...this is the same thing they were stucking to El Pres at the beginning of his term. And just like then, it's getting blown out of proportion. Not to say they both aren't slimeballs but this is just incorrectly filing paperwork. Nefarious plot to swindle bazillions from Joe Consumer? Maybe... Idiot accountant fogetting to put stamp on envelope... more likely.
My best guess would be the free WiFi forces you through a proxy that'll insert the ads mid-stream. One major downside to that, apart from the actual advertising of course, is that it's often not perfect and may dork up the page. That's the only method I could imagine that wouldn't really piss people off or be more trouble than free WiFi is worth.
How are they going to convince set-top manufacturers to support their codec or conglomerates to broadcast it? It's already been proven a hundred times over the superior and/or open rarely win out to their more profitable brethren. All the article states is there's a 'hint of a chance' of it being adopted by big media...
Again... NOT ABOUT LINUX. It's about forcing a proprietary player/format then being suprised that only 5% of the people that won something FREE won't use it. Like another poster said, almost none of the 'winners' are Linux users... FORGET the linux thing and focus... the argument is just as valid for Windows users.
They are surprised only 5% of the songs are claimed... I'm telling them why... you have to install their player and only use their portable. If they were tossing out free mp3s that play everywhere they might've moved more than 5% of them. And your blender car crap is just backwards talk... They're giving away free songs that only play in one place. It's a tire company giving away free tires that only work on 1 car. It's a blender company that only blends 1 kind of smoothie... and yes, my TV does get decent radio reception.
I know you love your iTunes and iPod... got it man. That doesn't change the fact that DRM in general sucks and the hoops one has to jump through to use their free song is the reason they aren't moving many of them.
Wow... I got an mp3 player. Do you have what normally fits in panty-hose? The point wasn't to bitch about their DRM itself... really, I could care less, notice the NPR thing. The point is: not everyone is willing to infest their computer with Apple's crap for a free damn song... apparently that goes for a lot of people being a solid 5% of the 'winners' haven't claimed anything. Whether it's Linux of Windows people it's more effort than it's worth. But hey, it's Apple I'm criticizing so obviously I'm the idiot.
you were too lazy to illegally remove their DRM protection so you could play them on an unsupported device
Kinda funny you attack me for bitching about DRM preventing me from using what I purchased (or won or whatever) while quoting verbatim the thing that is most wrong with DRM.
A movie storyline... Jeez... I wish they'd get a clue and stop trying to rip movies directly-to-game. Movies are designed to tell a story, Games are designed to put you in a story...
but the effort of doing what needs to be done to dl them in linux then convert them/remove the 'bad' parts so that it plays where I want it to is just too much...
Besides, NPR past shows are all free on the internet anyway.
Make an image and install it on multiple machines, completely remove Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer, MSN Messager, update your machine with your browser of choice, hell you can't even install the damn thing without notifying MS. There's also about a bazillion can'ts, shouldn'ts, and "if you do, we own it"s rolled in their EULA that Joe user happily agrees to so he can just get to the damn internet already...
Proprietary software is perfectly acceptable if you know what you're getting yourself into.
That's the problem. You really have no idea what you're getting yourself into. We have no source for Win2k. There's no oversight panel or 'standards police' keeping them in line. You have no idea who's patents and copyrighted material is in there. For all we know, MS could've been stealing open source code for years. They could've been stealing proprietary code. You surely can't say you approve of the Win2k "We own everything you do" EULA. You can't approve of their activation schemes or their anti-competitive tactics or their pilfering of open standard for their own benefit, price fixing, OEM abuse, bug reporting, patching scheme...
There's more to hate in Windows than the price. Most people don't care because, hey "it does not prevent me in anyway from doing those things I wish to do" but they have no idea how much it's already done and what kind of damage there is still doing. I understand and agree completely with you... proprietary software IS perfectly acceptable if you know what you're getting yourself into. But most people don't.
That's the problem with blogs...
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...not only do the completely uneducated (like myself, or slashdot) get to spout off incorrect information they heard from a friend of a guy they met somewhere but also the really bad people can blow smoke up each other's arses too...
Next thing you know, Ken Lay and Dick Cheney will have a blog about how their hearts are breaking for the poor unemployed, oppressed everyday Joe... and people will buy it because hey, it's on a blog.
I've been paying off my 401K for years and it only seems to get bigger.
Haha! When I started off here I noticed my 401k balance was 0. They almost fooled me into making payments toward it as well but my wily arse saw through their plot!
Personally, I only invest in "Credit Cards". The intrest rate is astronomical... look into it.
Its fine for free software companys to do it because they are sticking it to "The Man" (MS), but if "The Man" does it they freak out.
Almost exactly right... 1) "The Man" is abusing his monopoly. The rules are different for monopolies. 2) Certain other OSes are Open Source... you can't really make interoperability claims against that.
That's why step 1 when purchasing a new memory module is running aggressive memory tests against it... unless it's for someone you don't care about. Like your mom or work. kidding
Again, I speak for those of us in the US. I'm sure it's much different elsewhere.
You're fricking kidding right...
Reasonable suspicion won't get you a warrant these days, you need probable cause.
No, you need a mere hunch and a $10/hr court clerk. You're a fool if you think the law or the judiciary are on your side. Joe Cop may be, he has a soul and behind the badge he's just like you but as you work your way up the ladder, the enforcers look more and more like the bosses they answer to ending with that great defender of civil liberties, Ashcroft. Who are the judges looking up to? Mr. 'Conflict of Interest' himself, Scalia. Legislators are passing crap like the Patriot Act and the DMCA as well as extending copyrights...
More and more the *people* of the US are second class citizens to the corporations.
OTOH, going after these 'syndication pirates' (mafia or buccaneer synonyms, pick one eh) is a better use of time than the RIAA's tuna-net approach.
"The music industry has already lost all the revenue they would have ever gotten from me, whether they overcharge me 80% or not."
or "The music industry has already lost all the revenue they would have ever gotten from me, whether they abuse their near-monopoly or not."
It's already been shown people are more than willing and happy to pay a fair price for music. People 'stealing' music is their reaction to being raped for years by that industry. It's civil disobedience. It's the only way consumers can fight back when the RIAA 'owns' 95% of the music, 100% of the radio, and a solid 75% of the government. Only a moron thinks copying music is the 'right thing to do' but most have little problem believing it's 'justified' and quite obviously 'working.' This is the market balancing itself against an industry that was more than happy to use technology to rape it's customers for decades.
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...this is the same thing they were stucking to El Pres at the beginning of his term. And just like then, it's getting blown out of proportion. Not to say they both aren't slimeballs but this is just incorrectly filing paperwork. Nefarious plot to swindle bazillions from Joe Consumer? Maybe... Idiot accountant fogetting to put stamp on envelope... more likely.
My best guess would be the free WiFi forces you through a proxy that'll insert the ads mid-stream. One major downside to that, apart from the actual advertising of course, is that it's often not perfect and may dork up the page. That's the only method I could imagine that wouldn't really piss people off or be more trouble than free WiFi is worth.
I suppose your right. I guess I was just foolishly hoping for an open broadcast HDTV standard :( Oh, well.
How are they going to convince set-top manufacturers to support their codec or conglomerates to broadcast it? It's already been proven a hundred times over the superior and/or open rarely win out to their more profitable brethren. All the article states is there's a 'hint of a chance' of it being adopted by big media...
Again... NOT ABOUT LINUX. It's about forcing a proprietary player/format then being suprised that only 5% of the people that won something FREE won't use it. Like another poster said, almost none of the 'winners' are Linux users... FORGET the linux thing and focus... the argument is just as valid for Windows users.
They are surprised only 5% of the songs are claimed... I'm telling them why... you have to install their player and only use their portable. If they were tossing out free mp3s that play everywhere they might've moved more than 5% of them. And your blender car crap is just backwards talk... They're giving away free songs that only play in one place. It's a tire company giving away free tires that only work on 1 car. It's a blender company that only blends 1 kind of smoothie... and yes, my TV does get decent radio reception.
I know you love your iTunes and iPod... got it man. That doesn't change the fact that DRM in general sucks and the hoops one has to jump through to use their free song is the reason they aren't moving many of them.
Wow... I got an mp3 player. Do you have what normally fits in panty-hose? The point wasn't to bitch about their DRM itself... really, I could care less, notice the NPR thing. The point is: not everyone is willing to infest their computer with Apple's crap for a free damn song... apparently that goes for a lot of people being a solid 5% of the 'winners' haven't claimed anything. Whether it's Linux of Windows people it's more effort than it's worth. But hey, it's Apple I'm criticizing so obviously I'm the idiot.
you were too lazy to illegally remove their DRM protection so you could play them on an unsupported device
Kinda funny you attack me for bitching about DRM preventing me from using what I purchased (or won or whatever) while quoting verbatim the thing that is most wrong with DRM.
A movie storyline... Jeez... I wish they'd get a clue and stop trying to rip movies directly-to-game. Movies are designed to tell a story, Games are designed to put you in a story...
If anything they should be going the other way!
but the effort of doing what needs to be done to dl them in linux then convert them/remove the 'bad' parts so that it plays where I want it to is just too much...
Besides, NPR past shows are all free on the internet anyway.
Woah... I never said anything about the mainstream media. I think I have a 'jump to conclusions' mat to sell you.
Make an image and install it on multiple machines, completely remove Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer, MSN Messager, update your machine with your browser of choice, hell you can't even install the damn thing without notifying MS. There's also about a bazillion can'ts, shouldn'ts, and "if you do, we own it"s rolled in their EULA that Joe user happily agrees to so he can just get to the damn internet already...
as long as you can do what you want on your computer
Exactly... you can't.
Proprietary software is perfectly acceptable if you know what you're getting yourself into.
That's the problem. You really have no idea what you're getting yourself into. We have no source for Win2k. There's no oversight panel or 'standards police' keeping them in line. You have no idea who's patents and copyrighted material is in there. For all we know, MS could've been stealing open source code for years. They could've been stealing proprietary code. You surely can't say you approve of the Win2k "We own everything you do" EULA. You can't approve of their activation schemes or their anti-competitive tactics or their pilfering of open standard for their own benefit, price fixing, OEM abuse, bug reporting, patching scheme...
There's more to hate in Windows than the price. Most people don't care because, hey "it does not prevent me in anyway from doing those things I wish to do" but they have no idea how much it's already done and what kind of damage there is still doing. I understand and agree completely with you... proprietary software IS perfectly acceptable if you know what you're getting yourself into. But most people don't.
...not only do the completely uneducated (like myself, or slashdot) get to spout off incorrect information they heard from a friend of a guy they met somewhere but also the really bad people can blow smoke up each other's arses too...
Next thing you know, Ken Lay and Dick Cheney will have a blog about how their hearts are breaking for the poor unemployed, oppressed everyday Joe... and people will buy it because hey, it's on a blog.
I've been paying off my 401K for years and it only seems to get bigger.
Haha! When I started off here I noticed my 401k balance was 0. They almost fooled me into making payments toward it as well but my wily arse saw through their plot!
Personally, I only invest in "Credit Cards". The intrest rate is astronomical... look into it.
I thought MXE was a badly dubbed Japanese show?
You're confusing 'funny' with 'sad'.
In all fairness, I believe most of this case revolves around events that occured back in the Win98-2000 days.
Again...
Its fine for free software companys to do it because they are sticking it to "The Man" (MS), but if "The Man" does it they freak out.
Almost exactly right... 1) "The Man" is abusing his monopoly. The rules are different for monopolies. 2) Certain other OSes are Open Source... you can't really make interoperability claims against that.
That's why step 1 when purchasing a new memory module is running aggressive memory tests against it... unless it's for someone you don't care about. Like your mom or work. kidding
it was 3.69 cents
How'd you cut the penny up like that?
IIRC, there's since been a price-fixing lawsuit. I think it was even on Slashdot.
Slashdot doesn't cover things like that. You must be thinking of FoxNews.
That's a fairly high alignment of revenue among the companies.
Almost like a Cartel or trust eh? Funny.
Again, I speak for those of us in the US. I'm sure it's much different elsewhere.
You're fricking kidding right...
Reasonable suspicion won't get you a warrant these days, you need probable cause.
No, you need a mere hunch and a $10/hr court clerk. You're a fool if you think the law or the judiciary are on your side. Joe Cop may be, he has a soul and behind the badge he's just like you but as you work your way up the ladder, the enforcers look more and more like the bosses they answer to ending with that great defender of civil liberties, Ashcroft. Who are the judges looking up to? Mr. 'Conflict of Interest' himself, Scalia. Legislators are passing crap like the Patriot Act and the DMCA as well as extending copyrights...
More and more the *people* of the US are second class citizens to the corporations.
OTOH, going after these 'syndication pirates' (mafia or buccaneer synonyms, pick one eh) is a better use of time than the RIAA's tuna-net approach.
"The music industry has already lost all the revenue they would have ever gotten from me, whether they overcharge me 80% or not."
or "The music industry has already lost all the revenue they would have ever gotten from me, whether they abuse their near-monopoly or not."
It's already been shown people are more than willing and happy to pay a fair price for music. People 'stealing' music is their reaction to being raped for years by that industry. It's civil disobedience. It's the only way consumers can fight back when the RIAA 'owns' 95% of the music, 100% of the radio, and a solid 75% of the government. Only a moron thinks copying music is the 'right thing to do' but most have little problem believing it's 'justified' and quite obviously 'working.' This is the market balancing itself against an industry that was more than happy to use technology to rape it's customers for decades.
But don't blame me, I only listen to NPR.