Lions, Tigers, and Closed Envrios OH MY!
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I can't wrap my head around all the fuss about the iPad being a closed device. So what if you can't get root out of the box? This means that novice users can't break it easily. The Apple experience is an experience where "it just works." The Macintosh, the iMac, and OSX are all products of bringing users to wonderful applications, technologies, experiences, and opportunities in a method that "just works." You don't have to set dip switches, you hardly ever have to install a driver, you don't need to find a missing.dll and you don't need to compile anything. You just point, click, and use. There is a HUGE market for this, especially if you were born before 1970. I think cars are a good analogy - buy a 1969 Chevy with a 350 in it and when you open the hood, boom, you had all access. Swap headers, put in a better carb, even make the air intake stick out of the hood. But if you screwed up the timing chain or used the wrong alternator, you bricked your car. Buy a new BMW, look under the hood, and you see a nice clean BMW logo and a lot of plastic covers. They made it, they made it as well as they could, and if you mess with it you'll probably screw it up!!
Apple has always done the same thing by keeping its logo nice and shiny on top and engineering everything underneath so that it works. I'm not a drone and I like jailbreaking my phone so I can customize it, but most of the good ideas that were coded and created by other software engineers was eventually integrated into the Apple experience. Think Soundjam for iTunes. I'm sure Apple has future OS' for the phone and pad that lets you do whatever you wanted to when it was jailbroken but stock. They just can't think of everything the first time around OR they didn't want to release the device with those features since it cut down on performance (my jailbroken iPhone runs much slower than the stock version).
All I'm sayin is just 'cause they put out a great device without root access doesn't mean you don't have full ownership and it doesn't mean that they are creating more consumer drones. They are putting out a product that works to spec and their record shows that the keep improving in my opinion.
We can produce far more ethanol from sugar, switchgrass, and hemp. We need to re-organize our national priorities to explore these crops and keep corn as food, not as fuel. Sorry corn lobby. When you use E85 the difference in emissions in undeniable. Who cares about E10. Its time to do what Brazil has already done and get off Gas, and jump on a fuel we can create domestically and sustain a healthier world.
look, music is intellectual art. Its something someone made because they wanted to. Now I won't say there haven't been people that just want to write a song to make a gold single and buy a house with that, but I will say that most artists start at least to do it for reasons other than profit. Our western capitalist culture is very picky about the reward we give for art and vise versa. Music is built up by the record lables, the RIAA, so that it can get out, but only for a profit, because if they fail then the business fails. What this creates is a mindset of THX1138, to buy and work and buy and nevermind anything else, even the motives or quality of those actions. Thus we get pop music and all the bad crap out there, but people gobble it up because someone tells them to. The industry doesn't even NEED to tell people that they have to buy anymore, that step is done with. Its a very easy advertising strategy to say "The must-have album of the year!" "You need this CD!" "An album no XXX fan should live withou!" People are already used to buying crap like it was a reflex. Someone made a great point about a price floor. When the RIAA gets greedy is when the pirates come in. Remeber when they complained about naptster, it wasn't that nothing was selling...it was that they made (and this is a hyperbole for the sake of argument however is true on the right scale) 10 bazillion dollars instead of 12.5 bazillion dollars. "Well excuse me Mr. fat cat rich RIAA CEO. I'm so freakin sorry. I should be buying your price fixed CD for $20 at boarders books&music when it cost you maybe a buck to produce." Ya right.
"Oh but Mr. Pirate, you are cheating the poor artists out of their hard earned money. They produced the art you love so you should pay them for it."
Again, please. The artists get a dime per CD...maybe. I'd rather burn the CD and send the artist the dime!
The big corporations (who give money to government to get legislation...yes, it is that easy) are screwing the consumers because they already spent tons of time and money breeding a culture that does nothing but spends. Why? Because they can.
Well, hobbes and locke were wrong. Not everyone HAS to succumb to the same social contract as everyone else to make it all work. I can get by simply by burning my music, screwing the corporate entity and sleep just fine.
There is a sliding scale to right and wrong. There is grey in between the black and white. Stealing billions by pulling a fast one on the public is more black than white, and stealing a CD from those giants is more white than black. They are both grey, both wrong, both right. You can thank capitalism to that, well at least the american version of it.
Make music to be appreciated, appreciate the artists and see them when they come around to play. Thats where they get their money. Revolt against the corporate. Give your business to small labels that don't gouge the public and don't produce crap just to sell it. There are things we can do as a consumer force.
He was an asshole in high school. The type who thought his intellect was higher than anyone else's. I guess he wasn't smart enough to not realize he was being tracked by the Federalis for months. He was just being stupid and deserves what he gets. I'm all for free info, but this stuff isn't exactly free info for the masses. I pray that there aren't any "FREE THIS IDIOT" stickers popping up, because Igor really doesn't deserve it. Not like Mitnick did atleast.
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I can't wrap my head around all the fuss about the iPad being a closed device. So what if you can't get root out of the box? This means that novice users can't break it easily. The Apple experience is an experience where "it just works." The Macintosh, the iMac, and OSX are all products of bringing users to wonderful applications, technologies, experiences, and opportunities in a method that "just works." You don't have to set dip switches, you hardly ever have to install a driver, you don't need to find a missing .dll and you don't need to compile anything. You just point, click, and use. There is a HUGE market for this, especially if you were born before 1970. I think cars are a good analogy - buy a 1969 Chevy with a 350 in it and when you open the hood, boom, you had all access. Swap headers, put in a better carb, even make the air intake stick out of the hood. But if you screwed up the timing chain or used the wrong alternator, you bricked your car. Buy a new BMW, look under the hood, and you see a nice clean BMW logo and a lot of plastic covers. They made it, they made it as well as they could, and if you mess with it you'll probably screw it up!!
Apple has always done the same thing by keeping its logo nice and shiny on top and engineering everything underneath so that it works. I'm not a drone and I like jailbreaking my phone so I can customize it, but most of the good ideas that were coded and created by other software engineers was eventually integrated into the Apple experience. Think Soundjam for iTunes. I'm sure Apple has future OS' for the phone and pad that lets you do whatever you wanted to when it was jailbroken but stock. They just can't think of everything the first time around OR they didn't want to release the device with those features since it cut down on performance (my jailbroken iPhone runs much slower than the stock version).
All I'm sayin is just 'cause they put out a great device without root access doesn't mean you don't have full ownership and it doesn't mean that they are creating more consumer drones. They are putting out a product that works to spec and their record shows that the keep improving in my opinion.
We can produce far more ethanol from sugar, switchgrass, and hemp. We need to re-organize our national priorities to explore these crops and keep corn as food, not as fuel. Sorry corn lobby. When you use E85 the difference in emissions in undeniable. Who cares about E10. Its time to do what Brazil has already done and get off Gas, and jump on a fuel we can create domestically and sustain a healthier world.
look, music is intellectual art. Its something someone made because they wanted to. Now I won't say there haven't been people that just want to write a song to make a gold single and buy a house with that, but I will say that most artists start at least to do it for reasons other than profit. Our western capitalist culture is very picky about the reward we give for art and vise versa. Music is built up by the record lables, the RIAA, so that it can get out, but only for a profit, because if they fail then the business fails. What this creates is a mindset of THX1138, to buy and work and buy and nevermind anything else, even the motives or quality of those actions. Thus we get pop music and all the bad crap out there, but people gobble it up because someone tells them to. The industry doesn't even NEED to tell people that they have to buy anymore, that step is done with. Its a very easy advertising strategy to say "The must-have album of the year!" "You need this CD!" "An album no XXX fan should live withou!" People are already used to buying crap like it was a reflex. Someone made a great point about a price floor. When the RIAA gets greedy is when the pirates come in. Remeber when they complained about naptster, it wasn't that nothing was selling...it was that they made (and this is a hyperbole for the sake of argument however is true on the right scale) 10 bazillion dollars instead of 12.5 bazillion dollars. "Well excuse me Mr. fat cat rich RIAA CEO. I'm so freakin sorry. I should be buying your price fixed CD for $20 at boarders books&music when it cost you maybe a buck to produce." Ya right.
"Oh but Mr. Pirate, you are cheating the poor artists out of their hard earned money. They produced the art you love so you should pay them for it."
Again, please. The artists get a dime per CD...maybe. I'd rather burn the CD and send the artist the dime!
The big corporations (who give money to government to get legislation...yes, it is that easy) are screwing the consumers because they already spent tons of time and money breeding a culture that does nothing but spends. Why? Because they can.
Well, hobbes and locke were wrong. Not everyone HAS to succumb to the same social contract as everyone else to make it all work. I can get by simply by burning my music, screwing the corporate entity and sleep just fine.
There is a sliding scale to right and wrong. There is grey in between the black and white. Stealing billions by pulling a fast one on the public is more black than white, and stealing a CD from those giants is more white than black. They are both grey, both wrong, both right. You can thank capitalism to that, well at least the american version of it.
Make music to be appreciated, appreciate the artists and see them when they come around to play. Thats where they get their money. Revolt against the corporate. Give your business to small labels that don't gouge the public and don't produce crap just to sell it. There are things we can do as a consumer force.
He was an asshole in high school. The type who thought his intellect was higher than anyone else's. I guess he wasn't smart enough to not realize he was being tracked by the Federalis for months. He was just being stupid and deserves what he gets. I'm all for free info, but this stuff isn't exactly free info for the masses. I pray that there aren't any "FREE THIS IDIOT" stickers popping up, because Igor really doesn't deserve it. Not like Mitnick did atleast.