You know, for some reason I couldn't help think of how helpful this would be to all of the women (and men) working in the porn or prostitution industry.
I personally do not feel paying for sex is a huge crime (although I would never do it) and this could make that profession that much safer for those who practice it.
Ok, so I'm sure we have some people who attend this school, lets hear from you guys. Is this a big debate on campus? Are the majority of students even aware of the situation/potential scumminess of Napster?
What sorts of student organizations exist to help get word out about this issue, and what have they done thus far?
If students start making a lot of noise about wanting this information disclosed, and the faculty tells Napster that the students want to know or they won't use the service, perhaps it might convince Napster to give the info.
I just hope someone cracks the stupid DRM scheme Napster uses now and puts them in their place.
Alright, first off, their website is Flash...and if the only reason is so they can have that stupid changing main page, well...that's dumb.
Next...am I the ONLY one who's completely fed up with all this rap/hiphop 'gangsta shiznit'? I'm 21 and I am so fucking sick of this stuff its ridiculous. Is this how old people feel about young kids music today? Am I getting old? I mean, yeah, there's a couple of decent songs, any genre has that, but the lifestyle they sell is just as fabricated if not more so than the teenybopper pop lifestyle, but it just SEEMS more genuine 'cuz its from da streets'.
I can see why a game set in modern times might have this theme, but it most certainly should not have the entire game revolve around it. Ugh, way to ruin the game Rockstar.
Although you apparently were never a real raver, as a real raver would never call them "rave parties". It's either "party" or "rave", not "rave party".
Does it really matter if this information is easily available to them? If these people are willing to put enough effort into things to coordinate the hijacking of several airplanes and flying them into key buildings, I REALLY don't think they're going to have much trouble getting this information, whether they have to kill/bribe/brainwash someone to get it or not.
So grandparent says we need to educate people to stop buying this crap....you're saying that won't work, we need to fine the companies selling the crap in the first place.
Ok, I didn't RTFA so apologies if its there, but there's one thing that I kept wondering about all this.
I mean, its fine and good if some rich euro-trash model wants to get a chip under her skin so she can be cool and buy drinks faster (means she gets drunk faster and my chances go up faster).
But lets say she's leaving....does she have the ability to have it removed from her? Something like this could potentially be a real problem trying to get through the metal detector at the airport.
"Um...no sir....its a chip...under my skin....and it buys drinks!"
"Suuuuure it does....now come along with me little miss terrorist."
Something else about that line jumped out at me. The use of the word "consumers" instead of "customers".
Its been a philosophy of mine that the way a company refers to the people who give it money is a pretty good indicator of how they treat them.
For clarification, I define "consumers" as wallets which are expendable, which under no circumstances should be catered to.
Customers on the other hand are people whos money needs to be earned, and who the company is willing to make an effort to please in order to get their business/repeat business.
You know, based on the way that the Flamingo Travel Group in Pennsylvania handled this, I hope they get a lot of business, or at least exposure from this issue.
They obviously have a very clear stance on privacy and on the practices of the company who is really at fault.
Which begs the question to be asked....if you can order a Dominos pizza through the web browser of your cell phone, why don't they have an online ordering section of their website so you can do it from your computer? I mean, if you can do it by command line, why not make a webpage for it, I'm sure it would get them a LOT more business.
No kidding. I was just in England for the first time over spring break, and I almost died laughing when I tasted the pizza there, and this was at a nicer italian restaraunt which supposedly had "good pizza".
Now, I'm from Chicago, and so is my friend of italian descent who I was staying with....and honestly...they don't even come close to touching Uno's deep dish. They don't even come close to that what New Yorkers call pizza, but thats a whole nother can of worms we won't be opening.
This is great. Even better if the PSP could wirelessly download it from a hotspot or something. My big question though is once you've downloaded the music/movies/media to your PSP, will you be able to transfer it to your computer? Or will you just have to leave it on the PSP, and repurchase it once you've deleted it because you needed to make room for other files?
' If Apple says, "We will pay what we choose to pay. If you don't like it, we won't distribute your product.", what can the recording companies do about it?"
What can they do about it? How about cut Apple's right to distribute their music, and just let all of the other music services that have been springing up overnight vie for Apple's former position as #1.
Apple may be the best, but don't think for a second that they have that much power. It is a very delicate balance. Apple has the goodwill of the people, the design, and currently the userbase, but the labels have the music, and they can revoke Apple's powers at any time they choose.
The beautiful thing about the English language is that while it may have rules, the rules are quite frequently bent or broken. English is a continually evolving language, and even though someone may use a term such as "irregardless", you still know EXACTLY what they mean.
" i never understand why some people are happy to work at home, it blurs the distinction between your time and the company's time to the extent where there may no longer be a distinction."
In order to understand, you first need to understand that there are people in this world who prefer things in shades of gray instead of black and white.
'This is something self-employed people and small traders have had to live with for ever. It is now moving into the previously sheltered world of software. It is not thst the world is suddenly being nasty to geeks - it is that geeks have had it unfairly easy for thirty years, and the real world has finally woken up to the easy ride we have been getting."
Dear god thank you for that post! I have tried to make this point time and time again but have thus far failed to word it so eloquently.
I'm in advertising/marketing (yeah yeah, we're not all evil, so shove it) and at ad agencies, job instability has been a risk for a LONG time now. If you are at an agency for more than 5 years, even when they've lost accounts, you are EXTREMELY lucky. It is assumed in our industry that you WILL get laid off within a couple years, and you just float over to another agency.
Granted, we're not losing the jobs permanently by having them go overseas, but it is still a rough situation. So what have we done? Well, we've developed top-notch social networking skills. The general rule in business is its not what you know, but who you know. This applies doubly for advertising.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a geek, and have plenty of geeky friends.....and NOTHING pisses me off more than hearing a very unsocial geek friend with poor communication skills whine about how he can't get another job.
Guess what, if they're not hiring you as you are now, change. Develop new skills, and to use a marketing term, "position" yourself uniquely so that you stand out from the rest of the pack.
Other industries have all had to deal with this throughout history, now its the geeks' turn. Adapt or perish, those are your choices. Just don't whine if you don't attempt the first and find the latter occuring.
" Those who don't purchase the OS don't count, and to Microsoft, they shouldn't really matter. "
But this is the point I've been trying to make this whole time. It DOES matter to the legit MS customers because the pirated copies of Windows spread just as many (and if they don't get patched, even more) viruses as the legal ones. This in turn affects/infects users with legal copies whether it be by hosing their machines or killing their net connections. So you see, if MS wants to take care of its legal customers, it has to support the patches for its illegal ones.
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Doesn't this usually indicate when they are about to release another press release though?
I personally do not feel paying for sex is a huge crime (although I would never do it) and this could make that profession that much safer for those who practice it.
What sorts of student organizations exist to help get word out about this issue, and what have they done thus far?
If students start making a lot of noise about wanting this information disclosed, and the faculty tells Napster that the students want to know or they won't use the service, perhaps it might convince Napster to give the info.
I just hope someone cracks the stupid DRM scheme Napster uses now and puts them in their place.
Next...am I the ONLY one who's completely fed up with all this rap/hiphop 'gangsta shiznit'? I'm 21 and I am so fucking sick of this stuff its ridiculous. Is this how old people feel about young kids music today? Am I getting old? I mean, yeah, there's a couple of decent songs, any genre has that, but the lifestyle they sell is just as fabricated if not more so than the teenybopper pop lifestyle, but it just SEEMS more genuine 'cuz its from da streets'.
I can see why a game set in modern times might have this theme, but it most certainly should not have the entire game revolve around it. Ugh, way to ruin the game Rockstar.
"We do fear that they'll make people look silly, and thus put some off from playing it, though."
That sure doesn't seem to stop people from playing DDR.......in public.....
My question then is, why can't it be both?
I mean, its fine and good if some rich euro-trash model wants to get a chip under her skin so she can be cool and buy drinks faster (means she gets drunk faster and my chances go up faster).
But lets say she's leaving....does she have the ability to have it removed from her? Something like this could potentially be a real problem trying to get through the metal detector at the airport.
"Um...no sir....its a chip...under my skin....and it buys drinks!"
"Suuuuure it does....now come along with me little miss terrorist."
I'm using Quicktime Player v.6 with W98se.
Its been a philosophy of mine that the way a company refers to the people who give it money is a pretty good indicator of how they treat them.
For clarification, I define "consumers" as wallets which are expendable, which under no circumstances should be catered to.
Customers on the other hand are people whos money needs to be earned, and who the company is willing to make an effort to please in order to get their business/repeat business.
They obviously have a very clear stance on privacy and on the practices of the company who is really at fault.
Now, I'm from Chicago, and so is my friend of italian descent who I was staying with....and honestly...they don't even come close to touching Uno's deep dish. They don't even come close to that what New Yorkers call pizza, but thats a whole nother can of worms we won't be opening.
What can they do about it? How about cut Apple's right to distribute their music, and just let all of the other music services that have been springing up overnight vie for Apple's former position as #1.
Apple may be the best, but don't think for a second that they have that much power. It is a very delicate balance. Apple has the goodwill of the people, the design, and currently the userbase, but the labels have the music, and they can revoke Apple's powers at any time they choose.
Suck it up and stop being such a grammar Nazi.
In order to understand, you first need to understand that there are people in this world who prefer things in shades of gray instead of black and white.
Dear god thank you for that post! I have tried to make this point time and time again but have thus far failed to word it so eloquently.
I'm in advertising/marketing (yeah yeah, we're not all evil, so shove it) and at ad agencies, job instability has been a risk for a LONG time now. If you are at an agency for more than 5 years, even when they've lost accounts, you are EXTREMELY lucky. It is assumed in our industry that you WILL get laid off within a couple years, and you just float over to another agency.
Granted, we're not losing the jobs permanently by having them go overseas, but it is still a rough situation. So what have we done? Well, we've developed top-notch social networking skills. The general rule in business is its not what you know, but who you know. This applies doubly for advertising.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a geek, and have plenty of geeky friends.....and NOTHING pisses me off more than hearing a very unsocial geek friend with poor communication skills whine about how he can't get another job.
Guess what, if they're not hiring you as you are now, change. Develop new skills, and to use a marketing term, "position" yourself uniquely so that you stand out from the rest of the pack.
Other industries have all had to deal with this throughout history, now its the geeks' turn. Adapt or perish, those are your choices. Just don't whine if you don't attempt the first and find the latter occuring.
But this is the point I've been trying to make this whole time. It DOES matter to the legit MS customers because the pirated copies of Windows spread just as many (and if they don't get patched, even more) viruses as the legal ones. This in turn affects/infects users with legal copies whether it be by hosing their machines or killing their net connections. So you see, if MS wants to take care of its legal customers, it has to support the patches for its illegal ones.