I've heard this nonsense a few times. Haven't you heard? They're already going out of business and it has nothing to do with P2P file sharing. The "problem" is simply that musicians don't need them anymore. Was a time when they controlled the distribution and the means of production. Now they control neither. Any idiot with a Mac and a copy of Garage Band can cut an album now. More people buy from iTunes than buy CDs. So where are the labels going to make their money? Promotion? Ha! There's marketing companies out there that are a hundred times better and, importantly, cheaper.
The music industry is beat.. but they have a war chest and they intend to spend every dime before they give up and go home.
When are journalists going to learn that it takes 10 years to get from the lab to market? And when it comes to anything medical, add another 10 years for clinical trials.
I was talking about us.. in a few thousand years.. hopefully after all the dickwads who think making the earth a utopia is achievable have buggered off.
Getting your page rank up so people can find you is advertising too, but hey, I get what you're saying. That's not how your average joes find stuff. Those banner ads work.
meh, court oversight doesn't do anything anyway. The courts are happy to rubber stamp any search warrant where there is reasonable expectation that evidence might be found. And if the police find nothing? Oh, there's no oversight on that. Around 1998 I had police knock on my door and seize my computers because they had obtained a warrant on the grounds that I had spoken online with someone who had hacked into a national ISP via a corporate phone conference line, running up their bills. The police had reason to believe that they might find evidence of his crime on my computers. As such, I was required to suffer the inconvenience of having my hardware forfeit for months while they investigated. In the end they found nothing and, after much harassing on my part, eventually returned the hardware. No apology, no oversight.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man"
From "Maxims For Revolutionists" by George Bernard Shaw.
I expect they've cut a deal with someone for that ballast. There's lots of people who are willing to "hitch a ride to orbit" no matter how low the odds are of the vehicle making it. Not that I think this launch will fail.. but, ya know, it'll be fun to watch either way:)
Why would they be waiting on NASA for a payload? This is the Falcon 9 demonstration flight. It'll be launching a payload simulator, just like the last Falcon 1 flight was. If you look at that exact same page you will see that the NASA demonstration flights are not until the 4th Falcon 9 launch.
Only slight problem being that Boeing are not interested in selling NASA the Delta IV Heavy at the price NASA wants to pay. They had their chance to bid on ISS resupply and they turned their nose up at it because it wasn't a cost plus contract.
Elon Musk.. learn to spell. And yes, he's planning to go to Mars. That's what is so cool. Rather than just being an "advocate" of space colonization and wondering when NASA is going to get around to it, he's putting his money where is mouth is and aiming to do it himself.
Yeah, all the "woop for the free market" crap that comes out in every SpaceX story is starting to piss me off too. SpaceX is what it is and what it will be because Elon Musk has a vision and enough capital to make it happen. Why are you guys cheering the capital and ignoring the vision?
Actually, it was posted in the SpaceX website on Dec 29.. It took a day to get to the spacefellowship, then another day to get to Slashdot.. so I'm surprised it isn't 2009 already.
"Hey Bob, these kids on the Internet want to write Linux drivers for our cards." "Oh really? Have we had any customer requests for Linux drivers lately?" "Yeah, a couple." "Send 'em that dev code we did last week, see what they come up with." "Ok."
1. It's not inalienable, it's for limited times. 2. Copyright is all about controlling what other people can do. It's not just making copies, it's also make derivative works, performing the work in public, etc. 3. It's not just about you owning your work.. yes, you own your work but, unlike all other forms of work, when you sell your work you get to maintain control over the buyers. That's what makes copyright different. 4. The purpose of copyright is to encourage the creation of more works. When copyright works in the opposite direction, the courts should refuse to enforce it. 5. It's really not a hard concept I'm trying to get across here, but your head is so far down in the sand that you don't want to try to understand it.
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I've heard this nonsense a few times. Haven't you heard? They're already going out of business and it has nothing to do with P2P file sharing. The "problem" is simply that musicians don't need them anymore. Was a time when they controlled the distribution and the means of production. Now they control neither. Any idiot with a Mac and a copy of Garage Band can cut an album now. More people buy from iTunes than buy CDs. So where are the labels going to make their money? Promotion? Ha! There's marketing companies out there that are a hundred times better and, importantly, cheaper.
The music industry is beat.. but they have a war chest and they intend to spend every dime before they give up and go home.
Specialization is a mystery that hasn't been cracked yet.. so stem cells are "magic".. in that they do impressive feats that we don't understand.
When are journalists going to learn that it takes 10 years to get from the lab to market? And when it comes to anything medical, add another 10 years for clinical trials.
"we'll be more advanced" suggests some kind of progression of the liberal arts sense.. I was just referring to technological advancement.
I was talking about us.. in a few thousand years.. hopefully after all the dickwads who think making the earth a utopia is achievable have buggered off.
EVER is a long time.
The Space Elevator is something an advanced civilization with a few hours to kill might whip up.
Getting your page rank up so people can find you is advertising too, but hey, I get what you're saying. That's not how your average joes find stuff. Those banner ads work.
There's plenty of places on the web that sell shit and advertise no-where else except on the web. How do you think people find them?
meh, court oversight doesn't do anything anyway. The courts are happy to rubber stamp any search warrant where there is reasonable expectation that evidence might be found. And if the police find nothing? Oh, there's no oversight on that. Around 1998 I had police knock on my door and seize my computers because they had obtained a warrant on the grounds that I had spoken online with someone who had hacked into a national ISP via a corporate phone conference line, running up their bills. The police had reason to believe that they might find evidence of his crime on my computers. As such, I was required to suffer the inconvenience of having my hardware forfeit for months while they investigated. In the end they found nothing and, after much harassing on my part, eventually returned the hardware. No apology, no oversight.
[Stallman] has a very rigid definition of [free] ... it doesn't include the freedom to take something and make it not free.
Wow, that almost sounds like everyone else's definition of freedom.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man"
From "Maxims For Revolutionists" by George Bernard Shaw.
I expect they've cut a deal with someone for that ballast. There's lots of people who are willing to "hitch a ride to orbit" no matter how low the odds are of the vehicle making it. Not that I think this launch will fail.. but, ya know, it'll be fun to watch either way :)
Why would they be waiting on NASA for a payload? This is the Falcon 9 demonstration flight. It'll be launching a payload simulator, just like the last Falcon 1 flight was. If you look at that exact same page you will see that the NASA demonstration flights are not until the 4th Falcon 9 launch.
Only slight problem being that Boeing are not interested in selling NASA the Delta IV Heavy at the price NASA wants to pay. They had their chance to bid on ISS resupply and they turned their nose up at it because it wasn't a cost plus contract.
this is slashdot, and people here aren't idiots
You must be new here.
A vision with nothing but failures is not a vision at all. It is just a dream implemented by people who don't know what they are doing.
Welcome to business.
Elon Musk.. learn to spell. And yes, he's planning to go to Mars. That's what is so cool. Rather than just being an "advocate" of space colonization and wondering when NASA is going to get around to it, he's putting his money where is mouth is and aiming to do it himself.
Yeah, all the "woop for the free market" crap that comes out in every SpaceX story is starting to piss me off too. SpaceX is what it is and what it will be because Elon Musk has a vision and enough capital to make it happen. Why are you guys cheering the capital and ignoring the vision?
Also missing in that analysis is the lifespan of the incandescent bulb and the assumption that it is not, also, coming from China.
Actually, it was posted in the SpaceX website on Dec 29.. It took a day to get to the spacefellowship, then another day to get to Slashdot.. so I'm surprised it isn't 2009 already.
Ok, I've had enough talking to you now. You're uninterested in anyone's opinion but your own.
I think you should put down the crack pipe.
accountants? I don't think they do what you think they do.
Or just good economical sense.
"Hey Bob, these kids on the Internet want to write Linux drivers for our cards."
"Oh really? Have we had any customer requests for Linux drivers lately?"
"Yeah, a couple."
"Send 'em that dev code we did last week, see what they come up with."
"Ok."
Shocking!
1. It's not inalienable, it's for limited times.
2. Copyright is all about controlling what other people can do. It's not just making copies, it's also make derivative works, performing the work in public, etc.
3. It's not just about you owning your work.. yes, you own your work but, unlike all other forms of work, when you sell your work you get to maintain control over the buyers. That's what makes copyright different.
4. The purpose of copyright is to encourage the creation of more works. When copyright works in the opposite direction, the courts should refuse to enforce it.
5. It's really not a hard concept I'm trying to get across here, but your head is so far down in the sand that you don't want to try to understand it.