It may be worth mentioning that even back when record companies first started selling actual vinyl record albums, those sales were never the primary revenue source for the artists themselves
Record sales were a big slice of every famous, or even semi-famous, recording artist's income. If they were the primary revenue source or not, that varied from one musician or band to another. But they always were a big part. And I can assure you this is not hearsay.
it is solely about them being not able to afford it, end of story, done and finished.
Google is one of the richest companies in the world, but you justify their profiting from copyright infringement because they can't afford operating withing the law? Since when is that a valid excuse?
Also, why should the content owners waste their time searching and reporting? So Google can cut their costs and hire less people?
Are you a Google shill or are you being dumb for free?
The Linux x32 ABI as a reminder requires x86_64 processors and is engineered to support the modern x86_64 features but with using 32-bit pointers rather than 64-bit pointers.
I tried, but hardware support in the BSD world was frankly pathetic. NetBSD doesn't support ACPI suspend-to-disk and needs special kernel configuration just to show readable characters on the framebuffer console, on my old laptop. FreeBSD and NetBSD wouldn't even finish booting on one of my systems -- a run of the mill, 12 year old amd64 desktop PC that never had any problems with Linux.
I haven't tried OpenBSD lately. Although it's really high quality, its upgrade schedule is unacceptably hectic for me. I like stability on my systems; whereas, with OpenBSD, you must reinstall the whole system at least once a year, if you want to keep it secure (and if you don't, I don't see why you're running that particular OS in the first place). What OpenBSD really needs are long-term support releases.
What the BSD world needs is BETTER HARDWARE SUPPORT if they ever want to be serious, viable contenders. I'd love to switch away from Linux, which is getting more and more fragmented and unstable. But the simple fact is that, today, there is no serious alternative in the Unix[-like] world.
Better yet: change browser. If a piece of software tries to screw the users over, users shouldn't have to find a way around it: they should junk it. That's what that software deserves.
OTOH, users shouldn't be expected to keep up with all the news about how their software is trying to screw them, because that would be like a full-time job these days. So let's avoid blaming the victims, which is always a popular sport on Slashdot. Google is at blame here, not the users who weren't so computer-savvy as to disable one obscure setting or switch to a different browser.
Furthermore, Google being the sneaky bastards they are, who's to say that setting will be honoured at all?
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so here's a well-deserved comment for you:
I bet it was an assertion (and one doomed to fail).
I heartily recommend Devuan.
Personally, I refused systemd after learning it. So there's that too.
Record sales were a big slice of every famous, or even semi-famous, recording artist's income. If they were the primary revenue source or not, that varied from one musician or band to another. But they always were a big part. And I can assure you this is not hearsay.
I agree on this part, but have you ever heard the good bit of advice about not putting all your eggs in one basket?
Google is one of the richest companies in the world, but you justify their profiting from copyright infringement because they can't afford operating withing the law? Since when is that a valid excuse?
Also, why should the content owners waste their time searching and reporting? So Google can cut their costs and hire less people?
Are you a Google shill or are you being dumb for free?
It would have required decent editors.
Me neither, but they would need to make it usable over WiFi. And do it 15 years ago.
But also fix the horrible mess that inter-application copy & paste is on X11. The Mac got it perfectly right in 1984.
No.
Yes, and FYI that "upgrade option" is a full reinstall (which you must do twice a year, if you choose that route).
I tried, but hardware support in the BSD world was frankly pathetic. NetBSD doesn't support ACPI suspend-to-disk and needs special kernel configuration just to show readable characters on the framebuffer console, on my old laptop. FreeBSD and NetBSD wouldn't even finish booting on one of my systems -- a run of the mill, 12 year old amd64 desktop PC that never had any problems with Linux.
I haven't tried OpenBSD lately. Although it's really high quality, its upgrade schedule is unacceptably hectic for me. I like stability on my systems; whereas, with OpenBSD, you must reinstall the whole system at least once a year, if you want to keep it secure (and if you don't, I don't see why you're running that particular OS in the first place). What OpenBSD really needs are long-term support releases.
What the BSD world needs is BETTER HARDWARE SUPPORT if they ever want to be serious, viable contenders. I'd love to switch away from Linux, which is getting more and more fragmented and unstable. But the simple fact is that, today, there is no serious alternative in the Unix[-like] world.
Laughable. It's not over until we know everything, and we clearly don't.
The Nobel prize for peace is such a joke that it only brings discredit upon the receivers.
Better yet: change browser. If a piece of software tries to screw the users over, users shouldn't have to find a way around it: they should junk it. That's what that software deserves.
OTOH, users shouldn't be expected to keep up with all the news about how their software is trying to screw them, because that would be like a full-time job these days. So let's avoid blaming the victims, which is always a popular sport on Slashdot. Google is at blame here, not the users who weren't so computer-savvy as to disable one obscure setting or switch to a different browser.
Furthermore, Google being the sneaky bastards they are, who's to say that setting will be honoured at all?
If they can do that, it doesn't seem too far fetched that they could also turn on the phone's cameras and microphones at will.
Gimme a break. I bet they haven't changed one line of code.
Now that's what I call a fitting comparison!
As usual, Linus' hints were too subtle. Will he ever learn to speak his mind in no uncertain terms?
False. Are you paid to help the French prez spread bullshit or are you trolling for free?
It's a well-known urban legend.
The latter is an urban legend, though.
s/great/easier/
Of course not. Trolls don't have sources.
This bullshit again? They were prosecuted for saying there was no risk and that people should go back home.