Ask the RIAA. They are the ones that want to keep people from sharing the music. Apple is currently being permitted to sell the RIAA's music as long as they make it hard (if not impossible) to easily share the music.
This makes it easy to share the music and the RIAA isn't going to get their mafia-like 90%. When the mafia doesn't get their money what do they do?
Yes, even if they did say this (which I cannot find a reference to) it's more like someone complaining to the police that a thief stole their dope sack.
Afterall the RIAA is nothing more than a mafia-like music control group. They use their money and muscle to get what they want. They buy out government officials and bully around whoever they want.
These are criminals extorting the artists and pushing the common people around for meddling in their business affairs.
Nah. Either Apple will bitch to the campuses and tell them to stop allowing the application or Apple will code something in to stop the third party client from working with their software.
Yeah, I get the joke. It's him. His "articles" suck. My fucking commentary on shit is just as important as his. He just gets more coverage because some moron thinks what he writes is good.
I am a nasty fucker with a big mouth. Someone hire me to write non-sense and pay me.
I don't like having browser windows open at all times and I vertainly wouldn't mind a tiny app that likely takes up less resources than an open browser.
That's me though... My Gmail account is for permanent archival of all email. If I get an email to Gmail other than something procmail forwarded it it's likely spam.
No, college kids are usually interested in downloading and downloading fast. College kids also tend to live in a house with others. Sharing a dialup connection on your only voice line sucks balls.
Splitting a $50/mo Internet connection between two or three people is nothing and you still get fast movie/music/porn downloads.
I'm hoping our US providers will eventually bring our country's internet to the top of the industry - or do they really like lagging behind?
Wait a second here. You're confused. You are getting 3000/384 for $53. You are shelling out the cash and they are taking it.
They aren't lagging behind anything but their own fattening wallets. Please be serious. They aren't interested in being the top of the world-wide industry in anything but revenue.
Well I have finally found a DSL telco/ISP that does not block ports, offers a decent downstream rate (2000/256 instead of Qwest's measly 640k), and is comparable in price/speed to the cable company.
Charter is the cable co here. All reports from the area is that they block just about every incoming port including not allowing 25 except on their own SMTP servers. They charge $40/mo for 3000 downstream but it's just not worth it for me.
I moved back to DSL for the first time since 1999 and I am happy with it for the time being. Anything is better than a horrible TOS *and* port blocking.
If someone intentionally hampers $DEVICE and makes it liable to cause others harm (by infection, waste of bandwidth, etc), shouldn't the person that commited those acts (or the owner of $DEVICE) be liable?
I spent the time patching the system to the latest of everything, newest SP at the time, all the protection programs I could find, etc. Everything was set to run basically w/o userintervention.
He took over because he obviously knows more about computers than I do (being a devout WinME supporter) and went ahead and removed those pesky pieces of software.
I refused to help from then on out. Let him handle it when the machine is so slow and the webpages won't load properly.
(and possibly therefore more likely to participate when they got that "random" call?)
Well the broadband users were more likely to take the call because they could actually get the call. The dialup users were handing out busy signals. *70!
But seriously, in my mind this is akin to hardware "spyware" - I wonder if these same people would agree to having a key logger installed..
Probably. Remember these are typically people that don't even know what Spyware is... Hell, my fiancee's brother removed AdAware and SpyBot from a computer I installed it on "because it causes problems." He also removed the firewall for the same reason.
Spyware be damned! We are talking about people that think WinME is the best OS ever (and no I am not kidding).
Perhaps that's what YOU believe because that's what Google wants you to believe? I think it's because Google knew that their stock was overrated and was going to cause major financial headaches for when the stock prices plummeted from their overinflated original offerings...
If you don't trust Real, then don't buy from them, but I fail to see how this is anything but a net positive for consumers.
As everyone here knows I am a HUGE proponent of supporting those musicians that support free music. I support them with tickets to concerts, spreading the good word about free music, and spreading their names as being bands to listen to...
People want to listen to this bullshit and there's nothing I can do to stop that. Legally we have little choice when it comes to downloading a song from the net unless we get it from one of the various sites on the net. iTMS has been the most successful so far. That said, their song quality sucks, their prices are really shitty for what you get, and their selection is god-awful unless you are a typical teeniebopper pop lover.
Real comes along and offers music for.49, a much better bargain, and not only do they do that, they offer it at a higher bitrate. If we don't have a choice for DRM or non-DRM and people might as well be allowed to pick from their choices of evil.
It's like a Ferrari sucks, but I never drove one so it must suck.
I don't need to own an iPod to hear the music that is played on it. And this has nothing to do with it being "open". It has to do with choice on a device instead of vendor lock-in.
The next step--a campaign and petition to get music fans to support the company's open stance--hasn't worked out quite as it might have hoped, after some people besieged the petition with obscenities and anti-RealNetworks postings. The petition, on RealNetworks' www.freedomofmusicchoice.org site, is entitled: "Hey Apple! Don't break my iPod."
Now while I understand the zealotry and the hatred for someone daring to stomp on Apple's parade I can't understand the "break my iPod" bit. If anything they have "fixed" the fucking iPod allowing it to play even more formats.
Now, now, all you iPod fans are going to jump down my throat about Real's shitty codecs and how Apple's non-sense is so much better... I just can't agree with you. I haven't heard Real's code but I have heard 100s of samples of Apple's *and* 35 full length tracks. Apple's codec sucks compared to even MP3 and I won't even get into what they sound like compared to FLAC/SHN. Granted, you are paying less than the average CD in a store but I can certainly hear the difference. I don't know if I would be so inclined to support any more artists that sell their music there. I'll continue to stick to SHN/FLAC encoded music distributed by the fans of the same bands.
This sounds a lot like what happened with the Katie.com bullshit. People flooding Amazon with bad reviews, trolls, and downgraded marks. They were successful in getting the name changed... Do the Apple zealots think that this is the best way to approach this? Personally, I think that the Appleaters should be thrilled that more codecs could come to their beloved device. Perhaps these Apple lovers have become so accustomed to vendor lock-in that they don't want any competition in the codecs available for this device?
No, actually it was as a free replacement for a unix-like system. The "replacement for windows" talk didn't start up for a fair while.
Wow, you guys are so literal... The OSS world is full of knockoffs from Windows/etc (etc does mean more than just Windows). I remember when I started to use Linux I used multiple WM's including an Amiga-like one, one that looked like a NeXT box setup, and even one that appeared to look like OS/2!
Q: Some say Linux and a lot of open-source projects really aren't innovative, that they're copies of commercial products. What's your reaction to that? A: I disagree. It's an easy argument to make. One reason people make it is that, in open source, they don't see the revolutionary new versions magically appearing. In comparison, look at commercial closed systems. They make a new release every year or three to four years with a huge marketing splash. They make it look very different. But it's a circus to make it look like a sudden innovation.
I disagree with Linus on this one. While the kernel might be worked on and might improve by leaps and bounds, MANY of the programs available through open source is fucking terrible and certainly nothing more than a free knockoff of a Windows/etc counterpart (hell wasn't that the entire point of Linux in the first place)?
Yes, sure, many commercial applications are buggy and have slow release times but at least they aren't 100% alpha quality with huge disclaimers that they aren't responsible for what happens to your computer when you run them.
Remember, this is the biggest reason that people don't go to Linux right now... No application support. It will likely get better but I can't believe he said that it wasn't as bad as I think.
What you're saying is, what would save TiVo would be if they stopped trying to make money. Which is actually the opposite of what would save them.
There are plenty of hardware vendors that sell a product w/o the requirement of a subscription. Fine, if you want to keep paying them $13/mo, so be it, but I still think that third party software and hardware should be permitted.
While this is a cool feature, I'm not sure if it alone will be able to save Tivo. There are so many cheaper alternatives, and I'm sure they will be able to add a similar feature in too. Personally when I'm watching TV(which I almost never have time for as of late), I don't wanna be reading stuff online, I just want to relax and watch a movie or show.
What would save Tivo would be cheaper hardware, cheaper lifetime subcriptions or no subscriptions at all, and the ability for third party add-ons (hardware or software).
You don't want to surf and watch TV at the same time but others do. Some people want a MP3/Video collection manager on their TV. Let them do it.
Enough of this "we want more, more, more, money" shit and more of "we want more, more, more, customers" shit:)
Wouldn't eliminating the Republican's "free speech" on the web via DDOS attacks basically amount to cyber-terrorism?
Of course, anything to have a story with the word terrorism in it.
From the article: But some activists are condemning the planned attacks, saying they violate the principles of free speech that protesters rely on for their demonstrations.
The free speech zones might be good enough for those people but I assume the hackers want Bush to be in the front seat when he sees what they hate about him.
I disagree with the tactics myself as they are nothing more than an annoyance and fodder for Bush's team to say "look! we have terrorists right here trying to end your freedoms!"
(simply because people no longer think about the issue).
Or simply because instead of teaching proper sex protection methods we are teaching the public to just not have sex until they have a religous union under God.
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Ask the RIAA. They are the ones that want to keep people from sharing the music. Apple is currently being permitted to sell the RIAA's music as long as they make it hard (if not impossible) to easily share the music.
This makes it easy to share the music and the RIAA isn't going to get their mafia-like 90%. When the mafia doesn't get their money what do they do?
The burn it down.
Yes, even if they did say this (which I cannot find a reference to) it's more like someone complaining to the police that a thief stole their dope sack.
Afterall the RIAA is nothing more than a mafia-like music control group. They use their money and muscle to get what they want. They buy out government officials and bully around whoever they want.
These are criminals extorting the artists and pushing the common people around for meddling in their business affairs.
Nah. Either Apple will bitch to the campuses and tell them to stop allowing the application or Apple will code something in to stop the third party client from working with their software.
Yeah, I get the joke. It's him. His "articles" suck. My fucking commentary on shit is just as important as his. He just gets more coverage because some moron thinks what he writes is good.
I am a nasty fucker with a big mouth. Someone hire me to write non-sense and pay me.
Heck, if I can't get an interview, hardly anyone can get an interview.
I am sure Google really wants to have an interview with an asshole that complains of their micromanagement.
I am no Googlelover (as far as their IPO/business practices go) but I don't think it's a bad idea to ignore Cringley.
I don't like having browser windows open at all times and I vertainly wouldn't mind a tiny app that likely takes up less resources than an open browser.
That's me though... My Gmail account is for permanent archival of all email. If I get an email to Gmail other than something procmail forwarded it it's likely spam.
YMMV.
No, college kids are usually interested in downloading and downloading fast. College kids also tend to live in a house with others. Sharing a dialup connection on your only voice line sucks balls.
Splitting a $50/mo Internet connection between two or three people is nothing and you still get fast movie/music/porn downloads.
I'm hoping our US providers will eventually bring our country's internet to the top of the industry - or do they really like lagging behind?
Wait a second here. You're confused. You are getting 3000/384 for $53. You are shelling out the cash and they are taking it.
They aren't lagging behind anything but their own fattening wallets. Please be serious. They aren't interested in being the top of the world-wide industry in anything but revenue.
Well I have finally found a DSL telco/ISP that does not block ports, offers a decent downstream rate (2000/256 instead of Qwest's measly 640k), and is comparable in price/speed to the cable company.
Charter is the cable co here. All reports from the area is that they block just about every incoming port including not allowing 25 except on their own SMTP servers. They charge $40/mo for 3000 downstream but it's just not worth it for me.
I moved back to DSL for the first time since 1999 and I am happy with it for the time being. Anything is better than a horrible TOS *and* port blocking.
If someone intentionally hampers $DEVICE and makes it liable to cause others harm (by infection, waste of bandwidth, etc), shouldn't the person that commited those acts (or the owner of $DEVICE) be liable?
I spent the time patching the system to the latest of everything, newest SP at the time, all the protection programs I could find, etc. Everything was set to run basically w/o userintervention.
He took over because he obviously knows more about computers than I do (being a devout WinME supporter) and went ahead and removed those pesky pieces of software.
I refused to help from then on out. Let him handle it when the machine is so slow and the webpages won't load properly.
(and possibly therefore more likely to participate when they got that "random" call?)
Well the broadband users were more likely to take the call because they could actually get the call. The dialup users were handing out busy signals. *70!
But seriously, in my mind this is akin to hardware "spyware" - I wonder if these same people would agree to having a key logger installed..
Probably. Remember these are typically people that don't even know what Spyware is... Hell, my fiancee's brother removed AdAware and SpyBot from a computer I installed it on "because it causes problems." He also removed the firewall for the same reason.
Spyware be damned! We are talking about people that think WinME is the best OS ever (and no I am not kidding).
Perhaps that's what YOU believe because that's what Google wants you to believe? I think it's because Google knew that their stock was overrated and was going to cause major financial headaches for when the stock prices plummeted from their overinflated original offerings...
If you don't trust Real, then don't buy from them, but I fail to see how this is anything but a net positive for consumers.
.49, a much better bargain, and not only do they do that, they offer it at a higher bitrate. If we don't have a choice for DRM or non-DRM and people might as well be allowed to pick from their choices of evil.
As everyone here knows I am a HUGE proponent of supporting those musicians that support free music. I support them with tickets to concerts, spreading the good word about free music, and spreading their names as being bands to listen to...
People want to listen to this bullshit and there's nothing I can do to stop that. Legally we have little choice when it comes to downloading a song from the net unless we get it from one of the various sites on the net. iTMS has been the most successful so far. That said, their song quality sucks, their prices are really shitty for what you get, and their selection is god-awful unless you are a typical teeniebopper pop lover.
Real comes along and offers music for
It's like a Ferrari sucks, but I never drove one so it must suck.
I don't need to own an iPod to hear the music that is played on it. And this has nothing to do with it being "open". It has to do with choice on a device instead of vendor lock-in.
The next step--a campaign and petition to get music fans to support the company's open stance--hasn't worked out quite as it might have hoped, after some people besieged the petition with obscenities and anti-RealNetworks postings.
The petition, on RealNetworks' www.freedomofmusicchoice.org site, is entitled: "Hey Apple! Don't break my iPod."
Now while I understand the zealotry and the hatred for someone daring to stomp on Apple's parade I can't understand the "break my iPod" bit. If anything they have "fixed" the fucking iPod allowing it to play even more formats.
Now, now, all you iPod fans are going to jump down my throat about Real's shitty codecs and how Apple's non-sense is so much better... I just can't agree with you. I haven't heard Real's code but I have heard 100s of samples of Apple's *and* 35 full length tracks. Apple's codec sucks compared to even MP3 and I won't even get into what they sound like compared to FLAC/SHN. Granted, you are paying less than the average CD in a store but I can certainly hear the difference. I don't know if I would be so inclined to support any more artists that sell their music there. I'll continue to stick to SHN/FLAC encoded music distributed by the fans of the same bands.
This sounds a lot like what happened with the Katie.com bullshit. People flooding Amazon with bad reviews, trolls, and downgraded marks. They were successful in getting the name changed... Do the Apple zealots think that this is the best way to approach this? Personally, I think that the Appleaters should be thrilled that more codecs could come to their beloved device. Perhaps these Apple lovers have become so accustomed to vendor lock-in that they don't want any competition in the codecs available for this device?
I guess you'd have to ask an iPod user.
Are we modding him up for the link to the even MORE obviously fake video of this flying device in action?
At least the first one had a person, a hand, and an EPSON lab jacket on. This video just said 404 page not found...
After watching the video the first time I decided to watch it again and pay closer attention to the attendant's eyes.
It's almost as if she wasn't seeing the item flying in front of her. I felt like I was watching a poorly done movie + animated character sequence.
I don't doubt this item exists but I do have serious doubts about the origin of the video provided.
No, actually it was as a free replacement for a unix-like system. The "replacement for windows" talk didn't start up for a fair while.
Wow, you guys are so literal... The OSS world is full of knockoffs from Windows/etc (etc does mean more than just Windows). I remember when I started to use Linux I used multiple WM's including an Amiga-like one, one that looked like a NeXT box setup, and even one that appeared to look like OS/2!
Q: Some say Linux and a lot of open-source projects really aren't innovative, that they're copies of commercial products. What's your reaction to that?
A: I disagree. It's an easy argument to make. One reason people make it is that, in open source, they don't see the revolutionary new versions magically appearing. In comparison, look at commercial closed systems. They make a new release every year or three to four years with a huge marketing splash. They make it look very different. But it's a circus to make it look like a sudden innovation.
I disagree with Linus on this one. While the kernel might be worked on and might improve by leaps and bounds, MANY of the programs available through open source is fucking terrible and certainly nothing more than a free knockoff of a Windows/etc counterpart (hell wasn't that the entire point of Linux in the first place)?
Yes, sure, many commercial applications are buggy and have slow release times but at least they aren't 100% alpha quality with huge disclaimers that they aren't responsible for what happens to your computer when you run them.
Remember, this is the biggest reason that people don't go to Linux right now... No application support. It will likely get better but I can't believe he said that it wasn't as bad as I think.
What you're saying is, what would save TiVo would be if they stopped trying to make money. Which is actually the opposite of what would save them.
There are plenty of hardware vendors that sell a product w/o the requirement of a subscription. Fine, if you want to keep paying them $13/mo, so be it, but I still think that third party software and hardware should be permitted.
While this is a cool feature, I'm not sure if it alone will be able to save Tivo. There are so many cheaper alternatives, and I'm sure they will be able to add a similar feature in too. Personally when I'm watching TV(which I almost never have time for as of late), I don't wanna be reading stuff online, I just want to relax and watch a movie or show.
:)
What would save Tivo would be cheaper hardware, cheaper lifetime subcriptions or no subscriptions at all, and the ability for third party add-ons (hardware or software).
You don't want to surf and watch TV at the same time but others do. Some people want a MP3/Video collection manager on their TV. Let them do it.
Enough of this "we want more, more, more, money" shit and more of "we want more, more, more, customers" shit
Wouldn't eliminating the Republican's "free speech" on the web via DDOS attacks basically amount to cyber-terrorism?
Of course, anything to have a story with the word terrorism in it.
From the article: But some activists are condemning the planned attacks, saying they violate the principles of free speech that protesters rely on for their demonstrations.
The free speech zones might be good enough for those people but I assume the hackers want Bush to be in the front seat when he sees what they hate about him.
I disagree with the tactics myself as they are nothing more than an annoyance and fodder for Bush's team to say "look! we have terrorists right here trying to end your freedoms!"
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(simply because people no longer think about the issue).
Or simply because instead of teaching proper sex protection methods we are teaching the public to just not have sex until they have a religous union under God.