It still doesn't excuse the fact that people are stealing music and not paying for it. Stick that in your argument and smoke it.
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NARAS vs. the RIAA
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No offense, but DUH! They're a BUSINESS! It's not this free hand-out thing that the government gives the NEA. If things were funded like that, I'd say they damn well better be free.
But it's not.
And I'd say there sure have been companies this greedy...MUCH more greedy than the this. You just weren't alive (well, most of us weren't) when they came rolling through the country.
So, what's the solution?
Get the RIAA to give up protecting their property? Most folks here want that.
Get the publishing companies to allow free access to all downloaded music? Most folks here want that too.
The problem with that is, the music business is a BUSINESS. They're SUPPOSED to make money. That's why they're doing this. They haven't done one thing that's illegal. Unethical when it comes to some of their recording contracts, well, that I'm sure of. People who keep saying "music should be free" are the same ones that are plopping down big bucks to buy hard drives and things to store all their downloads on. Should those be free too? Why not?
Back in the day, I knew a lot people that had TONS (literally) of record albums. They bought every one of 'em, either from the store, or from flea markets. I bet most of the people with vast MP3 collects from download sites haven't bought an album in a long time.
And spare me the, "people would download buy more albums" BS argument. People said the same thing about software piracy, and it isn't true there either.
I used VMS for years. Unix and it's utilities were far beyond it, even back when I used it.
Windows is more modern that Unix, and you don't find people "in the know" saying it's the greatest thing since sliced bread either.
PF1-Gold indeed
Boilerplate activism is completely pointless. It does the typical and ineffective thing: it makes the person signing it feel good, so they can get on with their life without actually doing anything about it. Say your against something, and you can act any way you want. I've seen it over and over.
If people would actually take part in what they believe in, and tell it in their own words, it has a helluva lot more impact that some form letter.
Thank goodness this is the way most activism is done these days. Keep it up, and we'll keep ignoring it.
This book is great
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When this came out in 2001, James Gosling showed a copy of it at his keynote at JavaOne. They sold out every copy they had at the show, and the Effective Java talk later that day/week, was so packed you couldn't even get it.
Great book.
The point is, Microsoft is using their monopoly power to "branch" into new markets. They're doing the equivalent of what the Japanese were doing to the RAM market, all those years ago. Dump a product at low cost (in Japan's case, lower than it cost to make), drive your competition out of business, and then start charging what you want.
He can render it faster if he caches the data from the links on the current page in the background, renders the pages in the background and then pops up whatever link was clicked on.
Personally, I think he probably did it on a local network too, so there wasn't much testing, and probably used DirectX plug-ins from MS to do whatever he did.
All in all, I'm sure he had to have do something like this and it's a complete resource hog.
People seem to forget (or forgive) things back when Netscape was doing all kinds of crap, including inventing new HTML back when everyone else was trying to standardize on things.
People were quick to forgive Netscape, but not so quick to forgive MS. I hate MS as much as the next guy, but all this umbrage is amusing when related to days past.
This all comes down to control. What Bill wants, Bill gets, at least within his own company. You can bet your life that if Gates wanted to do something within the company, they'd turn on a dime, just the way they did back in 1995 to support Internet stuff
You know, posts get a mod-down for being flames and this whole story is just one long flame.
I've been playing EQ for years, and it's still fun. The guy who wrote that article just wants to blame someone else for the "problem"...HIS problem, and libel Sony in the process.
Easy solution:
If you run into a site like that, send an e-mail to them saying you won't buy their products because of it, and move on.
If enough people do it, they'll get the idea.
Try to go to Quantum and see th e nice little error message you get.
You'd figure for a company that is using Linux in their work, they'd get the web guys on the stick and fix that.
Actually, the newer generation PVRs are like Napster in the respect that you can send programs from one PVR to another. ReplayTV has been doing this for a while now, and you can find people requesting uploads of shows they've missed on various websites. Sure, it takes a million years (well, hours) to upload the program, but it is the same thing they're talking about.
I personally think the cable companies are a bunch of idiots though...it boils down to the fact that they've had a monopoly in communities for a long time, and now they're losing it due to SAT dishes. Well, too damn bad. If they'd deliver the number of channels at the quality that SAT does, I'd use cable instead. But they don't, so tough shit for them.
You know, I find it really ironic that the page where they explain about how they're looking for broken links as a link to alexa.com/associates that's broken.
I remember when this first came up, and the main guy heading up ShowEQ declared "war" on Sony.
Well, you know what? Too damn bad. EQ is a lot better off without a bunch of people cheating in the game. I've been playing for quite a while now, never had to cheat, and I'm doing fine.
I say put more encryption in. Let the ShowEQ team pound their head into the ground. Who cares? I'll be enjoying the game.
I sent source code for some stuff I did a while ago. It was quite popular in the community it served. You could use it as you wished, but if you used it in a commercial product you had to pay a slight fee.
Well, guess what? I go to some tradeshows, and sure enough my stuff was being used by two companies there. (I knew it was mine from the messages shooting out on the screen with my name on it when the code came up).
Go get a lawyer, you say? Yeah, right. I don't have the money for that sort of thing.
The big guys know what, and you'll get screwed.
Send out source again? If it's already GPLed, hell us. If it's my own, hell no.
I've always liked JBuilder, but then again, I've always run it on a machine with 512meg or more. I like Jbuilder quite a bit. I've used it for many big projects, and it's always come through for me.
I'm always up for other tool suggestions though. I plan on trying IDEA (which was suggested below).
It didn't pass in California, but it IS the law in Minnesota. There were many news stories about a group, Democrat Socialists of America that were going to send in people another to vote for Wellstone. They even had a freakin' website! What a bunch of morons. Anyway, in the time between the news stories and Paul Wellstone's death (it was like a week), they took the site down.
And the web being what it is, it can't stamp out everything, so there's still evidence laying around at least in news stories.
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It still doesn't excuse the fact that people are stealing music and not paying for it. Stick that in your argument and smoke it.
But it's not.
And I'd say there sure have been companies this greedy...MUCH more greedy than the this. You just weren't alive (well, most of us weren't) when they came rolling through the country.
So, what's the solution?
Get the RIAA to give up protecting their property? Most folks here want that.
Get the publishing companies to allow free access to all downloaded music? Most folks here want that too.
The problem with that is, the music business is a BUSINESS. They're SUPPOSED to make money. That's why they're doing this. They haven't done one thing that's illegal. Unethical when it comes to some of their recording contracts, well, that I'm sure of. People who keep saying "music should be free" are the same ones that are plopping down big bucks to buy hard drives and things to store all their downloads on. Should those be free too? Why not?
Back in the day, I knew a lot people that had TONS (literally) of record albums. They bought every one of 'em, either from the store, or from flea markets. I bet most of the people with vast MP3 collects from download sites haven't bought an album in a long time.
And spare me the, "people would download buy more albums" BS argument. People said the same thing about software piracy, and it isn't true there either.
I used VMS for years. Unix and it's utilities were far beyond it, even back when I used it. Windows is more modern that Unix, and you don't find people "in the know" saying it's the greatest thing since sliced bread either. PF1-Gold indeed
If people would actually take part in what they believe in, and tell it in their own words, it has a helluva lot more impact that some form letter.
Thank goodness this is the way most activism is done these days. Keep it up, and we'll keep ignoring it.
When this came out in 2001, James Gosling showed a copy of it at his keynote at JavaOne. They sold out every copy they had at the show, and the Effective Java talk later that day/week, was so packed you couldn't even get it. Great book.
And that, my friend, IS illegal.
Personally, I think he probably did it on a local network too, so there wasn't much testing, and probably used DirectX plug-ins from MS to do whatever he did.
All in all, I'm sure he had to have do something like this and it's a complete resource hog.
People were quick to forgive Netscape, but not so quick to forgive MS. I hate MS as much as the next guy, but all this umbrage is amusing when related to days past.
This all comes down to control. What Bill wants, Bill gets, at least within his own company. You can bet your life that if Gates wanted to do something within the company, they'd turn on a dime, just the way they did back in 1995 to support Internet stuff
I've been playing EQ for years, and it's still fun. The guy who wrote that article just wants to blame someone else for the "problem"...HIS problem, and libel Sony in the process.
Easy solution: If you run into a site like that, send an e-mail to them saying you won't buy their products because of it, and move on. If enough people do it, they'll get the idea.
You can get Java implementations from a lot of differnt places, not so with BREW. It's Qualcomm's way, or the highway.
The only Christmas bonus I can recall getting is a gift certificate to Sears.
Try to go to Quantum and see th e nice little error message you get. You'd figure for a company that is using Linux in their work, they'd get the web guys on the stick and fix that.
It's really tough, at least a few days, IF you can get it to work.
People can do dumb stuff in any language, but sorry, it's not a Java problem.
It's also a complete bear to install.
OK, so he hates PVRs.....
BUT HE OWNS ONE!
What a wacko
Actually, the newer generation PVRs are like Napster in the respect that you can send programs from one PVR to another. ReplayTV has been doing this for a while now, and you can find people requesting uploads of shows they've missed on various websites. Sure, it takes a million years (well, hours) to upload the program, but it is the same thing they're talking about.
I personally think the cable companies are a bunch of idiots though...it boils down to the fact that they've had a monopoly in communities for a long time, and now they're losing it due to SAT dishes. Well, too damn bad. If they'd deliver the number of channels at the quality that SAT does, I'd use cable instead. But they don't, so tough shit for them.
Goofballs.
I remember when this first came up, and the main guy heading up ShowEQ declared "war" on Sony. Well, you know what? Too damn bad. EQ is a lot better off without a bunch of people cheating in the game. I've been playing for quite a while now, never had to cheat, and I'm doing fine. I say put more encryption in. Let the ShowEQ team pound their head into the ground. Who cares? I'll be enjoying the game.
I sent source code for some stuff I did a while ago. It was quite popular in the community it served. You could use it as you wished, but if you used it in a commercial product you had to pay a slight fee.
Well, guess what? I go to some tradeshows, and sure enough my stuff was being used by two companies there. (I knew it was mine from the messages shooting out on the screen with my name on it when the code came up).
Go get a lawyer, you say? Yeah, right. I don't have the money for that sort of thing.
The big guys know what, and you'll get screwed.
Send out source again? If it's already GPLed, hell us. If it's my own, hell no.
I've always liked JBuilder, but then again, I've always run it on a machine with 512meg or more. I like Jbuilder quite a bit. I've used it for many big projects, and it's always come through for me.
I'm always up for other tool suggestions though. I plan on trying IDEA (which was suggested below).
Just out of curiosity, which IDE are you being forced to use right now?
And the web being what it is, it can't stamp out everything, so there's still evidence laying around at least in news stories.