Yes, capitalism does solve problems like this, if consumers saw it as a problem. Consumers have no fucking clue what "DRM" is. They go to Wal-Mart, and buy the cheapest, computer, period. If some company were to advertise "open hardware", and explain why it's better, then sure, consumers would vote with their dollars. See, there's no "demand". There may be "supply" but without "demand", there's no market for it. Got it? So, go somewhere else with your anti-capitalism bullshit. You obviously don't know anything about it.
Don't know what's wrong... I just noticed too. Unfortunately, I've been busy with another venture. Something got fucked on the server. Looking into it now.
Well, in case you haven't noticed, Va Linux is on the verge of being de-listed from the stock exchange because their foray into sellnig Linux boxes failed so badly. It's been tried. There's not enough demand.
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Actually, it's paradise for adults who like to have fun. You should try it some time, it's...well... fun. Lots of drinks, great hookers (or strippers if you're prudish), great music, best food in the world, shopping, great hotel rooms. My wife and I say that you can get anything you want in Vegas, legal or otherwise, as long as you have money. We've yet to be proven wrong.
...it'll be cheaply(ie: shittily) done, stuck together with bandaids and gum, and done by a lot of people who say they know a hell of a lot more than they really do.
Thanks for the link! That was the funniest damn thing I've seen online in a while (other than The Onion, of course). Some stupid fat fuck computer geek loser offs himself because of some damn game! That's pretty damn hilarious!
No. Companies do not want the added overhead of hiring extra people now. They don't want to pay payroll taxes, social security, etc. They want to pay MS a lump sum, and install some simple W2K boxes that should work indefinately. Getting mired in non-documented, complicated open source software, complete with expensive, hard to find, finicky maintenance people is *not* what any company is gonna do when they're in trouble. That's not how you save money. That's like saying you want to save money on your electrical system, so you're gonna buy a lot of cheap copper wire at the local Home Depot, and hire a fleet of electricians to maintain it. Nope. You don't dick with critical systems in times of crisis.
What about all of the power to power your precious machines? You ever thought about that? I'd guess that 80% of all companies today could *get by* without a computer system, just as they did years and years ago. I'd guess that 0% could get by without power. Yet, you don't hear the electrical engineers saying "I bet they'd appreciate me if I shut down this transformer". Please. Grow up.
But what is underfunding? I haven't read any stories of companies canning their entire IT staffs to let their servers go on autopilot. What they're doing is cutting development.
Hell yes. $400K mortgage? Are you fucking crazy? That's a *decision* that *you* made. Personally, I'm happy with a $100K mortgage, and doing I job that I like (my own business)
Apparently, some people just don't fucking learn...
And he dashed off a four- page business plan -- about 75 pages shorter than the average business plan he toted around during the boom -- that led to a $50,000 investment by family and friends.
Mr. Benavidez added $40,000 of his own money ("Everything I have," he said) and early next month he will open his stand on North Fifth Street and Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. He named the place after his dog: "Sparky's American Food."
Bingo. This "3G" shit is just that... a toy. While cellphones are fantastic, I can't possibly see what use "3G" could be to the average (ie: non-geek, non-kid) person. What's the point of this? Anybody? Anybody?
Call me nuts, but there's no fucking way I'd go to a college without books! I understand their desire to be trendy and cool, but a college without a library doesn't have much of a chance to stay a real, accreddited, college.
A college without a library is called a tech training school. They teach people how to pull cable.
I'd happily pay 25c a track rather than use a p2p client, if the following were met: I could get the file instantly; it was guaranteed to be CD quality or better; and it was in an open format (mp3, or much better, ogg).
See? That's why it won't happen. People like you are in an incredible minority. Why?
- Instant ain't gonna happen for the majority of us with 56K mnodems, no matter who's offering it.
- CD quality? A 128 MP3 is good enough for most people. The average Joe isn't anything close to an audiophile.
- Open format? Again, most people don't even know what "open format" means. If they can download it, and play it, who cares what format it's in? Hell, I'd guess that most people don't even know.
You guys must be rich. Wireless for me is when I can't afford a new cord.
Same here.
So many people posting to Slashdot can afford wireless not because they're rich, but because rent is free when you live with your parents.
Grownups don't have such luxuries!
This is all nice and all, but considering I can leave my AC blasting on all month with TV and stereo and computers, and have a $50 power bill, and gas is $1.30/gallon, it's not likely that I'd ever do any of this stuff. There's got to be a real, financial reason. Spending 6000 pounds on my car, or $20000 on my house to save a few bucks yearly is really, quite stupid.
There are many different ways to "buy" something. You don't buy it or rent it. You can rent something for an indefinite period of time, a definite period of time, you can buy something outright, you can buy an option to buy something, and you can buy rights to use something for as long as you exist (ie: a francisee has rights to use the company's logo for the life of his business or a utility company buys an easement). There's nothing inherently wrong with software licensing.
You didn't sign anything? So does that mean with OSS, I own it, and I can do whatever I want with it (including sell it), because I didn't sign anything? I could probably sell a good number of copies of RedHat as NineNineOS. After all, I didn't sign a contract, so it's mine!
Actually, OSS has an even weaker case. There's no consideration (payment of any kind) given for the software, or the right to use it, so under the UCC, generally the GNU would be considered an unenforceable contract.
I'm one of those people who believe that when I purchase a product at a store, and take it home it is mine. At that point, I can do whatever I want with it, including resell it to someone else. We should all stand up and say "ENOUGH!"
Wrong. You are not buying the software, you're buying a license to use it. It's like when you rent a car. You're paying to *use* it. Although it's in your possession, you have no right to sell it, or do whatever you want to it. True, that virtually nobody sells software outright, but that's the way it is.
Security problems? You mean like old, simple browser tricks when you go to really, really shitty porn sites, or other such scams?
Not a problem for most people.
Or is it because you're so important, that people have set up traps for you on the web so that if you're using an old version of IE, they *might* be able to see what porn you have saved on your hard drive? Now that's the paranoia talking.
Not only is "security" a moot point for most people out there, especially when it comes to a browser, but it's a hell of a lot easier to click on "Windows Update" then it is to download a whole new browser, learn how to use it, deal with it's bugs, deal with it's rendering differences, etc. I just click on Windows Update every so often and I don't worry about it.
Just as a matter of curiousity....what kind of hardrives do you use....
I stick to Quantum. I actually just lost my first Quantum, but of all of 'em, they've been the best for me.
I can't wait until flash memory type technology becomes cheap enough to replace hard drives.
I hate to say it, but Western Digital makes the shittiest drives out there. Without fail, they've been the most unreliable, shortest lived drives that I've ever used throughout my life. I wouldn't trust a Western Digital to save old Nigerian spam. They're junk. They're cheap as hell, but you get what you pay for, and when it comes to hard drives, I'm willing to pay extra.
Saying that WD has a 200 GB hard drive is like saying that Ford came out with a 400 HP Mustang. Who cares? Slap a big engine in a piece of shit, and all you've got is a piece of shit with a big engine.
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Yes, capitalism does solve problems like this, if consumers saw it as a problem. Consumers have no fucking clue what "DRM" is. They go to Wal-Mart, and buy the cheapest, computer, period. If some company were to advertise "open hardware", and explain why it's better, then sure, consumers would vote with their dollars. See, there's no "demand". There may be "supply" but without "demand", there's no market for it. Got it?
So, go somewhere else with your anti-capitalism bullshit. You obviously don't know anything about it.
Ah, if I had some mod points for you....
Very true, very true.
Don't know what's wrong... I just noticed too. Unfortunately, I've been busy with another venture. Something got fucked on the server. Looking into it now.
A built in hooka in the middle of the table, with pipes going out to all of the player seats. Not *that* would make for a good game table.
Well, in case you haven't noticed, Va Linux is on the verge of being de-listed from the stock exchange because their foray into sellnig Linux boxes failed so badly. It's been tried. There's not enough demand.
Actually, it's paradise for adults who like to have fun. You should try it some time, it's...well... fun. Lots of drinks, great hookers (or strippers if you're prudish), great music, best food in the world, shopping, great hotel rooms. My wife and I say that you can get anything you want in Vegas, legal or otherwise, as long as you have money. We've yet to be proven wrong.
...it'll be cheaply(ie: shittily) done, stuck together with bandaids and gum, and done by a lot of people who say they know a hell of a lot more than they really do.
Thanks for the link! That was the funniest damn thing I've seen online in a while (other than The Onion, of course). Some stupid fat fuck computer geek loser offs himself because of some damn game! That's pretty damn hilarious!
No.
Companies do not want the added overhead of hiring extra people now. They don't want to pay payroll taxes, social security, etc. They want to pay MS a lump sum, and install some simple W2K boxes that should work indefinately. Getting mired in non-documented, complicated open source software, complete with expensive, hard to find, finicky maintenance people is *not* what any company is gonna do when they're in trouble. That's not how you save money. That's like saying you want to save money on your electrical system, so you're gonna buy a lot of cheap copper wire at the local Home Depot, and hire a fleet of electricians to maintain it. Nope. You don't dick with critical systems in times of crisis.
What about all of the power to power your precious machines? You ever thought about that? I'd guess that 80% of all companies today could *get by* without a computer system, just as they did years and years ago. I'd guess that 0% could get by without power. Yet, you don't hear the electrical engineers saying "I bet they'd appreciate me if I shut down this transformer". Please. Grow up.
But what is underfunding? I haven't read any stories of companies canning their entire IT staffs to let their servers go on autopilot. What they're doing is cutting development.
Hell yes. $400K mortgage? Are you fucking crazy? That's a *decision* that *you* made.
Personally, I'm happy with a $100K mortgage, and doing I job that I like (my own business)
And IT is more important than food? I can do without computers. I can't go without food.
Apparently, some people just don't fucking learn...
And he dashed off a four- page business plan -- about 75 pages shorter than the average business plan he toted around during the boom -- that led to a $50,000 investment by family and friends.
Mr. Benavidez added $40,000 of his own money ("Everything I have," he said) and early next month he will open his stand on North Fifth Street and Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. He named the place after his dog: "Sparky's American Food."
Bingo. This "3G" shit is just that... a toy. While cellphones are fantastic, I can't possibly see what use "3G" could be to the average (ie: non-geek, non-kid) person. What's the point of this? Anybody? Anybody?
Call me nuts, but there's no fucking way I'd go to a college without books! I understand their desire to be trendy and cool, but a college without a library doesn't have much of a chance to stay a real, accreddited, college.
A college without a library is called a tech training school. They teach people how to pull cable.
I'd happily pay 25c a track rather than use a p2p client, if the following were met:
I could get the file instantly; it was guaranteed to be CD quality or better; and it was in an open format (mp3, or much better, ogg).
See? That's why it won't happen. People like you are in an incredible minority. Why?
- Instant ain't gonna happen for the majority of us with 56K mnodems, no matter who's offering it.
- CD quality? A 128 MP3 is good enough for most people. The average Joe isn't anything close to an audiophile.
- Open format? Again, most people don't even know what "open format" means. If they can download it, and play it, who cares what format it's in? Hell, I'd guess that most people don't even know.
You guys must be rich. Wireless for me is when I can't afford a new cord.
Same here.
So many people posting to Slashdot can afford wireless not because they're rich, but because rent is free when you live with your parents.
Grownups don't have such luxuries!
This is all nice and all, but considering I can leave my AC blasting on all month with TV and stereo and computers, and have a $50 power bill, and gas is $1.30/gallon, it's not likely that I'd ever do any of this stuff.
There's got to be a real, financial reason. Spending 6000 pounds on my car, or $20000 on my house to save a few bucks yearly is really, quite stupid.
There are many different ways to "buy" something. You don't buy it or rent it. You can rent something for an indefinite period of time, a definite period of time, you can buy something outright, you can buy an option to buy something, and you can buy rights to use something for as long as you exist (ie: a francisee has rights to use the company's logo for the life of his business or a utility company buys an easement). There's nothing inherently wrong with software licensing.
You didn't sign anything? So does that mean with OSS, I own it, and I can do whatever I want with it (including sell it), because I didn't sign anything? I could probably sell a good number of copies of RedHat as NineNineOS. After all, I didn't sign a contract, so it's mine!
Actually, OSS has an even weaker case. There's no consideration (payment of any kind) given for the software, or the right to use it, so under the UCC, generally the GNU would be considered an unenforceable contract.
Actually, there are lots of services that'll do that. They do that to increase link popularity in SE's. Most people who do it buy 'em by the hundreds.
I'm one of those people who believe that when I purchase a product at a store, and take it home it is mine. At that point, I can do whatever I want with it, including resell it to someone else. We should all stand up and say "ENOUGH!"
Wrong. You are not buying the software, you're buying a license to use it.
It's like when you rent a car. You're paying to *use* it. Although it's in your possession, you have no right to sell it, or do whatever you want to it. True, that virtually nobody sells software outright, but that's the way it is.
Security problems? You mean like old, simple browser tricks when you go to really, really shitty porn sites, or other such scams?
Not a problem for most people.
Or is it because you're so important, that people have set up traps for you on the web so that if you're using an old version of IE, they *might* be able to see what porn you have saved on your hard drive? Now that's the paranoia talking.
Not only is "security" a moot point for most people out there, especially when it comes to a browser, but it's a hell of a lot easier to click on "Windows Update" then it is to download a whole new browser, learn how to use it, deal with it's bugs, deal with it's rendering differences, etc. I just click on Windows Update every so often and I don't worry about it.
Just as a matter of curiousity....what kind of hardrives do you use....
I stick to Quantum. I actually just lost my first Quantum, but of all of 'em, they've been the best for me.
I can't wait until flash memory type technology becomes cheap enough to replace hard drives.
I hate to say it, but Western Digital makes the shittiest drives out there. Without fail, they've been the most unreliable, shortest lived drives that I've ever used throughout my life. I wouldn't trust a Western Digital to save old Nigerian spam. They're junk. They're cheap as hell, but you get what you pay for, and when it comes to hard drives, I'm willing to pay extra.
Saying that WD has a 200 GB hard drive is like saying that Ford came out with a 400 HP Mustang. Who cares? Slap a big engine in a piece of shit, and all you've got is a piece of shit with a big engine.