If work for the greater good requires no due credit, then the GPL is redundant.
If the majority of people prefer to use the sum of all free software without caring who made it - copyright laws with software are redundant.
If we could get used to the idea that credit due merely helps us contact the people behind the software, then it would not need to be compulsory and copyright laws would only hold back progress of any particular implementation - since any free implementation with correct credit designation has a big evolutionary advantage.
GPL uses copyright law to protect itself from copyright law. GPL software is doing pretty well now - imagine how good it would be if it didn't have this obstacle.
I have obtained free software through pirate bay - a Seagate disk tool that would take ages to obtain from Seagate - pirate bay allowed me to use it without holding Seagate responsible for my actions with it.
You may think RIAA execs don't deserve a gravy train, but do artists deserve a gravy train ? I think they should be rewarded for their work like anyone else - millions of sales ? how about your local musicians - they have to work to get paid - that's all that is needed. The distribution of recordings is just publicity for their work - money does not need to be involved for a decent music industry.
By your logic, any attempt to argue that copyright infringement is not necessarily stealing is only merely related to the fact that the arguer stands to benefit from the alleged stealing.
By my logic, you wouldn't even know if your behaviour of classifying all copyright infringement as stealing was wrong, because you are not allowed to question it.
The law should be rational, rationalization is essential to its process and understanding
Do you not care for the extent of copyright law and its value to society and its individuals?
Do you think maybe copyright law can be misused if it cannot be questioned ?
I am in favour of good copyright laws, but they need to be fairly carefully managed to be fair - the circumstances have changed so much beyond their original intentions, that they are being abused to maintain the wealth imbalance
So, you illustration of color absorption compared to color emittance somehow invalidates my point ? your assumptions about my age and your lack of an argument illustrate more about your possible future arguments. This could be interesting.
The reason why there is a difference between these color spaces has more to do with that annoying 1% of noise our language and minds cannot possibly grasp that the universe is filled with than anything else.
What am I talking about ? I'm talking about the belief in a sterile objective sensory perception. It just doesn't exist. Pondering it can lead to interesting points. Our vision is of a small component of the EM spectrum, its quality varies slightly among different humans along with the fact that since it is perception, its understanding is wrapped up with conciousness - which also varies amongst humans. There exists an approximate optimal mapping between these color spaces, but it is not absolute and when I say I'm not an expert its because the attempt to generalise an optimal mapping seems to be such a waste of time compared to looking at a real sunset.
Seriously, if you think your perception is somehow more accurate or better trained than others, then you join the legion of "experts" whose heads are firmly up the arses. Calibrate once for what you like to see in the light of your choice, or your device is not working properly, its that simple.
Could it be you're brilliant argument has knocked me flat ?
Tell you what, toss pot, you might think you look really cool when you can spot this red from that red, or those speakers sound better with FLAC without even realising how if you moved the couch you would create more distortion from your original position than any change in high bitrate compression formats,
Please go ahead, buy the more expensive that looks cool - you may actually turn out to be right about its claims beyond the subjective - by accident no doubt.
Anyone who claims that color spaces between 2 color devices need any more than a single calibration have their heads firmly planted up there multicolor arses - I leave room from shonky equipment that needs constant care from their owner just to make red come out at all.
I will gladly rub any snub nose in it.
Now leave the room, visit Monty Python and come back when you have an argument, this room is abuse.
My understanding is you can convert at print stage with GIMP, the only reason I can think of for caring about the method would be if you need constant feedback on color balance.
Even then, I think it makes sense to balance colors on an RGB monitor with RGB space most of the time - since any working in CYMK is not directly perceivable until print stage anyway.
I would calibrate the conversion and work in the color space my monitor can manage
I'm no expert on color spaces, I suspect its a bit like high quality
mp3 versus FLAC. Color spaces for the sense gifted (maybe we need some
double blind tests.)
Nature itself may not be moral, but I think it would be best to define morality with respect to nature.
There is no doubt nature understands death a lot better than we do. For nature, death serves life, death fosters generational improvement of species. On a big scale, if we try to defeat natures morality by defining morality outside of natures parameters, we maybe in for a shock as the survival of our species maybe threatened by our own morality.
Maybe many of us can accept that we maybe threatening the survival of our species in order to live moral lives, but when it comes down to it, survival maybe an instinct too strong for a morality that does not respect it to hold.
suspend2 on kernel 2.6.24 hit the spot - weeks of daily hibernation no problem - even using ndiswrapper out and in each time. I avoid OpenGL on this machine though.
You could well be a string theorist with that level of understanding of relativity.
Frames of reference ?
For anything to be moving, it must be moving relative to something - a frame of reference is just pick something and call it stationary.
The general rule is pick something bigger and call it stationary, it helps us deal with the fact that our generalizations about stationary objects are wrong, but somehow appear less wrong when the mathematical error is relatively smaller.
Somehow, there is this assumption that if time travel were at all feasible, there must be something really big out there somewhere that actually is stationary, regardless of what we think.
I think this is quite revealing, and demonstrates how its possible for some to miss the point fairly early on, then roll on with impeccable logic to create something very grand that an incorrect base assumption would be too much to accept. These grand theorists who have missed the point are currently known as string theorists.
If I somehow appear as grandiose as the sum of all string theorists, well that was my intention - all rests on those base assumptions, which we all need to include in our logic.
Except that they aren't. Where did you get this idea from?
Oh sorry, I forgot about the all important rubber encased model.
all PSUs I have used work until they fail
Well there's an informative comment. All cars go until they stop, so therefore all cars are the same, right?
Well, some moron had the idea that their PCs RAM reliability was most likely due to the amount of cash forked out for their model PSU, hence running of the engine, so to speak. I quite seriously have had nil issues related to power supplies other than it works or it doesn't.
I strongly believe that a faulty PSU can be found in any batch and most likely fairly quickly. If it works at all once, it has no reason to change other than wear. They all wear. Your experience maybe different, I really doubt it was anything other than luck.
Still, we've probably both being doing this for years, I've been diagnosing faulty SCSI cables, close to dead HD's, loose connections, not once have I seen RAM that could not be fixed by replacing it, nor Have I seen my computer's screen suddenly refresh differently due to some bits flipping out over a varied voltage - if a voltage is going to flip out of range of the system, the system will freeze - never has this happened to me due to a PSU, heat - yes but PSU, if the PSU dies, it dies, get it ?
The problem is that you have no information about what you are actually getting.
Yes, I see... would you like to buy this reputable brand PSU from me ? its only got a markup of 200% and you can finally sleep at night.
Actually, we have another model here that is encased with rubber - latest secure fashion, only costs another $50
Sarcasm aside, the designs are the same, all PSUs I have used work until they fail. Your paranoia is not held up by stats, you are also attributing untraceable hardware issues to fluctuations in the PSU, which is akin to writing books on string theory.
Even if it were true that standard PSU current fluctuations affect that accuracy of RAM, you would still have no idea when you buy a black box, what you are actually getting. Did you get 1 of the lucky 2-5% that fail too soon, or maybe you got the moron built one.
I don't think paying more money will protect you from such unknowables that afflict all PSU manufacturers.
I know reputable places that sell cheap PSU's that were not wired up by a 2 year old.
Tell you what, you help pay for my cheaper hardware by giving people more money than its worth.
You seriously think you are going to fry your motherboard if you pay less for a standard designed product that may possibly have a slightly shortly life due to lower grade components ?
I think the only way you could feed a damaging current to the motherboard is if the PSU was assembled by a moron - I guess that's possible, but I wouldn't say there was any difference in likelyhood by paying more for higher quality components that could be assembled by a moron.
Sorry to get a bit heavy about it, I just hate it when I see people being sucked in by such paranoia. Its the same with modern hardware RAID, a dying protection industry creates paranoia to save itself.
In my experience, a "decent" PSU usually costs anywhere from 40% to 200% more than a generic one and I have found that after many installations of generic PSUs, none have exploded, some have died after about 18 months and most have lived for the life of the machine dying for some other reason or being put out of commission.
I never treat the PSU as something that should be kept waiting for the next generation of CPU to give it.
New box, new PSU - cheapest is fine, like HD's, a small portion die in the first month where any shop will replace it for free regardless of price. Another small portion will die at an unexpected time a year or so later - annoying, but I can live with it. The rest will be put out of commission when the box is filled with dust years later.
My experience shows that a price hike of no more than around 20% would make it worthwhile.
Even then, no guarantee either way, which is why a decent PSU is no substitute for a decent backup system. It's hardware, be prepared for its unexpected death.
That is possible I think, but I am not certain China will be too used to their higher living standard by the time it starts falling again. When it does fall, it will be everyone, both west and east.
I think the Chinese will still be more prepared for this drop than the west.
I am a westerner living and working in China now, I find that partly because of the governments insular attitudes, people in China are blissfully unaware.
When I say blissfully, I mean most are actually very happy people. The level of freedom they have in the workplace these days (I'm talking white collar) is of an equal or higher standard than the west in terms of conditions. I think most people feel there are enough problems in the world for each person to be a good representative of their people.
It is hard to convince people who already value quality of life with family and living conditions and find happiness in small things that they are missing something. Many know they are missing something, but don't feel this is in any way particular to being Chinese, more to do with being in a aggressive capitalist society.
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What's too stupid is to think you are somehow not being duped by the greedy.
Its as if anyone who argues against the greedy few, must be doing so out of greed, regardless of how many people agree.
Being as stupid as this merely helps the greedy relax.
If work for the greater good requires no due credit, then the GPL is redundant.
If the majority of people prefer to use the sum of all free software without caring who made it - copyright laws with software are redundant.
If we could get used to the idea that credit due merely helps us contact the people behind the software, then it would not need to be compulsory and copyright laws would only hold back progress of any particular implementation - since any free implementation with correct credit designation has a big evolutionary advantage.
GPL uses copyright law to protect itself from copyright law. GPL software is doing pretty well now - imagine how good it would be if it didn't have this obstacle.
I have obtained free software through pirate bay - a Seagate disk tool that would take ages to obtain from Seagate - pirate bay allowed me to use it without holding Seagate responsible for my actions with it.
You may think RIAA execs don't deserve a gravy train, but do artists deserve a gravy train ? I think they should be rewarded for their work like anyone else - millions of sales ? how about your local musicians - they have to work to get paid - that's all that is needed. The distribution of recordings is just publicity for their work - money does not need to be involved for a decent music industry.
By your logic, any attempt to argue that copyright infringement is not necessarily stealing is only merely related to the fact that the arguer stands to benefit from the alleged stealing.
By my logic, you wouldn't even know if your behaviour of classifying all copyright infringement as stealing was wrong, because you are not allowed to question it.
The law should be rational, rationalization is essential to its process and understanding
Do you not care for the extent of copyright law and its value to society and its individuals?
Do you think maybe copyright law can be misused if it cannot be questioned ?
I am in favour of good copyright laws, but they need to be fairly carefully managed to be fair - the circumstances have changed so much beyond their original intentions, that they are being abused to maintain the wealth imbalance
Oh joy!
So, you illustration of color absorption compared to color emittance somehow invalidates my point ? your assumptions about my age and your lack of an argument illustrate more about your possible future arguments. This could be interesting.
The reason why there is a difference between these color spaces has more to do with that annoying 1% of noise our language and minds cannot possibly grasp that the universe is filled with than anything else.
What am I talking about ? I'm talking about the belief in a sterile objective sensory perception. It just doesn't exist. Pondering it can lead to interesting points. Our vision is of a small component of the EM spectrum, its quality varies slightly among different humans along with the fact that since it is perception, its understanding is wrapped up with conciousness - which also varies amongst humans. There exists an approximate optimal mapping between these color spaces, but it is not absolute and when I say I'm not an expert its because the attempt to generalise an optimal mapping seems to be such a waste of time compared to looking at a real sunset.
Seriously, if you think your perception is somehow more accurate or better trained than others, then you join the legion of "experts" whose heads are firmly up the arses. Calibrate once for what you like to see in the light of your choice, or your device is not working properly, its that simple.
Wow - a little color sensitive maybe ?
Could it be you're brilliant argument has knocked me flat ?
Tell you what, toss pot, you might think you look really cool when you can spot this red from that red, or those speakers sound better with FLAC without even realising how if you moved the couch you would create more distortion from your original position than any change in high bitrate compression formats,
Please go ahead, buy the more expensive that looks cool - you may actually turn out to be right about its claims beyond the subjective - by accident no doubt.
Anyone who claims that color spaces between 2 color devices need any more than a single calibration have their heads firmly planted up there multicolor arses - I leave room from shonky equipment that needs constant care from their owner just to make red come out at all.
I will gladly rub any snub nose in it.
Now leave the room, visit Monty Python and come back when you have an argument, this room is abuse.
I think the point is, calibration of the color devices only needs to occur once, not constantly throughout the use of the software.
My understanding is you can convert at print stage with GIMP, the only reason I can think of for caring about the method would be if you need constant feedback on color balance.
Even then, I think it makes sense to balance colors on an RGB monitor with RGB space most of the time - since any working in CYMK is not directly perceivable until print stage anyway.
I would calibrate the conversion and work in the color space my monitor can manage
? I didn't know he worked at McDonalds.
I'm no expert on color spaces, I suspect its a bit like high quality mp3 versus FLAC. Color spaces for the sense gifted (maybe we need some double blind tests.)
CMYK support for GIMP
Nature itself may not be moral, but I think it would be best to define morality with respect to nature.
There is no doubt nature understands death a lot better than we do. For nature, death serves life, death fosters generational improvement of species. On a big scale, if we try to defeat natures morality by defining morality outside of natures parameters, we maybe in for a shock as the survival of our species maybe threatened by our own morality.
Maybe many of us can accept that we maybe threatening the survival of our species in order to live moral lives, but when it comes down to it, survival maybe an instinct too strong for a morality that does not respect it to hold.
How many DPI before the uncertainty principle ruins your latest physics paper ?
suspend2 on kernel 2.6.24 hit the spot - weeks of daily hibernation no problem - even using ndiswrapper out and in each time. I avoid OpenGL on this machine though.
I smell something fishy...
Another word for Estuary ?
... just 1 more 1.5Tb electric brick device should suffice.
So, maybe I should try flashing a brick ?
Definitely cheaper, possibly with better results.
You could well be a string theorist with that level of understanding of relativity.
Frames of reference ?
For anything to be moving, it must be moving relative to something - a frame of reference is just pick something and call it stationary.
The general rule is pick something bigger and call it stationary, it helps us deal with the fact that our generalizations about stationary objects are wrong, but somehow appear less wrong when the mathematical error is relatively smaller.
Somehow, there is this assumption that if time travel were at all feasible, there must be something really big out there somewhere that actually is stationary, regardless of what we think.
I think this is quite revealing, and demonstrates how its possible for some to miss the point fairly early on, then roll on with impeccable logic to create something very grand that an incorrect base assumption would be too much to accept. These grand theorists who have missed the point are currently known as string theorists.
If I somehow appear as grandiose as the sum of all string theorists, well that was my intention - all rests on those base assumptions, which we all need to include in our logic.
Sarcasm aside, the designs are the same,
Except that they aren't. Where did you get this idea from?
Oh sorry, I forgot about the all important rubber encased model.
all PSUs I have used work until they fail
Well there's an informative comment. All cars go until they stop, so therefore all cars are the same, right?
Well, some moron had the idea that their PCs RAM reliability was most likely due to the amount of cash forked out for their model PSU, hence running of the engine, so to speak. I quite seriously have had nil issues related to power supplies other than it works or it doesn't.
I strongly believe that a faulty PSU can be found in any batch and most likely fairly quickly. If it works at all once, it has no reason to change other than wear. They all wear. Your experience maybe different, I really doubt it was anything other than luck.
Still, we've probably both being doing this for years, I've been diagnosing faulty SCSI cables, close to dead HD's, loose connections, not once have I seen RAM that could not be fixed by replacing it, nor Have I seen my computer's screen suddenly refresh differently due to some bits flipping out over a varied voltage - if a voltage is going to flip out of range of the system, the system will freeze - never has this happened to me due to a PSU, heat - yes but PSU, if the PSU dies, it dies, get it ?
Wake up and smell that statistics.
The problem is that you have no information about what you are actually getting.
Yes, I see... would you like to buy this reputable brand PSU from me ? its only got a markup of 200% and you can finally sleep at night.
Actually, we have another model here that is encased with rubber - latest secure fashion, only costs another $50
Sarcasm aside, the designs are the same, all PSUs I have used work until they fail. Your paranoia is not held up by stats, you are also attributing untraceable hardware issues to fluctuations in the PSU, which is akin to writing books on string theory.
Even if it were true that standard PSU current fluctuations affect that accuracy of RAM, you would still have no idea when you buy a black box, what you are actually getting. Did you get 1 of the lucky 2-5% that fail too soon, or maybe you got the moron built one.
I don't think paying more money will protect you from such unknowables that afflict all PSU manufacturers.
I know reputable places that sell cheap PSU's that were not wired up by a 2 year old.
Tell you what, you help pay for my cheaper hardware by giving people more money than its worth.
You seriously think you are going to fry your motherboard if you pay less for a standard designed product that may possibly have a slightly shortly life due to lower grade components ?
I think the only way you could feed a damaging current to the motherboard is if the PSU was assembled by a moron - I guess that's possible, but I wouldn't say there was any difference in likelyhood by paying more for higher quality components that could be assembled by a moron.
Sorry to get a bit heavy about it, I just hate it when I see people being sucked in by such paranoia. Its the same with modern hardware RAID, a dying protection industry creates paranoia to save itself.
Windows Life Support System (TM).
How much is his will worth again ?
In my experience, a "decent" PSU usually costs anywhere from 40% to 200% more than a generic one and I have found that after many installations of generic PSUs, none have exploded, some have died after about 18 months and most have lived for the life of the machine dying for some other reason or being put out of commission.
I never treat the PSU as something that should be kept waiting for the next generation of CPU to give it.
New box, new PSU - cheapest is fine, like HD's, a small portion die in the first month where any shop will replace it for free regardless of price. Another small portion will die at an unexpected time a year or so later - annoying, but I can live with it. The rest will be put out of commission when the box is filled with dust years later.
My experience shows that a price hike of no more than around 20% would make it worthwhile.
Even then, no guarantee either way, which is why a decent PSU is no substitute for a decent backup system. It's hardware, be prepared for its unexpected death.
That is possible I think, but I am not certain China will be too used to their higher living standard by the time it starts falling again. When it does fall, it will be everyone, both west and east.
I think the Chinese will still be more prepared for this drop than the west.
I am a westerner living and working in China now, I find that partly because of the governments insular attitudes, people in China are blissfully unaware.
When I say blissfully, I mean most are actually very happy people. The level of freedom they have in the workplace these days (I'm talking white collar) is of an equal or higher standard than the west in terms of conditions. I think most people feel there are enough problems in the world for each person to be a good representative of their people.
It is hard to convince people who already value quality of life with family and living conditions and find happiness in small things that they are missing something. Many know they are missing something, but don't feel this is in any way particular to being Chinese, more to do with being in a aggressive capitalist society.
I want small in something I can take with me. I want quiet in something that has to be near me.
With any hardware purchased losing value constantly, I also want the best value.
I just can't bring myself to pay for something I don't need. I do need something, somewhere safe to keep my files though.