But his name isn't mikerowesoft, it's mikerowe. I think that MS would stand a very good chance in court given that his site name is pronounced exactly the same as microsoft.
MS didn't cave -- they flipped around the bad press with a couple hundred bucks of goodies *and* got the name back.
The RIAA is a trade organization, not a record label. They do not provide studios or producers. Record labels do those things, and I might also argue for their irrelevance--but not as soon as the RIAA.
The reason why I said established artist is that the marketing (which to a large degree is really just distribution to record stores and radio play) aspect is actually hard for a band to do on its own. I think that pull-based collaborative filtering like audioscrobbler or even garageband.com can work to obsolete push-based recommendations like clear channel, and I think the resulting system would be better for both artists and listeners.
I challenge someone to name one band that has gone gold without an RIAA marketing push.
Both of Liz Phair's albums on Matador went gold, and Matador is an independent label that's not a member of the RIAA.
It helps them in the short term, but when some day most music is sold on-line, people will start to realize their irrelevance. For instance, if an extablished artist can make a direct deal with Apple to put their music on ITMS, what does the RIAA even offer them?
I'm afraid you're guilty of using a (d)-style argument in your own rebuttal. Basically, you are saying that you like case insensitivity better, and that's it.
I don't like Java's mile-long member names either, but I don't think that has anything to do with case (in)sensitivity.
When implementing a language in itself (or one like it), you usually want to have classes, or datatypes, or arms in a union, named after features of that language. For instance, in Java you might have a class called 'If' that represents an if expression. Of course, you can't call it 'if' because that's a keyword. 'If', in my opinion, is a lot better than 'if_e' or whatever.
Some languages use initial capitals to distinguish lexical classes (like O'caml), and this is another reason to have case sensitivity.
I think that what you really hate is Java's difficult capitalization rules. I also find biCapitalization difficult because the rules are not as simple as they claim to be. Is it subString or substring? searchAST or searchAst?
We don't have a "right" for photoshop to contain all the features that we want it to. If the government was forcing adobe to include this, then we'd have a legal issue.
That's what I'm talking about when I say that this is an issue between Adobe and its customers. Do their customers demand unencumbered software? Maybe. But it is simply not a legal issue, and "fair use" doesn't enter into it.
Remember when the RIAA started suing poor, abused copyright infringers---who had already lost their Napster, beleagured by the installation of spyware with their KaZaA progams---and Slashdot jumped to their defense?
Snipers are powerful, yes. That is precisely why people like to play as them. It is very satisfying to pick people off from afar. Since the point of playing a game is to have fun, if they make the game more fun then they are obviously making the genre better.
I've played plenty of games where the sniper is not overpowerful, or even the most useful class. A good example is Quake 3 Fortress.
What is also interesting is that these products block fair uses of currency images which do not break the law.
By using the term "fair uses" you seem to be trying to evoke copyright law. As far as I know, there is no copyright on currency images in the US because they are government publications (and, indeed, not really even "creative works" as required to be copyrightable). The issue is entirely with counterfeiting, obviously, which is actually a much more serious infraction.
Even if this were a copyright issue, no publisher of software is required to write software which enables you to fairly use their, or others', copyrighted material. There's really no legal issue here unless Adobe was forced by law to include this (they weren't)--it's just a matter of what Photoshop customers want, and what Adobe provides.
For my part, I enjoyed learning what those little yellow '20s' on the new series $20 bills are for, and so this whole ordeal was certainly worth it. =)
First, make your channel +sk and tell the keyword and channel name to only the people who you want invited.
After that you could use PGP to have everyone sign a newly created message with their private key, thus proving that they are who they are. However, this doesn't prevent eavesdropping, message insertion, or denial of service. If you want protection from any of these, IRC is definitely not what you want.
There's nothing wrong with trying to finance your site by using big ol' ads. But if you make your site annoying enough, people won't go to it. This will be a new era indeed...
Those smileys ads are my favorite--those stupid little creatures in their two frame animations really get a giggle out of me, especially since I can't imagine how they expect to make money off that stuff. The ones that really irk me are the 60fps flashing hot pink and yellow ones that proclaim that I'm a winner!
There is a nobel prize for literature, but none for computer science. Which makes the biggest difference to humanity?
I think I gotta go with literature on this one. Anway, computer scientists have the Turing award, which is basically the same thing.
Also, hacking linux apps and libraries isn't really computer science, although it is useful itself. Certainly these contributions are not of the scale and import as nobel-prize winning breakthroughs.
Be wary that the licenses for most games don't allow you to just install them on the computers and char people to play. You will need to make special deals with the software publishers, or else just keep quiet and hope they don't sue you. =)
Also remember that many geeks genuinely prefer the oz curtain of sitting behind a terminal with nobody else around.
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But his name isn't mikerowesoft, it's mikerowe. I think that MS would stand a very good chance in court given that his site name is pronounced exactly the same as microsoft.
MS didn't cave -- they flipped around the bad press with a couple hundred bucks of goodies *and* got the name back.
My desktop has been covered in piles of papers and books for years.
An AC suggests,
> I challenge someone to name one band that
has gone gold without an RIAA marketing push.
Phish
Phish is on fuckin' Elektra, dude.
Fortunately ITMS sells more than just the music of RIAA member labels. I don't know where you got that idea from!
The RIAA is a trade organization, not a record label. They do not provide studios or producers. Record labels do those things, and I might also argue for their irrelevance--but not as soon as the RIAA.
The reason why I said established artist is that the marketing (which to a large degree is really just distribution to record stores and radio play) aspect is actually hard for a band to do on its own. I think that pull-based collaborative filtering like audioscrobbler or even garageband.com can work to obsolete push-based recommendations like clear channel, and I think the resulting system would be better for both artists and listeners.
I challenge someone to name one band that has gone gold without an RIAA marketing push.
Both of Liz Phair's albums on Matador went gold, and Matador is an independent label that's not a member of the RIAA.
It helps them in the short term, but when some day most music is sold on-line, people will start to realize their irrelevance. For instance, if an extablished artist can make a direct deal with Apple to put their music on ITMS, what does the RIAA even offer them?
"If a player completes your game, they are much more likely to buzz about, spreading the word that it was a great game."
Unless it has a real shitty, anticlimactic ending like XIII.
I'm afraid you're guilty of using a (d)-style argument in your own rebuttal. Basically, you are saying that you like case insensitivity better, and that's it.
I don't like Java's mile-long member names either, but I don't think that has anything to do with case (in)sensitivity.
About twice as long for a string comparison is what I would definitely call slower.
Parsing is about the easiest and fastest part of compilation that there is. You would not even be able to measure the difference.
When implementing a language in itself (or one like it), you usually want to have classes, or datatypes, or arms in a union, named after features of that language. For instance, in Java you might have a class called 'If' that represents an if expression. Of course, you can't call it 'if' because that's a keyword. 'If', in my opinion, is a lot better than 'if_e' or whatever.
Some languages use initial capitals to distinguish lexical classes (like O'caml), and this is another reason to have case sensitivity.
I think that what you really hate is Java's difficult capitalization rules. I also find biCapitalization difficult because the rules are not as simple as they claim to be. Is it subString or substring? searchAST or searchAst?
We don't have a "right" for photoshop to contain all the features that we want it to. If the government was forcing adobe to include this, then we'd have a legal issue.
That's what I'm talking about when I say that this is an issue between Adobe and its customers. Do their customers demand unencumbered software? Maybe. But it is simply not a legal issue, and "fair use" doesn't enter into it.
Remember when the RIAA started suing poor, abused copyright infringers---who had already lost their Napster, beleagured by the installation of spyware with their KaZaA progams---and Slashdot jumped to their defense?
Snipers are powerful, yes. That is precisely why people like to play as them. It is very satisfying to pick people off from afar. Since the point of playing a game is to have fun, if they make the game more fun then they are obviously making the genre better.
;)
I've played plenty of games where the sniper is not overpowerful, or even the most useful class. A good example is Quake 3 Fortress.
So, basically, "stfu noob".
What is also interesting is that these products block fair uses of currency images which do not break the law.
By using the term "fair uses" you seem to be trying to evoke copyright law. As far as I know, there is no copyright on currency images in the US because they are government publications (and, indeed, not really even "creative works" as required to be copyrightable). The issue is entirely with counterfeiting, obviously, which is actually a much more serious infraction.
Even if this were a copyright issue, no publisher of software is required to write software which enables you to fairly use their, or others', copyrighted material. There's really no legal issue here unless Adobe was forced by law to include this (they weren't)--it's just a matter of what Photoshop customers want, and what Adobe provides.
For my part, I enjoyed learning what those little yellow '20s' on the new series $20 bills are for, and so this whole ordeal was certainly worth it. =)
First, make your channel +sk and tell the keyword and channel name to only the people who you want invited.
After that you could use PGP to have everyone sign a newly created message with their private key, thus proving that they are who they are. However, this doesn't prevent eavesdropping, message insertion, or denial of service. If you want protection from any of these, IRC is definitely not what you want.
There's nothing wrong with trying to finance your site by using big ol' ads. But if you make your site annoying enough, people won't go to it. This will be a new era indeed...
Those smileys ads are my favorite--those stupid little creatures in their two frame animations really get a giggle out of me, especially since I can't imagine how they expect to make money off that stuff. The ones that really irk me are the 60fps flashing hot pink and yellow ones that proclaim that I'm a winner!
I suppose I should be flattered in a way that the worst game uses a font I made when I was 16 (scroll down to "Prefix") for its badly made you're winner screen...
Anime fans watch the anime version. They are not the target audience.
There is a nobel prize for literature, but none for computer science. Which makes the biggest difference to humanity?
I think I gotta go with literature on this one. Anway, computer scientists have the Turing award, which is basically the same thing.
Also, hacking linux apps and libraries isn't really computer science, although it is useful itself. Certainly these contributions are not of the scale and import as nobel-prize winning breakthroughs.
Man, valgind is so great. I don't know how anyone can bear programming in C or C++ without it.
Be wary that the licenses for most games don't allow you to just install them on the computers and char people to play. You will need to make special deals with the software publishers, or else just keep quiet and hope they don't sue you. =)
Also remember that many geeks genuinely prefer the oz curtain of sitting behind a terminal with nobody else around.
Feel free to correct me here, but I don't read text on a slanted pane very well...:)
Are you looking at your monitor exactly dead-on, then? Do you iron out the pages of a book before reading them?
Not that I'm complaining, but wasn't 2003 supposed to be the year of desktop linux?