And yet you site no evidence to prove him wrong. How is this insightful? At least attack his logical theories but to claim there was no citation given as proof he's wrong is just as silly.
"2) This technology is patented to the hilt & the licensing terms for the HD Photo Device Porting Kit 1.0 licensing terms [wikipedia.org] specifically exclude copyleft (GPL style) licenses."
yeah, well, one more thing the GIMP won't be able to do that Photoshop will. What else is new? I'm sure all 5 GIMP users will be disappointed. Then again, 4 out of 5 GIMP users recommend not using this technology so, perhaps only one will be disappointed.
"But hey, it's just the potential end of the world, so nothing much to worry about there."
Last I checked, the U.S. isn't the entire world. Perhaps Europe, Russia and China could kick in a bit to save the planet too. If the rest of the world is going to continue to utilize the resources of the U.S. tax payer they perhaps the rest of the world had best be prepared to accept U.S. sovereignty.
You are free to do with your intellectual property as you see fit. Others get to make these same choices for themselves with their intellectual property. It is not for the mob to decide how one is allowed to exercise their rights. When will slashbots get this through their puny little brains? You are free to create and release to the public he fruits of our artistic labors. The RIAA cannot stop you from releasing your own albums unless you are contractually obligated through one of their members but then that's your fault for wanting to suckle at the teat of the industry. If you want to release your books to the public for free you are welcome to do so. No publisher's association can stop you unless, again, you're contractually obligated to a publisher. What others do with their work is up to them.
Ummm...anecdote is not the plural of data. Besides I don't really care if you uninstalled Vista. I only care what happens within the confines of my home network. I have trwo Vista Ultimate machines; one an older P4 that is going to be a web/file server and media center PC, with my XBOX 360 running as an extender to my HDTV, and my new Dell XPS M2010 which came with Vista Ultimate pre-installed. I happen to like a lot of what Vista offersw in the way of bettwr file searching and vastly improved netowrking. I use Aero but I don't go all gaga over it. It's pleasing to look at, especially compared to Vista Basic and the crippled classic UI. Now if Adobe woudl just hurry up and release the Creative and Production suites I can quit having see those stupid UAC dialogs.
...CIO does is job, film at eleven. Despite all these childish articles and misdirected anger towards Microsoft and Windows, Vista, IE7 and Office 2007 will all sell well, become the de facto standard desktop OS for hundreds of millions users worldwide. Simply amazing given the security issues, near infinite combination of hardware configurations Windows works on, and articles like this. For those who haven't yet figured it out, Microsoft and Windows are here for the long haul.
Microsof actually has about 10 years of prior experience in this field, not just the one year head start for the XBOX360. Microsoft purchased a company with a single product, The Internet Game Zone, and turned it into a web-based game site. Initially there were a few card games (hearts, spades, bridge), backgammon, chess and checkers, or something like that. They started adding games like Luxor, Zuma, and Bejewelled not long after that. zone.msn.com now has hundreds of games, some flash based, some java based. A number of these are ripe for inclusion on XBOX Live Arcade and hopefully Zune 2.0.
You're not a customer, you're a free-loader. If you don't want to pay for the entertainment don't consume the entertainment. It's quite simple really and if more asshats like you did this then perhaps things might begin to change for the better for people like me.
"Microsoft, on the other hand, definitely operates through vendor lock-in."
Yeah, because Apple allows me to run OSX on my Dell M2010 and I can copy all my iTunes music to my Zune or other non iPod MP3 player. Aperature really flies on Vista. I'm so glad Apple wrote that app cross-platform so us PC users can use it too, iWork and iLife also. Wait, you mean I can't do either of these things? I'm shocked, truly shocked. Apple uses vendor lock-in too? To hell you say. I guess Microsoft can finally use their patent on vendor lock-in to kill Apple once and for all.
That's funny. There's this 200+ year old document that people like you accuse President Bush of trashing yet you seem toconveniently forget that intellectual property rights were included even before amendments were proposed. There are even older documents in Europe which grant intellectual property rights as well. Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with these before making such a bold claim that is simply not true. You may not like them but it doesn't make them illegitimate. I don't like that I can't punch people like you in the face, perhaps I can ignore that law and claim it's an illegitimate restraint of human nature and primal urges to beat the crap out of the weaker of the species.
Windows has had alt-tab since the day sof eh dinosaurs. OK, well maybe not that long, but I recall using alt-tab to switch between running apps in NT4 Workstation. Flip 3d is simply a more decorative version of this, not an expose knock-off. Expose is more than a simple applicaiton switcher because it performs other tasks such as switchign between a single application's windows and clears away all windows to reveal the desktop. Flip 3d and alt-tab in Windows simply switch between open applications, and in Vista the desktop is added to the list to make it easier to minimize all apps using this feature. That's not to say Expose is not nice but it's not the same thing as Flip-3d and vice versa. You just want to bash Windows and keep chaning the argument to suit your purposes. Not only that butyou don't even use Vista and are basing your whole argument on the brief experience you had with it in Costco. No one's forcing you to use Vista so don't get all bent out of shape if it doesn't do things the way you want it to. Some of us don't care all that much. I have a G5 at work and I hate using Expose. I use alt-tab in OSX, a feature Apple stole from Windows.
But flip 3d was never intended to offer the same functionality as Expose, it merely presents the standard alt-tab in a differnent perspective. The biggest advantage of Flip 3d over the standard alt-tab is the size of the window preview. Your argumetn is more akin to me bashing the Apple menu in OSX not offering the ability to launch programs. The Apple in OSX was specifically designed to not do this (anymore) so it's not a good comparison. The Start menu and Apple menu both preform different functions (albeit similar).
Not all forms of speech are protected. Slander and libel or speech which incites violence are two examples of unprotected speech. Harassment deprives an individual of their liberty and civil rights as well as borders slander/libel. That's why it should not be protected speech.
...when it becomes harassment. I think a law that defined cyberbullying as harassment would be much easier to enforce. As to the ACLU's comment, cyberbullying should NOT be a part of 'growing up', at least not to the levels many kids seem to be taking it these days.
"They COULD use Mac, but dumb people are rarely the ones with the money to spit out for a Mac."
You apparently are not a graphic designer. I swear, some of the people I work with honestly believe hamsters run around inside their Macs making the OS work. Since graphic designers make up a large portion of Mac users, I'd say there are quite a few dumb Mac users out there.
Safe Harbors are not for online service providers, they are for internet service providers. It is a way to protect ISPs from being sued for the content they host. YouTube is not an ISP, they provide a place to store videos, not host connections. If YouTube was protected by the Safe Harbor loophope in the DMCA then anyone could also make the same claim and distribute intellectual property to their heart's content.
I agree but did you read the comments? A user named Bob Cringley claims to have corraborating evidence and while he names the source as anonymous, they are not anonymous to him. WTF?!? If he had corraborating evidence he should have mentioned it in the article don't you think? What can you expect when it's a story about Microsoft allegedly doing something bad though?
...another "Linux is planned to be adopted at some future date by {insert government here}" story. Until there's a "Linux successfully adopted by {insert government here} and significant improvement in user acceptance, cost savings, and citizens benefot greatly by increased resources being available to them" stories this is just virtual masterbation (perhaps even actual masterbation, but I digross...er...digress) by Linux fanbois who hang on every word of every news story with the words Linux in it.
Vista will run just fine on older hardware. I have a 4-5 year old 2.8GHz P4 with a 256MB nVidia 5700 video card and it runs Aero and Vista Business just fine. You can repeat lines like this "...Vista for an upgrade on a machine that's more than a year old and can't run it?" all you want but is no more truer than the first time you said it. Sure, there are some video cards that are a year old that can't run Aero but not running Aero is a vastly different thing than not running Vista.
The CD format isn't going to be here forever. How often do you pull out those 8-tracks or cassette tapes and listen to music? CD will eventually go by the wayside much like these have done. Also note that distribution is the right of the copyright owner. Consider a world without CDs and prolific, legal file sharing. Who's buying music now? MP3 files are free for the taking so why purchase another copy via iTunes? There is no correlation in this study between downloading files and actually going out and purchasing the album. There is some anecdotal evidence that shows some people do in fact purchase a CD after downloading the album but that's all there is. One could just as easily go to their local record store and listen to any album available in the store and purchase it if they liked it. Zune's DRM could make it possible to listen to a song for a couple times and purchase it if they liked it or delete it from their MP3 player if they didn't. By virtue of the fact that neither of these is largely accepted practice, it's far more likely that people "just want shit for free". They view musicians as ultra-rich people with more money then they know what to do with and downloading their music isn't going to hurt them any. Legalizing P2P is going to destroy the market for music sales in a digital world because it's going to make it non-existent.
"It is trivially true that as you morph an idea from a single source, there is a point in which the idea is still so much the original that the new form carries with it no serious value and cannot legitimately be called its own work. So in this regard, your remark is technically correct."
One major problem with your hypothesis. Copyright does NOT protect the idea, it protects the expression of the idea. I am free to create a cartoon mouse but if I call him Mickey and substantialyl copy the look of the Disney creation then I've crossed the boundaries of influence and inspiration to outright infringement. Your argument and the article both miss this essential point about copyright. Inspiration and influence are everything in art and culture. Illegal distribution and downright infringment of one's work is the death of it.
My point was that the entire article about Vista being a "tax" is utter bullshit especially given the "tax" charged by Apple to get OSX to run on a white-box or not-Apple branded system.
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And yet you site no evidence to prove him wrong. How is this insightful? At least attack his logical theories but to claim there was no citation given as proof he's wrong is just as silly.
"2) This technology is patented to the hilt & the licensing terms for the HD Photo Device Porting Kit 1.0 licensing terms [wikipedia.org] specifically exclude copyleft (GPL style) licenses."
yeah, well, one more thing the GIMP won't be able to do that Photoshop will. What else is new? I'm sure all 5 GIMP users will be disappointed. Then again, 4 out of 5 GIMP users recommend not using this technology so, perhaps only one will be disappointed.
"But hey, it's just the potential end of the world, so nothing much to worry about there."
Last I checked, the U.S. isn't the entire world. Perhaps Europe, Russia and China could kick in a bit to save the planet too. If the rest of the world is going to continue to utilize the resources of the U.S. tax payer they perhaps the rest of the world had best be prepared to accept U.S. sovereignty.
You are free to do with your intellectual property as you see fit. Others get to make these same choices for themselves with their intellectual property. It is not for the mob to decide how one is allowed to exercise their rights. When will slashbots get this through their puny little brains? You are free to create and release to the public he fruits of our artistic labors. The RIAA cannot stop you from releasing your own albums unless you are contractually obligated through one of their members but then that's your fault for wanting to suckle at the teat of the industry. If you want to release your books to the public for free you are welcome to do so. No publisher's association can stop you unless, again, you're contractually obligated to a publisher. What others do with their work is up to them.
...Government mandated mediocrity.
Ummm...anecdote is not the plural of data. Besides I don't really care if you uninstalled Vista. I only care what happens within the confines of my home network. I have trwo Vista Ultimate machines; one an older P4 that is going to be a web/file server and media center PC, with my XBOX 360 running as an extender to my HDTV, and my new Dell XPS M2010 which came with Vista Ultimate pre-installed. I happen to like a lot of what Vista offersw in the way of bettwr file searching and vastly improved netowrking. I use Aero but I don't go all gaga over it. It's pleasing to look at, especially compared to Vista Basic and the crippled classic UI. Now if Adobe woudl just hurry up and release the Creative and Production suites I can quit having see those stupid UAC dialogs.
...CIO does is job, film at eleven. Despite all these childish articles and misdirected anger towards Microsoft and Windows, Vista, IE7 and Office 2007 will all sell well, become the de facto standard desktop OS for hundreds of millions users worldwide. Simply amazing given the security issues, near infinite combination of hardware configurations Windows works on, and articles like this. For those who haven't yet figured it out, Microsoft and Windows are here for the long haul.
Microsof actually has about 10 years of prior experience in this field, not just the one year head start for the XBOX360. Microsoft purchased a company with a single product, The Internet Game Zone, and turned it into a web-based game site. Initially there were a few card games (hearts, spades, bridge), backgammon, chess and checkers, or something like that. They started adding games like Luxor, Zuma, and Bejewelled not long after that. zone.msn.com now has hundreds of games, some flash based, some java based. A number of these are ripe for inclusion on XBOX Live Arcade and hopefully Zune 2.0.
You're not a customer, you're a free-loader. If you don't want to pay for the entertainment don't consume the entertainment. It's quite simple really and if more asshats like you did this then perhaps things might begin to change for the better for people like me.
"Microsoft, on the other hand, definitely operates through vendor lock-in."
Yeah, because Apple allows me to run OSX on my Dell M2010 and I can copy all my iTunes music to my Zune or other non iPod MP3 player. Aperature really flies on Vista. I'm so glad Apple wrote that app cross-platform so us PC users can use it too, iWork and iLife also. Wait, you mean I can't do either of these things? I'm shocked, truly shocked. Apple uses vendor lock-in too? To hell you say. I guess Microsoft can finally use their patent on vendor lock-in to kill Apple once and for all.
"Copyrights are not a legitimate property right."
That's funny. There's this 200+ year old document that people like you accuse President Bush of trashing yet you seem toconveniently forget that intellectual property rights were included even before amendments were proposed. There are even older documents in Europe which grant intellectual property rights as well. Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with these before making such a bold claim that is simply not true. You may not like them but it doesn't make them illegitimate. I don't like that I can't punch people like you in the face, perhaps I can ignore that law and claim it's an illegitimate restraint of human nature and primal urges to beat the crap out of the weaker of the species.
Windows has had alt-tab since the day sof eh dinosaurs. OK, well maybe not that long, but I recall using alt-tab to switch between running apps in NT4 Workstation. Flip 3d is simply a more decorative version of this, not an expose knock-off. Expose is more than a simple applicaiton switcher because it performs other tasks such as switchign between a single application's windows and clears away all windows to reveal the desktop. Flip 3d and alt-tab in Windows simply switch between open applications, and in Vista the desktop is added to the list to make it easier to minimize all apps using this feature. That's not to say Expose is not nice but it's not the same thing as Flip-3d and vice versa. You just want to bash Windows and keep chaning the argument to suit your purposes. Not only that butyou don't even use Vista and are basing your whole argument on the brief experience you had with it in Costco. No one's forcing you to use Vista so don't get all bent out of shape if it doesn't do things the way you want it to. Some of us don't care all that much. I have a G5 at work and I hate using Expose. I use alt-tab in OSX, a feature Apple stole from Windows.
But flip 3d was never intended to offer the same functionality as Expose, it merely presents the standard alt-tab in a differnent perspective. The biggest advantage of Flip 3d over the standard alt-tab is the size of the window preview. Your argumetn is more akin to me bashing the Apple menu in OSX not offering the ability to launch programs. The Apple in OSX was specifically designed to not do this (anymore) so it's not a good comparison. The Start menu and Apple menu both preform different functions (albeit similar).
Not all forms of speech are protected. Slander and libel or speech which incites violence are two examples of unprotected speech. Harassment deprives an individual of their liberty and civil rights as well as borders slander/libel. That's why it should not be protected speech.
...when it becomes harassment. I think a law that defined cyberbullying as harassment would be much easier to enforce. As to the ACLU's comment, cyberbullying should NOT be a part of 'growing up', at least not to the levels many kids seem to be taking it these days.
"They COULD use Mac, but dumb people are rarely the ones with the money to spit out for a Mac."
You apparently are not a graphic designer. I swear, some of the people I work with honestly believe hamsters run around inside their Macs making the OS work. Since graphic designers make up a large portion of Mac users, I'd say there are quite a few dumb Mac users out there.
Yes, I am well aware of that. I'm glad to see sunlight is starting to dawn on some of the marble heads around here.
Safe Harbors are not for online service providers, they are for internet service providers. It is a way to protect ISPs from being sued for the content they host. YouTube is not an ISP, they provide a place to store videos, not host connections. If YouTube was protected by the Safe Harbor loophope in the DMCA then anyone could also make the same claim and distribute intellectual property to their heart's content.
I agree but did you read the comments? A user named Bob Cringley claims to have corraborating evidence and while he names the source as anonymous, they are not anonymous to him. WTF?!? If he had corraborating evidence he should have mentioned it in the article don't you think? What can you expect when it's a story about Microsoft allegedly doing something bad though?
...another "Linux is planned to be adopted at some future date by {insert government here}" story. Until there's a "Linux successfully adopted by {insert government here} and significant improvement in user acceptance, cost savings, and citizens benefot greatly by increased resources being available to them" stories this is just virtual masterbation (perhaps even actual masterbation, but I digross...er...digress) by Linux fanbois who hang on every word of every news story with the words Linux in it.
Vista will run just fine on older hardware. I have a 4-5 year old 2.8GHz P4 with a 256MB nVidia 5700 video card and it runs Aero and Vista Business just fine. You can repeat lines like this "...Vista for an upgrade on a machine that's more than a year old and can't run it?" all you want but is no more truer than the first time you said it. Sure, there are some video cards that are a year old that can't run Aero but not running Aero is a vastly different thing than not running Vista.
The CD format isn't going to be here forever. How often do you pull out those 8-tracks or cassette tapes and listen to music? CD will eventually go by the wayside much like these have done. Also note that distribution is the right of the copyright owner. Consider a world without CDs and prolific, legal file sharing. Who's buying music now? MP3 files are free for the taking so why purchase another copy via iTunes? There is no correlation in this study between downloading files and actually going out and purchasing the album. There is some anecdotal evidence that shows some people do in fact purchase a CD after downloading the album but that's all there is. One could just as easily go to their local record store and listen to any album available in the store and purchase it if they liked it. Zune's DRM could make it possible to listen to a song for a couple times and purchase it if they liked it or delete it from their MP3 player if they didn't. By virtue of the fact that neither of these is largely accepted practice, it's far more likely that people "just want shit for free". They view musicians as ultra-rich people with more money then they know what to do with and downloading their music isn't going to hurt them any. Legalizing P2P is going to destroy the market for music sales in a digital world because it's going to make it non-existent.
"It is trivially true that as you morph an idea from a single source, there is a point in which the idea is still so much the original that the new form carries with it no serious value and cannot legitimately be called its own work. So in this regard, your remark is technically correct."
One major problem with your hypothesis. Copyright does NOT protect the idea, it protects the expression of the idea. I am free to create a cartoon mouse but if I call him Mickey and substantialyl copy the look of the Disney creation then I've crossed the boundaries of influence and inspiration to outright infringement. Your argument and the article both miss this essential point about copyright. Inspiration and influence are everything in art and culture. Illegal distribution and downright infringment of one's work is the death of it.
welcome to Slashdot. This is par for the course.
My point was that the entire article about Vista being a "tax" is utter bullshit especially given the "tax" charged by Apple to get OSX to run on a white-box or not-Apple branded system.