If Joe Foss served our country in the military, he did lay down his life. He was just one of the lucky ones who got to pick it back up and enjoy some of the fruits of his sacrifice.
This is one of my pet peeves -- our soldiers aren't brave heroes if they die in service, they are brave and they are heroes because they take the risk.
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Good point. I always think of MS as almost synonymous with Windows and Office, and forget the hardware. Heck, they make my favorite wired mouse (although their keyboards are quite forgettable).
I would take this one step further: nobody else has the nerve or desire to push back on the *AA. The other manufacturers just accept the ridiculous terms demanded by the content companies. Those terms are unfriendly, one-sided, and unpopular once Joe Sixpack figures out what they really are.
Apple, on the other hand, has been in the news several times for their strong stance with the *AA. Even if I didn't love Apple's products, I'd be tempted to support them just for this. The record and movie execs need someone their own size to keep them, errr, not honest but slightly less dishonest than they'd normally be.
I have 5 kids. We went to the matinee of Cars yesterday and spent over $40 for an hour and a half of entertainment. Wait a few months, pick up the DVD for $20, get the movie plus extras, and the kids'll watch it 3-4 times. We save >50% and get more, even for stinkers like the new Herbie movie.
It's great that concerts benefit the musicians, but c'mon. Why do tickets have to cost $50-500+ for a single concert? I can afford $0.99 a few times a week and $9.99 once in a while, and I get to re-listen as much as I want. It makes the bands look like money grubbers when I have to pay that much to get the opportunity to be deafened for a couple hours and pay $20+ for a crummy t-shirt.
Yes, I'm over 30, but there's got to be a better way than that to support the artists I like.
iPods (GM-approved cars) can use music (gas) in any of several formats (mp3, aac, apple lossless, audible audio books) and can easily convert other formats (wav, CD/aiff) into one of the supported ones. A better analogy is this: GM develops a new type of fuel (hydrogen balls, anyone?) and new engines that will run this fuel as well as the old options. GM then decides to not willingly license the engine or fuel technology (fairplay).
Meanwhile, the brain-dead, corrupt politicians (brain-dead, corrupt politicians) have conveniently passed a law saying that disassembling an engine (reverse-engineering DRM) is a federal crime and should be treated more seriously than armed robbery, rape, homicide, vote fraud, etc.
Also meanwhile, Ford (Microsoft), which owns 95% of the highway repair business, has developed another new fuel: tallow-dipped donut holes (WMA). Ford is willing to license its technology to anybody except GM (Apple) to attempt to leverage its highway monolopy into a fuel monopoly.
Okay, this analogy sucks too. Just don't forget that iPods can play anything except DRM owned by competitors, and that the other guys restrict your options too. They just spin it differently.
Oh, and don't even think about what happens when the highway patrol find out that the tallow-dipped donut holes taste delicious!
Don't forget all of the *legally* downloaded music. Yes, there is such a thing. I'd say 75% of my collection was downloaded from MP3.com, garageband.com, iuma.com, etc. Small, independent, *interesting* artists.
Yes, you have to sift through a lot of music you don't like to find some gems, but it's worth it. I've found bands I like, bought their CD's when available, and all without giving the RIAA a cent. Best of all, when I pay $15 for a CD, the band gets a pretty decent cut of that money.
For the math majors, 24% of my music is from my CD's and 2% is illegally downloaded from before I knew better:)
I guess my point is that it is if MS wasn't big enough to attract the vultures, er, security companies, we wouldn't hear anything about Windows security holes -- MS wouldn't advertise any more than Apple does.
Name me one software company that goes out of their way to advertise or publicize their security problems. Microsoft certainly doesn't.
The holes are generally publicized by outside parties (like @stake and Secunia in this article) who somehow make their living finding these problems (1. find bugs 2. ??? 3. profit!)
We hear about MS's bugs so much because they affect so many people, there are so many of them (bugs.. and users too, I guess), and MS has made it plain they won't fix these problems unless there is bad publicity.
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If Joe Foss served our country in the military, he did lay down his life. He was just one of the lucky ones who got to pick it back up and enjoy some of the fruits of his sacrifice.
This is one of my pet peeves -- our soldiers aren't brave heroes if they die in service, they are brave and they are heroes because they take the risk.
Good point. I always think of MS as almost synonymous with Windows and Office, and forget the hardware. Heck, they make my favorite wired mouse (although their keyboards are quite forgettable).
...and be rather one-sided!
<ducks>
However, I almost spit coffee out my nose at this:
Dude, you've obviously used an iPod, but I'm not sure you've ever used a Microsoft product! Thanks for a good belly laugh, anyway
Whatever replaces books has to be something I can read in the bathtub. That's my main criteria.
probably the most succinct description of the US political process that I've ever heard.
I bet Sony could scrape up $500 if they really tried.
I would take this one step further: nobody else has the nerve or desire to push back on the *AA. The other manufacturers just accept the ridiculous terms demanded by the content companies. Those terms are unfriendly, one-sided, and unpopular once Joe Sixpack figures out what they really are.
Apple, on the other hand, has been in the news several times for their strong stance with the *AA. Even if I didn't love Apple's products, I'd be tempted to support them just for this. The record and movie execs need someone their own size to keep them, errr, not honest but slightly less dishonest than they'd normally be.
Ha! A new one! IT has LOA! WTF? ROFLMAO!
Very cool book. Of course, I read it in High School in the early 1980's, and I was more impressionable. I didn't know anybody else ever read it :)
n00b! I remember Turbo Pascal 3.0 for DOS. I ran right out and bought Turbo C++ 1.0 when it was new! Aah, those were the days....
Why buy DVD's? It's a no-brainer for me.
I have 5 kids. We went to the matinee of Cars yesterday and spent over $40 for an hour and a half of entertainment. Wait a few months, pick up the DVD for $20, get the movie plus extras, and the kids'll watch it 3-4 times. We save >50% and get more, even for stinkers like the new Herbie movie.
Maybe Netflix is better, but this works for me.
It's great that concerts benefit the musicians, but c'mon. Why do tickets have to cost $50-500+ for a single concert? I can afford $0.99 a few times a week and $9.99 once in a while, and I get to re-listen as much as I want. It makes the bands look like money grubbers when I have to pay that much to get the opportunity to be deafened for a couple hours and pay $20+ for a crummy t-shirt.
Yes, I'm over 30, but there's got to be a better way than that to support the artists I like.
This analogy is flawed.
iPods (GM-approved cars) can use music (gas) in any of several formats (mp3, aac, apple lossless, audible audio books) and can easily convert other formats (wav, CD/aiff) into one of the supported ones. A better analogy is this: GM develops a new type of fuel (hydrogen balls, anyone?) and new engines that will run this fuel as well as the old options. GM then decides to not willingly license the engine or fuel technology (fairplay).
Meanwhile, the brain-dead, corrupt politicians (brain-dead, corrupt politicians) have conveniently passed a law saying that disassembling an engine (reverse-engineering DRM) is a federal crime and should be treated more seriously than armed robbery, rape, homicide, vote fraud, etc.
Also meanwhile, Ford (Microsoft), which owns 95% of the highway repair business, has developed another new fuel: tallow-dipped donut holes (WMA). Ford is willing to license its technology to anybody except GM (Apple) to attempt to leverage its highway monolopy into a fuel monopoly.
Okay, this analogy sucks too. Just don't forget that iPods can play anything except DRM owned by competitors, and that the other guys restrict your options too. They just spin it differently.
Oh, and don't even think about what happens when the highway patrol find out that the tallow-dipped donut holes taste delicious!
>Movies also are the only product of actors
;)
and some musicians only sing in the studio and fake it on stage
>Movies aren't performed live, the movie is the only product (excluding merchandising).
I'm not sure how relevant it is, but that's a *huge* exclusion. I don't think the actors see any of the merchandising jackpot.
"Dennis, there's some nice filth over here!"
:)
Which actually does have some real-life parallels to the Internet, if you think about it
...says the guy reading /. !!!
[ducks]
Yikes! I read this as "they had a supercollider with a glass wall...."
:)
Wishful thinking, I guess
jeez, okay, but can I still make fun of front wheel drive cars with snow tires in the back?
Don't forget all of the *legally* downloaded music. Yes, there is such a thing. I'd say 75% of my collection was downloaded from MP3.com, garageband.com, iuma.com, etc. Small, independent, *interesting* artists.
:)
Yes, you have to sift through a lot of music you don't like to find some gems, but it's worth it. I've found bands I like, bought their CD's when available, and all without giving the RIAA a cent. Best of all, when I pay $15 for a CD, the band gets a pretty decent cut of that money.
For the math majors, 24% of my music is from my CD's and 2% is illegally downloaded from before I knew better
Database? I thought they could just tap into your brainwaves! That *is* the point of the tinfoil hats, you know :)
I'm curious whether those backups will work after the inevitable Windows crash/reinstall.
I know I speak for many on /. when I say:
BWAAAAA HAAAAA HAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
thanks, I feel better now.
Thank you for filling in number 2 on the list :)
I guess my point is that it is if MS wasn't big enough to attract the vultures, er, security companies, we wouldn't hear anything about Windows security holes -- MS wouldn't advertise any more than Apple does.
Name me one software company that goes out of their way to advertise or publicize their security problems. Microsoft certainly doesn't.
.. and users too, I guess), and MS has made it plain they won't fix these problems unless there is bad publicity.
The holes are generally publicized by outside parties (like @stake and Secunia in this article) who somehow make their living finding these problems (1. find bugs 2. ??? 3. profit!)
We hear about MS's bugs so much because they affect so many people, there are so many of them (bugs