Too late. It appears that Creative has created a nice little stylish portable audio player that works with MP3 and WMA files and is considerably less than the iPod.
Damnit, I meant 'Windows', not 'Windos'. I guess/. will get an edit post for the next x number of minutes sometime after they design an HTML, or better yet CSS, compliant site. What am I saying, Microsoft will release the source code to Windows long before that happens.
You're forgetting that on the world stage Lindows was infringing upon the Widos trademark. In the initial suits filed, none of the countries had the word "Windows" in their language so it was a competely unique trademark. This was really brilliant lawering really because even though Lindows had a chance to keep using the name here, they would fracture the brand and Michael Robertson is in this to form a company around Linux right? I'm guessing Robertson had a little help from his board figuring this one out because I think he still wants to fight this fight that he knows he's eventually going to lose.
"Actually, I do think that motherboards should come without Network cards, without raid controllers etc. If the network card stops working, replace the network card. Better than replacing the motherboard. As for security, the less it does, the less chance of a security flaw. That's all."
You know you can turn off these things in the BIOS and justuse a seperate card in a PCI slot. If the onboard networking, RAID or SCSI stops working, get a network, RAID or SCSI card and pop it in and away you go.
...why Sun is failing as a company. With quotes like this, "According to the story, Schwartz's dream is 'to sell deep-discount desktop computers at Wal-Mart, carrying Sun's office applications on top of a Linux operating system'!", is there any reason to wonder anymore?
Ahhh, the ol' "poor college student" excuse. This one is just about as old as your other one. Many companies, Adobe included, offer their software to students a much lower prices. Rolling the student version into your student loans would not be a stretch at all and you'd have a legit, full version. Also, Adobe allows student users to purchase future upgrades at the normal upgrade cost, there is no need to purchase a non-student version before doing so. Some Universities also purchase licenses so their bookstores can offer software at very cheap costs ($5-$25 is what I've read) to the students. You can also find very good bundled deals not offered elsewhere. I purchased Windows NT 4 Workstation for $100 because it was bundled with Visual J++. I didn't need VJ++ so I gave it to a friend in the CS department but my version of Windows NT 4 Workstation was a full version, no strings attached. It would have cost me easily more than 2 to 3 times this (I think a full version of NT4 was about $250 to $300 at the time) had I purchased it on its own.
As for your example, you couldn't have picked a worse eaxmple than Adobe as they work very hard to make sure students can get their software cheaper and keep using the software in the future (normal upgrades) without any extra cost to convert the license to a regular version. Their software is some of the most pirated software out there and there is no excuse for it except you're too cheap to buy it or you think it's cool to pirate software even if you'll never use it.
I know you're being a wise ass, or perhaps not and you simply don't understand baseball. Whatever, the sport is clearly not for you. However, for those of us who happen to love baseball this is an interesting idea. It would be nice to look up stats and information during a game about the players on the field. What's Pedro's ERA right now, not after the last game? How well does he pitch against right-handed batters vs. left handed hitters?
Baseball is statistics, plain and simple. Being able to grab these numbers on the spot right to your PDA would be neat. Currently I rely on a small radio but I'm only given the stats Jerry Remy and Sean McDonough want to tell me, not the ones I might be more interested in. Maybe Fenway will get something like this soon but I'm not holding my breath.
"I would have never purchased the Adobe Design Collection if I hadn't been able to learn to use Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat Forms first. I have yet to use Illustrator but Freehand is easier for me, and I'm too busy to pick up that old book I bought."
This is the oldest excuse in the book. As for your example of Adobe software, Adobe offers trial versions of their software that work for 30 days with ABSOLUTELY NO limitations to their use. This is more than enough time to become familiar with the software and determine if it will work for your situation.
Music? A lot of online stores that sell music offer preview clips of the songs on the album. iTunes does this and CDNOW (now owned by Amazon.com) did this for a very long time. You get enough of the song to determine if you like the beat and overall sound and you can listen to it as many times as you want. If you like these previews than buy the album.
Car dealers don't let you have the car for a year or two, nor do they let you really perform any everyday tasks with the vehicle during the test drive. Musicians and softwre developers shouldn't be required to either. If you like the music "test drive" offered on iTunes then buy the album or song.
Taking someone's Constitutional rights away is good? What next, the First? The Fourth? Why not repeal civil rights too? I compared the idea of committing one crime with another, the seriousness of the crime is irrelevant. If we allow rights to be taken away, isn't the right to life just one more right that can go too?
I'd wager that killing a few morons here and there won't have a dire effect on the world we live in, does this make it right? Copyright infringement is illegal and the one thing none of these studies research is the effect on CD sales should downloading become legal and the mainstream way to distribute music freely. Right now you have people rolling the dice, considering the odds of getting caught, because most know what they are doing is wrong and illegal. If you make it legal to share music on P2P networks freely, physical CDs and the added value of cover art, etc. won't matter at all or very little.
This is definitely possible for the XBOX and any future consoles that include network capabilities. Morrowind for the XBOX could have shipped with a seperate disc that you could pop into your PC and create your own maps and adventures then log into a special XBOX Live server for Morrowind and upload them. Since you have to have broadband to get a Live account it's highly unlikely that players wouldn't have a computer. They could also make it possible to view a special folder on your PC from the XBOX to test maps locally on the console before uploading them.
One could easily extend this to other forms of mdoding including creating new player skins and weapons. By making it possible to edit certain spreadsheet's one could create new weapons capabilities or edit current ones. Allow users to use GMAX to create wireframes and texture maps and voila, upload them in a similar manner as listed above and you've created a way to allow modding.
The one downside to this is this could open pandora's box to cheating. XBOX Live has built a system where it is virtually impossible to cheat and as far as I am aware no one has been able to get a modded XBOX to work on Live and allow them to cheat. Modding would have to be carefully implemented, as would what one can and cannot mod, and monitored to ensure cheating is not allowed by mistake.
I am so tired of hearing this crap. I use Outlook 2000, IE 6, IIS 5, and I use an MN-700 Wireless Router/Firewall. I have had only one "hacker" incident because I left my FTP site open to anonymous connections once. Big deal, I shut if off and voila, no more problem. My system runs 24/7 without a hitch. To boot, I'm a graphic designer, not an IT whiz.
They already did that. Premiere Pro (Premiere v7.0) was released for Windows only as was Encore DVD (similar to DVD Studio Pro) and Photoshop Album (similar to iPhoto).
CMYK isn't patented but Pantone colors, including the Pantone to CMYK (spot to process) color conversions. GIMP will likely never do spot colors or spot to process as they would need to license them from Pantone. I haven't really looked all that closely at GIMP though (Photoshop CS user and quite happy with it) so I could be wrong.
Photoshop is not broken but if you want to play the part of the drama queen, don't let me stop you. Here's a discussion about how and why Photoshop handles alphas and transparency. Here's a small hint, they're actually two seperate concepts. Chris Cox, by the way, is one of the Photoshop developers so he knows what he's talking about.
Eaxctly, but this is only under the unconditional copyright system. If Kahle is successful then these protections won't exist at all and you must register your work to get protection of the law. Each derivative work woudl need to be registered to beprotected by copyright law regardless of the legal status of the originl work. If the work is not protected by copyright the GPL will have a much weaker leg to stand on legally.
I think the anti-American sentiment comes into play when considering the economic impact it will have in America when these software companies start going under due to Open Source influence in their markets.
So, you're suggesting that Company A should hire less competent, cheaper lwayers simply because the person or comany they are going against in a dispute can't afford better, more expensive lawyers? Lawyers can't trade based on their skills and abilities?
It's COPYRIGHT, not copywrite. Copyrights are rights granted to creators of intellectual property, specifically the expression of an idea in a fixed medium. Copywiting is a career field devoted to writing text for ads and other public material sich as press releases.
As has already been mentioned, the $20 fee is not necessary but it does grant you specific rights should legal issues arise. I could just as easily send a copy of the copyrighted works in a sealed envelope to myself and never open it until needed. While this won't give you the full rights registering with the Library ocCongress would, it does establish a date of creation that courts will recognize.
"You can give people the right to distribute, derive, perform, display and/or copy your work if you want, on your own terms."
You can do this now. If you want to recreate a painting of mine in poster form I can give you the rights to do so.
"Lessig is saying that all creators should allow some of their work to be d,d,p,d and/or c'ed for free, to encourage the creative community."
He can say this all he wants but it's still up to the individual creators to follow through. He offers nothing new to copyright that makes this any more or less possible.
I only put this in there to show the correlation to the authorized third party Lessig mentions. I realize that copyrigt is granted automatically at the time of creation but to gain further legal protection you must send a copy to the Library of COngress.
Creative people should mark all of their original content and allow it to be licensed according to their own will. To do this, they should register it with a qualified third party and allow it to be available for public review, so that the broad concepts of their creativity spur others on to additional creativity, he said. Every artist should share something in the public domain to some extent, Lessig said, while making sure that the work as a whole is protected as to its ownership.
Ummm, this is how Copyright currently works. I create my work (establish the expression of an idea in a fixed medium; original content), send a copy along with $20 to the Library of Congress (the qualified third party), then I show others the work in a gallery, on the radio, in a theatre, or wherever (shared to the public) and the public can come and view, listen to, or whatever as long as they don't infringe upon my five basic rights to distribution, derivatives, public performance, public display, and copying (work protected as a whole as to its ownership).
Your wish is coming true. Liesure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude will be availabe for the the PC, XBOX, and PS2. It appears to be a 3D version of previous LSL games though one major difference is the main character, Larry Loveage, nephew to the previous games main character Larry Laffer.
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Too late. It appears that Creative has created a nice little stylish portable audio player that works with MP3 and WMA files and is considerably less than the iPod.
Damnit, I meant 'Windows', not 'Windos'. I guess /. will get an edit post for the next x number of minutes sometime after they design an HTML, or better yet CSS, compliant site. What am I saying, Microsoft will release the source code to Windows long before that happens.
You're forgetting that on the world stage Lindows was infringing upon the Widos trademark. In the initial suits filed, none of the countries had the word "Windows" in their language so it was a competely unique trademark. This was really brilliant lawering really because even though Lindows had a chance to keep using the name here, they would fracture the brand and Michael Robertson is in this to form a company around Linux right? I'm guessing Robertson had a little help from his board figuring this one out because I think he still wants to fight this fight that he knows he's eventually going to lose.
"Actually, I do think that motherboards should come without Network cards, without raid controllers etc. If the network card stops working, replace the network card. Better than replacing the motherboard. As for security, the less it does, the less chance of a security flaw. That's all."
You know you can turn off these things in the BIOS and justuse a seperate card in a PCI slot. If the onboard networking, RAID or SCSI stops working, get a network, RAID or SCSI card and pop it in and away you go.
...why Sun is failing as a company. With quotes like this, "According to the story, Schwartz's dream is 'to sell deep-discount desktop computers at Wal-Mart, carrying Sun's office applications on top of a Linux operating system'!", is there any reason to wonder anymore?
"TOTAL FREEDOM OF INFORMATION!."
How ironic that an anonymous coward said this. Care to give us your real name, address, social security and credit and bacnk account numbers?
Enjoy. Camden Yards is a great ballpark, and I do mean park, not monstrous stadium.
Ahhh, the ol' "poor college student" excuse. This one is just about as old as your other one. Many companies, Adobe included, offer their software to students a much lower prices. Rolling the student version into your student loans would not be a stretch at all and you'd have a legit, full version. Also, Adobe allows student users to purchase future upgrades at the normal upgrade cost, there is no need to purchase a non-student version before doing so. Some Universities also purchase licenses so their bookstores can offer software at very cheap costs ($5-$25 is what I've read) to the students. You can also find very good bundled deals not offered elsewhere. I purchased Windows NT 4 Workstation for $100 because it was bundled with Visual J++. I didn't need VJ++ so I gave it to a friend in the CS department but my version of Windows NT 4 Workstation was a full version, no strings attached. It would have cost me easily more than 2 to 3 times this (I think a full version of NT4 was about $250 to $300 at the time) had I purchased it on its own.
As for your example, you couldn't have picked a worse eaxmple than Adobe as they work very hard to make sure students can get their software cheaper and keep using the software in the future (normal upgrades) without any extra cost to convert the license to a regular version. Their software is some of the most pirated software out there and there is no excuse for it except you're too cheap to buy it or you think it's cool to pirate software even if you'll never use it.
I know you're being a wise ass, or perhaps not and you simply don't understand baseball. Whatever, the sport is clearly not for you. However, for those of us who happen to love baseball this is an interesting idea. It would be nice to look up stats and information during a game about the players on the field. What's Pedro's ERA right now, not after the last game? How well does he pitch against right-handed batters vs. left handed hitters?
Baseball is statistics, plain and simple. Being able to grab these numbers on the spot right to your PDA would be neat. Currently I rely on a small radio but I'm only given the stats Jerry Remy and Sean McDonough want to tell me, not the ones I might be more interested in. Maybe Fenway will get something like this soon but I'm not holding my breath.
"I would have never purchased the Adobe Design Collection if I hadn't been able to learn to use Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat Forms first. I have yet to use Illustrator but Freehand is easier for me, and I'm too busy to pick up that old book I bought."
This is the oldest excuse in the book. As for your example of Adobe software, Adobe offers trial versions of their software that work for 30 days with ABSOLUTELY NO limitations to their use. This is more than enough time to become familiar with the software and determine if it will work for your situation.
Music? A lot of online stores that sell music offer preview clips of the songs on the album. iTunes does this and CDNOW (now owned by Amazon.com) did this for a very long time. You get enough of the song to determine if you like the beat and overall sound and you can listen to it as many times as you want. If you like these previews than buy the album.
Car dealers don't let you have the car for a year or two, nor do they let you really perform any everyday tasks with the vehicle during the test drive. Musicians and softwre developers shouldn't be required to either. If you like the music "test drive" offered on iTunes then buy the album or song.
Taking someone's Constitutional rights away is good? What next, the First? The Fourth? Why not repeal civil rights too? I compared the idea of committing one crime with another, the seriousness of the crime is irrelevant. If we allow rights to be taken away, isn't the right to life just one more right that can go too?
I'd wager that killing a few morons here and there won't have a dire effect on the world we live in, does this make it right? Copyright infringement is illegal and the one thing none of these studies research is the effect on CD sales should downloading become legal and the mainstream way to distribute music freely. Right now you have people rolling the dice, considering the odds of getting caught, because most know what they are doing is wrong and illegal. If you make it legal to share music on P2P networks freely, physical CDs and the added value of cover art, etc. won't matter at all or very little.
This is definitely possible for the XBOX and any future consoles that include network capabilities. Morrowind for the XBOX could have shipped with a seperate disc that you could pop into your PC and create your own maps and adventures then log into a special XBOX Live server for Morrowind and upload them. Since you have to have broadband to get a Live account it's highly unlikely that players wouldn't have a computer. They could also make it possible to view a special folder on your PC from the XBOX to test maps locally on the console before uploading them.
One could easily extend this to other forms of mdoding including creating new player skins and weapons. By making it possible to edit certain spreadsheet's one could create new weapons capabilities or edit current ones. Allow users to use GMAX to create wireframes and texture maps and voila, upload them in a similar manner as listed above and you've created a way to allow modding.
The one downside to this is this could open pandora's box to cheating. XBOX Live has built a system where it is virtually impossible to cheat and as far as I am aware no one has been able to get a modded XBOX to work on Live and allow them to cheat. Modding would have to be carefully implemented, as would what one can and cannot mod, and monitored to ensure cheating is not allowed by mistake.
I am so tired of hearing this crap. I use Outlook 2000, IE 6, IIS 5, and I use an MN-700 Wireless Router/Firewall. I have had only one "hacker" incident because I left my FTP site open to anonymous connections once. Big deal, I shut if off and voila, no more problem. My system runs 24/7 without a hitch. To boot, I'm a graphic designer, not an IT whiz.
They already did that. Premiere Pro (Premiere v7.0) was released for Windows only as was Encore DVD (similar to DVD Studio Pro) and Photoshop Album (similar to iPhoto).
CMYK isn't patented but Pantone colors, including the Pantone to CMYK (spot to process) color conversions. GIMP will likely never do spot colors or spot to process as they would need to license them from Pantone. I haven't really looked all that closely at GIMP though (Photoshop CS user and quite happy with it) so I could be wrong.
Photoshop is not broken but if you want to play the part of the drama queen, don't let me stop you. Here's a discussion about how and why Photoshop handles alphas and transparency. Here's a small hint, they're actually two seperate concepts. Chris Cox, by the way, is one of the Photoshop developers so he knows what he's talking about.
Eaxctly, but this is only under the unconditional copyright system. If Kahle is successful then these protections won't exist at all and you must register your work to get protection of the law. Each derivative work woudl need to be registered to beprotected by copyright law regardless of the legal status of the originl work. If the work is not protected by copyright the GPL will have a much weaker leg to stand on legally.
I think the anti-American sentiment comes into play when considering the economic impact it will have in America when these software companies start going under due to Open Source influence in their markets.
So, you're suggesting that Company A should hire less competent, cheaper lwayers simply because the person or comany they are going against in a dispute can't afford better, more expensive lawyers? Lawyers can't trade based on their skills and abilities?
It's COPYRIGHT, not copywrite. Copyrights are rights granted to creators of intellectual property, specifically the expression of an idea in a fixed medium. Copywiting is a career field devoted to writing text for ads and other public material sich as press releases.
"$20 not needed"
As has already been mentioned, the $20 fee is not necessary but it does grant you specific rights should legal issues arise. I could just as easily send a copy of the copyrighted works in a sealed envelope to myself and never open it until needed. While this won't give you the full rights registering with the Library ocCongress would, it does establish a date of creation that courts will recognize.
"You can give people the right to distribute, derive, perform, display and/or copy your work if you want, on your own terms."
You can do this now. If you want to recreate a painting of mine in poster form I can give you the rights to do so.
"Lessig is saying that all creators should allow some of their work to be d,d,p,d and/or c'ed for free, to encourage the creative community."
He can say this all he wants but it's still up to the individual creators to follow through. He offers nothing new to copyright that makes this any more or less possible.
I only put this in there to show the correlation to the authorized third party Lessig mentions. I realize that copyrigt is granted automatically at the time of creation but to gain further legal protection you must send a copy to the Library of COngress.
Creative people should mark all of their original content and allow it to be licensed according to their own will. To do this, they should register it with a qualified third party and allow it to be available for public review, so that the broad concepts of their creativity spur others on to additional creativity, he said. Every artist should share something in the public domain to some extent, Lessig said, while making sure that the work as a whole is protected as to its ownership.
Ummm, this is how Copyright currently works. I create my work (establish the expression of an idea in a fixed medium; original content), send a copy along with $20 to the Library of Congress (the qualified third party), then I show others the work in a gallery, on the radio, in a theatre, or wherever (shared to the public) and the public can come and view, listen to, or whatever as long as they don't infringe upon my five basic rights to distribution, derivatives, public performance, public display, and copying (work protected as a whole as to its ownership).
Your wish is coming true. Liesure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude will be availabe for the the PC, XBOX, and PS2. It appears to be a 3D version of previous LSL games though one major difference is the main character, Larry Loveage, nephew to the previous games main character Larry Laffer.