The whole issue to me with crime is victims. And logical to that the punishment. To me the sentence should be proportionate to the number of victims hurt. So a murder for example is obviously one point for the victim (max on the scale), perhaps a 1/2 for each immediate person who would be considered family (so very close friend, partner) and then declining to 1/4 and so on into extended family and work colleagues. The total in the end fits the chart for punishment (chart written locally so those states can still execute if they want).
A corporate boss who defrauds a pension scheme of tens of millions for instance then scores perhaps a 0.1 per victim but the scheme caters for some 3000 people giving them a total crime harm rating of 300, way up into execution levels on the chart for states that have it.
So I then only count the company as one person so the rating against a company can only be a 1 for it's loss. And a small real loss versus a hypothetical loss (the would a person with no money have bought the illegally copied item if them hadn't downloaded it - no - scenario) scores pretty low because the loss to the already well of company rates only perhaps a 1/100 or less.
So in the end such acts of illegal copying would rate as minuscule for actual harm rather than theoretical harm. Where as a bank robbery taking actual money and terrorising people with guns and perhaps shooting and wounding someone would come out still quite high.
However the list of things you produce as magic in 1857 I just don't agree. I'm pretty sure that the under pinning principles are sufficiently simple that they could be explained at least to the educated people then. Reality is the date you chose is smack bang in the industrial revolution, which has been rolling for a good 50 plus years by most historians reckoning by then.
The difference with the magic to enable interstellar colonisation is striking in that we need technology actually is beyond the predicted possibilities (at least in terms of practicality) in order to achieve it.
However the realigning of our concept of colonisation can be done. The likes of seeding missions that take automated factories with facilities to found life there rather than star trek FTL ships. Even robots that are sentient. All things talked about it plenty of previous/. stories.
If that is your philosophy and total intention why not pay for all the things you are going to
use and then have total entitlement to keep things hidden within your world?
I don't say except to highlight that you sound completely closed to the idea that picking up and using all those things for free leaves you a moral obligation to reciprocate at all.
It is that perception that probably got you the slurs. For example instead you could price everything you needed in the commercial realms and just donate a small fraction of that to one of the projects, say 10%. Why do that, because if you start using the Free tools it is in your interest for them to perpetuate and so some level of giving back helps ensure your future.
And looking at your questions yes I think all of them are fine. You really need to go read some of the things the likes of Linus has said about connecting to the kernel. Use the API and build on it and you're fine, integrate beyond that API boundary with actual internal tinkering you begin to infringe the GPL and must publish. (In short)
What about Game Of Life where if you pick the card you add a child or wife to your car. Or Monopoly that
once you have the set you can put houses on plots. Or Buckaroo where there are components on the horse?
Apologies I haven't been to read the relevant materials and am just inferring from the thread.
Your first paragraph leaves it sounding pretty clear the Microsoft API is the only solution to your troubles. Which highlights what having a standard (a real one not a subverted one which is the Microsoft solution) like ODF much earlier would have left the market for your very needs much more widely open with I'd expect benefits to the range of tools you could select.
No tools that work OK (less than 100%) with Microsoft Office components isn't a solution. You can hardly rely on full compatibility between successive versions of Office and the whole control being with Microsoft allows them to make changes and protect them with patents etc to eliminate competition and remove choice. Fact is their tool might be the best tool, it probably is, but shouldn't I have a choice not to have to use a tool from a company that I think is harmful? As it stands (I'm in the UK) I routinely find I can't even submit things to Government unless they are in Word format. Which in a worst future case driven by intellectual property encumbrances could mean I do have to own Word to be able to participate in the functioning of my nation.
And Java used to be (comparably to any other competition) cross platform until Microsoft in self interest stopped it being present as standard. Which is a demonstration of the kinds of action that are the reason why they (Government especially) should use an open format.
Turn it around and say if to support the likes of me Government either had to support all available formats for submissions or provide tools to allow me to create submissions in a format they accepted the cost would be huge. The principle here is leaving me choice. So then a simple solution becomes to use a format that is free.
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I know there are lots of downsides (thinking loss of the digital advantages) but you make it sound like when it comes to image storage old 35mm negatives seem to be competitive.
Strikes me as a chance to write something that can also be refitted to run on Linux. Write as.net objects, that opens up the PowerShell and the inevitable GUI back end.
Me I would keep is simple and start with the commands I most commonly use with apt-get, (install, remove, update, upgrade).
Question is how complicated you want to be getting. Will it be pulling in source, checking the environment and building things? Look at CMake.
You're right but it made me think why and how is it so different from so many of the other similar technologies and why haven't we achieved it so far. My answer was it isn't in the interest of certain parties for there to be that level of portability so they labour to keep it (write once run any ported environment) broken.
A friend sent me a link to a tool called something like Sandboxy earlier that offers (on Windows) an isolated way to run all your applications with one idea being running your browser there so that you are ultimately protected from the wipe out caused by hostile attacks.
That, Mono,.net, java, Wine, virtualisation, and the endless list goes on all seem so numerous and offering things in that direction.
Time for the automated desktop bot that surfs in your absence and in the background to generate noise. Possibly with parameters and profiles that you can change to become someone else.
I wonder if there are more companies in the English speaking world than there are words in the English language (as recognised at any instance measured by the likes of the OED).
And then escalate that to the number of products that there are.
Result I suspect (to both without the need to check) is a necessity to reuse words that might be part of an entities brand. You (in the UK) pretty much can't just register a regular word like Apple without additional elements that make it unique and capable of recognition as a brand.
Slightly different on something like a made up word such as Linux. Which makes me wonder if Linus has the copyright on it too?
Like the idea I had to stop speeding. Forget monitoring cars just implant everyone with a tracker and if they aren't registered as on a train or plane and are above the speed limit fine them.
I suppose it would escalate into a tit for tat thing and we would all have to wear filtering sunglasses that blocked all unlicensed images otherwise I would just create original copyrightable works and plater myself with them and then require extortionate amounts of money from anyone who passed within viewable range of me who couldn't prove they had their eyes shut.
What I don't get in this talk about freshness being essential is when people drank coffee in its first waves of popularity it traveled to places like England slowly in sailing ships. How did this super freshness get preserved then?
I imagine the old names like Taylors of Harrogate must have been roasters and done the work locally.
While I agree about it being possible that to better write these things as "even a person with X level of skill could" it might 1/ be a good example to use his mother because the reality of the genders is that fewer women especially of our mothers (assuming mother to be older than us!) generation have computer skills and 2/ referring specifically to his mother he might be completely right. She in particular could manage this where she could write her own actual web site.
Indeed it will be a significant day when statistically using your mother as a good example in this sort of scenario doesn't work (one I look forward to but unfortunately will probably be dead before). It will mean that they no longer are statistically less likely to have lower technical skills in this sector.
Some times the facts are the facts and evidence of existing imbalance.
The risk to all life of these space mutated creations is too great. We must just detonate a small nuke to eradicate the whole vessel and eliminate the problem completely.
Or shunt them into a space graveyard come bio-warfare storage zone to be used against alien invaders.
It's a technique and knowledge about how we chunk when reading that has been known for at least 20 years I would say based on when I got the first copy of his Speed Reading book.
On the other hand it could bring a break through where seeing everyone does it the idea that people change their mind when presented with enough information or different circumstances might allow more honesty from politicians. They can say "this is what I knew then and this is what I know now wouldn't I be stupid to still think that?"
It's your obligation and civic duty to not break the law and
You are only required as an employee to follow legal (and not wholly unreasonable) orders.
So same end result. But the thing I'm trying to highlight is that clearly if you have no obligation to follow an illegal order and yet you do you have in affect I would argue acted independently. I've made myself interested in the fine point of that now in actual case law.
you don't know it is copyright infringement until you know that they are using material that has not reached the end of it's protection.
Other elements like trademarks if they are calling it Disney Land is another set of issues.
It wouldn't matter if they only used material that is meant to be out of copyright the US government would still pick up economic sticks to beat them with.
I suppose any shell in which you can easily use a range of scripting languages and have them communicate counts.
So to me it would be fair to say that bean shell, ruby, python, booish all fit the bill. In fact Iron Python and Booish really qualify as they open up use of all the facilities of the CLR.
Text is universal because the small graphical constructs that we use to form words are the smallest convenient building block we have come up with. They are quick to use and evolution of them for handwriting made them efficient to group together.
Things like having an individual symbol for every command would result in needing about 2000 symbols for the binaries on my system.
I might be agreeing we have made text universal sort of. But the reasons are complex. And text after all is actually a specific set of graphical symbols. So each word is only equivalent to a more complex glyph we have just adopted a seemingly efficient and compact approach to constructing complex symbols from atoms. And with things like tab command line completion it becomes really swift.
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Idle time and hands, someone needs to remind all those geeks about masturbation!
Of course for that they'll want a HD DVD of the hottest new young things and in order to watch that they need something that will play the encrypted disks. Damn seem to be back at the start of this.
Fire hose sampling to be fair has to still take a fair distribution of votes. If there was not a bias passed through the voting system then no story would make it to the top and therefore any increased frequency of votes for one story will still be passed through.
The only thing that might work in favour is that the sampling skews the timing of vote registering. So if over ten hours one thousand votes are passed and they are vaguely passed evenly in time a rush of paid voting in one of those hours will be wasted.
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The whole issue to me with crime is victims. And logical to that the punishment. To me the sentence should be proportionate to the number of victims hurt. So a murder for example is obviously one point for the victim (max on the scale), perhaps a 1/2 for each immediate person who would be considered family (so very close friend, partner) and then declining to 1/4 and so on into extended family and work colleagues. The total in the end fits the chart for punishment (chart written locally so those states can still execute if they want).
A corporate boss who defrauds a pension scheme of tens of millions for instance then scores perhaps a 0.1 per victim but the scheme caters for some 3000 people giving them a total crime harm rating of 300, way up into execution levels on the chart for states that have it.
So I then only count the company as one person so the rating against a company can only be a 1 for it's loss. And a small real loss versus a hypothetical loss (the would a person with no money have bought the illegally copied item if them hadn't downloaded it - no - scenario) scores pretty low because the loss to the already well of company rates only perhaps a 1/100 or less.
So in the end such acts of illegal copying would rate as minuscule for actual harm rather than theoretical harm. Where as a bank robbery taking actual money and terrorising people with guns and perhaps shooting and wounding someone would come out still quite high.
In other words their whole argument is a joke.
I agree they are both right.
However the list of things you produce as magic in 1857 I just don't agree. I'm pretty sure that the under pinning principles are sufficiently simple that they could be explained at least to the educated people then. Reality is the date you chose is smack bang in the industrial revolution, which has been rolling for a good 50 plus years by most historians reckoning by then.
The difference with the magic to enable interstellar colonisation is striking in that we need technology actually is beyond the predicted possibilities (at least in terms of practicality) in order to achieve it.
However the realigning of our concept of colonisation can be done. The likes of seeding missions that take automated factories with facilities to found life there rather than star trek FTL ships. Even robots that are sentient. All things talked about it plenty of previous /. stories.
Figures show that they will predict correctly some of the time.
If that is your philosophy and total intention why not pay for all the things you are going to use and then have total entitlement to keep things hidden within your world?
I don't say except to highlight that you sound completely closed to the idea that picking up and using all those things for free leaves you a moral obligation to reciprocate at all.
It is that perception that probably got you the slurs. For example instead you could price everything you needed in the commercial realms and just donate a small fraction of that to one of the projects, say 10%. Why do that, because if you start using the Free tools it is in your interest for them to perpetuate and so some level of giving back helps ensure your future.
And looking at your questions yes I think all of them are fine. You really need to go read some of the things the likes of Linus has said about connecting to the kernel. Use the API and build on it and you're fine, integrate beyond that API boundary with actual internal tinkering you begin to infringe the GPL and must publish. (In short)
What about Game Of Life where if you pick the card you add a child or wife to your car. Or Monopoly that once you have the set you can put houses on plots. Or Buckaroo where there are components on the horse?
Apologies I haven't been to read the relevant materials and am just inferring from the thread.
Idiot we are KLINGONS we don't use computers we enslave other races like Vulcans to do our computing and they come with a built in voice control!
Your first paragraph leaves it sounding pretty clear the Microsoft API is the only solution to your troubles. Which highlights what having a standard (a real one not a subverted one which is the Microsoft solution) like ODF much earlier would have left the market for your very needs much more widely open with I'd expect benefits to the range of tools you could select.
No tools that work OK (less than 100%) with Microsoft Office components isn't a solution. You can hardly rely on full compatibility between successive versions of Office and the whole control being with Microsoft allows them to make changes and protect them with patents etc to eliminate competition and remove choice. Fact is their tool might be the best tool, it probably is, but shouldn't I have a choice not to have to use a tool from a company that I think is harmful? As it stands (I'm in the UK) I routinely find I can't even submit things to Government unless they are in Word format. Which in a worst future case driven by intellectual property encumbrances could mean I do have to own Word to be able to participate in the functioning of my nation.
And Java used to be (comparably to any other competition) cross platform until Microsoft in self interest stopped it being present as standard. Which is a demonstration of the kinds of action that are the reason why they (Government especially) should use an open format.
Turn it around and say if to support the likes of me Government either had to support all available formats for submissions or provide tools to allow me to create submissions in a format they accepted the cost would be huge. The principle here is leaving me choice. So then a simple solution becomes to use a format that is free.
I didn't mean adding the bulk of slides just the negatives as little strips.
I know there are lots of downsides (thinking loss of the digital advantages) but you make it sound like when it comes to image storage old 35mm negatives seem to be competitive.
Strikes me as a chance to write something that can also be refitted to run on Linux. Write as .net objects, that opens up the PowerShell and the inevitable GUI back end.
Me I would keep is simple and start with the commands I most commonly use with apt-get, (install, remove, update, upgrade).
Question is how complicated you want to be getting. Will it be pulling in source, checking the environment and building things? Look at CMake.
I guess that is three pennies worth.
You're right but it made me think why and how is it so different from so many of the other similar technologies and why haven't we achieved it so far. My answer was it isn't in the interest of certain parties for there to be that level of portability so they labour to keep it (write once run any ported environment) broken.
A friend sent me a link to a tool called something like Sandboxy earlier that offers (on Windows) an isolated way to run all your applications with one idea being running your browser there so that you are ultimately protected from the wipe out caused by hostile attacks.
That, Mono, .net, java, Wine, virtualisation, and the endless list goes on all seem so numerous and offering things in that direction.
Time for the automated desktop bot that surfs in your absence and in the background to generate noise. Possibly with parameters and profiles that you can change to become someone else.
I wonder if there are more companies in the English speaking world than there are words in the English language (as recognised at any instance measured by the likes of the OED).
And then escalate that to the number of products that there are.
Result I suspect (to both without the need to check) is a necessity to reuse words that might be part of an entities brand. You (in the UK) pretty much can't just register a regular word like Apple without additional elements that make it unique and capable of recognition as a brand.
Slightly different on something like a made up word such as Linux. Which makes me wonder if Linus has the copyright on it too?
Like the idea I had to stop speeding. Forget monitoring cars just implant everyone with a tracker and if they aren't registered as on a train or plane and are above the speed limit fine them.
I suppose it would escalate into a tit for tat thing and we would all have to wear filtering sunglasses that blocked all unlicensed images otherwise I would just create original copyrightable works and plater myself with them and then require extortionate amounts of money from anyone who passed within viewable range of me who couldn't prove they had their eyes shut.
What I don't get in this talk about freshness being essential is when people drank coffee in its first waves of popularity it traveled to places like England slowly in sailing ships. How did this super freshness get preserved then?
I imagine the old names like Taylors of Harrogate must have been roasters and done the work locally.
While I agree about it being possible that to better write these things as "even a person with X level of skill could" it might 1/ be a good example to use his mother because the reality of the genders is that fewer women especially of our mothers (assuming mother to be older than us!) generation have computer skills and 2/ referring specifically to his mother he might be completely right. She in particular could manage this where she could write her own actual web site.
Indeed it will be a significant day when statistically using your mother as a good example in this sort of scenario doesn't work (one I look forward to but unfortunately will probably be dead before). It will mean that they no longer are statistically less likely to have lower technical skills in this sector.
Some times the facts are the facts and evidence of existing imbalance.
The risk to all life of these space mutated creations is too great. We must just detonate a small nuke to eradicate the whole vessel and eliminate the problem completely.
Or shunt them into a space graveyard come bio-warfare storage zone to be used against alien invaders.
It's a technique and knowledge about how we chunk when reading that has been known for at least 20 years I would say based on when I got the first copy of his Speed Reading book.
On the other hand it could bring a break through where seeing everyone does it the idea that people change their mind when presented with enough information or different circumstances might allow more honesty from politicians. They can say "this is what I knew then and this is what I know now wouldn't I be stupid to still think that?"
I suppose safety in numbers.
It's your obligation and civic duty to not break the law and
You are only required as an employee to follow legal (and not wholly unreasonable) orders.
So same end result. But the thing I'm trying to highlight is that clearly if you have no obligation to follow an illegal order and yet you do you have in affect I would argue acted independently. I've made myself interested in the fine point of that now in actual case law.
you don't know it is copyright infringement until you know that they are using material that has not reached the end of it's protection.
Other elements like trademarks if they are calling it Disney Land is another set of issues.
It wouldn't matter if they only used material that is meant to be out of copyright the US government would still pick up economic sticks to beat them with.
I suppose any shell in which you can easily use a range of scripting languages and have them communicate counts.
So to me it would be fair to say that bean shell, ruby, python, booish all fit the bill. In fact Iron Python and Booish really qualify as they open up use of all the facilities of the CLR.
Text is universal because the small graphical constructs that we use to form words are the smallest convenient building block we have come up with. They are quick to use and evolution of them for handwriting made them efficient to group together.
Things like having an individual symbol for every command would result in needing about 2000 symbols for the binaries on my system.
I might be agreeing we have made text universal sort of. But the reasons are complex. And text after all is actually a specific set of graphical symbols. So each word is only equivalent to a more complex glyph we have just adopted a seemingly efficient and compact approach to constructing complex symbols from atoms. And with things like tab command line completion it becomes really swift.
Idle time and hands, someone needs to remind all those geeks about masturbation!
Of course for that they'll want a HD DVD of the hottest new young things and in order to watch that they need something that will play the encrypted disks. Damn seem to be back at the start of this.
Fire hose sampling to be fair has to still take a fair distribution of votes. If there was not a bias passed through the voting system then no story would make it to the top and therefore any increased frequency of votes for one story will still be passed through.
The only thing that might work in favour is that the sampling skews the timing of vote registering. So if over ten hours one thousand votes are passed and they are vaguely passed evenly in time a rush of paid voting in one of those hours will be wasted.