- Can you move your songs to another player? (without dancing a conversion ringmarole please). - Can you buy songs in another shop for your iPod? (not that there are any of significance).
The moment that Apple begins to do silly things (lets say to demand that no artist of the music cartels peddles his wares in other shops) they will be in exactly the same position MS was when they began to armforce the computer suppliers.
A reminder that in most civilized places to be a monopoly is not against the law, but monopolies have to be careful how they move when doing bussiness. Apple, for all practical purposes is the proverbial bull that just entered the china shop.
DRM is the deliberate mechanism of record companies to harrass their paying costumers (the people really profitting from piracy could not care less).
DRM was not born out of thin air in nature, it is a deliberate social and technological mechanism which companies with half a clue would have dropped long time ago (or would have not started to use it in the first place).
One solution is reverse Engineered, hoping for the best, and with the Damocles sword of MS patent litigation hanging over anything that smells remotely related to MS.
The other is an open solution provided by a company that, finally, is betting in openess and colaboration.
Hang dry your clothes, put them in the dryer while they still retain a bit of moisture or saok them with a bit of water (one or two cups per load should do). Then you can use the dryer 10 minutes instead of one hour getting very similar results.
Failing that be a real man, real men don't care about scratchy pants.
Gas appliances should be in well ventilated areas. I lived many years in a place that used gas for cooking and the odd ocation when there was some gas leak (pilot flame stopped burning) thre was absolutely no problem.
They could say they will not do any testing themselves but receive any support calls (which clients would have paid for mind you, nobody is asking for charity) in order to fix problems.
Most software would run perfectly fine, other software may hit problems with the OS, for which MS would be paid for fixes.
1.- Believe in a cause or idea. 2.- Spread the idea, convince skeptics. 3.- ??? 4.- Profit (in social status certainly, I have not seen Richard Stallman's Ferrari, but I am sure he lives in hope).
Commercial company:
1.- Have a bussines, make lots of money. 2.- Identify ideas that harm profit, combat them with astroturfing and lobbyists pretending to be unbiased. 3.- ??? 4.- Profit, of the monetary kind that allows for those Ferraris.
Organizations promoting an agenda but not profitting from their activities can be taken serioulsy since theri biases are born out of conviction, not interest.
On the other hand, commercial organizations will go to strenous lenghts to show you black is white if doing so will increase their profits. The tobacco and alcohol companies and their paid for studies and lobbyists are the better known of examples of this.
Although you put it too bluntly (for which you have been labeled a flammer:-) ). there is a monumental grain of truth there. One of the ladies used tos say to one of her firends that she was convinced she will not live beyond the age of 24...
People are jailed for drug offences, one of these ladies spent one year in jail for drug related offences (i.e possession or trafficking).
Is a fact, recognized by this government, that drug addicts get little or no help while they are in jail.
Having said that, if you want to quit they provide you with some help, but, foolishly, drug addicts don;t seem to be anybody's priority (if the government was any wise drug addicts should be a helat priority since a big percentage of petty crime is related to drug addicts trying to get money for their next fix).
... sometimes really look awkward from the wider world.
All the terms you are mentioning are clearly derogative, do not tell us you did not know that as well.
I don't know about you, but if I were doing that activity for a living I would want to be referred as with a respectful term. Sex worker is the accepted term for people that use their sexuality to make a living, but refers more particularly to people that are paid to have sex with clients.
It is the term that people not intent on moralizing or stigmatizing oters will use.
But there are always some people intent in hurting and moralizing about what others do, I'll assume you don't belong to this group of bastards and that you ask driven just by natural curiosity.
If religion was governed by common sense, it would not exist at all (A virgin had a baby? Death people resucitated? 3 gods for the price of one? )
Thus it is only reasonable that free people (religious or not) should ask what are the theological foundations to ignore some bits of the Bible while following others.
Can you kindly point us to a religious authoritative sources (covering 2 or 3 of the most populous Christian sects, lets say Catholics, Orthodox and Lutherans for example) that would validate what you are saying?
You are choosing to attach a judgment of artistic value to the "skilled" or "unskilled" labels.
Luciano Pavarotti can't read music. He is clearly unskilled.
As were the Beattles up to a point(the recent forays of Paul McCartney in the classical music scene show just how unprepared he is from a technical point of view, he will be the first to admit that).
-You have to be able to read music. -You have to be able to understand how harmony works. -You should be mindful of the tradition that allows you to play or sompse your current work, that way you don;t need to reinvent the wheel.
If you broaden this to other musical traditions:
- You need to understand how music is produced in your own culture.
So is this guy skilled?
Clearly not. he does not understand the classical tradition, most likely has not heard about Stockhaussen, The Beattles or Steve Reich, and as many others have mentioned, there are tools to do better the exact same thing (sampling).
The fact that he knows what sounds cool, does not make him skilled, but talented.
There are plenty of people out there with talent for music that are not skilled.
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All new homes should be installed with small wind turbines, solar panels by law and properly insulated by law.
THe more power can be produced close to the source were it is needed, the better.
- Can you move your songs to another player? (without dancing a conversion ringmarole please).
- Can you buy songs in another shop for your iPod? (not that there are any of significance).
The moment that Apple begins to do silly things (lets say to demand that no artist of the music cartels peddles his wares in other shops) they will be in exactly the same position MS was when they began to armforce the computer suppliers.
A reminder that in most civilized places to be a monopoly is not against the law, but monopolies have to be careful how they move when doing bussiness. Apple, for all practical purposes is the proverbial bull that just entered the china shop.
Stop spreading such lie please.
DRM is the deliberate mechanism of record companies to harrass their paying costumers (the people really profitting from piracy could not care less).
DRM was not born out of thin air in nature, it is a deliberate social and technological mechanism which companies with half a clue would have dropped long time ago (or would have not started to use it in the first place).
The thousend of civilians killed there as well in order to protect your interests?
Or the people in countries that will dissapear when sea levele raise?
We do know you guys in the US don't give a damn mostly. but that does not mean nobody cares.
You are one of those people that when they cut themsleves just a bit when shaving, start slashing themselves with the blade to quench their anger.
Or something like that.
Just for the record...
One solution is reverse Engineered, hoping for the best, and with the Damocles sword of MS patent litigation hanging over anything that smells remotely related to MS.
The other is an open solution provided by a company that, finally, is betting in openess and colaboration.
Sorry, but they simple ain't the same things.
Hang dry your clothes, put them in the dryer while they still retain a bit of moisture or saok them with a bit of water (one or two cups per load should do). Then you can use the dryer 10 minutes instead of one hour getting very similar results.
Failing that be a real man, real men don't care about scratchy pants.
Gas appliances should be in well ventilated areas. I lived many years in a place that used gas for cooking and the odd ocation when there was some gas leak (pilot flame stopped burning) thre was absolutely no problem.
They could say they will not do any testing themselves but receive any support calls (which clients would have paid for mind you, nobody is asking for charity) in order to fix problems.
Most software would run perfectly fine, other software may hit problems with the OS, for which MS would be paid for fixes.
Non profit:
1.- Believe in a cause or idea.
2.- Spread the idea, convince skeptics.
3.- ???
4.- Profit (in social status certainly, I have not seen Richard Stallman's Ferrari, but I am sure he lives in hope).
Commercial company:
1.- Have a bussines, make lots of money.
2.- Identify ideas that harm profit, combat them with astroturfing and lobbyists pretending to be unbiased.
3.- ???
4.- Profit, of the monetary kind that allows for those Ferraris.
Cappice?
And it is called profit.
Organizations promoting an agenda but not profitting from their activities can be taken serioulsy since theri biases are born out of conviction, not interest.
On the other hand, commercial organizations will go to strenous lenghts to show you black is white if doing so will increase their profits. The tobacco and alcohol companies and their paid for studies and lobbyists are the better known of examples of this.
Although you put it too bluntly (for which you have been labeled a flammer :-) ). there is a monumental grain of truth there. One of the ladies used tos say to one of her firends that she was convinced she will not live beyond the age of 24...
People are jailed for drug offences, one of these ladies spent one year in jail for drug related offences (i.e possession or trafficking).
Is a fact, recognized by this government, that drug addicts get little or no help while they are in jail.
Having said that, if you want to quit they provide you with some help, but, foolishly, drug addicts don;t seem to be anybody's priority (if the government was any wise drug addicts should be a helat priority since a big percentage of petty crime is related to drug addicts trying to get money for their next fix).
... sometimes really look awkward from the wider world.
All the terms you are mentioning are clearly derogative, do not tell us you did not know that as well.
I don't know about you, but if I were doing that activity for a living I would want to be referred as with a respectful term. Sex worker is the accepted term for people that use their sexuality to make a living, but refers more particularly to people that are paid to have sex with clients.
It is the term that people not intent on moralizing or stigmatizing oters will use.
But there are always some people intent in hurting and moralizing about what others do, I'll assume you don't belong to this group of bastards and that you ask driven just by natural curiosity.
If religion was governed by common sense, it would not exist at all (A virgin had a baby? Death people resucitated? 3 gods for the price of one? )
Thus it is only reasonable that free people (religious or not) should ask what are the theological foundations to ignore some bits of the Bible while following others.
Can you kindly point us to a religious authoritative sources (covering 2 or 3 of the most populous Christian sects, lets say Catholics, Orthodox and Lutherans for example) that would validate what you are saying?
That should be a hell of a lot of context there for those words to mean anything different from what they say...
How lame is that?
Letters between Mozart and his parents, girlfriends and sister are full of escatological references.
One quite amusing find Mozart and his other talking about farts....
At least in most sane countries and localities.
You are choosing to attach a judgment of artistic value to the "skilled" or "unskilled" labels.
Luciano Pavarotti can't read music. He is clearly unskilled.
As were the Beattles up to a point(the recent forays of Paul McCartney in the classical music scene show just how unprepared he is from a technical point of view, he will be the first to admit that).
At least in the Western tradition:
-You have to be able to read music.
-You have to be able to understand how harmony works.
-You should be mindful of the tradition that allows you to play or sompse your current work, that way you don;t need to reinvent the wheel.
If you broaden this to other musical traditions:
- You need to understand how music is produced in your own culture.
So is this guy skilled?
Clearly not. he does not understand the classical tradition, most likely has not heard about Stockhaussen, The Beattles or Steve Reich, and as many others have mentioned, there are tools to do better the exact same thing (sampling).
The fact that he knows what sounds cool, does not make him skilled, but talented.
There are plenty of people out there with talent for music that are not skilled.
It is more efficent.
There is culture.
There are buses.