No matter what the real impact is, the demonization has been in ful force for years. that cannot be easily undone.
As a wise marketing/business teacher told me once, the masses are the asses, they follow the loudest megaphone.
Nothing new under the sun.
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"Podcasting" is quite possibly the greatest marketing scam on the net. Live-to-tape style shows have been availible for DL I am not talking lasy year, I am talking last decade.
Back then, the content was better too because not every 12 year old had one.
Consumers seem like mind numbed robots for the most part, I understand that the music industry has the right to control the distrobution of their property, however, they have a total monopoly and are abusing it and the end users dont give a care.
the industry bullies tech companies (who oddly enough make as much money in a day as the RIAA makes in a week) and keeps down and/or lockes any new tech innovations and somehoe gets to dictate exactly how they work.
The RIAA could litteraly stop all analog radio, CD sales, net streaming, napser, itunes and so on, and offer a propriatery DRM as the ONLY way to get music, and the consumers would just take it accept for the 2% that go rouge, one of which will get a 60 minutes interview from prison just to scare the rest.
We have NO power as long as consumers continue to suck the Industry conglomerates' collective tits, and as long as they are the only place to get the milk...
At the community college I attend, we are made to take a little of every thing that is offerd as far as CIS goes, databasers take server managment, networking, and programming cources and so on. it is a lot better that way, becfause the student is open to more jobs (i.e. A student specializing in PC repair, should know how to deploy a basic server or load a config onto a router.) Most small to medeum sized business have one or maybe a few IT guys, but they all do a little of everything.
If the kid is so fucking addicted to a game, why didnt the parents pull the fucking plug?!?!?!?!?
I dont know about you but if I didnt do my homework, clean my room, take the garbage out and so on, Mom would like clock work un plug the Nintendo...Have parents lost their authority?
I beleve that P2P DLing of copyright works without permittion is wrong, but the record companies make it harfer to "just say no!" every day.
I want high quality, which the online music stores do not provide (128k WMA and AAC SUCK for a serious music fan with even marginaly good equipment)
I want the ability to easily copy the music! I should be able to rip it to MP3 ort ogg for listening on a HTPC or iPod, or Dell DJ or an mp3 cell phone...
Now as I shop for CDs I will always wonder in the back of my mind, "does t6his have spy/scumware? a virus? a rootkit? what does "enhanced" mean? would I be safer DLing a 320k MP3 from (insert P2P of choice here)?"
I have been raised arround computers, and found all of the computer classes under say 200 useless and a waste of time...that is 1 year of computer classes covering, for example, the differance between HDD and ram, workstations from servers, dot-matrix v laser printingand so on...I surfed because I was sick and tierd of being the guy who constantly answer the "what does that mean? " questions as the teacher lectured...so I LOOKED like I didnt give a shit...I cared, did the woork and did good, but I surfed, bothering no one...
Dont make me waste time and money in bullshit classes (many of which I COULD HAVE tested out of if someone woulda cared enough to tell me we could as an incoming freshman...) and I will not surf.
I dont surf in my Unix administration class because I AM LEARNING something that is also INTERESTING!
What if I block the domain feeding the ads in the hosts file??? is the hosts file going to be locked? will the ad app overlook the hosts file, or maybe look at a differant one?
Then there are routers: say I block this at the router, am I breaking the DMCA? an I violating the EULA? will microsoft know? if so how? what if I block that too? and if they do catch me, what can they do? I have the right to block any domain I want in my private network with no explanation to outsiders......
Can any company control how the product is used after purchase? Cisco isnt liable here for the same reasons gun companies arent liable in murder cases, there is a huge amount of legal network activity that Cisco enables, china is the bad apple here.
I can't wait untill these fuckers try to enforcfe this on some 12 year old after his/her home burns down. I can see the headlines now: "Youngster looses everything in fire; Media companies say (s)he must now erase ipod and laptop backups of her music."
If you think the rootkit caused a backlash, just wait.
At work (a small college), we are concidering giving out OpenOffice to students who cant afford MS office Student/teacher since we dont have a campus agreement with MS, Training for end users is the only area where we see weakness in OOo, These videos could really help, can they be redistributed? A lot of students usde dial up so for us it would be better to put them on the CD or maybe have a DVD that they could borrow.
Many of the common bariors of entry are gone on the net, what he is saying is that any 12 year old with an idea can suddenly be a major software companies worst nightmere for example. He speaks drom an innocvation standpoint
While social speech is more vibrant on the net, and there are those who want to control it, it is no differant than the tug-of-war over cival liberties faced in the real world every day. As is often said here: Nothing to dee, please move along.
As criminals use the net, the law enforcement does need to keep up, I am concerned about possible oversteps, as any citezen should be, but any power granted to step over the line on line would also be applicible in the real world too (If the FBI has permittion to hack your server, they can and may search your home too.)
As to the porn thing, you are right, some people who have hijacked part of conservatisum (FallWell, I am looking you dead in the eye) want a return to puritanisum, but it will not happen -- these people have been fighting and loosing this battle long before internet came about. EXAMPLE: Kroger (a major grocery chain around here) now covers cosmopolitan magazine because a few people found the hotties on the front offencive.
Whatt is real is becoming digital no more no less.
Everyone has a bad day or off moment, happyness shouldnt be requiered!
We have all had one BITCH of a co worker at one point or another, you just learn how to deal with/ignore the person, and if their whining is hurting their proformance, they get let go for under preformance.
I am normally a chearfull person, but I have my down moments, If I happen to be a little grauggy, or, in a moment of utter frustration, froun and maybe grumble I can now be FIRED!!! WHAT THE FUCK?
NO! the abuse of ptents is evil, and Google has yet to do this, they are just defending themselves in the arms race against ass-hats like Bezose and Gates, who patented the single and double clicks respectively, and other such loonicy.
Google has yet to cross thhe line, untill they do, I will respect them -- HELL, if they havent abused teir power by now, why would they start?
This is a move to try and stop the "home brew tv" industry. Personal cams were fine when they shot crappy quality, but now that truly creative people can have a setup that can pull off anything the big boys can do for under 10 grand...they are shitting their pants...now that vic-xasts on places like itunes ate taking off with out them as the middle man, they are shitting their pants...in general this is a final move, proving cowardis, and shame of their content, knowing that now they can be upstaged by kids in a garage with a powermac and a HDV Cam so they are looking for revinew by threatening the companies that make the stuff.
to the game companies to use this scheme because people who would pay 10$ per month to play a game in the first place are obviously gullible / dumb enough to pay full price for the client too -- makin' money on both ends baby! welcome tyh the EA world of gaming.
THis show alone could make a shit load of cash! I am talking 50000 DLs per day -- think aboiut it, there are cable channels that show it like 12 hrs per day (sadly those are the 12 hours I am at work and class)
Also, they could offer both the American and forgin versions, in the UK the show is exactly the same just without the laugh track (acording to a friend who lives there)...this would be an amazing thing if I could buy the whole seriese sands canned laugh.
1: Bandwidth, it takes a lot of network to pull a CD image accross a LAN if you are deploying, say a new version of Office on a network, divide the lan speed by ~200 and that is a good average measurment of "cloud" speed (the speed at which your network head end talks to that of Microsoft or whoever over the public internetwork) and I doubt that the prices of OC3s will fall anytime soon.
2: Lack of access: It it bad enough NOW when the fiber between your small-to-medium size community from the backbone is cut, now imagine that on top of missing the important conferance call because the t-1 for the phones is down, you cant even type out the reports you need to do in Word! this would cause the business world to converge on redond with pitchforks in hand (when the managers realise that it isnt the techies fault)
3: Common logic: "We only pay for computers once, why should we pay for software 3-5 times over the 3-5 year lifecycle"
4: Road warrior -- Broadband isnt everywhere yet -- 'nuff said
5: Security concious people do not ever want their secure documents touching a server they dont controll -- even if it is "just" a temp cache.
They are scared of this for the dame reason the movie studios are scared of torrents, not because everyone will pirate, but because people can know going in if a film/alblum/book is good or a total peice of shit.
If I buy a new gadget and discover that it fails to meet my needs or expectations, I can return it, not so with books movies or music, If I cant return something, then you better beleave that I am going to be damn sure that I know what I am getting when I purtchase it.
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As a wise marketing/business teacher told me once, the masses are the asses, they follow the loudest megaphone.
Back then, the content was better too because not every 12 year old had one.
the industry bullies tech companies (who oddly enough make as much money in a day as the RIAA makes in a week) and keeps down and/or lockes any new tech innovations and somehoe gets to dictate exactly how they work.
The RIAA could litteraly stop all analog radio, CD sales, net streaming, napser, itunes and so on, and offer a propriatery DRM as the ONLY way to get music, and the consumers would just take it accept for the 2% that go rouge, one of which will get a 60 minutes interview from prison just to scare the rest.
We have NO power as long as consumers continue to suck the Industry conglomerates' collective tits, and as long as they are the only place to get the milk...
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case (radio 1)
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rince and repeat for every candidate/position.
If this cant be open, they are hiding something.
At the community college I attend, we are made to take a little of every thing that is offerd as far as CIS goes, databasers take server managment, networking, and programming cources and so on. it is a lot better that way, becfause the student is open to more jobs (i.e. A student specializing in PC repair, should know how to deploy a basic server or load a config onto a router.) Most small to medeum sized business have one or maybe a few IT guys, but they all do a little of everything.
I dont know about you but if I didnt do my homework, clean my room, take the garbage out and so on, Mom would like clock work un plug the Nintendo...Have parents lost their authority?
Cars are complex, but McDonnalds doesnt put a tracking device in rthe ignition system while I am buying a bigmac.
I want high quality, which the online music stores do not provide (128k WMA and AAC SUCK for a serious music fan with even marginaly good equipment)
I want the ability to easily copy the music! I should be able to rip it to MP3 ort ogg for listening on a HTPC or iPod, or Dell DJ or an mp3 cell phone...
Now as I shop for CDs I will always wonder in the back of my mind, "does t6his have spy/scumware? a virus? a rootkit? what does "enhanced" mean? would I be safer DLing a 320k MP3 from (insert P2P of choice here)?"
Dont make me waste time and money in bullshit classes (many of which I COULD HAVE tested out of if someone woulda cared enough to tell me we could as an incoming freshman...) and I will not surf.
I dont surf in my Unix administration class because I AM LEARNING something that is also INTERESTING!
Then there are routers: say I block this at the router, am I breaking the DMCA? an I violating the EULA? will microsoft know? if so how? what if I block that too? and if they do catch me, what can they do? I have the right to block any domain I want in my private network with no explanation to outsiders......
NEVER GONNA WORK
Yahoo handles content, the routers just pass bits
If you think the rootkit caused a backlash, just wait.
At work (a small college), we are concidering giving out OpenOffice to students who cant afford MS office Student/teacher since we dont have a campus agreement with MS, Training for end users is the only area where we see weakness in OOo, These videos could really help, can they be redistributed? A lot of students usde dial up so for us it would be better to put them on the CD or maybe have a DVD that they could borrow.
While social speech is more vibrant on the net, and there are those who want to control it, it is no differant than the tug-of-war over cival liberties faced in the real world every day. As is often said here: Nothing to dee, please move along.
As criminals use the net, the law enforcement does need to keep up, I am concerned about possible oversteps, as any citezen should be, but any power granted to step over the line on line would also be applicible in the real world too (If the FBI has permittion to hack your server, they can and may search your home too.)
As to the porn thing, you are right, some people who have hijacked part of conservatisum (FallWell, I am looking you dead in the eye) want a return to puritanisum, but it will not happen -- these people have been fighting and loosing this battle long before internet came about. EXAMPLE: Kroger (a major grocery chain around here) now covers cosmopolitan magazine because a few people found the hotties on the front offencive.
Whatt is real is becoming digital no more no less.
When you break CSS/macrovision, you are modifing the software wrapped arround the content, not the content its self.
We have all had one BITCH of a co worker at one point or another, you just learn how to deal with/ignore the person, and if their whining is hurting their proformance, they get let go for under preformance.
I am normally a chearfull person, but I have my down moments, If I happen to be a little grauggy, or, in a moment of utter frustration, froun and maybe grumble I can now be FIRED!!! WHAT THE FUCK?
NO! the abuse of ptents is evil, and Google has yet to do this, they are just defending themselves in the arms race against ass-hats like Bezose and Gates, who patented the single and double clicks respectively, and other such loonicy. Google has yet to cross thhe line, untill they do, I will respect them -- HELL, if they havent abused teir power by now, why would they start?
This is a move to try and stop the "home brew tv" industry. Personal cams were fine when they shot crappy quality, but now that truly creative people can have a setup that can pull off anything the big boys can do for under 10 grand...they are shitting their pants...now that vic-xasts on places like itunes ate taking off with out them as the middle man, they are shitting their pants...in general this is a final move, proving cowardis, and shame of their content, knowing that now they can be upstaged by kids in a garage with a powermac and a HDV Cam so they are looking for revinew by threatening the companies that make the stuff.
Sorry, it was obligatory
to the game companies to use this scheme because people who would pay 10$ per month to play a game in the first place are obviously gullible / dumb enough to pay full price for the client too -- makin' money on both ends baby! welcome tyh the EA world of gaming.
Also, they could offer both the American and forgin versions, in the UK the show is exactly the same just without the laugh track (acording to a friend who lives there)...this would be an amazing thing if I could buy the whole seriese sands canned laugh.
1: Bandwidth, it takes a lot of network to pull a CD image accross a LAN if you are deploying, say a new version of Office on a network, divide the lan speed by ~200 and that is a good average measurment of "cloud" speed (the speed at which your network head end talks to that of Microsoft or whoever over the public internetwork) and I doubt that the prices of OC3s will fall anytime soon.
2: Lack of access: It it bad enough NOW when the fiber between your small-to-medium size community from the backbone is cut, now imagine that on top of missing the important conferance call because the t-1 for the phones is down, you cant even type out the reports you need to do in Word! this would cause the business world to converge on redond with pitchforks in hand (when the managers realise that it isnt the techies fault)
3: Common logic: "We only pay for computers once, why should we pay for software 3-5 times over the 3-5 year lifecycle"
4: Road warrior -- Broadband isnt everywhere yet -- 'nuff said
5: Security concious people do not ever want their secure documents touching a server they dont controll -- even if it is "just" a temp cache.
If I buy a new gadget and discover that it fails to meet my needs or expectations, I can return it, not so with books movies or music, If I cant return something, then you better beleave that I am going to be damn sure that I know what I am getting when I purtchase it.
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No wonder they made money!