Anyone who has ever used or administered a mail server has experienced a mail server going down. This is not news.
google != gmail
It was more than just mail that went down it was all of Google's services. If it were just mail, only a few people would care. It would not have affected me at all.
Just because it is not a physical item doesn't mean it is nothing. It still costs money to create it in the same way that a car does.
Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with the RIAA trying to tell you how, when and where you can use the item that you paid good money for, but somewhere there is a happy medium where an artist can get paid for their work and fans can use it the way want to without having to steal it.
My study recommended that there is ZERO link between lost revenue and torrent downloads BECAUSE they are from people they would never have done business in the first place.
That's as dumb as saying "there is ZERO link between lost revenue and car theft because they are from people that would never have done business in the first place."
When a product is stolen, there is value taken from the owner that can't be recovered. Whether it was stolen from someone that would or would not have been a customer is irrelevant.
Right...but then can you run say notepad.exe from this new environment? I would assume so but I've never tried it. It seems odd but I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't work.
I'm curious...if one were to launch KDE in windows, then somehow kill the explorer leaving KDE as the windowing system, could one then launch both KDE and native windows applications in this environment? That would be an interesting setup.
I have an iPhone and their DRM scheme doesn't affect me at all. I pay $0.99 for each song and I'm able to play it on my computer and my phone.
If I want to use the song in a home movie or something, I simply burn it to a CD, then import it to my movie project. I can then use my song basically anywhere I choose.
I wonder how hard it would be for a guy like me who has programmed in several languages but has never seen a line of COBOL in his life to grep around the code and find the place that needs to be updated and rebuild? Is COBOL really that difficult to learn?
I wonder what effect it would have on spam if say yahoo, google, hotmail, and all of the other FREE email solutions started charging say $5-$10 per month for an email account?
Because if somebody else invents better drugs to give away for free, you're sunk.
And so is the person giving it away...lets not forget, stuff costs money. You can't survive by working for free. At some point you have to start charging money for stuff. Why not charge for the things you love to do such as writing software or inventing drugs...or whatever it is that you love to do?
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The number of people that want to do only those things is so small its a moot point.
Anyone who has ever used or administered a mail server has experienced a mail server going down. This is not news.
google != gmail
It was more than just mail that went down it was all of Google's services. If it were just mail, only a few people would care. It would not have affected me at all.
It also allows them to say to anyone who complains 'just join the alliance'...
For the HORDE!!!
1) Fully load the machine
Just install Vista...even at idle it nearly loads the machine to full.
...nothing is taken from the owner.
Just because it is not a physical item doesn't mean it is nothing. It still costs money to create it in the same way that a car does.
Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with the RIAA trying to tell you how, when and where you can use the item that you paid good money for, but somewhere there is a happy medium where an artist can get paid for their work and fans can use it the way want to without having to steal it.
My study recommended that there is ZERO link between lost revenue and torrent downloads BECAUSE they are from people they would never have done business in the first place.
That's as dumb as saying "there is ZERO link between lost revenue and car theft because they are from people that would never have done business in the first place."
When a product is stolen, there is value taken from the owner that can't be recovered. Whether it was stolen from someone that would or would not have been a customer is irrelevant.
And consider the Linux crowd has the "free (as in beer) software mentality"
I've never understood this quote. Is beer free and I just wasn't aware?
Right...but then can you run say notepad.exe from this new environment? I would assume so but I've never tried it. It seems odd but I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't work.
I'm curious...if one were to launch KDE in windows, then somehow kill the explorer leaving KDE as the windowing system, could one then launch both KDE and native windows applications in this environment? That would be an interesting setup.
I have an iPhone and their DRM scheme doesn't affect me at all. I pay $0.99 for each song and I'm able to play it on my computer and my phone. If I want to use the song in a home movie or something, I simply burn it to a CD, then import it to my movie project. I can then use my song basically anywhere I choose.
I wonder how hard it would be for a guy like me who has programmed in several languages but has never seen a line of COBOL in his life to grep around the code and find the place that needs to be updated and rebuild? Is COBOL really that difficult to learn?
I wonder what effect it would have on spam if say yahoo, google, hotmail, and all of the other FREE email solutions started charging say $5-$10 per month for an email account?
When I need to print something, I do it at work
Do you steal their toilet paper too? Where does it end?
Because if somebody else invents better drugs to give away for free, you're sunk.
And so is the person giving it away...lets not forget, stuff costs money. You can't survive by working for free. At some point you have to start charging money for stuff. Why not charge for the things you love to do such as writing software or inventing drugs...or whatever it is that you love to do?Only free software can be audited, modified and trusted.
No, only "open source" software. Free software can still be proprietary. Open source authors can still be paid.