oh, I'm no artist. I was a post-surgical kid on Vicodin with a demo version of Fruity Loops on Win98. But I have since taken up guitar, partially inspired by that experience.
Music is not an industry. Music is practically a food group.
I'm glad the whip and buggy industries were not as organized as today's IP industries.
Also, I find it insulting that Mr. Turkewitz considers shared music illegitimate by default. What music I have released, and most of my friends have released, was free and distribution was encouraged. In fact, my first release was on ocremix.org, where all the music is free and torrents of their content are an encouraged distribution method. I'm sure glad this RIAA shill has set us straight and made it clear how illegitimate our free community-minded distribution of our works is. Sure wouldn't want to encourage that kind of illegitimate "online music marketplace."
I agree except the part about "American". Anonymous are not restricted to only being an army for the good of the American public. and clearly the *AA groups are detrimental to all nations' publics.
Which would of course be a reasonable course of action. I'm out in the country, and the crap we have is worthless. If LTE worked where I live, that's what we'd be using.
That position has its merit, but the comparison isn't quite apples and oranges. An ancient version of Norton isn't really equivalent to Firefox having new updates available. Especially if whatever grandkid installed Firefox enabled the auto-update. The continued updates are going to be more secure than the older version granny would be stuck with, even if the underlying OS or the virus scanner are still insecure and old.
As best I can tell, the main market for such a device would be keeping your phone in your backpack and letting the watch do all the interface work. I certainly don't have the need for such a device, but I could see some value for commuters. Until they get out a tablet and piss all over the idea that the watch is useful.
Unlike Microsoft, there's no incentive for these projects to drop XP until the number of users gets too low to justify continued development. I'm phasing it out of the office before the EOL, but that doesn't mean home users will. Microsoft wants users to buy newer versions of their products.
Free software projects supporting XP or not supporting XP is a matter of providing your users with what they will actually use. As long as enough XP users are using Firefox, Mozilla has no reason to drop it. Microsoft's decisions are basically irrelevant to that decision except in their effect on OS market share.
As much as I love watching people bicker about political terminology and euphemisms are in the United States, I think the most important thing to realize is that in the United States, political terms have absolutely no meaning, and the parties in the US have no principles at all.
So you're saying that the providers of luxury goods like home broadband connections should be killed if people don't like their prices? I'm certainly willing to agree that there are excesses and dirty tricks in the industry, but assassination is going too far.
People will pay whatever is charged up to the point that the market will bear. It's not that far off from an unregulated utility at this point. Television content delivery has similarly pulled their prices up through the roof, because people will pay it.
I haven't paid for either service (at least intentionally) since 2009. Under the right circumstances I might be persuaded to get the broadband again, but not cable or satellite television.
Even for adversarial people, the problem is that we deal with electing adversarial people into an environment where long-in-the-tooth politicians drag new blood into their old feuds, turning the old feuds into the new guy's feud by nature of remaining "consistent". Politicians aren't allowed to develop new understandings anymore. They get called inconsistent and hypocrites, and it may ruin their career. But whether it should be a career is a whole separate can of worms.
I've driven fire trucks and ambulances before. I can guarantee you right now that an autonomous ambulance is a horrible idea. Or any other emergency vehicle. But autonomous vehicles that actually yield to emergency vehicles would indeed save a lot of lives. Unpredictable reactions to lights and sirens were a constant danger.
Well put. The biggest difference these days, however, is that so many countries have allowed so many other countries to exercise power over them that they've come to view those powers as their right to obligate other nations to do whatever the stronger nation says.
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It doesn't have to pose a major threat; every lost sale is a lost sale. I haven't given them a dime in years, and I don't "pirate" their product.
I always expect Anonymous.
Good on you! Keep up the good work.
And I thought I checked anon as well. I bet I anon-posted on the wrong response tab.
oh, I'm no artist. I was a post-surgical kid on Vicodin with a demo version of Fruity Loops on Win98. But I have since taken up guitar, partially inspired by that experience.
Music is not an industry. Music is practically a food group.
I understand completely, gotta get the chlorine and AIDS out of your 'fros.
Then let them and the RIAA destroy each other. At that point, it's win-win if your characterization is correct.
I'm glad the whip and buggy industries were not as organized as today's IP industries.
Also, I find it insulting that Mr. Turkewitz considers shared music illegitimate by default. What music I have released, and most of my friends have released, was free and distribution was encouraged. In fact, my first release was on ocremix.org, where all the music is free and torrents of their content are an encouraged distribution method. I'm sure glad this RIAA shill has set us straight and made it clear how illegitimate our free community-minded distribution of our works is. Sure wouldn't want to encourage that kind of illegitimate "online music marketplace."
I agree except the part about "American". Anonymous are not restricted to only being an army for the good of the American public. and clearly the *AA groups are detrimental to all nations' publics.
Please, find a violation on RIAA.org and get them shut down. I'm begging you.
Thank God, I'm not the only one who recognizes how stupid a single-engine fighter is in this day and age.
Which would of course be a reasonable course of action. I'm out in the country, and the crap we have is worthless. If LTE worked where I live, that's what we'd be using.
That position has its merit, but the comparison isn't quite apples and oranges. An ancient version of Norton isn't really equivalent to Firefox having new updates available. Especially if whatever grandkid installed Firefox enabled the auto-update. The continued updates are going to be more secure than the older version granny would be stuck with, even if the underlying OS or the virus scanner are still insecure and old.
As best I can tell, the main market for such a device would be keeping your phone in your backpack and letting the watch do all the interface work. I certainly don't have the need for such a device, but I could see some value for commuters. Until they get out a tablet and piss all over the idea that the watch is useful.
Unlike Microsoft, there's no incentive for these projects to drop XP until the number of users gets too low to justify continued development. I'm phasing it out of the office before the EOL, but that doesn't mean home users will. Microsoft wants users to buy newer versions of their products.
Free software projects supporting XP or not supporting XP is a matter of providing your users with what they will actually use. As long as enough XP users are using Firefox, Mozilla has no reason to drop it. Microsoft's decisions are basically irrelevant to that decision except in their effect on OS market share.
As much as I love watching people bicker about political terminology and euphemisms are in the United States, I think the most important thing to realize is that in the United States, political terms have absolutely no meaning, and the parties in the US have no principles at all.
I don't run Ubuntu, but if my present OS attempted to do this to me, I'd jump ship and find a new one.
So you're saying that the providers of luxury goods like home broadband connections should be killed if people don't like their prices? I'm certainly willing to agree that there are excesses and dirty tricks in the industry, but assassination is going too far.
The fact that they choose not to do without is a clear indication that the market will bear it. It doesn't mean the market has to like it.
That certainly seems to be the trend.
I wish it were just cynicism rather than actual informative observation.
People will pay whatever is charged up to the point that the market will bear. It's not that far off from an unregulated utility at this point. Television content delivery has similarly pulled their prices up through the roof, because people will pay it.
I haven't paid for either service (at least intentionally) since 2009. Under the right circumstances I might be persuaded to get the broadband again, but not cable or satellite television.
There's also the fact that the terrorist threat isn't as significant as they want us to believe it is.
Even for adversarial people, the problem is that we deal with electing adversarial people into an environment where long-in-the-tooth politicians drag new blood into their old feuds, turning the old feuds into the new guy's feud by nature of remaining "consistent". Politicians aren't allowed to develop new understandings anymore. They get called inconsistent and hypocrites, and it may ruin their career. But whether it should be a career is a whole separate can of worms.
I've driven fire trucks and ambulances before. I can guarantee you right now that an autonomous ambulance is a horrible idea. Or any other emergency vehicle. But autonomous vehicles that actually yield to emergency vehicles would indeed save a lot of lives. Unpredictable reactions to lights and sirens were a constant danger.
Well put. The biggest difference these days, however, is that so many countries have allowed so many other countries to exercise power over them that they've come to view those powers as their right to obligate other nations to do whatever the stronger nation says.