"Warner Music" suggestion is a joke, Jobs not dumb
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Steve jobs knows the writing is on the wall for the big record labels. They pay them lip service and make decent money through the itunes store, but the statistics are out there and the major music studios have lost an entire generation, who will ingrain the same hatred into their children. They are dying of self inflicted wounds, a death protracted by their use of political corruption to thrash about at everything they see.
He would NEVER buy a music label. Video games are quickly eating the music and movie industries' lunches, and smart money says jobs knew this long before any of us did.
Not to excuse our government, but what other option do they really have? Put the multinational corporation's headquarters in jail? Hitting a corporation with a fine is speaking the only language that it cares about.
How about imposing sanctions on their ability to market products in that nation, or jailing the executives responsible (even if oversaes by using the afore mentioned sanctions as leverage).
No no.. that would have actual TEETH.
if top corps were under threat of instantly losing their ability to sell, or instantly losing their top talent to the depths of federal prison, they would be stricter about their infractions.
your notes in textbooks are a benefit, not a detraction. This is one of the better aspects of buying used. Besides the price, you get the benefit of perspective from other students.
Agreed. For the reasons you stated and the ones im about to outline, "e-books" are not a help to college students; they're a bane. this is just another example of a ranked university getting cocky and shoving corporate agendas down the throats of their student body.
I moved off my (top 20) school's campus when they started cock-blocking my bit torrent claiming "computer security" issues while their official mail servers and internal lans continued to teem with viruses ranging from contemporary to ancient.
They once tried to push off ebook crap on me, and I had to come in and xerox physical copies to get the information i wanted because their horrible DRM systems didn't even work on WINDOWS.
If you're examining a prospective school and they use anything beyond password or server protected PDF files for their e-reserves you need to find someplace else and tell them exactly why, otherwise you'll end up spending that 12 hour crunch time wrestling with DRM instead of the meat of your projects.
Only in software is it accepted that you can put a product out there that does not work as advertised. It seems that these days the idea is to get the product out there ASAP, and finish it later with patches and updates.
Software is unlike any other good in that it behaves more like the law, in that people will keep prodding at it in different ways and will eventually find 'holes' in it.
If software providers are to be held to such a standard, than every time someone is subjected to great injustices under a poorly written law the legislators should also have to pay obscene damages.
un-removable updaters with unique id's ? check, keylogging via google suggest ? check , encrypted strings sent to the largest advertising company on the planet ? check.
For those of you that won't RTFA, this may not be a big deal and is fairly common.
For example, in 2007, networking provider Alcatel-Lucent agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle charges that Lucent Technologies, before it was bought by Alcatel SA in 2006, illegally paid for hundreds of trips for Chinese officials to win contracts. In a separate case, IBM Corp. agreed in 2000 to pay $300,000 to settle allegations that its Argentina subsidiary was involved in bribing officials of a government-owned bank to win a contract to upgrade the bank's computer systems.
It's nice to know our bribery laws basically equate to "where's our share - signed: the US government"
So long as the contracts are not compulsory I have no problem with apple providing the "option".
However, if they tack this on like the iphone, any malfunction could end up saddling me with massive bills from nowhere.
A lot of college students buy macs, including the professional lines. Exposing them to the potential of nasty, unexpected bills could alienate that sector, and in so doing create a whole new generation of "i only use windows" robots.
How about actually getting the mac version up and running before spending tons of time on tv ad production?
for christ sake they've been promising a beta for how long now?
Safari used to be zippy, but, despite being the best option for mac right now, has some nasty habits and memory leaks. I'd like to see what chrome can offer.
"poses a higher security risk to the systems than when they relied primarily on proprietary software"....Someone actually put this into an FAA IG report? That's ridiculous. Correlation and causation are two ENTIRELY different things. You'd think the FAA, of all people, would understand that.
Exhibit A: Microsoft products. A huge collection of proprietary software which are security swiss cheese. Sorry, that's not fair to swiss cheese.
I dont think that's what they mean by "prprietary". I think they mean specifically or "in house" developed specifically for the task.
The bigger issue here is infrastructure which is partially tied to the military is being run in the civilian domain. You don't use public radio to broadcast tactical data, why on EARTH would you use public internet?
The only way to ensure such critical defense communication infrastructure remains robust is to develop a second, completely separate military internet with deliberately incompatible physical connections, completely foreign packet structures, and completely separate physical lines.
Encrypted vpn won't save you if they just crash the entire node to take you down.
From what you posted: Republicans and Democrats are equally likely to be represented in the high-knowledge group. But significantly fewer Republicans (26%) than Democrats (31%) fall into the third of the public that knows the least.
Also: Internet news sources, National Public Radio, news magazines, and Rush Limbaugh's radio show have the best educated audiences, with each of these having at least 36% of their regular readers and listeners having graduated from college.
"Reality has a well known liberal bias" is a well known liberal delusion.
"college" is a very broad and often misrepresented term in political statistics.
I'm sure the league of alabaman community colleges is proud its finest are watching limbaugh.
but there is a right to free expression and a right to live life on an equal playing field.
Removing internet access abrogates both these rights.
Go looking for a job today that doesn't involve a hat and nametag, and see how far you get with their personnel office before they tell you to "use the damn website".
the price differential between a netbook and a true laptop is matched by a proportional power differential.
In game consoles, the power differential is not significantly impactful. This is why apple continues to gain market share with full-fledged laptops, dell still has a thriving laptop market, but the wii is eating the console industry's lunch.
The REASON for a price difference between a porsche 911 and an entry level sub-compact is evident, while it's not so with a ps3 vs the wii.
when it takes a comedian to take malfeasant "news organizations" to task for their failures to properly inform the people, the news media is in a sad place.
kind of like how the wii stole the thunder from the monster processing power of playstation 3: most people don't care about some redhead's hyperrealistic flowing hair. they just want a little pubhouse dartboard-and-foosball level time wasting light hearted fun.
this argument conveniently ignores the massive price differential.
Until the advent of xbox, a game system cost about as much as a couple trips to the grocery store for a family of 4, the xbox cost significantly more, and suffered popularity problems until it both dropped in price and was "liberated" into a very cheap PC through stupidly trivial modding. Then came the ps3 and xbox 360.. they cost as much or more than a standard home PC!.. for 25% more you could buy a macbook!.. and for what? HD that most people dont have?
THAT is the reason why the wii took over. It was never about speed, it was about an overpriced console made for TV's nobody had being beaten on the market by a more practically priced one with similar capabilities.
Anyone who has been watching/reading news corp material and comparing it to on the ground reality or watching the daily show at the same time know murdoch and his henchmen are losing grip with reality and receding into delusion.
I look forward to him slowly losing his grip over news media by shutting out the majority of online readers.
The gist? Treaties don't trump the constitution. PJ summarizes thusly: "I read it as saying that nothing, not any treaty, not even the Berne Convention, can trump the US Constitution."
What do you think of that?
Given the USSC has yet to strike down any heavily backed corporate-engineered legislation (like those demanded by this "agreement") it's a safe bet the constitution means nothing but a red herring or object of jingoist stumping.
Eldridge vs ashcroft Buckley v. Valeo The souter eminent domain ruling
The betamax case, and subsequent reversal in MGM v grokster in particular illustrate starkly how the courts unwaveringly side with whoever has the most corporate power.
So, this p2p DL's legal then? You pay for it now!
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Under this, you are no longer, using their own definition, "stealing" when using p2p networks. You pay their licenses.
I can't wait to see this come up in court cases initiated by the IFPI
If you can't make a profit playing by the rules then stop trying to make a profit and die
This is more or less what's happenning to the USA as a whole. American companies simply cannot compete against foreign companies, that's why the industrial sector is moving to Asia. It's useless to say "stop trying to make a profit and die", they died a quarter century ago.
It's the US government at all levels, federal, state, and local, that should learn to live by the rules. When the corporations are moving overseas to places with lower taxes this means your taxes are too high, you should cut government spending and taxes at the same time.
Yes, it's clearly the tax rates and not greedy companies wanting to have their cake (american middle class customers) and eat it too (ultra-cheap, no human rights labor).
We can all thank "multilateral trade agreements" for this, and until the US grows a pair and cuts them off through robust trade sanctions the US middle class will continue to be bled dry.
The verdict is a scandal and destined to be overturned, in addition it's currently non-binding.
The judge has obvious and close-knit ties to the **AA through intimate lobby groups (composed of small numbers of powerful people), and has committed obvious breaches of swedish judicial procedure allowing "surprise witnesses" by the prosecution.
The verdict was "leaked" to the media before results were delivered to the defendants, and within minutes these **AA organizations were in the halls of legislation world-wide trying to leverage this preliminary, suspicious, and non-binding verdict as if it was a finalized, indelible damnation chiseled by god himself into stone tablets.
This entire affair is nothing more than a massive, corrupt propaganda play whose dirtiness approaches the underhanded tactics used to pass the DMCA and currently being used to circumvent the WTO and WIPO via the ACTA negotiations.
Satan is soliciting bids for the addition of a new, 10th level of hell specifically to house the disgusting individuals driving these endeavors.
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Steve jobs knows the writing is on the wall for the big record labels. They pay them lip service and make decent money through the itunes store, but the statistics are out there and the major music studios have lost an entire generation, who will ingrain the same hatred into their children. They are dying of self inflicted wounds, a death protracted by their use of political corruption to thrash about at everything they see.
He would NEVER buy a music label. Video games are quickly eating the music and movie industries' lunches, and smart money says jobs knew this long before any of us did.
Not to excuse our government, but what other option do they really have? Put the multinational corporation's headquarters in jail? Hitting a corporation with a fine is speaking the only language that it cares about.
How about imposing sanctions on their ability to market products in that nation, or jailing the executives responsible (even if oversaes by using the afore mentioned sanctions as leverage).
No no.. that would have actual TEETH.
if top corps were under threat of instantly losing their ability to sell, or instantly losing their top talent to the depths of federal prison, they would be stricter about their infractions.
$1200 a student? That's not that much. Apparently someone hasn't looked at the cost of textbooks lately.
(It's still a waste though)
That's in addition to whatever obscene fee amazon charges for the actual reading material.
Btw, I took some pretty "expensive" majors in terms of textbooks at a highly ranked university and never had to pay more than 600.
"If it's anything like the other Kindles, that's what the keyboard is for. You can add highlights to text, write notes, etc."
option list:
a - write with pen in short hand
b - thumb-type on a clumsy keyboard
i know which one will keep up with the lecture, and which one will leave you lost in about 2 minutes.
yes, submitting yourself to a monopoly for provision of all your reading material is so very progressive.
your notes in textbooks are a benefit, not a detraction. This is one of the better aspects of buying used. Besides the price, you get the benefit of perspective from other students.
Agreed. For the reasons you stated and the ones im about to outline, "e-books" are not a help to college students; they're a bane. this is just another example of a ranked university getting cocky and shoving corporate agendas down the throats of their student body.
I moved off my (top 20) school's campus when they started cock-blocking my bit torrent claiming "computer security" issues while their official mail servers and internal lans continued to teem with viruses ranging from contemporary to ancient.
They once tried to push off ebook crap on me, and I had to come in and xerox physical copies to get the information i wanted because their horrible DRM systems didn't even work on WINDOWS.
If you're examining a prospective school and they use anything beyond password or server protected PDF files for their e-reserves you need to find someplace else and tell them exactly why, otherwise you'll end up spending that 12 hour crunch time wrestling with DRM instead of the meat of your projects.
Only in software is it accepted that you can put a product out there that does not work as advertised. It seems that these days the idea is to get the product out there ASAP, and finish it later with patches and updates.
Software is unlike any other good in that it behaves more like the law, in that people will keep prodding at it in different ways and will eventually find 'holes' in it.
If software providers are to be held to such a standard, than every time someone is subjected to great injustices under a poorly written law the legislators should also have to pay obscene damages.
un-removable updaters with unique id's ? check, keylogging via google suggest ? check , encrypted strings sent to the largest advertising company on the planet ? check.
[citation needed}
For those of you that won't RTFA, this may not be a big deal and is fairly common.
For example, in 2007, networking provider Alcatel-Lucent agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle charges that Lucent Technologies, before it was bought by Alcatel SA in 2006, illegally paid for hundreds of trips for Chinese officials to win contracts. In a separate case, IBM Corp. agreed in 2000 to pay $300,000 to settle allegations that its Argentina subsidiary was involved in bribing officials of a government-owned bank to win a contract to upgrade the bank's computer systems.
It's nice to know our bribery laws basically equate to "where's our share - signed: the US government"
So long as the contracts are not compulsory I have no problem with apple providing the "option".
However, if they tack this on like the iphone, any malfunction could end up saddling me with massive bills from nowhere.
A lot of college students buy macs, including the professional lines. Exposing them to the potential of nasty, unexpected bills could alienate that sector, and in so doing create a whole new generation of "i only use windows" robots.
How about actually getting the mac version up and running before spending tons of time on tv ad production?
for christ sake they've been promising a beta for how long now?
Safari used to be zippy, but, despite being the best option for mac right now, has some nasty habits and memory leaks. I'd like to see what chrome can offer.
"poses a higher security risk to the systems than when they relied primarily on proprietary software"....Someone actually put this into an FAA IG report? That's ridiculous. Correlation and causation are two ENTIRELY different things. You'd think the FAA, of all people, would understand that.
Exhibit A: Microsoft products. A huge collection of proprietary software which are security swiss cheese. Sorry, that's not fair to swiss cheese.
I dont think that's what they mean by "prprietary". I think they mean specifically or "in house" developed specifically for the task.
The bigger issue here is infrastructure which is partially tied to the military is being run in the civilian domain. You don't use public radio to broadcast tactical data, why on EARTH would you use public internet?
The only way to ensure such critical defense communication infrastructure remains robust is to develop a second, completely separate military internet with deliberately incompatible physical connections, completely foreign packet structures, and completely separate physical lines.
Encrypted vpn won't save you if they just crash the entire node to take you down.
Seeing as the larger share of the ignorant are Democrats, perhaps the accreditation of schools in more liberal areas should be questioned.
Yes, because we know the student body of bob jones university is primarily democrat right?
From what you posted: Republicans and Democrats are equally likely to be represented in the high-knowledge group. But significantly fewer Republicans (26%) than Democrats (31%) fall into the third of the public that knows the least.
Also: Internet news sources, National Public Radio, news magazines, and Rush Limbaugh's radio show have the best educated audiences, with each of these having at least 36% of their regular readers and listeners having graduated from college.
"Reality has a well known liberal bias" is a well known liberal delusion.
"college" is a very broad and often misrepresented term in political statistics.
I'm sure the league of alabaman community colleges is proud its finest are watching limbaugh.
There is no "right" to internet access
but there is a right to free expression and a right to live life on an equal playing field.
Removing internet access abrogates both these rights.
Go looking for a job today that doesn't involve a hat and nametag, and see how far you get with their personnel office before they tell you to "use the damn website".
the price differential between a netbook and a true laptop is matched by a proportional power differential.
In game consoles, the power differential is not significantly impactful. This is why apple continues to gain market share with full-fledged laptops, dell still has a thriving laptop market, but the wii is eating the console industry's lunch.
The REASON for a price difference between a porsche 911 and an entry level sub-compact is evident, while it's not so with a ps3 vs the wii.
when it takes a comedian to take malfeasant "news organizations" to task for their failures to properly inform the people, the news media is in a sad place.
In such an environment, i'll watch the comedians.
They'll just drop this stinkburger provision into page 923 of the ACTA treaty and ram it down their throats anyway.
kind of like how the wii stole the thunder from the monster processing power of playstation 3: most people don't care about some redhead's hyperrealistic flowing hair. they just want a little pubhouse dartboard-and-foosball level time wasting light hearted fun.
this argument conveniently ignores the massive price differential.
Until the advent of xbox, a game system cost about as much as a couple trips to the grocery store for a family of 4, the xbox cost significantly more, and suffered popularity problems until it both dropped in price and was "liberated" into a very cheap PC through stupidly trivial modding. .. for 25% more you could buy a macbook!.. and for what? HD that most people dont have?
Then came the ps3 and xbox 360.. they cost as much or more than a standard home PC!
THAT is the reason why the wii took over. It was never about speed, it was about an overpriced console made for TV's nobody had being beaten on the market by a more practically priced one with similar capabilities.
Anyone who has been watching/reading news corp material and comparing it to on the ground reality or watching the daily show at the same time know murdoch and his henchmen are losing grip with reality and receding into delusion.
I look forward to him slowly losing his grip over news media by shutting out the majority of online readers.
I think this article puts a finer point on it:
The gist? Treaties don't trump the constitution. PJ summarizes thusly: "I read it as saying that nothing, not any treaty, not even the Berne Convention, can trump the US Constitution."
What do you think of that?
Given the USSC has yet to strike down any heavily backed corporate-engineered legislation (like those demanded by this "agreement") it's a safe bet the constitution means nothing but a red herring or object of jingoist stumping.
Eldridge vs ashcroft
Buckley v. Valeo
The souter eminent domain ruling
The betamax case, and subsequent reversal in MGM v grokster in particular illustrate starkly how the courts unwaveringly side with whoever has the most corporate power.
Under this, you are no longer, using their own definition, "stealing" when using p2p networks. You pay their licenses.
I can't wait to see this come up in court cases initiated by the IFPI
This is more or less what's happenning to the USA as a whole. American companies simply cannot compete against foreign companies, that's why the industrial sector is moving to Asia. It's useless to say "stop trying to make a profit and die", they died a quarter century ago.
It's the US government at all levels, federal, state, and local, that should learn to live by the rules. When the corporations are moving overseas to places with lower taxes this means your taxes are too high, you should cut government spending and taxes at the same time.
Yes, it's clearly the tax rates and not greedy companies wanting to have their cake (american middle class customers) and eat it too (ultra-cheap, no human rights labor).
We can all thank "multilateral trade agreements" for this, and until the US grows a pair and cuts them off through robust trade sanctions the US middle class will continue to be bled dry.
The verdict is a scandal and destined to be overturned, in addition it's currently non-binding.
The judge has obvious and close-knit ties to the **AA through intimate lobby groups (composed of small numbers of powerful people), and has committed obvious breaches of swedish judicial procedure allowing "surprise witnesses" by the prosecution.
The verdict was "leaked" to the media before results were delivered to the defendants, and within minutes these **AA organizations were in the halls of legislation world-wide trying to leverage this preliminary, suspicious, and non-binding verdict as if it was a finalized, indelible damnation chiseled by god himself into stone tablets.
This entire affair is nothing more than a massive, corrupt propaganda play whose dirtiness approaches the underhanded tactics used to pass the DMCA and currently being used to circumvent the WTO and WIPO via the ACTA negotiations.
Satan is soliciting bids for the addition of a new, 10th level of hell specifically to house the disgusting individuals driving these endeavors.