After the smashing success of television shows being sold on the iTunes Music Store your question surprises me. To make it clearer, YES people will rent a movie to watch on their computer screens and even smaller iPod screens. LOTS AND LOTS of them.
"- The "if you don't like it, don't buy it" excuse isn't good enough in this case, because Apple isn't saying "buy encrypted songs only playable with Apple products", they're saying "buy music online". I know that Apple's music store sells encrypted files that can only be played with crippled software, but most users do not realise this and Apple does not make it clear to them."
So the number of people who care about the files being encrypted, would that be in the high or low hundreds?
An article on Wikipedia may not be innacurrate solely due to a lack of intelligence on the part of the poster, but also due to alterior motives and agendas. If someone doesn't want an article to say things that they don't like then they can just revise it to reflect their sensibilities. In fact I think that is the most likely case. As you said yourself an idiot isn't likely to write long and detailed articles, but someone who wants to revise history would be. Examples of this are articles on political subjects such as presidents (George Walker Bush) that were vandalized so often they had to be locked down. When anyone who is emotionally invested can edit an article how can you possibly vouch for its accuracy?
Think about it. You want people to spend 4 years in college, than an additional what 2 or 4 years for something thats NOT Law or Medicine? And why? Just because you can't find the job you want with an undergrad degree? Why are other people with undergrad degrees able to find good jobs then? What makes them better at it than you? I think its absolutely gonzo nutjobbish to suggest that having an undergrad degree isn't enough. There are folks out there without any degrees at all who are making it so anyone with an undergrad ought to be able to do just about anything they want. Getting a graduate degree should be something you do because you want to not because you feel you have to. Personally I would be damn near suicidal if I knew I went to school until I was 25-28 just to become a slightly higher paid WORKER. All that time in school post college (or post high school) could have been spent founding and building your own company.
Also what if the gamble fails. What if grad school doesn't lead to a better career. How are you supposed to shoulder the costs of college + grad school loans then? Bankruptcy laws were recently changed to forbid people from shedding their educational loans paybacks.
You did not address his main point. Mainly that Wikipedia's articles WILL change over time to reflect popular opinion, instead of researched facts. Whats your counter to that?
"Some people think that someone with no technical experience, and little respect for technical experience, can run a technical company. I think that belief is hogwash."
So how do you explain Lou Gerstner at IBM or Terry Semel at Yahoo?
I didn't realize there was something soulless and nihilistic about making sure your family isn't larger than you can afford to support. There are two ways of raising young that nature has provided for. Creating a lot of offspring in the hopes a few survive to adulthood, or investing a lot of resources in a fwe offspring to ensure that they will survive to adulthood. With humans reaching adulthood isn't an issue of course. But the quality of the childhood IS still an issue. Two families making the same amount of money can't devote the same amount of attention or resources to 6 or 7 children (and some conservative families get even larger than that going well past 10 children) as they can to 2 or 3.
Wow you are a genius. Since you are so smart, please tell me how this would work when the populace enranged that inflation has gone through the roof because of government mandated high gas prices votes the guys who raised the prices out of office?
You are letting your own politics cloud your thinking. Surveillance is not equal to military aggression. You also neglect to point out that as we have become more advanced wars have killed LESS people than the wars before them. Its been 50 years since World War II and since then no war has killed as many people. It is also easy to point out that the more advanced civilizations on Earth tend to be the most peaceful. So going on that correlation alone if an alien civilization is sufficiently advanced it would not be wrong to assume they might be peaceful. Considering whats at stake I would not want to make that assumption however, which would make surveillance all the more valuable. If we could spy on our alien neighbors before they knew we existed, we could determine their military strength and political ambitions before making First Contact.
There's nothing preventing people from aquiring Linux. Seeing as how its free and people would still rather pay hundreds of dollars for Windows, that kinda speaks badly of Linux don't you think?
Its only fair to note that Palm assisted Microsoft in the handheld market greatly by simply fucking up so many times along the way. No company goes from 100% of the market down to around 30% without a good helping of incompetence.
As long as Apple keeps the sources to the PPC version available they are in some way contributing to open source.
In the meantime if this really bothers you then you may want to kick the BSD license out of the open source camp. It allows for unrestrained raping of OSS code.
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Nearly every new computer sold today can do HDTV, whatchu talkin bout Willis!?
After the smashing success of television shows being sold on the iTunes Music Store your question surprises me. To make it clearer, YES people will rent a movie to watch on their computer screens and even smaller iPod screens. LOTS AND LOTS of them.
"- The "if you don't like it, don't buy it" excuse isn't good enough in this case, because Apple isn't saying "buy encrypted songs only playable with Apple products", they're saying "buy music online". I know that Apple's music store sells encrypted files that can only be played with crippled software, but most users do not realise this and Apple does not make it clear to them."
So the number of people who care about the files being encrypted, would that be in the high or low hundreds?
1. Show me where culture writes are written down on legal documents.
2. If Russia wants into the WTO they'll get rid of AllofMP3, which is exactly what will happen.
Got any other justifications for piracy?
An article on Wikipedia may not be innacurrate solely due to a lack of intelligence on the part of the poster, but also due to alterior motives and agendas. If someone doesn't want an article to say things that they don't like then they can just revise it to reflect their sensibilities. In fact I think that is the most likely case. As you said yourself an idiot isn't likely to write long and detailed articles, but someone who wants to revise history would be. Examples of this are articles on political subjects such as presidents (George Walker Bush) that were vandalized so often they had to be locked down. When anyone who is emotionally invested can edit an article how can you possibly vouch for its accuracy?
From what I see on Dr. 90210 I'm pretty sure plastic surgeons top the pay list for doctors these days. ;-)
Think about it. You want people to spend 4 years in college, than an additional what 2 or 4 years for something thats NOT Law or Medicine? And why? Just because you can't find the job you want with an undergrad degree? Why are other people with undergrad degrees able to find good jobs then? What makes them better at it than you? I think its absolutely gonzo nutjobbish to suggest that having an undergrad degree isn't enough. There are folks out there without any degrees at all who are making it so anyone with an undergrad ought to be able to do just about anything they want. Getting a graduate degree should be something you do because you want to not because you feel you have to. Personally I would be damn near suicidal if I knew I went to school until I was 25-28 just to become a slightly higher paid WORKER. All that time in school post college (or post high school) could have been spent founding and building your own company.
Also what if the gamble fails. What if grad school doesn't lead to a better career. How are you supposed to shoulder the costs of college + grad school loans then? Bankruptcy laws were recently changed to forbid people from shedding their educational loans paybacks.
You did not address his main point. Mainly that Wikipedia's articles WILL change over time to reflect popular opinion, instead of researched facts. Whats your counter to that?
Just a guess, but I'm guessing at Google the servers run Linux.
Want to demand world peace and an end to world hunger while you're at it?
"Some people think that someone with no technical experience, and little respect for technical experience, can run a technical company. I think that belief is hogwash."
So how do you explain Lou Gerstner at IBM or Terry Semel at Yahoo?
If companies don't have to internally support Windows then what do you call having onsite certified techs?
I didn't realize there was something soulless and nihilistic about making sure your family isn't larger than you can afford to support. There are two ways of raising young that nature has provided for. Creating a lot of offspring in the hopes a few survive to adulthood, or investing a lot of resources in a fwe offspring to ensure that they will survive to adulthood. With humans reaching adulthood isn't an issue of course. But the quality of the childhood IS still an issue. Two families making the same amount of money can't devote the same amount of attention or resources to 6 or 7 children (and some conservative families get even larger than that going well past 10 children) as they can to 2 or 3.
A clump of cells is a baby? I didn't know that. Did anyone else here know that?
There's this thing called hacking you know.....
Wow you are a genius. Since you are so smart, please tell me how this would work when the populace enranged that inflation has gone through the roof because of government mandated high gas prices votes the guys who raised the prices out of office?
You are letting your own politics cloud your thinking. Surveillance is not equal to military aggression. You also neglect to point out that as we have become more advanced wars have killed LESS people than the wars before them. Its been 50 years since World War II and since then no war has killed as many people. It is also easy to point out that the more advanced civilizations on Earth tend to be the most peaceful. So going on that correlation alone if an alien civilization is sufficiently advanced it would not be wrong to assume they might be peaceful. Considering whats at stake I would not want to make that assumption however, which would make surveillance all the more valuable. If we could spy on our alien neighbors before they knew we existed, we could determine their military strength and political ambitions before making First Contact.
You are an idiot. No government is going to penalize a company for providing jobs and a tax base.
Single term limits are working out just swell for Mexico.....
You don't think the lower domestic salaries could have anything to do with the glut of people who entered the market during the dot com boom?
I think its amazing you'd expect your neighbor to make the leap from a Mac to Linux.
Ever hear of another Mac or maybe even Windows?
Didn't Lou Gerstner who ran IBM used to be in the food business directly prior?
There's nothing preventing people from aquiring Linux. Seeing as how its free and people would still rather pay hundreds of dollars for Windows, that kinda speaks badly of Linux don't you think?
Its only fair to note that Palm assisted Microsoft in the handheld market greatly by simply fucking up so many times along the way. No company goes from 100% of the market down to around 30% without a good helping of incompetence.
As long as Apple keeps the sources to the PPC version available they are in some way contributing to open source.
In the meantime if this really bothers you then you may want to kick the BSD license out of the open source camp. It allows for unrestrained raping of OSS code.