Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 30 Mar 2012 @ 3:14pm
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Story ideas are actually quite rare, and very valuable, even if they appear to be many years out of date
Pas de merde..... if there's an original idea out there I want it caught and shot now. I think it's been about 15 years since I saw a story that suprised me (which is about the point I saw pretty much all the possible permutations) and most stuff is so formulaic as to be almost quotable without seeing it.
Everything is re-cycled with a "new twist" (well not new but that's usually the claim). To use "the story" as a justification for stopping something is laughable. "Because it's our ball and you can't play, so there!" is far more convincing.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 29 Mar 2012 @ 3:17pm
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no money to be made if your key "product" is free,
Let's see... if I remember rightly the rant goes: "But that's because redhat charges LOADS of money for SUPPORT because their products are so shitty" (carefully ignoring that almost every major vendor charges as much if not more for support and that their products are often equally or even more "shitty")... then there'll probably the "yeah but Red Hat are different because... yadda yadda yadda" argument that always gets trotted out every time there's a success that can't be immediately discredited with made up data to "prove" why their success means that really it doesn't work at all....
Umm.. I'm sure I've mised at least 1 somewhere but it's a start.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 29 Mar 2012 @ 11:29am
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Most automatics I've seen have a double-wide brake pedal, easily big enough for both feet and the left naturally comes down on the other side. I've seen it plenty and did it myself the first time got into an automatic along with the ritual "fondling of the gearstick" approaching the first few corners. Of course manuals in other countries also present fun - the stroking of the door handle a couple of times when reaching for the gears 'til your brain catches on and switches programmes.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 28 Mar 2012 @ 11:51am
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Thank you all for your time and interest, and check out the film.
Didn't care before, definitely checking it out now. Thanks for dropping by and contributing. Come back and plug your next project and I'm sure you'll have a lot of supporters...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 28 Mar 2012 @ 10:19am
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Online shopping is for anti-social hermits and vampire types who go without sunlight for months on end.
Or you could stop being so negative and decide that the convenience and speed of online shopping allows much more time to go out and socialise with your neighbours and other people in a way that is not adversely affected by having to focus on buying things while you're doing it.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 27 Mar 2012 @ 11:30am
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Sounds also like the guy made a series of bad deals and bad choices, like choosing the cheapest rep possible.
And it sounds like (yet again) you are making assumptions rather than using FACTS to make it sound like the studios are all innocent and cuddly and "only there to help the artists honest guv'nor". It doesn't say what his deal was other than that he was HAPPY with it. Unless you happen to have a copy of his contract you're assuming and guessing.
And also (yet again) it looks like you (deliberately) didn't read the article:
We had many offers for Representation and ended up going with the most prominent one that had the lowest fees.
That doesn't mean they chose the cheapest, there are TWO conditions in the sentance. It means they picked one that had a good reputation but not astrominocal fees.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 26 Mar 2012 @ 2:31pm
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I'm just assuming that the bigger the quarterly payments from Spotify to the majors get, the better position they'll be in to negotiate.
You know what they say about assumptions.....
From similar past situations it seems more likely that as the payments get bigger (i.e. as the service succeeds) the "majors" will demand a yet bigger slice of the pie or start withholding content or changing the deal to the detriment of the service until it is no longer viable.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 26 Mar 2012 @ 11:28am
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Uh huh and in the afor-mentioned tenuous analogy, how far would the resaurant's fish wholesaler get if he demanded $40/Lb for tuna? Now imagine he's got a govermnent-granted monopoly on all fish.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 26 Mar 2012 @ 10:58am
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but you don't own the music.
How hard is that to understand?
Music is a rhythmic or harmonious expression of sounds. You can't own it at all. As a convention we pretend that one can have certain rights to a specific combination of such sounds.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 26 Mar 2012 @ 10:34am
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No, the failure is to assume that the content is the most valuable part and that the service is an add-on. The one can't succeed without the other, wheareas to all observation the labels act like it's a huge magnanimous gesture to let a service like Spotify have access to their precious content at all and should be satisfied with whatever crumbs the labels deign to allow.
This while they sit there repreatedly refusing to provide any such service themselves then whining that everyone's "stealing" their content instead of buying it.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 26 Mar 2012 @ 10:21am
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But is it really a moral issue?
Depends who's set of moral standards you are using. By the **AA standards yes it's a moral issue. By government standards it's only a moral issue if they've been paid enough for it to be so. By the standards of most interested people no it's not a moral issue just a strange legal one. By the standards of most of the rest of the planet they don't care enough to decide one way or another.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 26 Mar 2012 @ 9:58am
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Yep fraid so. The concept of "more money than we would have had", "maximum profits" or "fair user" don't even occur in their empty little heads. "Piracy" is a binary state to them. The options are:
1/ "You will pay exactly what we demand when we demand it, get (if you are lucky) exactly what we decide we want to give you for your (OUR!) money and then use whatever it is we have generously condecended to let you pay a premium for exactly how we say when we say and using only the equipment we say"
2/ "You are a dirty pirate and very likely a kiddie fiddler and baby seal clubber and definitely worse than any murderer or raporist and should be sandpapered, salted, flayed, flensed, hung, drawn and quartered for even thinking there might be an alternative to option 1. Oh and you now need to give us all your money including all the money you might earn in your life and any subsequent lives you may have also that of your parents, grandparents, children, pets, other relatives and anyone you've ever met that you might be able to tap up for cash."
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 25 Mar 2012 @ 5:54am
Re: Give the police a break!
Surely Joe and Jane need to be pointed in the right direction
Ever tried it? In a corporate environment where the senior management theoretically cares about data security it still takes months if not years to change insecure behaviours and that takes regular attention. Wandering up to the door and saying to someone who knows nothing about computers "Oh you should have a password on your WiFi" is very firmly in the "Window dressing and pointless waste of police time and taxpayer money" category.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 25 Mar 2012 @ 5:43am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: You know, for a smart guy Mike, you often seem to miss things.
I'm guessing you're doing it deliberately purely because so you don't like Mike so you won't care about the distiction but:
Open WiFI != Insecure network.
I have open WiFi on my home connection and it's very secure thankyou.
And:
A couple of guys with laptops, a car, and decent wireless equipment (like an external antenna on the car) could wander around town, modify wireless units, and quickly set up a pretty solid man in the middle attack system without anyone noticing. Don't you think that is something to be concerned about?
2 (obvious) things on this one:
1/ Open WiFI != to insecure wireless access point. Conflating the 2 is either deliberately obtuse or you have no clue how the technology works. and
2/ If they are skilled enough to set up such an attack then a "secured" wireless connection is going to present little more challenge than an open one.
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Everything is re-cycled with a "new twist" (well not new but that's usually the claim). To use "the story" as a justification for stopping something is laughable. "Because it's our ball and you can't play, so there!" is far more convincing.
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Re: Heh.
Let's see... if I remember rightly the rant goes: "But that's because redhat charges LOADS of money for SUPPORT because their products are so shitty" (carefully ignoring that almost every major vendor charges as much if not more for support and that their products are often equally or even more "shitty")... then there'll probably the "yeah but Red Hat are different because... yadda yadda yadda" argument that always gets trotted out every time there's a success that can't be immediately discredited with made up data to "prove" why their success means that really it doesn't work at all....
Umm.. I'm sure I've mised at least 1 somewhere but it's a start.
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Just saying....
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And it sounds like (yet again) you are making assumptions rather than using FACTS to make it sound like the studios are all innocent and cuddly and "only there to help the artists honest guv'nor". It doesn't say what his deal was other than that he was HAPPY with it. Unless you happen to have a copy of his contract you're assuming and guessing.
And also (yet again) it looks like you (deliberately) didn't read the article:
That doesn't mean they chose the cheapest, there are TWO conditions in the sentance. It means they picked one that had a good reputation but not astrominocal fees.
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From similar past situations it seems more likely that as the payments get bigger (i.e. as the service succeeds) the "majors" will demand a yet bigger slice of the pie or start withholding content or changing the deal to the detriment of the service until it is no longer viable.
On the post: How Monopolies Strangle Innovation: Record Label Demands Making Investors Nervous About Spotify
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This while they sit there repreatedly refusing to provide any such service themselves then whining that everyone's "stealing" their content instead of buying it.
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[Citation needed}
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On the post: How Monopolies Strangle Innovation: Record Label Demands Making Investors Nervous About Spotify
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[dubious faux-spanish accent] You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [/dubious faux-spanish accent]
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1/ "You will pay exactly what we demand when we demand it, get (if you are lucky) exactly what we decide we want to give you for your (OUR!) money and then use whatever it is we have generously condecended to let you pay a premium for exactly how we say when we say and using only the equipment we say"
2/ "You are a dirty pirate and very likely a kiddie fiddler and baby seal clubber and definitely worse than any murderer or raporist and should be sandpapered, salted, flayed, flensed, hung, drawn and quartered for even thinking there might be an alternative to option 1. Oh and you now need to give us all your money including all the money you might earn in your life and any subsequent lives you may have also that of your parents, grandparents, children, pets, other relatives and anyone you've ever met that you might be able to tap up for cash."
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On the post: Australian Police To Go Wardriving, Telling People To Lock Up Their WiFi
Re: Give the police a break!
Ever tried it? In a corporate environment where the senior management theoretically cares about data security it still takes months if not years to change insecure behaviours and that takes regular attention. Wandering up to the door and saying to someone who knows nothing about computers "Oh you should have a password on your WiFi" is very firmly in the "Window dressing and pointless waste of police time and taxpayer money" category.
On the post: Australian Police To Go Wardriving, Telling People To Lock Up Their WiFi
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: You know, for a smart guy Mike, you often seem to miss things.
Open WiFI != Insecure network.
I have open WiFi on my home connection and it's very secure thankyou.
And:
2 (obvious) things on this one:
1/ Open WiFI != to insecure wireless access point. Conflating the 2 is either deliberately obtuse or you have no clue how the technology works. and
2/ If they are skilled enough to set up such an attack then a "secured" wireless connection is going to present little more challenge than an open one.
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