I agree totally with you. I'm 54. I had close to a thousand lp's, anywhere from 5-700 tapes, and have about 600 cd's. In the past three years I've bought maybe three cd's and I don't download music. Most of the cd's I own are merely format change versions of prior albums I owned.
The crap being marketed is intended for preteens (hell even my kid is 30 so I'm not buying for him anymore).
Even if they addressed the target market issue I'd be hard pressed to go back to buying them though as my preference has moved onto dvd. Unfortunately there's not really much choice of selection there either....
Buckcherry sucks. Nickelback rules!:)
There's long been a theory outside of the western nations (and in fact it's supposedly the prevalent theory outside the west) that hydrocarbons are not a result of decayed animal/plant matter but as a result of processes within the earths core.
While this find isn't proof of such a claim it certainly lends it some degree of credibility.
Under the abiotic theory we still have many hundreds of years of supply left.
Here's looking forward to the oil price crash.... I wish...
Have you checked out the price for a decent eye patch or skull and bones flag recently?
I've been trying to get their manufacture outsourced foe years.
But if Microsoft was that car maker you'd have to bolt on your Michelins, for example, and continue to have their tires on as well. You can't remove them.
Additionally while you may make the other tires your default the car will continue to use the Microsoft tires for some functions.
In that scenario it is more costly to opt for anything other than MS tires. Both for the consumer and the dealer.
As well by ensuring all microsoft cars have microsoft tires stores that sell plug kits will stock primarily those designed for ms tires as everyone has them. In the computer world of course the real impact is that anyone serving media content knows 95% of the market are running win media player and to ensure that they can reach that 95% they use win media server. They're now leveraging their desktop o/s monopoly into ensuring the back end server side picks up steam. It's exactly one of the types of activities that antitrust laws are intended to protect the consumer from.
It's not the bundling per se that causes the problem. It's the product tying that requires the media player/browser/etc to be there. Additionally it's their use of marketing money (profits from operating system and office sales) to subsidize it's entry into the media player and media server business.
"They'll still persue downloaders "
Except they can't in Canada as downloading music is legal. Movies are still a bit of a grey area.
The supreme court has already ruled on this and it's due primarily to the legislation which provides the legal framework for the levy.
I agree they'll still seek to have it made illegal here... If they feel they can get more that way than through a levy. Okokok... They'll try to have it made illegal and keep the levy as well. That's more truthful.
As a Leafs fan my whole life I have to agree with you completely.
Forty years of no Stanley Cup in my 53 years of living is consistent.
In terms of piracy, up until this past year I've never downloaded a single song and, as well, I've actively encouraged others to not do so (or encourage their kids not to do so).
If I average out my collection I purchased about 45-50 cd's per year once they hit the market. The reality is though that I've bought less than 10 in the past four years total. Some Nickelback, Theory of a Deadman... That's pretty much it.
I would have no problem with buying at my previous rates if there was content I wanted to have.
With that said I prefer music/concert dvd's now but ones I would like to have are still hard to find... May not ever exist for that matter.
I've downloaded the entire collection for three groups over the past year (it's legal here!) but I pretty much have them on either tape, vinyl or cd. There was one album of one group that I had on order from two different music chains for a number of months. I finally gave up and downloaded their catalog, the rest of which I had. A final note though is even the one I wanted to purchase I had previously bought three times on vinyl.
In short I don't doubt the industry may be hurting on some scale but they aren't providing products I want at least... Not even when they exist and I ask for them.
Oh c'mon... You don't think CSIS or JTF9 don't have their own set of secrets? How do we ask for, demand, or demonstrate for the release of secret information we don't even know it exists?
Neither of us can prove our positions as it's no more possible for you to prove everything is open than it is for me to prove secrets exist.
"but what right does a publicly elected government have to hide things from its owners ?"
By right of law. The Freedom of Information act carves out a significant number of exclusions.
As a fellow canuck I think your glasses are a little too rose coloured about our nation.
I do agree with your assesment of how many, if not most, of us view the Government and also that secrets should be minimized if any exist at all but to suggest that we know more up here, or have more power over those we elect via demonstrations, etc, is off the mark imho.
There are lots of neats idea being given to you, some of which I might not mind trying myself if I could.
But the bottom line is that if you are a professional then you do the ethical thing. It's not a huge issue beyond that. Ethics are one of the many things that defines what being a professional is.
Well except for lawyers...
Hmm and accountants....
Fad doctors...
Oh screw it, install the damn pirated software and then once it's done blackmail the tightwads in exchange for not turning them in.
"Although it is unclear at this time which Linux distributions the bank is using, the fact Novell is associated with a statement that claims Linux has a higher total cost of ownership than Windows will surprise and anger many in the open-source community."
I really would be. If only that was what the report said. But clearly it didn't.
If you don't understand the difference between 'windows' and 'windows environment' or computing versus computing environment then you really shouldn't be writing and commenting on system related articles. The original article actually specifies one, but only one, factor in that environment that is not related to a windows/linux tco comparison between the two.
But go for it... Have a blast.
I am honestly quit shocked.... I always assumed that something along these lines was done. Not only to digital set top boxes but with audio/video processing software as well as cd/dvd burners. Not that it altered my behavior one way or the other. This may be new tech but it's hardly high tech.
While I believed it was being done it certainly was a bit silly. It ranks up there with the asinine counterproductive drm schemes. What man makes, man can break.
This entire article is nothing but flame bait, written by a hack-for-hire who promotes his service of writing any opinion for a fee.
While saying these are things he can't discuss he goes ahead and discusses them. By the end of the article (I'm going by the copy pasted here since the original site is not responsive at the moment so I am assuming it's complete and accurate copy of the original) he has not presented one iota of evidence of any time he's been prevented from discussing these issues.
This article isn't worthy of being posted except for it's humour and flame bait value.
Of course if we give them modernized they'll gladly stop collecting the royalty they now receive on every cd, dvd, and tape blank sold in the country regardless of it's intended or actual use.
Of course not... Silly me.
I fully agree with you and the fees are obscene. With that said though they normally take these cases on speculation and a percent of the settlement (1). If your speculation of the case costs was right (20 mill) then they've lost their shirts in the process. Do we require 'the class' to pay the fees? How many would risk that against a corporation worth billions.
So what do we do? Cap the fees? At what percent? At what dollar value? As noted in the first paragraph the firm takes a huge risk. Doesn't the maxim of huge reward accrue to them?
And if we do that then why can't we cap the profits and rewards earned by large companies and rich people, such as MS and Gates.
The phrase slippery slope applies although many may want to take that slide.
(1) That's the way the law society fee structures work in my part of Canada.... Possibly different in other jurisdictions.
Bite me.
I don't like wasting the bandwidth if there's no need, nor do I like opening the ports for the same reason.
Offer retracted unless I can find some way to ensure you don't get a copy.
It's unfortunate that the case is settled as the truth of MS as an organization was finally getting out in detail with their website. While it's too bad that the documents are now unavailable there are many who claim they have copies.
At the very least the documents made public in the case to this point clearly put to bed the myth/fiction that MS competes on the merits of their products. Their use of secret api's and intentional sabotaging of competitors products is now proven by their own internal documents.
Well you don't need to hire someone if there's something there you don't like. If others revert your changes just offer wikipedia some bucks directly and see if they take your offer. The history of J V Merkey at that site is a testament to such actions although he rarely delivers on any promises of cash or other things.
Nah... I'm no fan of IBM but not only did they give them CMVC but a server to host it on, instructions on operating it and an offer to assist if needed. Typical SCUmx tactics to be complaining at the 11th hour.
My bro in law is a judge (Canada) and I had the chance to put a similar question to him years ago wrt to how can the court accept a log as valid proof of anything... I have to paraphrase but essentially he said that they don't really... They weigh the evidence upon the credibility of the person stating that it's a true and accurate picture of things.
In short if you want to dispute the logs, in a case like this, or other physical evidence then you don't attack the evidence but you attack the person behind it. That's not to say you don't attack evidence when there's indication of falsification or tampering which is a different scenario altogether.
Our COO, who supposedly worked as a Senior Systems Consultant for 10 years and who was also my boss, asked me to get someone to repair her monitor. It kept going (frequently) blank on her.... probably just a loose connection she said. So I sent up our senior techie (hey she was important!) to look at it.
It was her screensaver cutting in.... What else can I add. She's gone, I'm still here.
Absolute bullshit. Any calling out for updates etc is controllable by the sys admin and it does NOT shut you down if you don't automatically call home.
Not only is it bullshit but I believe you know that your post is false.
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I agree totally with you. I'm 54. I had close to a thousand lp's, anywhere from 5-700 tapes, and have about 600 cd's. In the past three years I've bought maybe three cd's and I don't download music. Most of the cd's I own are merely format change versions of prior albums I owned. The crap being marketed is intended for preteens (hell even my kid is 30 so I'm not buying for him anymore). Even if they addressed the target market issue I'd be hard pressed to go back to buying them though as my preference has moved onto dvd. Unfortunately there's not really much choice of selection there either.... Buckcherry sucks. Nickelback rules! :)
There's long been a theory outside of the western nations (and in fact it's supposedly the prevalent theory outside the west) that hydrocarbons are not a result of decayed animal/plant matter but as a result of processes within the earths core.
While this find isn't proof of such a claim it certainly lends it some degree of credibility.
Under the abiotic theory we still have many hundreds of years of supply left.
Here's looking forward to the oil price crash.... I wish...
Have you checked out the price for a decent eye patch or skull and bones flag recently? I've been trying to get their manufacture outsourced foe years.
"Took'em long enough to get started with the counter-FUD astroturfing."
Oh c'mon. It's not as if they pay people to say false things in their favor and pay them off in cash and goods.
Oh wait this story is about Microsoft. My mistake. I'm sorry.
But if Microsoft was that car maker you'd have to bolt on your Michelins, for example, and continue to have their tires on as well. You can't remove them.
Additionally while you may make the other tires your default the car will continue to use the Microsoft tires for some functions.
In that scenario it is more costly to opt for anything other than MS tires. Both for the consumer and the dealer.
As well by ensuring all microsoft cars have microsoft tires stores that sell plug kits will stock primarily those designed for ms tires as everyone has them. In the computer world of course the real impact is that anyone serving media content knows 95% of the market are running win media player and to ensure that they can reach that 95% they use win media server. They're now leveraging their desktop o/s monopoly into ensuring the back end server side picks up steam. It's exactly one of the types of activities that antitrust laws are intended to protect the consumer from.
It's not the bundling per se that causes the problem. It's the product tying that requires the media player/browser/etc to be there. Additionally it's their use of marketing money (profits from operating system and office sales) to subsidize it's entry into the media player and media server business.
"They'll still persue downloaders " Except they can't in Canada as downloading music is legal. Movies are still a bit of a grey area. The supreme court has already ruled on this and it's due primarily to the legislation which provides the legal framework for the levy. I agree they'll still seek to have it made illegal here... If they feel they can get more that way than through a levy. Okokok... They'll try to have it made illegal and keep the levy as well. That's more truthful.
"the Leafs are fairly consistent"
As a Leafs fan my whole life I have to agree with you completely.
Forty years of no Stanley Cup in my 53 years of living is consistent.
In terms of piracy, up until this past year I've never downloaded a single song and, as well, I've actively encouraged others to not do so (or encourage their kids not to do so).
If I average out my collection I purchased about 45-50 cd's per year once they hit the market. The reality is though that I've bought less than 10 in the past four years total. Some Nickelback, Theory of a Deadman... That's pretty much it.
I would have no problem with buying at my previous rates if there was content I wanted to have.
With that said I prefer music/concert dvd's now but ones I would like to have are still hard to find... May not ever exist for that matter.
I've downloaded the entire collection for three groups over the past year (it's legal here!) but I pretty much have them on either tape, vinyl or cd. There was one album of one group that I had on order from two different music chains for a number of months. I finally gave up and downloaded their catalog, the rest of which I had. A final note though is even the one I wanted to purchase I had previously bought three times on vinyl.
In short I don't doubt the industry may be hurting on some scale but they aren't providing products I want at least... Not even when they exist and I ask for them.
Oh c'mon... You don't think CSIS or JTF9 don't have their own set of secrets? How do we ask for, demand, or demonstrate for the release of secret information we don't even know it exists? Neither of us can prove our positions as it's no more possible for you to prove everything is open than it is for me to prove secrets exist. "but what right does a publicly elected government have to hide things from its owners ?" By right of law. The Freedom of Information act carves out a significant number of exclusions. As a fellow canuck I think your glasses are a little too rose coloured about our nation. I do agree with your assesment of how many, if not most, of us view the Government and also that secrets should be minimized if any exist at all but to suggest that we know more up here, or have more power over those we elect via demonstrations, etc, is off the mark imho.
There are lots of neats idea being given to you, some of which I might not mind trying myself if I could.
But the bottom line is that if you are a professional then you do the ethical thing. It's not a huge issue beyond that. Ethics are one of the many things that defines what being a professional is.
Well except for lawyers...
Hmm and accountants....
Fad doctors...
Oh screw it, install the damn pirated software and then once it's done blackmail the tightwads in exchange for not turning them in.
There, that feels better.
Well in all fairness I don't know of a soul who's been charged with a criminal offense but who wants to be first.
:)
Nah... They only need to nail about every fourth pusher and then they're too stoned to go after copyright crimes...
"Yeah, this isn't a criminal issue - it's civil. "
The depends on the country. In Canada you'd face up to five years in jail for each pirated copy.
It's criminal law up here and not civil.
"Although it is unclear at this time which Linux distributions the bank is using, the fact Novell is associated with a statement that claims Linux has a higher total cost of ownership than Windows will surprise and anger many in the open-source community." I really would be. If only that was what the report said. But clearly it didn't. If you don't understand the difference between 'windows' and 'windows environment' or computing versus computing environment then you really shouldn't be writing and commenting on system related articles. The original article actually specifies one, but only one, factor in that environment that is not related to a windows/linux tco comparison between the two. But go for it... Have a blast.
I am honestly quit shocked.... I always assumed that something along these lines was done. Not only to digital set top boxes but with audio/video processing software as well as cd/dvd burners. Not that it altered my behavior one way or the other. This may be new tech but it's hardly high tech. While I believed it was being done it certainly was a bit silly. It ranks up there with the asinine counterproductive drm schemes. What man makes, man can break.
This entire article is nothing but flame bait, written by a hack-for-hire who promotes his service of writing any opinion for a fee.
While saying these are things he can't discuss he goes ahead and discusses them. By the end of the article (I'm going by the copy pasted here since the original site is not responsive at the moment so I am assuming it's complete and accurate copy of the original) he has not presented one iota of evidence of any time he's been prevented from discussing these issues.
This article isn't worthy of being posted except for it's humour and flame bait value.
Of course if we give them modernized they'll gladly stop collecting the royalty they now receive on every cd, dvd, and tape blank sold in the country regardless of it's intended or actual use. Of course not... Silly me.
I fully agree with you and the fees are obscene. With that said though they normally take these cases on speculation and a percent of the settlement (1). If your speculation of the case costs was right (20 mill) then they've lost their shirts in the process. Do we require 'the class' to pay the fees? How many would risk that against a corporation worth billions. So what do we do? Cap the fees? At what percent? At what dollar value? As noted in the first paragraph the firm takes a huge risk. Doesn't the maxim of huge reward accrue to them? And if we do that then why can't we cap the profits and rewards earned by large companies and rich people, such as MS and Gates. The phrase slippery slope applies although many may want to take that slide. (1) That's the way the law society fee structures work in my part of Canada.... Possibly different in other jurisdictions.
Bite me. I don't like wasting the bandwidth if there's no need, nor do I like opening the ports for the same reason. Offer retracted unless I can find some way to ensure you don't get a copy.
I've got the streams for Gates deposition except for one corrupt file... If there's interest I'll put them out on a torrent.
It's unfortunate that the case is settled as the truth of MS as an organization was finally getting out in detail with their website. While it's too bad that the documents are now unavailable there are many who claim they have copies. At the very least the documents made public in the case to this point clearly put to bed the myth/fiction that MS competes on the merits of their products. Their use of secret api's and intentional sabotaging of competitors products is now proven by their own internal documents.
I followed your link... I thought you meant this http://grep.law.harvard.edu/articles/04/01/16/1451 207.shtml
Well you don't need to hire someone if there's something there you don't like. If others revert your changes just offer wikipedia some bucks directly and see if they take your offer. The history of J V Merkey at that site is a testament to such actions although he rarely delivers on any promises of cash or other things.
Nah... I'm no fan of IBM but not only did they give them CMVC but a server to host it on, instructions on operating it and an offer to assist if needed. Typical SCUmx tactics to be complaining at the 11th hour.
My bro in law is a judge (Canada) and I had the chance to put a similar question to him years ago wrt to how can the court accept a log as valid proof of anything... I have to paraphrase but essentially he said that they don't really... They weigh the evidence upon the credibility of the person stating that it's a true and accurate picture of things.
In short if you want to dispute the logs, in a case like this, or other physical evidence then you don't attack the evidence but you attack the person behind it. That's not to say you don't attack evidence when there's indication of falsification or tampering which is a different scenario altogether.
Our COO, who supposedly worked as a Senior Systems Consultant for 10 years and who was also my boss, asked me to get someone to repair her monitor. It kept going (frequently) blank on her.... probably just a loose connection she said. So I sent up our senior techie (hey she was important!) to look at it. It was her screensaver cutting in.... What else can I add. She's gone, I'm still here.
Absolute bullshit. Any calling out for updates etc is controllable by the sys admin and it does NOT shut you down if you don't automatically call home. Not only is it bullshit but I believe you know that your post is false.