Explaining the binary system to a nation which can't even handle metric notation is unlikely to happen, even if the movement is backed by an angry mob...
Anybody else feel like you just want to start over, with only good people involved, and remake the internet? None of this patent crap, none of this copyright bullshit, just pure standards that are actual standards. Uncompromised and pure. No restrictions on data, short of the physical line speeds.
Actually, yes, I do... but remember what happened in that movie with the guy from Titanic? I think it was called the 'Beach' or something... and like... they had like a friggin utopia and stuf... and like... and like the guy went crazy... and then people started dying in the fields of pot and stuff... and then there was this chick with braces, and there were some nice tits and stuff, and then the sharks started to bite people... man... it was cool until he went crazy and shit...
... what was I saying? Oh yeah, yeah, utopias never work out and shit... the MPAA told me so.
Don't buy a console system, because they will all inevitably lead in this direction. The entire point of producing a console system is to have complete dominance over what software can run on it anyway.
The key point of Shirky's article was that publishers are removed from the scenario. There is no middleman, and an artist can publish his own work for whatever price he wants... compounded by the fact that it's usually easier to publish it for free and (as Shirky said) you'll get the competitive advantage in doing so.
So while the example with Seinfeld makes sense for television, if anyone could produce similar material without landing a 'deal' with NBC, then no one would bother paying his ridiculous salary out of pocket. He would have never become famous.
The ideas presented here should be obvious to anyone who frequents news sites which have decided to put up full-page advertising, or webcomics which are too slow updating their daily strip. The result is always the same; find an alternative that's not so annoying.
It's good to see these concepts explained so eloquently. Now if only the RIAA will figure it out.
Human beings have been producing music since before the dawn of agriculture... while capitalist 'incentive' sure does generate a lot of boy bands and pop idols, I don't think music would die out when it's gone.
The free market does a fine job regulating itself, assuming users are willing to actually inform themselves. What's going on here, is the general populace is stupid about computers, and is opting for the government to do the thinking for them.
The more people willing to do this kind of thing, the more it makes the RIAA look like jerks. I just hope they know enough to avoid streaming media, or at least provide an alternative.
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Is there really a difference?
Explaining the binary system to a nation which can't even handle metric notation is unlikely to happen, even if the movement is backed by an angry mob...
Actually, yes, I do... but remember what happened in that movie with the guy from Titanic? I think it was called the 'Beach' or something... and like... they had like a friggin utopia and stuf... and like... and like the guy went crazy... and then people started dying in the fields of pot and stuff... and then there was this chick with braces, and there were some nice tits and stuff, and then the sharks started to bite people... man... it was cool until he went crazy and shit...
All this time I thought Sylvester Stallone was the law...
Yeah, but I thought we were aiming for cold fusion?
Build a time machine and go back to murder whoever initiated the deal to purchase bungee, then buy it for the PC the way it was originally planned.
Don't buy a console system, because they will all inevitably lead in this direction. The entire point of producing a console system is to have complete dominance over what software can run on it anyway.
I am not a niroacehiplc, but retahr a medost iduvinadl
Sun sucks because their stupid java utilities keep crashing my computer. They call it bytecode but I can think of some better names for it!
the 3dfx logo was rather sexy, don't criticize things which are superficially beautiful!
Sega was always the black sheep of the console wars... that's why I have over 200 SNES roms and 4 Genesis roms on my computer now.
I thought that integrity was essential to running a good business! This can't possibly be true!
The key point of Shirky's article was that publishers are removed from the scenario. There is no middleman, and an artist can publish his own work for whatever price he wants... compounded by the fact that it's usually easier to publish it for free and (as Shirky said) you'll get the competitive advantage in doing so. So while the example with Seinfeld makes sense for television, if anyone could produce similar material without landing a 'deal' with NBC, then no one would bother paying his ridiculous salary out of pocket. He would have never become famous.
The ideas presented here should be obvious to anyone who frequents news sites which have decided to put up full-page advertising, or webcomics which are too slow updating their daily strip. The result is always the same; find an alternative that's not so annoying. It's good to see these concepts explained so eloquently. Now if only the RIAA will figure it out.
No, because it's not going to be moving thousands of miles per hour.
...Are giant robots with ray guns
This sucks, but you are neither the first nor the last person to lose business to advances in technology.
Society as a whole is just too stupid to care that this lawsuit is legit.
Your name is hot... /me dazes off into lala land
Actually, to be honest, I used to shoplift quite frequently, and only stopped because I knew arrest was inevitable.
Because musical instruments, unlike CDRW's, are able to survive millenia of abuse.
Oh lighten up... the point is obvious; a hell of a lot of people use file sharing services.
Human beings have been producing music since before the dawn of agriculture... while capitalist 'incentive' sure does generate a lot of boy bands and pop idols, I don't think music would die out when it's gone.
The free market does a fine job regulating itself, assuming users are willing to actually inform themselves. What's going on here, is the general populace is stupid about computers, and is opting for the government to do the thinking for them.
The more people willing to do this kind of thing, the more it makes the RIAA look like jerks. I just hope they know enough to avoid streaming media, or at least provide an alternative.