. . . that said P2P file sharing was a silver bullet that was going to destroy their whole business? Now they are saying that 'Schoolyard Piracy' is more of a threat?
Schoolyard Piracy has been around Forever. Ever since cassette recorders hit wal-mart shelves, people have been copying each other's purchased music. And it was probably going on before then, but I wasn't around so I wouldn't know. Even though people were copying music from each other in this physical, sneakernet, manner, the recording industry (and, comparatively, software industry) flurrished. And aside from the occational 'copying is bad' print ad, the music industry never cared. What changed?
People also used to record songs off the radio all the time. Now XM is in trouble for simply providing a device capable of it. What changed?
Personally, I buy music if I think it's good enough to buy, which is actually quite often. I like owning the physical cd, and I don't like getting music that is DRM protected because I don't like the lack of trust I'm being given. So if I buy music online it's from emusic.com.
Just last week a friend of mine copied an album for me- it's awesome, I decided after listening to two songs I wanted to buy it- but it's not available on emusic, so I've been spending the week trying to physically find it so I can give the artist and record label money for it.
The only reason they don't have my money yet is because they refuse to make it available in a reasonable format online. Who's fault is the lack of this sale?
You know what happened when software companies started acting like this? Open source software started showing up. . .
It's a #*&$ing table saw!
Seriously, I used to run a shop that built arcade cabinet kits. There wasn't a tool in the place I wasn't nervous around- and that's a good thing, because even after working there for quite some time I still have all of my digits.
There's a real problem in this country with safety. People want things to be safer, only because they are too lazy to think about their actions before performing them. If we took all the safety equipment out of modern cars, what kind of fuel mileage could they get?
If you cut your finger off, well, I'm sorry for you, but you effed up. Take responsibility for it, and don't do it again. Don't expect someone to come up with a new kind of table saw that stops when you screw up. All that does is let you be more complacent, and gives you someone to sue when the real blame should be placed on you.
The Saturn V is insanely inefficient by today's standards. But they are thinking like you're thinking- they are using the same concepts as the Saturn V, but applying space shuttle technology (specifically the main engines, which are arguably the best rocket engines ever designed).
SSMEs are wonderful units. Lots of money were spent on them, lots of testing was done, they've been continuously improved and have never experienced a failure. They're the way to go.
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. . . that said P2P file sharing was a silver bullet that was going to destroy their whole business? Now they are saying that 'Schoolyard Piracy' is more of a threat? Schoolyard Piracy has been around Forever. Ever since cassette recorders hit wal-mart shelves, people have been copying each other's purchased music. And it was probably going on before then, but I wasn't around so I wouldn't know. Even though people were copying music from each other in this physical, sneakernet, manner, the recording industry (and, comparatively, software industry) flurrished. And aside from the occational 'copying is bad' print ad, the music industry never cared. What changed? People also used to record songs off the radio all the time. Now XM is in trouble for simply providing a device capable of it. What changed? Personally, I buy music if I think it's good enough to buy, which is actually quite often. I like owning the physical cd, and I don't like getting music that is DRM protected because I don't like the lack of trust I'm being given. So if I buy music online it's from emusic.com. Just last week a friend of mine copied an album for me- it's awesome, I decided after listening to two songs I wanted to buy it- but it's not available on emusic, so I've been spending the week trying to physically find it so I can give the artist and record label money for it. The only reason they don't have my money yet is because they refuse to make it available in a reasonable format online. Who's fault is the lack of this sale? You know what happened when software companies started acting like this? Open source software started showing up. . .
It's a #*&$ing table saw! Seriously, I used to run a shop that built arcade cabinet kits. There wasn't a tool in the place I wasn't nervous around- and that's a good thing, because even after working there for quite some time I still have all of my digits. There's a real problem in this country with safety. People want things to be safer, only because they are too lazy to think about their actions before performing them. If we took all the safety equipment out of modern cars, what kind of fuel mileage could they get? If you cut your finger off, well, I'm sorry for you, but you effed up. Take responsibility for it, and don't do it again. Don't expect someone to come up with a new kind of table saw that stops when you screw up. All that does is let you be more complacent, and gives you someone to sue when the real blame should be placed on you.
The Saturn V is insanely inefficient by today's standards. But they are thinking like you're thinking- they are using the same concepts as the Saturn V, but applying space shuttle technology (specifically the main engines, which are arguably the best rocket engines ever designed). SSMEs are wonderful units. Lots of money were spent on them, lots of testing was done, they've been continuously improved and have never experienced a failure. They're the way to go.