Enclosed are two pencils. Could you please occupy yourself with them, say, for a couple of years, and stay out of the way of your colleagues who work for the interests of those who elected them?
Enclosed are two pencils. Could you please occupy yourself with them, say, for a couple of years, and stay out of the way of your colleagues who work for the interests of those who elected them?
That's not to disrespect the man's memory or the company he founded. But if Kildall had even a shred of business acumen, Bill Gates and Microsoft might only have been a footnote in personal computing history.
There are many stories about what exactly happened, but this link contains a pretty fair discussion.
"[Best Buy] said it is looking to team up with record labels and technology groups to devise ways to prevent wholesale copying of CDs without antagonizing customers. "
We've already been antagonized, and in us they have an adversary for the rest of their grasping, niggardly lives.
Thank you very much, jackasses, for not referring to us as "consumers."
No, I didn't feel that way. However, upon observing Ms. Berry's onstage demeanor, I couldn't help but think that Sally Field no longer has to worry about "You really like me!" any longer - she's just been eclipsed.
Lest anyone find fault with this observation, allow me to provide some perspective: The Oscars are nothing more than a fete for a trade association that takes itself far, far too seriously.
The reason this "old fart" (I turn 44 next month) listens to talk and news radio is that radio has abdicated the role it played years earlier: It exposed us to the music we really wanted to buy. With FM radio as homogenized and automated as it is today (read: Clear Channel), is it any wonder we only get Britney and Pink, boy bands, and fifteen minute blocks of commercials?
File sharing today fulfills the role that FM radio abandoned. My friends send playlists comprising their favorite mixes. I download and try them. If I like them, I log onto Amazon and buy the CDs from which they were made, and I keep the files for my iPod. If I don't like what I hear, the files get deleted. And I forward my recommendations on to other friends who ask for them.
Personally, I think this word-of-mouth is a much better marketing tool than anything of which a record company's marketing doinks can conceive. I have control, and I have choice. Unfortunately, that's anathema to the record companies. But those things are entirely worth fighting for.
If (corporate) music online had no restrictions, that would imply the industry finally understood that their rights end where yours and mine begin. That day that happens will be a long time coming, I'm certain.
But I think the industry will undergo an attitude adjustment, however slight, with each sale it loses not only to restrictive policies but prohibitive prices (however subjective those terms are) as well. When said adjustment is complete, I'll buy.
It doesn't help your argument to assume even most of us are thieves. I think most of us would respond positively to good value for the money. Have we ever really been offered it?
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...then Microsoft is guilty of pirating Apple like nothing else.
"For those Americans Not in the Know obout our state of affairs..."
Our Canadian cousins say "aboot." You guys say "obout." As an American, I say "about." Isn't global diversity wonderful?
Enclosed are two pencils. Could you please occupy yourself with them, say, for a couple of years, and stay out of the way of your colleagues who work for the interests of those who elected them?
Thank you.
Enclosed are two pencils. Could you please occupy yourself with them, say, for a couple of years, and stay out of the way of your colleagues who work for the interests of those who elected them?
Thank you.
Remember Digital Research. Remember Gary Kildall.
That's not to disrespect the man's memory or the company he founded. But if Kildall had even a shred of business acumen, Bill Gates and Microsoft might only have been a footnote in personal computing history.
There are many stories about what exactly happened, but this link contains a pretty fair discussion.
"but it is buty-ugly to look at compared to IE"
Well, is it beauty or is it ugly? Do make up your mind, won't you?
"[Best Buy] said it is looking to team up with record labels and technology groups to devise ways to prevent wholesale copying of CDs without antagonizing customers. "
We've already been antagonized, and in us they have an adversary for the rest of their grasping, niggardly lives.
Thank you very much, jackasses, for not referring to us as "consumers."
...that IIS was in the wrong in this case. But I hope I'm not the only one who's growing weary of RIAA's smug, sanctimonious, self-serving statements:
"We applaud IIS for accepting its responsibility and working actively with us to settle this case out of court.''
I can't help but read "...working actively with us..."' as "...bending over..."
Bleh.
...that no one knows "inside" better than Intel: a world that is dark, intimate, and brown.
No, I didn't feel that way. However, upon observing Ms. Berry's onstage demeanor, I couldn't help but think that Sally Field no longer has to worry about "You really like me!" any longer - she's just been eclipsed.
Lest anyone find fault with this observation, allow me to provide some perspective: The Oscars are nothing more than a fete for a trade association that takes itself far, far too seriously.
It's easy to remember. Just think of Porky Pig saying it:
"see bee-dee tee pee-...uh, A."
Bill Jones was the spammer, not Bill Simon.
The reason this "old fart" (I turn 44 next month) listens to talk and news radio is that radio has abdicated the role it played years earlier: It exposed us to the music we really wanted to buy. With FM radio as homogenized and automated as it is today (read: Clear Channel), is it any wonder we only get Britney and Pink, boy bands, and fifteen minute blocks of commercials?
File sharing today fulfills the role that FM radio abandoned. My friends send playlists comprising their favorite mixes. I download and try them. If I like them, I log onto Amazon and buy the CDs from which they were made, and I keep the files for my iPod. If I don't like what I hear, the files get deleted. And I forward my recommendations on to other friends who ask for them.
Personally, I think this word-of-mouth is a much better marketing tool than anything of which a record company's marketing doinks can conceive. I have control, and I have choice. Unfortunately, that's anathema to the record companies. But those things are entirely worth fighting for.
If (corporate) music online had no restrictions, that would imply the industry finally understood that their rights end where yours and mine begin. That day that happens will be a long time coming, I'm certain.
But I think the industry will undergo an attitude adjustment, however slight, with each sale it loses not only to restrictive policies but prohibitive prices (however subjective those terms are) as well. When said adjustment is complete, I'll buy.
It doesn't help your argument to assume even most of us are thieves. I think most of us would respond positively to good value for the money. Have we ever really been offered it?
To what aspect of Microsoft's deficient user interface model does your silly statement pertain?