A good deal of, perhaps even the majority of, copyright violations that occur today are violations that exist only because of the new laws in the first place. If I still retained the rights I had when I was a teenager St. Pepper would be mine to do with as I please, because it would belong to the people.
Your solution is to remove more rights from the people because they will not respect having had their rights removed from them.
Copy'right' is not a right. It is a priviledge granted to someone by the government in violation of whatever rights the people have to free speech.
Respect my rights and I might be more inclined to respect your priviledge.
Doesn't everybody with a laptop already do this? It's quite easy to build a little drop on cover that makes it look like a dedicated picture display device as well, or a frame sitting on a wall bracket/whatnot shelf.
And it's much cooler to tell people you made it than it is to tell them you bought it.
. ..the big name brands were painfully slow to deal with. ..
Doctor, it hurts when I go like this. The big name brands are not the only place to get the big name brand products at a price you can afford to pay.
My point was that his statement of three months oversimplifies the issue.
Well of course it does, as does my own post. They're short little web articles promoting a general rule. Anyone who blindly follows general rules probably shouldn't go into business in the first place. At the first trouble, which will happen almost immediately, the business will likely fail.
That's why I posited a "close future," rather than a specific time period.
But as a general rule I'd say that if you can't get up and running in well under a year there is something seriously wrong with your idea and/or strategy.
In your case the problem was in relying on the name brand providers to supply you with their product. Think unconventionally and get their shit on your shelves while you are dealing with the providers themselves.
And while you are doing that you are already building brand recognition, good will and "mind share," the most valuable parts of your business.
Writing code is maybe only 10% of the real business. The other 90% is the hard part.
As gathering resources in AOE is only 10% of the game and the other 90% is the hard part.
This somewhat ignores the amount of business development that has to go on behind the scenes.
I've gone from conception to grand opening in three months. ..of a brick and mortar. If you think there's a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes in a virtual business, you should try it in a real world business.
The point of fact is that if you do it the way the business school books tell you to you'll probably never open at all, because you'll never be "ready." No business ever is.
Business ain't turn based, it's realtime strategy. Things don't stand still while you're preparing and the longer you take to prepare the further behind you fall. You'll probably just get killed while the other guys still only have clubmen.
I'm dead serious about this analogy. I think about the best thing you can do to prepare for starting a business from scratch is fire up AOE II with 7 opponants on hard setting and fight for your village's Goddam life. That's what it's really like out there. Sure you need to create a viable strategy, but you to create it, and impliment it, in a hurry.
You have to get your idea, set your date, which needs to be in the close future, and "Do It!"
Ah, I see I failed to make it explicit that when people try to make the claim that I am famous I deny it.
Someone like David Beckham can point to a single thing for which he is known. I cannot, unless it is the raw tendency to attract notice with a hefty helping of pure circumstance to as low a level as my genetic structure. Whatever noteriety I have is built Lego fashion from many smaller sources, some of which have been completely beyond my control.
I understand that some people desire fame and even seek it, usually failing.
I find the entire concept distasteful in the extreme and seek to avoid it, but it follows me around, often through no merit of my own. Life doesn't seem to be fair. I have rejected numerous requests to publish a website, newsletter, blog, dead tree autobiography.
But I was not born into independent wealth and a girl's got to make a living. Maybe it's the fishnet stockings.
Are you suggesting that you create and execute scripts by mental telepathy?
Myself I find I have to rely on recording my keystrokes in an ASCII file and then have the computer read from the file as if I had input the keystrokes from the keyboard directly.
"well known" or "notoriety" is entirely subjective. ..
Well of course it is. I've had to make this very point any number of times myself when people have sought to claim that I either wasn't, or was, "famous."
Certainly any number of people, quite possibly in the millions, have seen my name and image in the traditional media and it isn't unheard of for complete strangers to walk up to me and say, "Oh, Hey, you're ". .." aren't you?" God only knows how many people only recognize me by sight.
While browsing the web I've been startled to find pictures of myself I hadn't even known had been taken, being quoted in webzines, and even as an attributed, by full name, sig.
In certain niche fields I have even been branded a "legend" by some.
And yet "nobody" has ever heard of me. I'm probably most "notorious" right now right here on Slashdot (I've spent the past 5 years or so actively seeking to keep my name out of the traditional press. It's in all the local papers right now anyway) Of the thousands of people who have read my posts I'd hazard you couldn't find ten who would recognize my name or image.
It's a funny world we live in these days. You can be known to millions and unheard of, at the same time. I am and am not "well known" depending upon the context of the phrase.
Ask any random person on the street if they know who Einstein was and you'll likely get the answer, "Yes."
Ask the same person if they know who Bertrand Russell was and you'll likely get the answer, "No," but you can find his entry in even the most pathetically bad general encyclopedia.
We've had to invent a phrase to indicate "noteriety" that goes beyond mere "fame":
Household Word
And yet you'll find households that have not heard of even Einstein.
In my city of 60,000 you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't heard of Michael Jordan; and equally hard pressed to find one who has heard of David Beckham.
Would you posit, because of this, that David Beckham isn't "well known?"
some people really need to get back to reality once in a while
Exactly. You are, like it or not, a mere data point in the statistical phenomenon of "well known," not its measure.
Unixy shell commands live in an entirely different universe than GUI commands, with completely different "laws of physics."
Most of the really good Unix tools would likely be considered "inadequate" by someone who doesn't understand them, because they are designed and intended to work in conjunction with some other tool or tools.
So the answer to your question is, yes, by design.
That's the point. Unix tools are like Tinker Toys. Each piece has some nominal value in its own right, but are really pretty inadequate. Their real power comes in being able to combine them in novel ways to create your own structures.
You can't do that with GUI buttons, their whole raison d'etre being the delivery of a completely assembled "kit" at, well, the press of a button. A button designed to punch out cubes will do so much faster and easier than building the cubes out of all the Tinker Toy parts. ..
But you're hosed if you want a tetrahedron and you don't have a button for one of those.
When you realize how easy it is to make your own, custom Tinker Toy parts, commands, in a Unix shell, fully combinable with all the others, GUIs simply get left in the dust in terms of functionality. There are times when it can be faster to write a new command in C to get a job done than use a prexisting GUI, because it only takes a few mintues to write the needed command, and a few more to combine it with the standard commands, against countless, repetitive button presses to do the same thing.
I'm not anti GUI. I spend a lot of time in them. For easily predefined, repetitive tasks they have the value of being able to perform those tasks at the press of a button. But not being anti GUI doesn't mean I have to pretend it's always the best way.
Advertising doesn't work at all unless you are manipulated.
A sign that simply says "Corn" is advertising. It is also manipulation free and serves a valid and useful function for both the seller and the buyer.
A sign that says, "Quorn!(tm) Martinized(tm) for crispness and with bluing for extra whiteness. Buy it or your wife will cease to love you!" is marketing.
Yeah, because its a real problem that some computer program might know your wants and needs. ..
Without my compliance, yes, it is.
. ..and actually cares to cater to them as opposed to throwing crap up on the screen that you will never want.
I have seen exactly one commercial advertisment on the web for something I want. One. (The shaky flashlight thingy). It was displayed in the rather unobtrusive Think Geek banner at the top of the Slashdot page, targeting me quite effectively, and without pissing me off in the process, all without knowing anything about me specifically at all.
I have never seen an ad, anywhere of any kind, exhorting me not to buy any car at all, not even in a cycling magazine, yet such are my actual wants and needs.
Marketing isn't about my wants and needs. It is about fostering wants and needs in me.
I can't stand the idiot privacy folks.
For starters, who said anything about privacy? I was speaking about marketing. For seconds who said anything about my privacy having any bearing on yours? I don't recall even the most rabid of the privacy freaks claiming that you don't have the right to release any information about yourself that you wish to. You seem to be in the class of people who interpret anyone defending their rights as some sort of attempt to force behavior on you.
I really don't give a damn if you want to masterbate with your curtains open. Hell, I might well even support your right to do so, so long as you don't require me to masterbate with my curtains open.
See the difference?
In any case, as noted, I'm not really concerned with privacy here. The issue is not masterbating with my curtains open, it the issue of being able to do so without a dozen people rushing up to blare lubricant advertisments in my face while I'm doing so.
In short the issue is one of purely public behavior in the first place (the web is a form of public place, after all).
Slashdot Mirror
I can find no purpose to bashing a research paper. . .
The function of publishing a research paper is to have it critcised.
KFG
Damn the arrogance of that Einstein.
A man more right than his neighbors already constitutes a majority of one. -- Thoreau
KFG
. . .does throwing it in the trash forfeit those rights?
No.
KFG
Maybe if people respected copyright more. . .
A good deal of, perhaps even the majority of, copyright violations that occur today are violations that exist only because of the new laws in the first place. If I still retained the rights I had when I was a teenager St. Pepper would be mine to do with as I please, because it would belong to the people.
Your solution is to remove more rights from the people because they will not respect having had their rights removed from them.
Copy'right' is not a right. It is a priviledge granted to someone by the government in violation of whatever rights the people have to free speech.
Respect my rights and I might be more inclined to respect your priviledge.
KFG
Doesn't everybody with a laptop already do this? It's quite easy to build a little drop on cover that makes it look like a dedicated picture display device as well, or a frame sitting on a wall bracket/whatnot shelf.
And it's much cooler to tell people you made it than it is to tell them you bought it.
KFG
. . .the big name brands were painfully slow to deal with. . .
Doctor, it hurts when I go like this. The big name brands are not the only place to get the big name brand products at a price you can afford to pay.
My point was that his statement of three months oversimplifies the issue.
Well of course it does, as does my own post. They're short little web articles promoting a general rule. Anyone who blindly follows general rules probably shouldn't go into business in the first place. At the first trouble, which will happen almost immediately, the business will likely fail.
That's why I posited a "close future," rather than a specific time period.
But as a general rule I'd say that if you can't get up and running in well under a year there is something seriously wrong with your idea and/or strategy.
In your case the problem was in relying on the name brand providers to supply you with their product. Think unconventionally and get their shit on your shelves while you are dealing with the providers themselves.
And while you are doing that you are already building brand recognition, good will and "mind share," the most valuable parts of your business.
Writing code is maybe only 10% of the real business. The other 90% is the hard part.
As gathering resources in AOE is only 10% of the game and the other 90% is the hard part.
KFG
This somewhat ignores the amount of business development that has to go on behind the scenes.
.of a brick and mortar. If you think there's a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes in a virtual business, you should try it in a real world business.
I've gone from conception to grand opening in three months. .
The point of fact is that if you do it the way the business school books tell you to you'll probably never open at all, because you'll never be "ready." No business ever is.
Business ain't turn based, it's realtime strategy. Things don't stand still while you're preparing and the longer you take to prepare the further behind you fall. You'll probably just get killed while the other guys still only have clubmen.
I'm dead serious about this analogy. I think about the best thing you can do to prepare for starting a business from scratch is fire up AOE II with 7 opponants on hard setting and fight for your village's Goddam life. That's what it's really like out there. Sure you need to create a viable strategy, but you to create it, and impliment it, in a hurry.
You have to get your idea, set your date, which needs to be in the close future, and "Do It!"
Shit on the floor.
KFG
. . .it does kinda seem like a throwback to gopher.
If you throw out the baby with the bathwater, it doesn't seem such a bad idea to me to do what you can to retrieve the baby.
KFG
the pointy stick puts somebody's eye out.
I'd keep them away from it if I were you.
KFG
I still don't get why 'Mactel' is a threat to Linux in any way. Why is it even a threat to Linspire or Xandros?
It isn't.
What is it that I am missing?
Not too many brain cells, for whatever comfort that may offer.
KFG
Microsoft is worth 40 Godzillion dollars. . .and ten cents.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
(There's two Brownie Points up for grabs today)
KFG
. . .anything that dresses itself in such gaudy colours. . .
A girl's gotta make a living.
KFG
. . .even heavier sigh.
'Mon over here. I've got a nice corner. Let me introduce your head to my wall. I've already softened it up for you.
KFG
Why don't you just hug MS Windows instead?
It's not good enough, it's not smart enough, and gosh darn it, people hate it.
KFG
. . .what's your claim to fame?
Ah, I see I failed to make it explicit that when people try to make the claim that I am famous I deny it.
Someone like David Beckham can point to a single thing for which he is known. I cannot, unless it is the raw tendency to attract notice with a hefty helping of pure circumstance to as low a level as my genetic structure. Whatever noteriety I have is built Lego fashion from many smaller sources, some of which have been completely beyond my control.
I understand that some people desire fame and even seek it, usually failing.
I find the entire concept distasteful in the extreme and seek to avoid it, but it follows me around, often through no merit of my own. Life doesn't seem to be fair. I have rejected numerous requests to publish a website, newsletter, blog, dead tree autobiography.
But I was not born into independent wealth and a girl's got to make a living. Maybe it's the fishnet stockings.
KFG
Are you suggesting that you create and execute scripts by mental telepathy?
Myself I find I have to rely on recording my keystrokes in an ASCII file and then have the computer read from the file as if I had input the keystrokes from the keyboard directly.
KFG
Looks like yet another keystroke recorder to me.
A script is just a keystroke recorder as well.
This looks like a "mousestroke" recorder.
KFG
"well known" or "notoriety" is entirely subjective. . .
." aren't you?" God only knows how many people only recognize me by sight.
Well of course it is. I've had to make this very point any number of times myself when people have sought to claim that I either wasn't, or was, "famous."
Certainly any number of people, quite possibly in the millions, have seen my name and image in the traditional media and it isn't unheard of for complete strangers to walk up to me and say, "Oh, Hey, you're ". .
While browsing the web I've been startled to find pictures of myself I hadn't even known had been taken, being quoted in webzines, and even as an attributed, by full name, sig.
In certain niche fields I have even been branded a "legend" by some.
And yet "nobody" has ever heard of me. I'm probably most "notorious" right now right here on Slashdot (I've spent the past 5 years or so actively seeking to keep my name out of the traditional press. It's in all the local papers right now anyway) Of the thousands of people who have read my posts I'd hazard you couldn't find ten who would recognize my name or image.
It's a funny world we live in these days. You can be known to millions and unheard of, at the same time. I am and am not "well known" depending upon the context of the phrase.
Ask any random person on the street if they know who Einstein was and you'll likely get the answer, "Yes."
Ask the same person if they know who Bertrand Russell was and you'll likely get the answer, "No," but you can find his entry in even the most pathetically bad general encyclopedia.
We've had to invent a phrase to indicate "noteriety" that goes beyond mere "fame":
Household Word
And yet you'll find households that have not heard of even Einstein.
In my city of 60,000 you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't heard of Michael Jordan; and equally hard pressed to find one who has heard of David Beckham.
Would you posit, because of this, that David Beckham isn't "well known?"
some people really need to get back to reality once in a while
Exactly. You are, like it or not, a mere data point in the statistical phenomenon of "well known," not its measure.
KFG
It looks a bit slow and clunky to me, but nonetheless a big step forward in GUI functionality.
KFG
Unixy shell commands live in an entirely different universe than GUI commands, with completely different "laws of physics."
.
Most of the really good Unix tools would likely be considered "inadequate" by someone who doesn't understand them, because they are designed and intended to work in conjunction with some other tool or tools.
So the answer to your question is, yes, by design.
That's the point. Unix tools are like Tinker Toys. Each piece has some nominal value in its own right, but are really pretty inadequate. Their real power comes in being able to combine them in novel ways to create your own structures.
You can't do that with GUI buttons, their whole raison d'etre being the delivery of a completely assembled "kit" at, well, the press of a button. A button designed to punch out cubes will do so much faster and easier than building the cubes out of all the Tinker Toy parts. .
But you're hosed if you want a tetrahedron and you don't have a button for one of those.
When you realize how easy it is to make your own, custom Tinker Toy parts, commands, in a Unix shell, fully combinable with all the others, GUIs simply get left in the dust in terms of functionality. There are times when it can be faster to write a new command in C to get a job done than use a prexisting GUI, because it only takes a few mintues to write the needed command, and a few more to combine it with the standard commands, against countless, repetitive button presses to do the same thing.
I'm not anti GUI. I spend a lot of time in them. For easily predefined, repetitive tasks they have the value of being able to perform those tasks at the press of a button. But not being anti GUI doesn't mean I have to pretend it's always the best way.
KFG
La dee doo dum, la dee doo dum day!
And you're one point closer to your "Classic Comedy" merit badge.
KFG
Ya think? That was the very first thing that jumped out at me.
KFG
Advertising doesn't work at all
unless you are manipulated.
A sign that simply says "Corn" is advertising. It is also manipulation free and serves a valid and useful function for both the seller and the buyer.
A sign that says, "Quorn!(tm) Martinized(tm) for crispness and with bluing for extra whiteness. Buy it or your wife will cease to love you!" is marketing.
KFG
Yeah, because its a real problem that some computer program might know your wants and needs. . .
.and actually cares to cater to them as opposed to throwing crap up on the screen that you will never want.
Without my compliance, yes, it is.
. .
I have seen exactly one commercial advertisment on the web for something I want. One. (The shaky flashlight thingy). It was displayed in the rather unobtrusive Think Geek banner at the top of the Slashdot page, targeting me quite effectively, and without pissing me off in the process, all without knowing anything about me specifically at all.
I have never seen an ad, anywhere of any kind, exhorting me not to buy any car at all, not even in a cycling magazine, yet such are my actual wants and needs.
Marketing isn't about my wants and needs. It is about fostering wants and needs in me.
I can't stand the idiot privacy folks.
For starters, who said anything about privacy? I was speaking about marketing. For seconds who said anything about my privacy having any bearing on yours? I don't recall even the most rabid of the privacy freaks claiming that you don't have the right to release any information about yourself that you wish to. You seem to be in the class of people who interpret anyone defending their rights as some sort of attempt to force behavior on you.
I really don't give a damn if you want to masterbate with your curtains open. Hell, I might well even support your right to do so, so long as you don't require me to masterbate with my curtains open.
See the difference?
In any case, as noted, I'm not really concerned with privacy here. The issue is not masterbating with my curtains open, it the issue of being able to do so without a dozen people rushing up to blare lubricant advertisments in my face while I'm doing so.
In short the issue is one of purely public behavior in the first place (the web is a form of public place, after all).
There is, in fact, a word for the issue:
"Courtesy."
KFG
. . .i will wacht a fucking DVD.
Kinky.
KFG