Since version 7 or 8, I've had most of those functions available in a toolbar button. There's loads of pages of buttons you can just drag-and-drop. The one I use most often is a checkbox for javascript.
Aw crap...then by my relatively low id, I ought to be somewhere in my fifties. Well, sometimes I feel that way.
Anyway, I've been saying this for a couple years now, since I realized it: Downloading music causes people to get excited about music, resulting in them spending _more_ on music than if they hadn't "pirated" anything. When someone doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about music, that person is not going to spend time or money buying a lot of music.
What is it with technology advances and people? Is there a thoughtless idiot genre operating here? Every damn time someone pipes up with "I build systems out of sand and raw electrons", some idiot starts babbling about using the latest and greatest...while conveniently ignoring that it's results that matter, not how pretty your tools are.
I love emusic, but they don't offer the mass-marketed tripe that the most lucrative market wants. They want Akon, not.....umm......well, I can't think of any band obscure enough to make my point while known enough to be recognized. Imagine that.
I don't know about any "party line". In the two years I've been saying it, I haven't seen the same observation from anybody else until a couple months ago when someone had something similar to say.
If you don't think it's true, how do you explain sales following piracy, as reported by the RIAA? They, of course, never made the connection, but I noticed that each time they issued a press release about piracy levels they followed in a couple months with a press release about sales that went in the same direction as piracy did.
I wish I could find the press release where they said they had piracy "under control" or something similar and give you the link. I think they got rid of it, but IIRC it happened about 6 months ago.
Here's the thing about people who are, as you say, ripping off music: They're also getting excited about music and buying more than they were going to buy if they were doing other things with their time.
That's an observation I've made of my own past behavior, and it correlates well with the sales and piracy statistics released by the RIAA. First they report piracy is at a high, then they report sales have reached a high. Later, they report piracy is down, and after that, sales follow.
I never spent more money on music than when I was enjoying the original Napster and Audiogalaxy and other P2P systems.
SomaFM provides nice streams in various formats that can be played by free software. Lately I've taken to listening on my phone while on the road. If only I could make my phone's media player not timeout every 5 minutes, I could probably cancel my satellite radio subscription...
Yet you don't complain about Jose Cuervo or Sauza? I don't care what it's called or whose name is on it, Cabo Wabo tastes good. Oro Azul is my favorite from that list, though.
I at least left Durango off the list. That's the one that comes in a big 1.75 liter plastic bottle for the same price as a 1/2 liter of Cuervo. It makes margaritas well, but it puts hair on your nipples if you drink it straight.
Did anyone actually think that by making their punitive puppet, a separate organization
Actually, they didn't quite make the separate organization their punitive puppet; the actual lawsuits are RecordCompanyName v. VictimName, not RIAA v. VictimName.
Please elaborate in what way is it "much more effective"? Is it better at blocking ads? I have been using adblock and have not seen an ad in so long that when i go to another computer who doesn't have it installed i am always surprised by page layouts that i frequently visit.
Yes, it is better at blocking ads. I really like Firefox and I use it daily, but the majority of my browsing is done with Opera, and when I use Firefox I am always surprised by page layouts that I frequently visit.
I really didn't mean for it to come off sounding like that; my point wasn't that there's anything wrong with Firefox or Adblock. It was just that as an Opera user, I'm no more likely (and probably less likely) to view someone's ads.
I checked out your urlfilter.ini. There isn't a single rule in there that couldn't also be loaded into Adblock. If you were to actually import those rules into Adblock, it would be just as effective as Opera. Last time I checked, Adblock didn't have any default rules, so it is absurd to say it doesn't work as well as Opera's ad blocking.
What? When I've installed the Adblock extension, it's automatically downloaded a prefab list. That's a good point, however, that I could add everything from my urlfilter.ini to it. There's nothing magic or even innovative in my urlfilter.ini.
It seems I may have gored some folks' sacred cow. Sorry about that, guys, I really didn't mean to offend.
I use Opera too. I use Firefox where Opera doesn't work, or where the *heavy ad filtering* I have in Opera prevents me from seeing something (which is pretty rare).
I put my urlfilter.ini on my website so others can benefit from it. It was lovingly butchered together from various lists I found, and it's much more effective than Firefox's Adblock extension.
Wha? It's a cartoon of a beach scene where a guy gets sliced into a few pieces. What kind of work would that be any more not safe than any other comic?
There already IS a boycott of RIAA labels. It's not organized, and not big; and I seriously doubt it can ever be big enough to make them change their ways.
I've been boycotting them for a couple years...basically, since I bought my house and then realized that I now have something to lose if they decide that I've got a purty mouth.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not yours, but here's one:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=45244&cid=4686962
Google made it easy to find:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22(Score%3A5%2C+Troll)%22+%2Bsite%3Aslashdot.org
Similar results are available for Flamebait, etc.
Since version 7 or 8, I've had most of those functions available in a toolbar button. There's loads of pages of buttons you can just drag-and-drop. The one I use most often is a checkbox for javascript.
My urlfilter.ini is pretty complete, I can't remember the last ad I saw.
http://ronanian.googlepages.com/urlfilter.ini
"Meh" is as much a trend as "ad nauseam", "poser", and accusing someone of using a trend.
Aw crap...then by my relatively low id, I ought to be somewhere in my fifties. Well, sometimes I feel that way.
Anyway, I've been saying this for a couple years now, since I realized it: Downloading music causes people to get excited about music, resulting in them spending _more_ on music than if they hadn't "pirated" anything. When someone doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about music, that person is not going to spend time or money buying a lot of music.
I've switched to non-RIAA music anyway...here's what I wrote on it a couple months ago:
http://slashdot.org/~thc69/journal/179281
What is it with technology advances and people? Is there a thoughtless idiot genre operating here? Every damn time someone pipes up with "I build systems out of sand and raw electrons", some idiot starts babbling about using the latest and greatest...while conveniently ignoring that it's results that matter, not how pretty your tools are.
Wow, I feel old...
I love emusic, but they don't offer the mass-marketed tripe that the most lucrative market wants. They want Akon, not .....umm......well, I can't think of any band obscure enough to make my point while known enough to be recognized. Imagine that.
Me, I'm more likely to buy something like Wylie And The Wild West.
Actually, the first thing I thought of was to just write a script to parse the data from any of a million web listings services like http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings or http://www.tvguide.com/Listings or any of the others...I think it's so easy that even _I_ could do it.
I don't know about any "party line". In the two years I've been saying it, I haven't seen the same observation from anybody else until a couple months ago when someone had something similar to say.
If you don't think it's true, how do you explain sales following piracy, as reported by the RIAA? They, of course, never made the connection, but I noticed that each time they issued a press release about piracy levels they followed in a couple months with a press release about sales that went in the same direction as piracy did.
I wish I could find the press release where they said they had piracy "under control" or something similar and give you the link. I think they got rid of it, but IIRC it happened about 6 months ago.
Here's the thing about people who are, as you say, ripping off music: They're also getting excited about music and buying more than they were going to buy if they were doing other things with their time.
That's an observation I've made of my own past behavior, and it correlates well with the sales and piracy statistics released by the RIAA. First they report piracy is at a high, then they report sales have reached a high. Later, they report piracy is down, and after that, sales follow.
I never spent more money on music than when I was enjoying the original Napster and Audiogalaxy and other P2P systems.
SomaFM provides nice streams in various formats that can be played by free software. Lately I've taken to listening on my phone while on the road. If only I could make my phone's media player not timeout every 5 minutes, I could probably cancel my satellite radio subscription...
Sounds like a good investment in marketing, an attempt to please the public so there will be more interest in NASA and more funding. Will it work?
H) quantity of "'metrics' on absolutely everything" and hours spent on that task
Yet you don't complain about Jose Cuervo or Sauza? I don't care what it's called or whose name is on it, Cabo Wabo tastes good. Oro Azul is my favorite from that list, though.
I at least left Durango off the list. That's the one that comes in a big 1.75 liter plastic bottle for the same price as a 1/2 liter of Cuervo. It makes margaritas well, but it puts hair on your nipples if you drink it straight.
Please allow me to take this opportunity to agree with you.
Mmmm....tequila.
Next slashdot poll: Favorite tequila
- Cabo Wabo
- Oro Azul
- Don Julio
- Jose Ceurvo
- Sauza
- CabelleroNeal
MMORPG IS a real world disease.
I really didn't mean for it to come off sounding like that; my point wasn't that there's anything wrong with Firefox or Adblock. It was just that as an Opera user, I'm no more likely (and probably less likely) to view someone's ads.
It seems I may have gored some folks' sacred cow. Sorry about that, guys, I really didn't mean to offend.
I use Opera too. I use Firefox where Opera doesn't work, or where the *heavy ad filtering* I have in Opera prevents me from seeing something (which is pretty rare).
I put my urlfilter.ini on my website so others can benefit from it. It was lovingly butchered together from various lists I found, and it's much more effective than Firefox's Adblock extension.
Wha? It's a cartoon of a beach scene where a guy gets sliced into a few pieces. What kind of work would that be any more not safe than any other comic?
Here's a comic that's actually about the RIAA:
http://analbumcover.com/images/riaa.jpg
There already IS a boycott of RIAA labels. It's not organized, and not big; and I seriously doubt it can ever be big enough to make them change their ways.
I've been boycotting them for a couple years...basically, since I bought my house and then realized that I now have something to lose if they decide that I've got a purty mouth.
Here's my take on the whole thing, and strategies/tools for the boycott:
http://slashdot.org/~thc69/journal/
Maybe we should ask Sean Connery to resume working on the Anal Bum Cover.