It seems that governments are using taxpayers money to enforced IP laws which I think is stupid. In most cases, intellectual properties are low in cost and high in end value that is why corporations are lobbying for laws to protect it. While IP laws has been to promotes innovations, it is now used to retard innovations. Patents especially has been perverse to a great extend that it is not worthwhile coming up with something new when it is building on former innovations or just because it might inflict some nonsensical patents (which are sadly to many to mention.) Also, a company with vast IP might not be so motivated to innovate. Similarly, if a person is able to vast amount of money from his IP, would he still be motivated to "create" more IP.
The questions that governments NEVER answers are why are the governments helping corporations to protect IP unreasonably. furthermore, IP is generally tax free unlike othr taxes. While I am in agreement that IP should be protected, there must be new ways of implementing IP laws.
Below is a suggestion of how copyright laws can be improve:
(1) In our current society, the pace of change is so fast that the protection of IP under the current copyright laws are absurbed. For example, no one is going to use Windows 3.1 5 years later. Or most of 10 bestsellers (books) would be forgotten in 10 years time. What is the purpose of copyright laws then? And are government going to spend taxpayers money to protect "obsolete IP"? The best solution in this case would be copyrightable material would be protected under the copyright law under a shorter period of time. This time frame would be dependent on what media/works the IP is on. For example, the copyright of a book can be 5 years. While the copyright of a computer software might be 3 years. In order to protect the publishers/authors of the work, they can choose to extend the copyright of the work after the initial copyright expires. However, since money is needed to enforced copyright, the authors would pay for the extension of the copyright (the cost of which should increases exponentially with time). If the publishers/authors choose not to extend the copyright, the works will go into the public domain. This will ensure that the public is able to benefit from the copyright work (eg in the case the book and gone out of print, the public still can make copies of the book after the copyright expires), the IP is protected, enforcement of IP is "self-funding", IP is not "wasted", and there is no need for more extension of the copyright period.
Actually, although I never watch that show, I can tell you that it is more meaningful that the matrix.
The show has a deeper meaning in that it sorts of reflect the modern chinese society. The middle age people and the younger generation. The middle age people will reflected by chow and yeoh ( if I am not wrong) will the younger generation is reflected by the other two leads. It shows the different behaviours of middle age chinese people and the younger chinese people.
If you see it from the above factors, you will know that it is a really great show.
Chinese (or Mandrain) is not that difficult to master. Usually, if you know the radicals, it is quite easy to write. On the other hand, there are a lot of words that seems similar but have very different pronounciation and meaning. That's does put me off though
Anyway, sheng(4) dan(4) kuai(4) le(4)
(meaning merry christmas)
Where I am, people are taking courses that would let earn more money... the saddest thing is that so do I. But I grew to regret it and I generally did very badly. So I would advice people to do what they really want rather than for the better money-making potential of the course. No point subjecting yourself to torture.
I am not catching the logic here. the slashdot crowded average IQ seems drop 10 points every month. Now it seems much nearer to the the average IQ of a m$ window users.
What does the action of ONE single person got to do with linux? So what the bloody hell if a single linux user write a trojan or whatever they called it. Windows users does that ALL the time. Okay that's not the main point. But just ask yourself this logical qn, if one out of americans is a black-hating, wife raping, child molesting communist, are all the other americans the same?
I do think that the writer of the original message pretty much a child himself
I would love to see a benchmark that examine athlon 3DNow! optimization with P4 using SSE optimization. I know such a benchmark is essentially as useless and biased as the rest but then why not yet another one?
Anyway, are those optimization really that necessary? 99% of the software that people used does not need those optimisation. How many of your friends uses video editing/compression software? And if they do, they used it how often?
But still, all the hype is kind of fun... or rather, life is kinda of boring.
Well, there are a lot of text editors that is based on the shareware concepts though. And freeware concepts. There are also a lot of commerical text editors (some disguise as word processors). So the commerical, freeware and shareware models all fails too?
Well, anyone who has attended an economy course would know that that's called progressive taxing.If you think about it, it is much better for social good than a more regresive taxing method like flat rate tax. For example, if you are earning $1K, 10% of your income means hell lot to you. But if you are Bill Gates, you can still live much more than comfortably if 50% of your income is taxed. Of course my answer is not very economics but then, that was ten years ago.
Those companies/people who are seeking to ban reverse engineering are looking for self-destruction. If reverse engineering is banned, they can't reverse engineered their competitors products too. Are they too stupid to see that? Or are they having the illusion that their product will always stay the best and all the innovations are coming from them? Wouldn't new startups with innovative products benefit then? Or the large corporations are already lobbying for laws or coming up with means (think m$) that would squash small startups with innovative products into oblivion?
MPEG-4 uses wavelets? That's news to me. The last I know, they are still using DCT. And that is after the last last last last I know when they were still considering matching pursuits for their very low bitrate core.
The court should be banning guns and knives. Wait and bottles too. cigarettes (esp cigarettes) should be banned so long ago cos it does not even serve a useful purpose.
I don't see anything contradictory to that. FOr every microsoft products, the first few versions sucks and get better as they learn their mistakes. That's one thing about microsoft that you have to respect. They might see it as a learning experience to their eventual.net strategy. With the.net strategy, the OS hardlys matter anymore. So it is a good time to start building up the user base of MS offices users in linux. It also fixed nicely in their often used strategy of making announcement of up coming products so that users will wait for them rather than going to the competitors which is staroffice in this case. If staroffice manages to take off, what are the chance of their.net strategy succeeding??
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That's nothing new. Researches has been done on stuff like this for years. It is just unfortunate that the CIA is going to use these technology now...
It seems that governments are using taxpayers money to enforced IP laws which I think is stupid. In most cases, intellectual properties are low in cost and high in end value that is why corporations are lobbying for laws to protect it. While IP laws has been to promotes innovations, it is now used to retard innovations. Patents especially has been perverse to a great extend that it is not worthwhile coming up with something new when it is building on former innovations or just because it might inflict some nonsensical patents (which are sadly to many to mention.) Also, a company with vast IP might not be so motivated to innovate. Similarly, if a person is able to vast amount of money from his IP, would he still be motivated to "create" more IP.
The questions that governments NEVER answers are why are the governments helping corporations to protect IP unreasonably. furthermore, IP is generally tax free unlike othr taxes. While I am in agreement that IP should be protected, there must be new ways of implementing IP laws.
Below is a suggestion of how copyright laws can be improve:
(1) In our current society, the pace of change is so fast that the protection of IP under the current copyright laws are absurbed. For example, no one is going to use Windows 3.1 5 years later. Or most of 10 bestsellers (books) would be forgotten in 10 years time. What is the purpose of copyright laws then? And are government going to spend taxpayers money to protect "obsolete IP"? The best solution in this case would be copyrightable material would be protected under the copyright law under a shorter period of time. This time frame would be dependent on what media/works the IP is on. For example, the copyright of a book can be 5 years. While the copyright of a computer software might be 3 years. In order to protect the publishers/authors of the work, they can choose to extend the copyright of the work after the initial copyright expires. However, since money is needed to enforced copyright, the authors would pay for the extension of the copyright (the cost of which should increases exponentially with time). If the publishers/authors choose not to extend the copyright, the works will go into the public domain. This will ensure that the public is able to benefit from the copyright work (eg in the case the book and gone out of print, the public still can make copies of the book after the copyright expires), the IP is protected, enforcement of IP is "self-funding", IP is not "wasted", and there is no need for more extension of the copyright period.
He is concluding that Microsoft have no product that is better than linux YET. I am not goingto argue with him over that
Actually, although I never watch that show, I can tell you that it is more meaningful that the matrix. The show has a deeper meaning in that it sorts of reflect the modern chinese society. The middle age people and the younger generation. The middle age people will reflected by chow and yeoh ( if I am not wrong) will the younger generation is reflected by the other two leads. It shows the different behaviours of middle age chinese people and the younger chinese people. If you see it from the above factors, you will know that it is a really great show.
Chinese (or Mandrain) is not that difficult to master. Usually, if you know the radicals, it is quite easy to write. On the other hand, there are a lot of words that seems similar but have very different pronounciation and meaning. That's does put me off though Anyway, sheng(4) dan(4) kuai(4) le(4) (meaning merry christmas)
Where I am, people are taking courses that would let earn more money... the saddest thing is that so do I. But I grew to regret it and I generally did very badly. So I would advice people to do what they really want rather than for the better money-making potential of the course. No point subjecting yourself to torture.
Try running sndconfig?
You think your situation is bad? think again. I am running KDE2.0 on a Pentium 133 :(. I have to say that is it slower than Windows :(
The moderation say much about the OTHER articles in slashdot these days
Linux users don't use windows. How could they then write a virus on windows?
I am not catching the logic here. the slashdot crowded average IQ seems drop 10 points every month. Now it seems much nearer to the the average IQ of a m$ window users.
What does the action of ONE single person got to do with linux? So what the bloody hell if a single linux user write a trojan or whatever they called it. Windows users does that ALL the time. Okay that's not the main point. But just ask yourself this logical qn, if one out of americans is a black-hating, wife raping, child molesting communist, are all the other americans the same?
I do think that the writer of the original message pretty much a child himself
I would love to see a benchmark that examine athlon 3DNow! optimization with P4 using SSE optimization. I know such a benchmark is essentially as useless and biased as the rest but then why not yet another one?
Anyway, are those optimization really that necessary? 99% of the software that people used does not need those optimisation. How many of your friends uses video editing/compression software? And if they do, they used it how often?
But still, all the hype is kind of fun... or rather, life is kinda of boring.
That's why I don't use Redhat anymore and switched to Mandrake.
Patent the dead link idea!!!
No engineer is crazy enough to reinvent the wheel, or are any out there?
I don't know of any software engineers who reinvent text editors either!! And we do have so many different types of wheels too!!
Well, there are a lot of text editors that is based on the shareware concepts though. And freeware concepts. There are also a lot of commerical text editors (some disguise as word processors). So the commerical, freeware and shareware models all fails too?
That is because the richest 250,000 people owns 90% of the economy? (or was it much more than that now?)
Well, anyone who has attended an economy course would know that that's called progressive taxing.If you think about it, it is much better for social good than a more regresive taxing method like flat rate tax. For example, if you are earning $1K, 10% of your income means hell lot to you. But if you are Bill Gates, you can still live much more than comfortably if 50% of your income is taxed. Of course my answer is not very economics but then, that was ten years ago.
Those companies/people who are seeking to ban reverse engineering are looking for self-destruction. If reverse engineering is banned, they can't reverse engineered their competitors products too. Are they too stupid to see that? Or are they having the illusion that their product will always stay the best and all the innovations are coming from them? Wouldn't new startups with innovative products benefit then? Or the large corporations are already lobbying for laws or coming up with means (think m$) that would squash small startups with innovative products into oblivion?
MPEG-4 uses wavelets? That's news to me. The last I know, they are still using DCT. And that is after the last last last last I know when they were still considering matching pursuits for their very low bitrate core.
How about names like says C#?? or even C++?
Must there be a god damn it distribution war everything when one of the distributions comes out with a new release?
The court should be banning guns and knives. Wait and bottles too. cigarettes (esp cigarettes) should be banned so long ago cos it does not even serve a useful purpose.
I don't see anything contradictory to that. FOr every microsoft products, the first few versions sucks and get better as they learn their mistakes. That's one thing about microsoft that you have to respect. They might see it as a learning experience to their eventual .net strategy. With the .net strategy, the OS hardlys matter anymore. So it is a good time to start building up the user base of MS offices users in linux. It also fixed nicely in their often used strategy of making announcement of up coming products so that users will wait for them rather than going to the competitors which is staroffice in this case. If staroffice manages to take off, what are the chance of their .net strategy succeeding??
Well, I recall two MAJOR remote root exploits in RedHat within the last year: bind and wu_ftpd.
erm, I don't run bind. So is a lot of other sane people. So I still get the MAJOR remote root exploits?