>But they have no trouble paying for broadband service and a mid-line or better PC?
I fit that economic demographic if anyone does. The "mid line" computer I have is an old p3/450 which I bought last year off of a friend for $100, paying $20 over a period of five months. I can afford $50 for cable internet but that's about all. I don't have cable television (can't afford it) and I sure as hell don't subscribe to any online services that have a fee larger than a one-time payment of $5 (hello,/.).
People think that because someone can afford to eat and to have one luxury that means that they can afford and have a BUNCH of luxuries. That's sloppy and innacurrate thinking.
It's entirely possible to only be able to afford one 'perk' and only then with careful budgeting and prioritizing (ie, chosing cable internet over cable television because you cannot have both).
We aren't talking about the free software "community", we're talking about Wall Street. We're not talking about the fringe nutcases, but the mainstream.
You know, people who actually earn money and have jobs?
Except that isn't what is happening. WHile that could happen, what is happening is that this is occuring on kazaa and similar p2p networks, through illicit material.
Wake me when the scenerio you suggest comes to pass, until then I'm going to have some ROFL waffles at the pirates' expense.
Please share. I know everything I download from P2P networks is completely legal to distribute in that fashion--so you can say with 100% certainty that I'm in no danger from this, eh?
Yes, assuming that the following is true: 1)there are files on p2p that are authorised copies of intellectual property distributed by people who have permission to distribute them 2)You are being honest when you claim that you are confining yourself to those files
Then I can state that there is a high likelyhood that you will not be taken in by DRM enforcement found in files which claim to be by artists who are exclusively licensed for distribution by the RIAA or the MPAA.
Regarding P2P, most robbers do not use their shoes as a means of coercing property from their victims, whereas pirates frequently use p2p (amonth other methodologies) to unfairly gain access to media that they are not authorised to access or posess.
Again, if you violate other people's intellectual property, I'm not going to cry a river when the other bad guys violate you.
When I first saw the story, I was afraid that hackers were somehow exploiting program flaws in media player that would give them unauthorised access, allowing them to install spyware.
Instead, it turns out that DRM is simply doing it's job - protecting the digital rights on content providers by punishing those people who attempt to gain access to unathorised media.
Here's my take, I'm pretty sure that I'll be safe wether I run linux or windows (I run both) since I am not...wait for it... trying to leech other people's copyrighted material off of dodgy peer to peer networks!
If you engage in pirating, you deserve the cannonball to your vessel; I, for one, feel no pity.
Maybe its because their predictions aren't that surprising? Or maybe because there's no kind of real incentive to? If all he wanted was masturbatory 'propz' from a 'community' of strangers he will never meet, he'd open up a slashdot account and spell microsoft 'micro$oft'.
Cringley doesn't waste time on ideasphere not because he has nothing to say, but rather because he's an accomplished professional who is highly regarded in his field.
'similarly excellent' simply means as excellent. It's like if I said that tubgirl.com was simlilarly tasteful as goatse.cx I would not be saying that tubgirl was tasteful; but only that it compares to goatse.cx.
No coherent installation of software. (Please, spare me configure && make && make install...)
No coherent deinstallation of software.
No coherent desktop
That only works until the servers switch over to using anonymous proxies (similar to the one I'm using to post with, for instance, except for being IRC-based).
So how is it that they (RIAA, whoever) are going to manage to take out IRC? My personal guess is that they are going to spearhead legislation that works on two fronts:
a)makes the owners and operators (in the cases where they are two different parties) of the IRC network legally responsible for what is held on their servers
b)making foriegn servers responsible for IRC servers who are accessible from the united states (and suing them for damages that way).
Once upon a time, people felt that empathy, emotion and content mattered. Now it's all production values and special effects! Most people are programmed from an early point to ignore or scorn what have historically been the most important non-essential things in life in order to consume more and spend more. Who really wins from this? I hate to sound so cynical, but the concentration of power and resources in a small number of hands (relatively) has some really bad consequences and that trend is not getting better. something important seems to be missing from your comment... like the topic or a coherent point!
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>But they have no trouble paying for broadband service and a mid-line or better PC?
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I fit that economic demographic if anyone does. The "mid line" computer I have is an old p3/450 which I bought last year off of a friend for $100, paying $20 over a period of five months. I can afford $50 for cable internet but that's about all. I don't have cable television (can't afford it) and I sure as hell don't subscribe to any online services that have a fee larger than a one-time payment of $5 (hello,
People think that because someone can afford to eat and to have one luxury that means that they can afford and have a BUNCH of luxuries. That's sloppy and innacurrate thinking.
It's entirely possible to only be able to afford one 'perk' and only then with careful budgeting and prioritizing (ie, chosing cable internet over cable television because you cannot have both).
gnometetris, nethack, dopewars, bzflag. I keep busy.
I remember the days when it was kuro5hin who was second fiddle to slashdot!
We aren't talking about the free software "community", we're talking about Wall Street. We're not talking about the fringe nutcases, but the mainstream.
You know, people who actually earn money and have jobs?
Why don't you girls go start your own industry somewhere else, make it about cooking or whatever it is that you ladies like...
Except that isn't what is happening. WHile that could happen, what is happening is that this is occuring on kazaa and similar p2p networks, through illicit material.
Wake me when the scenerio you suggest comes to pass, until then I'm going to have some ROFL waffles at the pirates' expense.
Yes, assuming that the following is true:
1)there are files on p2p that are authorised copies of intellectual property distributed by people who have permission to distribute them
2)You are being honest when you claim that you are confining yourself to those files
Then I can state that there is a high likelyhood that you will not be taken in by DRM enforcement found in files which claim to be by artists who are exclusively licensed for distribution by the RIAA or the MPAA.
Regarding P2P, most robbers do not use their shoes as a means of coercing property from their victims, whereas pirates frequently use p2p (amonth other methodologies) to unfairly gain access to media that they are not authorised to access or posess.
Again, if you violate other people's intellectual property, I'm not going to cry a river when the other bad guys violate you.
When I first saw the story, I was afraid that hackers were somehow exploiting program flaws in media player that would give them unauthorised access, allowing them to install spyware.
...wait for it... trying to leech other people's copyrighted material off of dodgy peer to peer networks!
Instead, it turns out that DRM is simply doing it's job - protecting the digital rights on content providers by punishing those people who attempt to gain access to unathorised media.
Here's my take, I'm pretty sure that I'll be safe wether I run linux or windows (I run both) since I am not
If you engage in pirating, you deserve the cannonball to your vessel; I, for one, feel no pity.
How's he going to manage to get the whole corporation up there?
>Make computing easy
You forgot about apple.
Maybe its because their predictions aren't that surprising?
Or maybe because there's no kind of real incentive to? If all he wanted was masturbatory 'propz' from a 'community' of strangers he will never meet, he'd open up a slashdot account and spell microsoft 'micro$oft'.
Cringley doesn't waste time on ideasphere not because he has nothing to say, but rather because he's an accomplished professional who is highly regarded in his field.
r0r!
as opposed to hours, days or weeks trying (often in vain) to get GNU/Linux apps to do what they're supposed to do.
I'll take the 5 minutes, thanks.
edging toward oblivion...or is amazon?
'similarly excellent' simply means as excellent. It's like if I said that tubgirl.com was simlilarly tasteful as goatse.cx I would not be saying that tubgirl was tasteful; but only that it compares to goatse.cx.
apt-get install
dpkg -R
kde.org gnome.org
That only works until the servers switch over to using anonymous proxies (similar to the one I'm using to post with, for instance, except for being IRC-based).
So how is it that they (RIAA, whoever) are going to manage to take out IRC? My personal guess is that they are going to spearhead legislation that works on two fronts:
a)makes the owners and operators (in the cases where they are two different parties) of the IRC network legally responsible for what is held on their servers
b)making foriegn servers responsible for IRC servers who are accessible from the united states (and suing them for damages that way).
I'll have to change that 5th bulb.
...yet?
Once upon a time, people felt that empathy, emotion and content mattered. Now it's all production values and special effects! Most people are programmed from an early point to ignore or scorn what have historically been the most important non-essential things in life in order to consume more and spend more. Who really wins from this? I hate to sound so cynical, but the concentration of power and resources in a small number of hands (relatively) has some really bad consequences and that trend is not getting better. ... like the topic or a coherent point!
something important seems to be missing from your comment
now if you'll excuse me, my crass cd is beckoning me...