I find it is rapidly over taking VS.Net and Eclipse with things like its improved intelli-sense, built in profiler, tools for building handheld apps and many more improvements.
I've read that essay a number of times and they way I see it the band has 3 choices:
- Get a good music lawyer before signing anything. If the record company refuses to deal with you once you've "lawyered up" then walk away - Try distributing and marketing your stuff yourself. Internet. Radio. CD's. Whatever. Do the hard yards yourself. If you are good enough it will be heard yeah? - Accept the deal. Make no money, but get famous/chicks/To tour.
Seems like most bands/musicians prefer option 3.
And worse it seems most listeners don't care which of the 3 options the muso chooses in the first place.
And the saddest thing of all? There are so many bands and musicians out there that the marketing *IS* 99% of the costs. Why else is do we mainly download and P2P top 40 crap.
Hmmmm... I would of thought some of the peeps at NASA could of thought of a more individual gesture than that. I realise he's not a REAL spaceman, but surely everyone at the big N A S A can tie a bit of their personal motivation back to good old Scottie....
Sorry.. bad choice of words... Promoting was not what I meant. What if the US Media and IP cartels are direct preventing imports of Chinese (and other countries) IP and art? I'm sure a country the size of China could of produced its own operating system or at least a few best sellers in the book or music charts?
Let me speak plainly - US import tariffs both explicit and implicit are hypocritical.
I'm going to raise something which will probably be greeted with blank stares...
What about Chinas IP/Cultural penetration in the US? Where's the Chinese equivalent of Britney? What about the Chinese authors in the NY times best sellers list? They account for a large proportion of the world population.
Perhaps China feels that the Cartel media structures of the US are not fairly promoting foreign IP and art?
Damn I already moded this discussion, but I feel I need to post....
I prefer to download whole albums, either legally or through dubious means (*cough* allofmp3 *cough*). I think it gives a better indication of the artist and the art they perform.
I hear a song I like via a friend or the radio (I'm on Oz so we have tripleJ/classicFm/Digg... Google if you dont know what I mean). Almost always the album is similar in quality to the single and often I hear songs I love that just would get airplay EVER.
I would happily pay for all my music album downloads if I could choose my bit rate, the files were DRM free and the price was reasonable lower than the cost of a CD (*cough* allofmp3 *cough*).
Its still working at the moment, but I suggest you clear your balances quickly.
As it happens I've decided to switch back to CD's. I like the nice packaging. I don't buy many RIAA recordings anyway - there is plenty of quality independent music out there. Plus I can rip them at a reasonable bit rate and format of my choice.
The only thing that annoys me about CD's is that its not easy to "try before you buy". Nothing worse that spending your hard earned dollars on a CD only to realise that its total crap. I wonder what the law says about returning CD's? You can walk out of a movie and get a refund right?
Man if I had 100 mods points I'd give them ALL to you.
I use Firefox each and every day - for work and for play; but for some reason when ever I visit a site with FLASH my CPU feels the pain. And by pain I mean **100%** CPU usage pain. Well maybe 60% on my new system. Well maybe not every FLASH site, but it seems to be most of them. And why does IE not have this issue? Will someone please help me? Mozilla? Linus? CmdrTaco?
Because of course we all want to be using Outlook right??!!
Gmail has real innovation in an email client. Discussion topics are grouped, labels are better than folders and "archive and search" has changed the way I file emails - who needs an elaborate outlook style folder structures, just archive and search;-)
I'm so used to Gmail for my personal email that I have installed Google desktop search at work (where we HAVE to use outlook) just so I can properly search my emails and I know longer have to spend all that time filing emails away in folders.
I wouldn't backup any of that stuff except for photos and possible my drivers license number (but then I have that with me all the time anyway). Its all easy to get from the relevant government sources and its theres a risk of identity theft if you have it all on a USB drive or store in multiple places?
Ever since it started I have doubted the reasons for Redhat's creation of fedora.
As an Ubuntu fanatic I thought we had found the "one true distro".
But your plain talking honesty means I will give Fedora another try. In particular your answer to question 2 makes me question why I support Ubuntu over Debian or fedora.
Can I be honest and say I dont like the subscription model?
I can already get that quite nicely via NetFlix etc. I want to be able to pay 2 (maybe 5) bucks and download the movie NOW. I dont mind if I have watch it within a week or even within 24 hours before the DRM kicks in, but I dont want to have to pay when I dont use.
Dude, have you actually watched it? She jumps in bed with them, says half heartedly "youre not going to turkey slap me are you?". She is not held down and there are 8 other preple in the room.
Also this is no where near as bad as some of the other things that have been screened on the late night television show "Big brother - adults only"
Make no mistake - this is channel 10 using the free publicity for ratings while at the same time destroying the life of 2 young men.
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Have you tried NetBeans?
I find it is rapidly over taking VS.Net and Eclipse with things like its improved intelli-sense, built in profiler, tools for building handheld apps and many more improvements.
"When no major distributer is able to convey a GPLv3 covered work because of wording in the GPLv3 itself, I guess people will take notice."
Thats right.. they will stop buying mircosoft products because the want to use the open and free ones.
Not really. I've used Google Desktop on Windows and it gives you the option to turn off sending stuff to Google servers.
The bigger issue for me is if it includes the source so I can check it doesn't "phone home". Plus it would be easy to extend of course.
So, Google, any chance of releasing the source code? GPL even?
Okay WTF is going on?
I understand that these kind of small Linux vendors need to make money, but why are they signing up to this?
I can only think its cold hard cash talking. Both Linspire and Xandros have just signed their death warrants (Novell at least has other options).
Begun the Microsoft (Clone) wars has.
I've read that essay a number of times and they way I see it the band has 3 choices:
- Get a good music lawyer before signing anything. If the record company refuses to deal with you once you've "lawyered up" then walk away
- Try distributing and marketing your stuff yourself. Internet. Radio. CD's. Whatever. Do the hard yards yourself. If you are good enough it will be heard yeah?
- Accept the deal. Make no money, but get famous/chicks/To tour.
Seems like most bands/musicians prefer option 3.
And worse it seems most listeners don't care which of the 3 options the muso chooses in the first place.
And the saddest thing of all? There are so many bands and musicians out there that the marketing *IS* 99% of the costs. Why else is do we mainly download and P2P top 40 crap.
Ahhh but as an LG customer you now protected from being sued by Microsoft for patent infringement ;-)
Amen to that...
WE took the time to lift it UP. THEY can take the time to put it DOWN.
(Yes Im married and whipped so this will only ever be posted on slashdot. Im never actually going to say it out loud.)
Wow... thanks for setting me straight. It reminds me how many people that REALLY achieve something never enter pop culture.
Hmmmm... I would of thought some of the peeps at NASA could of thought of a more individual gesture than that. I realise he's not a REAL spaceman, but surely everyone at the big N A S A can tie a bit of their personal motivation back to good old Scottie....
Beam me up.
Sorry.. bad choice of words... Promoting was not what I meant. What if the US Media and IP cartels are direct preventing imports of Chinese (and other countries) IP and art? I'm sure a country the size of China could of produced its own operating system or at least a few best sellers in the book or music charts?
Let me speak plainly - US import tariffs both explicit and implicit are hypocritical.
I'm going to raise something which will probably be greeted with blank stares...
What about Chinas IP/Cultural penetration in the US? Where's the Chinese equivalent of Britney? What about the Chinese authors in the NY times best sellers list? They account for a large proportion of the world population.
Perhaps China feels that the Cartel media structures of the US are not fairly promoting foreign IP and art?
Damn I already moded this discussion, but I feel I need to post....
... Google if you dont know what I mean). Almost always the album is similar in quality to the single and often I hear songs I love that just would get airplay EVER.
I prefer to download whole albums, either legally or through dubious means (*cough* allofmp3 *cough*). I think it gives a better indication of the artist and the art they perform.
I hear a song I like via a friend or the radio (I'm on Oz so we have tripleJ/classicFm/Digg
I would happily pay for all my music album downloads if I could choose my bit rate, the files were DRM free and the price was reasonable lower than the cost of a CD (*cough* allofmp3 *cough*).
Its still working at the moment, but I suggest you clear your balances quickly.
As it happens I've decided to switch back to CD's. I like the nice packaging. I don't buy many RIAA recordings anyway - there is plenty of quality independent music out there. Plus I can rip them at a reasonable bit rate and format of my choice.
The only thing that annoys me about CD's is that its not easy to "try before you buy". Nothing worse that spending your hard earned dollars on a CD only to realise that its total crap. I wonder what the law says about returning CD's? You can walk out of a movie and get a refund right?
Man if I had 100 mods points I'd give them ALL to you.
I use Firefox each and every day - for work and for play; but for some reason when ever I visit a site with FLASH my CPU feels the pain. And by pain I mean **100%** CPU usage pain. Well maybe 60% on my new system. Well maybe not every FLASH site, but it seems to be most of them. And why does IE not have this issue? Will someone please help me? Mozilla? Linus? CmdrTaco?
Because of course we all want to be using Outlook right??!!
;-)
Gmail has real innovation in an email client. Discussion topics are grouped, labels are better than folders and "archive and search" has changed the way I file emails - who needs an elaborate outlook style folder structures, just archive and search
I'm so used to Gmail for my personal email that I have installed Google desktop search at work (where we HAVE to use outlook) just so I can properly search my emails and I know longer have to spend all that time filing emails away in folders.
While I can see you are a second year law student I have to ask this.... How much did the RIAA pay you to post that comment?
I wouldn't backup any of that stuff except for photos and possible my drivers license number (but then I have that with me all the time anyway). Its all easy to get from the relevant government sources and its theres a risk of identity theft if you have it all on a USB drive or store in multiple places?
Ever since it started I have doubted the reasons for Redhat's creation of fedora.
As an Ubuntu fanatic I thought we had found the "one true distro".
But your plain talking honesty means I will give Fedora another try. In particular your answer to question 2 makes me question why I support Ubuntu over Debian or fedora.
Thanks Max.
Man.. despite being totally correct you are gonna get modded six feet under, but I think I have a new fav slashdot quote ;-)
"The whole article reads like a MySpace posting by a 14 year old girl disappointed by the first experience with her latest 40 year old beau."
Im not gonna flame ya, but does IE7 have a spell checker? If not then its behind FF yeah?
Why do you think IE7 is better?
The article links to RC1.
You can aleady get release candidate 3
Or you could wait a few days an get the actual beta.
Can I be honest and say I dont like the subscription model?
I can already get that quite nicely via NetFlix etc. I want to be able to pay 2 (maybe 5) bucks and download the movie NOW. I dont mind if I have watch it within a week or even within 24 hours before the DRM kicks in, but I dont want to have to pay when I dont use.
Movies on demand. Thats what we want.
Dude, have you actually watched it? She jumps in bed with them, says half heartedly "youre not going to turkey slap me are you?". She is not held down and there are 8 other preple in the room.
Also this is no where near as bad as some of the other things that have been screened on the late night television show "Big brother - adults only"
Make no mistake - this is channel 10 using the free publicity for ratings while at the same time destroying the life of 2 young men.
You subtlety changed my words to imply "Linux" means "open source" so I can only assume you are a MS/Oracle shill.
Isn't Linus a direct feedback line to the Linux community? Does it get any more direct?