Unfortunately, no serious politician, Malaysian or otherwise, is really going to put their unedited musings online. http://carlbildt.wordpress.com/
It's in Swedish, but in short it's the Swedish foreign minister's blog and it's written from a personal perspective on current foreign issues, international meetings, government meetings, etc.
Of course it's not unedited (one might even doubt Bildt is the actual writer), but it's musing, highly democratic and extremely controversial.
Let's put our hopes to the anti piracy lobby. They've been working hard for years to loosen the knots around these kind of logs, and as is evident by the article, making logs containing private data readily available to economic interest groups/firms is useful for more than just pirate hunting. Kudos to the content mafia for increasing our security and well-being!
Point is a x264-rip @ 4.6 GB of a BD movie looks suh-weet compared to the DVDR. So, the only thing holding HD downloading back is lack of content and lack of people with x264 capable computers. I just got one, and I love it.
it also says a lot about the sheep-like mentality of the listenership Well hello there, welcome to the world of the masses. If it wasn't for sheep-like mentality, advertising spending wouldn't go into the hundreds and hundreds of billions.
I'm sure this isn't a new point, but isn't open source software's correspondence to market capitalism, in the sense of market economy and specifically free trade? In other terms, wouldn't a situation where closed source software is status quo correspond to the post-ww2 era in international relations, with heavy trade barriers etc. to protect domestic, uncompetitive industries (Microsoft's in house apps). The current situation where open source is growing would then refer to contemporary international relations minus, say, 10 years? This in the light of more and more apps going open source, and Microsoft (at least moving towards) opening more and more of their arsenal like Office and just the other day Live Messenger?
And here are two bullets for you:
* Who enjoys reading their morning paper online? I happily pay for my physical morning paper for the same reason people pays for physical books. I read my paper together with my toast and coffee for a good half hour every morning, and then in the afternoon for another good half hour on the crapper. An online news source can't compete with that (yet). Free, ad-funded, physical papers DOES compete with that and that is the main reason traditional morning papers are suffering (this is plain sad and a big leap towards Idiocracy).
* The jobs the parent suggested also produce for online, ad-supported content. Thus, at least part of that industry would survive if people stopped enjoying physical books.
So, not saying you're wrong. Just that you're not all that right.
Every comedian should know that being wrong is rarely funny. Which is part of Carlin's success, his comedy is about being right. As he was in this case.
I am of course aware of the controversy surrounding the production of ethanol. The parent was however not talking about this, but rather about what people are "willing to pay" for. And people who drive on E85 are, I guess, most willing to pay for a cleaner environment, otherwise why would they use it? Again, what people actually do is not of any importance here, it is what they want to and believe that they do.
Hell playing the radio in a Dr's office is technically infringing!
No, that would probably fall quite nicely into the 17 USC 110(5) "homestyle" exception. Maybe in his office, but he better pay up if he puts the radio in the waiting room. In Sweden, this is actively enforced by RIAA's national correspondence.
This doesn't give us anything close to a monopoly? It's a direct move from a no good oligopoly to an even worse duopoly. How that isn't "anywhere" close to a monopoly is beyond my reach...
Mod parent down. Downloading any kind of copyrighted material is illegal in Sweden since July 2005. There seem to be some kind of consensus among politicans, police and most of all the copyright industry not to go after downloaders though, which would be a sign that the content industry on some level is aware that they need a reputation to survive. It is however also a sign that they have no idea what they're talking about, filesharing has always been about - that's right - sharing, upping and downloading.
Oh noes, I feel your pain. It's just like with my current laptop (a Fujitsu-Siemens:() which, for some reason, lacks a floppy drive! Omg, I don't get what the hell FS was thinking! How am I supposed to install my original XP disc with this SATA drive equipped poor excuse of a paper weight!?
What's with these constant car comparisons? What if my Volvo ran Windows, now there's a disaster scenario for you.
Seriously though, it doesn't make sense to compare preinstalled cd players or AC units in cars with Microsoft's software policies. For one because those preinstalled units were bought from a third party* on a competetive market and are subject to being switched out for a number of reasons, most important price and quality! If Microsoft released an updated Windows version every year or so and everytime evaluated their bundled browser and were prepared to switch if a competitor proved to be cheaper and of higher quality, then no one would complain! Now there is a car comparison for you. Now stop using them.
* There might be cases where this is not true although I doubt it. If there are cases, it would require the "in house" cd player to be competitive on the open market, otherwise it wouldn't make any sense for the car manufacturer to keep the production within the company. Now here's an interesting point: why the hell is IE still being produced!? Microsoft share holders ought to be outraged!
"Could it be that they were designed for eachother?"
Yes, it could be. It could also be that they design software in a way that unlawfully or unethically discourages the use of other software. Lets see what they find out during the investigation. Microsoft is a powerful company, and as such, just like powerful politicians, they should be under constant investigation.
"I don't have a social life, I work very hard to look after myself, save diligently, and as such I am well off financially as compared to my peers. Now I should just give my money to others?"
There's more to the society you live in than the study of electrons and computers or whatever it is you're doing. Reading your story, it seems like the campus life is split in two: people without social life that do right for themselves, and people with social lives that, that... that what? Fail? And makes you pay for it? Look, it doesn't work like that. Government funded education is education that the government invests in to later make a profit. You don't give your money to party going pricks, you invest money in a future where more educated people will be able to work more efficiently and thus providing more tax money to the system thus paying for you when your old and need assistance to take a dump. It's all very complicated, but if you for one second could close your books up and get a social life, you actually see it: society. How do you learn about society? You study it. Where do you study it? In school. And at parties!
I guess they have to hunt down people exposing their secrets, even though they really profit from it. There are many reasons for this, one is obviously PR: If info about a future Apple product "leaks out", the leaking is fundamental to the hype! If Apple didn't try to stop the leak, the leak-hype would vanish, Apple's leak-PR model would lose credibility.
Another reason is the similar, but is more of a legal concern: Apple must hunt down trade-secrets in order to honor the NDA:s their employees has signed. If they don't hunt down rumor sites, what's to stop employees from leaking _real_ trade secrets?
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If you're so fat you can hide stuff in your folds, I doubt you'll be able to cause much damage either way.
Who plays DVDs on their Windows box? A lot perhaps, but not near many enough to be "the masses" that plays mp3s on a daily basis.
It's in Swedish, but in short it's the Swedish foreign minister's blog and it's written from a personal perspective on current foreign issues, international meetings, government meetings, etc.
Of course it's not unedited (one might even doubt Bildt is the actual writer), but it's musing, highly democratic and extremely controversial.
Let's put our hopes to the anti piracy lobby. They've been working hard for years to loosen the knots around these kind of logs, and as is evident by the article, making logs containing private data readily available to economic interest groups/firms is useful for more than just pirate hunting. Kudos to the content mafia for increasing our security and well-being!
Point is a x264-rip @ 4.6 GB of a BD movie looks suh-weet compared to the DVDR. So, the only thing holding HD downloading back is lack of content and lack of people with x264 capable computers. I just got one, and I love it.
As long as the machine counts votes incorrectly in the right* way, the lobbying efforts would only have to be minimal.
* or left/republican/democrat/etc., depending on who's ruling the state in question
I'm sure this isn't a new point, but isn't open source software's correspondence to market capitalism, in the sense of market economy and specifically free trade? In other terms, wouldn't a situation where closed source software is status quo correspond to the post-ww2 era in international relations, with heavy trade barriers etc. to protect domestic, uncompetitive industries (Microsoft's in house apps). The current situation where open source is growing would then refer to contemporary international relations minus, say, 10 years? This in the light of more and more apps going open source, and Microsoft (at least moving towards) opening more and more of their arsenal like Office and just the other day Live Messenger?
And here are two bullets for you: * Who enjoys reading their morning paper online? I happily pay for my physical morning paper for the same reason people pays for physical books. I read my paper together with my toast and coffee for a good half hour every morning, and then in the afternoon for another good half hour on the crapper. An online news source can't compete with that (yet). Free, ad-funded, physical papers DOES compete with that and that is the main reason traditional morning papers are suffering (this is plain sad and a big leap towards Idiocracy). * The jobs the parent suggested also produce for online, ad-supported content. Thus, at least part of that industry would survive if people stopped enjoying physical books. So, not saying you're wrong. Just that you're not all that right.
Every comedian should know that being wrong is rarely funny. Which is part of Carlin's success, his comedy is about being right. As he was in this case.
But the industry! Won't somebody please think of the industry!
I am of course aware of the controversy surrounding the production of ethanol. The parent was however not talking about this, but rather about what people are "willing to pay" for. And people who drive on E85 are, I guess, most willing to pay for a cleaner environment, otherwise why would they use it? Again, what people actually do is not of any importance here, it is what they want to and believe that they do.
And a cleaner environment..?
No, that would probably fall quite nicely into the 17 USC 110(5) "homestyle" exception. Maybe in his office, but he better pay up if he puts the radio in the waiting room. In Sweden, this is actively enforced by RIAA's national correspondence.
No. http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Google+is+the+no+1+internet+destination&word2=Yahoo+is+the+no+1+internet+destination
This doesn't give us anything close to a monopoly? It's a direct move from a no good oligopoly to an even worse duopoly. How that isn't "anywhere" close to a monopoly is beyond my reach...
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4004986/St__mningsans__kan_mot_The_pirate_bay
Where else?
Mod parent down. Downloading any kind of copyrighted material is illegal in Sweden since July 2005. There seem to be some kind of consensus among politicans, police and most of all the copyright industry not to go after downloaders though, which would be a sign that the content industry on some level is aware that they need a reputation to survive. It is however also a sign that they have no idea what they're talking about, filesharing has always been about - that's right - sharing, upping and downloading.
Oh noes, I feel your pain. It's just like with my current laptop (a Fujitsu-Siemens :() which, for some reason, lacks a floppy drive! Omg, I don't get what the hell FS was thinking! How am I supposed to install my original XP disc with this SATA drive equipped poor excuse of a paper weight!?
What's with these constant car comparisons? What if my Volvo ran Windows, now there's a disaster scenario for you.
Seriously though, it doesn't make sense to compare preinstalled cd players or AC units in cars with Microsoft's software policies. For one because those preinstalled units were bought from a third party* on a competetive market and are subject to being switched out for a number of reasons, most important price and quality! If Microsoft released an updated Windows version every year or so and everytime evaluated their bundled browser and were prepared to switch if a competitor proved to be cheaper and of higher quality, then no one would complain! Now there is a car comparison for you. Now stop using them.
* There might be cases where this is not true although I doubt it. If there are cases, it would require the "in house" cd player to be competitive on the open market, otherwise it wouldn't make any sense for the car manufacturer to keep the production within the company. Now here's an interesting point: why the hell is IE still being produced!? Microsoft share holders ought to be outraged!
"Could it be that they were designed for eachother?" Yes, it could be. It could also be that they design software in a way that unlawfully or unethically discourages the use of other software. Lets see what they find out during the investigation. Microsoft is a powerful company, and as such, just like powerful politicians, they should be under constant investigation.
"I don't have a social life, I work very hard to look after myself, save diligently, and as such I am well off financially as compared to my peers. Now I should just give my money to others?" There's more to the society you live in than the study of electrons and computers or whatever it is you're doing. Reading your story, it seems like the campus life is split in two: people without social life that do right for themselves, and people with social lives that, that... that what? Fail? And makes you pay for it? Look, it doesn't work like that. Government funded education is education that the government invests in to later make a profit. You don't give your money to party going pricks, you invest money in a future where more educated people will be able to work more efficiently and thus providing more tax money to the system thus paying for you when your old and need assistance to take a dump. It's all very complicated, but if you for one second could close your books up and get a social life, you actually see it: society. How do you learn about society? You study it. Where do you study it? In school. And at parties!
God, that joke seems older than my C64.
I guess they have to hunt down people exposing their secrets, even though they really profit from it. There are many reasons for this, one is obviously PR: If info about a future Apple product "leaks out", the leaking is fundamental to the hype! If Apple didn't try to stop the leak, the leak-hype would vanish, Apple's leak-PR model would lose credibility.
Another reason is the similar, but is more of a legal concern: Apple must hunt down trade-secrets in order to honor the NDA:s their employees has signed. If they don't hunt down rumor sites, what's to stop employees from leaking _real_ trade secrets?
A bit conspiratory, but still...