Blockquoth the poster: "Think of it this way. What if I take and spend my own money and gave out 10,000 copies to people standing on the street? Do you know what that is called? It's called MARKETING and it didn't even happen at the expense of the artist or the recording label"
Nope that's called ILLEGALLY DISTRIBUTING FILES and that DID cost them 10,000 cd's they MIGHT have sold. It's kinda like showing a movie publicly. Can't do it without permission from the owner(s) of the movie. People you see handing out promo cd's and things of that nature are supposed to have permission from the copyright holder to distribute that item. It's usually the copyright holder's marketing department that decides to just randomly give out promo items. In that case they know they are protentially losing some sales but they can write it off on taxes. If you do it without thier permission you have potentially done financial harm.
That'll be $150,000 per cd you handed out but if you swear to never do it again and sign this admission of guilt we'll let it go for $8000, unless of course you are a 12 year old girl living in the ghetto, then it's $2000.
Or is this how you gain karma? Post an article with a penile reference, then log in and point that fact out. And then log back out and bitch about the fact that you pointed the fact out?
Isn't it this same mentality of "we shouldn't wash ourselves and be dirty, nasty people" that brought around things like the plauge and those annoying nasty flea ridden rats that carried it? Please wash yourself, at least a hundred years of medicine and scientific studies says it's good for you.
As of OCT 1 you can no longer get a lifetime susbscription to TIVO--at least not for DirecTIVO. They only offer the 9.99/month susbscription. I assumed that standard TIVO probably cancelled lifetime subscription too. Also before Oct 1 the lifetime was $199.
Actually I've been using it this past summer and when it worked it worked well. It had this annoying habit of going down about every 2 or 3 days. And it also isn't a "competitor" to freenet--it's a "companion". You surf the FreeNet boards looking for posts about new files going up and then log into IIP and DL. Worked alot more efficiently than just FreeNet alone cause half the time you'd get only partial files downloaded using the standard FreeNet keys. So when joined together FreeNet was used to announce the new (usually temporary) chat rooms, IIP into the room, get your stuff, and then get the fuck out. You'd also see all the posts going up about IIP going down and then everyone posting when it came back up. IIP and FreeNet were a pretty good combo in my book and I hope this new version will work as well as the old one but have a better amount of stability. This new version could very well be a better solution to encrypted data exchange.
Yeah I don't mind using the default kernel in Windows cause lemme see.... MY CDRW WORKS MY TV TUNER WORKS MY DVDROM WORKS THE ADVANCED FEATURES OF MY SBLIVE WORK
I can name many more. The only way I could possibly get this crap to work in RH is to recompile the frickin kernel. And some of them still can't be made to work because of NO DRIVERS. And before you mention it I shouldn't have to write my own drivers either. I also have these wonderful things called apps and some pretty cool games I can play too. Which only a few have a linux counterpart.
Look I'm not anti-Linux, I'm anti current version. When Linux gets the PNP hardware worked out and maybe some games that are cool that don't need directx I'll switch in a heartbeat but as of right now it's the best tool for the job and Windows works.
Well there AardavrkJoe I wasn't attempting to hurl insults, I was conveying my annoyance with his stupid remark. And if you read the original post I'm far from trolling. Seeing as how you continue to try to annoy me as well, I would say that you are the one who is a 15 year old with no social life so to drop down on your level...
I'm rubber You're glue everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you....
Why did this get an insightful? If you start a cluster of CPU's then they're all on at the same time and so when they reach the end of their life you have say a dozen die in roughly the same time period instead of just one. What you should be doing is running one at a time and keep the others in a safe place until you need them. Though you can bet that your processor is gonna be way too slow to run any future apps so you should probably start hoarding software too. I think this post got the obligatory "I wish I had a Beowulf cluster of these!" mod up.
Well if there are more factors as you say then WTF are they? Why don't you share a few with us?
I have one: AMD wants to stay in business. M$ is THE ONLY OS that works with most every peripheral and software package on a consistant basis. Why? Because M$ is a monopoly and everyone knows it. I want to be a Linux fan but there is no Linux company that will get off their ass and make a version where I don't have to compile shit. The end user should not have to recompile the kernel. Linux has a great future but that is the FUTURE. AMD needs an OS NOW. Since linux can't do it who else will? M$. Businesses are here to make money and to stay afloat AMD went ahead an sold their souls. Would you have it that Intel was the only processor company out there? I certainly wouldn't.
Because they are short, simple, easy to understand, and convey my message efficiently. There is no reason to attempt use big words to dazzle somebody who is bent on general insults. It is a waste of energy. Besides Fuck Yourself has a certain ring that seems to push alot of peoples buttons. As you stated they are "textbook elementary school playground style" Well last time I checked if they were good enough for a textbook then they're good enough for most people. No need to reinvent the wheel as they say. Perhaps you could tell me which textbook I SHOULD be reading hmmmm?
How do I put this.....GO FUCK YOURSELF. I'm a 25 year old engineer and I get laid on a regular basis asshole. Just because I want something CONVIENIENT WHEN I WANT IT does not mean I am immature. People get urges all the time just like you had the urge to be a smartass. Does that mean your "urge to be an asshole""in about a sentence" will go away once to pull your head out of your ass. Everything changes; I doubt you will
The main reason someone would want to do this is because you are on a file SHARING network. What good is it gonna do to get some great mp3's and then hoard them to myself? The point is to get these things circulated around so they are on tap anytime someone needs them. How many times have you tried to DL something and the things just keeps saying More Sources Needed? If we didn't hoard this shit we would be getting these messages. When I got the urge to hear a song I could have it DL'd in about a minute. It'd be like music-on-demand and I look forward to the day it will be like that.
1) IIRC big businesses ARE the number 1 buyer of computers in the world.
2) More than likey other company's will not make non DRM compliant hardware because they actually WANT TO SELL IT. As I understand the situation it COULD be possible to make DRM CPU's disable non compliant hardware due to not having the sacred hardware key.
3) As I understand it, the CPU could refuse to load a non DRM approved OS. I think this is the *Nix guys current fears about this technology. I seriously doubt there are enough people using *Nix to justify AMD, VIA, etc, making real easy to use working plug N chug versions of linux and making thier CPU's NONDRM compliant. If they refused DRM then they'd be on thier own to fight M$/Intel and I doubt sales would overcome the software development, advertising, and education required to make Linux a viable desktop option. I for one would not buy an AMD/VIA PC that could only run Linux cause Palladium said no DRM-no install. Linux isn't developed enough for that yet though I hope one day it is. Also either/. or Tom's Hardware Guide mentioned that AMD was on this TCPA comittee. So I doubt they are gonna say "Fuck you m$"
This kind of shit erks me beyond belief but they are monopolies and history so far has proved the gov'ment ain't gonna do squat about it. I/we also can't just keep using our old hardware either. Stuff break especially HDD's and ATAPI devices. No manufacturer is gonna keep making this old stuff for us. People want the latest greatest stuff with the shinest eye candy available and they don't care if it "works fine". You don't see new Commodore 64's, Amiga's, or Atari's around anymore do ya? Non up-to-date PCs will fall under the same problem. Soon our stockpile of old parts will dry up until only scarce quantities exist and only a few have them. Classic cars have this same problem--It's damned hard to find parts for Straight 12 Dusenbergs anymore. Only a few still exist. Eventually only a few PCs will exist.
I can go on and on about this but I'm tired of typing and you're tired of reading. So goodnight.
Anybody know what's up with cartoon network? I mean do they really need an adult swim cartoon segment. This is just gonna screw SO many parents over when they can't let the kids watch cartoons 24/7 anymore. I suppose babysitters will be making more tho;)
I don't know about the rest of you guys but when I use a printer I use it until it dies. I mean a motor quit, stripped a gear, feeding 5 pages at once for no particular reason, prints only ascii garbage, etc. I would NEVER buy a used printer on eBay. You have no idea what the person has done to it or how much it has been used. A refurbished printer from the vendor is a different story. Those have to pass QC at the factory. eBay printers don't.
My friend has heard a rumor that Motorola and/or IBM doesn't want to make Apple CPU's anymore so they are looking to Intel and possibly AMD to make them for them. If that happens even Apple will not be "free from M$ technology" since M$ has both the company's by the proverbial Balls
Democracy never existed here. We are a Republic. Our votes do not directly effect the outcome of any piece of legislation. Our votes attempt to sway our "representative" into voting the way we want but there is nothing saying he has too. The electoral college comes to mind here. They can go against the popular vote (if given enough money hehe) and cast their presidential electoral vote for the other person. This erks me personally but seeing as how my one little vote doesn't count (and it doesn't-yours doesn't either, the last presidential election proved that) then I cannot change it. My only opportunity is to move to another country. And keep moving until I find some place that doesn't annoy me with piddly laws about stuff like copyright and instead do something useful like feed their people or stop murders n stuff. Anyone know a country like that?
Well good job slashdot, now the Chinese govenment knows! If you'd just kept quiet then nobody in the government would've found out but now they can block it. Oh well next headline will read:
The Great Firewall of China beats Google Mirror
Security through obscurity guys...didn't you get the memo?
Slashdot Mirror
Blockquoth the poster: "Think of it this way. What if I take and spend my own money and gave out 10,000 copies to people standing on the street? Do you know what that is called? It's called MARKETING and it didn't even happen at the expense of the artist or the recording label"
Nope that's called ILLEGALLY DISTRIBUTING FILES and that DID cost them 10,000 cd's they MIGHT have sold. It's kinda like showing a movie publicly. Can't do it without permission from the owner(s) of the movie. People you see handing out promo cd's and things of that nature are supposed to have permission from the copyright holder to distribute that item. It's usually the copyright holder's marketing department that decides to just randomly give out promo items. In that case they know they are protentially losing some sales but they can write it off on taxes. If you do it without thier permission you have potentially done financial harm.
That'll be $150,000 per cd you handed out but if you swear to never do it again and sign this admission of guilt we'll let it go for $8000, unless of course you are a 12 year old girl living in the ghetto, then it's $2000.
Well obviously everyone globally has absolutely no concerns over privacy since they took the time to fill out a survey.
Or is this how you gain karma? Post an article with a penile reference, then log in and point that fact out. And then log back out and bitch about the fact that you pointed the fact out?
Nice try buddy.
You should try using some of that modern technology sometime--namely a spell checker.
We are slowly devolving into a society that not only has no common sense, but cannot operate anything without help
You are slowly devolving into someone that not only has no book sense, but cannot spell anything without help.
"Does this mean I have to start buying cloths again instead of getting them at trade shows?"
No but you buy them cloths to make your CLOTHES!!
An AC Grammar Nazi!!! RUN!!!!
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Someone needs to publish that link about the place in India that takes apart oil tankers. Big Karma boost in that.
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Someone has been watching History Channel lately haven't we?
It's great to see the linux community is really getting behind the whole linux movement and voting for which distro is gonna tank first.
Sounds alot like us Windows guys talkin about whether or not XP was gonna suck ass.....we only had one choice though.....
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This post is probably a troll. Mod as such.
Isn't it this same mentality of "we shouldn't wash ourselves and be dirty, nasty people" that brought around things like the plauge and those annoying nasty flea ridden rats that carried it? Please wash yourself, at least a hundred years of medicine and scientific studies says it's good for you.
...or at least mod it Funny
As of OCT 1 you can no longer get a lifetime susbscription to TIVO--at least not for DirecTIVO. They only offer the 9.99/month susbscription. I assumed that standard TIVO probably cancelled lifetime subscription too. Also before Oct 1 the lifetime was $199.
Actually I've been using it this past summer and when it worked it worked well. It had this annoying habit of going down about every 2 or 3 days. And it also isn't a "competitor" to freenet--it's a "companion". You surf the FreeNet boards looking for posts about new files going up and then log into IIP and DL. Worked alot more efficiently than just FreeNet alone cause half the time you'd get only partial files downloaded using the standard FreeNet keys. So when joined together FreeNet was used to announce the new (usually temporary) chat rooms, IIP into the room, get your stuff, and then get the fuck out. You'd also see all the posts going up about IIP going down and then everyone posting when it came back up. IIP and FreeNet were a pretty good combo in my book and I hope this new version will work as well as the old one but have a better amount of stability. This new version could very well be a better solution to encrypted data exchange.
Yeah I don't mind using the default kernel in Windows cause lemme see....
MY CDRW WORKS
MY TV TUNER WORKS
MY DVDROM WORKS
THE ADVANCED FEATURES OF MY SBLIVE WORK
I can name many more. The only way I could possibly get this crap to work in RH is to recompile the frickin kernel. And some of them still can't be made to work because of NO DRIVERS. And before you mention it I shouldn't have to write my own drivers either. I also have these wonderful things called apps and some pretty cool games I can play too. Which only a few have a linux counterpart.
Look I'm not anti-Linux, I'm anti current version. When Linux gets the PNP hardware worked out and maybe some games that are cool that don't need directx I'll switch in a heartbeat but as of right now it's the best tool for the job and Windows works.
Well there AardavrkJoe I wasn't attempting to hurl insults, I was conveying my annoyance with his stupid remark. And if you read the original post I'm far from trolling. Seeing as how you continue to try to annoy me as well, I would say that you are the one who is a 15 year old with no social life so to drop down on your level...
I'm rubber You're glue everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you....
Oh and GO FUCK YOURSELF
Flame on asshat FLAME ON!!!!!!!!
Why did this get an insightful?
If you start a cluster of CPU's then they're all on at the same time and so when they reach the end of their life you have say a dozen die in roughly the same time period instead of just one. What you should be doing is running one at a time and keep the others in a safe place until you need them. Though you can bet that your processor is gonna be way too slow to run any future apps so you should probably start hoarding software too.
I think this post got the obligatory "I wish I had a Beowulf cluster of these!" mod up.
Well if there are more factors as you say then WTF are they? Why don't you share a few with us?
I have one: AMD wants to stay in business. M$ is THE ONLY OS that works with most every peripheral and software package on a consistant basis. Why? Because M$ is a monopoly and everyone knows it. I want to be a Linux fan but there is no Linux company that will get off their ass and make a version where I don't have to compile shit. The end user should not have to recompile the kernel. Linux has a great future but that is the FUTURE. AMD needs an OS NOW. Since linux can't do it who else will? M$. Businesses are here to make money and to stay afloat AMD went ahead an sold their souls. Would you have it that Intel was the only processor company out there? I certainly wouldn't.
Because they are short, simple, easy to understand, and convey my message efficiently. There is no reason to attempt use big words to dazzle somebody who is bent on general insults. It is a waste of energy. Besides Fuck Yourself has a certain ring that seems to push alot of peoples buttons. As you stated they are "textbook elementary school playground style" Well last time I checked if they were good enough for a textbook then they're good enough for most people. No need to reinvent the wheel as they say. Perhaps you could tell me which textbook I SHOULD be reading hmmmm?
How do I put this.....GO FUCK YOURSELF. I'm a 25 year old engineer and I get laid on a regular basis asshole. Just because I want something CONVIENIENT WHEN I WANT IT does not mean I am immature. People get urges all the time just like you had the urge to be a smartass. Does that mean your "urge to be an asshole""in about a sentence" will go away once to pull your head out of your ass. Everything changes; I doubt you will
As I said before--GO FUCK YOURSELF.
The main reason someone would want to do this is because you are on a file SHARING network. What good is it gonna do to get some great mp3's and then hoard them to myself? The point is to get these things circulated around so they are on tap anytime someone needs them. How many times have you tried to DL something and the things just keeps saying More Sources Needed? If we didn't hoard this shit we would be getting these messages. When I got the urge to hear a song I could have it DL'd in about a minute. It'd be like music-on-demand and I look forward to the day it will be like that.
1) IIRC big businesses ARE the number 1 buyer of computers in the world.
/. or Tom's Hardware Guide mentioned that AMD was on this TCPA comittee. So I doubt they are gonna say "Fuck you m$"
2) More than likey other company's will not make non DRM compliant hardware because they actually WANT TO SELL IT. As I understand the situation it COULD be possible to make DRM CPU's disable non compliant hardware due to not having the sacred hardware key.
3) As I understand it, the CPU could refuse to load a non DRM approved OS. I think this is the *Nix guys current fears about this technology. I seriously doubt there are enough people using *Nix to justify AMD, VIA, etc, making real easy to use working plug N chug versions of linux and making thier CPU's NONDRM compliant. If they refused DRM then they'd be on thier own to fight M$/Intel and I doubt sales would overcome the software development, advertising, and education required to make Linux a viable desktop option. I for one would not buy an AMD/VIA PC that could only run Linux cause Palladium said no DRM-no install. Linux isn't developed enough for that yet though I hope one day it is. Also either
This kind of shit erks me beyond belief but they are monopolies and history so far has proved the gov'ment ain't gonna do squat about it. I/we also can't just keep using our old hardware either. Stuff break especially HDD's and ATAPI devices. No manufacturer is gonna keep making this old stuff for us. People want the latest greatest stuff with the shinest eye candy available and they don't care if it "works fine". You don't see new Commodore 64's, Amiga's, or Atari's around anymore do ya? Non up-to-date PCs will fall under the same problem. Soon our stockpile of old parts will dry up until only scarce quantities exist and only a few have them. Classic cars have this same problem--It's damned hard to find parts for Straight 12 Dusenbergs anymore. Only a few still exist. Eventually only a few PCs will exist.
I can go on and on about this but I'm tired of typing and you're tired of reading. So goodnight.
Anybody know what's up with cartoon network? I mean do they really need an adult swim cartoon segment. This is just gonna screw SO many parents over when they can't let the kids watch cartoons 24/7 anymore. I suppose babysitters will be making more tho ;)
I don't know about the rest of you guys but when I use a printer I use it until it dies. I mean a motor quit, stripped a gear, feeding 5 pages at once for no particular reason, prints only ascii garbage, etc. I would NEVER buy a used printer on eBay. You have no idea what the person has done to it or how much it has been used. A refurbished printer from the vendor is a different story. Those have to pass QC at the factory. eBay printers don't.
:)
Remember you get what you pay for
My friend has heard a rumor that Motorola and/or IBM doesn't want to make Apple CPU's anymore so they are looking to Intel and possibly AMD to make them for them. If that happens even Apple will not be "free from M$ technology" since M$ has both the company's by the proverbial Balls
Democracy never existed here. We are a Republic. Our votes do not directly effect the outcome of any piece of legislation. Our votes attempt to sway our "representative" into voting the way we want but there is nothing saying he has too. The electoral college comes to mind here. They can go against the popular vote (if given enough money hehe) and cast their presidential electoral vote for the other person. This erks me personally but seeing as how my one little vote doesn't count (and it doesn't-yours doesn't either, the last presidential election proved that) then I cannot change it. My only opportunity is to move to another country. And keep moving until I find some place that doesn't annoy me with piddly laws about stuff like copyright and instead do something useful like feed their people or stop murders n stuff. Anyone know a country like that?
Well good job slashdot, now the Chinese govenment knows! If you'd just kept quiet then nobody in the government would've found out but now they can block it. Oh well next headline will read:
The Great Firewall of China beats Google Mirror
Security through obscurity guys...didn't you get the memo?