Well with music isn't it often is the case that the artists usually have to go into debt while they record and mix their work, and actually get recompensed later? Recording time is expensive (I should know)! I enjoy having properly recorded versions of an artists' work more than attending live shows btw, and I am happy to pay the current prices.
If music publishers started paying salaries instead of doing loans then I wouldn't have so much of a problem with all of this I suppose. The industry is going to have to change soon one way or another if it hopes to survive..
Just because it's socially unacceptable doesn't make it wrong.
I am pretty much at a stage in life where I don't think that right/wrong even exist outside of personal conscience, so you don't need to tell me that. I'm not trying to judge or condemn anyone for illegal downloading, I am just fed up of people whining that it should be made legal when there doesn't seem to be any logical reason to do so.
It just so happens that the most visible proponents of copyright at the moment are a bunch of litigious assholes out to make short term money in any way they can. I hate the way that the RIAA, MPAA, FACT and FAST, etc operate, they're so weasely. But in my own opinion the actual laws they are trying to help enforce in their own moronic vigilante fashion are "good" and sensible laws.
I bought my MBP in January 2007, and yes had I thought that it might just be my machine I would have returned it, but after googling around it seemed to just be a design flaw that I'd have to live with. I guess I'm just not the type to complain, if I think I've made a bad decision I try to make the best of it.
I was running Ubuntu on the MBP for the last year - WiFi is fine, suspend/resume isn't reliable nope, dual screen was working fine without having to go down to xorg.conf level, the ATi application that comes with their drivers is pretty decent.
I agree that OSX is better for Mac hardware than Ubuntu, EFI makes hardware configs a pain in the ass. That's why I just bought a Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed this time round, because I could be fairly sure the hardware will be well supported.
I don't think laws themselves will be enough to stop people from this kind of thing, there would also have to be a viable way of enforcing them. Most people will bend/break the laws if they think they will get away with it and they feel that there is no victim (or at least they won't have to deal directly with the victim). It's similar to speeding, insurance scams, tax evasion and such.
With the way information exchange has been growing exponentially over time, it perhaps is useless to try to hold the floodgates, but I for one still think that just because you can do something and get away with it, doesn't necessarily mean you should do it.
I think that once the music and film industries wake up to digital distribution services that it won't be such a big deal anymore. DRM has been proven to be ineffective, and is simply a pain in the ass if it tries to lock content to a machine, though if it locks it down to an account that can be transferred from machine to machine then I don't mind that. Steam is awesome, it makes life more convenient rather than less so like most systems. If the MPAA or whoever offered a similar service to Steam but for streaming unlimited movies for say the cost of 2 DVDs or blu-rays a month, I wouldn't hesitate to subscribe for the rest of my life. I'm already paying the price of just under two cinema tickets per month to get unlimited cinema showings and it's worked out great for me so far. I recognise that these things have value and I am willing to pay for them. Those that choose not to pay just make me think of those who never work and live off unemployment benefits rather than contributing in a positive way to society.
Yep, I've downloaded a few music and software CDs that I already own legally but the originals were copy-protected or lost. I think that the service the pirate bay provides is pretty good and even perfectly legal considering they don't actually host the contents of the torrents - but they pretty much sealed their own fate by calling it "the pirate bay". That was just stupid.
Hmm yes it makes a lot of sense that your ISP should be getting rewarded for your illegal activities instead of the original authors. It'll make even more sense if your ISP sells you out to the RIAA/whomever, won't it?
What happened to the consensual transation of Jack presumably paying money for the CD in the first place? It's doubtful the authors of the CD would have sold it had they known that he'd copy it illegally. We have laws in place to try to ensure that software and music etc are protected. How come interfering with these social contracts is not wrong, but interfering with someone copying a CD for a friend is wrong? You appear to have a bit of a double standard there.
Never mind that just because 2 people are consenting to something doesn't make it legal or even "right". Not many people would think that that dude eating the other consenting adult male in Germany was "right". Neither would a lot of people consider a guy having sex with an underage girl "right". Just because you think something is okay does not make it okay in the eyes of the world, and the law is generally defined by what is socially acceptable. So either accept that you are going against what is seen to be "right" and quit whining, or campaign for it and hope that enough other people agree with your point of view, or just stop it altogether, like I said. Simply whining about it while continuing to break the law is just about the most stupid thing you can do as it is not making the world any more amenable to your cause, and eventually probability dictates that you will get punished if you continue in an illegal course of action while telling people about it all the time.
I don't then have any right to claim the useless item having not paid for it, but that is a seperate issue.
Not really, that seems to be the crux of the issue. The whole thing revolves around whether you believe that there is such a thing as "intellectual property".
Please explain how it is unjust? Really, I'd like to hear a logical explanation for that if you can think of any. I don't see any valid case for illegal downloads now that there are online music distributors selling stuff at a good quality and price.
I'll even admit that I've downloaded stuff illegally myself as a student (though now that I have a job I've been deleting all my illegally acquired music and purchasing it legally), but I don't try to pretend that it was right. Even from a selfish point of view it makes no sense, since you are not giving the creators of the work any incentive to create more of the same. If you enjoy something, it's much better to pay for it legally if you want more of the same.
The thing you seem to be missing here is that most of us do recognise an artist's right to be compensated for their work, the same as any worker expects to get paid each month and not treated like a slave.
If the "values you were raised on" were "rape, murder, pillage and drink all the grog you can!", or "always do the opposite of what the law says", can you start to see why your absurd arguments do not apply at all?
You just have to accept that what you want is illegal and either 1) campaign for it to be made legal*, or 2) continue doing it and accept the possible punishment without whining about it, or 3) just stop doing it.
*note that "I want to be a leech and get everything for free" isn't going to be a very convincing argument for most sane people, who recognise the value of their own and others' time/work.
Well my MBP has a standard DVI connector and I used Songbird and VLC instead of iTunes, but I did notice the casing was slightly warped and creaky in one corner a couple of days after I got it, and the aluminium lid has a dent in it which wouldn't have happened with plastic.. I might buy a Pro desktop if I was looking for a beast of a machine, but as for laptops I'm actually happier with my Dell Mini 9 which cost literally a quarter as much as the MBP did, with a 32GB SSD drive, much better battery life and as much power as I need for my day to day work (bit of web development, bit of remote server administration, with Firefox, Evolution, Pidgin and Exaile running most of the time using less than half of my 1GB of RAM and no pagefile usage whatsoever), but without the annoying fan noise and heat issues of the Mac, which I haven't decided a use for yet.. it's no good as a gaming rig, but it's complete overkill for most other sub-gaming tasks too.
I find it somewhat disappointing that whoever wrote the summary felt the need to clarify where ballute came from after having said "meld balloon and parachute" only 4 words beforehand..
How exactly do you increase road capacity when the whole city is already one giant grid, would you simply make the lanes thinner? I think that would be one viable solution - I've never been to NY or even America, but when I went to Canada the lanes were at least 50% bigger than they need to be (from the perspective of someone who lives in the UK and regularly drives through gaps with only a foot of clearance on either side).
I felt the same about my MBP at first, but even with the underclocked-as-standard graphics card that comes with it, it gets incredibly noisy when running 3D games, and after a couple of hours it just locks up due to overheating. So they may be fine for light work, but some of the engineering is actually rather poor. I ended up reading a lot of horror stories about Mac assembly over the last few years, thermal paste being applied too liberally to the CPU etc, so perhaps the machine would run better if I cleaned it out and re-applied the thermal paste myself, but I don't want to have to do that when I've already paid over a thousand pounds for the machine.
I switched to Ubuntu because it does everything that OSX did (Avant Window Manager), but it's free. The OSX UI is pretty nice, but Ubuntu is even better once you setup compiz correctly, and Avant Window Manager is a great replacement for the Dock.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently called the Internet a "cesspool" of false information. I think he was wrong. I think that the disinformation present on the internet is merely a reflection of the disinformation, poor reporting and outright lies which have become pervasive throughout the media industry.
That doesn't mean he was wrong - it just means that everything else is a cesspool of false info too!
I cannot recall a single instance of the word "cunt" in any title I have ever played
I'm pretty sure The Darkness has it.
I don't see the big deal about all of this anyway. Some people are easily addicted/obsessed by things. I've spent periods in my life where I'd play Counter-Strike or MUD every night til 6AM. I think my Counter-Strike obsession was overtaken by a photography obsession, and strangely enough the 3 times in my life that I was addicted to MUDding, I ended up with a girlfriend a month or two later and ended up spending obsessive amounts of time with them instead of on the MUD (well apart from the first who was mudding with me for a while since it started off long-distance). Even more strangely, I've only ever had 3 girlfriends, so the pattern would indicate that MUDding somehow instantly makes me more attractive to women. I should really start MUDding again..!
Bingo. This is the reason that we haven't moved away from Exchange. Windows Mobile connected to Exchange with DirectPUSH is a great combination for mobile users.. you can synchronise all your contacts, calendar, tasks and email with Exchange remotely. Email actually arrives on the mobiles a second or two before showing up in Outlook. Our Exchange server would be replaceable if it weren't for this. I almost replaced it with OpenExchange until I found out about this feature, which has now become essential to a lot of our sales team. If the blackberry network (and devices) weren't so shit then maybe I'd reconsider (the number of times I used to have our blackberry users blaming me for email not working when in fact it was the blackberry network, something which I have no control over.. eurghh..). There is a lot of room for a nice FOSS email client/server product on an open mobile platform..
Slashdot Mirror
typing in some huge string, typing in a username and password, selecting a drive and hitting next 6 times
Just out of interest, what is that even for? Drive encryption?
What are you blabbering on about?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUK294&=&q=macbook+pro&btnG=Google+Search&meta=lr%3D
All Macbooks Pros are around 1100-1600 pounds. That's POUNDS, not dollars. Mine was 1300 a couple of years back.
Second, http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/04/21/apple_underclocking_macbook_pro_graphics_cards.html
If you're going to call someone stupid, try doing a little research first, or you'll end up looking like an imbecile. Like just now.
Well with music isn't it often is the case that the artists usually have to go into debt while they record and mix their work, and actually get recompensed later? Recording time is expensive (I should know)! I enjoy having properly recorded versions of an artists' work more than attending live shows btw, and I am happy to pay the current prices.
If music publishers started paying salaries instead of doing loans then I wouldn't have so much of a problem with all of this I suppose. The industry is going to have to change soon one way or another if it hopes to survive..
Just because it's socially unacceptable doesn't make it wrong.
I am pretty much at a stage in life where I don't think that right/wrong even exist outside of personal conscience, so you don't need to tell me that. I'm not trying to judge or condemn anyone for illegal downloading, I am just fed up of people whining that it should be made legal when there doesn't seem to be any logical reason to do so.
It just so happens that the most visible proponents of copyright at the moment are a bunch of litigious assholes out to make short term money in any way they can. I hate the way that the RIAA, MPAA, FACT and FAST, etc operate, they're so weasely. But in my own opinion the actual laws they are trying to help enforce in their own moronic vigilante fashion are "good" and sensible laws.
I bought my MBP in January 2007, and yes had I thought that it might just be my machine I would have returned it, but after googling around it seemed to just be a design flaw that I'd have to live with. I guess I'm just not the type to complain, if I think I've made a bad decision I try to make the best of it.
I was running Ubuntu on the MBP for the last year - WiFi is fine, suspend/resume isn't reliable nope, dual screen was working fine without having to go down to xorg.conf level, the ATi application that comes with their drivers is pretty decent.
I agree that OSX is better for Mac hardware than Ubuntu, EFI makes hardware configs a pain in the ass. That's why I just bought a Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed this time round, because I could be fairly sure the hardware will be well supported.
I don't think laws themselves will be enough to stop people from this kind of thing, there would also have to be a viable way of enforcing them. Most people will bend/break the laws if they think they will get away with it and they feel that there is no victim (or at least they won't have to deal directly with the victim). It's similar to speeding, insurance scams, tax evasion and such.
With the way information exchange has been growing exponentially over time, it perhaps is useless to try to hold the floodgates, but I for one still think that just because you can do something and get away with it, doesn't necessarily mean you should do it.
I think that once the music and film industries wake up to digital distribution services that it won't be such a big deal anymore. DRM has been proven to be ineffective, and is simply a pain in the ass if it tries to lock content to a machine, though if it locks it down to an account that can be transferred from machine to machine then I don't mind that. Steam is awesome, it makes life more convenient rather than less so like most systems. If the MPAA or whoever offered a similar service to Steam but for streaming unlimited movies for say the cost of 2 DVDs or blu-rays a month, I wouldn't hesitate to subscribe for the rest of my life. I'm already paying the price of just under two cinema tickets per month to get unlimited cinema showings and it's worked out great for me so far. I recognise that these things have value and I am willing to pay for them. Those that choose not to pay just make me think of those who never work and live off unemployment benefits rather than contributing in a positive way to society.
Yep, I've downloaded a few music and software CDs that I already own legally but the originals were copy-protected or lost. I think that the service the pirate bay provides is pretty good and even perfectly legal considering they don't actually host the contents of the torrents - but they pretty much sealed their own fate by calling it "the pirate bay". That was just stupid.
Hmm yes it makes a lot of sense that your ISP should be getting rewarded for your illegal activities instead of the original authors. It'll make even more sense if your ISP sells you out to the RIAA/whomever, won't it?
What happened to the consensual transation of Jack presumably paying money for the CD in the first place? It's doubtful the authors of the CD would have sold it had they known that he'd copy it illegally. We have laws in place to try to ensure that software and music etc are protected. How come interfering with these social contracts is not wrong, but interfering with someone copying a CD for a friend is wrong? You appear to have a bit of a double standard there.
Never mind that just because 2 people are consenting to something doesn't make it legal or even "right". Not many people would think that that dude eating the other consenting adult male in Germany was "right". Neither would a lot of people consider a guy having sex with an underage girl "right". Just because you think something is okay does not make it okay in the eyes of the world, and the law is generally defined by what is socially acceptable. So either accept that you are going against what is seen to be "right" and quit whining, or campaign for it and hope that enough other people agree with your point of view, or just stop it altogether, like I said. Simply whining about it while continuing to break the law is just about the most stupid thing you can do as it is not making the world any more amenable to your cause, and eventually probability dictates that you will get punished if you continue in an illegal course of action while telling people about it all the time.
I don't then have any right to claim the useless item having not paid for it, but that is a seperate issue.
Not really, that seems to be the crux of the issue. The whole thing revolves around whether you believe that there is such a thing as "intellectual property".
Please explain how it is unjust? Really, I'd like to hear a logical explanation for that if you can think of any. I don't see any valid case for illegal downloads now that there are online music distributors selling stuff at a good quality and price.
I'll even admit that I've downloaded stuff illegally myself as a student (though now that I have a job I've been deleting all my illegally acquired music and purchasing it legally), but I don't try to pretend that it was right. Even from a selfish point of view it makes no sense, since you are not giving the creators of the work any incentive to create more of the same. If you enjoy something, it's much better to pay for it legally if you want more of the same.
The thing you seem to be missing here is that most of us do recognise an artist's right to be compensated for their work, the same as any worker expects to get paid each month and not treated like a slave.
If the "values you were raised on" were "rape, murder, pillage and drink all the grog you can!", or "always do the opposite of what the law says", can you start to see why your absurd arguments do not apply at all?
You just have to accept that what you want is illegal and either 1) campaign for it to be made legal*, or 2) continue doing it and accept the possible punishment without whining about it, or 3) just stop doing it.
*note that "I want to be a leech and get everything for free" isn't going to be a very convincing argument for most sane people, who recognise the value of their own and others' time/work.
Careful.. if you ever actually come out of the closet, she might turn out to be a man!
MBPs weren't even out until 2006, moron. But yes, this kind of problem seems to have been going on for quite some time.
Well my MBP has a standard DVI connector and I used Songbird and VLC instead of iTunes, but I did notice the casing was slightly warped and creaky in one corner a couple of days after I got it, and the aluminium lid has a dent in it which wouldn't have happened with plastic.. I might buy a Pro desktop if I was looking for a beast of a machine, but as for laptops I'm actually happier with my Dell Mini 9 which cost literally a quarter as much as the MBP did, with a 32GB SSD drive, much better battery life and as much power as I need for my day to day work (bit of web development, bit of remote server administration, with Firefox, Evolution, Pidgin and Exaile running most of the time using less than half of my 1GB of RAM and no pagefile usage whatsoever), but without the annoying fan noise and heat issues of the Mac, which I haven't decided a use for yet.. it's no good as a gaming rig, but it's complete overkill for most other sub-gaming tasks too.
Ah my bad, sorry.
I find it somewhat disappointing that whoever wrote the summary felt the need to clarify where ballute came from after having said "meld balloon and parachute" only 4 words beforehand..
How exactly do you increase road capacity when the whole city is already one giant grid, would you simply make the lanes thinner? I think that would be one viable solution - I've never been to NY or even America, but when I went to Canada the lanes were at least 50% bigger than they need to be (from the perspective of someone who lives in the UK and regularly drives through gaps with only a foot of clearance on either side).
I felt the same about my MBP at first, but even with the underclocked-as-standard graphics card that comes with it, it gets incredibly noisy when running 3D games, and after a couple of hours it just locks up due to overheating. So they may be fine for light work, but some of the engineering is actually rather poor. I ended up reading a lot of horror stories about Mac assembly over the last few years, thermal paste being applied too liberally to the CPU etc, so perhaps the machine would run better if I cleaned it out and re-applied the thermal paste myself, but I don't want to have to do that when I've already paid over a thousand pounds for the machine.
I switched to Ubuntu because it does everything that OSX did (Avant Window Manager), but it's free. The OSX UI is pretty nice, but Ubuntu is even better once you setup compiz correctly, and Avant Window Manager is a great replacement for the Dock.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently called the Internet a "cesspool" of false information. I think he was wrong. I think that the disinformation present on the internet is merely a reflection of the disinformation, poor reporting and outright lies which have become pervasive throughout the media industry.
That doesn't mean he was wrong - it just means that everything else is a cesspool of false info too!
I cannot recall a single instance of the word "cunt" in any title I have ever played
I'm pretty sure The Darkness has it.
I don't see the big deal about all of this anyway. Some people are easily addicted/obsessed by things. I've spent periods in my life where I'd play Counter-Strike or MUD every night til 6AM. I think my Counter-Strike obsession was overtaken by a photography obsession, and strangely enough the 3 times in my life that I was addicted to MUDding, I ended up with a girlfriend a month or two later and ended up spending obsessive amounts of time with them instead of on the MUD (well apart from the first who was mudding with me for a while since it started off long-distance). Even more strangely, I've only ever had 3 girlfriends, so the pattern would indicate that MUDding somehow instantly makes me more attractive to women. I should really start MUDding again..!
I don't know how it would work out if everybody would use it
If it was used properly and the load balancing algorithms were good enough, it would obviously result in the most efficient use of roads possible!
Fertiliser is often just shit anyway.. though if the plants are already growing above ground then it would be nasty to get them smeared. Yummy..
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092494/
Thanks, that looks interesting :)
support for mobile .. access
Bingo. This is the reason that we haven't moved away from Exchange. Windows Mobile connected to Exchange with DirectPUSH is a great combination for mobile users.. you can synchronise all your contacts, calendar, tasks and email with Exchange remotely. Email actually arrives on the mobiles a second or two before showing up in Outlook. Our Exchange server would be replaceable if it weren't for this. I almost replaced it with OpenExchange until I found out about this feature, which has now become essential to a lot of our sales team. If the blackberry network (and devices) weren't so shit then maybe I'd reconsider (the number of times I used to have our blackberry users blaming me for email not working when in fact it was the blackberry network, something which I have no control over.. eurghh..). There is a lot of room for a nice FOSS email client/server product on an open mobile platform..