I vote the only way I can, by active non participation, They do not get my custom, where they would if they dropped drm, I used to buy a lot of music. What other way is there? buying their stuff doesn't help.
That is so far from happening its not even funny. Never mind that almost all leaks and interweb releases of films are from cinema's, pre release versions or rips from already decoded dvd's
The thing is that so few people have even the slightest inclination to rip their dvd collections that people aren't feeling the inconvenience that music users felt over the drm currently in dvds. They won't until it becomes standard to store movies etc in electronic form only. That's a long way from happening, by which time drm, unless ultra unobtrusive (ha) will be a fact of life and very hard to dislodge.
I haven't purchased music for years because of the behavior of the labels, and nope, I haven't been downloading illegally either. If some of the big groups are going to divest themselves of their overlords, I'll be starting up with the purchasing again.
If the RIAA cared about her at all they wouldn't have tried to go for a per mp3 infringement ruling. They could have argued it was just one,or gone for some other measure. Note that the RIAA did not actually want this court case, but since she wanted it, well, they decided to slap her down hard.
They did try to be nice, in their warped world view, by asking for their original small fine that is piddling in the face of this court ordered fine. I wonder at her intelligence to be honest, she was caught stealing, whatever the nature. They said uploading, but she downloaded too, both aren't especially wise. The best course of action would have been to admit it, pay the small settlement amount and move on. She did bring this upon herself.
I am distressed more by the way the government appeared to applaud the destruction of her life in this manner.
I have a friend who works in a factory where they blare out music constantly.
He is forced to use an mp3 player with other stuff on just to drown out the endless stream of drivel that is pumped out in the name of pop music. Ok its not all that bad, but I am told that when you hear the same 'hit' several times an hour for weeks on end it does not please. I sort of know what he means, I worked in a factory for a time while at university, and they did the same. I couldn't escape to an mp3 player though.
Stopping this playing of music to an entire factory floor without regard to the people actually working (who cares about the royalties collection people) would not be a bad thing in all cases.
if that was the problem, then the price of the music, a moderate fine of parking ticket severity, and a possibly bigger fine for 'losing' evidence after it was requested. The later being just to do with not dicking about with evidence, not music stealing.
They realised it was a patentable thing, but didn't want it. So they filed, got it, and put the patent in the public domain, thus protecting themselves from any problems that might emerge from such a patent being granted to a patent troll.
Why did they ALLOW them to send back the machine before things were taken care of
Because once the machines were back they could be sent somewhere else and make more money
Why did they ERASE the machines before things were taken care of?
Because the last thing they want is definitive proof that their equipment is in error, that would cut their profits. Better an election be voided then that.
Has the nation not bitched enough about paper trails and how precarious votes are already?
No
Do they have any clue whatsoever about what they are doing?
Making craploads of money? Yup, they know that well enough.
It doesn't take much sense to see that you can't take chances like this on a product that isn't proven and is under -heavy- scrutiny.
There you go with that sense thing. Let me explain, if they can make money selling badly made unproven kit they will, and this will continue so long as there are people willing to rent it.
then don't watch the last three minutes of Free Enterprise. It's a great film, but right at the end shatner sings. Never before have I hit the mute button so fast.
I go back to it from time to time, but I agree, its nightmarish to use and I end up giving up in favor of alternatives, anything. I'm no pro user, but I do a bit of image work, enough to like a decent and easy to use image editor, which the gimp isn't.
I think it has suffered from too many years following the vision of Mattis and Kimball. It was good when Linux looked like the gimp, but we've left that era long behind.
some people are really trying to pimp up the gimp recently.
Thing is, it isn't, and never has been as good as photoshop, so the professional world aren't going to accept it while photoshop is better.
And its not just because photoshop is proprietary, its just better suited to what the professional photographer and artist need to make a living. Gimp needs several more years with a much *much* larger workforce and some serious intent to make it so good that people won't even think of using anything else, and I don't see that happening just yet.
You must not have installed WGA on an illegal XP install. I've seen it, it pops up messages all the time, and becomes so annoying as to render the machine unuseable. However the simplest fix as it turns out was supplied by Microsoft. Just do a system restore to before WGA was installed and forbid it to download again.
Then again of course if you re-install you're boned, because microsoft require WGA to be installed before any other updates.
when I was a kid I lived in south Australia. where we were there was no significant light pollution (probably some, there was a city 50 miles away, but you couldn't tell).
As a kid I could watch the stars just by laying on the beach by our house. I remember when we moved to england I wondered why the sky didn't have as many stars, and that was in the seventies. I just wasn't fun to look at. Now I know of only one spot near where I live that I can get even a slightly better view, and to get there is a two hour walk across the countryside, then the view is, well, not great.
I would not be surprised. However Spain was conquered only a short time after the founding of Islam, so one could argue that most (if not all) of the knowledge brought to Spain by the conquering Muslims was discovered before Muhammad's time.
You are possibly right. I have but a laymans approach to the study of science history. I read on the subject for fun, and the work of the Islamic world fascinates me. When the knowledge first arose I don't know. After all, given that the ancient Egyptians were doing bowel resections and successfully removing brain tumors thousands of years ago, I take it as read that the exact origin of most fundamental knowledge is more or less unknowable.
The best we can do is not the significant applications and major figures in the use and development of methods.
I believe he is referring to the 17th and 18th century European pre Darwinian 'scientific' approach (there were of course no scientists then, the name didn't exist), which was to catalog and classify, but not to investigate how or why things were the way they were.
Wow, for the first time ever, an article linked off a slashdot story that I find completely fascinating. As a scientist myself I find it utterly tragic that the past greatness of Islamic scholars is apparently largely forgotten outside of the work of science historians.
One can only hope that this current poverty of science in the islamic world is reversed.
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I vote the only way I can, by active non participation, They do not get my custom, where they would if they dropped drm, I used to buy a lot of music. What other way is there? buying their stuff doesn't help.
hahaha!
You crack me up. Oh wait, you're serious?
That is so far from happening its not even funny. Never mind that almost all leaks and interweb releases of films are from cinema's, pre release versions or rips from already decoded dvd's
The thing is that so few people have even the slightest inclination to rip their dvd collections that people aren't feeling the inconvenience that music users felt over the drm currently in dvds. They won't until it becomes standard to store movies etc in electronic form only. That's a long way from happening, by which time drm, unless ultra unobtrusive (ha) will be a fact of life and very hard to dislodge.
I haven't purchased music for years because of the behavior of the labels, and nope, I haven't been downloading illegally either. If some of the big groups are going to divest themselves of their overlords, I'll be starting up with the purchasing again.
If the RIAA cared about her at all they wouldn't have tried to go for a per mp3 infringement ruling. They could have argued it was just one,or gone for some other measure. Note that the RIAA did not actually want this court case, but since she wanted it, well, they decided to slap her down hard.
They did try to be nice, in their warped world view, by asking for their original small fine that is piddling in the face of this court ordered fine. I wonder at her intelligence to be honest, she was caught stealing, whatever the nature. They said uploading, but she downloaded too, both aren't especially wise. The best course of action would have been to admit it, pay the small settlement amount and move on. She did bring this upon herself.
I am distressed more by the way the government appeared to applaud the destruction of her life in this manner.
I have a friend who works in a factory where they blare out music constantly.
He is forced to use an mp3 player with other stuff on just to drown out the endless stream of drivel that is pumped out in the name of pop music. Ok its not all that bad, but I am told that when you hear the same 'hit' several times an hour for weeks on end it does not please. I sort of know what he means, I worked in a factory for a time while at university, and they did the same. I couldn't escape to an mp3 player though.
Stopping this playing of music to an entire factory floor without regard to the people actually working (who cares about the royalties collection people) would not be a bad thing in all cases.
ah yes, that was it, not for networks then.
didn't someone once do a version of doom that displayed network activity?
I recall seeing screenshots, but that was years ago.
if that was the problem, then the price of the music, a moderate fine of parking ticket severity, and a possibly bigger fine for 'losing' evidence after it was requested. The later being just to do with not dicking about with evidence, not music stealing.
ten grand tops, and that would break me..
If a law is deemed working properly when it can destroy someones life for the sake of a few MP3's, I would say that what we have here is fascism.
Well, neoconservatism, which as far as I can tell is the same thing, only with better suits.
I have a theory, possibly wrong.
They realised it was a patentable thing, but didn't want it. So they filed, got it, and put the patent in the public domain, thus protecting themselves from any problems that might emerge from such a patent being granted to a patent troll.
Why did they ALLOW them to send back the machine before things were taken care of
Because once the machines were back they could be sent somewhere else and make more money
Why did they ERASE the machines before things were taken care of?
Because the last thing they want is definitive proof that their equipment is in error, that would cut their profits. Better an election be voided then that.
Has the nation not bitched enough about paper trails and how precarious votes are already?
No
Do they have any clue whatsoever about what they are doing?
Making craploads of money? Yup, they know that well enough.
It doesn't take much sense to see that you can't take chances like this on a product that isn't proven and is under -heavy- scrutiny.
There you go with that sense thing. Let me explain, if they can make money selling badly made unproven kit they will, and this will continue so long as there are people willing to rent it.
then don't watch the last three minutes of Free Enterprise. It's a great film, but right at the end shatner sings. Never before have I hit the mute button so fast.
I go back to it from time to time, but I agree, its nightmarish to use and I end up giving up in favor of alternatives, anything. I'm no pro user, but I do a bit of image work, enough to like a decent and easy to use image editor, which the gimp isn't.
I think it has suffered from too many years following the vision of Mattis and Kimball. It was good when Linux looked like the gimp, but we've left that era long behind.
some people are really trying to pimp up the gimp recently.
Thing is, it isn't, and never has been as good as photoshop, so the professional world aren't going to accept it while photoshop is better.
And its not just because photoshop is proprietary, its just better suited to what the professional photographer and artist need to make a living. Gimp needs several more years with a much *much* larger workforce and some serious intent to make it so good that people won't even think of using anything else, and I don't see that happening just yet.
OMG they released a Dinosour in Utah! Run for the hills!
You must not have installed WGA on an illegal XP install. I've seen it, it pops up messages all the time, and becomes so annoying as to render the machine unuseable. However the simplest fix as it turns out was supplied by Microsoft. Just do a system restore to before WGA was installed and forbid it to download again.
Then again of course if you re-install you're boned, because microsoft require WGA to be installed before any other updates.
You may have found a practical use for goatse man.
oh dear, you've done it now. Who knew rule 34 applied to faxes?
I wish I was able to see the look on the face of whoever reads those faxes.
I'm afraid that Steve wouldn't keep the chair very long...
coffee+keyboard == you are a git....
when I was a kid I lived in south Australia. where we were there was no significant light pollution (probably some, there was a city 50 miles away, but you couldn't tell).
As a kid I could watch the stars just by laying on the beach by our house. I remember when we moved to england I wondered why the sky didn't have as many stars, and that was in the seventies. I just wasn't fun to look at. Now I know of only one spot near where I live that I can get even a slightly better view, and to get there is a two hour walk across the countryside, then the view is, well, not great.
I don't even live in a city.
I would not be surprised. However Spain was conquered only a short time after the founding of Islam, so one could argue that most (if not all) of the knowledge brought to Spain by the conquering Muslims was discovered before Muhammad's time.
You are possibly right. I have but a laymans approach to the study of science history. I read on the subject for fun, and the work of the Islamic world fascinates me. When the knowledge first arose I don't know. After all, given that the ancient Egyptians were doing bowel resections and successfully removing brain tumors thousands of years ago, I take it as read that the exact origin of most fundamental knowledge is more or less unknowable.
The best we can do is not the significant applications and major figures in the use and development of methods.
I believe he is referring to the 17th and 18th century European pre Darwinian 'scientific' approach (there were of course no scientists then, the name didn't exist), which was to catalog and classify, but not to investigate how or why things were the way they were.
(dates may not be perfect).
Islam had it fair share of brilliant scholars, the problem was it had its fair share of fundamentalist religious types, and they won.
Did you know that there is a good deal of evidence that the western renaissance was started using Islamic knowledge taken from libraries in spain?
simplified yes, but basically true.
Wow, for the first time ever, an article linked off a slashdot story that I find completely fascinating. As a scientist myself I find it utterly tragic that the past greatness of Islamic scholars is apparently largely forgotten outside of the work of science historians.
One can only hope that this current poverty of science in the islamic world is reversed.
thanks. I've got a few years to go yet, at the moment I'm just building the engine in spare time, and there is precious little of that right now.
... but a MMORG with a subscription service is probably a bit too ambitious an undertaking for a solo hobbyist
Is it? oh dear. far too many people I know have said this.
Still, I will continue writing mine. Either I succeed or I create a new level of sucking at game design.