There is this building in my city that actually allows people to go and get the books that people want. It's crazy - you go to their website, search for a book, and then, like magic, you can use the book without paying for it. It's called a "library" and its almost like the Pirate Bay, except not at all.
The band shellac did something similar. They offered their album in CD and Vinyl. The Vinyl copy ironically came with a free copy of the cd. People still bought the CD though.
I've had no luck with my Mac. Apple has been trying to even push the 'logic' board problem on the entire ibook owning population. I showed up at one of their genius bars, with my broken ibook - the HD would crunch away for hours until finally crashing. Sometimes I'd even start it up and get greated with a sad computer.
Apple decided the logic board was the issue and replaced it. I don't think it's any suprise that a day later I came back with the computer again, experiencing the same problem...
"But they fixed this computer, the logic board was replaced."
You know, the logic board isn't the only problem with the ibook...
.. to get a computer that DOESN'T run windows. One that is faster, more secure, runs a more stable OS and is more powerful, just so that you can emulate a PC so it's slower, and less stable. Weird.
Now all this thing has to do is monitor your heart-rate as you drive around in an SUV with 5 hamburgers while inhaling the overwhelming scent of gas fumes!
I find it ironic that many people in the this community find it necessary to complain about the actions of other groups when they don't necessarily agree with the intentions of that group. I mean, honestly, why don't you start a project that sends computers to schools in the US that need more "power."
Besides, Indymedia has been around for years supporting independent media. You know, an alternative to the mainstream. Isn't that the purpose of linux in the first place? Since most of the major newspapers in the US are headed by the same company, i think it only makes sense to take part in a project that would help to provide an alternative to the mainstream.
i'll sue SONY for makeing putting out music on compact discs that make it possible to distribute. No wait, I'll sue Pearl Jam for making music that can be put on CDs to pirate. No, I'll sue the guitar manufacturers for makeing the guitars that pearl jam used to make the music to distribute illegally. No, I'll sue the lumber company that made the wood to make the guitars to sell to the band that used them to make the music that gets pirtated. No, I'll sue.... the tree?
I work for a software company that uses mainwin to port their product to different unixes. Recently, I watched them port their entire product, which includes a vbscript compiler and MSIE, to linux. They abandoned the project recently because of the lack of necessity for the product. It's a little slow, but it works. I works well. I saw a small web browser based on the MSIE engine running but the problem is that no one really wants this. In my opinion, someone should buy mainwin, use the IE engine (found in visual C++) and create a free browser called NOTIE or something. it could be interesting..
Right, and I was saying, perhaps, that it is these contracts which constrict the programmer or the musician. You no longer own your own creativity: Corporate, INC. does. It's the sense of accomplishment that is stripped from these people that bothers me, not the fact that they signeda contract and the big bad RIAA is going to enforce it. It's the entire structure of industry in America. You don't own your idea when you are working under those marks you made on that 100 page contract. Artists dont own their own thoughts, and yes, that painter that painted a wall, no longer owns the wall, just as the builder who builds a house, no longer owns that house. Yes, I am going to say that it is wrong for people not to feel a sense of fufillment when the put days into something: even if it is painting a wall. Society is not built around people feeling good about what they do, it's built around a small group of people feeling good about what other people do in their name. Thats my problem with it.
The RIAA is rediculous. They constantly treat pull strings until people get so worked up at them that they have to change their stance on things. The unfortunate part is that some people may not be thinking "OK, the RIAA must have some sort of a conscience if they did this" and back off of them from the napster case. Fact is, that they push so hard, that when the let up a little, they expect everyone else to let up too. They are like the thugs of the music industry wating for people to get hooked on their music and not take any sort of ethical understanding into account. It's the same logic that the meat industry uses and the garment industry uses to push their products on a complacent America. Eventually, if groups like the RIAA aren't stopped, this will boil over into other aspects more than it already has. The ethical reprocussions of most products are never taken into consideration when they are bought, until it is you that is effected.
It's already in the computer industry; people just have not opened their eyes to it. When a programmer writes code, even if they happen to write the entire program, it is not the intellectual product of the programmer, but of the company that sells it. And who, dare i ask, is going to try and tell me that programs are not art and should not be protected in the same way that music should. There are so many ways to write any given program, just like there are so many ways to draw an apple. You have medium (language); you have a canvas (platform); you have art ( the program ).
It's not just the RIAA, but they are the ones leading this rebellion against intellectual property. All of the groups that support this kind of thinking should be stopped. It's reason that so many people feel like their work is nothing more than the product of the company. The worker/programmer/artist creates, but the company takes the credit.
wouldn't this get confusing when say a hip-hop song samples a beatles song over and over? Wouldn't it just think that it was a rock song? Or what about rock songs that have classical sounding intros? Is this really possible?
well, i know people that run record labels in the independent music scenes and they dont sell their cds for over 8$. Boycott Tower records, Boycott Sony, and then go out and learn about independent music that doesn't get apprecidated because some major label didnt pick up on them. Most people don't even know anything about a lot of the smaller bands out there because they just listen to all of the crap that record labels feed them. Go try to find bands that are on underground labels. Use napster to do it. Boycott the major labels and prove that napster has a good purpose by actually buying an independent release.
sometimes i wish that all of these people that were trying to get windows to work under linux would work together on one project. There are countless projects of the same type in all aspects of open source. Wouldn't things be better if we had one project that got completed rather than 100 that will "someday" have the same functions?
only 2 years ago, my high school had no computer science program and i doubt they do now. We were reduced to learning how to use word processors on an Apple II/gs. Now that I am a college student, working towards a computer science degree, i have one bit of input for all computer science professors and teachers.
I work for a software company and in any software company, you dont work alone! you dont memorize all the functions, and you certainly dont have closed book tests! Have your class work together on a project that everyone can have a part in. Make a game having each student do a different part. Have a graphics group, a music group, a engine group. Or even with any other program, use different groups to do different parts, and have your class decide what they want to do, because i'll tell you, i'm sick as hell of programming things that have no use. Computer science and art can go hand in hand so let your students be creative. I dream of a program that is like this...
i'm going to have to break the ice here and say that maybe the capitalist ideal of exploitation is what is doing this.... In theory, all of this great technology can be used to make out lives easier, harness technologies that would cut down the work day and ultimately create a world where people could live not working constantly. I, however, have not been blessed with the joys of technology and only find myself a student working full time playing with linux so compaines can be more profitable. Isn't all of this free technology supposed to be based on quality and not profit?
It's sad to see the world's smartest group of people turning into the machines that the technology was supposed to replace.
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The story also states that it only costs $5 to register. At least it's not expensive to get on such an exclusive list!
So in other words, 8 of 10 viruses wont even run on Windows 7.
What is that saying about compatibility issues in windows 7? I wonder how many legitimate pieces of software wont run in W7... 8/10?
There is this building in my city that actually allows people to go and get the books that people want. It's crazy - you go to their website, search for a book, and then, like magic, you can use the book without paying for it. It's called a "library" and its almost like the Pirate Bay, except not at all.
The band shellac did something similar. They offered their album in CD and Vinyl. The Vinyl copy ironically came with a free copy of the cd. People still bought the CD though.
Pirated CDs and movies on the street? Gee, I'm pretty sure they do that in NYC.
What's going to happen? We'll elect someone who didn't get the most legitimate votes...?
wait..
HA! XFree86 is starting to used Microsoft's HTML strategy towards licenses. Nice..
i eventually got my new hard drive. took a while. and my ipod just broke. having bad luck..
I've had no luck with my Mac. Apple has been trying to even push the 'logic' board problem on the entire ibook owning population. I showed up at one of their genius bars, with my broken ibook - the HD would crunch away for hours until finally crashing. Sometimes I'd even start it up and get greated with a sad computer.
Apple decided the logic board was the issue and replaced it. I don't think it's any suprise that a day later I came back with the computer again, experiencing the same problem...
"But they fixed this computer, the logic board was replaced."
You know, the logic board isn't the only problem with the ibook...
.. to get a computer that DOESN'T run windows. One that is faster, more secure, runs a more stable OS and is more powerful, just so that you can emulate a PC so it's slower, and less stable. Weird.
Now all this thing has to do is monitor your heart-rate as you drive around in an SUV with 5 hamburgers while inhaling the overwhelming scent of gas fumes!
God bless america.
I find it ironic that many people in the this community find it necessary to complain about the actions of other groups when they don't necessarily agree with the intentions of that group. I mean, honestly, why don't you start a project that sends computers to schools in the US that need more "power."
Besides, Indymedia has been around for years supporting independent media. You know, an alternative to the mainstream. Isn't that the purpose of linux in the first place? Since most of the major newspapers in the US are headed by the same company, i think it only makes sense to take part in a project that would help to provide an alternative to the mainstream.
i'll sue SONY for makeing putting out music on compact discs that make it possible to distribute. No wait, I'll sue Pearl Jam for making music that can be put on CDs to pirate. No, I'll sue the guitar manufacturers for makeing the guitars that pearl jam used to make the music to distribute illegally. No, I'll sue the lumber company that made the wood to make the guitars to sell to the band that used them to make the music that gets pirtated. No, I'll sue.... the tree?
-thinkpol
I work for a software company that uses mainwin to port their product to different unixes. Recently, I watched them port their entire product, which includes a vbscript compiler and MSIE, to linux. They abandoned the project recently because of the lack of necessity for the product. It's a little slow, but it works. I works well. I saw a small web browser based on the MSIE engine running but the problem is that no one really wants this. In my opinion, someone should buy mainwin, use the IE engine (found in visual C++) and create a free browser called NOTIE or something. it could be interesting..
-thinkpol
it amazes me that you have no idea what communism is. read/learn/listen before you talk
-thinkpol
Right, and I was saying, perhaps, that it is these contracts which constrict the programmer or the musician. You no longer own your own creativity: Corporate, INC. does. It's the sense of accomplishment that is stripped from these people that bothers me, not the fact that they signeda contract and the big bad RIAA is going to enforce it. It's the entire structure of industry in America. You don't own your idea when you are working under those marks you made on that 100 page contract. Artists dont own their own thoughts, and yes, that painter that painted a wall, no longer owns the wall, just as the builder who builds a house, no longer owns that house. Yes, I am going to say that it is wrong for people not to feel a sense of fufillment when the put days into something: even if it is painting a wall. Society is not built around people feeling good about what they do, it's built around a small group of people feeling good about what other people do in their name. Thats my problem with it.
-thinkpol
The RIAA is rediculous. They constantly treat pull strings until people get so worked up at them that they have to change their stance on things. The unfortunate part is that some people may not be thinking "OK, the RIAA must have some sort of a conscience if they did this" and back off of them from the napster case. Fact is, that they push so hard, that when the let up a little, they expect everyone else to let up too. They are like the thugs of the music industry wating for people to get hooked on their music and not take any sort of ethical understanding into account. It's the same logic that the meat industry uses and the garment industry uses to push their products on a complacent America. Eventually, if groups like the RIAA aren't stopped, this will boil over into other aspects more than it already has. The ethical reprocussions of most products are never taken into consideration when they are bought, until it is you that is effected.
It's already in the computer industry; people just have not opened their eyes to it. When a programmer writes code, even if they happen to write the entire program, it is not the intellectual product of the programmer, but of the company that sells it. And who, dare i ask, is going to try and tell me that programs are not art and should not be protected in the same way that music should. There are so many ways to write any given program, just like there are so many ways to draw an apple. You have medium (language); you have a canvas (platform); you have art ( the program ).
It's not just the RIAA, but they are the ones leading this rebellion against intellectual property. All of the groups that support this kind of thinking should be stopped. It's reason that so many people feel like their work is nothing more than the product of the company. The worker/programmer/artist creates, but the company takes the credit.
-thinkpol
wouldn't this get confusing when say a hip-hop song samples a beatles song over and over? Wouldn't it just think that it was a rock song? Or what about rock songs that have classical sounding intros? Is this really possible?
-thinkpol
well, i know people that run record labels in the independent music scenes and they dont sell their cds for over 8$. Boycott Tower records, Boycott Sony, and then go out and learn about independent music that doesn't get apprecidated because some major label didnt pick up on them. Most people don't even know anything about a lot of the smaller bands out there because they just listen to all of the crap that record labels feed them. Go try to find bands that are on underground labels. Use napster to do it. Boycott the major labels and prove that napster has a good purpose by actually buying an independent release.
-thinkpol
sometimes i wish that all of these people that were trying to get windows to work under linux would work together on one project. There are countless projects of the same type in all aspects of open source. Wouldn't things be better if we had one project that got completed rather than 100 that will "someday" have the same functions?
-thinkpol
only 2 years ago, my high school had no computer science program and i doubt they do now. We were reduced to learning how to use word processors on an Apple II/gs. Now that I am a college student, working towards a computer science degree, i have one bit of input for all computer science professors and teachers.
I work for a software company and in any software company, you dont work alone! you dont memorize all the functions, and you certainly dont have closed book tests! Have your class work together on a project that everyone can have a part in. Make a game having each student do a different part. Have a graphics group, a music group, a engine group. Or even with any other program, use different groups to do different parts, and have your class decide what they want to do, because i'll tell you, i'm sick as hell of programming things that have no use. Computer science and art can go hand in hand so let your students be creative. I dream of a program that is like this...
-thinkpol
...the internet wasn't controlled by corporations and was a tool for universities to better communicate?
.gnu TLD..
i don't know if al gore's going to approve the
-thinkpol
is nothing sacred? are we going to soon see art galleries sprinkled with ads too?
*this painting was painted by beat jackson pollock, known for dancing around his canvas while listening to music... oh, yea, drink coke *
-thinkpol
i hope they didnt try and add some fun, child friendly charachter that walks around and talked gibberish.
maybe they will make wolverine talk in baby talk or something... please, PLEASE dont mess this up
-thinkpol
i'm going to have to break the ice here and say that maybe the capitalist ideal of exploitation is what is doing this.... In theory, all of this great technology can be used to make out lives easier, harness technologies that would cut down the work day and ultimately create a world where people could live not working constantly. I, however, have not been blessed with the joys of technology and only find myself a student working full time playing with linux so compaines can be more profitable. Isn't all of this free technology supposed to be based on quality and not profit?
It's sad to see the world's smartest group of people turning into the machines that the technology was supposed to replace.
thinkpol