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Copyright was invented to protect the commercial interests of authors/artists, but publishers/studios like those represented by RIAA are now the only ones being protected. We are all familiar with the difficulty that artists, musicians, performers, and authors have in getting published, maintaining legal and editorial control of their works, and getting adequately compensated.
Further, the "art" we do end up with *must* have commercial value to be distributed to the masses -- which is why we are subjected to vapid "entertainment" instead of art. How much real art has been ignored, or never performed, because commercial interests would not be served? How much garbage has been disseminated because commercial interests are being served?
Developers created the idea of Free Software because they wanted to perform good work, and were willing to forgo possible monetary gain to do so. RMS et al recognized that Bill Gates is a fluke, and that we shouldn't punish ourselves by allowing proprietary software to make us unproductive developers, in hopes that we would someday hit the lottery.
Artists need to make the same leap. Do you all *really* want to be the next Stephen King, or Jean-Claude Van Damme, or Milli Vanilli? Or are you interested in doing something meaningful?
For artists or developers, the lesson is the same: give up the dreams of mega-bucks, and do what makes you happy, and all the rest of us richer.
Put your works on the net. Make it clear that anyone can distribute them. Also make it clear that your authorship must be recognized, and no others can claim copyright. Your work will be enjoyed, and will be experienced by many more people than any studio or publisher could ever offer. That's what you really want.
From the following comments on NASA's mission site, it sounds like the gyros are just too new and different:
"Why aren't the gyros working?
The Hubble team believes they understand the cause of the failures, although they cannot be certain until the gyros are returned from space and taken apart. Based on nearly one and a half years of intensive chemical, mechanical and electrical investigations, the team believes that the thin wires are being corroded by the fluid in which they are immersed and ultimately this corrosion causes them to break. The fluid is very thick (about the thickness of 10W-30 motor oil), and in order to force this fluid into its float cavity, pressured air was used. The team believes that eventually, oxygen in the air interacted with the fluid to create a small amount of corrosive material and the wires were partially eaten away. Sometimes the wires were strong enough to carry electricity and some-times they were not and they broke. Pressurized nitrogen is now used instead of pressurized air. Using pressurized nitrogen eliminates the introduction of oxygen into this fluid."
Sounds like a much more forgivable error than confusing pounds with Newtons:-)
Most of the solar approaches you propose are actually inefficient complications. Solar cell technology is making inroads in efficiency, cost, durability, etc.
The FAQ for alt.solar.photovoltaics: http://www.means.net/~mschwarz/solar-faq.html
maintained by a good friend of mine, does some practical number crunching, and has good links to suppliers and advocacy groups. I'm waiting for the solar shingles! ---
While clearly the prof was trying to show that free speech via technology can combat oppression, the question has a few more folds. Note that: 1) It is by no means certain that this gift from above will save the child, and 2) There is no doubt that this gift from above could not have come about any other way -- the peasants would not only have not had the technology, they would not have had the freedom necessary to refine it to that point. The lesson? If we do not understand, embrace, and protect our freedoms, and demand that our technologies be used to enhance freedom rather than quash it (remember, the reason that no one's dropping food or arms in that farmer's field is that the government is developing nuclear weapons), we could find ourselves in the same situation as that farmer, and with no means of escape.
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Copyright was invented to protect the commercial interests of authors/artists, but publishers/studios like those represented by RIAA are now the only ones being protected. We are all familiar with the difficulty that artists, musicians, performers, and authors have in getting published, maintaining legal and editorial control of their works, and getting adequately compensated.
Further, the "art" we do end up with *must* have commercial value to be distributed to the masses -- which is why we are subjected to vapid "entertainment" instead of art. How much real art has been ignored, or never performed, because commercial interests would not be served? How much garbage has been disseminated because commercial interests are being served?
Developers created the idea of Free Software because they wanted to perform good work, and were willing to forgo possible monetary gain to do so. RMS et al recognized that Bill Gates is a fluke, and that we shouldn't punish ourselves by allowing proprietary software to make us unproductive developers, in hopes that we would someday hit the lottery.
Artists need to make the same leap. Do you all *really* want to be the next Stephen King, or Jean-Claude Van Damme, or Milli Vanilli? Or are you interested in doing something meaningful?
For artists or developers, the lesson is the same: give up the dreams of mega-bucks, and do what makes you happy, and all the rest of us richer.
Put your works on the net. Make it clear that anyone can distribute them. Also make it clear that your authorship must be recognized, and no others can claim copyright. Your work will be enjoyed, and will be experienced by many more people than any studio or publisher could ever offer. That's what you really want.
Did he have that "just got fucked for cash" glow about him?
From the following comments on NASA's mission site, it sounds like the gyros are just too new and different:
:-)
"Why aren't the gyros working?
The Hubble team believes they understand the cause of the failures, although they cannot be certain until the gyros are returned from space and taken apart. Based on nearly one and a half years of intensive chemical, mechanical and electrical investigations, the team believes that the thin wires are being corroded by the fluid in which they are immersed and ultimately this corrosion causes them to break. The fluid is very thick (about the thickness of 10W-30 motor oil), and in order to force this fluid into its float cavity, pressured air was used. The team believes that eventually, oxygen in the air interacted with the fluid to create a small amount of corrosive material and the wires were partially eaten away. Sometimes the wires were strong enough to carry electricity and some-times they were not and they broke. Pressurized nitrogen is now used instead of pressurized air. Using pressurized nitrogen eliminates the introduction of oxygen into this fluid."
Sounds like a much more forgivable error than confusing pounds with Newtons
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Most of the solar approaches you propose are actually inefficient complications. Solar cell technology is making inroads in efficiency, cost, durability, etc.
The FAQ for alt.solar.photovoltaics: http://www.means.net/~mschwarz/solar-faq.html
maintained by a good friend of mine, does some practical number crunching, and has good links to suppliers and advocacy groups. I'm waiting for the solar shingles!
---
While clearly the prof was trying to show that free speech via technology can combat oppression, the question has a few more folds. Note that: 1) It is by no means certain that this gift from above will save the child, and 2) There is no doubt that this gift from above could not have come about any other way -- the peasants would not only have not had the technology, they would not have had the freedom necessary to refine it to that point. The lesson? If we do not understand, embrace, and protect our freedoms, and demand that our technologies be used to enhance freedom rather than quash it (remember, the reason that no one's dropping food or arms in that farmer's field is that the government is developing nuclear weapons), we could find ourselves in the same situation as that farmer, and with no means of escape.