The fact to the matter is, if you are running something so unstable that you get results like that, your hardware is probably to blame. If my computer were to crash and act up like that I would not trust it for data in either Windows or Linux/*BSD.
Any analogy that uses real property instead of intellectual property simply isn't going to work. Don't bother with them.
Your reference was to real property.
Well, yes, so? I was explaining why analogies to real property do not work by taking your "loaf of bread" analogy to the logical conclusion. Notice how quickly it got silly? That's why the analogy doesn't work. That's why you simply don't bother with those sorts of analogies.
Just because we don't always swing hammers doesn't mean we don't work for a living.
I told you once, now I'll tell you twice, and I won't bother telling you a third time: I do not think that intellectual work has no value. I am baffled by your fixation on this argument because I've already told you I don't disagree.
I'm quickly becoming convinced that the reason why artists are losing their market is because they insist on TELLING and never bother LISTENING.
How exactly are you proposing artists support themselves if they can't protect their work?
I don't have an answer. I just know there's a problem. Do you need to have all the answers before you can say "hey, wait a minute, this isn't working out like we planned"?
[Re: stealing] Maybe there's a better word in the English language.
Yes. It's called copyright infringement. Would you call a shoplifter a murderer? Would you call a drunk driver an embezzler? Yet you'd call a person who tapes a song off the radio a thief? It makes no sense. They haven't stolen anything. They have made a copy without permission. Get the words right because otherwise - as I said before - you are just as disingenuous as the pirate (arr). If you start mucking with the words like that then nobody gets anywhere.
so far I haven't gotten a single response that thinks it's not okay.
MY response said it was not okay. And now you say there's not a single one?! What I think is happening is that you are hearing only what you want to hear. You assume that everybody who says "hrm, copyright isn't working like it was intended" is ALSO saying "hey, let's copy music without ever paying for it". They are not the same thing and you are being disingenuous (there's that word again) by conflating the two.
Stop jerking your knee and listen to what people are saying. You'll progress the argument that way and both sides will learn something.
Walk into a supermarket and pick up a loaf of bread and walk out. Let me know how it goes.
To make the analogy work, you'd have to walk into a supermarket, look at the loaf of bread without damaging it, purchase some flour and some baker's yeast, pull out your portable baker's oven, bake your own exactly similar loaf of bread, then walk out of the supermarket with your freshly baked loaf of bread.
To continue the analogy, the RIAA would stop you in the carpark and sue you for $97 billion in lost bread revenue.
Any analogy that uses real property instead of intellectual property simply isn't going to work. Don't bother with them.
I'm still a bit confused with the pervasive attitude that there is nothing wrong with services like Napster and that trading music is okay.
The huge number of people who say "I don't understand why people think Napster is OK" on every single RIAA related story should be proof enough that it's not all that pervasive.
Artist have a right to get paid for their work.
Sure, I can agree with that. Though you do realise the current copyright system - even without the pirates (arr) - does not guarantee you'll get paid.
Taking that work without compensation is stealing.
No, it's not.
Without the influx of money the record industry will have to downsize.
Having trouble seeing the downside, there.
Copying music without permission is an interesting and complex problem. Dismissing it as "stealing" is just as disingenuous as a pirate (arr) who justifies their collection as "sticking it to the man"!
You must remember that copyright is a government enforced monopoly. The government is granting the artist an exclusive right to copy so as to encourage the creation of intellectual works. Did Napster break this copyright? No. Did Napster encourage and assist other people to break this copyright? Yes. Did the unauthorised copying lead to less intellectual property being created? I don't know. But isn't that the only question that matters? The purpose of copyright is to encourage the creation of IP. The system has been perverted so now it only facilitates the exchange of money. Your very words give it away: "Artist[s] have a right to get paid for their work". Sure, but why do you think copyright is the proper mechanism to achieve that goal?
By focussing on the nuts and bolts you are missing the big picture. "Napster steals music therefore it's bad because I don't get paid!". I can agree the "not getting paid" bit is bad and therefore it was proper that Napster was closed. What I can't agree with is the "Napster is bad" concept that you're pushing. I think the current copyright system is bad because it discourages the widespread dissemination of music. I think Napster is good in that it highlighted the very real problems with modern copyright.
Copyright needs to be a balance between the value to society and the value to artists. With the amount of power the RIAA wields and the draconian tactics they use I don't believe there is any balance at all. Try and find that balance instead of pointing at the pirates (arr) and crying "thief". It will be more productive for everybody.
Let's face it, if you want to play games then you need to run Windows.
Gah, if you consider futzing about with drivers and patches a "game", then sure. Imagine the typical blog of a "Windows gamer":
9:30am Back from EB with the latest WarNerds 50000. Can't wait to play it!
9:34am Installer crashed. Downloaded the revised installer from the WarNerds website. Only 167MB! How did people get revised installers before the Internet?
9:54am Revised installer doesn't support my video card. Luckily I have both an nvidia and an ATI card just for such emergencies. I'll swap the ATI in. Will only take a minute!
10:37am Phew, that took longer than I expected. My water-cooling pipes were in the way of the AGP slot. I should invest in a fan-forced nuclear cooling system like everybody has at the LAN parties.
11:12am Yay! Installer finished. Needed to switch out the nvidia drivers and install the ATI drivers first. Thankfully Windows makes this all so easy!
11:13am Hrm, game crashed. Says my ATI video card isn't supported if I want to play with VR headsets. Oh well, I guess I'll swap the nvidia back in.
12:22pm Lunch-time.
1:45pm Confused!? I swapped the nvidia card back in but it still complains about my video card. I guess I'll read the WarNerds forums.
3:12pm Ahhh! Seems I need point release 316 with hotfix 76 because I'm using Windows 2005 with SP2 BUT because I'm using an nvidia revision 4 s/n 1287461 I need to retrograde the drivers to INFUSOR 2003. Of course! How stupid of me.
4:05pm Ok, got the INFUSOR 2003 drivers installed and game starts now, but crashes at the menu. Getting closer! I can almost taste the gameplay.
4:57pm Hrm, don't know why, but seems removing my Firewire scanner makes it get past the menu. Strange, because the scanner wasn't even turned on. But I'm playing WarNerds 50000 right now!
4:58pm OHMYGODTHISGAMEISGREAT. This is the world's greatest game!!! I'm so glad I bought it!!! It's like I'm living the world's greatest dream!!! It's everything they said it would be!!!
5:18pm Finished WarNerds 50000! That game was brilliant. I'll have to get the sequel.
If you want to play games then you get a console. They Just Work.
I can't seem to shake the idea that by running Windows apps on Linux waters down the latter and strengthens the former.
Wine is great for "converting" businesses that have normal requirements except for some really obscure little application. For example, Joe from accounting wants a browser (tick), email (tick), word processor (tick), and this obscure interface to the mainframe accounting system written in PowerBuilder by a third party company that went bankrupt three years ago and there's no source code (uhh).
The last "conversion" I saw used DOSEMU rather than Wine but the principle is the same.
i dunno bout the other dude but i reckon he was saying only sexless tools like u would bother to make claims about other sexless tools. people who are getting action dont bother.
and your a fucktard for saying lol. only dorks say shit like that.
It is official; Robert Watson now confirms: UFS is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered UFS community when Robert Watson confirmed that UFS market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all filesystems. Coming on the heels of a recent FreeBSD survey which plainly states that UFS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. UFS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent comprehensive filesystem test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict UFS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: UFS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for UFS because UFS is dying. Things are looking very bad for UFS. As many of us are already aware, UFS continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
All major surveys show that UFS has steadily declined in market share. UFS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If UFS is to survive at all it will be among OpenBSD dabblers. UFS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, UFS is dead.
As far as I can tell this film single-handedly destroyed anime in the Netherlands. It was off to a promising start, until Uro... Iru... "Legend of the Overfiend" appeared. And then suddenly whenever you mentioned anime people would go "Ah yes, tentacles demons rape little girls, why do you watch that crap? Are you sick in your head maybe?" Soon after the video rental shops stopped carrying all anime.
You're exactly right. Anime has earned an undeserved reputation as "animated kiddie porn" in Australia. You're better off claiming to be a leper than admitting to watching anime. Terrible junk like Overfiend is to blame. Even when Spirited Away won an Academy Award I was still hearing the same stereotypes.
I'm trying to get into anime and I've watched things like Akira and TBH thats about it. Whats a good series I should try to get to help into another spending habit?:)
Depends on what you like. I'll touch on movies as well as series.
If you like action, explosions, girls in robot suits, then Bubblegum Crisis 2032 is great. Don't confuse this with Bubblegum Crisis 2040: good but not great.
If you want romantic comedy then Ah! My Goddess is great for watching with your girl. Only 2 discs in the series and a standalone movie.
If you want fluffy philosophy mixed in with a little drama then try Key: Metal Idol or Lain. Not difficult stuff (not like Kant!) but still very entertaining.
If you like guts and gore and all that's foul then Ninja Scroll is the shiznitz. Be sure to get the uncut version for maximum effect.
If you were a fan of Alice in Wonderland or the Wizard of Oz (two of my favourite books) then you'll like My Neighbour Totoro or Spirited Away.
If you prefer adventure/action films with a little comedy then Porco Rosso, Laputa or Castle Cagliostro are excellent. All 3 very much like Indiana Jones.
If you enjoyed Akira then you should watch Ghost in the Shell. This particular genre has plenty of series to choose from though I think they're mostly crap.
If you want to watch a tragedy then you can't go wrong with Samurai X: Trust+Betrayal or Grave of the Fireflies. Very sad.
Basically anime is like any other medium. There are lots of styles and lots of variation in quality. To put it in perspective, imagine if you had said "What books should I read? I read The Secret Seven when I was 5 years old!". You need to explain what you want.
Woops, I cut-pasted the wrong link, here's the proper one. It was showing on WIN (aka Nine) at 10:40pm though I think they've axed it now. I've flicked to it once or twice but I must admit it's not my cup of tea.
But crap anime animation sucks in the suckiest way that can suck, and ruins a story that doesn't need neon pink colours, whiny girl voices, and flashing scenes that last a microsecond.
Shrug. I didn't care for anime myself until 3-4 years ago. I'd seen Astroboy and Transformers as a kid but I had boycotted anime from high-school onwards. I shared the popular opinion that anime was "cartoons" and "cartoons are for kids".
My opinion changed with a single anime. With a great deal of prodding from a fanboy friend I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion on SBS (an Australian TV station devoted to foreign films and shows). I'm a big sci-fi fan but stuck with the books because movies didn't and still don't do the stories any justice. Evangelion changed my opinion because it had a story on multiple levels; that's something I wouldn't expect from a Hollywood movie and definitely not from a "cartoon".
I've since realised that if you are careful in your selections then there is plenty of anime that is more than "cartoons for kids". Perfect Blue, Graveyard of the Fireflies, Princess Mononoke: these are all examples of anime that tell a great story without using the stereotypes of "neon pink colours" and "whiny girl voices".
While I admit that there's a certain truth to that, there's also a truth to the fact that it IS just a style, and therefore the people who love anime because it's anime, and not necessarily because of the content are equally as wrong.
I have to agree with you! Fanboys who love all anime are as silly as people who hate all anime. There's a lot of crap anime: poor stories, badly drawn, badly voiced, or simply targetting the wrong age group. Steering clear of the junk is as relevant for anime as it is for movies and books.
I haven't wanted to see anime since I was 6 and Astroboy was on.
That's your loss. Anime is a style not a target audience. Boycotting all movies presented in a particular style is incredibly stupid. Learn to distinguish the quality from the drek and you'll find entertainment everywhere, even in anime.
Should you want to look at the raindrops (to evaluate whether the rain is sufficient to require you to change your driving pattern), you shift the focus of your eyes. Now the raindrops are forming a clear image on your retina, but the road is not - now it is the road that the visual system can ignore.
So what would be really neat would be for your mouse-wheel to set the "focus depth" of your desktop. As you scroll the wheel up the windows on top get blurry and windows down the bottom become clear.
... without the binary drivers there will never be an OS driver.
What nonsense! The vast majority of Linux drivers were open source first. Do you really think anybody released binary drivers for Linux 0.01? The first drivers were all open source and not a binary driver in sight. Even today there are more open source than binary drivers.
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Cripes, it was a joke, laugh a little :-)
Well, yes, so? I was explaining why analogies to real property do not work by taking your "loaf of bread" analogy to the logical conclusion. Notice how quickly it got silly? That's why the analogy doesn't work. That's why you simply don't bother with those sorts of analogies.
I told you once, now I'll tell you twice, and I won't bother telling you a third time: I do not think that intellectual work has no value. I am baffled by your fixation on this argument because I've already told you I don't disagree.
I'm quickly becoming convinced that the reason why artists are losing their market is because they insist on TELLING and never bother LISTENING.
I don't have an answer. I just know there's a problem. Do you need to have all the answers before you can say "hey, wait a minute, this isn't working out like we planned"?
Yes. It's called copyright infringement. Would you call a shoplifter a murderer? Would you call a drunk driver an embezzler? Yet you'd call a person who tapes a song off the radio a thief? It makes no sense. They haven't stolen anything. They have made a copy without permission. Get the words right because otherwise - as I said before - you are just as disingenuous as the pirate (arr). If you start mucking with the words like that then nobody gets anywhere.
MY response said it was not okay. And now you say there's not a single one?! What I think is happening is that you are hearing only what you want to hear. You assume that everybody who says "hrm, copyright isn't working like it was intended" is ALSO saying "hey, let's copy music without ever paying for it". They are not the same thing and you are being disingenuous (there's that word again) by conflating the two.
Stop jerking your knee and listen to what people are saying. You'll progress the argument that way and both sides will learn something.
I didn't say anything like that and I've no idea where you got the idea that I did.
To make the analogy work, you'd have to walk into a supermarket, look at the loaf of bread without damaging it, purchase some flour and some baker's yeast, pull out your portable baker's oven, bake your own exactly similar loaf of bread, then walk out of the supermarket with your freshly baked loaf of bread.
To continue the analogy, the RIAA would stop you in the carpark and sue you for $97 billion in lost bread revenue.
Any analogy that uses real property instead of intellectual property simply isn't going to work. Don't bother with them.
The huge number of people who say "I don't understand why people think Napster is OK" on every single RIAA related story should be proof enough that it's not all that pervasive.
Sure, I can agree with that. Though you do realise the current copyright system - even without the pirates (arr) - does not guarantee you'll get paid.
No, it's not.
Having trouble seeing the downside, there.
Copying music without permission is an interesting and complex problem. Dismissing it as "stealing" is just as disingenuous as a pirate (arr) who justifies their collection as "sticking it to the man"!
You must remember that copyright is a government enforced monopoly. The government is granting the artist an exclusive right to copy so as to encourage the creation of intellectual works. Did Napster break this copyright? No. Did Napster encourage and assist other people to break this copyright? Yes. Did the unauthorised copying lead to less intellectual property being created? I don't know. But isn't that the only question that matters? The purpose of copyright is to encourage the creation of IP. The system has been perverted so now it only facilitates the exchange of money. Your very words give it away: "Artist[s] have a right to get paid for their work". Sure, but why do you think copyright is the proper mechanism to achieve that goal?
By focussing on the nuts and bolts you are missing the big picture. "Napster steals music therefore it's bad because I don't get paid!". I can agree the "not getting paid" bit is bad and therefore it was proper that Napster was closed. What I can't agree with is the "Napster is bad" concept that you're pushing. I think the current copyright system is bad because it discourages the widespread dissemination of music. I think Napster is good in that it highlighted the very real problems with modern copyright.
Copyright needs to be a balance between the value to society and the value to artists. With the amount of power the RIAA wields and the draconian tactics they use I don't believe there is any balance at all. Try and find that balance instead of pointing at the pirates (arr) and crying "thief". It will be more productive for everybody.
Is that like embroidery?
Gah, if you consider futzing about with drivers and patches a "game", then sure. Imagine the typical blog of a "Windows gamer":
If you want to play games then you get a console. They Just Work.
Wine is great for "converting" businesses that have normal requirements except for some really obscure little application. For example, Joe from accounting wants a browser (tick), email (tick), word processor (tick), and this obscure interface to the mainframe accounting system written in PowerBuilder by a third party company that went bankrupt three years ago and there's no source code (uhh).
The last "conversion" I saw used DOSEMU rather than Wine but the principle is the same.
i dunno bout the other dude but i reckon he was saying only sexless tools like u would bother to make claims about other sexless tools. people who are getting action dont bother.
and your a fucktard for saying lol. only dorks say shit like that.
It is official; Robert Watson now confirms: UFS is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered UFS community when Robert Watson confirmed that UFS market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all filesystems. Coming on the heels of a recent FreeBSD survey which plainly states that UFS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. UFS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent comprehensive filesystem test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict UFS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: UFS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for UFS because UFS is dying. Things are looking very bad for UFS. As many of us are already aware, UFS continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
All major surveys show that UFS has steadily declined in market share. UFS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If UFS is to survive at all it will be among OpenBSD dabblers. UFS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, UFS is dead.
Fact: UFS is dying
I feel dirty...
You're exactly right. Anime has earned an undeserved reputation as "animated kiddie porn" in Australia. You're better off claiming to be a leper than admitting to watching anime. Terrible junk like Overfiend is to blame. Even when Spirited Away won an Academy Award I was still hearing the same stereotypes.
Depends on what you like. I'll touch on movies as well as series.
If you like action, explosions, girls in robot suits, then Bubblegum Crisis 2032 is great. Don't confuse this with Bubblegum Crisis 2040: good but not great.
If you want romantic comedy then Ah! My Goddess is great for watching with your girl. Only 2 discs in the series and a standalone movie.
If you want fluffy philosophy mixed in with a little drama then try Key: Metal Idol or Lain. Not difficult stuff (not like Kant!) but still very entertaining.
If you like guts and gore and all that's foul then Ninja Scroll is the shiznitz. Be sure to get the uncut version for maximum effect.
If you were a fan of Alice in Wonderland or the Wizard of Oz (two of my favourite books) then you'll like My Neighbour Totoro or Spirited Away.
If you prefer adventure/action films with a little comedy then Porco Rosso, Laputa or Castle Cagliostro are excellent. All 3 very much like Indiana Jones.
If you enjoyed Akira then you should watch Ghost in the Shell. This particular genre has plenty of series to choose from though I think they're mostly crap.
If you want to watch a tragedy then you can't go wrong with Samurai X: Trust+Betrayal or Grave of the Fireflies. Very sad.
Basically anime is like any other medium. There are lots of styles and lots of variation in quality. To put it in perspective, imagine if you had said "What books should I read? I read The Secret Seven when I was 5 years old!". You need to explain what you want.
Woops, I cut-pasted the wrong link, here's the proper one. It was showing on WIN (aka Nine) at 10:40pm though I think they've axed it now. I've flicked to it once or twice but I must admit it's not my cup of tea.
Shrug. I didn't care for anime myself until 3-4 years ago. I'd seen Astroboy and Transformers as a kid but I had boycotted anime from high-school onwards. I shared the popular opinion that anime was "cartoons" and "cartoons are for kids".
My opinion changed with a single anime. With a great deal of prodding from a fanboy friend I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion on SBS (an Australian TV station devoted to foreign films and shows). I'm a big sci-fi fan but stuck with the books because movies didn't and still don't do the stories any justice. Evangelion changed my opinion because it had a story on multiple levels; that's something I wouldn't expect from a Hollywood movie and definitely not from a "cartoon".
I've since realised that if you are careful in your selections then there is plenty of anime that is more than "cartoons for kids". Perfect Blue, Graveyard of the Fireflies, Princess Mononoke: these are all examples of anime that tell a great story without using the stereotypes of "neon pink colours" and "whiny girl voices".
I have to agree with you! Fanboys who love all anime are as silly as people who hate all anime. There's a lot of crap anime: poor stories, badly drawn, badly voiced, or simply targetting the wrong age group. Steering clear of the junk is as relevant for anime as it is for movies and books.
Yes, it is.
That's your loss. Anime is a style not a target audience. Boycotting all movies presented in a particular style is incredibly stupid. Learn to distinguish the quality from the drek and you'll find entertainment everywhere, even in anime.
You didn't get the joke, idiot.
On Slashdot? Don't be rediculuous!
I would start with Nietzche and work my way up to Descartes and Plato. Easier to grok and (I'd argue) more interesting as well.
I only remember that she said something about meeting again some sunny day.
So what would be really neat would be for your mouse-wheel to set the "focus depth" of your desktop. As you scroll the wheel up the windows on top get blurry and windows down the bottom become clear.
What nonsense! The vast majority of Linux drivers were open source first. Do you really think anybody released binary drivers for Linux 0.01? The first drivers were all open source and not a binary driver in sight. Even today there are more open source than binary drivers.
Yeah, I said that. He loses the potential to simplify XFree86 because he implemented it too low.