..because it rests on a couple of assumptions that are clearly wrong:
1) There is no such a thing as intellectual property.
2) copying a CD is not illegal or immoral
3) You're somehow equating an artist with a distribution company (they're different).
I think you should reformulate your argument (because you might have a point), but try to incorporate these few ideas:
1) Theft is different than copyright violations 2) You're allowed to make copies of your CDs for personal use. 3) Talk about how the artist and distribution methods are affected in different ways. 4) Finally, talk about how any kind of copy protection must incorporate the notion that once I pay for a CD, I may listen to it in whatever device I decide, and at any time it is convenient for me.
Again, I believe you might have some really good thoughts, but you've sort of muddled things together.
The existing telecom infrastructure is too slow, and the RBOC's have no interest in upgrading it primarily because it upsets their existing infrastructure and business plan.
I don't think the bailout is a good thing, but I'd point out an analogy.
Do you know why there are so many roads to every little hamlet, town, and farm in the United States? Courtesy of the US Post Office who would deliever mail to your mailbox only if the road was paved.
So there are examples of forced infrastructure upgrades having an economic benefit as a whole, so this is not without precedent.
I understand tech books, but for the types of books you read once...novels, fiction, that sort of thing, the paperback book is a thing of beauty.
It fits comfortably in hand, requires no power, can be stored in a large pocket or small backpack, and its cheap enough that if it gets lots, you don't care, I can loan it to my friends if I want, I can throw it away, I can store it on a shelf, virtually indestructable, theft resistant and it requires no electricity to use. I can even use it in the hot tub or swimming pool, and it if gets wet, well, when you dry it out, it usually pretty usable. Its perfect packaging for the human animal.
So if I have a reader for my ebook, I'm getting a fragile device that will have DRM built into it, will require electricity, and will be difficult to read.
Rather than try to improve one of the perfect human inventions (the paperback book), why not work on something useful like a good, cheap DVD player for linux?
(I never know what people mean when they say that...."Free software is just like communism"....what... the workers control the means of production? Die yanqui dogs? I just don't get it)
"Now a hacker is moving into their turf, the legal arena, here is where Microsoft is very competent"
Yeah...wasn't it just fabulous the way MS's lawyer's outfoxed the government when they lost their case vs. the US govt and was forced to split up pending appeal?
Can it still play X-Box games? It might be fun to try, but the reason I bought the X-Box was for games. of course, I only own one game. Still waiting for that killer app...
The more big companies feel the pain caused by over-reaching IP claims, the faster the day will come that our "representatives" will be forced to rationalize these laws.
The only thing credit history is good for is...more credit.
Believe me, there's plenty of time to build up a credit history once you're working.
The trouble with a credit card is that you get used to satisfying needs immediately. Everything becomes an impulse buy.
How much better on all our purchases if we said, "not now, I'll wait until the end of the week".
if we did that, we probably wouldn't buy 1/2 the "junk" we do today, ie. CD's, DVD's, video games, electronics.
I doubt many 18 year olds have the necessary willpower.
So what do you get? A $5,000 debt when you graduate college at 20% interest. And you'll be earning $20K per year. Tell me how long it will be to pay that back. A L-O-O-O-N-G time. A "credit history" doesn't seem like much of a payback, particularly if you default.
" It is very easy to distribute the load between multiple cheap, comodity x86 servers"
Unless you have to save state information; then it becomes significantly more difficult. If you run an app server, then you have that cost. If you need a high-availability DB, then you have a significant cost.
Don't get me wrong; using cheap web servers is the way to go, but its not magic; there are other costs involved.
2) I think Window size is settable by device. Otherwise, there's no way you could route between say, a token ring card and an ethernet card (something that I'm certain can be done).
3) You're probably right except that home networks don't have different subnets. Or I should say, there's no good reason to have multiple subnets.
I think the primary problem with 2-way satellite service is that latency is so high that for the common things home users do (open up their home page of http://www.msn.com) its likely to be no faster than a dial-up connection.
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..because it rests on a couple of assumptions that are clearly wrong:
1) There is no such a thing as intellectual property.
2) copying a CD is not illegal or immoral
3) You're somehow equating an artist with a distribution company (they're different).
I think you should reformulate your argument (because you might have a point), but try to incorporate these few ideas:
1) Theft is different than copyright violations
2) You're allowed to make copies of your CDs for personal use.
3) Talk about how the artist and distribution methods are affected in different ways.
4) Finally, talk about how any kind of copy protection must incorporate the notion that once I pay for a CD, I may listen to it in whatever device I decide, and at any time it is convenient for me.
Again, I believe you might have some really good thoughts, but you've sort of muddled things together.
Lets try again, shall we?
"He had some far fetched ideas about completely tossing the desktop out of the window"
Linux has some far fetched idea about completely tossing Windows out of the desktop.
Funny, eh?
"Buying education version when you are not a student is exactly like pirating it."
Really? It sounds more like a EULA violation than a copyright violation.
I think the two are entirely separate.
Since in MS's eyes, the ASP world should move to ASP.NET, how do you divorce ASP from .NET? You really can't.
As to the rest of the article, it seems as if only the hopelessly naive or people with an axe to grind will pay much attention to reports like this.
Thanks for your hard work.
Keep kicking butt up there at ICANN.
Do you want theoretical advice or practical?
Theoretical:
If you feel you can't live with the restrictions or you and your machine, then drop the service and use something else.
Practical
Just wipe the stuff off the machine after the guy leaves.
You can only analyze this stuff so far.
Cheating as an art form
The existing telecom infrastructure is too slow, and the RBOC's have no interest in upgrading it primarily because it upsets their existing infrastructure and business plan.
I don't think the bailout is a good thing, but I'd point out an analogy.
Do you know why there are so many roads to every little hamlet, town, and farm in the United States? Courtesy of the US Post Office who would deliever mail to your mailbox only if the road was paved.
So there are examples of forced infrastructure upgrades having an economic benefit as a whole, so this is not without precedent.
For a bunch of reasons, but two to think about:
1) Many windows drivers let you put in arbitrary MAC's. Ban me? No prob, I'll change it to something else.
2) Many firewalls will let you do the same thing.
3) Ethernet cards cost what...a dollar or two at a used computer swap meet? If it comes down to it just keep a stack of 10.
It appears this is intended to catch people clever enough to cheat, but not clever enough to change their MAC address.
Another example of poorly contructed solutions to a badly defined problem.
I understand tech books, but for the types of books you read once...novels, fiction, that sort of thing, the paperback book is a thing of beauty.
It fits comfortably in hand, requires no power, can be stored in a large pocket or small backpack, and its cheap enough that if it gets lots, you don't care, I can loan it to my friends if I want, I can throw it away, I can store it on a shelf, virtually indestructable, theft resistant and it requires no electricity to use. I can even use it in the hot tub or swimming pool, and it if gets wet, well, when you dry it out, it usually pretty usable. Its perfect packaging for the human animal.
So if I have a reader for my ebook, I'm getting a fragile device that will have DRM built into it, will require electricity, and will be difficult to read.
Rather than try to improve one of the perfect human inventions (the paperback book), why not work on something useful like a good, cheap DVD player for linux?
...just like communism?
(I never know what people mean when they say that...."Free software is just like communism"....what... the workers control the means of production? Die yanqui dogs? I just don't get it)
Even at $14, its too much.
Perhaps if they lowered a CD to under $10, it would then be worth it to try albums that you might like.
But for $14-18, you don't buy it because for that kind of money, every single track better be good. Its no longer an impulse buy.
Very few albums qualify any more under the harsh criteria of actually being *good* for a whole 50 minutes.
What a concept.
All IBM MVS error messages end up saying this in the manual:
ERROR: Error on open macro at the address indicated
PROGRAMMER ACTION: Fix and rerun.
No joke.
"Now a hacker is moving into their turf, the legal arena, here is where Microsoft is very competent"
Yeah...wasn't it just fabulous the way MS's lawyer's outfoxed the government when they lost their case vs. the US govt and was forced to split up pending appeal?
Whoops.
Thank you.
This will be of great interest.
I just installed Lindows 2. Using it right now in fact.
It isn't perfect, but its interface its pretty damned good.
The killer "app" that's holding companies to windows is MS Exchange, specifically the calendering piece and its integration with email.
But when the open source movement gets a really good, robust Exchange replacement, Microsoft essentially becomes redundant.
This new Linux stuff is powerful. When I look at it I understand why Microsoft is nervous.
I think the Lindows people are really onto something here.
set up the atmosphere in the media and congress to justify more draconian copy protection?
Our government's knee jerks visibly every time the record and movie industry announces some new threat to their livlihood.
They seem somewhat less concerned with me, but then, I never contribute to political campaigns.
Can it still play X-Box games? It might be fun to try, but the reason I bought the X-Box was for games. of course, I only own one game. Still waiting for that killer app...
The more big companies feel the pain caused by over-reaching IP claims, the faster the day will come that our "representatives" will be forced to rationalize these laws.
The only thing credit history is good for is...more credit.
Believe me, there's plenty of time to build up a credit history once you're working.
The trouble with a credit card is that you get used to satisfying needs immediately. Everything becomes an impulse buy.
How much better on all our purchases if we said, "not now, I'll wait until the end of the week".
if we did that, we probably wouldn't buy 1/2 the "junk" we do today, ie. CD's, DVD's, video games, electronics.
I doubt many 18 year olds have the necessary willpower.
So what do you get? A $5,000 debt when you graduate college at 20% interest. And you'll be earning $20K per year. Tell me how long it will be to pay that back. A L-O-O-O-N-G time. A "credit history" doesn't seem like much of a payback, particularly if you default.
Deep Fritz uses the G4 processor.
As Apple keeps telling us, you can't compare simply by specs. Some computers are just faster no matter what the numbers say.
If you read the article you'll notice an utter and complete lack of any facts.
This reminds me of Orson Well's war of the worlds, but boys, isn't this about 3 weeks early to start this kind of story?
" It is very easy to distribute the load between multiple cheap, comodity x86 servers"
Unless you have to save state information; then it becomes significantly more difficult. If you run an app server, then you have that cost. If you need a high-availability DB, then you have a significant cost.
Don't get me wrong; using cheap web servers is the way to go, but its not magic; there are other costs involved.
2) I think Window size is settable by device. Otherwise, there's no way you could route between say, a token ring card and an ethernet card (something that I'm certain can be done).
3) You're probably right except that home networks don't have different subnets. Or I should say, there's no good reason to have multiple subnets.
I think the primary problem with 2-way satellite service is that latency is so high that for the common things home users do (open up their home page of http://www.msn.com) its likely to be no faster than a dial-up connection.
I usually pay attention to their reviews, particularly when you can get at least 3 people responding.
5 96 001231/qid=1033485007/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-198980 7-1175041?v=glance
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0
Not a great review; the primary complain is too many mistakes and typos.