Maybe because the 96-97 crop of students are industry now, and know what it's like to have to purchase software and what makes the purchase worthwhile to students.
Re:Cut and dried Copyright violation
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Abusing the GPL?
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That's actually not going to be very difficult. Their clean version is in some source repository somewhere, they make changes on the original code and only run an obfuscator on the source before the compile, it could be built in to their make process.
I guess the chances of this AC blowing the whistle are slim, and if he/she doesn't do it, it's likely that this place will get away with this bullcrap. There are times to stand up for your principles, and while I don't fault him/her for not wanting to lose a job, I hope that if I'm ever in that situation I'll be strong enough to do the right thing.
...this point. This is a GREAT thing. When high profile country's start pointing fingers at each other they end up with enemies that can buy congressmen just as easily as they can. Not to mention it brings the issue to a wider audience. I mean let's face it. While we can make a difference, our chances are slim when Big Corps' are aligned against us.
My personal opinion is that things will start to get better as the younger generations replace the older. Hopefully more reasonable laws will result, of course they probably won't be beneficial to the new younger generation...
I don't think you're totally wrong, however I know for a fact that you're not entirely right either;) For instance your thesis paper for a doctorate is your property and most schools require you to copyright it officially. Regardless of their policies, I never signed away my rights to my work at school and I would go to court over any of my work that they published without my knowledge in a heartbeat. I paid them to teach me (actually I paid them to give me a diploma) and they have no right to make money off of the work I did while I attended. I have issues with the educational system as is, I don't need this additional problem to get pissed about;)
... but when it's back up I had better find a way to see if any of my work is being used on their site. I will then tell them to either remove it or start paying me. I'm not to thrilled that they are using MY work to make a profit.
But they are USING the paper for commercial gain without the consent of the copyright holder. Which places them and the instructor who submitted it on the wrong side of the legal coin.
Universities are definitely heading for legal trouble if they are submitting papers for review anywhere that is unapproved by the student. That work is the property of the student and no teacher or assistant or anyone has the right to distribute the paper without the consent of the student. Especially not to a service which potentially [potentially] takes ownership of the content.
Not to mention that the student's work is now being used without approval by a site in a manner that the student might not approve of. I for one don't want someone else using my work for gain without my permission. This is not personal use, this is a site for gain.
Re:will you macheads ever understand
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Zarf in Mac OS X Land
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Psuedo intellectual bullshit, as usual from the usability guys. Poor design to have two interfaces, use your common sense. You can the UI to pass all of your usability criteria tests, and add a single option somewhere that switches customizability on. Normal users wouldn't even have to know it exists. Your argument is worthless.
If I wrote vi, and I say it's pronounced vee eye instead of vie, than that's the way it's pronounced, common usage or not, if I'm the one that gets to name it I'm right and everyone who deviates from this pronunciation is wrong. It has nothing to do with someone being a loser.
Re:will you macheads ever understand
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Bullshit, bullshit , bullshit. Customizability is the ULTIMATE in good UI design. Jeff Raskin is an dumb ass and for the most part "usability experts" are people who get some vicarious thrill from telling others how to work. Friggin CIS majors. LEARN TO DO MATH and you wouldn't have to follow such small minded pursuits. There is no reason that the UI could not be shipped exactly as it is, defaulting to that scheme for most users while allowing power users to change things to their liking.
This is why I'll probably just block the new ads on/. instead of paying. I'd hate to pay for the right to have people moderate the above post up as insightful. Do we say Rocky eye eye or Rocky vee, no we say Rocky 2 and Rocky 4. So your braod generalization about English falls flat on it's face with a simple example.
... or maybe I'm playing the Devil, but check out my reasoning:
Slashdot is soem very large percent users. Basically we use the tool (/.) over the web to create content. Wow, isn't this an ASP subscription based application thingamajig. You know the concept that get's booed into oblivion every time it's mentioned.
... User submissions are the lifeblood of this site. As I'm writing this this particular article is the only one on the page that is not from a user submission. I suggest that the submission link should be ad free and not cost a page hit, it should in fact add a free page hit for the subscriber who lost a hit going to the main page to submit the link. It's bad enough a corporation is going to try to make money off of voluntart public submissions and comments, but the subscribers shouldn't be charged with contributing.
I agree, but don't attribute as the only cause. The primary cause was that peopel who shouldn't have been in business were because of the almost nonexistent startup costs. In the same way that certain programming languages that are optimized for "ease of usr" allow people to start programming who really shouldn't be.
It doesn't matter either way, if we don't click they don't get results either. Impressions for performance like they used to be. So ad blocking or not, if I'm not going to click, I'm not going to clik whether I see the ad or not. So I might as well not see the ads. I'd like to know what advertisers are going to target the/. crowd. A good portion of the banners here are allready well targetted (I will view and sometimes click the current banners), but going to larger ads to try and force clicks on a (arguably) more tech saavy user base, I smell disaster.
Sweet Jesus. Talk about your propaganda. Life and death issue for the artists?? The very same artists who have more money than I'll ever see in my life? Plus desregard all that, GET A REAL JOB. Christ if my job is made obsolete by technology I don't get to try and force the public to continue paying me, I have to go get another one. I'm curious about the details of these publically available websites. That would seem to exclude software like Morpheus which is not a web site.
Fair enough, but they do not have the right to say that any and all hardware capable media consumption must have DRM by law. Which is what they want, because they can't protect the stuff themselves.
I'm sorry but ANY DRM enforced at the hardware level is terribly bad. ANY law that forces DRM to be included in an OS is terribly bad. Imagine an Open Source OS that you aren't allowed to look at or change the code for parts because of the DMCA and the SCCA.
Certainly, that's exactly the distinction I was trying to make verses pride, and what I believe the original poster was trying to get at. It's an interesting exercise though isn't it. I've wished I was someone else, but I invariably start adding: "but with this quality (that I presently have)", luckily I, and I'd assume most others would as well, come to the conclusion that percieved flaws and all I wouldn't want to be anyone else.
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Don't forget to add in time to find the song, unless they just kept downloading the same song over and over.
Of course, but as time goes on more of the graduating students have had a great exposure to a (for lack of a better term) digital lifestyle.
Maybe because the 96-97 crop of students are industry now, and know what it's like to have to purchase software and what makes the purchase worthwhile to students.
I guess the chances of this AC blowing the whistle are slim, and if he/she doesn't do it, it's likely that this place will get away with this bullcrap. There are times to stand up for your principles, and while I don't fault him/her for not wanting to lose a job, I hope that if I'm ever in that situation I'll be strong enough to do the right thing.
My personal opinion is that things will start to get better as the younger generations replace the older. Hopefully more reasonable laws will result, of course they probably won't be beneficial to the new younger generation...
I don't think you're totally wrong, however I know for a fact that you're not entirely right either ;) For instance your thesis paper for a doctorate is your property and most schools require you to copyright it officially. Regardless of their policies, I never signed away my rights to my work at school and I would go to court over any of my work that they published without my knowledge in a heartbeat. I paid them to teach me (actually I paid them to give me a diploma) and they have no right to make money off of the work I did while I attended. I have issues with the educational system as is, I don't need this additional problem to get pissed about ;)
... but when it's back up I had better find a way to see if any of my work is being used on their site. I will then tell them to either remove it or start paying me. I'm not to thrilled that they are using MY work to make a profit.
But they are USING the paper for commercial gain without the consent of the copyright holder. Which places them and the instructor who submitted it on the wrong side of the legal coin.
Not to mention that the student's work is now being used without approval by a site in a manner that the student might not approve of. I for one don't want someone else using my work for gain without my permission. This is not personal use, this is a site for gain.
Psuedo intellectual bullshit, as usual from the usability guys. Poor design to have two interfaces, use your common sense. You can the UI to pass all of your usability criteria tests, and add a single option somewhere that switches customizability on. Normal users wouldn't even have to know it exists. Your argument is worthless.
If I wrote vi, and I say it's pronounced vee eye instead of vie, than that's the way it's pronounced, common usage or not, if I'm the one that gets to name it I'm right and everyone who deviates from this pronunciation is wrong. It has nothing to do with someone being a loser.
Bullshit, bullshit , bullshit. Customizability is the ULTIMATE in good UI design. Jeff Raskin is an dumb ass and for the most part "usability experts" are people who get some vicarious thrill from telling others how to work. Friggin CIS majors. LEARN TO DO MATH and you wouldn't have to follow such small minded pursuits. There is no reason that the UI could not be shipped exactly as it is, defaulting to that scheme for most users while allowing power users to change things to their liking.
This is why I'll probably just block the new ads on /. instead of paying. I'd hate to pay for the right to have people moderate the above post up as insightful. Do we say Rocky eye eye or Rocky vee, no we say Rocky 2 and Rocky 4. So your braod generalization about English falls flat on it's face with a simple example.
... or maybe I'm playing the Devil, but check out my reasoning:
Slashdot is soem very large percent users. Basically we use the tool (/.) over the web to create content. Wow, isn't this an ASP subscription based application thingamajig. You know the concept that get's booed into oblivion every time it's mentioned.
Slashdot starts Subscription Service
anonymous coward writes: today Slashdot announced their new subscription service
Hell it would have made me laugh, not to mention the coolness of the self-referential factor.
... User submissions are the lifeblood of this site. As I'm writing this this particular article is the only one on the page that is not from a user submission. I suggest that the submission link should be ad free and not cost a page hit, it should in fact add a free page hit for the subscriber who lost a hit going to the main page to submit the link. It's bad enough a corporation is going to try to make money off of voluntart public submissions and comments, but the subscribers shouldn't be charged with contributing.
The above reference may be too obscure for anyone to recognize, but heh I may be suprised.
I agree, but don't attribute as the only cause. The primary cause was that peopel who shouldn't have been in business were because of the almost nonexistent startup costs. In the same way that certain programming languages that are optimized for "ease of usr" allow people to start programming who really shouldn't be.
It doesn't matter either way, if we don't click they don't get results either. Impressions for performance like they used to be. So ad blocking or not, if I'm not going to click, I'm not going to clik whether I see the ad or not. So I might as well not see the ads. I'd like to know what advertisers are going to target the /. crowd. A good portion of the banners here are allready well targetted (I will view and sometimes click the current banners), but going to larger ads to try and force clicks on a (arguably) more tech saavy user base, I smell disaster.
Valenti said in his statement to the committee. "The truth is, if you cannot protect what you own, you don't own anything."
They can't protect what they own, they have to ask others to do it.
Sweet Jesus. Talk about your propaganda. Life and death issue for the artists?? The very same artists who have more money than I'll ever see in my life? Plus desregard all that, GET A REAL JOB. Christ if my job is made obsolete by technology I don't get to try and force the public to continue paying me, I have to go get another one. I'm curious about the details of these publically available websites. That would seem to exclude software like Morpheus which is not a web site.
I don't watch music events like this, it makes me sick to my stomach to see the mainstream crap inflating their own egos.
Fair enough, but they do not have the right to say that any and all hardware capable media consumption must have DRM by law. Which is what they want, because they can't protect the stuff themselves.
I'm sorry but ANY DRM enforced at the hardware level is terribly bad. ANY law that forces DRM to be included in an OS is terribly bad. Imagine an Open Source OS that you aren't allowed to look at or change the code for parts because of the DMCA and the SCCA.
Certainly, that's exactly the distinction I was trying to make verses pride, and what I believe the original poster was trying to get at. It's an interesting exercise though isn't it. I've wished I was someone else, but I invariably start adding: "but with this quality (that I presently have)", luckily I, and I'd assume most others would as well, come to the conclusion that percieved flaws and all I wouldn't want to be anyone else.