Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?  (Read 36320 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline runequester

  • It\'s Amiga time!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2009
  • Posts: 3695
    • Show all replies
Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« on: September 11, 2012, 09:36:04 PM »
I think the commodification of every aspect of our society is incredibly toxic. The notion that there is no instance that should not be turned into a source of income, is very inhuman, even if you are otherwise pro-free trade.
 

Offline runequester

  • It\'s Amiga time!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2009
  • Posts: 3695
    • Show all replies
Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2012, 11:13:13 PM »
Dammy, I can assure you that we will find zero instances where you and I agree on economic policies ;)
 

Offline runequester

  • It\'s Amiga time!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2009
  • Posts: 3695
    • Show all replies
Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2012, 06:10:42 AM »
Quote from: commodorejohn;707772
If you're into piracy, high-quality music rips are not that difficult to come by, and they're free, to boot! Even better deal!


It does sort of amuse me that you can buy portable MP3 players and phones with 16+ GB of storage, while they claim to totally be against music piracy.

Because everyone I know is going to fill that storage space up at 1 dollar per song, real soon now.

But they are really totally against piracy.
 

Offline runequester

  • It\'s Amiga time!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2009
  • Posts: 3695
    • Show all replies
Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2012, 04:14:37 PM »
Quote from: spirantho;707788
I have enough LPs recorded to fill 16gb many times over, and I've only recorded a few hundred of my LPs, about 20% of my collection. No downloads for me at all (no point having a decent audio system and putting lossy compressed audio through it!).
My needle-drops are 200khz (100 for mono) variable bitrate OGG Vorbis (much better than mp3), so they're nothing unusual.
Incidentally Sansa mp3 players are great for OGG and FLAC - can't do that on an iPod. :)


yeah, the lack of formats it supports is rather aggravating.
 

Offline runequester

  • It\'s Amiga time!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2009
  • Posts: 3695
    • Show all replies
Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2012, 04:15:39 PM »
Quote from: Britelite;707783
And people owning CD's and actually ripping those to MP3's is of course totally unthinkable?


Where I work, we employ mostly younger people. I'd be highly surprised to find many 19 to 21 year olds owning even 10 CD's nowadays.
 

Offline runequester

  • It\'s Amiga time!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2009
  • Posts: 3695
    • Show all replies
Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2012, 04:36:57 PM »
It's actually sort of interesting, because the music industry now basically works on a model of "pay us if you want to, you can get the product either way", whether they admit it or not.

Supply and Demand gets interesting when the supply is set to infinity :)

edit: And you are right of course as regards industry attitudes. THe problem is they based their entire business on controlling the distribution. When that control was taken away, it turned out, they didn't have a backup plan, because they never expected to do anything else.
« Last Edit: September 12, 2012, 04:39:45 PM by runequester »
 

Offline runequester

  • It\'s Amiga time!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2009
  • Posts: 3695
    • Show all replies
Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2012, 06:49:06 PM »
Quote from: ChuckT;707851
Especially when you can go to a large public library and borrow their CD's.



You can, but then ,you might as well just torrent it. It's no more legal in the eyes of the law.
 

Offline runequester

  • It\'s Amiga time!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2009
  • Posts: 3695
    • Show all replies
Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2012, 07:19:55 PM »
Thats another thing: The push is very much with music as it is with software towards "renting" rather than ownership. You pay to use a service for a given period of time. It's never owned by you.

This extends to plenty of electronic widgets too. You have a license to use it, but you don't have ownership to modify or tamper with it.

At the risk of being doctrinaire, remember that private ownership is for the people who own the productive forces, not for you.
 

Offline runequester

  • It\'s Amiga time!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2009
  • Posts: 3695
    • Show all replies
Re: Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2012, 10:46:42 PM »
Quote from: commodorejohn;708036
Via the teats, I'd presume.


Nowadays they have a facebook app for it ;)