All very well blaming "Eastern Europeans", but the idiots who think transferring cash through their personal bank account makes them a "Regional Sales Representative" must share some of the blame. These companies are being ripped off by fellow Americans who actually believe that foreign companies need their personal help to collect money due to them, and that an honest job can be that easy.
(it can even fit on a floppy disk, despite having a GUI)
Excellent, but if we're going to measure these things in obsolete technology;
- How many parchments would I need to copy it? - Could my team of monks transcribe it in its entirety before the Feast of All Hallows Eve? - If the Germans intercepted a morse transmissions of it, how long would it take them to crack the code and scupper our plans to retake mainland Europe?
It is a common mistake, but do not attempt to insert descriptions into identifiers. You wouldn't name your child "Dribble-gums-nursery-2" and expect then to be still comfortable about it when they reach their teens. But call then something meaningless like "Kevin" and there's no problem. Computers are no different.
If you create an identifier that attempts to describe the computer, rather than just give it a unique name, you can be sure that by the time it comes to decommissioning it the identifier will be misleading. Things will have changed. It will have a different location, a different OS, a different owner, or a different spec.
(hint: you can't sing "Happy Birthday" in the UK without paying a license fee)
Hint: your information is false. I suspect you mean you cannot sing "Happy Birthday" as a public performance without paying royalties. Perhaps a concern, but nothing like what you suggest.
It sounds like the bunch are yet another single issue party. Single issue parties get nowhere.
Sure, vote for them if you think that file sharing is the most single important issue facing modern society. Come the next elections I'm sure it will be depressing to see just how think it is. It'll be another in sorry indicator of just how detached people have become from real politics.
Personally I prefer my vote to go to a political party with a more rounded manifesto.
Seriously, if you don't like Britney, Miley or West then don't listen to their music. And if you are foolish enough to actually buy their albums, knowing you're not going to like them, then you only have yourself to blame. No-one else is accountable here. Not the music industry, not the music formats. You and you alone.
Chances are one of the chief reasons you don't like them is because you are not their targeted audience. Go listen to something else and stop whining.
Britney's analysis is out of date because she is old news. Citing her as the poster-child for the record industry's current marketing strategies is last decade's argument. I'm sure she'd be delighted to hear anyone still thinks her that relevant.
The only Value it Adds is for the benefit of the music execs (DRM).
Where is there any mention of DRM in the news article?? You are condemning something for having something before anyone has told you it has it. And if people don't feel it added value to the music they won't buy it. No-one loses out apart from the people trying to sell it. So what exactly are you complaining about?
We can already have record sleeves and lyrics embedded in the songs. iTunes Store does it as well as other stores and plugins to media players.
I think it's quite obvious that the suggested format is something a little better than tiny thumbnail images and badly formatted text. That's what makes it Value Added. I'm happy to see them trying it, but if it turns out that it sucks I won't be buying. I expect most people will follow the same strategy. You may wish to try it.
I can think of only three that actually make the cut for me
And at this point your entire argument falls to pieces. Just because you personally can think of only three that, in your opinion, make the cut for you, means nothing. Maybe your musical tastes are rather limited? The music industry caters for a far wider market than you personally. If they cannot sell an idea to you, that does not mean the idea has absolutely no value.
And your Britney analysis is like 5 years out of date. Are you sure you're well placed to be advising the music industry on marketing?
it baffles me completely that any major label would seriously consider this as the saviour of their industry.
I must have missed this in news article. Where is anyone claiming this? Oh, they aren't.
As far as I can see, this is the music industry providing "Value Added" content that everyone is always saying they need to do in order to convince people to actually pay for things. This is them providing an electronic equivalent of the record sleeve that many actually miss. What exactly is the problem with this??
I've no grounds for arguing with the facts, and certainly agree with the disgust for these ID cards, but any story in the Mail that touches on "scrounging foreigners damaging our property values and insulting the sacred memory of Princess Di" is not to be trusted.
Abso-bloody-lutely on all the above points. Murdoch is ruthless and, according to your viewpoint, evil personified. But he is certainly not stupid. This is not blind 'suicide', this is a plan.
I see this more as one of the big boys signalling to the rest of the print media that it's time to start charging. Many of the media corps won't take much persuading to do this. If they all do then I suspect it'll have an impact everywhere. Whether it'll change anything in the long term remains to be seen, but you can be sure that things will change and it won't be the killing of News Corp.
Why bother with all this run-time photographic manipulation and fakery? Just preloaded the camera with a few thousand photos of people more attractive than you, doing exciting things you can't do, at interesting places you've never been, expressing emotions that neither you, nor they, were having.
Then every time you press the camera's 'shutter release' it time stamps one and another happy, but much improved, memory is captured for eternity. "This is me with someone who looks like Halle Berry abseiling down an Inca temple last summer. I remember it well. You can tell what fun we had by the fixed grins on our faces."
I have tried to record and mix multitrack audio on Linux and you are indeed correct. A total joke. Same goes for handling MIDI.
I use Linux as a MP3 player and that works just fine, most of the time. But attempting music production? Forget it. If you succeed in getting everything working together and actually get a noise out your sound card (and I'm not talking about some standard PC sound chip here) the latency could be measured on a calendar . And don't even ask about syncing with an external device.
Linux simply isn't within a million miles of Mac or even Windows when it comes to sound.
I'd like to thank the submitter for giving me a laugh on a otherwise depressing day.
I think that only a geek would imagine the issues they may face in future years of their marriage will be so different from any other that they need special geek related advice.
And the idea that you'll get sound marriage advice on a tech related internet forum........ wow, just wow.
Yeah, this whole deal appears to be a American issue. In the UK 'cursive' is simply handwriting and it's what you are taught to write. The first few examples of typical American hand written text I encountered totally mystified me. I couldn't understand why grown, educated people were writing in this infant block capitals style.
Pure FUD. The only things I have used the command prompt for in the last few months
Very good. Now tell me how many times you used the command prompt and how many configuration files did you vi when you were setting up your chosen OS?
No good telling the user, "Its ok, you'll never need to do this again" if they have to spend the first two weeks learning bash and reading "read me" installation files that are more concerned with telling you how cool its chosen open source licence is, rather than anything useful the end user gives a damn about. They'll be out buying Windows 7 before the end of the second day.
Whatever else you may think about Google, you have to recognise they are end-user, mass market focused. Most Linux distros aren't. Nothing wrong with that, but it means that most distros just won't ever threaten Windows' position on the desktop. Google's just might.
Unless this offers any real advantage I won't move to it
The real advantage it offers is that Google, a company that the average end user has heard of, is pushing it. There's also half a chance that the OS will be user-friendly enough for the average end user not to run screaming from, unlike most Linux distros. Hell, they may even be able to use it without ever having to see a command prompt.
All this means it's actually in with a chance of competing with Windows on the desktop.
Except that next year you'll want a new car model and find that they aren't interested in creating newer models. Why? Because too many people weren't buying the last model. Sure, you could go just 'copy' someone else's. But the point comes when everyone is copying and no-one's buying. End result is no-one's producing.
So does that count as a negative consequence? The problem here is people are basically only interested in their own direct self interest. Any negative consequence that results from more than one step in the chain is simply too remote to worry them. It's someone else's problem.
Wow. We need to get this big news out on the street!
Variable exchange rates means winners and losers!! Who knew?
Weak currency means imports cost less, but exports cost more!! Has someone informed the president? This could change national economic policy beyond recognition!
Biggest shock of all; this even applies to Microsoft and software industry!! And I thought software companies lived on an internet virtual never-land beyond the reach of economic realities.
1) Stop producing cr@p that nobody is interested in.
But people are interested in it, otherwise why do you think it sells? Face it; most people have unadventurous, unoriginal, formulaic tastes in movies and music. The lowest common denominator sells best and get most exposure because it is the lowest common denominator. The sooner the people who whine about this kind of thing realise this, the sooner we can move on and discuss the real issues.
2) Stop selling the DVD's and CD's at such high prices.
Market forces have consistently driven down the price of both over the last 10 years. No-one needs to be told to do this, market forces obliges them to.
6) Improve the audio quality of Audio CD's, and digital downloads.
If you don't like the quality, don't buy it. They'll get the message. This is how market forces work.
MAYBE after all that, downloaders MIGHT think about buying more music and films.
Don't count on it. As long as downloading is free, and buying isn't, I think you'll find that there'll always be reasons given for not buying. Just not necessarily the honest ones.
The real story here, is that the UK government is trying to censor the opinions of its employees.
No, that's not the real story. that's the story you've made up in your head. Where exactly is the involvement of the UK Government in this story? You won't find any, because there isn't any.
This police officer was in a position of trust, with access to sensitive information that has a very real impact on people's lives. And he was publishing it on the internet with flimsy anonymity. This is nothing to do with his political opinions, it's about flagrant abuse of his position. This is some guy gossiping about people's lives because he believed he knew better than everyone else.
Frankly, losing his own anonymity is the least of what he had coming.
The Congressman was referring to the efforts of "the anti-intellectual property community". Who then, by way of techdirt, misrepresented what was said and even went as far to give it quotes marks, all the better to suggest "lying" was what was actually said. Kind of ironic, if not a excellent example of the practice in action
Worked just fine for most of the classical composers.
The classical composers were a mere handful (by today's standards) of professionals working for very wealthy clients. Is this the egalitarian future you see for music?
Maybe that's why they kept composing for most of their lifetimes instead of spending their last 30 years spending all the money they're getting from a piece they wrote when they were 20?
Amazing how life in abject poverty and dying at 40 motivated people. Another of your progressive visions for the future?
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All very well blaming "Eastern Europeans", but the idiots who think transferring cash through their personal bank account makes them a "Regional Sales Representative" must share some of the blame. These companies are being ripped off by fellow Americans who actually believe that foreign companies need their personal help to collect money due to them, and that an honest job can be that easy.
(it can even fit on a floppy disk, despite having a GUI)
Excellent, but if we're going to measure these things in obsolete technology;
- How many parchments would I need to copy it?
- Could my team of monks transcribe it in its entirety before the Feast of All Hallows Eve?
- If the Germans intercepted a morse transmissions of it, how long would it take them to crack the code and scupper our plans to retake mainland Europe?
It is a common mistake, but do not attempt to insert descriptions into identifiers. You wouldn't name your child "Dribble-gums-nursery-2" and expect then to be still comfortable about it when they reach their teens. But call then something meaningless like "Kevin" and there's no problem. Computers are no different.
If you create an identifier that attempts to describe the computer, rather than just give it a unique name, you can be sure that by the time it comes to decommissioning it the identifier will be misleading. Things will have changed. It will have a different location, a different OS, a different owner, or a different spec.
(hint: you can't sing "Happy Birthday" in the UK without paying a license fee)
Hint: your information is false. I suspect you mean you cannot sing "Happy Birthday" as a public performance without paying royalties. Perhaps a concern, but nothing like what you suggest.
It sounds like the bunch are yet another single issue party. Single issue parties get nowhere.
Sure, vote for them if you think that file sharing is the most single important issue facing modern society. Come the next elections I'm sure it will be depressing to see just how think it is. It'll be another in sorry indicator of just how detached people have become from real politics.
Personally I prefer my vote to go to a political party with a more rounded manifesto.
Seriously, if you don't like Britney, Miley or West then don't listen to their music. And if you are foolish enough to actually buy their albums, knowing you're not going to like them, then you only have yourself to blame. No-one else is accountable here. Not the music industry, not the music formats. You and you alone.
Chances are one of the chief reasons you don't like them is because you are not their targeted audience. Go listen to something else and stop whining.
Britney's analysis is out of date because she is old news. Citing her as the poster-child for the record industry's current marketing strategies is last decade's argument. I'm sure she'd be delighted to hear anyone still thinks her that relevant.
The only Value it Adds is for the benefit of the music execs (DRM).
Where is there any mention of DRM in the news article?? You are condemning something for having something before anyone has told you it has it. And if people don't feel it added value to the music they won't buy it. No-one loses out apart from the people trying to sell it. So what exactly are you complaining about?
We can already have record sleeves and lyrics embedded in the songs. iTunes Store does it as well as other stores and plugins to media players.
I think it's quite obvious that the suggested format is something a little better than tiny thumbnail images and badly formatted text. That's what makes it Value Added. I'm happy to see them trying it, but if it turns out that it sucks I won't be buying. I expect most people will follow the same strategy. You may wish to try it.
I can think of only three that actually make the cut for me
And at this point your entire argument falls to pieces. Just because you personally can think of only three that, in your opinion, make the cut for you, means nothing. Maybe your musical tastes are rather limited? The music industry caters for a far wider market than you personally. If they cannot sell an idea to you, that does not mean the idea has absolutely no value.
And your Britney analysis is like 5 years out of date. Are you sure you're well placed to be advising the music industry on marketing?
it baffles me completely that any major label would seriously consider this as the saviour of their industry.
I must have missed this in news article. Where is anyone claiming this? Oh, they aren't.
As far as I can see, this is the music industry providing "Value Added" content that everyone is always saying they need to do in order to convince people to actually pay for things. This is them providing an electronic equivalent of the record sleeve that many actually miss. What exactly is the problem with this??
Indeed. Please tag this story "DailyFail".
I've no grounds for arguing with the facts, and certainly agree with the disgust for these ID cards, but any story in the Mail that touches on "scrounging foreigners damaging our property values and insulting the sacred memory of Princess Di" is not to be trusted.
Abso-bloody-lutely on all the above points. Murdoch is ruthless and, according to your viewpoint, evil personified. But he is certainly not stupid. This is not blind 'suicide', this is a plan.
I see this more as one of the big boys signalling to the rest of the print media that it's time to start charging. Many of the media corps won't take much persuading to do this. If they all do then I suspect it'll have an impact everywhere. Whether it'll change anything in the long term remains to be seen, but you can be sure that things will change and it won't be the killing of News Corp.
Why bother with all this run-time photographic manipulation and fakery? Just preloaded the camera with a few thousand photos of people more attractive than you, doing exciting things you can't do, at interesting places you've never been, expressing emotions that neither you, nor they, were having.
Then every time you press the camera's 'shutter release' it time stamps one and another happy, but much improved, memory is captured for eternity. "This is me with someone who looks like Halle Berry abseiling down an Inca temple last summer. I remember it well. You can tell what fun we had by the fixed grins on our faces."
I have tried to record and mix multitrack audio on Linux and you are indeed correct. A total joke. Same goes for handling MIDI.
I use Linux as a MP3 player and that works just fine, most of the time. But attempting music production? Forget it. If you succeed in getting everything working together and actually get a noise out your sound card (and I'm not talking about some standard PC sound chip here) the latency could be measured on a calendar . And don't even ask about syncing with an external device.
Linux simply isn't within a million miles of Mac or even Windows when it comes to sound.
I'd like to thank the submitter for giving me a laugh on a otherwise depressing day.
I think that only a geek would imagine the issues they may face in future years of their marriage will be so different from any other that they need special geek related advice.
And the idea that you'll get sound marriage advice on a tech related internet forum... ... .. wow, just wow.
Yeah, this whole deal appears to be a American issue. In the UK 'cursive' is simply handwriting and it's what you are taught to write. The first few examples of typical American hand written text I encountered totally mystified me. I couldn't understand why grown, educated people were writing in this infant block capitals style.
So hugely popular I've never heard of it? Nor have two of my online contacts?
Seriously? Spotify is everywhere just now, and not just among techie circles. You are more out of touch than you think.
Pure FUD. The only things I have used the command prompt for in the last few months
Very good. Now tell me how many times you used the command prompt and how many configuration files did you vi when you were setting up your chosen OS?
No good telling the user, "Its ok, you'll never need to do this again" if they have to spend the first two weeks learning bash and reading "read me" installation files that are more concerned with telling you how cool its chosen open source licence is, rather than anything useful the end user gives a damn about. They'll be out buying Windows 7 before the end of the second day.
Whatever else you may think about Google, you have to recognise they are end-user, mass market focused. Most Linux distros aren't. Nothing wrong with that, but it means that most distros just won't ever threaten Windows' position on the desktop. Google's just might.
Unless this offers any real advantage I won't move to it
The real advantage it offers is that Google, a company that the average end user has heard of, is pushing it. There's also half a chance that the OS will be user-friendly enough for the average end user not to run screaming from, unlike most Linux distros. Hell, they may even be able to use it without ever having to see a command prompt.
All this means it's actually in with a chance of competing with Windows on the desktop.
with no negative consequences for me.
Except that next year you'll want a new car model and find that they aren't interested in creating newer models. Why? Because too many people weren't buying the last model. Sure, you could go just 'copy' someone else's. But the point comes when everyone is copying and no-one's buying. End result is no-one's producing.
So does that count as a negative consequence? The problem here is people are basically only interested in their own direct self interest. Any negative consequence that results from more than one step in the chain is simply too remote to worry them. It's someone else's problem.
Windows is an export. Exports cost more to the end consumer in the country being exported to.
Which is what I said and what the article complains of. What was your point again?
Wow. We need to get this big news out on the street!
Variable exchange rates means winners and losers!! Who knew?
Weak currency means imports cost less, but exports cost more!! Has someone informed the president? This could change national economic policy beyond recognition!
Biggest shock of all; this even applies to Microsoft and software industry!! And I thought software companies lived on an internet virtual never-land beyond the reach of economic realities.
1) Stop producing cr@p that nobody is interested in.
But people are interested in it, otherwise why do you think it sells? Face it; most people have unadventurous, unoriginal, formulaic tastes in movies and music. The lowest common denominator sells best and get most exposure because it is the lowest common denominator. The sooner the people who whine about this kind of thing realise this, the sooner we can move on and discuss the real issues.
2) Stop selling the DVD's and CD's at such high prices.
Market forces have consistently driven down the price of both over the last 10 years. No-one needs to be told to do this, market forces obliges them to.
6) Improve the audio quality of Audio CD's, and digital downloads.
If you don't like the quality, don't buy it. They'll get the message. This is how market forces work.
MAYBE after all that, downloaders MIGHT think about buying more music and films.
Don't count on it. As long as downloading is free, and buying isn't, I think you'll find that there'll always be reasons given for not buying. Just not necessarily the honest ones.
The real story here, is that the UK government is trying to censor the opinions of its employees.
No, that's not the real story. that's the story you've made up in your head. Where exactly is the involvement of the UK Government in this story? You won't find any, because there isn't any.
This police officer was in a position of trust, with access to sensitive information that has a very real impact on people's lives. And he was publishing it on the internet with flimsy anonymity. This is nothing to do with his political opinions, it's about flagrant abuse of his position. This is some guy gossiping about people's lives because he believed he knew better than everyone else.
Frankly, losing his own anonymity is the least of what he had coming.
Tell me I am wrong please.
You're wrong. If you actually read the speech given (http://www.cisac.org/CisacPortal/consulterDocument.do?id=16287) you won't find the words lie, liar or lying anywhere. What you'll find is the word "misinformation", which is not the same thing.
The Congressman was referring to the efforts of "the anti-intellectual property community". Who then, by way of techdirt, misrepresented what was said and even went as far to give it quotes marks, all the better to suggest "lying" was what was actually said. Kind of ironic, if not a excellent example of the practice in action
Yeah Mozart, because he was really a typical example of your average professional musician.
If people won't donate like that, then how come so many donate to political campaigns?
Entirely different scenario, motivations and expected end result?
Worked just fine for most of the classical composers.
The classical composers were a mere handful (by today's standards) of professionals working for very wealthy clients. Is this the egalitarian future you see for music?
Maybe that's why they kept composing for most of their lifetimes instead of spending their last 30 years spending all the money they're getting from a piece they wrote when they were 20?
Amazing how life in abject poverty and dying at 40 motivated people. Another of your progressive visions for the future?