Re:"Pure" music distribution is on the horizon
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Recorded music will cease to be sold for personal use. It will be free. DRM will fail.
Musicians will make money from performance, advertising, corporate sponsorship, individual donations, and merchandising. Successful musicians will be rewarded far more than they are now, because better opportunities will exist for them to become popular without selling out.
Businesses will exist to support successful musicians and not the other way around. Current major players will still be strong, because they are adept at promoting bands, finding advertising money, organising tours, and merchandising. They just won't be making their money selling recordings anymore.
If that's true, why not just put an EM emitter in a car and go drive around the business district?
Pretty easy to screw up such a system when you don't need to have the bills in your posession to deactivate them...
I couldn't say if it is, but that sounds like a reasonable number...
We had virii rip though the office about 4-5 times a year at my last job, and the whole network would be down for the better part of a working day.
$25/hr * 8hrs * 80ppl = $16,000 in paying employees to hang out at the water cooler, not to mention the loss of business revenue. And that's just one medium-small business. If 100,000 similarly sized businesses had one day like that a year, there's your 1.6 trillion.
Sounds like you wholeheartedly support the system. Good for you... sheep are important.
Personally, I don't. I do, however, recognize that we need a system, and in the absence of personal administrative power, selective rejection of system structures is the most effective way to change it, in synergy with talking up that rejection (like I'm doing) and supporting others who wish to similarly reject the system (like I'm doing)
And no, it's not tough shit. This is my world, and these corporate monsters are fucking with it, so I'm going to do something about it.
One of the interesting things I saw when travelling was protesting unionized bus drivers who, rather than not going to work like the drivers here do, simply stopped collecting fares. They hit the system, while keeping the sympathy of the people. Very good.
But not to worry, the system will change, and I'm sure you'll wholeheartedly support the new system, like a good little sheep.
You concede the copy right to the robber barons who control our culture, and I do not. I consider it essential to destroy them for the sake of my childrens children. Fair use is bullshit, and so is copyright.
And civil disobedience doesn't require you to go to jail, moron. A cop could engage in civil disobediance by letting you go free. A bus driver could engage in civil disobediance by letting you on the bus without paying. You can engage in civil disobediance by smoking in non-smoking areas, and by keeping music you don't even like, just to be able to give it away to others, and in countless other ways.
And if I was a thug, I'd just go beat you up and take your CDs, now wouldn't I?
1) Make such a system. Run it for a few years so it's full of goodies. 2) Make it open to the public.
Suddenly, it becomes quite clear that innocence is a fiction, and everyone does things that we persecute each other for. Faced with such such evidence, either tolerance or societal implosion must result.
If you're discussing something and you're posting anonymously, you're just making noise. What you say has no meaning if you won't stand behind it.
And discussion under our current system of social values is warped, because privacy and anonimity allow us to preserve our hypocracy. If anonimity and privacy were gone, it would become very apparent very quickly that we are all fucked up individuals with feet of clay, and ppl would find it a lot less difficult to be judgemental.
Oh, and you are a disgusting coward to abandon your own cousin for the sake of social sensibilities, and a party to what you profess to despise. Get fucked.
I'm clear and upfront about the fact that I download and copy music.
Therefore, I'm honest.
Despite the fact that downloading and ripping music is a time-consuming pain in the ass compared to buying it at the store, I don't support the robber barons of the media industry.
If you've got more outtake than intake, like most generic PCs that have an outtake on the PSU and maybe a second one at the back, you're creating negative air pressure in your case and causing it to suck in dust.
If you only have one fan, the PSU fan, reversing it will keep out the dust, but your PSU will overheat. But if you have, say, 2 intake fans (with filters) and one exhaust, you'll have positive air pressure in your case and dust will be blown out of it rather than sucked in.
Don't be so stupid. That's like saying McDonalds has a monopoly on McDonalds hamburgers. Doesn't stop you from buying hamburgers at Burger King, does it?
During WWII, Charles Lindburg went over to germany, looked at their massive numbers of factories and aircraft, and concluded that the USA could never win the war.
Um, the USA didn't win the war. They helped out a bit at the end, perhaps...
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Recorded music will cease to be sold for personal use. It will be free. DRM will fail. Musicians will make money from performance, advertising, corporate sponsorship, individual donations, and merchandising. Successful musicians will be rewarded far more than they are now, because better opportunities will exist for them to become popular without selling out. Businesses will exist to support successful musicians and not the other way around. Current major players will still be strong, because they are adept at promoting bands, finding advertising money, organising tours, and merchandising. They just won't be making their money selling recordings anymore.
Who needs features! Everyone complains, but with a few more high-performance bugs, frame rates should shoot through the roof!
If that's true, why not just put an EM emitter in a car and go drive around the business district? Pretty easy to screw up such a system when you don't need to have the bills in your posession to deactivate them...
I couldn't say if it is, but that sounds like a reasonable number... We had virii rip though the office about 4-5 times a year at my last job, and the whole network would be down for the better part of a working day. $25/hr * 8hrs * 80ppl = $16,000 in paying employees to hang out at the water cooler, not to mention the loss of business revenue. And that's just one medium-small business. If 100,000 similarly sized businesses had one day like that a year, there's your 1.6 trillion.
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Sounds like you wholeheartedly support the system. Good for you... sheep are important. Personally, I don't. I do, however, recognize that we need a system, and in the absence of personal administrative power, selective rejection of system structures is the most effective way to change it, in synergy with talking up that rejection (like I'm doing) and supporting others who wish to similarly reject the system (like I'm doing) And no, it's not tough shit. This is my world, and these corporate monsters are fucking with it, so I'm going to do something about it. One of the interesting things I saw when travelling was protesting unionized bus drivers who, rather than not going to work like the drivers here do, simply stopped collecting fares. They hit the system, while keeping the sympathy of the people. Very good. But not to worry, the system will change, and I'm sure you'll wholeheartedly support the new system, like a good little sheep.
You concede the copy right to the robber barons who control our culture, and I do not. I consider it essential to destroy them for the sake of my childrens children. Fair use is bullshit, and so is copyright. And civil disobedience doesn't require you to go to jail, moron. A cop could engage in civil disobediance by letting you go free. A bus driver could engage in civil disobediance by letting you on the bus without paying. You can engage in civil disobediance by smoking in non-smoking areas, and by keeping music you don't even like, just to be able to give it away to others, and in countless other ways. And if I was a thug, I'd just go beat you up and take your CDs, now wouldn't I?
1) Make such a system. Run it for a few years so it's full of goodies.
2) Make it open to the public.
Suddenly, it becomes quite clear that innocence is a fiction, and everyone does things that we persecute each other for. Faced with such such evidence, either tolerance or societal implosion must result.
Ever heard of civil disobediance?
The law is not sacred... the law is the current working relationship, and a work in progress. If everyone had attitudes like yours, I'd be a serf.
If you're discussing something and you're posting anonymously, you're just making noise. What you say has no meaning if you won't stand behind it. And discussion under our current system of social values is warped, because privacy and anonimity allow us to preserve our hypocracy. If anonimity and privacy were gone, it would become very apparent very quickly that we are all fucked up individuals with feet of clay, and ppl would find it a lot less difficult to be judgemental. Oh, and you are a disgusting coward to abandon your own cousin for the sake of social sensibilities, and a party to what you profess to despise. Get fucked.
Um... wouldn't the machines that benefit from the compiler switches be newer machines that have extensions?
Destroy the IP rights of seed companies. Sorry, find another business model, end of story.
Spamming is stealing? You're an idiot.
I put Jedi down on the 2001 census in Australia.
Now I live back home in Canada.
Damn Aussies!
Where were the babes?
Damn that brought back memories of misspent youth. :P
No game has EVER had me literally jump in my chair like that one.
I'd say it depends on your definition of easier.
If your definition of easier means novices can do it more easily, then yes, Java is easier.
If your definition of easier means experts can do things more easily, then no, C++ is easier.
Personally, I'll take door number two, thanks.
Could wreak havoc in html-enabled forums
Thanks. Might check it out. Um... who's the tool that moderates a simple question flamebait?
Why should someone who's using linux be interested in OpenBSD?
Ok... you lost me. Are you still talking about MySQL, or what are you talking about?
I'm clear and upfront about the fact that I download and copy music.
Therefore, I'm honest.
Despite the fact that downloading and ripping music is a time-consuming pain in the ass compared to buying it at the store, I don't support the robber barons of the media industry.
Therefore, I have integrity.
If you've got more outtake than intake, like most generic PCs that have an outtake on the PSU and maybe a second one at the back, you're creating negative air pressure in your case and causing it to suck in dust.
If you only have one fan, the PSU fan, reversing it will keep out the dust, but your PSU will overheat. But if you have, say, 2 intake fans (with filters) and one exhaust, you'll have positive air pressure in your case and dust will be blown out of it rather than sucked in.
They have a monopoly on their games.
Don't be so stupid. That's like saying McDonalds has a monopoly on McDonalds hamburgers. Doesn't stop you from buying hamburgers at Burger King, does it?
During WWII, Charles Lindburg went over to germany, looked at their massive numbers of factories and aircraft, and concluded that the USA could never win the war.
Um, the USA didn't win the war. They helped out a bit at the end, perhaps...