Yep, you said it! I was afraid a moment that I should change distribution, but it seems it's okay to keep Ubuntu after all. (for those slashdoters who are still trying to figure it out, the second sentence was a satyr of the linux distros fanboyisme wich dictact to change distros every time something money related happen... )
Why? Sorry to piss off the java-haters here in/., but it's that way because it just works that damn well. End of story.
While Java sure work well... Sorry but it's not the best langage on any scale. Not the simplest, not the fastest either to write or execute...
Its APIs are of the best documented, maybe, and it have some nice IDE (Eclipse is quite popular, and is rather good, even if I have some few issue with it).
The real reason Java is so popular is that it's really really hard not to learn Java at some point in your programmer life. Hell, it replaced C++ as the default learning language in my school. I think I had lecture of Java in 90% of the possible platforms.
Fascism seems to be mostly a far right thing, but can occasionally be on the left of the political spectrum... The original Italian fascism promoted a corporatist economy. And it's not "a modern form" of communism, as it is far from modern and has nothing to do with "communism or not". It just happened that you can have both fascism and communism at the same time. If you're confused by the distinction, please don't write bullshit.
I don't know how they do it in Chrome but caps-lock isn't a requirement for that. It's just how it works with the proper keyboard layout on Linux and it doesn't work like that on Windows. (Or at least, I don't know how to configure it... It's annoying, really.)
And there is a Way to type capital é or à or whatever on android already, so I can just hope they think about it for chrome too.
You're still using trolling mode really, with all your aggressive adjectives and assertions. If you don't want to acknowledge it, fine, but some people will just dismay what you say because of the way you say it.
That said, I actually read what you wrote, and I mostly agree with you that those contracts you talk about are just incredibly bad. I'm just saying, the whole system is broken, and that's why middlemen can get away with this. I'm just pointing that there is more than just the "middlemen abuse of the system" problem. They're just a symptom of the whole thing, they only do it because they can. The copyright system is broken, but you'll not fix it just shooting the middlemen.
While your writing style is such of a troll/flamebait one, I agree with most of it.
But I think you should make a distinction when you talk about copyrights.
Copyright is literally, the right to copy, though in legal terms "the right to control copying" is more accurate.
(wikipedia)
This is a contract between the artist and whichever party is concerned. In most case, the middlemen are granted the right to copy the music, not the people. When an artist want to make money of is work, the easiest way is to grant those rights to the middlemen who have money to do the copy and distribution part. That is, the easiest if the middlemen think the art can earn him money. This is far from the best system to encourage diversity and culture development, but that's how it works.
Now while it can seems a fair way for an artist to make money from his work, in the current state of the laws in pretty much every country, this rights are completely unbalanced. The middlemen often control the copyrights in place of the artists and the artists and their family earn money for life for a year or two of work. I'm not against a man getting rich and all, but it's seems a little over rewarding for those lucky enough to appeal the masses. And I'm not talking about the lucky middlemen distributing those lucky artists arts. And the lucky family which have done nothing for the art, and keep the copyrights after the artist death... What the hell?
In fact, even if the copyright lasted a lone decade, it doesn't make sense to me. Just because it's recorded, the artists are paid several times for one performance. At least the middlemen do copy and distribute the arts and so work for every copy they sell, kind of... But why should they be allowed to have exclusivity over the copyrights? This is even less right. The whole art's business system is broken. It's not even fair with all art's forms, as it only work for recordable art.
Patents (like registered trademarks, and unlike copyright) are assumed enforcable unless proven otherwise.
Wouldn't prior art prove otherwise?
Assuming someone is sued and find the prior art, the patent would be nullified. But the patent exist until then, and is still dissuasive for someone to use the technology.
They have never been there for that and they never should be. Their are other good formats for that. PDFs are end products. Whether or not you find it useful or a good idea, their are such occasions when a document have no reason to be edited and their are no reason to permit it.
That said, I agree there are better formats for plenty of use of PDF, for e-books and stuffs... Just use the god damn format adapted to the situation. PDF isn't the one if you need editing. PDF is possibly the one if you want your document to be readable on pretty much any computer, you don't intent it to be edited and you want every one to see it with the same layout.
They probably already discovered FTL travel of some sort, conquered the entire universe and disappear into an other dimension or went extinct in the attempt.
Is the apply form is well filled? good... Does the patent make sense? whatever... Is there a chance to make money over it in a trial? Well, approving the patent doesn't cost me a nickel so I'll just do that.
This IS true whenever theyr is a finite number of 9s.
With Infinite number of 9s, this doesn't apply, because infinity isn't a really big number. Infinity isn't a number. You can't apply logic of numbers to that which isn't a number.
Your point is what bugged me with the summery "proof". But with the fraction, I don't see any hole in the demonstration.
Also 0.999... has an infinite number of decimals, so the difference between 1 and 0.999... could be write 1/infinity, which tend toward 0, except we're not speaking of limits here, so I might not really make sense at all.
You're paranoid speech is enough to get you moded down. You could at least wait for the moderator response to begin your rant, but no, it's better to have it tangle with your anti-piracy talk so that any negative moderation look like a pro-piracy conspiracy. At least to you. The fact remain that you shoot first. And you're not as cool as Han Solo.
Now, to respond to your anti-piracy speech, your equation 1 download = 1 lose for the PI owner is really oversimplified and to my limited understanding of the economy look completely wrong. And I'm not speeking for my church, as I didn't download anything copyrighted since several years. (Well, except for some manga stuff that I end up buying when they are edited in my country anyway.)
My conviction isn't build upon some personal conviction of what people do when they download illegally copyrighted content. Studies show all and the contrary on this subject. That, at least, is evidence to me that it's not as trivial as you put it.
On a side note, I wonder if it's normal that a PI owner earn money for thing they have done in a long past time and never touch it again since that time. I mean, a sculptor or a painter get paid just once for each of there work. Isn't it a bit unfair? I think the whole system of "artist remuneration" is broken anyway.
Well, it would be that open source is actually very good to the product and that a product opened that way have a fair chance of being a good product in the long run... Somehow I doubt it's what the MS guy want to say. I might be wrong since I don't know the context of the quote, but the context of the situation being MS not happy about Latin America going open source software rather than MS, it seems unlikely that he means Open Source he a way to save a crappy closed product and giving a chance at being better.
Also, if your code is obfuscated and undocumented, it's less likely to live very long, because nobody will want to help you with your shit. There can be some counter-examples, for software nobody else want to do anyway but are necessary, so somebody have to do something about it. Those somebody should be sanctified...
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Yep, you said it! I was afraid a moment that I should change distribution, but it seems it's okay to keep Ubuntu after all. (for those slashdoters who are still trying to figure it out, the second sentence was a satyr of the linux distros fanboyisme wich dictact to change distros every time something money related happen... )
Yeah yeah, whatever... If you're a real linux user, uninstall whatever distro you have et build it from scratch, with a butterfly....
Why? Sorry to piss off the java-haters here in /., but it's that way because it just works that damn well. End of story.
While Java sure work well... Sorry but it's not the best langage on any scale. Not the simplest, not the fastest either to write or execute...
Its APIs are of the best documented, maybe, and it have some nice IDE (Eclipse is quite popular, and is rather good, even if I have some few issue with it).
The real reason Java is so popular is that it's really really hard not to learn Java at some point in your programmer life. Hell, it replaced C++ as the default learning language in my school. I think I had lecture of Java in 90% of the possible platforms.
Nazism stand for National Socialism.
Fascism seems to be mostly a far right thing, but can occasionally be on the left of the political spectrum... The original Italian fascism promoted a corporatist economy. And it's not "a modern form" of communism, as it is far from modern and has nothing to do with "communism or not". It just happened that you can have both fascism and communism at the same time. If you're confused by the distinction, please don't write bullshit.
I don't know how they do it in Chrome but caps-lock isn't a requirement for that. It's just how it works with the proper keyboard layout on Linux and it doesn't work like that on Windows. (Or at least, I don't know how to configure it... It's annoying, really.)
And there is a Way to type capital é or à or whatever on android already, so I can just hope they think about it for chrome too.
It makes me thing of a guy... Duncan Idaho I think... Is there a blind sheep that see the future in some fancy desert somewhere already?
So if you combine plastic clone with sheep clone, you get...
Barbie Dollies? ...
I wonder why it's not on the market yet...
You're still using trolling mode really, with all your aggressive adjectives and assertions. If you don't want to acknowledge it, fine, but some people will just dismay what you say because of the way you say it.
That said, I actually read what you wrote, and I mostly agree with you that those contracts you talk about are just incredibly bad. I'm just saying, the whole system is broken, and that's why middlemen can get away with this. I'm just pointing that there is more than just the "middlemen abuse of the system" problem. They're just a symptom of the whole thing, they only do it because they can. The copyright system is broken, but you'll not fix it just shooting the middlemen.
While your writing style is such of a troll/flamebait one, I agree with most of it.
But I think you should make a distinction when you talk about copyrights.
Copyright is literally, the right to copy, though in legal terms "the right to control copying" is more accurate.
(wikipedia)
This is a contract between the artist and whichever party is concerned. In most case, the middlemen are granted the right to copy the music, not the people. When an artist want to make money of is work, the easiest way is to grant those rights to the middlemen who have money to do the copy and distribution part. That is, the easiest if the middlemen think the art can earn him money. This is far from the best system to encourage diversity and culture development, but that's how it works.
Now while it can seems a fair way for an artist to make money from his work, in the current state of the laws in pretty much every country, this rights are completely unbalanced. The middlemen often control the copyrights in place of the artists and the artists and their family earn money for life for a year or two of work. I'm not against a man getting rich and all, but it's seems a little over rewarding for those lucky enough to appeal the masses. And I'm not talking about the lucky middlemen distributing those lucky artists arts. And the lucky family which have done nothing for the art, and keep the copyrights after the artist death... What the hell?
In fact, even if the copyright lasted a lone decade, it doesn't make sense to me. Just because it's recorded, the artists are paid several times for one performance. At least the middlemen do copy and distribute the arts and so work for every copy they sell, kind of... But why should they be allowed to have exclusivity over the copyrights? This is even less right. The whole art's business system is broken. It's not even fair with all art's forms, as it only work for recordable art.
Patents (like registered trademarks, and unlike copyright) are assumed enforcable unless proven otherwise.
Wouldn't prior art prove otherwise?
Assuming someone is sued and find the prior art, the patent would be nullified. But the patent exist until then, and is still dissuasive for someone to use the technology.
He is dead. What's your reason for being a dick?
c) I want you to understand this :
You. Don't. Want. To. Edit. PDFs!
They have never been there for that and they never should be. Their are other good formats for that. PDFs are end products. Whether or not you find it useful or a good idea, their are such occasions when a document have no reason to be edited and their are no reason to permit it.
That said, I agree there are better formats for plenty of use of PDF, for e-books and stuffs... Just use the god damn format adapted to the situation. PDF isn't the one if you need editing. PDF is possibly the one if you want your document to be readable on pretty much any computer, you don't intent it to be edited and you want every one to see it with the same layout.
They probably already discovered FTL travel of some sort, conquered the entire universe and disappear into an other dimension or went extinct in the attempt.
Is it sarcasm or is it naiveness? Damn you! And you're AC, the most schizophrenic /.er! They're is no way to tell! I'm so confuse... Damn You AC!
It's somewhat easy to patent anything.
Is the apply form is well filled? good...
Does the patent make sense? whatever...
Is there a chance to make money over it in a trial? Well, approving the patent doesn't cost me a nickel so I'll just do that.
It's not yours! It's mine! I find the Certificate of Ownership in a box of cereal last week!
So you did read the entire GP message either, did you?
I guess you're lazy after all.
I know. But he asked why he should choose the other door and I couldn't help but reply without explaining the result.
This IS true whenever theyr is a finite number of 9s.
With Infinite number of 9s, this doesn't apply, because infinity isn't a really big number. Infinity isn't a number. You can't apply logic of numbers to that which isn't a number.
Because the one you pick has 1% chance to be the right door, and the one left has 99% chance being the right door...
Your point is what bugged me with the summery "proof". But with the fraction, I don't see any hole in the demonstration.
Also 0.999... has an infinite number of decimals, so the difference between 1 and 0.999... could be write 1/infinity, which tend toward 0, except we're not speaking of limits here, so I might not really make sense at all.
You sir, are an ugly Troll of your own.
You're paranoid speech is enough to get you moded down. You could at least wait for the moderator response to begin your rant, but no, it's better to have it tangle with your anti-piracy talk so that any negative moderation look like a pro-piracy conspiracy. At least to you.
The fact remain that you shoot first. And you're not as cool as Han Solo.
Now, to respond to your anti-piracy speech, your equation 1 download = 1 lose for the PI owner is really oversimplified and to my limited understanding of the economy look completely wrong. And I'm not speeking for my church, as I didn't download anything copyrighted since several years. (Well, except for some manga stuff that I end up buying when they are edited in my country anyway.)
My conviction isn't build upon some personal conviction of what people do when they download illegally copyrighted content. Studies show all and the contrary on this subject. That, at least, is evidence to me that it's not as trivial as you put it.
On a side note, I wonder if it's normal that a PI owner earn money for thing they have done in a long past time and never touch it again since that time. I mean, a sculptor or a painter get paid just once for each of there work. Isn't it a bit unfair? I think the whole system of "artist remuneration" is broken anyway.
Well, it would be that open source is actually very good to the product and that a product opened that way have a fair chance of being a good product in the long run... Somehow I doubt it's what the MS guy want to say. I might be wrong since I don't know the context of the quote, but the context of the situation being MS not happy about Latin America going open source software rather than MS, it seems unlikely that he means Open Source he a way to save a crappy closed product and giving a chance at being better.
Wait... does that means...
In Soviet Russia, source code opens you?
Also, if your code is obfuscated and undocumented, it's less likely to live very long, because nobody will want to help you with your shit. There can be some counter-examples, for software nobody else want to do anyway but are necessary, so somebody have to do something about it. Those somebody should be sanctified...