Also, can the banks track who makes the withdrawl so the criminals can be caught?
Not very easily in these third world nations due to their laws, buerocracies, inefficieny, and local corruption. That was one of the problems the US faced in tracking down the Al Quida terrorists.
unless Boeing plans on giving us their software (ya right!), we won't benefit at all.
What makes you say that Boeing would write a GPL program for the DOD? Just because a program runs on top of Linux doesn't mean it has to be GPL'd. They will probably use the NSA version of Linux and any bugs they fix in the OS itself would have to be disclosed and that is a good thing because it will make all Linux systems more secure.
Rather, all of the donated work is benefiting a profiting corporation without any form of compensation. This is where the GPL fails IMHO.
It is the BSD license that allows code to be reused in a proprietary program which your employer Miscroft has taken advantage of many times. I'm curious, do you get paid to spread FUD or is this just "donated work"?
This sounds a lot like the copy protected floppies they used to use where various errors were written to the disk at the factory and couldn't be recreated by a standard drive/controller.
Data Security
- CD-ROMs fingerprinted to individual PCs
So it would become impossible to run Acme Windows XZ on my computer after I upgrade the motherboard or replace a fried ethernet card.
The only advantage to the consumer that I can think of would be not having to type in a 24 digit serial number and authorization key.
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Maybe thats the point. If he runs a porn site he could wipe all the evidence by hitting a kill switch but with RAID and UPS he is protected from accidental data loss. He could also rig a software deadman switch which shuts down the systems unless it receives a signal every so often.
Not to mention they can't say 'We never would have called you for the second interview if we knew you wouldn't sign our statement on Intellectual "Property" which says we own everything you do even at home.'
Might as well get it out up front that you create copyrighted works on your own time and they belong exclusively to you. They will certainly spot it during an interview and ask about it when it is listed on the resume.
Plus I have learned over the years that people who just do computer stuff 9 to 5 and don't want to deal with it at home just aren't as valuable as people who love it and live it. All good managers know this.
You bring up a good point that our current system is relatively new and seems to allow the middle class to shape the culture. That sure seems like a good thing.
Many seem to fear that a model like what is happening in China strengthens Corporatism because they would likely be the most common patrons. So we would end up with all 5 girl groups called "Mei Mei" performing songs which extoll the virtues of M&M candy. But don't we already have that? Look at Britney Spears and the Pepsi commercials. But patronage isn't the only way to make money under a free distribution system. Endorsements would be another way. Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods didn't get rich by being sponsered to play sports. In the same way, popular musical artists could become fabulously wealthy.
I think true artists, even the starving ones, can survive under such a system but they need something in return for the loose distribution of their works, if nothing else then at least name recognition. What if an electronic signature could be worked into the data format not to use for restriction but for positive identification. If free distribution were allowed then consumers would have no reason to strip that information off. This header could contain copyright, license, and contact info, the date of the performance, and the names of the patrons who paid for the performance thus freeing it for everyone.
PS. In regards to your sig, in Fascism the government controls industry but in Corporatism government is controlled by industry.
Virtual machine software price = $800
Virtual Machine price and buying windows = $1300
Virtual Machine host OS crashing and taking out all enterprise services at once = priceless
Ain't that the truth. I have both Connectix and VMWare at work and VMWare is much more stable. It doesn't just suddenly disappear from the screen even with the latest patch installed like a certain other emulator.
I am glad MS is not trying to buy VM instead because they have a Linux version which I run at home. You know that would die a quick death if MS got hold of it.
Not at all. Open Source projects are usually tightly controlled by one or a small number of developers, just as Linus controls what goes in the kernel. Yes a competent programmer could spend the effort to increase the limit but the official site for the project could distribute only the capped version to stay out of legal trouble. Many projects do similar things now or have in the past such as with the RSA cryptosystem before the patent expired or with the readonly attribute in pdf files for xpdf or the current situation with mp3s in xmms.
It could be argued to a judge that sharing songs with a limited number of friends online is the same as playing a CD for them when they are in the same room with you. I suspect this was MS's line of reasoning and the RIAA made the concession because it is such a gray legal area. Let's let MS set the precedent and stay behind them for cover.
Perhaps you should suggest it on the jEdit mailing list.
I suppose I should, after all, ye must ask before ye can receive. But I am full of ideas and they would probably get tired of reading them all before I got tired of writing.:)
If you had continued reading you would have seen, '
After much negotiation, the labels OK'd musicmix' So it sounds like Microsoft has set up some deal with the publishers (which is exclusive guessing by the past) that users of 3degrees won't be sued. What do you want to bet the publishers will save millions on software licensing for a few years and in return they will pursue Microsoft's competitors who build a similar song sharing program or consumers who use any competing programs.
On a side note, musicmix seems to be the only original thing in 3degrees. Chat programs with "avatars" that wink and frown and so on are nothing new and neither is whiteboarding, the 'shared picture' feature. Listening to a shared songlist while chatting, though, that is going to be a hit, especially when combined with bright colors and irreverent cartoons. It will be a whole new dynamic for the conversation to center around: competing for control of the songlist or trying to turn your friends onto new music that you think they will like.
But let's watch and see if they don't use the RIAA as their personal attack dog. I think we should build an competing open source project with self imposed limits that are capped at 10 users and 60 songs then see what the RIAA do.
I had been planning on writing an editor that did this, collapsing a section of code based on brackets or braces but jedit says it can do it. However in the few minutes I've spent trying I can't seem to make it work in 'explicit' mode but indent mode worked first try. Another feature I wanted to add to an editor is to hide all comments at once. I hate having to scroll up and down to find bits of code I am working with that are logically close to each other but separated by copious comments. I would probably document better if I could do this. Is there a plugin for jedit to do it?
I can forsee some consequences of doing away with intellectual monopoly. First the "thing" which would have value for the investors would no longer be intellectual "property" but the means of production, e.g. having happy artists or scientist in your employ or having the capital to build a huge new factory or having the connections to book a stadium for a live concert.
Second, the manufacturers or publishers who would be able to undercut everyone elses price in the drive toward marginal pricing would the ones with the most efficient manufacturing and distribution system. This would tend to be the largest processing plants in better connected areas and with a highly educated but cheap workforce available. Consolidation would occur similar to how small hardware stores folded when a Home Depot is built nearby and the area affected by the consolidation would be determined by that manufacturers distribution network.
From the second chapter:
If, in fact, demand is elastic, then price falling to zero implies (because so many units are sold) revenue increasing to infinity. So in this case, improved reproduction technology would increase rather than decrease the rents accruing to the innovator.
Excuse me, Levine and Boldrin, I haven't gone over all your math but I think maybe you need to bone up on L'Hopitals Rule. Additionally, that last statement there brings up an interesting point. They even stated that, 'conventional wisdom would be right in ignoring economic value of being first if technological advances were such that the time one had to wait to purchase the good at a near zero price became negligible.' So take a look at recent advancements in nano-technology and consider the possibility that a few decades from now replicating an object might be as easy and commonplace as copying an mp3 file today. Should we change our IP laws just in time for the new paradigm to be useless?
Disclaimer: I work at an IP firm as a programmer, but not as a professional in the IP field.
What do you do as a programmer at an 'IP firm', program bots that spew reams of ridiculously obvious variations on standard business practices to be submitted as patent applications?
I don't think their proposed system of a "complete temporally ordered list of previously visited pages" would be much of an improvement but it might be worth it to add as an adjunct command rather than to replace "back".
All it means is that pages visited in this order: a, b, c1, b, c2, b, c3, b and then hitting their 'improved' back button would go to c3 instead of a. This might be useful sometimes when I have have visited many pages linked to off one page such as from a google search, but I also want a way to go back to the "a" page if I am done browsing the main page.
I propose using Alt-(arrow keys) for standard back behavior but Ctrl-(arrow keys) for the temporally ordered behavior. And maybe having a second set of buttons labelled "previous and next" for the new behavior.
Does anyone know if this is possible to make buttons with such behavior in XUL or does XUL affect display elements only?
Absolutely. Equal time. Maybe the Administration should invite executives from each of the major oil companies to speak at the U.S. Symposium on Fuel Conservation and Pollution Reduction. And next Martin Luther King Day perhaps the NAACP should check to see if David Duke is available to be their dinner speaker.:^P
Seriously though, Tony Stanco makes a very good point.
Yes the stores are definitely part of this. Since they tell the customer to go screw himself they don't have to deal with the paperwork and inefficiency of the returns process which increases their profit.
But wouldn't that invade the privacy of your ancestor's other descendants? What if people such as yourself made all the geneological information for some hypothetical person available against his wishes and it was used by a health insurance company to calculate that he has a high probability of some genetic condition which is very expensive to treat. The insurance company would certainly drop his coverage. Don't argue that they wouldn't because this type of thing has already happened many times. And they will continue to get away with it because they have lobbyists while We (the people) don't.
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Not very easily in these third world nations due to their laws, buerocracies, inefficieny, and local corruption. That was one of the problems the US faced in tracking down the Al Quida terrorists.
unless Boeing plans on giving us their software (ya right!), we won't benefit at all.
What makes you say that Boeing would write a GPL program for the DOD? Just because a program runs on top of Linux doesn't mean it has to be GPL'd. They will probably use the NSA version of Linux and any bugs they fix in the OS itself would have to be disclosed and that is a good thing because it will make all Linux systems more secure.
Rather, all of the donated work is benefiting a profiting corporation without any form of compensation. This is where the GPL fails IMHO.
It is the BSD license that allows code to be reused in a proprietary program which your employer Miscroft has taken advantage of many times. I'm curious, do you get paid to spread FUD or is this just "donated work"?
Anti Piracy
- Copy protected CD-Rs
This sounds a lot like the copy protected floppies they used to use where various errors were written to the disk at the factory and couldn't be recreated by a standard drive/controller.
Data Security
- CD-ROMs fingerprinted to individual PCs
So it would become impossible to run Acme Windows XZ on my computer after I upgrade the motherboard or replace a fried ethernet card.
The only advantage to the consumer that I can think of would be not having to type in a 24 digit serial number and authorization key.
Yes a good read indeed.
Maybe thats the point. If he runs a porn site he could wipe all the evidence by hitting a kill switch but with RAID and UPS he is protected from accidental data loss. He could also rig a software deadman switch which shuts down the systems unless it receives a signal every so often.
Or even more importantly, to be able to speak freely in private without fear of being publicly arrested.
Not to mention they can't say 'We never would have called you for the second interview if we knew you wouldn't sign our statement on Intellectual "Property" which says we own everything you do even at home.'
Might as well get it out up front that you create copyrighted works on your own time and they belong exclusively to you. They will certainly spot it during an interview and ask about it when it is listed on the resume.
Plus I have learned over the years that people who just do computer stuff 9 to 5 and don't want to deal with it at home just aren't as valuable as people who love it and live it. All good managers know this.
You bring up a good point that our current system is relatively new and seems to allow the middle class to shape the culture. That sure seems like a good thing.
Many seem to fear that a model like what is happening in China strengthens Corporatism because they would likely be the most common patrons. So we would end up with all 5 girl groups called "Mei Mei" performing songs which extoll the virtues of M&M candy. But don't we already have that? Look at Britney Spears and the Pepsi commercials. But patronage isn't the only way to make money under a free distribution system. Endorsements would be another way. Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods didn't get rich by being sponsered to play sports. In the same way, popular musical artists could become fabulously wealthy.
I think true artists, even the starving ones, can survive under such a system but they need something in return for the loose distribution of their works, if nothing else then at least name recognition. What if an electronic signature could be worked into the data format not to use for restriction but for positive identification. If free distribution were allowed then consumers would have no reason to strip that information off. This header could contain copyright, license, and contact info, the date of the performance, and the names of the patrons who paid for the performance thus freeing it for everyone.
PS. In regards to your sig, in Fascism the government controls industry but in Corporatism government is controlled by industry.
Microsoft's attitude: Users that find bugs in Windows can all go straight to dell!
Virtual machine software price = $800
Virtual Machine price and buying windows = $1300
Virtual Machine host OS crashing and taking out all enterprise services at once = priceless
I am glad MS is not trying to buy VM instead because they have a Linux version which I run at home. You know that would die a quick death if MS got hold of it.
Not at all. Open Source projects are usually tightly controlled by one or a small number of developers, just as Linus controls what goes in the kernel. Yes a competent programmer could spend the effort to increase the limit but the official site for the project could distribute only the capped version to stay out of legal trouble. Many projects do similar things now or have in the past such as with the RSA cryptosystem before the patent expired or with the readonly attribute in pdf files for xpdf or the current situation with mp3s in xmms.
It could be argued to a judge that sharing songs with a limited number of friends online is the same as playing a CD for them when they are in the same room with you. I suspect this was MS's line of reasoning and the RIAA made the concession because it is such a gray legal area. Let's let MS set the precedent and stay behind them for cover.
Perhaps you should suggest it on the jEdit mailing list.
I suppose I should, after all, ye must ask before ye can receive. But I am full of ideas and they would probably get tired of reading them all before I got tired of writing. :)
Sweet! I'll be waiting.
Hypersearch is very cool. :)
It is not the snappiest editor I've ever used, but it's plenty fast enough.
I wonder if anyone has compiled jedit with gcj?
On a side note, musicmix seems to be the only original thing in 3degrees. Chat programs with "avatars" that wink and frown and so on are nothing new and neither is whiteboarding, the 'shared picture' feature. Listening to a shared songlist while chatting, though, that is going to be a hit, especially when combined with bright colors and irreverent cartoons. It will be a whole new dynamic for the conversation to center around: competing for control of the songlist or trying to turn your friends onto new music that you think they will like.
But let's watch and see if they don't use the RIAA as their personal attack dog. I think we should build an competing open source project with self imposed limits that are capped at 10 users and 60 songs then see what the RIAA do.
I had been planning on writing an editor that did this, collapsing a section of code based on brackets or braces but jedit says it can do it. However in the few minutes I've spent trying I can't seem to make it work in 'explicit' mode but indent mode worked first try. Another feature I wanted to add to an editor is to hide all comments at once. I hate having to scroll up and down to find bits of code I am working with that are logically close to each other but separated by copious comments. I would probably document better if I could do this. Is there a plugin for jedit to do it?
"Because it's there" just doesn't cut it for me.
Right. We 'wannabe' wealthy criminals so badly that we offer our work freely to the world.
Step 2: profit!
Second, the manufacturers or publishers who would be able to undercut everyone elses price in the drive toward marginal pricing would the ones with the most efficient manufacturing and distribution system. This would tend to be the largest processing plants in better connected areas and with a highly educated but cheap workforce available. Consolidation would occur similar to how small hardware stores folded when a Home Depot is built nearby and the area affected by the consolidation would be determined by that manufacturers distribution network.
From the second chapter: If, in fact, demand is elastic, then price falling to zero implies (because so many units are sold) revenue increasing to infinity. So in this case, improved reproduction technology would increase rather than decrease the rents accruing to the innovator.
Excuse me, Levine and Boldrin, I haven't gone over all your math but I think maybe you need to bone up on L'Hopitals Rule. Additionally, that last statement there brings up an interesting point. They even stated that, 'conventional wisdom would be right in ignoring economic value of being first if technological advances were such that the time one had to wait to purchase the good at a near zero price became negligible.' So take a look at recent advancements in nano-technology and consider the possibility that a few decades from now replicating an object might be as easy and commonplace as copying an mp3 file today. Should we change our IP laws just in time for the new paradigm to be useless?
What do you do as a programmer at an 'IP firm', program bots that spew reams of ridiculously obvious variations on standard business practices to be submitted as patent applications?
I don't think their proposed system of a "complete temporally ordered list of previously visited pages" would be much of an improvement but it might be worth it to add as an adjunct command rather than to replace "back".
All it means is that pages visited in this order: a, b, c1, b, c2, b, c3, b and then hitting their 'improved' back button would go to c3 instead of a. This might be useful sometimes when I have have visited many pages linked to off one page such as from a google search, but I also want a way to go back to the "a" page if I am done browsing the main page.
I propose using Alt-(arrow keys) for standard back behavior but Ctrl-(arrow keys) for the temporally ordered behavior. And maybe having a second set of buttons labelled "previous and next" for the new behavior.
Does anyone know if this is possible to make buttons with such behavior in XUL or does XUL affect display elements only?
Ok I am thinking *spy satellites*. Can an adaptive optic system be used to focus beams of energy on an object in LEO rather than image them?
Absolutely. Equal time. Maybe the Administration should invite executives from each of the major oil companies to speak at the U.S. Symposium on Fuel Conservation and Pollution Reduction. And next Martin Luther King Day perhaps the NAACP should check to see if David Duke is available to be their dinner speaker. :^P
Seriously though, Tony Stanco makes a very good point.
Yes the stores are definitely part of this. Since they tell the customer to go screw himself they don't have to deal with the paperwork and inefficiency of the returns process which increases their profit.
But wouldn't that invade the privacy of your ancestor's other descendants? What if people such as yourself made all the geneological information for some hypothetical person available against his wishes and it was used by a health insurance company to calculate that he has a high probability of some genetic condition which is very expensive to treat. The insurance company would certainly drop his coverage. Don't argue that they wouldn't because this type of thing has already happened many times. And they will continue to get away with it because they have lobbyists while We (the people) don't.