Except you're wrong. The levy is supposedly for allowing people to make a copy for their own private use, from the original media, even if they don't OWN the media. Now, the internet has opened up a whole new avenue of allowing people to acquire said media. In an ideal world this kind of levy actually makes some kind of sense, but in the internet age, not so much sense.
I guess what i'm trying to say, STOP FUCKING LIKENING THIS TO MURDER AND CLEARLY ILLEGAL AND/ OR TERRORISTIC ACTS, JESUS.
It's a nice gesture, but i doubt it's gonna work. Over where i live (the Netherlands) the national copyright association (we actually have 2 similar ones) is under fire for shady practices with regards to taxes on blanc DVD-R's and so on. What needs to be done is protest the existance of these vague agencies whose working are mostly unnnoticeable (does the money really go to the artists?) at a national level, by openly questioning the existence of said agency.
It does seem pretty damn unfair that Apple would be exempt, since they don't manufacture their players in Sweden. I'd urge all Swedes to buy their media/ players that are burdened by taxes that would go to this agency abroad like we've been doing (i buy all my blancs in germany, where there are no unfair taxes. Hell, over here the tax is more than the media itself!) for a while now.
Not sure what is has to do with Slashdot, apart from the hordes of geeks that attend each year. But yeah, nice stuff there.
What'd be newsworthy though, is to maybe have an idea of the infrastructure behind such an event, since they have danceclubs in the middle of nowhere, which is kinda cool.
I don't like to track plugins. Firefox is ridiculous in that area. It does very little out of the box, but is so configurable that it is a usability nightmare. You have to spend *hours* drilling into hundreds of extensions, trying them, restarting the browser, to get something that may fit your needs. Upgrade are painfull, as extensions often stop working, and, as the browser is now splitted into dozen of components, you cannot count on functionality beeing always present (extensions come and go). It is a waste of time.
You just summed up the main problem i have with Firefox. It's getting quite ridiculous with all the extensions just to get (imo) basic functionality. And god forbid you'd try to *gasp* upgrade the browser, since now all (or alot) of shit breaks.
This is not an anti firefox troll, i tried my very best to like it, but it's just not for me. If you want to spend hours tinkering with your browser, then that's cool. Firefox does have it's place though, the people i support use it without extensions and they seem happy.
That doesn't matter as long as the people who call the shots want it, ie. the record companies themselves. The rest is by and large, inconsequential. They control the band via stranglehold-contracts, and the consumers buy the product like the sheep they are.
You're acting as if, before the Shuffle, there were NO flash based small form factor mp3 players at all. To me, it shows how fragile the low-end of the iPod lineup is, when Apple feels threatened and has to artificially limit the functionality of a new product. The Nano is a whole different ballgame (IMO) since it seems to fit in the slightly-higher-than-the-low-end-end.
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Looks like this guy: http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/anthropomorphize d , our lovely brushed metal friend has found a new home in Redmond, with no thanks from his two-timing agent. Evil always find evil, i guess.
Disclaimer: I don't know how to put that link in as some text atm, but whatever.
Testing "the waters" by releasing a shitty offering hobbled with arbitrary limits (100 songs) and lackluster presentation and aesthetics.
While i do agree with Apple's statement that a too good iTunes Phone would cut into their iPod profits, why even bother at all? The cell market is very hard to get into, and the way Apple is going it could churn out small incremental updates for a long time. It's best to bet on a videoPod than on yet more convergence of devices.
Ah well, i better find my roll of doublesided tape, i got work to do.
My bad, i was referring to the european launch, which i saw myself. The DS lineup across the pond is still VERY lackluster (no Kirby, no Meteos), but there's good stuff on the way. Whether this can tide Nintendo over until the real heavy hitters (Mario kart, Metroid, other titles starting with the letter M) come over here, i can't tell.
What about all the markets where they sold less than the DS? Ie, most everywhere in the world. Ridge Racer seems to deserve it though, it's quite a good game. Overall i'd say the PSP launch line-up is better than that of the DS. It doesn't hurt that the line-up was padded with UMD's, even though they're (IMO) overpriced, even moreso if you take the freeware video converters into account.
Disclaimer: I own every modern console, and alot of older stuff too. I couldn't care less about sales figures, but thought this point was saillant enough to make.
In my day, we had to manually create bytecode using only pen and paper, then engrave the resulting sequences on a piece of rolled copper using our fingernails. Then we had to have some cold grits, and before bedtime our uncle Linus would sodomize us with a plastic penguin.
He looks awfully cheery for having no body and a set of crap headphones, doesn't he?
I know i'll get modded down for this, but ontopic: That Darwinbuild stuff looks pretty handy for say, upgrades in time without having to wait for Apple to stream then in via OS updates like they did with Server X.3.X. Also, i hope they next step is to allow X apps to run outside of the X11 environment, but at least semi natively. I don't really like the current solution of having to have 23489 apps running inside X11.app when you can inadvertently kill them all off with one errant Fruit+Q.
That looks really amazing...All it needs now is for the Queens of the Stone Age song "Go with the Flow" to repeat in the background. Like alot of (OSS included) projects of this type though, it stands the risk of just being abandoned for one reason or the other (probably because it's just a hobby project in this case), which would be a shame, since this is a nice case study for simplicity and would be nice to make a game of some sort with. Burnout in the dark maybe?
I bet they're gonna hire those guys who broke the Wifi distance challenge a few days back to make a 2-way 802.11g with state of the art WEP encryption to control those puppies in space.
We're boned. This kind of stuff scares the hell out of me. Having weapons that can disable other satellites is one thing. The next thing you know, laserbeams from outer space could fry anyone anywhere. And who is gonna handle it? The most violent nation in the world. This is not a dig on the american gung-ho way that seems the norm these days, i'm just putting in the perspective of a foreigner. And like the cruise missiles, they're gonna pull the "It's for our defense, national security, blabla" card to put them up there.
I think it's up to the US taxpayer to put a stop to this insanity. I have a feeling that the US is gonna laugh at the Chinese & Russian efforts to legislate this, possibly causing a cold war in space. Hell, the Cuban missile crisis is nothing compared to some serious strike capabilities in space with a far greater range than some archaic missiles on a carribean island.
Besides, who appointed the USA to be the supreme ruler of space? Surely disabling a satellite orbiting some other nation's (high) air space could be construed as an act of war similar to say, spyplanes in a foreign country's airspace?
Or some other type of fruit. First we have the whole dead pixel on psp debate, then the whole misunderstood OSX / linux debacle, then we get the crackdown of the grey import circuit in the UK, and now this? What gives, Sony? Don't you like money? Surely you don't give a flying fuck as to where people buy your overpriced, undermanufactured console and it's games? Also the price gouging you seem to do as evident in the summary i'm sure won't fly in the face of information and outcry on the internet and hopefully popular media will pick this up as well.
Keep doing this, sony and you will be publicly humiliated (again) and fewer people will buy your stuff. Hell, even Microsoft isn't that evil. Try to control the market in such an evil way, and it will always come back and bite you in the ass.
In summary: If Sony was an icecream flavor, they'd be pralines and dick.
It doesn't say there's already regulation, just that there's a review going on that MAY LEAD TO an ISP trust framework that prevents scummy things like this from happening (whether it's 1 site, or 767 sites).
This is just some ploy to get people up in arms under false sentiments. What if instead of some poor cancer website, it'd been terrorists? Or the National Child Pornographer's association?
Just report the facts. Yes, blocking websites you don't like is bad (and bad PR). Yes, it should be stopped. But not because you're blocking some poor other websites. Collateral damage happens, like it or not.
But it's certainly a ripoff that's compatible with most every site you can think of, unlike FF, Opera et al. (which is good, sorta).
Really, it's just a browser, who cares? Nobody stands to make a huge bank off of browser sales, so what's another browser gonna hurt? And i'm not talking about standards which 98% of the internet population doesn't give a damn about (the famed acid2 test, big whoop!)
Disclaimer: I do NOT agree with Microsoft's predatory business tactics.
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I guess what i'm trying to say, STOP FUCKING LIKENING THIS TO MURDER AND CLEARLY ILLEGAL AND/ OR TERRORISTIC ACTS, JESUS.
It does seem pretty damn unfair that Apple would be exempt, since they don't manufacture their players in Sweden. I'd urge all Swedes to buy their media/ players that are burdened by taxes that would go to this agency abroad like we've been doing (i buy all my blancs in germany, where there are no unfair taxes. Hell, over here the tax is more than the media itself!) for a while now.
What'd be newsworthy though, is to maybe have an idea of the infrastructure behind such an event, since they have danceclubs in the middle of nowhere, which is kinda cool.
This is not an anti firefox troll, i tried my very best to like it, but it's just not for me. If you want to spend hours tinkering with your browser, then that's cool. Firefox does have it's place though, the people i support use it without extensions and they seem happy.
That doesn't matter as long as the people who call the shots want it, ie. the record companies themselves. The rest is by and large, inconsequential. They control the band via stranglehold-contracts, and the consumers buy the product like the sheep they are.
I can feel the glove up my ass already :(.
A search for "Angst" gives me 144,844 hits. Thanks, Google Blogsearch!
Noted & editted, much obliged.
You're acting as if, before the Shuffle, there were NO flash based small form factor mp3 players at all. To me, it shows how fragile the low-end of the iPod lineup is, when Apple feels threatened and has to artificially limit the functionality of a new product. The Nano is a whole different ballgame (IMO) since it seems to fit in the slightly-higher-than-the-low-end-end.
Disclaimer: I don't know how to put that link in as some text atm, but whatever.
Either my sarcasm detector is broke, or you're a moron with a dumb sig.
While i do agree with Apple's statement that a too good iTunes Phone would cut into their iPod profits, why even bother at all? The cell market is very hard to get into, and the way Apple is going it could churn out small incremental updates for a long time. It's best to bet on a videoPod than on yet more convergence of devices.
Ah well, i better find my roll of doublesided tape, i got work to do.
My bad, i was referring to the european launch, which i saw myself. The DS lineup across the pond is still VERY lackluster (no Kirby, no Meteos), but there's good stuff on the way. Whether this can tide Nintendo over until the real heavy hitters (Mario kart, Metroid, other titles starting with the letter M) come over here, i can't tell.
Disclaimer: I own every modern console, and alot of older stuff too. I couldn't care less about sales figures, but thought this point was saillant enough to make.
Luxury!
In my day, we had to manually create bytecode using only pen and paper, then engrave the resulting sequences on a piece of rolled copper using our fingernails. Then we had to have some cold grits, and before bedtime our uncle Linus would sodomize us with a plastic penguin.
He looks awfully cheery for having no body and a set of crap headphones, doesn't he?
I know i'll get modded down for this, but ontopic: That Darwinbuild stuff looks pretty handy for say, upgrades in time without having to wait for Apple to stream then in via OS updates like they did with Server X.3.X. Also, i hope they next step is to allow X apps to run outside of the X11 environment, but at least semi natively. I don't really like the current solution of having to have 23489 apps running inside X11.app when you can inadvertently kill them all off with one errant Fruit+Q.
That looks really amazing...All it needs now is for the Queens of the Stone Age song "Go with the Flow" to repeat in the background. Like alot of (OSS included) projects of this type though, it stands the risk of just being abandoned for one reason or the other (probably because it's just a hobby project in this case), which would be a shame, since this is a nice case study for simplicity and would be nice to make a game of some sort with. Burnout in the dark maybe?
Not me, but i bet they'd be willing to fry whatever dictator is the big boogeyman this week.
I bet they're gonna hire those guys who broke the Wifi distance challenge a few days back to make a 2-way 802.11g with state of the art WEP encryption to control those puppies in space.
I think it's up to the US taxpayer to put a stop to this insanity. I have a feeling that the US is gonna laugh at the Chinese & Russian efforts to legislate this, possibly causing a cold war in space. Hell, the Cuban missile crisis is nothing compared to some serious strike capabilities in space with a far greater range than some archaic missiles on a carribean island.
Besides, who appointed the USA to be the supreme ruler of space? Surely disabling a satellite orbiting some other nation's (high) air space could be construed as an act of war similar to say, spyplanes in a foreign country's airspace?
Not to mention the whole idea of UMD is garbage anyway. I can't wait to rebuy "The Matrix" for the 5th time just so i can watch it on a tiny screen!
Keep doing this, sony and you will be publicly humiliated (again) and fewer people will buy your stuff. Hell, even Microsoft isn't that evil. Try to control the market in such an evil way, and it will always come back and bite you in the ass.
In summary: If Sony was an icecream flavor, they'd be pralines and dick.
It doesn't say there's already regulation, just that there's a review going on that MAY LEAD TO an ISP trust framework that prevents scummy things like this from happening (whether it's 1 site, or 767 sites).
Just report the facts. Yes, blocking websites you don't like is bad (and bad PR). Yes, it should be stopped. But not because you're blocking some poor other websites. Collateral damage happens, like it or not.
Really, it's just a browser, who cares? Nobody stands to make a huge bank off of browser sales, so what's another browser gonna hurt? And i'm not talking about standards which 98% of the internet population doesn't give a damn about (the famed acid2 test, big whoop!)
Disclaimer: I do NOT agree with Microsoft's predatory business tactics.