If something lasts that long, and can hold that much stuff, there will always be a reader available (unless we return to the dark ages, that is.
It should be sufficiently evident by now that data is much more expensive than the method used to read that data. If you build it (high capacity durable memory), they (access hardware developers) will come.
Anyway, if the stored data has no value who cares whether or not a reader is available?
I think that production costs make it impossible to make many games. Fewer games means less diversity. Less diversity means less chance that a game will get made that I really like.
I remember the wide variety of games that were out there when I was in my twenties. Now, there is so much sameness. Duke Nukem, Call of Duty, Doom, ... they're all fundamentally the same.
Open source holds super-great potential, I think. A good project leader can develop a good object-oriented skeleton and developers can fill in the rest. Too bad that's not happening with wargames!
Stop doing anything that enables him to play all the time. Move out. Tape a note on his computer telling him what you've done, and why. Forget him until he rejoins the human race.
Obviously, in/. universe, a judge who respects the law of copyright is biased. In other, alternative, universes judges who respect the law are respected.
I agree with you about the change in attitude. Could it result from the fact: (a) That the jobs of most of the people who favor/. depend upon legal protection of IP? (b) Big Media public relations people joining/. to spin? (c) Simple maturation of the/. crowd?
If Google, an open source project, sends out all sorts of data that you might consider an invasion of privacy, is the open source community free to fork it?
If a light BIOS/OS sits on the system, then you could easily task switch between operating systems. Better yet, developers could write applications directly for the BIOS/OS. That would be very good for single purpose workstations, wouldn't it, because the overhead would be really minimal?
Now he only needs to do four trillion more good things before he evens out in my karma book. Sometimes Ralph's freakishly huge ego works for good; other times. ...
Threatening in the media is just an attempt to influence public opinion--including potential jury members.
This is also a public official trying to stigmatize a person with a crime without any crime even being charged.
This reminds me of Nifong and the lacrosse players. This prosecutor is bad and should not be reelected. He places his own selfish need for publicity above the defendant's right to its day in court.
There are limits to power that must be respected. Our country gets into trouble when projects its power in a blundering way.
Keep the military miles and miles and miles away from drugs. Drug money will corrupt the poorly paid officers and NCOs. It is absolutely stupid to put our soldiers in a position where they can be bribed.
Iraq and Afghanistan are stupid because the USA's not getting anything out of either stupid war.
We are excellent at shock and awe. We can destroy any enemy FAST. Bush and Obama don't get it--we don't blunt our damn spear on stupid shit.
A completely configurable augmented reality bicycle hud with time, speed, heart rate, wattage, rpms, rear-vision, risk warnings (w/license plate OCR tech). Then, when you look down, GPS and tire status info. And more!
If you care about immaculate document appearance, you don't want Word. Word is great for document automation and producing adequate looking documents. You can make Word do anything you want it to do, except produce immaculate text. You may also not want to use Word for extra-long documents. It's the standard--only a deluded fanboy could deny that. It's also a bloated hog.
TeX/LaTex is good for producing immaculate looking documents and not much else. You've got to keep using it for your skill set to remain sharp. I'd use TeX/LaTeX if all I did was produce beautiful documents or ship files to a TeX-loving publisher. I'd never want to share a TeX document, because I'd always be afraid my recipient wouldn't be confident enough to work with it. I'd run screaming before I'd attempt any kind of document automation with TeX--the labor wouldn't be worth the yield.
LyX is a good idea as a front end to TeX and LaTeX, but it offers no help in document automation. It won't let me do the stuff I can do in Word. There is a strong vibe in the LyX community that wants to keep LyX focused on document layout and not much else. That won't increase their market share.
I had shifted to Open Office until my wife wanted me to automate a Word form system for her. I had to then buy the damn thing. MS got me because they are the "standard." I hated buying it, but there it is . ...
It won't be so stupid when we have 7 foot by 5 foot ultra-thin computer screens up on our wall (or up on each of the four walls surrounding us--and the ceiling).
It does work--at least it works better than the alternatives. Take two assumptions that are pertinent here: (1) You want to keep doing what you are doing; and (2) You are headed for a showdown with the MAFIAA if you proceed.
In this scenario, you are going to court (that's the given). It is often better to file your lawsuit BEFORE you damage your opponent, because that way the trial stakes are not so high for you. It is important to remember that a trial is always a HUGE uncertainty because juries can be wild or stupid. Anything you can do to minimize your financial exposure is a good thing. Remember that you are not (strategically, at least) going after anybody for money in either the preemptive situation or the responsive situation--you want a ruling enabling you to do what you want to do!!
If you have already bet the company and you have already caused your opponent damages, then it probably doesn't matter, because the stakes are high either way. That appears to be the Blizzard situation. Also, the Blizzard situation failed for the developer because he was flamingly, obviously, in the wrong and he was a fool to fuck with the big bear. If you're wrong, who cares whether you're preemptive or responsive--you're doomed anyway.
When you haven't done anything to hurt your opponent yet and you can afford to wait--that's the paradigm optimal situation for a preemptive attack.
(1) Take down the website. This stops their claim of damages. They probably have no damages anyway. (2) Study the law of copyright and federal civil procedure. This could take awhile. Find a lawyer to help explain the rough spots to you. Study up very carefully about Rule 11 sanctions, because the SOBs are going to accuse you of Rule 11 violations if they decide to fight you. You may also be able to claim some damages from them for abuse of copyright--research that too. (3) File a declaratory judgment action in federal court asking that your rights be determined to be fair use, and seek any damages you are entitled to. (4) The industry must then respond to your lawsuit. This is VERY expensive to them in relationship to the damages that they can recover (probably zero). It is a bad business decision for them to hunt you down. In THEIR best scenario, they'll have to pay at least a few thousand dollars to kick your ass in a situation where they can't get any money out of you. (If you're a mean, vindictive, son of a bitch, you can get your musician-friends to file their own declaratory judgments actions after your case is over). (5) If they fight you, do your best. If you win, you're a demigod and you get a federal judge ruling that your use is a fair use. If you lose, what the hell--you fought and you made the corporation pay. If they don't fight you, you get your order saying that your use is a fair use. After you file your lawsuit, they may very well be willing to negotiate (a copyright lawyer is very useful here). (6) You can keep your costs way down if you represent yourself. They have to pay a lawyer a few hundred dollars an hour. That's your edge.
You can torture those sons of bitches if you know the law and if you're in the right. They know that. They'll sing a different tune when faced with litigation costs.
What is the corporate workspace? If the corporate workspace includes social networking sites, then the corporation damn well better try to regulate employee behavior on those websites. If it doesn't, then the corporation may find itself liable for the acts of its employees on those sites.
Besides, any business has a right to fire anybody who contradicts the company line and thereby damages the company. Companies don't need to clutch vipers close to their breasts, that's for sure.
All the complaining wage slaves posting in this thread ought to put themselves in the shoes of an entrepreneur running a new company. If THEIR business was threatened, then they'd look at things in a different light.
While I'm ranting, it's the same thing with the copyright complainers. If THEY independently created something productive, useful and profitable, you can be darn sure that they'd be ranting against the thieves stealing their work.
We have lawyers because rich people want their property preserved in an orderly fashion and they are willing to pay the overhead. All the other lawyer shenanigans, like PI lawyers, have evolved from that simple basic premise.
Your "simple laws" idea is not new. It hasn't been adopted because it introduces too much uncertainty into the process (everything would depend too much on the sense (or bribability) of the particular judge.
How are you going to have "simple laws" when you have powerful complex interest groups aggressively advocating for competing law? You can't.
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If something lasts that long, and can hold that much stuff, there will always be a reader available (unless we return to the dark ages, that is.
It should be sufficiently evident by now that data is much more expensive than the method used to read that data. If you build it (high capacity durable memory), they (access hardware developers) will come.
Anyway, if the stored data has no value who cares whether or not a reader is available?
I think that production costs make it impossible to make many games. Fewer games means less diversity. Less diversity means less chance that a game will get made that I really like.
I remember the wide variety of games that were out there when I was in my twenties. Now, there is so much sameness. Duke Nukem, Call of Duty, Doom, . .. they're all fundamentally the same.
Open source holds super-great potential, I think. A good project leader can develop a good object-oriented skeleton and developers can fill in the rest. Too bad that's not happening with wargames!
Stop doing anything that enables him to play all the time.
Move out.
Tape a note on his computer telling him what you've done, and why.
Forget him until he rejoins the human race.
Obviously, in /. universe, a judge who respects the law of copyright is biased. In other, alternative, universes judges who respect the law are respected.
I agree with you about the change in attitude. Could it result from the fact: /. depend upon legal protection of IP? /. to spin? /. crowd?
(a) That the jobs of most of the people who favor
(b) Big Media public relations people joining
(c) Simple maturation of the
I wonder why!
I mean Chrome, not Google. Sorry.
If Google, an open source project, sends out all sorts of data that you might consider an invasion of privacy, is the open source community free to fork it?
I've got adblock plus, but I dont' go to masses anymore. Too preachy. I like to limit the ability of other people to tell me what to do.
If a light BIOS/OS sits on the system, then you could easily task switch between operating systems. Better yet, developers could write applications directly for the BIOS/OS. That would be very good for single purpose workstations, wouldn't it, because the overhead would be really minimal?
In that case, send Lawyers, Guns and Money.
Now he only needs to do four trillion more good things before he evens out in my karma book. Sometimes Ralph's freakishly huge ego works for good; other times. . ..
The best prosecutor is all bite and no bark.
Threatening in the media is just an attempt to influence public opinion--including potential jury members.
This is also a public official trying to stigmatize a person with a crime without any crime even being charged.
This reminds me of Nifong and the lacrosse players. This prosecutor is bad and should not be reelected. He places his own selfish need for publicity above the defendant's right to its day in court.
Yeah! Or, or "How to Serve Man."
There are limits to power that must be respected. Our country gets into trouble when projects its power in a blundering way.
Keep the military miles and miles and miles away from drugs. Drug money will corrupt the poorly paid officers and NCOs. It is absolutely stupid to put our soldiers in a position where they can be bribed.
Iraq and Afghanistan are stupid because the USA's not getting anything out of either stupid war.
We are excellent at shock and awe. We can destroy any enemy FAST. Bush and Obama don't get it--we don't blunt our damn spear on stupid shit.
A completely configurable augmented reality bicycle hud with time, speed, heart rate, wattage, rpms, rear-vision, risk warnings (w/license plate OCR tech). Then, when you look down, GPS and tire status info. And more!
The absolute ultimate geek bike toy!
If you care about immaculate document appearance, you don't want Word. Word is great for document automation and producing adequate looking documents. You can make Word do anything you want it to do, except produce immaculate text. You may also not want to use Word for extra-long documents. It's the standard--only a deluded fanboy could deny that. It's also a bloated hog.
TeX/LaTex is good for producing immaculate looking documents and not much else. You've got to keep using it for your skill set to remain sharp. I'd use TeX/LaTeX if all I did was produce beautiful documents or ship files to a TeX-loving publisher. I'd never want to share a TeX document, because I'd always be afraid my recipient wouldn't be confident enough to work with it. I'd run screaming before I'd attempt any kind of document automation with TeX--the labor wouldn't be worth the yield.
LyX is a good idea as a front end to TeX and LaTeX, but it offers no help in document automation. It won't let me do the stuff I can do in Word. There is a strong vibe in the LyX community that wants to keep LyX focused on document layout and not much else. That won't increase their market share.
I had shifted to Open Office until my wife wanted me to automate a Word form system for her. I had to then buy the damn thing. MS got me because they are the "standard." I hated buying it, but there it is . . ..
It won't be so stupid when we have 7 foot by 5 foot ultra-thin computer screens up on our wall (or up on each of the four walls surrounding us--and the ceiling).
Is Gartner a subsidiary of Microsoft?
everything looks like a nail . . .
It does work--at least it works better than the alternatives. Take two assumptions that are pertinent here: (1) You want to keep doing what you are doing; and (2) You are headed for a showdown with the MAFIAA if you proceed.
In this scenario, you are going to court (that's the given). It is often better to file your lawsuit BEFORE you damage your opponent, because that way the trial stakes are not so high for you. It is important to remember that a trial is always a HUGE uncertainty because juries can be wild or stupid. Anything you can do to minimize your financial exposure is a good thing. Remember that you are not (strategically, at least) going after anybody for money in either the preemptive situation or the responsive situation--you want a ruling enabling you to do what you want to do!!
If you have already bet the company and you have already caused your opponent damages, then it probably doesn't matter, because the stakes are high either way. That appears to be the Blizzard situation. Also, the Blizzard situation failed for the developer because he was flamingly, obviously, in the wrong and he was a fool to fuck with the big bear. If you're wrong, who cares whether you're preemptive or responsive--you're doomed anyway.
When you haven't done anything to hurt your opponent yet and you can afford to wait--that's the paradigm optimal situation for a preemptive attack.
(1) Take down the website. This stops their claim of damages. They probably have no damages anyway.
(2) Study the law of copyright and federal civil procedure. This could take awhile. Find a lawyer to help explain the rough spots to you. Study up very carefully about Rule 11 sanctions, because the SOBs are going to accuse you of Rule 11 violations if they decide to fight you. You may also be able to claim some damages from them for abuse of copyright--research that too.
(3) File a declaratory judgment action in federal court asking that your rights be determined to be fair use, and seek any damages you are entitled to.
(4) The industry must then respond to your lawsuit. This is VERY expensive to them in relationship to the damages that they can recover (probably zero). It is a bad business decision for them to hunt you down. In THEIR best scenario, they'll have to pay at least a few thousand dollars to kick your ass in a situation where they can't get any money out of you. (If you're a mean, vindictive, son of a bitch, you can get your musician-friends to file their own declaratory judgments actions after your case is over).
(5) If they fight you, do your best. If you win, you're a demigod and you get a federal judge ruling that your use is a fair use. If you lose, what the hell--you fought and you made the corporation pay. If they don't fight you, you get your order saying that your use is a fair use. After you file your lawsuit, they may very well be willing to negotiate (a copyright lawyer is very useful here).
(6) You can keep your costs way down if you represent yourself. They have to pay a lawyer a few hundred dollars an hour. That's your edge.
You can torture those sons of bitches if you know the law and if you're in the right. They know that. They'll sing a different tune when faced with litigation costs.
Only on Slashdot can a person get modded insightful for a comment encouraging murder in aid of IP theft.
The world is waiting for a reader that is open-source friendly. Like an Android reader . . .
Once that competition comes, Amazon will back off the restrictions. Until then . . . we wait.
Amazon doesn't want to damage their core business of selling books. When a hardware maker builds a better ebook, things will change.
What is the corporate workspace? If the corporate workspace includes social networking sites, then the corporation damn well better try to regulate employee behavior on those websites. If it doesn't, then the corporation may find itself liable for the acts of its employees on those sites.
Besides, any business has a right to fire anybody who contradicts the company line and thereby damages the company. Companies don't need to clutch vipers close to their breasts, that's for sure.
All the complaining wage slaves posting in this thread ought to put themselves in the shoes of an entrepreneur running a new company. If THEIR business was threatened, then they'd look at things in a different light.
While I'm ranting, it's the same thing with the copyright complainers. If THEY independently created something productive, useful and profitable, you can be darn sure that they'd be ranting against the thieves stealing their work.
We have lawyers because rich people want their property preserved in an orderly fashion and they are willing to pay the overhead. All the other lawyer shenanigans, like PI lawyers, have evolved from that simple basic premise.
Your "simple laws" idea is not new. It hasn't been adopted because it introduces too much uncertainty into the process (everything would depend too much on the sense (or bribability) of the particular judge.
How are you going to have "simple laws" when you have powerful complex interest groups aggressively advocating for competing law? You can't.
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