Couldn't Apple just give the end user the choice? There are times when not having flash can be really irritating, but it is probably something that I would keep switched off most of the time. I am so conflicted over this one!
It is quite feasible that patients might realise this and pee a little bit when they are feeling lonely, and in so doing make urine and electronic pants a means of communication. A bit like morse code only with a lower bandwidth.
I'm not sure this is possible. I once had a beer with an almost eminent particle physicist. We kind of agreed that if this is the "ultimate" God particle then funding for particle physics could be under serious threat. What is the point in funding LHC type experiments if there are no more particles to be found? After a few more beers we hypothesised that the God particle must be constructed from, not particles, but something else a little bit like lego. And that the only way to understand this lego-like property of ultimate particles was lots of particle physicists working full time for many years on LHC-II.
That was my first thought - just go there and look for yourself! There might some reduced functionality, and it might rain. But you can taste, smell and feel what you are interested in... which might again cause reduced functionality if you happen to be interested in someone rather than something.
It is the idea that all border guards will be able to easily discriminate the legality of content even if they were allowed access. Seriously, would I have to carry receipts, license docs, original packaging and so forth?
I do this (on a small scale) and it is quite nice to have that nice crispy just installed feeling back. I have also just secured a server in the most absolute perfectly secure manner available. I unplugged it from the mains.
Maybe, but the trouble with China is that you can't bet on the long-term. They are quite happy to pull the rug from under your feet, take your property off your hands and smother you in unintelligible paperwork at the drop of a hat. That's why China will probably not represent much of a threat, at least for the forseeable future.
You pay road tax? Do you pay road tax only for those roads you drive on? Similar system - and the best way artists have of surviving illegal downloaders reluctance to pay for what they use.
"I think i can speak for a lot of us here that we WOULD, in fact, like to reimburse the CREATOR for the content we download."
In other words - you would like to but you don't. You could just mail the artist some cash but it's too much trouble and, well, might not get there. It seems like a nice idea but... pfff... Personally, I am happy to pay £12 to see a film in the cinema, spend £12 on a DVD and also pick up some bargain DVDs for £3 knowing full well that some of what I pay gets to the artists involved and some goes to the company who made that product available to me. It is the same for pretty much every other commercial product on the planet, except that music and films can be digitised, copied almost perfectly and distributed to numerous others none of whom, like yourself, just can't be bothered to compensate the artist. You download for free, you don't pay, you are therefore stealing and artists and thier agents are within their rights to prosecute you - in the same way that the grocer whose potatoes you steal can prosecute, restaurants you eat at but don't pay the bill can call the police and same across any other service industry.
If copyright returned to the public after a designated period then everyone will be going around listening to free 60's music, modern musicians would not earn a penny and modern music would die.
You watch TV for free and you listen to the radio for free. Think carefully about value for money. If your barber overcharges you change barbers. If the Rolling Stones album is a rip off, the copyright is owned by a monopoly - no one can compete.
No - I pay a fee to the BBC. Commercial radio is paid for in kind by me donating my time to listen to corporate messages. It is not free. And are you saying the Rolling Stones and artists generally would be better off if they were not represented by a record company? The open source model of music has been tried and two things have been learnt... first, quality suffers and second small bands can't survive.
In Hungary, downloading is legal, but uploading not. So, P2P is in a grey area. However, there is a levy on all recordable media, even on pendrives and memory cards. So, clueful hungarians buy their recordable media from Slovakia where there is no such levy.
Why don't people want to pay for what they use anymore? I really do not understand this. If I take a train, I buy a ticket. If I drive a car I buy petrol. I pay for the food I eat, the books I read, the beer I drink. I pay the dentist who fills my teeth, the barber who cuts my hair... and I pay for the movies I watch and the music I listen to. What is it with people expecting the world for free and accusing anyone who wants to get paid for their work of being meglomaniacal corrupt capitalist pigs? You would seriously travel to Slovakia to avoid paying a little bit of extra on a pen drive? The world has gone loopy!
Well that is pretty bitter. Reading between the lines you seem to be suggesting that Joyce, Mozart and Shakespeare did not try to sell their work. That somehow, the total lack of available avenues to convert their hard work into cash made them better artists. Well, all three did their best to sell their art - Joyce approached publishers (lots of them), Mozart did gigs at weddings and the like to raise cash and Shakespear sold tickets to the Globe. This peculiar idea that art is only art if it is free and produced by people in tremendous poverty fighting some just cause is, frankly, daft and completely detached from reality. If anything - today's system protect artists from a lot of reasons why they might hang up the brush and go do something completely different. Lawyers help stop them being ripped off, help them get paid on time, negotiate the fair use of their output. There's plenty of people out there who have seen their hard work used in some media campaign, etc., without any mention of or payment to the original artist - and that is nothing new. What we have now might not be perfect but it is a whole load better for artists.
You want to notify me: Sign your fucking messages! They are fucking Verizon, and the bastards refuse to just sign their freaking email messages. So, what I do is, I have a template explaining the dangers of notifying of such changes in plain email... some other small Telcos seem to be more conscious about this stuff. VoipJet, for example (a small A-Z IAX-only route), sends all the notifications signed and they provide a link to the notice on their website where you can double check the information
what would be wrong with a hefty eloctromagnetic pulse - so long as it was aimed in the right direction and there was nothing else nearby then this would knock them out. Or even a nice big laser:) these drones are pretty slow moving right?
Probably a one off - botnet designers will now write in contingencies so that access can be re-established in the event of visible domains being taken off-line. In fact - i'd be surprised if Waledac didn't rise from the dead.
Exactly - tyre manufacturers no longer cater for customers with iron-tyred wooden-spoked cart wheels, why should anyone cater for IE6 users? The world moves on.
Yes. I completely agree. Except similar services through the years have not succeeded. The reality is, unfortunately, the masses want to feel part of the heard and this is managed through select media outlets and well-trodden marketting techniques. We are where we are at because it works so well. It would be fantastic if struggling/new artists could push their work onto the masses for approval and find their work is reciprocated financially. But they cannot compete with the big music lables in terms of quality and, lets face it, listeners would just be continually bombarded with thousands of spamming musicians trying to get thier song on mp3 players. Sheeple need some way of simplifying the world and the big labels do just that. Flattr is a nice idea, but like a lot of nice ideas it'll be scuppered on the rocks of herd mentality.
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Couldn't Apple just give the end user the choice? There are times when not having flash can be really irritating, but it is probably something that I would keep switched off most of the time. I am so conflicted over this one!
Gonorrhea? I thought we had that one licked.
Alas no - we are doomed to a sticky end!
It is quite feasible that patients might realise this and pee a little bit when they are feeling lonely, and in so doing make urine and electronic pants a means of communication. A bit like morse code only with a lower bandwidth.
I'm not sure this is possible. I once had a beer with an almost eminent particle physicist. We kind of agreed that if this is the "ultimate" God particle then funding for particle physics could be under serious threat. What is the point in funding LHC type experiments if there are no more particles to be found? After a few more beers we hypothesised that the God particle must be constructed from, not particles, but something else a little bit like lego. And that the only way to understand this lego-like property of ultimate particles was lots of particle physicists working full time for many years on LHC-II.
That was my first thought - just go there and look for yourself! There might some reduced functionality, and it might rain. But you can taste, smell and feel what you are interested in... which might again cause reduced functionality if you happen to be interested in someone rather than something.
It is the idea that all border guards will be able to easily discriminate the legality of content even if they were allowed access. Seriously, would I have to carry receipts, license docs, original packaging and so forth?
I do this (on a small scale) and it is quite nice to have that nice crispy just installed feeling back. I have also just secured a server in the most absolute perfectly secure manner available. I unplugged it from the mains.
Maybe, but the trouble with China is that you can't bet on the long-term. They are quite happy to pull the rug from under your feet, take your property off your hands and smother you in unintelligible paperwork at the drop of a hat. That's why China will probably not represent much of a threat, at least for the forseeable future.
A little bit extra for an aweful lot more - this makes perfectly reasonable sense. Lets just hope the money gets to the struggling artists!
You pay road tax? Do you pay road tax only for those roads you drive on? Similar system - and the best way artists have of surviving illegal downloaders reluctance to pay for what they use.
"I think i can speak for a lot of us here that we WOULD, in fact, like to reimburse the CREATOR for the content we download."
In other words - you would like to but you don't. You could just mail the artist some cash but it's too much trouble and, well, might not get there. It seems like a nice idea but... pfff... Personally, I am happy to pay £12 to see a film in the cinema, spend £12 on a DVD and also pick up some bargain DVDs for £3 knowing full well that some of what I pay gets to the artists involved and some goes to the company who made that product available to me. It is the same for pretty much every other commercial product on the planet, except that music and films can be digitised, copied almost perfectly and distributed to numerous others none of whom, like yourself, just can't be bothered to compensate the artist. You download for free, you don't pay, you are therefore stealing and artists and thier agents are within their rights to prosecute you - in the same way that the grocer whose potatoes you steal can prosecute, restaurants you eat at but don't pay the bill can call the police and same across any other service industry.
If copyright returned to the public after a designated period then everyone will be going around listening to free 60's music, modern musicians would not earn a penny and modern music would die.
You watch TV for free and you listen to the radio for free. Think carefully about value for money. If your barber overcharges you change barbers. If the Rolling Stones album is a rip off, the copyright is owned by a monopoly - no one can compete.
No - I pay a fee to the BBC. Commercial radio is paid for in kind by me donating my time to listen to corporate messages. It is not free. And are you saying the Rolling Stones and artists generally would be better off if they were not represented by a record company? The open source model of music has been tried and two things have been learnt... first, quality suffers and second small bands can't survive.
In Hungary, downloading is legal, but uploading not. So, P2P is in a grey area. However, there is a levy on all recordable media, even on pendrives and memory cards. So, clueful hungarians buy their recordable media from Slovakia where there is no such levy.
Why don't people want to pay for what they use anymore? I really do not understand this. If I take a train, I buy a ticket. If I drive a car I buy petrol. I pay for the food I eat, the books I read, the beer I drink. I pay the dentist who fills my teeth, the barber who cuts my hair... and I pay for the movies I watch and the music I listen to. What is it with people expecting the world for free and accusing anyone who wants to get paid for their work of being meglomaniacal corrupt capitalist pigs? You would seriously travel to Slovakia to avoid paying a little bit of extra on a pen drive? The world has gone loopy!
"kill all the fucking lawyers"
Well that is pretty bitter. Reading between the lines you seem to be suggesting that Joyce, Mozart and Shakespeare did not try to sell their work. That somehow, the total lack of available avenues to convert their hard work into cash made them better artists. Well, all three did their best to sell their art - Joyce approached publishers (lots of them), Mozart did gigs at weddings and the like to raise cash and Shakespear sold tickets to the Globe. This peculiar idea that art is only art if it is free and produced by people in tremendous poverty fighting some just cause is, frankly, daft and completely detached from reality. If anything - today's system protect artists from a lot of reasons why they might hang up the brush and go do something completely different. Lawyers help stop them being ripped off, help them get paid on time, negotiate the fair use of their output. There's plenty of people out there who have seen their hard work used in some media campaign, etc., without any mention of or payment to the original artist - and that is nothing new. What we have now might not be perfect but it is a whole load better for artists.
An Apple version of E ink? You mean iEink? That sounds wrong, like pain or something
When I first came across the Apple Mac I remember thinking how strange it was to name something after a coat
You will need a reasonably sized HD, like this one where ones and zeros occupy a space of about postage stamp size.
You want to notify me: Sign your fucking messages! They are fucking Verizon, and the bastards refuse to just sign their freaking email messages. So, what I do is, I have a template explaining the dangers of notifying of such changes in plain email... some other small Telcos seem to be more conscious about this stuff. VoipJet, for example (a small A-Z IAX-only route), sends all the notifications signed and they provide a link to the notice on their website where you can double check the information
This. It makes sense on a lot of levels.
what would be wrong with a hefty eloctromagnetic pulse - so long as it was aimed in the right direction and there was nothing else nearby then this would knock them out. Or even a nice big laser :) these drones are pretty slow moving right?
I don't get what this facination with Mars is - how about we explore the bottom of our planets oceans? That would be seriously interesting.
Probably a one off - botnet designers will now write in contingencies so that access can be re-established in the event of visible domains being taken off-line. In fact - i'd be surprised if Waledac didn't rise from the dead.
Exactly - tyre manufacturers no longer cater for customers with iron-tyred wooden-spoked cart wheels, why should anyone cater for IE6 users? The world moves on.
I doubt it.
1-to-10 says they're all on facebook.
All in their virtual worlds bullying each other. Just 'cos they are quiet doesn't mean they are being good ;)
Yes. I completely agree. Except similar services through the years have not succeeded. The reality is, unfortunately, the masses want to feel part of the heard and this is managed through select media outlets and well-trodden marketting techniques. We are where we are at because it works so well. It would be fantastic if struggling/new artists could push their work onto the masses for approval and find their work is reciprocated financially. But they cannot compete with the big music lables in terms of quality and, lets face it, listeners would just be continually bombarded with thousands of spamming musicians trying to get thier song on mp3 players. Sheeple need some way of simplifying the world and the big labels do just that. Flattr is a nice idea, but like a lot of nice ideas it'll be scuppered on the rocks of herd mentality.