It's not related because it's nowhere near the same industry. At least in the US, if you register a federal trademark, it's still only good for the industry that you work in. It gets hairier given the litigation fetish that today's corporations have, but generally that's the case.
Agree 100%. And I have to say that downloading music that would be public domain, if not for the CTEA, is a great idea. There's some great stuff there. "Rhapsody in Blue" for starters. That work belongs to the public, and they stole it from us. "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is another one. "Yes! Sir, That's My Baby", "Tea for Two".
There's plenty of independent artists out there, who have more "traditional" record deals...you give us your material + the right to distribute it. We give you help with a tour, money to record, some marketing. It's not a bad deal, though many artists do get shafted. Anyway my point was, I have heard far better bands just going out to the bar than I do on the radio. And I make sure to support them. It's money well spent and none of it gets funneled to Sony or whoever.
Right, there is always that option. Like all choices, there are consequences as well. In this case you can choose to be honorable, or not.
As I keep saying, I download a ton of music. It's not a really bad thing, especially if it's an RIAA artist. It's not a terribly honest thing, either.
But why the hell do people justify their downloading by saying the music sucks? I am a musician. If you download my album, go ahead. Listen and enjoy, that's all I want. But to then say, "I'm not going to pay you for this because 3/4 of it sucked"...well, that's pretty subjective, ain't it? Your opinion is not what spins the world on its axis. And what's *not* subjective is the fact that it cost me money to record. But I guess we shouldn't get in the way of people's well-thought out solipsism. If you say it sucks, then I guess you deserve to get it for free. It's like Economy 2.0 or something.
The analogy was weak. But the original argument was even weaker. I'm sick of hearing people whine about how there's only "one good song on this album".
Either (a) they have crap taste in music or (b) aren't willing to listen to something that wasn't released as a single on the radio. As someone who actually loves music and doesn't just put it on because I'm afraid of silence, I wish these people would quit parading their opinion around like it's science.
There's good music out there. Good enough that it's worth paying for an album's worth. I download music too, as well as buy it. I don't try and rationalize the former. Besides, songs can be bought a-la-carte online. If such people don't want to open their ears to something they (god forbid) haven't heard before, they have that option. Oh wait, they cost upwards of 99 cents, and who in the hell can afford that?
I should have mentioned that if the guy wants to require harsher registration for comments at his own site, well that's his right and has nothing to do with free speech, since speech on a private site has no guarantee of freedom to begin with.
Just wanted to point out that while most of the time it's obvious who's trolling, it's a real shame when people get marked as trolls for expressing an unpopular opinion. But it's Brady's ship, so let him sink it. I don't read usually the WP and I won't be crying regardless.
The censorship issue is moot. Brady's not just saying "we're going to strengthen the authentication measures on our own site", which I doubt many would have a problem with, or even care about.
He's saying, "we should strengthen authentication measures for the entire internet". Which is a complete troll, and he should have been banned for it. And by banned I mean beaten with sticks. How would it sound if I said, "there aren't enough pages on the internet with cool backgrounds...let's make it a law"? His problems are not our problems.
How about this: we implement what he's talking about, and when comments drive page views, they send a portion of the ad revenue to the appropriate commenter, since they'll be so easy to identify?
I don't disagree that trolls are a pain, but let the various forums' mods and communities decide how to handle it. I don't trust you to determine who's a troll and who isn't (even though in some cases it's clear enough) and I doubt you'd trust me to do it.
Im all for freespeach, but
Free speech with conditions attached isn't really free, is it?
I wouldn't say that Slackware is difficult to install or maintain, but for someone doing it without prior knowledge and expecting something like anaconda, no, they'll have some reading to do first.
Probably the thing I find most interesting about Slackware is the BSD-style startup scripts. They are a good example of the subjective nature of what's difficult: simpler in structure, so they're easier to create & maintain. But they're not as automagic as the SysV variety.
I run Arch myself...seems like a similar philosophy, but with more fun stuff and a kickass package manager bolted on.
Gentoo is different in many ways, perhaps not worth comparing to Slack other than its age. But TBH I don't know much about Gentoo.
Ironically, what caused the NES to refuse to boot most of the time was the copy protection system -- the 10NES lockout chip.
It is more sensitive to a weak connection than the rest of the contacts. The blinking screen & light is not a bug but the the result of the lockout chip doing its job. It will continually reset the CPU in the absence of proper authentication.
it can aggregate data quickly is the big one, allowing precincts to report quickly.
I don't see the advantage of this though. TV ratings? Let's just do it right rather than fast. Obviously there's a December deadline but why bother calling it an "election" if the votes aren't top priority?
Nail/head/hit. Even though most of the purchasing I witness takes place in the foodservice rather than technology market, what you mention is par for the course. Yes price is usually the deciding factor, but pricing is not fixed the way it is in a department store. If someone isn't giving you something you ask for, you can use that to drive the price down.
What this is going to mean is that hardware vendors that refuse to open their drivers will be working on shrinking margins. It's not direct "I absolutely won't buy from you" pressure, but not much in business is absolute anyway. The pressure is there, and this will help.
That cost of installation goes down dramatically, when you don't have to deal with OEM licensing, sysprep/activation and the rest. I'm sure the big guys have it pretty streamlined, but among the various OEMs I've seen them all deal with Windows installation differently, which tells me that even at this point it's still a bit of an issue.
The linux picture is much bigger. There are some very large (IBM et al) entities with an interest in seeing it succeed as a platform. I for one have always been suprised at the seemingly slow progress of GAIM/Pidgin. Nitpicking like this tells me why.
I think the person who referenced the bikeshed problem hit the nail on the head. People are very particular about things like chat clients. Conversely, the kernel and many of the distros continue to be improved at a decent clip (not that there isn't infighting everywhere...I just think the "bigger" projects can be cut a little more slack).
Trying to avoid Azureus-style menus is definitely a good thing.
Then again, the fact that something this small prompted a fork tells me that it was a pissing contest to begin with. Oh well. Not like there aren't plenty of chat clients out there.
The few profs I've seen who are self-published or published by a small house don't have expensive books out there. And in every case, every one I've talked to said that they make squat for royalties. I would imagine that the more expensive the book is, the more likely it is to be published by a bigger house, which usually means less royalties.
Also it seems like there's a lot more money to be made in the commercial sector, in general. And most of my teachers were actually human beings (big suprise, right?) who sympathized with book costs and usually did whatever they could to help out, including loaning out a few personal copies of books every semester.
I should add though, that it depends on the frequency of the microwave. It's possible there wouldn't be any direct harm to people or birds passing through, but I'm guessing electronics would still be fried.
Of course, birds won't know not to fly through there. So you would see the path...it'd be a relatively straight line on the ground of dead birds, the beam would be somewhere above that.
As for a plane, the electronics would be destroyed immediately. Also, depending on the amount of radiation, it would severely mess with the crew/passengers...anywhere from causing cancer to actually "microwaving" them like a hot dog.
Not really worth the risk considering that wire is cheaper to begin with.
ISP aren't common carriers. Although in the US they have some protections under the DMCA when it comes to copyrighted material.
Your ISP could block google tomorrow. This is not illegal, unless you have an agreement with them that says they won't. But broadband internet is not the type of product to come with such guarantees.
The ISPs are supposed to act in a "neutral" manner but this does not bear the weight of law.
Which, I think, is the main problem. They are lying with their marketing. If you want to drop a few hundred every month on a dedicated line, they'll happily install one for you.
But paying a tenth of that for broadband...common sense says that you're going to have a somewhat weaker link at that price. The problem is, all of the advertising says that this cheap broadband link is UNLIMITED! and LIGHTNING FAST!
They should either (a) give people fast links to the internet (b) not lie about what they can provide at a certain price or (c) both of those things. Sadly they will continue in many areas with (d) milk government-granted local monopoly as long as possible, just barely placating customers, doing everything possible to get those share prices up.
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I'm gonna go with "lots of people helped themselves to laptops knowing that there isn't much oversight for the 'war on terror'" on this one.
I can think of a lot of things, both good and bad, to say about Thurston Moore, but "common" is not one of them.
Among other things, a band I like had a guitar stolen that was a family heirloom.
Stealing instruments from musicians is like a simultaneous kidnapping and kneecapping. Lose your "loved ones" and ability to make a living.
It's not related because it's nowhere near the same industry. At least in the US, if you register a federal trademark, it's still only good for the industry that you work in. It gets hairier given the litigation fetish that today's corporations have, but generally that's the case.
Agree 100%. And I have to say that downloading music that would be public domain, if not for the CTEA, is a great idea. There's some great stuff there. "Rhapsody in Blue" for starters. That work belongs to the public, and they stole it from us. "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is another one. "Yes! Sir, That's My Baby", "Tea for Two".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_in_music (and 25, 26, 27, etc.)
There's plenty of independent artists out there, who have more "traditional" record deals...you give us your material + the right to distribute it. We give you help with a tour, money to record, some marketing. It's not a bad deal, though many artists do get shafted. Anyway my point was, I have heard far better bands just going out to the bar than I do on the radio. And I make sure to support them. It's money well spent and none of it gets funneled to Sony or whoever.
:D
...Guns 'n' Roses? Seriously?
Right, there is always that option. Like all choices, there are consequences as well. In this case you can choose to be honorable, or not.
As I keep saying, I download a ton of music. It's not a really bad thing, especially if it's an RIAA artist. It's not a terribly honest thing, either.
But why the hell do people justify their downloading by saying the music sucks? I am a musician. If you download my album, go ahead. Listen and enjoy, that's all I want. But to then say, "I'm not going to pay you for this because 3/4 of it sucked"...well, that's pretty subjective, ain't it? Your opinion is not what spins the world on its axis. And what's *not* subjective is the fact that it cost me money to record. But I guess we shouldn't get in the way of people's well-thought out solipsism. If you say it sucks, then I guess you deserve to get it for free. It's like Economy 2.0 or something.
The analogy was weak. But the original argument was even weaker. I'm sick of hearing people whine about how there's only "one good song on this album".
Either (a) they have crap taste in music or (b) aren't willing to listen to something that wasn't released as a single on the radio. As someone who actually loves music and doesn't just put it on because I'm afraid of silence, I wish these people would quit parading their opinion around like it's science.
There's good music out there. Good enough that it's worth paying for an album's worth. I download music too, as well as buy it. I don't try and rationalize the former. Besides, songs can be bought a-la-carte online. If such people don't want to open their ears to something they (god forbid) haven't heard before, they have that option. Oh wait, they cost upwards of 99 cents, and who in the hell can afford that?
I should have mentioned that if the guy wants to require harsher registration for comments at his own site, well that's his right and has nothing to do with free speech, since speech on a private site has no guarantee of freedom to begin with.
Just wanted to point out that while most of the time it's obvious who's trolling, it's a real shame when people get marked as trolls for expressing an unpopular opinion. But it's Brady's ship, so let him sink it. I don't read usually the WP and I won't be crying regardless.
Tech-site trolls may not number the same, but they make up for it in quality of trolling.
Plus, the real nerds are over at the various "chans", where they come up with new and exciting trolling strategies every day.
The censorship issue is moot. Brady's not just saying "we're going to strengthen the authentication measures on our own site", which I doubt many would have a problem with, or even care about.
He's saying, "we should strengthen authentication measures for the entire internet". Which is a complete troll, and he should have been banned for it. And by banned I mean beaten with sticks. How would it sound if I said, "there aren't enough pages on the internet with cool backgrounds...let's make it a law"? His problems are not our problems.
How about this: we implement what he's talking about, and when comments drive page views, they send a portion of the ad revenue to the appropriate commenter, since they'll be so easy to identify?
Free speech with conditions attached isn't really free, is it?
I wouldn't say that Slackware is difficult to install or maintain, but for someone doing it without prior knowledge and expecting something like anaconda, no, they'll have some reading to do first.
Probably the thing I find most interesting about Slackware is the BSD-style startup scripts. They are a good example of the subjective nature of what's difficult: simpler in structure, so they're easier to create & maintain. But they're not as automagic as the SysV variety.
I run Arch myself...seems like a similar philosophy, but with more fun stuff and a kickass package manager bolted on.
Gentoo is different in many ways, perhaps not worth comparing to Slack other than its age. But TBH I don't know much about Gentoo.
Check this out: http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/04/mind-map-of-linux-distributions.html
Ironically, what caused the NES to refuse to boot most of the time was the copy protection system -- the 10NES lockout chip.
It is more sensitive to a weak connection than the rest of the contacts. The blinking screen & light is not a bug but the the result of the lockout chip doing its job. It will continually reset the CPU in the absence of proper authentication.
I don't see the advantage of this though. TV ratings? Let's just do it right rather than fast. Obviously there's a December deadline but why bother calling it an "election" if the votes aren't top priority?
Nail/head/hit. Even though most of the purchasing I witness takes place in the foodservice rather than technology market, what you mention is par for the course. Yes price is usually the deciding factor, but pricing is not fixed the way it is in a department store. If someone isn't giving you something you ask for, you can use that to drive the price down.
What this is going to mean is that hardware vendors that refuse to open their drivers will be working on shrinking margins. It's not direct "I absolutely won't buy from you" pressure, but not much in business is absolute anyway. The pressure is there, and this will help.
That cost of installation goes down dramatically, when you don't have to deal with OEM licensing, sysprep/activation and the rest. I'm sure the big guys have it pretty streamlined, but among the various OEMs I've seen them all deal with Windows installation differently, which tells me that even at this point it's still a bit of an issue.
The linux picture is much bigger. There are some very large (IBM et al) entities with an interest in seeing it succeed as a platform. I for one have always been suprised at the seemingly slow progress of GAIM/Pidgin. Nitpicking like this tells me why.
I think the person who referenced the bikeshed problem hit the nail on the head. People are very particular about things like chat clients. Conversely, the kernel and many of the distros continue to be improved at a decent clip (not that there isn't infighting everywhere...I just think the "bigger" projects can be cut a little more slack).
Trying to avoid Azureus-style menus is definitely a good thing.
Then again, the fact that something this small prompted a fork tells me that it was a pissing contest to begin with. Oh well. Not like there aren't plenty of chat clients out there.
I think it was still in heavy use in the early 90s. In any case for me it always seemed to stand for "run while you can".
The few profs I've seen who are self-published or published by a small house don't have expensive books out there. And in every case, every one I've talked to said that they make squat for royalties. I would imagine that the more expensive the book is, the more likely it is to be published by a bigger house, which usually means less royalties.
Also it seems like there's a lot more money to be made in the commercial sector, in general. And most of my teachers were actually human beings (big suprise, right?) who sympathized with book costs and usually did whatever they could to help out, including loaning out a few personal copies of books every semester.
More laws? Why not just let the free market decide?
(Get's SSN stolen)
Ooooohhhh. Now I get it.
I should add though, that it depends on the frequency of the microwave. It's possible there wouldn't be any direct harm to people or birds passing through, but I'm guessing electronics would still be fried.
Of course, birds won't know not to fly through there. So you would see the path...it'd be a relatively straight line on the ground of dead birds, the beam would be somewhere above that.
As for a plane, the electronics would be destroyed immediately. Also, depending on the amount of radiation, it would severely mess with the crew/passengers...anywhere from causing cancer to actually "microwaving" them like a hot dog.
Not really worth the risk considering that wire is cheaper to begin with.
ISP aren't common carriers. Although in the US they have some protections under the DMCA when it comes to copyrighted material.
Your ISP could block google tomorrow. This is not illegal, unless you have an agreement with them that says they won't. But broadband internet is not the type of product to come with such guarantees.
The ISPs are supposed to act in a "neutral" manner but this does not bear the weight of law.
Which, I think, is the main problem. They are lying with their marketing. If you want to drop a few hundred every month on a dedicated line, they'll happily install one for you.
But paying a tenth of that for broadband...common sense says that you're going to have a somewhat weaker link at that price. The problem is, all of the advertising says that this cheap broadband link is UNLIMITED! and LIGHTNING FAST!
They should either (a) give people fast links to the internet (b) not lie about what they can provide at a certain price or (c) both of those things. Sadly they will continue in many areas with (d) milk government-granted local monopoly as long as possible, just barely placating customers, doing everything possible to get those share prices up.