aren't audio cd's just regular cdr's that have painted on labels so as not to confuse older (less powerful laser) cd players who might not be able to read the data from a semi-transparent cd?
the best thing to do is head on over to www.emusic.com where you can download your mp3's on a subscription basis where the artist's get paid directly. Now this only applies to a few major label and mostly indie label releases. If you are into new school punk, head over. Quit buying commercial shit all together.
I fail to see how ports don't suceed. Look at Tony Hawk (every conceivable platform), tomb raider etc. Didn't feel like thinking more, but since you said "without exception" I thought two easy examples were good enough.
Of course they tell you not to do anything illegal with the service. It's an effort to say "we don't condone piracy" on the isp level. This is still no different from attacking the service as opposed to attacking the individual. These orgs will never attack the consumer because the consumer will fight back against personal attacks, but seems to not mind "taking it" when the technology is attacked. This is still nothing more than shitass dirty mafia tactics.
because the MPAA is going after the ISP service, not the individual. All they are trying to do is force ISP's to be responsible for the content that it's subscribers receieve and send. This is no better than what the RIAA did with napster.
How bout $90 for the OS $400 for the office applicatoin, long distance phone support, no real community. Browsers? Mozilla hands down, Office apps, gnumeric, star office and free commercial apps like word perfect. How about the fact the could run games on a platform they don't need to reboot when whatever application crashes. Really, is that comment just for argument's sake?
It would drag performance to it's knees. On a p3 500 mhz machine with 380 megs of memory windows runs in vmware like a pentium 100. I couldn't even imagine how terrible hardware acceleration would be in a VM. It's perfect for running some low overhead business apps but there is a reason vmware is on release 2 and has *NO* support for either directx and dvd playback.
Somehow you think fighting fair is going to help you win. Why would most people want to come to linux? Not because SAMBA is faster than Windows File and Print sharing. Christ.. They don't care about how awesome apache is or how much better lotus domino server runs on linux than AIX or whatever.. The consumer buys a pc for games and simple office work. I see this as an excellent opportunity to bait a bunch of people over here, get them poking around with non-commercial linux community written software and driving home the fact that linux free apps are generally better than the ones companies charge so much for. I fail to see how getting one more person educated on this platform is a *bad thing*. OS/2 didn't fail because it had winos2 compatibility, it may have multitasked better, it may have handled alot of things better but no one (cept os2 zealots) thought it was more enjoyable to use than windows 95. I mean really.. go back and look at os2 again and compare it to 95. What's the point? Linux has potential and the only thing we need to do is get more people installing and monkeying around with it.
Except AMD *is* a brand name now. Get Joe Schmo to go buy a Cyrix then we'll see how much brand recognition matters. Joe Consumer only cares about what the media tells him, right now the media is telling him AMD is superior, AMD broke the gigahertz barrier etc. People see 3 blue guys on an intel commericial that only intel execs find humour in. I think your point is only semi valid. Afterall, it's cheaper to have the press advertise for you than running your own commericials right?
First off, we do not need to buy these products. We do not need to watch TV shows, we do not need to watch movies.
There is a wealth of other things to do and it seems the only thing marketing has most people convinced of is that they *need* all these things.
The bottom line is people are dumb, but a person can be very bright. I firmly believe that one person at a time will come to the realization that this stuff isn't needed anymore. We are, afterall, fuel for this marketing crap.
that no one has complained about the fact the Nintendo has, get this, more market share than Mircosoft products. I can't also believe that that no one has pointed out that gameboy is in fact inferior to it's competitors of the time. This all sounds so familiar.. where have I heard this scenario before?
Slashdot seems to be able to twist just about any story into a gripe with the MPAA and RIAA..
My favorite grocery store was out of FlavorRich skim milk. They seek to limit my choice, much like the RIAA and MPA....
Umm, could you be anymore wrong? First of all the company that manufactured the card punch was a subsidiary of IBM like Lotus or Tivoli. Secondly, the company was based in Germany. Thirdly, like many German companies in the US, they were taken over by their enemies. It seems obvious that the germans took over production of this facility (being based in germany and all) and that this writer is clearly libelous trying desparatly to get his Warhol 15 minutes of fame and cash in on a little shock news that ranks with Jerry Springer.
we all know how successful OS/2 is because it was co created with Microsoft and it's current incarnation is Windows NT/2000. IBM didn't kill OS/2. IBM isn't making the big push on desktop linux, but rather on server linux. A typical server farm's failure rate lies first with NT (most failures) second with AIX and lastly with Sun. So IBM seems to be killing two birds with one stone on this one. They don't want NT (netfinity would be better suited to linux right?) The can run linux on the more expensive powerpc based machines....and you can run it on sparc too right? Seems like it's a no lose scenario for IBM in that they can sell more hardware (the bread winner. In addition, who does all the software work for these boxes....and who makes money indirectly from it?
about a year ago I saw an experiment where they grew a human ear on the back of a rat. This is old technology. They new technology is when they incubate complex organs like a heart or a liver. Mainly a liver. Heh.
Isn't that why they had to think up wierd name like pentium? It was a word never before used and they couldn't trademark 386, 486 etc. So I think letting blizzard get away with trademarking diablo (whether movie or not) would be playing both sides of the fence. I mean, after all.. You'd think they'd learn about making movies from video games. Let's see, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat2, and oh yeah....Tomb Raider.
keep in mind that the american way is capatalism. If there ever was a worse way to make money than make something better and give it away as a matter of pride and human evolution, we've done a bang up job. Does this guy make official statements for MS or is this some joe schmo that is just talking to hear himself talk?
So the court is saying it's ok for the record companies to charge you again for music you own. How can anyone tell whether or not my favorite CD is scratched and I want to make a new one from MP3's? I suppose since I paid for the license, the distributor should charge a small 60 cent fee for the cd medium containing my licensed music. Heh. Yeah right.
I believe in business terms this is free software. I mean, they didn't charge anyone for the port. You can't expect IBM just to open source all their IP. Afterall, they are trying to make money too and it doesn't make sense to just give it all away at once.
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aren't audio cd's just regular cdr's that have painted on labels so as not to confuse older (less powerful laser) cd players who might not be able to read the data from a semi-transparent cd?
the best thing to do is head on over to www.emusic.com where you can download your mp3's on a subscription basis where the artist's get paid directly. Now this only applies to a few major label and mostly indie label releases. If you are into new school punk, head over. Quit buying commercial shit all together.
I fail to see how ports don't suceed. Look at Tony Hawk (every conceivable platform), tomb raider etc. Didn't feel like thinking more, but since you said "without exception" I thought two easy examples were good enough.
If you want to piss Ford off good, why not use www.rollover.com or www.ourfirestonetiresblowupat60.com?
Of course they tell you not to do anything illegal with the service. It's an effort to say "we don't condone piracy" on the isp level. This is still no different from attacking the service as opposed to attacking the individual. These orgs will never attack the consumer because the consumer will fight back against personal attacks, but seems to not mind "taking it" when the technology is attacked. This is still nothing more than shitass dirty mafia tactics.
aren't crack dealers evil? Doesn't every crackhead want their product?
because the MPAA is going after the ISP service, not the individual. All they are trying to do is force ISP's to be responsible for the content that it's subscribers receieve and send. This is no better than what the RIAA did with napster.
Don't forget hacking the IBM bios did NOT lead to pc clones. Anti-Trust law suits led to pc clones.
How bout $90 for the OS $400 for the office applicatoin, long distance phone support, no real community. Browsers? Mozilla hands down, Office apps, gnumeric, star office and free commercial apps like word perfect. How about the fact the could run games on a platform they don't need to reboot when whatever application crashes. Really, is that comment just for argument's sake?
It would drag performance to it's knees. On a p3 500 mhz machine with 380 megs of memory windows runs in vmware like a pentium 100. I couldn't even imagine how terrible hardware acceleration would be in a VM. It's perfect for running some low overhead business apps but there is a reason vmware is on release 2 and has *NO* support for either directx and dvd playback.
Somehow you think fighting fair is going to help you win. Why would most people want to come to linux? Not because SAMBA is faster than Windows File and Print sharing. Christ.. They don't care about how awesome apache is or how much better lotus domino server runs on linux than AIX or whatever.. The consumer buys a pc for games and simple office work. I see this as an excellent opportunity to bait a bunch of people over here, get them poking around with non-commercial linux community written software and driving home the fact that linux free apps are generally better than the ones companies charge so much for. I fail to see how getting one more person educated on this platform is a *bad thing*. OS/2 didn't fail because it had winos2 compatibility, it may have multitasked better, it may have handled alot of things better but no one (cept os2 zealots) thought it was more enjoyable to use than windows 95. I mean really.. go back and look at os2 again and compare it to 95. What's the point? Linux has potential and the only thing we need to do is get more people installing and monkeying around with it.
Except AMD *is* a brand name now. Get Joe Schmo to go buy a Cyrix then we'll see how much brand recognition matters. Joe Consumer only cares about what the media tells him, right now the media is telling him AMD is superior, AMD broke the gigahertz barrier etc. People see 3 blue guys on an intel commericial that only intel execs find humour in. I think your point is only semi valid. Afterall, it's cheaper to have the press advertise for you than running your own commericials right?
First off, we do not need to buy these products. We do not need to watch TV shows, we do not need to watch movies. There is a wealth of other things to do and it seems the only thing marketing has most people convinced of is that they *need* all these things. The bottom line is people are dumb, but a person can be very bright. I firmly believe that one person at a time will come to the realization that this stuff isn't needed anymore. We are, afterall, fuel for this marketing crap.
that no one has complained about the fact the Nintendo has, get this, more market share than Mircosoft products. I can't also believe that that no one has pointed out that gameboy is in fact inferior to it's competitors of the time. This all sounds so familiar.. where have I heard this scenario before?
Slashdot seems to be able to twist just about any story into a gripe with the MPAA and RIAA.. My favorite grocery store was out of FlavorRich skim milk. They seek to limit my choice, much like the RIAA and MPA....
Umm, could you be anymore wrong? First of all the company that manufactured the card punch was a subsidiary of IBM like Lotus or Tivoli. Secondly, the company was based in Germany. Thirdly, like many German companies in the US, they were taken over by their enemies. It seems obvious that the germans took over production of this facility (being based in germany and all) and that this writer is clearly libelous trying desparatly to get his Warhol 15 minutes of fame and cash in on a little shock news that ranks with Jerry Springer.
we all know how successful OS/2 is because it was co created with Microsoft and it's current incarnation is Windows NT/2000. IBM didn't kill OS/2. IBM isn't making the big push on desktop linux, but rather on server linux. A typical server farm's failure rate lies first with NT (most failures) second with AIX and lastly with Sun. So IBM seems to be killing two birds with one stone on this one. They don't want NT (netfinity would be better suited to linux right?) The can run linux on the more expensive powerpc based machines. ...and you can run it on sparc too right? Seems like it's a no lose scenario for IBM in that they can sell more hardware (the bread winner. In addition, who does all the software work for these boxes....and who makes money indirectly from it?
about a year ago I saw an experiment where they grew a human ear on the back of a rat. This is old technology. They new technology is when they incubate complex organs like a heart or a liver. Mainly a liver. Heh.
Isn't that why they had to think up wierd name like pentium? It was a word never before used and they couldn't trademark 386, 486 etc. So I think letting blizzard get away with trademarking diablo (whether movie or not) would be playing both sides of the fence. I mean, after all.. You'd think they'd learn about making movies from video games. Let's see, Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat2, and oh yeah....Tomb Raider.
keep in mind that the american way is capatalism. If there ever was a worse way to make money than make something better and give it away as a matter of pride and human evolution, we've done a bang up job. Does this guy make official statements for MS or is this some joe schmo that is just talking to hear himself talk?
So the court is saying it's ok for the record companies to charge you again for music you own. How can anyone tell whether or not my favorite CD is scratched and I want to make a new one from MP3's? I suppose since I paid for the license, the distributor should charge a small 60 cent fee for the cd medium containing my licensed music. Heh. Yeah right.
I believe in business terms this is free software. I mean, they didn't charge anyone for the port. You can't expect IBM just to open source all their IP. Afterall, they are trying to make money too and it doesn't make sense to just give it all away at once.