It seems you don't do web work. Work with IIS and a remote server and try getting FTP software to transfer files without running the app as an admin IN an admin account.
Fails every time.
years ago, i worked with a guy that was a huge flight sim fan, to the point that he didn't just fly on occasion, but served as a virtual air traffic controller as well. he and his team ran a virtual airport and pulled shifts and everything. he had all the controllers and sticks and pedals, including the only working 3 monitor setup i had seen outside of some high end engineering workstations at that time.
i imagine that while a community like that isn't very large, it is pretty dedicated. perhaps if MS worked with/marketed to these communities more (http://www.vatsim.net) they could have made more from flight sim.
fair use isn't a right. it's a defense. you can't claim fair use until someone else claims infringement. this is how the DMCA and many other laws get abused.
you could be on perfect legal ground, and unless you have the money to go into court and make your case, you have no choice but to shut down.
now, if intellectual property law had provisions for fair use, or if there were penalties for abusing IP laws... the legal landscape would be different.
Actually, you just hit EXACTLY one of the key the reasons why there is a need for copyrights, patents, and trademarks in this world. It would be a sad world where artists are forced to shut up, avoid cameras and recording devices, and so on just so that people won't rip off their work and image for their own profit.
riiiight, and it's way better to try and innovate in an environment where you need legal counsel to have a thought or make a statement.
you bemoan an environment where copying is rampant as unsustainable, yet how can you consider the current environment of rampant lawsuits to be sustainable?
you claim that no one will create anything when it will just be copied, yet why would anyone create anything now when as soon as you show any success, you will be sued for violating a vague patent?
the future of film, music, and television is convenience. instead of investing in new formats, why not invest in amazon/netflix/pandora style search and recommendation? get people to pay you to find stuff for them and give it to them in the format they want?
Case in point, as a service provider our employees keep customer data on their laptops. As part of our security policy we whole disk encrypt all of our laptops because we assume that our customers have a reasonable expectation that we will protect their information while it's in our custody.
a lot of places just don't have guidelines for that sort of thing. retailers in particular are very vague on those sorts of things, and a lot of people who work for retailers probably just don't care anyway.
for example, in all the corporate IT departments that i have worked for, the only time the computer usage policy was ever enforced (porn or otherwise) was as an excuse to terminate someone who was already in bad standing. the rest of the time i run into questionable material, the policy is pretty much "don't ask, don't tell". on the occasions when someone was doing something illegal, the company only took action after law enforcement got involved.
so, going through people's personal stuff is bad, but so is putting your personal stuff out there for people to go through. it's also a bit naive to think that a retail employee would adhere to a store policy about personal data, or that such a policy even exists in the first place.
40 hours to a hardcore gamer is like 4-8 days. that sounds like a pretty good deal for a single game. i'll bet it took me 40 hours to finish the whole halflife2 + episodes 1 and 2.
but there is a new breed of gamer now, the casual gamer. they play games from companies like bigfish, you know the tycoon games and the diner dash knockoffs. i don't think those games take 3 hours to finish, but it's definitely less than 40. the pricing is different too, $10-$20 instead of $50-$60.
thank god we don't do that kind of thing here in the good ol' US of A. here in america we build things the way god intended it: with lawyers and ad campaigns.
Should lengthen them by a second for about a month and then cut back on that one second and kind of mix it up so people can't really get used to it anymore
brilliant! or better yet, have a minimum of say 7 seconds, followed by an random number between .01 and 10.0 seconds. that way every yellow light at ever intersection is different every time.
i don't know if it will make things safer, but it would be a lot of fun to watch the mathematicians and the gambling addicts drive around the block again and again and again.
The "good ol' days" referenced weren't good at all, especially from a consumer's point of view. Music prices increased, radio stations played the same 10 songs every hour, and finding unknown (and usually better) talent was damn near impossible.
the dead kennedy's talked about this kind of thing in the 80's:
from "mtv get off the air": Tin-eared
Graph-paper brained accountants
Instead of music fans
Call all the shots at giant record companies now
The lowest common denominator rules
Forget honesty
Forget creativity
The dumbest buy the mostest
That's the name of the game
But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?
from "triumph of the swill": Music is banned in Khomeini's Iran
On the grounds that it stimulates the brain
We've done him one better in the land of coke & honey
Using music to put people's brains to sleep
Ever wonder why commercial radio's so bad?
It's 'cause someone upstairs wants it that way
If the Doors or John Lennon were getting started now
The industry wouldn't sign 'em in a million years
Now I am at the mercy of what iTunes says is cool and short of scouring online, I have nowhere to go any longer. To me, this is the big problem with the industry today. Good music yes, but it is too hard to find it! :)
are you industry types listening to this?
this is how you compete with free, with convenience.
for every pirate there who downloads whole discographies, there is a person like thomas who would pay you to find good music for them.
charge a small amount for membership (monthly or whatever) to the site (so people can't just look up stuff for free and then download it elsewhere) and sell the tracks cheap or give them away. build the site around a netflix/amazon type recommendation system. this is called convenience and it's really tough to pirate convenience.
offer different bitrates, up to full size wav or flac for the CD types, and stream samples so people can try before they buy. maybe you could give people the option of ordering a custom made CD. that way you aren't making truckloads of plastic discs and trucking them across the country. make books of cover art and liner notes and sell them, and partner with amazon/B&N/borders to offer books about music.
will this alone save the music industry? probably not, but it would be a revenue stream that could replace some of the income your dwindling plastic disc business is failing to provide.
Pretty much when you start calling them the "MAFIAA" it is clear where you stand, and nothing they ever offer (even if it was free beer and dinner) would make you happy. You don't trust them now, nothing they can do will make you trust them again.
yeah, and there is pretty much a whole generation that feels that way. that's going to be a real problem when the baby boomers have died off and all that's left is the collectors to sell discs to... especially since the collectors are mostly into vinyl.
the industry backed the wrong horse. it's going to take a lot of work to undo that.
It also means that adding skype to your office network for calls could also mean your network resources get used for other people's phone calls as well.
uhh, yeah. that's how you get to make high quality calls for nothing.
what is your aversion to other people's benefit? if you get a service super cheap, by helping other people get the same service super cheap, why is that so bad?
It's easier to be cheap when you aren't paying for bandwidth.
everyone involved is already paying for bandwidth. why do you insist that people aren't paying for bandwidth when it comes to p2p technologies.
you have to have internet access (which some one has to pay for) in order to use skype. you can't call someone for free unless they are connected to the internet (which someone has to pay for). if there is a way to get bandwidth for free, by all means let me know, i could certainly use some.
skype only routes calls through skype users. you have to opt in. if you have no bandwidth, you can't opt it. you make it sound like skype, or bit torrent, or any other p2p technology somehow uses bandwidth without paying for it.
skype has always been very closed. it's really cool, but being closed off makes it hard to use it the way that you can use SIP or AIX.
i am of two minds about this news:
part of me says "it's about freakin time" and it optimistic about easier integration with skype and sip.
part of me says "too little, too late" and is pessimistic about what protectionist crap skype is going to pull against products like opensky: http://www.gizmo5.com/pc/opensky
or the venerable vosky someone else mentioned.
skype has been so closed off for so long, that hacks and workarounds have been the norm when integrating with skype.
i have a vosky internet phone wizard (do they even make those anymore?) that i use to connect skype to the wiring in my house and my sipura ATA in this weird little daisy chain of boxes.
Further, I can tell you that there are to this day still flaws in the apache code that won't get fixed.
the same can be said for windows. at least with apache you have access to the source code and a chance at getting a fix. with a lot of closed source software it's a foregone conclusion.
It's only saving grace is that for a long time there was no competition, except for IIS and whatever disaster Sun tried to push. Now you have lighttp nginx, and tons of options (I use multiple options).
lighttp and nginx are both open source, dumbass.
i didn't say that open source software was bug free, i said that open source software gets the bugs identified and fixed whereas closed source software makes logging and fixing bugs a real challenge. if you find a really good bug in something, chances are you will get sued for discussing it. that's really going to help fix things.
all software has bugs, but some software makes spotting and fixing them much much faster, namely open source.
the tripe that they expect us to buy, i wouldn't listen to with someone else's ears. most of what is "stolen" is back catalog stuff that they have sold and has been paid for and profited on at least twice.
and i haven't justified anything. i don't argue that piracy is right, i argue that it's impossible to stop and that fighting it is a waste of resources that could have been pocketed as profits.
i argue that content creators need to cut costs drastically to mitigate the impact of piracy. not fighting a losing battle with piracy is a good place to start.
in an age where trading cd's and DVD's is effortless, spending millions to produce and promote an album, and hundreds of millions to produce a film is ridiculous. cut your expenses to the bare minimum and focus your efforts on the people who buy your stuff.
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it's also a floor wax and a tasty desert topping.
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Re: Re: Re: Microsoft, why stop there?
Fails every time.
FTP? what is this, 1995? scp all the way.
there's even a cool windows version: http://www.winscp.com
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Re: Re: the flight sim community
yeah, it's pretty lame, not like a 40 man raid on molten core which is totally different and way cooler.
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the flight sim community
i imagine that while a community like that isn't very large, it is pretty dedicated. perhaps if MS worked with/marketed to these communities more (http://www.vatsim.net) they could have made more from flight sim.
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
fair use isn't a right. it's a defense. you can't claim fair use until someone else claims infringement. this is how the DMCA and many other laws get abused.
you could be on perfect legal ground, and unless you have the money to go into court and make your case, you have no choice but to shut down.
now, if intellectual property law had provisions for fair use, or if there were penalties for abusing IP laws... the legal landscape would be different.
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Re: Re: Whatever the implications...
riiiight, and it's way better to try and innovate in an environment where you need legal counsel to have a thought or make a statement.
you bemoan an environment where copying is rampant as unsustainable, yet how can you consider the current environment of rampant lawsuits to be sustainable?
you claim that no one will create anything when it will just be copied, yet why would anyone create anything now when as soon as you show any success, you will be sued for violating a vague patent?
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Re: People choose convenience, not quality
the future of film, music, and television is convenience. instead of investing in new formats, why not invest in amazon/netflix/pandora style search and recommendation? get people to pay you to find stuff for them and give it to them in the format they want?
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Re:
a lot of places just don't have guidelines for that sort of thing. retailers in particular are very vague on those sorts of things, and a lot of people who work for retailers probably just don't care anyway.
for example, in all the corporate IT departments that i have worked for, the only time the computer usage policy was ever enforced (porn or otherwise) was as an excuse to terminate someone who was already in bad standing. the rest of the time i run into questionable material, the policy is pretty much "don't ask, don't tell". on the occasions when someone was doing something illegal, the company only took action after law enforcement got involved.
so, going through people's personal stuff is bad, but so is putting your personal stuff out there for people to go through. it's also a bit naive to think that a retail employee would adhere to a store policy about personal data, or that such a policy even exists in the first place.
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the new breed of gamer
but there is a new breed of gamer now, the casual gamer. they play games from companies like bigfish, you know the tycoon games and the diner dash knockoffs. i don't think those games take 3 hours to finish, but it's definitely less than 40. the pricing is different too, $10-$20 instead of $50-$60.
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sounds like a bunch of hippie communism to me
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Re:
brilliant! or better yet, have a minimum of say 7 seconds, followed by an random number between .01 and 10.0 seconds. that way every yellow light at ever intersection is different every time.
i don't know if it will make things safer, but it would be a lot of fun to watch the mathematicians and the gambling addicts drive around the block again and again and again.
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Re: An interesting read.
the dead kennedy's talked about this kind of thing in the 80's:
from "mtv get off the air":
Tin-eared
Graph-paper brained accountants
Instead of music fans
Call all the shots at giant record companies now
The lowest common denominator rules
Forget honesty
Forget creativity
The dumbest buy the mostest
That's the name of the game
But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?
from "triumph of the swill":
Music is banned in Khomeini's Iran
On the grounds that it stimulates the brain
We've done him one better in the land of coke & honey
Using music to put people's brains to sleep
Ever wonder why commercial radio's so bad?
It's 'cause someone upstairs wants it that way
If the Doors or John Lennon were getting started now
The industry wouldn't sign 'em in a million years
who knew jello biafra was a prophet? :-)
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Re: John Mellencamp story
are you industry types listening to this?
this is how you compete with free, with convenience.
for every pirate there who downloads whole discographies, there is a person like thomas who would pay you to find good music for them.
charge a small amount for membership (monthly or whatever) to the site (so people can't just look up stuff for free and then download it elsewhere) and sell the tracks cheap or give them away. build the site around a netflix/amazon type recommendation system. this is called convenience and it's really tough to pirate convenience.
offer different bitrates, up to full size wav or flac for the CD types, and stream samples so people can try before they buy. maybe you could give people the option of ordering a custom made CD. that way you aren't making truckloads of plastic discs and trucking them across the country. make books of cover art and liner notes and sell them, and partner with amazon/B&N/borders to offer books about music.
will this alone save the music industry? probably not, but it would be a revenue stream that could replace some of the income your dwindling plastic disc business is failing to provide.
On the post: There May Be Hope For The Recording Industry, Yet
Re: Re: Trust is the real issue
yeah, and there is pretty much a whole generation that feels that way. that's going to be a real problem when the baby boomers have died off and all that's left is the collectors to sell discs to... especially since the collectors are mostly into vinyl.
the industry backed the wrong horse. it's going to take a lot of work to undo that.
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Re: WH Mockings
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Re: Re: Harold is correct, soft of.
uhh, yeah. that's how you get to make high quality calls for nothing.
what is your aversion to other people's benefit? if you get a service super cheap, by helping other people get the same service super cheap, why is that so bad?
It's easier to be cheap when you aren't paying for bandwidth.
everyone involved is already paying for bandwidth. why do you insist that people aren't paying for bandwidth when it comes to p2p technologies.
you have to have internet access (which some one has to pay for) in order to use skype. you can't call someone for free unless they are connected to the internet (which someone has to pay for). if there is a way to get bandwidth for free, by all means let me know, i could certainly use some.
skype only routes calls through skype users. you have to opt in. if you have no bandwidth, you can't opt it. you make it sound like skype, or bit torrent, or any other p2p technology somehow uses bandwidth without paying for it.
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never thought i would see skype work with SIP
i am of two minds about this news:
part of me says "it's about freakin time" and it optimistic about easier integration with skype and sip.
part of me says "too little, too late" and is pessimistic about what protectionist crap skype is going to pull against products like opensky:
http://www.gizmo5.com/pc/opensky
or the venerable vosky someone else mentioned.
skype has been so closed off for so long, that hacks and workarounds have been the norm when integrating with skype.
i have a vosky internet phone wizard (do they even make those anymore?) that i use to connect skype to the wiring in my house and my sipura ATA in this weird little daisy chain of boxes.
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Re: Re: Re:
the same can be said for windows. at least with apache you have access to the source code and a chance at getting a fix. with a lot of closed source software it's a foregone conclusion.
It's only saving grace is that for a long time there was no competition, except for IIS and whatever disaster Sun tried to push. Now you have lighttp nginx, and tons of options (I use multiple options).
lighttp and nginx are both open source, dumbass.
i didn't say that open source software was bug free, i said that open source software gets the bugs identified and fixed whereas closed source software makes logging and fixing bugs a real challenge. if you find a really good bug in something, chances are you will get sued for discussing it. that's really going to help fix things.
all software has bugs, but some software makes spotting and fixing them much much faster, namely open source.
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Re:
uhh, a good deal of it isn't even worth stealing.
the tripe that they expect us to buy, i wouldn't listen to with someone else's ears. most of what is "stolen" is back catalog stuff that they have sold and has been paid for and profited on at least twice.
and i haven't justified anything. i don't argue that piracy is right, i argue that it's impossible to stop and that fighting it is a waste of resources that could have been pocketed as profits.
i argue that content creators need to cut costs drastically to mitigate the impact of piracy. not fighting a losing battle with piracy is a good place to start.
in an age where trading cd's and DVD's is effortless, spending millions to produce and promote an album, and hundreds of millions to produce a film is ridiculous. cut your expenses to the bare minimum and focus your efforts on the people who buy your stuff.
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