Allow the OS to be aware of it's[sic] own limitations
You want a self-aware OS? What next, you'll want rights for all the oppressed robots out there, which are only oppressed because we haven't given them self-awareness too?
Because it pays for the content you're accessing? Because it helps offset the cost of providing service to you?
I thought the bill you pay monthly covers the cost of maintaining the networks over which the information is travelling. As you wrote them, the two rhetorical-sounding questions there are contradictory, in some ways. In the first case, the content is being paid for by targeted advertising, while in the second, you're receiving a discounted price from the full cost and receiving targeted advertising. One does not equal the other. I would much rather they run the system without the advertising and charge an accurate cost for access.
I don't consider this "War time". To me, that would require unity at some level, and the actual support of a fair portion of the populace. Until we have that, it's not wartime here.
costs nothing? Hardly. It could mean the end of business for a company that has been built on open source and now has to release it. If they built themselves on OSS, then they should have known what they were getting themselves into. This is why companies have their legal departments.
Providing the source code is practically free, and honours the requirements of the license the software is being distributed under.
They are protecting their IP and so is the FSF. The only difference is that they are going after individuals instead of companies (which should not matter). If children and the elderly were violating the GPL..would it be okay to go after them too? In the case of MPAA/RIAA, they've launched lawsuits that were without merit, lots of them, and have been clogging the courts with these cases. Somehow I doubt that children would be violating the GPL, unless they were building products and shipping them, and the same goes for the elderly.
I see, so you are for freedoms for only certain people in the united states. This statement seems, to me, to be without merit, as this person merely would rather support the FSF over the MPAA/RIAA. This is not a matter of losing freedoms, merely who one would support in this matter.
limit the "statutory damages" a court could award for all private use copyright infringements My hackles started to rise upon reading "private use copyright infringement". I thought that private use was not, by definition, infringement. After all, if I just bought Daft Punk's Homework on CD, shouldn't I be able to rip it to my hard drive and then store it on my MP3 player and listen to it as I walk around town, without needing to carry the CD with me? Or is that suddenly violating their copyright, if no one else is using it?... Calling what is actually fair use "infringement" scares me, because we could easily end up in a bad place, really, really rapidly.
So you're saying that 20 typical japanese households today generate more traffic than the entire Internet today? How is this possible, considering that those 20 households *are* part of the Internet? The inside can be larger than the outside. Who said the internet was euclidean?
Agreed. That stuff is especially awful in school locker rooms. "Oh, I'll just spray some of this on me after gym..." *pshht* "Hey, there's my friend..."::tosses:: *psshht* "My locker smells awful." *PSHHHHHHHHHHT!*
Yeah... for someone with asthma, that stuff's instant death, or at least instant can't-breathe-i-can-feel-my-lungs-clasping-shut-right-now.
That's a rather good analysis... Actually, I think that more to the point is the idea of "we can watch everything you do, since if you use this, you have nothing to hide, but if you choose not to, we'll arrest you on suspicion of cybercrime." Cypherpunks would hate this, since I bet the only system of encryption allowed would have a gaping huge backdoor in it for the FBI, etc.
(no link because I couldn't figure out how to hardlink books) All we need is to digitise one, TRON-like! Then there'd be a copy sitting on the internet, in its entirety. And yes, Torvalds did state that in his book.
That *is* a rather strange situation... Me, I'm not sure I want to try speaking Chinese, simply because I can't get the tones right no matter how hard I try...::sigh:: That statement leads to my idea that they might simply want you to try to speak their native language, but otherwise, I'm not sure I quite understand their behaviour. As for the earlier cricket statement, that's simply great. I should learn cricket.
Wrong, as has been stated before. DRM is a needless burden which only drives up the price of albums and other materials. People *will* buy music without DRM, and those who pirate will pirate nonetheless, whether or not there is DRM in the way. As such, DRM is not necessary, for the most part, and is not the same as giving away music, and as such, does not lead to Armageddon.
I've actually been using it for large math projects (I'm in the semi/pre-IB program at my high school) and it produces beautiful work (it also helps that I'm a stickler for perfection:) I've found the LaTeX docs to be good for almost anything, and for when I can't find something, Google is incredibly useful. However, it is not a one size fits all. Most of my classmates wouldn't touch it with a ten foot long pole. I feel that it's the best mathematical system available, but for ordinary text LaTeX is overkill.
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That depends on the base of the Question.
We're not talking about Microsoft here. This is Blizzard we're talking about. Where did your comment come from?
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Allow the OS to be aware of it's[sic] own limitations
You want a self-aware OS? What next, you'll want rights for all the oppressed robots out there, which are only oppressed because we haven't given them self-awareness too?
I was about to say that CDs don't fragment
Well, they do if you bend them hard enough, and with a nice musical tone, too. Especially ones from AOL.
>What on earth is a nanastructure?
It's your Grandmother's house, of course.
Indeed, but on what scale?
Because it pays for the content you're accessing? Because it helps offset the cost of providing service to you?
I thought the bill you pay monthly covers the cost of maintaining the networks over which the information is travelling. As you wrote them, the two rhetorical-sounding questions there are contradictory, in some ways. In the first case, the content is being paid for by targeted advertising, while in the second, you're receiving a discounted price from the full cost and receiving targeted advertising. One does not equal the other. I would much rather they run the system without the advertising and charge an accurate cost for access.
With all of the calculations for the synths done on early-model pentiums! You'd never know exactly what would come out of the speakers next.
I don't consider this "War time". To me, that would require unity at some level, and the actual support of a fair portion of the populace. Until we have that, it's not wartime here.
Providing the source code is practically free, and honours the requirements of the license the software is being distributed under.
They are protecting their IP and so is the FSF. The only difference is that they are going after individuals instead of companies (which should not matter). If children and the elderly were violating the GPL..would it be okay to go after them too? In the case of MPAA/RIAA, they've launched lawsuits that were without merit, lots of them, and have been clogging the courts with these cases. Somehow I doubt that children would be violating the GPL, unless they were building products and shipping them, and the same goes for the elderly. I see, so you are for freedoms for only certain people in the united states. This statement seems, to me, to be without merit, as this person merely would rather support the FSF over the MPAA/RIAA. This is not a matter of losing freedoms, merely who one would support in this matter.I don't see any cake...
Agreed. That stuff is especially awful in school locker rooms. "Oh, I'll just spray some of this on me after gym..." *pshht* "Hey, there's my friend..." ::tosses:: *psshht* "My locker smells awful." *PSHHHHHHHHHHT!*
Yeah... for someone with asthma, that stuff's instant death, or at least instant can't-breathe-i-can-feel-my-lungs-clasping-shut-right-now.
That's not a knife! *this* is a knife ::pulls out a short sword:: ...anyways... that's kinda funny.
If we could bring somebody back to life with an ID card, we'd have much bigger problems.
That's a rather good analysis... Actually, I think that more to the point is the idea of "we can watch everything you do, since if you use this, you have nothing to hide, but if you choose not to, we'll arrest you on suspicion of cybercrime." Cypherpunks would hate this, since I bet the only system of encryption allowed would have a gaping huge backdoor in it for the FBI, etc.
Yes, but can it reach Atlantis?
Yeah, where can I get an FPGA, anyways? But if someone would actually produce these, I would definitely use them.
That *is* a rather strange situation... Me, I'm not sure I want to try speaking Chinese, simply because I can't get the tones right no matter how hard I try... ::sigh:: That statement leads to my idea that they might simply want you to try to speak their native language, but otherwise, I'm not sure I quite understand their behaviour. As for the earlier cricket statement, that's simply great. I should learn cricket.
Wrong, as has been stated before. DRM is a needless burden which only drives up the price of albums and other materials. People *will* buy music without DRM, and those who pirate will pirate nonetheless, whether or not there is DRM in the way. As such, DRM is not necessary, for the most part, and is not the same as giving away music, and as such, does not lead to Armageddon.
Probably once it's in beta. Seriously, I'm not sure if I want Microsoft running any part of my car.
I've actually been using it for large math projects (I'm in the semi/pre-IB program at my high school) and it produces beautiful work (it also helps that I'm a stickler for perfection :) I've found the LaTeX docs to be good for almost anything, and for when I can't find something, Google is incredibly useful. However, it is not a one size fits all. Most of my classmates wouldn't touch it with a ten foot long pole. I feel that it's the best mathematical system available, but for ordinary text LaTeX is overkill.
I just lost my mod points :(
... +1 funny