" As a student that dislikes the common pop music (i.e. Top40, Top200, TopAnything) I don't want to pay for the RIAA POP music agenda. If this program however would introduce indie bands and struggling musicians on the Jukebox I'd be all for it. "
I share your disdain for the top40 crap the RIAA pushes as well....but what about those who don't like indie stuff and instead enjoy (don't ask me how) the top40 RIAA crap? The problem with the jukebox is that students' tastes are so varied, and you could NEVER settle on a selection of music that would please everybody.
"The passengers will never again allow terrorists to crash an airplane into something, so terrorists have nothing to gain in trying the same scenario again."
I agree with you for the most part, except for this bit about how people will never allow it to happen again. What if terrorists smuggle guns on. What if they shoot everybody before they crash the plane into a building because they know the passengers would try to do something?
" What I'd find interesting is, who the hell are idiot enough to buy SCO stock...? "
If people were short selling SCO would that not bring the price up? Because by shorting, you are buying stock at the current price, and hoping it will go down.
this makes me wonder...would it really be that hard to put a Line-In on a cd deck that would enable it to take input from any analog (maybe optical-in as well) source?
" regardless of the terminology used, you're still thieves."
How dumb are you? If I were a thief, it would mean I stole things. If I am illegaly sharing things, then I haven't stolen anything, I have infringed on a copyright. So I would not be a thief, I would be a copyright infringer. But I guess to you uneducated sorts, semantics don't really matter because you can't understand the difference anyway.
" * File sharing is piracy, and hence, stealing, which does indeed make it illegal.
* The punishment does not fit the crime.
The bottom line is, it is against the law to steal stuff, and pirating anything, be it software, music, or movies, is stealing. That's just the way it is. "
This is an obvious troll. File sharing is not illegal, uploading and downloading copyrighted works for which you do not have a license or the rights to said works IS illegal. Then you go on to say that pirating anything is stealing. Look, I read your other posts about how people bitch about the semantics, but as I said in a post yesterday, semantics make all the difference now, because like it or not, this has turned from a technological battle to a legal battle. So get the damn terminology right. How the FUCK did the parent get modded +5 insightful?
"This is just the next step towards the uber-specific TV commercial placement of the future. Buy, my pretties, buy!"
Personally, in a medium where I have no choice but to watch commercials, I'd rather see ones that are targeted towards me more accurately. Also, if they do collect data, they can have information about what ads are crap and what ads aren't based on the number of eyeballs. I work in advertising and I cannot begin to tell you how valuable that kind of information is. Its a double edged sword for the ad agency, but something that is becoming desired more and more by clients.
The other big issue which I'm surprised nobody has mentioned is that this huge shithole of reality tv that's been taking over tv lately is partially because of low spending on behalf of advertisers. This could give a lot more value to them, thus enabling the cable companies to raise their spot rates, and give them a chance to put some good tv back on the air. Or they could just pocket it which I think is a little more likely.
This is News for nerds, not News for price-watchers. This is a cool new innovation on TW's part, and for what it offers its damn cheap. I never thought I'd say this, but nice going Time Warner.
W00T! Break out the champagne and let's party like it's 1984....because it still is, and we still live in a nation that is still taking away our privacy and freedom day by day.
"This is like claiming rape right in the middle of consentual sex."
I don't know about other states but I know that in Texas and Illinois, if at any point during sex, the girl says to stop and the guy doesn't, its rape.
My definition of screwed is when a company such as the one that runs Slashdot gets next to free design skills that it uses to make tshirts which it then sells for a large chunk of money. The person who made the design would be entitled to a lot more normally if they were payed as a freelancer, but no, they just get a few credits at ThinkGeek which probably won't buy anything and a couple of the tshirts which they designed. I consider THAT being screwed. This isn't about whether or not you know the terms of the contract. This is morally a shitty thing to do. They make things very clear not as a good faith effort, but so they don't get sued, trust me, their lawyers don't have all of our best interests at heart.
And as to my belligerence, I only started getting belligerent because of the tone of your reply, which ended with a rude, and EXTREMELY unnecessary, "got it?".
I don't like dragging this out longer than it already is...but you are correct, you should NEVER assume people will figure out what you are stating is opinion and not fact. How was I supposed to think that you were stating your opinion in the following:
"Duke Ellington had it right once and for all: There's only two types of music: Good and bad. And sure, it's largely opinion, but there are absolutes in this world: Westlife are undeniably shite, and Ella Fitzgerald is undeniably a genius."
So, lets end this discussion, and in the future, don't go saying one thing while claiming you meant something else, its a bad habit that can get you into trouble in life.
So lets say they have security measures built into this thing that controls how you get the images out of the camera and wipe the memory. All the people here who want to hack this sucker would then be breaking the DMCA wouldn't they? I don't know how they'd check, unless you had to register with a valid credit card or something on purchase and it had a unique ID...but legally, wouldn't that be correct?
" If you knowingly enter a contest with those rules, and accept them, you are not being screwed. It's a decision. you make. no one is forcing you. got it?"
If you know the rules and accept them, you are still being screwed out of the money they are making. Just because you KNOW you're getting screwed does not make you any less screwed. I'm not saying anyone is forcing me, I'm just saying that I'd like to see a little more transparency regarding these things on Slashdot. Got it?
Not to troll....but I'd really like to see a comparison of the total estimated value of the Think Geek credit + value of the tshirts that the winner would receive versus how much revenue/profit Slashdot generated from the sales of the winning tshirt design. Not that they'd ever post that kind of information to let us see how much we're being screwed or anything.....
"This will allow them to charge the wealthy what they are willing to pay for a product (more) and charge everyone else what they can afford to pay for a product (less)."
Except that is only one of the factors. One of the big factors is how impulsive a certain demographic is. And I hate to break it to you, but people who are poorer have usually been found to be more impulsive buyers, simply because they tend (as a whole, there are of course exceptions) to spend what they make, rather than invest.
"theoretically, in an abuse free system, targeted pricing could be the answer to many of the current social problems in a market where everything is set at the same price."
Realistically, it is very easy to abuse. Because companies would invariably charge many lesser informed (also potentially poorer and less educated) people more, and more informed (potentially richer, and more educated) people less. If that aint abuse, I don't know what is.
PMZ, this is completely off-topic, but as a college student who was given a car, I am now approaching the point where I will have to purchase my own. I was wondering if you could describe to us in detail the tactics he used and what you did to combat them. Thanks in advance!
"Keeping small guy prices high is easy.
Keeping big guy prices low is easy.
Keeping the both happy customers is not."
And heaven help you if both types of customers have an open forum to discuss your prices together and figure out what you are doing to them, ala Amazon.com. While price discrimination is indeed a growing problem, and is becoming a more personalized problem, I think the inherent 'open-forum' nature of the internet will give the potential to nip this in the bud once people really start talking about this stuff. And all of the price tracking sites will also aid our cause with this.
Now, I'm not a pilot, and don't know much about the physics of all this, but would it be at all possible to glide down very fast in this thing, have some powered ailerons (sp?) attached, and pull up into a stall and just kind of land the way people with RC planes land? When I landed mine, you cut the throttle, and just do a bunch of repeated mini stalls until your speed is sufficiently reduced.
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A)I don't think I'll get caught.
B)I don't even thinka bout it.
C)I am fighting the RIAA
D)All of the above.
E)Cowboy Neal told me to do it.
I share your disdain for the top40 crap the RIAA pushes as well....but what about those who don't like indie stuff and instead enjoy (don't ask me how) the top40 RIAA crap? The problem with the jukebox is that students' tastes are so varied, and you could NEVER settle on a selection of music that would please everybody.
Uh...isn't that what P2P is? Free Music (although not necessarily legal) in open formats?
I agree with you for the most part, except for this bit about how people will never allow it to happen again. What if terrorists smuggle guns on. What if they shoot everybody before they crash the plane into a building because they know the passengers would try to do something?
If people were short selling SCO would that not bring the price up? Because by shorting, you are buying stock at the current price, and hoping it will go down.
I KNOW there's a joke in there somewhere....must....think....harder.....
How dumb are you? If I were a thief, it would mean I stole things. If I am illegaly sharing things, then I haven't stolen anything, I have infringed on a copyright. So I would not be a thief, I would be a copyright infringer. But I guess to you uneducated sorts, semantics don't really matter because you can't understand the difference anyway.
The bottom line is, it is against the law to steal stuff, and pirating anything, be it software, music, or movies, is stealing. That's just the way it is. "
This is an obvious troll. File sharing is not illegal, uploading and downloading copyrighted works for which you do not have a license or the rights to said works IS illegal. Then you go on to say that pirating anything is stealing. Look, I read your other posts about how people bitch about the semantics, but as I said in a post yesterday, semantics make all the difference now, because like it or not, this has turned from a technological battle to a legal battle. So get the damn terminology right. How the FUCK did the parent get modded +5 insightful?
Personally, in a medium where I have no choice but to watch commercials, I'd rather see ones that are targeted towards me more accurately. Also, if they do collect data, they can have information about what ads are crap and what ads aren't based on the number of eyeballs. I work in advertising and I cannot begin to tell you how valuable that kind of information is. Its a double edged sword for the ad agency, but something that is becoming desired more and more by clients.
The other big issue which I'm surprised nobody has mentioned is that this huge shithole of reality tv that's been taking over tv lately is partially because of low spending on behalf of advertisers. This could give a lot more value to them, thus enabling the cable companies to raise their spot rates, and give them a chance to put some good tv back on the air. Or they could just pocket it which I think is a little more likely.
I don't know about other states but I know that in Texas and Illinois, if at any point during sex, the girl says to stop and the guy doesn't, its rape.
And as to my belligerence, I only started getting belligerent because of the tone of your reply, which ended with a rude, and EXTREMELY unnecessary, "got it?".
"in a world dominated by the male sex, why do women choose to put themselves in the position of the minority?"
Why? THIS is why.
"Duke Ellington had it right once and for all: There's only two types of music: Good and bad. And sure, it's largely opinion, but there are absolutes in this world: Westlife are undeniably shite, and Ella Fitzgerald is undeniably a genius."
So, lets end this discussion, and in the future, don't go saying one thing while claiming you meant something else, its a bad habit that can get you into trouble in life.
If you know the rules and accept them, you are still being screwed out of the money they are making. Just because you KNOW you're getting screwed does not make you any less screwed. I'm not saying anyone is forcing me, I'm just saying that I'd like to see a little more transparency regarding these things on Slashdot. Got it?
Except that is only one of the factors. One of the big factors is how impulsive a certain demographic is. And I hate to break it to you, but people who are poorer have usually been found to be more impulsive buyers, simply because they tend (as a whole, there are of course exceptions) to spend what they make, rather than invest.
Realistically, it is very easy to abuse. Because companies would invariably charge many lesser informed (also potentially poorer and less educated) people more, and more informed (potentially richer, and more educated) people less. If that aint abuse, I don't know what is.
And heaven help you if both types of customers have an open forum to discuss your prices together and figure out what you are doing to them, ala Amazon.com. While price discrimination is indeed a growing problem, and is becoming a more personalized problem, I think the inherent 'open-forum' nature of the internet will give the potential to nip this in the bud once people really start talking about this stuff. And all of the price tracking sites will also aid our cause with this.