Re: Vista and XSI?

[jordibares <jordibares(at)the-mill.com>]

Title: Re: Vista and XSI?

On 30/1/07 22:45, "peter boeykens" <peter_b(at)skynet.be> wrote:

> Im probably going to be flamed but here goes anyway...
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> isnt it normal with everybody having access to digital copying hardware and
> software, with illegal copies of all kinds of media and software being so
> widespread, and with the sales for music CD's going ever downwards,
You are suggesting the sales of CDs going downwards is due to the illegal copying/downloading of content, and that is just incorrect. If you find the statistics of the high street market you will see the same tendencies on all the areas, specially clothing so this is just a global situation due to our economics.

When the government raises the interests to 5.25 that will have an impact on retail, and that includes CDs, the trick the industry is playing is that by blaming the piracy they will get away securing a hugely profitable bussiness model that rips artists and makes the businessman fatter.

>  that
> some initiative is taken to make piracy more difficult?
> most of us find it perfectly normal to pay for our XSI license. But when it
> comes to movies and music, and additional software, and what not, people
> become less picky.
Wait a minute, the problem is not about paying for a good, is about being ripped for far too long. An artist that has put together a CD with his songs, receives 10p for each album they sell!! Where is going the rest?

If you look back not many people had problems paying for AllofMp3.com!!! Why? Because the prices were reasonable, okay they were in an illegal situation but my point is that the problem is the industry as a whole trying to squeaze the chicken a bit more.
> Most of us wouldnt consider stealing anything physical ever, but when it
> comes to data, everybody's in?
> Can any of us here pretend to never have copied media he didnt pay for? I
> dont think so.
> And most of us here even depend from media for a living...

Can you guarantee you will lose a customer if that customer has downloaded a track? NO because that person may not spend a single penny to check if he likes X or Y.

In any case you will find new things and buy them so you are getting new customers.

Anyway I think this goes a bit off the thread for the moment.


> Wether or not the OS is the proper place to fight piracy is another issue.
> But its probably the only way to do so effectively.
> I dont particularly like such initiatives, but the collective behaviour of
> computer users doesnt leave much room for alternatives.

I feel you should avoid putting all of us in the same pot, such a generalization is just wrong.

> On the other hand, such an OS is perhaps no longer the proper basis for a
> serious production environment, as obviously all these built-in processes
> are spawning like crazy and take up ever more resources.
> 2GB to run vista? Its downright insane. Not too long ago windows didnt even
> know how to handle 2GB.
Probably this is the only thing I agree with you, Vista seems not to be for production environments nor the user environment were you have XP working fine.

cheers
jb
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> just my two copyrighted eurocent.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bradley Gabe" <withanar(at)stanwinston.com>
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:23 PM
> Subject: RE: Vista and XSI?
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> "Windows"... I remember someone once said if they had only named the
> product "Gates", after it's founder, it would have been more of an
> honest tribute.
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> > You have to remember, 99% of what I do is for people using Windows.
> > You’re trying to suggest here that it’s as easy to work with Linux as
> > Windows when you’re interfacing largely with clients who use Windows.
> > That’s writing tools for Windows,  solving Windows based problems,
> > dealing with windows issues. To try and work with anything other than
> > Windows under such circumstances would be foolish.
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> > From:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf Of jordibares
> > Sent: 30 January 2007 18:36
> > To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>; Kim Aldis
> > Subject: Re: Vista and XSI?
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> > It is your choice, but it is easy as it is easy to run windows as it
> > is to run Linux, just get the right distribution.
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> > Jb
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> > On 30/1/07 18:10, "Kim Aldis" <XSI(at)kim-aldis.co.uk> wrote:
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > > Behalf Of jordibares
> > > Sent: 30 January 2007 17:52
> > > To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>; Bradley Gabe
> > > Subject: Re: Vista and XSI?
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> > > I know what you are saying, but you are not forced to do so,
> > [kim aldis]
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> > No,you're not. But in practice it's not always easy, or for that
> > matter
> > preferable, to take the Linux, or the Mac route.
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