"major music labels, which include Sony Music, Warner Music, EMI, Universal Music and Bertelsmann's BMG, to ease licensing restrictions, develop digital copyright protections for music and invest more in promoting subscription download services."
Sounds like a good plan to me.
The only thing she forgot was the "oh and offer music at a fair price"
Sometimes it seems paraphrasing is the main source of news on Slashdot.:P
"There are two kinds of tired, there's good tired, and there's bad tired. Ironically enough, bad tired is a day when maybe you won, but you won other people's battles, you lived other people's days, other people's agendas, and there is very little YOU in there. And when you hit the hay at night you toss and turn you don't settle easy. Good tired can be a day that you lost, but you don't have to tell yourself, because you fought your battles, you lived your life, your agenda, you chased your dreams, and when you hit the hay at night, you settle in easy, and you sleep the sleep of the just and you can say, take me away."
I'd agree with this EXCEPT that a person talking to the driver knows when the driver has to concentrate on something coming up and instinctively SHUTS UP.
Concentrating on Talking while driving actually distracts people from driving well. Bad drivers can often be seen doing all the talking while driving. Basic natural instinct, you cannot devote concentration power to upcoming events (getting cut off and allowing the extra space) and hold a full blown 2 way all out conversation.
Drivers do their best thinking/working shit out because the mind is alive with activity while driving, just don't ask them to concentrate on a conversation with someone else.
I Personally have no problem with Ads. I actually think ads have their place on the net. I am above all a businessman. I disagree with the deceptive, IN YOUR FACE ads that have become the norm. I have been using various "popup stoppers" for years and until I installed a new system or two didn't realize how bad it had gotten.
This is what I have a problem with, it's the obtrusive behaviour of Businesses lobbying Goverments who change laws to suit their bottomline.
The internet was a Government project and emerged as the most important medium of my generation. It will not be the most important medium of my children's generation because of the quality degradation.
It's like a independant band who you REALLY like. Until they go commercial, and make the very thing that got them there, no longer fun.
I will not address your points one by one because I think you are right for very many of them, but I will say that we do not have free speech anymore when ISP's ban websites on behalf of fear driven DMCA claims.
Oh and I pay for phone, cable, and internet access and should be allowed to choose what I see, not see what others choose for me to see.
Censorship is a grave thing, and this is why the internet, with all it's commercialism and Goverment over-regulation on behalf of business, has one foot in the grave.
The RIAA, and MPAA will want to "watch" the internet through this network and nab any Tom dick and Harry who pass music files.
Of course, independant music won't be distinguished in order to make thier stats look better "43 trillion music files were traded last year, and our revenue only increased by 2 billion. If we make each of those users pay every time they trade a file, we could make gazillion's (to quote jk) more. Of course we'd give 1 million to the governemnt for letting us use their network for our own commercial gain.
Folks, the internet is dying because it became the true meaning of free speech, communication and information. Corporations are slowly killing the net, which requires Goverments to get their hands in on regulating things.
I don't use the net as much as I did because of all the popups, spam and corporate cluelessness.
If anyone knows of a protected Sub-net (encrypted, anonymous use) please let me know to restore my faith.
Spammers harvest "VALID" emails by people who respond.
Am I lying? Check out the source code of the "remove me" link some time.
Can't believe you support people spamming everyone....
Or maybe this is propaganda to harvest more emails...by getting more and more people to REPLY to those emails, you will make more money
either way
YOU'RE NUTS, and should be duped/.'d immediately.
Yo Grark Canadian Bred with American Buttering
I need a 2ghz computer to run Word....
on
Trident XP4 Reviewed
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
Ok one thing I didn't see (and IRTFA), was the overall "playability" of the games or applications.
Dumb down the tests and give it to joe-six pack (you know, the ones who WON'T spend the extra 300 bucks for 30 trillion pixal shading?) and see what they think.
Does it run the app fine? Does the game run smooth in a comfortable screensize?
Being broke lately, I've come to appreciate that UT2003, or Dungeon Seige runs just fine on my celeron 533 with 512 meg ram, and while a more powerful graphics card would make it run even better, my 2 year old Gforce2 works just fine.
Just fine for the Cheapo price I would pay for the same card nowadays.
Extremetech turned me off of readership in the past by their lack of credible articles, and this just reinforces why I stopped reading it.
Personal opinion should be available at the END of an article, not the beginning opening bias.
Well my Word document just decided to unfreeze and let me save, so I will end this rant.
Can you imagine if companies started to discount their software when competitors were involved? What would our economy do? Wait....that would lead to COMPETITION and competition is bad, surely microsoft sales reps realize that their software is supreme and that ALL THE BASE BELONG TO THEM.
Next thing you know, Office will be free to compete with OpenOffice and the like.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Microsoft is heading back into a world of competition. The monopoly ride was good, but now they gotta get back to selling the shit on the grounds of quality and superiority in peoples mind, even if that means selling it for less.
For me, it's a perfect sync between home, on the run and work.
When the pc at work fries, got the info.
When the PC at home fries, got the info
When the palm pilot dies, got the info.
Personally I have become more organized, kept in touch with people more, kept track of things more (like passwords, obscure info like new language phrases). All in all, I still have an old palm 3x, and it performs it's function PERFECTLY.
What I agree with, is that no-one should have to spend $1000.00 on a PDA, only to have it fall by the wayside months later.
For years companies have been pitting competitor against competitor until in the end, the customer gets the right bang for the right buck.
Too many times I see Slashdot going on about how evil Microsoft and how great open source is, now thanks to Japan, we have a Showcase for PROOF POSITIVE what the world at large wants to know.
Microsoft or Open Source?
You don't think this is a testbed for something better?
Committee Meeting, Day 1 9:00am
MS: OpenSource Bad OS: Microsoft Bad Japan: Why?
MS&OS: Shit good question.
Justification is the key, and when spending money the way the Government does, getting 3, 4, 10 different companies via'ing for the business all leads to better justification.
OS or MS: We Won the Bid/Implementation because Japan wanted this this and this, we proved we had it, they didn't.
Sorry but I don't feel a tinge of guilt when colleges who did nothing to contribute are all of a sudden getting 15k+ lay off packages.
Now they are re-training in "government" programs bettering their skills full time while I still work for acompany in a wage freeze, and I haven't had a raise in years.
Kinda makes it almost worth getting laid off doesn't it?
Rem: Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Replied./end bitter Rant
Well, you can't turn a profit blue-screening new tech man, you wouldn't promote vapourware you swore. And the tech investors just don't get it anymore. Well, the top brass don't like Steve Ballmer yelling so much, and he just has to say what they tell him to say. And the monopoly don't wanna change what don't need to change.
There goes the last Comdex Tons of Booths and Displays Technology out of R&D since yesterday, hey hey hey. And there goes your freedom of OS choice, there goes the your last Digital Rights. There goes the last Comdex.
Well, some folks said they'd run the debt so high cos you just can't do what they did. Givin out free passes, now they just can't afford to keep those 24ft Vids. As we celebrate a Microsoft Monopoly all the investors wanna see how much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
There goes the last Comdex Tons of Booths and Displays Technology out of R&D since yesterday, hey hey hey. And there goes your freedom of OS choice, there goes the your last Digital Rights. There goes the last Comdex.
Well, they tried a show down in Mexico and only a few people would come in. And I've wasted a boondongle and remember how it was back then.
There goes the last Comdex Tons of Booths and Displays Technology out of R&D since yesterday, hey hey hey. And there goes your freedom of OS choice, there goes the your last Digital Rights. There goes the last Comdex.
Listen, any time there is a transfer of property, the government and business tries to take their piece.
A fee to transfer the licenses to a new company is just as common as the fee paid to transfer a automobile or a realestate.
From a Software Sales Rep's point of view, MS probably gave them an option to pay a transfer fee, and said company said no. MS said WHAT? do you know who we are? BAM vito'd merger.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's a better article.
:P
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981281.html
In it, HR's more sane suggestion is to urge
"major music labels, which include Sony Music, Warner Music, EMI, Universal Music and Bertelsmann's BMG, to ease licensing restrictions, develop digital copyright protections for music and invest more in promoting subscription download services."
Sounds like a good plan to me.
The only thing she forgot was the "oh and offer music at a fair price"
Sometimes it seems paraphrasing is the main source of news on Slashdot.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
"There are two kinds of tired, there's good tired, and there's bad tired. Ironically enough, bad tired is a day when maybe you won, but you won other people's battles, you lived other people's days, other people's agendas, and there is very little YOU in there. And when you hit the hay at night you toss and turn you don't settle easy. Good tired can be a day that you lost, but you don't have to tell yourself, because you fought your battles, you lived your life, your agenda, you chased your dreams, and when you hit the hay at night, you settle in easy, and you sleep the sleep of the just and you can say, take me away."
I sleep well.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
I'd agree with this EXCEPT that a person talking to the driver knows when the driver has to concentrate on something coming up and instinctively SHUTS UP.
:)
Concentrating on Talking while driving actually distracts people from driving well. Bad drivers can often be seen doing all the talking while driving. Basic natural instinct, you cannot devote concentration power to upcoming events (getting cut off and allowing the extra space) and hold a full blown 2 way all out conversation.
Drivers do their best thinking/working shit out because the mind is alive with activity while driving, just don't ask them to concentrate on a conversation with someone else.
Think about it the next time you're driving
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering.
Kazaa Lite. Kazaa, with the spyware.
http://www.kazaalite.nl/
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
I Personally have no problem with Ads. I actually think ads have their place on the net. I am above all a businessman. I disagree with the deceptive, IN YOUR FACE ads that have become the norm. I have been using various "popup stoppers" for years and until I installed a new system or two didn't realize how bad it had gotten.
This is what I have a problem with, it's the obtrusive behaviour of Businesses lobbying Goverments who change laws to suit their bottomline.
The internet was a Government project and emerged as the most important medium of my generation. It will not be the most important medium of my children's generation because of the quality degradation.
It's like a independant band who you REALLY like. Until they go commercial, and make the very thing that got them there, no longer fun.
I will not address your points one by one because I think you are right for very many of them, but I will say that we do not have free speech anymore when ISP's ban websites on behalf of fear driven DMCA claims.
Oh and I pay for phone, cable, and internet access and should be allowed to choose what I see, not see what others choose for me to see.
Censorship is a grave thing, and this is why the internet, with all it's commercialism and Goverment over-regulation on behalf of business, has one foot in the grave.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
The RIAA, and MPAA will want to "watch" the internet through this network and nab any Tom dick and Harry who pass music files.
Of course, independant music won't be distinguished in order to make thier stats look better "43 trillion music files were traded last year, and our revenue only increased by 2 billion. If we make each of those users pay every time they trade a file, we could make gazillion's (to quote jk) more. Of course we'd give 1 million to the governemnt for letting us use their network for our own commercial gain.
Folks, the internet is dying because it became the true meaning of free speech, communication and information. Corporations are slowly killing the net, which requires Goverments to get their hands in on regulating things.
I don't use the net as much as I did because of all the popups, spam and corporate cluelessness.
If anyone knows of a protected Sub-net (encrypted, anonymous use) please let me know to restore my faith.
Thank you.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
ARE YOU FUCKIN NUTS?
/.'d immediately.
Spammers harvest "VALID" emails by people who respond.
Am I lying? Check out the source code of the "remove me" link some time.
Can't believe you support people spamming everyone....
Or maybe this is propaganda to harvest more emails...by getting more and more people to REPLY to those emails, you will make more money
either way
YOU'RE NUTS, and should be duped
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Ok one thing I didn't see (and IRTFA), was the overall "playability" of the games or applications.
Dumb down the tests and give it to joe-six pack (you know, the ones who WON'T spend the extra 300 bucks for 30 trillion pixal shading?) and see what they think.
Does it run the app fine? Does the game run smooth in a comfortable screensize?
Being broke lately, I've come to appreciate that UT2003, or Dungeon Seige runs just fine on my celeron 533 with 512 meg ram, and while a more powerful graphics card would make it run even better, my 2 year old Gforce2 works just fine.
Just fine for the Cheapo price I would pay for the same card nowadays.
Extremetech turned me off of readership in the past by their lack of credible articles, and this just reinforces why I stopped reading it.
Personal opinion should be available at the END of an article, not the beginning opening bias.
Well my Word document just decided to unfreeze and let me save, so I will end this rant.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
We get to slashdot the most "accessible" site on the net into an oblivion of inaccessibility.
Well on the otherhand, we'll test how accessible it is all right
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Perfect for the MSCE+i+s(security) certificate.
What, you don't think people will HAVE to be certified to work on their new hardware/software monoply?
How else will companies "trust" working with such a secured environment?
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Never said their product was superior, just in people's minds.
Yo Grark
Can you imagine if companies started to discount their software when competitors were involved? What would our economy do? Wait....that would lead to COMPETITION and competition is bad, surely microsoft sales reps realize that their software is supreme and that ALL THE BASE BELONG TO THEM.
Next thing you know, Office will be free to compete with OpenOffice and the like.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Microsoft is heading back into a world of competition. The monopoly ride was good, but now they gotta get back to selling the shit on the grounds of quality and superiority in peoples mind, even if that means selling it for less.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering.
What is the legal right of a 13 year old?
Are they holding the Parents of minors accountable?
Are they providing cushions for the all the smacked asses they have caused?
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
My online identity is probably being sold to multiple mailings, porn, radioshack catalog's and god knows what else.
123 Sesame St Way, Beverly Hills California 90210 better not be a real address or they're gonna be pissed at me!
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering.
For me, it's a perfect sync between home, on the run and work.
When the pc at work fries, got the info.
When the PC at home fries, got the info
When the palm pilot dies, got the info.
Personally I have become more organized, kept in touch with people more, kept track of things more (like passwords, obscure info like new language phrases). All in all, I still have an old palm 3x, and it performs it's function PERFECTLY.
What I agree with, is that no-one should have to spend $1000.00 on a PDA, only to have it fall by the wayside months later.
Unless you're rich, which I'm not.
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred, with American Buttering
Ahhh but that's covered by the "right to modify this agreement without warning...."
Yo Grark
They have the right to view, modify, collect, own, trade, sell, transfer, move, and classify every piece of data they can collect.
By using their service you negate your privacy rights.
The fact that the federal court is forcing them not to is a legal argument within it's own rights.
Thank God here in Canada we're using Bell Canada who cares about our rights.......wait a minute...
Yo Grark
- Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Finally, someone doing it right.
/rant off.
For years companies have been pitting competitor against competitor until in the end, the customer gets the right bang for the right buck.
Too many times I see Slashdot going on about how evil Microsoft and how great open source is, now thanks to Japan, we have a Showcase for PROOF POSITIVE what the world at large wants to know.
Microsoft or Open Source?
You don't think this is a testbed for something better?
Committee Meeting, Day 1 9:00am
MS: OpenSource Bad
OS: Microsoft Bad
Japan: Why?
MS&OS: Shit good question.
Justification is the key, and when spending money the way the Government does, getting 3, 4, 10 different companies via'ing for the business all leads to better justification.
OS or MS: We Won the Bid/Implementation because Japan wanted this this and this, we proved we had it, they didn't.
You get the picture
Yo Grark
-Canadian Bred with American Buttering
After 911 all the big techfirms created DRA's (disaster recovery area's) in case anything major happened.
I had no less than 1000 companies call asking how to handle licensing and DRA's.
I'd be surprised if they didn't have one, it's pretty much standard practice comercially....
Yo Grark
- Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Sorry but I don't feel a tinge of guilt when colleges who did nothing to contribute are all of a sudden getting 15k+ lay off packages.
/end bitter Rant
Now they are re-training in "government" programs bettering their skills full time while I still work for acompany in a wage freeze, and I haven't had a raise in years.
Kinda makes it almost worth getting laid off doesn't it?
Rem: Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Replied.
Yo Grark
- Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Well, you can't turn a profit blue-screening new tech man,
you wouldn't promote vapourware you swore.
And the tech investors just don't get it anymore.
Well, the top brass don't like Steve Ballmer yelling so much,
and he just has to say what they tell him to say.
And the monopoly don't wanna change what don't need to change.
There goes the last Comdex
Tons of Booths and Displays
Technology out of R&D since yesterday, hey hey hey.
And there goes your freedom of OS choice,
there goes the your last Digital Rights.
There goes the last Comdex.
Well, some folks said they'd run the debt so high
cos you just can't do what they did.
Givin out free passes, now they just
can't afford to keep those 24ft Vids.
As we celebrate a Microsoft Monopoly
all the investors wanna see
how much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
There goes the last Comdex
Tons of Booths and Displays
Technology out of R&D since yesterday, hey hey hey.
And there goes your freedom of OS choice,
there goes the your last Digital Rights.
There goes the last Comdex.
Well, they tried a show down in Mexico
and only a few people would come in.
And I've wasted a boondongle and remember how it was back then.
There goes the last Comdex
Tons of Booths and Displays
Technology out of R&D since yesterday, hey hey hey.
And there goes your freedom of OS choice,
there goes the your last Digital Rights.
There goes the last Comdex.
-....*sniff*
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with Comdex Buttering...
Wrongly Created hotmail address....free
Auto-checked by Trillian to keep it alive...free
Never Given it out.....free
# of Spam Received to date: 654
Finding out over 1/4 was from MSN...priceless.
Yo Grark
- Canadian Bred with American Buttering.
You hit on the whole core of the issue.
:P
You do not OWN SOFTWARE. you own the right to use it unmodified.
The only time you OWN the software is when you develop it yourself or acquire the full rights through purchase through the publisher.
I don't own the newspaper, I own the right to read it
- Yo Grark
Listen, any time there is a transfer of property, the government and business tries to take their piece.
A fee to transfer the licenses to a new company is just as common as the fee paid to transfer a automobile or a realestate.
From a Software Sales Rep's point of view, MS probably gave them an option to pay a transfer fee, and said company said no. MS said WHAT? do you know who we are? BAM vito'd merger.
- Yo Grark
"Canadian Bred with American Buttering"
Radmin is a fast little app. VERY nice for slow connections and fast connections alike.
-Yo Grark
"Canadian Bred with American buttering"