I'd love to find a list of all the companies and how they have screwed people over so I could link to that URL everytime I hear how good Microsoft is just because they're profitable.
Its like those people on that invisible planet in that episode of Star Trek:NG. None of them knew how their machines worked, they just knew that it would take care of them.
Capitalists don't care about the widgets they make, they are only concerned with profits. This is a serious problem that is only going to get worse until we all stop and take a step back to look at the bigger picture. What are we doing all of this for anyway? What's the point in all of this? To get rich? Or to make a product? OR to build whatever it is we all want and need and make sure we're all taken care of? That last one probably falls more along the lines of communism, though.
I AM outraged. News coverage should be unbiased, don't you think? Or else perhaps it shouldn't be called the news. Maybe, instead, Microsoft's own little world.
The problem is when 30 million dumb Americans watch that News channel every day for months and vote the way Microsoft tells them to vote, or buy the way Microsoft tells them to buy. And this becomes a problem when you have a few of these competing "news" organizations delivering to the public what they agree is newsworthy and profitable. The public gets censored as a result, and not in a good way.
What happened with the War on Terrorism? Iraq became a terrorist because of the lack of an oposing viewpoint saying they were complying with weapons inspectors and that they didn't have WMD to begin with. How easily something so suttle can turn into an atrocity.
So what you are saying is there's nothing wrong with Monopolies?
don't you think one minute any other company in their shoes would have acted differently, including the envious Sun and over zealous Oracle.
Sometimes I'd like to think RedHat would have acted differently.
Sure Microsoft gives to charity and helps people. But they made their billions by draining it from the US IT economy. Please tell me you haven't forgotten that already..
I think GNU and the FSF threaten the current state of the patent system and the concept of cross-licensing in general. Capitalists are so inefficient. OSS just shows the masses an alternative. Its like taking out the middle man, only in this case, the middle man is lawyers, store owners, merchants, CEOs, Marketting departments, etc. Just about everyone besides the developers themselves.
But I thought the reason they switched to anything was because the price/performance ratio. Does a G5 beat the price/performance ratio of a P4 or Athlon based system? It beats the performance, but in a few months we'll see how it stacks up against an AMD64 chip or maybe even the Itanium2, both of which I'd expect to perform better than a G5. But I haven't even seen a G5 yet, so who knows.
It will if we can find some farmers willing to work for free, and some land.
See, having a few dollar bills won't put food on the table either, if there isn't any food to purchase at the grocery market. Money doesn't make food. Food costs time and physical labor and sunlight and land and many things that have absolutely nothing to do with money.
Money is just a reciept for the time we spent performing labor. And its just an excuse to force people to work long hours doing repetitive tasks for food and shelter. Most of those tasks could be automated by machines, if we were creative enough to think about things more important than money.
Its almost like common sense, only its not very common.
As simple as these things may seem to us they are not so simple to someone who lives their life not caring about how any of these things gets handled, or even worse, caring about making money or helping corporations make money at any cost.
When you put a mob of people in charge of something like the FCC, FBI, CIA, etc. When things get all fucked up who do they blame? Noone. Or certainly not themselves. The public's solution? Create another department of government to solve all our problems.
Microsoft wrote the software we use for our information infrustracture. What do you recommend we do?
What does the media recommend we do?
Who listens to you?
The problem is much bigger than you think. Its human nature and capitalism. Its global. And its not going away without a fight.
So basicly the monopoly-like ownership of the music industry agrees, DRM is a good thing for profits.
But I'm left wondering how they are going to make a profit if nobody ever wants to buy another one of their CDs because of what they did to us. I mean, are we really guilty until proven innocent? That's the way I feel when things like DRM is forced down my throat.
This puts into perspective how little us slashdot readers understand our laws and the DoJ.
Unfortunately, I think we understand these things better than the average citizen.
How do you recommend we educate the public about all these laws they are supposed to obey? Or do you only recommend prosecution for infringement?
Does freedom mean we are free to spend the rest of our lives trying to read and understand the laws of the land so we don't break them and lose our freedom?
Well, they laid off all my coworkers, over 2500 people, but I got this really neat yogo class in the mornings. It clears my mind so well I don't even think about the brutal beatings for falling out of line anymore. I love my job.
Just watch for InterTrust's board of execs to start selling stock any day now. Can't wait 'til they start offering new licenses for Windows. I just might pick up a few if they give me a good discount.
Isn't this great? I didn't understand what everyone meant about all the oportunity here in America until I saw that just about anyone can claim ownership of any property, even Linux and Windows, just by leveraging the legal system.
If they put these commercials right behind the FBI warning on those VHS tapes and DVDs and didn't let you fast-forward through them, I bet that would deter all those scurvy pirates.
Surely you can do everything in C that you can do in Perl?
That's it right there. Of course you can do everything in C that I can do in Perl. But I cannot. Because I'm lazy.
I don't program for money, I program to get something done, usually to process data. So I could really care less about how the syntax of the language looks and more about how long it takes me to hash out an algorithm.
I'm sure one day I'll be able to write C like I do Perl.
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I'd love to find a list of all the companies and how they have screwed people over so I could link to that URL everytime I hear how good Microsoft is just because they're profitable.
Its like those people on that invisible planet in that episode of Star Trek:NG. None of them knew how their machines worked, they just knew that it would take care of them.
Capitalists don't care about the widgets they make, they are only concerned with profits. This is a serious problem that is only going to get worse until we all stop and take a step back to look at the bigger picture. What are we doing all of this for anyway? What's the point in all of this? To get rich? Or to make a product? OR to build whatever it is we all want and need and make sure we're all taken care of? That last one probably falls more along the lines of communism, though.
I AM outraged. News coverage should be unbiased, don't you think? Or else perhaps it shouldn't be called the news. Maybe, instead, Microsoft's own little world.
The problem is when 30 million dumb Americans watch that News channel every day for months and vote the way Microsoft tells them to vote, or buy the way Microsoft tells them to buy. And this becomes a problem when you have a few of these competing "news" organizations delivering to the public what they agree is newsworthy and profitable. The public gets censored as a result, and not in a good way.
What happened with the War on Terrorism? Iraq became a terrorist because of the lack of an oposing viewpoint saying they were complying with weapons inspectors and that they didn't have WMD to begin with. How easily something so suttle can turn into an atrocity.
So what you are saying is there's nothing wrong with Monopolies?
don't you think one minute any other company in their shoes would have acted differently, including the envious Sun and over zealous Oracle.
Sometimes I'd like to think RedHat would have acted differently.
Sure Microsoft gives to charity and helps people. But they made their billions by draining it from the US IT economy. Please tell me you haven't forgotten that already..
dvd's are vastly more copy-protected than vhs, and they were adopted - for very good reasons
Yeah, they're easier to copy.
I think GNU and the FSF threaten the current state of the patent system and the concept of cross-licensing in general. Capitalists are so inefficient. OSS just shows the masses an alternative. Its like taking out the middle man, only in this case, the middle man is lawyers, store owners, merchants, CEOs, Marketting departments, etc. Just about everyone besides the developers themselves.
So naturally everyone loves/hates it.
Are you sure its not frozen Carbon Dioxide?
Maybe its a secret Iraqi base holding all the WMD.
GOD BLESS YOU!!!
So I just throw things around.
But I thought the reason they switched to anything was because the price/performance ratio. Does a G5 beat the price/performance ratio of a P4 or Athlon based system? It beats the performance, but in a few months we'll see how it stacks up against an AMD64 chip or maybe even the Itanium2, both of which I'd expect to perform better than a G5. But I haven't even seen a G5 yet, so who knows.
Or download music you already paid for.
There can't be anything illegal about downloading an mp3 for a song you already purchased..
What's wrong with downloading legal music from the p2p networks? Or are they limitted to only illegal copyrighted material?
It will if we can find some farmers willing to work for free, and some land.
See, having a few dollar bills won't put food on the table either, if there isn't any food to purchase at the grocery market. Money doesn't make food. Food costs time and physical labor and sunlight and land and many things that have absolutely nothing to do with money.
Money is just a reciept for the time we spent performing labor. And its just an excuse to force people to work long hours doing repetitive tasks for food and shelter. Most of those tasks could be automated by machines, if we were creative enough to think about things more important than money.
Its almost like common sense, only its not very common.
As simple as these things may seem to us they are not so simple to someone who lives their life not caring about how any of these things gets handled, or even worse, caring about making money or helping corporations make money at any cost.
When you put a mob of people in charge of something like the FCC, FBI, CIA, etc. When things get all fucked up who do they blame? Noone. Or certainly not themselves. The public's solution? Create another department of government to solve all our problems.
Microsoft wrote the software we use for our information infrustracture. What do you recommend we do?
What does the media recommend we do?
Who listens to you?
The problem is much bigger than you think. Its human nature and capitalism. Its global. And its not going away without a fight.
But think of this like a business man. How much money did they save?
The bottom line has always been the only thing that matters. Now the bottom line is about all we have left.
I got a better idea.
How 'bout we just work for free?
So basicly the monopoly-like ownership of the music industry agrees, DRM is a good thing for profits.
But I'm left wondering how they are going to make a profit if nobody ever wants to buy another one of their CDs because of what they did to us. I mean, are we really guilty until proven innocent? That's the way I feel when things like DRM is forced down my throat.
This puts into perspective how little us slashdot readers understand our laws and the DoJ.
Unfortunately, I think we understand these things better than the average citizen.
How do you recommend we educate the public about all these laws they are supposed to obey? Or do you only recommend prosecution for infringement?
Does freedom mean we are free to spend the rest of our lives trying to read and understand the laws of the land so we don't break them and lose our freedom?
Well, looks like SCO can get away with it..
Well, they laid off all my coworkers, over 2500 people, but I got this really neat yogo class in the mornings. It clears my mind so well I don't even think about the brutal beatings for falling out of line anymore. I love my job.
When the walls of Intellectual Property come crashing down on you.
:)
Perhaps we would have been better off without copyright. Who knows.
All I can say is we're certainly fucked now.
Deal with it.
Just watch for InterTrust's board of execs to start selling stock any day now. Can't wait 'til they start offering new licenses for Windows. I just might pick up a few if they give me a good discount.
:)
Isn't this great? I didn't understand what everyone meant about all the oportunity here in America until I saw that just about anyone can claim ownership of any property, even Linux and Windows, just by leveraging the legal system.
I'll never have to work another day in my life.
Yeah, I don't get it.
Why are monopolies so evil?
Why did this happen?
Because all the GNU software Microsoft is in direct competition with.
Thank you GNU! You're #2!
If they put these commercials right behind the FBI warning on those VHS tapes and DVDs and didn't let you fast-forward through them, I bet that would deter all those scurvy pirates.
Surely you can do everything in C that you can do in Perl?
That's it right there. Of course you can do everything in C that I can do in Perl. But I cannot. Because I'm lazy.
I don't program for money, I program to get something done, usually to process data. So I could really care less about how the syntax of the language looks and more about how long it takes me to hash out an algorithm.
I'm sure one day I'll be able to write C like I do Perl.