Traditionally the monopoly has made some new API and just made it something you have to install. The old VB runtimes. The.net runtime. The whatever runtime/library/something-or-other.
They can still make up a new api every couple of years and get that running on xp too. Make the latest Visual Studio generated apps use it and you've got a lot of developers using it to make little programs. And big programs.
Which makes a lot of catching up for the WINE guys. Which is how the game is played I guess.
Maybe if they get far enough with XP compatibilty the new runtime installer would run in WINE. That'd be neat.
Intel prohibits bribes and kickbacks. Intel employees may not offer or accept a bribe or a kickback. Bribes and kickbacks are prohibited either directly or through a third party.
At Intel, corporate responsibility means doing what is right. Respecting people and the world around us. Its how we do business.
I wonder if it's occurred t you that when you pirate the music that the RIAA 'owns', that you help to cement their monopoly and keep the independent bands from accessing the distribution methods the corporations have locked in.
It is something I've thought about over the years. I think that this might be true for say, Photoshop, or windows. If nobody could pirate it hardly anybody would use it and they'd go out of business. For music I'm not convinced of this and here's why:
If some newbie gets onto P2P for the first time and can't find whatever crud it is they listen to then they're going to get frustrated and leave without discovering the joy of all the eclectic and wonderful music out there. They'll just go back to itunes with its crappy catalog. Back in the days of napster it had a great social aspect via its little chat rooms that caused an indie music explosion, yet if you couldn't get the songs you wanted from napster you never would have ended up in those rooms. Now that aspect is diminished but at least once someone gets the hang of the pirate bay they might start browsing through the torrents and grab something that sounds interesting. They might even buy the album as a result. Who knows, it might not even be owned by Sony.
A second reason I'll never stop doing this has nothing to do with 'fighting the man' or such, it's just that I really love music and want to share it with as many people as possible. Not many people are sharing some of the albums I have so I like to keep it out there for more people to experience, no matter who owns the rights. I wouldn't have heard one hundredth of the music I've heard without piracy.
If everybody (using p2p) stuck to their guns on this issue in the way you're suggesting, P2P would be gone in a short time and everybody would be back to getting screwed again. Short of a revolution the RIAA's control of music distribution isn't going away just by a few people not listening to it.
How about not just consuming? That way you're not giving the labels money, nor are you doing something others find wrong.
The trouble is that a lot of this stuff is just part of our culture. As a nerd particularly things come up as a kind of humour (overdone by shows like Family Guy IMHO) where people make obscure references to films, shows and music. That's not all there is to it of course but it's a part.
Films like Full Metal Jacket, or Lord of the Rings. I didn't go to see it in the cinema but I did download lotr. Reading the book just doesn't cut it in this sense (of course it's better, that's not what I'm saying). I'm sorry but I just can't reconcile cutting out the studios altogether and still being friends with my friends and part of society.
In a cultural sense the labels and studios really have us by the balls. They own our culture.
Personally, I think what will happen in 10, 20, and 30 years is that these college kids will finally get real jobs and realize that when folks steal their stuff without compensation, they don't get paid.
I realise I'm in the minority here but I'm in my late twenties and have enough disposable income to regularly buy music CD's or films on DVD. Generally if I want something in particular, I download it. Either way I never pay for it if it's from the major labels or studios. To some this is reprehensible but to me the action of giving any company associated with the RIAA money is worse.
If the artists were getting fairly compensated then maybe I would have come around. If they hadn't lobbies so hard for all these bullshit laws then I might not have these opinions today.
As far as I'm concerned: the artists can starve. Let this entire industry crumble. I have a sneaking suspicion that people would continue making music anyway, because it's what they love. Today a band can form, play some live gigs, press their own CD's, and still turn a profit. It might not be enough to live on if they don't get really famous, but you can make enough to recover your costs and then some. For most bands signed to the labels this never happens - they are left with a debt to pay off.
Anyhow, my original point was that hopefully the kids of today will be just as alienated by the kinds of tactics that we're seeing that they won't grow up and get with the program. A guy can dream eh?
Perfect Competition is a game that seems to have similar goals, but I guess it must be fun enough for at least a few people to play. It wasn't really my thing but it is a business/economics sim that is quite active.
From their site:
Players can establish companies, run a hedge fund, direct a company as the chairperson, recruit and dismiss staff, choose markets, set up business units (shops, factories, oil rigs, mines, livestock farms, crop farms, logging camps), deal with suppliers, decide on locations and transport, manage production, pay wages, set prices, innovate and differentiate products, carry out R&D, patent intellectual property, advertise, build brands, sell products, sell services, buy and sell land, invest in real estate, borrow and lend through company bonds, issue shares, invest in shares for dividends, speculate in shares for capital gains, acquire and merge companies, execute hostile takeovers, create horizontal and vertical business conglomerates, buy market research, analyse balance sheets and profit and loss statements, monitor cash flow, examine financial ratios, view economic statistics, and base business decisions on the economy of the game: interest rates, inflation, commodity supply shocks, and more. It is the most comprehensive, realistic and popular business simulation.
We've had a few of these articles here on slashdot now, and there's a few other FUD articles making the rounds too (The Register has had a pretty terrible article up for the last couple days about Microsoft v mankind). Groklaw's PJ has an article about it up:
Really, this supposed infighting doesn't exist, and having these articles on slashdot just helps us be part of Microsoft's mouthpiece. Even if there was a lot of infighting among the kernel developers (there isn't, by the way - not in the sense of a civil war causing total annihilation), all you'd get is a fork and people would move in that direction. I believe that all these articles about Con Kolivas's scheduler are part of this FUD machine and are blown way out of proportion.
For the curious wanting to understand a bit better about Linus's tree not being the be-all and end-all, check out this gentoo kernel page that talks about some other branches and unofficial trees.
Hate to be the Devil's advocate, but it's a matter of how you look at it.
If you consider copyright to be a basic right of the people, ie, any work a man creates should be copyrighted, then it falls under protecting their basic rights - "...all citizens have their rights protected."
Of course, I think that's absolute shite, but not a bad way wiggle out of it.
I think the point is, that non-US data will muck up the survey. Different countries have different amounts of unemployment, better/worse economies, so if you're trying to figure out how long it takes to get a job, you're better off with localised data.
I would certainly stop that mail from being sent to the wrong co-worker, however I'd also notify the police and send them any evidence I could. Killing people is illegal, and not telling the police about it would be breaking the law, not just company policy.
There was a slashdot user named Trollback, who's journal may interest you.
It was an automated system, that would rate various troll posts on certain criteria, including number of replies and moderations, to give an overall score. Unfortunately, it seems to have been discontinued.
I can tell you from first hand experience that you can install regular slackware from boot floppies and having the packages on the computers hard drive (download them from windows, say, or get them from another computer). Just boot, do whatever partitioning is necessary, mount whatever has the packages, install.
Does big slack have a different purpose? If not, it seems kindof pointeless.
BTW, does anybody know of another distro that lets you do this? (Install without a cd, and without a net connection, just reading the files from the hard drive it's installing to). LFS can, I believe, but that's a lot of work.
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Traditionally the monopoly has made some new API and just made it something you have to install. The old VB runtimes. The .net runtime. The whatever runtime/library/something-or-other.
They can still make up a new api every couple of years and get that running on xp too. Make the latest Visual Studio generated apps use it and you've got a lot of developers using it to make little programs. And big programs.
Which makes a lot of catching up for the WINE guys. Which is how the game is played I guess.
Maybe if they get far enough with XP compatibilty the new runtime installer would run in WINE. That'd be neat.
Some of the fun things from there:
Intel prohibits bribes and kickbacks. Intel employees may not offer or accept a bribe or a kickback. Bribes and kickbacks are prohibited either directly or through a third party.
At Intel, corporate responsibility means doing what is right. Respecting people and the world around us. Its how we do business.
Ah, PR is a funny beast.
It is something I've thought about over the years. I think that this might be true for say, Photoshop, or windows. If nobody could pirate it hardly anybody would use it and they'd go out of business. For music I'm not convinced of this and here's why:
If some newbie gets onto P2P for the first time and can't find whatever crud it is they listen to then they're going to get frustrated and leave without discovering the joy of all the eclectic and wonderful music out there. They'll just go back to itunes with its crappy catalog. Back in the days of napster it had a great social aspect via its little chat rooms that caused an indie music explosion, yet if you couldn't get the songs you wanted from napster you never would have ended up in those rooms. Now that aspect is diminished but at least once someone gets the hang of the pirate bay they might start browsing through the torrents and grab something that sounds interesting. They might even buy the album as a result. Who knows, it might not even be owned by Sony.
A second reason I'll never stop doing this has nothing to do with 'fighting the man' or such, it's just that I really love music and want to share it with as many people as possible. Not many people are sharing some of the albums I have so I like to keep it out there for more people to experience, no matter who owns the rights. I wouldn't have heard one hundredth of the music I've heard without piracy.
If everybody (using p2p) stuck to their guns on this issue in the way you're suggesting, P2P would be gone in a short time and everybody would be back to getting screwed again. Short of a revolution the RIAA's control of music distribution isn't going away just by a few people not listening to it.
The trouble is that a lot of this stuff is just part of our culture. As a nerd particularly things come up as a kind of humour (overdone by shows like Family Guy IMHO) where people make obscure references to films, shows and music. That's not all there is to it of course but it's a part.
Films like Full Metal Jacket, or Lord of the Rings. I didn't go to see it in the cinema but I did download lotr. Reading the book just doesn't cut it in this sense (of course it's better, that's not what I'm saying). I'm sorry but I just can't reconcile cutting out the studios altogether and still being friends with my friends and part of society.
In a cultural sense the labels and studios really have us by the balls. They own our culture.
I realise I'm in the minority here but I'm in my late twenties and have enough disposable income to regularly buy music CD's or films on DVD. Generally if I want something in particular, I download it. Either way I never pay for it if it's from the major labels or studios. To some this is reprehensible but to me the action of giving any company associated with the RIAA money is worse.
If the artists were getting fairly compensated then maybe I would have come around. If they hadn't lobbies so hard for all these bullshit laws then I might not have these opinions today.
As far as I'm concerned: the artists can starve. Let this entire industry crumble. I have a sneaking suspicion that people would continue making music anyway, because it's what they love. Today a band can form, play some live gigs, press their own CD's, and still turn a profit. It might not be enough to live on if they don't get really famous, but you can make enough to recover your costs and then some. For most bands signed to the labels this never happens - they are left with a debt to pay off.
Anyhow, my original point was that hopefully the kids of today will be just as alienated by the kinds of tactics that we're seeing that they won't grow up and get with the program. A guy can dream eh?
Perfect Competition is a game that seems to have similar goals, but I guess it must be fun enough for at least a few people to play. It wasn't really my thing but it is a business/economics sim that is quite active. From their site: Players can establish companies, run a hedge fund, direct a company as the chairperson, recruit and dismiss staff, choose markets, set up business units (shops, factories, oil rigs, mines, livestock farms, crop farms, logging camps), deal with suppliers, decide on locations and transport, manage production, pay wages, set prices, innovate and differentiate products, carry out R&D, patent intellectual property, advertise, build brands, sell products, sell services, buy and sell land, invest in real estate, borrow and lend through company bonds, issue shares, invest in shares for dividends, speculate in shares for capital gains, acquire and merge companies, execute hostile takeovers, create horizontal and vertical business conglomerates, buy market research, analyse balance sheets and profit and loss statements, monitor cash flow, examine financial ratios, view economic statistics, and base business decisions on the economy of the game: interest rates, inflation, commodity supply shocks, and more. It is the most comprehensive, realistic and popular business simulation.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070921112733615
Really, this supposed infighting doesn't exist, and having these articles on slashdot just helps us be part of Microsoft's mouthpiece. Even if there was a lot of infighting among the kernel developers (there isn't, by the way - not in the sense of a civil war causing total annihilation), all you'd get is a fork and people would move in that direction. I believe that all these articles about Con Kolivas's scheduler are part of this FUD machine and are blown way out of proportion.
For the curious wanting to understand a bit better about Linus's tree not being the be-all and end-all, check out this gentoo kernel page that talks about some other branches and unofficial trees.
Enlighten me. What should I listen to. Where is the good mixed music?
I just hope I don't lose a leg to net congestion. :/
No MPAA or RIAA member has gotten any of my money in twenty years
Ever bought a CD-R?
Anything?
I've thought of a revolutionary new policy to decrease the road toll: revoke everybody's license.
If anybody driving on the road gets arrested, think how few deaths there will be!
Not just high in fibre?
Fuckhead.
Hey, that was pretty amusing.
Hate to be the Devil's advocate, but it's a matter of how you look at it.
If you consider copyright to be a basic right of the people, ie, any work a man creates should be copyrighted, then it falls under protecting their basic rights - "...all citizens have their rights protected."
Of course, I think that's absolute shite, but not a bad way wiggle out of it.
I think the point is, that non-US data will muck up the survey. Different countries have different amounts of unemployment, better/worse economies, so if you're trying to figure out how long it takes to get a job, you're better off with localised data.
That is why there was the attempt to put all the checks and balances in place.
Unfortunately, now they're cash checks and bank balances.
Something Awful actually redirected hits from /. to goatse.cx once when they were linked to by the front page.
I wonder how the host of goatse felt about all that traffic, since I doubt SA asked for permission....
I would certainly stop that mail from being sent to the wrong co-worker, however I'd also notify the police and send them any evidence I could. Killing people is illegal, and not telling the police about it would be breaking the law, not just company policy.
I would have deleted it also, regardless of any kind of policy.
There was a slashdot user named Trollback, who's journal may interest you.
It was an automated system, that would rate various troll posts on certain criteria, including number of replies and moderations, to give an overall score. Unfortunately, it seems to have been discontinued.
I can tell you from first hand experience that you can install regular slackware from boot floppies and having the packages on the computers hard drive (download them from windows, say, or get them from another computer). Just boot, do whatever partitioning is necessary, mount whatever has the packages, install.
Does big slack have a different purpose? If not, it seems kindof pointeless.
BTW, does anybody know of another distro that lets you do this? (Install without a cd, and without a net connection, just reading the files from the hard drive it's installing to). LFS can, I believe, but that's a lot of work.
A google search for foxpro came up with a bunch of MS sites - got a better url?
Show me a tool comparable to MS Access in terms of ease of creating forms and reports; I'm yet to see one.
This is neither profound nor a question...
^^ What a profound question!
In Australia (and probably most other places), it's a very common abbreviation.