apple wasnt able to sell a product on the premise of being 'hip' and 'cool' for once. japanese preferred function over cool factor. hipster ads didnt cut it. to the extent that apple didnt see any issues with offering the phone almost free with various subscriptions. all the while customers in u.s. being locked in, tortured, and belittled if they wanted to do more with their phone by unlocking it, after paying exorbitant amounts. there's nothing to defend about apple - only way one can do this in this thread and subject, would be probably due to sheer fanboyism. bad. fanboyism is little different from religious fundamentalism.
get a load of that. private interests are the decider of what's good for society now.
that's what happens when you allow unbridled capitalism. if there is an unorderly chaos, a lack of authority, more powerful groups fill the gap and establish their own hierarchy. NO different than post roman empire chaos in which roman government wasnt able to restore order. in that feudal lords arose, establishing a new order. it was only in 1400s that central kings were able to establish a valid rule for the land, with the help of cannons, beating feudal lords and freeing them from the whims of robber barons.
today is no different. we have a king in the form of governments, which WE, as people, control, we have 'private interests', which are trying to assert their own authority in various aspects of social life, hiding behind capitalism, competition and free market excuses.
the only way that you can have EQUAL, FAIR environment is to bash feudal lords through your central hammer at your disposal - your federal government.
do it, and you wont live in a virtual feudal domain in your locale under whatever big group controls aspects of life. - for any fool that may err in thinking that they dont : almost all of the services&products you use in your daily life belongs to various corporations which are the holdings of various big megaholdings themselves.
and they WILL all buy nintendo products, if piracy is prevented. they are that rich. they are pirating, only because they are just greedy. nothing else. its not like they wont be able to ever buy nintendo products if they cant pirate.
having what drink you like, what tv show you like, or hell, even your FUCKING name in your profile anyway then ?
let me tell you - the sum of ALL those things, INCLUDINg sexual orientation, makes up WHO you are.
that's the purpose behind people expressing their sexual orientation. it may not be a defining factor for YOU, or in your eyes, but it is, for many people.
im neither gay or lesbian and i approve of this message.
a forever standing article on slashdot would be more effective both to your benefit and to their detriment, than anything they can write in your resume.
IS the one to put out a paper outlining guidelines for any secure software. we have decades of safe computer using and internet surfing to thank them for.
are those idiots who sue internet presences for bullshitty reasons aware that, the moment they come up and show their animosity against the values of internet, they are making themselves a prime target for all major league hackers and junior league wannabees around the world, instantly ?
do they think they will be able to sue down unidentifiable major league hackers, say, in germany for example, when out of their annoyance they make that shiney website of them have 50% downtime, or even infiltrate their corporate network and bust their files ?
or a chinese wannabee ddosing the server that their site runs on into oblivion ?
it seems to me that many corporations are yet not aware that internet, web is a LIVE environment in which you are always in front of the eyes of the public. and public's perception of you, can make you, or break you in many ways.
as of this point there is an established powerhouse of distribution and intellectual property. they are a handful of people, and they basically decide wherever market and even trends go. they can make or break stars. they can buy laws and buy enforcement.
this is the end result. it doesnt matter whether they acquired it through some long standing tradition of a belief god given rights, or by increasingly manipulating and cornering the market.
and you are no part of that aristocracy, if you pardon the offense here. your position as a software developer trying to earn a living on software, is the position of d'artagnan who is trying to make a career and living out of his sword, in employ of Louis XIII first, and Louis XIV later. despite being a novel, it actually pictures many frenchmen's lives in those centuries - trying to benefit from the 'trickle down' effect, which never trickled. an aristocratic system, regardless of the means it was acquired, does not reward or even like outsiders or outsiders trying to rise in ranks.
you are one of the people. you are one of us. your benefits, your profit, your fate is tied to ours. you should remember that.
You'd be surprised. And there's no monopoly. Everyone can sell music. Just the ones who produce a particular song gets to decide where it goes... just like a particular Dell model has to come from Dell. Doesn't mean Dell has monopoly on computers. If I have a farm, only I gets to sell the tomatoes I produced.
Oh wait, you're saying someone should be able to sell what someone else produced without asking for permission? Now you're going to say "But, if I produce the disk or the copy...". But then I'd say "how would you sell it if the artist didn't produce it in the first place?"
Sure, the parallel isn't 1:1 with other commodities, but still. And you're not aware of all the markets with state driven quotas and regulations?You'd be surprised. And there's no monopoly. Everyone can sell music. Just the ones who produce a particular song gets to decide where it goes... just like a particular Dell model has to come from Dell. Doesn't mean Dell has monopoly on computers. If I have a farm, only I gets to sell the tomatoes I produced.
Oh wait, you're saying someone should be able to sell what someone else produced without asking for permission? Now you're going to say "But, if I produce the disk or the copy...". But then I'd say "how would you sell it if the artist didn't produce it in the first place?"
Sure, the parallel isn't 1:1 with other commodities, but still. And you're not aware of all the markets with state driven quotas and regulations?
please cut the crap and be practical.
what you picture is like saying either of the below :
you are in 1780s france. someone is complaining that there is a strict class society. you reply "But hey, you can get ennobled and become even a Count by proving your worth - its a road open to everyone". whereas the number of people who become high ranking (and even lowest ranking) nobles at that time do not number a few dozen.
Or, you are in 2009. someone complains about the political system and you say that "why, you dont have to have heaps of money to become a powerful politician - politics is open to everyone". which is, we both know, bullshit.
same goes for music. its THEORETICALLY open to everyone, but its so cornered with various laws and distribution schemes that are monopolized by a handful of corporations that noone else can do any significant shit.
sorry for the strong language. but, strong bullshit calls for strong language(s).
no laws set monopolies to define minimum prices for any type of commodity. but in music, entertainment, basically monopolies are given exclusive rights, indirectly. there is no free market in that environment.
there are probably many forces which will stop you in your tracks before you get to it. and they may not be your own government, or even your own people.
why should music be ANY different than other forms of free market ?
in a competitive environment, the price of goods should be the value the customers willing to buy that good from.
and, rather sadly, you are right, there are many people who would give money to their favorite bands, rather than giving money to saving people from cancer.
they liked him ( he is the lead of the group who worked on and wrote declaration of the rights of man ), respected him, but they were SO fed up with aristocracy and what they lived in their hands that noone heeded the pleas to stop violence against aristocrats.
its something like that. 3% of the population is trying to suppress 97% of the population like those times. 3% is the corporations and the i.p. industry, and 97%, the people, like the last time.
i dont need to remind you what happened after 1792.
Slashdot Mirror
1 - Warner Bros DRM
2 - Disney DRM
3 - Sony BMG DRM
4 - Universal Music DRM
5 - Stronger Warner Bros DRM
6 - More Powerful Disney DRM
7 - Catch-All Sony BMG DRM
8 - No shit Universal Music DRM
9 - You aint seen nothing yet DRM
10 - All your computer belong to us DRM
why, but these are fantastic features !
apple wasnt able to sell a product on the premise of being 'hip' and 'cool' for once. japanese preferred function over cool factor. hipster ads didnt cut it. to the extent that apple didnt see any issues with offering the phone almost free with various subscriptions. all the while customers in u.s. being locked in, tortured, and belittled if they wanted to do more with their phone by unlocking it, after paying exorbitant amounts. there's nothing to defend about apple - only way one can do this in this thread and subject, would be probably due to sheer fanboyism. bad. fanboyism is little different from religious fundamentalism.
you're anonymous.
why ?
get a load of that. private interests are the decider of what's good for society now.
that's what happens when you allow unbridled capitalism. if there is an unorderly chaos, a lack of authority, more powerful groups fill the gap and establish their own hierarchy. NO different than post roman empire chaos in which roman government wasnt able to restore order. in that feudal lords arose, establishing a new order. it was only in 1400s that central kings were able to establish a valid rule for the land, with the help of cannons, beating feudal lords and freeing them from the whims of robber barons.
today is no different. we have a king in the form of governments, which WE, as people, control, we have 'private interests', which are trying to assert their own authority in various aspects of social life, hiding behind capitalism, competition and free market excuses.
the only way that you can have EQUAL, FAIR environment is to bash feudal lords through your central hammer at your disposal - your federal government.
do it, and you wont live in a virtual feudal domain in your locale under whatever big group controls aspects of life. - for any fool that may err in thinking that they dont : almost all of the services&products you use in your daily life belongs to various corporations which are the holdings of various big megaholdings themselves.
and they WILL all buy nintendo products, if piracy is prevented. they are that rich. they are pirating, only because they are just greedy. nothing else. its not like they wont be able to ever buy nintendo products if they cant pirate.
having what drink you like, what tv show you like, or hell, even your FUCKING name in your profile anyway then ?
let me tell you - the sum of ALL those things, INCLUDINg sexual orientation, makes up WHO you are.
that's the purpose behind people expressing their sexual orientation. it may not be a defining factor for YOU, or in your eyes, but it is, for many people.
im neither gay or lesbian and i approve of this message.
now get outta my lawn.
here.
a forever standing article on slashdot would be more effective both to your benefit and to their detriment, than anything they can write in your resume.
think. then it will.
because capitalism worked SO much better, to the point of totally breaking down ENTIRE WORLD ECONOMY in just 6 years.
definitely we all should buy into your morondom. count me in.
mod_moron and mod_troll have to be preinstalled. i guess that is the setup you are using anyway so no problem.
we have ms fanbois then ? after all the flops of the last 2 years ?
No microsoft thriller is complete without chairs. we need chairs.
IS the one to put out a paper outlining guidelines for any secure software. we have decades of safe computer using and internet surfing to thank them for.
We dOnT KnOW ShIt aBoUt InTeRnEt, bUt, wE hAvE a WeBsItE. gO fIgUrE hOw OuR lAw SeRviCe iS
are those idiots who sue internet presences for bullshitty reasons aware that, the moment they come up and show their animosity against the values of internet, they are making themselves a prime target for all major league hackers and junior league wannabees around the world, instantly ?
do they think they will be able to sue down unidentifiable major league hackers, say, in germany for example, when out of their annoyance they make that shiney website of them have 50% downtime, or even infiltrate their corporate network and bust their files ?
or a chinese wannabee ddosing the server that their site runs on into oblivion ?
it seems to me that many corporations are yet not aware that internet, web is a LIVE environment in which you are always in front of the eyes of the public. and public's perception of you, can make you, or break you in many ways.
let him get ahold of those who he had appointed in those posts. often tail wants to behave differently from what head wants.
the method doesnt matter, the end result matters.
as of this point there is an established powerhouse of distribution and intellectual property. they are a handful of people, and they basically decide wherever market and even trends go. they can make or break stars. they can buy laws and buy enforcement.
this is the end result. it doesnt matter whether they acquired it through some long standing tradition of a belief god given rights, or by increasingly manipulating and cornering the market.
and you are no part of that aristocracy, if you pardon the offense here. your position as a software developer trying to earn a living on software, is the position of d'artagnan who is trying to make a career and living out of his sword, in employ of Louis XIII first, and Louis XIV later. despite being a novel, it actually pictures many frenchmen's lives in those centuries - trying to benefit from the 'trickle down' effect, which never trickled. an aristocratic system, regardless of the means it was acquired, does not reward or even like outsiders or outsiders trying to rise in ranks.
you are one of the people. you are one of us. your benefits, your profit, your fate is tied to ours. you should remember that.
the device is not going to mutate. the INSECT will. you are introducing an unnatural element into the very body of a living organism.
You'd be surprised. And there's no monopoly. Everyone can sell music. Just the ones who produce a particular song gets to decide where it goes... just like a particular Dell model has to come from Dell. Doesn't mean Dell has monopoly on computers. If I have a farm, only I gets to sell the tomatoes I produced.
Oh wait, you're saying someone should be able to sell what someone else produced without asking for permission? Now you're going to say "But, if I produce the disk or the copy...". But then I'd say "how would you sell it if the artist didn't produce it in the first place?"
Sure, the parallel isn't 1:1 with other commodities, but still. And you're not aware of all the markets with state driven quotas and regulations?You'd be surprised. And there's no monopoly. Everyone can sell music. Just the ones who produce a particular song gets to decide where it goes... just like a particular Dell model has to come from Dell. Doesn't mean Dell has monopoly on computers. If I have a farm, only I gets to sell the tomatoes I produced.
Oh wait, you're saying someone should be able to sell what someone else produced without asking for permission? Now you're going to say "But, if I produce the disk or the copy...". But then I'd say "how would you sell it if the artist didn't produce it in the first place?"
Sure, the parallel isn't 1:1 with other commodities, but still. And you're not aware of all the markets with state driven quotas and regulations?
please cut the crap and be practical.
what you picture is like saying either of the below :
you are in 1780s france. someone is complaining that there is a strict class society. you reply "But hey, you can get ennobled and become even a Count by proving your worth - its a road open to everyone". whereas the number of people who become high ranking (and even lowest ranking) nobles at that time do not number a few dozen.
Or, you are in 2009. someone complains about the political system and you say that "why, you dont have to have heaps of money to become a powerful politician - politics is open to everyone". which is, we both know, bullshit.
same goes for music. its THEORETICALLY open to everyone, but its so cornered with various laws and distribution schemes that are monopolized by a handful of corporations that noone else can do any significant shit.
sorry for the strong language. but, strong bullshit calls for strong language(s).
that has been hosting close to 200 clients with 300+ sites along with ecommerce ones, and high traffic ones.
i didnt lose anything. every day whole server gets backed up with rsync to some new york based backup service, automatically.
costs 20/month.
is it TOO hard to set up an arrangement like that ?
no laws set monopolies to define minimum prices for any type of commodity. but in music, entertainment, basically monopolies are given exclusive rights, indirectly. there is no free market in that environment.
there are probably many forces which will stop you in your tracks before you get to it. and they may not be your own government, or even your own people.
do we know what fucked up mutations these stuff may eventually bring ?
what if a harmful mutation starts to breed like there's no tomorrow ? WHO will fix it ?
but of course !
why should music be ANY different than other forms of free market ?
in a competitive environment, the price of goods should be the value the customers willing to buy that good from.
and, rather sadly, you are right, there are many people who would give money to their favorite bands, rather than giving money to saving people from cancer.
after 1789. to stop violence.
they liked him ( he is the lead of the group who worked on and wrote declaration of the rights of man ), respected him, but they were SO fed up with aristocracy and what they lived in their hands that noone heeded the pleas to stop violence against aristocrats.
its something like that. 3% of the population is trying to suppress 97% of the population like those times. 3% is the corporations and the i.p. industry, and 97%, the people, like the last time.
i dont need to remind you what happened after 1792.