When I was there last year they seemed to charge around $5 for a legal copy, in the most expensive stores. You could buy the cheap-ass titles that nobody wants, without a hard cover, for around 50 cents at wal-mart, but I don't know if they were more legal than those sold on the streets for a similar price.
A laptop is already constructed to use as little power as possible, so for non-performance critical tasks, it would probably be quite useful for an always-on server. Built-in UPS is also handy, and it can be tucked away in some closet without taking any room, while still having an emergency keyboard and screen if you need to perform administration tasks on it.
For storage, a couple of USB-drives would be useful, I bet they don't draw much more power than the drive itself.
The exact amount of lost sales is up for debate, and it's certainly less than 100% of the number of copies downloaded for free, but it's certainly greater than zero.
Funny you should say that, because people spend more money on culture today than they did just 5 years ago. How is that? CD sales are dropping like a stone, yet people spend more money. See, the problem as that the money stream now bypass the record companies, and naturally they don't like that. Of course they want us to believe that the poor artists will starve now, but I find that a bit strange, for more than one reason.
One is that even before everyone got internet and started to share their files, they got a ridiculously small share of each record sold. If the record companies worry about the artists, they could try to cut costs and streamline their business while still making the records cheap enough so people buy them.
The other is that, as I said, people spend more money on culture. If that money does not go to the artists, then it's not the fault of the consumers, but the fault of the music industry.
Speaking of hyperjumps and documented bugs, in Frontier - Elite 2 (and possibly the original Elite as well) you could jump to solar systems with your warp drive, and you could normally jump between 5 to 10 light years at a time. If you scrolled away so the distance passed 655.35 light years, the limit comparison wrapped around and you could jump 655.36 + 5 to 10 light years. If you knew your maths, you could do some simple trigonometric calculations to jump anywhere you liked in a 1310 light year radii with only two short jumps.
I don't have the manual right here, but I strongly recall that this was described vaguely in the manual.
I for one welcome our new omgnuclearpowereviljohnhowardbushblairwarcriminals bringinnocentdavidhickshomebanthenetespslashdotoil isevileivlevil overlords!
If you know that someone is stealing your lunch everyday, and you know who it is, and you poison the food, I'm sure that they can get you locked up for murder.
I'm sorry, but I couldn't come up with a car analogy.
Oh wait! If you set up the bomb in your car so it will explode if someone steals it, and then someone actually do steal it, thus dies, I bet they can lock you up for that too. If, however, you paint the seats, thus ruining the thief's clothes, I doubt the thief can sue you for the dry cleaning bill.
Actually, I think The Pirate Bay has an auto-generating evidence machine that they could use for free, they just need to make a script and connect it to some suitable database.
I'm definitely not arguing that they weren't commercially successful, but in my world, that has mostly nothing to do with the quality of the music per se, as you can readily see from the somewhat random top lists. What sells well there is not music, it's the artists.
Not really, since I'm an EVIL PIRATE I already have them in FLAC. This is obviously a lie though, since we all know that people who download music never buy the albums.
I totally agree. I think government regulation sucks. They should get rid of those stupid laws like Human Equality so I don't have to let them damn black people on my bus without charging them extra.
It can also cost several million dollars to buy a car, or as we saw yesterday, a laptop. That doesn't mean it's rational, nor that it has to be that way.
IMNSHO, The Beatles were not that good a band. They were a boy-band for teenage girls, just like the current ones (sorry, can't really remember any names). They had some good sound technicians and engineers though, and some individuals in Beatles obviously proved themselves to have higher ambitions. I don't think we will remember Justin Timberlake as much as we do John Lennon, but I also think that it has much more to do with his politics than with his music.
How do you know if a clip is legal to share or not? It could fall under fair use, it could be released to the public domain, it could be completely user created, etc. In some cases, it's obvious, but in most, it's not.
The only one that knows for sure is the content owner, which is why YouTube says that the content owner has to inform them about any clips that gets uploaded without permission, in order to be able to remove them. No one else can.
Yes, we have this in Sweden, for example http://www.delaut.se/ (dela ut means make available or share).
Those who pay the insurance will get full reimbursement of their bills if they get caught, and half the insurance money also goes to a public fund, which is used to pay the fees for some "uneducated" filesharers that still deserve to have their legal fees paid.
This works for now, since there aren't many filesharing cases in Sweden, and those that has been caught have only been charged to pay around $3-4000 if I recall correctly, because the legal system in Sweden is a lot different from the one in the US. (thank $DEITY for that...)
Well, not that I don't hate Microsoft as much as any other guy around... I just have to point out that all the free things you talk about with Ubuntu, are also available for Windows, thanks to open source.
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Well, those of us outside the united states generally ceased to think of the USA as a free country about 7 years ago.
But changing those 10,000 desktops to Windows Vista(TM) will cost nothing? By magic?
When I was there last year they seemed to charge around $5 for a legal copy, in the most expensive stores. You could buy the cheap-ass titles that nobody wants, without a hard cover, for around 50 cents at wal-mart, but I don't know if they were more legal than those sold on the streets for a similar price.
Don't worry, no pun detected.
Unless the content on the HD is encrypted.
Because the US law is changing.
They don't need to block it, they just have to tell the guy on the phone to shut the fuck up.
A laptop is already constructed to use as little power as possible, so for non-performance critical tasks, it would probably be quite useful for an always-on server. Built-in UPS is also handy, and it can be tucked away in some closet without taking any room, while still having an emergency keyboard and screen if you need to perform administration tasks on it.
For storage, a couple of USB-drives would be useful, I bet they don't draw much more power than the drive itself.
Funny you should say that, because people spend more money on culture today than they did just 5 years ago. How is that? CD sales are dropping like a stone, yet people spend more money. See, the problem as that the money stream now bypass the record companies, and naturally they don't like that. Of course they want us to believe that the poor artists will starve now, but I find that a bit strange, for more than one reason.
One is that even before everyone got internet and started to share their files, they got a ridiculously small share of each record sold. If the record companies worry about the artists, they could try to cut costs and streamline their business while still making the records cheap enough so people buy them.
The other is that, as I said, people spend more money on culture. If that money does not go to the artists, then it's not the fault of the consumers, but the fault of the music industry.
Speaking of hyperjumps and documented bugs, in Frontier - Elite 2 (and possibly the original Elite as well) you could jump to solar systems with your warp drive, and you could normally jump between 5 to 10 light years at a time. If you scrolled away so the distance passed 655.35 light years, the limit comparison wrapped around and you could jump 655.36 + 5 to 10 light years. If you knew your maths, you could do some simple trigonometric calculations to jump anywhere you liked in a 1310 light year radii with only two short jumps.
I don't have the manual right here, but I strongly recall that this was described vaguely in the manual.
Let's improve that even further!
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I for one welcome our new omgnuclearpowereviljohnhowardbushblairwarcriminals bringinnocentdavidhickshomebanthenetespslashdotoil isevileivlevil overlords!
If you know that someone is stealing your lunch everyday, and you know who it is, and you poison the food, I'm sure that they can get you locked up for murder.
I'm sorry, but I couldn't come up with a car analogy.
Oh wait! If you set up the bomb in your car so it will explode if someone steals it, and then someone actually do steal it, thus dies, I bet they can lock you up for that too. If, however, you paint the seats, thus ruining the thief's clothes, I doubt the thief can sue you for the dry cleaning bill.
Actually, I think The Pirate Bay has an auto-generating evidence machine that they could use for free, they just need to make a script and connect it to some suitable database.
I'm definitely not arguing that they weren't commercially successful, but in my world, that has mostly nothing to do with the quality of the music per se, as you can readily see from the somewhat random top lists. What sells well there is not music, it's the artists.
Not really, since I'm an EVIL PIRATE I already have them in FLAC. This is obviously a lie though, since we all know that people who download music never buy the albums.
I totally agree. I think government regulation sucks. They should get rid of those stupid laws like Human Equality so I don't have to let them damn black people on my bus without charging them extra.
It seemed to be more like the norm, when it comes to good music. Thinking about Mike Oldfield, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream etc.
It can also cost several million dollars to buy a car, or as we saw yesterday, a laptop. That doesn't mean it's rational, nor that it has to be that way.
IMNSHO, The Beatles were not that good a band. They were a boy-band for teenage girls, just like the current ones (sorry, can't really remember any names). They had some good sound technicians and engineers though, and some individuals in Beatles obviously proved themselves to have higher ambitions. I don't think we will remember Justin Timberlake as much as we do John Lennon, but I also think that it has much more to do with his politics than with his music.
Hey! I bought two yesterday and several more last week, you insensitive clod!
Vangelis - Albedo 0.39 and Vangelis - Spiral
And I don't even have a player to play them.
Quite possibly someone made a typo. Works With Two Females makes much more sense for a hot Native American hunk.
How do you know if a clip is legal to share or not? It could fall under fair use, it could be released to the public domain, it could be completely user created, etc. In some cases, it's obvious, but in most, it's not.
The only one that knows for sure is the content owner, which is why YouTube says that the content owner has to inform them about any clips that gets uploaded without permission, in order to be able to remove them. No one else can.
Yes, we have this in Sweden, for example http://www.delaut.se/ (dela ut means make available or share). Those who pay the insurance will get full reimbursement of their bills if they get caught, and half the insurance money also goes to a public fund, which is used to pay the fees for some "uneducated" filesharers that still deserve to have their legal fees paid.
This works for now, since there aren't many filesharing cases in Sweden, and those that has been caught have only been charged to pay around $3-4000 if I recall correctly, because the legal system in Sweden is a lot different from the one in the US. (thank $DEITY for that...)
Well, not that I don't hate Microsoft as much as any other guy around... I just have to point out that all the free things you talk about with Ubuntu, are also available for Windows, thanks to open source.