they can run the Interweb faster by loading a bigger OS that takes up more RAM, requires more hard drive space, and a faster processor than their current one.
Real overheard conversation at Best Buy. It sounds completely scripted but it happened:
Customer: "Will the PentiumIII make the web go faster?"
SalesMonkey: "Oh yes, the fast processor will speed up your internet connection."
Customer keeps asking leading questions playing himself off as an expert and the sales guy keeps BS'ing him until he bought the thing. It must have been pretty sad to fire up the new machine and realize the 56k modem in the new one is the same 56k modem in the old one.
Sure there's recourse. It would be in the interests of the P2P software companies like kazaa to weed these dummy files with their next update. It shouldn't be that hard to detect a loop or whatever new trick they have up their sleeves. No real need for human intervention other than deleting the dummy files if the software fails to detect them.
Essentually this is a software war. One side will do x the other side will counter x. Kind of how AOL occasionally treats the wonderful Trillan IM client.
Sometimes people pay all of us ungodly amounts of cash for tech services(85 bucks an hour to install a printer or put the new Dell box on the lan.) Us tech guys do not have a stellar rep either.
That's no comparision. There are thousands of companies out there that can do tech support and you're free to pick whichever you like. Tech support is a market while spamming is a con game.
If you think hourly rates are too high in general, start your own business with employees on salary and tell me if you can make a profit providing support on location at 10 dollar an hour.
It hasn't happened in this instance and won't happen ever.
Happened last night. MS's autoupdater signed the EULA for me without asking. Millions use MS's patch service for fear of security leaks. Now they're using their own lax security as a way to push DRM. Classy.
Nice conspiracy theory you've got there, now you can provide some proof. Homebrew bug? I'd like to see some proof on that too. The McAfee virus was real, but the complaints about how the announcement was worded somehow turns into "manufactured virus" into the ears of the credulous anti-industry types.
No one needs to keep creating viruses to sell product, there are simply way too many kiddies willing to do the dirty work themselves and for free. Next we'll be hearing how IIS web defacements are fake and run by the people at Apache to get people to switch to their server.
Interestingly enough the movie skips on issues it should have addressed. For instance we already have 'pre-crime'laws like conspiracy to commit murder, overthrow the government, etc. The Precrime system also doesn't distinguish between crimes of passion/manslaughter and pre-planned murder. I wonder if they freeze drunk drivers who get into accidents too.
After years of grammatical and spelling errors we decided to spend a fraction of our millions and buy some MS software. OpenOffice is great, but Hemos insisted on a grammar checker. Hey we still hate Microsoft. Really we do! Aww, this little dog assistant is sooo cute.
Standard stuff. So it is with payola. The radios make more money playing the music than squeezing in the ads. That's how they can afford to play that "nonstop hour of music" or whatever at lunchtime!
Its very simple:
Payola is illegal and rightfully so. Product placement in supermarkets aren't.
Either way, I think it's clear that blaiming the p2p networks is based on opinion (And FUD) rather than fact.
Wow, talk about living in denial. P2P does hurt sales directly. Does that mean that ALL those people would have necessarily bought that album? No, but you have to accept the fact that many/some people would rather download than buy. Moby makes a good point here:
"I'm not saying this is a good or a bad thing," he added. "I'm not writing this to voice my opinions. My concern is the way that the industry looks at the success of a musician or of a record that sells or doesn't sell.
I think its fairly obvious that Moby understands the exposure benefits of P2P, but is trying to point out how success can never just be based on sales alone anymore.
I'm also curious as to the assumption that more sales = better music. We know that the way to make a superstar doesn't start with muscial ability but with marketing, PR, gimmicks, manufactued controversies, bubblegum pop, etc. What Moby is saying, and its been said before, is that sales cannot determine any meaningful information about the artist especially now with P2P and he asserts there's a victim demographic. Arguably, there is a victim demographic. Whether or not exposure, concert sales, and fandom outweigh album sales is the real question.
Moby is only saying something that's been repeated a million times elsewhere. He's an intelligent enough to address the issue without berating his fans Metallica-style.
I would say this is hard to refute. Indie, geeky, techno, and others in the technophile musical demographic are being copied left and right. Oh course there are huge advanteges to this in terms of exposure, concert attendence, etc. For instance, even before the broadband P2P revolution, back in 1998/1999 Stereolab managed to sell out two good sized Chicago venues. This is a band that never got any local radioplay and never came close to the top40 or top100 record sales.
Shameless copying is a tradition that started with music lovers and has simply been made easier through technology. Moby questions how the industry measures success. That's a very important issue. The genie is out of the bottle, but the industry measures success through outdated methods.
In another way this isn't exactly new. A lot of talented artists who take risks instead of sticking to pop formulas tend to be undervalued and underexposed. At least P2P can fix the latter.
As it turns out, our representatives wisely decided to opt for a capitalist system. The highest bidder (that is, the bidder with the strongest desire to speak), is able to purchase spectrum at a reasonable cost from the American people. Thus, the maximum possible return is achieved for the taxpayers, and the highest bidder has paid a fair price for the scarce resource they need. Capitalism works - period.
Heh, I don't believe this particular Randroid got the Canadian knowledge update or the experience in radio service pack. It did get its the theory of economics chip, shame it never got the theory vs practice update.
If numbers are too tough, then you shouldn't be playing with that much money anyway. In 2004, we get to hear about how this system discriminates against the color blind.
Nice non-sequitur there.
Color is a huge advantage in usability. The rest of the world uses color to discern the differences and it works. People don't have to inspect the corners or whose face is in the middle. Its a simple and straightforward idea.
There are also side benefits. If you've ever worked in retail you probably have come across the common switch-aroo scam. With colored currency this will almost be impossible to pull off, or at the very least make potential criminals a little hesitant on trying to claim they gave you purple bill when they really gave you a yellow one.
This isn't really about tourists. Its about catching up with the world in currency technology. Europe was inserting the little metallic strips into their currency way before the US. This is the next step.
The problem with this is that as the copyright owner you cannot convince google to remove your old usenet posts unless you still have that 1998 email address. Its a ridiculous requirement for google to ask people to have their college email accounts when they want the posts they own and wrote removed from google's system. A simple proof of ID should be enough for them.
An inaccessible copyright policy is like having no policy at all. Expect fallout sooner or later.
"I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox, and Sorny!"
Anyone consider the fallout from this when a few hundred Walmart shoppers rant about how Linux is a cheap rip-off of Windows? Lindows may end up being a huge propaganda loss for Linux.
They could go to Mac, BSD, or Linux (this list would be longer, but OS/2 and Be OS are not options...I wonder why).
Mac may not be an option either. Apple may be very hesitant on taking advantage of these laws just in case MS decides to stop shipping new versions of Office/IE for them. Abusive monopoly and all that.
Then again Apple's new ad campaign is very anti-MS. I'm sure they have to walk some fine line to not upset the folks at Redmond too much, while Redmond walks the fine line pretending not to be a monopoly.
I was about to say something about Apple taking advantage of these laws until I realized that MS could stop supporting and producing Mac versions of Office whenever the contract was up. Abusive monopolies do that kind of thing.
Contrary to the obligatory, "My girlfriend uses Linux" acedotes, Linux GUIs are far from Windows or Macintosh level hand-holding. You really have to take into account that most MS users don't know crap about office or their OS, but do know what they need to get the job done. I can't decide if this is good or bad for introducing a new OS. Not to mention that most small Windows offices don't have a support staff and rely on that one technophile in the office who learned how to install software and type in serial numbers.
Unfortunately, I doubt anything short of class action suit in those counties will make them pay attention to their own regulations.
I don't give exit interviews, I've shown up but have been tight-lipped before. The same goes with any company, "Why are you canceling sir?" No reason. A manager from AT%T called just to see why I wouldn't give them all this valuable information about why I quit their cable service. If they want information that will help them out financially, they can pay for it.
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Not to mention replaytv does this already and is currently being sued for not only commercial skipping, but also because people are sending out premium programming down the wire.
Q. How do I share my recordings with my friends?
A. If your friend has a ReplayTV 4500 or 4000, they can "talk" to each other over the broadband Internet connections. From your Replay Guide, just select the show that you want to share. A pop-up menu will give you the option to "Send Show" and then ask you to select the person that you want to share the video with. All that's left is hitting "Send" and the video is sent the person that you selected. It's that easy!!
I don't think its really about SoD. This action sequence was a big gamble, everyone seemed to agree on that. Then the audience bought it. If it wasn't for the pacing of the action sequences, the tension, and already seeing Yoda as a commanding military figure I doubt it would have worked as well, if at all. Lucas took a gamble and things worked out. He did the same with Jar-Jar and midiochlorines and those didn't pan out too well.
You're not paying for the login, you're also paying for the character files which are how big? The login could be changed and you would get the same results, but if you change the character files around you will most definately not get the same results.
Continue with the inevitable "I paid big bucks for some antiquted OS/Software back in the day!"
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I skipped the review because I hate spoilers and such.
So you're asking for an opinion backed up without facts? You've come to the right place!
Not only that it does encrypted sessions and doubles as an IRC client.
they can run the Interweb faster by loading a bigger OS that takes up more RAM, requires more hard drive space, and a faster processor than their current one.
Real overheard conversation at Best Buy. It sounds completely scripted but it happened:
Customer: "Will the PentiumIII make the web go faster?"
SalesMonkey: "Oh yes, the fast processor will speed up your internet connection."
Customer keeps asking leading questions playing himself off as an expert and the sales guy keeps BS'ing him until he bought the thing. It must have been pretty sad to fire up the new machine and realize the 56k modem in the new one is the same 56k modem in the old one.
Namely Hunter, Kimball, and Kaminsky. Or you know, I can get some kind of life.
Sure there's recourse. It would be in the interests of the P2P software companies like kazaa to weed these dummy files with their next update. It shouldn't be that hard to detect a loop or whatever new trick they have up their sleeves. No real need for human intervention other than deleting the dummy files if the software fails to detect them.
Essentually this is a software war. One side will do x the other side will counter x. Kind of how AOL occasionally treats the wonderful Trillan IM client.
Sometimes people pay all of us ungodly amounts of cash for tech services(85 bucks an hour to install a printer or put the new Dell box on the lan.) Us tech guys do not have a stellar rep either.
That's no comparision. There are thousands of companies out there that can do tech support and you're free to pick whichever you like. Tech support is a market while spamming is a con game.
If you think hourly rates are too high in general, start your own business with employees on salary and tell me if you can make a profit providing support on location at 10 dollar an hour.
It hasn't happened in this instance and won't happen ever.
Happened last night. MS's autoupdater signed the EULA for me without asking. Millions use MS's patch service for fear of security leaks. Now they're using their own lax security as a way to push DRM. Classy.
Wants to get infected?
Nice conspiracy theory you've got there, now you can provide some proof. Homebrew bug? I'd like to see some proof on that too. The McAfee virus was real, but the complaints about how the announcement was worded somehow turns into "manufactured virus" into the ears of the credulous anti-industry types.
No one needs to keep creating viruses to sell product, there are simply way too many kiddies willing to do the dirty work themselves and for free. Next we'll be hearing how IIS web defacements are fake and run by the people at Apache to get people to switch to their server.
Yeah, like I'm going to listen to a guy with a fucking ad for a .sig call Ransom a sellout.
Interestingly enough the movie skips on issues it should have addressed. For instance we already have 'pre-crime'laws like conspiracy to commit murder, overthrow the government, etc. The Precrime system also doesn't distinguish between crimes of passion/manslaughter and pre-planned murder. I wonder if they freeze drunk drivers who get into accidents too.
Slashdot crew buys OfficeXP
After years of grammatical and spelling errors we decided to spend a fraction of our millions and buy some MS software. OpenOffice is great, but Hemos insisted on a grammar checker. Hey we still hate Microsoft. Really we do! Aww, this little dog assistant is sooo cute.
Standard stuff. So it is with payola. The radios make more money playing the music than squeezing in the ads. That's how they can afford to play that "nonstop hour of music" or whatever at lunchtime!
Its very simple:
Payola is illegal and rightfully so. Product placement in supermarkets aren't.
Wow, talk about living in denial. P2P does hurt sales directly. Does that mean that ALL those people would have necessarily bought that album? No, but you have to accept the fact that many/some people would rather download than buy. Moby makes a good point here:
I think its fairly obvious that Moby understands the exposure benefits of P2P, but is trying to point out how success can never just be based on sales alone anymore.
I'm also curious as to the assumption that more sales = better music. We know that the way to make a superstar doesn't start with muscial ability but with marketing, PR, gimmicks, manufactued controversies, bubblegum pop, etc. What Moby is saying, and its been said before, is that sales cannot determine any meaningful information about the artist especially now with P2P and he asserts there's a victim demographic. Arguably, there is a victim demographic. Whether or not exposure, concert sales, and fandom outweigh album sales is the real question.
Moby is only saying something that's been repeated a million times elsewhere. He's an intelligent enough to address the issue without berating his fans Metallica-style.
I would say this is hard to refute. Indie, geeky, techno, and others in the technophile musical demographic are being copied left and right. Oh course there are huge advanteges to this in terms of exposure, concert attendence, etc. For instance, even before the broadband P2P revolution, back in 1998/1999 Stereolab managed to sell out two good sized Chicago venues. This is a band that never got any local radioplay and never came close to the top40 or top100 record sales.
Shameless copying is a tradition that started with music lovers and has simply been made easier through technology. Moby questions how the industry measures success. That's a very important issue. The genie is out of the bottle, but the industry measures success through outdated methods.
In another way this isn't exactly new. A lot of talented artists who take risks instead of sticking to pop formulas tend to be undervalued and underexposed. At least P2P can fix the latter.
As it turns out, our representatives wisely decided to opt for a capitalist system. The highest bidder (that is, the bidder with the strongest desire to speak), is able to purchase spectrum at a reasonable cost from the American people. Thus, the maximum possible return is achieved for the taxpayers, and the highest bidder has paid a fair price for the scarce resource they need. Capitalism works - period.
Heh, I don't believe this particular Randroid got the Canadian knowledge update or the experience in radio service pack. It did get its the theory of economics chip, shame it never got the theory vs practice update.
If numbers are too tough, then you shouldn't be playing with that much money anyway. In 2004, we get to hear about how this system discriminates against the color blind.
Nice non-sequitur there.
Color is a huge advantage in usability. The rest of the world uses color to discern the differences and it works. People don't have to inspect the corners or whose face is in the middle. Its a simple and straightforward idea.
There are also side benefits. If you've ever worked in retail you probably have come across the common switch-aroo scam. With colored currency this will almost be impossible to pull off, or at the very least make potential criminals a little hesitant on trying to claim they gave you purple bill when they really gave you a yellow one.
This isn't really about tourists. Its about catching up with the world in currency technology. Europe was inserting the little metallic strips into their currency way before the US. This is the next step.
The problem with this is that as the copyright owner you cannot convince google to remove your old usenet posts unless you still have that 1998 email address. Its a ridiculous requirement for google to ask people to have their college email accounts when they want the posts they own and wrote removed from google's system. A simple proof of ID should be enough for them.
An inaccessible copyright policy is like having no policy at all. Expect fallout sooner or later.
"I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox, and Sorny!"
Anyone consider the fallout from this when a few hundred Walmart shoppers rant about how Linux is a cheap rip-off of Windows? Lindows may end up being a huge propaganda loss for Linux.
They could go to Mac, BSD, or Linux (this list would be longer, but OS/2 and Be OS are not options...I wonder why).
Mac may not be an option either. Apple may be very hesitant on taking advantage of these laws just in case MS decides to stop shipping new versions of Office/IE for them. Abusive monopoly and all that.
Then again Apple's new ad campaign is very anti-MS. I'm sure they have to walk some fine line to not upset the folks at Redmond too much, while Redmond walks the fine line pretending not to be a monopoly.
I was about to say something about Apple taking advantage of these laws until I realized that MS could stop supporting and producing Mac versions of Office whenever the contract was up. Abusive monopolies do that kind of thing.
Contrary to the obligatory, "My girlfriend uses Linux" acedotes, Linux GUIs are far from Windows or Macintosh level hand-holding. You really have to take into account that most MS users don't know crap about office or their OS, but do know what they need to get the job done. I can't decide if this is good or bad for introducing a new OS. Not to mention that most small Windows offices don't have a support staff and rely on that one technophile in the office who learned how to install software and type in serial numbers.
Unfortunately, I doubt anything short of class action suit in those counties will make them pay attention to their own regulations.
I don't give exit interviews, I've shown up but have been tight-lipped before. The same goes with any company, "Why are you canceling sir?" No reason. A manager from AT%T called just to see why I wouldn't give them all this valuable information about why I quit their cable service. If they want information that will help them out financially, they can pay for it.
I don't think its really about SoD. This action sequence was a big gamble, everyone seemed to agree on that. Then the audience bought it. If it wasn't for the pacing of the action sequences, the tension, and already seeing Yoda as a commanding military figure I doubt it would have worked as well, if at all. Lucas took a gamble and things worked out. He did the same with Jar-Jar and midiochlorines and those didn't pan out too well.
Aztek. For when you can't decide if you want a hatchback, SUV, sports car, truck, or minivan. The gremlin of today, but bigger!
You're not paying for the login, you're also paying for the character files which are how big? The login could be changed and you would get the same results, but if you change the character files around you will most definately not get the same results.
Continue with the inevitable "I paid big bucks for some antiquted OS/Software back in the day!"