Re:It was a bad idea to begin with...
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That's why it may be a good idea to buy parts (not whole system) from big stores... (Futureshop, for example).
Most of those companies offer a warranty where you only need to bring the box to get a replacement (they only make sure no part is missing, they dont actually check if they're really broken).
In the case of computer parts that you know wont be available at the end of the warranty, this means you get a free upgrade!
I'm sorry but I don't think the "1$ to produce" arguments is good. You don't pay for the CD itself, you pay for its content. Which means, in many cases, years of labour by musicians. That's what you pay for. If you'd pay only for the CD, then it would be ok for the company to say you can only listen what's on the CD in some type of format. But you're buying the content. You're hopefully playing the right to play it anywhere and use it according to the laws of fair use. But I'm getting offtopic. I only wanted to say that this argument is somewhat invalid because if you'd only pay for the media (the plastic CD), nothing would go back to the artists. I'm not saying that 20$ is justified, but the artists, if they choose to, should get their share. Now this may seems to conflict with the the reply I posted 5 minutes ago in this same conversation... but I do think artists deserve to get paid for what they do, but it shouldn't be illegal to get samples of their work of the net. I know a few people playing in a couple of bands. They are selling their album 12$ (CAN, that makes 8$US) Since they are not producing millions (more like hundreds) it costs them alot to record, print etc... but they still manage to make maybe 20c each for each sale (which is ridiculous) So they'd save the trouble of distributing it if you could get the music for free... And they all believe it's great to go to an unknown city but people are singing along to your songs because they got your music off yout website...
Well I think discovering new bands is, overall, good for the "industry". I don't believe p2p services harm the music entertainment "industry", only the business (read money) part of it. The more music, the better. Don't tell me there won't be no music anymore if no money is to be made from it... Only the crap will go away.
I could make a software analogy: if the software industry was to do no more profit, I'm sure you could still find programs hacked by people who really have a passion for what they do.
If RIAA dies, does it really matter? I have a (small I know) collection of maybe 100 CDs, last time I checked none of the music labels were part of the RIAA (maybe for 2 CDs, where the band got bigger...) Most of those bands can't live only with their music. Not because of so-called piracy. But they still get together often enough to play a lot of shows every month, because they love what they do. They don't have the million of dollars of RIAA puppets, but they do what they love, and it shows through their music. Thank you very much:P
Isnt GPL a bit of that?
Everyone owns the code. Microsoft can use it in their own internal programs if they want to. If they sell it, they must release their code too. Like the rest of the general population. I don't see the big deal in that. If they refuse the code because they wanted to steal it from the governmant, tax payers, public domain, whatever and incorportae it in their OS, break compatibility, and use their monopoly (and their EULA which lets them install what they want on your system) to force it down upon everyone, that's their problem.
My Troma DVDs come with no region restrictions. They are an american independant movie studios. (If you don't know them, you might know the Toxic Avenger, well it was their firt big hit...)
What we need is multiple fingers a la ghost in the shell.
Seriously though I think this keyboard might be great for people who need to move around and stuff but if you're going to just sit in your chair in front of a screen maybe its best to have a "normal" keyboard.
I agree that Michael Speck has done a lot for the linux game world, but I find it quite sad that he's "one of the two more influential Free game developers for Linux today". I mean, I didnt know about this guy beofre this story was posted on slashdot (I did play LBreakout already, though). If he was programming those games for windows, he would just be considered "yet another amateur game programmer". My point is we need even bigger games, because frankly, we're not à at 'mainstream' or 'commercial' level yet. Being a game designer, I can understand why it would be really difficult to release a big Free (Open Source) game. (even the smallest games today have budget of million$) but we should still get support from major game companies. Transgaming' WineX is great but we shouldn't be needing it. We should make pressure on game companies to release a linux version of their games. How? By buying their games! Loki went out of business, despite releasing so far the best games for Linux. But the problem is not me not buying games, its me having trouble getting the performance I should have (with my 3d card). It took me at least 1 hour of messing with my settings for quake2 to work on my linux box. In windows this was a simple matter of clicking "install". I could get to play Quake II on linux, but I know, for example that my friends wouldn't because they could never fix the problems.
There WILL be a company (be it a very small one) that will produce the first Ogg Vorbis player. Since this will be the only one in the market, people will buy it, my guess is it will be more than the other mp3 players out there. Other mp3 players out there will take notice, and think that supporting Ogg Vorbis might not be a bad idea after all.
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Most of those companies offer a warranty where you only need to bring the box to get a replacement (they only make sure no part is missing, they dont actually check if they're really broken).
In the case of computer parts that you know wont be available at the end of the warranty, this means you get a free upgrade!
Useful for CDR-drive, for example...
Then I'll have the money to upgrade.
I'm sorry but I don't think the "1$ to produce" arguments is good. You don't pay for the CD itself, you pay for its content. Which means, in many cases, years of labour by musicians. That's what you pay for. If you'd pay only for the CD, then it would be ok for the company to say you can only listen what's on the CD in some type of format. But you're buying the content. You're hopefully playing the right to play it anywhere and use it according to the laws of fair use. But I'm getting offtopic. I only wanted to say that this argument is somewhat invalid because if you'd only pay for the media (the plastic CD), nothing would go back to the artists. I'm not saying that 20$ is justified, but the artists, if they choose to, should get their share. Now this may seems to conflict with the the reply I posted 5 minutes ago in this same conversation... but I do think artists deserve to get paid for what they do, but it shouldn't be illegal to get samples of their work of the net. I know a few people playing in a couple of bands. They are selling their album 12$ (CAN, that makes 8$US) Since they are not producing millions (more like hundreds) it costs them alot to record, print etc... but they still manage to make maybe 20c each for each sale (which is ridiculous) So they'd save the trouble of distributing it if you could get the music for free... And they all believe it's great to go to an unknown city but people are singing along to your songs because they got your music off yout website...
I could make a software analogy: if the software industry was to do no more profit, I'm sure you could still find programs hacked by people who really have a passion for what they do.
If RIAA dies, does it really matter? I have a (small I know) collection of maybe 100 CDs, last time I checked none of the music labels were part of the RIAA (maybe for 2 CDs, where the band got bigger...) Most of those bands can't live only with their music. Not because of so-called piracy. But they still get together often enough to play a lot of shows every month, because they love what they do. They don't have the million of dollars of RIAA puppets, but they do what they love, and it shows through their music. :P
Thank you very much
Isnt GPL a bit of that? Everyone owns the code. Microsoft can use it in their own internal programs if they want to. If they sell it, they must release their code too. Like the rest of the general population. I don't see the big deal in that. If they refuse the code because they wanted to steal it from the governmant, tax payers, public domain, whatever and incorportae it in their OS, break compatibility, and use their monopoly (and their EULA which lets them install what they want on your system) to force it down upon everyone, that's their problem.
General Mills was offering Disney DVD in their box. In Canda, at least. 2 years ago they put Hasbro games in their box too...
My Troma DVDs come with no region restrictions. They are an american independant movie studios. (If you don't know them, you might know the Toxic Avenger, well it was their firt big hit...)
What we need is multiple fingers a la ghost in the shell.
Seriously though I think this keyboard might be great for people who need to move around and stuff but if you're going to just sit in your chair in front of a screen maybe its best to have a "normal" keyboard.
I agree that Michael Speck has done a lot for the linux game world, but I find it quite sad that he's "one of the two more influential Free game developers for Linux today". I mean, I didnt know about this guy beofre this story was posted on slashdot (I did play LBreakout already, though). If he was programming those games for windows, he would just be considered "yet another amateur game programmer". My point is we need even bigger games, because frankly, we're not à at 'mainstream' or 'commercial' level yet. Being a game designer, I can understand why it would be really difficult to release a big Free (Open Source) game. (even the smallest games today have budget of million$) but we should still get support from major game companies. Transgaming' WineX is great but we shouldn't be needing it. We should make pressure on game companies to release a linux version of their games. How? By buying their games! Loki went out of business, despite releasing so far the best games for Linux. But the problem is not me not buying games, its me having trouble getting the performance I should have (with my 3d card). It took me at least 1 hour of messing with my settings for quake2 to work on my linux box. In windows this was a simple matter of clicking "install". I could get to play Quake II on linux, but I know, for example that my friends wouldn't because they could never fix the problems.
Get gamers on linux, games will follow.
Get porn DVDs. They're region-restriction-free :)
Well, does this mean open source projects will NEVER go out of beta?
Simple as this, you cant be liable for a product that IS BEING tested, right?
Crap, I thought the "beta" process was already ridiculously long in OSS.
Well I see it a different way...
:)
There WILL be a company (be it a very small one) that will produce the first Ogg Vorbis player. Since this will be the only one in the market, people will buy it, my guess is it will be more than the other mp3 players out there. Other mp3 players out there will take notice, and think that supporting Ogg Vorbis might not be a bad idea after all.
Well IDNCAM
(I don't know crap about marketing)