All the people that complain about people who hold microsoft to a higher standard may want to consider that MS's biggest customer is the Federal Govn't, which is paid for by us, the tax payers. So in a limited, but actual way, we have a duty to hold microsoft to a minimum standard of fair play and honest business practices.
a CD with normal songs, plus MP3s on the CD, Plus lyrics on the CD and artwork on the CD. That, and I'd like an artists entire discography on one DVD/CD in mp3 format to make it fit. Even indie bands sometimes have more than one cd.
Another idea for you is to make a cd burning machine kiosk and put it up at local hangouts.
I'm sure everything else will be said by others. good luck.
"Those Mexicans, in turn, have the wealth to purchase goods and services from the US, re-employing the people whose jobs were lost when the factory moved to Mexico."
That sounds nice and all, but selling stuff made in mexico to mexicans while working for 4.75/hr at walmart isn't my idea of re-employed.
Not knocking your entire point, just poiting this piece out. some (some could argue most) never fully recover from having their entire industry and chosen profession outsourced. a company here or there, sure. a job here, there, no problem.
Imagine having to go back to school at 47 with 4 kids and 2 cars and whatever else and looking at paying all the bills and tuition making 4.75 when last year you were making 30-50,000 a year is a pretty steep challenge - to anyone. call them whiners all you like, but try living through it just once. Not that I have, but I can imagine this creates a loss that a simple service industry job won't replace.
And it's not only the people losing the jobs that suffer, it's everyone.
Just be careful when you count jobs as equal units of measure. Losing 10 jobs in a city and then gaining 10 jobs in that same year doesn't mean you broke even - not if you lost 10 engineering jobs and gained 10 hairdressing jobs. Everyone suffers, suddenly there is less money in the banks, and less investments in real estate, and less people affording new cars, tvs, fancy dinners, swimming pools, sporting tickets, etc. I'm pretty sure, no matter what your line of work is, if you think hard enough you can figure out how many jobs need to leave your city before it affects your paycheck.
Again, I don't disagree with every point you make, and not everything I just said is directed at you...I used the pronoun "you" in a general sense after I got typing, I'm not sure where I switched over, but I'm pretty sure it's right before the part that really offended you.:-)
In other words, once this happens, we'll finally legalize pot and all get together and smoke up every day at 4:20. Nice!
That's what, 60 years away? maybe less?
I'd like to go one day without hearing someone use 911 to justify some sort of crazy bullshit that never would be allowed otherwise.
"I'm sorry, but since 911 we just can't play by the same rules, therefore I'm going to have to rape your mom. If you don't let me you're un-American and the terrorists will win. You DO NOT want to go to guantanamo, do you? Good. Get the rope, please"
comeoff it. Meanwhile, anyone who dares question our response to 911 or any of these decisions "justified" by 911 is "disgracing the memories of the victims and insulting their families and all patriots of america"
how nice, you have it both ways.
well, in tribute to the popular drinking/card game: BULLSHIT!
10 lines of truth 1. Flight 93 was shot down by US fighters- justifiably so. 2. Iraq was and still is only about oil. 3. TIA is about spying on Americans. 4. The Partiot act is unconstitutional. 5. The DMCA is an overreaching easily manipulated bad law stifling innovation and driving technology out of America. 6. Trickle down sucks if you aren't at the top. 7. "Support the troops" does not mean cheer as they go to die and kill while simultaneously reducing their benefits. 8. Israel isn't always right. Sometimes 2 wrongs make 2 wrongs. 9. Despite listing these truths, I am not a terrorist. 10. Fox is biased.
Start your own newspaper. It's a free country. Get bigger/better than the NYT. Get reliable sources people can count on. Get top notch articles. Get the stuff people want to read at your site and then DON'T REQUIRE LOGIN and we'll all use your newspaper site instead of the NYT.
Keep in mind there are tons and tons of newspapers out there, and yet we still link to NYT more than most others, and that's not for nothing.
Good luck. Be sure to post here when you're up and running.
Oh, and if you're thinking of simply caching the NYTs everyday, don't bother. That's w34k.
I'm so tired of this. Millions of kids play violent video games and 2 or 3 kill people. If you take away all the violent video games you'll have millions of kids and 2 or 3 will kill people.
Idiots. This country is full of idiots. They should all be killed. With a BFG or a rail gun or ran over by a crazy taxi driver or beat to death in a car jacking or something.
seriously though, if you are a violent killer, please, PLEASE, think about who you're going to kill. Kill teh terrorists or the RIAA or hte MPAA or some of those Patent_Wait for someone else to develop technology_Sue for licenses companies, or spammers, or people trying to censor, people trying to steal from the public, people deforesting, people making hte world a shittier place. Quit killing random people, school children, classmates, girlfriend, teachers, parents and homies. No one cares if they die. IT doesn't help anyone and it makes us want to kill you in return. Take your psychotic killer instincts out on the real scum of the earth.
Surely I'll be blamed for the next rash of killings. Whatever, they were gonna kill anyone, I simply asked them to spare the innocent and focus their anger on the real bad guys. You might be mad that you lost your CEO/Lawyer, but Susie's mom and dad are happy that bobby killed the lawyer instead of his girlfriend, so f-off.
Why is the MPAA not as viscous as the RIAA. Is it bandwidth limiting people from stealing movies. Ummm, doubtful. Most people share as many movies as music (bandwidth wise). It's that the MPAA is still needed. You can't make a movie like Hulk without help from the MPAA. You need actors, you need special effects, you need hollywood.
However, anyone with talent and an imac can make a CD, distribute it world wide, market it world wide, without ever having to go through the RIAA cartel.
Just like Bartleby, the RIAA is obsolete. Imagine if the Scriveners put up the fight the RIAA is doing now, we'd still be paying people to hand-copy documents! NO carbon paper, no xerox, no desktop publishing, hell, probably no electronic storage or display of documents either, as that allows instant copies to be made rather than paying for a scrivener. The RIAA can't stop progress, and in trying to outlaw it they are hurting our society. The sooner your mom understand this isn't about piracy, it's about control of the business model in the music industry, we'll get back on the right track.
I think XP has extra large fonts. I guess that's extra nice for working at 4096*3072.
800x600 has it's purposes. It is great for streaming videos. Everything is bright and colorful and looks more like a tv. a 320x240 vid stream doesn't look nearly as nice when it's 1/12 of your screen.
because it would be a trap! that's why. Like when the school bully pretends to be your friend all of a sudden - do you trust him and enjoy your new found and unexpected popularity - or do you take it for the set up it is?
Well, I suppose if you were the type to suspect a setup, you wouldn't be the type to be picked on by the bully. So I've answered my own question.
Anyway, the point is that it's perfectly legitimate to hold a prejudice against an organization (or any entity for that matter) based on the prior actions of that specific entity. It's not fair to pre-judge all members of one class based on actions of one member of that class, but it's perfectly fine to pre-judge entityA based on previous actions of entityA.
As much as I like microsoft, I don't trust them to embrace anything without trying to completely dominate and control it. If MS wants to create a park and charge me to play in it, that's fine - they make some really good parks with great documentation. They make neat attractions in their parks, be they rides or fields or courts adn they charge for some/ others are free once you pay to get in. That's all fine.
But when I see MS thugs hanging out at the sandlot where we play ball in the afternoon, I get suspicious.
It's one thing to create and charge - It's quite another to take over (buy-out) (embrace and extend) and charge. charging for their park is fine. Stealing our sandlot and charging us to get in while commecializing it and brining in a bunch of people that don't belong is a whole different thing.
So yes, if MS extended exchange to Linux/OSS I wouldn't trust it one bit. If they extended outlook to linux/OSS I might trust it, but that doesn't make as much sense so I wouldn't trust that either.
I think he meant you can't use web/email and phone at the same time. Meaning it's like the old days with the 56K and the single phone line. If you're on slashdot and your girl calls you'll miss the call.
hey AMERICA wake up. You'll lose all your tech if you keep this up. The DMCA is already scaring people away and keeping conventions from happening in the US. the USPTO is stifling all under it's jurisdiction. This is technical suicide.
but you don't care,you're waiting to export my job to india anyway. yeah for the share holders. wish I held enough shares to not need my job.
I read this and I think, well shit, if it's standard and everyone knows how to do it, why am I worth $$$ instead of $$ or even $. But then I think about other trades such as plumbing, construction, even medicine. It's standard, it's known and they still are worth the money you pay them. So with knowledge and ability I should be able to still get paid. Maybe.
I've always wondered why they haven't gone after the speaker manufacturers and dealers more heavily. Hell, given one speaker I can pipe music to tens, hundreds, even thousands of people. 1 copy can illegally be shared with all those people simultaneosly.
What makes speakers any different than streaming. Not P2P, but streaming, which they killed last year with that bogus licensing stuff.
How is streaming from my house to my office at work any different than pluggin in a headset with a 10 mile long cord? Ok, so you're cool with me streaming to myself, since I would have been listening at home anyway, so it's 1 - 1. But I can't stream to others without paying insane royalty fees? While, isn't that just like having the 10 or 20 people listening to my show in my house listening to tunes I'm spinning at a get together? How is streaming different than playing music out of speakers, other than the distance thing? It's not.
The truth is that radio is paid for by record companies. Anyone in radio will admit this. Internet radio isn't, and therfore internet radio isn't controllable by the record companies. That's what this is all about. Control.
If I pipe out Bob Marley all day long on my internet radio station, they aren't worried that people won't buy Bob Marley anymore. They know the people that listen to my show will be more likely to buy Bob Marley. They're worried that the people listening to my show won't listen to 93.7 top 40 and be motivated to buy the latest Britney, Beyonce, etc.
Why are we so willing to give them all this control?
He's saying that if the RIAA doesn't respect the laws against price fixing why should fileswappers respect the copyright laws. Especially since violating copyright laws is a direct attack at the system that allows price fixing.
See, when the people on top start to run the system to their advantage rather than participate fairly in the system everyone says "good for them, that's capitalism" When the people on the bottom say "F your system" and subvert it everyone says "that's criminal".
It's not a complete explanation of this entire issue, but his argument was more direct than "since a substantial amount of people are going to get away with doing unlawful things anyway, we just shouldn't have laws against those things" Which is a good point, but not his. His was more a case of 2 wrongs make a right. Why is it the RIAA gets to price fix and all I get out of it is 13 dollars when they are proven guilty and yet I can't share files on line without being sued for millions and/or billions of dollars.
Seems the party with the biggest bank account gets to choose which laws to ignore and which laws to enforce. Which isn't an argument for those who do unlawful things as much as it is a comment about the priveleges money can get you - and the manipulation of the system to preserve those priveleges.
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All the people that complain about people who hold microsoft to a higher standard may want to consider that MS's biggest customer is the Federal Govn't, which is paid for by us, the tax payers. So in a limited, but actual way, we have a duty to hold microsoft to a minimum standard of fair play and honest business practices.
a CD with normal songs, plus MP3s on the CD, Plus lyrics on the CD and artwork on the CD.
That, and I'd like an artists entire discography on one DVD/CD in mp3 format to make it fit. Even indie bands sometimes have more than one cd.
Another idea for you is to make a cd burning machine kiosk and put it up at local hangouts.
I'm sure everything else will be said by others. good luck.
And why can't a database admin postion be outsourced? Actually seems like a good candidate for outsourcing.
Agreed, the parent poster might be better off taking medicine. Hard to outsource your doctor.
question is, who will be able to afford a doctor in the mid-term future?
This was so succint and well said I think I'll bookmark it for later discussions on this topic. Thank you.
"Those Mexicans, in turn, have the wealth to purchase goods and services from the US, re-employing the people whose jobs were lost when the factory moved to Mexico."
:-)
That sounds nice and all, but selling stuff made in mexico to mexicans while working for 4.75/hr at walmart isn't my idea of re-employed.
Not knocking your entire point, just poiting this piece out. some (some could argue most) never fully recover from having their entire industry and chosen profession outsourced. a company here or there, sure. a job here, there, no problem.
Imagine having to go back to school at 47 with 4 kids and 2 cars and whatever else and looking at paying all the bills and tuition making 4.75 when last year you were making 30-50,000 a year is a pretty steep challenge - to anyone. call them whiners all you like, but try living through it just once. Not that I have, but I can imagine this creates a loss that a simple service industry job won't replace.
And it's not only the people losing the jobs that suffer, it's everyone.
Just be careful when you count jobs as equal units of measure. Losing 10 jobs in a city and then gaining 10 jobs in that same year doesn't mean you broke even - not if you lost 10 engineering jobs and gained 10 hairdressing jobs. Everyone suffers, suddenly there is less money in the banks, and less investments in real estate, and less people affording new cars, tvs, fancy dinners, swimming pools, sporting tickets, etc.
I'm pretty sure, no matter what your line of work is, if you think hard enough you can figure out how many jobs need to leave your city before it affects your paycheck.
Again, I don't disagree with every point you make, and not everything I just said is directed at you...I used the pronoun "you" in a general sense after I got typing, I'm not sure where I switched over, but I'm pretty sure it's right before the part that really offended you.
In other words, once this happens, we'll finally legalize pot and all get together and smoke up every day at 4:20. Nice! That's what, 60 years away? maybe less?
I'd like to go one day without hearing someone use 911 to justify some sort of crazy bullshit that never would be allowed otherwise.
"I'm sorry, but since 911 we just can't play by the same rules, therefore I'm going to have to rape your mom. If you don't let me you're un-American and the terrorists will win. You DO NOT want to go to guantanamo, do you? Good. Get the rope, please"
comeoff it. Meanwhile, anyone who dares question our response to 911 or any of these decisions "justified" by 911 is "disgracing the memories of the victims and insulting their families and all patriots of america"
how nice, you have it both ways.
well, in tribute to the popular drinking/card game:
BULLSHIT!
10 lines of truth
1. Flight 93 was shot down by US fighters- justifiably so.
2. Iraq was and still is only about oil.
3. TIA is about spying on Americans.
4. The Partiot act is unconstitutional.
5. The DMCA is an overreaching easily manipulated bad law stifling innovation and driving technology out of America.
6. Trickle down sucks if you aren't at the top.
7. "Support the troops" does not mean cheer as they go to die and kill while simultaneously reducing their benefits.
8. Israel isn't always right. Sometimes 2 wrongs make 2 wrongs.
9. Despite listing these truths, I am not a terrorist.
10. Fox is biased.
Start your own newspaper. It's a free country. Get bigger/better than the NYT. Get reliable sources people can count on. Get top notch articles. Get the stuff people want to read at your site and then DON'T REQUIRE LOGIN and we'll all use your newspaper site instead of the NYT.
Keep in mind there are tons and tons of newspapers out there, and yet we still link to NYT more than most others, and that's not for nothing.
Good luck. Be sure to post here when you're up and running.
Oh, and if you're thinking of simply caching the NYTs everyday, don't bother. That's w34k.
I'm so tired of this. Millions of kids play violent video games and 2 or 3 kill people. If you take away all the violent video games you'll have millions of kids and 2 or 3 will kill people.
Idiots. This country is full of idiots. They should all be killed. With a BFG or a rail gun or ran over by a crazy taxi driver or beat to death in a car jacking or something.
seriously though, if you are a violent killer, please, PLEASE, think about who you're going to kill. Kill teh terrorists or the RIAA or hte MPAA or some of those Patent_Wait for someone else to develop technology_Sue for licenses companies, or spammers, or people trying to censor, people trying to steal from the public, people deforesting, people making hte world a shittier place. Quit killing random people, school children, classmates, girlfriend, teachers, parents and homies. No one cares if they die. IT doesn't help anyone and it makes us want to kill you in return. Take your psychotic killer instincts out on the real scum of the earth.
Surely I'll be blamed for the next rash of killings. Whatever, they were gonna kill anyone, I simply asked them to spare the innocent and focus their anger on the real bad guys. You might be mad that you lost your CEO/Lawyer, but Susie's mom and dad are happy that bobby killed the lawyer instead of his girlfriend, so f-off.
Why is the MPAA not as viscous as the RIAA. Is it bandwidth limiting people from stealing movies. Ummm, doubtful. Most people share as many movies as music (bandwidth wise). It's that the MPAA is still needed. You can't make a movie like Hulk without help from the MPAA. You need actors, you need special effects, you need hollywood.
However, anyone with talent and an imac can make a CD, distribute it world wide, market it world wide, without ever having to go through the RIAA cartel.
Just like Bartleby, the RIAA is obsolete. Imagine if the Scriveners put up the fight the RIAA is doing now, we'd still be paying people to hand-copy documents! NO carbon paper, no xerox, no desktop publishing, hell, probably no electronic storage or display of documents either, as that allows instant copies to be made rather than paying for a scrivener. The RIAA can't stop progress, and in trying to outlaw it they are hurting our society. The sooner your mom understand this isn't about piracy, it's about control of the business model in the music industry, we'll get back on the right track.
How is this any different? Does MS's threat pale in comparison to Apples? Weird sorta move by adobe. sumthing else is goin on.
I think XP has extra large fonts. I guess that's extra nice for working at 4096*3072.
800x600 has it's purposes. It is great for streaming videos. Everything is bright and colorful and looks more like a tv. a 320x240 vid stream doesn't look nearly as nice when it's 1/12 of your screen.
Oh, and how much you trust the LEOs.
Here's what some have done with their access to the License Plate Database:
Personally, I trust the gov and the cops...but only as far as citizen oversight allows.
because it would be a trap! that's why. Like when the school bully pretends to be your friend all of a sudden - do you trust him and enjoy your new found and unexpected popularity - or do you take it for the set up it is?
Well, I suppose if you were the type to suspect a setup, you wouldn't be the type to be picked on by the bully. So I've answered my own question.
Anyway, the point is that it's perfectly legitimate to hold a prejudice against an organization (or any entity for that matter) based on the prior actions of that specific entity. It's not fair to pre-judge all members of one class based on actions of one member of that class, but it's perfectly fine to pre-judge entityA based on previous actions of entityA.
As much as I like microsoft, I don't trust them to embrace anything without trying to completely dominate and control it. If MS wants to create a park and charge me to play in it, that's fine - they make some really good parks with great documentation. They make neat attractions in their parks, be they rides or fields or courts adn they charge for some/ others are free once you pay to get in. That's all fine.
But when I see MS thugs hanging out at the sandlot where we play ball in the afternoon, I get suspicious.
It's one thing to create and charge - It's quite another to take over (buy-out) (embrace and extend) and charge. charging for their park is fine. Stealing our sandlot and charging us to get in while commecializing it and brining in a bunch of people that don't belong is a whole different thing.
So yes, if MS extended exchange to Linux/OSS I wouldn't trust it one bit. If they extended outlook to linux/OSS I might trust it, but that doesn't make as much sense so I wouldn't trust that either.
Is exchange really the killer app? Or is it outlook? Both?
:5900 They don't call them ports for nothin'!
do people still use this.
I think he meant you can't use web/email and phone at the same time. Meaning it's like the old days with the 56K and the single phone line. If you're on slashdot and your girl calls you'll miss the call.
hey AMERICA wake up. You'll lose all your tech if you keep this up. The DMCA is already scaring people away and keeping conventions from happening in the US. the USPTO is stifling all under it's jurisdiction. This is technical suicide.
but you don't care,you're waiting to export my job to india anyway. yeah for the share holders. wish I held enough shares to not need my job.
I read this and I think, well shit, if it's standard and everyone knows how to do it, why am I worth $$$ instead of $$ or even $. But then I think about other trades such as plumbing, construction, even medicine. It's standard, it's known and they still are worth the money you pay them. So with knowledge and ability I should be able to still get paid. Maybe.
But I read it for the articles, which aren't available on Kazaa.
I've always wondered why they haven't gone after the speaker manufacturers and dealers more heavily. Hell, given one speaker I can pipe music to tens, hundreds, even thousands of people. 1 copy can illegally be shared with all those people simultaneosly.
What makes speakers any different than streaming.
Not P2P, but streaming, which they killed last year with that bogus licensing stuff.
How is streaming from my house to my office at work any different than pluggin in a headset with a 10 mile long cord? Ok, so you're cool with me streaming to myself, since I would have been listening at home anyway, so it's 1 - 1. But I can't stream to others without paying insane royalty fees? While, isn't that just like having the 10 or 20 people listening to my show in my house listening to tunes I'm spinning at a get together? How is streaming different than playing music out of speakers, other than the distance thing? It's not.
The truth is that radio is paid for by record companies. Anyone in radio will admit this. Internet radio isn't, and therfore internet radio isn't controllable by the record companies. That's what this is all about. Control.
If I pipe out Bob Marley all day long on my internet radio station, they aren't worried that people won't buy Bob Marley anymore. They know the people that listen to my show will be more likely to buy Bob Marley. They're worried that the people listening to my show won't listen to 93.7 top 40 and be motivated to buy the latest Britney, Beyonce, etc.
Why are we so willing to give them all this control?
He's saying that if the RIAA doesn't respect the laws against price fixing why should fileswappers respect the copyright laws. Especially since violating copyright laws is a direct attack at the system that allows price fixing.
See, when the people on top start to run the system to their advantage rather than participate fairly in the system everyone says "good for them, that's capitalism" When the people on the bottom say "F your system" and subvert it everyone says "that's criminal".
It's not a complete explanation of this entire issue, but his argument was more direct than "since a substantial amount of people are going to get away with doing unlawful things anyway, we just shouldn't have laws against those things" Which is a good point, but not his. His was more a case of 2 wrongs make a right. Why is it the RIAA gets to price fix and all I get out of it is 13 dollars when they are proven guilty and yet I can't share files on line without being sued for millions and/or billions of dollars.
Seems the party with the biggest bank account gets to choose which laws to ignore and which laws to enforce. Which isn't an argument for those who do unlawful things as much as it is a comment about the priveleges money can get you - and the manipulation of the system to preserve those priveleges.
"Maybe she should have a heart to heart with Britney"
I'd like to see that!
thanks