Trial, verb, trans. To submit (something, esp. a new product) to a test or trial; to test.
And whoever told you that one says "'Trials' are a noun" in British English is just as ill-informed as you are. If you're going to be a Grammar Nazi, consider being correct every now and again.
Right. Because the market has never had a bad idea forced on it by legislation. Did the "market" decide that it wanted the DMCA?
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People in this thread seem to be suggesting that an artist should only get paid once for a song
Not at all. I think they should get paid only for a far more limited amount of time than they do presently.
Should prints available at the Louvre be free? I mean, the artist has already been paid for their painting, right?
What? Do you really think that proceeds of art prints go to the long-dead artists?
Making art is not exactly an easy process. You don't just sit down and think 'I know, I'll make a hit single!' and then spend a few hours a night for the rest of the week polishing it up. It takes hard work, it takes passion, it takes enthusiasm.
You believe writing a pop song to be harder than surgery?
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An artist shouldn't make royalties of a product that can be sold over and over to multitude of individuals over they years
Obviously, songwriters can't get an immediate return, so some period of time to earn a return on the work you've invested in your creative act is thoroughly deserved and reasonable. Two years, five years, maybe. Hell, ten years of royalties would be ok by me. Think of it like a billing period.
But lifetime + 75 years? That's completely, idiotically disproportionate.
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I mean, creative people? That's like the worst misspelling of "rich executives that like to screw the little guy" that I've ever seen.
The people that do write the legislation are heavily influenced by the money coming into their pockets by entertainment industry lobbyists. The laws serve the RIAA/CRIA people, not the artists.
Yes. You're 100% right.
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Diagnosing and treating a new patient involves doing additional work. The equivalent would be making/writing a new record, or playing another gig.
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Please don't give the lawyers any ideas.
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The battleground isn't about musicians "being able to make a living from it", but rather whether they can make a living from it in perpetuity.
If I repair your car today - no matter how good a job I do - you pay me once, and I get to eat today. If your car keeps running for another 20 years, you don't have to to keep giving me royalties because of what a great job I did. Hell, even a doctor only gets paid once for a life saving operation.
However, if I make a hit album today, the RIAA, CRIA think that I should be allowed [or, more importantly, they should be allowed] to live off the proceeds of that record for the remainder of my natural life, as can my family for 50+ years after my death.
Why are creative people rewarded in perpetuity, when doctors don't? Because creative people get to write legislation.
You miss my point: All those problems only exist if you're running updatedb in contention with other processes. And if those processes are grabbing resources 24/7, then running updatedb (nice or otherwise) at 3am serves no purpose.
If you run updatedb at 3am because your system is idle at 3am, then nothing will take the timeslices or flush the cache, regardless of the nice level.
Then, instead of finishing during the early morning hours, it lasts all day, interferring with real work.
If there are no other processes competing for resources, niced and non-niced processes will complete in approximately the same time. If your niced late-night updatedb is taking forever, its because you've chosen to run other processes overnight as well. And if your updatedb runs quickly, then the other processes will "interfere with real work".
In short : nice doesn't change the total amount of time your processes take (or, at least, not by very much), it just changes which one finishes first.
[the company] had designed its Windows server operating systems from the outset to interoperate with non-Microsoft server operating systems
Its non-Microsoft client operating systems that they have the problem with. You can have your slice of server space, but if your alternative OS's try and pick up market share for desktop computers, then they'll do everything they can to stop you.
had designed its Windows server operating systems from the outset to interoperate with non-Microsoft server operating systems
Sure. That's why SMB is so appallingly documented that the only way to re-implement it is by packet sniffing Windows clients. And why their Kerberos implementation was deliberately incompatible with everyone elses, and with the incompatibility protected as a trade secret.
studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
And I studied French. Doesn't make me an expert on French Grammar. Besides, you're making a defence by appeal to authority : he studied painting, therefore his opinions on painting are correct. It may have escaped your notice, but the man critiquing Graham made a series of logical points and observations about the multifarious (and, indeed, obvious) differences between programming and painting. Is your rebuttal to these really "but Graham studied painting for an undisclosed amount of time".
I mean, was he an undergrad or a postgrad at RISD? Did he graduate? Did he do a 3 year fine arts course or half a dozen evening classes? Did RISD really teach him that painters need a detailed understanding of the chemistry of paint?
Does a 40-year-old computer programmer really find the time to fit into two extended periods of study at art school? Don't those missing six years look kind of weird on his resume?
"Studied at" covers a multitude of sins, and even if a an appeal to authority were justified, where's the evidence Graham qualifies as an authority?
Skilled hackers in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America are selling zero-day exploits on Internet forums where moderators even test the validity of the code against anti-virus software
Phew, its a good job there are no malicious hackers in North America.
Thank God for the calming, lawful influences Mom's Apple Pie, Truth, Justice and Barry Bonds' adrenal glands.
the non-trivial idea would be a vending machine that identified the user
Nonsense. A vending machine that worked like those Auto-Toll swipe cards -- read your ID remotely, and billed you accordingly -- would not be patentable. It's a trivial application of extant technology.
Similarly, using a pre-existing technology (Cookies) to identify a visitor to a website is a trivial, obvious application of extant technology, and should not be patentable.
Graham has engineers disease: he believes that being an accomplished engineer makes him qualified to speak authoritatively on art, law, science, film... He probably caught it from ESR.
If software were really no different from physical systems, 99% of software patents would be invalid because they consist solely of obvious (indeed, pre-existing) inventions with the words "using a computer".
How is the one-click patent not invalidated by the prior art of millions of human shopping experiences in which a customer says "One of those please", or a vending machine in which every item has its own button? Nobody would allow a patent on a type of vending machine based on how many times you have to push a button.
And if a one-push vending machine would not be patentable, why is a one-push webpage?
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A hell of a lot of porn is better paced, and better plotted than Jackson's King Kong, too.
And whoever told you that one says "'Trials' are a noun" in British English is just as ill-informed as you are. If you're going to be a Grammar Nazi, consider being correct every now and again.
"40,000 Leagues under the Sea", or "There and Back Again".
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[I think you mean 20,000
Right. Because the market has never had a bad idea forced on it by legislation. Did the "market" decide that it wanted the DMCA?
But lifetime + 75 years? That's completely, idiotically disproportionate.
Diagnosing and treating a new patient involves doing additional work.
The equivalent would be making/writing a new record, or playing another gig.
Please don't give the lawyers any ideas.
The battleground isn't about musicians "being able to make a living from it", but rather whether they can make a living from it in perpetuity.
If I repair your car today - no matter how good a job I do - you pay me once, and I get to eat today. If your car keeps running for another 20 years, you don't have to to keep giving me royalties because of what a great job I did. Hell, even a doctor only gets paid once for a life saving operation.
However, if I make a hit album today, the RIAA, CRIA think that I should be allowed [or, more importantly, they should be allowed] to live off the proceeds of that record for the remainder of my natural life, as can my family for 50+ years after my death.
Why are creative people rewarded in perpetuity, when doctors don't?
Because creative people get to write legislation.
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You miss my point: All those problems only exist if you're running updatedb in contention with other processes. And if those processes are grabbing resources 24/7, then running updatedb (nice or otherwise) at 3am serves no purpose.
If you run updatedb at 3am because your system is idle at 3am, then nothing will take the timeslices or flush the cache, regardless of the nice level.
In short : nice doesn't change the total amount of time your processes take (or, at least, not by very much), it just changes which one finishes first.
Wow. Another slashdotter seemingly incapable of distinguishing between "Where I work" and "Most workplaces."
Clue : The plural of "anecdote" is not "data"
No matter how tempting a target I make myself, the responsibility for the crime will always remain with the criminal.
Doesn't make me an expert on French Grammar.
Besides, you're making a defence by appeal to authority : he studied painting, therefore his opinions on painting are correct. It may have escaped your notice, but the man critiquing Graham made a series of logical points and observations about the multifarious (and, indeed, obvious) differences between programming and painting. Is your rebuttal to these really "but Graham studied painting for an undisclosed amount of time".
I mean, was he an undergrad or a postgrad at RISD?
Did he graduate?
Did he do a 3 year fine arts course or half a dozen evening classes?
Did RISD really teach him that painters need a detailed understanding of the chemistry of paint?
Does a 40-year-old computer programmer really find the time to fit into two extended periods of study at art school? Don't those missing six years look kind of weird on his resume?
"Studied at" covers a multitude of sins, and even if a an appeal to authority were justified, where's the evidence Graham qualifies as an authority?
Thank God for the calming, lawful influences Mom's Apple Pie, Truth, Justice and Barry Bonds' adrenal glands.
Similarly, using a pre-existing technology (Cookies) to identify a visitor to a website is a trivial, obvious application of extant technology, and should not be patentable.
Graham has engineers disease: he believes that being an accomplished engineer makes him qualified to speak authoritatively on art, law, science, film... He probably caught it from ESR.
Anyway, I heartily recommend you read this fine demolition of Graham's opinions on painting before giving this dilletante blowhard any of your copious free time.
If software were really no different from physical systems, 99% of software patents would be invalid because they consist solely of obvious (indeed, pre-existing) inventions with the words "using a computer".
How is the one-click patent not invalidated by the prior art of millions of human shopping experiences in which a customer says "One of those please", or a vending machine in which every item has its own button? Nobody would allow a patent on a type of vending machine based on how many times you have to push a button.
And if a one-push vending machine would not be patentable, why is a one-push webpage?