Copyright is given as a gift in exchange for your contribution to the world's body of literature. If its not available to society when the payback is supposed to occur, why should society give them any gift of protection. If you DRM it, you're free game. Sounds fair to me.
and to then call Iraq a rogue state, part of an axis of evil?
Why do you deny the USA's God given right to
hold people indefinitely without trial
demand all manner of private customer information from overseas companies
and then say Yahoo! is bad for complying with China's threats? It's probably worth noting that the US wouldn't have to ask who sent the e-mail...
Congress has every right as the figurehead of The quintessential global big bully boy to say:
"give your homework to me or I'll smack your head in" and
"I'll smack your head in if you give your homework to china"
in the same breath. Yahoo! has obediently sent their executives off to get their heads flushed in the toilet, and the world moves on. Your eyebrows are raised, why...
Now explain that to your Director who has strict filters that only accept binary (Yes or No) responses to IT questions......and gets Macs to NOT have these problems.
So......viable organisms tend to have variations in bits of their genome that don't determine whether they'll be viable or not... OK, forgive me if I'm missing something & this isn't as......obvious as it sounds.
Maybe the organisms with changes in parts of their genome that are not tollerant to change are DEAD....
I would be more surprised if a similar study of stillborn and aborted rats found the same tendency.
I agree in principal, but Autodesk sold their ass to Microsoft a couple of decades ago. This has obviously worked out for them, as they became obscenely wealthy and dominated the generic CAD market to the point that the whole CAD industry followed them away from *nix in the decade that followed... Obviously I don't have access to their source, but the impression I get is that if you pulled the Microsoft bits out of Autodesk's products, their guts would drop out. I'd love to hear I'm wrong.
IP exists to bring knowledge into the public domain, by granting the sharer of knowledge special privileges.
Written work is protected be copyright, not patents. I don't see how patenting software is different from patenting the content of an e-book in short-hand (other than that a lawyer/judge probably more readily recognises short-hand as written word)
Whether or not you agree, given (assuming) the above:
getting a patent should be trivial (see, on topic) and
getting IP protection for software should involve publishing source, whether you view it as a mechanism or a written work. Yes, yes, innovation. If they refuse to share, why should we care? Why grant the special privilege? Why should society support their development of trade secrets, if they refuse to support society's development of knowledge?
I'm annoyed by this American re-framing of IP, to obsess over supporting innovation with complete disregard to combating guilds and trade secrets.
tragically enough, not because of the M3, but rather because he's an asshole......if only comfortable, stable guys made women hot & sweaty......it'd be a different world.
Yeah, they must have had a few of them over at Xerox to produce the ideas Woz was cloning. The Steve's couldn't even CLONE the Star's OS and office package without Bill's help.
and copyright is the form of IP used to control literary & artistic works. I've never heard a decent argument that software is something other than a written work. The attributes of a work protected by copyright & an invention protected by patent law don't gel well at all, if your party/government is free from inappropriate campaign subsidies.
Windows users with a password AND a fingerprint, by default? How does everyone get the right fingerprint? What if someone else NEEDS to log in as you? HUH!!! & how am I supposed to enter a null fingerprint!!!!
tell me that? (^-^)
Yeah, its just NOT feasible IS it? I don't know who told you that.
Sounds like a great feature for people who listen to music while they work with CAD & e-mail programs that make annoying beep sounds at regular intervals...
**sigh** (OK I'll bite, reel me in & mod me off topic)...ie. not useful for my nanna, but she doesn't use programs with Mac OS 7 defaults, and all the options that were cutting edge in '97 turned off, removed from dialogs & hidden in a configuration database... either... like...
BTW, FWIW:
tree view in a side bar next to folders doesn't scare or confuse my Nanna, nor does the option in a menu, hotkey or dialog. She's used firefox.
Needing a database editor to turn a sidebar (that used to sorta work) on and off does.
I used & loved Gnome until about six months after those interface guidelines made everything painful to use
nobbling galeon, nautilus instead & the move to sawfish & then metacity (effectively locked in) killed it completely
now its a drag to even turn on dragging windows between desktops...
but nothing that couldn't be fixed by replacing nautilus, metacity & gconfd...
Why bother with 'the OS X kernel is based on BSD?' most of their system is unix & unix-like programs with a shiny face. Mac had always pinched, prettied & pawned well, ever since they pinched their first gui from Star... These aren't parallel efforts.
& I don't mean hardware drivers. Be forewarned: I intend to have a good hard whine here. I've been looking for a formZ replacement since '97. It would make me so happy.
a professionally usable 3d modelling package for something bigger than a little green alien. I mean buildings, streets, cities, the furniture in them. DO NOT SAY BLENDER. Programs like blender, wings, have a long way to go to match even the most basic of modellers like sketch-up for use in anything other than little green aliens. Its not the underlying modelling that's the problem. Its the data input method and the 90s four pane character design work method, not that there's anything wrong with that...
Its just that, with all the other modes in blender, why not a level design mode? It would need its own suite of input tools, but point, line, face, polygon couldn't be that hard to rewrite for interactive input. move, rotate, scale, & their extension, array couldn't be that hard once you have sane data entry. Its just about projecting the cursor in the paper/screen plane out in perspective until it hits the active reference plane. click, thats where I want point two...
Something that allows modelling in context (points entered off elements already in the model); geometry entry modern enough to model in a single perspective window, moving on from that early nineties four pane view. Something that allows geometry to be entered in the model's coordinate system, not the %$&$ing viewports!!!!!! SO YOU CAN WORK IN THE MODEL FROM SOMEWHERE WHERE YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!! and how it relates to what's going on around it. Instead of turning every move operation into three move operations in three different windows, then a change of view to see that its vaguely right, then another three moves to get it kinda sorta right......NO! one move, its where you wanted it, see if you like it, keep it or develop it. or no moves, no stretches, no rotations, just make it where you want it in the first place.
Once upon a time I laughed when I saw people working in four pane view without snaps. They seemed to genuinely feel they were working efficiently. There is a difference between precise and accurate. modelling quickly and precisely makes editable models. Models of inorganic elements made without snaps aren't editable. Boolean operations become a nightmare. File sizes & polygon counts blow out. Its just like that. Try the alternative if you disagree.
What patent? patent on software? Legal system? Yeahup, international law? or your country's almost unique distortion thereof?
My country follows international conventions on patent law. Patent law designed to discourage trade secrets & guilds. In countries where politicians aren't preselected by corporations, these things aren't an issue......SO why can't I get a distro that complies with international law and has licensed, copyright(left)ed codec implementations?
Oh wait, I did. Try Gentoo. The point is, why can't your distribution have RoW (Rest of World) and GBA (God Bless America) builds of code where some American thinks they own the idea behind the words of the code.
Ahem, or do you mean GNU/BSD/Xorg/Sun/Adobe/Real/linux OS... As U recall, there's a reason why its Xorg not XFree......Why was that again?
If the kernel can be replaced then hurry up already! Is my Hurd ready?
Oh! and I believe you mean a philosophy. It must be hard to read the world in 1bit colour.
You speak as though your (?) philosophy were an immutable fact beyond question, development or improvement. 'Your' philosophy isn't free at all.
If you wanted to piss off the Japanese (probably not wise), you wouldn't start with the Shinkansen or similar. There are plenty of lines in & around Tokyo that are more critical. Its also pretty hard to steer a train into anything worthwhile. Some sort of physics thing apparently.
I heard a rumour that there was concrete cancer on the shinkansen track from Tokyo to Nagoya. They painted it with some obscenely expensive paint system to fix it. Maybe that's the reason for the selection of that run for this new system.
Heard about a guy who lived in Osaka & worked in Tokyo (three hours each way) His teiki (month pass) was the same as my salary back then. Must have had one hell of a wife, one way or the other.
The real issue perhaps with the gravity is the effect of living in zero gravity for the voyage to get there, and then transitioning to 2+G in a day! Perhaps using a centrifugal ship to gradually ramp up the gravity en-route. That'd give generations, wouldn't it? Then what if your signed up & three generations into the voyage & it turns out you're the weakest link, or there is a sudden realisation that your crew of super athletes should have been composed exclusively of lard asses......bummer dude!
Yeah its not just a dick thing. It's a more inclusive sex thing. A 10Meg original to make a 1280x1024 image IS a lot better! Two words moire patterns. If you've done any rendering or animation work you'll know what I mean. Do you have any sort of design or artistic education? (post-crayon) Maybe you never learnt to read images... Super sampling produces a better images. Its simple visual maths. Actually the numbers & equations maths in scaling images is not so simple, but try some experiments & compare. The idea is simple. It's one of the reasons that scaling an image is the last thing you do when you edit it. The other reasons for scaling after edits & filters only amplify the utility of starting with a high res source image. Take the data loss in multiple filters, etc on the chin because its nothing within the context of significant downsampling. In fact, taking a small image & upsizing it to do edits, then downsizing it again can result in something that _looks_ cleaner because the data loss in the filters is offset (for lack of a better word) somewhat. Usually doesn't play well with jaggies & jpeg compression artifacts though......there are limits, but it improves images manifestly.
Yup, they've been doing all natural poisons over there in China for quite a while too!!! & let's not get into all natural minerals! The point seems to be more a fear of artificial inflation to support pharmaceutical prices. Of course pharmaceutical companies always play nice & fare, & there is no corruption in America.
Anyway, back to the point, chocolate. Eat too much & its bad for you! Just like vitamin D. Especially if you live in a buyer beware culture.
This is not a wish list. The problems are with the things you want to do with a computer that's so locked down. There are a number of different options for achieving this now. GRE & SE Linux spring to mind. Unfortunately you will have to use a hardened compiler profile to make it worthwhile. Its designed more for servers though......Running a full desktop environment and expecting your computer to be secure......doesn't really add up, when you get down to it. Think less is more. Like your i-pod! (^-^) I imagine from:
The data on my PowerBook is my life and
I do make a monthly backup that you'll want nice accelerated graphics. At present that probably means binary drivers, that wont load into your hardened kernel or X...
To get the effect you are REALLY looking for, you don't need sandboxing. You could have a play with ACL based permissions. Running apps with set gid could help, but could also be a catastrophic security hole (depending upon how you do it) & is more obfuscation than barrier within the context of your intentions.
Also, I think that the first time you move a folder with a range of file types, you'll spit the dummy big time. Also, if you're really just worried about $rm -rf./* put a file called -i in your home|users folder. ie. $touch./-i
or is it because Quantum Mechanics has always been a model of what could be determined re: the properties of a particle at that time. That time being when some now dead academics were having a tiff. Perhaps its because that model predicted the laser to be impossible. Perhaps its because that model predicted it was impossible to bring an electron to rest for a year and measure its properties......EXTREMELY ACCURATELY
Slashdot Mirror
YES!!!
Copyright is given as a gift in exchange for your contribution to the world's body of literature. If its not available to society when the payback is supposed to occur, why should society give them any gift of protection. If you DRM it, you're free game. Sounds fair to me.
Do you deny the USA's God given right to
- nuke civilians
- gas civilians
- use biological weapons against civilians
and to then call Iraq a rogue state, part of an axis of evil?Why do you deny the USA's God given right to
- hold people indefinitely without trial
- demand all manner of private customer information from overseas companies
and then say Yahoo! is bad for complying with China's threats? It's probably worth noting that the US wouldn't have to ask who sent the e-mail...Congress has every right as the figurehead of The quintessential global big bully boy to say:
- "give your homework to me or I'll smack your head in" and
- "I'll smack your head in if you give your homework to china"
in the same breath. Yahoo! has obediently sent their executives off to get their heads flushed in the toilet, and the world moves on. Your eyebrows are raised, why...Now explain that to your Director who has strict filters that only accept binary (Yes or No) responses to IT questions... ...and gets Macs to NOT have these problems.
So... ...viable organisms tend to have variations in bits of their genome that don't determine whether they'll be viable or not... ...obvious as it sounds.
OK, forgive me if I'm missing something & this isn't as...
Maybe the organisms with changes in parts of their genome that are not tollerant to change are DEAD....
I would be more surprised if a similar study of stillborn and aborted rats found the same tendency.
Sooo... ...who killed the ones outside the USA?
I agree in principal, but Autodesk sold their ass to Microsoft a couple of decades ago. This has obviously worked out for them, as they became obscenely wealthy and dominated the generic CAD market to the point that the whole CAD industry followed them away from *nix in the decade that followed... Obviously I don't have access to their source, but the impression I get is that if you pulled the Microsoft bits out of Autodesk's products, their guts would drop out. I'd love to hear I'm wrong.
Whether or not you agree, given (assuming) the above:
I'm annoyed by this American re-framing of IP, to obsess over supporting innovation with complete disregard to combating guilds and trade secrets.
tragically enough, not because of the M3, but rather because he's an asshole... ...if only comfortable, stable guys made women hot & sweaty... ...it'd be a different world.
I had no idea that MSCEs are now 11% of the population.
"Can you install iE in your sleep?"
"Yes my liege"
It's like invasion of the body snatchers.
Yeah, they must have had a few of them over at Xerox to produce the ideas Woz was cloning.
The Steve's couldn't even CLONE the Star's OS and office package without Bill's help.
and copyright is the form of IP used to control literary & artistic works. I've never heard a decent argument that software is something other than a written work. The attributes of a work protected by copyright & an invention protected by patent law don't gel well at all, if your party/government is free from inappropriate campaign subsidies.
Windows users with a password AND a fingerprint, by default? How does everyone get the right fingerprint?
What if someone else NEEDS to log in as you? HUH!!! & how am I supposed to enter a null fingerprint!!!!
tell me that? (^-^)
Yeah, its just NOT feasible IS it? I don't know who told you that.
Sounds like a great feature for people who listen to music while they work with CAD & e-mail programs that make annoying beep sounds at regular intervals...
**sigh** (OK I'll bite, reel me in & mod me off topic)...ie. not useful for my nanna, but she doesn't use programs with Mac OS 7 defaults, and all the options that were cutting edge in '97 turned off, removed from dialogs & hidden in a configuration database... either... like...
BTW, FWIW:- tree view in a side bar next to folders doesn't scare or confuse my Nanna, nor does the option in a menu, hotkey or dialog. She's used firefox.
- Needing a database editor to turn a sidebar (that used to sorta work) on and off does.
- I used & loved Gnome until about six months after those interface guidelines made everything painful to use
- nobbling galeon, nautilus instead & the move to sawfish & then metacity (effectively locked in) killed it completely
- now its a drag to even turn on dragging windows between desktops...
- but nothing that couldn't be fixed by replacing nautilus, metacity & gconfd...
- OH WAIT!, XFCE/emerald... done.
tagWhy bother with 'the OS X kernel is based on BSD?' most of their system is unix & unix-like programs with a shiny face.
Mac had always pinched, prettied & pawned well, ever since they pinched their first gui from Star... These aren't parallel efforts.
``What's the point? All it can do is surf the internet and make phone calls.''
like a public servant from the Japanese agriculture ministry... except for the phone calls bit. Can you edit wikipedia with it?
& I don't mean hardware drivers. Be forewarned: I intend to have a good hard whine here. I've been looking for a formZ replacement since '97. It would make me so happy.
...NO! one move, its where you wanted it, see if you like it, keep it or develop it. or no moves, no stretches, no rotations, just make it where you want it in the first place.
a professionally usable 3d modelling package for something bigger than a little green alien. I mean buildings, streets, cities, the furniture in them. DO NOT SAY BLENDER. Programs like blender, wings, have a long way to go to match even the most basic of modellers like sketch-up for use in anything other than little green aliens. Its not the underlying modelling that's the problem. Its the data input method and the 90s four pane character design work method, not that there's anything wrong with that...
Its just that, with all the other modes in blender, why not a level design mode? It would need its own suite of input tools, but point, line, face, polygon couldn't be that hard to rewrite for interactive input. move, rotate, scale, & their extension, array couldn't be that hard once you have sane data entry. Its just about projecting the cursor in the paper/screen plane out in perspective until it hits the active reference plane. click, thats where I want point two...
Something that allows modelling in context (points entered off elements already in the model); geometry entry modern enough to model in a single perspective window, moving on from that early nineties four pane view. Something that allows geometry to be entered in the model's coordinate system, not the %$&$ing viewports!!!!!! SO YOU CAN WORK IN THE MODEL FROM SOMEWHERE WHERE YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!! and how it relates to what's going on around it. Instead of turning every move operation into three move operations in three different windows, then a change of view to see that its vaguely right, then another three moves to get it kinda sorta right...
Once upon a time I laughed when I saw people working in four pane view without snaps. They seemed to genuinely feel they were working efficiently. There is a difference between precise and accurate. modelling quickly and precisely makes editable models. Models of inorganic elements made without snaps aren't editable. Boolean operations become a nightmare. File sizes & polygon counts blow out. Its just like that. Try the alternative if you disagree.
What patent? patent on software? Legal system? Yeahup, international law? or your country's almost unique distortion thereof?
...SO why can't I get a distro that complies with international law and has licensed, copyright(left)ed codec implementations?
My country follows international conventions on patent law. Patent law designed to discourage trade secrets & guilds. In countries where politicians aren't preselected by corporations, these things aren't an issue...
Oh wait, I did. Try Gentoo. The point is, why can't your distribution have RoW (Rest of World) and GBA (God Bless America) builds of code where some American thinks they own the idea behind the words of the code.
Ahem, or do you mean GNU/BSD/Xorg/Sun/Adobe/Real/linux OS... As U recall, there's a reason why its Xorg not XFree... ...Why was that again?
If the kernel can be replaced then hurry up already! Is my Hurd ready?
Oh! and I believe you mean a philosophy. It must be hard to read the world in 1bit colour.
You speak as though your (?) philosophy were an immutable fact beyond question, development or improvement. 'Your' philosophy isn't free at all.
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If you wanted to piss off the Japanese (probably not wise), you wouldn't start with the Shinkansen or similar. There are plenty of lines in & around Tokyo that are more critical. Its also pretty hard to steer a train into anything worthwhile. Some sort of physics thing apparently.
I heard a rumour that there was concrete cancer on the shinkansen track from Tokyo to Nagoya. They painted it with some obscenely expensive paint system to fix it. Maybe that's the reason for the selection of that run for this new system.
Heard about a guy who lived in Osaka & worked in Tokyo (three hours each way) His teiki (month pass) was the same as my salary back then. Must have had one hell of a wife, one way or the other.
The real issue perhaps with the gravity is the effect of living in zero gravity for the voyage to get there, and then transitioning to 2+G in a day! Perhaps using a centrifugal ship to gradually ramp up the gravity en-route. That'd give generations, wouldn't it? Then what if your signed up & three generations into the voyage & it turns out you're the weakest link, or there is a sudden realisation that your crew of super athletes should have been composed exclusively of lard asses... ...bummer dude!
Yeah its not just a dick thing. It's a more inclusive sex thing. A 10Meg original to make a 1280x1024 image IS a lot better! ...there are limits, but it improves images manifestly.
Two words moire patterns. If you've done any rendering or animation work you'll know what I mean. Do you have any sort of design or artistic education? (post-crayon) Maybe you never learnt to read images... Super sampling produces a better images. Its simple visual maths. Actually the numbers & equations maths in scaling images is not so simple, but try some experiments & compare. The idea is simple. It's one of the reasons that scaling an image is the last thing you do when you edit it. The other reasons for scaling after edits & filters only amplify the utility of starting with a high res source image. Take the data loss in multiple filters, etc on the chin because its nothing within the context of significant downsampling. In fact, taking a small image & upsizing it to do edits, then downsizing it again can result in something that _looks_ cleaner because the data loss in the filters is offset (for lack of a better word) somewhat. Usually doesn't play well with jaggies & jpeg compression artifacts though...
Yup, they've been doing all natural poisons over there in China for quite a while too!!! & let's not get into all natural minerals!
The point seems to be more a fear of artificial inflation to support pharmaceutical prices.
Of course pharmaceutical companies always play nice & fare, & there is no corruption in America.
Anyway, back to the point, chocolate. Eat too much & its bad for you! Just like vitamin D.
Especially if you live in a buyer beware culture.
I imagine from: The data on my PowerBook is my life and I do make a monthly backup that you'll want nice accelerated graphics. At present that probably means binary drivers, that wont load into your hardened kernel or X...
To get the effect you are REALLY looking for, you don't need sandboxing. You could have a play with ACL based permissions. Running apps with set gid could help, but could also be a catastrophic security hole (depending upon how you do it) & is more obfuscation than barrier within the context of your intentions.
Also, I think that the first time you move a folder with a range of file types, you'll spit the dummy big time.
Also, if you're really just worried about $rm -rf
or is it because Quantum Mechanics has always been a model of what could be determined re: the properties of a particle at that time. ...EXTREMELY ACCURATELY
That time being when some now dead academics were having a tiff. Perhaps its because that model predicted the laser to be impossible.
Perhaps its because that model predicted it was impossible to bring an electron to rest for a year and measure its properties...
There is nothing wrong with a search for truth.