The summary started off generally okay, even if it wasn't telling us anything we didn't know for the past 10 years, but that last sentence... that's not even English so poignantly details.
The fuck is your problem? If you'd actually read my post you might notice it was how the grandparent's McDonald's analogy was sucky, and being used to support faulty logic:)
So someone making a piece of artwork, by not allowing others to copy and sell it, is a monopoly?
Um, obviously? Do you know what the word monopoly means? Do you know that copyright is by definition a monopoly? Do you understand anything about the system at all? Or are you a retard, parroting something that you were almost paying attention to in high school civics, who thinks that he has something new and deep to contribute to slashdot?
Oh yeah, I wonder.
Your argument is foolish in a number of ways. The first is that the McDonald's recipe isn't and can't be protected by copyright, or any other created monopoly; it is, instead, a "trade secret", which as its name implies, has to be kept secret. If I figure out McDonald's recipe (eew) by reverse engineering, that's perfectly fine; McDonald's can't stop me from using it, as their secret is no longer secret. In the case of copyright or patent, the work or design is made public, not held secret, but the creator retains some sort of control over it. This is an entirely different situation and not even vaguely relevant.
Moving on, you say that copyright is necessary to prevent "theft" of an artist's work's, but that's a shallow argument. Within the copyright system, that's arguably true, but you have to consider that copyright is a created right; no such thing exists "naturally". You say "what right does Alice have to 'steal' Bob's work", but I say "What right does Bob have to tell Alice what she can do with his work after he's given it away?" To provide copyright, you have to infringe on the (more basic) rights of speech, commerce, and property. There's a tradeoff there, and arguably, the rights that copyright curtails are far more valuable than the ones it provides.
First off, that's got no bearing on whether the quote itself is valid. You should judge it on its own merit, not the author's. Personally, I think the quote is incredibly apt.
Second, you're entirely wrong. Rand was actually quite vehemently anti-anarchist. In essence, she believed that the "American system of government", as originally concieved, was the perfect system under which people could live in enlightened self-interest, and that "libertarians" were just hooligans who wanted to disregard the rights of their neighbors. There are some logical flaws here, but it's still what she said, and it's still the word of the "official" Objectivists. So you should probably avoid putting words in anyone's mouth, even if it does get people on the internet to call you "insightful".
Well, considering that Apache2 is in the current release I don't see why it wouldn't be in the next. And so long as no major bugs show up against mysql, I don't see why it wouldn't go in either. Of course even Debian can't protect you from the massive load of bugs that the mysql devs call "features":)
I hate how people write off ATI and Nvidia as Open Source scrooges since their drivers are closed. The reality is that their code isn't all home grown and they couldn't open source it even if they wanted to.
I think the grandparent's point was at least Intel can make drivers that work and don't suck donkey dick unlike ATI. And they even open-source them into the bargain. They were one of the first to release open 802.11a/b/g drivers for Linux, they contribute on open 3D drivers, etc. NVidia's drivers aren't open, but at least they're properly maintained. ATI, on the other hand, releases drivers that are consistently about 2 years behind the curve on Xorg compatibility, they break cards without warning, they use silly nonstandard build procedures, and their drivers still don't work as often as not. Yes, there's been some improvement -- but the ATI drivers today are suitable to the state of Linux in, say, 1998, not 2006. It ain't good.:)
If you didn't understand 7's story, there are two problems with you.
The first is that you don't speak Japanese. Okay, I can't blame you for that, but it means that the localization team screwed you over. The original story team can't be blamed for the things that were mangled or glossed over in the English version.
The second is that you simply didn't pay enough attention to detail. Everything is in there somewhere. There are people who have paid the requisite attention, and come up with complete, satisfying answers to essentially every question. The Ultimania Omega guide and the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII provide further insights.
That said, it's a good story. It's deep. Everything has a purpose, all of the characters are valuable, and all of them grow. The execution was imperfect, due to various technical and financial issues, but that's true of everything. If you're able to realize that and look at what the game was really trying to be, it's an amazing thing. VI is also pretty good in this regard, but as other people have mentioned, the story sort of unravels halfway in. Amazingly, FFX is right up there in terms of "depth of story", but a lot of people don't realize it, because it's stealth story. You can easily play the game without noticing half of the things that go on. Maybe it's just because you fell asleep during the 20-minute FMV segments;)
Forget escaping... never make user input a part of your SQL. There's never any reason for it. Hell, even PHP supports prepared statements and binding (never mind the fact that it took them over a decade to get there).
Well, you have to consider, this is NASA. There are certain procurement and testing processes involved. By the time they could get the whole thing sorted out, the shuttles would be rusted-out hulks. Or all burned up, as the case may be. I exaggerate, but only slightly. I'm sure it wouldn't be a cost-effective proposition.
Nope, that won't do. "Strafe" was in the manuals and in the keyboard setup screens before there were games in which you could reasonably circle strafe.
Metroid Prime handled the issue of "building up the game" beautifully. First, take basic gameplay that's really fun. Then, add multiple axes along which the character can grow, each with their own interesting points. Then, add a few things along towards the end just for surprise factor. Roll it all into a game that's polished in every facet, to ensure that every moment is fun[1]. Release, and watch as people worship you.;)
What? X? X had the easiest end bosses ever. Methinks you should have run around, done a bit more optional stuff, and gained more stats in the process; by the time I finished that game, a Trio of 9999 would have greatly reduced my damage potential. Yunalesca, a few hours earlier in terms of mandatory plot, with all of her status attacks, was at least 10 times more difficult than any of the "final" battles.
I've got to agree with the grandparent, though, about VIII. Due to some poor planning, I ended up at Ultimecia's castle, and I was completely screwed. Short on supplies, all abilities locked out, and there are no stores in the world of "time compression", which I'm sure was just an excuse for the fact that they didn't put the store data on Disc 4. In any case, I ask myself, what's left? Some battles and some FMV. Okay, I say... I'm here. I beat the game. That's the end of that, what's left?;)
For reference, see, um, slashdot. Plenty of articles recently. I'm talking about the sort of thing they use in movie theaters, just miniaturized. I'm quite sure that they can be bypassed as well, but as I said before, that's not the point.
Notice that this is specifically not what I was talking about. From the grandparent: "I can see the videophile's system of the future: a video driver card with an external analog output plugged into a video capture card" -- my point is that the external output and the capture card would become useless. Sure, you can point a camera at your screen, but doing it right would be expensive and slow. And maybe the next step would be for your video card to refuse to output to a monitor that doesn't have a working "camera killer". Sure, it wouldn't be effective, but it would be one more bit of restriction that you'd be paying for.
Are you kidding? Forget the DMCA. First they cut the locker open (nothing digital there folks). Then they expel you from the school. Then they find a way to use the contents of the locker to bring criminal charges against you. And don't think that they won't plant evidence if it suits them. Anyone making public schools look foolish will be destroyed.
Except that your movie playing software will refuse to work because your video card has an analog output, and isn't certified to use a digital protocol with end-to-end encryption and authentication.
Thanks, FireFury03. We agree, but you came up with a better statement than I could have. Or at least, better than I was willing to put time into. The point about VoIP is well-made, and (I think) especially relevant at the moment. I had quite a time getting my SIP ATA set up initially.
As to IPv6, no, my ISP isn't quite "with it" enough to assign me, a lowly consumer, any addresses. But my gateway router runs a v6 tunnel and radvd, so my entire network is online. And yes, I use it. For work, mostly.
Wow. Is this a troll or are people really so ignorant?
Long story short, you're dead wrong. A hack that only screws you over some of the time is not the same as an advantage.
Point by point: 1. IPv6 is coming along plenty well, thank you. 2. Yes, NAT sort of works like a cheap hardware firewall. So does a cheap hardware (or free software) firewall. 3. Ever hear of a router? There isn't a dichotomy between a NAT router and an "old style hub." 4. Insults to intelligence aren't a good idea here. And "open a port", despite being common terminology, is wrong. It's establishing a static route. Actually static NAT. It's allocating a scarce resource. And it shouldn't be necessary. 5. Same goes for UPnP. It doesn't solve any real problems, it just hides them from the user. It's also lousy for security (wait, I thought NAT was great for security?). It also shouldn't be necessary. 6. Screwing with the assumption that devices are routable, and that you can reach me at the same place you see me coming from is not a good idea
Short story short: NAT sucks. Short story even shorter: idiot.
They provide a service. Fast downloads, accurate titling (I've never known them to be wrong), and known quality. It's worth the cost. In fact, if they were to double the price and send half directly to artists it would still be a top-notch, worthwhile service.
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The summary started off generally okay, even if it wasn't telling us anything we didn't know for the past 10 years, but that last sentence... that's not even English so poignantly details.
The fuck is your problem? If you'd actually read my post you might notice it was how the grandparent's McDonald's analogy was sucky, and being used to support faulty logic :)
plz die thx
Um, obviously? Do you know what the word monopoly means? Do you know that copyright is by definition a monopoly? Do you understand anything about the system at all? Or are you a retard, parroting something that you were almost paying attention to in high school civics, who thinks that he has something new and deep to contribute to slashdot?
Oh yeah, I wonder.
Your argument is foolish in a number of ways. The first is that the McDonald's recipe isn't and can't be protected by copyright, or any other created monopoly; it is, instead, a "trade secret", which as its name implies, has to be kept secret. If I figure out McDonald's recipe (eew) by reverse engineering, that's perfectly fine; McDonald's can't stop me from using it, as their secret is no longer secret. In the case of copyright or patent, the work or design is made public, not held secret, but the creator retains some sort of control over it. This is an entirely different situation and not even vaguely relevant.
Moving on, you say that copyright is necessary to prevent "theft" of an artist's work's, but that's a shallow argument. Within the copyright system, that's arguably true, but you have to consider that copyright is a created right; no such thing exists "naturally". You say "what right does Alice have to 'steal' Bob's work", but I say "What right does Bob have to tell Alice what she can do with his work after he's given it away?" To provide copyright, you have to infringe on the (more basic) rights of speech, commerce, and property. There's a tradeoff there, and arguably, the rights that copyright curtails are far more valuable than the ones it provides.
First off, that's got no bearing on whether the quote itself is valid. You should judge it on its own merit, not the author's. Personally, I think the quote is incredibly apt.
Second, you're entirely wrong. Rand was actually quite vehemently anti-anarchist. In essence, she believed that the "American system of government", as originally concieved, was the perfect system under which people could live in enlightened self-interest, and that "libertarians" were just hooligans who wanted to disregard the rights of their neighbors. There are some logical flaws here, but it's still what she said, and it's still the word of the "official" Objectivists. So you should probably avoid putting words in anyone's mouth, even if it does get people on the internet to call you "insightful".
The irony of the century ;)
Well, considering that Apache2 is in the current release I don't see why it wouldn't be in the next. And so long as no major bugs show up against mysql, I don't see why it wouldn't go in either. Of course even Debian can't protect you from the massive load of bugs that the mysql devs call "features" :)
I hate how people write off ATI and Nvidia as Open Source scrooges since their drivers are closed. The reality is that their code isn't all home grown and they couldn't open source it even if they wanted to.
:)
I think the grandparent's point was at least Intel can make drivers that work and don't suck donkey dick unlike ATI. And they even open-source them into the bargain. They were one of the first to release open 802.11a/b/g drivers for Linux, they contribute on open 3D drivers, etc. NVidia's drivers aren't open, but at least they're properly maintained. ATI, on the other hand, releases drivers that are consistently about 2 years behind the curve on Xorg compatibility, they break cards without warning, they use silly nonstandard build procedures, and their drivers still don't work as often as not. Yes, there's been some improvement -- but the ATI drivers today are suitable to the state of Linux in, say, 1998, not 2006. It ain't good.
You can't run Linux because you're not experienced in using it... but you were born knowing how to use Windows? Or what?
Ah, there they are. Right next to the sonic screwdriver.
If you didn't understand 7's story, there are two problems with you.
;)
The first is that you don't speak Japanese. Okay, I can't blame you for that, but it means that the localization team screwed you over. The original story team can't be blamed for the things that were mangled or glossed over in the English version.
The second is that you simply didn't pay enough attention to detail. Everything is in there somewhere. There are people who have paid the requisite attention, and come up with complete, satisfying answers to essentially every question. The Ultimania Omega guide and the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII provide further insights.
That said, it's a good story. It's deep. Everything has a purpose, all of the characters are valuable, and all of them grow. The execution was imperfect, due to various technical and financial issues, but that's true of everything. If you're able to realize that and look at what the game was really trying to be, it's an amazing thing. VI is also pretty good in this regard, but as other people have mentioned, the story sort of unravels halfway in. Amazingly, FFX is right up there in terms of "depth of story", but a lot of people don't realize it, because it's stealth story. You can easily play the game without noticing half of the things that go on. Maybe it's just because you fell asleep during the 20-minute FMV segments
Forget escaping... never make user input a part of your SQL. There's never any reason for it. Hell, even PHP supports prepared statements and binding (never mind the fact that it took them over a decade to get there).
Well, you have to consider, this is NASA. There are certain procurement and testing processes involved. By the time they could get the whole thing sorted out, the shuttles would be rusted-out hulks. Or all burned up, as the case may be. I exaggerate, but only slightly. I'm sure it wouldn't be a cost-effective proposition.
Ooh, I know. You could have a game where you do nothing but send a check to Blizzard every month, and you get levels for it!
Meh. Nobody would notice the difference.
Nope, that won't do. "Strafe" was in the manuals and in the keyboard setup screens before there were games in which you could reasonably circle strafe.
Metroid Prime handled the issue of "building up the game" beautifully. First, take basic gameplay that's really fun. Then, add multiple axes along which the character can grow, each with their own interesting points. Then, add a few things along towards the end just for surprise factor. Roll it all into a game that's polished in every facet, to ensure that every moment is fun[1]. Release, and watch as people worship you. ;)
[1] We won't talk about the Omega Pirate.
What? X? X had the easiest end bosses ever. Methinks you should have run around, done a bit more optional stuff, and gained more stats in the process; by the time I finished that game, a Trio of 9999 would have greatly reduced my damage potential. Yunalesca, a few hours earlier in terms of mandatory plot, with all of her status attacks, was at least 10 times more difficult than any of the "final" battles.
;)
I've got to agree with the grandparent, though, about VIII. Due to some poor planning, I ended up at Ultimecia's castle, and I was completely screwed. Short on supplies, all abilities locked out, and there are no stores in the world of "time compression", which I'm sure was just an excuse for the fact that they didn't put the store data on Disc 4. In any case, I ask myself, what's left? Some battles and some FMV. Okay, I say... I'm here. I beat the game. That's the end of that, what's left?
For reference, see, um, slashdot. Plenty of articles recently. I'm talking about the sort of thing they use in movie theaters, just miniaturized. I'm quite sure that they can be bypassed as well, but as I said before, that's not the point.
Notice that this is specifically not what I was talking about. From the grandparent: "I can see the videophile's system of the future: a video driver card with an external analog output plugged into a video capture card" -- my point is that the external output and the capture card would become useless. Sure, you can point a camera at your screen, but doing it right would be expensive and slow. And maybe the next step would be for your video card to refuse to output to a monitor that doesn't have a working "camera killer". Sure, it wouldn't be effective, but it would be one more bit of restriction that you'd be paying for.
Are you kidding? Forget the DMCA. First they cut the locker open (nothing digital there folks). Then they expel you from the school. Then they find a way to use the contents of the locker to bring criminal charges against you. And don't think that they won't plant evidence if it suits them. Anyone making public schools look foolish will be destroyed.
Except that your movie playing software will refuse to work because your video card has an analog output, and isn't certified to use a digital protocol with end-to-end encryption and authentication.
Thanks, FireFury03. We agree, but you came up with a better statement than I could have. Or at least, better than I was willing to put time into. The point about VoIP is well-made, and (I think) especially relevant at the moment. I had quite a time getting my SIP ATA set up initially.
As to IPv6, no, my ISP isn't quite "with it" enough to assign me, a lowly consumer, any addresses. But my gateway router runs a v6 tunnel and radvd, so my entire network is online. And yes, I use it. For work, mostly.
Wow. Is this a troll or are people really so ignorant?
Long story short, you're dead wrong. A hack that only screws you over some of the time is not the same as an advantage.
Point by point:
1. IPv6 is coming along plenty well, thank you.
2. Yes, NAT sort of works like a cheap hardware firewall. So does a cheap hardware (or free software) firewall.
3. Ever hear of a router? There isn't a dichotomy between a NAT router and an "old style hub."
4. Insults to intelligence aren't a good idea here. And "open a port", despite being common terminology, is wrong. It's establishing a static route. Actually static NAT. It's allocating a scarce resource. And it shouldn't be necessary.
5. Same goes for UPnP. It doesn't solve any real problems, it just hides them from the user. It's also lousy for security (wait, I thought NAT was great for security?). It also shouldn't be necessary.
6. Screwing with the assumption that devices are routable, and that you can reach me at the same place you see me coming from is not a good idea
Short story short: NAT sucks.
Short story even shorter: idiot.
They provide a service. Fast downloads, accurate titling (I've never known them to be wrong), and known quality. It's worth the cost. In fact, if they were to double the price and send half directly to artists it would still be a top-notch, worthwhile service.
Do you remember how long it took for DVD+R DL to come down in price? What's that, they haven't? Oh yeah.