Now your drop in overall sales is more likey due to the shoddy music that is out on the market today as compared to 5-10 years ago but that is just the music cycle.
I have to disagree on the cycle thing. Using Internet radio I can listen to all kinds of music... click goth metal... click AOR... click Euro dance/trance... click progressive metal... click...
I can't do that with the **AA model of music distribution and advertisement. I don't need to go buy music if I can dial it up day/night for anything I want to listen to, including indie music, music from other countries that is not in the top 40 for the US etc.
The simple fact is that you can't even buy much of this music. The **AA have fucked themselves hard on this distribution and ancient business model thing. They cling to trying to make music from the top 100 songs. Fuck that list. The path of least resistance is to go directly around the **AA business model, and there is damned little they can do about it now. Some are trying, true enough, but the ones who are not trying are losing money hand over fist. At this point (and given the acrimony of their litigation campaign) I can't help but think they are too fscking stupid to deserve to stay in business.
There is NO reason to trust any government, ever. period.
The more they ask you to trust them with, the less you should trust them. This is the rule of the land. Governments are not here to help anyone but themselves. When you get rid of one bad politician, 10 more are ready to take their place. They say that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Think about that for a minute. These people are not absolute rulers and look how fucked up they are. The more we trust them with, the more fucked up they will get.
No, there is no simple answer, but citizens should never allow such things as this to exist in the first place. In the US, the second amendment helps to ensure that citizens have a method for revoking license given to governments... if it comes to that.
P.S. They are NEVER doing anything for you, they (the government) always do things for themselves. They just say it's for you, kind of in the same way that a rapist says "this is for you" before they start in on you.
I agree, money up front for nothing. If student A does no file sharing at all, they are still licensed. Each student/user will be licensed to share files? WTF is that? I don't need a license to share Linux ISO files over P2P networks. How in blue blazes will they determine what connections should be licensed and which should not? This is too cracked of an idea to fathom. Protection money for doing legal activities?
If making information freely available or if freely available information fucks up your plan, messes with your rules, or somehow breaks your process, then your plan/rules/process was fucked to begin with. Shit or get off the pot, but quit bitching about it. Welcome to the 21st century. The rest of us have been here for nine years or more. Glad you finally made it.
Worse than that I think, is the fact that it seems people are looking at this like F/OSS is a commercial competitor to Sun and Windows et al. What it really means if Linux ends up with a better position in the data center is that Windows or Sun is losing out. Sure, there will be a few people (Redhat et al) who make money from this turn of events, but it's those who will not that should be more important.
I know that it's cool to say 'hey, Linux is making headway' but it's also true to say that someone else is losing out. One thing is reasonably certain in these times: There are very few companies expanding their IT departments and data centers. It Linux is winning, who is losing? That's the real story because unless Linux totally messes up, they won't get that market share back anytime soon. Say goodbye to the MS business plan. That's what we're really talking about, the slow death of Windows in the data center. Perhaps we should bring in the life support systems now?
I was hoping that someone would follow through with the obvious... thanks. We need to be regulating police officers off-time activities even tighter since they have open/easy access to weapons.
Even if one video game player killed a cop, that doesn't begin to make things equal to cops who kill with tasers, or cops who accidentally kill innocent civilians because they are too fucking ignorant to make sure they are doing the no-knock raid on the right house.
More fairness in legislation! Yes, the Utah legislators are right on the money for this one. God forbid terrorist game players ever leave the grip of their game consoles.... fucking idiots
If the patent systems are to be beaten into submission, and put in their place, it will take many such protective patents. That is to say, patents which are granted but the patent holder never uses against anyone, thus over time forcing the patented issue into the public domain by virtue of failure to enforce it.
There will have to be huge portfolios of these and events such as IBM or other big portfolio holders simply refusing to litigate against anyone. It will get tricky but needs to be done. If IBM et al decided that they would only enforce those that are crucial to their own viability/survival, and not litigate against little guys, it would change how things are done. No matter, it will still be messy till the market settles on what is a 'normal' and 'don't be evil' way of doing things despite what the USPTO or any other might say is legal.
Yeah, really bad. Tell me again: how many bankers, ex-presidents and the like have been arrested at gunpoint for fucking up the economy?
Yes, none so far. Madoff is gone, and if Jon Stewart has any say more will follow him. There is a disproportionate use of the justice system in the USA. Upload some songs or smoke a little weed and you are a federal criminal. Steal millions or billions from the people's pocket and you simply made a mistake, one that deserves more money to help you out.
Justice might be blind, but fairness doesn't seem to come with that particular malady.
I think you are supposed to give your passport to the FSM in tribute for the help he will give you in finding a new job, hence the lies on your linkedin page. The first of which would probably be 'that you understand what that meant' so you don't look so not cuil.
I think that the police should be rather happy that we don't live 100+ years ago. Back then, crooked law enforcement officers often found themselves dealing with high speed lead poisoning. Perhaps we lost something important when we stopped holding them responsible to the local citizens?
If you are old enough to remember families having a set of encyclopedias, try to remember anyone using the X volume. I never did, after finding out XXX wasn't in there. There is probably a lot of people that don't use more than 25 sites.
Besides, if they tested on 2500 they would lose. PR is PR dude.
That particular president seems both unintelligent and an idiot on a number of levels. First, he's the POTUS, arguably the most powerful position in the world. Now WHO did he get a bj from? WTF? He has the secret service at his disposal. They couldn't find him someone with a desire and motivation to be quiet? Then he spent all that effort to lie about it? WTF? again.
I'm with you on that. His replacement didn't do any better.
Welcome to the Gitmo halitosis holding area. In order to pass your odor testing, you'll be required to eat only TexMex food for the next 21 days. If after that time you still fail, you'll be given permanent quarters on the other side of the facility.
You newcomers should take note. nobody likes terrorists. To show support of American, this holding area is sponsored by Scott bathroom tissue and The Fox news network. Please try to avoid shitting yourself stupid.
While you are probably right, that does not stop people from reporting that they saw user xyz saying they wanted to kill so and so, or that they are talking about taking guns to school or killing themselves etc. Generally, when you say something disconcerting in public (and the Internet is very public) people will take notice.
Especially after some of the school shootings, people are watchful of such things. Such events turn online bs into real world concerns pretty fast.
The thing to do would be to practice your 'joking' with a bit more skill so it never quite sounds like you yourself are capable of it.
Example: Mood= Concerned, someone at work is watching training day for pointers at work.
Interesting how much of what the police can charge you with relies solely on the officer's report of it. Would it not be prudent that such stewards of community safety be at least reprimanded harshly for implying that they could be 'in a mischevious mood' or that they are 'watching training day for pointers' etc.
Whether it is bullshit bravado or not, what is different from this situation and that officer talking in the locker room about 'fucking niggers' and managing to arrest a disproportionate number of blacks? A bias demonstrated in the locker room or on the Internet is still a bias. The officer is clearly too stupid to be allowed even on Myspace, but nobody stopped him, now he got caught^H^H^H^H^H^H^H knows better.
This is little different than political correctness finding its way to the Internet via the court. Is it right? Perhaps not. Finding yourself the prime suspect in a murder investigation is exactly when you don't want someone telling the cops that they heard you say "I'll kill that SOB" about the victim.
It's a delicate balance indeed, but public figures should expect just a bit more scrutiny. On that note, lets smile now that we know exactly why video surveillance of all the population will cause as much problem for the 'law' as it will for anyone else.
Lets face it, there just are somethings you shouldn't be putting on the Internet. You can guess how many cops in that precinct will have myspace accounts now... can't you?
Exactly. In addition to the abuses this leaves ready for use, what good is it when people find another way to share files that can't be detected by the ISP?
The **AA et al need to get a new business model, a real one, and stop messing around and abusing the laws.
Fermilab seemed to be counted out, no longer useful, with the advent of the LHC? How many recent science ventures turned out to be more useful than originally thought, and initially thought less useful than a replacement?
Space station? Hubble telescope? Mars rovers?... you get the point. Why would anyone count Fermilab out? I just find that odd. Sure, it doesn't have the professed capabilities of the LHC, but then neither does the LHC right now. I seem to remember something about not fixing it if it ain't broke being relatively true.
I expect more from Fermilab too.
This is so much like American Idol or something... gah!
There is a simple reason for that, it requires learning.
I've given this some thought, and there are several basic problems that need to be overcome with the current computer/human interface:
1 - It is not intuitive, no matter how much we as a society now accept as normal for computers
2 - computers require a special lexicon to communicate with.
3 - computers do not fix themselves: if you have a maid/servant it's ok if they are ill for a couple of days, but if you have to be the doctor too, it doesn't work well. Yes, there are computer 'doctors' but they are not able to help you when program xyz doesn't run right etc.
Anything that only propagates the current interfaces issues to a new set of actions by the user will fail ultimately.
The user interface needs to be intuitive and uncomplicated. It needs to use 'normal' methods of interfacing with humans. Speech, vision, touch... the popularity of the iPod touch screen proves this to be true.
The complexities of a typical computer OS and configuration is beyond the understanding of most end users. When something goes wrong, there is operator overload. This must be fixed to make any significant headway on the other problems. Look at scifi movies to understand more of what I'm saying.
If I had a set of cameras on my monitor, the computer could watch the motion of my hands and predict/posit that motion on the screen. If the computer understood what I was saying and talking about I would not need to type so much, or even sit at the keyboard.
If the computer itself presented information in a 3D world to the user, it would be intuitive to understand what the user needs to do. To get an idea of what I mean, think of something like SecondLife as the interface on your screen, or the window manager. On the screen is a user customized 'world' that contains 3D icons as part of it's makeup. So the user moves their avatar to their 'office' and the objects there represent those functions that the user associates with the 'office'. A trip to the 3D kitchen and touch the cook book object to open a link to recipes, both saved and on the Internet etc.
With voice recognition, simply calling to the computer and asking what goes into a dirty martini would get a voice answer, as if the user asked their SO from another room.
When the user wants to send an email, they simply dictate it to the computer, like leaving a voice message on the recipient's phone service.
These are the things that have to happen to make computers more 'user friendly'. Odd tricks like wiggling your ears won't fix it.
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Pointless Document Format ? huh?
Now your drop in overall sales is more likey due to the shoddy music that is out on the market today as compared to 5-10 years ago but that is just the music cycle.
I have to disagree on the cycle thing. Using Internet radio I can listen to all kinds of music... click goth metal... click AOR... click Euro dance/trance... click progressive metal... click ...
I can't do that with the **AA model of music distribution and advertisement. I don't need to go buy music if I can dial it up day/night for anything I want to listen to, including indie music, music from other countries that is not in the top 40 for the US etc.
The simple fact is that you can't even buy much of this music. The **AA have fucked themselves hard on this distribution and ancient business model thing. They cling to trying to make music from the top 100 songs. Fuck that list. The path of least resistance is to go directly around the **AA business model, and there is damned little they can do about it now. Some are trying, true enough, but the ones who are not trying are losing money hand over fist. At this point (and given the acrimony of their litigation campaign) I can't help but think they are too fscking stupid to deserve to stay in business.
Lets just hand them a sign already.
Is I told you so redundant?
There is NO reason to trust any government, ever. period.
The more they ask you to trust them with, the less you should trust them. This is the rule of the land. Governments are not here to help anyone but themselves. When you get rid of one bad politician, 10 more are ready to take their place. They say that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Think about that for a minute. These people are not absolute rulers and look how fucked up they are. The more we trust them with, the more fucked up they will get.
No, there is no simple answer, but citizens should never allow such things as this to exist in the first place. In the US, the second amendment helps to ensure that citizens have a method for revoking license given to governments... if it comes to that.
P.S. They are NEVER doing anything for you, they (the government) always do things for themselves. They just say it's for you, kind of in the same way that a rapist says "this is for you" before they start in on you.
You didn't get any mod points for that, but it's bang on. An insightful and fair appraisal of the situation.
Because waiting YEARS for Vista sucked, and the end product sucked even harder after all that wait... that's why.
I agree, money up front for nothing. If student A does no file sharing at all, they are still licensed. Each student/user will be licensed to share files? WTF is that? I don't need a license to share Linux ISO files over P2P networks. How in blue blazes will they determine what connections should be licensed and which should not? This is too cracked of an idea to fathom. Protection money for doing legal activities?
It's time that the RIAA et al simply died.
If making information freely available or if freely available information fucks up your plan, messes with your rules, or somehow breaks your process, then your plan/rules/process was fucked to begin with. Shit or get off the pot, but quit bitching about it. Welcome to the 21st century. The rest of us have been here for nine years or more. Glad you finally made it.
You've been facebooked?
Worse than that I think, is the fact that it seems people are looking at this like F/OSS is a commercial competitor to Sun and Windows et al. What it really means if Linux ends up with a better position in the data center is that Windows or Sun is losing out. Sure, there will be a few people (Redhat et al) who make money from this turn of events, but it's those who will not that should be more important.
I know that it's cool to say 'hey, Linux is making headway' but it's also true to say that someone else is losing out. One thing is reasonably certain in these times: There are very few companies expanding their IT departments and data centers. It Linux is winning, who is losing? That's the real story because unless Linux totally messes up, they won't get that market share back anytime soon. Say goodbye to the MS business plan. That's what we're really talking about, the slow death of Windows in the data center. Perhaps we should bring in the life support systems now?
I was hoping that someone would follow through with the obvious... thanks. We need to be regulating police officers off-time activities even tighter since they have open/easy access to weapons.
must be required to at least pass the 3rd grade?
Even if one video game player killed a cop, that doesn't begin to make things equal to cops who kill with tasers, or cops who accidentally kill innocent civilians because they are too fucking ignorant to make sure they are doing the no-knock raid on the right house.
More fairness in legislation! Yes, the Utah legislators are right on the money for this one. God forbid terrorist game players ever leave the grip of their game consoles.... fucking idiots
If the patent systems are to be beaten into submission, and put in their place, it will take many such protective patents. That is to say, patents which are granted but the patent holder never uses against anyone, thus over time forcing the patented issue into the public domain by virtue of failure to enforce it.
There will have to be huge portfolios of these and events such as IBM or other big portfolio holders simply refusing to litigate against anyone. It will get tricky but needs to be done. If IBM et al decided that they would only enforce those that are crucial to their own viability/survival, and not litigate against little guys, it would change how things are done. No matter, it will still be messy till the market settles on what is a 'normal' and 'don't be evil' way of doing things despite what the USPTO or any other might say is legal.
Yeah, really bad. Tell me again: how many bankers, ex-presidents and the like have been arrested at gunpoint for fucking up the economy?
Yes, none so far. Madoff is gone, and if Jon Stewart has any say more will follow him. There is a disproportionate use of the justice system in the USA. Upload some songs or smoke a little weed and you are a federal criminal. Steal millions or billions from the people's pocket and you simply made a mistake, one that deserves more money to help you out.
Justice might be blind, but fairness doesn't seem to come with that particular malady.
I think you are supposed to give your passport to the FSM in tribute for the help he will give you in finding a new job, hence the lies on your linkedin page. The first of which would probably be 'that you understand what that meant' so you don't look so not cuil.
I think that the police should be rather happy that we don't live 100+ years ago. Back then, crooked law enforcement officers often found themselves dealing with high speed lead poisoning. Perhaps we lost something important when we stopped holding them responsible to the local citizens?
If you are old enough to remember families having a set of encyclopedias, try to remember anyone using the X volume. I never did, after finding out XXX wasn't in there. There is probably a lot of people that don't use more than 25 sites.
Besides, if they tested on 2500 they would lose. PR is PR dude.
That particular president seems both unintelligent and an idiot on a number of levels. First, he's the POTUS, arguably the most powerful position in the world. Now WHO did he get a bj from? WTF? He has the secret service at his disposal. They couldn't find him someone with a desire and motivation to be quiet? Then he spent all that effort to lie about it? WTF? again.
I'm with you on that. His replacement didn't do any better.
Welcome to the Gitmo halitosis holding area. In order to pass your odor testing, you'll be required to eat only TexMex food for the next 21 days. If after that time you still fail, you'll be given permanent quarters on the other side of the facility.
You newcomers should take note. nobody likes terrorists. To show support of American, this holding area is sponsored by Scott bathroom tissue and The Fox news network. Please try to avoid shitting yourself stupid.
While you are probably right, that does not stop people from reporting that they saw user xyz saying they wanted to kill so and so, or that they are talking about taking guns to school or killing themselves etc. Generally, when you say something disconcerting in public (and the Internet is very public) people will take notice.
Especially after some of the school shootings, people are watchful of such things. Such events turn online bs into real world concerns pretty fast.
The thing to do would be to practice your 'joking' with a bit more skill so it never quite sounds like you yourself are capable of it.
Example: Mood= Concerned, someone at work is watching training day for pointers at work.
Who? guess
Interesting how much of what the police can charge you with relies solely on the officer's report of it. Would it not be prudent that such stewards of community safety be at least reprimanded harshly for implying that they could be 'in a mischevious mood' or that they are 'watching training day for pointers' etc.
Whether it is bullshit bravado or not, what is different from this situation and that officer talking in the locker room about 'fucking niggers' and managing to arrest a disproportionate number of blacks? A bias demonstrated in the locker room or on the Internet is still a bias. The officer is clearly too stupid to be allowed even on Myspace, but nobody stopped him, now he got caught^H^H^H^H^H^H^H knows better.
This is little different than political correctness finding its way to the Internet via the court. Is it right? Perhaps not. Finding yourself the prime suspect in a murder investigation is exactly when you don't want someone telling the cops that they heard you say "I'll kill that SOB" about the victim.
It's a delicate balance indeed, but public figures should expect just a bit more scrutiny. On that note, lets smile now that we know exactly why video surveillance of all the population will cause as much problem for the 'law' as it will for anyone else.
Lets face it, there just are somethings you shouldn't be putting on the Internet. You can guess how many cops in that precinct will have myspace accounts now... can't you?
For the same reasons that raising taxes on gun sales does nothing to stop gun crimes.
Exactly. In addition to the abuses this leaves ready for use, what good is it when people find another way to share files that can't be detected by the ISP?
The **AA et al need to get a new business model, a real one, and stop messing around and abusing the laws.
Fermilab seemed to be counted out, no longer useful, with the advent of the LHC? How many recent science ventures turned out to be more useful than originally thought, and initially thought less useful than a replacement?
Space station? Hubble telescope? Mars rovers? ... you get the point. Why would anyone count Fermilab out? I just find that odd. Sure, it doesn't have the professed capabilities of the LHC, but then neither does the LHC right now. I seem to remember something about not fixing it if it ain't broke being relatively true.
I expect more from Fermilab too.
This is so much like American Idol or something ... gah!
I just wanted perpetual crown on the rocks and I accidentally the whole planet.
There is a simple reason for that, it requires learning.
I've given this some thought, and there are several basic problems that need to be overcome with the current computer/human interface:
1 - It is not intuitive, no matter how much we as a society now accept as normal for computers
2 - computers require a special lexicon to communicate with.
3 - computers do not fix themselves: if you have a maid/servant it's ok if they are ill for a couple of days, but if you have to be the doctor too, it doesn't work well. Yes, there are computer 'doctors' but they are not able to help you when program xyz doesn't run right etc.
Anything that only propagates the current interfaces issues to a new set of actions by the user will fail ultimately.
The user interface needs to be intuitive and uncomplicated. It needs to use 'normal' methods of interfacing with humans. Speech, vision, touch... the popularity of the iPod touch screen proves this to be true.
The complexities of a typical computer OS and configuration is beyond the understanding of most end users. When something goes wrong, there is operator overload. This must be fixed to make any significant headway on the other problems. Look at scifi movies to understand more of what I'm saying.
If I had a set of cameras on my monitor, the computer could watch the motion of my hands and predict/posit that motion on the screen. If the computer understood what I was saying and talking about I would not need to type so much, or even sit at the keyboard.
If the computer itself presented information in a 3D world to the user, it would be intuitive to understand what the user needs to do. To get an idea of what I mean, think of something like SecondLife as the interface on your screen, or the window manager. On the screen is a user customized 'world' that contains 3D icons as part of it's makeup. So the user moves their avatar to their 'office' and the objects there represent those functions that the user associates with the 'office'. A trip to the 3D kitchen and touch the cook book object to open a link to recipes, both saved and on the Internet etc.
With voice recognition, simply calling to the computer and asking what goes into a dirty martini would get a voice answer, as if the user asked their SO from another room.
When the user wants to send an email, they simply dictate it to the computer, like leaving a voice message on the recipient's phone service.
These are the things that have to happen to make computers more 'user friendly'. Odd tricks like wiggling your ears won't fix it.