It's been four years now since I bought any music, if I'm of a mind for some I tune a radio in or browse the many indie sites that offer free or cheap music. Frankly this whole music industry Jihad is pissing me off.
Time was I used to buy albums every couple of weeks, I must have spent thousands. I was so offended by their criminalising kids for doing what kids do, share, recommend stuff to each other, and have a laugh without understanding the 'consequences' (what kid ever does?). Now they're criminals, advised to drop out of college and wreck their futures as an example to others.
Bullshit. Nothing produced by an industry like that is of interest to me.
This is nothing if not expected. The software/media companies are the new oil, and they will go to huge lengths to protect their interests. oil companies have manipulated politics and law, hell, even wars, for decades, why should these new guys be any different? It's all about money and power, powerful drugs for the corporate junkies.
Next up, legislation to *require* you to purchase certain pieces of software if you own a home computer, or at the very least, to have certain software installed. This will be both a means of monitoring and a covert way to try and kill linux.
God I love conspiracies, pardon me, I need to go light up.
News to me. My Open Source nBody model is just getting started..
Ok I don't have many users, its not exactly mainstream, but I see no reason to stop because some loser says my chosen distribution method is dead.
What he measn is he wishes it were so, and that everyone could carry on using the proprietary model to produce crappy expensive stuff without all this nasty decent competitive software inconveniently proving that theirs is not the only way to do things, and certainly not the best.
There is, I admit, a fair bit of crap in the open source world, just as there is in the proprietary world. The crap gets abandoned, and the better stuff improves, that's the way it's supposed to work. Doesn't seem to happen in the proprietary world nearly as often as it should mind..
With all these stars turning up that are considerably older then, what is it, 6000 years, they'll probably start foaming at the mouth. I wish I knew one nowadays so I could show them this article and watch the mental gymnastics as they sought to refute it.
yes it does make a difference that the WII is underpowered compared to the Xbox 360 and PS3. It's proving that people don't actually need their hugely powerful devices to have fun, and they do not like that one bit, oh no...
Not possible. AOL have been haemorrhaging customers for years, which has limited their advertising revenue somewhat. No company wants to lose customers, even of free services, because it makes their portfolio look good if they want to sell.
Here in the UK we had a nuclear reprocessing plant that was so badly thought of they renamed it to Sellafield, and that worked..
This is different though, they know that consumers haven't been fooled into believing drm is for their own good, so its being rebranded to fail in a new way. Yup, that'll work.
I wouldn't mind if they were honest about it and just said it was to protect them, not add value for consumers. That's where the problem is, they want us to believe something other then the truth. With the interwebs and all, that's a dumb idea.
lots of those mail addresses at Microsoft exist solely because they were required to access passport Microsoft services. I have one myself, I used it recently to get the free visual studio compiler
If it meant actively used email adresses it would be a smaller number
This is no less then an admission that their own search and online advertising strategy has failed completelly. They may disagree, but coin like that being offered for yahoo speaks volumes.
MSN was, at first inception, meant to be *the* portal to the internet. That failed so fast most people don't even know it. The new Microsoft search site? Know anyone that uses it? cos I don't, and I know a lot of computer users, ranging from expert to pebmak's. Not one Microsoft web strategy has succeeded. Ok, ok, people use Hotmail, and people use msn messenger. Alas that's not much of a money maker for Microsoft, not without the original ill conceived all encompassing Microsoft Network.
So, they now know that without buying out another major search company they can't compete in search or net advertising. The problem there is that they have no assurance that the purchase will help them at all?
First, they can't drop the Yahoo! name, or people simply won't use the product. Secondly, adding it to their monolithic corporation will most likely result in innovation at yahoo (is there any? I'm out of touch) will also slow to a crawl.
Microsoft have been good at (well, successful at) operating systems and office software. Their mistake is believing that the same strategy can be extended to maintain a dominant position in other fields that didn't even exist when they first became dominant.
Most likely outcome of a purchase? Five years down the line it is spun off as a separate business again, related to Microsoft by shares only.
I thought the whole idea of trust certificate type things was because the closed source ethos means there's no way to know what's in the program you're installing, so it has to be certified as trustworthy?
I didn't think open source needed that kind of thing.
When it comes to installing things via browser I prefer firefox's 'authorise this domain' thing, which is independent of certificates.
perhaps the reason there's no open source equivalent of these certificates is that its never come up as a problem.
I may be missing the point, as I said, but I am a mere academic hacker type, all this buzzword filled security stuff tends to pass me by. The only security I have in my software is 'if you run this as root you're a dickhead', only not that rude.
Since when are the big players the backbone of Open Source?
Sure, some things will be dominated by commercial needs, they kind of have to be to compete. Anyone who pretends surprise and wants it to be otherwise is deluding themselves.
I've been an Open Source coder for six years now. Last time I checked the state of Red Hat et al made not a mote of difference to my project. I'm pretty certain that I'm not alone.
I can't understand people who think that to find life on other planets we have to look for conditions similar to Earth. All of the hubbub over liquid water seems so silly to me. We have *no idea* what life on other planets might be like. I think that the only thing to look for is patterns which we don't believe could occur in nature, suggesting that the anti-entropy force of life might be present.
That idea comes from the time before we started realising that the nutty Gia concept (of the earth as a living entity) was actually a hypothesis with more than a little proof to back it up. I'd go so far as to say it's a theory.
Thing is, no matter how far down we drill, we still find life, and no matter how cold or hot or dangerous (to us) an environ we find, there is always life there.
It's taken a long time for this realisation to permeate through the wider scientific community, and it's a long way from becoming accepted fact for the general public.
Anyway, I'm kind of a skeptic already, I don't think that looking for life outside our galaxy is particularly interesting or useful anyway, considering that the nearest life would be millions of years away by interstellar travel. Even if it's out there, we'll never meet it or communicate with it.
Given how many planets exist in our galaxy that are already inconceivably far away, including this new wet planet just 20 light years away (or 4 billion years travel time away at current technology levels that are capable of carrying people), you're right, inter galactic travel is something we shouldn't waste time thinking about.
Even if we did manage to find a way to do it, we could do little more then explore the minutest fraction of another galaxy. It would be pointless for all but a minority of pioneers willing to take the risk.
The problem with travel methods that let you go huge distances (wormholes, whatever, jolly fast stuff anyhow) is that they miss all the stuff between you and your destination. That is not the way true exploration works, likely we'd miss lots of interesting things.
The 'War on Terror' is big on rhetoric, but short on facts. The UK is dropping the term, because it's misleading.
Where is this global organisation of evil people bent on destroying the west? Seems to me their more interested in killing each other, and it's not the majority, just a scattered set of minority groups with a lot of nasty weapons.
Personally I think what is going on is an Islamic Civil War. They're never good things, wars, and I find it very upsetting, but to my knowledge there never has been a good Civil War.
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It's been four years now since I bought any music, if I'm of a mind for some I tune a radio in or browse the many indie sites that offer free or cheap music. Frankly this whole music industry Jihad is pissing me off.
Time was I used to buy albums every couple of weeks, I must have spent thousands. I was so offended by their criminalising kids for doing what kids do, share, recommend stuff to each other, and have a laugh without understanding the 'consequences' (what kid ever does?). Now they're criminals, advised to drop out of college and wreck their futures as an example to others.
Bullshit. Nothing produced by an industry like that is of interest to me.
Are you sure? did you check? Twice?
This is nothing if not expected. The software/media companies are the new oil, and they will go to huge lengths to protect their interests. oil companies have manipulated politics and law, hell, even wars, for decades, why should these new guys be any different? It's all about money and power, powerful drugs for the corporate junkies.
Next up, legislation to *require* you to purchase certain pieces of software if you own a home computer, or at the very least, to have certain software installed. This will be both a means of monitoring and a covert way to try and kill linux.
God I love conspiracies, pardon me, I need to go light up.
News to me. My Open Source nBody model is just getting started..
Ok I don't have many users, its not exactly mainstream, but I see no reason to stop because some loser says my chosen distribution method is dead.
What he measn is he wishes it were so, and that everyone could carry on using the proprietary model to produce crappy expensive stuff without all this nasty decent competitive software inconveniently proving that theirs is not the only way to do things, and certainly not the best.
There is, I admit, a fair bit of crap in the open source world, just as there is in the proprietary world. The crap gets abandoned, and the better stuff improves, that's the way it's supposed to work. Doesn't seem to happen in the proprietary world nearly as often as it should mind..
If someone proved to me that god existed, then I'd rush to make a list of all the barstard things he would be responsible for and sue the fecker...
Now *that* would be a class action suit worth watching.
With all these stars turning up that are considerably older then, what is it, 6000 years, they'll probably start foaming at the mouth. I wish I knew one nowadays so I could show them this article and watch the mental gymnastics as they sought to refute it.
ah yes, the funs.
yes it does make a difference that the WII is underpowered compared to the Xbox 360 and PS3. It's proving that people don't actually need their hugely powerful devices to have fun, and they do not like that one bit, oh no...
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Hmm, looks like this is definatelly a case of the stupids.
Not possible. AOL have been haemorrhaging customers for years, which has limited their advertising revenue somewhat. No company wants to lose customers, even of free services, because it makes their portfolio look good if they want to sell.
This is more likely just a screw up.
Here in the UK we had a nuclear reprocessing plant that was so badly thought of they renamed it to Sellafield, and that worked..
This is different though, they know that consumers haven't been fooled into believing drm is for their own good, so its being rebranded to fail in a new way. Yup, that'll work.
I wouldn't mind if they were honest about it and just said it was to protect them, not add value for consumers. That's where the problem is, they want us to believe something other then the truth. With the interwebs and all, that's a dumb idea.
Does that mean we get a real Tank? Can I be in a think tank too?
That's because they haven't invented Googlepr0n. Yet.
yes they have, it's called the google homepage...
you are correct, and that's what I meant. Its just easier to say portal to the internet because that would make more sense to most people.
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computer illiterates, basically.
lots of those mail addresses at Microsoft exist solely because they were required to access passport Microsoft services. I have one myself, I used it recently to get the free visual studio compiler
If it meant actively used email adresses it would be a smaller number
Wow, they must really be worried at Microsoft.
This is no less then an admission that their own search and online advertising strategy has failed completelly. They may disagree, but coin like that being offered for yahoo speaks volumes.
MSN was, at first inception, meant to be *the* portal to the internet. That failed so fast most people don't even know it. The new Microsoft search site? Know anyone that uses it? cos I don't, and I know a lot of computer users, ranging from expert to pebmak's. Not one Microsoft web strategy has succeeded. Ok, ok, people use Hotmail, and people use msn messenger. Alas that's not much of a money maker for Microsoft, not without the original ill conceived all encompassing Microsoft Network.
So, they now know that without buying out another major search company they can't compete in search or net advertising. The problem there is that they have no assurance that the purchase will help them at all?
First, they can't drop the Yahoo! name, or people simply won't use the product. Secondly, adding it to their monolithic corporation will most likely result in innovation at yahoo (is there any? I'm out of touch) will also slow to a crawl.
Microsoft have been good at (well, successful at) operating systems and office software. Their mistake is believing that the same strategy can be extended to maintain a dominant position in other fields that didn't even exist when they first became dominant.
Most likely outcome of a purchase? Five years down the line it is spun off as a separate business again, related to Microsoft by shares only.
I thought the whole idea of trust certificate type things was because the closed source ethos means there's no way to know what's in the program you're installing, so it has to be certified as trustworthy?
I didn't think open source needed that kind of thing.
When it comes to installing things via browser I prefer firefox's 'authorise this domain' thing, which is independent of certificates.
perhaps the reason there's no open source equivalent of these certificates is that its never come up as a problem.
I may be missing the point, as I said, but I am a mere academic hacker type, all this buzzword filled security stuff tends to pass me by. The only security I have in my software is 'if you run this as root you're a dickhead', only not that rude.
Since when are the big players the backbone of Open Source?
Sure, some things will be dominated by commercial needs, they kind of have to be to compete. Anyone who pretends surprise and wants it to be otherwise is deluding themselves.
I've been an Open Source coder for six years now. Last time I checked the state of Red Hat et al made not a mote of difference to my project. I'm pretty certain that I'm not alone.
they don't defy physics, they're just pretty much impossible for us at the moment. Physics allows for way more silly things then we are able to do.
I can't understand people who think that to find life on other planets we have to look for conditions similar to Earth. All of the hubbub over liquid water seems so silly to me. We have *no idea* what life on other planets might be like. I think that the only thing to look for is patterns which we don't believe could occur in nature, suggesting that the anti-entropy force of life might be present.
That idea comes from the time before we started realising that the nutty Gia concept (of the earth as a living entity) was actually a hypothesis with more than a little proof to back it up. I'd go so far as to say it's a theory.
Thing is, no matter how far down we drill, we still find life, and no matter how cold or hot or dangerous (to us) an environ we find, there is always life there.
It's taken a long time for this realisation to permeate through the wider scientific community, and it's a long way from becoming accepted fact for the general public.
Anyway, I'm kind of a skeptic already, I don't think that looking for life outside our galaxy is particularly interesting or useful anyway, considering that the nearest life would be millions of years away by interstellar travel. Even if it's out there, we'll never meet it or communicate with it.
Given how many planets exist in our galaxy that are already inconceivably far away, including this new wet planet just 20 light years away (or 4 billion years travel time away at current technology levels that are capable of carrying people), you're right, inter galactic travel is something we shouldn't waste time thinking about.
Even if we did manage to find a way to do it, we could do little more then explore the minutest fraction of another galaxy. It would be pointless for all but a minority of pioneers willing to take the risk.
The problem with travel methods that let you go huge distances (wormholes, whatever, jolly fast stuff anyhow) is that they miss all the stuff between you and your destination. That is not the way true exploration works, likely we'd miss lots of interesting things.
go on, be an hero :-)
chances are losing wouldn't cost them a thing. If apple failed to settle they could just fold and go after someone smaller.
Like it or not, what these guys are doing is an established way of making money in the industry.
Like any complex eco system, you always get the equivalents of the vampire bat, feeding off the success of others. It's practically inevitable.
Interesting that this is purely a phenomena of the proprietary industry isn't it.
I want to live that long, if only to see if daytime soaps ever improve.
What's a 4chan?
A net forum where everyone is anonymous. Google for it, it's an entertaining place.
you are, sad to say, 100%
The 'War on Terror' is big on rhetoric, but short on facts. The UK is dropping the term, because it's misleading.
Where is this global organisation of evil people bent on destroying the west? Seems to me their more interested in killing each other, and it's not the majority, just a scattered set of minority groups with a lot of nasty weapons.
Personally I think what is going on is an Islamic Civil War. They're never good things, wars, and I find it very upsetting, but to my knowledge there never has been a good Civil War.
indeed, but by controlling the media, the population can be held in the dark.
Well that's the plan I guess, but there's always the internet.