It's because Apple has managed to build an extremely valuable brand. People don't want a music players with the capabilities of the iPod. They want iPods.
These guys once had everything - the best CPUs (Alpha, PA RISC), Solid operating systems (HPUX, VMS), The best search engine (DEC, now HP) could have been google.
The size and intensity of the protest against the RNC is a good barometer of how torqed off the kinds of nutcases who quit their jobs(?) and bus across the country are.
Nothing more. Nothing less. These are professional agitators, and they damage the cause they purportedly espouse.
We had an exit strategy and while we're still there,
Heh. You're gonna blame it all on the Republicans, eh? Just like Vietnam, the war started by the Democrats. . . (while they were busy opposing the Civil Rights Act, etc.)
Do you really think Al "Clipper" Gore would have done anything different?
Algore would have done worse. His Patriot Act would have been more strict, *and* it would be rubber stamped by the Democratic political machine. The only people denoucing it would be the Libertarians.
Wholesale and widespread use of the term 'cool' is a serious part of the problem. It's a lot of bullshit to worry about wether something is 'cool' or not, like some particular band of sheep is important to belong to. Fuck that.
If you like music, play some. Quit shuttling around recordings of someone else playing music.
Just look at a map of the world. The US is this tiny chunk of land on one side of the globe.
And yet, strangely, most of the recorded performances being shuttled around on P2P networks is material recorded in the US, and representative of a dominant US culture.
If you want to use P2P to shuttle around recorded performances Ukranian folk music I'm sure noone would object.
I don't think you have much of an idea how the warez scene has worked over the last 30 years. Before the days of widespread TCP/IP use, Zmodem was king. The most effective way to send large files ( > 300 k) was Zmodem, on a 9600 baud link if you could afford it.
Well, since a law can't be passed that permits people to be sprayed with permanent orange dye that marks them as stupid fucks without a clue, it's important for temporary markers like a ringtone to be not only permitted, but to be encouraged.
How else are the rest of us to quickly identify and avoid said persons?
Does that mean that since the Government occasionally buys Macintosh computers with tax money, that Steve Jobs should be heavily fined for shutting down the 'Third Party Mac Cloning' business?
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WTF??
In case you're wondering, this isn't a site for the kind of people who worried about what brand of sneakers they wore in school.
I mean, jebus cripes.
I haven't lost my right to an attorney. Neither have you.
Plus, there are those of us who will never, ever, buy a product new from Apple again.
It's because Apple has managed to build an extremely valuable brand. People don't want a music players with the capabilities of the iPod. They want iPods.
Whoah! You'll suck down anything Jobs exudes, eh?
These guys once had everything - the best CPUs (Alpha, PA RISC), Solid operating systems (HPUX, VMS), The best search engine (DEC, now HP) could have been google.
Well, now they've got Carly.
What a bum deal, eh?
You said right up above you don't believe in property rights. I was just going to help liberate you from materialistic urges.
Any other easy questions?
Yes.
1. What's your home address?
2. When will you be away?
The size and intensity of the protest against the RNC is a good barometer of how torqed off the kinds of nutcases who quit their jobs(?) and bus across the country are.
Nothing more. Nothing less. These are professional agitators, and they damage the cause they purportedly espouse.
He asked you to cite some rights that you lost, not that a bunch of thugs lost.
(yeah, I know. 'We are all a bunch of thugs' or somesuch profound response)
We had an exit strategy and while we're still there,
Heh. You're gonna blame it all on the Republicans, eh? Just like Vietnam, the war started by the Democrats. . . (while they were busy opposing the Civil Rights Act, etc.)
Do you really think Al "Clipper" Gore would have done anything different?
Algore would have done worse. His Patriot Act would have been more strict, *and* it would be rubber stamped by the Democratic political machine. The only people denoucing it would be the Libertarians.
And what a load of bullshit those laws are.
Vandalism is vandalism.
The bands that are cool to like
Wholesale and widespread use of the term 'cool' is a serious part of the problem. It's a lot of bullshit to worry about wether something is 'cool' or not, like some particular band of sheep is important to belong to. Fuck that.
If you like music, play some. Quit shuttling around recordings of someone else playing music.
We are pleased, indeed proud of you, for taking a firm stand, mister Anonymous Coward.
Now, if everybody, or even a simple majority of anonymous commenters on web logs, would take the same firm stand....
machine gunning?
Why? A simple ticket citation and/or arrest for significant violations, will suffice.
But you wanted to be all dramatic and stuff.
Just look at a map of the world. The US is this tiny chunk of land on one side of the globe.
And yet, strangely, most of the recorded performances being shuttled around on P2P networks is material recorded in the US, and representative of a dominant US culture.
If you want to use P2P to shuttle around recorded performances Ukranian folk music I'm sure noone would object.
I don't think you have much of an idea how the warez scene has worked over the last 30 years. Before the days of widespread TCP/IP use, Zmodem was king. The most effective way to send large files ( > 300 k) was Zmodem, on a 9600 baud link if you could afford it.
Well, since a law can't be passed that permits people to be sprayed with permanent orange dye that marks them as stupid fucks without a clue, it's important for temporary markers like a ringtone to be not only permitted, but to be encouraged.
How else are the rest of us to quickly identify and avoid said persons?
I was hoping for a good solid denunciation of Ring Tones here in the discussion.
Thank you.
Does that mean that since the Government occasionally buys Macintosh computers with tax money, that Steve Jobs should be heavily fined for shutting down the 'Third Party Mac Cloning' business?
That's just from your vantage point.
The only thing worse than an Ayn Rand fiend is an angry ex-Ayn Rand Fiend 'speaking out.'
Why Apple? They're just the 'We're Number Two, we try harder' evil company.
Vouchers for some other company would be more appropriate.
There's no reasonably priced alternative to Project, for what it does.
I looked at your cite. It's not the same story.
Everybody already knows about Ruby Ridge. But it's not the heart-rendering story cited above. It's a different one.
Nice try, though. Maybe someone else has a cite.