The consumer isnt criminalized if they buy the music. When you buy music you but the media, not the content. You dont own the song, you never did. When you buy a CD, you dont get free LPs and cassettes.
Whether or not piracy is a real economic impact, people are still "booleging" music.
You people need to stop rewriting history. If any has been criminalized its the rightful owners of the music.
This is such a HUGE waste of time, money, and effort. If there is any substance to this, Cheney will be out of office long before they can come to any conclusion.
People have to move on. Sure we dont agree with the war, but how is this going to do anyone any good but make the Bush-haters feel smug. Gore lost the 2000 election. Let it go.
Neither the Republicans - or the Democrats - are capable of running this country, efficiently and cost effectively. Staying with these two parties is like staying with Windows 98 or MS DOS.
The person who owns the copyright for tabs is the guy who put tabs on the paper folders in our filing cabinets. Software is emulating the physical world. How can we forget that!?
I upgrade primarily for two reasons: 1) compatiblity with other users 2) compatibility with new hardware (computers)
Featurewise, I havent seen huge impriovements sin the mid 90s. Its all fluff that slowsd the computer down.
I dont blame MS, though. The industry has too many economic fronts: hardware upgrades, os upgrades, inter-user compatility, new media compatibility, new technology compatibility. Business users have outdated computers because they really dont need to upgrade if their current hardware and software do the job.
MS needs to give us a reason to upgrade other than more features. This article is about hardware "upgrades."
"The fact that customers are pleading with PC suppliers to provide an XP option also hints at the lack of Vista upgrade sales for existing PCs."
It hints of lack of faith in Vista. I dont see how you extrapolaite the upgrade numbers are down from new computer sales. Unless you are just guessing that lack of faith equals lack of upgrades.
Thats a good point. But how significant is it? If we are talking about new computer sales and not OS upgrades, will using XP decrease new computer sales?
Its a subpoena. Why should this crime be treated any different!? Your RIAA-hate is blinding you to sensibility. Attending school is not above enforcing the law.
I am not sure we can compare earthquakes in other countries who have different techtonic plates, different physical and economic vulnerabilities, different building codes, and different code enforcement. We are taling about earthquakes in California specifically, as mentioned in the parent comment.
I've lived in northern California since 1976. In 1989 we suffered the only significant damaging earthquake and it wasn't a big deal in the scheme of things. The 1906 earthquake didnt damage San Francisco much, rather it was fire and lack of building code.
In CA an earthquake is no more eventful than daily tide risings.
Terrorism, on the hand, has targeted Americans more than 20 times since the 1970s. 9/11 hurt the US economically more than the 1989 earthquake or the 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles combined.
I wouldn't say IM is any less necessary than email access.
IM is very useful with or without telephone conversations because data and reference material can be shared without the recipient having to try to transcribe the information into notes. Communication over distance is made "local". Unlike email, IM is rather instantaneous as if speaking through a cube wall.
Worry about your own party's consistency before you worry about another party's consistency. Democrats have been all over the map on war and security issues, selling out for votes. They are no more superior than any other party. Parties can't simply claim superiority, they must demonstrate it. (I am not a Republican.)
As for the Clinton admin - the issues were significantly different at the time.
If you want to start quoting politicians, just look how Hilary's position on the troops has changed 3 times since 2005 when she claimed retreat from Iraq would be a miserable failure. Changing one's opinion over 10 years is a little different than changing it annually.
Regardless, I restate - if this passes, it will be Democrat controlled congress that approves it.
Assuming the bulk of the internet was down for a few hours, would it really matter. Sure, we can calculate a dollar loss by estimating potential sales per hour, but at the end of the week,end of the month, would it make a significant difference?
Most of our loss form 9/11 was due to emotional knee-jerk reaction. However, if you read the comments and blogs, internet users claim to be more rational and intelligent that the average person. Under those conditions we would take the internet outage as welcome break to go stand outside with our coworkers and gossip about someone's clothes.
Or worse, we could finally pick up the phone again and call our business transactions in like we did for decades.
...if this passes. They control congress. Plus, with less than 2 years left, "the Bush administration" has little to gain from this because they will cease to exist.
Seriously: security is not a partisan issue. Stop painting it that way.
small stores are going to bitch at the larger record chains and WalMarts and whomever. The reality is the small business cannot compete when they dont have an exclusive supply for their community. Small business is ideal for specialization, not in mass marketing.
The last thing we want in the US is the two party, big money, system to dictate information on the internet. Maybe YouTube needs a politics section that keeps the political messages out of the mainstream popularity pools. Rather, they are popular, relatively, within the politics section. AND force the more obscure videos on to the page bottom.
Let's face it: children are not taught to question the two leading parties. They are taught to pick one of the two leading parties and that the third parties have no chance. THey dont have a chance because the two major parties have written the rules in their own favor and they have bigger wallets. Wealth should not be an issue when making political candidates visible.
Apple hasnt released as many models as it normally does at Mac World and does these months. Like: where's the latest Mac mini? There almost no new desktop or lap top hype this year.
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The consumer isnt criminalized if they buy the music. When you buy music you but the media, not the content. You dont own the song, you never did. When you buy a CD, you dont get free LPs and cassettes.
Whether or not piracy is a real economic impact, people are still "booleging" music.
You people need to stop rewriting history. If any has been criminalized its the rightful owners of the music.
This is such a HUGE waste of time, money, and effort. If there is any substance to this, Cheney will be out of office long before they can come to any conclusion.
People have to move on. Sure we dont agree with the war, but how is this going to do anyone any good but make the Bush-haters feel smug. Gore lost the 2000 election. Let it go.
Neither the Republicans - or the Democrats - are capable of running this country, efficiently and cost effectively. Staying with these two parties is like staying with Windows 98 or MS DOS.
The person who owns the copyright for tabs is the guy who put tabs on the paper folders in our filing cabinets. Software is emulating the physical world. How can we forget that!?
I upgrade primarily for two reasons:
1) compatiblity with other users
2) compatibility with new hardware (computers)
Featurewise, I havent seen huge impriovements sin the mid 90s. Its all fluff that slowsd the computer down.
I dont blame MS, though. The industry has too many economic fronts: hardware upgrades, os upgrades, inter-user compatility, new media compatibility, new technology compatibility. Business users have outdated computers because they really dont need to upgrade if their current hardware and software do the job.
MS needs to give us a reason to upgrade other than more features. This article is about hardware "upgrades."
"The fact that customers are pleading with PC suppliers to provide an XP option also hints at the lack of Vista upgrade sales for existing PCs." It hints of lack of faith in Vista. I dont see how you extrapolaite the upgrade numbers are down from new computer sales. Unless you are just guessing that lack of faith equals lack of upgrades.
I dont disagree with your comment. I only question how relevent it is to new computer sales.
Thats a good point. But how significant is it? If we are talking about new computer sales and not OS upgrades, will using XP decrease new computer sales?
What does matter if the sales come from XP or Vista? They still get money.
Its a subpoena. Why should this crime be treated any different!? Your RIAA-hate is blinding you to sensibility. Attending school is not above enforcing the law.
...whether we buy VIsta or XP?
Schools do not have any authority to mandate behavior of school property. This is absolutely ridiculous.
I am not sure we can compare earthquakes in other countries who have different techtonic plates, different physical and economic vulnerabilities, different building codes, and different code enforcement. We are taling about earthquakes in California specifically, as mentioned in the parent comment.
I am not making an opinion on hurricanes.
I've lived in northern California since 1976. In 1989 we suffered the only significant damaging earthquake and it wasn't a big deal in the scheme of things. The 1906 earthquake didnt damage San Francisco much, rather it was fire and lack of building code.
In CA an earthquake is no more eventful than daily tide risings.
Terrorism, on the hand, has targeted Americans more than 20 times since the 1970s. 9/11 hurt the US economically more than the 1989 earthquake or the 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles combined.
I wouldn't say IM is any less necessary than email access.
IM is very useful with or without telephone conversations because data and reference material can be shared without the recipient having to try to transcribe the information into notes. Communication over distance is made "local". Unlike email, IM is rather instantaneous as if speaking through a cube wall.
Worry about your own party's consistency before you worry about another party's consistency. Democrats have been all over the map on war and security issues, selling out for votes. They are no more superior than any other party. Parties can't simply claim superiority, they must demonstrate it. (I am not a Republican.)
As for the Clinton admin - the issues were significantly different at the time.
If you want to start quoting politicians, just look how Hilary's position on the troops has changed 3 times since 2005 when she claimed retreat from Iraq would be a miserable failure. Changing one's opinion over 10 years is a little different than changing it annually.
Regardless, I restate - if this passes, it will be Democrat controlled congress that approves it.
Assuming the bulk of the internet was down for a few hours, would it really matter. Sure, we can calculate a dollar loss by estimating potential sales per hour, but at the end of the week,end of the month, would it make a significant difference?
Most of our loss form 9/11 was due to emotional knee-jerk reaction. However, if you read the comments and blogs, internet users claim to be more rational and intelligent that the average person. Under those conditions we would take the internet outage as welcome break to go stand outside with our coworkers and gossip about someone's clothes.
Or worse, we could finally pick up the phone again and call our business transactions in like we did for decades.
...if this passes. They control congress. Plus, with less than 2 years left, "the Bush administration" has little to gain from this because they will cease to exist.
Seriously: security is not a partisan issue. Stop painting it that way.
Most people dont need web browsing. Just turn it of. Turn off everything but email and IM.
small stores are going to bitch at the larger record chains and WalMarts and whomever. The reality is the small business cannot compete when they dont have an exclusive supply for their community. Small business is ideal for specialization, not in mass marketing.
The last thing we want in the US is the two party, big money, system to dictate information on the internet. Maybe YouTube needs a politics section that keeps the political messages out of the mainstream popularity pools. Rather, they are popular, relatively, within the politics section. AND force the more obscure videos on to the page bottom.
Let's face it: children are not taught to question the two leading parties. They are taught to pick one of the two leading parties and that the third parties have no chance. THey dont have a chance because the two major parties have written the rules in their own favor and they have bigger wallets. Wealth should not be an issue when making political candidates visible.
Apple hasnt released as many models as it normally does at Mac World and does these months. Like: where's the latest Mac mini? There almost no new desktop or lap top hype this year.
To invent an engine that could be fueled by cheap soda. At 89 cents a liter, its cheaper than water.
Rather, a rip-off. There is no singular KIT car as it was junked over and over. There were several cars.
So? This sounds like an appeal to emotion.
No phones on the plane! Having listen to people yap is worse than having your building bombed.