I'm quite fed up with all these people beating around the bush and trying to defend Napster. It Does profit from an illegal act, and there's just no way you can defend that. Just because Napster doesn't touch the mp3s does not mean that it doesn't help in the trading of them. If it wasn't for Napster people would not be able to trade these mp3s like they do.
Now, as for the people with the arguement that Napster is freeing the music industry, is just ludicrous. Napster is doing nothing of the sort. They are not giving people more rights, they are stealing rights from people who do not want their songs freely distributed. If Napster was an organisation that made music and released it free of charge on their own accord, that would be acceptable means to an end.
Do you really all defend Napster just because it gives you stuff for free? Have you all no brains to consider the implications of your actions? Can no-one look at the bigger picture and realise that what they say is true "piracy IS theft"? If you don't like then fine, you can always release things with no copyright restrictions of your own accord. But copyright breach like this is a flawed means to an end.
This isn't a case of freedom of speech. Artists are not being censored by the record companies and Napster helping them break free. This is not a case where the fact that this music costs money is opressing the poor, I mean look at the stuff traded on Napster! Britney Spears and other suchlikes. You don't Need them, and to claim that getting songs like that for free is a universal right is quite dumb.
What really annoys me is that people lump Napster along side things like DeCSS, which Are fighting against corrupt things like MS and Apple's sole ability to play DVD's on a home computer. This is Not a similar issue! When will you all wake up and realise that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Freedom without responsibility is akin to oppression.
That's a very nice idea. Of course, this would require a standard API that all programs use for it to work. However, it could be handy to have say charts, that stick out of the page in 3d, and a 3d-window manager to allow the user to move around it and manipulate the data. Maybe if all the data in the window was in 3d, the window manager would allow the user to rotate the window, and hence the data inside it.
A 3D-Window manager is (as everyone else has already said) only any use if we are dealing with 3D. However, the reason that most things are in 2D is simply because they were designed for 2D only systems. Perhaps if a proper 3D GUI was unleashed, we'd see programs taking proper advanage of it (3D-Web pages, 3D-IRC, 3D-Programming tools, etc). Until that happens, any 3D GUI is really not much use.
Although saying that, the DOOM Process killer a few weeks ago had potential:)
> representing 3D data in 3D (of course). That's a very nice idea. Of course, this would require a standard API that all programs use for it to work. However, it could be handy to have say charts, that stick out of the page in 3d, and a 3d-window manager to allow the user to move around it and manipulate the data. Maybe if all the data in the window was in 3d, the window manager would allow the user to rotate the window, and hence the data inside it. A 3D-Window manager is (as everyone else has already said) only any use if we are dealing with 3D. However, the reason that most things are in 2D is simply because they were designed for 2D only systems. Perhaps if a proper 3D GUI was unleashed, we'd see programs taking proper advanage of it (3D-Web pages, 3D-IRC, 3D-Programming tools, etc). Until that happens, any 3D GUI is really not much use. Although saying that, the DOOM Process killer a few weeks ago had potential:)
This is nuts! I can't believe that someone actually passed a law that can even remotely suggests that IDG could take action against someone using "...for dummies" in a forum posting.
As for trademark erosion, why are these companies complaining - personally I'd see it as a good thing. If everyone in the world habitually uses your product name, that firmly establishes yourself as the Premier brand. Say I wanted to buy a "hoover". No one else in the world can make vacuum cleaners called "hoovers", so surely it's a good thing for the company that makes them?
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Well, here goes for my rant of the day:
I'm quite fed up with all these people beating around the bush and trying to defend Napster. It Does profit from an illegal act, and there's just no way you can defend that. Just because Napster doesn't touch the mp3s does not mean that it doesn't help in the trading of them. If it wasn't for Napster people would not be able to trade these mp3s like they do.
Now, as for the people with the arguement that Napster is freeing the music industry, is just ludicrous. Napster is doing nothing of the sort. They are not giving people more rights, they are stealing rights from people who do not want their songs freely distributed. If Napster was an organisation that made music and released it free of charge on their own accord, that would be acceptable means to an end.
Do you really all defend Napster just because it gives you stuff for free? Have you all no brains to consider the implications of your actions? Can no-one look at the bigger picture and realise that what they say is true "piracy IS theft"? If you don't like then fine, you can always release things with no copyright restrictions of your own accord. But copyright breach like this is a flawed means to an end.
This isn't a case of freedom of speech. Artists are not being censored by the record companies and Napster helping them break free. This is not a case where the fact that this music costs money is opressing the poor, I mean look at the stuff traded on Napster! Britney Spears and other suchlikes. You don't Need them, and to claim that getting songs like that for free is a universal right is quite dumb.
What really annoys me is that people lump Napster along side things like DeCSS, which Are fighting against corrupt things like MS and Apple's sole ability to play DVD's on a home computer. This is Not a similar issue! When will you all wake up and realise that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Freedom without responsibility is akin to oppression.
> representing 3D data in 3D (of course).
:)
That's a very nice idea. Of course, this would require a standard API that all programs use for it to work. However, it could be handy to have say charts, that stick out of the page in 3d, and a 3d-window manager to allow the user to move around it and manipulate the data. Maybe if all the data in the window was in 3d, the window manager would allow the user to rotate the window, and hence the data inside it.
A 3D-Window manager is (as everyone else has already said) only any use if we are dealing with 3D. However, the reason that most things are in 2D is simply because they were designed for 2D only systems. Perhaps if a proper 3D GUI was unleashed, we'd see programs taking proper advanage of it (3D-Web pages, 3D-IRC, 3D-Programming tools, etc). Until that happens, any 3D GUI is really not much use.
Although saying that, the DOOM Process killer a few weeks ago had potential
> representing 3D data in 3D (of course). That's a very nice idea. Of course, this would require a standard API that all programs use for it to work. However, it could be handy to have say charts, that stick out of the page in 3d, and a 3d-window manager to allow the user to move around it and manipulate the data. Maybe if all the data in the window was in 3d, the window manager would allow the user to rotate the window, and hence the data inside it. A 3D-Window manager is (as everyone else has already said) only any use if we are dealing with 3D. However, the reason that most things are in 2D is simply because they were designed for 2D only systems. Perhaps if a proper 3D GUI was unleashed, we'd see programs taking proper advanage of it (3D-Web pages, 3D-IRC, 3D-Programming tools, etc). Until that happens, any 3D GUI is really not much use. Although saying that, the DOOM Process killer a few weeks ago had potential :)
This is nuts! I can't believe that someone actually passed a law that can even remotely suggests that IDG could take action against someone using "...for dummies" in a forum posting.
As for trademark erosion, why are these companies complaining - personally I'd see it as a good thing. If everyone in the world habitually uses your product name, that firmly establishes yourself as the Premier brand. Say I wanted to buy a "hoover". No one else in the world can make vacuum cleaners called "hoovers", so surely it's a good thing for the company that makes them?