Real time video of Pi Day's Eve celebration 2009!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1QcnhShq2A
As part of the first Official National Pi Day, we've filmed this historic event in real time, starting on Pi Day's Eve and continuing into Pi Day with the traditional Calculation Celebration.
After viewing, many can recall Pi to eleven digits!
DRM is the future, you can't stop it. Your children in 20 years won't be able to buy plain old music CDs anymore because the RIAA won't release it unsecured like that. If they still sell physical media, they'll have changed the format over to something DRM'd.
I think this is a bit of a defeatist attitude. If the RIAA only released DRM'd media, I hope the world would have the sense to finally stop buying anything from the RIAA.
I think it's important during these times to remember that the potential energy of consumer actions can easily overpower the 'Big Five'.
Most of the music by those assholes is shitty compared to smaller labels, anyway.
I don't understand how anyone can be interested in this kind of "subscription" service. With the magazine subscriptions of the old days, you could keep your back issues near the toilet for reading forever and ever. This new kind of subscription would be like all your old magazines bursting into flames as soon as you decide you want to quit.
I would never allow myself to be locked-in to anything in this way.
At the end of this movie, Steve Jobs says to Bill Gates, "We're better than you," to which Gates replies, "You just don't get it... That doesn't matter!"
This still holds true today. It doesn't make any difference if Microsoft has no imagination or invention because the mass of consumption and forces of conformity give them room to sit back and relax. While others need to innovate, MS only needs to assure their customers that the stolen ideas will come a few months later.
(Or years later.)
I think this is pretty well thought out. With all the garbage that's happening with the RIAA, and all the slippery slope questions like "what about selling for 0$", it becomes a legal time bomb.
Apple decides to come out as the medium-good guy without doing any real work. Very well planned. They must be good at chess.
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Real time video of Pi Day's Eve celebration 2009! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1QcnhShq2A As part of the first Official National Pi Day, we've filmed this historic event in real time, starting on Pi Day's Eve and continuing into Pi Day with the traditional Calculation Celebration. After viewing, many can recall Pi to eleven digits!
I think this is a bit of a defeatist attitude. If the RIAA only released DRM'd media, I hope the world would have the sense to finally stop buying anything from the RIAA.
I think it's important during these times to remember that the potential energy of consumer actions can easily overpower the 'Big Five'.
Most of the music by those assholes is shitty compared to smaller labels, anyway.
I don't understand how anyone can be interested in this kind of "subscription" service. With the magazine subscriptions of the old days, you could keep your back issues near the toilet for reading forever and ever. This new kind of subscription would be like all your old magazines bursting into flames as soon as you decide you want to quit.
I would never allow myself to be locked-in to anything in this way.
At the end of this movie, Steve Jobs says to Bill Gates, "We're better than you," to which Gates replies, "You just don't get it... That doesn't matter!" This still holds true today. It doesn't make any difference if Microsoft has no imagination or invention because the mass of consumption and forces of conformity give them room to sit back and relax. While others need to innovate, MS only needs to assure their customers that the stolen ideas will come a few months later. (Or years later.)
I think this is pretty well thought out. With all the garbage that's happening with the RIAA, and all the slippery slope questions like "what about selling for 0$", it becomes a legal time bomb. Apple decides to come out as the medium-good guy without doing any real work. Very well planned. They must be good at chess.