The fact that legal downloads are popular won't stop the record label companies from scapegoating p2p downloading whenever they make less money because they never showed p2p was cause of their lower profits. So it won't matter that iTunes or whatever download model is successful as long as the music industry keeps making less $ than it wants. I read several articles explaining that the music industry made lots of $ when CDs came out because everyone had to convert their old music to the new format. Once that was complete, sales dropped and profits were lower. Thus, unless the RIAA invents a new format requiring everyone to repurchase their music again, profits will not return to higher levels regardless of iTunes.
Now it will be even easier for tarrorists to IM each other on the airplane (complete with the sneering faces icon set.)
Actually no one will care if the plane is 'jacked because everyone will be too busy IMing each other: ROFATTF (Rolling on the Floor at Thirty Thousand Feet.)
Dear Reader:
Enclosed is a free sample of oxycotin. We are sending to you because we are in a bind you see. The Nigerian department of South America has $10 million dollars from the government to Rush Limbaugh's school of Churches. We need you to wire us $5000 immediately to help free this money from government oppression.
thank you,
Ubuntu
Combine the fact that EVERYTHING is terrorism--copyright violations, every hacker etc. with this wonderful bit of super surveillance and how long before GNU/Linux is defined as an instrument of terrorism? Or until all of our tools become illegal in the name of the Fatherland?
Begun the Clone Wars have.
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Wouldn't the steering wheel always think everything is spinning?
The article says nothing new. Some people who are younger are smarter than some people who are older. Big deal. We all knew that. Investors don't necessarily want smart people; they want people with experience because they're the ones who have the judgment to make good decisions. Being smart is certainly important, because that determines whether you can learn from your experiences. The younger a person is, the less likely they will have had the same breadth/depth of experience as an older person, and may be less capable of making good business decisions.
Automation also eliminates jobs. The profits you speak of go to those who already have the $ to invest in the company and to the CEO & other Corporate Officers. Those who lose their jobs due to automation cannot afford the cheaper prices because they don't have a job and do not benefit from the allegedly rising stock prices.
Besides, stock prices also crashed several times, including in the late nineties. Was that capitalism at its finest too?
Your whole notion of leaving the country if you don't like it is also fascist and undemocratic. Democracy is about bringing about change through voting and voice in government, not being suppressed and told to leave.
You are confusing a couple of things. First, the RIAA is NOT the government/police. Police ARE allowed -- after getting a warrant and following proper procedure--to get the information. This is a private entity that is trying to force another private company to give up what it considers private information regarding its customer base. Further, even the government must obtain a warrant before forcing someone to cough up this information, something the RIAA has not done. Thus, the lawyer's privacy argument is well-placed.
Unfortunately, there is no privacy at work. If you are using the company's computer and/or their network, they pretty much can monitor you no matter what. And since MS gives you/companies the option to send the information, it may not matter. It sounds like users might become new beta testers.
Hopefully they won't mess up and forget to turn on some really important flag in the kernel, only to discover none of their software is compiled for USB.
George Lucas has successfully destroyed his creative storytelling gift with his business "sense." With JarJar and those terrible "romantic" scenes and explaining the force as the product of a bunch of little organisms, his movies are littered with these gimicky pop-up ads of marketing that have little to no place in the storyline.
He even screwed up his original movies by adding a lot of unnecessary sounds and very obvious CGI, both of which just stand out too much in the re-releases. I'm glad they cleaned up the movie, but why add lots of new distracting and often irritating hi-pitched sounds? Because Lucas can milk the money train.
Cat's out of the bag. I wouldn't return MEOW copy. I had a FELINE this was going to happen. I bet Apple is CATegorically CATatonic with this CATaclysmic CATastrophe.
Since no one understood my point, let me elaborate. What I was trying to say is that eventually Indian companies will have to ship their infringing products to the United States or other patent-supporting country, in which case they will come under US court jurisdiction which can enforce the patent against infringing Indian companies. By allowing patents in India, Indian companies would avoid infringing now by building or licensing around patented products for fear of being sued in the immediate short-run. Without a patent system in India, companies would build infringing products now thinking they were free and clear and if any of that software finds its way into any product in the United States or other patent country, the US patent holder could sue them, potentially invalidating years of work and costing Indian companies billions of dollars. I know you're going to say that the Indian companies will just ignore the suits, but that's not the way it works in global markets where the US and other countries can and will exert economic/political pressure to require India to enforce patents as a condition for receiving aid or IMF loans, etc. That was my point. You may now attack me and call me names.
This is a terrible detriment to Indian companies because they will not get to patent their software while other competing countries will (like the US, etc.) The other countries' companies can then enforce the patent against Indian companies, effectively blocking them out of developing software. Because of the lack of patents, Indian companies won't be able to cross license deals with other companies and will be left out in the cold, unable to write certain code. Software patents suck, but like nuclear bombs, once someone gets one, everyone needs one.
This just proves that laws like the DCMA will stifle innovation. Frankly, America has too many laws written by large special interests with $ to lobby Congress. The rest of us suffer because of their greed.
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There are lots of R2 units. Maybe he didn't remember this particular one.
I like to write them down in my Slashdot journal so I can access them from anywhere.
The fact that legal downloads are popular won't stop the record label companies from scapegoating p2p downloading whenever they make less money because they never showed p2p was cause of their lower profits. So it won't matter that iTunes or whatever download model is successful as long as the music industry keeps making less $ than it wants. I read several articles explaining that the music industry made lots of $ when CDs came out because everyone had to convert their old music to the new format. Once that was complete, sales dropped and profits were lower. Thus, unless the RIAA invents a new format requiring everyone to repurchase their music again, profits will not return to higher levels regardless of iTunes.
Now it will be even easier for tarrorists to IM each other on the airplane (complete with the sneering faces icon set.) Actually no one will care if the plane is 'jacked because everyone will be too busy IMing each other: ROFATTF (Rolling on the Floor at Thirty Thousand Feet.)
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Dear Reader: Enclosed is a free sample of oxycotin. We are sending to you because we are in a bind you see. The Nigerian department of South America has $10 million dollars from the government to Rush Limbaugh's school of Churches. We need you to wire us $5000 immediately to help free this money from government oppression. thank you, Ubuntu
Combine the fact that EVERYTHING is terrorism--copyright violations, every hacker etc. with this wonderful bit of super surveillance and how long before GNU/Linux is defined as an instrument of terrorism? Or until all of our tools become illegal in the name of the Fatherland? Begun the Clone Wars have.
Wouldn't the steering wheel always think everything is spinning?
The OpenUsability Portal says IT does not meet its own usability requirements!
The article says nothing new. Some people who are younger are smarter than some people who are older. Big deal. We all knew that. Investors don't necessarily want smart people; they want people with experience because they're the ones who have the judgment to make good decisions. Being smart is certainly important, because that determines whether you can learn from your experiences. The younger a person is, the less likely they will have had the same breadth/depth of experience as an older person, and may be less capable of making good business decisions.
Automation also eliminates jobs. The profits you speak of go to those who already have the $ to invest in the company and to the CEO & other Corporate Officers. Those who lose their jobs due to automation cannot afford the cheaper prices because they don't have a job and do not benefit from the allegedly rising stock prices. Besides, stock prices also crashed several times, including in the late nineties. Was that capitalism at its finest too? Your whole notion of leaving the country if you don't like it is also fascist and undemocratic. Democracy is about bringing about change through voting and voice in government, not being suppressed and told to leave.
As slow as Sarge has been to be released, you would think it was frozen long ago. But seriously, I wonder if this is a way to prempt Ubuntu.
What about thin clients for models? They regurgitate whatever information you feed them.
Just a matter of time before Lucas decides to sue him.
You are confusing a couple of things. First, the RIAA is NOT the government/police. Police ARE allowed -- after getting a warrant and following proper procedure--to get the information. This is a private entity that is trying to force another private company to give up what it considers private information regarding its customer base. Further, even the government must obtain a warrant before forcing someone to cough up this information, something the RIAA has not done. Thus, the lawyer's privacy argument is well-placed.
George Lucas sold out a long time ago in a Galaxy far away.
Unfortunately, there is no privacy at work. If you are using the company's computer and/or their network, they pretty much can monitor you no matter what. And since MS gives you/companies the option to send the information, it may not matter. It sounds like users might become new beta testers.
Hopefully they won't mess up and forget to turn on some really important flag in the kernel, only to discover none of their software is compiled for USB.
Looks like runs on Solar power as well, based on the project pictures. Is that for running the experiments or also for running the guidance computers?
George Lucas has successfully destroyed his creative storytelling gift with his business "sense." With JarJar and those terrible "romantic" scenes and explaining the force as the product of a bunch of little organisms, his movies are littered with these gimicky pop-up ads of marketing that have little to no place in the storyline. He even screwed up his original movies by adding a lot of unnecessary sounds and very obvious CGI, both of which just stand out too much in the re-releases. I'm glad they cleaned up the movie, but why add lots of new distracting and often irritating hi-pitched sounds? Because Lucas can milk the money train.
Cat's out of the bag. I wouldn't return MEOW copy. I had a FELINE this was going to happen. I bet Apple is CATegorically CATatonic with this CATaclysmic CATastrophe.
Since no one understood my point, let me elaborate. What I was trying to say is that eventually Indian companies will have to ship their infringing products to the United States or other patent-supporting country, in which case they will come under US court jurisdiction which can enforce the patent against infringing Indian companies. By allowing patents in India, Indian companies would avoid infringing now by building or licensing around patented products for fear of being sued in the immediate short-run. Without a patent system in India, companies would build infringing products now thinking they were free and clear and if any of that software finds its way into any product in the United States or other patent country, the US patent holder could sue them, potentially invalidating years of work and costing Indian companies billions of dollars. I know you're going to say that the Indian companies will just ignore the suits, but that's not the way it works in global markets where the US and other countries can and will exert economic/political pressure to require India to enforce patents as a condition for receiving aid or IMF loans, etc. That was my point. You may now attack me and call me names.
This is a terrible detriment to Indian companies because they will not get to patent their software while other competing countries will (like the US, etc.) The other countries' companies can then enforce the patent against Indian companies, effectively blocking them out of developing software. Because of the lack of patents, Indian companies won't be able to cross license deals with other companies and will be left out in the cold, unable to write certain code. Software patents suck, but like nuclear bombs, once someone gets one, everyone needs one.
This just proves that laws like the DCMA will stifle innovation. Frankly, America has too many laws written by large special interests with $ to lobby Congress. The rest of us suffer because of their greed.
Isn't moral relativism what being liberal is all about?