> But when one CD costs me 3 hours of work (at minimum wage, for us "middle class teens") it's easier to spend an hour looking for a good quality rip.
And when a Z6 costs me a year and a half's salary, does this justify me spending an hour looking for a good quality Z6 (for me to) rip (off)? Kudos for rationalizing your theft, but don't bullshit yourself into thinking you're some kind of freedom fighter because you're stealing. I don't agree with IP/copyright laws in their current state (you may not but it's more likely that it's just convenient to say you don't and hedge your justification) but it's still theft. And what's with decrying the $16+ for 9 song pop CDs? CDs are easy to find cheaper (christ... I can walk into a Best Buy and find plenty of fine CDs for $10-$12) than the exorbitant rates some places charge and if people want to buy overpriced crap, let them. Are you one of those folks buying tripe? You're still a consumer, just not a paying one.
...then this sort of a step forward, but are we locking up shopkeepers who sell/rent R-rated movies, porno mags or CDs with naughty words in them to minors? If they can present some solid evidence that there's more than merely a perceived relationship between video games and violence in minors, then I've no problem with this bill. Otherwise, I'll be jaded and rhetorically ask if it's an election year and remind parents that if they're scared that their kids can't tell the difference between a video game and real life, they've got bigger problems than Doom III (coming soon) to worry about.
Google listing scientology sites ostensibly means they'll get sued and lose money in the process. Microsoft listing Real Audio links means their users will have to go through the agony of installing that godawful media player and possibly fricking up their systems, causing someone along the lines lost money and time trying to get that parasite off the machine. Worst-case (and you're grasping at straws here if you believe it) is that MS' _free_ media player is losing mindshare to Real's buggy, crash-happy, costly media player, which somehow translates into, uh. Lost revenue for Real in the same way that delisting scientology sites on Google translates into lost money for scientology? Either that or shame on Microsoft for not advertising its competition.
> We may not all be Flash lovers, but is it right to take a good product away from so many people who really do like it just because another company's product isn't taking over the market like they hoped it would?
And what percentage of the folks here are against the states' continued haranguing of Microsoft just because Linux hasn't blown up the spot like they'd hoped? Who wants to see Netscape win out over MS/IE in court just because they put out the inferior browser? Build a better mousetrap and the schmuck who failed to keep up will just lawyer up. God bless America.
What do you want to know? They're bulky, they move quickly (10+ MPH) and they weigh 80 pounds. You do the math. There's a good reason that bicycles and skateboards aren't allowed on a goodly portion of sidewalks: they move at a different rate than your average walker.
This is little more than a journalist's self-fulfilling prophecy. You get disinterested parties (the CIA isn't exactly it) saying that there's something big brewing, then you've got a story I'll listen to. Coming from a journalist on a slow newsday or a law organization that isn't a shining beacon of all that is good and great with democracy, however...
It's bad enough that the RIAA wants to watch who's listening to what and where and how. It's bad enough that the MPAA wants to make sure you don't watch DVDs in the wrong country on the wrong brand of TV. It's horrible that they've bought enough senators to have their way with us, but it's fucking untenable that what we read can be subpeoaned and used against us. Reading, music and movies are all unsafe at any speed. Let me know if you find a hobby I can enjoy without feeling someone's eyes on my back.
Quoting the CNet article referenced in that link... The move was not unexpected. Dell executives have suggested that the operating system has more potential for workstations and servers. The desktop decision was largely a financial one, influenced by the slow PC market, said Dell spokesman David Graves. [...] Analysts seemed unsurprised by the move. "Linux has held a very small portion of the market" for desktop PCs, said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of systems software research at IDC. Until someone from Dell testifies that "we dropped Linux support because Microsoft pressured us to do so and not because it simply wasn't selling" don't go putting words in other peoples' mouths.
And if they claim they're system files?
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It's a slippery slope you're walking into. Depending on how they argue it, updating system files (that other programs haven't been compiled against) and _inadvertently_ breaking them (as opposed to intentionally doing so as in this case) would be cause for a lawsuit. Plenty of Windows programmers (and those of us bit in the ass by Gnome/KDE version fuckups) have mused at one point or another that DLL Hell should be a crime, but I doubt anyone ever took it seriously.
> Turns out that the JVM AOL Mail uses is incompatible with just about every other JVM.
Sounds like a monopolistic, anti-competitive practice to me if I've ever heard of one.
But how true to the games is it?
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Most importantly, I'm wondering if the characters (players?) in the movie can step side-to-side or if they've stayed true to the RE series and made them all move like tanks (turning on their axes). So which is it?
Let's not forget that they were way ahead of the curve on that breaking news story that was Blacklight Power. I'd link to Blacklight's website, but last I checked it was down, and hadn't been updated since 1999, which struck me as odd considering the millions of dollars of funding and promises of a product demonstration in early 2000. Which is to say take their article with the requisite grain of NaCl.
"Your honor, we publically stated that we cut them off for non-payment but the _real_ reason we terminated their feed into our systems is because they refused to respect the rights of copyright holders. And doggone it, we just can't abide by that!" See also: AOL vs. Aimster...
"We're not selling content, we're selling a community." - generic dot com talking head, 1998. OSDN doesn't care about you, they care that they can say "our community is so popular that X members were willing to pay $5 apiece to get 1000 pageviews without ads on them". Revise the demographic, revise the ad rates for the rest of the site, still charge the suckers money. Spare me the finger-wagging about TANSTAAFL and the sanctimonious bullshit about never getting a good thing for free and tell me how much you paid for your copy of Debian which you supposedly run on your machine which is inevitably (80%+ of the time here) actually a Windows machine. You're improving the demographics of a site devoid of editorial contribution past green-lighting inflammatory subject matter and linking stale material that you can get elsewhere.
Nice idea as long as your clients know what they've got on them and are willing to monitor the leech's connections 24/7 to make sure no one's retrofit them with a malicious payload, which is to say they aren't, which is to say I'm about as gung-ho to see these out in the wild as I am Magic Lantern.
When I was working helldesk and had to travel between job sites, I had to use the company beater, when a Lamborghini Diablo would have gotten me there way faster. In a world with unlimited money, we could have unlimited toys. In the real world, we sometimes have to use cheap, simple equipment because we're in harsh industrial climates and you need to either be able to cheaply repair or replace shit. Is an $8000 Segway really that much better than an $80 3-wheeled bike?
Not because Microsoft's giving so much (I'm more worried about movie/record/media lobbies), but because OpenSecrets.org only has Microsoft down for contributing $1,167,162. If they really contributed $6 million, that's $4.8-ish million that opensecrets.org couldn't keep track of, and if they're losing that much with MS, I can only shudder to think how much more other companies might be contributing.
...and statistics coming from a not-even-remotely-detached source.
Don't feel like calling into question the verity of the methodology employed in a survey of open source developers by a open source company; it's obviously as trustworthy as a survey of databases as performed/sponsored by Oracle.
I'm not even sure what a sweeping generalization like this proves other than some of us really like to program.
I mean, how dare the guy develop useful open-source products and tools using a modern, cohesive framework that's en route to becoming an ECMA standard? All open-source programmers should stick to cryptic/buggy libraries or stop making open source projects. Because just because you're open source doesn't mean you can do whatever you want, right?
Microsoft, after all, was the one who designed their own implementation of this framework and they're a big monopoly that makes products that people want and use so no one in the open source world should work with them.
Also, Bill Gates has a nose so Miguel should cut his off right now to spite him. That'll show 'em all!
The bit about how Oracle may have an antitrust suit on their hands because MS is making the filesystem a front-end for a database. Uh. Doesn't RedHat ship with a database? So are Oracle's lawyers knocking on RH's doors?
Good to know that barratry is the solution for all your (potentially) obsoleted business. Just ask the RIAA...
If you're not in the know, Real and TiVo are in bed with one another which struck me as odd seeing as how Real isn't exactly known for being a champion of the Linux cause and that's TiVo's blood 'n guts.
At any rate, I'm glad to see that non-standard, non-open digital "rights" management fomats are no longer solely the domain of Windows *cough* WMA/V *cough*.
...was if they were powered by Blacklight Power. If you're not in the know, they're a "power company" run by a "scientist" who claimed that he had been able to reproduce something that sounded suspiciously like cold fusion in his Princeton, NJ-area laboratories. The Village Voice ran a story on them (where I read about these jokers) and a whole slew of investors were lined up (in the heady days a few months before the dot-com bubble popped) and last I checked, they still haven't actually, you know. Produced what they said they would two years ago (power).
If you've got a slow afternoon, take a gander at what physicists have to say about Blacklight...
...if you're one of the people who were screaming bloody murder because Gracenote had the _audacity_ to try and sell the album/song titles that you spent half an hour entering into their system, maybe you can understand Lars et. al. screaming bloody murder because Napster was trying to make a quick IPO selling (in a roundabout way) the albums/songs that they spent half a year writing and recording.
Food for thought or what you will.
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> But when one CD costs me 3 hours of work (at minimum wage, for us "middle class teens") it's easier to spend an hour looking for a good quality rip.
And when a Z6 costs me a year and a half's salary, does this justify me spending an hour looking for a good quality Z6 (for me to) rip (off)?
Kudos for rationalizing your theft, but don't bullshit yourself into thinking you're some kind of freedom fighter because you're stealing. I don't agree with IP/copyright laws in their current state (you may not but it's more likely that it's just convenient to say you don't and hedge your justification) but it's still theft.
And what's with decrying the $16+ for 9 song pop CDs? CDs are easy to find cheaper (christ... I can walk into a Best Buy and find plenty of fine CDs for $10-$12) than the exorbitant rates some places charge and if people want to buy overpriced crap, let them. Are you one of those folks buying tripe?
You're still a consumer, just not a paying one.
...then this sort of a step forward, but are we locking up shopkeepers who sell/rent R-rated movies, porno mags or CDs with naughty words in them to minors?
If they can present some solid evidence that there's more than merely a perceived relationship between video games and violence in minors, then I've no problem with this bill. Otherwise, I'll be jaded and rhetorically ask if it's an election year and remind parents that if they're scared that their kids can't tell the difference between a video game and real life, they've got bigger problems than Doom III (coming soon) to worry about.
Google listing scientology sites ostensibly means they'll get sued and lose money in the process.
Microsoft listing Real Audio links means their users will have to go through the agony of installing that godawful media player and possibly fricking up their systems, causing someone along the lines lost money and time trying to get that parasite off the machine. Worst-case (and you're grasping at straws here if you believe it) is that MS' _free_ media player is losing mindshare to Real's buggy, crash-happy, costly media player, which somehow translates into, uh. Lost revenue for Real in the same way that delisting scientology sites on Google translates into lost money for scientology?
Either that or shame on Microsoft for not advertising its competition.
> We may not all be Flash lovers, but is it right to take a good product away from so many people who really do like it just because another company's product isn't taking over the market like they hoped it would?
And what percentage of the folks here are against the states' continued haranguing of Microsoft just because Linux hasn't blown up the spot like they'd hoped? Who wants to see Netscape win out over MS/IE in court just because they put out the inferior browser?
Build a better mousetrap and the schmuck who failed to keep up will just lawyer up. God bless America.
What do you want to know? They're bulky, they move quickly (10+ MPH) and they weigh 80 pounds. You do the math.
There's a good reason that bicycles and skateboards aren't allowed on a goodly portion of sidewalks: they move at a different rate than your average walker.
This is little more than a journalist's self-fulfilling prophecy. You get disinterested parties (the CIA isn't exactly it) saying that there's something big brewing, then you've got a story I'll listen to. Coming from a journalist on a slow newsday or a law organization that isn't a shining beacon of all that is good and great with democracy, however...
It's bad enough that the RIAA wants to watch who's listening to what and where and how. It's bad enough that the MPAA wants to make sure you don't watch DVDs in the wrong country on the wrong brand of TV. It's horrible that they've bought enough senators to have their way with us, but it's fucking untenable that what we read can be subpeoaned and used against us.
Reading, music and movies are all unsafe at any speed. Let me know if you find a hobby I can enjoy without feeling someone's eyes on my back.
Enough already. Please. It wasn't funny the first 30 times.
Quoting the CNet article referenced in that link...
The move was not unexpected. Dell executives have suggested that the operating system has more potential for workstations and servers. The desktop decision was largely a financial one, influenced by the slow PC market, said Dell spokesman David Graves.
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Analysts seemed unsurprised by the move. "Linux has held a very small portion of the market" for desktop PCs, said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of systems software research at IDC.
Until someone from Dell testifies that "we dropped Linux support because Microsoft pressured us to do so and not because it simply wasn't selling" don't go putting words in other peoples' mouths.
It's a slippery slope you're walking into. Depending on how they argue it, updating system files (that other programs haven't been compiled against) and _inadvertently_ breaking them (as opposed to intentionally doing so as in this case) would be cause for a lawsuit.
Plenty of Windows programmers (and those of us bit in the ass by Gnome/KDE version fuckups) have mused at one point or another that DLL Hell should be a crime, but I doubt anyone ever took it seriously.
> Turns out that the JVM AOL Mail uses is incompatible with just about every other JVM.
Sounds like a monopolistic, anti-competitive practice to me if I've ever heard of one.
Most importantly, I'm wondering if the characters (players?) in the movie can step side-to-side or if they've stayed true to the RE series and made them all move like tanks (turning on their axes). So which is it?
Let's not forget that they were way ahead of the curve on that breaking news story that was Blacklight Power. I'd link to Blacklight's website, but last I checked it was down, and hadn't been updated since 1999, which struck me as odd considering the millions of dollars of funding and promises of a product demonstration in early 2000.
Which is to say take their article with the requisite grain of NaCl.
"Your honor, we publically stated that we cut them off for non-payment but the _real_ reason we terminated their feed into our systems is because they refused to respect the rights of copyright holders. And doggone it, we just can't abide by that!"
See also: AOL vs. Aimster...
You know. Autechre and Boards of Canada and all them lovely folks.
"We're not selling content, we're selling a community." - generic dot com talking head, 1998.
OSDN doesn't care about you, they care that they can say "our community is so popular that X members were willing to pay $5 apiece to get 1000 pageviews without ads on them". Revise the demographic, revise the ad rates for the rest of the site, still charge the suckers money.
Spare me the finger-wagging about TANSTAAFL and the sanctimonious bullshit about never getting a good thing for free and tell me how much you paid for your copy of Debian which you supposedly run on your machine which is inevitably (80%+ of the time here) actually a Windows machine. You're improving the demographics of a site devoid of editorial contribution past green-lighting inflammatory subject matter and linking stale material that you can get elsewhere.
Nice idea as long as your clients know what they've got on them and are willing to monitor the leech's connections 24/7 to make sure no one's retrofit them with a malicious payload, which is to say they aren't, which is to say I'm about as gung-ho to see these out in the wild as I am Magic Lantern.
When I was working helldesk and had to travel between job sites, I had to use the company beater, when a Lamborghini Diablo would have gotten me there way faster.
In a world with unlimited money, we could have unlimited toys. In the real world, we sometimes have to use cheap, simple equipment because we're in harsh industrial climates and you need to either be able to cheaply repair or replace shit. Is an $8000 Segway really that much better than an $80 3-wheeled bike?
Not because Microsoft's giving so much (I'm more worried about movie/record/media lobbies), but because OpenSecrets.org only has Microsoft down for contributing $1,167,162. If they really contributed $6 million, that's $4.8-ish million that opensecrets.org couldn't keep track of, and if they're losing that much with MS, I can only shudder to think how much more other companies might be contributing.
...and statistics coming from a not-even-remotely-detached source.
Don't feel like calling into question the verity of the methodology employed in a survey of open source developers by a open source company; it's obviously as trustworthy as a survey of databases as performed/sponsored by Oracle.
I'm not even sure what a sweeping generalization like this proves other than some of us really like to program.
I mean, how dare the guy develop useful open-source products and tools using a modern, cohesive framework that's en route to becoming an ECMA standard? All open-source programmers should stick to cryptic/buggy libraries or stop making open source projects. Because just because you're open source doesn't mean you can do whatever you want, right?
Microsoft, after all, was the one who designed their own implementation of this framework and they're a big monopoly that makes products that people want and use so no one in the open source world should work with them.
Also, Bill Gates has a nose so Miguel should cut his off right now to spite him. That'll show 'em all!
The bit about how Oracle may have an antitrust suit on their hands because MS is making the filesystem a front-end for a database. Uh. Doesn't RedHat ship with a database? So are Oracle's lawyers knocking on RH's doors?
Good to know that barratry is the solution for all your (potentially) obsoleted business. Just ask the RIAA...
If you're not in the know, Real and TiVo are in bed with one another which struck me as odd seeing as how Real isn't exactly known for being a champion of the Linux cause and that's TiVo's blood 'n guts.
At any rate, I'm glad to see that non-standard, non-open digital "rights" management fomats are no longer solely the domain of Windows *cough* WMA/V *cough*.
...was if they were powered by Blacklight Power. If you're not in the know, they're a "power company" run by a "scientist" who claimed that he had been able to reproduce something that sounded suspiciously like cold fusion in his Princeton, NJ-area laboratories. The Village Voice ran a story on them (where I read about these jokers) and a whole slew of investors were lined up (in the heady days a few months before the dot-com bubble popped) and last I checked, they still haven't actually, you know. Produced what they said they would two years ago (power).
If you've got a slow afternoon, take a gander at what physicists have to say about Blacklight...
...if you're one of the people who were screaming bloody murder because Gracenote had the _audacity_ to try and sell the album/song titles that you spent half an hour entering into their system, maybe you can understand Lars et. al. screaming bloody murder because Napster was trying to make a quick IPO selling (in a roundabout way) the albums/songs that they spent half a year writing and recording.
Food for thought or what you will.