You're still voting for someone you likely don't personally know and who couldn't care less about your personal needs,in the hopes that magically they'll read your mind and vote like you would in the parliament.
You have a point, although the political field in Sweden AFAIK is somewhat more diverse than the two-party systems the USians have going. Nevertheless, being in the top ten, probably at the tail-end of the list, won't translate to more than a few percentage points support
Where I live, they've got displays at the front of buses that show "news". And more often, ads. No sound fortunately, so all you get is short news summaries in text, and then some bright mute ads. Still incredibly annoying, a moving image tends to draw attention to itself, so it takes a little effort to ignore. I've taken to doggedly staring out the window.
It means they don't want people selling products whose main attraction is the Ford trademark. As far as I know they MUST protect their trademarks or lose them.
I think you mean to say the parliamentarist system is fully functional in the US. A democratic election of despots^H^H^H^H^H^H^H rulers^H^H^H^H^H^Hleaders does not a democracy make.
I can't wait to see widespread adoption of flying commuter vehicles. Then we'll get to see public buildings protected from suicide bombers not just by concrete walls or metal fences, but giant cages covering them completely. Or maybe they'll just install flak cannons.
Of course not. If your car stereo or GPS device is stolen and you actually used it, chances are, you'll buy a new one. It's a bummer for you, whoever's selling you the new device won't complain, though. A stolen piece of equipment isn't really a competing product in the same sense as an unlicensed copy of a music file is, because there's still a pretty strong correllation between the number of devices produced and sold and the number of devices out in the wild. The thieves aren't making new devices.
[quote]It takes time to make songs available on an online store.[/quote]
And that's exactly what's wrong with the whole digital music store business. They have to license every damn piece of music they sell, which means dealing with untold numbers of small and large labels, individuals self-publishing their music etc. For me, the biggest problem with online download stores has not been DRM, but the lack of selection. I don't give a damn about the 4 major labels, I can, on a good day, think of maybe one or two bands I might listen to from the whole bunch. Small labels is where it's at, and there sure are a lot of them out there to be making license agreements with all of them. Sure, emusic.com is doing a decent job of that, but even so, I still keep bumping into a whole lot of stuff I can only buy by ordering a CD somewhere, or having a brick-and-mortar store do that for me. Then there's the other sources, which have great selection but don't pay the artists a dime...
So what, in my opinion, is needed, is some way to allow users to get their content whereever they like, and still pay the artists. Sell a license to download, maybe? Of course, again, there's so many practical problems I don't even want to think about it. Fortunately I'm not in the music industry.
No no, it SHOULD be protected. Strongly. So strongly that you need to obtain a separate license for each time you play any of his "music", and failure to do so would be a capital offense.
Forgot one: motives. For a free software developer, the primary motivator is quite likely ideological: they primarily want to make FOSS software. Making a game, making a GOOD game, and finding people who are actually capable of that come, to some extent, second. Enthusiasm does not a game dev make.
Design by committee isn't very compatible with radical ideas
How many FOSS game developers are there, anyway? The vast majority of games coming out from the the "traditional" game industry are cookie-cutter dross. There's hundreds of non-free companies out there and a handful that make anything interesting. The innovation percentage just isn't that large, so with very few free developers out there in the first place, you can be sure a VERY small number of those will be coming up with anything new.
From the article:
"The bill applies to anyone who used a computer to help commit the original sex crime."
Now, the bill is still obscene, but it does not apply to all citizens labelled as sex offenders, as the whole conversation here seems to assume. If only people would R T F A... So many bits wasted.
As I recall, for EMule there was a plug-in that would use an ISP's proxy cache to store chunks of downloads, and if it could find chunks in cache, it would download them there instead of off another ed2k user. Don't know if that ever actually worked.
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You're still voting for someone you likely don't personally know and who couldn't care less about your personal needs,in the hopes that magically they'll read your mind and vote like you would in the parliament.
I'm thinking more... Antigua.
You have a point, although the political field in Sweden AFAIK is somewhat more diverse than the two-party systems the USians have going. Nevertheless, being in the top ten, probably at the tail-end of the list, won't translate to more than a few percentage points support
Where I live, they've got displays at the front of buses that show "news". And more often, ads. No sound fortunately, so all you get is short news summaries in text, and then some bright mute ads. Still incredibly annoying, a moving image tends to draw attention to itself, so it takes a little effort to ignore. I've taken to doggedly staring out the window.
It means they don't want people selling products whose main attraction is the Ford trademark. As far as I know they MUST protect their trademarks or lose them.
No, it doesn't. This isn't a copyright claim, it's a trademark claim. Basically Ford are trying to stop people from cashing in on the Ford trademark.
I think you mean to say the parliamentarist system is fully functional in the US. A democratic election of despots^H^H^H^H^H^H^H rulers^H^H^H^H^H^Hleaders does not a democracy make.
I can't wait to see widespread adoption of flying commuter vehicles. Then we'll get to see public buildings protected from suicide bombers not just by concrete walls or metal fences, but giant cages covering them completely. Or maybe they'll just install flak cannons.
So what do subsidies do to your argument that the lack of increases in corn prices is a sign of the corn lobby's inefficientness?
Of course not. If your car stereo or GPS device is stolen and you actually used it, chances are, you'll buy a new one. It's a bummer for you, whoever's selling you the new device won't complain, though. A stolen piece of equipment isn't really a competing product in the same sense as an unlicensed copy of a music file is, because there's still a pretty strong correllation between the number of devices produced and sold and the number of devices out in the wild. The thieves aren't making new devices.
[quote]It takes time to make songs available on an online store.[/quote] And that's exactly what's wrong with the whole digital music store business. They have to license every damn piece of music they sell, which means dealing with untold numbers of small and large labels, individuals self-publishing their music etc. For me, the biggest problem with online download stores has not been DRM, but the lack of selection. I don't give a damn about the 4 major labels, I can, on a good day, think of maybe one or two bands I might listen to from the whole bunch. Small labels is where it's at, and there sure are a lot of them out there to be making license agreements with all of them. Sure, emusic.com is doing a decent job of that, but even so, I still keep bumping into a whole lot of stuff I can only buy by ordering a CD somewhere, or having a brick-and-mortar store do that for me. Then there's the other sources, which have great selection but don't pay the artists a dime...
So what, in my opinion, is needed, is some way to allow users to get their content whereever they like, and still pay the artists. Sell a license to download, maybe? Of course, again, there's so many practical problems I don't even want to think about it. Fortunately I'm not in the music industry.
Excuse me? He uses an iMac, therefore he must be used to paying through the nose.
how about just getting a wireless router, instead?
Obviously, since the alternative seems to be actually doing something productive, the parent does NOT work for the government.
It would indeed be "their", if I had meant that. I meant "there", as in "over there".
Pretty much on par for the UK, as far as I can tell. Now, fess up: Who gave the gov't there copies of 1984?
No no, it SHOULD be protected. Strongly. So strongly that you need to obtain a separate license for each time you play any of his "music", and failure to do so would be a capital offense.
Forgot one: motives. For a free software developer, the primary motivator is quite likely ideological: they primarily want to make FOSS software. Making a game, making a GOOD game, and finding people who are actually capable of that come, to some extent, second. Enthusiasm does not a game dev make.
Here's a couple of reasons:
Design by committee isn't very compatible with radical ideas
How many FOSS game developers are there, anyway? The vast majority of games coming out from the the "traditional" game industry are cookie-cutter dross. There's hundreds of non-free companies out there and a handful that make anything interesting. The innovation percentage just isn't that large, so with very few free developers out there in the first place, you can be sure a VERY small number of those will be coming up with anything new.
And whoever opts out obviously must WANT to see kiddie porn. Clever.
But his whole thesis is that video games make people violent, and obviously he's pissed off a lot of said video gamers. How is he still alive?
From the article:
... So many bits wasted.
"The bill applies to anyone who used a computer to help commit the original sex crime."
Now, the bill is still obscene, but it does not apply to all citizens labelled as sex offenders, as the whole conversation here seems to assume. If only people would R T F A
Presumably, though, "no" still means "no", even when it's more of a "naawhhhh..."?
As I recall, for EMule there was a plug-in that would use an ISP's proxy cache to store chunks of downloads, and if it could find chunks in cache, it would download them there instead of off another ed2k user. Don't know if that ever actually worked.
or c) "Hey, this system could compromise my data! I'd better stop using it until they fix it! Thanks for the heads-up!"