This is what they should have done in the first place- go after the people who are actually doing it instead of making P2P seemingly illegal.
If anyone can show me any hard evidence that suggests more than 1% of users of P2P software(s) use it for anything other than getting music/movies/software for free, I'd agree with that statement.
The problem is, many more people out there (read: teenage girls) would rather have the Britney Spears CD than the 8th "Special Edition" of Evil Dead. Even with the Necronomicon cover.
If Sam Raimi was a teen heart-throb, you'd better believe you'd be paying over $20 for that DVD.
Go ask 1000 people who Al Capone is, then ask the same group who Kevin Mitnick is. For that matter, go ask 1000 people who Elizabeth Smart is, then Kevin Mitnick. The results won't even be close.
The point that some "stories" get more coverage than they deserve is well taken, but shamelessly trying to tie in a tech angle to this is just stupid.
"MacUser is running an article about how the new Celine Dion CD A New Day Has Come with copy protection mechanisms to prevent the CD from being played on a PC not only won't play on an iMac, but it will lock the CD tray (so it can't be removed) and fubar the firmware (so the machine can't be rebooted), effectivley killing the iMac."
Somewhere a 4th Grade English teacher is crying, and doesn't know why.
Well, presumably he was killed when they used The Ultimate Nullifier in one of those Franklin Richards-created alternate universes right after Onslaught;)
Also, didn't the "Professor X Files" they found right around Onslaught indicate the best way to kill Wolvie was to cut off his head with an adamantium sword or something like that?
Let's ignore something, and that will mean it doesn't apply to us!
This guy's smoking crack if he thinks this excludes him from the terms of a EULA. If anything, it gets you in more trouble should you violate it and get caught. You willfully took steps to remove the EULA click-through agreement, meaning you knew there was something there, but chose to ignore it. Ignorance of a law is not a defense.
Don't they know that the true power behind cosmic rays is The Power Cosmic, and hence Galactus, The Immortal Destroyer of Worlds? But in the end it doesn't really matter; I'm sure that if Galactus were here, he'd remind us that he is beyond the cares of fleeting mortals.
If you want your roll-top desk to close,
maybe you should just get a damn desk that's designed for a computer, and not try to stuff a CRT in a roll-top.
Thank you. The desk in question was straight out of Edison's workshop for God's sake, and somehow it's our fault that her monitor won't fit perfectly in there.
I guess what I'm really bitching about is this: I've never understood the need to "hide" a computer. Yes, they're beige. Yes, it doesn't match the curtains. So fucking what? It's a computer for Pete's sake, a tool you use to run your business, balance your checkbook, send pictures to the kids, whatever. If your so damn afraid of what Martha Stewart will think of the color coordination, put it in the rec-room or something.
Hey, don't get me wrong, I got paid my hourly rate. What ticks you off, though, is when a customer comes in, drops $39.95 for home deliverly/setup (or gets it free depending on how spineless the sales guy was), and when you get out there it turns into a Task of Hercules. Meanwhile after 4 hour installs you come back and the manager wonders why you can't keep that $80/hr productivity number up.
What it basically comes down to is that sales jockeys and managers of retail computer stores fold like a house of cards anytime a customer says Boo. I can't tell you how many times I heard, "But the salesman/manager said you'd do X". And your right, customer service pretty much demands that you do it. If a customer wants to put their box in the fucking fridge, fine, pay me enough and I'll do it with a smile. Just don't expect me to come out there willing bend over backwards for your pittance delivery fee simply because you think the Compaq logo clashes with the carpet.
Ugh. This reminds me of the horror stories I had back when I was home-delivering computers for CompUSSR...
Horror Story 1: Delivered an HP something-or-other with 15" monitor to some 40 year old yuppie woman. She wants the thing setup on her roll-top desk. Only problem is that with the monitor setup, the roll-top wouldn't close. Rather than just leaving the roll-top open, though, or moving the computer to some other desk (of which she had plenty), we had to find her a monitor that would fit under that roll-top. We end up putting a floor model 15" that had a slightly different form, but was over a year older. All because the roll-top had to close.
Horror Story 2: Another female yuppie comes in and drops 3 grand on the hottest piece of Compaq hardware in the place. Top of the line everything (at that time, forget the specs). She also gets a big-ass nice monitor, Laserjet, scanner, the whole nine yards. Home-Office setup to the max.
I show up and start setting up this computer underneath the desk she wants her monitor/scanner/etc on, but no, it can't go under there. The tower has to be in that closet 8 feet away. And I want to be able to keep the door closed at all times too. Oh, and I want the speakers on these two little end-tables on opposite ends of the room. We end up drilling a fucking whole through the wall, running a big mass of extender cables underneath the carpet, and giving this ho a free pair of wireless speakers to accomodate her. And because we had to extend the video so far, a $500 monitor with hot-shit video card ends up looking like a color television from 1955. But that's OK, because the computer has to be in the closet out of site, instead of just underneath the computer desk which was designed to have a computer underneath it.
You know, it is suprising how often these mods get left out of mod discussions. TFC and Counter-Strike have only been like the two biggest, most successful mods in the past 3 years.
Can't wait for that inevitable TF mod for Jedi Knight II.
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I expect that robots will take over the world...
Fool. Everyone knows that it is really tornados that will take over the world.
Warning: Persons denying the existance of tornados may in fact be tornados themselves.
Seeing as how it looks like everyone will have to get a post in on this story, I might as well join the club.
Just for old times sake, anyone still have that "History of the World According to Slashdot" post still floating around?
...pay-to-download services are rising in popularity.
Oh, gee, the horror! You mean I actually have to pay for a piece of entertainment media! Fucking capitalist pig-dogs!
True, but eventually they would come back to their computer, at which point they'd see the ad. Perhaps not so undesireable as we might think.
"We are an OSS project. Marketing is not our job."
Translation: "No."
It's been a long time coming, and quite frankly, those of us in the Windows world are pretty suprised it hasn't happened already. It's non-news.
But then, The Register never misses an opportunity to write an article that makes MS look corrupt and evil. A lot like some other websites I know.
They probably would be illegal, if 99% of them were used to kill someone.
This is what they should have done in the first place- go after the people who are actually doing it instead of making P2P seemingly illegal.
If anyone can show me any hard evidence that suggests more than 1% of users of P2P software(s) use it for anything other than getting music/movies/software for free, I'd agree with that statement.
The problem is, many more people out there (read: teenage girls) would rather have the Britney Spears CD than the 8th "Special Edition" of Evil Dead. Even with the Necronomicon cover.
If Sam Raimi was a teen heart-throb, you'd better believe you'd be paying over $20 for that DVD.
Go ask 1000 people who Al Capone is, then ask the same group who Kevin Mitnick is. For that matter, go ask 1000 people who Elizabeth Smart is, then Kevin Mitnick. The results won't even be close.
The point that some "stories" get more coverage than they deserve is well taken, but shamelessly trying to tie in a tech angle to this is just stupid.
"MacUser is running an article about how the new Celine Dion CD A New Day Has Come with copy protection mechanisms to prevent the CD from being played on a PC not only won't play on an iMac, but it will lock the CD tray (so it can't be removed) and fubar the firmware (so the machine can't be rebooted), effectivley killing the iMac."
Somewhere a 4th Grade English teacher is crying, and doesn't know why.
Well, presumably he was killed when they used The Ultimate Nullifier in one of those Franklin Richards-created alternate universes right after Onslaught ;)
Also, didn't the "Professor X Files" they found right around Onslaught indicate the best way to kill Wolvie was to cut off his head with an adamantium sword or something like that?
This one time I missed closing an /a tag on a post, and missed getting a wicked killer First Post.
Let's ignore something, and that will mean it doesn't apply to us!
This guy's smoking crack if he thinks this excludes him from the terms of a EULA. If anything, it gets you in more trouble should you violate it and get caught. You willfully took steps to remove the EULA click-through agreement, meaning you knew there was something there, but chose to ignore it. Ignorance of a law is not a defense.
Thank you for sucking the humor completely out of my post. I realize it wasn't much, but you did a thorough job nonetheless.
Damn, with that much pipe, do they even know what a ping time is?
"The time it takes for a packet to go there and back? Why even bother to measure such a small amount of time?"
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Don't they know that the true power behind cosmic rays is The Power Cosmic, and hence Galactus, The Immortal Destroyer of Worlds? But in the end it doesn't really matter; I'm sure that if Galactus were here, he'd remind us that he is beyond the cares of fleeting mortals.
If you want your roll-top desk to close, maybe you should just get a damn desk that's designed for a computer, and not try to stuff a CRT in a roll-top.
Thank you. The desk in question was straight out of Edison's workshop for God's sake, and somehow it's our fault that her monitor won't fit perfectly in there.
I guess what I'm really bitching about is this: I've never understood the need to "hide" a computer. Yes, they're beige. Yes, it doesn't match the curtains. So fucking what? It's a computer for Pete's sake, a tool you use to run your business, balance your checkbook, send pictures to the kids, whatever. If your so damn afraid of what Martha Stewart will think of the color coordination, put it in the rec-room or something.
Hey, don't get me wrong, I got paid my hourly rate. What ticks you off, though, is when a customer comes in, drops $39.95 for home deliverly/setup (or gets it free depending on how spineless the sales guy was), and when you get out there it turns into a Task of Hercules. Meanwhile after 4 hour installs you come back and the manager wonders why you can't keep that $80/hr productivity number up.
What it basically comes down to is that sales jockeys and managers of retail computer stores fold like a house of cards anytime a customer says Boo. I can't tell you how many times I heard, "But the salesman/manager said you'd do X". And your right, customer service pretty much demands that you do it. If a customer wants to put their box in the fucking fridge, fine, pay me enough and I'll do it with a smile. Just don't expect me to come out there willing bend over backwards for your pittance delivery fee simply because you think the Compaq logo clashes with the carpet.
Ugh. This reminds me of the horror stories I had back when I was home-delivering computers for CompUSSR...
Horror Story 1: Delivered an HP something-or-other with 15" monitor to some 40 year old yuppie woman. She wants the thing setup on her roll-top desk. Only problem is that with the monitor setup, the roll-top wouldn't close. Rather than just leaving the roll-top open, though, or moving the computer to some other desk (of which she had plenty), we had to find her a monitor that would fit under that roll-top. We end up putting a floor model 15" that had a slightly different form, but was over a year older. All because the roll-top had to close.
Horror Story 2: Another female yuppie comes in and drops 3 grand on the hottest piece of Compaq hardware in the place. Top of the line everything (at that time, forget the specs). She also gets a big-ass nice monitor, Laserjet, scanner, the whole nine yards. Home-Office setup to the max.
I show up and start setting up this computer underneath the desk she wants her monitor/scanner/etc on, but no, it can't go under there. The tower has to be in that closet 8 feet away. And I want to be able to keep the door closed at all times too. Oh, and I want the speakers on these two little end-tables on opposite ends of the room. We end up drilling a fucking whole through the wall, running a big mass of extender cables underneath the carpet, and giving this ho a free pair of wireless speakers to accomodate her. And because we had to extend the video so far, a $500 monitor with hot-shit video card ends up looking like a color television from 1955. But that's OK, because the computer has to be in the closet out of site, instead of just underneath the computer desk which was designed to have a computer underneath it.
You know, it is suprising how often these mods get left out of mod discussions. TFC and Counter-Strike have only been like the two biggest, most successful mods in the past 3 years.
Can't wait for that inevitable TF mod for Jedi Knight II.
That's exactly what Borg...er..Bill Gates would say.
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