Why should I spend hours of time and effort ripping/re-encoding a DVD to make a copy when I can just throw down a $20 and have an original?
Yes, this is true for now and believe it or not the **AA actually knows this.
The real reason they are running so scared is they realize that as technology advances and copying/downloading becomes easier and easier that magic price point gets lower and lower.
Ten years from now, imagine yourself saying 'why should i spend 15 minutes copying a dvd when i can just buy one for [magic-number]?' and what number will that be? 50 cents? 25? 10?
At some point in the future, covering production costs will always be higher than acquisition costs for the consumer.
I'm looking forward to having this revolutionize the entertainment industry (read: distribution is no longer the major cash cow), but to play devil's advocate: for the congolomerates to start searching for a price point that can't exist, well it's guaranteed to be a losing battle - the most they could do is just prolong it for a couple of years.
you must not have understood the above post.
Not getting something unless you pay for it is the simplest form of capitalism that exists.
This has nothing to do with 'rights', it's the simple exchange of currency for goods/services.
When you introduce 'rights' is when you start to trying to control what people do with the commodity _after_ they have purchased it (what actions do you have the 'right' to perform on your purchased good) and you go spinning completely out of the realm of a simple currency based exchange.
HBO does not try to dictate your 'rights'. You pay them, they give you something - end of story.
basic capitalism
A note to all Linux interface designers:
Most users have a trouble enough with one desktop to worry about - stop putting a desktop switcher in the taskbar by default!
Multiple desktops are cool _if_ you know what you're doing, but even experienced users take some adjusting at first, and if you have trouble w/ computers as it is then the desktop switcher just serves to take up space and scare the sh!t out of you all at the same time.
that being said I'm psyched about the gui resolution control
First of all, this does not allow someone to track where you're going but rather where you went. I know that sounds like nitpicking, but really it's the difference between a bug and a correct protocol implementation.
The method described is to check the referrer on requests sent to a particular server after the user has left a page on that server. Surprise! the referrer is now their current location i.e. where they went after your site.
Would you expect any different?
It's matter of micro-seconds and request timing.
Ok, maybe they could make sure all requests generated by an 'onunload' event are handled before the request to the following page, but personally I would consider that a judgement call and not 'bug'.
Also, I've noticed people here don't seem to give a hoot that your entire history of where you came from can be far more easily tracked!
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I could go on all night, but is that what you meant?
he means 'as long' as in keeping windows running. sure, windows might be easy to set up, but then how long does it run for?
i am not making this up when i say this - i can tell exactly how long ago i got my new linux box: i type 'uptime' (roughly 73 days now).
i've never met a windows machine in my life that can compete with that.
mozilla has far superior CSS/Javascript support than Opera (and yes, when done right Javascript can be an _extremely useful_ tool), and mozilla has a better chance of developers ensuring compatibility on sites that use said javascript/CSS etc.
also it's the little things that make mozilla win for me, form elements are ugly in Opera (not a major gripe but it affects my browsing experience), plus mozilla has (IMO) better themes and infinitely cooler enhancements.
i can't say i really got hooked on pie-menus, but come on, what other browser can you even try them in?
to be honest (and i'm not trying to just pointlessly fan flames here) i've always wondered why would anyone want to use opera?
Kozmo was started in NYC, and their NYC warehouses were actually profitable.
Their mistake was expanding too fast (i.e. to places like San Francisco) w/out incubating in NY for a little while first.
Plus, there was huge overhead in trying to run the place like a billion dollar company - as I can attest to from my few short months there when I drank a lot of free Starbucks / played a lot of foosball instead of working.
OT: btw, having had access to old order history while testing our code - you'd be amazed how many people were getting twizzlers+porn delivered at 10 in the morning
Kid on playground #1: Kerplow* *Kerplow* [with finger]
Kid on playground #2: Aaaghghgkk!
Kid on playground #1: ha-HA! You're box rootin' days are over Bad Hax0r Bill!
Kid on playground #2: Gosh darn it Tommy! Why do I always have to be the intruder every time we play 'sys-admin'?
Kid on playground #1: quit whining Robby, when we're at your house you can be the network admin
Kid on playground #2: Fine, but at least pretend you're an MSCE this time so I can win one game
Kid on playground #2: Pfft. Alright, but next time we play 'content pirate' you have to be Valenti. I'm sick of peeing my pants so I don't miss the commercials.
As one web developer to another, I can tell you the reason that you and I both should care about 'standards' is precisely to avoid the multiple version development hell you talk about above.
Imagine you and I come up with an idea for a new language YML tomorrow. When we sit down to design the nuts and bolts, we have two options:
1) Discuss and compromise to come up with the most well rounded solution that suits us both
2) Just do everything my way, and in the future I can change it whenever the hell I want because I feel like it
This is EXACTLY the situation we are in now if people use a 'MS standard'. There is nothing stopping MS from changing their whole engine tomorrow so the DIV tag suddenly renders relative to MSN Messenger and as developers we can't say d*ck about it, it's an extreme example but you see my point.
With a standards body, as developers and peers we have some support structure in place to avoid any dictatorship over browser behavior that let's them send us running like headless chickens whenever MS feels like it.
To everyone who says 'ads don't work, people only think they do' I really want to know, where do you find out about new products/servics?
Hell, how did you first ever find out about the Tivo itself? probably from an ad. And don't give me 'from a friend who heard from a friend' etc., most likely that chain, however long, started with an ad.
Face it, ads are as much a source of information as they are meant to invoke a direct response.
To say that 'ads don't work' is to say that you can make a killing even if nobody knows you're selling anything, but (obviously) nobody ever sold anything if the public never knew it existed..
Implementing this is a pretty large investment for a completely unproven business model.
So far the model you describe has one (you) guaranteed customer, definitely not enough capital to justify ripping 'every cd ever made'.
No matter how romantic it sounds, there is no way maintaining a massive database with 16 versions (bitrate+codec) of every song on the off chance that someone might want a 64kpbs Ogg of some hit from 1924 will EVER be sufficiently profitable.
Same with the case with HP and the DMCA. The fact that HP can file the lawsuit doesn't prove that the law is broken; it's only broken if they would have won.
What?? And I suppose WWII was only bad if we lost.
Let's not forget all the soldiers who got slaughtered nor all the research that is stifled simply by the threat of the dmca.
A society where we have to rely on martyrs just to point out blatantly obvious mistakes is incredibly broken IMO.
These kinds of things (dmca) should never have happened in the first place.
If you stop buying CD's as I have the RIAA will eventually listen
what???
yes, not buying cd's will certainly get them to stop complaining about people not buying cd's.
it's genius!
rather, maybe you should be buying cd's of _all these great bands your finding online_ to prove to the riaa that technology can actually HELP them instead of only hurt them...
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joe sixpack has no idea this has anything to do w/ politics. he will get mad at the company, however writing a letter to his congressperson will be the furthest thing from his mind.
first he'll try to switch brands, and when that doesn't work he'll probably just give up.
sadly, while your 'plan' is admirably idealistic it has nothing to do with reality
product quality has nothing to do with popularity,
you should know this - we're on a Linux-centric site after all
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umm... did you even RTFA?
first of all it's an article trashing IBM and it's by Sun's 'chief competitive officer'!
hardly a business plan or mission statement, in fact it's barely a statement, just plain old propoganda and FUD hoping to help move a few more units
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don't you mean 'demanding job' or 'real girlfriend'?
1) Have such good product that people will want it regardless (Assumes you don't have competition)
Good product should not be confused with only product. Oh, and I dare you to find anyone who would prefer a total lack of options to a little advertising (assuming they don't work for MS PR).
Or 2) Have such a good product that word of mouth spreads and people buy it
yep, cause that's sure been working for the Alpha, Mozilla and the *nix desktop so far... Face it, no matter how annoying some advertising is - it's impossible for any company to achieve a decent amount of success without it. Advertising is a necessary evil and a major driving force in our economy which DOES work. Ask yourself this: as annoyed as you might be, if you suddenly had a need for a tiny hidden camera... where would you go to buy it?
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was it your boss? i stopped putting my number in emails when my boss started using it too...
this is /. after all
Yes, this is true for now and believe it or not the **AA actually knows this.
The real reason they are running so scared is they realize that as technology advances and copying/downloading becomes easier and easier that magic price point gets lower and lower.
Ten years from now, imagine yourself saying 'why should i spend 15 minutes copying a dvd when i can just buy one for [magic-number]?' and what number will that be? 50 cents? 25? 10?
At some point in the future, covering production costs will always be higher than acquisition costs for the consumer.
I'm looking forward to having this revolutionize the entertainment industry (read: distribution is no longer the major cash cow), but to play devil's advocate: for the congolomerates to start searching for a price point that can't exist, well it's guaranteed to be a losing battle - the most they could do is just prolong it for a couple of years.
does this mean they're going to stop trying to profit through anti-competitive monopoly abuse and try to sell software based on merit?
i'm not going to be holding my breath waiting for said 'product'
you must not have understood the above post.
Not getting something unless you pay for it is the simplest form of capitalism that exists.
This has nothing to do with 'rights', it's the simple exchange of currency for goods/services.
When you introduce 'rights' is when you start to trying to control what people do with the commodity _after_ they have purchased it (what actions do you have the 'right' to perform on your purchased good) and you go spinning completely out of the realm of a simple currency based exchange.
HBO does not try to dictate your 'rights'. You pay them, they give you something - end of story.
basic capitalism
Most users have a trouble enough with one desktop to worry about - stop putting a desktop switcher in the taskbar by default!
Multiple desktops are cool _if_ you know what you're doing, but even experienced users take some adjusting at first, and if you have trouble w/ computers as it is then the desktop switcher just serves to take up space and scare the sh!t out of you all at the same time.
that being said I'm psyched about the gui resolution control
First of all, this does not allow someone to track where you're going but rather where you went. I know that sounds like nitpicking, but really it's the difference between a bug and a correct protocol implementation.
The method described is to check the referrer on requests sent to a particular server after the user has left a page on that server. Surprise! the referrer is now their current location i.e. where they went after your site.
Would you expect any different?
It's matter of micro-seconds and request timing.
Ok, maybe they could make sure all requests generated by an 'onunload' event are handled before the request to the following page, but personally I would consider that a judgement call and not 'bug'.
Also, I've noticed people here don't seem to give a hoot that your entire history of where you came from can be far more easily tracked!
Remember, only one statuette or figurine can win the title of number one ancient object of worship!'
Host: Thank you Bob! Alright folks, just like the ancient mummies of the Sphinx - it's finally time to wrap this competition up!
*ba-dum-crash!*
Host:Thank you. And while we're at it - let's here it for those King Tut dancers! You guys have been great. You know Anubis was so upset about losing last night, he still hasn't gotten over it - I heard he's in de-Nile!
*ba-dum-crash!*
Thank you
I could go on all night, but is that what you meant?
sorry, i couldn't resist
i am not making this up when i say this - i can tell exactly how long ago i got my new linux box: i type 'uptime' (roughly 73 days now).
i've never met a windows machine in my life that can compete with that.
also it's the little things that make mozilla win for me, form elements are ugly in Opera (not a major gripe but it affects my browsing experience), plus mozilla has (IMO) better themes and infinitely cooler enhancements.
i can't say i really got hooked on pie-menus, but come on, what other browser can you even try them in?
to be honest (and i'm not trying to just pointlessly fan flames here) i've always wondered why would anyone want to use opera?
Their mistake was expanding too fast (i.e. to places like San Francisco) w/out incubating in NY for a little while first.
Plus, there was huge overhead in trying to run the place like a billion dollar company - as I can attest to from my few short months there when I drank a lot of free Starbucks / played a lot of foosball instead of working.
OT: btw, having had access to old order history while testing our code - you'd be amazed how many people were getting twizzlers+porn delivered at 10 in the morning
Kid on playground #2: Aaaghghgkk!
Kid on playground #1: ha-HA! You're box rootin' days are over Bad Hax0r Bill!
Kid on playground #2: Gosh darn it Tommy! Why do I always have to be the intruder every time we play 'sys-admin'?
Kid on playground #1: quit whining Robby, when we're at your house you can be the network admin
Kid on playground #2: Fine, but at least pretend you're an MSCE this time so I can win one game
Kid on playground #2: Pfft. Alright, but next time we play 'content pirate' you have to be Valenti. I'm sick of peeing my pants so I don't miss the commercials.
Imagine you and I come up with an idea for a new language YML tomorrow. When we sit down to design the nuts and bolts, we have two options:
1) Discuss and compromise to come up with the most well rounded solution that suits us both
2) Just do everything my way, and in the future I can change it whenever the hell I want because I feel like it
This is EXACTLY the situation we are in now if people use a 'MS standard'. There is nothing stopping MS from changing their whole engine tomorrow so the DIV tag suddenly renders relative to MSN Messenger and as developers we can't say d*ck about it, it's an extreme example but you see my point.
With a standards body, as developers and peers we have some support structure in place to avoid any dictatorship over browser behavior that let's them send us running like headless chickens whenever MS feels like it.
Hell, how did you first ever find out about the Tivo itself? probably from an ad. And don't give me 'from a friend who heard from a friend' etc., most likely that chain, however long, started with an ad.
Face it, ads are as much a source of information as they are meant to invoke a direct response.
To say that 'ads don't work' is to say that you can make a killing even if nobody knows you're selling anything, but (obviously) nobody ever sold anything if the public never knew it existed..
So far the model you describe has one (you) guaranteed customer, definitely not enough capital to justify ripping 'every cd ever made'.
No matter how romantic it sounds, there is no way maintaining a massive database with 16 versions (bitrate+codec) of every song on the off chance that someone might want a 64kpbs Ogg of some hit from 1924 will EVER be sufficiently profitable.
What?? And I suppose WWII was only bad if we lost.
Let's not forget all the soldiers who got slaughtered nor all the research that is stifled simply by the threat of the dmca.
A society where we have to rely on martyrs just to point out blatantly obvious mistakes is incredibly broken IMO.
These kinds of things (dmca) should never have happened in the first place.
what???
yes, not buying cd's will certainly get them to stop complaining about people not buying cd's.
it's genius!
rather, maybe you should be buying cd's of _all these great bands your finding online_ to prove to the riaa that technology can actually HELP them instead of only hurt them...
GNU is for hippies
FreeBSD is dying
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joe sixpack has no idea this has anything to do w/ politics. he will get mad at the company, however writing a letter to his congressperson will be the furthest thing from his mind.
first he'll try to switch brands, and when that doesn't work he'll probably just give up.
Huh? Why would I want to download a huge program just to make believe I'm at work?
product quality has nothing to do with popularity, you should know this - we're on a Linux-centric site after all
umm... did you even RTFA?
first of all it's an article trashing IBM and it's by Sun's 'chief competitive officer'!
hardly a business plan or mission statement, in fact it's barely a statement, just plain old propoganda and FUD hoping to help move a few more units
don't you mean 'demanding job' or 'real girlfriend'?
1) Have such good product that people will want it regardless (Assumes you don't have competition)
Good product should not be confused with only product. Oh, and I dare you to find anyone who would prefer a total lack of options to a little advertising (assuming they don't work for MS PR).
Or 2) Have such a good product that word of mouth spreads and people buy it
yep, cause that's sure been working for the Alpha, Mozilla and the *nix desktop so far...
Face it, no matter how annoying some advertising is - it's impossible for any company to achieve a decent amount of success without it. Advertising is a necessary evil and a major driving force in our economy which DOES work.
Ask yourself this: as annoyed as you might be, if you suddenly had a need for a tiny hidden camera... where would you go to buy it?