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Is it me or does thi sound like taxation without representation. You know we, as the consumer, will eventually pay the cost of both "fees". If you were to replace fee with tax and company/corp with country, we could have a tea party over this.
I wonder where you are. Those in the Verizon area do. You are metered and pay for your useage over your aloted time. You can pay extra for unlimited use, but you are still metered. You are just not charged for it.
Either way, what you pay has accounted for metered rates. They count on people taking the unlimited time and barely using it.
All of that aside, would you consider this to be the "Sgt. Pepper" of our generation? I wouldn't! Let's face facts. This is equivilent to me taking 4 wheels and attaching them to a board of wood in such a way as to allow them to rotate, and then calling it the next generation of skate boards. This is not anything spectacular. It is justification for some great open source projects, but that is it. Most of us could make Linux look like OSX any day. Who cares! It's just hype. Since when did the/. start falling for hype.
This is definately bad. First, this just goes to show you that companies aren't willing to take the time to break in a new American employee. They want ready to go cookie cutter employees. Second, this is definately bad for the employee. If this continues, there will be a shortage of jobs, and American working people might not get a job to their bills!
What happens when you stereotypical geek is eating chips and fries? Let's face it the screen get greasy and needs to be clean. Can it be cleaned easily?
I have a couple of problems. First, they wrote it in assembly language. That will itself will make it processor dependant, and not just OS dependant. What garauntee do they give that there is not any back door code? How long will it take script kiddies to make use of this?
Whether he is greedy, or not greedy, has nothign to do with his choice. He was very secretative with the first Triology. He was also involved in Battlestar Galactica at the time doing special effects. He ended up taking them to court because he thought it would interfer with his creations, but he lost. He has always been protective of the movies. They are his brain child, and has said only he can do the movies.
Given his protectiveness of the movies, it is understandable if he orders sites to close down because the are spreading false infornmation. I would do the same thing in his situation if I started getting email complaining about story lines that were false.
Regaurding the dvd, I think he is just waiting to see what happens in the dvd market. I am sure he knows the monopoly hold the encryption guys hold on the dvd encryption. I think he is just waiting for things to level out, and possibly hoping the the monopoly on the dvd encryption will topple. That is just my speculation. Let's face it, not everybody has a dvd playe, and with the battle going on about DeCSS, I don't blame him for holding off.
Some moral values are good for you. One of their biggest complaints is the violence and sex in the entertainment industry. Look at it this way. Imagine children as sponges sucking in all the water they can handle. The water would be the constant bombardment of media images, sounds, and ideas that kids face everyday.
It is a known fact that if you want to chang a societies views. Kids are a good place to start. I seem to remember something about Hitler doing this sort of thing with children. Children are easier to get to except ideas. I remember watching a Psychology experiment where a teach would tell tell children stuff like children with brown eyes are evil and can make you sick. The children would then avoid those children that had brown eyes. The next day the teacher would change the story saying that children with brown eyes are fine and good, but children with blond hair are evil and can make you sick. The children no longer avoided the brown eyed children and avoided the children with blond hair.
The point is, we as adults have already grown dull to the media bombardment of sex and violence. We are less prone to start doing these things, but children don't have these defenses yet. Their subconsous(sp?) doesn't have the year ours do as adults. Children just suck all this up, and it pentrates their subconsous(sp?). Then, they might might start doing it with really knowing they are doing it.
I think we should have some censorship to allow for the common enjoyment of the majority, but I don't like the idea of in either extreme. No censorship would be worse, and complete censorship would bing us to a level of Government controled media like the comunist nations have. The problem lies in finding that middle ground. Currently, I think I a return to moral values would be benificial. A lot of our current societial problems can be traced back to the lack of some moral values. The idea of somehting being right if it feels good is stupid. What about the rapist who feels good about raping their victims? What about the phycho-murders who enjoy killing?
Whether you realise it or not, currently we are heading towards the idea that anything is right as long as it feels good for you. Look at each generations. With each generation the societies morals have losened. Their was a time when homosexuality was frowned upon and kept behind closed doors. Today, it is excepted, and promoted as a loving behavior. Today, you have groups like NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association) meeting in public libraries where only a generation or two ago such people would be dead (or at the least in jail). The current trend is heading towards *TOTAL* exceptance. This is bad. That is why I don't see a problem with stressing a return to moral values.
You forgot one thing. The publicity whether good or bad will increase awareness of it. What will this do? Well, Linux people who might not have known, or cared about NTFS, will take notice and find a way to get a copy.
Napster has proven this point. Given that Napster is far less complicated than Linux, but you get a similar responce. I think they'll do their teritorial posturing, and I think that is it. They can't be that stupid to give the DOJ more cannon balls to shoot them with? Wait, this is Microsoft were talking about.;)
Darwin is open source, and I expect the source to be available from somewhere of that site. They made a big thing of the OS being open source recently, but it appears just DARWIN is Open Source. Also, that have their own Liscence you have to agree to in order to working on Apple open source projects.
Parts of it have to be because of the origins of Darwin (FreeBSD, Mach 3.0, and Apache). I glanced at the Apple Public Source License, and I wonder, does this conflict with and of the projects they took code from? I reorienting myself in the linux world, but I would think that some of the code in Darwin woudl fall under the license of the works in which they borrowed code from. This would probably be based on the extent to which they borrowed. Anybody ever look furthor into this?
I think this is stupid. The only way this could work is if ll markets had On Demand television viewing. In other words, if you want to watcht hat special on the discory channel you start watching it when you wanted, and paused when you wanted.
I personally will not buy a digital tv for a long time. I won't ever by one if they don't let me record television movies and shows. Growing up, my parents didn't have a lot of money. We couldn't afford ot buy a lot of movies. So we taped them with our BETAMAX VCR (which we bought used from a rental place). I won't like it if I can't record the movies, not everyone can afford to buy the movies, or even goto the movies these days.
This is just another attempt by the greedy Entertainment industry to force us to play the game their way. They don't want you single parent family who can barely afford the rent to be able to record the movie, or show, he/she missed bause they were working to pay the bills and put food on the table. Enoguh is enough. We need to start making our views known. I think we should boycott television. Personally, their isn't much on worht watching anymore. If we are lucky, the spoiled brats in the television industry give us 13 new shows a year. I can remember a time when new show were from Labor Day to Memorial day or later. Now they barely work! Enough is enough!!!!!!!!
"Please take a moment to send us some information about yourself. A personalized Linux Jukebox download URL will be sent to your email address. You will be shown - and must indicate acceptance of - license terms before downloading any software."
A personalized URL? Does this mean they are tracking the downloads in some special way. Why would they need a personalized URL?
From the Liscence:
"1.1 SOFTWARE shall mean the computer program in binary form, and any associated information, that you are about to download."
IANAL, but given the definition of software, couldn't you assume that this is not refering to the source code? It specifically says binary form. I wouldn't throw the source code into the cluase "and any associated information, that you are about to download", but that is just me. Maybe this is just splitting hairs.
You might also want to notice they limit the use of what you download to "2.1... this Agreement to duplicate and use SOFTWARE solely for internal, non-commercial, research purposes". They limit the right to distribution to the "CUSTOMER's own internal, non-commercial, research purposes". Research would include determining a GPL violation, and thus some one could download the code. They could then use the downloaded source to verfiy a GPL violation, and then copy segments and distribute segments proving the violation.
"But it's only true until you lose in court and have to shut down. And then pay for each copyright infringement, and all the VC's lose their money."
I don't think the individual will ever have to pay for each copyright infrindgement. I don't think the RIAA, Metallica, et. al. is that stupid. They'd just send people to another type of source, and there would be more types appearing.
If the member companies of the RIAA and artists raise the prices of their cds, a lot of consumera would search out methods of getting music such as Napster. In the long run, even if they win in court they will lose. They have bitten the hand that feeds them. I went into a Music store (only to look and not buy). CD prices were $16 to $20 dollars, and I don't pay sales tax!
The only way they can win this battle is to cut the prices indeffinitely. If the price of CDs dropped to say about $9.99 (or lower), they would start to cut away at the need for services like Napster.
They could also start selling MP3 CDs. Their is already a market for MP3 cds/songs. There are a lot of portable MP3 players at reasonable prices. Realistically they now have 3 methods to distribute their work. The three are tape, CD, and MP3 CD. This third choice would increase profits.
In the long run, they need to focus on selling more products at lower prices instead of selling fewer products at higher prices. It is simple economics 101. A demand as been created, and it has increased. They haven't provided any means of supllying the demand, so consumers will move to another means of supply such as Napster.
The RIAA needs to be disband, and get rid of all the barriers to true competition! Force the member companies to compete with each other for cd prices. CD prices would then drop because each company would want to get customers to buy their CDs. Currently, they don't compete. The CDs all sell for about the same price.
When it comes down to it, the RIAA, Metalica, et. al. are all standing in the way of inovation. They would rather live in the dark ages than move forward to a new distribution method and model. History has provided us with similar cases of companies/industries that refused to change. They usually get swallowed up and disappear.
Unfortunately, with the current Democratic legacy, the Government is interfering in the market when they shouldn't. The government shouldn't even hear these cases because it goes against the "Les Faire" (sp?)--that is the original pollicy of the founding fathers being the government keeps it's hands off. The courts should just say, "Tough, you dug your own grave!", and stop trying to support a old, dieing man of an industry that is stuct in its ways refusing to move foreward.
If they keep pissing of the techies, they will continue lag further behind! I wonder if they will take a few lessons from history? Or, are they doomed to repeat it!
Actually you're wrong on that. A lot of high tech companies are owned by the Japanesse. A lot of developement is done in assain countries such as India.
As for Mandrin becoming the language of the internet, isn't Mandrin a dialect of Chinese? IF I am correct on that, all of the variations of Chinese that I have heard of are not origanally an alphabetic language. Their are at least 2 ways that I know of to translate Chinese into an alphebetic language, and unless those are used, I don't see Mandrin becoming the standard language because is not an alphabetic language.
If you look at Unicode, portions of some of the languages were left out because their really wasn't the space in the design. This means some of the language can't be represented.
What if you were just to use the symbols themselves? That would nearly impossible because I don't think there is a living human being who knows all of the symbols of any dialect for the Chinese langauge. Their are just too many. That is the problem with symbolic languages (non alphabetic), you just have too many symbols to represent all of the words. That is why alphabetic languages are good to use. They have a limited number of symbols and you create words by mixing the elements of the particular alphabet in line with the rules of the given language. A finite number o symbols means you don't need a lot of space to represent a word. When I glanced at the Unicode book, one of the first things I noticed was that they mention that parts had to be left out of languages because of space.
The language of a web site will always be the language that the author of the site is most comfortable with, or the language of the authors intended audience. I don't think there will ever be any one language for the internet. I have no problem with the way it is now. If you don't like, or understand, the language a site, skip it. Nothing is making you read that site.
Greeks may have been the forefather of Western Civilization, but I doubt they should be given credit for all civilization. Some asain civilizations have been around for a lot longer. I believe even Egypt was around longer. It was the Romans that brought civilization to every one when the conquered most of the known world (except the scots and Ireland).
I am assuming you're refering to the original release in the US, and not SABANS rerelease in the 90s. I saw and remember both. I prefered the original release. The youngest member was call Keyop(or something like that) and he didn't really talk much. He made strange noises. They had that pyramid thing they did, and who can forget the firey pheonix. Saban ruined it in the nineties.:P I am not familiar with the Japanese version (something about not understanding Japanesee and not wanting to read the show;))
But my all time favorite anime is a toss p between Starblazers & Force Five. What can I say? I am a child of the seventies & eighties.
You can say that again. I am still wondering about the repost of an article getting a 5! If I repost the article, do I get a five? You know for the ultralazy that doesn't want to scroll up to the top of the page?
There is one problem with your charge per file in the record companies big database scheme. If you already own the CD for an mp3 song, you legally have the right to download or create an mp3 file of that song. I believe it is covered under the same law that allows you put a copy of a song on cassette. You'd end up paying for the song 2 times--once in the CD you bought and a second time when you buy the mp3. Kind of makes me wonder why they haven't implemented the big database scheme yet. It fits into their greedy idea of things.
It's been said before, but it is worth saying again. They, the record, companies have gotten themselves into this mess. If cds weren't so expensive, then this wouldn't be so wide spread. If they had started doing promos with free mps of released songs, this wouldn't have happened. Anyway you look at it, it is the consumors responding to an overly priced product in the market system. Most people with some business smarts would take this as a hint to lower the price of the products. In this case, it would be cds, tickets (to concerts and events), and promo item, but the record industry, and entertainment industry as a whole, has a tight grip on the flow of products. This allows them to set any price they want. Their really isn't a whole lot of competition for them.
BTW, anybody seen an MP3 of "What about me" by moving pictures?;)
That depends on what you are running. Some of the software and hardware you claim to own, you really don't. You just have a license to use it.
Sony's comments can be turned to our advantage! Remember, what was said was they would do ANYTHING to protect their revenue stream. We can turn that against them. Boycott Sony's products, and continue to boycott the music industry as a whole. THen go to one of the web sites (I don't have URLs) that are taking "digital signitures" and give your support.
If they lose their revenue stream, they chang their tune about Napster like programs!
Remember, you own the DVD, but not it's content. That where the problem lies. You can view a dvd any way you want, but right now if you want to view the content, you have to play by their rules. If enough of us act, that can be changed.
Legal ways to view your DVD movies with linux: hold a Linux CD next to the DVD, hold the dvd in front of a linux poster, etc...
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Is it me or does thi sound like taxation without representation. You know we, as the consumer, will eventually pay the cost of both "fees". If you were to replace fee with tax and company/corp with country, we could have a tea party over this.
I wonder where you are. Those in the Verizon area do. You are metered and pay for your useage over your aloted time. You can pay extra for unlimited use, but you are still metered. You are just not charged for it.
Either way, what you pay has accounted for metered rates. They count on people taking the unlimited time and barely using it.
Wasn't that display just a 2 color display? We'd be more advanced than them!
All of that aside, would you consider this to be the "Sgt. Pepper" of our generation? I wouldn't! Let's face facts. This is equivilent to me taking 4 wheels and attaching them to a board of wood in such a way as to allow them to rotate, and then calling it the next generation of skate boards. This is not anything spectacular. It is justification for some great open source projects, but that is it. Most of us could make Linux look like OSX any day. Who cares! It's just hype. Since when did the /. start falling for hype.
This is definately bad. First, this just goes to show you that companies aren't willing to take the time to break in a new American employee. They want ready to go cookie cutter employees. Second, this is definately bad for the employee. If this continues, there will be a shortage of jobs, and American working people might not get a job to their bills!
What happens when you stereotypical geek is eating chips and fries? Let's face it the screen get greasy and needs to be clean. Can it be cleaned easily?
I have a couple of problems. First, they wrote it in assembly language. That will itself will make it processor dependant, and not just OS dependant. What garauntee do they give that there is not any back door code? How long will it take script kiddies to make use of this?
Whether he is greedy, or not greedy, has nothign to do with his choice. He was very secretative with the first Triology. He was also involved in Battlestar Galactica at the time doing special effects. He ended up taking them to court because he thought it would interfer with his creations, but he lost. He has always been protective of the movies. They are his brain child, and has said only he can do the movies.
Given his protectiveness of the movies, it is understandable if he orders sites to close down because the are spreading false infornmation. I would do the same thing in his situation if I started getting email complaining about story lines that were false.
Regaurding the dvd, I think he is just waiting to see what happens in the dvd market. I am sure he knows the monopoly hold the encryption guys hold on the dvd encryption. I think he is just waiting for things to level out, and possibly hoping the the monopoly on the dvd encryption will topple. That is just my speculation. Let's face it, not everybody has a dvd playe, and with the battle going on about DeCSS, I don't blame him for holding off.
Some moral values are good for you. One of their biggest complaints is the violence and sex in the entertainment industry. Look at it this way. Imagine children as sponges sucking in all the water they can handle. The water would be the constant bombardment of media images, sounds, and ideas that kids face everyday.
It is a known fact that if you want to chang a societies views. Kids are a good place to start. I seem to remember something about Hitler doing this sort of thing with children. Children are easier to get to except ideas. I remember watching a Psychology experiment where a teach would tell tell children stuff like children with brown eyes are evil and can make you sick. The children would then avoid those children that had brown eyes. The next day the teacher would change the story saying that children with brown eyes are fine and good, but children with blond hair are evil and can make you sick. The children no longer avoided the brown eyed children and avoided the children with blond hair.
The point is, we as adults have already grown dull to the media bombardment of sex and violence. We are less prone to start doing these things, but children don't have these defenses yet. Their subconsous(sp?) doesn't have the year ours do as adults. Children just suck all this up, and it pentrates their subconsous(sp?). Then, they might might start doing it with really knowing they are doing it.
I think we should have some censorship to allow for the common enjoyment of the majority, but I don't like the idea of in either extreme. No censorship would be worse, and complete censorship would bing us to a level of Government controled media like the comunist nations have. The problem lies in finding that middle ground. Currently, I think I a return to moral values would be benificial. A lot of our current societial problems can be traced back to the lack of some moral values. The idea of somehting being right if it feels good is stupid. What about the rapist who feels good about raping their victims? What about the phycho-murders who enjoy killing?
Whether you realise it or not, currently we are heading towards the idea that anything is right as long as it feels good for you. Look at each generations. With each generation the societies morals have losened. Their was a time when homosexuality was frowned upon and kept behind closed doors. Today, it is excepted, and promoted as a loving behavior. Today, you have groups like NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association) meeting in public libraries where only a generation or two ago such people would be dead (or at the least in jail). The current trend is heading towards *TOTAL* exceptance. This is bad. That is why I don't see a problem with stressing a return to moral values.
You forgot one thing. The publicity whether good or bad will increase awareness of it. What will this do? Well, Linux people who might not have known, or cared about NTFS, will take notice and find a way to get a copy.
;)
Napster has proven this point. Given that Napster is far less complicated than Linux, but you get a similar responce. I think they'll do their teritorial posturing, and I think that is it. They can't be that stupid to give the DOJ more cannon balls to shoot them with? Wait, this is Microsoft were talking about.
Darwin is open source, and I expect the source to be available from somewhere of that site. They made a big thing of the OS being open source recently, but it appears just DARWIN is Open Source. Also, that have their own Liscence you have to agree to in order to working on Apple open source projects.
Parts of it have to be because of the origins of Darwin (FreeBSD, Mach 3.0, and Apache). I glanced at the Apple Public Source License, and I wonder, does this conflict with and of the projects they took code from? I reorienting myself in the linux world, but I would think that some of the code in Darwin woudl fall under the license of the works in which they borrowed code from. This would probably be based on the extent to which they borrowed. Anybody ever look furthor into this?
I think this is stupid. The only way this could work is if ll markets had On Demand television viewing. In other words, if you want to watcht hat special on the discory channel you start watching it when you wanted, and paused when you wanted.
I personally will not buy a digital tv for a long time. I won't ever by one if they don't let me record television movies and shows. Growing up, my parents didn't have a lot of money. We couldn't afford ot buy a lot of movies. So we taped them with our BETAMAX VCR (which we bought used from a rental place). I won't like it if I can't record the movies, not everyone can afford to buy the movies, or even goto the movies these days.
This is just another attempt by the greedy Entertainment industry to force us to play the game their way. They don't want you single parent family who can barely afford the rent to be able to record the movie, or show, he/she missed bause they were working to pay the bills and put food on the table. Enoguh is enough. We need to start making our views known. I think we should boycott television. Personally, their isn't much on worht watching anymore. If we are lucky, the spoiled brats in the television industry give us 13 new shows a year. I can remember a time when new show were from Labor Day to Memorial day or later. Now they barely work! Enough is enough!!!!!!!!
"Please take a moment to send us some information about yourself. A personalized Linux Jukebox download URL will be sent to your email address. You will be shown - and must indicate acceptance of - license terms before downloading any software."
... this Agreement to duplicate and use SOFTWARE solely for internal, non-commercial, research purposes". They limit the right to distribution to the "CUSTOMER's own internal, non-commercial, research purposes". Research would include determining a GPL violation, and thus some one could download the code. They could then use the downloaded source to verfiy a GPL violation, and then copy segments and distribute segments proving the violation.
A personalized URL? Does this mean they are tracking the downloads in some special way. Why would they need a personalized URL?
From the Liscence:
"1.1 SOFTWARE shall mean the computer program in binary form, and any associated information, that you are about to download."
IANAL, but given the definition of software, couldn't you assume that this is not refering to the source code? It specifically says binary form. I wouldn't throw the source code into the cluase "and any associated information, that you are about to download", but that is just me. Maybe this is just splitting hairs.
You might also want to notice they limit the use of what you download to "2.1
"But it's only true until you lose in court and have to shut down. And then pay for each copyright infringement, and all the VC's lose their money."
I don't think the individual will ever have to pay for each copyright infrindgement. I don't think the RIAA, Metallica, et. al. is that stupid. They'd just send people to another type of source, and there would be more types appearing.
If the member companies of the RIAA and artists raise the prices of their cds, a lot of consumera would search out methods of getting music such as Napster. In the long run, even if they win in court they will lose. They have bitten the hand that feeds them. I went into a Music store (only to look and not buy). CD prices were $16 to $20 dollars, and I don't pay sales tax!
The only way they can win this battle is to cut the prices indeffinitely. If the price of CDs dropped to say about $9.99 (or lower), they would start to cut away at the need for services like Napster.
They could also start selling MP3 CDs. Their is already a market for MP3 cds/songs. There are a lot of portable MP3 players at reasonable prices. Realistically they now have 3 methods to distribute their work. The three are tape, CD, and MP3 CD. This third choice would increase profits.
In the long run, they need to focus on selling more products at lower prices instead of selling fewer products at higher prices. It is simple economics 101. A demand as been created, and it has increased. They haven't provided any means of supllying the demand, so consumers will move to another means of supply such as Napster.
The RIAA needs to be disband, and get rid of all the barriers to true competition! Force the member companies to compete with each other for cd prices. CD prices would then drop because each company would want to get customers to buy their CDs. Currently, they don't compete. The CDs all sell for about the same price.
When it comes down to it, the RIAA, Metalica, et. al. are all standing in the way of inovation. They would rather live in the dark ages than move forward to a new distribution method and model. History has provided us with similar cases of companies/industries that refused to change. They usually get swallowed up and disappear.
Unfortunately, with the current Democratic legacy, the Government is interfering in the market when they shouldn't. The government shouldn't even hear these cases because it goes against the "Les Faire" (sp?)--that is the original pollicy of the founding fathers being the government keeps it's hands off. The courts should just say, "Tough, you dug your own grave!", and stop trying to support a old, dieing man of an industry that is stuct in its ways refusing to move foreward.
If they keep pissing of the techies, they will continue lag further behind! I wonder if they will take a few lessons from history? Or, are they doomed to repeat it!
Those are vicous lies from a digruntled former employee.
Actually you're wrong on that. A lot of high tech companies are owned by the Japanesse. A lot of developement is done in assain countries such as India.
As for Mandrin becoming the language of the internet, isn't Mandrin a dialect of Chinese? IF I am correct on that, all of the variations of Chinese that I have heard of are not origanally an alphabetic language. Their are at least 2 ways that I know of to translate Chinese into an alphebetic language, and unless those are used, I don't see Mandrin becoming the standard language because is not an alphabetic language.
If you look at Unicode, portions of some of the languages were left out because their really wasn't the space in the design. This means some of the language can't be represented.
What if you were just to use the symbols themselves? That would nearly impossible because I don't think there is a living human being who knows all of the symbols of any dialect for the Chinese langauge. Their are just too many. That is the problem with symbolic languages (non alphabetic), you just have too many symbols to represent all of the words. That is why alphabetic languages are good to use. They have a limited number of symbols and you create words by mixing the elements of the particular alphabet in line with the rules of the given language. A finite number o symbols means you don't need a lot of space to represent a word. When I glanced at the Unicode book, one of the first things I noticed was that they mention that parts had to be left out of languages because of space.
The language of a web site will always be the language that the author of the site is most comfortable with, or the language of the authors intended audience. I don't think there will ever be any one language for the internet. I have no problem with the way it is now. If you don't like, or understand, the language a site, skip it. Nothing is making you read that site.
Greeks may have been the forefather of Western Civilization, but I doubt they should be given credit for all civilization. Some asain civilizations have been around for a lot longer. I believe even Egypt was around longer. It was the Romans that brought civilization to every one when the conquered most of the known world (except the scots and Ireland).
I am assuming you're refering to the original release in the US, and not SABANS rerelease in the 90s. I saw and remember both. I prefered the original release. The youngest member was call Keyop(or something like that) and he didn't really talk much. He made strange noises. They had that pyramid thing they did, and who can forget the firey pheonix. Saban ruined it in the nineties. :P I am not familiar with the Japanese version (something about not understanding Japanesee and not wanting to read the show ;))
But my all time favorite anime is a toss p between Starblazers & Force Five. What can I say? I am a child of the seventies & eighties.
Tell me, oh grea coward of wisdom, how does quality go up when you just repost the whole stories in the comments?
You can say that again. I am still wondering about the repost of an article getting a 5! If I repost the article, do I get a five? You know for the ultralazy that doesn't want to scroll up to the top of the page?
There is one problem with your charge per file in the record companies big database scheme. If you already own the CD for an mp3 song, you legally have the right to download or create an mp3 file of that song. I believe it is covered under the same law that allows you put a copy of a song on cassette. You'd end up paying for the song 2 times--once in the CD you bought and a second time when you buy the mp3. Kind of makes me wonder why they haven't implemented the big database scheme yet. It fits into their greedy idea of things.
;)
It's been said before, but it is worth saying again. They, the record, companies have gotten themselves into this mess. If cds weren't so expensive, then this wouldn't be so wide spread. If they had started doing promos with free mps of released songs, this wouldn't have happened. Anyway you look at it, it is the consumors responding to an overly priced product in the market system. Most people with some business smarts would take this as a hint to lower the price of the products. In this case, it would be cds, tickets (to concerts and events), and promo item, but the record industry, and entertainment industry as a whole, has a tight grip on the flow of products. This allows them to set any price they want. Their really isn't a whole lot of competition for them.
BTW, anybody seen an MP3 of "What about me" by moving pictures?
That depends on what you are running. Some of the software and hardware you claim to own, you really don't. You just have a license to use it.
Sony's comments can be turned to our advantage! Remember, what was said was they would do ANYTHING to protect their revenue stream. We can turn that against them. Boycott Sony's products, and continue to boycott the music industry as a whole. THen go to one of the web sites (I don't have URLs) that are taking "digital signitures" and give your support.
If they lose their revenue stream, they chang their tune about Napster like programs!
Remember, you own the DVD, but not it's content. That where the problem lies. You can view a dvd any way you want, but right now if you want to view the content, you have to play by their rules. If enough of us act, that can be changed.
Legal ways to view your DVD movies with linux: hold a Linux CD next to the DVD, hold the dvd in front of a linux poster, etc...
karma fishing!
Somebody send Mr. Peter Firstbrook a copy of the Cathedral and the Bazaar! That explains the benefits more eloquently than most of use could.
Is this a Microsoft Mag? I don't usually read it.