The market on it's own would decide that a printed book had the value of the lowest price anyone is willing to sell it for (which is likely to be the cost of production/distribution) an eBook essentially cost nothing and so the market would decide that it's value is almost nothing as well, only IP makes it any value at all, IP is a fiction that is separate from market forces, it restricts the market by forcing a value on something that the market considers has no value
Americans did none of the above, it was all done before the USA was "discovered" or done elsewhere...... and who says that these (besides healthcare) are a great advantage anyway... go and ask all those office workers who long for the simple life
The native Americans were not poor, like most native people they had no concept of money or individual land ownership, but had all they needed so were not poor, they had plentiful food, clean water, shelter and all they needed, the only thing that we have given them that they needed was better healthcare....(most of which now cures ailments they could not have got without us...)
"Those evil laws are the same laws that keep me from taking GIMP, making a few changes, closing the source, slapping DRM on it, changing the name to Uber PhotoMax 6000, and selling it at Best Buy for $85 a copy."
So you don't understand the GPL? You can do all that now (except close the source) legally, oh and closing the source will not make you any money so why bother....
The GPL exits because copyright law exists, if copyright law did not exist the GPL would not be required....
The Outer Space Treaty (which the US has signed) states, "outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means"
Since no state can claim ownership then the property laws of that state do not apply, so any claims of private ownership under those property laws do not apply? Only international property laws can apply...?
- For most installers the answer will be "Yes".
If they don't register themselves (and probably a file extension) they are not proper windows apps - and access to those parts of the registry needs admin privs...
- For many programs (say office/notepad/firefox/cmd.exe) the answer will be "No" I agree... Once installed
- For the same programs, the answer could sometimes be "Yes" (cmd.exe, firefox to install a plugin, etc.)
No, Cmd never needs admin privs - sometimes the programs it runs need admin privs? Your milage may vary with Powershell?
Why would a Firefox plugin need admin privs? a browser does not need any access to the PC, and neither should any of it's plugins?
It should be the difference between a user app and a service
An app should never need admin privs not even for install A service should require admin priv for install and sometimes (pre-requested) limited admin privs for certrian operations Apps should ask services/drivers to do things they cannot do...
Because The original Star wars trilogy were some of the most watchable movies ever (note not the best) and the prequels were constantly compared to them and were not as good.... but compared with the rubbish touted by the studios nowadays they were still very watchable...
Users should be prevented from installing programs blindly - Full stop
Users should be informed the program is trying to run as an admin and so has been killed
Users should ask to install a program, be asked for admin password to continue and then go ahead without repeated warnings....!
Asking for permission to do something means the program was not installed properly (when installed it should request all permissions it will need), or should not be doing it
Windows Vista does all the wrong things
Prompts for permission on both installed and uninstalled programs repeatedly
treats an install the same as running a program
Linux/OSX are not perfect but seem to have got the balance more correct (mainly due to a legacy of doing the right thing and so not having to support user programs that assume full admin rights)
So they are their own customer and so it short circuits and the only other customer they have is the regulator who insists they make good programmes
If the programmes are crap then how can they regularly sell them across the world and why do people pay good money for them?
Eastenders is popular not public service Home makeovers are "filler" not public service
The BBC is the world's largest broadcasting corporation and has 20+ TV channels (Not including joint ventures), 16 national radio stations + regional stations
The BBC website is 33rd most popular in the world
It also runs the BBC World Service that broadcasts to an estimated 163 million listeners worldwide in 33 languages... public service enough for you...
One board is for Polygraph aficionados... who believe that Polygraphs can be used to detect lies (which has been repeated demonstrated they can't) the other is for people who might or might not believe that?
So one board is for a much larger group of people (Everyone) so has more posts...Amazing!
So when you compare the Linux Kernel (code honed by multiple people over a long period) The Solaris Kernel (ditto) and the Microsoft published Kernel (ditto) all of which *have* to work properly and be extremely reliable, and have to be easily modified by multiple people and so have to be easy to read and understand...... surprise surprise they are of similar style and "quality"
In other news: salt tastes salty ?
What about application software? Drivers? (oh sorry you can't compare because Microsoft won't publish theirs...)
Photoshop - could be ported to any operating system and be exactly the same, it happens to have been written for windows, but does not rely on it...?
Outlook is the front end to Exchange, take away exchange and it is a poor email client with a few extra features and a lot of broken ones, Outlook/Exchange as a combination is a fairly nice corporate messaging system, that happens to to email as one of it's functions... but if you have ever actually managed an exchange server you will know how badly written it is...and if you have ever had to explain to an outlook/exchange user that, no the user you sent the meeting request to did not see the request because they are outside the exchange system/are running another client/etc... you know how brittle it is...
The point about the Museum is not the build but what is there and who is there...
There is a lot of exhibits and a reconstruction of Colossus (arguably the world first electronic computer) and more importantly some of the people who worked there, and a lot of people who know their stuff.. moving the exhibits somewhere else would save them but you would lose the people and you would lose the sense of place, there is a lot in the statement "and it happened right here"
The problem with your answer is that the bookstore only has "popular" titles......Amazon had many more, but so many you are swamped...at a book club he would get lots of "if you liked that then try this..." recommendations from people who actually read the books...
During Prohibition era in the USA it is estimated that *more* alcohol was sold than before or after...because most people thought the ban was stupid and so flouted the law?
In the UK some criminals have guns (but they do everywhere) but a lot don't... and most people don't... because they are illegal, and people (mostly) agree?
The USA and Switzerland have the highest proportion of Gun ownership and the highest deathtoll by gunfire...? Guns are dangerous and so are controlled (and most people agree they should be restrictions of some kind), Copyrighted content is not dangerous and so should not be forcibly restricted (and most people agree)....
The Repositories are graded the ones that someone has checked and verified to work and are being maintained by someone at the top and the ones that are moribund or contain unmaintainable code at the bottom, so there are supported and maintained drivers....
You can install other software, but why bother I have a choice of several variants of every type of package why download and install one that :
Will be more difficult to install
Will not be auto-updated
Will not be easy to uninstall
Might not work properly....
If Guns are freely available then all criminals have them, if they are illegal then only a few have them (the ones who would have them anyway)?
If content is freely available but copywrited then most people think twice before copying If it is DRMed then the people who would copy it before still try to copy it (and mostly succeed)
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So sell your photographs ... once, get paid, and the person you sold to gets the right to do what they like with them (usually publish them)
....
.... why?
Why should you sell them and still own the right to them?
This is the problem with IP
You take a photo, sell it to me but I have to pay you to copy it, publish it, sell it on, and the people I sell it to have to pay you as well
The market on it's own would decide that a printed book had the value of the lowest price anyone is willing to sell it for (which is likely to be the cost of production/distribution) an eBook essentially cost nothing and so the market would decide that it's value is almost nothing as well, only IP makes it any value at all, IP is a fiction that is separate from market forces, it restricts the market by forcing a value on something that the market considers has no value
Americans did none of the above, it was all done before the USA was "discovered" or done elsewhere... ... and who says that these (besides healthcare) are a great advantage anyway ... go and ask all those office workers who long for the simple life
The native Americans were not poor, like most native people they had no concept of money or individual land ownership, but had all they needed so were not poor, they had plentiful food, clean water, shelter and all they needed, the only thing that we have given them that they needed was better healthcare....(most of which now cures ailments they could not have got without us...)
"Those evil laws are the same laws that keep me from taking GIMP, making a few changes, closing the source, slapping DRM on it, changing the name to Uber PhotoMax 6000, and selling it at Best Buy for $85 a copy."
So you don't understand the GPL? You can do all that now (except close the source) legally, oh and closing the source will not make you any money so why bother....
The GPL exits because copyright law exists, if copyright law did not exist the GPL would not be required....
Unfortunately he is using US property law to claim the moon and since the US does not own the moon (under the Space treaty) US law does not apply ....
...
Nice piece if paper you have there
The Outer Space Treaty (which the US has signed) states, "outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means"
...?
Since no state can claim ownership then the property laws of that state do not apply, so any claims of private ownership under those property laws do not apply? Only international property laws can apply
- For most installers the answer will be "Yes".
... Once installed
...
If they don't register themselves (and probably a file extension) they are not proper windows apps - and access to those parts of the registry needs admin privs...
- For many programs (say office/notepad/firefox/cmd.exe) the answer will be "No"
I agree
- For the same programs, the answer could sometimes be "Yes" (cmd.exe, firefox to install a plugin, etc.)
No, Cmd never needs admin privs - sometimes the programs it runs need admin privs? Your milage may vary with Powershell?
Why would a Firefox plugin need admin privs? a browser does not need any access to the PC, and neither should any of it's plugins?
It should be the difference between a user app and a service
An app should never need admin privs not even for install
A service should require admin priv for install and sometimes (pre-requested) limited admin privs for certrian operations
Apps should ask services/drivers to do things they cannot do
So
.... ... or they could just go outside and breathe some diesel fumes?
* If they are one particular kind of nanotube
* and they are not highly charged (their normal state)
* and they are made airbourne (which they normally arn't)
* and someone breathes this in (unlikely in many applications)
then they may have an increased possibility of lung cancer
Because The original Star wars trilogy were some of the most watchable movies ever (note not the best) and the prequels were constantly compared to them and were not as good.... but compared with the rubbish touted by the studios nowadays they were still very watchable ...
Don't say it loudly and publicly (or write it on a placard) in London .. or anywhere else... it would get you arrested in most countries ...
They don't work in a Windows console/DOS box either...
Users should be prevented from installing programs blindly - Full stop
....!
Users should be informed the program is trying to run as an admin and so has been killed
Users should ask to install a program, be asked for admin password to continue and then go ahead without repeated warnings
Asking for permission to do something means the program was not installed properly (when installed it should request all permissions it will need), or should not be doing it
Windows Vista does all the wrong things
Prompts for permission on both installed and uninstalled programs repeatedly
treats an install the same as running a program
Linux/OSX are not perfect but seem to have got the balance more correct (mainly due to a legacy of doing the right thing and so not having to support user programs that assume full admin rights)
So they are their own customer and so it short circuits and the only other customer they have is the regulator who insists they make good programmes
... public service enough for you ...
If the programmes are crap then how can they regularly sell them across the world and why do people pay good money for them?
Eastenders is popular not public service
Home makeovers are "filler" not public service
The BBC is the world's largest broadcasting corporation and has 20+ TV channels (Not including joint ventures), 16 national radio stations + regional stations
The BBC website is 33rd most popular in the world
It also runs the BBC World Service that broadcasts to an estimated 163 million listeners worldwide in 33 languages
One board is for Polygraph aficionados ... who believe that Polygraphs can be used to detect lies (which has been repeated demonstrated they can't) the other is for people who might or might not believe that?
...Amazing!
So one board is for a much larger group of people (Everyone) so has more posts
So when you compare the Linux Kernel (code honed by multiple people over a long period) The Solaris Kernel (ditto) and the Microsoft published Kernel (ditto) all of which *have* to work properly and be extremely reliable, and have to be easily modified by multiple people and so have to be easy to read and understand...... surprise surprise they are of similar style and "quality"
...)
In other news: salt tastes salty ?
What about application software? Drivers? (oh sorry you can't compare because Microsoft won't publish theirs
Photoshop - could be ported to any operating system and be exactly the same, it happens to have been written for windows, but does not rely on it ...?
...and if you have ever had to explain to an outlook/exchange user that, no the user you sent the meeting request to did not see the request because they are outside the exchange system/are running another client/etc ... you know how brittle it is ...
Outlook is the front end to Exchange, take away exchange and it is a poor email client with a few extra features and a lot of broken ones, Outlook/Exchange as a combination is a fairly nice corporate messaging system, that happens to to email as one of it's functions... but if you have ever actually managed an exchange server you will know how badly written it is
The point about the Museum is not the build but what is there and who is there ...
.. moving the exhibits somewhere else would save them but you would lose the people and you would lose the sense of place, there is a lot in the statement "and it happened right here"
There is a lot of exhibits and a reconstruction of Colossus (arguably the world first electronic computer) and more importantly some of the people who worked there, and a lot of people who know their stuff
So when are you pulling the White house down ... we know what happened there it's very well documented?
The problem with your answer is that the bookstore only has "popular" titles ... ...Amazon had many more, but so many you are swamped ...at a book club he would get lots of "if you liked that then try this ..." recommendations from people who actually read the books ...
Prohibition (Alcohol) is a good analogy ...
... because they are illegal, and people (mostly) agree?
During Prohibition era in the USA it is estimated that *more* alcohol was sold than before or after...because most people thought the ban was stupid and so flouted the law?
In the UK some criminals have guns (but they do everywhere) but a lot don't... and most people don't
The USA and Switzerland have the highest proportion of Gun ownership and the highest deathtoll by gunfire...? Guns are dangerous and so are controlled (and most people agree they should be restrictions of some kind), Copyrighted content is not dangerous and so should not be forcibly restricted (and most people agree)....
But which shell .....???
Bash
Ash
Zsh
Csh
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The Repositories are graded the ones that someone has checked and verified to work and are being maintained by someone at the top and the ones that are moribund or contain unmaintainable code at the bottom, so there are supported and maintained drivers....
....
You can install other software, but why bother I have a choice of several variants of every type of package why download and install one that :
Will be more difficult to install
Will not be auto-updated
Will not be easy to uninstall
Might not work properly
I can't *own* an illegal copy ....?
The analogy is not a good one...
If Guns are freely available then all criminals have them, if they are illegal then only a few have them (the ones who would have them anyway)?
If content is freely available but copywrited then most people think twice before copying
If it is DRMed then the people who would copy it before still try to copy it (and mostly succeed)
Because Microsoft do not write drivers, do not take any responsibility for them and only redistribute the ones they build onto the distribution CD
...
the repositories contain everything because they have to - they are theoretically the only place you can install from
The difference between a cult and a religion is that cults have to keep their texts secret religions just keep them private ....
... i.e. it is private but not secret
See: Freedom fighters and Terrorists
As some one above said the text is freely available but only to members