... but you dish it out like if you were the ultimate authority about the matter.
2.- The goodies.
I used to carry an FM radio, a voice recorder for business meetings and one old MP3 player.
By being "gullible" (how much patronizing can you get?) I managed to reduce my need of different devices fomr 3 to 1, which is far much comfortable, by getting a player with all the fucntionalities.
3. Display
The jury is still out there in regards of the lack of display as a feature. You make it appear like it is all done and dusted, which is patently disingineous. I have never used the shuffle mode, for classical music fans the shuffle mode is a completely nonsensical thing (for the gullible as surely you would put it if you were a classical music fan), people attached to their albums (of any genre) will be horrified to serve their beloved albums in a order chosen by their player.
It may be useful for some, but to try to sell a clear downgrading as a feature is the most shameless PR stunt Apple is attempting. They are selling something crippled compared to the competition but they are not straightforward about it. we are adult enough to be told that they went that way in order to offer a more affordable player. They should teel us so and stop the nonsense about randomizing your life and al other claptrap. I hope this one comes to bite them in the ass.
4. Radio.
Look, if radio where you live sucks is not anybody's fault. The almost complete industry of music players rightly understands that radio is a valuable addition, specially if you can record using the capabilties of your player. In many places radio is a great way of entertainment that provides different alternatives to your music collection. Apple is pretty much the only one that stubbonly refuses to recognize this trend, which is practically a standard. That is their problem but that does not mean that just because Apple is doing it they are right.
5. Size.
This comment is absoultely preposterous.
256MB is 4 CDs, which for many people may be more than enough. As long as the price is fair (many players with this memory or less are insanely cheap) who do you think you are to say if this does not fit the needs of somebody else?. More gratuitious patronizing.
6.- Store lock in.
Although MS has no moral high ground regarding this one they are correct, one should look for the player that offers the widest choice possible if you want to buy music on line. The more shops the better, to marry oneself to one shop for all your music consumption is completely silly.
In my opinion the action people should thake is to avoid shops in their current form until they sort out all the interoperability problems amongst themselves once the people ignore them. But that is not happening, so people should exercise caution.
... then you better find a good explanation aobut how the corps have managed to extend copyright from 50 to 100 years and how evene when it lapses (like the first Mickey Mouse movie) it is short of impossible for people to start copying freely such works.
It may sound like junior HS paranoiabullshit, but that does not mean it is not an accurate description of the state of affairs: the general public is losing access to a social resource due to the bargaining power of unelected entities (the corps) in the political process.
If DVDs were not overpriced there would not be black market, you er, Bozo.
When was the last time you heard about a black market of tomatoes, chicken breasts or ham? Nope, me neither.
What about cigarrettes? Ah, in places where they are overpriced (like the UK due to high taxation) there is a thriving black market industry that the goverment in the UK hopelessly is trying to stop.
You claim to know about economics, but you sound more like a.. er.. clown.
Books are easily copied (copy machines, handwriting a copy, etc).
But they are still copyrighted material.
Digital music could be exactly the same, easily copiable, but that would not give people the right to make millions of copies.
DRM has a completely different agenda that is to rent you the music, or pay per play. I am amazed how many peoplr just don't see that simple fact and are not up in arms against any move in that direction.
He live in Norway, US laws do not necessarily apply.
As for the EULAs, the jury is out there if they are legally enforceable, the impresion you give that they are binding is completely and holly misleading.
I will wait until somebody with the music "people want"[tm] tries it seriously (i.e. no DRM bullshit, understanding that music is a commodity and what you add is a service of easy distribution and cataloging).
A company should put up a website with non DRMes content to which you could subscribe or by by the track. That would not give users the right to share electronically with unkonwn people, and the RIAA could continue their hooby of suing school children, grannies and the ocassional bulk file sharer.
DRM is a flawed technical means to try to remove your personal copy rights, which conveniently the recording industry is using to move us towards a pay per play scheme.
The amazing thing is to see how many sheep are singing the praises of this crappola while going to the butcher.
As are most people willing to live in a DRM world.
First of all Jon is just doing in the open something that otherwise would be done underground. If I was Apple I would hire him as a consultant, and the day I would get a DRM system that Jon could not brake then I would parade it as the mother of all the DRMs solutions.
But of course that would still be missing the point.
Music is nothing but soundwaves. Apple and its unwilling business partners in the recording industry are trying to build a multibillion dollar business selling you, er, air soundwaves.
Humanity for millenia knew that such an idea was silly in extreme, and only the most retrograde of institutions (extremist religions, dictatorial goverments and the RIAA) have tried to curtail the freedom of the people to share a tune.
To be opossed to that is not an extreme position (heck, that you believe that shows how good the PR people working for the recording industry are, they are earning the shitloads of money they surely are being paid, that otherwise would go to artists, but I disgress...), it is just to want to go back to what always was: music as a shared social experience, where musicians *earned* a living getting our there and performing or composing, where patronage (by rich institutions or individuals) was the norm, and where sharing of musical ideas was the norm and even an incipient form of journalism (look for trovadours or mexican "corridos").
The music used to be ours, now us, and more worringly, the artists, have to be asking permission from the middleman to enjoy the music. That is wrong and as far as I am concerned we should do all what we can (legally, which Jon is doing) to oposse this stupid mentality.
If the RIAA members and their equivalents around the world would sit down and make a business plan about freely sharing music (idiots, they are the fucking gate keepers!) they would finish with illegal P2P in a blink.
But they are lazy, and that may be their undoing, sooner or later a majority of artists and new distributors will realize that the way forward is different.
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... but you dish it out like if you were the ultimate authority about the matter.
2.- The goodies.
I used to carry an FM radio, a voice recorder for business meetings and one old MP3 player.
By being "gullible" (how much patronizing can you get?) I managed to reduce my need of different devices fomr 3 to 1, which is far much comfortable, by getting a player with all the fucntionalities.
3. Display
The jury is still out there in regards of the lack of display as a feature. You make it appear like it is all done and dusted, which is patently disingineous. I have never used the shuffle mode, for classical music fans the shuffle mode is a completely nonsensical thing (for the gullible as surely you would put it if you were a classical music fan), people attached to their albums (of any genre) will be horrified to serve their beloved albums in a order chosen by their player.
It may be useful for some, but to try to sell a clear downgrading as a feature is the most shameless PR stunt Apple is attempting. They are selling something crippled compared to the competition but they are not straightforward about it. we are adult enough to be told that they went that way in order to offer a more affordable player. They should teel us so and stop the nonsense about randomizing your life and al other claptrap. I hope this one comes to bite them in the ass.
4. Radio.
Look, if radio where you live sucks is not anybody's fault. The almost complete industry of music players rightly understands that radio is a valuable addition, specially if you can record using the capabilties of your player. In many places radio is a great way of entertainment that provides different alternatives to your music collection. Apple is pretty much the only one that stubbonly refuses to recognize this trend, which is practically a standard. That is their problem but that does not mean that just because Apple is doing it they are right.
5. Size.
This comment is absoultely preposterous.
256MB is 4 CDs, which for many people may be more than enough. As long as the price is fair (many players with this memory or less are insanely cheap) who do you think you are to say if this does not fit the needs of somebody else?. More gratuitious patronizing.
6.- Store lock in.
Although MS has no moral high ground regarding this one they are correct, one should look for the player that offers the widest choice possible if you want to buy music on line. The more shops the better, to marry oneself to one shop for all your music consumption is completely silly.
In my opinion the action people should thake is to avoid shops in their current form until they sort out all the interoperability problems amongst themselves once the people ignore them. But that is not happening, so people should exercise caution.
FM radio does not suck globally.
Or is this a well organize anti Linux troll?
Can somebody based in the US confirm if the information below is real:
From http://www.adti.net/form990/tax.menu.html:
Address:
Suite 151
Benning Street
West Lebanon
NH 03784
Or given them a call:
(603) 6496395
When I check the map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=03784
I can't help it but note how empty it all looks.
All very fishy.
Banks do not send CC information over the Internet.
ATMs normally are on Intranets or private nets not connected to the net.
.... you USians never stop to amaze us.
In similar situations I just handed over my stuff.
Nobody was hurt, I was protected (insured) so I did not lose anything. One of the thieves was later caught.
With all due respect I think you USian guys should consider what firearms are doing to your society.
In South Africa an Namibia game of all kind is eaten regularly and sold in supermarkets.
Assuming evolution has a purpose or direction.
Our immune systems are not highly evolved, they are highly adapted.
Which means they are great for the current conditions in which we evolve.
If a sudden agressive external agent would threaten us, our immune system may be completely hopeless.
Which may explain why we use rodents for lab experiments.
Uninformed gut feeling says that all information collected by evolving immune systems is not kept forever.
Job 41; Psalm 104:26 (New International Version): ....
....
20 Smoke pours from his nostrils
as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 His breath sets coals ablaze,
and flames dart from his mouth.
if you, or any other fools, trust those accounts, well, wahtever...
Go and check what they are.
MS is breaking yet another standard and here you are, pandering to their monopolistic ego.
.... that such thing is not a valid URI.
It is yet another Microsoftism that you are legitimizing.
Up to date, latest and greatest ones.
I don't care if they are bnaries, the important think would be that any Linux user could get hold of one.
With Novell, RH, Sun and IBM pushing for commercial Linux desktops we may get this more often thatn we currently do now.
....to cut and paste that into my newly opened window browser.
Lazy cunt!
Unless you are sick or dixlexic, getting a reproduceable signature is not rocket science.
That is if the stockmarket is up wise boy.
And even bonds have risks, US bonds may become trash bonds if the US economy collapses under the weight of public deficit (a la Argentina).
... I will gut your entrails with my hook...
... then you better find a good explanation aobut how the corps have managed to extend copyright from 50 to 100 years and how evene when it lapses (like the first Mickey Mouse movie) it is short of impossible for people to start copying freely such works.
It may sound like junior HS paranoiabullshit, but that does not mean it is not an accurate description of the state of affairs: the general public is losing access to a social resource due to the bargaining power of unelected entities (the corps) in the political process.
If DVDs were not overpriced there would not be black market, you er, Bozo.
.. er .. clown.
When was the last time you heard about a black market of tomatoes, chicken breasts or ham? Nope, me neither.
What about cigarrettes? Ah, in places where they are overpriced (like the UK due to high taxation) there is a thriving black market industry that the goverment in the UK hopelessly is trying to stop.
You claim to know about economics, but you sound more like a
... to see low intensity racism having still supporters in /.
Heartwarming.
And if they made you sign a contract giving yourself as their slave, that would be also enforceable for sure...
There are certain things that even if signed with blood, can't be legally binding.
Books are easily copied (copy machines, handwriting a copy, etc).
But they are still copyrighted material.
Digital music could be exactly the same, easily copiable, but that would not give people the right to make millions of copies.
DRM has a completely different agenda that is to rent you the music, or pay per play. I am amazed how many peoplr just don't see that simple fact and are not up in arms against any move in that direction.
He live in Norway, US laws do not necessarily apply.
As for the EULAs, the jury is out there if they are legally enforceable, the impresion you give that they are binding is completely and holly misleading.
I will wait until somebody with the music "people want"[tm] tries it seriously (i.e. no DRM bullshit, understanding that music is a commodity and what you add is a service of easy distribution and cataloging).
A company should put up a website with non DRMes content to which you could subscribe or by by the track. That would not give users the right to share electronically with unkonwn people, and the RIAA could continue their hooby of suing school children, grannies and the ocassional bulk file sharer.
DRM is a flawed technical means to try to remove your personal copy rights, which conveniently the recording industry is using to move us towards a pay per play scheme.
The amazing thing is to see how many sheep are singing the praises of this crappola while going to the butcher.
.... does not apply to Norway.
As are most people willing to live in a DRM world.
First of all Jon is just doing in the open something that otherwise would be done underground. If I was Apple I would hire him as a consultant, and the day I would get a DRM system that Jon could not brake then I would parade it as the mother of all the DRMs solutions.
But of course that would still be missing the point.
Music is nothing but soundwaves. Apple and its unwilling business partners in the recording industry are trying to build a multibillion dollar business selling you, er, air soundwaves.
Humanity for millenia knew that such an idea was silly in extreme, and only the most retrograde of institutions (extremist religions, dictatorial goverments and the RIAA) have tried to curtail the freedom of the people to share a tune.
To be opossed to that is not an extreme position (heck, that you believe that shows how good the PR people working for the recording industry are, they are earning the shitloads of money they surely are being paid, that otherwise would go to artists, but I disgress...), it is just to want to go back to what always was: music as a shared social experience, where musicians *earned* a living getting our there and performing or composing, where patronage (by rich institutions or individuals) was the norm, and where sharing of musical ideas was the norm and even an incipient form of journalism (look for trovadours or mexican "corridos").
The music used to be ours, now us, and more worringly, the artists, have to be asking permission from the middleman to enjoy the music. That is wrong and as far as I am concerned we should do all what we can (legally, which Jon is doing) to oposse this stupid mentality.
If the RIAA members and their equivalents around the world would sit down and make a business plan about freely sharing music (idiots, they are the fucking gate keepers!) they would finish with illegal P2P in a blink.
But they are lazy, and that may be their undoing, sooner or later a majority of artists and new distributors will realize that the way forward is different.