Do you have any more information on how those 5000 stations became 5? Not saying its not true, but just I never heard of it, since I don't live in America, but I'm interested in reading more about it. "Media-channel ownership" doesn't tell me much in google.
They didn't sell singles 15 years ago??? And every single record store I've been in for the past 15 years has allowed me to listen to a CD in store before I buy it.
Neither of those links actually prove your hypothesis or provide any data. They're news articles and are only reporting that two authors\publishers are trying something new to promote and sell their work. It doesn't support your assertion that piracy adds significant real world sales and it doesn't indicate that that those authors\publishers were actually more successful because of that.
Re:The 'new' James T. Kirk better nail EVERYBODY!
on
New Star Trek Trailer
·
· Score: 1
Actually, Kirk slept with only one woman in the whole series, and that was under the influence of some mind control spores. Kirk loves two things only: His crew and his ship. If you watch the series again you'll notice that the only times he even shows interest in females is because he's under influence of something, or they were in his way to protecting or getting back to his crew and his ship. Not that Kirk was gay, but he was a smart man, loyal to his crew, ship and mission, and would never (and has never) intentionally jeopardised the real loves of his life for a woman, no matter how hot. As soon as he didn't have a use for a woman, he got the hell out of there at Warp Factor Five Mr Sulu.
Its always assumed by people that Kirk was a slut, but he never actually did anything through the series. One of the few women we know he must have had sex with was Carol Marcus who had his child. She was one of the Federations most brilliant scientists, and he loved her. The other was the chick on the Hippie planet, but only because his mind had gone. He would never have stayed down there if he wasn't under the influence of those spores
My impression of Kirk was a guy who could have any woman he wanted, but he chose his friends and his mission above all of that, and when he did eventually love a woman, it was for her brains, not her looks. A true nerd, and why he's the Alpha Nerd, even to Spock.
Michael Crichton died today
on
Frozen Mice Cloned
·
· Score: 4, Informative
Can we please not use the word "Boffin" to describe scientists. Its a words used by the British tabloids, usually out of ignorance, and in a derogatory sense.
It really doesn't matter. If you use any popular media the technology will still be around to use it. We live in a big world, and there always geeks who love to collect stuff like that.
That's why I stopped buying new computers. There's nothing new, they're just the same basic idea (harddrive+cpu+memory) just with better graphics and more speed. An x86 intel chip is still an x86 intel chip, except its a new version of the same damn thing...
There is nothing new or revolutionary, so that's why I virtually quit PC purchasing and bought a Commodore 64.
Making it good won't make any difference. All the best games are the most popular downloads on torrent sites. The better the game, the more likely it is to be downloaded.
One of those "morons" went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Bush goes on to destroy America's reputation overseas, severely hurts her economy, and is responsible for sending more Americans to their deaths than were killed in 9/11.
Voting for the Lesser Evil certainly works, eh?
This message will self destruct in 5 seconds...
on
TrueCrypt 6.0 Released
·
· Score: 0, Troll
Second, it now has the ability to hide an entire operating system, so even if you're forced to reveal your pre-boot password to an adversary, you can give them one that boots into a plausible decoy operating system, with your hidden operating system remaining completely undetectable.
I hate when my adversaries force me to reveal my pre-boot password. I'm glad there are geeks out there putting together solutions for all us Secret Agents.
If they could release a version I could use on my watch, it would be perfect
It's just that they have 20 years of spaghetti code to somehow shape into an API document. I doubt if anyone at Microsoft really knows how the code works
Really? Care to provide some evidence for that "20 years of spaghetti code" comment. If MS can make Office 07 faster and more efficient for me to use than OpenOffice with its painfully slow operation, then surely its a miracle that they can do that despite using 20 year old spaghetti code
Whatever method they can use to deter other shoplifters is fine by me. I'm guessing that this is an exaggeration, and that you have a line you won't let someone cross to invade your personal rights. Where is that line for you? Verbal abuse or physical harm. If they're just being dick heads and hurting my poor sensitive little feelings I just shop elsewhere, or take a good hard look at my personality. If they just want to take a look in my shopping bag I'll let them, because its in my interest to help keep prices down. I'll also tell a manager if I see someone shoplifting (even though technically it isn't a crime until they leave the store and I'm not obliged by law to pass on that information). But I do it anyway, despite the fact that the store can't make me. Why? Because I'm a nice guy, and I like low prices. I also don't like thieves and will do anything I can to help stop them, without first stopping to analyze if my rights will be infringed by helping The Man.
A manager asked to see your bag while you were shopping and you just said "Get out of my way or I'm calling the police"?
Either you have real social problems or you've completely made that story up.
If its true you've just helped to make our prices higher - thanks. Stores don't have the right to search your bags, but its a far simpler method than constantly watching everybody on CCTV. Would you prefer that? Increased shoplifting leads to increases in costs. I've worked in stores before - they can lose thousands in a week even with security guards and CCTV. Whatever method they can use to deter other shoplifters is fine by me. If I was planning on shoplifting and saw the dude in front of me having his bag inspected I'd think twice. If I saw him whining about his rights and getting away with it I'd stick a couple of extra USB sticks in my bag, and sneak out while the manager was distracted.
Most intelligent consumers understand that, and fairly well adjusted people who disagree with that policy can just politely say No Thanks, and walk out. Most people won't, not because they don't have principles or understand their rights, but because a store is a PRIVATE business, and if they want to continue to do business they know that its in their interest to at least help them keep costs down.
But well done - you stuck it to the man. Don't you feel great about yourself, sneering at minimum wage security guards who are working for a private business that you don't have a right to shop at without their permission anyway? If you care so much about your principles why don't you develop principles around genuinely important civil rights issues? Or, get therapy.
And thus for 1500 years his disciples fought over which feature was better, and had many a long war, until the great Reformation where they agreed to disagree. And thus for 500 years more they fought over the meaning of different Holy Features.
Except that they didn't take anything from anybody - so they have nothing to make up for. They didn't take away free music - pirate sites are everywhere. They don't have to apologise - they weren't the ones breaking the law.
Society is missing nothing, and probably gained more pirate sites thanks to their move. They acted within the law. If they lost any fans, they certainly didn't lose many paying ones, who would probably never be customers anyway.
An apology will change nothing, declare nothing, improve nothing. It's a useless move, needed only by people who want to see Metallica humiliated. What kinds of people are they, who hold a grudge almost a decade later? Did they kill your puppy?
Again, all that does is punish them for NOW doing the right thing. What a way to reinforce bad behaviour. That's the one way to ensure people never change, by being childish and petty, and punish them when they are doing the right thing.
You're not going to change anyone's behavior that way, especially when there's nothing to be gained from an apology, on either side.
Metallica will not atone for their actions and I will do everything in my power to dissuade those around me from listening to them. If I could say one thing to the band, it would be "You've always been on board the RIAA ship and now you'll ride that ship down to the bottom of the ocean with your career." Geez. You make it sound like they committed genocide and refuse to say sorry. Have a little perspective here. All they did was try to stop people from distributing their music for free. They spend a fortune producing it - they do have the right to at least want to get some of that money back. If they make mistakes along the way and piss people off, that doesn't make them bad people - businesses and artists piss off their customers all the time. At least give them the opportunity to do the right thing. Don't punish them out of spite, and a petty desire for an apology now that they're doing what music fans have wanted all along. Reward them for doing the right thing and they're more likely to do it again. Who cares what their motives are. You don't know their mind. If they're doing what fans want, then fuck their motives.They're at least doing it, aren't they.
They did what anyone who's successful would have done - tried to hold on to that success. If you had built up a hugely successful band or business you would also be very suspicious, or even deathly afraid of anything that might have been a threat to that and would do what you could to stop it. The anger and aggression that came from Metallica at the time, makes me think they were more afraid, than suspicious.
You may, in your infinite knowledge say that you would have given it away for free, being a true artist, but you try looking at the receipt after paying for even ONE professional guitar, never mind a whole studio, music videos and distribution system. If you still want to give it away for free then you're a better man than 99% of bands in the world (except Radiohead and bands so new or bad that they can't even give it away)
As it turned out they did the wrong thing, which is easy to see with the benefit of hindsight. Not everyone makes good business decisions. That doesn't make them bad people. What actions do they have to atone for? You're using really strong words to describe something that was an entirely human reaction and entirely legal.
And for all we know their contracts with their record company and other associates may have made it impossible for them to even consider at the time what Radiohead have considered. Who by the way had the advantage of almost 10 years to study the new distribution models. Pretty easy to make the right decision when you have that much time to think about it.
Metallica made a mistake which hurt their reputation. Good businessmen and good people will learn from their mistakes. If they haven't then you'll know by their results... which we'll find out eventually.
If you really really hate Metallica with the burning fiery passion that you imply in your post, then you're really doing the wrong thing by launching a crusade to tell everyone you know not to listen to their music. Just tell them ALL to download the free album from Metallica's site, bleed their resources and just never pay for it.
That's going to make it clear to them nobody wants to pay for their music - provided everyone you know has your long argument in mind when listening to Heavy Metal.
How about a little understanding, and forgiveness? Since you won't have to pay for anything, what's the point in getting angry over it?
If Microsoft GPL'd Microsoft Office, would you install it? No because my reason for using Open Office isn't just because I'm a tight wad. Because the painfully slow loading times gives you an opportunity to count all your money?:)
Slashdot Mirror
Do you have any more information on how those 5000 stations became 5? Not saying its not true, but just I never heard of it, since I don't live in America, but I'm interested in reading more about it. "Media-channel ownership" doesn't tell me much in google.
They didn't sell singles 15 years ago??? And every single record store I've been in for the past 15 years has allowed me to listen to a CD in store before I buy it.
I was JUST about to sit down and watch Thursday's breaking news that I had on TiVo, and now you've just ruined it for me.
Neither of those links actually prove your hypothesis or provide any data. They're news articles and are only reporting that two authors\publishers are trying something new to promote and sell their work. It doesn't support your assertion that piracy adds significant real world sales and it doesn't indicate that that those authors\publishers were actually more successful because of that.
Your data to prove this hypothesis?
Actually, Kirk slept with only one woman in the whole series, and that was under the influence of some mind control spores. Kirk loves two things only: His crew and his ship. If you watch the series again you'll notice that the only times he even shows interest in females is because he's under influence of something, or they were in his way to protecting or getting back to his crew and his ship. Not that Kirk was gay, but he was a smart man, loyal to his crew, ship and mission, and would never (and has never) intentionally jeopardised the real loves of his life for a woman, no matter how hot. As soon as he didn't have a use for a woman, he got the hell out of there at Warp Factor Five Mr Sulu.
Its always assumed by people that Kirk was a slut, but he never actually did anything through the series. One of the few women we know he must have had sex with was Carol Marcus who had his child. She was one of the Federations most brilliant scientists, and he loved her. The other was the chick on the Hippie planet, but only because his mind had gone. He would never have stayed down there if he wasn't under the influence of those spores
My impression of Kirk was a guy who could have any woman he wanted, but he chose his friends and his mission above all of that, and when he did eventually love a woman, it was for her brains, not her looks. A true nerd, and why he's the Alpha Nerd, even to Spock.
RIP http://news.google.co.uk/news/url?sa=t&ct=uk/0-0&fp=491182f120c62f7f&ei=XuERScjTB4LAwgGmqZTzBA&url=http%3A//www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/05/print/main4575403.shtml&cid=0&usg=AFQjCNHcr8G0ar1Zy3zr0YIYCdj0c4I2iw
Youtube offer better-than-TV resolution. Check out their high-quality option, which you can view full screen.
Can we please not use the word "Boffin" to describe scientists. Its a words used by the British tabloids, usually out of ignorance, and in a derogatory sense.
It really doesn't matter. If you use any popular media the technology will still be around to use it. We live in a big world, and there always geeks who love to collect stuff like that.
That's why I stopped buying new computers. There's nothing new, they're just the same basic idea (harddrive+cpu+memory) just with better graphics and more speed. An x86 intel chip is still an x86 intel chip, except its a new version of the same damn thing...
There is nothing new or revolutionary, so that's why I virtually quit PC purchasing and bought a Commodore 64.
Making it good won't make any difference. All the best games are the most popular downloads on torrent sites. The better the game, the more likely it is to be downloaded.
One of those "morons" went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Bush goes on to destroy America's reputation overseas, severely hurts her economy, and is responsible for sending more Americans to their deaths than were killed in 9/11.
Voting for the Lesser Evil certainly works, eh?
Second, it now has the ability to hide an entire operating system, so even if you're forced to reveal your pre-boot password to an adversary, you can give them one that boots into a plausible decoy operating system, with your hidden operating system remaining completely undetectable.
I hate when my adversaries force me to reveal my pre-boot password. I'm glad there are geeks out there putting together solutions for all us Secret Agents.
If they could release a version I could use on my watch, it would be perfect
Hulu is not available in the UK. Anyone know of a work around or an alternative site?
It's just that they have 20 years of spaghetti code to somehow shape into an API document. I doubt if anyone at Microsoft really knows how the code works
Really? Care to provide some evidence for that "20 years of spaghetti code" comment. If MS can make Office 07 faster and more efficient for me to use than OpenOffice with its painfully slow operation, then surely its a miracle that they can do that despite using 20 year old spaghetti code
First they watch the fishes, then its an easy next step to start watching us. This is a slippery slope. More proof scientists are evildoers.
A manager asked to see your bag while you were shopping and you just said "Get out of my way or I'm calling the police"?
Either you have real social problems or you've completely made that story up.
If its true you've just helped to make our prices higher - thanks. Stores don't have the right to search your bags, but its a far simpler method than constantly watching everybody on CCTV. Would you prefer that? Increased shoplifting leads to increases in costs. I've worked in stores before - they can lose thousands in a week even with security guards and CCTV. Whatever method they can use to deter other shoplifters is fine by me. If I was planning on shoplifting and saw the dude in front of me having his bag inspected I'd think twice. If I saw him whining about his rights and getting away with it I'd stick a couple of extra USB sticks in my bag, and sneak out while the manager was distracted. Most intelligent consumers understand that, and fairly well adjusted people who disagree with that policy can just politely say No Thanks, and walk out. Most people won't, not because they don't have principles or understand their rights, but because a store is a PRIVATE business, and if they want to continue to do business they know that its in their interest to at least help them keep costs down.
But well done - you stuck it to the man. Don't you feel great about yourself, sneering at minimum wage security guards who are working for a private business that you don't have a right to shop at without their permission anyway? If you care so much about your principles why don't you develop principles around genuinely important civil rights issues? Or, get therapy.
iLine? +5 for funny? Really? :)
And thus for 1500 years his disciples fought over which feature was better, and had many a long war, until the great Reformation where they agreed to disagree. And thus for 500 years more they fought over the meaning of different Holy Features.
Because many of those do break their policy. They might be a fucked up evil organization but the Church are entitled to DMCA like everybody else.
Except that they didn't take anything from anybody - so they have nothing to make up for. They didn't take away free music - pirate sites are everywhere. They don't have to apologise - they weren't the ones breaking the law.
Society is missing nothing, and probably gained more pirate sites thanks to their move. They acted within the law. If they lost any fans, they certainly didn't lose many paying ones, who would probably never be customers anyway.
An apology will change nothing, declare nothing, improve nothing. It's a useless move, needed only by people who want to see Metallica humiliated. What kinds of people are they, who hold a grudge almost a decade later? Did they kill your puppy?
Again, all that does is punish them for NOW doing the right thing. What a way to reinforce bad behaviour. That's the one way to ensure people never change, by being childish and petty, and punish them when they are doing the right thing.
You're not going to change anyone's behavior that way, especially when there's nothing to be gained from an apology, on either side.
They did what anyone who's successful would have done - tried to hold on to that success. If you had built up a hugely successful band or business you would also be very suspicious, or even deathly afraid of anything that might have been a threat to that and would do what you could to stop it. The anger and aggression that came from Metallica at the time, makes me think they were more afraid, than suspicious.
You may, in your infinite knowledge say that you would have given it away for free, being a true artist, but you try looking at the receipt after paying for even ONE professional guitar, never mind a whole studio, music videos and distribution system. If you still want to give it away for free then you're a better man than 99% of bands in the world (except Radiohead and bands so new or bad that they can't even give it away)
As it turned out they did the wrong thing, which is easy to see with the benefit of hindsight. Not everyone makes good business decisions. That doesn't make them bad people. What actions do they have to atone for? You're using really strong words to describe something that was an entirely human reaction and entirely legal.
And for all we know their contracts with their record company and other associates may have made it impossible for them to even consider at the time what Radiohead have considered. Who by the way had the advantage of almost 10 years to study the new distribution models. Pretty easy to make the right decision when you have that much time to think about it.
Metallica made a mistake which hurt their reputation. Good businessmen and good people will learn from their mistakes. If they haven't then you'll know by their results... which we'll find out eventually.
If you really really hate Metallica with the burning fiery passion that you imply in your post, then you're really doing the wrong thing by launching a crusade to tell everyone you know not to listen to their music. Just tell them ALL to download the free album from Metallica's site, bleed their resources and just never pay for it.
That's going to make it clear to them nobody wants to pay for their music - provided everyone you know has your long argument in mind when listening to Heavy Metal.
How about a little understanding, and forgiveness? Since you won't have to pay for anything, what's the point in getting angry over it?