We really need a 3rd party to get 5% so they are eligible for public funds the next time around, there there would suddenly be a very good chance of winning.
actually copyright law has a concept of derivative works. If a work is derivative, and both WoW add-ons and Linux drivers are likely in this category. Its relatively complex, both the question of if liability exists and if fair use and first sale can be an affirmative defense. As you can see, those with money always seem to move the lines in their advantage--companies assuming linux drivers are not derivative works and have no liability, and Blizzard assuming that add-ons are derivitave, have liability, and do not fall under fair-use / first-sale.
This is all a bluff because with encryption anyone can communicate securely. The Governments are freaking out that they dont have some knowing powers they use to have so they have to use FUD, and police state society to try to keep that control.
Microsoft tried to do the same exact type of thing. They wanted a appliance-only server for all data, with a completely custom file system designed for maximum resistance to reverse engineering.
yeah both AMD and Intel have direct IO from virutal machines in their newer chips, AMD in Phenom, but you need a expensive motherboard. Intel I guess was later with these Nehalems.
actually if a 3rd party gets 5% of the vote nationally for president one year then that party will get public campaign funds to run a presidential candidate four years later, which will give them a chance.
In any moderately complex system function and form are at least initially tied together. Yes, a standard is really god, but without a reference implementation or a scattered landscape, propritary systems will extend the "standard" until its incompatible so they can easily make it incompatible when they want to. This is the big lesson from the Microsoft world. (Netscape vs Microsoft extensions for example.) Without a open implementation the standards cannot be open.
the selection numbers are because of corporate connections. Blockbuster was owned by one of the hollywood mega-companies, idk which one, and they have deals so they have unimited copies of those movies/games/etc and pat either flat charges or a portion of revenue.
but that is at their discretion, and the expense of their customer. It is NOT at the discretion of anyone who happens to want to file a DMCA, which anyone can easily fill out.
completely tracks point 2 3 and 4. apt-cache search or synaptic / the webz will allow you to find endless software you know not the name of. apt-file show will list every file a package has on your system.
and manual packages go into/usr/local or you can easily use checkinstall and tell it dependencies etc. to have your packages tracked by the package manager
many lazy people use the command line versions cause they are faster, etc
its file if people dont use them, but we shouldnt be telling them that its 'just for the adults' so to speak, in this case only 'for developers and POWER users'
when linux is all clueless users, then any change will make enless quantities of drama and bitching because the users dont have a clue what is going on.
And these type of people make the clueless users think that they know what is going on, I think its great to let tem know how to use a system, but they should never be told that "apt-get in too compilcated" simply cause the reviewer doesnt know anything about what he is talking about.
How can extending the copyright term of content that was already created possibly enrich the public domain? No, it hampers it because it prevents people from humoring it and creating derivatives, but that doesn't keep the RIAA and MPAA, and as a result congress, from telling people it does enrich us.
Copyright, as the name suggests, is the right to copy a work of some form. If one resells or gives as a gift a book (or CD or DVD) that one has bought, a new copy has not been made, therefore it is legal under US copyright law.
The owner can choose when and where to distribute their copyrighted works, but do not have any control, under law, over what the user does, or who they sell or give that copy too. Microsoft lawyers and FUDdites would like you to think otherwise, but you can sell your CDs/Software/etc to anyone for any price.
not really, it stated that the more transistors are on a chip the cheaper that chip is to produce, but that also the more likely that chip would be bad. As technologies progressed, mechanisms for increasing the yield would keep going up, so that more and more transistors could fit on each individual chip, thereby lowering costs, and increasing performance. The number of transistors was speculated eventually to be 18 months, which for the time seems optimistic, but turned to be about right.
people dont understand that all moore's law said is that every 18 months the number of transistors would double. It did not say anything more. It has been widely overblown into an entire economic concept of technological markets and commodities that progress in exponential/logarithmic ways.
Also, these things cannot suspend the laws of physics.
you completely miss the point. wikipedia is context, and prose, and art. The individual facts can be copied wholesale from wikipedia, but not the exact word in which they were described, unless you fallow the license which it is licensed under (currently GFDL)
noone prevents you from systematicaly copying the facts that wikipedia's presents and restating them, using wikipedia's sources, and rewriting the entire site. However this would be quite an operation.
In this case these facts are just numbers. there is no art at all in the data, and these numbers cannot be copyrighted. (at least under US law)
And all those things on wikipedia which are not facts could be argued to add flavor to wikipedia and could be copyrighted as fiction:)
but the presentation i say on a little picture of the app was clearly a simple representation with normal fonts, it clearly lacked any artistic talent and was merely a common form of tabulating data.
Yeah i have a website with a white background and black test, and a table with this color and this color, and now i am going to sue every web 1.0 web site in existence for copyright infringement.
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The federal deficit is at a point where a future government debt collapse is guaranteed.
President Clinton: The United States on Track to Pay Off the Debt by End of the Decade
We really need a 3rd party to get 5% so they are eligible for public funds the next time around, there there would suddenly be a very good chance of winning.
actually copyright law has a concept of derivative works . If a work is derivative, and both WoW add-ons and Linux drivers are likely in this category. Its relatively complex, both the question of if liability exists and if fair use and first sale can be an affirmative defense. As you can see, those with money always seem to move the lines in their advantage--companies assuming linux drivers are not derivative works and have no liability, and Blizzard assuming that add-ons are derivitave, have liability, and do not fall under fair-use / first-sale.
This is all a bluff because with encryption anyone can communicate securely. The Governments are freaking out that they dont have some knowing powers they use to have so they have to use FUD, and police state society to try to keep that control.
Microsoft tried to do the same exact type of thing. They wanted a appliance-only server for all data, with a completely custom file system designed for maximum resistance to reverse engineering.
yeah both AMD and Intel have direct IO from virutal machines in their newer chips, AMD in Phenom, but you need a expensive motherboard. Intel I guess was later with these Nehalems.
actually if a 3rd party gets 5% of the vote nationally for president one year then that party will get public campaign funds to run a presidential candidate four years later, which will give them a chance.
the Xbox 360 runs on PPC. They made one of the largest purchaces of Apple computers in order to get use to the PPC architecture.
learn something from biology:
"form fallows function"
In any moderately complex system function and form are at least initially tied together. Yes, a standard is really god, but without a reference implementation or a scattered landscape, propritary systems will extend the "standard" until its incompatible so they can easily make it incompatible when they want to. This is the big lesson from the Microsoft world. (Netscape vs Microsoft extensions for example.) Without a open implementation the standards cannot be open.
the selection numbers are because of corporate connections. Blockbuster was owned by one of the hollywood mega-companies, idk which one, and they have deals so they have unimited copies of those movies/games/etc and pat either flat charges or a portion of revenue.
Veritas Vos Liberabit!
http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/ accusation of infringement is not the same as a conviction, at least thats the way its supose to work.
but that is at their discretion, and the expense of their customer. It is NOT at the discretion of anyone who happens to want to file a DMCA, which anyone can easily fill out.
i dont think you have used apt in a while,
completely tracks point 2 3 and 4. apt-cache search or synaptic / the webz will allow you to find endless software you know not the name of. apt-file show will list every file a package has on your system.
and manual packages go into /usr/local or you can easily use checkinstall and tell it dependencies etc. to have your packages tracked by the package manager
There are so many help forums on the net that it's almost impossible to miss them if you have even average research skills.
i think you underestimate the great lengths people will go to use their feelings rather than google or RTFM.
apt-cache search
many lazy people use the command line versions cause they are faster, etc
its file if people dont use them, but we shouldnt be telling them that its 'just for the adults' so to speak, in this case only 'for developers and POWER users'
NO
when linux is all clueless users, then any change will make enless quantities of drama and bitching because the users dont have a clue what is going on.
And these type of people make the clueless users think that they know what is going on, I think its great to let tem know how to use a system, but they should never be told that "apt-get in too compilcated" simply cause the reviewer doesnt know anything about what he is talking about.
same with congress and the Micky mouse law
How can extending the copyright term of content that was already created possibly enrich the public domain? No, it hampers it because it prevents people from humoring it and creating derivatives, but that doesn't keep the RIAA and MPAA, and as a result congress, from telling people it does enrich us.
The supreme court says otherwise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbs-Merrill_Co._v._Straus
Copyright, as the name suggests, is the right to copy a work of some form. If one resells or gives as a gift a book (or CD or DVD) that one has bought, a new copy has not been made, therefore it is legal under US copyright law.
The owner can choose when and where to distribute their copyrighted works, but do not have any control, under law, over what the user does, or who they sell or give that copy too. Microsoft lawyers and FUDdites would like you to think otherwise, but you can sell your CDs/Software/etc to anyone for any price.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/05/court-smacks-autodesk-affirms-right-to-sell-used-software.ars -- Timothy S. Vernor v. Autodesk
ahhh... this is the reason i go to slashdot
not really, it stated that the more transistors are on a chip the cheaper that chip is to produce, but that also the more likely that chip would be bad. As technologies progressed, mechanisms for increasing the yield would keep going up, so that more and more transistors could fit on each individual chip, thereby lowering costs, and increasing performance. The number of transistors was speculated eventually to be 18 months, which for the time seems optimistic, but turned to be about right.
people dont understand that all moore's law said is that every 18 months the number of transistors would double. It did not say anything more. It has been widely overblown into an entire economic concept of technological markets and commodities that progress in exponential/logarithmic ways.
Also, these things cannot suspend the laws of physics.
you completely miss the point. wikipedia is context, and prose, and art. The individual facts can be copied wholesale from wikipedia, but not the exact word in which they were described, unless you fallow the license which it is licensed under (currently GFDL)
noone prevents you from systematicaly copying the facts that wikipedia's presents and restating them, using wikipedia's sources, and rewriting the entire site. However this would be quite an operation.
In this case these facts are just numbers. there is no art at all in the data, and these numbers cannot be copyrighted. (at least under US law)
And all those things on wikipedia which are not facts could be argued to add flavor to wikipedia and could be copyrighted as fiction :)
but the presentation i say on a little picture of the app was clearly a simple representation with normal fonts, it clearly lacked any artistic talent and was merely a common form of tabulating data.
Yeah i have a website with a white background and black test, and a table with this color and this color, and now i am going to sue every web 1.0 web site in existence for copyright infringement.