It's quite simple - in online, you have to handle your marketing yourself. If you just replace old model with new one, but keep old way of doing things, sorry, it won't fly. Online gives posibility to compete a lot more bands than old system. And in result of course you get less money. Don't like it? Then try to stick with old system. Didn't like it too? Do pros and cons then and see what's working for you.
Also sorry, while I recognize that artists should get something about their efforts - but only then if their art is "consumed". There's tons of music out there. Tons of CC (lot of them really good ones). And it's a pitty, but some of artists can crunch really high class stuff without any sweat, but some has to do lot of pushing. So maybe it's not worth then.
I wonder how do you push vendors and resellers to set price government and voting nation would like in capitalism. Because, it's like, unless it's monopoly (and CS can be replaced with other software for some cases), they can do whatever they want and *you* have rights to ignore them, too. Come on, where's the problem?
Or current regime is not capitalism, but some kind of twisted "we all do right thing unless we doesn't like the outcome" in all cases (there are valid reasons when gov. have rights to say "stop", but this is not one of them).
It doesn't look similar how? It is similar, it's same code, just ported. Which functions are different? Applets? They slowly returns and everyone can write new ones using Gobject Introspection (that's how all GNOME Shell "Nostalgia" hacks came about). And in the end, it's just code, tweak it more closer to GNOME 2 behavior (no matter how useless I think would be).
It more and more looks like emotional posturing and less real complains about GNOME Shell.
It won't going away, it just won't be developed further by GNOME official development. No one is forbidden to move forward with it itself, even using GNOME infrastructure.
GNOME Panel 3 is cleaned up, and restructured to be better than GNOME Panel 2, which really uses lots of obsolete hacks and technologies.
And my comment was about that it would be easier to take GNOME Panel 3 than port GNOME 2 - *again*.
It's already ported! It's cleaned up code, GObject introspected (hint: you can write extentions for it with same ease as for GNOME Shell), GTK+3/GNOME 3 technologies ready.
But no, should do your own port, because using native GNOME 3 (just without GNOME Shell) is blasphemy.
As common and usual, people start to use user content news outlets for policying - no surprise there. Apple gloating, Apple bashing, GNOME bashing (that's old as GNOME is - first GNOME was itself a joke, then GNOME 3 came and suddenly everyone admited they love their panels), OLPC bashing (I haven't read any objective article on that project here, never), Microsoft bashing thanks God is gone mostly...
The best articles and comments are about neitral subjects really rest of it is just heated nothing. As this article - sensacionalist title, first paragraph, but futher Economist admits that laptops alone won't solve problem - well, duh, it was known like 5 years ago after first failures of this project. However, comments turns out regular bashing and calling it like pushing Linux to the masses, or done by people who doesn't understand what they do.
Problem is that old school educators are stonewalling any efforts of "self education", because they afraid to loose their jobs. And unfortunately, they don't care about children. And no, it's happening all over the world. Computers can be and should be used to educate children - it is simply more effective - if done right. And to do it right is quite simple. But getting there and letting old system go is more of adult's biggest psychological challenge in this project ever.
And thousand of fanbois goes "nutso" because Ashton isn't "deep" enough to play first class prima donna Jobs:)
If serious about that (and I don't know if this ain't still April Fools) Ashton have really good look alike similarity to early Jobs, he has good screen energy (yeah, I know it gets wasted on lot of useless things, but still - he has charisma), and I guess he is really aching to prove himself as good actor. And material is interesting - Jobs was complex persona. Maybe it will work, I don't know.
Anyway, as any artistic rendering - you can watch it, you can pirate it, you can ignore it. Your choice.
It is very easy to say something outrageous and stereotypical. I think Estonian or Fin would disagree with you. They certanly don't sing hymns for their goverments, but they that they're trying their best.
Problem with UK and US citizens that they are weaklings - they are mirroring their "lobby democracy expierence" to rest of the world, and think it's unbeatable. Because ohh, life is too short, and you're already one payement short for your house loan. Run, critter, run.
It's because of globalisation of food market, which gaves Western countries dangerously false sense of security about food resouces they have. It is not like goverment institutions aren't aware about this danger, I guess they know it allright, they just tend to overlook it.
From other side, it gives something for farmers in my country (and frankly, most of Europe) to export. Still, it is heavily subsided. But it's not definitely very black and white - while middle men as definition is plague, lot of farmers have something to grow and export because of Western markets, so complex issue.
And while lot of people like to trash such manifactured food, friend of mine who's excelent scientist in food industry says while all that stuff is nothing to be proud of (like all litle tricks they keep food fresh and not rotten), their dangers are definitely overplayed (you are still more guaranteed to die from sugar overtake over years than E category substances). But it's understandable, considering mystery un secrets clouding food industry.
I'm down to bare essentials - plain water, buckwheat, plain yogurt and regular eating schedule. Tomatos and other greens twice a week. And I feeling more healthy than ever.
What would difference it would make if this was real? Apple looking for another producer? Apple fanbois suddenly starting to believe that their beloved company isn't all controled peace and happiness?
Get real, that's China. And how someone pointed out, things like these have been going for years, and not only for Apple. And as long as they will produce stuff cheapily and we will be happy to buy it - it won't change a thing. They still be billions piss poor people.
Unless China produced stuff gets heavy tarrifs (and every country who does it gets thrown out from WTO), it ain't gonna happen.
Your profit incentive IS product YOU SOLD FOR PROFIT. What is so hard to understand? One market cycle is *TWO* years aprox. In these two years, yeah, some copycats will spring up, but that's it. If you haven't get your profit level you dreamt about by then, surprise - you won't ever, because new stuff gets released and your gets replaced.
Don't like it? Well, that's life in capitalism *without* bandaid from goverment. Where you will go with your money? Right, NOWHERE. You will have to stay here and compete.
Bullocks. In the end all those called enterprise guys just wants guaranteed money without breaking a sweat.
Denial is not the right way to deal with the change.
Cloud *is* making low level admins out of job. I know hundreds of companies which uses Google Apps and leaves management of IT to one guy who is managing about such ten companies at once. And I have to break sad news for you - I actually can't remember where I have seen company with it's own web server within their own server room. Either it is old physical server at data center, but mostly it is virtual server instance at huge system, or even a shared host (not very wise idea if you are about getting tons of visitors, but for startup - it all matters how much it cost).
You probably won't like the truth but IT *finally* helps common crowd to deal with their business - and it cuts their costs too. Yep, medium and high level sysadmins will be needed. Also there will be need for virtualisation gurus. But if you are in small administration, then you should understand that change is happening.
In fact, I don't worry about admins. Because as far as I know admins are most adaptive people from IT sector.
It's a Russian's goverment foreign propaganda arm, so it usually tries to shoot down Western views on Syria, Egypt, Libya - you name it. But this news bit seems to be legit. This is definitely screwed up situation. I hope that company gets it's lesson well.
iTunes is explict monopoly in this field, and available only in selected countries. Even where it is available there is no full service - in some countries everything is very expensive even in iTunes, in most countries you can't buy newest stuff, and you can't buy tv episodes.
I wouldn't call it exactly a choice. However, I'm planning to buy 21 and Wasting Light in it, as (finally) I can do it legally in my country.
I really enjoy rights of free speech, and I will get modded down for this, but I will say: ENOUGH WITH THIS - "BUT..BUT...BUT US IS NO BETTER!" - BULLSHIT. It is childish to insist to push your message like this and you know it - but still doing it. And no, you won't get death row because you will say something awfully bad about Jesus or Maria or God in US.
So get a grip, really. One think is constructive criticism of capitalism (or social, or whatever) system of US, but something totally different from outright comparing US with Saudi Arabia where they perform death penalty by sword. And for reasons like this.
You really *don't* have a fucking clue what's going on in Russia, do you? Completely empty buzzword comparison. While of course it's oligarchy, however it is totally different in execution.
Believe me, what's going on with Capitalism in US and the world is bad enough on their own. There's no need to attach it to to every criticism on Russia:)
Why on every criticism on Russia there's usual comparing with US? In this case, heaviest astroturfing from Microsoft pales from organizational level of Kremlin "web force". These guys are full time, full convinced that they are doing right job, not some bored PR guys playing "casual users".
This is actually non-news. Everyone with long enough experience with web for last four years have seen them at almost any article or resource giving Russia, Soviet Union or Kremlin bad rep. Wikipedia articles about USSR or about Bolshevist crimes - those pages have experienced heavy shelling from these guys. They are obsessed with pointing that you are wrong, not they.
I don't even care about them anymore. I'm just sad that such big country and yet they are living in paranoia, investing almost nothing in infrastructure, but in same time waste their money to play hardliners and allow people to die (yeah, about Syria), and meddling with politics in their neighborhood countries. You can't get your respect in such way.
Nothing really more to say, haven't followed this one that closely, but as I read in ArsTechnica ReDigi have made sure that their system is according to (their interpretation) of the law, which is still much higher level than Megaupload.
This case also will be really interesting, because it clashes author rights to control distribution of copyrighted work and first sale doctorine. And juge seems to be sane so whatever his decision will be I will treat with respect.
For example, I'm musician. I write a nice song (I think so), I record it, I invest time and money for perfecting it.
After that - now what?
Do you really there is guarantee that my song is so good that anybody would buy it? It's a *risk* - that's why it is luxury good, not first necessity stuff. People will always buy bread, they will pay their phone bills so they can call for help, for their relatives, etc. But do they need my song? It is never clear.
What's happening here is that movie industry are trying to force laws to be written to minimize that risk even more. They are the most protected industry in the world - and they still make fraction of the other industries.
So in nutshell, yes, there would be less entertainment - but higher in quality. Banks who finances this stuff would have to accept less profits. Producers would have to accept that they will have two or three cars, not seven. So what - it is end of the world? No, it is sanity and balance.
Restore old limits of copyright terms, shred scope of side rights, and then we can get talking.
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It's quite simple - in online, you have to handle your marketing yourself. If you just replace old model with new one, but keep old way of doing things, sorry, it won't fly. Online gives posibility to compete a lot more bands than old system. And in result of course you get less money. Don't like it? Then try to stick with old system. Didn't like it too? Do pros and cons then and see what's working for you.
Also sorry, while I recognize that artists should get something about their efforts - but only then if their art is "consumed". There's tons of music out there. Tons of CC (lot of them really good ones). And it's a pitty, but some of artists can crunch really high class stuff without any sweat, but some has to do lot of pushing. So maybe it's not worth then.
It has to pass ES legislation too, not only national constitution.
Then on what legal grounds you want to ban them? :)
I wonder how do you push vendors and resellers to set price government and voting nation would like in capitalism. Because, it's like, unless it's monopoly (and CS can be replaced with other software for some cases), they can do whatever they want and *you* have rights to ignore them, too. Come on, where's the problem?
Or current regime is not capitalism, but some kind of twisted "we all do right thing unless we doesn't like the outcome" in all cases (there are valid reasons when gov. have rights to say "stop", but this is not one of them).
It doesn't look similar how? It is similar, it's same code, just ported. Which functions are different? Applets? They slowly returns and everyone can write new ones using Gobject Introspection (that's how all GNOME Shell "Nostalgia" hacks came about). And in the end, it's just code, tweak it more closer to GNOME 2 behavior (no matter how useless I think would be).
It more and more looks like emotional posturing and less real complains about GNOME Shell.
It won't going away, it just won't be developed further by GNOME official development. No one is forbidden to move forward with it itself, even using GNOME infrastructure.
GNOME Panel 3 is cleaned up, and restructured to be better than GNOME Panel 2, which really uses lots of obsolete hacks and technologies.
And my comment was about that it would be easier to take GNOME Panel 3 than port GNOME 2 - *again*.
It's already ported! It's cleaned up code, GObject introspected (hint: you can write extentions for it with same ease as for GNOME Shell), GTK+3/GNOME 3 technologies ready.
But no, should do your own port, because using native GNOME 3 (just without GNOME Shell) is blasphemy.
As common and usual, people start to use user content news outlets for policying - no surprise there. Apple gloating, Apple bashing, GNOME bashing (that's old as GNOME is - first GNOME was itself a joke, then GNOME 3 came and suddenly everyone admited they love their panels), OLPC bashing (I haven't read any objective article on that project here, never), Microsoft bashing thanks God is gone mostly...
The best articles and comments are about neitral subjects really rest of it is just heated nothing. As this article - sensacionalist title, first paragraph, but futher Economist admits that laptops alone won't solve problem - well, duh, it was known like 5 years ago after first failures of this project. However, comments turns out regular bashing and calling it like pushing Linux to the masses, or done by people who doesn't understand what they do.
Problem is that old school educators are stonewalling any efforts of "self education", because they afraid to loose their jobs. And unfortunately, they don't care about children. And no, it's happening all over the world. Computers can be and should be used to educate children - it is simply more effective - if done right. And to do it right is quite simple. But getting there and letting old system go is more of adult's biggest psychological challenge in this project ever.
And thousand of fanbois goes "nutso" because Ashton isn't "deep" enough to play first class prima donna Jobs :)
If serious about that (and I don't know if this ain't still April Fools) Ashton have really good look alike similarity to early Jobs, he has good screen energy (yeah, I know it gets wasted on lot of useless things, but still - he has charisma), and I guess he is really aching to prove himself as good actor. And material is interesting - Jobs was complex persona. Maybe it will work, I don't know.
Anyway, as any artistic rendering - you can watch it, you can pirate it, you can ignore it. Your choice.
It is very easy to say something outrageous and stereotypical. I think Estonian or Fin would disagree with you. They certanly don't sing hymns for their goverments, but they that they're trying their best.
Problem with UK and US citizens that they are weaklings - they are mirroring their "lobby democracy expierence" to rest of the world, and think it's unbeatable. Because ohh, life is too short, and you're already one payement short for your house loan. Run, critter, run.
Guess what, it all takes to just stop running.
It's because of globalisation of food market, which gaves Western countries dangerously false sense of security about food resouces they have. It is not like goverment institutions aren't aware about this danger, I guess they know it allright, they just tend to overlook it.
From other side, it gives something for farmers in my country (and frankly, most of Europe) to export. Still, it is heavily subsided. But it's not definitely very black and white - while middle men as definition is plague, lot of farmers have something to grow and export because of Western markets, so complex issue.
And while lot of people like to trash such manifactured food, friend of mine who's excelent scientist in food industry says while all that stuff is nothing to be proud of (like all litle tricks they keep food fresh and not rotten), their dangers are definitely overplayed (you are still more guaranteed to die from sugar overtake over years than E category substances). But it's understandable, considering mystery un secrets clouding food industry.
I'm down to bare essentials - plain water, buckwheat, plain yogurt and regular eating schedule. Tomatos and other greens twice a week. And I feeling more healthy than ever.
What would difference it would make if this was real? Apple looking for another producer? Apple fanbois suddenly starting to believe that their beloved company isn't all controled peace and happiness?
Get real, that's China. And how someone pointed out, things like these have been going for years, and not only for Apple. And as long as they will produce stuff cheapily and we will be happy to buy it - it won't change a thing. They still be billions piss poor people.
Unless China produced stuff gets heavy tarrifs (and every country who does it gets thrown out from WTO), it ain't gonna happen.
Full Bullcrap.
Your profit incentive IS product YOU SOLD FOR PROFIT. What is so hard to understand? One market cycle is *TWO* years aprox. In these two years, yeah, some copycats will spring up, but that's it. If you haven't get your profit level you dreamt about by then, surprise - you won't ever, because new stuff gets released and your gets replaced.
Don't like it? Well, that's life in capitalism *without* bandaid from goverment. Where you will go with your money? Right, NOWHERE. You will have to stay here and compete.
Bullocks. In the end all those called enterprise guys just wants guaranteed money without breaking a sweat.
Denial is not the right way to deal with the change.
Cloud *is* making low level admins out of job. I know hundreds of companies which uses Google Apps and leaves management of IT to one guy who is managing about such ten companies at once. And I have to break sad news for you - I actually can't remember where I have seen company with it's own web server within their own server room. Either it is old physical server at data center, but mostly it is virtual server instance at huge system, or even a shared host (not very wise idea if you are about getting tons of visitors, but for startup - it all matters how much it cost).
You probably won't like the truth but IT *finally* helps common crowd to deal with their business - and it cuts their costs too. Yep, medium and high level sysadmins will be needed. Also there will be need for virtualisation gurus. But if you are in small administration, then you should understand that change is happening.
In fact, I don't worry about admins. Because as far as I know admins are most adaptive people from IT sector.
What kind of BS is this? Muslims, dissidents, executed by drones? :)
It's a Russian's goverment foreign propaganda arm, so it usually tries to shoot down Western views on Syria, Egypt, Libya - you name it. But this news bit seems to be legit. This is definitely screwed up situation. I hope that company gets it's lesson well.
Strange. Because it works for me :)
Cheero, and don't let the hate enjoy free desktop :) Use what your poison is (mine is truly GNOME Shell) and be happy.
iTunes is explict monopoly in this field, and available only in selected countries. Even where it is available there is no full service - in some countries everything is very expensive even in iTunes, in most countries you can't buy newest stuff, and you can't buy tv episodes.
I wouldn't call it exactly a choice. However, I'm planning to buy 21 and Wasting Light in it, as (finally) I can do it legally in my country.
I really enjoy rights of free speech, and I will get modded down for this, but I will say:
ENOUGH WITH THIS - "BUT..BUT...BUT US IS NO BETTER!" - BULLSHIT. It is childish to insist to push your message like this and you know it - but still doing it. And no, you won't get death row because you will say something awfully bad about Jesus or Maria or God in US.
So get a grip, really. One think is constructive criticism of capitalism (or social, or whatever) system of US, but something totally different from outright comparing US with Saudi Arabia where they perform death penalty by sword. And for reasons like this.
Again have to repeat this - Estonia haven't even signed yet, and they are quite serious have good discussion about ACTA.
I know it's boring to mention countries where government actually work for people, but come on :)
You really *don't* have a fucking clue what's going on in Russia, do you? Completely empty buzzword comparison. While of course it's oligarchy, however it is totally different in execution.
Believe me, what's going on with Capitalism in US and the world is bad enough on their own. There's no need to attach it to to every criticism on Russia :)
Why on every criticism on Russia there's usual comparing with US? In this case, heaviest astroturfing from Microsoft pales from organizational level of Kremlin "web force". These guys are full time, full convinced that they are doing right job, not some bored PR guys playing "casual users".
....Ohhh, nevermind :)
This is actually non-news. Everyone with long enough experience with web for last four years have seen them at almost any article or resource giving Russia, Soviet Union or Kremlin bad rep. Wikipedia articles about USSR or about Bolshevist crimes - those pages have experienced heavy shelling from these guys. They are obsessed with pointing that you are wrong, not they.
I don't even care about them anymore. I'm just sad that such big country and yet they are living in paranoia, investing almost nothing in infrastructure, but in same time waste their money to play hardliners and allow people to die (yeah, about Syria), and meddling with politics in their neighborhood countries. You can't get your respect in such way.
Nothing really more to say, haven't followed this one that closely, but as I read in ArsTechnica ReDigi have made sure that their system is according to (their interpretation) of the law, which is still much higher level than Megaupload.
This case also will be really interesting, because it clashes author rights to control distribution of copyrighted work and first sale doctorine. And juge seems to be sane so whatever his decision will be I will treat with respect.
For example, I'm musician. I write a nice song (I think so), I record it, I invest time and money for perfecting it.
After that - now what?
Do you really there is guarantee that my song is so good that anybody would buy it? It's a *risk* - that's why it is luxury good, not first necessity stuff. People will always buy bread, they will pay their phone bills so they can call for help, for their relatives, etc. But do they need my song? It is never clear.
What's happening here is that movie industry are trying to force laws to be written to minimize that risk even more. They are the most protected industry in the world - and they still make fraction of the other industries.
So in nutshell, yes, there would be less entertainment - but higher in quality. Banks who finances this stuff would have to accept less profits. Producers would have to accept that they will have two or three cars, not seven. So what - it is end of the world? No, it is sanity and balance.
Restore old limits of copyright terms, shred scope of side rights, and then we can get talking.