Shortly after the death of Google Reader I made the switch to https://feedbin.com/feedbin, which while it was a paid service was just as speedy almost all the features.
While it was a shame that GReader shut-down, the RSS scene is definitely more competitive and far healthier than what it was while GReader was around.
Unfortunately the article reflects the philosophy of a good portion of the FOSS community. Which is that not only the core system be free, but every layer on top of it. Which while nice from a philosophical point of view offers no practical benefit to the FOSS community, commercial software developers and most importantly, the end-user.
After all the IFPI/MPAA/RIAA represent the media companies and not the artists.
It sounds better that they represent the interests of the famous artists everyone (supposedly?) likes rather than the faceless company that leeches of their talent. After all, it's the media companies who create these groups. This is why performing artists form their own unions and trade organisations to represent themselves. The only way this story could've been interesting is if the IFPI did something that was in the interests of actual artists.
They don't represent artists at all, they represent the movie and music studios. Any claim of artist representation they make is bullshit because by definition they're there to serve the record and movie companies, they cannot by association represent the artists who work for these companies because artists represent very different interests to those of movie and record companies.
If you follow the supply-chain you usually find the distributor or importer that posts the massive markup. Most stores will get their games for about $90 (Before rebates for some of the larger chains) and sell for $99 - $110. I've seen a few places pull the $120 especially in areas that lack many shops.
However knowing a few importers/distributors (Or as I call them, scumbags) they're making a mint from every sale while the developer and the retailer get screwed. I know Woolworths Group started their own import/distribution business but with many companies contracted to the more expensive distributors they're usually locked into sourcing product from south-east Asian distributors that are often destined for those markets.
That I've only bought a license to the media that I've bought then what is the point in buying it? If they're insisting that all the media I've paid money for I don't really own, that I have to use it on their terms then why the fuck am I spending money on any media at all?
Think about it this way, if you lost the ability to use the internet (Mobile or otherwise), what would you do?
Watch a movie? Well no because Time-Warner have put your movie collection into the cloud.
Listen to some music? No because you've subscribed to an online streaming service, or put all your music into the cloud.
With movies, music and other media. People simply want to own their collection. After all, they paid top dollar for it, some people get pretty boastful about their media library, they like the idea that in their theatre room there are thousands of movies, television shows, documentaries and what-not on tap ready to watch. How far are these media cartel group have their heads jammed up their own arses not to come to this basic realisation? Consumers have been afforded this luxury for almost half a century in one form or another, why would they want to backtrack now?
If you want to make your product economically unviable and restrict the ways in which a paying customer can enjoy their purchase, then piracy will always be the better option and if you want to hang on to these bullshit notions of licensing and rights managements, so be it but I won't afford this cartel and iota of sympathy when profits turn to losses and jobs turn to redundancies.
The police in this case have stated that the customers of these USB keys (The list being compiled from information collected at the raid) will be persued by police and treated as “receivers of stolen property."
I really want to see how that bullshit plays out in court.
Car companies should limit features in their cars when sold as used. Say GM can disable the GPS or in-dash entertainment when their car is on-sold to someone else and then offers an upgrade to the new owner, all because the new owner isn't rewarding the thousands of engineers and designers who put so much work into that car.
No, bullshit and that reasoning would not be accepted by consumers in any other industry. So why do publishers constantly treat their customers like a piece of shit and why does the average consumer accept it?
There's a pattern to this. Politicians at the behest of self-interest groups and self-appoint moralists, begin to regulate what was a benign social issue. Uninformed, policy gets drafted by these people which gains traction from these self-interest, righteous minorities and soon thanks to ignorant third-parties the very inaccuracies that are used to draft these policies are perpetuated. The use of loaded words like criminal, scourge & terror helps to convince a mostly oblivious public. Before long the regulation comes into effect and pushes the issue underground, initially it's deemed a success. However as it becomes apparent that the matter is thriving underground, a war is declared, harsher penalties combined with the perpetuation of gross-inaccuracies and lies continue to waste your tax dollars.
It's history repeating itself, and it's always follows a similar pattern. Though the end result is the same; tax dollars are wasted, usage increases unabated and the constant game of cat and mouse continues because those elected to listen to the people who know best, won't.
If I went about my job with the same level of ignorance, incompetence and sheer corruption as the supposed leaders of the United States, I'd be out of a job very quickly. If the private sector won't tolerate it, why does capital hill seem to be a breeding ground for these bottom-feeders?
This is true for any OS on the market, under *nix or BSD once you give a process the ability to run under root (Which involves a nondescript password entry) then it can do anything to that system. However the difference in Windows is the long history of exploits which bypass UAC and privilege escalation and are able to spawn a new process as administrator, all without user permission.*
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Shortly after the death of Google Reader I made the switch to https://feedbin.com/feedbin, which while it was a paid service was just as speedy almost all the features.
While it was a shame that GReader shut-down, the RSS scene is definitely more competitive and far healthier than what it was while GReader was around.
As an Australian, I would +5 funny that if I have any mod points. Fosters is crap.
That program is called Chocolat -- http://www.chocolatapp.com/
Unfortunately the article reflects the philosophy of a good portion of the FOSS community. Which is that not only the core system be free, but every layer on top of it. Which while nice from a philosophical point of view offers no practical benefit to the FOSS community, commercial software developers and most importantly, the end-user.
After all the IFPI/MPAA/RIAA represent the media companies and not the artists.
It sounds better that they represent the interests of the famous artists everyone (supposedly?) likes rather than the faceless company that leeches of their talent. After all, it's the media companies who create these groups. This is why performing artists form their own unions and trade organisations to represent themselves. The only way this story could've been interesting is if the IFPI did something that was in the interests of actual artists.
Unforunately for this packet switched network there are a lot of dropped packets.
They don't represent artists at all, they represent the movie and music studios. Any claim of artist representation they make is bullshit because by definition they're there to serve the record and movie companies, they cannot by association represent the artists who work for these companies because artists represent very different interests to those of movie and record companies.
If you follow the supply-chain you usually find the distributor or importer that posts the massive markup. Most stores will get their games for about $90 (Before rebates for some of the larger chains) and sell for $99 - $110. I've seen a few places pull the $120 especially in areas that lack many shops.
However knowing a few importers/distributors (Or as I call them, scumbags) they're making a mint from every sale while the developer and the retailer get screwed. I know Woolworths Group started their own import/distribution business but with many companies contracted to the more expensive distributors they're usually locked into sourcing product from south-east Asian distributors that are often destined for those markets.
Are they called Monster Cables by any chance?
That I've only bought a license to the media that I've bought then what is the point in buying it? If they're insisting that all the media I've paid money for I don't really own, that I have to use it on their terms then why the fuck am I spending money on any media at all?
Think about it this way, if you lost the ability to use the internet (Mobile or otherwise), what would you do?
Watch a movie? Well no because Time-Warner have put your movie collection into the cloud.
Listen to some music? No because you've subscribed to an online streaming service, or put all your music into the cloud.
With movies, music and other media. People simply want to own their collection. After all, they paid top dollar for it, some people get pretty boastful about their media library, they like the idea that in their theatre room there are thousands of movies, television shows, documentaries and what-not on tap ready to watch. How far are these media cartel group have their heads jammed up their own arses not to come to this basic realisation? Consumers have been afforded this luxury for almost half a century in one form or another, why would they want to backtrack now?
If you want to make your product economically unviable and restrict the ways in which a paying customer can enjoy their purchase, then piracy will always be the better option and if you want to hang on to these bullshit notions of licensing and rights managements, so be it but I won't afford this cartel and iota of sympathy when profits turn to losses and jobs turn to redundancies.
Does that mean every developer that has inspired Zynga can sue them for copying their games?
Because using sheepskin condoms on sheep is wrong.
The police in this case have stated that the customers of these USB keys (The list being compiled from information collected at the raid) will be persued by police and treated as “receivers of stolen property."
I really want to see how that bullshit plays out in court.
The Mark II version can be called the Big Mountainous Occluded Fortification Ordinance
and the nation of Sealand becomes a reef.
Car companies should limit features in their cars when sold as used. Say GM can disable the GPS or in-dash entertainment when their car is on-sold to someone else and then offers an upgrade to the new owner, all because the new owner isn't rewarding the thousands of engineers and designers who put so much work into that car.
No, bullshit and that reasoning would not be accepted by consumers in any other industry. So why do publishers constantly treat their customers like a piece of shit and why does the average consumer accept it?
Replace oil with natural gas and you'd be a little closer to the truth.
Who says I am?
I hear Greece is looking to offload a couple of Islands to pay for their debt problems.
Now all we need is a name...
There's a pattern to this. Politicians at the behest of self-interest groups and self-appoint moralists, begin to regulate what was a benign social issue. Uninformed, policy gets drafted by these people which gains traction from these self-interest, righteous minorities and soon thanks to ignorant third-parties the very inaccuracies that are used to draft these policies are perpetuated. The use of loaded words like criminal, scourge & terror helps to convince a mostly oblivious public. Before long the regulation comes into effect and pushes the issue underground, initially it's deemed a success. However as it becomes apparent that the matter is thriving underground, a war is declared, harsher penalties combined with the perpetuation of gross-inaccuracies and lies continue to waste your tax dollars.
It's history repeating itself, and it's always follows a similar pattern. Though the end result is the same; tax dollars are wasted, usage increases unabated and the constant game of cat and mouse continues because those elected to listen to the people who know best, won't.
If I went about my job with the same level of ignorance, incompetence and sheer corruption as the supposed leaders of the United States, I'd be out of a job very quickly. If the private sector won't tolerate it, why does capital hill seem to be a breeding ground for these bottom-feeders?
This is true for any OS on the market, under *nix or BSD once you give a process the ability to run under root (Which involves a nondescript password entry) then it can do anything to that system. However the difference in Windows is the long history of exploits which bypass UAC and privilege escalation and are able to spawn a new process as administrator, all without user permission.*
*Clicking on free viagra links don't count.
Working for the IFPI is akin to prostitution with all the morality and ethics associated with child prostitution.
And the US government was billed $1400 for it...
If every American gamer used a satellite connection maybe some Australian's and Europeans would start winning a few online matches.
No, never!