What is it that you want to control? Most artists sell their right to the media industry and has no control what so ever.
Imagine that you couldnt sell your right, only sell "the right to sell 10000 copies" of a song to Sony and "the right to sell 10000 copies" to Universal? That would give you more control, it would give us competition in the media delivery industry and it would give us access music at a lower price and perhaps in a way that was preferable to filesharing.
It is my freedom that they are stealing, with the legal structure of copyright as an excuse. I am not saying that they should take away protection from copyright-holders, I am saying that copyright law is being abused and it has to change.
I do not earn money from copyright laws, but that is not the point. You see, The media industry is ripping of you too.
A CD here in stockholm cost more or less 150 SEK, of that about 10 SEK go to the copyright holders. If I want to buy a song online, the price at www.ahlens.se is 12.90 SEK.
From that I can easily see that although the distribution-cost practically has vanished, the media industry still want the same price for the music. They are ripping us of. A fair price for an album would be 30 SEK, 10 SEK for the distributor and 20 SEK for the artist. And a fair price for a song would be 3 SEK.
The problem with the copyright law is that it allow these abuses, and it enables the media industry to undermine our integrity and rights society through spending vasts amount on lobbying.
It isn't behind, and has never been. Using FAI "The nodes (106 servers) took about 10-12 minutes total when reinstalled on mass. Individually, a node takes about 4 minutes to go down and come back up fully reinstalled and FAI lists the install time as two minutes (the rest was rebooting). "
We use MySQL for a lot of applications, and find it very acceptable. It is stable, fast and the administration is easy. We have not lost any data since we started to use it in 1997.
We don't want windows, so we use Linux. We don't find Windows an acceptable platform for servers, other than file-servers and for administration of Windows clients.
Most of the time, only domain-joined machines have a primary DNS suffix
I tend to set a primary DNS suffix on all my machines, windows as well as linux, seem to me that the only domains that count at Microsoft is Windows-domains. I am not surprised that they tend to break all kind of things.
I understand, but what I wanted to say was that it is not a problem that is caused by Ubuntu but rather by the hardwaremanufacturers. It is ATI that not is, or hopefully was, ready for the casual user.
If you have a modern PC, you vill find that it very well may be impossible to install Windows XP on it without searching and downloading drivers from the manufacturer. That was the case with my HP with SATA-disk, for example.
If you buy a computer, for example a Dell, with Ubuntu it is definitely a viable option, but if you build your own, you need to do some research, as you would have to do if you wanted to build a Windowscomputer.
That is a question about how much you want to yourself. If you are happy with buying a computer with Ubuntu, it is an option as viable as a Mac, but you still have the freedom of Linux.
That your ATI videocard or youe wireless card doesnt work under Ubuntu is probably due to the fact that some hardwarevendors has been less than willing to provide drivers and to publish specifications so that the community could provide drivers.
"you have to buy hardware that's known to work well on Linux" is not necessarily the same as "my not-new and not-exotic wireless card, or any of the different but also not-new and not-exotic wireless cards" due to that.
Looks as if the Media Industry is unstoppable, there is only one thing to do. Stop the money from reaching their banks, dont buy their products, dont listen to their music, dont see their movies. It will be 6 dull months, but then it is over and remember that there are independent music and film.
Play Open Arena om Linux
I wouldn't say that! I would say that the linux-solution would be superior functionality for the money, and probably in absolute functionality as well. An Exchange server farm has a limited featureset compared to a debian-server.
That is not correct for monopolists, scammers and others.
Happy customers is one way to make money, but it is not the only one, and certainly not the most lucrative.
Yes, when it is below 50*C, you can't even keep the tent warm, to get a good nights sleep. You have to go out and chop firewood to keep the warmth. That is my experince from the once Swedish Army.
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they were using copyprotection on their site.
In the elections 2006, the Piratparty got a stunning 0,63 % of the votes cast.
More significant may be that according to polls, 30-40 % of those who answer say that they share files on internet.
What is it that you want to control? Most artists sell their right to the media industry and has no control what so ever.
Imagine that you couldnt sell your right, only sell "the right to sell 10000 copies" of a song to Sony and "the right to sell 10000 copies" to Universal? That would give you more control, it would give us competition in the media delivery industry and it would give us access music at a lower price and perhaps in a way that was preferable to filesharing.
Think out of the box.
Who says I dont pay?
It is my freedom that they are stealing, with the legal structure of copyright as an excuse. I am not saying that they should take away protection from copyright-holders, I am saying that copyright law is being abused and it has to change.
I do not earn money from copyright laws, but that is not the point. You see, The media industry is ripping of you too.
A CD here in stockholm cost more or less 150 SEK, of that about 10 SEK go to the copyright holders. If I want to buy a song online, the price at www.ahlens.se is 12.90 SEK.
From that I can easily see that although the distribution-cost practically has vanished, the media industry still want the same price for the music. They are ripping us of. A fair price for an album would be 30 SEK, 10 SEK for the distributor and 20 SEK for the artist. And a fair price for a song would be 3 SEK.
The problem with the copyright law is that it allow these abuses, and it enables the media industry to undermine our integrity and rights society through spending vasts amount on lobbying.
That is why copyright is Evil.
Everybody is using noscript anyway, aren't we?
Wouldn't it be better with a frustration-elimination-system?
It isn't behind, and has never been. Using FAI "The nodes (106 servers) took about 10-12 minutes total when reinstalled on mass. Individually, a node takes about 4 minutes to go down and come back up fully reinstalled and FAI lists the install time as two minutes (the rest was rebooting). "
We use MySQL for a lot of applications, and find it very acceptable. It is stable, fast and the administration is easy. We have not lost any data since we started to use it in 1997.
We don't want windows, so we use Linux. We don't find Windows an acceptable platform for servers, other than file-servers and for administration of Windows clients.
We are the customers.
I tend to set a primary DNS suffix on all my machines, windows as well as linux, seem to me that the only domains that count at Microsoft is Windows-domains. I am not surprised that they tend to break all kind of things.
if they let us download the music for free, and take their income from somewhere else.
Probably and they probably mean open standard instead of open source.
Microsoft doesn't get much right these days.
They work, not because of Microsoft, but because of the hardwaremanufacturer. If there where drivers for Linux, Ubuntu would use them.
I understand, but what I wanted to say was that it is not a problem that is caused by Ubuntu but rather by the hardwaremanufacturers. It is ATI that not is, or hopefully was, ready for the casual user.
If you have a modern PC, you vill find that it very well may be impossible to install Windows XP on it without searching and downloading drivers from the manufacturer. That was the case with my HP with SATA-disk, for example.
If you buy a computer, for example a Dell, with Ubuntu it is definitely a viable option, but if you build your own, you need to do some research, as you would have to do if you wanted to build a Windowscomputer. That is a question about how much you want to yourself. If you are happy with buying a computer with Ubuntu, it is an option as viable as a Mac, but you still have the freedom of Linux.
"you have to buy hardware that's known to work well on Linux" is not necessarily the same as "my not-new and not-exotic wireless card, or any of the different but also not-new and not-exotic wireless cards" due to that.
So where do you see those alternatives? In the operatingsystem-market or maybe in the Officeprogram market?
Looks as if the Media Industry is unstoppable, there is only one thing to do. Stop the money from reaching their banks, dont buy their products, dont listen to their music, dont see their movies. It will be 6 dull months, but then it is over and remember that there are independent music and film. Play Open Arena om Linux
I wouldn't say that! I would say that the linux-solution would be superior functionality for the money, and probably in absolute functionality as well. An Exchange server farm has a limited featureset compared to a debian-server.
And dont forget that they just make money on Windows and Office, cut of the moneyflow from them and it will go very fast.
The next thing you will know is that the popping windows will become paid banners i SP2!!
That is not correct for monopolists, scammers and others. Happy customers is one way to make money, but it is not the only one, and certainly not the most lucrative.
Of course they are. The idea of the company is to make money, not to make happy customers.
The same thing happened to my wx4300, but a driver disk from internet saved my day.
Yes, when it is below 50*C, you can't even keep the tent warm, to get a good nights sleep. You have to go out and chop firewood to keep the warmth. That is my experince from the once Swedish Army.