>At least they don't take themselves too seriously.
You do realise that those animations were designed by a team of 40-something advertising cuntrags sporting expensive suits and stupid pony-tails, right?
On the other hand, they're all pretty fly, for a white guy.
>In fact, I'm not even sure if the new napster is web-based or software that is installed to retrieve music.
It's a standalone Win2K/XP only application. You do your downloading from there, you do your playing from there, you do any burning that you're allowed to from there. Alternatively, as it's just a WMA DRM crippled player, you can use a plugin for Windows Media Player to turn your DRM crippled data into audio, as long as they don't revoke your license.
> just hope they didn't remove the option to sort servers by connection speed
Whoa there. Check your assumptions. This is an entirely new system. If any of it looks like the old system, it will be coincidental.
> No mainstream artists = will never fly with the mainstream crowd.
That's the same mainstream crowd that are giving RIAA labels less money every quarter.
Hmm, in all the RIAA's whining about how they're being denied their rightful profit, I never see them mentionining sales to other labels. And I never hear those other labels complaining.
>Why is it that so many people will advocate freedom of speech and other essential rights, yet will bend right over and take it hard by Bill Gates?!?
Because it's easier than typing ALT-F2, konsole, su, foobar, cd Desktop/download, rpm -i -v i-hope-this-is-the-package-i-think-it-is.rpm, and then watching two screens of missing dependencies scroll past them.
>In short, a real patent lasts 20 years, a fake patent lasts 10. This is "not much?"
But during that period Ford was making and selling cars, and undercutting the cartel. If he had been enjoined not to, that would have been a different story.
And that pretty much sums up my feelings about bad intellectual property rights. Fight them if you have to, but the best strategy is simply to ignore them. See also SCO and their frantic antics.
>so are you arguing that you can't expect results of empirical evidence to support what will happen in the future
I'm arguing that you can't always use empirical evidence to predict the future. You can use it, for example, to predict the asymptotic performance points for human athletes, because we are limited by design. You can't use it (as the author does) to say that computers will never become clearly superior to humans at chess.
Think of it this way. If someone back in 1955 had used empirical evidence taken from valve based computers to show that computers would never be able to draw ten thousand textured triangles 30 times a second on a 1280x1024 LCD screen, they would have been completely reasonable and credible... and totally wrong.
In this case, if you want to argue that silicon CISC/RISC based computers will never be clearly superior to human chess masters, well, we can argue that, but it's a different argument. At some point in the future, I expect "calculate all possible configurations for a chess board" will be a standard feature in benchmarking tests for quantum computers.
Because in every discussion about rights that I can remember on Slashdot, at least one person has said "What if the motor car had been patented?"
Well, I guess that's no longer a rhetorical question. And we also know the answer: "not much, as long as just one person is prepared to fight it out rather than cave in."
>I'll play with it on my Windows box, but I'll still do all my purchasing on my Macs.
What purchasing? You're renting. It's DRM crippled encrypted data, and your license to decrypted it is revokable. You'll be paying them money to the day you die.
>$9.99 for 40 tracks breaks down to roughly $.25 for a single song, which is still pretty cheap if you ask me.
It is, if you know that you'll like the song. Trouble is, where else can you hear it? Not on the radio, not on MTV-a-like channels. You're relying on reviews from people that you don't know from Adam.
On the other hand, if it's any good, you'll be able to get it from Kazaa for nothing, decide if you like it, then go back and pay to download it from EMusic.
No... wait... there's something wrong with that logic...
>I read the article. There is nothing in there that specifies he hacked into a desktop computer or someones workstation
"Carlson, "a disgruntled Phillies fan," hacked into computers of unsuspecting users and from those computers launched spam e-mail attacks"
Do I have to post it a third time, or are you getting the message yet? Hint: stop typing, read the article and the indictment, and comprehend what you're reading.
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Pyramaths. You just need to keep squeezing. Here's how it works.
You crank your prices by 5%. For one month, you're making 105% of what you were making before.
At the end of the month, 10% of your customers leave. No problem, you crank your prices by another 10%, to 115.5% of your original price. With 90% of the customers, you still make 103.95% of what you were making before you started squeezing.
The next month, another 10% of your customers leave. Can you guess what your response is? Yes, squeeze the remainder.
It sounds insane, but as long as you have one paying customer, you can keep squeezing and squeezing and making more money that you were before.
Unfortunately for EMusic, this model is pretty much predicated on you being able to lock your customers in with proprietary incompatible products, or on them having Federal size budget and being unwilling to admit that they're getting buttfucked. See Microsoft's licensing schemes that (shock!) always seem to cost you more after each revision, and Windows for Warfare on Navy boats. Also see music sellers - sorry, lenders - that give you encrypted DRM crippled data and a revokable license to decrypt it. If you're giving those people money, be prepared to do so for the rest of your life.
But EMusic... well, people are going to leave there pretty fast, which is going to accelerate the price squeeze. You don't want to be their last customer, because he's really going to catch it in the shorts.
He's indicted for actual cracking, not just for the From: spoofing. Are we all clear on that now? You may now commence spouting your usual angry uninformed opinions.
Perhaps you could take 30 second to actually click on the provided links?
Read the indictment: '3. As is further described in this indictment, the defendant ALLAN ERIC CARLSON violated varies federal ciminal statutes by "hacking," that is, gaining unauthorized access to the computers of other persons on the Internet; sending thousands of e-mail messages from the victim's computer; and "spoofing," that is, falsifying the return address of these e-mails[...]'
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Use the VISA card to pay a lawyer to sue the crap out of them, then sue them some more when they try and collect the money.
Actually, scratch that, it rewards lawyers. Just use the VISA card to buy yourself some nice things, then tell them to go screw themselves.
Greedy, unscrupulous behaviour cuts both ways. Why should VISA get to have all the fun?
>especially for one Mr Void.
If he becomes a celebrity, does that make him a void * ?
I'll be converting my "Free Dmitri Sklyarov" T-shirt into a "Free Alex Halderman" one.
Er, assuming that nobody plans to sue me for doing so.
>Whining that you're a "customer" won't fly with any competent judge.
On the other hand, any competent judge will know about DOWLING v. UNITED STATES, 473 U.S. 207 (1985) and so won't keep calling copying information "theft" and "stealing".
>At least they don't take themselves too seriously.
You do realise that those animations were designed by a team of 40-something advertising cuntrags sporting expensive suits and stupid pony-tails, right?
On the other hand, they're all pretty fly, for a white guy.
>In fact, I'm not even sure if the new napster is web-based or software that is installed to retrieve music.
It's a standalone Win2K/XP only application. You do your downloading from there, you do your playing from there, you do any burning that you're allowed to from there. Alternatively, as it's just a WMA DRM crippled player, you can use a plugin for Windows Media Player to turn your DRM crippled data into audio, as long as they don't revoke your license.
> just hope they didn't remove the option to sort servers by connection speed
Whoa there. Check your assumptions. This is an entirely new system. If any of it looks like the old system, it will be coincidental.
> No mainstream artists = will never fly with the mainstream crowd.
That's the same mainstream crowd that are giving RIAA labels less money every quarter.
Hmm, in all the RIAA's whining about how they're being denied their rightful profit, I never see them mentionining sales to other labels. And I never hear those other labels complaining.
Does anyone have figures?
>your point is moot since *all* Linux distributions come with *several* browsers and several hundred other programs pre-installed
All of them including LEAF/LRP?
Or did you just mean "all of them that meet the criteria that I just said that all of them meet"?
Your kung foo is the stronger.
"Legacy OSes have reached their zenith with the addition of IE 6 SP1," [IE program manager] Countryman said. "Further improvements to IE will require enhancements to the underlying OS."
There you go. That copy of Windows XP Pro that you just bought? It's legacy. Windows 2003 Server? Obsolete before you unwrap it!
But never mind, because in two years time, we might produce an OS that isn't such a piece of kludgy circa 1992 designed shit.
In the meantime, please remember to renew your Microsoft Volume Licensing contracts. It's not like you have a choice, is it?
>Why is it that so many people will advocate freedom of speech and other essential rights, yet will bend right over and take it hard by Bill Gates?!?
Because it's easier than typing ALT-F2, konsole, su, foobar, cd Desktop/download, rpm -i -v i-hope-this-is-the-package-i-think-it-is.rpm, and then watching two screens of missing dependencies scroll past them.
Or perhaps your question was rhetorical.
This space intentionally contains only this statement.
>In short, a real patent lasts 20 years, a fake patent lasts 10. This is "not much?"
But during that period Ford was making and selling cars, and undercutting the cartel. If he had been enjoined not to, that would have been a different story.
And that pretty much sums up my feelings about bad intellectual property rights. Fight them if you have to, but the best strategy is simply to ignore them. See also SCO and their frantic antics.
>so are you arguing that you can't expect results of empirical evidence to support what will happen in the future
I'm arguing that you can't always use empirical evidence to predict the future. You can use it, for example, to predict the asymptotic performance points for human athletes, because we are limited by design. You can't use it (as the author does) to say that computers will never become clearly superior to humans at chess.
Think of it this way. If someone back in 1955 had used empirical evidence taken from valve based computers to show that computers would never be able to draw ten thousand textured triangles 30 times a second on a 1280x1024 LCD screen, they would have been completely reasonable and credible... and totally wrong.
In this case, if you want to argue that silicon CISC/RISC based computers will never be clearly superior to human chess masters, well, we can argue that, but it's a different argument. At some point in the future, I expect "calculate all possible configurations for a chess board" will be a standard feature in benchmarking tests for quantum computers.
>IIRC emusic is the service that disables your ability to play the music files you've downloaded if you stop paying them
YDNRC (You Do Not...). EMusic sells (note: sells) uncrippled mp3s.
>You can burn it to a CD. Vola no DRM
Strange, you think they'd mention that, wouldn't you?
Because in every discussion about rights that I can remember on Slashdot, at least one person has said "What if the motor car had been patented?"
Well, I guess that's no longer a rhetorical question. And we also know the answer: "not much, as long as just one person is prepared to fight it out rather than cave in."
>I'll play with it on my Windows box, but I'll still do all my purchasing on my Macs.
What purchasing? You're renting. It's DRM crippled encrypted data, and your license to decrypted it is revokable. You'll be paying them money to the day you die.
>$9.99 for 40 tracks breaks down to roughly $.25 for a single song, which is still pretty cheap if you ask me.
It is, if you know that you'll like the song. Trouble is, where else can you hear it? Not on the radio, not on MTV-a-like channels. You're relying on reviews from people that you don't know from Adam.
On the other hand, if it's any good, you'll be able to get it from Kazaa for nothing, decide if you like it, then go back and pay to download it from EMusic.
No... wait... there's something wrong with that logic...
>I read the article. There is nothing in there that specifies he hacked into a desktop computer or someones workstation
"Carlson, "a disgruntled Phillies fan," hacked into computers of unsuspecting users and from those computers launched spam e-mail attacks"
Do I have to post it a third time, or are you getting the message yet? Hint: stop typing, read the article and the indictment, and comprehend what you're reading.
This episode brought to you by the numbers "1" and "0" and the letters "D" and "T", as in "1D10T"
>how does this end up earning money for them?
Pyramaths. You just need to keep squeezing. Here's how it works.
You crank your prices by 5%. For one month, you're making 105% of what you were making before.
At the end of the month, 10% of your customers leave. No problem, you crank your prices by another 10%, to 115.5% of your original price. With 90% of the customers, you still make 103.95% of what you were making before you started squeezing.
The next month, another 10% of your customers leave. Can you guess what your response is? Yes, squeeze the remainder.
It sounds insane, but as long as you have one paying customer, you can keep squeezing and squeezing and making more money that you were before.
Unfortunately for EMusic, this model is pretty much predicated on you being able to lock your customers in with proprietary incompatible products, or on them having Federal size budget and being unwilling to admit that they're getting buttfucked. See Microsoft's licensing schemes that (shock!) always seem to cost you more after each revision, and Windows for Warfare on Navy boats. Also see music sellers - sorry, lenders - that give you encrypted DRM crippled data and a revokable license to decrypt it. If you're giving those people money, be prepared to do so for the rest of your life.
But EMusic... well, people are going to leave there pretty fast, which is going to accelerate the price squeeze. You don't want to be their last customer, because he's really going to catch it in the shorts.
I was so busy laughing up chocolate milk through my nose that it took me a few seconds to realise that I wasn't even drinking chocolate milk.
>OED accepts both "-ise" and "-ize" spellings now
Ah, but it's well known that the OED is run by sodomites and syphilitic liberals evicted from Radio 4 sloppily for splitting infinitives.
Ask yourself this: what would Her Majesty do? I think we both know the answer to that.
'3. As is further described in this indictment, the defendant ALLAN ERIC CARLSON violated various federal criminal statutes by "hacking," that is, gaining unauthorized access to the computers of other persons on the Internet; sending thousands of e-mail messages from the victim's computer; and "spoofing," that is, falsifying the return address of these e-mails[...]'
He's indicted for actual cracking, not just for the From: spoofing. Are we all clear on that now? You may now commence spouting your usual angry uninformed opinions.
Perhaps you could take 30 second to actually click on the provided links?
Read the indictment: '3. As is further described in this indictment, the defendant ALLAN ERIC CARLSON violated varies federal ciminal statutes by "hacking," that is, gaining unauthorized access to the computers of other persons on the Internet; sending thousands of e-mail messages from the victim's computer; and "spoofing," that is, falsifying the return address of these e-mails[...]'