Dare I point out that Linus created one small - vital, yes, but very very small - part of what people call the Linux operating system?
I think I do.
No single person stands alone. Linus would have remained in obscurity if the GNU project hadn't existed, and also if Minix hadn't existed. And neither of those projects stood alone either.
In many cases, the DRM will NOT do as intended. Those who wished to download the music or rip it and share it will still find some way to do so, and a considerable number won't buy it if it has the more restrictive forms of DRM on.
It's a way of making yet more money for the greedy monopolistic coroporations (note that a company can be monopolistic whilst not being in a true monopoly).
The tiny speakers in my Relisys screen here actually sounds better, to my ears, than my cheap and crappy computer speakers.
Thankfully, I rarely use either; I normally have the whole lot piped through my stereo amp and into a pair of 16-inch-tall speaker cabs, or use a decent pair of headphones.
To explain in a slightly different way, we'll use the analogy of trying to accurately count a mountain of Libraries of Congress. The easiest way to do so...
I did a small research project amongst fellow students - about fifty respondents only; it was only intended to be a very small project - and found that most of my peers feel a lot of people do download music to try it out, and feel that such behaviour is perfectly fine.
To make all the ethical issues easier, we didn't ask anyone outright, but it was still an interesting response.
I don't regularly listen to about 70% of what's on my iRiver. Nevertheless, it's useful to have it there since I do use it occasionally - and especially since I use it to play music through the mixing desk during intervals at the gigs I help run.
The music you have on there at the start of the day might not be what you fancy listening to at the end of the day. And most people don't want to keep moving music backwards and forwards every time their immediate taste changes slightly - they want it all available.
Yes, you might not listen to all of it on one battery charge, but do you really want to re-choose and move across different music every time you charge just to keep it varied?
It's not a major hassle, but it is still hassle that can be avoided.
And the only way you could possibly know that is if you were Bush or his speechwriter, which I think it is safe to say you are not. Both possibilities are equally plausible - I've made plenty of mistakes that simple myself.
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Actually, with many of those options, finding examples of a good quality isn't always simple.
As yet, they don't seem to have abused it. That doesn't mean they won't.
Nor, of course, does it mean they will.
They tell you up front that they *can* screw you. Apple's record SO FAR seems to be good, however.
"Reality check - nobody sells a BILLION of anything that's outrageously overpriced..."
Oh, I dunno... everyone's favourite large software company seems to manage it regularly.
That always has been an option. Of course, it's one that's hidden away in the advanced options, but it IS there.
Microsoft thinks it'll work with getting people to use so-called "genuine windows versions".
That being more or less my point.
Being commercial doesn't mean they'd have to make it closed, either.
Dare I point out that Linus created one small - vital, yes, but very very small - part of what people call the Linux operating system?
I think I do.
No single person stands alone. Linus would have remained in obscurity if the GNU project hadn't existed, and also if Minix hadn't existed. And neither of those projects stood alone either.
In many cases, the DRM will NOT do as intended. Those who wished to download the music or rip it and share it will still find some way to do so, and a considerable number won't buy it if it has the more restrictive forms of DRM on.
So where does it have the intended effect again?
Damn.
It was a good joke while it lasted.
And joking about being moderated offtopic gets you yet more funny, it seems.
A bandwagon comment about modding appears to get you Funny again.
It's a way of making yet more money for the greedy monopolistic coroporations (note that a company can be monopolistic whilst not being in a true monopoly).
Code monkey like code monkey song. As do I.
Wouldn't their sales decrease over time anyway, in most cases?
It's not legal. It's just that most publishers aren't going to bother doing anything about it, and that's not guaranteed.
The tiny speakers in my Relisys screen here actually sounds better, to my ears, than my cheap and crappy computer speakers.
Thankfully, I rarely use either; I normally have the whole lot piped through my stereo amp and into a pair of 16-inch-tall speaker cabs, or use a decent pair of headphones.
You are right. And that's one of the major Opera features that I prefer to Firefox. The other major one is tab behaviour.
Of course, there's still things I prefer the other way round too.
To explain in a slightly different way, we'll use the analogy of trying to accurately count a mountain of Libraries of Congress. The easiest way to do so...
I did a small research project amongst fellow students - about fifty respondents only; it was only intended to be a very small project - and found that most of my peers feel a lot of people do download music to try it out, and feel that such behaviour is perfectly fine.
To make all the ethical issues easier, we didn't ask anyone outright, but it was still an interesting response.
I've got quite a lot of music from the artists on the Webbed Hand label, amongst other things.
I don't regularly listen to about 70% of what's on my iRiver. Nevertheless, it's useful to have it there since I do use it occasionally - and especially since I use it to play music through the mixing desk during intervals at the gigs I help run.
The music you have on there at the start of the day might not be what you fancy listening to at the end of the day. And most people don't want to keep moving music backwards and forwards every time their immediate taste changes slightly - they want it all available.
Yes, you might not listen to all of it on one battery charge, but do you really want to re-choose and move across different music every time you charge just to keep it varied?
It's not a major hassle, but it is still hassle that can be avoided.
And the only way you could possibly know that is if you were Bush or his speechwriter, which I think it is safe to say you are not. Both possibilities are equally plausible - I've made plenty of mistakes that simple myself.
And no, I'm not autistic.
Problem is, what the parent's parent was saying, at least most of it, is EXACTLY what the film industry loves to spout at us.