1meg is disgraceful! The U.S. is going to lose any and all advantages in the not too distant future if we don't make sure we stay ahead of the rest of the world.
Kids in Japan and Korea will grow up with 100meg net connections and they will therefore be the ones dreaming up uses for it while our kids will grow up with 64k to 3meg and will therefore not be inspired to consider the possibilities.
What do you mean you haven't stolen anything from a mechanic? If you use his services and don't pay him you have stolen is time, something he can NEVER GET BACK. If you stole his money you could at least replace that but you stole his time. Time he could have use for a paying customer.
The analogy follows to IP. If someone spends X hours to make some IP and you take it without permission you have stolen his time.
The obvious example is you are trying to solve some problem at work. The 6pm bell rings and you leave. At 6:05 you have one of those "ah-hah!" moments and realize the solution. Does this solution now belong to you and not the company because it didn't happen on company hours? I don't think so and in fact it would be unethical to deny them the solution you thought up in the shower. They are paying you as a professional for those solutions regardless of when you think of them.
Also, if you look up the U.S. Federal Labor law you'll see that by law, salaraied employees do not have *hours*. Well, to be more specific, the company can set your hours but they can not doc you for not keeping them. They can only fire you for non following the rules. Salaried employees set their own hours, today 5 mintues, tomorrow 23 hours, whatever. So, for a salaried employee there is arguably no "outside work" hours.
> It makes sense that if you do the work on your own time, people who modify the work should give you the same rights on their changes that you gave them on the original code
I don't see how that makes sense. If I do it on my own time it makes sense that I can release it how ever I want to.
The gift analogy breaks down because we have been told all our life things like "you don't give a gift expecting to get something back. You give a gift purely to help someone else or make them happy". What kind of friend would you call someone that said "Here's a present but you can only have it if you promise to give me one in return". WTF!
Stuff I give away I BSD because that is actually "giving stuff away". GPL is not "giving stuff away", it's selling stuff with promises and agreements instead of money.
That will not help long term. Your movabletype blog supports Trackback with AUTO discovery. That means it would be trivial to write a spider to go find trackback supported sites and spam them all.
Because seeing all those other windows behind the one window I want to concentrate on is a distraction. It's like in the real world I often clear my desk of clutter to concentrate on one thing. Maximizing a window to fullscreen does that instantly for me.
> The main reason I even subscribed in the first place is so I could just browse around and FIND music I liked
Switch to listen.com. Yea, your paying for a service, not the music but the interface is 1000 times better and makes it easy to find TONS of music. I've got around 2500 songs in my lists currently.
There is tons of semi-micropayment stuff going on in Japan. Mostly centered around amatuer manga, anime, games and pr0n.
Warning: Japanese required Warning: Adult content
http://www.dlsite.com
Click any of the images in the center. The number of paid copies sold is listed in the top right corner. About 5 to 10 new creations get added per day.
I've seen things like poems being sold for $3 up to 120meg video games for $20. Some things sell, some don't. There's at least one guy who sells large Flash sexually oriented flash based animations. He charges $20 per creation (about 12 scenes) and he's managed to sell 1500 to 2000 copies each. That's $30k to $40k per title. Not bad.
Of course I don't know if anyone would consider $20 a micropayment but I think the point is is that people are selling IP online and making it easy to put up for sale and easy to buy. http://www.dlsite.com even has a link to the creators webpage so you can go to his site and see his other works or samples and get an idea of you think his stuff might be worth your money. They also give the option to the creators to offer a sample/trial version for free. (free to the potential buyer. I don't know if it's free to the creator)
Here in Japan, Yahoo Japan offers broadband with VOIP. The way it works is they give you a DSL modem and in the back of the modem is an RJ-11 connector. You just plug your phone in and use it like a regular phone. Done!
Of course I guess the issue is that they are charging you for the service were as most VOIP could be free. Their push is that they are cheaper than the local telephone company. First, there is no such thing as local unlimited dialing in Japan so even to call the next door neighbor costs a few cents.
Yahoo BB is like 1 cent (or 1 yen) cheaper AND if you are calling another Yahoo BB person it's free.
Also, international calls are cheaper. Especially from Japan to the US. 2.5 yen a minute or about 2 cents!!!! That means it's probably cheaper for me in Japan to call Los Angeles than it would be for someone in San Diego to call Los Angeles.
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Please tell me how garbage collection is good for an embeddded app. "Honey, turn that thing off", "sorry honey, it's stuck doing something, it won't respond"
When are you guys going to get it through your head, Dual licensing DOESN'T WORK!
Why? Because the whole point of open source is that lots of developers can contribute. But, once they do, you don't have permission to release the version with all the cool new features and bug fixes contributed by all those other coders under some other license of your choosing.
The only version you can sell is the original, buggy, less featured version. The one for which you are the sole contributor. Who would want that?
In other words, pick one license or the other. They don't mix!
What I mean is my friends will ask me to fix their computer or install a new hard drive but they would never think of asking their lawyer friends to write them a contract. What's up with that?
I thought you were going to point out the obvious truth of his statement.
It's theft to visit a doctor and not pay him. It's theft to hire a lawyer and not pay him. It's theft to have a plummer fix your plumming and not pay her. It's theft to hire a gardener and not pay her.
In all those cases what did the doctor, lawyer, plummer or gardener lose? What did you physical object did you deprive them of?
NONE!!!!!!!!!!
Yet it's still theft! It's theft of time and labor which is the same for IP.
But that's just the problem, this TECH is something most americans want, they just don't know it:-p
I'm serious, net at 56K vs net at 12meg goes from curiousity to actually massively useful.
Those societies living with the massively useful net are going to stomp all kinds of ass over those living without because having it be ubiquitous is going to inspire tons of ideas for use that are not inspired in the non-wired, U.S. society.
Also, why does the entire U.S. have to be wired? For now just wire L.A., S.F, N.Y., D.C., Chicago and a few other metropolitian ares. It seems like those areas are concentrated enough that money can be made.
Other companies provide 100 megabit service for slightly more like NTT at around $55 a month.
A bigger concern, as an American, is that the U.S. is going to go down in flames in the near future because Japan and Korea are both wired to the max. There entire societies are changing because of ubiquitous access to FAST internet. That means Japan and Korea will end up leading the world in innovative net apps and hardware since they are the ones living in a wired world, not the U.S. The U.S. needs to get off it's ass and get us wired!
Metaprogramming in C++ is one big hack!!!!!! Give me a break, stacking things up in the compiler just to hack together type lists? Frikking fix C++ so that it does this stuff naturally or switch to Lisp which gives you the entire language in which to do meta programming instead of hacking together crap in a system that was clearly never designed to be used that way.
What's the news here? That only 8 years later Apple finally put video conferencing into their OS? !?!?!?!
Video Conferencing has been BUILT into Windows since 1995 (or was it Windows For Workgroups 3.1?) It was a friggen long time ago that Microsoft made Netmeeting which had and still has
1) Text Chat 2) Audio Chat 3) Video Chat 4) Shared Whiteboard 5) Shared Apps over the net.
You can buy 4 minutes of a movie for 99 cents. Then you can buy just the scenes in the movie you liked and leave all the rest on the table.
The should also do the same with books. You could be able to by each chapter for 99 cents. Then you can buy just the chapters you want. You don't want the chapter about Rivendale, don't by it.
Maybe they could even make it 1 cent per paragraph or sentence so if wanted you could buy just Frodo's little lyrics instead of the whole story.
"The GPL does not in any way cover internal distribution. This is not the same as public distribution. Making modifications and keeping them within your company, but not releasing the source, is completely uncovered by the GPL."
Wow! COOL! Now I can go use GPLed code in closed source commerical software! I'll just make my license say "by purchasing this software you agree to become a member of my organization". Then when the FSF comes knocking I'll just tell them that I'm only distrubuting to my "internal" people so therefore I don't have to give out the source.
Way cool, I'm going to start putting GPLed code in all my closed source commecial projects now.
Well then, I guess I'm free to start putting GPL software in anything I make. I'll just make my license say "By purchasing this software you agree that you are part of my organization". Then I can claim I'm not distrubuting the software. It's all staying "internal". Cool! Thanks for pointing that out. Now to go make lots of commerical closed source software using GPLed code!
No, it does not require you to just add a link "replies to our stories". It requires you to give the reply the same ammount of exposure as your original article. In other words, if you article was a front page headline, the reply has to be a front page headline.
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This is pissing me off. People in America getting excited that they are getting 1meg?
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Try 100meg each for $50 a month
http://www.usen.com
http://www.netsurf.ad
http://www.flets.com/
For 40meg each for $30 a month
http://www.flets.com/adsl/index.html
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http://www.so-net.ne.jp/ADSL/?ac_adsl1
http://www.odn.ne.jp/english/
1meg is disgraceful! The U.S. is going to lose any and all advantages in the not too distant future if we don't make sure we stay ahead of the rest of the world.
Kids in Japan and Korea will grow up with 100meg net connections and they will therefore be the ones dreaming up uses for it while our kids will grow up with 64k to 3meg and will therefore not be inspired to consider the possibilities.
What do you mean you haven't stolen anything from a mechanic? If you use his services and don't pay him you have stolen is time, something he can NEVER GET BACK. If you stole his money you could at least replace that but you stole his time. Time he could have use for a paying customer.
The analogy follows to IP. If someone spends X hours to make some IP and you take it without permission you have stolen his time.
The obvious example is you are trying to solve some problem at work. The 6pm bell rings and you leave. At 6:05 you have one of those "ah-hah!" moments and realize the solution. Does this solution now belong to you and not the company because it didn't happen on company hours? I don't think so and in fact it would be unethical to deny them the solution you thought up in the shower. They are paying you as a professional for those solutions regardless of when you think of them.
Also, if you look up the U.S. Federal Labor law you'll see that by law, salaraied employees do not have *hours*. Well, to be more specific, the company can set your hours but they can not doc you for not keeping them. They can only fire you for non following the rules. Salaried employees set their own hours, today 5 mintues, tomorrow 23 hours, whatever. So, for a salaried employee there is arguably no "outside work" hours.
> It makes sense that if you do the work on your own time, people who modify the work should give you the same rights on their changes that you gave them on the original code
I don't see how that makes sense. If I do it on my own time it makes sense that I can release it how ever I want to.
The gift analogy breaks down because we have been told all our life things like "you don't give a gift expecting to get something back. You give a gift purely to help someone else or make them happy". What kind of friend would you call someone that said "Here's a present but you can only have it if you promise to give me one in return". WTF!
Stuff I give away I BSD because that is actually "giving stuff away". GPL is not "giving stuff away", it's selling stuff with promises and agreements instead of money.
That will not help long term. Your movabletype blog supports Trackback with AUTO discovery. That means it would be trivial to write a spider to go find trackback supported sites and spam them all.
Are even 2 of those titles innovative? The majority of them are copies of commerical software and poor copies at that.
Because seeing all those other windows behind the one window I want to concentrate on is a distraction. It's like in the real world I often clear my desk of clutter to concentrate on one thing. Maximizing a window to fullscreen does that instantly for me.
It also gives me maximum working space instantly.
Two things which make me more productive.
> The main reason I even subscribed in the first place is so I could just browse around and FIND music I liked
Switch to listen.com. Yea, your paying for a service, not the music but the interface is 1000 times better and makes it easy to find TONS of music. I've got around 2500 songs in my lists currently.
There is tons of semi-micropayment stuff going on in Japan. Mostly centered around amatuer manga, anime, games and pr0n.
d l_top.html
Warning: Japanese required
Warning: Adult content
http://www.dlsite.com
Click any of the images in the center. The number of paid copies sold is listed in the top right corner. About 5 to 10 new creations get added per day.
Here's some more sites doing the same thing
http://www.dejipare.com/
http://www.dlfun.net/
http://www.sofpla.co.jp/cs/
I've seen things like poems being sold for $3 up to 120meg video games for $20. Some things sell, some don't. There's at least one guy who sells large Flash sexually oriented flash based animations. He charges $20 per creation (about 12 scenes) and he's managed to sell 1500 to 2000 copies each. That's $30k to $40k per title. Not bad.
Of course I don't know if anyone would consider $20 a micropayment but I think the point is is that people are selling IP online and making it easy to put up for sale and easy to buy. http://www.dlsite.com even has a link to the creators webpage so you can go to his site and see his other works or samples and get an idea of you think his stuff might be worth your money. They also give the option to the creators to offer a sample/trial version for free. (free to the potential buyer. I don't know if it's free to the creator)
Here in Japan, Yahoo Japan offers broadband with VOIP. The way it works is they give you a DSL modem and in the back of the modem is an RJ-11 connector. You just plug your phone in and use it like a regular phone. Done!
Of course I guess the issue is that they are charging you for the service were as most VOIP could be free. Their push is that they are cheaper than the local telephone company. First, there is no such thing as local unlimited dialing in Japan so even to call the next door neighbor costs a few cents.
Yahoo BB is like 1 cent (or 1 yen) cheaper AND if you are calling another Yahoo BB person it's free.
Also, international calls are cheaper. Especially from Japan to the US. 2.5 yen a minute or about 2 cents!!!! That means it's probably cheaper for me in Japan to call Los Angeles than it would be for someone in San Diego to call Los Angeles.
Please tell me how garbage collection is good for an embeddded app. "Honey, turn that thing off", "sorry honey, it's stuck doing something, it won't respond"
When are you guys going to get it through your head, Dual licensing DOESN'T WORK!
Why? Because the whole point of open source is that lots of developers can contribute. But, once they do, you don't have permission to release the version with all the cool new features and bug fixes contributed by all those other coders under some other license of your choosing.
The only version you can sell is the original, buggy, less featured version. The one for which you are the sole contributor. Who would want that?
In other words, pick one license or the other. They don't mix!
Hmmm, thousands of 60hz games were made running on a 1mhz CPU (Apple 2, Atari 800, Commodore 64, NES). Maybe we should get rid of the Java :-p
and not just in jobs.
What I mean is my friends will ask me to fix their computer or install a new hard drive but they would never think of asking their lawyer friends to write them a contract. What's up with that?
I would contribute to this
I thought you were going to point out the obvious truth of his statement.
It's theft to visit a doctor and not pay him. It's theft to hire a lawyer and not pay him. It's theft to have a plummer fix your plumming and not pay her. It's theft to hire a gardener and not pay her.
In all those cases what did the doctor, lawyer, plummer or gardener lose? What did you physical object did you deprive them of?
NONE!!!!!!!!!!
Yet it's still theft! It's theft of time and labor which is the same for IP.
But that's just the problem, this TECH is something most americans want, they just don't know it :-p
I'm serious, net at 56K vs net at 12meg goes from curiousity to actually massively useful.
Those societies living with the massively useful net are going to stomp all kinds of ass over those living without because having it be ubiquitous is going to inspire tons of ideas for use that are not inspired in the non-wired, U.S. society.
Also, why does the entire U.S. have to be wired? For now just wire L.A., S.F, N.Y., D.C., Chicago and a few other metropolitian ares. It seems like those areas are concentrated enough that money can be made.
http://www.usen.com
Other companies provide 100 megabit service for slightly more like NTT at around $55 a month.
A bigger concern, as an American, is that the U.S. is going to go down in flames in the near future because Japan and Korea are both wired to the max. There entire societies are changing because of ubiquitous access to FAST internet. That means Japan and Korea will end up leading the world in innovative net apps and hardware since they are the ones living in a wired world, not the U.S. The U.S. needs to get off it's ass and get us wired!
Metaprogramming in C++ is one big hack!!!!!! Give me a break, stacking things up in the compiler just to hack together type lists? Frikking fix C++ so that it does this stuff naturally or switch to Lisp which gives you the entire language in which to do meta programming instead of hacking together crap in a system that was clearly never designed to be used that way.
Either way that the question remains "What's the news here?"
What's the news here? That only 8 years later Apple finally put video conferencing into their OS? !?!?!?!
Video Conferencing has been BUILT into Windows since 1995 (or was it Windows For Workgroups 3.1?) It was a friggen long time ago that Microsoft made Netmeeting which had and still has
1) Text Chat
2) Audio Chat
3) Video Chat
4) Shared Whiteboard
5) Shared Apps over the net.
and under XP
6) Shared Desktop.
You can buy 4 minutes of a movie for 99 cents. Then you can buy just the scenes in the movie you liked and leave all the rest on the table.
The should also do the same with books. You could be able to by each chapter for 99 cents. Then you can buy just the chapters you want. You don't want the chapter about Rivendale, don't by it.
Maybe they could even make it 1 cent per paragraph or sentence so if wanted you could buy just Frodo's little lyrics instead of the whole story.
"The GPL does not in any way cover internal distribution. This is not the same as public distribution. Making modifications and keeping them within your company, but not releasing the source, is completely uncovered by the GPL."
Wow! COOL! Now I can go use GPLed code in closed source commerical software! I'll just make my license say "by purchasing this software you agree to become a member of my organization". Then when the FSF comes knocking I'll just tell them that I'm only distrubuting to my "internal" people so therefore I don't have to give out the source.
Way cool, I'm going to start putting GPLed code in all my closed source commecial projects now.
Well then, I guess I'm free to start putting GPL software in anything I make. I'll just make my license say "By purchasing this software you agree that you are part of my organization". Then I can claim I'm not distrubuting the software. It's all staying "internal". Cool! Thanks for pointing that out. Now to go make lots of commerical closed source software using GPLed code!
No, it does not require you to just add a link "replies to our stories". It requires you to give the reply the same ammount of exposure as your original article. In other words, if you article was a front page headline, the reply has to be a front page headline.