We, the Union of Concerned Scientists..
Ah, excuse me?
Yes, you in the back?
I wouldn't say I'm concerned.
No?
Ah, no.
Are you a scientist?
Yes.
But not concerned.
No.
Well, what are you, then?
Ah, interested.
Interested?
Yes. I'm not quite concerned about this, but I am interested.
Is anybody else here 'interested?'
(silence)
Right. We the Union of Concerned, and Interested Scientists...
Public humiliation in general; give community service some teeth by dressing people in distinctive coveralls and making them clean up public areas. Boom, done.
Because there's also the concept of 'not worth my time to track down.'
Besides, the analog in the computer world would be 'Well, Linux is a copy of UNIX, but doesn't claim to be UNIX, blah blah blah' which is one thing. Creating your own software designed to act like a different piece of software is one thing. Taking somebody else's software is another.
They opened it up, and about 4 months later, closed it. Kinda like 'zero cost' Solaris. It was once a zero cost download, now its media kit can be had for around $100.
Really? I was able to find this in about four clicks from sun.com's index page. Note the word 'FREE', in red, even, in relation to the word 'Download' and behind the words 'Solaris 9 12/03 Operating System.' Both SPARC and x86.
Actually, they did this with J++, and they got smacked down hard over it.
Making a legitimate competitive product is one thing. Making something deliberately designed to capatalize upon, and draw confusion with, somebody else's product, is another.
What about photos of the car? Am I depriving the designers then? What about mental images of the car? How about then? Nobody is deprived if the design can be copied perfectly at no cost whatsoever to the original designers.
The designers are. If they spend 1 million dollars to design a new car, and sell that car for 20,000 dollars a piece, but you steal the plans, you've just stolen 1 million dollars worth of value.
If the designers spend 1 million dollars on design, and give that design away, that's their choice.
Else, how can kit cars be sold?
Obviously, the PRICE that they're being SOLD AT is enough to cover COSTS TO MAKE THE KIT as well as perhaps a bit of PROFIT.
Like that FA-18 Hornet going on ebay; 1 million for the parts, 8 million if you want it assembled.
I expect that they just wanted a little bit of recognition for all the hard work they do, and Xfree86 transcends Linux in much the same was Apache does, so they wern't thinking in terms of GPL compatibility.
They just wanted a nod when people use their work.
Nah, but after they escape, they'll build an amazing little warren under a rose bush, and organize a daring midnight commando-style airlift of a refugee mouse and her children (the father, unfortunatly, died during a gurellia, or is that mouseia, raid to procure food and supplies) to a safer place.
(As an aside, the animated version of the above story was the first movie I ever watched that actually disturbed me; I was in Grade 3 or so, I think, and watching the rats get injected with stuff and start convulsing....)
Hee hee, reminds me of my first giving-flowers-to-the-wife debacle.
I arranged for the delivery, and the guy said they'd be delivered that day, probably early afternoon. I was home for the later afternoon, and they hadn't been delivered.
So I'm sitting on the couch, reading a newspaper, when a knock knock knock sounds at the door. There's the flower guy.
The wife looks at me. "You going to answer that?" The wife hates answering the door. "No," I said, "I think you should."
So she gives me a look which, if looks could kill, would splatter me across the wall, stomps over to the door, and flings it open. "Yes?" she growls out in that pissed-off female way.
"Flowers for Suzanne, with love, from your husband. Happy Valentines Day."
She turned around and immediatly broke into full-on bawling.
Hey, CompanyX, this is Nvidia. Sweet texture compression there. Can we use it? Yeah, we'll pay that much. No, we won't share it with anybody. Great, thanks.
Time passes.....
Hey, Linux, you want drivers for our sweet Nvidia cards? Ok, but they'll have to be binary only, as there are parts of them that we're LEGALLY NOT ALLOWED TO DIVULGE.
Which is why the Xbox DVD adaptor comes with a remote control.
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But it is manga. It's a textbook in manga form, and it's common. For example, "Introduction to the Japanese Economy."
Information manga exploiting the illustrative function of the manga form to serve as study aids for children have existed since before the Second World War. With the extraordinary development of manga as an expressive form during the 1970s, so-called "academic manga" began to appear in general magazines mostly read by businessmen. They do not necessarily have a narrative structure, but the protagonists are shown applying themselves to the study of the origins of and various anecdotes about food, liquor and annual festivals.
It was in this context that A Manga Introduction to the Japanese Eco nomy appeared in 1986. Unlike most manga in Japan, this work was released not in serialization but in book form from the start. Nonetheless, its three volumes sold a million copies, and it was even read by people born before the war. In this way even those who had previously shown no interest in manga and who did not belong to the so-called "manga generation" were compelled to recognize the expressive power of the manga form.
This led to the appearance of ever more manga dealing with subject matter such as history, science, and classical literature. At the same time, manga even began to be employed as a public relations tool by governmental agencies. As a whole this new category of manga began to be referred to as "information manga," "expository manga," or "textbook manga." In some cases, they were referred to, with some measure of irony, as "educational manga for grown-ups."
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I don't think it would. Ever look at the waveforms of digitised human speech? Can you read them? Of course not.
Ever look at, say, Japanese katakana? Perl? Pretty much any form of communication that you don't already know? Can you read them. Of course not.
Could you learn? Of course.
When you hear the sound though you understand it without analysing every minute component making up the overall sound.
Of course you analyze every minute component. You also draw in lots of metadata, including facial expression, body language, environment/context, recent history, and so on. This is why we have such a bitch of a time teaching computers to communicate like humans.
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You're looking for a book called 'The Science of Superheroes.' Good read.
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In Japan, you'll find Manga for everything from world history to automobile repair. It's just one of those things.
Similarly, the Sega hardware has always been close to it's consoles; the Dreamcast, for example, was pretty much the little sister to Naomi, the arcade gear. This meant that making a port from Arcade to Dreamcast was trivial.
Yes, because just because it can be physically duplicated for little to no cost doesn't mean it's free.
Of course not. The SUV owner isn't deprived in the slightest.
No, but the company who has to pay designers, engineers, assembly line workers, and so on, is. You're getting the fruits of somebody's labour for free, when they're not giving it away for free. That's theft.
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Nah, it's something Pythonesque.
We, the Union of Concerned Scientists..
Ah, excuse me?
Yes, you in the back?
I wouldn't say I'm concerned.
No?
Ah, no.
Are you a scientist?
Yes.
But not concerned.
No.
Well, what are you, then?
Ah, interested.
Interested?
Yes. I'm not quite concerned about this, but I am interested.
Is anybody else here 'interested?'
(silence)
Right. We the Union of Concerned, and Interested Scientists...
And so on.
What's to prevent somebody from driving without a license?
Public humiliation in general; give community service some teeth by dressing people in distinctive coveralls and making them clean up public areas. Boom, done.
Because there's also the concept of 'not worth my time to track down.'
Besides, the analog in the computer world would be 'Well, Linux is a copy of UNIX, but doesn't claim to be UNIX, blah blah blah' which is one thing. Creating your own software designed to act like a different piece of software is one thing. Taking somebody else's software is another.
Really? I was able to find this in about four clicks from sun.com's index page. Note the word 'FREE', in red, even, in relation to the word 'Download' and behind the words 'Solaris 9 12/03 Operating System.' Both SPARC and x86.
Actually, they did this with J++, and they got smacked down hard over it.
Making a legitimate competitive product is one thing. Making something deliberately designed to capatalize upon, and draw confusion with, somebody else's product, is another.
The designers are. If they spend 1 million dollars to design a new car, and sell that car for 20,000 dollars a piece, but you steal the plans, you've just stolen 1 million dollars worth of value.
If the designers spend 1 million dollars on design, and give that design away, that's their choice.
Obviously, the PRICE that they're being SOLD AT is enough to cover COSTS TO MAKE THE KIT as well as perhaps a bit of PROFIT.
Like that FA-18 Hornet going on ebay; 1 million for the parts, 8 million if you want it assembled.
A small recording device; people use them all the time. Record your notes, transcribe them later.
I expect that they just wanted a little bit of recognition for all the hard work they do, and Xfree86 transcends Linux in much the same was Apache does, so they wern't thinking in terms of GPL compatibility.
They just wanted a nod when people use their work.
Note also that Disney wanted to make changes to Spirited Away, but were contractually barred from doing so.
Nah, but after they escape, they'll build an amazing little warren under a rose bush, and organize a daring midnight commando-style airlift of a refugee mouse and her children (the father, unfortunatly, died during a gurellia, or is that mouseia, raid to procure food and supplies) to a safer place.
(As an aside, the animated version of the above story was the first movie I ever watched that actually disturbed me; I was in Grade 3 or so, I think, and watching the rats get injected with stuff and start convulsing....)
Hee hee, reminds me of my first giving-flowers-to-the-wife debacle.
I arranged for the delivery, and the guy said they'd be delivered that day, probably early afternoon. I was home for the later afternoon, and they hadn't been delivered.
So I'm sitting on the couch, reading a newspaper, when a knock knock knock sounds at the door. There's the flower guy.
The wife looks at me. "You going to answer that?" The wife hates answering the door. "No," I said, "I think you should."
So she gives me a look which, if looks could kill, would splatter me across the wall, stomps over to the door, and flings it open. "Yes?" she growls out in that pissed-off female way.
"Flowers for Suzanne, with love, from your husband. Happy Valentines Day."
She turned around and immediatly broke into full-on bawling.
It's the size of a stamp. How many stamps could you fit on something the size of, say, a PCMCIA card?
Hey, CompanyX, this is Nvidia. Sweet texture compression there. Can we use it? Yeah, we'll pay that much. No, we won't share it with anybody. Great, thanks.
Time passes.....
Hey, Linux, you want drivers for our sweet Nvidia cards? Ok, but they'll have to be binary only, as there are parts of them that we're LEGALLY NOT ALLOWED TO DIVULGE.
Which is why the Xbox DVD adaptor comes with a remote control.
But it is manga. It's a textbook in manga form, and it's common. For example, "Introduction to the Japanese Economy."
From http://www.dnp.co.jp/museum/nmp/nmp_i/articles/man ga/manga2-1.html
Ever look at, say, Japanese katakana? Perl? Pretty much any form of communication that you don't already know? Can you read them. Of course not.
Could you learn? Of course.
Of course you analyze every minute component. You also draw in lots of metadata, including facial expression, body language, environment/context, recent history, and so on. This is why we have such a bitch of a time teaching computers to communicate like humans.
You're looking for a book called 'The Science of Superheroes.' Good read.
In Japan, you'll find Manga for everything from world history to automobile repair. It's just one of those things.
Similarly, the Sega hardware has always been close to it's consoles; the Dreamcast, for example, was pretty much the little sister to Naomi, the arcade gear. This meant that making a port from Arcade to Dreamcast was trivial.
Ghost was pushed to June, I think. And Ninja Gaiden's been pushed to March.
Still, Tecmo delivers, so I'm looking quite forward to NG. And I have high hopes for Ghost.
Did the box say 'multiplayer?' If no, then you fucked up. You got what you bought.
If yes, then you fucked up; you should have taken it back to the store immediately and demanded your money back.
Like I said, she prefers the original UT.
She also has a certain fondness for Jedi Knight 2. I should get around to picking up Jedi Academy.
Yes, because just because it can be physically duplicated for little to no cost doesn't mean it's free.
No, but the company who has to pay designers, engineers, assembly line workers, and so on, is. You're getting the fruits of somebody's labour for free, when they're not giving it away for free. That's theft.
My six year old daughter says many of the same things; she vastly prefers the original UT to UT2K3. We'll see what she thinks of 2K4.