For just about everything except PowerPoint, StarOffice is just fine. One thing I have learned working for the AIr Force (which is as corporate as any corporation), got to have that PowerPoint!
The "I buy a CD if I like all the mp3s I have from it" argument is bogus and is composed of a very small minority.
YES! So true. But suppose CDs cost a reasonable $5 or $8, not a rediculous $12 to $15? Would people buy more to be able to own a better recording? I think so...
Common sense says that at least some of the people downloading music would have otherwise bought the CD. But as has been pointed out over and over again here, if the CD didn't cost so fucking much, people would probably rather own the CD. Just think of how many CD's you might own if they only cost $5? Probably many more times the value of any "lost" income from lowering the price.
The thing is, the way record contracts are made, they're basically saying that you are an employee, when you're in actuality just a self-employed person selling made-to-order music to them.
Yes.
The way things are currently laid out, it would be like saying I'm employing McDonalds because I bought a cheeseburger.
No, that does not make sense. It's more like being a subcontractor. You are being paid for work on something that you have agreed to give up certain rights to, and you are not an employee.
It's really too bad that the Slash Mods classifiy as "troll" or "flamebait" anything that they don't agree with, even if it is a valid point. And the parent raises a valid point. When you code for "The Man", he owns your work. When you make music for "The Man", he owns your work, and thus can do with it what He pleases.
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My solution to discurage anyone from stealing my identity has been to default on all my student loans, consistently pay my credit cards a few month late, and write anti-government propeganda letters to the local paper (amazingly, I still have my DoD security clearence!). The scammers run screaming...
The problem with your idea that people "just don't know" yet, is that the hyenas at the RAII have been beating this drum for well over a year. People just didn't think they would take it this far.
If you know how to spell, use proper English, and can recognize that two stories are duplicates, you could probably be the editor of some tech news blog.
Which blog would that be? Not Slashdot, we know that!
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Ahhhh, in the day, before the EPA, OSHA and FDA got their hands on workplace health hazards, we used to use Carbon Tet to clean EVERYTHING.
Amateur radio will never be big with Slashdot readers (although they try to kiss up to it for the geek factor). Why? No porn (rim shot!)....
Still looking to find a legal loophole to avoid being penalized for knowingly breaking the law. Sad. /b>
Under regular Slash Mod rules, isn't the parent a "troll" or "flamebait"? I mean, it attacks one of their babies with (Good Lord!) witty truth!
So, basically, you lied?
Holy shit! Second poster! Damn, I should have posted as AC, now my boss will know I spend my day posting to /.
Well, I really have no interest in Lindows, but this is a great idea! RedHat should be doing this!
"I don't agree... Blaw, blaw, blaw, blaw, I am God, you are an idiot, blaw, blaw, blaw...."
Face the facts: Corporate uses PowerPoint. If you want Linux on the desktop, two things: PowerPoint and a better spreadsheet.
For just about everything except PowerPoint, StarOffice is just fine. One thing I have learned working for the AIr Force (which is as corporate as any corporation), got to have that PowerPoint!
You *may* be in the minority, tech wise, as far as ripping MP3s goes.. Remember, we are talking here about collage students with disposable income...
No, I think here at Slashdot, you satrt with "Ummm..." and follow with something that essentially states "you are an idiot".
Oh dear, what will happen next, artists releasing their works on the 'net without using recording labels at all???
Not artists that MAKE A LIVING from their music!
The "I buy a CD if I like all the mp3s I have from it" argument is bogus and is composed of a very small minority.
YES! So true. But suppose CDs cost a reasonable $5 or $8, not a rediculous $12 to $15? Would people buy more to be able to own a better recording? I think so...
Common sense says that at least some of the people downloading music would have otherwise bought the CD. But as has been pointed out over and over again here, if the CD didn't cost so fucking much, people would probably rather own the CD. Just think of how many CD's you might own if they only cost $5? Probably many more times the value of any "lost" income from lowering the price.
The thing is, the way record contracts are made, they're basically saying that you are an employee, when you're in actuality just a self-employed person selling made-to-order music to them.
Yes.
The way things are currently laid out, it would be like saying I'm employing McDonalds because I bought a cheeseburger.
No, that does not make sense. It's more like being a subcontractor. You are being paid for work on something that you have agreed to give up certain rights to, and you are not an employee.
It's really too bad that the Slash Mods classifiy as "troll" or "flamebait" anything that they don't agree with, even if it is a valid point. And the parent raises a valid point. When you code for "The Man", he owns your work. When you make music for "The Man", he owns your work, and thus can do with it what He pleases.
Is a "gay homosexual" like a double negative?
So, I assume this means SCO will be sending Ford a very big bill soon...
As she slid her hand down my pants but still outside my briefs, and cupped my tightening testicals, my cock grew harder and harder until it seemed as though it might rip through the material. She began to massage my love member and I could feel a rising crescendo love vibrations from within my nut sack. As she unzipped my 501's fly, my now rock hard love pole sprang to attention like the bag boy at the local grocery whenever that wrinkled old prune know to need a little of the "young man" help now and then, walked in the store... My love seed welling higher and higher, I knew it would not be long before I exploded all over her face, but I knew from experience that she wanted it in her tight wet pussy. I pushed her back, and she fell to the bed. Her panties where crotchless so I had to problem jamming my pole in her hole...
From one of the VeriSign drones: "Like many registries, we're continually exploring ideas on how to enhance the user experience,"
, in Portland, sells on-line. This place is 4 stories of a full city block. Down the street, the have a HUGE technical bookstore also. I've never actually purchased anything there, just read it in the coffee shop.
My solution to discurage anyone from stealing my identity has been to default on all my student loans, consistently pay my credit cards a few month late, and write anti-government propeganda letters to the local paper (amazingly, I still have my DoD security clearence!). The scammers run screaming...
A ***way cool*** heat sink and chip fan! Like out of a jep plane! Way cool dude!
The problem with your idea that people "just don't know" yet, is that the hyenas at the RAII have been beating this drum for well over a year. People just didn't think they would take it this far.
If you know how to spell, use proper English, and can recognize that two stories are duplicates, you could probably be the editor of some tech news blog.
Which blog would that be? Not Slashdot, we know that!
Then you are the exception, not the rule.