You cannot make them die with the author, since those rights would then have substantially less value (imagine if his rights to the white Album died the day Lennon was shot - all that money from the inevitable "death windfall" made by the remaining beatles and the record companies and nothing at all to his widow and son? No Justice there.)
Except you seem to forget the purpose of the clause: "To promote the useful arts and sciences." While it would be a tragedy and one would certainly hope that (in your example) Lennon's widow and son were given some money by the remaining Beatles, you cannot argue that they have some inherent right to any money gained from the sale of the white album. They were not the creators of the art in question and their "right" to royalties from Lennon's hard work should have died no later than 28 years after the work was first created.
The simple fact of the matter is that copyright has turned from a protective measure that ensured artists and inventors could make a living off their works (thereby encouraging others to create and invent) into a draconian set of rules, incredibly slanted towards corporate copyright holders, that no longer hold the intention of simply promoting art and science but instead give those copyright holders the ability to hold the general public hostage for as much money as possible. These laws are no longer compliant with the intended purpose of the original clause and have not been for quite some time.
Please mod the parent down. An amendment is not solely passed by act of Congress. The above author has no idea what he's talking about, be it filesharing or prohibition.
Anti-piracy laws are passed because corporations want them to be and because the American public largely doesn't give a damn about copyright law. Seriously.
Just a couple of quick notes. First off, you must bear in mind that all of the cards they tested are DX9 capable, this is going to help out framerates quite a bit. In fact, when you look at benchmarks for the newer games, framerates drop off quite a bit when you start looking at cards like the GeForce 4.
More importantly, the boxes they did the benchmarking on were maxed out with specs like 2GB of DDR400 and an Athlon 64 or comparable processor. Unless you've got all the other specs to match the test box, you're looking at the best possible framerates you can get under the very best possible conditions on those systems. In addition to that, they had anti-aliasing turned off for several of those benchmarks.
Now compare those 60-70fps on that kind of box with whatever setup you've got...then swap out the video card for a GeForce 4Ti 4X00 and you're looking at maybe25-30fps with medium effects at 1024x768. That's almost unplayable.
Granted, I'm doing a good bit of guessing here, but this comes from a number of years of experience playing the latest games on older hardware. The basic sys-req's for the game are a GF3 or better - we can interpret that to mean it'll give you about 25fps at 800x600 with all the eye candy turned off if you're sporting a top-of-the-line GeForce 3. I doubt you're going to see good performance out of Doom 3 without anything better than a GeForce FX 5600.
Luckily, we'll all find out in a little less than two weeks:-D
In fact, I'm waiting on my GeForce FX5900XT to arrive (hopefully Friday!!!) to replace my Ti4200 w/ 64Meg of RAM.
From my reading of the benchmarks, you might get an OK framerate at 800x600 with most of the effects turned off. Sorry, but Doom 3 is the first of the new generation of games. If you seriously want to play, you need to look at dropping at least $150 on a new card or wait a couple of months until the prices on the 6800's come down.
I didn't particularly feel the need to go into the topics of dilution and options. But you do have a point.
That being said, the point of the post was that the stock market does not inherently create jobs, and as far as job creation goes, there are about 50 better ways to do it. Especially since the market is a product of the economy, not a catalyst.
Youre understanding of the market seems a bit skewed to me.
Assuming Bill goes out and buys 50,000 shares of, say XMSR then in all actuality, the folks at XM Radio won't see a penny of that. We buy stocks from other people, not from the companies themselves, excepting an IPO, in which case, the price remains rather low to begin with. But this is just an infusion of cash, not a continuous stream.
Now, you could be talking about corporate bonds, in which case you'd be right. But AFAIK, most investors aren't looking for high-risk bonds like those of small cap businesses. They're looking for large-cap investments to shore up whatever it is they're doing in the market. This will create a few new jobs, but nothing on the scale of what you're talking about.
In reality, if you want to grow the economy, the best practice is to infuse money directly into the hands of consumers. Most people (unlike companies and the majority of the wealthy) don't stick their cash in a drawer somewhere; they spend it. And when they buy more goods, corporations' earnings go up. When corporate earnings go up, they hire more people, etc.
But this all goes back into the argument against supply side economics. The money at the top of the economic foodchain has a wicked tendency to stay at the top.
Why, just the other day I got a call from the people over at GIMP telling me what a bastard I was for not going out and purchasing their software.
I'm sorry, but I doubt the guys at Alias Wavefront are going to go after the high-school kid that jacked a copy of Maya. If it weren't free to him, do you think he'd shell out the $10,000 just to fuck with it?
The same goes for apps like Photoshop. In fact, I'd argue that Photoshop piracy actually helps Adobe. You figure if that app was impossible to copy, people would be flying to the GIMP like crazy...the GIMP gets more development done due to greater use, starts to develop a feature-set equal or greater than that of Photoshop, Adobe's sales decline because people are getting what they want for free and bang...another vendor bites the dust because they were worried more about piracy staying on top of their game...
People are going to steal software no matter what. The successful company is the one that figures out how to cope....
...or pay off Senators to draft draconian punishments.
Although you do have a point. Considering the amount of cash the RIAA and MPAA are willing to shell out in campain donations and anti-consumer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H piracy ads, I suppose you could say they are "loosing" money on P2P;-)
You forgot Rubens Barichello. The guy's a pretty good driver in his own right and is usually finishing right behind MS.
Of course it helps that Ferrari doesn't have an engine blow on them every race. Guys like Coulthard and Sato could be much farther up in the points if they weren't running with POS engines.
ctrl+u should do the trick. well, it isn't as nice as PINE but you can view the headers real quick and then just close the window. That's what I use to view my spamassassin markup when I need to.
Oh, and completely off-topic. In your "my patriotism" post, you mention that you wish Clinton had been impeached. He was impeached, he just wasn't removed from office.
That's exactly the point TiVo should be selling on. Ease of use.
I was just discussing this with a co-worker today. He asked me about different PVRs and I told him that I absolutely love my TiVo, and probably wouldn't change to another just because it was a little bit cheaper, or had more features.
Simply put, TiVo is the iPod* of the PVR world. It costs more, and doesn't have quite the feature-set of competing brands, but what it lacks in functionality, it more than makes up for in the simplicity of its UI and control mechanisms. Personally, the thought put into such things is worth a lot.
*Note: Apple computers suck for this same reason, but the iPod they got right.
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You cannot make them die with the author, since those rights would then have substantially less value (imagine if his rights to the white Album died the day Lennon was shot - all that money from the inevitable "death windfall" made by the remaining beatles and the record companies and nothing at all to his widow and son? No Justice there.)
Except you seem to forget the purpose of the clause: "To promote the useful arts and sciences." While it would be a tragedy and one would certainly hope that (in your example) Lennon's widow and son were given some money by the remaining Beatles, you cannot argue that they have some inherent right to any money gained from the sale of the white album. They were not the creators of the art in question and their "right" to royalties from Lennon's hard work should have died no later than 28 years after the work was first created.
The simple fact of the matter is that copyright has turned from a protective measure that ensured artists and inventors could make a living off their works (thereby encouraging others to create and invent) into a draconian set of rules, incredibly slanted towards corporate copyright holders, that no longer hold the intention of simply promoting art and science but instead give those copyright holders the ability to hold the general public hostage for as much money as possible. These laws are no longer compliant with the intended purpose of the original clause and have not been for quite some time.
Please mod the parent down. An amendment is not solely passed by act of Congress. The above author has no idea what he's talking about, be it filesharing or prohibition.
Anti-piracy laws are passed because corporations want them to be and because the American public largely doesn't give a damn about copyright law. Seriously.
This guy's really having a bad day. First, his company owns his thoughts. Then slashdot owns his webserver.
I was looking at planetdoom and found this page.
Recommended requirements are about what I'd expected:
GF Ti4200, Athlon 2500+, 512MB RAM
Just a couple of quick notes. First off, you must bear in mind that all of the cards they tested are DX9 capable, this is going to help out framerates quite a bit. In fact, when you look at benchmarks for the newer games, framerates drop off quite a bit when you start looking at cards like the GeForce 4.
:-D
More importantly, the boxes they did the benchmarking on were maxed out with specs like 2GB of DDR400 and an Athlon 64 or comparable processor. Unless you've got all the other specs to match the test box, you're looking at the best possible framerates you can get under the very best possible conditions on those systems. In addition to that, they had anti-aliasing turned off for several of those benchmarks.
Now compare those 60-70fps on that kind of box with whatever setup you've got...then swap out the video card for a GeForce 4Ti 4X00 and you're looking at maybe25-30fps with medium effects at 1024x768. That's almost unplayable.
Granted, I'm doing a good bit of guessing here, but this comes from a number of years of experience playing the latest games on older hardware. The basic sys-req's for the game are a GF3 or better - we can interpret that to mean it'll give you about 25fps at 800x600 with all the eye candy turned off if you're sporting a top-of-the-line GeForce 3. I doubt you're going to see good performance out of Doom 3 without anything better than a GeForce FX 5600.
Luckily, we'll all find out in a little less than two weeks
You need to upgrade.
In fact, I'm waiting on my GeForce FX5900XT to arrive (hopefully Friday!!!) to replace my Ti4200 w/ 64Meg of RAM.
From my reading of the benchmarks, you might get an OK framerate at 800x600 with most of the effects turned off. Sorry, but Doom 3 is the first of the new generation of games. If you seriously want to play, you need to look at dropping at least $150 on a new card or wait a couple of months until the prices on the 6800's come down.
I didn't particularly feel the need to go into the topics of dilution and options. But you do have a point.
That being said, the point of the post was that the stock market does not inherently create jobs, and as far as job creation goes, there are about 50 better ways to do it. Especially since the market is a product of the economy, not a catalyst.
Youre understanding of the market seems a bit skewed to me.
Assuming Bill goes out and buys 50,000 shares of, say XMSR then in all actuality, the folks at XM Radio won't see a penny of that. We buy stocks from other people, not from the companies themselves, excepting an IPO, in which case, the price remains rather low to begin with. But this is just an infusion of cash, not a continuous stream.
Now, you could be talking about corporate bonds, in which case you'd be right. But AFAIK, most investors aren't looking for high-risk bonds like those of small cap businesses. They're looking for large-cap investments to shore up whatever it is they're doing in the market. This will create a few new jobs, but nothing on the scale of what you're talking about.
In reality, if you want to grow the economy, the best practice is to infuse money directly into the hands of consumers. Most people (unlike companies and the majority of the wealthy) don't stick their cash in a drawer somewhere; they spend it. And when they buy more goods, corporations' earnings go up. When corporate earnings go up, they hire more people, etc.
But this all goes back into the argument against supply side economics. The money at the top of the economic foodchain has a wicked tendency to stay at the top.
I sure hope osnews.com isn't running slack as proof of concept ;-)
You have no idea how true this is!
...or pay off Senators to draft draconian punishments.
Why, just the other day I got a call from the people over at GIMP telling me what a bastard I was for not going out and purchasing their software.
I'm sorry, but I doubt the guys at Alias Wavefront are going to go after the high-school kid that jacked a copy of Maya. If it weren't free to him, do you think he'd shell out the $10,000 just to fuck with it?
The same goes for apps like Photoshop. In fact, I'd argue that Photoshop piracy actually helps Adobe. You figure if that app was impossible to copy, people would be flying to the GIMP like crazy...the GIMP gets more development done due to greater use, starts to develop a feature-set equal or greater than that of Photoshop, Adobe's sales decline because people are getting what they want for free and bang...another vendor bites the dust because they were worried more about piracy staying on top of their game...
People are going to steal software no matter what. The successful company is the one that figures out how to cope....
Although you do have a point. Considering the amount of cash the RIAA and MPAA are willing to shell out in campain donations and anti-consumer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H piracy ads, I suppose you could say they are "loosing" money on P2P ;-)
I did my part.
Can I mark this down as community service?
You forgot Rubens Barichello. The guy's a pretty good driver in his own right and is usually finishing right behind MS.
Of course it helps that Ferrari doesn't have an engine blow on them every race. Guys like Coulthard and Sato could be much farther up in the points if they weren't running with POS engines.
At least the WRC is on too.
Someone mod parent up.
ctrl+u should do the trick. well, it isn't as nice as PINE but you can view the headers real quick and then just close the window. That's what I use to view my spamassassin markup when I need to.
Big...Huge....Brains!
The set {2,4,6,...} is infinite, but it only contains one prime.
Yes, and it also contains only one number that is a single digit and ends in two. That, to me, is a mathematical strawman.
Yes, but in your example p,p+3 (other than where p=2) p+3 will always be an even number.
A better example would be the pair p,p+4 - of which there would be an infinite number for the reasons I outlined in my last post.
Simply put, I can't see how you wouldn't have an infinite number of prime pairs when using the set p,p+n where n is an even number.
How could that not be the case with an infinite set of numbers?
I'm not sure I understand why this is so hard to figure out.
Assuming that there are an infinite number of numbers (always n+1) then doesn't this have to be the case?
What's Fallujah like this time of year?
I think you're the only one who got your joke.
Who the hell is Robert S. Rumsfeld?
Oh, and completely off-topic. In your "my patriotism" post, you mention that you wish Clinton had been impeached. He was impeached, he just wasn't removed from office.
That's exactly the point TiVo should be selling on. Ease of use.
I was just discussing this with a co-worker today. He asked me about different PVRs and I told him that I absolutely love my TiVo, and probably wouldn't change to another just because it was a little bit cheaper, or had more features.
Simply put, TiVo is the iPod* of the PVR world. It costs more, and doesn't have quite the feature-set of competing brands, but what it lacks in functionality, it more than makes up for in the simplicity of its UI and control mechanisms. Personally, the thought put into such things is worth a lot.
*Note: Apple computers suck for this same reason, but the iPod they got right.
That is sooooo about to become my new sig.
Learn Hindi?