Say a small band builds up a loyal fanbase slowly and then sudden makes it big. They're really popular. Kids think they're cool etc etc.
If they have a concert and the tickets are auctioned, what do you think happens now? Think any of their loyal fans will get in? Hell no. It'd turn concerts into those stupid fucking celebrity parties where rich/popular people go for exposure. Basically it'd turn popular live music into a farce.
Programs that deal with groups of similar types of data? That's fucking inventive that is. This is nothing new, programs like this already exist, and have done for a long while. And with only a few exceptions, they've all managed to piss me off having crappy limited interfaces. I much prefer to use a standard file manager to organise my data, grouping them by folders lets me get to the right things just as quickly, and without having to start a number of different applications for each type of data I'm looking for.
Given that we nerds as a group have next to no power against the dollars Sony could throw against us, I propose something a little different: we egg them on. People who play music on PC are a fringe group really. The average joe music listener is never going to listen to what we say, they'll keep buying music from Sony. So if we crank up the pirating a notch, Sony will squeeze out more and more restrictive DRM crap. The goal is to get it to such an extent that average joe suddenly notices that they can't play their new cds without a net connected Sony player that connects to drm.sony.com each track you play...
While I can understand the need for drm in theory, in practice it should be utterly transparent to the consumer, not pervasive and restricting.
"Of course, Bush sending John "Blow Up the UN" Bolton to head our UN mission makes that even harder."
The people at the UN should have put his office on the top floor really.
This whole blackberry thing smacks of double standards on the part of the US government really.
Why stop at just changing time? That longitude and latitude stuff is so last century. And compasses have too many points on them, lets get rid of some of them...
If the current system was US based and we asked for something international, we'd be seeing page after page of seething bile telling us to fuck off use our own system.
If it's been that way since 1884 I'd say thats a pretty good standard. I wonder how many research places depend on it?
At the end of the day, there might not be a choice at all. What's to stop them forking the code and developing their own binary driver api? If people (and by people I mean businesses) want to use the hardware of these companies, it might become widespread.
Thing of it this way: say google decided to exclude all the books published by the publishers who are complaining. You still have tons of books referenced. Referenced by what is probably the largest search engine in the world. Now, imagine all the students and researchers in the world, trying to write papers, how many of them are likely to hit google at the start of a project looking for books on their subjects? Assuming a percent of these people buy the books suggested by their google searching, my question becomes this: how likely is it those publishing fucktards decide to try and take some legal action against google for excluding them?
If I wanted to scare people first thing I'd do is stage things at night and get rid of as much light as possible. Preferably, outside near trees/bushes etc. Getting people alone is good. Then just add some making rustling noises in said foliage. Or have something like the scream mask slowly sticking out the top of one.
I have an Asus MyPal. I used it back in uni as a media player and for taking notes. With a 256mb flash card I could store more than enough songs for the bus trip there and back. The hand writing recognition stuff meant I could write on the touchscreen with the stylus quite naturally. For those purposes, it was very handy.
Since I left uni, it has sat in a drawer somewhere, unused. I can't think of any use for it. I have a laptop for any real portable computing I do, which isn't much. I have a tiny phone and a small mp3 player. For day to day use, the pda is a little too large.
What I'm saying is why not have just the . top level domain, get rid of the com, org etc stuff. Merge them all into one. Sure, it would mean larger dns lists, but technology has moved on since its original design. And it wouldn't be that bad once isp dns servers start caching...
>The **AA sucks. (+5, Insightful) >>Yes they should all die and their pets should be raped. (+4, Interesting) >Won't someone think of the artists! (+4, Interesting) >> Yes, stealing songs is wrong. (-1, Troll) >>> *five million posts on the correctness of calling it stealing* >>>> Information wants to be free! (+4, Funny) >>>>> *several thousand government/big business conspiracy posts*
And now my ten cents. Music is over priced, yes. And yes, the labels churn out crap, because largely that is what the average person wants, remember, we are not the average consumer. The artists do deserve to make money from their music. The **aa practice sleazy tactics at best. Downloaders often abuse the fair use rights.
So, really, the **aa fuck us over in terms of taking the public domain, and limiting our fair use rights. We fuck them over by sharing what we have with others. Both are wrong. I'd argue that theirs is typically more wrong (don't try and argue that sharing 10,000 mp3s with random people is fair, please) but the real point for me is that they have the power/money to make theirs *legally* right...
Just out of curiousity, do we really need TLDs? If you think about it, most companies just register multiple ones anyway, slashdot.org AND slashdot.com for example. To be honest, I think it just adds confusion for the most part, if somewebsite.com is registered to a well know site, doesn't that make somewebsite.org pretty useless to all but squatters?
The only useful thing I can think of really is to group country specific services,.gov,.gov.uk or whatever. But then they could just register the.uk. or.us. domain and sub-domain...
Naturally on slashdot with a story like this you get a lot of posts presumably by Americans saying 'we built it, if they don't like it fuck off and make your own'. Which is a dangerous thing to say. Because if we do, you'll have American on one internet and the rest of the world on another, and won't this fubar Americas economy? Anyway, if we did build our own, maybe we could improve a bit. Maybe roll out ipv6 for a start...
I wouldn't trust any government body with that much control if I had the choice. But then I don't. Damn democracy.
Does anyone actually believe the politicians arguing for this really know what they are talking about?
Politician: Is it done yet? Why are you firing rockets on on your computer?
Nameserver geek: Oh, see those little guys running around? Those are US servers I have to disconnect. The rockets unplug them.
Politician: Fantastic, when will it be done?
Nameserver geek: Oooh, another three weeks overtime at least.
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Bad, horrible idea.
Say a small band builds up a loyal fanbase slowly and then sudden makes it big. They're really popular. Kids think they're cool etc etc.
If they have a concert and the tickets are auctioned, what do you think happens now? Think any of their loyal fans will get in? Hell no. It'd turn concerts into those stupid fucking celebrity parties where rich/popular people go for exposure. Basically it'd turn popular live music into a farce.
I suppose technically Apple is the one price fixing here ;)
sssshh, don't give them ideas...
Programs that deal with groups of similar types of data? That's fucking inventive that is. This is nothing new, programs like this already exist, and have done for a long while. And with only a few exceptions, they've all managed to piss me off having crappy limited interfaces. I much prefer to use a standard file manager to organise my data, grouping them by folders lets me get to the right things just as quickly, and without having to start a number of different applications for each type of data I'm looking for.
Given that we nerds as a group have next to no power against the dollars Sony could throw against us, I propose something a little different: we egg them on. People who play music on PC are a fringe group really. The average joe music listener is never going to listen to what we say, they'll keep buying music from Sony. So if we crank up the pirating a notch, Sony will squeeze out more and more restrictive DRM crap. The goal is to get it to such an extent that average joe suddenly notices that they can't play their new cds without a net connected Sony player that connects to drm.sony.com each track you play...
While I can understand the need for drm in theory, in practice it should be utterly transparent to the consumer, not pervasive and restricting.
Woo suk hwang? Sounds like the kind of name you find in a dirty limerick...
Doesn't that scenario involve his organs rather than hers?
"Of course, Bush sending John "Blow Up the UN" Bolton to head our UN mission makes that even harder." The people at the UN should have put his office on the top floor really. This whole blackberry thing smacks of double standards on the part of the US government really.
Retrocoder just needs to stick a clause in their eula: you aren't allowed to use this program to check if your program is detected.
This is all going to backfire big time, I can just see it. Eventually someone is going to get a patent like this and try and enforce it.
Why stop at just changing time? That longitude and latitude stuff is so last century. And compasses have too many points on them, lets get rid of some of them...
If the current system was US based and we asked for something international, we'd be seeing page after page of seething bile telling us to fuck off use our own system.
If it's been that way since 1884 I'd say thats a pretty good standard. I wonder how many research places depend on it?
It's more like a tag in a shirt that stops it being worn with different brand trousers.
I have all my old work stored as paintings on cave walls.
At the end of the day, there might not be a choice at all. What's to stop them forking the code and developing their own binary driver api? If people (and by people I mean businesses) want to use the hardware of these companies, it might become widespread.
I really expected a selling uranus joke here...
I'm putting the contents of the rest of the universe up for grabs. It may take me a while to make all the entries on ebay.
She's on the EMI label I believe, rather than Sony BMG.
Thing of it this way: say google decided to exclude all the books published by the publishers who are complaining. You still have tons of books referenced. Referenced by what is probably the largest search engine in the world. Now, imagine all the students and researchers in the world, trying to write papers, how many of them are likely to hit google at the start of a project looking for books on their subjects? Assuming a percent of these people buy the books suggested by their google searching, my question becomes this: how likely is it those publishing fucktards decide to try and take some legal action against google for excluding them?
If I wanted to scare people first thing I'd do is stage things at night and get rid of as much light as possible. Preferably, outside near trees/bushes etc. Getting people alone is good. Then just add some making rustling noises in said foliage. Or have something like the scream mask slowly sticking out the top of one.
I have an Asus MyPal. I used it back in uni as a media player and for taking notes. With a 256mb flash card I could store more than enough songs for the bus trip there and back. The hand writing recognition stuff meant I could write on the touchscreen with the stylus quite naturally. For those purposes, it was very handy.
Since I left uni, it has sat in a drawer somewhere, unused. I can't think of any use for it. I have a laptop for any real portable computing I do, which isn't much. I have a tiny phone and a small mp3 player. For day to day use, the pda is a little too large.
What I'm saying is why not have just the . top level domain, get rid of the com, org etc stuff. Merge them all into one. Sure, it would mean larger dns lists, but technology has moved on since its original design. And it wouldn't be that bad once isp dns servers start caching...
Lets summarise:
>The **AA sucks. (+5, Insightful)
>>Yes they should all die and their pets should be raped. (+4, Interesting)
>Won't someone think of the artists! (+4, Interesting)
>> Yes, stealing songs is wrong. (-1, Troll)
>>> *five million posts on the correctness of calling it stealing*
>>>> Information wants to be free! (+4, Funny)
>>>>> *several thousand government/big business conspiracy posts*
And now my ten cents. Music is over priced, yes. And yes, the labels churn out crap, because largely that is what the average person wants, remember, we are not the average consumer. The artists do deserve to make money from their music. The **aa practice sleazy tactics at best. Downloaders often abuse the fair use rights.
So, really, the **aa fuck us over in terms of taking the public domain, and limiting our fair use rights. We fuck them over by sharing what we have with others. Both are wrong. I'd argue that theirs is typically more wrong (don't try and argue that sharing 10,000 mp3s with random people is fair, please) but the real point for me is that they have the power/money to make theirs *legally* right...
Just out of curiousity, do we really need TLDs? If you think about it, most companies just register multiple ones anyway, slashdot.org AND slashdot.com for example. To be honest, I think it just adds confusion for the most part, if somewebsite.com is registered to a well know site, doesn't that make somewebsite.org pretty useless to all but squatters?
.gov, .gov.uk or whatever. But then they could just register the .uk. or .us. domain and sub-domain...
The only useful thing I can think of really is to group country specific services,
Naturally on slashdot with a story like this you get a lot of posts presumably by Americans saying 'we built it, if they don't like it fuck off and make your own'. Which is a dangerous thing to say. Because if we do, you'll have American on one internet and the rest of the world on another, and won't this fubar Americas economy? Anyway, if we did build our own, maybe we could improve a bit. Maybe roll out ipv6 for a start...
I wouldn't trust any government body with that much control if I had the choice. But then I don't. Damn democracy.
Does anyone actually believe the politicians arguing for this really know what they are talking about? Politician: Is it done yet? Why are you firing rockets on on your computer? Nameserver geek: Oh, see those little guys running around? Those are US servers I have to disconnect. The rockets unplug them. Politician: Fantastic, when will it be done? Nameserver geek: Oooh, another three weeks overtime at least.