The part that is overlooked most commonly is that the majority of people are actualy much more willing to abide by the laws than "steal" the music.
Right now, Morpheus has about 560 users connected. At it's peak, I believe napster had 15 million. That's only a fraction of the world population, even when you actor out people in poverty.
What the actual battle is revolves arround a bunch of old record companies suddenly realizing that their old business model isn't working any more. Instead of restructuring however, they prefer to restrict the access to the medium. Consider, if the RIAA sold "Audio CD-Rs" at say even $1 a piece, and those CD-Rs had licencing or royalty fees built into their unit price, the RIAA could sell a considerable amount of licenced CD-Rs for napster users to use. The new market revolves arround the technology. People are no longer willing to pay $16+ for 8 songs which often times are just filler for a single song CD. CDs originaly cost somwheres arround $9 or $10 a piece, and the consumers were promised that the prices will fall as CDs caught on. Well they've caught on, where are the lower prices?
I personaly would buy music CDs even at $7 a pop. Sure that means that funds have to be distributed differently, but heaven forbid a music star should have to live like a normal human being with a $60,000 a year salary instead of a million a year salary.
Businesses change, we heard this same argument when recordable audio cassettes came out, but guess what, no dead industry yet.
User #548795 sends his congrats to the soon to be newly weds. This'll probably never be read, but at least I got in my congrats. And in the off chance that it does get read, good luck!
What happens if it's something like say, they're at a massively public place, but he still does the down on one knee and a ring thing.
My example would be guy sets up a deal with a local baseball stadium (MLB or Farm teams, either would work) and sometime arround the 7th inning stretch, he gets up to "go get something". Next thing she knows, he's walking out onto the field, onto the pither's mound, microphone in hand and th ebig screen camera is focused on him. Then he get's down on one knee, hold's up a ring (even if it will be hard to see) and proposes there.
Does that make him a snivling coward (for doing it infront of a crowd) or a real man (for doing it on one knee with a ring)?
Right, I can sue because I was too dumb to realize that a HOT beverage which I purchased might actualy be HOT. And potentialy hot enough to cause injury.
Sorry, if you're too dumb to figure something like that out, you deserve everything that's comming to you and more. Just like seatbelt laws, if you're dumb enough not to protect yourself from going headfirst through a windshield, you deserve to go headfirst through a windshield.
Actualy, coders sharing code and allowing everyone to work on it and no one to take credit for it does a lot for development. Hundreds of ideas, all of which have equal potential to be instituted, and only the best or most popular features remain.
And since no one is allowed to claim exclusive rights to it, you don't have to buy from exclusive companies.
All of us self made, armchair warrior, microsoft bashers care. We like finding flaws in M$ systems. It isn't that we don't acknowledge our own system's flaws, it's that we find it funny that the OS with quite possibly the biggest and highest paid dev team has some of the most easily exploited bugs. For such a "user friendly" system, all these "on by default" setups seem to be counter productive to users.
I would think (barring the massive ammounts of security one would have to bypass) that if one wanted to kill a large number of computers with a virus, a *NIX virus would be the way to go.
Why would you have to edit the registry just to remove a friken messageing program. Talk about a pain in the arse. Definately makes me glad I use OS X as my primary OS, Linux as my secondary and Windows as my gaming platform (at least till I get my PS 2)
Microsoft picking on a news forum because they copy cut and pasted the text of an article so that more people could access it at any given time would be a very bad PR scene, and with the lense that Microsoft is being watched under, that would be bad for them.
At least Quicktime is useable. I still can't stand the fact that I can't save WMP files as anything else or export the files.
Personaly, Quicktime is highly efficient. True if you want to watch MPEGS full screen, you need to register, but as you so pointed out, there are hacks availible.
You could speed your load time up by setting your display preferences at slashdot to minimum settings, that way you only get the links to the posts and not ny highlighted posts.
And if some site sued slashdot over something like that, it would get posted here and then that company would have a lot of angry slashdotters to deal with (I'm sure the slashdot effect can apply to homepages too)
IT seems to me that this lawsuit is over a specific device,that being a type of device wich will vibrate a hand held controller according to cetain inputs based on a game. Even the arcade versions don't really fall under that description. This applies specificaly to the hand held controlers, here as an arcade game would apply to the whole device.
Your point is well taken. I was just poiting out that Apple did not appear to be in any danger of filing chap 11 anytime in the near future and that in the current tech slump, apple seems to be holding their own while many other companies seem to be scrambling to stay afloat.
I wasn't even aware that the new iMacs couldn't run Linux before this point. I though mkLinux, Yellow Dog linux a Linux PPC were all mac versions of linux and capable of running on a mac. I would have assumed that included the new G4
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Dude, 68 k macs are like 386 machines. What your asking for here is like asking Win 2k to run on a 386. Aint gonna happen.
Newton was dumped because it was too far a head of it's time an dtoo expensive to maintain.
My PowerMac 5400/180 ran mkLinux for a while which is an apple distribution of linux.
It now has a G3 upgrade and can run most of the Apple linux versions
A/UX was dumped because of OS X.
Besides, the reason apple doesn't support any pre G3's is to get people who are still using old Mac SEs to finaly realize their comp needs to get traded in for somethign a bit newer.
Dude, come back to the future. It isn't 1996 any more, and apple's been turning profits since 98, much better profits than some of our other well known manufacturers (i.e. HP, Compaq, Dell)
Once again M$ is a few steps behind. Apple already has a very useable GUI on a *NIX interface (granted, OS X is not free like linux, but I highly doubt Windows/Linux 95 will be free either, unless it's not comming from M$ directly). And I don't know abotu other people, but I've found KDE 2 to be a very useable GUI, as good as 95 in most respects.
Viruses are clean efficient code, that get's the job done in a timely and resource efficient manner. Most are well documented and all are supported by their authors.
Oh and none of them can claim a 95% market share like windows can
'You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the Product that will be automatically downloaded to your Workstation Computer.
But consider the implications of this. Sure you can turn it off, but there's no guarentee that a) it stays off or b) MS can't go in anyways.
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Note that nowhere in that text does it mention specificaly the Windows Auto update. It just say's Microsoft. To me, and I'm sure to the M$ legal team, that means all of Microsoft, not just their update feature.
On top of that, this is automaticaly on, unlike other auto update features. For example, all of the programs that I've used with auto update feautres (WinAMP, ICQ(?), Aimster, Mac OS) all have a client based check, that is, the software on your computer does the check, not the software on the company's computer.
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All of them give me a choice as to whether or not I want these updates to be installed. (Hell the mac OS one doesn't do auto updates unless you turn it ON) I always have the option of declining the update. But according to this EULA, you have no choice, it will atomaticaly install any updates for you.
In an attempt to ensure that microsoft didn't own everything about Bungie they released the source code. I know a lot of people who were pissed when M$ took bungie. I guess this is Bungie's final gift to the world before falling under complete M$ dominence.
Or go to the NexTech Summit (no link, sorry I forgot it) and give em 100+ gigs of Hardrives, a few gigs of memory and a few heatsinks. All "borrowed" from RentSys (www.rentsys.com)
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The part that is overlooked most commonly is that the majority of people are actualy much more willing to abide by the laws than "steal" the music.
Right now, Morpheus has about 560 users connected. At it's peak, I believe napster had 15 million. That's only a fraction of the world population, even when you actor out people in poverty.
What the actual battle is revolves arround a bunch of old record companies suddenly realizing that their old business model isn't working any more. Instead of restructuring however, they prefer to restrict the access to the medium. Consider, if the RIAA sold "Audio CD-Rs" at say even $1 a piece, and those CD-Rs had licencing or royalty fees built into their unit price, the RIAA could sell a considerable amount of licenced CD-Rs for napster users to use. The new market revolves arround the technology. People are no longer willing to pay $16+ for 8 songs which often times are just filler for a single song CD. CDs originaly cost somwheres arround $9 or $10 a piece, and the consumers were promised that the prices will fall as CDs caught on. Well they've caught on, where are the lower prices?
I personaly would buy music CDs even at $7 a pop. Sure that means that funds have to be distributed differently, but heaven forbid a music star should have to live like a normal human being with a $60,000 a year salary instead of a million a year salary.
Businesses change, we heard this same argument when recordable audio cassettes came out, but guess what, no dead industry yet.
User #548795 sends his congrats to the soon to be newly weds. This'll probably never be read, but at least I got in my congrats. And in the off chance that it does get read, good luck!
What happens if it's something like say, they're at a massively public place, but he still does the down on one knee and a ring thing.
My example would be guy sets up a deal with a local baseball stadium (MLB or Farm teams, either would work) and sometime arround the 7th inning stretch, he gets up to "go get something". Next thing she knows, he's walking out onto the field, onto the pither's mound, microphone in hand and th ebig screen camera is focused on him. Then he get's down on one knee, hold's up a ring (even if it will be hard to see) and proposes there.
Does that make him a snivling coward (for doing it infront of a crowd) or a real man (for doing it on one knee with a ring)?
Right, I can sue because I was too dumb to realize that a HOT beverage which I purchased might actualy be HOT. And potentialy hot enough to cause injury.
Sorry, if you're too dumb to figure something like that out, you deserve everything that's comming to you and more. Just like seatbelt laws, if you're dumb enough not to protect yourself from going headfirst through a windshield, you deserve to go headfirst through a windshield.
Actualy, coders sharing code and allowing everyone to work on it and no one to take credit for it does a lot for development. Hundreds of ideas, all of which have equal potential to be instituted, and only the best or most popular features remain.
And since no one is allowed to claim exclusive rights to it, you don't have to buy from exclusive companies.
All of us self made, armchair warrior, microsoft bashers care. We like finding flaws in M$ systems. It isn't that we don't acknowledge our own system's flaws, it's that we find it funny that the OS with quite possibly the biggest and highest paid dev team has some of the most easily exploited bugs. For such a "user friendly" system, all these "on by default" setups seem to be counter productive to users.
And what exactly is a flying fuck?
I would think (barring the massive ammounts of security one would have to bypass) that if one wanted to kill a large number of computers with a virus, a *NIX virus would be the way to go.
Why would you have to edit the registry just to remove a friken messageing program. Talk about a pain in the arse. Definately makes me glad I use OS X as my primary OS, Linux as my secondary and Windows as my gaming platform (at least till I get my PS 2)
Microsoft picking on a news forum because they copy cut and pasted the text of an article so that more people could access it at any given time would be a very bad PR scene, and with the lense that Microsoft is being watched under, that would be bad for them.
At least Quicktime is useable. I still can't stand the fact that I can't save WMP files as anything else or export the files.
Personaly, Quicktime is highly efficient. True if you want to watch MPEGS full screen, you need to register, but as you so pointed out, there are hacks availible.
Daewoo generaly makes decent products, so I'm sure the quality of the player is decent as well.
You could speed your load time up by setting your display preferences at slashdot to minimum settings, that way you only get the links to the posts and not ny highlighted posts.
And if some site sued slashdot over something like that, it would get posted here and then that company would have a lot of angry slashdotters to deal with (I'm sure the slashdot effect can apply to homepages too)
IT seems to me that this lawsuit is over a specific device,that being a type of device wich will vibrate a hand held controller according to cetain inputs based on a game. Even the arcade versions don't really fall under that description. This applies specificaly to the hand held controlers, here as an arcade game would apply to the whole device.
Your point is well taken. I was just poiting out that Apple did not appear to be in any danger of filing chap 11 anytime in the near future and that in the current tech slump, apple seems to be holding their own while many other companies seem to be scrambling to stay afloat.
I wasn't even aware that the new iMacs couldn't run Linux before this point. I though mkLinux, Yellow Dog linux a Linux PPC were all mac versions of linux and capable of running on a mac. I would have assumed that included the new G4
Dude, 68 k macs are like 386 machines. What your asking for here is like asking Win 2k to run on a 386. Aint gonna happen.
Newton was dumped because it was too far a head of it's time an dtoo expensive to maintain.
My PowerMac 5400/180 ran mkLinux for a while which is an apple distribution of linux.
It now has a G3 upgrade and can run most of the Apple linux versions
A/UX was dumped because of OS X.
Besides, the reason apple doesn't support any pre G3's is to get people who are still using old Mac SEs to finaly realize their comp needs to get traded in for somethign a bit newer.
Dude, come back to the future. It isn't 1996 any more, and apple's been turning profits since 98, much better profits than some of our other well known manufacturers (i.e. HP, Compaq, Dell)
Other than the GUI, OS X seems pretyy damn close to Linux (seeing as how Linux and BSD come from the same roots and all)
Once again M$ is a few steps behind. Apple already has a very useable GUI on a *NIX interface (granted, OS X is not free like linux, but I highly doubt Windows/Linux 95 will be free either, unless it's not comming from M$ directly). And I don't know abotu other people, but I've found KDE 2 to be a very useable GUI, as good as 95 in most respects.
Viruses are clean efficient code, that get's the job done in a timely and resource efficient manner. Most are well documented and all are supported by their authors.
Oh and none of them can claim a 95% market share like windows can
Here's the missing quote that should be in there
'You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the Product that will be automatically downloaded to your Workstation Computer.
But consider the implications of this. Sure you can turn it off, but there's no guarentee that a) it stays off or b) MS can't go in anyways.
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Note that nowhere in that text does it mention specificaly the Windows Auto update. It just say's Microsoft. To me, and I'm sure to the M$ legal team, that means all of Microsoft, not just their update feature.
On top of that, this is automaticaly on, unlike other auto update features. For example, all of the programs that I've used with auto update feautres (WinAMP, ICQ(?), Aimster, Mac OS) all have a client based check, that is, the software on your computer does the check, not the software on the company's computer.
AND
All of them give me a choice as to whether or not I want these updates to be installed. (Hell the mac OS one doesn't do auto updates unless you turn it ON) I always have the option of declining the update. But according to this EULA, you have no choice, it will atomaticaly install any updates for you.
In an attempt to ensure that microsoft didn't own everything about Bungie they released the source code. I know a lot of people who were pissed when M$ took bungie. I guess this is Bungie's final gift to the world before falling under complete M$ dominence.
Buy a maxed out G4 with 22inch cinema display.
Or go to the NexTech Summit (no link, sorry I forgot it) and give em 100+ gigs of Hardrives, a few gigs of memory and a few heatsinks. All "borrowed" from RentSys (www.rentsys.com)
What do you think he does when his laptop gets wet?