The DMCA is a government regulation. A "free market" is a market that's free from government intervention, your quote specifically mentioning regulation. Did you even read what the GP wrote?
I've used SSH/telnet clients on every smartphone out there on pretty much every carrier. Not sure what your point is with PuTTY... And I see no reason you wouldn't be able to make a VoIP application for Android, considering you don't need to go through the app store to upload programs onto and the SDK has everything you'd need to do to make that sort of program.
AC clearly has no idea what (s)he's talking about. Move along folks, nothing to see here.
Your argument is entirely ad hominem, while failing to address anything he said. You have no credibility either. As for the topic at hand, I have no opinion.
Your point? "To make bold or bolder; hearten; encourage." That is precisely what happened with respect to delaying their release date; an activity that is generally considered a "bold" move from the business standpoint. I'm not really sure what you're getting at. Makes perfect sense to me.
How long will it take corporate overlords until they finally realize that broad level censorship and trying to control the message are far more harmful than just becoming part of the discourse?
And this post, ladies and gentlemen, is what's so horribly wrong with our current political system. People who aren't voting for the person, but the party, deserve whatever they get.
You should really stop getting all your information from Fox News. I hate to break it to you, but they have a very tenuous relationship with reality, especially when it comes to portraying anybody who isn't a hardcore conservative.
It's really a chicken/egg problem as far as I'm aware. Diesel is much more heavily taxed because older diesel tech had its problems, but American diesel tech doesn't improve because diesel fuel is so heavily taxed that it wouldn't be popular.
I REALLY wish I could get the new diesel Fiesta here in the United States. From everything I've heard, it's just an excellent car with insanely good gas mileage (better than a Prius). Too bad America hates diesel...
Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't really care about this, but as far as I'm concerned using a proxy (at least intentionally) IS sophistication. This is just the legal system realizing that pre-existing rules can be sensibly applied to internet crime as far as I'm concerned.
I know this MAY be hard to believe, but (1) Muslims are NOT the only terrorists out there, (2) he never mentioned Muslims, (3) he seems to be saying they employed orthodox Jews not who the owner was, and (4) he said GENOCIDE, not "terrorism" (which he in fact did not mention once).
Let's not play the jump to conclusions game here...
The damages calculus becomes much
more difficult where the defendant generates
only "indirect" profits from the infringement...
So no, that's not entirely true. STATUTORY damages are always the same, but I think that's precisely his complaint: COMPENSATORY damages, the kind of damages that we think of as being "fair" actually ARE different if the infringement is non-commercial, so it's arguably wrong for statutory damages to do away with such distinctions. IANAL, but that's my take.
No, I'd say it makes perfect sense. Word, for example, depends on being backwards compatible in order to maintain it's lock-in. In fact, that's about the ONLY thing keeping it these days--you can count on the next version of Word reading your old Word documents better than anything else. If not, why would you HAVE to buy the next version of Word? What else would be keeping you locked in? Or what if the next version of iTunes no longer processed the old DRM standard? You lock them in by creating a proprietary format, and then making sure you are the one vendor continues to support it (backwards compatibility).
And asking if humans and dinosaurs coexisted is an opinion question, not a question about science.
Uh... we clearly have very different definitions of what is and is not science.
Or, to put it another way, as far as I'm concerned in order to understand science, you have to understand that you can't pick and choose what parts of science you like because of your peculiar opinions. It's sorta, well, essential to the nature of science and all... The belief that dinosaurs and humans coexisted is strictly unscientific.
You seem to be confusing the word "use" with the word "distribute." These are different things. Or are you now going to try to argue that you're as criminally liable for using drugs as you are for selling them? Different activities, different laws apply. Sorry.
(For the criminally dense, GPL GRANTS the right under certain conditions to DISTRIBUTE goods. DRM RESTRICTS the right under certain conditions to USE goods. Notice the difference. Also, GPL is based on traditional copyright law, while DRM relies on the DMCA to grant it legal backing.)
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I think you and I must define "hugely positive" very differently.
That is incorrect. There was no charge.
The DMCA is a government regulation. A "free market" is a market that's free from government intervention, your quote specifically mentioning regulation. Did you even read what the GP wrote?
iPhone updates are also free. Even so, Apple stores are hardly vacant when a new hardware revision comes out.
I've used SSH/telnet clients on every smartphone out there on pretty much every carrier. Not sure what your point is with PuTTY... And I see no reason you wouldn't be able to make a VoIP application for Android, considering you don't need to go through the app store to upload programs onto and the SDK has everything you'd need to do to make that sort of program.
AC clearly has no idea what (s)he's talking about. Move along folks, nothing to see here.
Your argument is entirely ad hominem, while failing to address anything he said. You have no credibility either. As for the topic at hand, I have no opinion.
Standard library != Compiler
They have a very standards compliant compiler. It's true, ever since 2003 or so.
Your point? "To make bold or bolder; hearten; encourage." That is precisely what happened with respect to delaying their release date; an activity that is generally considered a "bold" move from the business standpoint. I'm not really sure what you're getting at. Makes perfect sense to me.
I would like to spend a couple minutes pissing in your coffee by pointing out that goats are not the same thing as sheep.
Apple begs to differ.
And this post, ladies and gentlemen, is what's so horribly wrong with our current political system. People who aren't voting for the person, but the party, deserve whatever they get.
This is ENGLAND we're talking about here. You honestly expected them to be on good terms with dental care?
You should really stop getting all your information from Fox News. I hate to break it to you, but they have a very tenuous relationship with reality, especially when it comes to portraying anybody who isn't a hardcore conservative.
It's really a chicken/egg problem as far as I'm aware. Diesel is much more heavily taxed because older diesel tech had its problems, but American diesel tech doesn't improve because diesel fuel is so heavily taxed that it wouldn't be popular.
At least that's how I understand it.
I REALLY wish I could get the new diesel Fiesta here in the United States. From everything I've heard, it's just an excellent car with insanely good gas mileage (better than a Prius). Too bad America hates diesel...
Just goes to so you, it's all a matter of taste.
Anathem was my favorite out of all his books.
Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't really care about this, but as far as I'm concerned using a proxy (at least intentionally) IS sophistication. This is just the legal system realizing that pre-existing rules can be sensibly applied to internet crime as far as I'm concerned.
I know this MAY be hard to believe, but (1) Muslims are NOT the only terrorists out there, (2) he never mentioned Muslims, (3) he seems to be saying they employed orthodox Jews not who the owner was, and (4) he said GENOCIDE, not "terrorism" (which he in fact did not mention once).
Let's not play the jump to conclusions game here...
Har har.
Not so much as all this nonsense about Aspergers being somehow requisite for apt technical skills is just annoying.
So no, that's not entirely true. STATUTORY damages are always the same, but I think that's precisely his complaint: COMPENSATORY damages, the kind of damages that we think of as being "fair" actually ARE different if the infringement is non-commercial, so it's arguably wrong for statutory damages to do away with such distinctions. IANAL, but that's my take.
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Sorry to be blunt, but this sounds like rubbish to me.
No, I'd say it makes perfect sense. Word, for example, depends on being backwards compatible in order to maintain it's lock-in. In fact, that's about the ONLY thing keeping it these days--you can count on the next version of Word reading your old Word documents better than anything else. If not, why would you HAVE to buy the next version of Word? What else would be keeping you locked in? Or what if the next version of iTunes no longer processed the old DRM standard? You lock them in by creating a proprietary format, and then making sure you are the one vendor continues to support it (backwards compatibility).
Point: N1AK
Uh... we clearly have very different definitions of what is and is not science.
Or, to put it another way, as far as I'm concerned in order to understand science, you have to understand that you can't pick and choose what parts of science you like because of your peculiar opinions. It's sorta, well, essential to the nature of science and all... The belief that dinosaurs and humans coexisted is strictly unscientific.
You seem to be confusing the word "use" with the word "distribute." These are different things. Or are you now going to try to argue that you're as criminally liable for using drugs as you are for selling them? Different activities, different laws apply. Sorry.
(For the criminally dense, GPL GRANTS the right under certain conditions to DISTRIBUTE goods. DRM RESTRICTS the right under certain conditions to USE goods. Notice the difference. Also, GPL is based on traditional copyright law, while DRM relies on the DMCA to grant it legal backing.)