This group is a professinal think tank, those in the picture all look over 55, and to be a member you need a technical doctorate degree. How much of a "deviant" thinker or "rebel" can they really be? Aren't people that come up with the most inventive and "crazy" ideas a bit younger? I like the idea of employing think tanks, it shows initiative which is vital, but if they really want some results I think they're going to have to attract a different set of thinkers.
In the movies, most any movie where people are using some screen only device, it is only to convey the message or action to the audience, not to actually do work. Sure, maybe some interactive advertising expensive display in a place of bussiness, but other than that it can't do anything. How could one possibly convey anything but the most simple, and expected, communications with such a device? Try it yourself, just walk around today pointing at things instead of talking, and see how "easy" that is.
If we require TTF emissions to be generated, anywhere EMF emissions are generated, then one could guarentee that treatment-time would be equal to exposure-time. Brilliant!
Manufacturing cd's costs next to nothing here too, the record companies just ask more because they can.
Yep, supply and demand can be odd sometimes. The other day at a store, I saw a movie (on DVD) for $17.98 and on the same aisle was the music soundtrack (on CD) for 18.99. How does the musical audio for the movie cost more than the entire movie?!
This post shows such an astounding lack of any knoweledge it earns a reply.
Come on now, no need to flame & fight. It looks like you mostly repeated what I said but used words specific to your culture. Pound, pence, labour, & knoweledge.:-)
It's ok for us to disagree on what each of us considers too much red-tape. But I'm going to challenge you to do better than make statements like "the pound is so strong" when it appears you're parroting a sound-bite instead of examining and accepting the underlying economics.
While you're probably right, I would've thought a larger factor to be the lower average wage in Hong Kong.
Sure, it might be a larger factor, but that would only be important if you define a hypothetical base, which there may be. But the clear deciding factor is the total span between the two, the disparity between the two, that causes uncontrolable and sometimes undesirable methods of equalizing.
It should be a clear warning sign when it's cheaper to manufacture a CD, and ship it half-way around the world, than it is to manufacture it right where you live.
One place has too much red-tape and taxes, or one place has too few standards and protections, but in this case I think it's both.
A RPG should focus more on a dynamically changing storyline that gives the player a real sense of interaction, power, and accomplishment. Where as the MMO player will get those from interactions with other live players, but the world will remain static and respawn again.
One example I can think of would be Gothic 2 & Gothic 3. Gothic 2 gave players a real choice about how they would... role-play, being good, or bad, or neutral. Where as Gothic 3 felt like a single player MMO, runnig around killing things, only without the respawns.
what they are saying is people are only generous because it feels good. That is, if it did not give them that feel good feeling, they would not be generous. Thus, everyone is generous for their own selfish purposes. Ergo, everyone is 100% selfish.
Go ahead, try to follow my logic. I dare you.
If I want to give money to a charity, that's selfish, but by denying my selfish desire and refusing to give to charity, I become altruistic.
If the legislation was important enough to enact, then it's important enough to defend.
If you thought the legislation exceeded the scope of government, then you think paying to defend it is bad too. No wonder non-binding legislation is catching on, as it makes both sides happy, or... is that unhappy.
Unless some magical solution presents itself, then cyber-warfare will most likely continue. The difference will be in how we respond. Should starting up your own cyber-attacks be an acceptable form of retaliation? or will more cyber-attacks only lead us down the path to a conventional-attack?
It's a good thing Luke's parents didn't let him have a MySpace page, otherwise his father might have found him with one Google search, and essentially ended the series right there.
My concern is that these children will get use to the idea that being spied on is an OK thing. Once they are desensitized to the idea of not having privacy, it will get easier to get them to conform to whatever the people in power want.
It's a good thing we log everything you post to Slashdot, because your attitude is unacceptable. Just wait until your father CtlGrendel gets home, then your backside will learn what it's like to be "desensitezed to the idea of not having piracy". your mother DelGrendel.
When will people learn that spying on your children is not a replacement for good parenting? The fact that there's actually a demand for this sort of thing is depressing.
Perhaps when this generation has grown up, they will be determined not to "become" like their parents, by rejecting invasive spying, and encouraging trust and responsibility. Or perhaps the opposite may come true, since they won't know what trust is, they won't ever be able to trust anyone else, and simply perpetuate their own parinoia onto the next generation.
So not only is your point not valid, it doesnt even seem to be on topic - so just how the hell is it insightful?
The top-most parent topic, and mine, are asking for linux solutions that are free from DRM headaches. When we respond to replies, we are in fact on topic & insightful. Your platitudes about how great DRM is when Apple does it is pure Fanboi Flamebaiting.
You probably know this but it bears repeating since so many people seem unaware:
The iPod does not require you to use DRM'd music. It plays regular old MP3s (or AACs) ripped from your CDs or downloaded from P2P or flown in on floppies by carrier pigeon, whatever source you may choose. It has the ability to purchase songs from the iTunes store, but you don't have to and if you prefer another jukebox app you don't even necessarily have to use iTunes with it.
You probably know this but it bears repeating:
No, you cannont use another app like Harmony form RealNetworks, because Apple threated a lawsuit. And people like myself develop allergies to DRM after being repeated to exposed to tactics that force users to upgrade DRM, suddenly disable features, limited plays, limited devices, limited services, locked in to an OS, software, or service, and ultimatly end up with a migraine that has no such restrictions or limit.
Since most of us use linux, which of these players work with linux?
Earlier today there was article covering the MS Zune, and now here's an Apple iPod "killer" article. I realize what's important is that both companies are huge, but I'm allergic to DRM, and immune to hype, so neither is at the top of my list.
I'm going to remain hopeful that the next article will both answer your question, and be informational to Slashdotters like myself. Perhaps the gears of the submission machine just need a little grea$e.
I can't imagine a nation as technically literate as Japan would essentially make it illegal for people to do remote backup
You never know, it might be overturned on an appeal, but it does show how yesterdays copyright laws can be interpreted negativly when applied to todays technology.
...I'm actually Chinese. So what do they do about non-Japanese people using Japanese services for this sort of thing? Will they try to prosecute across borders like the States does?
Just your luck, China and Japan are in new extradition talks.
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This group is a professinal think tank, those in the picture all look over 55, and to be a member you need a technical doctorate degree. How much of a "deviant" thinker or "rebel" can they really be? Aren't people that come up with the most inventive and "crazy" ideas a bit younger? I like the idea of employing think tanks, it shows initiative which is vital, but if they really want some results I think they're going to have to attract a different set of thinkers.
In the movies, most any movie where people are using some screen only device, it is only to convey the message or action to the audience, not to actually do work. Sure, maybe some interactive advertising expensive display in a place of bussiness, but other than that it can't do anything. How could one possibly convey anything but the most simple, and expected, communications with such a device? Try it yourself, just walk around today pointing at things instead of talking, and see how "easy" that is.
If we require TTF emissions to be generated, anywhere EMF emissions are generated, then one could guarentee that treatment-time would be equal to exposure-time. Brilliant!
Yep, supply and demand can be odd sometimes. The other day at a store, I saw a movie (on DVD) for $17.98 and on the same aisle was the music soundtrack (on CD) for 18.99. How does the musical audio for the movie cost more than the entire movie?!
Come on now, no need to flame & fight. It looks like you mostly repeated what I said but used words specific to your culture. Pound, pence, labour, & knoweledge.
It's ok for us to disagree on what each of us considers too much red-tape. But I'm going to challenge you to do better than make statements like "the pound is so strong" when it appears you're parroting a sound-bite instead of examining and accepting the underlying economics.
Sure, it might be a larger factor, but that would only be important if you define a hypothetical base, which there may be. But the clear deciding factor is the total span between the two, the disparity between the two, that causes uncontrolable and sometimes undesirable methods of equalizing.
It should be a clear warning sign when it's cheaper to manufacture a CD, and ship it half-way around the world, than it is to manufacture it right where you live.
One place has too much red-tape and taxes, or one place has too few standards and protections, but in this case I think it's both.
A RPG should focus more on a dynamically changing storyline that gives the player a real sense of interaction, power, and accomplishment. Where as the MMO player will get those from interactions with other live players, but the world will remain static and respawn again.
One example I can think of would be Gothic 2 & Gothic 3. Gothic 2 gave players a real choice about how they would... role-play, being good, or bad, or neutral. Where as Gothic 3 felt like a single player MMO, runnig around killing things, only without the respawns.
But, taking money from you and spending it sound like work. I don't like work but I'll do it anyway for the altruistic good of society.
If I want to give money to a charity, that's selfish, but by denying my selfish desire and refusing to give to charity, I become altruistic.
4 terrestrial
4 gas giants
3 dwarfs
28 new dwarfs
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39 planets total... until the next time we look up in the sky.
If the legislation was important enough to enact, then it's important enough to defend.
If you thought the legislation exceeded the scope of government, then you think paying to defend it is bad too. No wonder non-binding legislation is catching on, as it makes both sides happy, or... is that unhappy.
1) Install every anti-virus, firewall, virtual sandbox DMZ, and toolbar that you can.
2) Sustain 99% CPU usage.
3) Protected!
If you purchase those items, then they will stop targeting your email. That's what a friend told me.
Unless some magical solution presents itself, then cyber-warfare will most likely continue. The difference will be in how we respond. Should starting up your own cyber-attacks be an acceptable form of retaliation? or will more cyber-attacks only lead us down the path to a conventional-attack?
It's a good thing Luke's parents didn't let him have a MySpace page, otherwise his father might have found him with one Google search, and essentially ended the series right there.
It's a good thing we log everything you post to Slashdot, because your attitude is unacceptable. Just wait until your father CtlGrendel gets home, then your backside will learn what it's like to be "desensitezed to the idea of not having piracy". your mother DelGrendel.
Perhaps when this generation has grown up, they will be determined not to "become" like their parents, by rejecting invasive spying, and encouraging trust and responsibility. Or perhaps the opposite may come true, since they won't know what trust is, they won't ever be able to trust anyone else, and simply perpetuate their own parinoia onto the next generation.
The top-most parent topic, and mine, are asking for linux solutions that are free from DRM headaches. When we respond to replies, we are in fact on topic & insightful. Your platitudes about how great DRM is when Apple does it is pure Fanboi Flamebaiting.
You probably know this but it bears repeating:
No, you cannont use another app like Harmony form RealNetworks, because Apple threated a lawsuit. And people like myself develop allergies to DRM after being repeated to exposed to tactics that force users to upgrade DRM, suddenly disable features, limited plays, limited devices, limited services, locked in to an OS, software, or service, and ultimatly end up with a migraine that has no such restrictions or limit.
Earlier today there was article covering the MS Zune, and now here's an Apple iPod "killer" article. I realize what's important is that both companies are huge, but I'm allergic to DRM, and immune to hype, so neither is at the top of my list.
I'm going to remain hopeful that the next article will both answer your question, and be informational to Slashdotters like myself. Perhaps the gears of the submission machine just need a little grea$e.
Simple, sell a CD that teaches people how you did it.
-How to buy Real Estate with NO MONEY DOWN!!!
-How to play the Stock Market with my custom, exclusive, computer software program.
You never know, it might be overturned on an appeal, but it does show how yesterdays copyright laws can be interpreted negativly when applied to todays technology.
Yes, anyone involved in distributing a song so awful that it makes your ears bleed would be a badguy.
Just your luck, China and Japan are in new extradition talks.