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Just curious, how does she have 15gb of "legally downloaded" music that she didn't pay for?
It's likely preferable to having their (customers') money but engendering lots of ill-will a few months down the road.

I have an iphone 4. With this announcement, I'm willing to wait a few months before buying a WP8 device.
You're right, but the incentives just aren't there to support another mode of behavior. How can we fix that?
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I have one question for everyone: who cares?
No, your point is –in your own words– that, since it’s at best incremental protection, it isn’t worth the non-trivial costs. Which is not a good point because, as I said and you agreed, all security is at best incrementally better protection. If that was really your point, we could as well just drop any protection, since none of it is perfect.

You may say the increment in protection is not enough to justify the costs, but that would be a different story.
>If my users don't want me to trample on their "Freedoms", they don't have to buy my software.

They could most likely not make an informed choice, because you do not educate them
about denying them their freedom. And still there is no argument to do it.
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It's very difficult to do 'micropayments' on a credit-card based architecture - card fees are usually a percentage + flat rate cost (say 2% and the first 20 cents of any transactions).

Because of this flat fee anything below around 99 cents quickly becomes unprofitable to sell. It's why companies that do microtransactions do so with other payment methods, like alternative currency (FB credits, etc).

Of course, you can also use service such as Spotify if actually having the files themselves isn't important to you (I'm more than happy to pay £5 per month to Spotify for what's actually a quite impressive library). For large consumers of music that can be quite attractively priced.
You need to provide what is the purpose of the site.

1.Virus is scary, the most hated thing,

2. Your site scare what is your indention while I share the virus file

3. By chance, the other user downloads the known virus from your site, you will be liable for lawsuits.
I have that already with my stack, I'm not sure you understood me.
Most people think that the burgers that we see in the ads are just made with different ingredients, that's why they're bigger and more good looking.

She made that really clear, they use the same ingredients in both burgers. The only difference is appearance not taste.
She didn't say it was legally downloaded, she said it was not illegally downloaded. Meaning she got it from a source other than downloading it.
from the article: "...predicts Mithril’s average investment will be north of $20 million"

That doesn't sound like overlapping mandates to me. A more interesting question would be around the (potentially confusing) signalling issues if Founders Fund didn't follow-on in a later investment but Mithril did come in.
For what it's worth, most generic budget cube work surfaces are essentially adjustable shelves. With a little effort, you can unscrew the surface, move the shelf brackets up a few notches, and screw the desk surface back on. I've done that at my work place. We're a little 'loose' on that sort of thing, so permission wasn't required. I just went and did it one evening. It was more about social acceptance than actual policy.
Unusually well written.
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I've always believed that spirituality cannot survive in a church, but that's a discussion for another place entirely.
I honestly don't know, personally I want to be part of that new behaviour.

I just don't see the benefit at the minute.

With guys like Elon Musk really changing the world hopefully we are on that path of change.
I've been taking a simpler approach. I buy about 3 albums a week off Amazon or iTunes, which adds up to 150 albums or 1500 songs a year. By the time that 20 year old is 25, s/he'll easily have 7500 songs paid for over 5 years, instead of one gigantic lump sum. I think it's certainly reasonable when you're getting discounts for buying full albums and doing it over an extended period. Keep in mind, if Amazon has an album for $9, and iTunes has one for $10, that's roughly a "free" album every 10, just for using Amazon.
A lot of these companies are extremely early stage and probably wouldn't have that much information online for you to find by researching, even if you did know the name. The best way for you to find out about them would be to contact them personally.
"...what she really wants is simply to pay to subscribe to “one massive Spotify-like catalog of music that will sync to my phone and various home entertainment devices...”

Isn't that what Rhapsody is?
I bet they think that lost sales of 'old' Windows phones will be offset by a gain in sales of Windows 8 phones by customers who otherwise would have bought a non-Windows smartphone in the following months. Given the relative size of the markets, and assuming they manage to stay in the press (should not be too hard, with Windows 8 shipping, Surface being seeded to bloggers, etc), I think that may be a reasonable idea.
All the same, as consumers we are being punished for either (1) desiring and getting music in the means most convenient and historically accessible to us or (2) desire and getting technology in the means most convenient and historically accessible to us.

The historical, political, and mercantile lines draw behind the scenes is a theatre we are not privvy to. Pulling the card "you're actually supporting the big wigs of tech and the cost of the big wigs of music" all to make the point that the big wigs of music could enable artisans assumes that artisans themselves trust and believe in the music industry.

The point I want to make here is that all of this is heavily historical. We're to simply overlook our desires, aforementioned, because of historical and political threads which largely interplay outside of our control? I mean to suggest that, in a sense, reprimanding anyone for jumping onto these historical presentations of music and technology seems like reprimanding one for not staying inside because it _might_ rain, or because aliens might attack. Whether they do or not is a fact of the matter, but should we await for Apple, RIAA, etc. to play their course while they continue to tantalize and bombard us with all sorts of "technology"?

One obvious point is that _that is difficult_. The growing philosophical trend of the counter-culture is this: Hey! Musicians were still making a living out of their music _before_ technology put any of us into this mess!
She does not say that those 15gb where "legally downloaded". They where copied to her iPod by a friend. She also ripped CDs and copied music from other sources, which are not categorized as "illegally downloaded". Seemingly "illegal downloading", in her eyes, is only done via file-sharing networks.
Except this article has nothing to do with stealing...
It looked responsive at the end of the presentation. More abuse of the word "bricked".
> They could most likely not make an informed choice, because you do not educate them about denying them their freedom.

Users don't care about their "freedom", and neither do I, so why is educating them my problem?

Also, you're not giving users credit. I'm informed, and yet I still choose to buy Mac OS X, iPhones, and even DRM'd media (iTunes video rentals).

> And still there is no argument to do it.

I don't see any other viable economically proven method to fund our consumer software development.
For a much better post than the skimpy NYT rehash see :

http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emi...
> If my users don't want me to trample on their "Freedoms", they don't have to buy my software

This is true of most anything, but doesn't stop consumer protection laws from existing. Moreover, most people agree that consumer protection laws are reasonable and necessary.
You forgot the half-dozen people making meta-complaints about the views they'd like to see expressed on HN and the views they'd like to see silenced. :)
Put morality aside for a second.

The market has clearly dictated they will not support the business practices of the major record labels, and have instead resorted to alternate ways of obtaining their music. The record labels must adapt, or they will fall[1]. Econ 101. You can debate morality until the cows come home, but that's not going to change these simple facts.

[1]Ignoring possible government interference
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And it's nice to see the FSF expressing the issues thoughtfully here, rather than pulling insipid stunts like harassing Apple Store employees.

Maybe it's because this is from FSFE - the European counterpart.
I had a free hour and whipped something together for your design page inspiration:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42977378/keys.png
All in all, creating our professional-quality schematic render outputs in a variety of formats is a CPU-intensive process, typically requiring roughly 10+ seconds of a single core of modern CPU time per schematic.

Wait… really? A schematic editor can render a schematic at least 30 times per second. "Rendering" to PDF should be even faster since PDF is a vector format. Are they rendering in hundreds of different formats?
Nation-states have the right to pick completely idiotic policies(even if the consequence are horrific) and we citizens have the right to move with our feet(Not so easy with immigration laws)?

In truth, I am kinda bored by these debate. They repeat themselves ad nauseam every time we have them. I wish we see new arguments for a change.
I'm providing access to malware for reverse engineering, it's my belief by studying such programs you can better defend against them.
Definitely true. Aside from his stumbling over his words when the demo suddenly stopped working, the show went on and he dealt with it pretty well.
Most of the people I meet along those lines are sysadmins who "don't code".
I will admit that I never liked iTunes as a music manager for my iPod. I used a program on Linux to put songs on my iPod, however, I liked iTunes much more than the Zune software.
And a great simple info graphic about royalties http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
This happens to everybody. If Microsoft had announced the surface and planned on selling it right away, it would be a big deal, but beta software having bugs? Would have never guessed.
I'm a dev at Comprehend and have worked first hand on both the query engine as well as quite a few of our visualizations.

We strive to generate insightful documents, which provide value beyond default Excel charts, by providing interactivity which as you pointed out may be poorly captured in screenshots. With that said, our visualization suite consists of both graphs made by cutting edge third party charting libraries as well as in-house custom plots.

On interactivity, three of our most interesting features are drill-down, dynamic real-time highlights and filtering, and global view synchronization.

Drill-down, or click-through, refers to the ability to look into any given presented data point to see where it came from. For instance, if you are plotting the number of medications taken by site, you can right-click on any point or bar in the chart and see exactly which patients make up that data point, what the medications were, and even what symptoms those patients were experiencing. The backing data may come from different tables, different databases, or even a different type of data store all together (such as a flat file or SAS data set).

Comprehend also supports dragging a highlight or filter onto any active report or visualization. Highlights can be generated by the user on the fly; anything from "males over 60 years old" to a custom R function is fair game. Filters are functionally equivalent except instead of highlighting data which matches the predicate, we eliminate data that does not.

The product also supports global applied state, which consists of highlights and filters, which is automatically applied to all active views. This makes it easy to look at the same subset of data in different views to help answer questions and identify trends. We provide other interactive features, such as intelligent tooltips, various exporting options and view transformations, but in my opinion these are the most interesting.

It's easy to confuse Comprehend as a general BI or visualization tool. Although we provide this functionality, the hard tech problem we solve is answering questions where the data lies in disparate data sources.

This high level of interactivity and ground-up support for multiple data stores provide value beyond default Excel charting.
Huh? 5.1.1 just came out last month: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1521
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It looks like he switched to a backup device
Most consumer protection laws have to do with curtailing dishonest or misrepresentative behaviors -- eg, selling a defective product, misrepresenting product features, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_protection#United_Stat...
It's not clear if they are actually intending to make this - or if like Google's Nexus phone it's really only meant as a development standard.

Back in the 386/486 days Intel used to make PCs which you bought to test your code on - but it didn't mean intel were getting into the Walmart space.
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David Lowery (the former lead singer of Cracker [of "Low" fame from the early '90s] and Camper Van Beethoven [of "Take The Skinheads Bowling" fame from the '80s), the guy who wrote the page at the link you posted, took up this issue a few months ago to great effect, complete with numbers, and we kind of discussed it then a little:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850935
Consider:

staticity
staticness
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iTunes store shows that it's no longer difficult once you have a critical mass of business.

Not something in reach for indies, but Dwolla is changing that.

Side note: Spotify is horrible for musicians.
Looks like he grabbed another unit. Not a big deal given that it was a presentation of an as of yet unreleased product with beta software.
It's not "the market" when the new channel is based on ignoring contacts and copyrights, any more than it's "the market" that would be acting if I went to my local library, scanned all the books, and then resold them at "Bookio.com".
But isn't it problematic that it compared real-world average unit tests with the best-available type system?
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While adaptation might be necessary, to say debating this topic can't change the future is inaccurate. I have this debate with plenty of people, and I know at least a few who have changed their behavior as a result. Educating people about the consequences of their actions is important, even when it seems like it has little impact.
Copying is not stealing. As said in the article, the files were not obtained by illegal means, just passed around, so I think your "disgraceful" is too strong.
I assume she means that she didn't download it, but copied from a friend or similar. And, the law is a bit inconsistent on whether that's legal, since it depends strangely enough on what technology you use to do the copying, which may be leading to some confusion.

Copying music on analog media for personal use from a friend is fair use, under the Audio Home Recording Act; in return, the music industry gets a kickback from every blank tape sold to compensate them. However, the AHRA does not apply (in either the fair-use or kickback portions) to copying music from a friend for personal use onto your iPod. It's not clear very many people who aren't specialists understand that home-taping is legal but home-iPodding isn't...
Someone linked this the other day.

An old Apple keynote bloopers video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVprvnYaQYo
Thanks, to old to fix. I'll have to be more vigilant.
Today is secure boot. Next say some governments will make it illegal to buy a machine without a secure boot feature and forbids you to run any OS without a backdoor. Now i'am sure that your government will never do that

I personaly will never buy any machine, as soon as i can, as soon as it is still legal, with any "secure" feature. My machine is mine, not to the original manufacture, not to Microsoft or to Redhat or to anyone that believe that it is theirs. Even that i know that i live in a great democracy, i have nothing to hide, and my government is my good friend
Can you clarify what you mean by "use a library?"

It's easy to follow the rabbitmq tutorial and build a nice little pipeline for tasks - what is the difference between that and using a library?
At least there was no BSOD. :P I can give them a little bit of leeway since it's prerelease.

However I have the feeling that Windows 8 is not going to be just rushed out the door, but pushed kicking and screaming. This is not a good sign!
Is it reasonable that she has actually listened to all of those songs? That's about 733 hours of music. Assuming she listened 2 hours a day and never repeated a song, she'd be listening for over a year before she heard all of those songs. And you know she has Modest Mouse and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on repeat.

This girl is a thief, plain and simple. It's like walking into a Starbucks and just stealing coffee. The marginal cost of a cup of coffee is just pennies, however there are fixed costs involved. If you don't like Starbucks or think they're corrupt or whatever, no one is forcing you to consume their product. If you don't like Universal Records, then don't support their product.

Musicians must buy equipment and play, usually for years making next to nothing, playing in ratty bars for shitty owners and when they finally do get an album released, they certainly deserve to get paid -- the record companies deserve to get paid as well. For every hit song, they've blown countless dollars supporting musicians that never accomplish anything.

This anti-corporate argument is the argument of a cheapskate thief. There are plenty of Indie labels on iTunes that operate on shoestrings, yet people steal their music too.
They still don't offer lossless, so there's one rationale right there.

While it's oh so easy to claim a moral high ground on this there are still things in the market which could be easily offered (ALAC downloads in the iTunes store, for example) but aren't. As such, I use spotify premium for day to day, but if I'm buying music, it's lossless or nothing. I'm not paying the same price for a CD for a worse experience. That is not value.
> He said "coke tasted better than pepsi"

I think he actually said "coke tastes better than pepsi". That verb tense has very different implications.
Why do you get to demand a third choice, besides "Pay 99 Cents" and "Don't Get The Song"?

A small bag of M&Ms costs, I don't know, 79 cents? Why is 79 cents considered reasonable for 29 peanut M&Ms? If I object to that price, and instead pony up the marginal cost of those M&Ms and their packaging (more like 13 cents), am I being reasonable or unreasonable?
Should this be in production? Is anyone using this on production?
I believe this system was constructed in 2008/2009, which is impressive given the nascent state of open-source drones at the time.

However, today, ArduPilot and Paparazzi are both fairly full-featured in terms of supporting ground stations, waypoints/missions, and autoland, MultiWii/PARIS is very cheap and stable for multirotors (albeit with a more limited feature set), and OpenPilot is developing rapidly. All are open-source and they all use real sensor fusion and stabilization code rather than some sort of Kalman-filter free special sauce like this guy.

It's truly amazing how far we've come in just a few years - ten years ago a small quadcopter would have been hard to imagine (due to a lack of decent micro-sized IMUs as well as a lack of easily-obtainable large high-density LiPos), five years ago a project for only the brave, talented, and well-backed, and now we can buy them as toys!
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So being ahead of their time AND having people trying to shoot them like they are kooks, doesn't make them kooks. I see your point.
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Well it is "The Motto" :)
No it is not. The status page show the last downtime was 7 months ago. Is that right? Weren't they affected by the recent AWS outage?
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You can get an Australian iTunes account to get GOT in a timely manner.
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Not a big deal. I'm tired of the HD7 as it is.
I think people don't get what "legal" really means. It seems comparable to all illegally-uploaded YouTube videos with "I don't intend to violate copyright" messages, which the posters seems to think exempts them from the law.

The utter disconnect between actual behavior and what is dictated by law is rather problematic. Seems like some compromise is necessary.
> "proceed to clean everyone's clock."

Rather than proceeding to stare at the screen until somebody takes away your keyboard and plays for you.

If you want to be perceived as a gamer, you can get away with not looking the look -- but you've got to show up ready to play.
You do realize that by expressing your opinion you opened yourself to the discussion? And I do want to refute your point: some of us do not believe that these private businesses own the culture they or their artists create, and that society has inherent rights to their consumption and distribution.
Apple was on life support during the mid-90's. Microsoft nearly killed the Mac with its unimaginative imitator, Windows, but probably held off from killing Apple completely because of the Antitrust case hovering over it. Many if not most of the early personal computer software companies were driven out of business by Microsoft.
I'm unable to open the video, but from the comments it seems like "McDonald's are cheating in their video (Adobe Premiere and non-software stuff) about how they are cheating in their print ads (Adobe Photoshop and non-software stuff)"

Cheat-ception!
Let's say that a musician goes $50k in debt making an album. They are now given a choice: would you rather be listened to by 50 million people and get no immediate money, or by 10k people and be quickly made whole?

Which do you suppose they'd choose?

The fact is that celebrity, attention, and "coolness" are more than enough reward for most aspiring musicians.

Anyone who gets famous by giving their art away has been more than fairly rewarded for their work. Evidence for this comes from the 10k+ ultra-capable undiscovered who would happily pay to take this artist's place.

[Edit: I write this as someone who has earned good money through music, and thus I'm not sure what is being objected to, here. It is plainly true that fame brings instantaneous massive rewards and significant potential to earn more, later. It is also plainly true that even in the current "bad" economic environment for music, millions of people spend 10s of millions of hours each week writing, rehearsing, and performing. Clearly, the motivations are not primarily monetary.]
Pretty much. And isn't that what Spotify is? or is it implied that Spotify doesn't have a library as big as she wants?

Lately, I have been listening to Slacker Radio with a Premium account ($10/month), and it is very much like Spotify and/or Rhapsody, and I have been pretty impressed with how big the library of music is that can be played on-demand.
On the other hand, economics seems to be all about exponential growth, which can't go on forever.

For example, a seemingly modest growth
rate of 2% is a doubling every 35 years (because 1.02^35=2). So once you've depleted a resource on earth, you'll consume another earth-equivalent in just 35 years. Then two earths. Then four, eight, sixteen,...
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Do computers have a constitutional right to free speech?