And WHY do the tickets cost so much?? Because artists usually get most of their proffit strictly from performances because thier label takes (steals) most of all other avenues or proffit like CDs and video recordings. So WHO benefits from the RIAA? Oh yea, the RIAA. What point do they serve? Its like the SNL change bank...
For me this is closely related to a topic once brought up by Ray Kurzweil. It went something like: If we have nanobot swarms (atomic level robots in this case) that could actually create any physical item including furniture, clothing, even medicine, and which could instantly reproduce and repair themsleves, we would reach a new delema. Would these companies restrict the technology so that they could charge on the old model of one charge per instance (or in a companies IDEAL world, one charge per length of use, per functionality, etc). Keep in mind that after the first swarm its pretty much a free process, its all becomes IP! Would they really restrict the potential to clothe and feed and care for virtually everyone on the planet due to our (highly corrupt) concept of money (which is one of the few things in existance which doesnt obey the laws of balance. You can create money out of NOTHING, so what is it worth, really? Ask the Federal Reserve what THEY think. You think all your money is backed up by either cash OR gold? Nope. There is not enough "money" in existance to pay off all the debt created by the Fed. See here for further details) I think that the copy protected CDs Movies etc is the first real version of this scenario on a major scale. I dont think its nearly as critical tho - in my opinion, dont make it available to the public if you dont want them to use it change it, etc. Any other argument belies the fact that if its in bits you can copy it, and if the COMPUTER IS TURNEND ON, ITS INSECURE.
I think that Mr. Valenti just wanted to see how many posts he could ignite and flame wars he could start on slashdot. Of course you cant copy protect PCs. Everone knows that if its turned on, its insecure...right???
NO remember those "good faith talks" that the English had arranged with the Scottish way back when...?(think "Braveheart") Uh huh....run for the hills!
Its not like this was a succesful product on either windows or linux, and the windows population (which doesnt even know this program exists) wont buy it, and with free solutions that are much cleaner and feature rich (AbiWord, Koffice, Gnumeric) why would a linux user (who doesnt like to spend money on software anyway) buy it? I am sure that Sun knows this and are essentially pulling out of the mainstream office suite market.
I have to agree...I have read both "The hacker crackdown" and "In the beginning there was the command line" on my m125- its easy and fun. And those two books are available for free at memoware
Does anyone agree that the fonts in general in linux, and in KDE as well are pretty bad? Sometimes when they are smaller than 12point they are rendered almost illegibly. Mostly I am talking about the browser rendering fonts. I have tried Konquerer, Mozilla 0.97 and netscape 6.2, and the story is the same: fonts look terrible. Is there a workaround for this? Anyone using the beta notice an improvement?? Thanks!
Hopefully Ximian will support 8.2...
My friend (at my advice that Mandrake was easy to use) installed Mandrake 8.1 and it completed fskced his computer...MBR and all. Now he cant boot windows OR linux. Maybe this is because of XP? Any one have ideas? (and its not like you can mess up the Mandrake install that much)
I use Gnome daily at home as my main desktop...i think it works fine right now, my only question is "will it run faster"? it seems pretty slow in comparison with say KDE. I like it more though...
Im interested to hear more about this. What will be your income? Will you grow food and have livestock? will you have stuff like electricity or are you going hard core 1800s?
yea thats great and all, but.nap? I dont think so. Why should a single company get to decide an industry standard file type? Oops....xls.doc.ppt...
never mind! Sign me up! w00t!
BillGates: [rolls dice] = 8
BillGates: sweet, doubles!
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.
Chance: "Place token to nearest anti-trust judge. If he is unowned you may buy him from the bank, otherwise come up with new settlement plan."
BillGates: damn!
BillGates: [rolls dice] = 5...
I have always wondered if one of the reasons that MS has more virii is becuase they are simply more popular. Would linux have as much trouble if it had as many users running around willy-nilly? You know what they say about those users.
...snicker....
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I hear there is some cheap real estate in Kabul...
Personally I would like some sort of OSDN email address like @linux.com...that would be well worth the subscirption price..(email + add free)
And WHY do the tickets cost so much?? Because artists usually get most of their proffit strictly from performances because thier label takes (steals) most of all other avenues or proffit like CDs and video recordings. So WHO benefits from the RIAA? Oh yea, the RIAA. What point do they serve? Its like the SNL change bank...
For me this is closely related to a topic once brought up by Ray Kurzweil. It went something like: If we have nanobot swarms (atomic level robots in this case) that could actually create any physical item including furniture, clothing, even medicine, and which could instantly reproduce and repair themsleves, we would reach a new delema. Would these companies restrict the technology so that they could charge on the old model of one charge per instance (or in a companies IDEAL world, one charge per length of use, per functionality, etc). Keep in mind that after the first swarm its pretty much a free process, its all becomes IP! Would they really restrict the potential to clothe and feed and care for virtually everyone on the planet due to our (highly corrupt) concept of money (which is one of the few things in existance which doesnt obey the laws of balance. You can create money out of NOTHING, so what is it worth, really? Ask the Federal Reserve what THEY think. You think all your money is backed up by either cash OR gold? Nope. There is not enough "money" in existance to pay off all the debt created by the Fed. See here for further details) I think that the copy protected CDs Movies etc is the first real version of this scenario on a major scale. I dont think its nearly as critical tho - in my opinion, dont make it available to the public if you dont want them to use it change it, etc. Any other argument belies the fact that if its in bits you can copy it, and if the COMPUTER IS TURNEND ON, ITS INSECURE.
I think that Mr. Valenti just wanted to see how many posts he could ignite and flame wars he could start on slashdot. Of course you cant copy protect PCs. Everone knows that if its turned on, its insecure...right???
NO remember those "good faith talks" that the English had arranged with the Scottish way back when...?(think "Braveheart") Uh huh....run for the hills!
Its not like this was a succesful product on either windows or linux, and the windows population (which doesnt even know this program exists) wont buy it, and with free solutions that are much cleaner and feature rich (AbiWord, Koffice, Gnumeric) why would a linux user (who doesnt like to spend money on software anyway) buy it? I am sure that Sun knows this and are essentially pulling out of the mainstream office suite market.
I have to agree...I have read both "The hacker crackdown" and "In the beginning there was the command line" on my m125- its easy and fun. And those two books are available for free at memoware
Does anyone agree that the fonts in general in linux, and in KDE as well are pretty bad? Sometimes when they are smaller than 12point they are rendered almost illegibly. Mostly I am talking about the browser rendering fonts. I have tried Konquerer, Mozilla 0.97 and netscape 6.2, and the story is the same: fonts look terrible. Is there a workaround for this? Anyone using the beta notice an improvement?? Thanks!
cast your bit!
mtv: rock the bit!
You think it will be 1$? It will be about the price of a rental which is like 4
Have you used ximian's evolution? It is really a gem. I like it even better than outlook or Mozilla mail.
Have a script for this? Wanna share? ;)
Hopefully Ximian will support 8.2...
My friend (at my advice that Mandrake was easy to use) installed Mandrake 8.1 and it completed fskced his computer...MBR and all. Now he cant boot windows OR linux. Maybe this is because of XP? Any one have ideas? (and its not like you can mess up the Mandrake install that much)
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I use Gnome daily at home as my main desktop...i think it works fine right now, my only question is "will it run faster"? it seems pretty slow in comparison with say KDE. I like it more though...
Can I go too? lol I have always wondered about this option..it is nice to see someone actually doing it. You guys should have a weblog or something..
because they arent working to rip them to mp3 they are working to rip them to some nonstandard "secure" format like wma.
I think iCD probably infringes upon some apple trademark.
how about IANACD?
Im interested to hear more about this. What will be your income? Will you grow food and have livestock? will you have stuff like electricity or are you going hard core 1800s?
yea thats great and all, but .nap? I dont think so. Why should a single company get to decide an industry standard file type? Oops... .xls .doc .ppt...
never mind! Sign me up! w00t!
My first impression (because IAAG "I am a geek") is, "hey, if you dont want people to rebroadcast it, dont broadcast it in the first place".
Micorsoft-opoly...
BillGates: [rolls dice] = 8
BillGates: sweet, doubles!
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.
Chance: "Place token to nearest anti-trust judge. If he is unowned you may buy him from the bank, otherwise come up with new settlement plan."
BillGates: damn!
BillGates: [rolls dice] = 5...
the choice is obvious padawan.... vi. may the source be with you.
I have always wondered if one of the reasons that MS has more virii is becuase they are simply more popular. Would linux have as much trouble if it had as many users running around willy-nilly? You know what they say about those users.
...snicker....