First, old story, old argument. Apple will never fully open source its products and will fight to keep them closed. It's who they are, and when I use my Apple MacBook I appreciate OS X all the more when I boot back into it from Ubuntu. OS X just works because of Apple's tight integration of software and hardware. As long as my Touch works, why would I load Android and fight to get the features that I already have? For a hobby? Apple isn't selling millions of iPods to hobbyists, they're selling them to those who want their product to just work.
Second, since it's been brought up, does the thought of a Windows based OS in your car frighten anybody else as much as it does me? I mean, I've been forced to re-boot million-dollar servers during high-load times due to to Window's bugs, I don't want to have to re-boot my car on the fraking highway...
IANAL but it seems that you can say anything about anyone in a court of law and have it be outside the normal rules of slander. I think that's why there's a growing movement against harassment-by-the-court; it's been a venue where you can slander someone with impunity for far too long. Also, does the RIAA think that they're doing themselves a favor by suing people like this? If these court cases are really a PR stunt to get people afraid of copyright violations (deterrence being the main point of most laws, right?) then you'd think that they'd vet their cases a little bit more so that they don't look like such schmucks. Of course, maybe their strategy is to scare people by saying, "look, we'll even sue the terminally ill if they cross us!"
Oddly enough, I stopped subscribing to a dead-tree newspaper when I realized that, on balance, there was no real news, and certainly no real analysis left in the paper. So, there's no money in not printing the news either. I wonder when editors will wake up to that fact? Or maybe the just don't mind running tabloids...
Rape of person is far more immediate and obviously devastating to the person and family. Rape of a planet (eg. use of combustion engines for the pure pleasure of it) may be much slower, but it's more devastating in the long run, far more insidious... So, yeah, I guess I shouldn't equate the relative nothing of one person's being assaulted with the complete and utter devastation of an entire biosphere.
If people start to realize that they are not the center and sole purpose of the universe, that we're here only as part of a larger continuum, then we might make changes. In the meantime, enjoy opiating yourself with your cruel toys.
I'm sure that some people find rape fun too... it's a shame for them that the rest of us decided that their fun wasn't worth the personal and social harm that it causes. Get it?
Do you really believe that the U.S. Government would cut benefits to the baby boomers? Or that they'd raise taxes for SS to crippling levels? What kool aid have you been drinking? They'll deficit spend until we collapse... just like for Iraq.
this is the best news I've ever heard to prevent police corruption and increase productivity
Huh? Is my sarcasm meter blinking out? You are joking, right? Is someone going to review all this video? If it's not open to the public (who would watch it- distributed computing through voyeurism) who watches the video to make sure the cops really are doing their job,"increasing productivity", etc? I won't use a car analogy here since we're actually talking about something car related. But $1M isn't cost savings when you pay in taxes rather than in ISP fees, and hiring more and more levels of security to watch people is not real security, nor efficient. If society has really reached the point where everyone has to be watched and no one can be trusted, then is that society worth saving, or is it just another failed experiment to be tossed into history's dust bin?
Hear hear! Years ago I was in an hourly position where I worked 2nd shift and shared the workstation with a 1st shift operator. The 1st shift person would often stay 15-25 minutes late (billing OT) which forced me to stand around. Whenever my co-worker would apologize for eating into my time, I'd reply "no problem, I'm getting paid". Any time my supervisor asked why I wasn't logged in yet, I'd point to the occupied work station and then ask if he wanted to re-negotiate my start time. I always got paid for any time I was at work; it's the company's problem if the equipment they required me to use is not ready to be used, I showed up at the agreed upon time and I was ready to work.
Nothing. Kind of like I don't report speeders on the highway every time I see them; and the speeders might actually hurt someone.
On a sort of related note, it was when I took my niece to see Superman back in '06 that I found out about pirating movies. I'd never though of it before, but upon hearing the total for two tickets (one child), two drinks and a popcorn, I was looking downward to cool myself off from the register-rage (the close-cousin of sticker-shock) that was welling up when I noticed a label on the counter that told me not to download movies. I vividly remember saying to myself, "You can do that? Why are we here then?" Now, I won't download that crap, but really, why would someone pay when they get ripped off at the theaters and could just watch the movie on their great big television at home that the corporations convinced them that they needed?
But sometimes the execs are so stupid that they don't know what's going on in front of their faces. Watch "My Own Worst Enemy". Then really watch it for subtext and the meta-critical statements which expose what the writers are getting at. On the surface it's a flashy James Bond meets Desperate Housewives mash-up. Look a little deeper and you'll find wonderful material. Sure, it's the exception that proves the rule, but it's a great exception.
It may not take a sharp mind to see how that could be abused, but it apparently does take an AC post to point out that you're not quite as sharp as you seem to think you are.;) I won't belabor the AC's response to your post (too much), but will say that no matter how artistic and wonderful some might find Steamboat Willie, it does not now, nor did it ever deserve the benefit of federal copyright protection under the constitution. NO work of fiction does. If we feel that such works should get some amount of limited protection, then let's make a constitutional amendment to such effect. I'd love to see "Anathem", which I'm currently reading, get protection for 5 or ten years, with movie rights etc. retained by Mr. Stephenson under some new system. However, while it's very entertaining, it does not deserve protection under the federal government's copyright system as it does not promote "the Progress of Science and the useful Arts" in any tangible way.
You sir do not go far enough. The constitution of the U.S. calls for copyright "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." First, while it's debatable, I, like you, believe that "limited times" should not be even close to the lifetime of the author, or even more than 7 years (at least for non-commercial uses). Second, how the heck does Steamboat Willy promote "the Progress of Science and useful Arts"? How does Britney Spears promote it? They don't, and should never have been granted copyright in the first place. If we had sensible copyright then we might have the resources left over to protect the material that really does need to be protected; instead we're left with a system that raids DVD factories in Indonesia for pirating _Don't Mess With the Zohan_ while ignoring copyright infringement on products imported to the U.S. from overseas which violate truly useful copyrights such as those for ICs and full product design.
Umm, the "costs" of the RIAA's campaign isn't incurred by magical fairies that eat money and shit subpoenas. The cost of these lawsuits goes to the lawyers, the investigators, the project managers, and to the executives who can point to their projects and show how much money they are bringing in "protecting" their clients. If the RIAA isn't passing on the money, that means that all the money does go to its executives and personnel.
Having lived on the East Coast for most of my life, I interpreted the list as being "Middle-America", the Red-State non-elite underclass that tends to be all about "law and order" and most definitely NOT about standing up for the law as written such as an "elitist" institution like Harvard would. In other words, the low-hanging fruit at which the *AA hoped to set precedents which they could use to go after the big guns on the coasts.
No. This is the equivalent of those people who paid money for those empty plastic boxes with a button on them which promise to "activate" the "sensors" that they were told make lights turn green for cop cars and ambulances at intersections (ob car analogy: check). People looking to get ahead without work rarely seem to do enough research (a form of work) to find out if the scammers they are hiring actually do anything at all, let alone if they are a value. I consider victims of scams like this as just having had an expensive lesson, which they needed, to teach them that it's cheaper to work hard and to get ahead honestly. Crooks scamming crooks should still be prosecuted, but we don't have to sympathize with the victim in this case; just be thankful that it was the dishonest schmucks who got burned by these SEO crooks, acting as our lightning rods, and not honest people who got scammed.
Am I mistaken, or are you really trying to say that you like Daylight Savings Time (more hours of daylight in the evening) and dislike Standard Time (when the clocks move back to standard in the fall)?
It's called "Mein Kampf" AKA "My Struggle". Read it before commenting on it please. It's rambling, anti-semitic, and hardly organized enough to be considered a ""blueprint"" for the Holocaust. It's rabble rousing at its most basic, kind of like the McCain/Palin rallies turned into by the end of the campaign. That kind of thing is dangerous because eventually the nut-jobs in the audience eventually want to do something about all the hate that's encouraged.
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First, old story, old argument. Apple will never fully open source its products and will fight to keep them closed. It's who they are, and when I use my Apple MacBook I appreciate OS X all the more when I boot back into it from Ubuntu. OS X just works because of Apple's tight integration of software and hardware. As long as my Touch works, why would I load Android and fight to get the features that I already have? For a hobby? Apple isn't selling millions of iPods to hobbyists, they're selling them to those who want their product to just work.
Second, since it's been brought up, does the thought of a Windows based OS in your car frighten anybody else as much as it does me? I mean, I've been forced to re-boot million-dollar servers during high-load times due to to Window's bugs, I don't want to have to re-boot my car on the fraking highway...
IANAL but it seems that you can say anything about anyone in a court of law and have it be outside the normal rules of slander. I think that's why there's a growing movement against harassment-by-the-court; it's been a venue where you can slander someone with impunity for far too long. Also, does the RIAA think that they're doing themselves a favor by suing people like this? If these court cases are really a PR stunt to get people afraid of copyright violations (deterrence being the main point of most laws, right?) then you'd think that they'd vet their cases a little bit more so that they don't look like such schmucks. Of course, maybe their strategy is to scare people by saying, "look, we'll even sue the terminally ill if they cross us!"
Oddly enough, I stopped subscribing to a dead-tree newspaper when I realized that, on balance, there was no real news, and certainly no real analysis left in the paper. So, there's no money in not printing the news either. I wonder when editors will wake up to that fact? Or maybe the just don't mind running tabloids...
Read GP's subject line. It's just like cell phone companies.
So, both with Cell phones and with cloud resources, heck with life in general, it's best to plan ahead? Who'd a thunk it? ~
Rape of person is far more immediate and obviously devastating to the person and family. Rape of a planet (eg. use of combustion engines for the pure pleasure of it) may be much slower, but it's more devastating in the long run, far more insidious... So, yeah, I guess I shouldn't equate the relative nothing of one person's being assaulted with the complete and utter devastation of an entire biosphere.
If people start to realize that they are not the center and sole purpose of the universe, that we're here only as part of a larger continuum, then we might make changes. In the meantime, enjoy opiating yourself with your cruel toys.
I'm sure that some people find rape fun too... it's a shame for them that the rest of us decided that their fun wasn't worth the personal and social harm that it causes. Get it?
Do you really believe that the U.S. Government would cut benefits to the baby boomers? Or that they'd raise taxes for SS to crippling levels? What kool aid have you been drinking? They'll deficit spend until we collapse... just like for Iraq.
Let me be the first to say, "whooosh!".
Huh? Is my sarcasm meter blinking out? You are joking, right? Is someone going to review all this video? If it's not open to the public (who would watch it- distributed computing through voyeurism) who watches the video to make sure the cops really are doing their job,"increasing productivity", etc? I won't use a car analogy here since we're actually talking about something car related. But $1M isn't cost savings when you pay in taxes rather than in ISP fees, and hiring more and more levels of security to watch people is not real security, nor efficient. If society has really reached the point where everyone has to be watched and no one can be trusted, then is that society worth saving, or is it just another failed experiment to be tossed into history's dust bin?
Oh, just logistics... I feel much better now. ;)
Hear hear! Years ago I was in an hourly position where I worked 2nd shift and shared the workstation with a 1st shift operator. The 1st shift person would often stay 15-25 minutes late (billing OT) which forced me to stand around. Whenever my co-worker would apologize for eating into my time, I'd reply "no problem, I'm getting paid". Any time my supervisor asked why I wasn't logged in yet, I'd point to the occupied work station and then ask if he wanted to re-negotiate my start time. I always got paid for any time I was at work; it's the company's problem if the equipment they required me to use is not ready to be used, I showed up at the agreed upon time and I was ready to work.
I'll support your grammar nazi ways as soon as you re-post your notice in proper Danish (the poster's mother tongue). Really, I'll support you then.
You can ignore physics all you want, rest assured that it won't forget you.
Nothing. Kind of like I don't report speeders on the highway every time I see them; and the speeders might actually hurt someone.
On a sort of related note, it was when I took my niece to see Superman back in '06 that I found out about pirating movies. I'd never though of it before, but upon hearing the total for two tickets (one child), two drinks and a popcorn, I was looking downward to cool myself off from the register-rage (the close-cousin of sticker-shock) that was welling up when I noticed a label on the counter that told me not to download movies. I vividly remember saying to myself, "You can do that? Why are we here then?" Now, I won't download that crap, but really, why would someone pay when they get ripped off at the theaters and could just watch the movie on their great big television at home that the corporations convinced them that they needed?
But sometimes the execs are so stupid that they don't know what's going on in front of their faces. Watch "My Own Worst Enemy". Then really watch it for subtext and the meta-critical statements which expose what the writers are getting at. On the surface it's a flashy James Bond meets Desperate Housewives mash-up. Look a little deeper and you'll find wonderful material. Sure, it's the exception that proves the rule, but it's a great exception.
It may not take a sharp mind to see how that could be abused, but it apparently does take an AC post to point out that you're not quite as sharp as you seem to think you are. ;) I won't belabor the AC's response to your post (too much), but will say that no matter how artistic and wonderful some might find Steamboat Willie, it does not now, nor did it ever deserve the benefit of federal copyright protection under the constitution. NO work of fiction does. If we feel that such works should get some amount of limited protection, then let's make a constitutional amendment to such effect. I'd love to see "Anathem", which I'm currently reading, get protection for 5 or ten years, with movie rights etc. retained by Mr. Stephenson under some new system. However, while it's very entertaining, it does not deserve protection under the federal government's copyright system as it does not promote "the Progress of Science and the useful Arts" in any tangible way.
You sir do not go far enough. The constitution of the U.S. calls for copyright "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." First, while it's debatable, I, like you, believe that "limited times" should not be even close to the lifetime of the author, or even more than 7 years (at least for non-commercial uses). Second, how the heck does Steamboat Willy promote "the Progress of Science and useful Arts"? How does Britney Spears promote it? They don't, and should never have been granted copyright in the first place. If we had sensible copyright then we might have the resources left over to protect the material that really does need to be protected; instead we're left with a system that raids DVD factories in Indonesia for pirating _Don't Mess With the Zohan_ while ignoring copyright infringement on products imported to the U.S. from overseas which violate truly useful copyrights such as those for ICs and full product design.
Umm, the "costs" of the RIAA's campaign isn't incurred by magical fairies that eat money and shit subpoenas. The cost of these lawsuits goes to the lawyers, the investigators, the project managers, and to the executives who can point to their projects and show how much money they are bringing in "protecting" their clients. If the RIAA isn't passing on the money, that means that all the money does go to its executives and personnel.
Having lived on the East Coast for most of my life, I interpreted the list as being "Middle-America", the Red-State non-elite underclass that tends to be all about "law and order" and most definitely NOT about standing up for the law as written such as an "elitist" institution like Harvard would. In other words, the low-hanging fruit at which the *AA hoped to set precedents which they could use to go after the big guns on the coasts.
No. This is the equivalent of those people who paid money for those empty plastic boxes with a button on them which promise to "activate" the "sensors" that they were told make lights turn green for cop cars and ambulances at intersections (ob car analogy: check). People looking to get ahead without work rarely seem to do enough research (a form of work) to find out if the scammers they are hiring actually do anything at all, let alone if they are a value. I consider victims of scams like this as just having had an expensive lesson, which they needed, to teach them that it's cheaper to work hard and to get ahead honestly. Crooks scamming crooks should still be prosecuted, but we don't have to sympathize with the victim in this case; just be thankful that it was the dishonest schmucks who got burned by these SEO crooks, acting as our lightning rods, and not honest people who got scammed.
I googled it. You're wrong.
Am I mistaken, or are you really trying to say that you like Daylight Savings Time (more hours of daylight in the evening) and dislike Standard Time (when the clocks move back to standard in the fall)?
It's called "Mein Kampf" AKA "My Struggle". Read it before commenting on it please. It's rambling, anti-semitic, and hardly organized enough to be considered a ""blueprint"" for the Holocaust. It's rabble rousing at its most basic, kind of like the McCain/Palin rallies turned into by the end of the campaign. That kind of thing is dangerous because eventually the nut-jobs in the audience eventually want to do something about all the hate that's encouraged.
What about odd spellings coupled with gender ambiguity...like Jayne Cobb?
Keep reading. It's about tyranny, not taxes. Why do some people find it so hard to distinguish between symptom and disease?