Ok, trying to stretch this analogy a bit to prove my point....:-)
I would say that learning what the buttons on the toolbar of your browser is, is analogous to knowing what the steering wheel does. What Bonzi does is install something into your car that looks like one of the car's parts, but in fact does something else. It's as if they put in a few more warning lamps on your car display, telling you that 'your oil is of a dangerously low quality' or something like that. I feel that by your view, they should know that the Chevy blah-di-blah 255xl doesn't come with those lamps, since everyone who uses a car should know that!
BTW: Sorry if I came across a bit harsh, maybe this is a sore toe for me...
It's always this 'Newspeak' with these shady companies. If they're collecting info about you and your dog, they tell it in a 'privacy statement'.
It's the same with DMCA: they wan't to call it 'DMCA - enabled', when in fact they are crippling your computer.
One other little gem is the 'Initiative For Software Choice'. Choose any software you like, as long as you choose ours... Bleh.
It's starting to be like the old Soviet propaganda in some ways.
Newsflash:
Some people don't give a rat's ass about computers, they just want them to work when they use them. Why should they have to be able to discern a web popup from a Windows dialog?
As much as I hate to admit it, you're right about the gaming. Even though Linux gets some of the biggest games, they are like a 'fart in space' (Swedish saying) compared to the massive number of games for Windows.
I'm still waiting for the Linux client for Neverwinter Nights, while the Windows gamers probably have played so much they're tired of it...
But for good measure:
BSD rules! You know nothing, Microsoft assbandit!
That has to be the lamest excuse I've seen in a long time.
'Yeah, we're doing this for the *art*'
No, you're doing it because you have top much spare time on your hands and too few good ideas in your heads.
Sheesh...
Maybe someone is watching this universe from the 'outside', so to speak? But what are the laws of the universe in which that observer lives? They have to be different from ours, or they wouldn't exist either. Or maybe sentience, in one form or another, comes with existing? So the universe observes itself?
Or am I talking out of my ass?
All those questions...
Yeah, but we'll probably be able to use the theory to improve our technology, much like quantum mechanics. Even though few people really understand it, it's brought for example a lot faster computers, and who knows maybe in the future we'll have a quantum computer?
I read a quote by David Bowie where he said that he was convinced that copyright as a concept would be gone in the future. I think he's right. And I think the record/movie industry knows that, deep in their little corporate hearts.
In a way, the file sharing programs give power back to the consumer, although they also force the artists to work a little harder. If everyone can download your music a day after it is released, you have to get your ass out there and *perform* like they did in the old days! You can't just sit down in your chair and wait for the royalties to come marching in to your bank account. Hopefully, this will make it easier for people who are artists for the love of the art, not for the love of money. I still remember Lars Ulrich talking about why he was so pissed off with Napster. During the whole interview, he referred to Metallica's music as a 'product', not once as a work or something he had put his soul into. What he objected to was that he wanted to get paid for his 'product'. Go sell cars, for Christ's sake!
I think filesharing programs will help musicians who people like because they write _good music_, and not because some marketing director has gotten it played on the radio so much that you finally think you like it...
But of course, you will have to be a good musician, and be willing to give concerts, if you want to make money...:-)
It's always like this: If someone suggests that we start caring about people, or even try to be less egoistic, he's a 'liberal'. And I don't even find 'liberal' derogatory, is that baad, Mr. Right-wing? Since you people seem to use it as an insult.
On wasting resources:
Here is an IMHO quite clever idea:
http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/
It generates a page with randomly assembled email addresses, and with links to another page of random addresses. Hopefully, if enough people put this on their sites, it will render the spam databases useless, as the spambots collect an endless amount of bogus addresses.
If this is old news, then I'm sorry...:-)
But it seems like a great idea to me!
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Ok, trying to stretch this analogy a bit to prove my point.... :-)
I would say that learning what the buttons on the toolbar of your browser is, is analogous to knowing what the steering wheel does. What Bonzi does is install something into your car that looks like one of the car's parts, but in fact does something else. It's as if they put in a few more warning lamps on your car display, telling you that 'your oil is of a dangerously low quality' or something like that. I feel that by your view, they should know that the Chevy blah-di-blah 255xl doesn't come with those lamps, since everyone who uses a car should know that!
BTW: Sorry if I came across a bit harsh, maybe this is a sore toe for me...
It's always this 'Newspeak' with these shady companies. If they're collecting info about you and your dog, they tell it in a 'privacy statement'. It's the same with DMCA: they wan't to call it 'DMCA - enabled', when in fact they are crippling your computer. One other little gem is the 'Initiative For Software Choice'. Choose any software you like, as long as you choose ours... Bleh. It's starting to be like the old Soviet propaganda in some ways.
Newsflash: Some people don't give a rat's ass about computers, they just want them to work when they use them. Why should they have to be able to discern a web popup from a Windows dialog?
Are you serious? Read the post again, with your 'funny spectacles' on...
As much as I hate to admit it, you're right about the gaming. Even though Linux gets some of the biggest games, they are like a 'fart in space' (Swedish saying) compared to the massive number of games for Windows. I'm still waiting for the Linux client for Neverwinter Nights, while the Windows gamers probably have played so much they're tired of it... But for good measure: BSD rules! You know nothing, Microsoft assbandit!
Yeah, the bitch will be to record the thing. 'Everybody quiet, recording starts now!'
Imagine the CD box that one would come in: 'The complete John Cage, now compressed to fit in a normal household. Buy now!'
That has to be the lamest excuse I've seen in a long time. 'Yeah, we're doing this for the *art*' No, you're doing it because you have top much spare time on your hands and too few good ideas in your heads. Sheesh...
Maybe someone is watching this universe from the 'outside', so to speak? But what are the laws of the universe in which that observer lives? They have to be different from ours, or they wouldn't exist either. Or maybe sentience, in one form or another, comes with existing? So the universe observes itself? Or am I talking out of my ass? All those questions...
She's the ultimate Slashdot girl! :-D
Yeah, but we'll probably be able to use the theory to improve our technology, much like quantum mechanics. Even though few people really understand it, it's brought for example a lot faster computers, and who knows maybe in the future we'll have a quantum computer?
I read a quote by David Bowie where he said that he was convinced that copyright as a concept would be gone in the future. I think he's right. And I think the record/movie industry knows that, deep in their little corporate hearts. In a way, the file sharing programs give power back to the consumer, although they also force the artists to work a little harder. If everyone can download your music a day after it is released, you have to get your ass out there and *perform* like they did in the old days! You can't just sit down in your chair and wait for the royalties to come marching in to your bank account. Hopefully, this will make it easier for people who are artists for the love of the art, not for the love of money. I still remember Lars Ulrich talking about why he was so pissed off with Napster. During the whole interview, he referred to Metallica's music as a 'product', not once as a work or something he had put his soul into. What he objected to was that he wanted to get paid for his 'product'. Go sell cars, for Christ's sake! I think filesharing programs will help musicians who people like because they write _good music_, and not because some marketing director has gotten it played on the radio so much that you finally think you like it... But of course, you will have to be a good musician, and be willing to give concerts, if you want to make money... :-)
It's always like this:
If someone suggests that we start caring about people, or even try to be less egoistic, he's a 'liberal'.
And I don't even find 'liberal' derogatory, is that baad, Mr. Right-wing?
Since you people seem to use it as an insult.
'Guns don't kill people, people kill people!'
On wasting resources: Here is an IMHO quite clever idea: http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/ It generates a page with randomly assembled email addresses, and with links to another page of random addresses. Hopefully, if enough people put this on their sites, it will render the spam databases useless, as the spambots collect an endless amount of bogus addresses. If this is old news, then I'm sorry... :-)
But it seems like a great idea to me!
Yeah, or put probes up our butts. According to UFOlogists, that is one of their major interests. :D