The real question is, will they be able to guilt everybody into not pirating their music...
Yes. Most people don't pirate music. Only a very small percent (perhaps 1% of the population) pirate enough music to fill an entire CD. Most people have a few mp3's that they got when trying napster and thats it.
A perfect example of how much people care less about piratibility than portability (or convenience) is the apple iPod, it's trivial to pirate using it, yet I have never seen a single person who bothered to do so. Setting reasonable (copyright+fair use) restrictions on what you can do with the music you own pisses no one off. Making it so you pay the same amount for a "digital" file that plays on a single device as you do for a CD pisses lots of people off.
I would be less impressed by their arguments if they didn't use them every other time a new media distribution method came avoidable. They are in the business of hurting the consumer, in exchange for the consumer letting themselves be hurt they enrich the public domain. It's a pretty simple model and I only worry about it when arbitrary people get called pirates.
Did you just imply there is a better text editor than vi?
I sincerely hope you did not, and I will refrain from killing you if it was an honest gramatical slip. Otherwise expect to meet my shotgun as soon as I figure out where you live.
Hypothesis: Apple laptops premptively wake from sleep mode.
Test: Think about opening your TiBook by at the last moment divert your attention (tell your wife to yell at you sometime tomorow when your about to lift the lid or something).
Possible results: 1: it wakes;
hyphothesis upheld. 2: it doesn't wake
Apple has surely outdone all previous innovation with this notebook that actually predicts the future.
I think certain editors are trying to get everyone who still vehomelently hates apple to soften up by showing them article after article of apple geeks.
I don't agree with this practice, it's just my theory as to why it's happening.
No I haven't heard snow for about 10 years now... it's remarkably easy to remove with proper hardware (naturally said hardware/software costs about $40 so most radios don't have it).
I've seen digital tv, and the clif effect makes part of the picture totally unviewable, instead of a light snow effect.
I think I've become cynical in my old age, people still think CD's are the end all for music reproduction (Simply because they are digital), and I see it happening to more and more mediums.
I would but I don't have a webbrowser capable of viewing their page... They have some (really nasty looking) browser detection going on through javascript.
Which country is it again, that keeps threatening to invade if its demands aren't met?
No shit, every time I hear my own president say something like "Weapons inspectors OR ELSE" I'm like "holy fuck, when did we elect a fucking terrorist"
Alternately, I advocate giving every person on earth a little bar magnet to carry around, along with detailed instructions as to how it ought to be oriented to maintain an artificial planetary magnetic field.
You trust humans with something as important as our magnetic field? Madness I say, madness..
Let me preface my post by clearing up that in fact I am a gay white middle class male living in america.
I am vehemolently against hate crime / speach laws, they do nothing but cause resentment and lead to abuses of our legal system that should not happen. One of my friends back in college got in a fight once, he happened to call the other person a "fag" (he was clearly straight, we all knew it) yet he got charged with a hate crime. It was disgusting.
I should also point out the same right that allows hate mongers to spread their atrocities is the same right that allows sensible people to rebel against those atrocities. Removing that right for political reasons (either way) makes it much easier to remove that right for the "good" side in the future.
I think the most important quote to remember during these discussions is the following:
"I don't agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
This applies to all people and all political views, even if they are extremely wrong. (I should point out harassment and other bad things aern't covered under my personal definition of protected speech. Your right to dehumanize me ends when I'm in the room.)
Slashdot Mirror
This post proves the slashdot moderation system is completly worthless.
Thanks for playing.
The real question is, will they be able to guilt everybody into not pirating their music...
Yes. Most people don't pirate music. Only a very small percent (perhaps 1% of the population) pirate enough music to fill an entire CD. Most people have a few mp3's that they got when trying napster and thats it.
A perfect example of how much people care less about piratibility than portability (or convenience) is the apple iPod, it's trivial to pirate using it, yet I have never seen a single person who bothered to do so. Setting reasonable (copyright+fair use) restrictions on what you can do with the music you own pisses no one off. Making it so you pay the same amount for a "digital" file that plays on a single device as you do for a CD pisses lots of people off.
I would be less impressed by their arguments if they didn't use them every other time a new media distribution method came avoidable. They are in the business of hurting the consumer, in exchange for the consumer letting themselves be hurt they enrich the public domain. It's a pretty simple model and I only worry about it when arbitrary people get called pirates.
It may shock you but there are people who do commercial backups in this world...
are you a troll?
I'm having trouble parsing that post.
I thought the great advantage of 802.11x was it *wasn't* on the infared spectrum like every wireless proticol prior.
Then again perhaps some people enjoy only having line of sight networking, to each his own.
I'm thinking 11/11/11 would be a good guess...
oh no I'm not saying people aern't interested. I'm just saying the number of inane apple stories has been rather high.
:)
Then again this is slashdot, I can normally guess 3/5 of the top headlines before I visit each morning
Did you just imply there is a better text editor than vi?
I sincerely hope you did not, and I will refrain from killing you if it was an honest gramatical slip. Otherwise expect to meet my shotgun as soon as I figure out where you live.
Thank you, and good day.
But I normally do try and keep it quiet. Please no more slashdot headlines about me, ok?
Hypothesis: Apple laptops premptively wake from sleep mode.
Test: Think about opening your TiBook by at the last moment divert your attention (tell your wife to yell at you sometime tomorow when your about to lift the lid or something).
Possible results:
1: it wakes;
hyphothesis upheld.
2: it doesn't wake
Apple has surely outdone all previous innovation with this notebook that actually predicts the future.
I think certain editors are trying to get everyone who still vehomelently hates apple to soften up by showing them article after article of apple geeks.
I don't agree with this practice, it's just my theory as to why it's happening.
de ja vous?
Choose comments older than a week if your going to do that. And why would you karma whore as AC anyway?
1) 3rd party programs leave behind files after uninstallation or overwrite files needed by the OS.
and this doesn't strike you as an operating system problem?
You really need to get out more...
No I haven't heard snow for about 10 years now... it's remarkably easy to remove with proper hardware (naturally said hardware/software costs about $40 so most radios don't have it).
I've seen digital tv, and the clif effect makes part of the picture totally unviewable, instead of a light snow effect.
I think I've become cynical in my old age, people still think CD's are the end all for music reproduction (Simply because they are digital), and I see it happening to more and more mediums.
I would but I don't have a webbrowser capable of viewing their page... They have some (really nasty looking) browser detection going on through javascript.
link?
Honestly, do you really believe that the switch to digital radio will fix that? Those are bandwidth issues not signal issues.
(makes one wonder what are we going to do once everything we do is in binary)
yay me!
Which country is it again, that keeps threatening to invade if its demands aren't met?
No shit, every time I hear my own president say something like "Weapons inspectors OR ELSE" I'm like "holy fuck, when did we elect a fucking terrorist"
he who sleeps with big corperate monies is sure to get a STD.
whats even worse is 9/10 people who read your post will understand it...
Alternately, I advocate giving every person on earth a little bar magnet to carry around, along with detailed instructions as to how it ought to be oriented to maintain an artificial planetary magnetic field.
You trust humans with something as important as our magnetic field? Madness I say, madness..
Let me preface my post by clearing up that in fact I am a gay white middle class male living in america.
I am vehemolently against hate crime / speach laws, they do nothing but cause resentment and lead to abuses of our legal system that should not happen. One of my friends back in college got in a fight once, he happened to call the other person a "fag" (he was clearly straight, we all knew it) yet he got charged with a hate crime. It was disgusting.
I should also point out the same right that allows hate mongers to spread their atrocities is the same right that allows sensible people to rebel against those atrocities. Removing that right for political reasons (either way) makes it much easier to remove that right for the "good" side in the future.
I think the most important quote to remember during these discussions is the following:
"I don't agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
This applies to all people and all political views, even if they are extremely wrong. (I should point out harassment and other bad things aern't covered under my personal definition of protected speech. Your right to dehumanize me ends when I'm in the room.)
The internet is the last hope of us ever becoming a free people.
Holy shit dude...
That is the most retarded sentance ever muttered. Ever. Peroid.
Please eat a gun.
Theres a shirt from thinkgeek.com that says that, one of the classier ones for buisness-slacker attire :)