the consumer is served, the artist is served. the only person left out in the new internet distribution model is the old guard distribution model. i could say "adapt or die" but that doesn't even apply here. there is only one valid economic choice for the riaa's backers: die
All of what you said is great and all but you're forgetting the one important thing that the RIAA/MPAA has that the general public does not: government on their side.
Well, well. From the graphic, it looks like 7+ years ago the main purpose of search was music, games, and porn. What would be interesting is to see if it's changed at all to bittorrents of music, games, and porn or if it changed to Myspace music, Myspace is lame, and Myspace porn in the last 3 years.
BTW, I had a 5150x5150 image of a Google Map printed on a 42" printer and it's fucking huge. While that was pretty cool to see all the detail (it's centered around the Twin Cities Metro and stretches into Western WI and south well below Faribault and north near Duluth) I don't know why you would want this map that large. It really wasn't that interesting or cool to look at. It's certainly not worth it to hang music, games, and porn searches on your wall at work:)
Exactly, it should say "XBox Hypervisor Security Protection Hacked in November and Patched in January" but that wouldn't make for a very good Slashdot headline and no one would read the comments^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Harticle.
Apple has shown that properly written DRM can have a minimal impact on the "user experience".
Excuse me? Huh? Maybe if you have a player that supports AAC it has a minimal impact. Otherwise you have to burn a CD and rip it back to MP3 (which isn't hard but it's more than a minimal impact) to play on your less expensive hardware.
All Apple's DRM has shown is that people don't give a shit as long as they are cool because they all use the same device with white ear buds to play music.
The DRM free content available to download legitimately, usually is not even worth the time you sift thru them to find the one piece that you can barely tolerate among 100s of trash metal bands (I am speaking of music only here but it can be stretched to cover any art form) who thinks louder they play better it is, or some talentless hack, who thinks whatever he/she plays is instant classic.
dimeadozen.org offers quite a wide array. Here's a sample from the two pages of torrents:
OASIS - First Time Out 2000 (Jools Holland 11/02/00) Page and Plant - 1996.02.17 1996 - Century Hall, Nagoya - AUD - "10 Days" (Hoochie Coochie) Deep Purple - 1973-06-23 Final Truckin' The Cure -- Glastonbury 6.21.86 Rush - 1981-12-20 - Tempest Rush - 1994-05-07 - Animated Remaster (RESEED) Bob Dylan 1975-11-27 Bangor (2 aud sources) flac Yes - Columbia - 8/13/72 (Reseed by Request) Eric Clapton, Touch of Class, Birmingham, England March 1st & 2nd 1985 (Beano) Damien Rice - Passau, Germany - 2002-03-22 Prince -The Artist, The Cross, The Ride. Washington DC 10th Jan 1997 (AUD) Whitesnake - Glasgow Apollo 29-10-1978 Bob Dylan Ischgl, Austria 1999-05-01 (Bach Recording) Damien Rice 2004/03/12 Firenze, Italy Bob Marley & The Wailers San Diego Sports Arena San Diego 1979-11-24 aud Black Sabbath 1990-10-01 Palasport Bolzano, Italy (Good Audience) Belle and Sebastian - a kind of magic Van Morrison 1993 03 04 Utrecht The Netherlands Muziekcentrum Vredenburg Reworked
Yeah, that really looks like you have to pick through...
I spent my time harassing the teacher by writing BASIC programs on the Apple ]['s that made the computer beep and pause and repeat. Installing it on 25 computers to go "BEEP" all the way around the room and then start over again was fun until I got an hour of detention for each computer.
The only thing I learned in that class was that programming in BASIC sent you to detention.
can you REALLY tell the difference between 256khz and 512khz (hint: if you say 'yes', you are lying).
If you can't then your hardware for listening sucks. Put on a set of great headphones and tell me you can't hear the noise in a 256k lossy music file created from a CD. Make a FLAC of that same file and tell me if you hear that noise.
FLAC is far superior to any lossy formats but it creates absolutely huge files and yes I do pay attention to the size of my music collection because it's all in FLAC or SHN.
Software exists for OCR from camera sources such as cell phones.
Yeah, it exists but it fucking sucks. Have you ever used the software that does OCR from images? If you haven't try something like gocr for Linux and tell me how it worked out for you. Even if the OCR software available for cell phone images is 100x better, it will still be pointless.
Guess what? Despite Microsoft's efforts to provide for a more fluid and agreeable interface with Vista's Aero, Pfeiffer Consulting found Vista to be even worse than Windows XP (SP2) --and of course Mac OS X. Their conclusion is backed with cold, hard research.
Where? I don't see the in the article. All I see is that Windows Vista (which I won't ever be using unless they make me at work) sucks compared to XP SP2 and OS X. I don't see why or how they came to those conclusions.
For example, my wife and I both have Treos we use pretty heavily, and neither of us have ever had a need or desire to change the battery on-the-fly, nor have we gotten new batteries even after a couple of years. Our usage patterns mean that not changing the battery midday works perfectly fine for us. And by the time we'd even need to replace the battery for degradation reasons, we'll both have new phones.
Fucking Apple Whore. Dude, the iPhone isn't the Treo. When was the last time you used the Treo as a multimedia device? Yeah, never.
If they're going to market this as a multimedia device (and with so many people believing that it's an iPod/mobile replacement) they're going to need to have great battery life and a replaceable battery (not for battery life only but because it's a fucking hassle when the battery dies and you have to send it back to Apple to be swapped out).
But we found that heavier IT users are much heavier multitaskers, so over time, they're completing more projects and bringing in more money for the firm.
This was a common question given during interviews I took part in during my endless job hunts (I was employed but there's always something better out there). Anyway, every time it was asked I simply replied, "I would expect that nearly everyone in my generation is able to multitask effectively as we've grown up our entire lives with it."
Now, while I'm a little bit outside the "Social Networking Generation", I grew up using computers, watching TV, talking with friends and successfully completing written tasks. This, while completely foreign and thus inappropriate according to my parents, has carried into my work life and made me a very effective worker.
It may be worthwhile studying now only because some of the older individuals in the workforce didn't grow up completely immersed in the same multitasking oriented environment those that are 30 and under have.
In the future it won't be a question, it will be an expectation -- along with more work.
It reflects Dries age - he's unwilling to cede control of the domain. (And didn't bother to register drupal.com). He's got founderitis which isn't surprising really - it's his first project.
This may be true and IMHO, if the Association wants to succeed, they should work on attempting to persuade Dries from his current opinion as it's extremely shortsighted.
The rest of your comment is trollfood and shouldn't have been included.
Maybe if a mobile phone is able to simulate a realistic gunshot noise, and its owner is keen to play that in the public, police should be alerted anyway.
Maybe the government shouldn't be finding new and exciting ways to do less work and employing less real people? IMHO, as soon as they start tracking us with these cameras we should start making loud gun shot noises as we shoot the lenses out.
Take back your personal freedom and stop listening to the "but you are in public!" bullshit. If they aren't willing to have real people watch you then I'm not willing to tolerate it.
Why does Dries, and not the Drupal Association, hold the domain name?
Dries has always retained access to the domain name, and has a proven track history of being responsible with its care. The Drupal Association as yet is unestablished, and would represent a great risk to place something so important to the community in its hands, at least at this stage.
In my limited experience with non-profits and owning/running a website that goes along with them, it is in the best interest of everyone that the holdings be owned by the association rather than individuals tied to the association. Simply put, regardless of how someone has dealt with the ownership in the past, if anything goes south, the first response is sometimes to spite them and yank the holdings and then you're screwed.
Operating the business behind the domain is one thing but having full ownership of it is another. If the group is serious about this being the face of Drupal, I suggest that they go into it the entire way before something similar to the recent ESR drama and they pull out after years of support.
Some places even have huge fish tanks as you're exiting, some would say to calm you down after a big loss so you're more likely to come back.
I was just in Vegas over Christmas and the only place that I saw with a fish tank was well off the strip and had exits closer to the Casino than where the tank was located.
That said, everything else you mentioned is true and while I am not a gambler, I do constantly think about the flashing lights and sounds (even though they are annoying in any other location) and how it was nice to be there. Odd thoughts for a non-gambler:(
Slashdot Mirror
the consumer is served, the artist is served. the only person left out in the new internet distribution model is the old guard distribution model. i could say "adapt or die" but that doesn't even apply here. there is only one valid economic choice for the riaa's backers: die
All of what you said is great and all but you're forgetting the one important thing that the RIAA/MPAA has that the general public does not: government on their side.
What, delivering content online and having a required device to play this content without modification? No, it's not a new business model.
I hope you will write your own summary of U.S. government corruption and send it to your elected representatives.
The same corrupt ones that are tacking on pet project spending bills to the "War on Terror" because they know that fucker won't veto his big project?
I find it scary that you say that Bush is the corrupt one and think that by sending the other side a letter they will give a shit.
Well, well. From the graphic, it looks like 7+ years ago the main purpose of search was music, games, and porn. What would be interesting is to see if it's changed at all to bittorrents of music, games, and porn or if it changed to Myspace music, Myspace is lame, and Myspace porn in the last 3 years.
:)
BTW, I had a 5150x5150 image of a Google Map printed on a 42" printer and it's fucking huge. While that was pretty cool to see all the detail (it's centered around the Twin Cities Metro and stretches into Western WI and south well below Faribault and north near Duluth) I don't know why you would want this map that large. It really wasn't that interesting or cool to look at. It's certainly not worth it to hang music, games, and porn searches on your wall at work
And who you can resell it to.
And it had to go uphill both ways! Fuck that's fast.
Exactly, it should say "XBox Hypervisor Security Protection Hacked in November and Patched in January" but that wouldn't make for a very good Slashdot headline and no one would read the comments^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Harticle.
They are going this route because people are starting to get their legal fees paid when the RIAA loses.
What better way to stop that from even happening by not taking them to court?
Why are they targeting college students? Not because they are the biggest file sharers but because they have the least amount of money.
Apple has shown that properly written DRM can have a minimal impact on the "user experience".
Excuse me? Huh? Maybe if you have a player that supports AAC it has a minimal impact. Otherwise you have to burn a CD and rip it back to MP3 (which isn't hard but it's more than a minimal impact) to play on your less expensive hardware.
All Apple's DRM has shown is that people don't give a shit as long as they are cool because they all use the same device with white ear buds to play music.
I admit that I've had more intelligent sales staff at the big box store than at CompUSA.
That statement scares me.
The DRM free content available to download legitimately, usually is not even worth the time you sift thru them to find the one piece that you can barely tolerate among 100s of trash metal bands (I am speaking of music only here but it can be stretched to cover any art form) who thinks louder they play better it is, or some talentless hack, who thinks whatever he/she plays is instant classic.
dimeadozen.org offers quite a wide array. Here's a sample from the two pages of torrents:
OASIS - First Time Out 2000 (Jools Holland 11/02/00)
Page and Plant - 1996.02.17 1996 - Century Hall, Nagoya - AUD - "10 Days" (Hoochie Coochie)
Deep Purple - 1973-06-23 Final Truckin'
The Cure -- Glastonbury 6.21.86
Rush - 1981-12-20 - Tempest
Rush - 1994-05-07 - Animated Remaster (RESEED)
Bob Dylan 1975-11-27 Bangor (2 aud sources) flac
Yes - Columbia - 8/13/72 (Reseed by Request)
Eric Clapton, Touch of Class, Birmingham, England March 1st & 2nd 1985 (Beano)
Damien Rice - Passau, Germany - 2002-03-22
Prince -The Artist, The Cross, The Ride. Washington DC 10th Jan 1997 (AUD)
Whitesnake - Glasgow Apollo 29-10-1978
Bob Dylan Ischgl, Austria 1999-05-01 (Bach Recording)
Damien Rice 2004/03/12 Firenze, Italy
Bob Marley & The Wailers San Diego Sports Arena San Diego 1979-11-24 aud
Black Sabbath 1990-10-01 Palasport Bolzano, Italy (Good Audience)
Belle and Sebastian - a kind of magic
Van Morrison 1993 03 04 Utrecht The Netherlands Muziekcentrum Vredenburg Reworked
Yeah, that really looks like you have to pick through...
I spent my time harassing the teacher by writing BASIC programs on the Apple ]['s that made the computer beep and pause and repeat. Installing it on 25 computers to go "BEEP" all the way around the room and then start over again was fun until I got an hour of detention for each computer.
The only thing I learned in that class was that programming in BASIC sent you to detention.
a handy 20-lb. device
"He's dead Jim."
"Well, I dropped the tricorder on his head."
can you REALLY tell the difference between 256khz and 512khz (hint: if you say 'yes', you are lying).
If you can't then your hardware for listening sucks. Put on a set of great headphones and tell me you can't hear the noise in a 256k lossy music file created from a CD. Make a FLAC of that same file and tell me if you hear that noise.
FLAC is far superior to any lossy formats but it creates absolutely huge files and yes I do pay attention to the size of my music collection because it's all in FLAC or SHN.
And that raises some tantalizing possibilities, including a real long shot: Open-source, royalty-free formats win."
Yet the title of the article says it's "Open Source's Gain"?
Software exists for OCR from camera sources such as cell phones.
Yeah, it exists but it fucking sucks. Have you ever used the software that does OCR from images? If you haven't try something like gocr for Linux and tell me how it worked out for you. Even if the OCR software available for cell phone images is 100x better, it will still be pointless.
Guess what? Despite Microsoft's efforts to provide for a more fluid and agreeable interface with Vista's Aero, Pfeiffer Consulting found Vista to be even worse than Windows XP (SP2) --and of course Mac OS X. Their conclusion is backed with cold, hard research.
Where? I don't see the in the article. All I see is that Windows Vista (which I won't ever be using unless they make me at work) sucks compared to XP SP2 and OS X. I don't see why or how they came to those conclusions.
Clicking on a link and getting an unnecessary advertisement for Best Buy before being able to read the story.
Also watching the number of FIOS broadband IP blocks that I have to ban skyrocket due to open proxies and SMTP spammers loving the large pipes.
For example, my wife and I both have Treos we use pretty heavily, and neither of us have ever had a need or desire to change the battery on-the-fly, nor have we gotten new batteries even after a couple of years. Our usage patterns mean that not changing the battery midday works perfectly fine for us. And by the time we'd even need to replace the battery for degradation reasons, we'll both have new phones.
Fucking Apple Whore. Dude, the iPhone isn't the Treo. When was the last time you used the Treo as a multimedia device? Yeah, never.
If they're going to market this as a multimedia device (and with so many people believing that it's an iPod/mobile replacement) they're going to need to have great battery life and a replaceable battery (not for battery life only but because it's a fucking hassle when the battery dies and you have to send it back to Apple to be swapped out).
But we found that heavier IT users are much heavier multitaskers, so over time, they're completing more projects and bringing in more money for the firm.
This was a common question given during interviews I took part in during my endless job hunts (I was employed but there's always something better out there). Anyway, every time it was asked I simply replied, "I would expect that nearly everyone in my generation is able to multitask effectively as we've grown up our entire lives with it."
Now, while I'm a little bit outside the "Social Networking Generation", I grew up using computers, watching TV, talking with friends and successfully completing written tasks. This, while completely foreign and thus inappropriate according to my parents, has carried into my work life and made me a very effective worker.
It may be worthwhile studying now only because some of the older individuals in the workforce didn't grow up completely immersed in the same multitasking oriented environment those that are 30 and under have.
In the future it won't be a question, it will be an expectation -- along with more work.
It reflects Dries age - he's unwilling to cede control of the domain. (And didn't bother to register drupal.com). He's got founderitis which isn't surprising really - it's his first project.
This may be true and IMHO, if the Association wants to succeed, they should work on attempting to persuade Dries from his current opinion as it's extremely shortsighted.
The rest of your comment is trollfood and shouldn't have been included.
Maybe if a mobile phone is able to simulate a realistic gunshot noise, and its owner is keen to play that in the public, police should be alerted anyway.
Maybe the government shouldn't be finding new and exciting ways to do less work and employing less real people? IMHO, as soon as they start tracking us with these cameras we should start making loud gun shot noises as we shoot the lenses out.
Take back your personal freedom and stop listening to the "but you are in public!" bullshit. If they aren't willing to have real people watch you then I'm not willing to tolerate it.
This was arguably the hardest decision in the formation of the Association.
Do you mean that Dries wouldn't give up ownership? If he's really behind it, he would have.
As a Drupal user (who has donated money in the past) I am interested in knowing if I should give money to the cause via the Association or not.
From their FAQ:
Why does Dries, and not the Drupal Association, hold the domain name?
Dries has always retained access to the domain name, and has a proven track history of being responsible with its care. The Drupal Association as yet is unestablished, and would represent a great risk to place something so important to the community in its hands, at least at this stage.
In my limited experience with non-profits and owning/running a website that goes along with them, it is in the best interest of everyone that the holdings be owned by the association rather than individuals tied to the association. Simply put, regardless of how someone has dealt with the ownership in the past, if anything goes south, the first response is sometimes to spite them and yank the holdings and then you're screwed.
Operating the business behind the domain is one thing but having full ownership of it is another. If the group is serious about this being the face of Drupal, I suggest that they go into it the entire way before something similar to the recent ESR drama and they pull out after years of support.
Some places even have huge fish tanks as you're exiting, some would say to calm you down after a big loss so you're more likely to come back.
:(
I was just in Vegas over Christmas and the only place that I saw with a fish tank was well off the strip and had exits closer to the Casino than where the tank was located.
That said, everything else you mentioned is true and while I am not a gambler, I do constantly think about the flashing lights and sounds (even though they are annoying in any other location) and how it was nice to be there. Odd thoughts for a non-gambler