If it's any consolation, I stole it from a really old Emacs fortune file. It's in the category of "appallingly unfunny jokes", along side [bb|[^b]{2}]; fortunately, the only other regex joke I know.
I really do think that meme's funeral was held shortly after Friendship is Magic started garnering a cult following. You may wish to consider moving on to newer, brighter memes, such as Yakov Smirnoff jokes, petrified Natalie Portman, or putting a dollar sign in "Microsoft".
Something tells me there aren't too many Sony executives who know or care about the Pwnies. Methinks the submitter is a bit overenthusiastic in suggesting the company is embarrassed about the award itself.
That payment is a moral question is the point I wanted to raise. We spend so much time running around inside of legal questions of what the law says we can and cannot do, that we completely forget about the simple, much more real question of "does this artist deserve to eat for my enjoyment of his or her work?"
Radiohead's stunt a few years ago really highlighted this idea for me, and ever since then I've been a lot more sceptical of any anti-DRM viewpoint that inherently implies the author's effort doesn't entail compensation, regardless of opinions on whether or not the resultant artwork should be that author's property. It's certainly true that DRM has a lot of inherent flaws, but assuming a non-evil vendor like you mention, it seems to me that as long as consumers aren't setting their own prices (and thereby making capitalism purely voluntary), they need some electronic equivalent of a movie ticket or a DVD rental, so they can say "I'll pay for the privilege to use this once or twice, but it's not currently worthwhile for me to purchase the privilege to use it at any time."
The term is also widely-used for microarrays and other micro-labs. Many of them are actually fabricated in silicon or other media like integrated circuits—the rectangle cut out of silicon wafer being the chip proper!
Changing the question a little: in the case of such a heavily DRMed e-book, you probably wouldn't be paying for the right to possess a copy of the data to do with as you please, but only a license to read it, perhaps even just a few times, like the DVD and VHS rentals of yesteryear. What do you feel is a fair pricing model for different levels of access (where the lowest is "no access" and the highest is "a complete licence to edit and exhibit the content") to an e-book/movie/album, and at what point would you feel uncomfortable violating the terms of this pricing model?
Alternatively, how should artists and distributors (if applicable) be reimbursed for their work?
I tend to agree. Here's one possibility that comes to mind: "Hey Google, do you want to be our friend? We don't really need your coffers to guarantee we get these patents, but if you chip in, and as long as you pursue the same legal cases with us against our other competitors, you and yours will be safe."
I would pretend I'm being cynical, but this one seems like a no-brainer. There were strings attached to that patent deal, Google knew it, and did the Right Thing, even though it's going to suck, like getting dunked in the toilet every day after school for the next twenty years.
but it was the Stasi that were the inspiration for Orwell's Thought Police.
This would have been quite an accomplishment, considering that Orwell finished writing Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1948, published in 1949, and the MfS was not founded until the following year. I am not an English major, but I believe he based his material primarily on an extrapolation of the possibility that Great Britain would adopt fascist policies of its own. Although it does seem he had a lot to say about both Stalin and Hitler.
Here's a question for you—not that I necessarily disagree with your viewpoint—at what point do you consider an amount of money you've paid to access to something sufficient to reacquire it through any means you wish? I.e., if you were charged ten cents for access to an extremely DRMed e-book, would you still feel like you had the right to 'pirate' it and lend it to a friend?
If it's any consolation, M and F are next to each other on a Linotype keyboard, which would have been popular at the time of the newspaper's founding in the 1890s.
The definition that I've heard, and assume, is that the network should not discriminate against traffic based on content or source in any way: an ISP should not be able to take money in order to give a site preferential treatment, or demand money from a customer to access a certain site, etc., excepting cases like colos or other legitimately scarce resources. The ultimate goal is to prevent mafia-like protection rackets. I say censorship falls under this: it simply means pinning the price at an infinite amount for a given site, and degrading quality of service to an infinite degree. Now we just need to stop governments from doing the same thing—which I suppose is a separate issue.
Well, right now we have the ability to take memory dumps and compare them, creating a kind of rudimentary trace log. This shoddy JPEG of a microarray displays one column per gene of interest. Brightness reflects gene expression level (red is low, green is high, grey is in between.) Each row is a separate set of conditions, such as progress through a stress response.
In plant biology, time of day has been used as the y-axis, by taking many different samples at different times. This was done in order to find the genes responsible for changing between photosynthesis and respiration, and created a very cool and nifty image (in one of my textbooks that I don't have readily available) of all sorts of repeated and dynamic patterns, only a tiny fraction of which we understand—but at least we can see them!
Getting a kernel debugger, though, would require the ability to stop time instantly in order to equivalate interrupts and traps. I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.:)
IAAB. It's equivalent to using a print statement as a report mechanism during debugging. In fact, this use of GFP is even called a "reporter" gene. There are other reporters commonly used; prior to the discovery of fluorescent proteins, the most popular bacterial reporter was a step in the lactose metabolism pathway that caused the colony to turn blue when it was interrupted by another gene (thus demonstrating not functionality, but that the gene had been inserted correctly into the carrier molecule.)
Another control mechanism that's often used is antibiotic resistance: if it doesn't die, then the resistance gene is where it should be. This has the added benefit of getting rid of the samples you don't want at the same time. Of course, neither of these are very useful for seeing tissue-specific expression, which is why fluorescent proteins revolutionized molecular biology when they were discovered.
The fantastically sad thing is that this is what we've always warned/complained about. Every time a child porn filter is mentioned on Slashdot as a proposed project, there's a cloud of "it's gonna be abused" comments following it. It happened in Australia, without too much open discussion until the blacklists were leaked. Here, we have a quintessential example—in motion, no less—of the precise same problem.
I recall some stories about US lawmakers pushing for the Internet to become more regulated; that it's too lawless. For once, I agree with them: we need mandatory net neutrality.
It also doesn't help that it implies Seabird has anything to do with B2G or is even a real idea. It was just a "wouldn't it be cool?" mockup. No one has plans for anything remotely resembling it.
Have you not seen Terminator 3 or the Second Renaissance? It's by hating and by creating machines of hate that we train our creations to treat existence as a zero-sum game. Kindly please tell all your friends.
Interesting, related story from about the same era: Visual Basic 1 was released by Microsoft as a way of migrating customers from QBasic-based solutions towards true Windows VB. It used the DOS-437 character set to provide a rather fetching mouse-driven console-based GUI, but could also run pure QBasic programs. Its code was also forward-compatible with VB2 and later.
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"Apple", "Computer", and "Inc."?
If we were to ask a magic eight-ball about this, it would probably suggest something along the lines of "My sources say no."
If it's any consolation, I stole it from a really old Emacs fortune file. It's in the category of "appallingly unfunny jokes", along side [bb|[^b]{2}]; fortunately, the only other regex joke I know.
I really do think that meme's funeral was held shortly after Friendship is Magic started garnering a cult following. You may wish to consider moving on to newer, brighter memes, such as Yakov Smirnoff jokes, petrified Natalie Portman, or putting a dollar sign in "Microsoft".
Something tells me there aren't too many Sony executives who know or care about the Pwnies. Methinks the submitter is a bit overenthusiastic in suggesting the company is embarrassed about the award itself.
That payment is a moral question is the point I wanted to raise. We spend so much time running around inside of legal questions of what the law says we can and cannot do, that we completely forget about the simple, much more real question of "does this artist deserve to eat for my enjoyment of his or her work?"
Radiohead's stunt a few years ago really highlighted this idea for me, and ever since then I've been a lot more sceptical of any anti-DRM viewpoint that inherently implies the author's effort doesn't entail compensation, regardless of opinions on whether or not the resultant artwork should be that author's property. It's certainly true that DRM has a lot of inherent flaws, but assuming a non-evil vendor like you mention, it seems to me that as long as consumers aren't setting their own prices (and thereby making capitalism purely voluntary), they need some electronic equivalent of a movie ticket or a DVD rental, so they can say "I'll pay for the privilege to use this once or twice, but it's not currently worthwhile for me to purchase the privilege to use it at any time."
The term is also widely-used for microarrays and other micro-labs. Many of them are actually fabricated in silicon or other media like integrated circuits—the rectangle cut out of silicon wafer being the chip proper!
...or BST, British Summer Time, which is GMT+1. But... whatever.
Changing the question a little: in the case of such a heavily DRMed e-book, you probably wouldn't be paying for the right to possess a copy of the data to do with as you please, but only a license to read it, perhaps even just a few times, like the DVD and VHS rentals of yesteryear. What do you feel is a fair pricing model for different levels of access (where the lowest is "no access" and the highest is "a complete licence to edit and exhibit the content") to an e-book/movie/album, and at what point would you feel uncomfortable violating the terms of this pricing model?
Alternatively, how should artists and distributors (if applicable) be reimbursed for their work?
I tend to agree. Here's one possibility that comes to mind: "Hey Google, do you want to be our friend? We don't really need your coffers to guarantee we get these patents, but if you chip in, and as long as you pursue the same legal cases with us against our other competitors, you and yours will be safe."
I would pretend I'm being cynical, but this one seems like a no-brainer. There were strings attached to that patent deal, Google knew it, and did the Right Thing, even though it's going to suck, like getting dunked in the toilet every day after school for the next twenty years.
but it was the Stasi that were the inspiration for Orwell's Thought Police.
This would have been quite an accomplishment, considering that Orwell finished writing Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1948, published in 1949, and the MfS was not founded until the following year. I am not an English major, but I believe he based his material primarily on an extrapolation of the possibility that Great Britain would adopt fascist policies of its own. Although it does seem he had a lot to say about both Stalin and Hitler.
Here's a question for you—not that I necessarily disagree with your viewpoint—at what point do you consider an amount of money you've paid to access to something sufficient to reacquire it through any means you wish? I.e., if you were charged ten cents for access to an extremely DRMed e-book, would you still feel like you had the right to 'pirate' it and lend it to a friend?
If it's any consolation, M and F are next to each other on a Linotype keyboard, which would have been popular at the time of the newspaper's founding in the 1890s.
I probably shouldn't tell you about Vi Hart's math doodles, then.
Technically we have Latin-1, you just need to use the æntities—correctly.
"When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl."
The definition that I've heard, and assume, is that the network should not discriminate against traffic based on content or source in any way: an ISP should not be able to take money in order to give a site preferential treatment, or demand money from a customer to access a certain site, etc., excepting cases like colos or other legitimately scarce resources. The ultimate goal is to prevent mafia-like protection rackets. I say censorship falls under this: it simply means pinning the price at an infinite amount for a given site, and degrading quality of service to an infinite degree. Now we just need to stop governments from doing the same thing—which I suppose is a separate issue.
Well, right now we have the ability to take memory dumps and compare them, creating a kind of rudimentary trace log. This shoddy JPEG of a microarray displays one column per gene of interest. Brightness reflects gene expression level (red is low, green is high, grey is in between.) Each row is a separate set of conditions, such as progress through a stress response.
In plant biology, time of day has been used as the y-axis, by taking many different samples at different times. This was done in order to find the genes responsible for changing between photosynthesis and respiration, and created a very cool and nifty image (in one of my textbooks that I don't have readily available) of all sorts of repeated and dynamic patterns, only a tiny fraction of which we understand—but at least we can see them!
Getting a kernel debugger, though, would require the ability to stop time instantly in order to equivalate interrupts and traps. I don't think that's going to happen any time soon. :)
IAAB. It's equivalent to using a print statement as a report mechanism during debugging. In fact, this use of GFP is even called a "reporter" gene. There are other reporters commonly used; prior to the discovery of fluorescent proteins, the most popular bacterial reporter was a step in the lactose metabolism pathway that caused the colony to turn blue when it was interrupted by another gene (thus demonstrating not functionality, but that the gene had been inserted correctly into the carrier molecule.)
Another control mechanism that's often used is antibiotic resistance: if it doesn't die, then the resistance gene is where it should be. This has the added benefit of getting rid of the samples you don't want at the same time. Of course, neither of these are very useful for seeing tissue-specific expression, which is why fluorescent proteins revolutionized molecular biology when they were discovered.
Let it be so. Let "piracy" drive them into the ground. Let the Libertarians be right on this one, regardless of whether we agree with them or not.
Look, I'm "pirating" their software right now!
The fantastically sad thing is that this is what we've always warned/complained about. Every time a child porn filter is mentioned on Slashdot as a proposed project, there's a cloud of "it's gonna be abused" comments following it. It happened in Australia, without too much open discussion until the blacklists were leaked. Here, we have a quintessential example—in motion, no less—of the precise same problem.
I recall some stories about US lawmakers pushing for the Internet to become more regulated; that it's too lawless. For once, I agree with them: we need mandatory net neutrality.
5. Open page in Chrome.
6. It crashes while loading, displaying "Aw, snap!"
7. ???
8. Aw, snap!
It also doesn't help that it implies Seabird has anything to do with B2G or is even a real idea. It was just a "wouldn't it be cool?" mockup. No one has plans for anything remotely resembling it.
Have you not seen Terminator 3 or the Second Renaissance? It's by hating and by creating machines of hate that we train our creations to treat existence as a zero-sum game. Kindly please tell all your friends.
Ooh, a fill-in-your-own-joke? I love these.
(ROT13ed Answers: bar bs NzoreCbvag, Fvyire Perrx Flfgrzf, be Pbairetva. No peeking!)
Interesting, related story from about the same era: Visual Basic 1 was released by Microsoft as a way of migrating customers from QBasic-based solutions towards true Windows VB. It used the DOS-437 character set to provide a rather fetching mouse-driven console-based GUI, but could also run pure QBasic programs. Its code was also forward-compatible with VB2 and later.