Digital songs must be cheaper than CD, as the CD at least contains physical parts. They must also not have any less quality than CD so lossless is best, and they also are saving from shipping and (physical) storage costs. Of course zero DRM or closed formats like you have with CDs.
How about using the single (smaller cd) format Japan has used for years when releasing new songs?
If you think its unreasonable, then why the movie studios decided to sell legal copies of movies in china for 3$? Are the movies cheaper to make? And why not extend the offer elsewhere?
Either they change, or they leave. Their choice. The world will not stop.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. From the preamble of the United States Declaration of Independence...
Well, dimmers are known to cause ground loops and noise to the electricity in the house, so its always best to not use them. I have never seen a cfl take 30 seconds to light, 10secs at most. A "big" fluorescent lamp might take from 30 to 60secs (when you don't have to fight with the starter).
In your situation i would have various switches for controlling various lamps, so when you need full brightness you turn them all on, when you need little light only a few of them. Combine low and high brightness/colors. It could be as simple as 2 10w and 2 25w, using 2 switches, or more complex configurations depending with the size of your room. Have you ever seen a 100w cfl? Street light inside! (please don't, i tried it and its *very* tiring) @_@
I agree that in some places where you don't need to leave the light on more than a couple of minutes incandescents last longer. You could also use some low wattage incandescents in your dimmer for low light plus regular cfl for full brightness in a second switch. Don't forget leds! If all you need low light for is to watch your step. Think of the movie theatre:)
Its easy: He is probably against CC with "Noncommercial" and/or "No Derivative Works" which clearly go beyond the Free Software definition.
However, compared to a world of "All rights reserved"; i'd rather have the strictiest of CC applied to all the content. It is however, the choice of the author to pick the elements of CC he/she see fits.
The CC license that equals the (viral) GPL, would be the one with "Share Alike" (Can't use the "No Derivative Works"). Without "Share Alike" and "Noncommercial", CC becomes a freebsd style license which also fits the Free Software definition.
All CC licenses must have "Attribution" (give credit to the author); this could cause the ad issue.
Move out of USA or fork without USA developers
on
ReactOS Code Audit
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
This is a lost case, and the remedy seems even worse. You can't just accept USA laws being imposed to all the developers, its not their fault. Instead of taking "years" to "audit" code, just to have microsoft in the end make fun of them in their deep pocketed "legal" system; i would say move outside to a sane country and continue there the development. Else, fork without the USA developers and continue.
The way it looks this project will stagnate into oblivion, unless something like a coup of foreign developers (a fork) occurs.
I'm not swedish, but i fully support this. I hope this idea extends beyond Sweden. Obviously it might be next impossible in corporate controlled USA, but this can get popular elsewhere. The fact is, laws were made by humans, and are not a given God right. Releasing slaves used to be illegal in USA, after all...
Copyright infringement is something that must cease. Not by jailing 3/4 of the population; but to stop pretending it to be illegal. The genie is out of the bottle; the technology made it possible, and there is no turning back. The alternative is widespread repression. No thanks, lets get rid of the problem once and for all. Culture and knowledge are not private proporty.
File sharers are not asking money for the content they help distribute. In fact they are donating their own machine and bandwidth resources. This indirect free advertising for those parasites. Loyal fans go and buy the content anyway as long as they are treated with respect. With the advent of "DRM", "TCA" this might be changing. Why bother in spending money in content that will refuse to play or cause problems? I'd rather donate to sites which help the spreading of the same content without any restrictions.
As for the economics of a market without "IP", it is not my interest talk about this issue. I believe it will sort itself out anyway. I don't think copyrights or patents protect the small ones, reality shows its just the opposite, so it can't never be worse. In fact, you can already see how it works in countries where "IP" just plain doesn't work at all, such as almost everyplace outside of the so called "developed" world.
So this message is just to show my full support to this new party, and if i were Sweden, i would immediately sign as a party member. I hope this ideology spreads worldwide, we have had enough.
Yes, linux centrism is a problem; there is interest in *bsd or even less know projects such as ReactOS. Sadly the couple of groups in my city not only are linux fans, they are also debian zealots. Daring to try something a little different is a blasphemy to their eyes.
So i don't care for groups like that anymore. There are much better communities online, and more interesting things to try than wasting the time dealing with rabid fanatics.
If the idea of free software groups really takes off here, i might grow interest in grouping again. I like the term much better and it would do some justice to the free software movement.
I worked in a it shop, and i never knew of a single kalok surviving even days after the warranty expired. Kalok was the pcchips of its day, the worst thing you could get.
From those days, i still have a 100% working (zero bad sectors) 3 1/2" IDE (ata) 80mb Seagate (ST3096A). Its last days were spent on a 24hrs dial up BBS i turned off around 97. The drive still works fine. I also used to have a 5 1/4" MFM 40mb Seagate drive (ST251N?) which was used in the same machine; before it, the machine had a 5 1/4" RLL 30mb Seagate ST238R which i used to have on an XT back in the day.
Of the home/desktop drives, Quantum used to be reliable as well, with Western Digital and Maxtor being ok, but about nothing else. Turned out Maxtor got Quantum, and now Seagate got Maxtor; so all that is left is Seagate, Western Digital and the bunch of "newcomers".
I do seem to recall a couple of slave/master issues, but not many. "Cable Select" mode would likely fail with different brands, but the regular master/alave configuration usually worked; maybe one specific drive had to always be the master, but that was about it. Upgrade paths usually involved replacing the drive for a bigger one anyways.
7% of the world population, 27% of the world pollution. Won't even sign the kyoto protocol, whose little measures are not enough already. The world should get their act together and force them to stop polluting. But that goes against the sacred right to make more profit...
BT doesn't have any uses besides copyright infring
on
GCC 4.1 Released
·
· Score: 1
As long as you have some means of giving back, some people will always think about misuse, and some people will want you to go back being a mere consumer of whatever they choose to feed you with.
Their real worry is people bypassing the system and doing independent content production and distribution (which destroys their controlled market); and just have the perfect excuse...
RMS is in error here, but not because he thinks that software designated Free Software ought not be referred to as Open Source software, but because he thinks that anyone cares.
Actually it is you who are in error here. In this sentence, RMS is not "thinking" anything, he is just promoting freedom. Others like you "think" people don't care about freedom and even equate open source with free software because both are "open". But "open" means nothing if you don't have the freedom to use it, study it, share it and modify it with your peers and ensure these conditions remain in all derivated works.
Openness is good, but not as good as freedom, which includes openness, not the other way around as some people think.
Well Bram Cohen is not in any kind of danger. I think this is more of a PR move from Bram and the MPAA, and there might be some deal inside.
The only thing Bram Cohen has done is a very efficient p2p file transfer protocol. Lawyers can't sue the guy who made a protocol just because people can use it for illegal purposes. Its just a tool.
The "search" engine made by Bram is not particulary popular or widely used. In fact his own client is not so widely used anymore. Its not a big deal if he lets the MPAA filter search results in the obscure thing.
The MPAA can actually benefit very much of bittorrent, they could use the technology to distribute their content to their theathers worldwide, so they can sync a movie "world release".
For the rest of us who don't want to watch any MPAA content (they control 90% of the theaters, after all) the internet is the perfect alternative as well, because using a good protocol (such as bittorrent) we can download and then watch all the independent and foreign productions banned from MPAA theaters and their controlled distribution chains.
When the likes of RIAA try to destroy the very tools and the very technologies, obviusly the real reason behind it is their losing of iron grip control over the market. Rebel people actually DARING to listen to non RIAA owned content...
They know people are using the internet to go beyond what they supply. Copyright infringement is the least of their worries, but its such a good excuse...
It crashed more of less because of the thinking that personal computers could do the same and more than consoles. This is why they attempted to make some of their consoles closer to pcs with accesories.
Atari 2600 kept surviving because it was very cheap, as opposed to both other consoles and catridges. I remember the colecovision was very pricey with all its fancy controllers the games that required them (wheel for turbo, trackball for centipede, etc).
IMO the biggest lost for the american video console market was that of the intellivision. Often overlooked, it had real technical merit and its titles were very good. It was a 16bit console made in 78, with a succesor using the 68000 cpu planned by the time of the crash. You could feel the difference if you played games like autoracing and motocross, on par only with games released much later for the 65c02 based nintendo. All in a 500Khz cpu... They even ventured with sound speech and keyboard modules.
Check those "Imagic" games, ported for all the consoles of the time, and see the diffence on each console. Atlantis would be a good example... How about CRPGs? Treasure of Tarmin, pretty much like would be later Eye of the Beholder style. Graphics and sounds were limited, but then imagination could take over. That was the first game i ever spent the whole night playing nonstop until morning.
And what i miss most was the controlers, in particular the 16 direction disc. Back in the day, most people used to the atari "joystick", hated them, But i loved them. Much later the nintendo console used the infamous 4 direction cross shaped controler, not too different in concept, and much more annoying to the touch.
So if Mattel Electronics had survived the crash, and the 68000 based Intellevision III could have been released, maybe things would have looked a bit diferent today. Remember: Japan didn't exported RPG games to america at first because they thought the americans were "too dumb" for them. Check Dragonquest and Final Fantasy history.
[i]Finally, granted Betamax failed as a consumer format. However, as a professional standard it has made SONY bucketloads of cash.[/i]
No. BetaMAX is a consumer format. The professional format you seem to refer to, is called BetaCAM. They shared some characteristics, but BetaCAM tapes are of much higher grade and achieve a studio grade quality bandwidth. Even earlier and also sharing some characteristics are the machines some call "U-matic".
BetaMax was in widespread use in my country until 1992.
Let me add a couple of formats sony also was behind: Video-8 (low bandwidth) and Hi-8 (with many incompatible methods of writing to the same tape by different cameras), and the 3 1/2" floppy standard. I would also mention atrac, the lossy audio compression format used in the MD.
I want to see: "HBO spends 10 million dollars, and everybody steals their content without reimbursing HBO for any of their costs. 10,000 people lose their jobs because HBO declares bankruptcy." With all the copyright infrigement of the world, its not going to happen anytime soon. People sill watch the TV, then its aired, with all the sponsor paid content, on their cable subscribed channels, etc.
Those who download are most likely the enthusiasts who have already seen the show but couldn't or weren't willing to tape them at first as they weren't sure it was that good. Or, those who don't have any means of watching HBO current programming anytime soon (people not living in USA, etc.), which in many cases fall outside the draconian corporate of america rulings (ie: try to sue foreigners all you want).
From the technical point of view this is hardly news, in fact its beyond boring. "ppl doing massive poisoning, bleh". Bittorrent is highly resistant to poisoning, this is not your average p2p protocol. The most you can do is to fool people into wrong torrents (reading user comments about a torrent is often good enough), but there is nothing they can do about the good ones; short of collecting IP addreses and having fun sending C&D letters to russia and sweden.
I can't wait to see a respective Piratebay legal threats HBO letter:)
In short this is the same old and tired "lets fight what we don't understand" instead of learning how can this technology actually benefit them. As with much p2p trading, more to our sadness, the usual effect is the opposite. Instead of losses, they get lots of popularity for free advertising and distribution of their shows, which end driving up sales of related merchandise or higher quality dvds, soundtracks, etc.
They should, instead, offer official bittorrent downloads, and show ads in their tracker and posibly a couple of regular tv ads in the video itself; perhaps offering syndicated releasing using rss+torrent as a part of the experience.
With this, hardly people would need to release their own "illegal" encodes unless their quality was really bad;) And they would get a huge pr bonus for "getting it".
It doesn't matter if they don't "get it" now, im sure time will force them to rethink this whole going against your own supporters policy. Even if it takes the old dinosaurs to go.
As it is, p2p is only going to improve, not lessen. The more they attack it, the more robust and anonymous it will become. They can keep fighting machines as luddites did, or they can study how this new situation can benefit us all.
In any case p2p sharing is not going to decrease anytime soon. More and more generations are simply getting used to it, you can't just keep fighting everyone forever, things will change and they will have to accept and adapt or disappear.
Ubuntu disables the root account. If you need to run root commands, you use sudo from your user account. This operation will ask the password for this user account.
I find highly incredible someone willing to compile an entire os and apps; can't figure something this simple. Its just like knoppix, but sudo in ubuntu asks you the user's password.
The rest of your problems might be addressed in the forums, chat or wiki. IMO the strongest point of ubuntu is the community.
Product Activation. Sure, you could get rid of it with a russian crack, but then you need to find another one with each update...
Also its not funny to turn off all those annoying "features", even with xp-antispy and friends.
I have not had any problem with games using w2k. Really old games run perfectly with dosbox. Drivers are always updated with those from the manufacturer, except the bt878, with a much better open source driver.
No artificial 800x600 limit, a 640x480 desktop looks better on tv...
Home Edition edition has so many artificial limitations its not even funny to mention. Just wait for the fun with the (at least 7) different Vista "flavors"...
Finally: If what you have is doing the job just fine, why bother?
Fisher Price bloatware activated limitations are not worth it. I admit fast boot is nice to have, but im not rebooting everyday... Nothing else is worth it.
How would you feel if you actully knew this song really belongs to Doki Doki panic, and the real SMB2 was actually what was much later known in US as "The Lost Levels"?
Hmm, a better analogy would be stealing an apple vs. making paintings of said apple without paying the farmer any fees.
Removing the apple is actually causing a tangible loss, but it is very arguable how much could have earned the farmer, if he decided that anyone doing paintings of one of his apple's should pay a fee.
Perhaps doing it on the first place would prevent anyone from making the paintings so he would have earned nothing, perhaps paying the fee would kill the idea of giving said paintings for free as gifs to your friends.
Another guy will come and say that apple farmers have always been robbed, that they would be rich if they all together demanded fees for each of these paintings being made, such guy would also start a company and start buying some apple farms and hire farmers as he lacks any true farming skill, but comes from a wealthy family...
This is the problem of trying to appropiate the intangible world, its all based in theory and illusion; and can only work as long as enough people in power believe so, and build a set of intangible barriers such as laws treating physical objects the same as intangible.
In fact, to some it seems that copyright infringement causes more damages than killing or raping people. Obviusly causing loses to a sacred american corporation is always worse than ruining an individual life...
Slashdot Mirror
Same.
Digital songs must be cheaper than CD, as the CD at least contains physical parts. They must also not have any less quality than CD so lossless is best, and they also are saving from shipping and (physical) storage costs. Of course zero DRM or closed formats like you have with CDs.
How about using the single (smaller cd) format Japan has used for years when releasing new songs?
If you think its unreasonable, then why the movie studios decided to sell legal copies of movies in china for 3$? Are the movies cheaper to make? And why not extend the offer elsewhere?
Either they change, or they leave. Their choice. The world will not stop.
I agree, this thing is broken. All it does is return a bunch of random torrentreactor results.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
From the preamble of the United States Declaration of Independence...
And make it illegal for USA and others to sell their patented transgenic sterile seeds that happens to kill local species...
Well, dimmers are known to cause ground loops and noise to the electricity in the house, so its always best to not use them. I have never seen a cfl take 30 seconds to light, 10secs at most. A "big" fluorescent lamp might take from 30 to 60secs (when you don't have to fight with the starter).
:)
In your situation i would have various switches for controlling various lamps, so when you need full brightness you turn them all on, when you need little light only a few of them. Combine low and high brightness/colors. It could be as simple as 2 10w and 2 25w, using 2 switches, or more complex configurations depending with the size of your room. Have you ever seen a 100w cfl? Street light inside! (please don't, i tried it and its *very* tiring) @_@
I agree that in some places where you don't need to leave the light on more than a couple of minutes incandescents last longer. You could also use some low wattage incandescents in your dimmer for low light plus regular cfl for full brightness in a second switch. Don't forget leds! If all you need low light for is to watch your step. Think of the movie theatre
Its easy: He is probably against CC with "Noncommercial" and/or "No Derivative Works" which clearly go beyond the Free Software definition.
However, compared to a world of "All rights reserved"; i'd rather have the strictiest of CC applied to all the content. It is however, the choice of the author to pick the elements of CC he/she see fits.
The CC license that equals the (viral) GPL, would be the one with "Share Alike" (Can't use the "No Derivative Works"). Without "Share Alike" and "Noncommercial", CC becomes a freebsd style license which also fits the Free Software definition.
All CC licenses must have "Attribution" (give credit to the author); this could cause the ad issue.
This is a lost case, and the remedy seems even worse. You can't just accept USA laws being imposed to all the developers, its not their fault. Instead of taking "years" to "audit" code, just to have microsoft in the end make fun of them in their deep pocketed "legal" system; i would say move outside to a sane country and continue there the development. Else, fork without the USA developers and continue.
The way it looks this project will stagnate into oblivion, unless something like a coup of foreign developers (a fork) occurs.
Too bad this happened just before v3.
I'm not swedish, but i fully support this. I hope this idea extends beyond Sweden. Obviously it might be next impossible in corporate controlled USA, but this can get popular elsewhere. The fact is, laws were made by humans, and are not a given God right. Releasing slaves used to be illegal in USA, after all...
Copyright infringement is something that must cease. Not by jailing 3/4 of the population; but to stop pretending it to be illegal. The genie is out of the bottle; the technology made it possible, and there is no turning back. The alternative is widespread repression. No thanks, lets get rid of the problem once and for all. Culture and knowledge are not private proporty.
File sharers are not asking money for the content they help distribute. In fact they are donating their own machine and bandwidth resources. This indirect free advertising for those parasites. Loyal fans go and buy the content anyway as long as they are treated with respect. With the advent of "DRM", "TCA" this might be changing. Why bother in spending money in content that will refuse to play or cause problems? I'd rather donate to sites which help the spreading of the same content without any restrictions.
As for the economics of a market without "IP", it is not my interest talk about this issue. I believe it will sort itself out anyway. I don't think copyrights or patents protect the small ones, reality shows its just the opposite, so it can't never be worse. In fact, you can already see how it works in countries where "IP" just plain doesn't work at all, such as almost everyplace outside of the so called "developed" world.
So this message is just to show my full support to this new party, and if i were Sweden, i would immediately sign as a party member. I hope this ideology spreads worldwide, we have had enough.
Yes, linux centrism is a problem; there is interest in *bsd or even less know projects such as ReactOS. Sadly the couple of groups in my city not only are linux fans, they are also debian zealots. Daring to try something a little different is a blasphemy to their eyes.
So i don't care for groups like that anymore. There are much better communities online, and more interesting things to try than wasting the time dealing with rabid fanatics.
If the idea of free software groups really takes off here, i might grow interest in grouping again. I like the term much better and it would do some justice to the free software movement.
I worked in a it shop, and i never knew of a single kalok surviving even days after the warranty expired. Kalok was the pcchips of its day, the worst thing you could get.
From those days, i still have a 100% working (zero bad sectors) 3 1/2" IDE (ata) 80mb Seagate (ST3096A). Its last days were spent on a 24hrs dial up BBS i turned off around 97. The drive still works fine. I also used to have a 5 1/4" MFM 40mb Seagate drive (ST251N?) which was used in the same machine; before it, the machine had a 5 1/4" RLL 30mb Seagate ST238R which i used to have on an XT back in the day.
Of the home/desktop drives, Quantum used to be reliable as well, with Western Digital and Maxtor being ok, but about nothing else. Turned out Maxtor got Quantum, and now Seagate got Maxtor; so all that is left is Seagate, Western Digital and the bunch of "newcomers".
I do seem to recall a couple of slave/master issues, but not many. "Cable Select" mode would likely fail with different brands, but the regular master/alave configuration usually worked; maybe one specific drive had to always be the master, but that was about it. Upgrade paths usually involved replacing the drive for a bigger one anyways.
7% of the world population, 27% of the world pollution. Won't even sign the kyoto protocol, whose little measures are not enough already. The world should get their act together and force them to stop polluting. But that goes against the sacred right to make more profit...
SYNTAX ERROR: LINE 10
As long as you have some means of giving back, some people will always think about misuse, and some people will want you to go back being a mere consumer of whatever they choose to feed you with.
Their real worry is people bypassing the system and doing independent content production and distribution (which destroys their controlled market); and just have the perfect excuse...
RMS is in error here, but not because he thinks that software designated Free Software ought not be referred to as Open Source software, but because he thinks that anyone cares.
Actually it is you who are in error here. In this sentence, RMS is not "thinking" anything, he is just promoting freedom. Others like you "think" people don't care about freedom and even equate open source with free software because both are "open". But "open" means nothing if you don't have the freedom to use it, study it, share it and modify it with your peers and ensure these conditions remain in all derivated works.
Openness is good, but not as good as freedom, which includes openness, not the other way around as some people think.
Well Bram Cohen is not in any kind of danger. I think this is more of a PR move from Bram and the MPAA, and there might be some deal inside.
The only thing Bram Cohen has done is a very efficient p2p file transfer protocol. Lawyers can't sue the guy who made a protocol just because people can use it for illegal purposes. Its just a tool.
The "search" engine made by Bram is not particulary popular or widely used. In fact his own client is not so widely used anymore. Its not a big deal if he lets the MPAA filter search results in the obscure thing.
The MPAA can actually benefit very much of bittorrent, they could use the technology to distribute their content to their theathers worldwide, so they can sync a movie "world release".
For the rest of us who don't want to watch any MPAA content (they control 90% of the theaters, after all) the internet is the perfect alternative as well, because using a good protocol (such as bittorrent) we can download and then watch all the independent and foreign productions banned from MPAA theaters and their controlled distribution chains.
When the likes of RIAA try to destroy the very tools and the very technologies, obviusly the real reason behind it is their losing of iron grip control over the market. Rebel people actually DARING to listen to non RIAA owned content...
They know people are using the internet to go beyond what they supply. Copyright infringement is the least of their worries, but its such a good excuse...
This test requires a walkman with a built in speaker, because the headphones usually work as antenna.
I guess its easier to use a cellphone: Just put it inside a plastic bag, cover it with the foil, and then call it.
If you work with rfid chips, you could try this experiment with the readers and post your results.
It crashed more of less because of the thinking that personal computers could do the same and more than consoles. This is why they attempted to make some of their consoles closer to pcs with accesories.
Atari 2600 kept surviving because it was very cheap, as opposed to both other consoles and catridges. I remember the colecovision was very pricey with all its fancy controllers the games that required them (wheel for turbo, trackball for centipede, etc).
IMO the biggest lost for the american video console market was that of the intellivision. Often overlooked, it had real technical merit and its titles were very good. It was a 16bit console made in 78, with a succesor using the 68000 cpu planned by the time of the crash. You could feel the difference if you played games like autoracing and motocross, on par only with games released much later for the 65c02 based nintendo. All in a 500Khz cpu... They even ventured with sound speech and keyboard modules.
Check those "Imagic" games, ported for all the consoles of the time, and see the diffence on each console. Atlantis would be a good example... How about CRPGs? Treasure of Tarmin, pretty much like would be later Eye of the Beholder style.
Graphics and sounds were limited, but then imagination could take over. That was the first game i ever spent the whole night playing nonstop until morning.
And what i miss most was the controlers, in particular the 16 direction disc. Back in the day, most people used to the atari "joystick", hated them, But i loved them. Much later the nintendo console used the infamous 4 direction cross shaped controler, not too different in concept, and much more annoying to the touch.
So if Mattel Electronics had survived the crash, and the 68000 based Intellevision III could have been released, maybe things would have looked a bit diferent today. Remember: Japan didn't exported RPG games to america at first because they thought the americans were "too dumb" for them. Check Dragonquest and Final Fantasy history.
Maybe they were right in some way...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango
[i]Finally, granted Betamax failed as a consumer format. However, as a professional standard it has made SONY bucketloads of cash.[/i]
No. BetaMAX is a consumer format. The professional format you seem to refer to, is called BetaCAM. They shared some characteristics, but BetaCAM tapes are of much higher grade and achieve a studio grade quality bandwidth. Even earlier and also sharing some characteristics are the machines some call "U-matic".
BetaMax was in widespread use in my country until 1992.
Let me add a couple of formats sony also was behind: Video-8 (low bandwidth) and Hi-8 (with many incompatible methods of writing to the same tape by different cameras), and the 3 1/2" floppy standard. I would also mention atrac, the lossy audio compression format used in the MD.
No one talks about Pat Robertson's side of the story on Wikipedia.
Really? What is this then?
Whose links are at the bottom?
Not to mention the discussion...
I want to see: "HBO spends 10 million dollars, and everybody steals their content without reimbursing HBO for any of their costs. 10,000 people lose their jobs because HBO declares bankruptcy." With all the copyright infrigement of the world, its not going to happen anytime soon. People sill watch the TV, then its aired, with all the sponsor paid content, on their cable subscribed channels, etc.
:)
;) And they would get a huge pr bonus for "getting it".
Those who download are most likely the enthusiasts who have already seen the show but couldn't or weren't willing to tape them at first as they weren't sure it was that good. Or, those who don't have any means of watching HBO current programming anytime soon (people not living in USA, etc.), which in many cases fall outside the draconian corporate of america rulings (ie: try to sue foreigners all you want).
From the technical point of view this is hardly news, in fact its beyond boring. "ppl doing massive poisoning, bleh". Bittorrent is highly resistant to poisoning, this is not your average p2p protocol. The most you can do is to fool people into wrong torrents (reading user comments about a torrent is often good enough), but there is nothing they can do about the good ones; short of collecting IP addreses and having fun sending C&D letters to russia and sweden.
I can't wait to see a respective Piratebay legal threats HBO letter
In short this is the same old and tired "lets fight what we don't understand" instead of learning how can this technology actually benefit them. As with much p2p trading, more to our sadness, the usual effect is the opposite. Instead of losses, they get lots of popularity for free advertising and distribution of their shows, which end driving up sales of related merchandise or higher quality dvds, soundtracks, etc.
They should, instead, offer official bittorrent downloads, and show ads in their tracker and posibly a couple of regular tv ads in the video itself; perhaps offering syndicated releasing using rss+torrent as a part of the experience.
With this, hardly people would need to release their own "illegal" encodes unless their quality was really bad
It doesn't matter if they don't "get it" now, im sure time will force them to rethink this whole going against your own supporters policy. Even if it takes the old dinosaurs to go.
As it is, p2p is only going to improve, not lessen. The more they attack it, the more robust and anonymous it will become. They can keep fighting machines as luddites did, or they can study how this new situation can benefit us all.
In any case p2p sharing is not going to decrease anytime soon. More and more generations are simply getting used to it, you can't just keep fighting everyone forever, things will change and they will have to accept and adapt or disappear.
Ubuntu disables the root account. If you need to run root commands, you use sudo from your user account. This operation will ask the password for this user account.
To enable root, just do sudo passwd.
More information here: http://www.ubuntuguide.org/
I find highly incredible someone willing to compile an entire os and apps; can't figure something this simple. Its just like knoppix, but sudo in ubuntu asks you the user's password.
The rest of your problems might be addressed in the forums, chat or wiki.
IMO the strongest point of ubuntu is the community.
Product Activation. Sure, you could get rid of it with a russian crack, but then you need to find another one with each update...
Also its not funny to turn off all those annoying "features", even with xp-antispy and friends.
I have not had any problem with games using w2k. Really old games run perfectly with dosbox. Drivers are always updated with those from the manufacturer, except the bt878, with a much better open source driver.
No artificial 800x600 limit, a 640x480 desktop looks better on tv...
Home Edition edition has so many artificial limitations its not even funny to mention. Just wait for the fun with the (at least 7) different Vista "flavors"...
Finally: If what you have is doing the job just fine, why bother?
Fisher Price bloatware activated limitations are not worth it. I admit fast boot is nice to have, but im not rebooting everyday... Nothing else is worth it.
How to install Windows XP in 5 hours or less
How would you feel if you actully knew this song really belongs to Doki Doki panic, and the real SMB2 was actually what was much later known in US as "The Lost Levels"?
Hmm, a better analogy would be stealing an apple vs. making paintings of said apple without paying the farmer any fees.
Removing the apple is actually causing a tangible loss, but it is very arguable how much could have earned the farmer, if he decided that anyone doing paintings of one of his apple's should pay a fee.
Perhaps doing it on the first place would prevent anyone from making the paintings so he would have earned nothing, perhaps paying the fee would kill the idea of giving said paintings for free as gifs to your friends.
Another guy will come and say that apple farmers have always been robbed, that they would be rich if they all together demanded fees for each of these paintings being made, such guy would also start a company and start buying some apple farms and hire farmers as he lacks any true farming skill, but comes from a wealthy family...
This is the problem of trying to appropiate the intangible world, its all based in theory and illusion; and can only work as long as enough people in power believe so, and build a set of intangible barriers such as laws treating physical objects the same as intangible.
In fact, to some it seems that copyright infringement causes more damages than killing or raping people. Obviusly causing loses to a sacred american corporation is always worse than ruining an individual life...
Forgive me if i end joining anti copyright movements.