If some kind of Star Trek replicator was invented so we could copy a Mercedes as easily as a Nellie Furtado CD, we'd still need to sell them. Our world is based on jobs. Anything that destroys jobs is bad for the world.
The U.S. has been moving towards a "service industry" for YEARS, as our imports have greatly outnumbered our exports.
I see it as, "If you don't have anything to offer, you've only screwed yourself."
Music and Publishing are not service industries. Like you said, just look at trends. I saw this coming before I got into High School, the service industry (not just waitressing) is where the future is. Not the resale of physical property.
Jobs aren't "Lost" they're merely transferred from production to service. This is why there are so many 40yr olds going back to school. Someone working in a 'plant' for 40 or 50 years is rare now. Career changes are expected.
Eventually, the concept of owning an Idea forever will go away, and you WILL be able to replicate a Mercades legally (via Star Trek). But not until after you've purchased the rights to it.
There would be no product on the shelf as you invision. Only the plans would need to be sold.
Only the uninformed think that copying computer data is any different from Xeroxing a book. No, it doesn't take much longer to do OCR a physical book than it does to copy an ebook. I did that for a living 10 years ago (legally OCR'ing manuals for companies). Burning a CD now takes just as long as OCR'ing 500 pages 10 years ago (on a 286).
You're almost there, you realize the future is coming, and there are legal issues, but you havn't let go of classic manufacturing...
Is it so hard to see the trend that stealing digital copies of music, movies, books, etc will hurt the economy, and destroy jobs?
Actually, yes. Stealing in the digital age is not the same as it was 100 years ago. You envision Star Trek repliation of a Mercedes. If that car is stolen, who loses? The owner? They'll replicate another one. The seller? Maybe, but please, a little common sense here: the person stole the car beause they didn't want to pay for it. It's digital, there is no materials cost lost by the 'creator' (Now, the buyer is producing the vehicle in his replicator - some energy is lost), just a potential loss of another copy that could have been purchased - which costs zero to produce above what has already been spent on creation.
Sure, it's easy to copy music. What's being stolen? The same thing that's played on the radio? So I press record on my PC, and record the radio. Have I stolen? Or maybe I bought the CD version of a tape I already bought. Now who's stolen (Some think the RIAA)? I already own the content, it was placed on a CD for me as a service..(See where we're going?)
All the hubub about piracy is mostly because the industry is seeing an end of the line of upgrades (8-track -> record -> tape -> CD). With digital content, they're revenue is fixed. No longer can they get revenue for the same material (original cost) over 30 years, reselling it in different formats. They will need to adjust to the new SERVICE industry that has been coming for YEARS, or someone else will take their place.
If I could see the trend from production to service industry coming before I hit High School (I'm 28 now), and big business did not, that's pretty pitiful. I'd be willing to bet they just didn't WANT to see it coming.
We're "Losing" jobs over this supposed "piracy" as much as we've lost jobs over automation in manufacturing. Remember when those robots were going to put all us humans out of work?
Even in this 'recession', and those pesky robots building our cars, unemployment has not reached critical mass.
That was a local story, and I didn't even know it.
Maybe it's a sign that I should get out more..
Nah, I'm not overweight, I have 3 kids, so the sex drive is ok.. I have a nice house at the base of a mountain, 4 horses, a miner who's up to level 50 now..
Not only do I think you're WAY off, but I don't think you read the toaster provided. Your link refers to Cyrus' IMAP server.
From the text: Reliable: qmail's straight-paper-path philosophy guarantees that a message, once accepted into the system, will never be lost. qmail also optionally supports maildir, a new, super-reliable user mailbox format. Maildirs, unlike mbox files and mh folders, won't be corrupted if the system crashes during delivery. Even better, not only can a user safely read his mail over NFS, but any number of NFS clients can deliver mail to him at the same time.
From that page, the jist is: NFS isn't an issue for Maildir mailboxes.
IBM officials said 11 percent of the mainframe mips
Since IBM machines can run paritioned (one machine, multiple os's at the same time), think of it as each machine IBM ships runs 11% Linux, the other 89% could be anything from OS/400 to AIX..
I would tend to agree, but it's also possible they're planning a large acquisition and need the horsepower to support a few thousand new employees instantly.
That's possible too, but head on over to Matt Simerson's FreeBSD Toaster. I'm SURE that could easily support a few thousand users in a clustered environment (NFS & Mysql) Need more users? Add another box.
I've been watching the wine lists for a while now, and I believe Notes does NOT work reliably with the current wine releases. You can apply an unofficial patch to make it work, but it's unofficial because it doesn't conform to Wine's programming guidelines (IIRC).
So you can't easily get it for free, but yes, it's possible.
Another example is Installshield. Crossover works wonderfully, but the code is a hack, and won't be accepted as-is into the Wine tree.
By buying Codeweavers products (I have Crossover myself), you're buying the "end result". While sticking with the 'Official' Wine releases gives you the "correct" code (which you may need to hack to get your apps working, then it's no longer 'correct').
CodeWeavers is bringing the reality of Windows apps on Linux, while WineHQ brings structure and discipline to the codebase.
Only in America are students considered to have zero rights, yet all of a sudden, you turn 18, and having sex with a classmate can put you in jail.. (In WI, you'd be branded a child-molester, and the police would notify any new neighborhoods you want to move to.)
He could be tried for Murder as an adult, but can't program for a big company?
You think this "Nutrient rich" fluid for growing muscles is just for food... Wait till the spammers get a hold of this!
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Subject: Increase your penis size by %16 in one week!!
Ever take a shower? Now you can give your penis a bath, and have it grow 16% in one week!! How does it work? We don't know! But we're all REALLY happy around here!
WARNING! Don't leave penis unattended. Potential side affects include: Better Sex, Longer Sex, and mothers no longer saying "There's plenty of room in the crotch."
It's probably not such a good thing that they can acyually get my address - better would be for them to supply an address, and Visa to say "yes" or "no", but that'll need fuzzy textual matching, so that's not so easy.
That IS how address verification works, and has been available for at LEAST a few years now.
If an online merchant (or mail-order) doesn't want address verification, they'll pay higher rates because the 'risk' involved (for a customer chargeback) is greater.
I've never heard of a merchant calling an auth center to get an address based on a card #. It works the other way.
And BTW, the standard Verifone machines used for credit card auth read the strip on your drivers license just fine.
If you don't want it available, hack it up. I think that's the point of 'public information' that was being made. It's ALREADY public, unless you opt-out. So opt-out if you want.
Don't you people realize that at least 3 different companies already HAVE your info, and are selling it?
1. Car Dealer
2. Insurance Company
3. Bank
Unless you're all 16 (which sometimes I think), you have a decent car, which you got a loan for, and didn't lie when you filled out 5 copies of the same damn form.
I'm a Slashdot reader! My privacy is so important, I WANT corporations to make money off my information, instead of the DMV, so when the DMV needs more more money, they can raise taxes..
Yeah, that's intelligent. Let's remove a form of revenue from a place that MUST exist..
It's pretty silly that I can run the streaming server on Linux but I have to go to Windows or Mac to view the content.
Ahh not entirely correct. Go grab Codeweavers Crossover Plugin 1.1.
I currently run Opera 6 beta, on Mandrake 8.2 beta (and oh yeah, KDE3 beta:) and I'm able to view streaming Quicktime INDSIDE Opera.
I was just expecting Netscape family support. So Opera really impressed me.
I'll be sending out my $25/$30 for Crossover this weekend..
Do you really think that a CEO does anything with a laptop other than carry it around looking technical? It wouldn't be the first time.
Anyways, I'm sure he was most distraught about losing his OutLook contact list. Which, of course, isn't the company standard, but that's what the CEO wanted to use.
But Mr. Chernin of the News Corporation suggested that matters might be different if the tables were turned. "Let's say I decide to broadcast on my network the code for how to make Intel chips or Microsoft software," he said. "I think they'd find a way to stop it."
And because Windows XP is the heart of Microsofts business model, Microsoft has obviously devised a way to completely stop piracy of their operating system.
And as you can see today, they've been completely successful.
"This should be OK to bring into the country. It shouldn't be a problem. We all agree it is not a firearm," said Colette Gentes-Hawn, spokeswoman for Canada Customs.
Wow. Imagine the paperwork U.S. Customs would bring if the thing was made in Canada, and had to be imported into the U.S.
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We like AOL Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and we alternate Sundays.
The U.S. has been moving towards a "service industry" for YEARS, as our imports have greatly outnumbered our exports.
I see it as, "If you don't have anything to offer, you've only screwed yourself."
Music and Publishing are not service industries. Like you said, just look at trends. I saw this coming before I got into High School, the service industry (not just waitressing) is where the future is. Not the resale of physical property.
Jobs aren't "Lost" they're merely transferred from production to service. This is why there are so many 40yr olds going back to school. Someone working in a 'plant' for 40 or 50 years is rare now. Career changes are expected.
Eventually, the concept of owning an Idea forever will go away, and you WILL be able to replicate a Mercades legally (via Star Trek). But not until after you've purchased the rights to it.
There would be no product on the shelf as you invision. Only the plans would need to be sold.
Only the uninformed think that copying computer data is any different from Xeroxing a book. No, it doesn't take much longer to do OCR a physical book than it does to copy an ebook. I did that for a living 10 years ago (legally OCR'ing manuals for companies). Burning a CD now takes just as long as OCR'ing 500 pages 10 years ago (on a 286).
You're almost there, you realize the future is coming, and there are legal issues, but you havn't let go of classic manufacturing...
Is it so hard to see the trend that stealing digital copies of music, movies, books, etc will hurt the economy, and destroy jobs?
Actually, yes. Stealing in the digital age is not the same as it was 100 years ago. You envision Star Trek repliation of a Mercedes. If that car is stolen, who loses? The owner? They'll replicate another one. The seller? Maybe, but please, a little common sense here: the person stole the car beause they didn't want to pay for it. It's digital, there is no materials cost lost by the 'creator' (Now, the buyer is producing the vehicle in his replicator - some energy is lost), just a potential loss of another copy that could have been purchased - which costs zero to produce above what has already been spent on creation.
Sure, it's easy to copy music. What's being stolen? The same thing that's played on the radio? So I press record on my PC, and record the radio. Have I stolen? Or maybe I bought the CD version of a tape I already bought. Now who's stolen (Some think the RIAA)? I already own the content, it was placed on a CD for me as a service..(See where we're going?)
All the hubub about piracy is mostly because the industry is seeing an end of the line of upgrades (8-track -> record -> tape -> CD). With digital content, they're revenue is fixed. No longer can they get revenue for the same material (original cost) over 30 years, reselling it in different formats. They will need to adjust to the new SERVICE industry that has been coming for YEARS, or someone else will take their place.
If I could see the trend from production to service industry coming before I hit High School (I'm 28 now), and big business did not, that's pretty pitiful. I'd be willing to bet they just didn't WANT to see it coming.
We're "Losing" jobs over this supposed "piracy" as much as we've lost jobs over automation in manufacturing. Remember when those robots were going to put all us humans out of work?
Even in this 'recession', and those pesky robots building our cars, unemployment has not reached critical mass.
Oh hey, my wife works for the Journal (I keep forgetting), I'll see if I can scan it :)
Found it..Death of a game addict from the 30th
Maybe it's a sign that I should get out more..
Nah, I'm not overweight, I have 3 kids, so the sex drive is ok.. I have a nice house at the base of a mountain, 4 horses, a miner who's up to level 50 now..
That would explain both the poor performance, and the speed of the changeover.
Not that I'm defending anyone, just puking information..
Not only do I think you're WAY off, but I don't think you read the toaster provided. Your link refers to Cyrus' IMAP server.
From the text:
Reliable: qmail's straight-paper-path philosophy guarantees that a message, once accepted into the system, will never be lost. qmail also optionally supports maildir, a new, super-reliable user mailbox format. Maildirs, unlike mbox files and mh folders, won't be corrupted if the system crashes during delivery. Even better, not only can a user safely read his mail over NFS, but any number of NFS clients can deliver mail to him at the same time.
From that page, the jist is: NFS isn't an issue for Maildir mailboxes.
Since IBM machines can run paritioned (one machine, multiple os's at the same time), think of it as each machine IBM ships runs 11% Linux, the other 89% could be anything from OS/400 to AIX..
Correct me if I'm wrong..
That's possible too, but head on over to Matt Simerson's FreeBSD Toaster. I'm SURE that could easily support a few thousand users in a clustered environment (NFS & Mysql)
Need more users? Add another box.
P2P, IM, online gaming... Instead of 'Trolling the web' looking for something to do, people have actually FOUND something to do..
Now you're all set to use the current verison of wine, assuming that works 'better' than codeweavers (IIRC it's from 12/05/02)
Just remember any new apps need to be installed in crossover, before you copy your directory into ~/.wine
I've been watching the wine lists for a while now, and I believe Notes does NOT work reliably with the current wine releases. You can apply an unofficial patch to make it work, but it's unofficial because it doesn't conform to Wine's programming guidelines (IIRC).
So you can't easily get it for free, but yes, it's possible.
Another example is Installshield. Crossover works wonderfully, but the code is a hack, and won't be accepted as-is into the Wine tree.
By buying Codeweavers products (I have Crossover myself), you're buying the "end result". While sticking with the 'Official' Wine releases gives you the "correct" code (which you may need to hack to get your apps working, then it's no longer 'correct').
CodeWeavers is bringing the reality of Windows apps on Linux, while WineHQ brings structure and discipline to the codebase.
Ah well. Here's to my ZZ Top cassette!
He could be tried for Murder as an adult, but can't program for a big company?
Are there any exceptions that are POSITIVE?
Forwarded mail follows:
From: bigwhopper@yahoo.com
Subject: Increase your penis size by %16 in one week!!
Ever take a shower? Now you can give your penis a bath, and have it grow 16% in one week!! How does it work? We don't know! But we're all REALLY happy around here!
WARNING! Don't leave penis unattended. Potential side affects include: Better Sex, Longer Sex, and mothers no longer saying "There's plenty of room in the crotch."
That IS how address verification works, and has been available for at LEAST a few years now.
If an online merchant (or mail-order) doesn't want address verification, they'll pay higher rates because the 'risk' involved (for a customer chargeback) is greater.
I've never heard of a merchant calling an auth center to get an address based on a card #. It works the other way.
And BTW, the standard Verifone machines used for credit card auth read the strip on your drivers license just fine.
If you don't want it available, hack it up. I think that's the point of 'public information' that was being made. It's ALREADY public, unless you opt-out. So opt-out if you want.
Don't you people realize that at least 3 different companies already HAVE your info, and are selling it?
1. Car Dealer
2. Insurance Company
3. Bank
Unless you're all 16 (which sometimes I think), you have a decent car, which you got a loan for, and didn't lie when you filled out 5 copies of the same damn form.
I'm a Slashdot reader! My privacy is so important, I WANT corporations to make money off my information, instead of the DMV, so when the DMV needs more more money, they can raise taxes..
Yeah, that's intelligent. Let's remove a form of revenue from a place that MUST exist..
Well, I went to UWWaukesha for two months when I was 18, and I was a damn talented CS student working in the computer lab on the weekends.
Maybe if I would have spent more than two months there, I could have been a TA, and acted REALLY stupid. :)
But alas.. Something kept sneaking out of my pants..
Ahh not entirely correct. Go grab Codeweavers Crossover Plugin 1.1. I currently run Opera 6 beta, on Mandrake 8.2 beta (and oh yeah, KDE3 beta :) and I'm able to view streaming Quicktime INDSIDE Opera.
I was just expecting Netscape family support. So Opera really impressed me.
I'll be sending out my $25/$30 for Crossover this weekend..
It wouldn't be the first time.
Anyways, I'm sure he was most distraught about losing his OutLook contact list. Which, of course, isn't the company standard, but that's what the CEO wanted to use.
Yeah, you *THINK* it's lucky until you come home and she says,
"Honey, I moved the furntiure today. You'll need to hook up the TV and the stereo."
"Oh, I see you've moved them to an area where there are no power outlets, and no cable connection. No Problem. *sigh*"
When we move, people are going to wonder why there's a cable jack on every wall.
All they need is a wireless version, and my wife can move the furniture all she wants.
And because Windows XP is the heart of Microsofts business model, Microsoft has obviously devised a way to completely stop piracy of their operating system.
And as you can see today, they've been completely successful.
Wow. Imagine the paperwork U.S. Customs would bring if the thing was made in Canada, and had to be imported into the U.S.
I mean, golly, you could shoot your eye out.