We all know Linux is userfriendly. It's just very selective when it comes who it wants as friends.
And personally i prefer going trough crontabs, fstabs, inetd.confs and all of those, which in some ways are self-consistent, than digging down in the evil thing that the Windows Registry is. Oh yeah. And try fixing a broken Windows-server remotely. Now thats really user-friendly:)
And... I think we're pretty off-topic from the article right now, but it's slashdot. Who cares?
"I once installed windows 95 on a 386 with 4Mb ram. So a 32bit operating system on a 16 bit system."
And I allways thought the Intel 80386-processor was 32-bit. Thats why you needed a 386 in the firstplace to run in "386 enhanched mode" in Windows 3.11.
I've never heard of anyone trying to use a 286 under Windows 95 though... Might be because Win95 is (mostly:) 32-bit and the 286 is 16 bit. And maybe because it is impossible to run 32-bit code on a 16-bit CPU.
I think it's more like the 4mb of RAM that killed your system. I never ran Win95 on less than 16 megs. Never believe on-package minimum-specs!
"This would provide a very safe perimiter for pirates worldwide. Having this safety as a bonus would surely lead to an increase in piracy like nothing we have yet seen."
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No seriously, really, if their lawyers found out a way to suit these guys for money, they would care.
Law-suits probably has the record insdustries biggest income/outcome ratio as no real wokr is needed. Just free income(tm). It's their new business-model.
The point still remians regardsless of the sloppyness of the manufacturers.
The point is that when you buy an audio-cd, you expect it to be playable in all cd-players. If your player plays red-book cds, but not crippled discs, its not the player thats the problem. Its the crippled disc.
They made it non-conformant to red-book standards, and that is causing problems. That makes it their responsibility.
And that was the point I guess you missed. As simple as that: Their tampering makes it a crippled product. And they know it.
So some will ask, or look around on the net, and maybe find out. Then they'll be able to make an informed decision about whether it matters to them enough to affect their purchase decision.
Yeah. I think I see it happen as we speak.
Consumer: DRM? What is DRM?
Salesman: DRM is the new technology.
This is where we have to options for further communication. Lets take the simplest (shortest) first.
Consumer: Ok. That's cool. I'll take it.
Now the second.
Consumer: New technology doing what?
Salesman: I dunno. You could search on the internet and make an informed decision. But this DRM thing works GREAT!
Consumer: Ok. That's cool. I'll take it.
Not to be cynical, but I kinda don't see that happening. People aren't stupid, no, but they just don't care. We are the tech-guys (and gals) and that might be hard for us to grasp, but really people, the truth is that most people couldn't care less.
Until, offcourse, the day they find out they have been screwed. But not before. Because people don't care about tech stuff, and technology is tech stuff, not civil liberties. It might have an impact but people wouldn't know, and they won't.
Whadda you mean?!? Charge less for crippled CDs? They've spent more work and more money making crippled CDs, so they should charge more.
If CDs were sold in a free market that is. However Red-book CDs and (insert $500 million worth of garbage research here)-"protected" CDs cost exactly the same... To some that might seem strange. In a free market.
When it comes to money, and especially virtual money, you have to leave it somewhere. You don't carry it all around with you at all times. You have to trust someone to keep it safe. This goes for all money. Real-money as well as cybermoney.
I never said this was a good startup, a trustworthy startup, but just commented that the fact that you had to trust someone was inevitable.
And pay-pal... People use pay-pal and that was once an internet-startup. Didnt stop them though.
Looks like anyone who want to use money needs to trust their goverment. Anyone who needs to use plastic-cards to pay with needs to trust their bank. So whats new? You'll be forced to trust someone anyhow.
And what percentage... Small I'd say, but thats just due to low eposure of that kinda material. I'd certainly listen to more old stuff, if I knew what was really good.
So exactly what percentage of the music you download is outside of that "limited" time for copyright?
Old 50s, 60s jazz, Old 30s blues, Old propaganda movies (Those are like so cool!). Stuff like that.
And if it isn't outside that "limitied" copyright, its corporations infridging on the public domain. Its OLD dammit. The authors are long dead!
And yes, I do copy copyrighted material over p2p-networks. But then I listen to it, delete the mp3s, and buy it if I want it. Now thats theft or what, guys?
Yeah. Ofcourse all college students are rich people with rich parents with rich abilities when it comes to giving wealthy funding. This should without any further evidence prove to be true without expections.
Except that I got $600 a month to live for. And I pay $275 in rent a month... Yeah, we be spoiled brats. Or maybe friggin' not. I guess people in the third world are having harder times than me, though. But Im not complaining. Im simply telling you that... you're wrong.
Karma: doesn't matter anymore! Due to patent and copyright abuse, the internet is doomed!
Wow, I'm impressed. Take all the cliches you know (except profit), put them together and make something original. Cool sig man:)
And allways remember: That cool.sig was made due to the fact that karma, patents and copyright isn't, erm patented and copyrighted. They still got karma:)
Wrong. Look again. Copyright is there to allow authors/artists to profit from their works for a limited time.
The **AAs seem to think that copyright is Gods way of giving them free money(tm) forever, while they let artists starve.
And don't even piss me off by mentioning that perpetual copyright. Perpetual copyright (as in copyright today) is ripping of the public domain where all creations should end, to the benefit of all.
Actually. Yes the concept of intellectual properry is bogus by all reasonable means. Especially if copying digital media-files is to be treated as theft of actual, physical property.
Anyway I am not opposed to copyright itself. Not at all. I find it reasonable. Perpetual copyright however, and the nazis ( Godwin's law:) who are fighting their own customers, that's another story.
Soooooo.... If I download Amon Tobin "Out, from out where" from [your p2p-client here], thinks its cool, and buys it... Tell me again how that is theft?
Ofcourse it could suck ass, and I would delete it, but then I would never had bought it anyway. Now how is this theft again?
Not to mention piracy. I dont even know how to manouver a giant sail-ship.
and it's quite ironic, because pop culture, pop songs are not about obeying the law, yet the one who promotes pop culture enforces the law.
To me, that's only scary. Only law-enforcement-agencies should be able to do this. And only the law-enforcement-agencies of that country you happen to be in.
However. The RIAA seems to have international superiority to any goverment. And thats not ironic, thats scary.
[dribble mode]
Now if only I'd start selling music I might get it power as well, pretty soon....
[/dribble mode]
"And in other news Microsoft just released The Microsoft Internet V6. However it does not, I repeat not, seem to be working at all.
This does not at the present time seem to be releated to browserwars or other gang warfare."
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We all know Linux is userfriendly. It's just very selective when it comes who it wants as friends.
And personally i prefer going trough crontabs, fstabs, inetd.confs and all of those, which in some ways are self-consistent, than digging down in the evil thing that the Windows Registry is. Oh yeah. And try fixing a broken Windows-server remotely. Now thats really user-friendly :)
And... I think we're pretty off-topic from the article right now, but it's slashdot. Who cares?
And I allways thought the Intel 80386-processor was 32-bit. Thats why you needed a 386 in the firstplace to run in "386 enhanched mode" in Windows 3.11.
I've never heard of anyone trying to use a 286 under Windows 95 though... Might be because Win95 is (mostly :) 32-bit and the 286 is 16 bit. And maybe because it is impossible to run 32-bit code on a 16-bit CPU.
I think it's more like the 4mb of RAM that killed your system. I never ran Win95 on less than 16 megs. Never believe on-package minimum-specs!
So you believe that a current in the scales of milli-amperes would need massive cooling in order not to catch fire when run on a few volts?
Processors need alot of cooling because they consume alot of power. That should be dead simple. Alot of power != mA
Wow! A 2-feet piracy radius.
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No seriously, really, if their lawyers found out a way to suit these guys for money, they would care.
Law-suits probably has the record insdustries biggest income/outcome ratio as no real wokr is needed. Just free income(tm). It's their new business-model.
Or just a browser supporting CSS and user-css in genereal.
No need for a gecko, when a Viking will do :)
The point still remians regardsless of the sloppyness of the manufacturers.
The point is that when you buy an audio-cd, you expect it to be playable in all cd-players. If your player plays red-book cds, but not crippled discs, its not the player thats the problem. Its the crippled disc.
They made it non-conformant to red-book standards, and that is causing problems. That makes it their responsibility.
And that was the point I guess you missed. As simple as that: Their tampering makes it a crippled product. And they know it.
I dunno. Mabe news.com was taken, but news.com.com wasn't? It sounds ridiculous but that's the only excuse I would take for such a bad domain :)
Yeah. I think I see it happen as we speak.
This is where we have to options for further communication. Lets take the simplest (shortest) first.
Now the second.
Not to be cynical, but I kinda don't see that happening. People aren't stupid, no, but they just don't care. We are the tech-guys (and gals) and that might be hard for us to grasp, but really people, the truth is that most people couldn't care less.
Until, offcourse, the day they find out they have been screwed. But not before. Because people don't care about tech stuff, and technology is tech stuff, not civil liberties. It might have an impact but people wouldn't know, and they won't.
Whadda you mean?!? Charge less for crippled CDs? They've spent more work and more money making crippled CDs, so they should charge more.
If CDs were sold in a free market that is. However Red-book CDs and (insert $500 million worth of garbage research here)-"protected" CDs cost exactly the same... To some that might seem strange. In a free market.
Stopped me from buying the album as well. I dont buy shit like that. It's that simple.
You obviously missed my point.
When it comes to money, and especially virtual money, you have to leave it somewhere. You don't carry it all around with you at all times. You have to trust someone to keep it safe. This goes for all money. Real-money as well as cybermoney.
I never said this was a good startup, a trustworthy startup, but just commented that the fact that you had to trust someone was inevitable.
And pay-pal... People use pay-pal and that was once an internet-startup. Didnt stop them though.
Looks like anyone who want to use money needs to trust their goverment. Anyone who needs to use plastic-cards to pay with needs to trust their bank. So whats new? You'll be forced to trust someone anyhow.
I'd still go for weed, though. Now that's natural :)
And you want sales up? Stoners can help!
And what percentage... Small I'd say, but thats just due to low eposure of that kinda material. I'd certainly listen to more old stuff, if I knew what was really good.
Old 50s, 60s jazz, Old 30s blues, Old propaganda movies (Those are like so cool!). Stuff like that.
And if it isn't outside that "limitied" copyright, its corporations infridging on the public domain. Its OLD dammit. The authors are long dead!
And yes, I do copy copyrighted material over p2p-networks. But then I listen to it, delete the mp3s, and buy it if I want it. Now thats theft or what, guys?
Yeah. Ofcourse all college students are rich people with rich parents with rich abilities when it comes to giving wealthy funding. This should without any further evidence prove to be true without expections.
Except that I got $600 a month to live for. And I pay $275 in rent a month... Yeah, we be spoiled brats. Or maybe friggin' not. I guess people in the third world are having harder times than me, though. But Im not complaining. Im simply telling you that... you're wrong.
Wow, I'm impressed. Take all the cliches you know (except profit), put them together and make something original. Cool sig man :)
And allways remember: That cool .sig was made due to the fact that karma, patents and copyright isn't, erm patented and copyrighted. They still got karma :)
Wrong. Look again. Copyright is there to allow authors/artists to profit from their works for a limited time.
The **AAs seem to think that copyright is Gods way of giving them free money(tm) forever, while they let artists starve.
And don't even piss me off by mentioning that perpetual copyright. Perpetual copyright (as in copyright today) is ripping of the public domain where all creations should end, to the benefit of all.
And dont call me a pirate. I barely sample music.
Actually. Yes the concept of intellectual properry is bogus by all reasonable means. Especially if copying digital media-files is to be treated as theft of actual, physical property.
Anyway I am not opposed to copyright itself. Not at all. I find it reasonable. Perpetual copyright however, and the nazis ( Godwin's law :) who are fighting their own customers, that's another story.
Hah. Thats funny. We all know* corporatism and logic is mutally exclusive.
*I know we all know, but what I know might be wrong. But what do I know :-)
Soooooo.... If I download Amon Tobin "Out, from out where" from [your p2p-client here], thinks its cool, and buys it... Tell me again how that is theft?
Ofcourse it could suck ass, and I would delete it, but then I would never had bought it anyway. Now how is this theft again?
Not to mention piracy. I dont even know how to manouver a giant sail-ship.
Goodbye Britney! (Good riddance!)
To me, that's only scary. Only law-enforcement-agencies should be able to do this. And only the law-enforcement-agencies of that country you happen to be in.
However. The RIAA seems to have international superiority to any goverment. And thats not ironic, thats scary.
[dribble mode]
Now if only I'd start selling music I might get it power as well, pretty soon....
[/dribble mode]
"And in other news Microsoft just released The Microsoft Internet V6. However it does not, I repeat not, seem to be working at all.
This does not at the present time seem to be releated to browserwars or other gang warfare."
How about a nice, standard way of foing multicasting within the IP-stack? Sounds good to me!
oh... And the internet is running short of adresses. That might turn into a problem ofcourse :)