What is happening, broadly is that a new society is forming around the digitalisation of culture. What I'm wondering is what is going to happen when we have the digitalization of commerce. ie - When the digital description of anything is enough to recreate it. Intellectual would^Wwill be the only form of property. Instead of buying a new pair of underwear, you just buy (or pirate) the digital pattern and load it into your molecular rearranger and print yourself off a couple pairs. The only physical goods necessary in this future will be blocks of base elements to feed the machine.
Of course, capitalism won't work in this economy, simply because the basic premise of capitalism, that all goods are scarce, will no longer be valid. I do, however, expect the old monopolies (akin to the feudal lords who fought capitalism tooth and nail) will try to hold on to their empire for as long as possible. But, assuming no Law (the scientific kind) is found that prevents this from taking place, I see it as inevitable that "digitalism" or "digital-socialism" will eventually wipe it out.
Exactly what I'm wondering. I RTFA hoping to understand what the summary was going on about, and came away still confused. (Did anyone see anything in the summary about minorities being discriminated against?)
Can anyone explain what the big deal is? I'm not saying that it isn't a big deal. Just that I can't understand a word of it past "toilet paper".
+3 informative? The parent was obviously trying to be funny. 24 is a _fictional_ suspense show about stopping terrorists. The interesting thing is, it's aired in real time, so an hour-long episode portrays an hour in the show's world. Here, as the parent suggested, educate yourselves.
You sir, are a horrible statistician.
The correct way to say it is that the market share has increased to 200%.
See? 200 is way bigger than.0002.
Lies, damned-lies, statistics.
TPB hosts no copyrighted content. It does host the torrent trackers that point others to the torrents. It also hosts the website itself and all the overhead that goes with that. Plus there is the upkeep of the physical servers to hold all of this, perfectly legal (at least in Sweden), content.
The only ads I have ever seen on TPB are for TPB, TPB merchandise, and The Swedish Pirate Party (as in political, not like with rum and buxom wenches). So they aren't making a fortune of advertising. They might be making something on the merchandise, but I doubt it. And even if they are, it isn't a "scam" it is providing something for payment, which is known as "capitalism".
I don't want uploaders anonymity removed so they develop a more hardcore encrypted system, I want them to obey the fucking law and pay for content like honest people. Is that so hard to understand? What I don't understand is what your method of forcing them to "obey the fucking law" without forcing them underground is.
there is no political or moral argument here, Yes, there is, many have made one. I have made one. Unless, maybe it doesn't exist because you say it doesn't? Yeah, that makes sense.
Try to realize that just because something is against the law, doesn't mean that there is a good reason for it to be so.
I don't respect people who take other peoples hard work, distribute it, and make advertising revenue from doing so. Technically, TPB doesn't distribute, It provides a forum for others to distribute. The people distributing aren't making money from advertising. They are paying for their own bandwidth, so you could even argue that they are losing money. The advertising on the Pirate Bay's site is so they can afford to run the site, servers aren't free you know.
Plus, have you thought through their argument? Yes, let me break it down for you.
In the beginning, there was Napster. Napster and other "p2p" sites weren't really peer-to-peer. they were "facilitated peer-to-peer" or peer-to-server-to-peer. In this environment, it was relatively easy to get the IP address of an infringer, all you had to do was check the server logs. Then the RIAA, MPAA, and associates began cracking down on this "p2p" traffic and suing the living crap out of every one they caught (or thought they caught) infringing.
So, many (the more cautious) began using torrents. Torrents are truly p2p (with the exception of the server hosting the trackers, which is just a direct download, no sharing involved) and so, much harder to track, but not impossible.
Now, for the Pirate Bay's argument:
"If you continue to persecute bittorrent sites, it will lead to the development of even more anonymous, (encrypted, node-hopping) networks, where it will be harder to find someone when a real crime (e.g. kiddie porn distribution) is committed."
What part of their logic actually makes sense to you? All of it.
Anonymity either encourages the breaking of the law or it does not, you cannot have it both ways, just because you want free music. Anonymity is a tool, to be used for bad or good according to its user. It can be used to protect kiddie porn dealers just as easily as it can be used to protect free speech. In this case, the free speech happens to be, "Hey, I don't agree at all with your silly copyright laws! So pbtthh on you!"
The point of the statment was, If you force us pirates (arrgg) to develop and use even more anonymous means to our end, then don't blame us when the pedophiles do the same.
It seems odd that a positive bias is afforded to the pirate bay (certainly not negative) when we know they really do facilitate copyright infringement. I, for one, do have a positive bias toward TPB, even though they facilitate copyright infringement. Mostly because I have yet to hear a convincing argument as to how copyright infringement is a Bad Thing(tm).
You yourself admit that it has helped you weed out the junk in your movie purchases. And the studios still get your money for the good stuff. If this means that the movie studios and the record labels don't get to make any money off of stuff people don't want to watch/listen to, all the better.
Bottom line, if they are making quality art, people will pay for it (assuming they don't alienate their customers by having a couple of their "John Doe" lawsuits brought to the attention of the general public)
11.8 - 8.8 = 3.0
percentage of developers on Linux now - percentage of developers on Linux a year ago = percentage of developers who switched to Linux
3.0 / 8.8 =.34
percentage of developers who switched to Linux / percentage of developers on Linux a year ago = percentage of Linux developers who switched in the last year
So, the number of Linux developers increased by 34% in the last year.
Oops, my fault entirely for not reading what I was posting properly. Yes, essentially, what these people have done is what the article I linked to (published only a few weeks ago) said was impossible. That's science for ya.
(of course, INAP either, so maybe I still have it wrong, stranger things have happened..)
So could these entangled particles be used for superluminal communications? To achieve this we would need to create two or more identical (or cloned) particles and then separate them physically from each other. Then if we were to act on one of the particles, an observer of the second should be able to detect an effect. Then introducing a code (such as Morse Code) would mean we should be able to communicate at greater than the speed of light.
Such a thing is unfortunately impossible. In 1982 physicists Bill Wootters, Wojciech H. Zurek and Dennis Dieks introduced the No Cloning Theorem. This theorem states that it is impossible to create an identical copy of an arbitrary unknown quantum state. As cloning is a requirement of using these entangled particles for superluminal communication, we have to rule this method out.
The bottom line is that Joe Average just doesn't mind being pushed around as long as he's comfortable. Very discouraging for the future of free will, independent thinking, privacy, security, liberty and other non-socialist, non-communist ideals in the USA.
It's also rather discouraging for the future of socialist/communist ideals. I think you meant to say fascist ideals. It's discouraging for some implementations of socialism/communism, but not for the ideals(PDF) as such.
See, I know this guy, who knows this guy, who kinda-sorta "borrowed" them.
Really, I think he found them online, some of them are images, but most of the main one's are good quality scans with the text rendered.
I couldn't tell you where he got them though.
When me and my friends from college play D&D, we all bring laptops. We frequently use the calculators for keeping track of HP, and our DM uses jpg's as maps, but the most useful function of a computer at a D&D session is to have the books you use often (Player's handbook, any books with spells) running as a pdf. The search feature makes finding out exactly what that little-used spell does in the heat of battle a lot simpler.
Freedom is a communist idea, or at least a communist ideal. From wikipedia:
According to the Marxist argument for communism, the main characteristic of human life in class society is alienation; and communism is desirable because it entails the full realization of human freedom. Marx here follows Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in conceiving freedom not merely as an absence of restraints but as action with content. (McLean and McMillan, 2003) They believed that communism allowed people to do what they want, but also put humans in such conditions and such relations with one another that they would not wish to exploit, or have any need to.
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You know that link is about balloons, right?
Of course, capitalism won't work in this economy, simply because the basic premise of capitalism, that all goods are scarce, will no longer be valid. I do, however, expect the old monopolies (akin to the feudal lords who fought capitalism tooth and nail) will try to hold on to their empire for as long as possible. But, assuming no Law (the scientific kind) is found that prevents this from taking place, I see it as inevitable that "digitalism" or "digital-socialism" will eventually wipe it out.
Am I a nut-job? Or a gifted seer?
Time will tell.
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Exactly what I'm wondering. I RTFA hoping to understand what the summary was going on about, and came away still confused. (Did anyone see anything in the summary about minorities being discriminated against?)
Can anyone explain what the big deal is? I'm not saying that it isn't a big deal. Just that I can't understand a word of it past "toilet paper".
+3 informative? The parent was obviously trying to be funny. 24 is a _fictional_ suspense show about stopping terrorists. The interesting thing is, it's aired in real time, so an hour-long episode portrays an hour in the show's world.
Here, as the parent suggested, educate yourselves.
You sir, are a horrible statistician. .0002.
The correct way to say it is that the market share has increased to 200%.
See? 200 is way bigger than
Lies, damned-lies, statistics.
My mother is a gun-toting marxist redneck zealot astroturfer, you insensitive clod!
Ok, as embarrassing as it is, I just realized that I actually did need to turn off adblock. /me slaps forehead. (O.o)
My point about them needing the money for the servers still stands though.
The only ads I have ever seen on TPB are for TPB, TPB merchandise, and The Swedish Pirate Party (as in political, not like with rum and buxom wenches). So they aren't making a fortune of advertising. They might be making something on the merchandise, but I doubt it. And even if they are, it isn't a "scam" it is providing something for payment, which is known as "capitalism".
I don't want uploaders anonymity removed so they develop a more hardcore encrypted system, I want them to obey the fucking law and pay for content like honest people. Is that so hard to understand? What I don't understand is what your method of forcing them to "obey the fucking law" without forcing them underground is. there is no political or moral argument here, Yes, there is, many have made one. I have made one. Unless, maybe it doesn't exist because you say it doesn't? Yeah, that makes sense.
Try to realize that just because something is against the law, doesn't mean that there is a good reason for it to be so.
In the beginning, there was Napster. Napster and other "p2p" sites weren't really peer-to-peer. they were "facilitated peer-to-peer" or peer-to-server-to-peer. In this environment, it was relatively easy to get the IP address of an infringer, all you had to do was check the server logs. Then the RIAA, MPAA, and associates began cracking down on this "p2p" traffic and suing the living crap out of every one they caught (or thought they caught) infringing.
So, many (the more cautious) began using torrents. Torrents are truly p2p (with the exception of the server hosting the trackers, which is just a direct download, no sharing involved) and so, much harder to track, but not impossible.
Now, for the Pirate Bay's argument:
"If you continue to persecute bittorrent sites, it will lead to the development of even more anonymous, (encrypted, node-hopping) networks, where it will be harder to find someone when a real crime (e.g. kiddie porn distribution) is committed." What part of their logic actually makes sense to you? All of it. Anonymity either encourages the breaking of the law or it does not, you cannot have it both ways, just because you want free music. Anonymity is a tool, to be used for bad or good according to its user. It can be used to protect kiddie porn dealers just as easily as it can be used to protect free speech. In this case, the free speech happens to be, "Hey, I don't agree at all with your silly copyright laws! So pbtthh on you!"
The point of the statment was, If you force us pirates (arrgg) to develop and use even more anonymous means to our end, then don't blame us when the pedophiles do the same.
You yourself admit that it has helped you weed out the junk in your movie purchases. And the studios still get your money for the good stuff. If this means that the movie studios and the record labels don't get to make any money off of stuff people don't want to watch/listen to, all the better.
Bottom line, if they are making quality art, people will pay for it (assuming they don't alienate their customers by having a couple of their "John Doe" lawsuits brought to the attention of the general public)
Um, the GP was talking about the windows GUI, not explorer, which is the file/internet browser.
11.8 - 8.8 = 3.0
.34
percentage of developers on Linux now - percentage of developers on Linux a year ago = percentage of developers who switched to Linux
3.0 / 8.8 =
percentage of developers who switched to Linux / percentage of developers on Linux a year ago = percentage of Linux developers who switched in the last year
So, the number of Linux developers increased by 34% in the last year.
Dos - Model T Ford Win 95 - 1996 GM Win 98 - 1996 GM with new tags
Oops, my fault entirely for not reading what I was posting properly. Yes, essentially, what these people have done is what the article I linked to (published only a few weeks ago) said was impossible. That's science for ya.
(of course, INAP either, so maybe I still have it wrong, stranger things have happened..)
See, I know this guy, who knows this guy, who kinda-sorta "borrowed" them.
Really, I think he found them online, some of them are images, but most of the main one's are good quality scans with the text rendered.
I couldn't tell you where he got them though.
I mean, someone should at least talk to ken and see if he is still a jackass, and reset the bool accordingly.
When me and my friends from college play D&D, we all bring laptops. We frequently use the calculators for keeping track of HP, and our DM uses jpg's as maps, but the most useful function of a computer at a D&D session is to have the books you use often (Player's handbook, any books with spells) running as a pdf. The search feature makes finding out exactly what that little-used spell does in the heat of battle a lot simpler.
Dude, you hot-unplug the RAM and the only thing that crashes is OpenOffice?
What distro are you running again?
(Yes, mods, I realize he was being sarcastic, so am I.)
(Emphasis mine)
Try Ubuntu's Add/Remove feature. I think it is exactly what you are looking for.