Until the only way to listen to music is to walk up to a music booth through a metal detector to prevent you from bringing in any recording equipment, and up to a music booth.... Maybe then, the RIAA will stop whining.
You can't be more wrong. After this here's what RIAA would whine about:
* Whine how people don't go frequently enough to the booths, and demand that a portable version in everyone's home is made mandatory. * Whine people can't listen to music when they're at work, make the booths mandatory there too. * Whine how people don't listen and see enough "art" which raises criminal activity and make it mandatory to listen at least once daily. * Make a mobile version that hooks to your brain mandatory (the booths doesn't isolate well enough, some pirates recorded with microphone the sound that's leaking outside the cabins). * RIAA renames itself to Borg Civilization. * Borg Civilization whines we've not conquered enough alien civilizations and go on a crusade in space.
The MPAA could learn a lot from this! That's right, keep those movie trailers under lock and key! They usually show all the interesting parts of the movie, and they are condensed into just a few minutes!
That has already happened. MPAA sued sometime a channel projecting trailers 24/7. MPAA argued the channel uses copyrighted content for their own benefit without approval from the copyright owners.
There are also some attempts (even now) to prevent officially published movie trailers from the official sites from being downloaded for later viewing.
No freebie, no sales. The freebie could be breaking evn on a concert tour while making yourself popular, or the opposite: releasing your music for free on the net and then profitting from more expensive tickers.
It can be something as simple as a movie trailer or a music video or even an ad block (latter least effective, since people know the final goal is to trick them into buying something).
Doesn't RIAA realize this? Yes it does. But what you don't realize is that RIAA wants control. Viral marketing is good if RIAA creates it, if people start it themselves, it's bad.
If channels exist for commercial videos to be spread virally, they can be used to easily spread non-commercial non-RIAA production as well. That would mean less people buy RIAA product, more people learn about independent productions.
This can spell serious trouble for RIAA. This is why their first goal is closing the entire channel and not just filtering out their content.
Maybe someone could actually just tell us how intel is 'pissing' on Negroponte?
Intel is actually competing with the OLPC project by producing the SUV of modern computing: big bulky boxes with CRT-s, the boxes have built-in UPS and "sand filters" and other special stuff.
The idea is Intel sells those to "internet caffee" shops in poor countries, while Negroponte makes Intel's efforts obsolete.
Intel and their CEO are publicaly making fun on Negroponte and his project and calling the $100 laptop "a useless gadget, people dont' want gadgets, they want computers".
Which like another poster noted is completely missing the point. Business is business, however, it wouldn't hurt Intel too much to behave decently in the sitation but they have just put their business interest in front of decency.
I envision corporate warfare where facilities are firebombed, etc. Sabatoge galore.
Bombing facilities would still be illegal, so the police/FBI/CIA would have the tools to fight with that. Of course there will be some unpleasantr situations, but at least it won't be SO DAMN EASY to lock up knowledge in a box and extort the entire world for a ransom.
Once something is known, it can be used. This alone is worth all the negative sites of a patent-free world.
in just about all cases, the infringement when it comes down to algorithms and similar patents, comes from the use of the algorithm to mimic an already invented program.
You should really check the JPEG patent case, the EOLAS patent case, the "algorithm" of e-commerce patent cases, the "three-columns interface" patent of Creative sues Apple case and more and more.
Half of those have no product involved. The other half has patented ridiculously basic stuff you can't call an algorithm even if you tried real hard. What they do, is wave their patents in court and go after the successful businesses, since they have the money to pay up the ransom.
For someone in the business world to wish away the patenting system is irresponsible. Much to much economical damage could occur from it.
Surely patents bring no economical damage right now? When you change the status quo, damage occurs, but it heals. You can either change the status quo or slowly die with your problems unsolved.
Patents sent away will bring less catastrophic results than one could imagine, companies will be a lot more secreteive about their works and release products early and often with less of a bigger innovations at a time (instead of spending 10 years researching , producing nothing). But the overal market, being free to come up with an idea and let it happen without beaing threatenet by a patent troll will liberate new forces in innovation as a whole.
Every little innovation a company does, the other companies can follow later. You could think it's not fair to the innovator, but it's gives them advantage of them being first on the market with a new product. And they've also used innovations from other companies as an integral part of their product.
There's of course also the medical industry. This is a whole topic on its own, but let me just say this: as a society, we're far less dependant on the medical industry for our regular lifes and survival than we think. The grand "innovations" that produce cancer "treatment" programs with over 70% lethality and a ridiculous cost (you could save hundreds of other people with) won't be missed.
In 33 years the government hasn't been an obstacle to anything I've done, wanted to do, said, written, created. For fun, I can surf the web and read people's opinions on how shitty that situation is. They don't even go to jail for posting fud.
Keep caring just for your well-being and by the time you realise what's up, it'll be too late. USA is largely regarded as a police state by people abroad.
My brother has some business to do there and we gotta take extensive measures so we he doesn't bring suspicion "as a terrorist", like bringing scissors in his luggage, or maybe even not getting too dark complexion at the beach.
It's not the fault of US citizens, but facts are facts.
* Take thumbprints, photo and install RFID chip on immigrants (check) * Take DNA and thumbs of every citizen (check) * Monitor phone calls nation-wide and data transferred over the network (check) * Big corporation control the government, government controls the people, people control nothing (check).........
There are times when you have a CD-ROM drive that simply would not co-operate. It does not matter what OS, you've downloaded the ISO, have it burnt, then put it inside the drive, change the BIOS setting to boot from the CD-ROM and simply reboot the machine.
The Ubuntu menu shows up, I pick the option to run it (I believe the first one), the desktop shows, the mouse pointer shows and responds to mouse movements.
And it stays like this forever with no disk activity and a blank desktop.
You want something geared at the business desktop with good integration and commercial support? Get SuSE. You want something that carries the name of a recognized brand? Get Fedora (yes it is still in many places considered the standard, just look at how many hosting providers provide is as the primary or only platform). You want something different that has a reputation for rock solid stability? Get Debian. You want a user-friendly Debian? Get Ubutnu.
You want desktop with good integration and commercial support that carries the name of a recognized brand, has a reputation for rock solid stability and is user-friendly? Well you're screwed:P
Well, here's some news that might get you to sit straight up in your chair:
Shit this is gonna be intense... I knew it there's something in there I didn't know.
Along with the majority of the computer-facing population, you could be well on your way to developing a series of unsavory repetitive stress ailments such as carpal tunnel syndrome, postural syndrome, tendonitis and eye strain.
Wait, you promised me news, damn you. I WANT MY NEWS!!!
2006: Presuming any of what you say has any bearing at all (we'd all have to be networked in the head!)
1986: Presuming any of what you say has any bearing at all (we'd all have to be networked via tiny boxes we carry in our pockets we'll call "cellphones")
WHY someone would ever want to download a movie is beyond me. They're alwasy worse quality (especially so before the DVD comes out), and plus, movie theaters (while they may charge too much for food) always have nice air conditioning, excellent sound, a huge screen, and depending on which one you go to, comfy seats.
Well over here cinemas are crappy, and don't project the movies I want to see. I either get it from P2P, hope the DVD arrives in 7-8 months (good chance it won't, ever), or just give up on it.
I go for P2P. Then those clowns call it an actual sale loss. Idiots.
a site originally designed to respond to queries in human language that grew into a full-blown search engine after the Teoma acquisition
They make it sound like an "upgrade", but it's the opposite. I bet I could use ask.com if it could really answer questions and they concentrated on that, instead of being a generic search engine.
Our lifespans are longer than they have ever been in the first world, thanks largely to modern science-based medicine.
Don't forget to take your daily "life extension" pill every morning!
That's funny, you know, I and my family have on average a lot longer life-span than 30 years, yet we just survive on clean water, food and air.
But maybe I gotta grab some pills and swallow them, just in case I might die otherwise.
Seriously: don't forget a large portion of the health problems we suffer today are because of our "modern life": preservatives in food, sugar, stress, air pollution, antibiotics and hormones in the meat we eat, cell phones, electric transformers, wi-fi networks.
People before were dying because of bad hygiene and infected water and food or lack thereof. They were not dying because they didn't have medicines to drink.
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Until the only way to listen to music is to walk up to a music booth through a metal detector to prevent you from bringing in any recording equipment, and up to a music booth.... Maybe then, the RIAA will stop whining.
You can't be more wrong. After this here's what RIAA would whine about:
* Whine how people don't go frequently enough to the booths, and demand that a portable version in everyone's home is made mandatory.
* Whine people can't listen to music when they're at work, make the booths mandatory there too.
* Whine how people don't listen and see enough "art" which raises criminal activity and make it mandatory to listen at least once daily.
* Make a mobile version that hooks to your brain mandatory (the booths doesn't isolate well enough, some pirates recorded with microphone the sound that's leaking outside the cabins).
* RIAA renames itself to Borg Civilization.
* Borg Civilization whines we've not conquered enough alien civilizations and go on a crusade in space.
The MPAA could learn a lot from this! That's right, keep those movie trailers under lock and key! They usually show all the interesting parts of the movie, and they are condensed into just a few minutes!
That has already happened. MPAA sued sometime a channel projecting trailers 24/7. MPAA argued the channel uses copyrighted content for their own benefit without approval from the copyright owners.
There are also some attempts (even now) to prevent officially published movie trailers from the official sites from being downloaded for later viewing.
This isn't a movie or even porn we're talking about here.
(emphasis mine)
Have you seen what the modern video clips of female performers and rap artist look like? I'd say it's the closest thing to porn.
No freebie, no sales. The freebie could be breaking evn on a concert tour while making yourself popular, or the opposite: releasing your music for free on the net and then profitting from more expensive tickers.
It can be something as simple as a movie trailer or a music video or even an ad block (latter least effective, since people know the final goal is to trick them into buying something).
Doesn't RIAA realize this? Yes it does. But what you don't realize is that RIAA wants control. Viral marketing is good if RIAA creates it, if people start it themselves, it's bad.
If channels exist for commercial videos to be spread virally, they can be used to easily spread non-commercial non-RIAA production as well. That would mean less people buy RIAA product, more people learn about independent productions.
This can spell serious trouble for RIAA. This is why their first goal is closing the entire channel and not just filtering out their content.
Maybe someone could actually just tell us how intel is 'pissing' on Negroponte?
Intel is actually competing with the OLPC project by producing the SUV of modern computing: big bulky boxes with CRT-s, the boxes have built-in UPS and "sand filters" and other special stuff.
The idea is Intel sells those to "internet caffee" shops in poor countries, while Negroponte makes Intel's efforts obsolete.
Intel and their CEO are publicaly making fun on Negroponte and his project and calling the $100 laptop "a useless gadget, people dont' want gadgets, they want computers".
Which like another poster noted is completely missing the point. Business is business, however, it wouldn't hurt Intel too much to behave decently in the sitation but they have just put their business interest in front of decency.
I envision corporate warfare where facilities are firebombed, etc. Sabatoge galore.
Bombing facilities would still be illegal, so the police/FBI/CIA would have the tools to fight with that.
Of course there will be some unpleasantr situations, but at least it won't be SO DAMN EASY to lock up knowledge in a box and extort the entire world for a ransom.
Once something is known, it can be used. This alone is worth all the negative sites of a patent-free world.
in just about all cases, the infringement when it comes down to algorithms and similar patents, comes from the use of the algorithm to mimic an already invented program.
You should really check the JPEG patent case, the EOLAS patent case, the "algorithm" of e-commerce patent cases, the "three-columns interface" patent of Creative sues Apple case and more and more.
Half of those have no product involved. The other half has patented ridiculously basic stuff you can't call an algorithm even if you tried real hard. What they do, is wave their patents in court and go after the successful businesses, since they have the money to pay up the ransom.
For someone in the business world to wish away the patenting system is irresponsible. Much to much economical damage could occur from it.
Surely patents bring no economical damage right now? When you change the status quo, damage occurs, but it heals. You can either change the status quo or slowly die with your problems unsolved.
Patents sent away will bring less catastrophic results than one could imagine, companies will be a lot more secreteive about their works and release products early and often with less of a bigger innovations at a time (instead of spending 10 years researching , producing nothing). But the overal market, being free to come up with an idea and let it happen without beaing threatenet by a patent troll will liberate new forces in innovation as a whole.
Every little innovation a company does, the other companies can follow later. You could think it's not fair to the innovator, but it's gives them advantage of them being first on the market with a new product. And they've also used innovations from other companies as an integral part of their product.
There's of course also the medical industry. This is a whole topic on its own, but let me just say this: as a society, we're far less dependant on the medical industry for our regular lifes and survival than we think. The grand "innovations" that produce cancer "treatment" programs with over 70% lethality and a ridiculous cost (you could save hundreds of other people with) won't be missed.
In 33 years the government hasn't been an obstacle to anything I've done, wanted to do, said, written, created. For fun, I can surf the web and read people's opinions on how shitty that situation is. They don't even go to jail for posting fud.
Keep caring just for your well-being and by the time you realise what's up, it'll be too late.
USA is largely regarded as a police state by people abroad.
My brother has some business to do there and we gotta take extensive measures so we he doesn't bring suspicion "as a terrorist", like bringing scissors in his luggage, or maybe even not getting too dark complexion at the beach.
It's not the fault of US citizens, but facts are facts.
One Laptop Per Child's Nicholas Negroponte asserting that Intel is 'pissing on us.'
It'll be quicker to list the persons and organisations Intel's not pissing on or it'll take forever.
Requirements for being "land of the free":
... ... ...
* Take thumbprints, photo and install RFID chip on immigrants (check)
* Take DNA and thumbs of every citizen (check)
* Monitor phone calls nation-wide and data transferred over the network (check)
* Big corporation control the government, government controls the people, people control nothing (check)
That's some land of the free you got there, guys.
Try shiny side down in the drive tray.
I'd like to reply ironically, please pick the funniest one:
What do you mean "[insert word]" ?
a) shiny
b) side
c) drive
e) it's not a butter
There are times when you have a CD-ROM drive that simply would not co-operate. It does not matter what OS, you've downloaded the ISO, have it burnt, then put it inside the drive, change the BIOS setting to boot from the CD-ROM and simply reboot the machine.
The Ubuntu menu shows up, I pick the option to run it (I believe the first one), the desktop shows, the mouse pointer shows and responds to mouse movements.
And it stays like this forever with no disk activity and a blank desktop.
This new operating system is huge: it has more than 37,800 files, taking up a total of 10 GB.
When you make a sci-fi, you can brag how many frames have CG and how many special fx shots you have, but this is just wrong I tell ya...
this might sound obvious but you did burn from the iso rather than unpacking didn't you?
Neither. I just went to Ubuntu's web site and wished it boots up really hard. Didn't work.
You want something geared at the business desktop with good integration and commercial support? Get SuSE. You want something that carries the name of a recognized brand? Get Fedora (yes it is still in many places considered the standard, just look at how many hosting providers provide is as the primary or only platform). You want something different that has a reputation for rock solid stability? Get Debian. You want a user-friendly Debian? Get Ubutnu.
:P
You want desktop with good integration and commercial support that carries the name of a recognized brand, has a reputation for rock solid stability and is user-friendly? Well you're screwed
... boot the Live CD properly. Guess the reviewers were more lucky than me.
FTFA:
Well, here's some news that might get you to sit straight up in your chair:
Shit this is gonna be intense... I knew it there's something in there I didn't know.
Along with the majority of the computer-facing population, you could be well on your way to developing a series of unsavory repetitive stress ailments such as carpal tunnel syndrome, postural syndrome, tendonitis and eye strain.
Wait, you promised me news, damn you. I WANT MY NEWS!!!
2006:
Presuming any of what you say has any bearing at all (we'd all have to be networked in the head!)
1986:
Presuming any of what you say has any bearing at all (we'd all have to be networked via tiny boxes we carry in our pockets we'll call "cellphones")
We are still waiting for them to do something, other than have nude beaches.
When you stop waiting you can take part in "doing something" too.
WHY someone would ever want to download a movie is beyond me. They're alwasy worse quality (especially so before the DVD comes out), and plus, movie theaters (while they may charge too much for food) always have nice air conditioning, excellent sound, a huge screen, and depending on which one you go to, comfy seats.
Well over here cinemas are crappy, and don't project the movies I want to see.
I either get it from P2P, hope the DVD arrives in 7-8 months (good chance it won't, ever), or just give up on it.
I go for P2P. Then those clowns call it an actual sale loss. Idiots.
That will become useful about the same time it becomes handy to bring a server rack in your pocket as a cell phone.
a site originally designed to respond to queries in human language that grew into a full-blown search engine after the Teoma acquisition
They make it sound like an "upgrade", but it's the opposite. I bet I could use ask.com if it could really answer questions and they concentrated on that, instead of being a generic search engine.
You think I'm funny? Well screw ya, after this police campaign I love the pirate bay guys more than ever.
They've turned from an underground torrent search engine to a symbol in the eyes of a lot of people.
MPAA/RIAA you're pretty consistent in screwing up, I know it hurts, but don't worry, your end is near.
Our lifespans are longer than they have ever been in the first world, thanks largely to modern science-based medicine.
Don't forget to take your daily "life extension" pill every morning!
That's funny, you know, I and my family have on average a lot longer life-span than 30 years, yet we just survive on clean water, food and air.
But maybe I gotta grab some pills and swallow them, just in case I might die otherwise.
Seriously: don't forget a large portion of the health problems we suffer today are because of our "modern life": preservatives in food, sugar, stress, air pollution, antibiotics and hormones in the meat we eat, cell phones, electric transformers, wi-fi networks.
People before were dying because of bad hygiene and infected water and food or lack thereof. They were not dying because they didn't have medicines to drink.