Since most of the "losses" come not from file traders but from those who copy the full disc, including the liner notes and sells those on the street and even to music stores.
The RIAA once reported one in six discs that you buy is a pirate disc. This is where they are truly losing money. However if all this contrary information were to make it to the courts that are granting the search warrants for ISP's then it would be that much hard for the RIAA to get those warrants....and that would prevent them from getting the easy money from going after file traders.
Speaking of this easy money, has anyone seen the figures of how much the RIAA has brought in from these Nazi tactics and how much of that total was reimbursed to the artists who lost sales? Also how does the RIAA determine who has been pirated and how are the reimbursed? If someone were to bring these point up to the judge who is issuing warrants then the RIAA might really have to do something more than whine to get a warrant.
No, I am not saying it should be banned, it was a joke. Sure there are some very good VB programs out there but there are a large number of dogs as well.
One of the biggest problems with VB more than any other language was that people often ignored the standard rules for creating a consistent UI. This problem is not as bad now as it used to be. Menu item placement was the biggest problem. Some things that should have been in the edit menu were often moved to other menus. In one program it may be in one menu in another program it could be in another. Some programs still suffer from this, whether written in VB or other IDEs.
Even you said the it gave you a nice GUI program that was at least somewhat functional, which is fine if you use the program yourself or it is used in a small group but when you release a somewhat functional program to the world then you get a lot of people releasing badly written programs that do the same thing as many other badly written programs. Thankfully this is happening less and less as time goes on.
Don't get me wrong, I have spaghetti coded some unholy messes that got the job done and at the time did not exist. I would never think of releasing for others to use in that condition let alone expect someone to pay for it.
Wow, an open source program to create windows programs. So, this goes into the "why should I care" file.
If they wanted to do a good deed to the computer world in general then they should get rid of visual basic. This one Microsoft program is responsible for most of the crappiest and ugliest programs ever made.
If they really want to impress me, include development tools for free that are on par with Apples Xcode tools.
Which was about the same command as connect kc6mus>w6go. Where w6go was a digipeater and kc6mus was the person you wish to talk to.
These digipeaters could show a list of users or recently heard stations. A digipeater is a radio station that repeats digital transmissions using a terminal node controller, basically a radio modem. By connecting to a digipeater you can view a list of all other digipeaters it can hear and so on and so forth. You could connect clear across the united states and Canada using radios made for only local transmissions, VHF and UHF. Using High Frequency radios you could connect to stations around the world.
If the person you connected to was not around you could leave a message in the mail system contained in the TNC. This mail system was different from the more internet like packet BBS's.
Actually Ham radio has been using TV, GPS data mapping, Packet and TCI/IP for many years.
Packet is like the Ham equivalent of the internet with its own email system, file downloads and chat all via the computer and over radio. I was doing IM on packet long before there was IM for the internet.
With the APRS system, people all over the world can trace the exact position of the rocket via GPS over radio in real time via a GUI with map overlays. It can also help locate the payload when it returns. Something a bug or hamster would have a hard time doing.....unless it was connected to Richard Gere.
Ham radio may sound kinda dorky but a lot of internet tech has come from hams and visa-versa.
Since MS is the cause of the loss of millions and millions of dollars worldwide it is time they did something about it. Blame someone else. Now they are blaming outsourcing on open source.
You must admit that when Microsoft buys someone, they get their moneys worth out of them.
Next up open source software the cause of American hostage beheading.
Ever here of an abacus? Paper tape is so 20th century. When I grew up we did not even have zero yet.
Actually back to the CD topic. My first burner was a pinnacle micro 1X CD burner. It could be had for the bargain price of 2000 bucks.
While the DVD +-R's are getting fast what really is catching my eye are the new dual layer burners that should be hitting the stores very shortly. Speed is nice but it often gets to the point that the next jump in speed does not really matter that much. For most people the difference between burning a CD in 3.5 minutes is not much difference than burning it in 5 minutes. Making a complete backup of a DVD on one disc instead of two or more is very nice. Over 9 gigs on a single disc is also great for backup purposes.
My next drive won't be a faster one but a dual layer drive.
You guys are all too young! In 1978 I was saving my programs to cassette tape! Speedy read times ran from 5 minutes for a small program to 30 minutes or more for larger ones. Write times were longer of course.
Now I get pissed when it takes more than 5 seconds for a program to launch.
The timer is the easy part. Getting the shockwave to arrive at the same time at the core is the hard part. Even the Russians had to steal our information to make one and that took them 5 years.
Again buying, stealing or have one given to them is more likely than them building one themselves. Once they do use it then nearly every country would unite to wipe them from the face of the earth. If they used it, it would be one of the last weapons they use.
Those people in Los Alamos also had the infrastructure of the United States, Billions of dollars in 1940 era dollars, and a large percentage of the generated electric power in the U.S. to build it.
I think is they were going to build one they would have done it by now. Buying or stealing a device would be cheaper and easier.
If the terrorist are ever going to use a nuke they are going to have to buy it.
While building an atomic bomb is not that hard, there are parts that would take quite a bit of work to perfect. Such as making sure the shockwave reached the core from the explosive charges at the same time. If you are off by a nanosecond from any of the charges....no joy.
Making an H bomb is even harder. Unless they purchase one the only nuke they will likely ever use is a dirty bomb.
Piracy is costing them millions of dollars! The piracy that is costing them so much money is not the P2P kind but the organized crime syndicates that makes copies of CD's right down to the cover and liner notes and passes them off as the real thing. In most cases you cannot tell the difference. If you buy more than 10 CD's a year chances are you have a pirated copy in your collection.
By the RIAA's own figures 1 in 6 discs is a pirate copy. Of course these pirates are harder to catch, cost more money to do so and they are a lot meaner and likely to shot you than granny downloading a Lawrence Welk song from the internet. The RIAA is just going for the easy money.
When a hole is announced on Windows a rife of viri follow...how much has that cost users of Microsoft products? Hundreds of millions of dollars so far.
Not one of MacOS X security flaws has cost a user a penny so far.
The real point is that every program install in OS X needs to have the user type in his/or her password to install that program....and that is how OS X ships from the facory. Windows XP on the other hand will let other programs install anything without the users knowledge...this can even be done through open ports to the internet.
Both are very big differences. Apple does not get a free pass as security goes...if needs fixing Apple should fix it. Microsofts aapproach was flawed from the beginning...it gives too many privileges to people other than the user of the computer. MS new Janus DRM sounds like it will make matters even worse. MS could issue a patch the requires users to enter there password for all installs yet this seems like it is something they do not want to do. Even though my WinXP Pro box is well protected I still will not check my email on it...I do that in OS X. Why tempt fate?
Well, unless you dig your computer out of the trash behind CompUSA you have to pay something for a computer.
I always here the term elitist when it comes to Mac users but then this usually comes from people who think that Microsoft Windows is the be all, end all. These people are just as elitist as any Mac user, perhaps even more so.
True, that common sense is the best defense but common sense, isn't.
I use the best anti virus on the market! It is called a Mac! Actually I have both a Mac and a WindowsXP Pro box with a router and firewall. Just to keep things clean my windows machine is NEVER used for checking mail. All mail is handled through the Mac. If I have a need to send mail via the PC or need to check it from the PC for some reason then Eudora Pro is used. The Outlook variants are the biggest viri available for the PC....with explorer coming in a close second.
I have both Photoshop 8 or as it is called now CS and I also run the latest binary version of The Gimp under X11 on MacOS X 10.3.3.
Setting up Photoshop is a piece of cake but then getting the Gimp going was not brain surgery either. In either case, if you are going to be making money or doing a lot of work with digital images then Photoshop is the only way to go.
Photoshop has been around longer than any other graphic app of its kind so the tool set cannot be beat. While the Gimps tool set is very workable it is not even close to Photoshop in the Human Interface department. The other reason Photoshop is the hands down winner is the support of third party plug-ins making the program very extensible. The Gimp being open source should have Photoshop beat in this department but I know of no third party Gimp plug-ins. Even many shareware photo editors support Photoshop plug-ins. Until Gimp supports its own and someone starts writing them Gimp will be an also ran.
If you don't have a lot of cash and your needs are modest then the Gimp is a great program with a lot of power under the hood. If you are a power user then Photoshop is the only choice. I hope someone takes the Gimp to the next level, better tools, a better UI and plug-in support and people writing those plug-ins could make the Gimp a real contender. As it stands now compared to Photoshop the Gimp is aptly named.
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Rent them out? I thought the RIAA had already sold their souls?
I thought Microsoft owned them all ;-)
Since most of the "losses" come not from file traders but from those who copy the full disc, including the liner notes and sells those on the street and even to music stores.
The RIAA once reported one in six discs that you buy is a pirate disc. This is where they are truly losing money. However if all this contrary information were to make it to the courts that are granting the search warrants for ISP's then it would be that much hard for the RIAA to get those warrants....and that would prevent them from getting the easy money from going after file traders.
Speaking of this easy money, has anyone seen the figures of how much the RIAA has brought in from these Nazi tactics and how much of that total was reimbursed to the artists who lost sales? Also how does the RIAA determine who has been pirated and how are the reimbursed? If someone were to bring these point up to the judge who is issuing warrants then the RIAA might really have to do something more than whine to get a warrant.
No, I am not saying it should be banned, it was a joke. Sure there are some very good VB programs out there but there are a large number of dogs as well. One of the biggest problems with VB more than any other language was that people often ignored the standard rules for creating a consistent UI. This problem is not as bad now as it used to be. Menu item placement was the biggest problem. Some things that should have been in the edit menu were often moved to other menus. In one program it may be in one menu in another program it could be in another. Some programs still suffer from this, whether written in VB or other IDEs. Even you said the it gave you a nice GUI program that was at least somewhat functional, which is fine if you use the program yourself or it is used in a small group but when you release a somewhat functional program to the world then you get a lot of people releasing badly written programs that do the same thing as many other badly written programs. Thankfully this is happening less and less as time goes on. Don't get me wrong, I have spaghetti coded some unholy messes that got the job done and at the time did not exist. I would never think of releasing for others to use in that condition let alone expect someone to pay for it.
Wow, an open source program to create windows programs. So, this goes into the "why should I care" file.
If they wanted to do a good deed to the computer world in general then they should get rid of visual basic. This one Microsoft program is responsible for most of the crappiest and ugliest programs ever made.
If they really want to impress me, include development tools for free that are on par with Apples Xcode tools.
A good primer can be found here:
http://www.choisser.com/packet/part01.html
Which was about the same command as connect kc6mus>w6go. Where w6go was a digipeater and kc6mus was the person you wish to talk to.
These digipeaters could show a list of users or recently heard stations. A digipeater is a radio station that repeats digital transmissions using a terminal node controller, basically a radio modem. By connecting to a digipeater you can view a list of all other digipeaters it can hear and so on and so forth. You could connect clear across the united states and Canada using radios made for only local transmissions, VHF and UHF. Using High Frequency radios you could connect to stations around the world.
If the person you connected to was not around you could leave a message in the mail system contained in the TNC. This mail system was different from the more internet like packet BBS's.
Actually Ham radio has been using TV, GPS data mapping, Packet and TCI/IP for many years.
Packet is like the Ham equivalent of the internet with its own email system, file downloads and chat all via the computer and over radio. I was doing IM on packet long before there was IM for the internet.
With the APRS system, people all over the world can trace the exact position of the rocket via GPS over radio in real time via a GUI with map overlays. It can also help locate the payload when it returns. Something a bug or hamster would have a hard time doing.....unless it was connected to Richard Gere.
Ham radio may sound kinda dorky but a lot of internet tech has come from hams and visa-versa.
It sounds like the real office to me.
At that speed, if it were running Windows XP, the whole internet could be infected with a virus in mere nanoseconds.
Since MS is the cause of the loss of millions and millions of dollars worldwide it is time they did something about it. Blame someone else. Now they are blaming outsourcing on open source.
You must admit that when Microsoft buys someone, they get their moneys worth out of them.
Next up open source software the cause of American hostage beheading.
I could count to 21.....23 if it were really cold! ;-)
Ever here of an abacus? Paper tape is so 20th century. When I grew up we did not even have zero yet.
Actually back to the CD topic. My first burner was a pinnacle micro 1X CD burner. It could be had for the bargain price of 2000 bucks.
While the DVD +-R's are getting fast what really is catching my eye are the new dual layer burners that should be hitting the stores very shortly. Speed is nice but it often gets to the point that the next jump in speed does not really matter that much. For most people the difference between burning a CD in 3.5 minutes is not much difference than burning it in 5 minutes. Making a complete backup of a DVD on one disc instead of two or more is very nice. Over 9 gigs on a single disc is also great for backup purposes.
My next drive won't be a faster one but a dual layer drive.
You guys are all too young! In 1978 I was saving my programs to cassette tape! Speedy read times ran from 5 minutes for a small program to 30 minutes or more for larger ones. Write times were longer of course.
Now I get pissed when it takes more than 5 seconds for a program to launch.
The timer is the easy part. Getting the shockwave to arrive at the same time at the core is the hard part. Even the Russians had to steal our information to make one and that took them 5 years.
Again buying, stealing or have one given to them is more likely than them building one themselves. Once they do use it then nearly every country would unite to wipe them from the face of the earth. If they used it, it would be one of the last weapons they use.
Actually we have fewer, small devices now then and the number is dropping all the time.
Biological weapons are much easier and much cheaper to make than a nuke and have at least the same killing power.
Those people in Los Alamos also had the infrastructure of the United States, Billions of dollars in 1940 era dollars, and a large percentage of the generated electric power in the U.S. to build it.
I think is they were going to build one they would have done it by now. Buying or stealing a device would be cheaper and easier.
If the terrorist are ever going to use a nuke they are going to have to buy it.
While building an atomic bomb is not that hard, there are parts that would take quite a bit of work to perfect. Such as making sure the shockwave reached the core from the explosive charges at the same time. If you are off by a nanosecond from any of the charges....no joy.
Making an H bomb is even harder. Unless they purchase one the only nuke they will likely ever use is a dirty bomb.
Piracy is costing them millions of dollars! The piracy that is costing them so much money is not the P2P kind but the organized crime syndicates that makes copies of CD's right down to the cover and liner notes and passes them off as the real thing. In most cases you cannot tell the difference. If you buy more than 10 CD's a year chances are you have a pirated copy in your collection.
By the RIAA's own figures 1 in 6 discs is a pirate copy. Of course these pirates are harder to catch, cost more money to do so and they are a lot meaner and likely to shot you than granny downloading a Lawrence Welk song from the internet. The RIAA is just going for the easy money.
When a hole is announced on Windows a rife of viri follow...how much has that cost users of Microsoft products? Hundreds of millions of dollars so far.
Not one of MacOS X security flaws has cost a user a penny so far.
The real point is that every program install in OS X needs to have the user type in his/or her password to install that program....and that is how OS X ships from the facory. Windows XP on the other hand will let other programs install anything without the users knowledge...this can even be done through open ports to the internet.
Both are very big differences. Apple does not get a free pass as security goes...if needs fixing Apple should fix it. Microsofts aapproach was flawed from the beginning...it gives too many privileges to people other than the user of the computer. MS new Janus DRM sounds like it will make matters even worse. MS could issue a patch the requires users to enter there password for all installs yet this seems like it is something they do not want to do. Even though my WinXP Pro box is well protected I still will not check my email on it...I do that in OS X. Why tempt fate?
Isn't funny that MSnbc would run a story about patent abuse.
Well, unless you dig your computer out of the trash behind CompUSA you have to pay something for a computer.
I always here the term elitist when it comes to Mac users but then this usually comes from people who think that Microsoft Windows is the be all, end all. These people are just as elitist as any Mac user, perhaps even more so.
True, that common sense is the best defense but common sense, isn't.
I use the best anti virus on the market! It is called a Mac! Actually I have both a Mac and a WindowsXP Pro box with a router and firewall. Just to keep things clean my windows machine is NEVER used for checking mail. All mail is handled through the Mac. If I have a need to send mail via the PC or need to check it from the PC for some reason then Eudora Pro is used. The Outlook variants are the biggest viri available for the PC....with explorer coming in a close second.
I have both Photoshop 8 or as it is called now CS and I also run the latest binary version of The Gimp under X11 on MacOS X 10.3.3.
Setting up Photoshop is a piece of cake but then getting the Gimp going was not brain surgery either. In either case, if you are going to be making money or doing a lot of work with digital images then Photoshop is the only way to go.
Photoshop has been around longer than any other graphic app of its kind so the tool set cannot be beat. While the Gimps tool set is very workable it is not even close to Photoshop in the Human Interface department. The other reason Photoshop is the hands down winner is the support of third party plug-ins making the program very extensible. The Gimp being open source should have Photoshop beat in this department but I know of no third party Gimp plug-ins. Even many shareware photo editors support Photoshop plug-ins. Until Gimp supports its own and someone starts writing them Gimp will be an also ran.
If you don't have a lot of cash and your needs are modest then the Gimp is a great program with a lot of power under the hood. If you are a power user then Photoshop is the only choice. I hope someone takes the Gimp to the next level, better tools, a better UI and plug-in support and people writing those plug-ins could make the Gimp a real contender. As it stands now compared to Photoshop the Gimp is aptly named.
I remember paying 600 bucks for a 16k upgrade for an apple II.