Not if a large enough percentage of your user base pirates already. There simply won't be enough people that -do- buy.
If anything, the growing attitude of "don't buy it, get this firwmare patch and download it here instead!" will hasten the death of systems like the PSP. It'll take a while, but eventually even good games will fail.
The right person for the job will be able to come up with witty comebacks to the TPB staff's bizarre antics.
I wouldn't call them "bizzare antics" so much as rants fit for a 13 year old. Hard to come up with a witty response to what's essentially a screed of vulgarity and arrogance.
majority rule should tell you that what the people want is priority
Majority rule would have us still doing a lot of rather nasty things. There's a reason why most governments are representative democracies with constitutions (weak or strong as they may be) and not pure democracies.
Just like japanese has a more or less standardized process for displaying japanese words in the roman alphabet
Mashing everything into the roman alphabet isn't necessarily the best thing. The Japanese don't use romaji at all in any real contexts. So it's a more complex script? Make sure Unicode supports it. Update the rendering engines to handle it. No sense in forcing people to give up part of their language just to use software.
another language becoming the defacto standard for computer savvy Tibetans
In case you hadn't noticed, English was already the worldwide de-facto standard for computing. It isn't computing professionals these programs are localized (properly) for in most cases. Also, changing your society to match the capabilities of some software is -always- the wrong way.
Not if those works happen to inform you about other people who are offering copyrighted material.
My comment was with regards to the way I read their statement, that basically implied that you could not share ANYTHING online without a risk of getting sued.
TPB hosted the.torrents and provided tracking services. It also limited its scope to.torrents. And yes, many popular distros were up on there but I'd probably not be far off in guessing that the majority of the traffic went not to the legitimately shared content but the real popular stuff like movies and music published by the majors.
Google hosts no content aside from HTML duplicates of the original page, and does so indiscriminately.
TPB was not a generic search engine. It had a very, very specific purpose.
And I screw up my blockquote hardcore. Go me. Corrected:
We want it to be open for ordinary people to disseminate and receive information without fear of imprisonment or astronomical damages.
They can. Just not the works of people who haven't given them permission. They're TOTALLY free to create works and release them for distribution under whatever terms they want.
Somehow I don't think they'd have been going after TPB if all the works on the site were legitimately being shared. But then, I suspect, if they were then no one would be after them.
We want it to be open for ordinary people to disseminate and receive information without fear of imprisonment or astronomical damages. They can. Just not the works of people who haven't given them permission. They're TOTALLY free to create works and release them for distribution under whatever terms they want.
Somehow I don't think they'd have been going after TPB if all the works on the site were legitimately being shared. But then, I suspect, if they were then no one would be after them.
Of course not, but the converse is true with the arguments being made by so many pro-TPB people. Namely, that both investments should be met with (effectively) derision and an economic screw-job regardless of the quality. I guess the extremism is good, in the sense that it's equal to the hyper-IP extreme we have. Both forces may pull us back to a more reasonable center.
No, but being a Slashdot poster entitles you to decree that people must accept that the end result of any investment, whether it be ten minutes and a dollar, or years and millions, must be given up for free at the expense of the investor.
Oh and fuck the investor. They're getting screwed and that's what they deserve for making an investment in, well, anything.
In a money-driven world, people who do not make money do not eat. Since there will be no money in music, fewer people will work in the production of music (all parts, not just the fatcats in the publishers.)
This eliminates the ability for people to do it as a profession, which isn't as OMG THEY'RE PROFESSIONAL THEY SUCK horrible as Slashdot would blather in your face. Just being able to focus all of ones efforts on it allows for a hell of a lot more exploration and innovation than having to debate whether or not to do it after a day's work.
Oh and this is only considering music. There's a LOT more to works that exist only due to copyright, and they'll be out in the cold completely (but that's OK, because -you- don't like it.)
With the release of the Freerunner they separated the debug board out from the phone, and priced it at $100, and I wouldn't buy a device like this without that board.
Considering the chaos in the software end, the only really interesting aspect of it was that you could get a debug board that plugged right into the thing. Other than that the only notable aspect was the fact that the schematics and mechanical designs were open, which is nice but largely only interesting to other corporations with the resources to spin and assemble PCBs.
Maybe if the company had better direction, they would have been able to forge ahead to the GTA03 instead of it constantly wobbling. With focus they could have pushed the software stack to stability and usability, as well as solve the power management issues and gotten an actual 3G radio into the thing. Instead they've shrunk and moved on to some unnamed project.
Remember the short lived release of standalone cd-recorders intended for music purposes? I guess they intended for those to be the tape decks replacement. Anyway, they would reject any CD-R without certain data markings on the inner rings of the disc. All music CD-Rs had these and were kept separate from the data CD-Rs. These music CD-Rs were more expensive by virtue of the RIAA tax on them, yet had no appreciable advantage over regular data CD-Rs except for working in the standalone recorders that no one bought.
Sparkfun carries them, most for over $100
They won't do anything better than GPRS, I can't imagine it's easy to get your hands on a 3G capable baseband sample module without signing at least a couple NDAs (which is why the Freerunner doesn't even have EDGE.)
Also, the modules tend to be fairly large, you won't be packing one into a phone any smaller than ones we haven't seen in 10 years.
And 'successful' means you have a (PROGRAMNAME)-users mailing list or forum with at least 100 active subscribers, who have all downloaded the product, and you can measure your number of downloads of any new version of the software in the hundreds of thousands.
Wow, that's an incredibly arrogant and impossibly high bar to meet. I guess you want to limit the number of "certified" software developers to what, 300? And do what with the rest, fire them all?
Until VLC plays video's in RAR file without having to decompress them manually
What the hell does this, and why?
What insane reasoning do you use to stick a video file inside a RAR (or any other compressed archive for that matter?) Jamming a compressed file into a compressed container usually results in a file size increase. I would stop complaining that VLC doesn't support something insane, and try to justify why that behavior is in any way valuable and -not- insane.
the perfect example of unintrusive UI design (note that I'm talking about the CLI-only `mplayer`, not `gmplayer` or any other graphical front-end).
That doesn't strike me as being an unintrusive UI, so much as the omission of a visible UI. That's intrusive in its own right, since it leaves you fumbling for controls until you read the manual and memorize the keys.
Unintrusive UIs would probably be what VLC/Quicktime use on OS X, with a control set that fades in and out if you move the mouse, in addition to the keyboard actions.
Consider filesharing as protected, not for profit, speech in protest of the decades of record companies ripping off consumers as well as artists through their longtime payola, high bar of entry for everything from recording studios to pressing plants, monopoly of the sources of production, distribution, promotion, and sales of music.
Right, screw EVERYONE who utilizes copyright in an effort to thumb your nose at one group of people. Remember, break the rules to screw the guys you hate means you can screw the guys you like too.
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Click the link, it's a P4. His i7 topped out at 5.6GHz.
If anything could go that high, it'd be the P4. That ridiculously long pipeline is what they were designed for.
Not if a large enough percentage of your user base pirates already. There simply won't be enough people that -do- buy.
If anything, the growing attitude of "don't buy it, get this firwmare patch and download it here instead!" will hasten the death of systems like the PSP. It'll take a while, but eventually even good games will fail.
I wouldn't call them "bizzare antics" so much as rants fit for a 13 year old. Hard to come up with a witty response to what's essentially a screed of vulgarity and arrogance.
No one on Slashdot knows. But they have the answer every time.
Majority rule would have us still doing a lot of rather nasty things. There's a reason why most governments are representative democracies with constitutions (weak or strong as they may be) and not pure democracies.
Mashing everything into the roman alphabet isn't necessarily the best thing. The Japanese don't use romaji at all in any real contexts. So it's a more complex script? Make sure Unicode supports it. Update the rendering engines to handle it. No sense in forcing people to give up part of their language just to use software.
In case you hadn't noticed, English was already the worldwide de-facto standard for computing. It isn't computing professionals these programs are localized (properly) for in most cases. Also, changing your society to match the capabilities of some software is -always- the wrong way.
My comment was with regards to the way I read their statement, that basically implied that you could not share ANYTHING online without a risk of getting sued.
TPB hosted the .torrents and provided tracking services. It also limited its scope to .torrents. And yes, many popular distros were up on there but I'd probably not be far off in guessing that the majority of the traffic went not to the legitimately shared content but the real popular stuff like movies and music published by the majors.
Google hosts no content aside from HTML duplicates of the original page, and does so indiscriminately.
TPB was not a generic search engine. It had a very, very specific purpose.
If true, it'd be apt for what probably amounts to a congregation of warez fiends.
And I screw up my blockquote hardcore. Go me. Corrected:
They can. Just not the works of people who haven't given them permission. They're TOTALLY free to create works and release them for distribution under whatever terms they want.
Somehow I don't think they'd have been going after TPB if all the works on the site were legitimately being shared. But then, I suspect, if they were then no one would be after them.
Of course not, but the converse is true with the arguments being made by so many pro-TPB people. Namely, that both investments should be met with (effectively) derision and an economic screw-job regardless of the quality. I guess the extremism is good, in the sense that it's equal to the hyper-IP extreme we have. Both forces may pull us back to a more reasonable center.
No, but being a Slashdot poster entitles you to decree that people must accept that the end result of any investment, whether it be ten minutes and a dollar, or years and millions, must be given up for free at the expense of the investor.
Oh and fuck the investor. They're getting screwed and that's what they deserve for making an investment in, well, anything.
Ok, how about this:
In a money-driven world, people who do not make money do not eat. Since there will be no money in music, fewer people will work in the production of music (all parts, not just the fatcats in the publishers.)
This eliminates the ability for people to do it as a profession, which isn't as OMG THEY'RE PROFESSIONAL THEY SUCK horrible as Slashdot would blather in your face. Just being able to focus all of ones efforts on it allows for a hell of a lot more exploration and innovation than having to debate whether or not to do it after a day's work.
Oh and this is only considering music. There's a LOT more to works that exist only due to copyright, and they'll be out in the cold completely (but that's OK, because -you- don't like it.)
With the release of the Freerunner they separated the debug board out from the phone, and priced it at $100, and I wouldn't buy a device like this without that board.
Considering the chaos in the software end, the only really interesting aspect of it was that you could get a debug board that plugged right into the thing. Other than that the only notable aspect was the fact that the schematics and mechanical designs were open, which is nice but largely only interesting to other corporations with the resources to spin and assemble PCBs.
Maybe if the company had better direction, they would have been able to forge ahead to the GTA03 instead of it constantly wobbling. With focus they could have pushed the software stack to stability and usability, as well as solve the power management issues and gotten an actual 3G radio into the thing. Instead they've shrunk and moved on to some unnamed project.
Sad, but not suprising. Glad I kept my $400.
Remember the short lived release of standalone cd-recorders intended for music purposes? I guess they intended for those to be the tape decks replacement. Anyway, they would reject any CD-R without certain data markings on the inner rings of the disc. All music CD-Rs had these and were kept separate from the data CD-Rs. These music CD-Rs were more expensive by virtue of the RIAA tax on them, yet had no appreciable advantage over regular data CD-Rs except for working in the standalone recorders that no one bought.
Why should they, if it isn't causing problems? Last I looked, in Japan the monarchy wasn't even politically relevant or a problem.
Last I checked, the king of Thailand was pardoning most people arrested under the law. This is the government abusing their King to silence critics.
Or just idiocy to a phenominal degree,
Fuck fuck fuckity fuck.
Did that about grasp the tone of your post?
Sparkfun carries them, most for over $100
They won't do anything better than GPRS, I can't imagine it's easy to get your hands on a 3G capable baseband sample module without signing at least a couple NDAs (which is why the Freerunner doesn't even have EDGE.) Also, the modules tend to be fairly large, you won't be packing one into a phone any smaller than ones we haven't seen in 10 years.
Wow, that's an incredibly arrogant and impossibly high bar to meet. I guess you want to limit the number of "certified" software developers to what, 300? And do what with the rest, fire them all?
What the hell does this, and why?
What insane reasoning do you use to stick a video file inside a RAR (or any other compressed archive for that matter?) Jamming a compressed file into a compressed container usually results in a file size increase. I would stop complaining that VLC doesn't support something insane, and try to justify why that behavior is in any way valuable and -not- insane.
Who paid slashdot for this slashvertisement?
Seriously?
That doesn't strike me as being an unintrusive UI, so much as the omission of a visible UI. That's intrusive in its own right, since it leaves you fumbling for controls until you read the manual and memorize the keys.
Unintrusive UIs would probably be what VLC/Quicktime use on OS X, with a control set that fades in and out if you move the mouse, in addition to the keyboard actions.
Right, screw EVERYONE who utilizes copyright in an effort to thumb your nose at one group of people. Remember, break the rules to screw the guys you hate means you can screw the guys you like too.
That's what -she- said, at least.