I'm not saying that Linux doesn't work for desktop use, it's just most of the people who have Linux on the desktop use Linux at work as well, and learned Linux through some professional task.
There isn't a lot that Linux does on the desktop that other OSes don't, and there are things that it can't do (well) yet. Desktop is really a matter of familiarity and preference. Most people are familiar with Windows and Mac and prefer them. And Windows and Mac work well enough for desktop tasks that it's unlikely that people will switch soon. However for people who have become used to Linux or want compatibility between home and work, there are very good reasons to use Linux on the desktop. Ideology isn't really one of them, though.
those laws will fail, because entertainment companies are arrogantly and erroneously assuming they have more power than the combined might of the software and hardware world.
Thank you, you know, Slashdot might give people the wrong impression, that the reason to use Linux is for all these arbitrary and idealistic causes.
The reason for using Linux is that for just about every task other than day-to-day desktop shit, it is a faster, more secure, cheaper, and more stable platform than most anything out there.
Opensource isn't good because it's Good. It's good because it allows interested parties to write better software.
Which is why I have winXP at home and Linux at work. Desktop may take the glory, but the money is in business, and sooner or later people will do the math and realise that MS isn't worth it.
they can't leave their RIAA contracts, they are locked in to them for usually over a decade and for more releases than most bands ever record.
the artists can't allow Audiogalaxy to share their music because ***they don't own their own copyrights***
they sign the contracts because they aren't lawyers and don't know what they're getting themselves into. that and the RIAA's deals with MTV, Ticketmaster, Clearchannel, and retail stores insure that not signing with the RIAA = wallowing in obscurity. Phish is probably the only modern band to make it without massive RIAA support, and their marketing scheme really only works for trad rock.
and Kadri Gopalnath isn't an RIAA artist, which was the parent's point to begin with.
yeah then this company called Clearchannel bought all of my local radio stations, and I only hear the 10 songs that are also on MTV (which I hear in the distant past played music as well)
Yes, but shutting down AG will only stop the obscure music. 99% of the users will move to Kazaa or Gnutella or WinMX or Grokster and they will have the exact same files available, except for the obscure ones.
Bottom line: everyone else gets their Nikelback (does that lead singer have any concept of what a douchebag he looks like?) and I don't get my Jeff Mangum basement recordings. How's that for fair?
frankly i think the RIAA is a price fixing monopoly gouging the customers and the artists left and right. when you pay $18 for a new CD (and $18 CDs won't just be for Sam Goody any more - look out) your favorite band gets about 50 cents. Most of which goes off to pay their debt to their record company, which owns the copyrights to their songs for like 40 years. Download the music, see them play live, and buy a T-Shirt, you get more, the band gets more, nobody loses but the criminals.
The RIAA only has the power it does because they have used their massive weight to insure that you can *only* gain popularity through them. The large CD distributors and retailers have exclusive deals with the big record Co.s MTV will never play a minor label artist, and neither will Clearchannel (who owns over half of all radio stations in America)
to think that popular music was once a medium of freedom and rebellion, or at least made a passable effort of pretending to be. these days it's just another hollywood, only far far worse.
hey kids, want to be rad, want to be a star? forget the damn guitar, start writing novels, or maybe learn to paint, it's more respectable, and your ass won't be so sore after dealing with the suits.
in the past year, i have seen probably over 100 DVDs, all of them either on a computer monitor, or played off of a PS2.
If I've allready payed a few hundred bucks for a 19 inch screen, I'm not dropping more cash (and giving up more space) for another CRT, especially given that I don't watch television.
How is it unconstitutional for a local county government to set a local county purchase policy?
or do you think that the constitution restricts what every single governing body in the US can do and not just the federal and (after the 14th amendment) state governments can do?
people who throw around the word "constitution" should read the beast.
the material is available in print in England and on English computers; it is therefore the fault of Zimbabwe's ISPs for connecting to the offending servers.
if nations want to censor the internet, they should do it themselves. it would be funny to watch them realize the futility of attempting to stop information.
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I'm not saying that Linux doesn't work for desktop use, it's just most of the people who have Linux on the desktop use Linux at work as well, and learned Linux through some professional task.
There isn't a lot that Linux does on the desktop that other OSes don't, and there are things that it can't do (well) yet. Desktop is really a matter of familiarity and preference. Most people are familiar with Windows and Mac and prefer them. And Windows and Mac work well enough for desktop tasks that it's unlikely that people will switch soon. However for people who have become used to Linux or want compatibility between home and work, there are very good reasons to use Linux on the desktop. Ideology isn't really one of them, though.
This is good to hear. Lindows is a beta product, and acts like it, Mandrake is as competitive as entry level desktop Linux gets these days.
I hope someone will write a *really* good users manual, one that involves the words "terminal" "compile" and "man" as little as possible.
I was probably the only person in the world to see the movie Dick (not not *that* movie, the one that came to regular theaters)
It had an interesting take on the 18 1/2 mintues, as well as the identity of Deep Throat.
those laws will fail, because entertainment companies are arrogantly and erroneously assuming they have more power than the combined might of the software and hardware world.
if IBM and Dell don't want it, it won't happen.
Thank you, you know, Slashdot might give people the wrong impression, that the reason to use Linux is for all these arbitrary and idealistic causes.
The reason for using Linux is that for just about every task other than day-to-day desktop shit, it is a faster, more secure, cheaper, and more stable platform than most anything out there.
Opensource isn't good because it's Good. It's good because it allows interested parties to write better software.
Which is why I have winXP at home and Linux at work. Desktop may take the glory, but the money is in business, and sooner or later people will do the math and realise that MS isn't worth it.
reminds me of a friend's review of Daft Punk:
"Yeah, that is true, but I think it's *supposed* to suck"
an air tight case wouldn't have very good ventilation, would it?
It makes a lot of sense when you consider that most of computer theft is perpetrated by employees of the company.
Slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
It's been 19 seconds since you hit 'reply'!
his point is this story has been redundant for years. offices had these things in the 80s.
heh, take the parent's sig as a response to yours.
there was no need for you to reply to that guy.
yeah but you can replace the tape and still swipe your boss' graphics card and RAM
they can't leave their RIAA contracts, they are locked in to them for usually over a decade and for more releases than most bands ever record.
the artists can't allow Audiogalaxy to share their music because ***they don't own their own copyrights***
they sign the contracts because they aren't lawyers and don't know what they're getting themselves into. that and the RIAA's deals with MTV, Ticketmaster, Clearchannel, and retail stores insure that not signing with the RIAA = wallowing in obscurity. Phish is probably the only modern band to make it without massive RIAA support, and their marketing scheme really only works for trad rock.
and Kadri Gopalnath isn't an RIAA artist, which was the parent's point to begin with.
yeah then this company called Clearchannel bought all of my local radio stations, and I only hear the 10 songs that are also on MTV (which I hear in the distant past played music as well)
I'm leaving this fucking country.
Yes, but shutting down AG will only stop the obscure music. 99% of the users will move to Kazaa or Gnutella or WinMX or Grokster and they will have the exact same files available, except for the obscure ones.
Bottom line: everyone else gets their Nikelback (does that lead singer have any concept of what a douchebag he looks like?) and I don't get my Jeff Mangum basement recordings. How's that for fair?
clearly my evil hoarding of live fugazi recordings had to be stopped.
that would make sense, but i'm afraid you are wrong. you underestimate the creativity and money at their lawyers' disposal.
frankly i think the RIAA is a price fixing monopoly gouging the customers and the artists left and right. when you pay $18 for a new CD (and $18 CDs won't just be for Sam Goody any more - look out) your favorite band gets about 50 cents. Most of which goes off to pay their debt to their record company, which owns the copyrights to their songs for like 40 years. Download the music, see them play live, and buy a T-Shirt, you get more, the band gets more, nobody loses but the criminals.
The RIAA only has the power it does because they have used their massive weight to insure that you can *only* gain popularity through them. The large CD distributors and retailers have exclusive deals with the big record Co.s MTV will never play a minor label artist, and neither will Clearchannel (who owns over half of all radio stations in America)
to think that popular music was once a medium of freedom and rebellion, or at least made a passable effort of pretending to be. these days it's just another hollywood, only far far worse.
hey kids, want to be rad, want to be a star? forget the damn guitar, start writing novels, or maybe learn to paint, it's more respectable, and your ass won't be so sore after dealing with the suits.
college students do.
in the past year, i have seen probably over 100 DVDs, all of them either on a computer monitor, or played off of a PS2.
If I've allready payed a few hundred bucks for a 19 inch screen, I'm not dropping more cash (and giving up more space) for another CRT, especially given that I don't watch television.
there is still new music that can only be found on vinyl. and a great many things that have never been reissued.
best buy's CD collection is great if you only shop for RIAA artists. try to find someone from an indie label, though.
if i didn't live in a town with well stocked locally owned record stores (that actually sell records) i don't know what i'd do.
How is it unconstitutional for a local county government to set a local county purchase policy?
or do you think that the constitution restricts what every single governing body in the US can do and not just the federal and (after the 14th amendment) state governments can do?
people who throw around the word "constitution" should read the beast.
That's funny, I thought the only thing illegal in Coconino county was throwing bricks at cats.
if you don't get the joke...
Though I like the idea of Offissa Pup locking up Ignatz Gates...
flamebait? what the hell?
perhaps there should be a -1: not actually funny, but flamebait?
if i did that in the USA, i'd be breaking US laws, of course i'd be in jail.
assuming i found the sheets in the US, i'd be breaking the law before i even publish.
on the other hand, the publication broke absolutely no law by writing an article and publishing it in the UK.
simple:
the material is available in print in England and on English computers; it is therefore the fault of Zimbabwe's ISPs for connecting to the offending servers.
if nations want to censor the internet, they should do it themselves. it would be funny to watch them realize the futility of attempting to stop information.