No, SOCAN could care less about Napster, they're going after royalties from radio stations right now, as that's where they believe the Canadian music industry is loosing money. I think they consider Napster to be akin to free advertising.
I think the US Constitution says copyrights last for "a limited" amount of time... and that's the problem, defining the word "limited". Some people might think 100 years is a limited amount of time, it all depends on your perspective.
Unfortunately it seems a lot of the Linux companies aren't making money, not just TurboLinux. All of their stocks have been dropping dramatically. In fact judging from this article, written in January, Linux stocks were going down even before the.com stocks started slipping (correct me if I'm wrong).
Did you read the post he was replying to? The poster you're labeling as a troll was making a very insightful joke, in response to the way Berlin was being bad mouthed. Are you people dense or what? Read over what he said a second time, I'm a *NIX supporter and I didn't find it offensive at all...
Actually what's worst is that Blockbuster Video, which holds something like 1/3 of the video rental market in the US, won't allow NC17 films in their stores (because they're a "family" video store). So if any movie producer wants to put out a NC17 film guess what, there goes 1/3 of your video rental revenue. You'd be loosing a lot of money by putting out a NC17 film, that's why nobody does it anymore.
You're the one that's coming off sounding like a troll. Did you read the benchmark? Read this one too while you're at it. Perl and PHP are not necessarily faster then JSP/Servlets, that is a myth propagated by people who think that anything Java = applet. While you were off coding in language X technology changed, and guess what, Java has progressed over the past couple years, just like every other programming language. So keep your eyes open and give it a second look.
Well I hate to tell you this but the only person in this debate with inbred hillbilly children is Darwin - he married his own cousin. I don't know if they did in fact have kids but yeah, his cousin, kind of puts a new light on everything IMHO.
A favorite band of mine, The Offspring, once said "You're squeezed a little tighter everyday, punished before you can commit a crime." And what really gets me is they're collecting the tax to supplement the (supposed) loss that results in piracy. Using this logic then, if the music industry suddenly starts making record breaking profits (which they are) do I get money given back to me, or at least at reduction in the cost of buying a CD? Well, we all know what the answer to that question is...
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I'm not sure if it should be on the front page, but it really should be mentioned in Slashback at the very least. It's not cool that they posted the fact that the Tucows BSD section went down "in flames" on the front page (making BSD supporters look like a bunch of hostile assholes) and they don't mention the fact that it's back up again (because of positive BSD user comments) anywhere. That's not reporting the whole story.
The only people who were greedy where the businesses / citizens / government in California which used up electricity with no thought to how it would effect themselves, their fellow citizens, their economy, and the environment. Yes, I realise your market was deregulated, however, the amount of power California uses lies solely in the hands of the residents of California, and that's what effects the price of said power. To demonstrate a similar supply vs. demand problem I'll point out to you that because of this crisis California, along with some other states, has been using natural gas to generate electricity. The very same natural gas that is piped under my province, and as a result my natural gas prices have gone up nearly 100% over the past 18 months. So don't talk to me about price hikes. BCHydro did California a favour by providing them with power, BC has a surplus of hydro power, California could have bought it elsewhere if they wanted to, and probably at a higher price. If anyone raised prices in California it was the local electric companies through hoarding their supplies of electricity. Remember, BC citizens aren't the people using up the electricity, Californian citizens are, and the California electric companies were the ones that got greedy and drove themselves into debt.
"California's utilities have lost billions and billions. They owe it to people who (a) aren't Californian and (b) aren't kidding about collecting that debt."
I happen to live in Canada, and our local utility company is owed a fair amount of money for providing power to California. Unfortunatly the Californian utility we sold power to is now declaring bankruptcy, leaving our utility company screwed out of millions of millions of dollars (guess who's going to pay for that loss). So Californians and their utility companies aren't the only ones getting screwed over...
Does it really make a lot of sense that the US government openly accuses Microsoft of being a monopoly and then asks them to be responsible for their new voting system?
"Yeah, you're a huge monopoly, we're going to fsck you up! Oh, by the way could you do our voting system? We'll pay you tons of money!"
Actually, the US is not yet in a recession. Technically, the definition of a recession is a decline in GDP for two or more consecutive quarters. I can only find US GDP stats up to the 3rd quarter of 2000, but there has been no such decline yet. It is predicted, however, that the next quarter will dip, which is why all the recession talk started.
This is my source for US GDP stats.
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Yeah, I had a feeling, I know I've read that somewhere before.
No, SOCAN could care less about Napster, they're going after royalties from radio stations right now, as that's where they believe the Canadian music industry is loosing money. I think they consider Napster to be akin to free advertising.
I think the US Constitution says copyrights last for "a limited" amount of time... and that's the problem, defining the word "limited". Some people might think 100 years is a limited amount of time, it all depends on your perspective.
Beer does not taste better no matter where you go in the United States. :)
No, I'm saying it doesn't matter how little an OS costs if it's not user friendly enough to use.
What does it matter if they can't figure out how to use the OS?
Unfortunately it seems a lot of the Linux companies aren't making money, not just TurboLinux. All of their stocks have been dropping dramatically. In fact judging from this article, written in January, Linux stocks were going down even before the .com stocks started slipping (correct me if I'm wrong).
Did you read the post he was replying to? The poster you're labeling as a troll was making a very insightful joke, in response to the way Berlin was being bad mouthed. Are you people dense or what? Read over what he said a second time, I'm a *NIX supporter and I didn't find it offensive at all...
How can you mod this as flamebait? Did you read the post he was replying to? What the hell is wrong with you moderators?
Within a few years, it was the best thing going in Unixes.
You've obviously only tried one flavor of Unix.
Actually what's worst is that Blockbuster Video, which holds something like 1/3 of the video rental market in the US, won't allow NC17 films in their stores (because they're a "family" video store). So if any movie producer wants to put out a NC17 film guess what, there goes 1/3 of your video rental revenue. You'd be loosing a lot of money by putting out a NC17 film, that's why nobody does it anymore.
You're the one that's coming off sounding like a troll. Did you read the benchmark? Read this one too while you're at it. Perl and PHP are not necessarily faster then JSP/Servlets, that is a myth propagated by people who think that anything Java = applet. While you were off coding in language X technology changed, and guess what, Java has progressed over the past couple years, just like every other programming language. So keep your eyes open and give it a second look.
Well I hate to tell you this but the only person in this debate with inbred hillbilly children is Darwin - he married his own cousin. I don't know if they did in fact have kids but yeah, his cousin, kind of puts a new light on everything IMHO.
Hopefully the lucky numbers pay off...
2001-03-17 03:33:33
A favorite band of mine, The Offspring, once said "You're squeezed a little tighter everyday, punished before you can commit a crime." And what really gets me is they're collecting the tax to supplement the (supposed) loss that results in piracy. Using this logic then, if the music industry suddenly starts making record breaking profits (which they are) do I get money given back to me, or at least at reduction in the cost of buying a CD? Well, we all know what the answer to that question is...
I'm not sure if it should be on the front page, but it really should be mentioned in Slashback at the very least. It's not cool that they posted the fact that the Tucows BSD section went down "in flames" on the front page (making BSD supporters look like a bunch of hostile assholes) and they don't mention the fact that it's back up again (because of positive BSD user comments) anywhere. That's not reporting the whole story.
The only people who were greedy where the businesses / citizens / government in California which used up electricity with no thought to how it would effect themselves, their fellow citizens, their economy, and the environment. Yes, I realise your market was deregulated, however, the amount of power California uses lies solely in the hands of the residents of California, and that's what effects the price of said power. To demonstrate a similar supply vs. demand problem I'll point out to you that because of this crisis California, along with some other states, has been using natural gas to generate electricity. The very same natural gas that is piped under my province, and as a result my natural gas prices have gone up nearly 100% over the past 18 months. So don't talk to me about price hikes. BCHydro did California a favour by providing them with power, BC has a surplus of hydro power, California could have bought it elsewhere if they wanted to, and probably at a higher price. If anyone raised prices in California it was the local electric companies through hoarding their supplies of electricity. Remember, BC citizens aren't the people using up the electricity, Californian citizens are, and the California electric companies were the ones that got greedy and drove themselves into debt.
"California's utilities have lost billions and billions. They owe it to people who (a) aren't Californian and (b) aren't kidding about collecting that debt."
I happen to live in Canada, and our local utility company is owed a fair amount of money for providing power to California. Unfortunatly the Californian utility we sold power to is now declaring bankruptcy, leaving our utility company screwed out of millions of millions of dollars (guess who's going to pay for that loss). So Californians and their utility companies aren't the only ones getting screwed over...
Does it really make a lot of sense that the US government openly accuses Microsoft of being a monopoly and then asks them to be responsible for their new voting system?
"Yeah, you're a huge monopoly, we're going to fsck you up! Oh, by the way could you do our voting system? We'll pay you tons of money!"
This article is a troll, right?
Actually, the US is not yet in a recession. Technically, the definition of a recession is a decline in GDP for two or more consecutive quarters. I can only find US GDP stats up to the 3rd quarter of 2000, but there has been no such decline yet. It is predicted, however, that the next quarter will dip, which is why all the recession talk started. This is my source for US GDP stats.