Uh, what? If you're trying to make some manner of witty "parody definition," which you seem to be, it may help to include the word which you are trying to "define."
I download a shitload of music. Mostly legally, but honestly, not entirely. And in the ten years or so I've been doing that (and much more heavily in the last five, as the free culture movement and "free web alternatives" have really started to come into their own), I have bought easily twice as much music as I used to. Not as much major label stuff, because mostly I have the stuff I'd want already, or if I'm really into an artist I'll buy their new album, but that's about it. But half my CD collection now is independent and local music. Granted, that time frame was also the time frame in which I joined the workforce, so YMMV, but that's my story.
Please. To attribute a 50% decline in sales to music piracy is delusional. The vast majority of the people I know wouldn't even know how. Maybe people just don't want that crap.
(Not the OP) Are you kidding me? Do you live in a city at all? Are you seriously unaware of the phenomenon? I live in Minneapolis, which is not exactly the hub of the hip hop world, but it's definitely a presence here.
FYI, Bon Jovi is still making great albums, and still touring. Don't shit on Bon Jovi, they made it honestly, by making great albums that people love and putting on fantastic live performances. They're not a boy band.
In other news, I was just listening to the Ellington Suites last night. Duke Ellington is fucking incredible.
When using the Arch build system, source is downloaded directly from upstream, any alterations (patches, build flags, et cetera) are made according to the PKGBUILD file (here's an example I was just looking at in another tab: unetbootin's PKGBUILD.
If you're using ABS, you only have to trust the upstream source. You can read the PKGBUILD yourself. If you're not competent to do that, no, you shouldn't be using Arch.
If Banshee didn't exist, Canonical would use another media player to do the same thing or write their own if there wasn't one suitable. The actual media player in use isn't important.
The fact that Ubuntu shipped with Rhythmbox for so many years would seem to suggest otherwise.
They are not in any trouble unless they don't release source on request to the people they sell binaries to. That's all it takes. If you're doing that, you're free to be as big a douche as you like. This recent story about Blender is not the first time someone's tried to do that.
Arch's AUR and the ABS build system don't depend on someone else's possibly suspect binaries at all. If it's security you want, it's security you'll get.
That is a specious argument. Anything that's powered by fossil fuel is losing 70% of its potential energy before it gets to your house, therefore we should outlaw electricity.
I wholeheartedly agree, and that's why I think we need to ban automobiles. Your right to drive ends when you start screwing up my climate. Buy a damn bike, then you can bitch about light bulbs.
If you already do not own a car (although I am being at least partially tongue in cheek here I really don't; I bike 11 miles to work every day), I retract my comment, and feel free to bitch away.
That doesn't have anything to do with light bulbs. If that's your issue (and it's a big one, I agree), then set real mandates on power plant efficiency. Of course we won't do that, because the coal lobby is huge.
Kind of like how we keep raising tobacco taxes rather than simply outlawing cigarettes. We pass the buck on down the line until we find a group of people who don't have the power to affect policy, then we screw them, rather than fixing real problems. (Before anyone gets up in my grill about this socialist metaphor, I'm typing with a Pall Mall hanging out of my mouth right now.)
Someone doesn't have to be convicted to be guilty. A guilty person is guilty when they commit the crime, not when found guilty in court.
My ass. This is America. You are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Let me repeat that. Innocent. Until proven. Guilty. You don't like that, get the fuck out.
It's Bruce Byfield. He's almost entirely an opinion columnist (and really, aren't all "tech journalists" really opinion columnists? i keed, i keed). Did you read the article?
And I just looked at the front page and counted four opinion pieces (not counting Idle). Maybe our front page settings are different though.
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Uh, what? If you're trying to make some manner of witty "parody definition," which you seem to be, it may help to include the word which you are trying to "define."
Correct.
Okay, you're a troll.
I download a shitload of music. Mostly legally, but honestly, not entirely. And in the ten years or so I've been doing that (and much more heavily in the last five, as the free culture movement and "free web alternatives" have really started to come into their own), I have bought easily twice as much music as I used to. Not as much major label stuff, because mostly I have the stuff I'd want already, or if I'm really into an artist I'll buy their new album, but that's about it. But half my CD collection now is independent and local music. Granted, that time frame was also the time frame in which I joined the workforce, so YMMV, but that's my story.
Please. To attribute a 50% decline in sales to music piracy is delusional. The vast majority of the people I know wouldn't even know how. Maybe people just don't want that crap.
(Not the OP) Are you kidding me? Do you live in a city at all? Are you seriously unaware of the phenomenon? I live in Minneapolis, which is not exactly the hub of the hip hop world, but it's definitely a presence here.
Oh, fuckin tight. Thanks for the tip.
Hell yeah. Some artists I've found and fallen in love with via Jamendo...
I Am Not Lefthanded
Hellfire Snake
Crosscut Saw
Diablo Swing Orchestra
I have since purchased copies of I Am Not Lefthanded's EPs. They're in the studio working on a new album now, I'm really looking forward to it.
FYI, Bon Jovi is still making great albums, and still touring. Don't shit on Bon Jovi, they made it honestly, by making great albums that people love and putting on fantastic live performances. They're not a boy band.
In other news, I was just listening to the Ellington Suites last night. Duke Ellington is fucking incredible.
When using the Arch build system, source is downloaded directly from upstream, any alterations (patches, build flags, et cetera) are made according to the PKGBUILD file (here's an example I was just looking at in another tab: unetbootin's PKGBUILD.
This wiki page provides a good overview of the process.
If you're using ABS, you only have to trust the upstream source. You can read the PKGBUILD yourself. If you're not competent to do that, no, you shouldn't be using Arch.
If Banshee didn't exist, Canonical would use another media player to do the same thing or write their own if there wasn't one suitable. The actual media player in use isn't important.
The fact that Ubuntu shipped with Rhythmbox for so many years would seem to suggest otherwise.
Yes you can, and yes it does.
They are not in any trouble unless they don't release source on request to the people they sell binaries to. That's all it takes. If you're doing that, you're free to be as big a douche as you like. This recent story about Blender is not the first time someone's tried to do that.
Or Gentoo if I suddenly start getting hard-ons for hours of compilation again.
You can do that with Arch too. Look into ABS.
That's a valid critique, but...
Arch's AUR and the ABS build system don't depend on someone else's possibly suspect binaries at all. If it's security you want, it's security you'll get.
But people don't make rational economic decisions. They subordinate long-term rewards for short-term savings.
If I have twenty bucks now but am getting paid on Thursday, how is that not a rational economic decision?
That is a specious argument. Anything that's powered by fossil fuel is losing 70% of its potential energy before it gets to your house, therefore we should outlaw electricity.
Do you own a car? A computer? A house?
I wholeheartedly agree, and that's why I think we need to ban automobiles. Your right to drive ends when you start screwing up my climate. Buy a damn bike, then you can bitch about light bulbs.
If you already do not own a car (although I am being at least partially tongue in cheek here I really don't; I bike 11 miles to work every day), I retract my comment, and feel free to bitch away.
That doesn't have anything to do with light bulbs. If that's your issue (and it's a big one, I agree), then set real mandates on power plant efficiency. Of course we won't do that, because the coal lobby is huge.
Kind of like how we keep raising tobacco taxes rather than simply outlawing cigarettes. We pass the buck on down the line until we find a group of people who don't have the power to affect policy, then we screw them, rather than fixing real problems. (Before anyone gets up in my grill about this socialist metaphor, I'm typing with a Pall Mall hanging out of my mouth right now.)
They don't owe him anything
Like hell they don't. They owe him the money that they collected on his behalf.
Someone doesn't have to be convicted to be guilty. A guilty person is guilty when they commit the crime, not when found guilty in court.
My ass. This is America. You are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Let me repeat that. Innocent. Until proven. Guilty. You don't like that, get the fuck out.
They already provided service. They took the money. They accepted the donations. This is theft.
Why do you hate America?
It's Bruce Byfield. He's almost entirely an opinion columnist (and really, aren't all "tech journalists" really opinion columnists? i keed, i keed). Did you read the article?
And I just looked at the front page and counted four opinion pieces (not counting Idle). Maybe our front page settings are different though.