I think you should read carefully. He is not saying that you can't have an opinion about enjoying the movie. He is saying that you can't have a valid opinion about how a film compares, in the entire borad spectrum of films that have been made in the past 100 years or so.
That is assuming that nothing takes places between each call to func1(), func2() and func3(). If you have to execute something between them, then putting it in the boolean test makes things VERY ugly.
That country is not a cultural and linguistic "melting pot" like the US or UK, it is remarkably
homogenous for such a large country. The question really is, will the Chinese become like us, or will they
choose an isolationist policy?
Saying China is not a melting pot betrays exactly the kind of blind ignorance of Chinese history. China has had 5000 years of history. The written language was standardized for longer than English was chosen as the lingua franca. These are very good reason for the Chinese to be proud. But many are not. In fact, many are eagerly learning English! Think about that, and stop adopting the heads in sands approach, my American friend.
And don't forget, Chinese characters are available on computers at all
because Western corporations decided that they should be - we are being as accomodating as we possibly can!
This is ridiculous. When Taiwanese PC clone makers were manufacturing the models in the 1980s, I saw quite a few innovators come out to market their own Chinese enabled versions of the PC. These guys came from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore. Unfortunately, standards were fragmented and there was no consensus on input methods. Then MS came in the late 1980s, and 1990s and swept these all away. This was followed by the internet. The point is that Chinese enabled PCs did start, and would have followed a natural course of evolution and competition, with or without American MNCs. It may be argued that their presence, and the internet accelerated the adoption of standards!
If the Chinese want their own information infrastructure, they are free to create it for themselves - or
they can choose to use ours, which we are making available freely.
Yes, this will happen, as long as the Communist Government does nothing stupid like they did in the past like the Cultural Revolution.
Why is America always the bad guy in
cultural discussions?
Becuase of holier than thou attitudes like that. Drop it, and accept the current Chinese diaspora. Live with the times. This is the only way forwards.
The article points out an interesting insight. There is only a finite space on the desktop - that users can use visual clutter to estimate complexity. This is insightful. The harddisk, however, does not follow this metaphor. Thus, it is argued that by making everything into one thing, a whole sequence of desktops, discarding the tree-like multitudes of files in the harddisk, the user experience is simplified.
This idea sounds cool, but the argument is weak.
The whole point of the tree-like structure of the harddisk is managed-complexity. Hierarchial structures allow the user to ascend the descend the hierachy, performing operations that are similar in execution, but differing in context.
What happens when you have 1 million odd bits of stuff to manage? How would such a user switch between desktops, looking for the right window to do his stuff on?
You need some kind of tree, not a linear sequence of desktops! Say maybe one for administrative configuration. Let's call that etc. And one for executables, let's call that bin. And then how about some tmporary space to play around in. On wait...
What do you mean, he demostrated an action that broke US law?What did he demostrate? He GAVE A TALK. That TALK has, as a subject matter, how to crack ebook encryption. Is that a demostration?
By that peculiar logic, Hollywood should be jailed and locked up by DEMOSTRATING how to hijack airplanes. I would say that is more appropriate example of DEMOSTRATING, than giving a talk.
Say what you want about legality. The whole point is that this piece of legality is immoral, unconstitutional.
I, the Baron Rupert of the Southwest Barony, and most loyal subject of the Holy Emporer, hereby invite his royal Highness to journey to my Castle during this winter seaon. I humbly request that his Highness don for our subject's admiration and respect, his most exquisite Clothes, that we may feast our eyes upon it's granmdeur and marvel at the sovereign designs upon his royal gown and garb.
What the publisher of that letter, and the previous poster are asserting is that the user has no right to be dissatisfied, that if the product does not work to expectations, they shouldn't complain, but merely lower their expectations.
That depends on what those expectations are. If you expect integration on the level of MS Word, it may well be too diificult. But if the expectation is something that edits words on an GUI, has a clearly documented XML document format, has relatively few surprises and is customizable, and extensible, then I'll say Abiword already lives up to these so called low expectations! In constrast, MS Word can't even maintain 100% document compatibility between its own different versions. This I learnt from personal experience.
True, the playing field is not level. But why is the playing field not level? Is it becuase something that you cannot help, or is it becuase of something you can fix, but are too morally backrupt to do so?
Why is this wise, when is only 0.000000001 of his net worth? Considering the amount of germs, on that it's cheaper for him to blow his nose on a real piece of tissue.
And once the national key is compromised, all hell breaks loose.
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It weights 65 pounds - not too heavy, but quite hard to lug around. And theft is not a problem - it unlocks by the inserting a card key with 64 bit encryption. I imagine that this can be increased, if necessary.
Look at that hot chick over there... overloaded and burnt out my Visor. Damn!
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The First Ammendment issue is the *only* issue that matters here, and the court apparently blew it off. If simply linking to the code on another site is illegal, shouldn't they have been arresting those guys with the t-shirts?
Logic error. Insisting on people who wear DeCSS T-shirts should be arrested is confusing the expressive part of code with the functional part. It is clear that such an action is wrong. But the functional use of the code, coupled with dissemination with a view towards making the functional code available, by a bunch of HACKERS is unlawful. And once that goes, linking is also unlawful.
These are not my arguments, merely of the court upholding the appeal. IMHO, any argument based on a smear campaign is wrong.
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I think you've misunderstood the argument. In fact, the Court agrees that code is speech, and that code can have functional aspects. But they also considered that the functional aspect of DeCSS was to decrypt an otherwise encrypted movie, allowing for copyright violations, particularly if posting and linking such a tool to a website facilitates it. And so they made a judgement siding with Judge Kaplan and upheld the decision.
I am dissappointed. More attention should have been paid to the fact that DVD playing should not be a cartel. The distinction between copyright protection and copy protection should have been better argued. Then the courts would not have blithely ignored this point.
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Seriously, I think the judge did not consider the circumstances that merit the case. Either that or the EFF did not make a good case.
Firstly, SDMI invited the public to crack their watermarking scheme. They offered money as enticement, giving the crackers the option of giving up the prize money should they decide not to assent to their contract. Felten chose the second option. Having cracked it, he is thus free to do as he pleases, since he conducted the research under the auspices of the University. The RIAA threatens to sue. Felten withdraws his paper (this damages his professional reputation!), and then later publishes it having clarified that the RIAA does not intend to sue.
In other words, the picture reveals that the RIAA was selectively excersing their rights, using the law to chill research.
As a licensed user of Norton AntiVirus, I would like to know when you are coming out with the latest version of NAV that allows me to get rid of this stupid virus known as "Magic Lantern".
Please make the fix available as soon as possible, or there will be consequence - know what I mean?
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I think you should read carefully. He is not saying that you can't have an opinion about enjoying the movie. He is saying that you can't have a valid opinion about how a film compares, in the entire borad spectrum of films that have been made in the past 100 years or so.
That is assuming that nothing takes places between each call to func1(), func2() and func3(). If you have to execute something between them, then putting it in the boolean test makes things VERY ugly.
bad "sportsmanship".
Look here. The similarities are superficial. MS is the one that has been going around chanting "innovation", "innovation".
They came out with this basis of comparision FIRST.
"Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler."
This idea sounds cool, but the argument is weak.
The whole point of the tree-like structure of the harddisk is managed-complexity. Hierarchial structures allow the user to ascend the descend the hierachy, performing operations that are similar in execution, but differing in context.
What happens when you have 1 million odd bits of stuff to manage? How would such a user switch between desktops, looking for the right window to do his stuff on?
You need some kind of tree, not a linear sequence of desktops! Say maybe one for administrative configuration. Let's call that etc. And one for executables, let's call that bin. And then how about some tmporary space to play around in. On wait
There are different Britney Spears songs?
Sorry, my bad.
I have reason to believe that God believes in Free Software. In Genesis, he commands man to "go forth and milutpliy".
By that peculiar logic, Hollywood should be jailed and locked up by DEMOSTRATING how to hijack airplanes. I would say that is more appropriate example of DEMOSTRATING, than giving a talk.
Say what you want about legality. The whole point is that this piece of legality is immoral, unconstitutional.
I, the Baron Rupert of the Southwest Barony, and most loyal subject of the Holy Emporer, hereby invite his royal Highness to journey to my Castle during this winter seaon. I humbly request that his Highness don for our subject's admiration and respect, his most exquisite Clothes, that we may feast our eyes upon it's granmdeur and marvel at the sovereign designs upon his royal gown and garb.
That depends on what those expectations are. If you expect integration on the level of MS Word, it may well be too diificult. But if the expectation is something that edits words on an GUI, has a clearly documented XML document format, has relatively few surprises and is customizable, and extensible, then I'll say Abiword already lives up to these so called low expectations! In constrast, MS Word can't even maintain 100% document compatibility between its own different versions. This I learnt from personal experience.
True, the playing field is not level. But why is the playing field not level? Is it becuase something that you cannot help, or is it becuase of something you can fix, but are too morally backrupt to do so?
Why is this wise, when is only 0.000000001 of his net worth? Considering the amount of germs, on that it's cheaper for him to blow his nose on a real piece of tissue.
Beep, sorry for trying, but there ARE laws against phone solicitation. In the US, at least.
One law at a time, one law at a time.
And once the national key is compromised, all hell breaks loose.
It weights 65 pounds - not too heavy, but quite hard to lug around. And theft is not a problem - it unlocks by the inserting a card key with 64 bit encryption. I imagine that this can be increased, if necessary.
Look at that hot chick over there ... overloaded and burnt out my Visor. Damn!
Logic error. Insisting on people who wear DeCSS T-shirts should be arrested is confusing the expressive part of code with the functional part. It is clear that such an action is wrong. But the functional use of the code, coupled with dissemination with a view towards making the functional code available, by a bunch of HACKERS is unlawful. And once that goes, linking is also unlawful.
These are not my arguments, merely of the court upholding the appeal. IMHO, any argument based on a smear campaign is wrong.
I am dissappointed. More attention should have been paid to the fact that DVD playing should not be a cartel. The distinction between copyright protection and copy protection should have been better argued. Then the courts would not have blithely ignored this point.
Sigh.
I could not have said it better myself.
Firstly, SDMI invited the public to crack their watermarking scheme. They offered money as enticement, giving the crackers the option of giving up the prize money should they decide not to assent to their contract. Felten chose the second option. Having cracked it, he is thus free to do as he pleases, since he conducted the research under the auspices of the University. The RIAA threatens to sue. Felten withdraws his paper (this damages his professional reputation!), and then later publishes it having clarified that the RIAA does not intend to sue.
In other words, the picture reveals that the RIAA was selectively excersing their rights, using the law to chill research.
Don't be jealous. Unlike the bacteria, you (still) have free speech.
Please make the fix available as soon as possible, or there will be consequence - know what I mean?
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