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It is if your only option is to shred paper. Sometimes, chemicals, fire and pulping are not options.
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Someone please mod the parent up. This sounds like a workable solution to me. It adds a level of difficulty to the ability for someone to retrieve original documents without a lot of work.
...until the money grab happened. I was signed up with a local small ISP that provided excellent service for $9.95 a month. It came with POP3/SMTP/NNTP unlimited access and a static IP for running a server. I loved it. But after about two years, as their customer base grew, the service was harder to dial into. Then they expanded their modem pool (or PRI, not sure which) and the service was easy to dial into again. However, not long after that the customer service/support began to suck. They added a phone menu that made it harder to reach support and invariably got you to a clueless dork who couldn't trouble shoot a burnt lightbulb. Finally, after about 2.5 years, they merged with another ISP from a neighboring city that was growing. That ISP was soon bought out by a larger ISP in another state and BAM! the rates went from $9.95 a month to $21.95 a month. With no announcement. I just noticed that my debit card was getting more taken out of it per month after the big company took over. This big predatory company took over several of the smaller ISPs in my area that had been offering internet access at decent prices and jacked all of them up. Eventually, you either had to accept the $21.95 a month or do the ISP jig as new low cost ISPs came and went (every few months). I could afford the $21.95 a month but I did so grudgingly. Internet service shouldn't be expensive at all, especially now. The minute I could get DSL and actually get something worth what I paid for, I did. I am now a happy Speakeasy customer.:) Although I fear that they may fall victim to what my original inexpensive ISP back in 1995 did. They provide the least expensive DSL so far that is Linux friendly and allows you to run servers.
Just so folks know, the big bad ISP that took over my original ISP was CoreComm. In general, they REALLY blow. The last straw for me was when they took away my static IP without telling me. They also took the e-mail address I had since 1995 and "gave" it to someone else in their home city. Then they claimed that this person had the address all along which was complete bullshit. So... to anyone who works for CoreComm, I can't tell you how much your company sucks.
That would imply that he has clout now. Financially, sure... technologically, no. There isn't a tech worth his salt who would say that Bill Gates knows much more about computers than they armchair techie that watches TechTV and thinks it's better than Slashdot.
If they are going to give their hard-earned money to someone to piss away without profit, it usually goes to finding a cure for AIDS or something more useful than providing cheap laptops to middle-class schmucks.
While this is a really nice sentiment this doesn't happen much if at all unless: -They are going to get a tax break -It's going to increase their opportunities for more revenue (Think Microsoft "giving" PCs to public schools and libraries) -There is basically something that they stand to gain from their "charity"
Giving something to a good cause should have not strings attached to it. Again... we get back to the basic problem of control. These companies want more influence over our lives than they rightfully should have.
um, you're in college, right? Um, wrong. I'm a 33 year old guy who works in IT doing a LOT of really cool stuff. maybe you want to get a job and work for a company that doesn't make a profit?
You're right on that count. I work for a non-profit organization because I believe it's the right thing to do. The organization I work for provides a lot of really cool stuff to people who need it, at no cost. And I still manage to live well. Even through the dot-bomb bubble that the neocons brought on themselves.
companies that serve the customer best (except in cases of monopolies) are the most profitable. but hey, we're all idealists here at/.
That's the way it should be. Companies should serve the customer first, the company second and the shareholders last.
Seriously, the only reason that Lycoris exists is to give "Joe User" an alternative to Windows. What good is an alternative if the look and feel isn't very similar? The two screenshots you linked aren't identical. They have a sameness, but no more so than the trash can on the Windows 9x desktop had to the Mac OS Trash icon. Nothing to see here folks... move along.
Dude... it just depends on the OS. You should have gone with Linux, then you could use GQview Windows makes everything look like squares. I mean cripes, Their logo is all squares! Highly stylized, but still squares. As are Gates and Ballmer.:)
b) because companies exist to make profit, not practically give stuff away
c) because people will pay more than $400
My response:
a) Bullshit. The average laptop is only worth about $250 in parts bought in bulk. Tablets are only slightly more expensive due to the touchscreen. But the form factor reduces the cost.
b) Companies exisiting for profit is the worst approach. They should exist for the customer. We should be their masters, not the other way around.
c) Because people have no choice but to pay more than $400. If a company got wise and decided to make a laptop for $300, they'd make a killing because everybody and his brother would buy one. Even if the quality wasn't as high. Smart people are more concerned with cost than anything else. The sheep who pay too much for a status symbol are just idiots. Sounds like you just might be an idiot.
Profit motive is the worst and most inefficient way to develop any complex system. What's required is a true interest in what you do. Why do you think so many of those paper MCSEs were completely worthless? They did it because they wanted the money and didn't care about the technology. That's never going to get anyone anywhere. You do it because you love it, otherwise you find something else to do otherwise you'll always be second rate.
Errr... no. He probably went through the code with a fine toothed comb (or a decent pattern matching app) and found nothing infringing because there never was anything infringing to begin with.
even if it cost $800,000 as it underscored the hypocrisy of his "fiscal conservative" claim, habitually unnoticed by corporate media as the national debt soars Interesting about that. No one in America seems to notice or put two and two together. They are being shammed by a huckster of their own free will...
To be honest I agree with quite a few things you have to say, but you ovbiously don't have an appreciation for my brand of hyperbole. No matter.
Points:
Don't wanna pay for a cell phone? Fine, don't. Welcome back to 1975. Good luck with finding a payphone in the rain at 1 am when you've got a flat tire.
So you are fine with this? The fact that there is not a viable option for those of us who don't want to pay for a cell phone? The only reason I have one is because my IT job pays for it. I still see this as a form of control. Either you opt to not have a cell phone and suffer the consequences as defined by a corporation, or you pay the debt incurred from owning a phone that you may not use if you are someone like me. Pretty unfair. I have choices... yes. But are they really choices? For someone like me, the cost of the cell phone is not justifiable by the amount of usage I'd get out of it. For example, at home I have my phone service with no long distance provider since I don't use long distance very often. This knocked my bill down from an outrageous $36 a month to $24 a month. I get far more usage out of that phone than I ever would a cell phone, so I CAN justify the cost. $20-40 a month is a ridiculously cheap price to pay for instant communications anywhere.
Where? Rates for cell phones at lowest are $36 a month for crappy service in my area. If you want decent service and features you have to pay closer to $50 a month. And for me phone service that is much higher than $20 a month is ridiculously expensive. Not to mention that unlike a lot of people, I don't need the status symbol that some people seem to treat their phones like. And the last time I checked, CD-records were still available at stores and you could pay for them and then own the music on them.
Today. Yes. In the future, doubtful. Again... learn to appreciate some hyperbolic humor and maybe than you'll actually be a happy camper. The reason I rarely buy them anymore is that I already own all the good ones, and no good music seems to be released anymore.
Learn the meaning of the word OPINION. I agree that a lot of the popular music out there sucks, but I also hate all classic rock, country, most metal, rap and hawaiian music. There is plenty of glitch, industrial and general electronic that *I* like and I DO buy. There are also albums of great artistic value (in my opinion) that NO ONE knows about. (Check out David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto for an example of MY tastes). I buy anything that I can find that I like, but for most of the 90s that was pretty rare. It wasn't until the the past three or so years that anything of value has come out. IN MY OPINION. You should really continue taking your morning dose of Valium as prescribed by the doctor.
Drug free here dude. Again, get a fucking sense of humor. And a left wing mind set. Or at least an open mind... As far as DRM, it won't fly.
It all depends on how well the sheeple are conditioned. If people are happy paying for cars they'll never own and always being in debt, there is nothing to keep DRM from succeeding if there is no other way to get music. That's the kind of control I'm talking about. If you can't see it, then you are just one of the sheeple who has been well programmed. At the same time, they might just be able to create an online market too when they finally take their heads out of their asses and give the users the choice to download individual songs at 320kbit (or better) mp3 or non-compressed.wav
While I like decent audio quality too, there are times when sacrificing quality is justifiable. One is streaming music. I stream a random playlist from my house to my workstation here at work over an encrypted tunnel every day. It's low bitrate because 128K up is the best I've got. (Thank god for Og
Face it folks. This country hasn't had a decent president since FDR. He whipped things into shape and made sure that everyone was well off with the government programs he implemented. And when we went to war, it wasn't on some trumped up charges like Bush used to excuse his attack on Iraq. We had legitimate reasons to go to war during FDR's term.
Clinton was a great president, but he was stupid with regard to being honest about what he did with Monica. He should have just admitted that he had a little piece on the side (nothing wrong with that). George Bush Sr. was a monster, but at least he wasn't a dictator. Did you notice how during the elder Bush's term, people could actually make fun of him and get away with it without fearing for your life or your job? Now with Baby Bush, you question him or make fun of him and you can lose your job or possibly your life. Reagan was just a fucking puppet. Poor thing had no idea what he was doing. Carter was another great president, but he had the problem of having the wrong kind of intelligence for the job. He probably would have made a better scientist of prof, than a president. Ford. Well... Ford. All I can say is Chevy Chase.
Sadly the US government is becoming less and less relevant and the corporations gain more power over our lives every day. All that needs to happen now is for the repugs to get rid of taxes completely and the US government will die. It will probably be bought out by the corporations and then this country will be a real mess. Pay access for everything and never a chance to be debt free unless you live in the woods like Kozinski. To make matters worse, there probably won't be any woods to live in as the necons will want to pay everything in sight... so they can charge you to go there. Think about it people. How many more bills do you have now than your parents did? They are grooming us to become a "pay for play" nation in every regard. They started with simple things like car leases. Then they moved onto cell phones. Now it's hitting everything. Pay per play music videos on "The Box" and the over-the-air version of MTV2. Pay per play video game consoles like the Phantom. Pay per play movies and music coming soon to an ethernet jack near you. It's a fucking travesty! The capitalists are always on about how the communists were all about the elimination of the concept of personal property. I would say that this is also true of the neocons. When you buy that cell phone, do you REALLY own it? Can you use it without paying for it eventually? As you do when you actually buy and pay for something you really own? What about DRM controlled pay per play music? Do you really own it? Like the CDs you could buy a few years ago? Can you listen to the new DRM controlled music as many times as you want without having to pay every time or pay an exhorbitant fee to get that right? Wake the fuck up people!!!! THEY are grooming US. Not to be an equal part of the capitalist system, but to be slaves to it. Although you neocons always make the mistake of thinking that I'm a commie or a socialist, I will tell you that I am not. I am merely pointing out a flaw in capitalism that many people are either too scared or too oblivious to see: As long as humans are greedy, capitalism is no better than communism. As it develops further, you can see the grip it is getting on our personal lives. It's not yet too late. Think about this. Carefully.
Oh sure, you'll get a few people who say thy want it all for free and don't want to pay anyone. But they're unreasonable and illogical idiots. Personally, I buy all the music I want even if I think the prices are overinflated. Since I tend to like obscure stuff a lot of what I own is on minor labels and mostly import. THEN I rip them to MP3s or Ogg Vorbis for my own personal pleasure. For me, the MP3 and Vorbis files have replaced cassettes. At present, this is the way most logical and reasonable people approach electronically packaged music. They package it themselves.
The only reason to call someone a "stooge of the RIAA" is if you take some kind of pro-business stance. I don't . I think that the RIAA and most of the music business needs to evolve or die. What people (good, honest people) really want is the convenience of music stored in a LONG PLAYING, portable and flexible format. Only the frat boy idiots and wiggers want stuff "fo free".
Microsoft sure has a funny way of looking at innovation. The original meaning of innovation is to take something that already exists and to find a new use for it. This is NOT what Microsoft does. They take something that already exists and use it in exactly the same way that someone else does or plans to and then renames it. (cough! Indrema) They've done this over and over, yet they claim to innovate. If they had it their way, they'd claim they invented the GUI too...
Present the facts, the actual consequences, and let opinions fall where they may.
I agree. However, it is impossible to escape the problem of there being multiple views on an issue. Everyone has an agenda (myself included). This is one of the problems of being human. For example, my agenda in relation to the DRM topic is that I believe that computing is a human right and that there should be absolutely no restrictions on what someone can do with that right. Especially when some people would try to assert control over that right in order to gain a tactical advantage. If DRM were really about protecting the copyright holders (the original creator of a published product) then I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it. But as it stands, the people who stand to gain from DRM are not the coders, the musicians, the actors, etc... It's the corporate entities that have unfair equal footing with an individual. In that light, DRM is a no win for the average person whether they are interested in the topic or not.
Vote with your wallet. It's the quickest way to get a company's attention.
Voting with your wallet almost never works for me because my tastes and ideals differ so greatly from most Americans. You can't say that "voting with your wallet" is really a useful approach for everyone. I think the best approach is to try and educate others why it is that I choose to do things the way I do. If enough people are persuaded to see things the way I see them, then it all works out for the best. (Assuming that they want to do things the way I do them)
The only problem with my approach is that it puts me in the position of being the promoter. I hate being a promoter. But if I want the world to become a slightly better place, the only way to do it is to promote fair views. Kind of sucks in a way.
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But in most cases, Microsoft was the first to do these things.
That should read:
But in most cases, Microsoft was the first to rename things that other people were already doing and claim that they innovated.
To misquote David Byrne, its, "...same as it ever was..."
Microsoft is simply taking what they already have and making some changes in the way these components work together and within the context of the internet. The end result should be a computing experience that is fairly smooth to the end user and provides a lot of what's already out there but with different names and faces. This is why they claim to "innovate". Innovation is taking existing "stuff" and using it in new ways. That's not exactly what they do though. Instead they take existing stuff and use it in the same ways they are already used but call them something else.
Examples:
In UNIX we have daemons In Windows they have "Services"
This provides enough of a distinction that the less technically inclined person is going to thing Services are somehow different. But they are really no more than daemons or backgrounded apps.
In X Window System we have "Window Managers" In Windows XP they have the "Theme Service"
Don't believe me? Go stop the theme service in XP and tell me what changes. Just the Window widgets and borders and the look and feel of the Start bar.
In UNIX we have "mount points" for file systems. In Windows 2000/XP they have the ability to mount a drive in an empty NTFS folder.
Microsoft is very good at taking these existing concepts, renaming them and then claiming them as their own innovations even though they haven't changed how the technologies are actually used. They've only renamed them..Net is no different. It will be internet services integrated into the OS with all the "new security" that Palladium will bring and a big happy Microsoft smiley face on the front.
Unix = Here's the internet. Go learn some stuff and have fun.
Microsoft = Here's.Net. It's all ready to go... have fun!:)))
Personally I prefer the Unix approach, but that's just me.
Oh, I almost forgot:
In Soviet Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was pro da. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
Finally is putting live humans into plastic chipper/shredders and having their familys watch them die or having on the government payroll those with the job title rapist doesn't justify any means to get rid of Saddam then you are a co-criminal with him.
Bzzzt! Try again. Did I ever say I liked or supported Saddam Hussein? There are other ways to effect "regime change" besides brutish war. You sound a lot like Ann Coulter. Do you think I should be killed for being a "treasonous liberal?" How does that separate you and your type from Saddam and his type? After all YOU just called me a co-criminal. That's a pretty strong accusation. Oh I see... If I'm not with you, then I must be against you. OK.
You must have missed the moblie weapons labs and despenser that have been found but I can't see how. They were on every news broadcast in the US.
That depends on who you believe. I don't trust Fox News at all or any other conservative mouthpiece. It's damn hard to find reliable news these days in the corporate run U.S. Fortunately, not all the voices of dissent have yet been stamped out. Too many corporate interests keep real news from getting out to the public. That is why the capitliast system is failing. All goes back to greed. (See, it does relate to SCo after all!)
This is about the Linux kernel and SCO's attempt to screw it over. It's not about your political ideas and preferences. Haven't you got that figured out yet?
True. However, the fact that the collective intelligence of the American public has declined over the course of my lifetime is worrying. That people would cheer on a liar (at best) and a criminal (at worst) as he pretends to be a fighter pilot, bothers me. That people let themselves be fooled by phoney concern for the American public (Code Yellow, Code Orange, etc... It's all bullshit) when it's really a massive FUD campaign, bothers me. The fact that people were convinced enough to associate Saddam Hussein and Sept. 11 even though there is absolutely no connection (other than what some jingoistic fucks want to see), bothers me. The fact that most Americans are roused by the mantra "Let's Roll" rather than a reasoned approach that actually uses thought instead of force, bothers me. We've become nothing more than a big WWF goon in the international arena. I really hoped that by this point we would have a more enlightened view. Considering how much people want to be fooled by their masters and worked into a frenzy over something as stupid as the war in Iraq, it's not too much of a leap to see what COULD happen in the SCO case.
You are typical of most people who had no problem with Iraq however. You put words in other people's mouths (calling me a co-criminal) and change the subject (The SCO case will still be affected by the same factors that are currently affecting the U.S. as a whole).
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It is if your only option is to shred paper. Sometimes, chemicals, fire and pulping are not options.
Someone please mod the parent up. This sounds like a workable solution to me. It adds a level of difficulty to the ability for someone to retrieve original documents without a lot of work.
...until the money grab happened. I was signed up with a local small ISP that provided excellent service for $9.95 a month. It came with POP3/SMTP/NNTP unlimited access and a static IP for running a server. I loved it. But after about two years, as their customer base grew, the service was harder to dial into. Then they expanded their modem pool (or PRI, not sure which) and the service was easy to dial into again. However, not long after that the customer service/support began to suck. They added a phone menu that made it harder to reach support and invariably got you to a clueless dork who couldn't trouble shoot a burnt lightbulb. Finally, after about 2.5 years, they merged with another ISP from a neighboring city that was growing. That ISP was soon bought out by a larger ISP in another state and BAM! the rates went from $9.95 a month to $21.95 a month. With no announcement. I just noticed that my debit card was getting more taken out of it per month after the big company took over. This big predatory company took over several of the smaller ISPs in my area that had been offering internet access at decent prices and jacked all of them up. Eventually, you either had to accept the $21.95 a month or do the ISP jig as new low cost ISPs came and went (every few months). I could afford the $21.95 a month but I did so grudgingly. Internet service shouldn't be expensive at all, especially now. The minute I could get DSL and actually get something worth what I paid for, I did. I am now a happy Speakeasy customer. :) Although I fear that they may fall victim to what my original inexpensive ISP back in 1995 did. They provide the least expensive DSL so far that is Linux friendly and allows you to run servers.
Just so folks know, the big bad ISP that took over my original ISP was CoreComm. In general, they REALLY blow. The last straw for me was when they took away my static IP without telling me. They also took the e-mail address I had since 1995 and "gave" it to someone else in their home city. Then they claimed that this person had the address all along which was complete bullshit. So... to anyone who works for CoreComm, I can't tell you how much your company sucks.
What about BSoD? That would qualify Windows wouldn't it?
*rimshot*
*ducks*
What does an old gunslinger have to do with this announcement? Even more important... will Miss Kitty be involved?
That would imply that he has clout now. Financially, sure... technologically, no. There isn't a tech worth his salt who would say that Bill Gates knows much more about computers than they armchair techie that watches TechTV and thinks it's better than Slashdot.
While this is a really nice sentiment this doesn't happen much if at all unless:
-They are going to get a tax break
-It's going to increase their opportunities for more revenue (Think Microsoft "giving" PCs to public schools and libraries)
-There is basically something that they stand to gain from their "charity"
Giving something to a good cause should have not strings attached to it. Again... we get back to the basic problem of control. These companies want more influence over our lives than they rightfully should have.
Um, wrong. I'm a 33 year old guy who works in IT doing a LOT of really cool stuff.
maybe you want to get a job and work for a company that doesn't make a profit?
You're right on that count. I work for a non-profit organization because I believe it's the right thing to do. The organization I work for provides a lot of really cool stuff to people who need it, at no cost. And I still manage to live well. Even through the dot-bomb bubble that the neocons brought on themselves.
companies that serve the customer best (except in cases of monopolies) are the most profitable. but hey, we're all idealists here at
That's the way it should be. Companies should serve the customer first, the company second and the shareholders last.
Profit motive is just a poor excuse for greed.
Yes. Yes I can. The Lycoris one actually works. :P
Seriously, the only reason that Lycoris exists is to give "Joe User" an alternative to Windows. What good is an alternative if the look and feel isn't very similar? The two screenshots you linked aren't identical. They have a sameness, but no more so than the trash can on the Windows 9x desktop had to the Mac OS Trash icon. Nothing to see here folks... move along.
Dude... it just depends on the OS. You should have gone with Linux, then you could use GQview Windows makes everything look like squares. I mean cripes, Their logo is all squares! Highly stylized, but still squares. As are Gates and Ballmer. :)
b) because companies exist to make profit, not practically give stuff away
c) because people will pay more than $400
My response:
a) Bullshit. The average laptop is only worth about $250 in parts bought in bulk. Tablets are only slightly more expensive due to the touchscreen. But the form factor reduces the cost.
b) Companies exisiting for profit is the worst approach. They should exist for the customer. We should be their masters, not the other way around.
c) Because people have no choice but to pay more than $400. If a company got wise and decided to make a laptop for $300, they'd make a killing because everybody and his brother would buy one. Even if the quality wasn't as high. Smart people are more concerned with cost than anything else. The sheep who pay too much for a status symbol are just idiots. Sounds like you just might be an idiot.
Profit motive is the worst and most inefficient way to develop any complex system. What's required is a true interest in what you do. Why do you think so many of those paper MCSEs were completely worthless? They did it because they wanted the money and didn't care about the technology. That's never going to get anyone anywhere. You do it because you love it, otherwise you find something else to do otherwise you'll always be second rate.
Errr... no. He probably went through the code with a fine toothed comb (or a decent pattern matching app) and found nothing infringing because there never was anything infringing to begin with.
I thought this was already how they operated. I'm guessing this is just a formality?
even if it cost $800,000 as it underscored the hypocrisy of his "fiscal conservative" claim, habitually unnoticed by corporate media as the national debt soars
Interesting about that. No one in America seems to notice or put two and two together. They are being shammed by a huckster of their own free will...
To be honest I agree with quite a few things you have to say, but you ovbiously don't have an appreciation for my brand of hyperbole. No matter.
Points:
Don't wanna pay for a cell phone? Fine, don't. Welcome back to 1975. Good luck with finding a payphone in the rain at 1 am when you've got a flat tire.
So you are fine with this? The fact that there is not a viable option for those of us who don't want to pay for a cell phone? The only reason I have one is because my IT job pays for it. I still see this as a form of control. Either you opt to not have a cell phone and suffer the consequences as defined by a corporation, or you pay the debt incurred from owning a phone that you may not use if you are someone like me. Pretty unfair. I have choices... yes. But are they really choices? For someone like me, the cost of the cell phone is not justifiable by the amount of usage I'd get out of it. For example, at home I have my phone service with no long distance provider since I don't use long distance very often. This knocked my bill down from an outrageous $36 a month to $24 a month. I get far more usage out of that phone than I ever would a cell phone, so I CAN justify the cost.
$20-40 a month is a ridiculously cheap price to pay for instant communications anywhere.
Where? Rates for cell phones at lowest are $36 a month for crappy service in my area. If you want decent service and features you have to pay closer to $50 a month. And for me phone service that is much higher than $20 a month is ridiculously expensive. Not to mention that unlike a lot of people, I don't need the status symbol that some people seem to treat their phones like.
And the last time I checked, CD-records were still available at stores and you could pay for them and then own the music on them.
Today. Yes. In the future, doubtful. Again... learn to appreciate some hyperbolic humor and maybe than you'll actually be a happy camper.
The reason I rarely buy them anymore is that I already own all the good ones, and no good music seems to be released anymore.
Learn the meaning of the word OPINION. I agree that a lot of the popular music out there sucks, but I also hate all classic rock, country, most metal, rap and hawaiian music. There is plenty of glitch, industrial and general electronic that *I* like and I DO buy. There are also albums of great artistic value (in my opinion) that NO ONE knows about. (Check out David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto for an example of MY tastes). I buy anything that I can find that I like, but for most of the 90s that was pretty rare. It wasn't until the the past three or so years that anything of value has come out. IN MY OPINION.
You should really continue taking your morning dose of Valium as prescribed by the doctor.
Drug free here dude. Again, get a fucking sense of humor. And a left wing mind set. Or at least an open mind...
As far as DRM, it won't fly.
It all depends on how well the sheeple are conditioned. If people are happy paying for cars they'll never own and always being in debt, there is nothing to keep DRM from succeeding if there is no other way to get music. That's the kind of control I'm talking about. If you can't see it, then you are just one of the sheeple who has been well programmed. .wav
At the same time, they might just be able to create an online market too when they finally take their heads out of their asses and give the users the choice to download individual songs at 320kbit (or better) mp3 or non-compressed
While I like decent audio quality too, there are times when sacrificing quality is justifiable. One is streaming music. I stream a random playlist from my house to my workstation here at work over an encrypted tunnel every day. It's low bitrate because 128K up is the best I've got. (Thank god for Og
Face it folks. This country hasn't had a decent president since FDR. He whipped things into shape and made sure that everyone was well off with the government programs he implemented. And when we went to war, it wasn't on some trumped up charges like Bush used to excuse his attack on Iraq. We had legitimate reasons to go to war during FDR's term.
Clinton was a great president, but he was stupid with regard to being honest about what he did with Monica. He should have just admitted that he had a little piece on the side (nothing wrong with that). George Bush Sr. was a monster, but at least he wasn't a dictator. Did you notice how during the elder Bush's term, people could actually make fun of him and get away with it without fearing for your life or your job? Now with Baby Bush, you question him or make fun of him and you can lose your job or possibly your life. Reagan was just a fucking puppet. Poor thing had no idea what he was doing. Carter was another great president, but he had the problem of having the wrong kind of intelligence for the job. He probably would have made a better scientist of prof, than a president. Ford. Well... Ford. All I can say is Chevy Chase.
Sadly the US government is becoming less and less relevant and the corporations gain more power over our lives every day. All that needs to happen now is for the repugs to get rid of taxes completely and the US government will die. It will probably be bought out by the corporations and then this country will be a real mess. Pay access for everything and never a chance to be debt free unless you live in the woods like Kozinski. To make matters worse, there probably won't be any woods to live in as the necons will want to pay everything in sight... so they can charge you to go there. Think about it people. How many more bills do you have now than your parents did? They are grooming us to become a "pay for play" nation in every regard. They started with simple things like car leases. Then they moved onto cell phones. Now it's hitting everything. Pay per play music videos on "The Box" and the over-the-air version of MTV2. Pay per play video game consoles like the Phantom. Pay per play movies and music coming soon to an ethernet jack near you. It's a fucking travesty! The capitalists are always on about how the communists were all about the elimination of the concept of personal property. I would say that this is also true of the neocons. When you buy that cell phone, do you REALLY own it? Can you use it without paying for it eventually? As you do when you actually buy and pay for something you really own? What about DRM controlled pay per play music? Do you really own it? Like the CDs you could buy a few years ago? Can you listen to the new DRM controlled music as many times as you want without having to pay every time or pay an exhorbitant fee to get that right? Wake the fuck up people!!!! THEY are grooming US. Not to be an equal part of the capitalist system, but to be slaves to it. Although you neocons always make the mistake of thinking that I'm a commie or a socialist, I will tell you that I am not. I am merely pointing out a flaw in capitalism that many people are either too scared or too oblivious to see: As long as humans are greedy, capitalism is no better than communism. As it develops further, you can see the grip it is getting on our personal lives. It's not yet too late. Think about this. Carefully.
Oh sure, you'll get a few people who say thy want it all for free and don't want to pay anyone. But they're unreasonable and illogical idiots. Personally, I buy all the music I want even if I think the prices are overinflated. Since I tend to like obscure stuff a lot of what I own is on minor labels and mostly import. THEN I rip them to MP3s or Ogg Vorbis for my own personal pleasure. For me, the MP3 and Vorbis files have replaced cassettes. At present, this is the way most logical and reasonable people approach electronically packaged music. They package it themselves.
The only reason to call someone a "stooge of the RIAA" is if you take some kind of pro-business stance. I don't . I think that the RIAA and most of the music business needs to evolve or die. What people (good, honest people) really want is the convenience of music stored in a LONG PLAYING, portable and flexible format. Only the frat boy idiots and wiggers want stuff "fo free".
Microsoft sure has a funny way of looking at innovation. The original meaning of innovation is to take something that already exists and to find a new use for it. This is NOT what Microsoft does. They take something that already exists and use it in exactly the same way that someone else does or plans to and then renames it. (cough! Indrema) They've done this over and over, yet they claim to innovate. If they had it their way, they'd claim they invented the GUI too...
I agree. However, it is impossible to escape the problem of there being multiple views on an issue. Everyone has an agenda (myself included). This is one of the problems of being human. For example, my agenda in relation to the DRM topic is that I believe that computing is a human right and that there should be absolutely no restrictions on what someone can do with that right. Especially when some people would try to assert control over that right in order to gain a tactical advantage. If DRM were really about protecting the copyright holders (the original creator of a published product) then I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it. But as it stands, the people who stand to gain from DRM are not the coders, the musicians, the actors, etc... It's the corporate entities that have unfair equal footing with an individual. In that light, DRM is a no win for the average person whether they are interested in the topic or not.
Voting with your wallet almost never works for me because my tastes and ideals differ so greatly from most Americans. You can't say that "voting with your wallet" is really a useful approach for everyone. I think the best approach is to try and educate others why it is that I choose to do things the way I do. If enough people are persuaded to see things the way I see them, then it all works out for the best. (Assuming that they want to do things the way I do them)
The only problem with my approach is that it puts me in the position of being the promoter. I hate being a promoter. But if I want the world to become a slightly better place, the only way to do it is to promote fair views. Kind of sucks in a way.
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But in most cases, Microsoft was the first to rename things that other people were already doing and claim that they innovated.
Oh yeah. Like THAT was an intelligent post. Like many others before you... YOU FAIL IT!!!!
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Guess what? I trolled myself.
To misquote David Byrne, its, "...same as it ever was..."
.Net is no different. It will be internet services integrated into the OS with all the "new security" that Palladium will bring and a big happy Microsoft smiley face on the front.
.Net. It's all ready to go... have fun! :)))
Microsoft is simply taking what they already have and making some changes in the way these components work together and within the context of the internet. The end result should be a computing experience that is fairly smooth to the end user and provides a lot of what's already out there but with different names and faces. This is why they claim to "innovate". Innovation is taking existing "stuff" and using it in new ways. That's not exactly what they do though. Instead they take existing stuff and use it in the same ways they are already used but call them something else.
Examples:
In UNIX we have daemons
In Windows they have "Services"
This provides enough of a distinction that the less technically inclined person is going to thing Services are somehow different. But they are really no more than daemons or backgrounded apps.
In X Window System we have "Window Managers"
In Windows XP they have the "Theme Service"
Don't believe me? Go stop the theme service in XP and tell me what changes. Just the Window widgets and borders and the look and feel of the Start bar.
In UNIX we have "mount points" for file systems.
In Windows 2000/XP they have the ability to mount a drive in an empty NTFS folder.
Microsoft is very good at taking these existing concepts, renaming them and then claiming them as their own innovations even though they haven't changed how the technologies are actually used. They've only renamed them.
Unix = Here's the internet. Go learn some stuff and have fun.
Microsoft = Here's
Personally I prefer the Unix approach, but that's just me.
Oh, I almost forgot:
In Soviet Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was pro da. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
-- Yakov Smirnoff
Finally is putting live humans into plastic chipper/shredders and having their familys watch them die or having on the government payroll those with the job title rapist doesn't justify any means to get rid of Saddam then you are a co-criminal with him.
Bzzzt! Try again. Did I ever say I liked or supported Saddam Hussein? There are other ways to effect "regime change" besides brutish war. You sound a lot like Ann Coulter. Do you think I should be killed for being a "treasonous liberal?" How does that separate you and your type from Saddam and his type? After all YOU just called me a co-criminal. That's a pretty strong accusation. Oh I see... If I'm not with you, then I must be against you. OK.
You must have missed the moblie weapons labs and despenser that have been found but I can't see how. They were on every news broadcast in the US.
That depends on who you believe. I don't trust Fox News at all or any other conservative mouthpiece. It's damn hard to find reliable news these days in the corporate run U.S. Fortunately, not all the voices of dissent have yet been stamped out. Too many corporate interests keep real news from getting out to the public. That is why the capitliast system is failing. All goes back to greed. (See, it does relate to SCo after all!)
This is about the Linux kernel and SCO's attempt to screw it over. It's not about your political ideas and preferences. Haven't you got that figured out yet?
True. However, the fact that the collective intelligence of the American public has declined over the course of my lifetime is worrying. That people would cheer on a liar (at best) and a criminal (at worst) as he pretends to be a fighter pilot, bothers me. That people let themselves be fooled by phoney concern for the American public (Code Yellow, Code Orange, etc... It's all bullshit) when it's really a massive FUD campaign, bothers me. The fact that people were convinced enough to associate Saddam Hussein and Sept. 11 even though there is absolutely no connection (other than what some jingoistic fucks want to see), bothers me. The fact that most Americans are roused by the mantra "Let's Roll" rather than a reasoned approach that actually uses thought instead of force, bothers me. We've become nothing more than a big WWF goon in the international arena. I really hoped that by this point we would have a more enlightened view. Considering how much people want to be fooled by their masters and worked into a frenzy over something as stupid as the war in Iraq, it's not too much of a leap to see what COULD happen in the SCO case.
You are typical of most people who had no problem with Iraq however. You put words in other people's mouths (calling me a co-criminal) and change the subject (The SCO case will still be affected by the same factors that are currently affecting the U.S. as a whole).