If you just want the convenience and safety though there are tons of plans for pay-as-you-go.
Yeah, who would be willing to pay between $100 and $200 for a Pre-Pay Cell Phone and pay $30 for about a half hour of talk time? I sure wouldn't pay that kind of money.
...and they still can't come up with a successful model that will allow them to make a buck from downloadable music.
That is because the only way they think they're going to make a buck from downloadable music, IMHO, is a Pay-Per-Listen Model, which they can't do because of Competition from Independant Artists & smaller Labels. That is where the CBDTPA & Palladium comes in, only allowing the RIAA Approved Music on all your hardware, thus eliminating ALL competition because the RIAA will own the patents on DRM in the Music, and with no competition, they can charge what they want for music, even $5 for each time you would want to listen to a song.
The only way to really stop that is to "Vote with your wallet" and buy music from nothing but Non-RIAA Labels, I.E. DMusic, The Starr-Gennett Foundation "Really Good Music from the 1920s", and thousands of other sites on the Internet. "Stay away from mp3.com, they are owned by Vivendi-Universal"
There are a couple problems with that idea, 1. the Teens no matter what will STILL be going after the Cookie Cutter Boy and Girl Bands of the year, and 2.
They will just blame it on Piracy and they have support of the Democratic Party, and don't think the Republican Party is going to help either, because M$ owns the Patent on DRM in the OS, thus, Eliminating any Non MS operating system, and Microsoft has the support of the Republican Party.
Finally:This paranoia over 'copy protection' has simply got to stop!
What's wrong with being a little paranoid, Corporate-America will do ANYTHING to eliminate competition, and they do it to please the stock holders of the company by giving them a huge return on their investments.
Uh, shoudn't that be 1) Site gets money from advertisers 2) someone clicks on link, buys rubbish software 3) company buys more advertising 4) ???? 5) Profit!!!!!
And so it could be in the software world. Sure, 99.9% don't understand the code, but there's an opportunity for you to start up "Software Reports" in the same vein as Consumer Reports to translate and inform.
Yeah, and at the same time get sued by the BSA and the IDSA under the DMCA.
I've talked to some who consider some shows to be anime - like branding The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to be "live-action" anime.
Just my $0.02. And yes, I agree - The Matrix is live-action anime with plenty of Judeo-Christianity imagry.
Anime is does NOT have to have Large, expressive Eyes nor does it have to be Sci-Fi. in Princess Mononoke, none of the caracters have "Large Expressive Eyes", nor is it Sci-Fi, and yet it is considered Anime. MCoG "Mysterious Cities of Gold" was somewhat Sci-Fi, but, again, none of the characters had "Expressive Eyes"
This is my $0.02 Worth, oh, BTW, the Matrix is not ANIME of any kind.
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Great, we'll have the senator from M$ instead of the Senator from Disney.;)
RIAA: We have documented proof that your employees are using your network to trade files.
CIO: What, like server logs, network traffic analysis and examples of P2P installs on client computers?
RIAA: Yes.
CIO: All supposedly confidential company documents?
RIAA: Yes, so?
CIO: Meet our team of high-priced lawyers. Oh, and here's a picture of the last person who stole confidential information from our company. His current net worth is -$10 million.
RIAA: Oh Yeah, Meet Vivendi-Universal's lawyers, when they're through with you, your corporation will be worth -$100 million.
CIO: Ok, we'll prevent P2P on our computers, Fire the employees involved in trading music, and even keep our employees from listening to their CDs at the office.
RIAA: Too Late, we already filed a lawsuit against your corporation. Oh, and don't even consider trying to Settle Out of Court, this case WILL go to trial.
If CON is the Opposite of Pro, wouldn't That Make
CONgress the opposite of PROgress?
That wasn't the point I was making. My point is that these technologies simply have made it easier to aquire their product without paying for it.
That's true, but neither Napster nor any of the P2P software makers are paying royalties for the distribution of their product.
The RIAA though is using P2P as a "scapegoat" to push New Laws "SSSCA/CBDTPA" to get rid of competition, and to prevent "Fair Use".
BTW, I don't use P2P much, I get most of My Music today from "Analog" Sources "Cassette, LP, & 8-Track" and copy it to CD, which is why the xxAA wants to plug the Analog Hole
And I may be too young to remember, but I don't recall any music company suing a radio station over listeners who were recording songs from the airwaves.
That is because there is a tax^h^h^h Surcharge on Blank Cassettes that goes to the RIAA, And cassettes don't last as long as CDs.
I can see why this kind of feature would be important for Windows users. Afterall, if you had to reboot every time you changed your resolution you'd never get anything done.
Actually, You can change the Resolution & Color Depth without restarting windows.
The Reason you had to reset windows 3.xx was due to the fact that a Video Card had to have a device driver for each screen mode it supported.
A Couple Problems with that Idea, 1. Teens would still "Have to have" the latest copy of the latest "Cookie Cutter Band of the year", and 2, the RIAA would just blame it on Piracy and pass new laws to elimin^h^h^h^h^h^h curb Piracy, as the old saying goes, "He Who Pays The Piper Calls The Tune".
If CON is the opposite of PRO, Shoudn't that
make CONgress the opposite of PROgress?
2ndly, Microsoft Windows(tm) isn't a "desktop environment" (unlike KDE). After version 3.11, it because an entire operating system. Integrating a web browser into the operating system is a big technical mistake, because it infects the OS with instabilities and inefficiencies that are tolerable in a standalone application.
Actually, Windows itself has never really been considered a "Desktop Environment" but, rather an Operating environment up until windows 3.11 because it ran on top of DOS, and even then Windows 95 to Me are still Running on top of DOS "Microsoft Just hid it in Windows ME" so technically they are still "Operating Environments".
The only True Windows Operating Systems are Windows NT, Windows 2000 & Windows XP.
If Copy Protection turns some consumers off the format. If the RIAA have the "Cookie Cutter Boy & Girl Bands" only on the new format, then it WILL take off for sure because most "all?" of the teens would purchase it. Thus, we would have no choice in a few years but to purchase music in the new Format.
So the whole idea is to use up all the bandwidth available by some company you don't like, or crash their servers by sending too many people to their Web site, costing them potentially thousands of dollars
Isn't that commonly called here as "Slashdotting"?;)
If CON is the Oppposite of Pro, Shoudn't that make
CONgress the opposite of PROgress
Slashdot Mirror
If you just want the convenience and safety though there are tons of plans for pay-as-you-go.
Yeah, who would be willing to pay between $100 and $200 for a Pre-Pay Cell Phone and pay $30 for about a half hour of talk time? I sure wouldn't pay that kind of money.
W3C Sidesteps you
RIAA nominates You for "Internet Villian of the Year"
Oh,
Wait a second, that's this country, never mind.
It would take that whole disk just to hold the M$ Window$ Installation files.
...and they still can't come up with a successful model that will allow them to make a buck from downloadable music.
That is because the only way they think they're going to make a buck from downloadable music, IMHO, is a Pay-Per-Listen Model, which they can't do because of Competition from Independant Artists & smaller Labels. That is where the CBDTPA & Palladium comes in, only allowing the RIAA Approved Music on all your hardware, thus eliminating ALL competition because the RIAA will own the patents on DRM in the Music, and with no competition, they can charge what they want for music, even $5 for each time you would want to listen to a song.
The only way to really stop that is to "Vote with your wallet" and buy music from nothing but Non-RIAA Labels, I.E. DMusic, The Starr-Gennett Foundation "Really Good Music from the 1920s", and thousands of other sites on the Internet. "Stay away from mp3.com, they are owned by Vivendi-Universal"
There are a couple problems with that idea, 1. the Teens no matter what will STILL be going after the Cookie Cutter Boy and Girl Bands of the year, and 2.
They will just blame it on Piracy and they have support of the Democratic Party, and don't think the Republican Party is going to help either, because M$ owns the Patent on DRM in the OS, thus, Eliminating any Non MS operating system, and Microsoft has the support of the Republican Party.
Finally:This paranoia over 'copy protection' has simply got to stop!
What's wrong with being a little paranoid, Corporate-America will do ANYTHING to eliminate competition, and they do it to please the stock holders of the company by giving them a huge return on their investments.
Uh, shoudn't that be
1) Site gets money from advertisers
2) someone clicks on link, buys rubbish software 3) company buys more advertising
4) ????
5) Profit!!!!!
And so it could be in the software world. Sure, 99.9% don't understand the code, but there's an opportunity for you to start up "Software Reports" in the same vein as Consumer Reports to translate and inform.
Yeah, and at the same time get sued by the BSA and the IDSA under the DMCA.
Yeah, The RIAA & MPAA are the only ones that do stuff like that. ;)
Maybe they will finally wise up and move the "Shutdown" option from the "Start" menu ;)
Yeah, that will happen, when they Get rid of progman.exe & taskman.exe.
Just adding "Linux" to the title doesn't make it newsworthy
You're right, it doesn't.
But, the fact that the Co-Founder of Microsoft is Embracing Linux is Newsworthy.
Ned: And Harry Potter and all his wizard friends
went STRAIGHT to hell for practicing witchcraft!
Todd: Yay!
I've talked to some who consider some shows to be anime - like branding The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to be "live-action" anime.
Just my $0.02. And yes, I agree - The Matrix is live-action anime with plenty of Judeo-Christianity imagry.
Anime is does NOT have to have Large, expressive Eyes nor does it have to be Sci-Fi. in Princess Mononoke, none of the caracters have "Large Expressive Eyes", nor is it Sci-Fi, and yet it is considered Anime. MCoG "Mysterious Cities of Gold" was somewhat Sci-Fi, but, again, none of the characters had "Expressive Eyes"
This is my $0.02 Worth, oh, BTW, the Matrix is not ANIME of any kind.
Great, we'll have the senator from M$ ;)
instead of the Senator from Disney.
use a Phased-Array AP to Boost the 802.11b Range, when you can use a Pringles Can as the Wi-Fi Antenna to Boost the Range? ;)
How does it prevent a Server from being Slashdotted?
Or Scenario 3:
RIAA: We have documented proof that your employees are using your network to trade files.
CIO: What, like server logs, network traffic analysis and examples of P2P installs on client computers?
RIAA: Yes.
CIO: All supposedly confidential company documents?
RIAA: Yes, so?
CIO: Meet our team of high-priced lawyers. Oh, and here's a picture of the last person who stole confidential information from our company. His current net worth is -$10 million.
RIAA: Oh Yeah, Meet Vivendi-Universal's lawyers, when they're through with you, your corporation will be worth -$100 million.
CIO: Ok, we'll prevent P2P on our computers, Fire the employees involved in trading music, and even keep our employees from listening to their CDs at the office.
RIAA: Too Late, we already filed a lawsuit against your corporation. Oh, and don't even consider trying to Settle Out of Court, this case WILL go to trial.
If CON is the Opposite of Pro, wouldn't That Make
CONgress the opposite of PROgress?
"What next, a text version of Quake?"
;)
Nah, more like a text version of Neverwinter Nights.
The RIAA has just Patented Music and is planning on suing all non-riaa signed artists, Night Clubs, Churches, etc. for playing music.
That wasn't the point I was making. My point is that these technologies simply have made it easier to aquire their product without paying for it.
That's true, but neither Napster nor any of the P2P software makers are paying royalties for the distribution of their product.
The RIAA though is using P2P as a "scapegoat" to push New Laws "SSSCA/CBDTPA" to get rid of competition, and to prevent "Fair Use".
BTW, I don't use P2P much, I get most of My Music today from "Analog" Sources "Cassette, LP, & 8-Track" and copy it to CD, which is why the xxAA wants to plug the Analog Hole
And I may be too young to remember, but I don't recall any music company suing a radio station over listeners who were recording songs from the airwaves.
That is because there is a tax^h^h^h Surcharge on Blank Cassettes that goes to the RIAA, And cassettes don't last as long as CDs.
I can see why this kind of feature would be important for Windows users. Afterall, if you had to reboot every time you changed your resolution you'd never get anything done.
Actually, You can change the Resolution & Color Depth without restarting windows.
The Reason you had to reset windows 3.xx was due to the fact that a Video Card had to have a device driver for each screen mode it supported.
A Couple Problems with that Idea, 1. Teens would still "Have to have" the latest copy of the latest "Cookie Cutter Band of the year", and 2, the RIAA would just blame it on Piracy and pass new laws to elimin^h^h^h^h^h^h curb Piracy, as the old saying goes, "He Who Pays The Piper Calls The Tune".
If CON is the opposite of PRO, Shoudn't that
make CONgress the opposite of PROgress?
2ndly, Microsoft Windows(tm) isn't a "desktop environment" (unlike KDE). After version 3.11, it because an entire operating system. Integrating a web browser into the operating system is a big technical mistake, because it infects the OS with instabilities and inefficiencies that are tolerable in a standalone application.
Actually, Windows itself has never really been considered a "Desktop Environment" but, rather an Operating environment up until windows 3.11 because it ran on top of DOS, and even then Windows 95 to Me are still Running on top of DOS "Microsoft Just hid it in Windows ME" so technically they are still "Operating Environments".
The only True Windows Operating Systems are Windows NT, Windows 2000 & Windows XP.
If Copy Protection turns some consumers off the format. If the RIAA have the "Cookie Cutter Boy & Girl Bands" only on the new format, then it WILL take off for sure because most "all?" of the teens would purchase it. Thus, we would have no choice in a few years but to purchase music in the new Format.
So the whole idea is to use up all the bandwidth available by some company you don't like, or crash their servers by sending too many people to their Web site, costing them potentially thousands of dollars
;)
Isn't that commonly called here as "Slashdotting"?
If CON is the Oppposite of Pro, Shoudn't that make
CONgress the opposite of PROgress
"The internet will collapse in 1996." -Bob Metcalf, Ethernet inventor and 3Com founder.
Better than that, 50 Years ago, Almost everyone thought that computers would die out.