Why do you or your friend assume it's P2P that's hurting the recording industry so much? Not saying it isn't, but did your friend have any evidence to say that?
Also, many people would say that it's definately not the best of the best getting music contracts these days.
If I use modified GPL'd software to help me design furniture and I sell the furniture, I don't have to release my changes under version 2 or 3.
If I let people use the modified software for a fee, over the net to help them design their own furniture then under version 2 I still don't have to release my changes since I'm not actually selling or distributing the software. Under this proposed version of 3 I would have to release the changes.
The ranting ends with the aesthetic properties. He does go more in depth and is actually quite pleased by it. The summary was something along the lines of 'it's great, if they keep this up commercial distros will have a hard time'.
If you want the ultimate campaign finance regulation you can do a few simple steps:
1. Repeal all donation restrictions and dismantle the FEC
2. Allow anyone (including foreigners and corporations) to finance any candidate in any amount
Some places (like Canada) are solving the problem by going in the opposite direction. Limit campaign financing serverely so that even those small third (fourth, fifth, sixth) parties can spend just as much on their campaign as the big two.
I prefer this way. After all, just because there's no limit to donations surely doesn't guarantee equal footing for the smaller parties. Especially if they had little money to begin with. No advertising -> no public awareness -> no donations.
I worry about that too sometimes. But even if it does happen, it will probably only be in the US. Eventually (hopefully) the US would have to fall in line with the rest of the world.
Well sure, I enjoy putting computers together too. But that's not how the article is presented, especially in the summary. It acts like if you want a sff computer, this is the way to go independent of how much you like putting them together. A better reason, as someone pointed out above, is that Shuttles are quite larger than the one in the article.
I oughta sue the RIAA for tracking what songs I'm sharing (my playlists are my intellectual property you know) and using that info as part of their business plan.
They owe me. But I'll consider the debt paid after my next several downloads.
for thesetwo trolls which are posted on every article about Linux. And yet some clueless moderator mods them up despite the fact that they are both wrong and offtopic.
All of them. I haven't seen one that I didn't like yet. Though I haven't seen "Kiki's delivery service" yet which I heard wasn't as good. I'm sure it is though.
One great about his movies is that there is almost never the stereotypical bad guy that is just evil for no reason. Everyone is doing what they think the right thing is. Much closer to real life.
They are mostly for children though. If you'd rather get something more adult, Princess Mononoke is probably the one to get.
I'm in the same boat as you. After the nano came out I'm considering one for the first time ever. So I borrowed my flatmate's to see how well it does with Linux/Gnome/Rhythmbox.
Flawlessly.
As soon as I plugged it in, an ipod shaped icon showed up on the desktop through which I could browse the thing. You can see everything on the ipod just through browing with Nautilus, or whatever your file browser is, but the songs are in some non-sensical folder structure. It's easier to use Rhythmbox. So I Open up Rhythmbox and click on the Ipod icon that had just showed up in the sources list and was able to browse the songs. Copied some songs from the Ipod to my computer by just dragging the song from Rhythmbox to my desktop, which I believe you can't do in itunes.
This was with Gnome 2.12, Rhythmbox 0.9, Ubuntu Breezy.
That's right. I don't really consider countries that invade and colonize other countries a minding-our-own-business type of country. Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling those countries evil or anything. But they do involve themselves in the affairs of others, to put it lightly. Which infringes on the freedoms of those others.
There are plenty of countries that we never hear news of that are quietly living peacefully with their neighbors, near and far. The UK is not one of them. I guess France is doing better now, but it wasn't so long ago that they weren't.
Do you really think freedom-loving-minding-our-own-personal-business "want" to be launching nukes? Hell no! In fact, no one does....except the brain washed commies and religious zelots.
You forgot to add the 'police the world' Americans.
But I agree; the freedom-loving-minding-our-own-business countries don't want to launch nukes. Which is really easy for them because those countries don't even develop nukes in the first place.
That's what statistics are for. After 5 straight years of hurricanes not reaching the mainland it would be safe to assume that the technique was working.
That's not to say that I think studying chaos theory will help.
The third comment on this page (if they know anything) says that the 2GB modules in the Nano are made of 4 500MB chips, so these new 16Gb (2GB) chips would allow for 8 and 16GB Nanos.
Rocketboom is currently one of the most popular videoblogs on the internet with more daily subscribers for original syndicated multimedia content than nearly any other site, including podcasts.
See if you can guess which show this excerpt is from by just looking at the pictures in the article.
Give up? It's the one with the blonde showing cleavage.
1) 'Breakthroughs' overhyped as if they're about to change everything. We see this all the time on/. 'Breakthrough in quantum-computing/ nanotechnology/ quantum-cryptography' The stories are overhyped 'cause it gets readers. Then here we get a bunch of armchair scientists hypothesising about the terahertz fast, petabyte large, unhackable computer everyone will have next year.
2) The media focusing on one or two scientists as if they have the ultimate say in how things are. Ignoring the fact that scientists aren't some monolithic beast with one scientist at the head.
Yes, there are driving laws, and emission controls. But there were also laws against terrorism before "The War On Terror", yet our governments still saw fit to step up the effort spent in combating terrorism.
If we can have a concentrated effort in combating terrorist activities that ultimately amounts to this war on terror, why can't we have a similar increased concentration of minds and money for things that are far deadlier than terrorism?
Despite those traffic laws and emission controls, far more people die from car accdidents and pollution than from terrorist activities. Most rational people would see this as a sign that something more/different needs to be done. But instead, not only do we get money and effort diverted away from initiatives that make quality of life here in our country higher, we also get an erosion of our rights.
In terms of a threat to the average citizen of any particular state, the threat posed by terrorism is right down in the noise level.
I agree, and it's funny how people almost never think of this. How so many other dangers are more present and deadly than terrorism, but aren't seen as important. Where's our war on smog, bad driving, and gun proliferation?
Before the 2004 US elections I saw quotes by people saying things to the effect of 'who cares about the economy when we're at war with terrorism'. Yet far more children are going to die from poverty induced things like exposure and malnutrition than from any acts of terror.
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Why do you or your friend assume it's P2P that's hurting the recording industry so much? Not saying it isn't, but did your friend have any evidence to say that?
Also, many people would say that it's definately not the best of the best getting music contracts these days.
If I use modified GPL'd software to help me design furniture and I sell the furniture, I don't have to release my changes under version 2 or 3.
If I let people use the modified software for a fee, over the net to help them design their own furniture then under version 2 I still don't have to release my changes since I'm not actually selling or distributing the software. Under this proposed version of 3 I would have to release the changes.
And now you get modded offtopic. Someone doesn't like you. Anyway, how do you find out the results of meta-moderation on your mods?
The ranting ends with the aesthetic properties. He does go more in depth and is actually quite pleased by it. The summary was something along the lines of 'it's great, if they keep this up commercial distros will have a hard time'.
Does he look dangerous enough to stop? You be the judge.
Well, not to me, but I could see how some paranoid racist cops could look at him and see an Algerian terrorist.
Modded +5 insightful here. If this were a thread about desktop Linux it would be -1 troll.
I would agree with your post in both cases.
Maybe he doesn't look "ethnic" enough to be mistaken for a Muslim.
He never said what colour his skin is. Seems like he would have when describing his clothes.
If you want the ultimate campaign finance regulation you can do a few simple steps: 1. Repeal all donation restrictions and dismantle the FEC 2. Allow anyone (including foreigners and corporations) to finance any candidate in any amount
Some places (like Canada) are solving the problem by going in the opposite direction. Limit campaign financing serverely so that even those small third (fourth, fifth, sixth) parties can spend just as much on their campaign as the big two.
I prefer this way. After all, just because there's no limit to donations surely doesn't guarantee equal footing for the smaller parties. Especially if they had little money to begin with. No advertising -> no public awareness -> no donations.
I worry about that too sometimes. But even if it does happen, it will probably only be in the US. Eventually (hopefully) the US would have to fall in line with the rest of the world.
Well sure, I enjoy putting computers together too. But that's not how the article is presented, especially in the summary. It acts like if you want a sff computer, this is the way to go independent of how much you like putting them together. A better reason, as someone pointed out above, is that Shuttles are quite larger than the one in the article.
when you can just buy a Shuttle or some other small form factor pc mostly put together already.
I oughta sue the RIAA for tracking what songs I'm sharing (my playlists are my intellectual property you know) and using that info as part of their business plan.
They owe me. But I'll consider the debt paid after my next several downloads.
for these two trolls which are posted on every article about Linux. And yet some clueless moderator mods them up despite the fact that they are both wrong and offtopic.
They're the ones that are into pegging. Probably the Greek gods.
All of them. I haven't seen one that I didn't like yet. Though I haven't seen "Kiki's delivery service" yet which I heard wasn't as good. I'm sure it is though.
One great about his movies is that there is almost never the stereotypical bad guy that is just evil for no reason. Everyone is doing what they think the right thing is. Much closer to real life.
They are mostly for children though. If you'd rather get something more adult, Princess Mononoke is probably the one to get.
doctor sues you!
I'm in the same boat as you. After the nano came out I'm considering one for the first time ever. So I borrowed my flatmate's to see how well it does with Linux/Gnome/Rhythmbox.
Flawlessly.
As soon as I plugged it in, an ipod shaped icon showed up on the desktop through which I could browse the thing. You can see everything on the ipod just through browing with Nautilus, or whatever your file browser is, but the songs are in some non-sensical folder structure. It's easier to use Rhythmbox. So I Open up Rhythmbox and click on the Ipod icon that had just showed up in the sources list and was able to browse the songs. Copied some songs from the Ipod to my computer by just dragging the song from Rhythmbox to my desktop, which I believe you can't do in itunes.
This was with Gnome 2.12, Rhythmbox 0.9, Ubuntu Breezy.
That's right. I don't really consider countries that invade and colonize other countries a minding-our-own-business type of country. Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling those countries evil or anything. But they do involve themselves in the affairs of others, to put it lightly. Which infringes on the freedoms of those others.
There are plenty of countries that we never hear news of that are quietly living peacefully with their neighbors, near and far. The UK is not one of them. I guess France is doing better now, but it wasn't so long ago that they weren't.
Do you really think freedom-loving-minding-our-own-personal-business "want" to be launching nukes? Hell no! In fact, no one does....except the brain washed commies and religious zelots.
You forgot to add the 'police the world' Americans.
But I agree; the freedom-loving-minding-our-own-business countries don't want to launch nukes. Which is really easy for them because those countries don't even develop nukes in the first place.
That's what statistics are for. After 5 straight years of hurricanes not reaching the mainland it would be safe to assume that the technique was working.
That's not to say that I think studying chaos theory will help.
The third comment on this page (if they know anything) says that the 2GB modules in the Nano are made of 4 500MB chips, so these new 16Gb (2GB) chips would allow for 8 and 16GB Nanos.
Rocketboom is currently one of the most popular videoblogs on the internet with more daily subscribers for original syndicated multimedia content than nearly any other site, including podcasts.
See if you can guess which show this excerpt is from by just looking at the pictures in the article.
Give up? It's the one with the blonde showing cleavage.
1) 'Breakthroughs' overhyped as if they're about to change everything. We see this all the time on /. 'Breakthrough in quantum-computing/ nanotechnology/ quantum-cryptography' The stories are overhyped 'cause it gets readers. Then here we get a bunch of armchair scientists hypothesising about the terahertz fast, petabyte large, unhackable computer everyone will have next year.
2) The media focusing on one or two scientists as if they have the ultimate say in how things are. Ignoring the fact that scientists aren't some monolithic beast with one scientist at the head.
Yes, there are driving laws, and emission controls. But there were also laws against terrorism before "The War On Terror", yet our governments still saw fit to step up the effort spent in combating terrorism.
If we can have a concentrated effort in combating terrorist activities that ultimately amounts to this war on terror, why can't we have a similar increased concentration of minds and money for things that are far deadlier than terrorism?
Despite those traffic laws and emission controls, far more people die from car accdidents and pollution than from terrorist activities. Most rational people would see this as a sign that something more/different needs to be done. But instead, not only do we get money and effort diverted away from initiatives that make quality of life here in our country higher, we also get an erosion of our rights.
I'm not going to argue about gun control.
In terms of a threat to the average citizen of any particular state, the threat posed by terrorism is right down in the noise level.
I agree, and it's funny how people almost never think of this. How so many other dangers are more present and deadly than terrorism, but aren't seen as important. Where's our war on smog, bad driving, and gun proliferation?
Before the 2004 US elections I saw quotes by people saying things to the effect of 'who cares about the economy when we're at war with terrorism'. Yet far more children are going to die from poverty induced things like exposure and malnutrition than from any acts of terror.