases the way it was talked about when ASUS announced "cheating drivers" for 3d games.