"Many people follow the money. We have to pay the bills, and many people don't want to work a paying job and a non-paying job at the same time. Doubly so when the non-paying job is something that people are willing to pay for. If nobody pays for music, there will be fewer musicians. Some of the lost musicians will be good ones. Probably few of the lost ones will be terrible, because they wouldn't get paid anyway. So, overall the quality drops at least a little."
I think the net result would actually be an increase in quality. For the most part the people who follow the money are the ones who are essentially created by the business (brittney, etc).
Without the huge awards of fame and fortune I think the practice of essentially creating musicians and bands (think boy bands) would cease to be profitable, and we would be left with people who enjoy making music because they have something to say.
I'm not making this point because I believe IP and copyright agreements should be ignored, I'm making it because I don't believe the argument that copyrights are there to protect the general quality of art/music/literature is defensible.
As far as making an album being a fulltime job, look at how quickly a lot of the early Beatles and Stones albums were made. Yes, a Stones album today takes months to make, but they end up being shit quality compared to earlier stones albums which were recorded in a weekend.
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This is the best argument against the GPL I have ever heard.
I simply disagree. I think the phenomenon of artists and musicians being paid huge amounts of money for their work is relatively new.
I also don't believe writing and recording an album is a full-time job. I have enough friends who are musicians to understand that there are FAR more people who work full-time jobs and yet manage to make great music, record it, and even play out quite often than there are musicians who record an album, make millions and sit around being fed grapes all day.
People who love making music and art will do it regardless of whether they need to work another job or not.
A feature to filter out results trying to sell me something. I'm so god damned sick of googling for something and getting 3 pages of results that are all storefronts trying to sell a product. Much of the time they have nearly identical html too.
I wish google had this option; if I want to buy something I'll use froogle.
I think the traditional concept of a filesystem with data organized within directories is beginning to show its age.
Why bolt on things like DB functionality and version control features (this is coming eventually...) to a traditional filesystem model when these features fit neatly with the concept of a more generalized persistent object store system?
"Look, I'm not saying that MS isn't innovating anything, but compared to everyone else, they move at a glacial pace."
Now I'm no Apple fanboy (debian fanboy) but it is pretty startling how much Apple has been able to accomplish in the last several years compared to Microsoft.
A completely revamped, stable OS, the iTunes/iPod combination, Keynote, the entire iLife suite, a web browser, a new neat piece of hardware every year or so, a stable server os along with some nice SAN software, a quick X11 implementation... the list goes on and on. Every couple months Apple has released a new, if not innovative utilitarian piece of software or hardware.
In the same time period Microsoft essentially took Windows 2000, made a few minor fixes and released XP. Security problems have continued and the only software releases we've heard much about are bugfixes. Other than their development tools they haven't released any software which compares to what Apple has released, in my mind anyway. I'm waiting for the time when Microsoft will seriously need to become competitive again. Inertia only lasts so long.
There's a huge difference between the federal government spying on its citizens and a local municipality making decisions about how to treat wifi net access.
Personally I'm often anti-gov't, but I'm quite pro-gov't when the gov't is decentralized and decisions are made at the local level.
I simply can't believe that we are still having the debate of whether or not video games influence child behavior. If a child plays video games for 2+ hours a day OF COURSE it influences their behavior. Children are like sponges; they soak up whatever they experience; our brains are designed to do this as we are growing up.
The real question is to what lengths should we go to shield children from things which would influence their behavior negatively. Personally I have no problem with an enforced ratings system.
The two counterarguments to this are:
a) Kids will burn copies anyway and play it. Response: Yes, some, but I think the/. crowd vastly overestimates the number of gaming minors who have the technical savy to find the image, butn it and mod their playstation or whatever console to play it. 25% at most. So the law would not be completely effective, but what law is?
b) This should be the job of the parent. Response: Perhaps, but the reality is we aren't living in a world where there is a parent watching their child 24/7. Many more families these days either have only one working parent or two parents working fulltime. This just isn't realistic to demand that parents monitor their kids activities 24/7 (not to mention how terrible of a parenting method that would be). Besides, mandatory ratings actually encourage the parent to get involved; if the child wants a game rated M or whatever he/she can attempt to convince the parent he/she is mature enough to handle it. The choice now rests on the parent.
Insightful? FFS, this is the FEC not the FCC.
Slashdot: Where comments displaying the lack of ability to comprehend even the article summary get modded up.
Believe it or not some people still believe it's possible to find an occupation that they enjoy _and_ they get paid for. Not only this but they are easy to find so long as you are enthusiastic and very educated on your interests. In fact people will come for you.
Um, no. You said it is more secure out of the box than most UNIX variants 'including Linux'.
I don't even know where to begin trying to understand what you meant by this.... Any particular distribution?
Your 'factual basis' is more than slightly specious.
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Einstein was the archetypal forgetful scientist.
Coming from the man with a gmail invite offer in his .sig
"Many people follow the money. We have to pay the bills, and many people don't want to work a paying job and a non-paying job at the same time. Doubly so when the non-paying job is something that people are willing to pay for. If nobody pays for music, there will be fewer musicians. Some of the lost musicians will be good ones. Probably few of the lost ones will be terrible, because they wouldn't get paid anyway. So, overall the quality drops at least a little."
I think the net result would actually be an increase in quality. For the most part the people who follow the money are the ones who are essentially created by the business (brittney, etc).
Without the huge awards of fame and fortune I think the practice of essentially creating musicians and bands (think boy bands) would cease to be profitable, and we would be left with people who enjoy making music because they have something to say.
I'm not making this point because I believe IP and copyright agreements should be ignored, I'm making it because I don't believe the argument that copyrights are there to protect the general quality of art/music/literature is defensible.
As far as making an album being a fulltime job, look at how quickly a lot of the early Beatles and Stones albums were made. Yes, a Stones album today takes months to make, but they end up being shit quality compared to earlier stones albums which were recorded in a weekend.
This is the best argument against the GPL I have ever heard.
I simply disagree. I think the phenomenon of artists and musicians being paid huge amounts of money for their work is relatively new. I also don't believe writing and recording an album is a full-time job. I have enough friends who are musicians to understand that there are FAR more people who work full-time jobs and yet manage to make great music, record it, and even play out quite often than there are musicians who record an album, make millions and sit around being fed grapes all day. People who love making music and art will do it regardless of whether they need to work another job or not.
Would anyone seriously exchange information of any importance over AIM?
A feature to filter out results trying to sell me something. I'm so god damned sick of googling for something and getting 3 pages of results that are all storefronts trying to sell a product. Much of the time they have nearly identical html too. I wish google had this option; if I want to buy something I'll use froogle.
Could someone explain to me how this is offtopic?
Um, he didn't sell Yahoo. He sold his company to Yahoo.
SGI's X11 implementation pretty much proves that there is nothing wrong with the design of X Windows in terms of allowing fast performance.
Yeah, as I expected, you don't know anything about X. The other posters nicely exposed the myth, so I won't bother.
Can you explain the gross inefficiencies of X? I suspect you've bought into a myth.
I think the point is it goes against the publicly stated mission of not being 'evil.'
But whoever really believed Google was going to become a publicly held company and not do questionable things like this is an idiot.
You represent everything that is wrong about slashdot.
I think the traditional concept of a filesystem with data organized within directories is beginning to show its age.
Why bolt on things like DB functionality and version control features (this is coming eventually...) to a traditional filesystem model when these features fit neatly with the concept of a more generalized persistent object store system?
"Look, I'm not saying that MS isn't innovating anything, but compared to everyone else, they move at a glacial pace."
Now I'm no Apple fanboy (debian fanboy) but it is pretty startling how much Apple has been able to accomplish in the last several years compared to Microsoft.
A completely revamped, stable OS, the iTunes/iPod combination, Keynote, the entire iLife suite, a web browser, a new neat piece of hardware every year or so, a stable server os along with some nice SAN software, a quick X11 implementation... the list goes on and on. Every couple months Apple has released a new, if not innovative utilitarian piece of software or hardware.
In the same time period Microsoft essentially took Windows 2000, made a few minor fixes and released XP. Security problems have continued and the only software releases we've heard much about are bugfixes. Other than their development tools they haven't released any software which compares to what Apple has released, in my mind anyway. I'm waiting for the time when Microsoft will seriously need to become competitive again. Inertia only lasts so long.
What the fuck are you talking about
There's a huge difference between the federal government spying on its citizens and a local municipality making decisions about how to treat wifi net access.
Personally I'm often anti-gov't, but I'm quite pro-gov't when the gov't is decentralized and decisions are made at the local level.
I simply can't believe that we are still having the debate of whether or not video games influence child behavior. If a child plays video games for 2+ hours a day OF COURSE it influences their behavior. Children are like sponges; they soak up whatever they experience; our brains are designed to do this as we are growing up.
/. crowd vastly overestimates the number of gaming minors who have the technical savy to find the image, butn it and mod their playstation or whatever console to play it. 25% at most. So the law would not be completely effective, but what law is?
The real question is to what lengths should we go to shield children from things which would influence their behavior negatively. Personally I have no problem with an enforced ratings system.
The two counterarguments to this are:
a) Kids will burn copies anyway and play it.
Response: Yes, some, but I think the
b) This should be the job of the parent.
Response: Perhaps, but the reality is we aren't living in a world where there is a parent watching their child 24/7. Many more families these days either have only one working parent or two parents working fulltime. This just isn't realistic to demand that parents monitor their kids activities 24/7 (not to mention how terrible of a parenting method that would be). Besides, mandatory ratings actually encourage the parent to get involved; if the child wants a game rated M or whatever he/she can attempt to convince the parent he/she is mature enough to handle it. The choice now rests on the parent.
Insightful? FFS, this is the FEC not the FCC. Slashdot: Where comments displaying the lack of ability to comprehend even the article summary get modded up.
Believe it or not some people still believe it's possible to find an occupation that they enjoy _and_ they get paid for. Not only this but they are easy to find so long as you are enthusiastic and very educated on your interests. In fact people will come for you.
There really aren't a whole lot of very good kernel developers out there. There are even fewer who take time to contribute to Linux.
Wow, now /. users not only fail to read the article, but don't even read the complete summary.
Um, no. You said it is more secure out of the box than most UNIX variants 'including Linux'. I don't even know where to begin trying to understand what you meant by this.... Any particular distribution? Your 'factual basis' is more than slightly specious.