o Neither Windows nor Linux require users to get "in the guts" of their computer. The difference is that with Wintel, at least users have that option.
o Where did you get any Linux bigotry out of my post? I'm using Windows right now.
o Plenty of PC clones just "work out of the box."
o There are Linux distributions that don't require any more technical knowledge to operate than the MacOS. Not enough, mind you, but they exist
o I didn't buy or use Mac OS. It's just that Apple gets away with stuff that would make Microsoft blush, just because they're the underdog. That's not fair. If you feel like I'm wasting your energy, that's your problem. I didn't make you reply.
As has been covered so many times here before, more expensive hardware != overpriced hardware.
That might have been true back when Apples came with SCSI, but they are now no better than Wintel commodity hardware, except that they use a PowerPC. They have IDE interfaces (and not even the fastest or highest capacity ones), ATI video, and other things that PC users can purchase off the shelf for far less money.
Just because they have a standard (read: limited) platform and control what commodity hardware goes in the box doesn't mean it isn't overpriced.
In the U.S., AFAIK, this is only on the "Music CDR's" for the moment. And when that tax looks like it's coming close, I think about 10K CDRs at US$0.19 each will hold me for awhile:).
I don't see how these are mutually exclusive. Just set strict conditions on the bandwidth that you are not allowed to use it to transfer "intellectual property" without the explicit authorisation from the copyright holder.
Get caught running ftp, scp or some p2p system and you're already a suspect.
Then would cable modems/DSL/satellite connections continue to be worth $50-$60 per month? Granted, this is anecdotal, but I don't know anyone paying for broadband who isn't pulling gigabytes per month from p2p networks or wherever of content of at least questionable legality. And these aren't all geeks, either. A good portion are your run of the mill administrators, clerks, what have you.
If all I was going to do was read email and post to Slashdot, I could sure get along fine with dialup access. I can share content just fine on CDRs if broadband is QoSd and TOSd to that degree.
Although the treaties provide a legal framework of rights, they do not overrule national laws.
from the referenced CNN article:
Although the treaties provide a legal framework of rights, they do not overrule national laws.
Does it have the "force of law," or does it simply mean that nations have agreed to enact laws aligned with the treaty?
Not that the intellectual "property" goons at the media empires have a prayer in the long run, anyway. They can't get away with selling bandwidth to the public on one hand and locking up content on the other. They're mutually exclusive.
Because Apple is just another jackbooted corporate thug, and sues anyone who dares make anything that even sort of looks like Aqua. Which is why my credo remains "DEATH TO APPLE, DEATH TO THE MAC," despite their porting BSD and finally getting a real operating system.
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o Neither Windows nor Linux require users to get "in the guts" of their computer. The difference is that with Wintel, at least users have that option.
o Where did you get any Linux bigotry out of my post? I'm using Windows right now.
o Plenty of PC clones just "work out of the box."
o There are Linux distributions that don't require any more technical knowledge to operate than the MacOS. Not enough, mind you, but they exist
o I didn't buy or use Mac OS. It's just that Apple gets away with stuff that would make Microsoft blush, just because they're the underdog. That's not fair. If you feel like I'm wasting your energy, that's your problem. I didn't make you reply.
You'd pay $49/month for apt-get, since shoutcast'd be shut down in the intellectual property reign of terror?
That might have been true back when Apples came with SCSI, but they are now no better than Wintel commodity hardware, except that they use a PowerPC. They have IDE interfaces (and not even the fastest or highest capacity ones), ATI video, and other things that PC users can purchase off the shelf for far less money.
Just because they have a standard (read: limited) platform and control what commodity hardware goes in the box doesn't mean it isn't overpriced.
That's good information--thanks. Not that I would give Sony a sliver of a thin dime, anyway, but now I can warn friends and acquaintences.
In the U.S., AFAIK, this is only on the "Music CDR's" for the moment. And when that tax looks like it's coming close, I think about 10K CDRs at US$0.19 each will hold me for awhile :).
Sad, and true.
Get caught running ftp, scp or some p2p system and you're already a suspect.
Then would cable modems/DSL/satellite connections continue to be worth $50-$60 per month? Granted, this is anecdotal, but I don't know anyone paying for broadband who isn't pulling gigabytes per month from p2p networks or wherever of content of at least questionable legality. And these aren't all geeks, either. A good portion are your run of the mill administrators, clerks, what have you.
If all I was going to do was read email and post to Slashdot, I could sure get along fine with dialup access. I can share content just fine on CDRs if broadband is QoSd and TOSd to that degree.
from the referenced CNN article:
Does it have the "force of law," or does it simply mean that nations have agreed to enact laws aligned with the treaty?
Not that the intellectual "property" goons at the media empires have a prayer in the long run, anyway. They can't get away with selling bandwidth to the public on one hand and locking up content on the other. They're mutually exclusive.
Didn't Sonny Bono have one of these?
Because Apple is just another jackbooted corporate thug, and sues anyone who dares make anything that even sort of looks like Aqua. Which is why my credo remains "DEATH TO APPLE, DEATH TO THE MAC," despite their porting BSD and finally getting a real operating system.
. . . this came too late for Loki.