But I'm equally aware that in the present system of elections in America, the proverbial "snowball in hell" has a better chance at existence than there is of a third party candidate becoming President.
And why do you think this is? I think it's precisely because of this tactical voting bullshit.
"We consistently advise users to only install apps they trust."
How the hell am I supposed to know that? Compile and review every line of source myself? Sorry, I have a day job.
Maybe I'll just find some application marketplace where they (1) certify apps are safe and perform well, and (2) don't violate my privacy without sending data around without my permission. That'd be an awesome idea. Some kind of marketplace that would actually verify that the application works on my device, does what it says it does, and behaves itself. That's a service I'd really pay for.
Oh wait, I do pay for that.
Welcome to iPhone.
Bollocks, do you seriously believe apple reviews "every line of source" in submitted apps? Let's face it, they filter the apps based on whether on not they will harm their carriers or their corporate image not, certainly not out of service to you.
Why stop with 7-14 years? With no copyright he must create something new directly after the old one leaves the theater, plus the DVDs of the old ones would not be so horrible expensive.
Before someone comes with the stupid argument for copyright, all movies makes their money in the theaters and you can't just copy the theaters.
Hang on a sec; why would the theatres pay the distributors if this were the case?
hmmmm targetting a segment of the market of whom the majority have gone out of their way to avoid having to purchase games, yeah that sounds like a successfull business model for those struggling indie developers.
Is that true? I find it hard to believe those people would get a console in the first place, PC games are a great deal easier to pirate.
There is a difference, even if its only a minor one. The decision on phones was so that consumers where not stuck with carrier lock ins. The intent was so you could take your phone to a competing carrier. There is no such issue with game consoles. Its not like you can "jail break" your PS3 and hook it up to XBOX live.
Theoretically at least, you can source games from suppliers other than Sony. Some of the indie games companies should do just that, compete with Sony for the supply of games to their console.
"Seriously, I don't think this has much potential for engineering, as much as it may be clever science.'
Too bad your high UID pretty much guarantees your ignorance in this field, I've got several workable applications already in mind for this. Hello, 300+ irradiant lumens per watt output capability, good-bye HID lamps.
I think you need to study more quantum sciences before talking any further.
~Director of Research, EcogroLED USA.
Grow mushrooms instead, no need to study quantum sciences, all you need is a damp closet and a pile of horse-shit.
behaviour that was once rightfully considered crazy/creepy is now mainstream.
I agree that creepy people can be exceptionally creepy on Facebook and pals - but I did nothing creepy. Had I tracked down each of these people for no real reason other than curiosity... that would be creepy. But all I did was post a class picture... not creepy at all, even 10 or 15 years ago that would have been pretty acceptable.
Yeah, I'm not accusing you of being creepy, just that you happened to mention the photo-tagging example, which is probably the most insidious aspect of FB since you don't even have to submit the info yourself.
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Sounds like an overly complex solution to a very simple problem, namely providing a street address and requesting an RSVP.
Um, yes? You just grab a list of people from your cell phone address book and send a mass SMS, you're done faster than you could boot your beige boxen.
I've spend at least 10 minutes editing this post. This is par for the course for anything I write. The 30 seconds it takes to boot my mid-to-low-range laptop is well worth the superior WPM I get at a keyboard over texting.
Ah.. well I use an e70, it has a proper keyboard.
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My phone works better and I don't have to wait for a response most of the time.
A phone is great for calling/texting other people who you are in active contact with.
For finding out what happened to all those kids in your eighth grade class photo? Not so much.
I simply posted a class photo on Facebook. Within a few days, everyone save one person was "tagged" on the photo and accounted for. Whether you personally value that kind of information has no bearing on just how cool that is from a geek perspective. That kind of information would have taken me weeks 10 years ago, and everyone would think that I was crazy.
The reason why you like social networking sites is precisely the reason why I dislike them, in that behaviour that was once rightfully considered crazy/creepy is now mainstream.
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Right. Because it's so much easier to call everyone you want to invite to a large event and then make a note of everyone who is going to show.
Seriously, your phone isn't better and you're just trying to act like you're superior for not using Facebook. It has its uses, which are very numerous, and a lot of people don't use it just for Farmville.
Um, yes? You just grab a list of people from your cell phone address book and send a mass SMS, your done faster than you could boot your beige boxen. I really fail to see how FB is superior to other social networking sites, and indeed outside of a fairly limited domain social networking sites are of any real utility whatsoever.
They make pretty "sparks and arcs" while they die.
Do they ever. I had one blow up when I was maybe 15 feet from the pole it was on when I was a kid. Big blue flash - too bad I was looking the other way and just got to see the smoke rising.
Probably a good thing, that sounds pretty bad for your eyes.
I'm an american, and outside law enforcement officers, I've seen perhaps 3 or 4 guns in private possession in my life. I suppose they must be out there somewhere, and I've sure heard stories that make me shake my head, but I think those stories get a little overblown with regards to how many of us own or carry a gun.
Hmm.. where do you live? I think the gun culture varies from state to state, one of my classmates was from Arizona and he owned 5 firearms, all rifles from memory. He was no nut though, actually one of the more level headed people I know. I asked him what they were for, and he couldn't/wouldn't give me answer more than "for fun", but that's a valid reason I guess.
Well the people i have encountered that most loudly proclaim "i am a libertarian!" seems to be spoiled brats that want to drink and drive 24/7, no matter who those activities may endanger beyond themselves (either directly or via the cleanup that follows). Or want to proclaim their right to jump of a mountain, but then call on the "accursed" government services to risk their people to rescue them when their jump got them stuck in a difficult to reach location.
In essence, where are the libertarians with some sense of social responsibility?
<strawman> So true, only yesterday I found out that certain racial groups are more likely to cause traffic accidents than others, surely we should ban them from driving! I mean how irresponsible is it to let them on the road when they might injure someone else. The Australians had the right idea, they discovered that it was only the Aboriginal people who wouldn't hold their drink, so they banned alcohol in the aboriginal settlements, how fucking progressive is that, that's some social responsibility for ya! </strawman>
Incredibly, those people are also quite high up the list; damn, there goes all my favourite prejudices...
Although if you took a trip back to the 1700's France, you'd probably find there was a correlation between education and support for the divine right of nobility.
I don't want actors writing mission critical code for our spacecraft, and by the same token, we the voters shouldn't get our opinions from people who are paid to make us laugh, not make us see truth.
Labels labels labels... you hear that, NASA? If your coders are in a theater troop in their spare time, they shouldn't be allowed to write mission-critical code, because actors shouldn't be allowed to do that.
And what you can accomplish in life is limited by the title that someone is willing to bestow you upon hiring, not by who you are and what you can do; your identity and your potential are defined by the title you hold. If your paycheck says "make jokes", then anything you do that isn't a joke should be ignored.
So believes hessian, who is a slashdotter and therefore should not be allowed to have a girlfriend. Because labels define you and everything about you.
Indeed, but he does have a point about the relationship between the mass media and a democracy, paradoxically or ironically, I would recommend the BBC series "A Century Of Self" as a bit of an eye opener if you haven't thought to much about it. If I remember correctly, John has also pointed this relationship out, and it is often the butt of his jokes.
Here's Friedman on the Pinto, the scary thing is that I find myself agreeing with him, the guy frames the question as an issue of price. How much should ford have spent to make the car safe? The problem really lies with consumer awareness, if you knew the car had that fault you wouldn't buy it, or you would spend the $15 to make it that much safer. Nowadays we responsible consumers check The Dog and Lemon guide (I'm not sure if there is an equivalent in the US) before we make a purchase, and we can make the rational choice for ourselves as to what price versus safety trade-off's we might make.
As to the poisoning of water supplies, I think it is certainly a Govt's responsibility to regulate the commons, which I regard all natural resources to be part of.
Point out a current remote root exploit in Windows. To the best of my knowledge, there are none. Which means that the original poster is just fluffing his feathers trying to divert attention from the Linux issue.
While this isn't something that means Linux is majorly insecure or anything, it is a Linux issue. However fanboys don't like that, they can't just say "Yep, there's a problem." Instead they want to try and deflect it, make it about something else. So he deflects the issue by claiming there are some nebulous "remote root bugs," without any specifics.
I'm not going to say what in particular was wrong...
What, that he mistakingly used the wrong kind of fertilizer? That's not exactly uncommon knowledge.
Everyone knows you need ammonium-nitrate. Sheesh...
That's the easy part, the question is; how do you detonate it? The primary explosive and the trigger mechanism are easy, but unless you can get a blasting cap or manage to fabricate one you are out of luck. Hint: HTMD
You know I sometimes wonder if the world would be a richer or poorer place without copyright, pleanty of things would be different certainly and those who make their money from the current system will of course tell you the world would be a poorer worse off world for it.
It's almost taken as a given that the world would have less creativity without copyright but I do wonder.
If the chef at your local restaurant had to pay royalties whenever he used a recipe published by a celebrity chef would you have a tastier and more enjoyable meal? What if he risked being sued into the ground if he created a derivative work by altering the recipe slightly without a liscence? or would you just have a more bland, unoriginal, uninspired and ultimately vastly more expensive meal.
If your hairdresser had to pay royalties whenever some kid comes in with a magazine picture and says they want their hair to "look like that". Would everyone have far more interesting hairstyles or would it just cost far more and see people getting sued for doing their own hair at home in a copyrighted style?
Both these things are creative and also involve a skill much like storytelling or playing a musical instrument and in both cases I've heard of people trying to get copyright protections extended to cover them.
Imagine a world where in the 17th century someone had decided that recipes and cooking should fall under copyright along with books. You can be sure that were someone to call for it's repeal 300 years later there'd be no lack of "professional recipe composers" who would talk about how much work they put into working out new recipes and the time and effort it takes and how we're bad people for implying that they haven't worked hard and that they somehow don't deserve a cut whenever someone follows their recipies.
of course in a world where we're all free to take someone elses recipe, use it, copy it, publish it or even claim it as our own we know very well that fuck all harm has been done to the industry for the lack of legal protection on such creativity. We live in a world where everyone has family recipes but hardly anyone has family music.
In a world where such legal protections existed and nobody ever knew such an open and unprotected situation as we have in this world it would be very easy to claim that there would be no creativity, no well paid chefs and that setting up a kitchen would be pointless since someone else would just copy the chefs recipes.
Similarly it's taken almost as a given that the world would have less good books, less good stories and less without copyright but try questioning that even for a moment.
Of course no someone is going to complain that composing and cooking a good meal can't be compared to composing and playing a good piece of music because..... well just because!
I agree to an extent, but once the haircut or meal has been created it can't be duplicated. If it could, then there would likely be few chefs or hairdressers. Of course a live music performance can't be duplicated either, but how will film producers and games studios generate revenue?
I agree that copyright law should be abolished, but I also believe that it is likely, and perhaps even beneficial that DRM will take its place.
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But I'm equally aware that in the present system of elections in America, the proverbial "snowball in hell" has a better chance at existence than there is of a third party candidate becoming President.
And why do you think this is? I think it's precisely because of this tactical voting bullshit.
"We consistently advise users to only install apps they trust."
How the hell am I supposed to know that? Compile and review every line of source myself? Sorry, I have a day job.
Maybe I'll just find some application marketplace where they (1) certify apps are safe and perform well, and (2) don't violate my privacy without sending data around without my permission. That'd be an awesome idea. Some kind of marketplace that would actually verify that the application works on my device, does what it says it does, and behaves itself. That's a service I'd really pay for.
Oh wait, I do pay for that.
Welcome to iPhone.
Bollocks, do you seriously believe apple reviews "every line of source" in submitted apps? Let's face it, they filter the apps based on whether on not they will harm their carriers or their corporate image not, certainly not out of service to you.
These are quad socket systems with 4 AMD 12-core CPU's.
That's not the problem; 48 cores on one chip is the problem.
Here's your link: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=synthesis+3d+from+2d
Thanks for googling it for us, now could you pleas point out the entry with a realistic stereoscopic image produced from a piece of 70's film stock?
Why stop with 7-14 years? With no copyright he must create something new directly after the old one leaves the theater, plus the DVDs of the old ones would not be so horrible expensive.
Before someone comes with the stupid argument for copyright, all movies makes their money in the theaters and you can't just copy the theaters.
Hang on a sec; why would the theatres pay the distributors if this were the case?
hmmmm targetting a segment of the market of whom the majority have gone out of their way to avoid having to purchase games, yeah that sounds like a successfull business model for those struggling indie developers.
Is that true? I find it hard to believe those people would get a console in the first place, PC games are a great deal easier to pirate.
There is a difference, even if its only a minor one. The decision on phones was so that consumers where not stuck with carrier lock ins. The intent was so you could take your phone to a competing carrier. There is no such issue with game consoles. Its not like you can "jail break" your PS3 and hook it up to XBOX live.
Theoretically at least, you can source games from suppliers other than Sony. Some of the indie games companies should do just that, compete with Sony for the supply of games to their console.
Sort of true, but that's why insurance companies let you choose the amount of coverage, and change your premiums based on risk factors.
It's an interesting question though, should people really be able to kill a child to save themselves a bit of money?
"Seriously, I don't think this has much potential for engineering, as much as it may be clever science.'
Too bad your high UID pretty much guarantees your ignorance in this field, I've got several workable applications already in mind for this. Hello, 300+ irradiant lumens per watt output capability, good-bye HID lamps.
I think you need to study more quantum sciences before talking any further.
~Director of Research, EcogroLED USA.
Grow mushrooms instead, no need to study quantum sciences, all you need is a damp closet and a pile of horse-shit.
behaviour that was once rightfully considered crazy/creepy is now mainstream.
I agree that creepy people can be exceptionally creepy on Facebook and pals - but I did nothing creepy. Had I tracked down each of these people for no real reason other than curiosity... that would be creepy. But all I did was post a class picture... not creepy at all, even 10 or 15 years ago that would have been pretty acceptable.
Yeah, I'm not accusing you of being creepy, just that you happened to mention the photo-tagging example, which is probably the most insidious aspect of FB since you don't even have to submit the info yourself.
Sounds like an overly complex solution to a very simple problem, namely providing a street address and requesting an RSVP.
Um, yes? You just grab a list of people from your cell phone address book and send a mass SMS, you're done faster than you could boot your beige boxen.
I've spend at least 10 minutes editing this post. This is par for the course for anything I write. The 30 seconds it takes to boot my mid-to-low-range laptop is well worth the superior WPM I get at a keyboard over texting.
Ah.. well I use an e70, it has a proper keyboard.
My phone works better and I don't have to wait for a response most of the time.
A phone is great for calling/texting other people who you are in active contact with.
For finding out what happened to all those kids in your eighth grade class photo? Not so much.
I simply posted a class photo on Facebook. Within a few days, everyone save one person was "tagged" on the photo and accounted for. Whether you personally value that kind of information has no bearing on just how cool that is from a geek perspective. That kind of information would have taken me weeks 10 years ago, and everyone would think that I was crazy.
The reason why you like social networking sites is precisely the reason why I dislike them, in that behaviour that was once rightfully considered crazy/creepy is now mainstream.
Right. Because it's so much easier to call everyone you want to invite to a large event and then make a note of everyone who is going to show.
Seriously, your phone isn't better and you're just trying to act like you're superior for not using Facebook. It has its uses, which are very numerous, and a lot of people don't use it just for Farmville.
Um, yes? You just grab a list of people from your cell phone address book and send a mass SMS, your done faster than you could boot your beige boxen. I really fail to see how FB is superior to other social networking sites, and indeed outside of a fairly limited domain social networking sites are of any real utility whatsoever.
They make pretty "sparks and arcs" while they die.
Do they ever. I had one blow up when I was maybe 15 feet from the pole it was on when I was a kid. Big blue flash - too bad I was looking the other way and just got to see the smoke rising.
Probably a good thing, that sounds pretty bad for your eyes.
I'm an american, and outside law enforcement officers, I've seen perhaps 3 or 4 guns in private possession in my life. I suppose they must be out there somewhere, and I've sure heard stories that make me shake my head, but I think those stories get a little overblown with regards to how many of us own or carry a gun.
Hmm.. where do you live? I think the gun culture varies from state to state, one of my classmates was from Arizona and he owned 5 firearms, all rifles from memory. He was no nut though, actually one of the more level headed people I know. I asked him what they were for, and he couldn't/wouldn't give me answer more than "for fun", but that's a valid reason I guess.
Well the people i have encountered that most loudly proclaim "i am a libertarian!" seems to be spoiled brats that want to drink and drive 24/7, no matter who those activities may endanger beyond themselves (either directly or via the cleanup that follows). Or want to proclaim their right to jump of a mountain, but then call on the "accursed" government services to risk their people to rescue them when their jump got them stuck in a difficult to reach location.
In essence, where are the libertarians with some sense of social responsibility?
<strawman>
So true, only yesterday I found out that certain racial groups are more likely to cause traffic accidents than others, surely we should ban them from driving! I mean how irresponsible is it to let them on the road when they might injure someone else. The Australians had the right idea, they discovered that it was only the Aboriginal people who wouldn't hold their drink, so they banned alcohol in the aboriginal settlements, how fucking progressive is that, that's some social responsibility for ya!
</strawman>
That's how all these "Progressives" sound to me.
Incredibly, those people are also quite high up the list; damn, there goes all my favourite prejudices...
Although if you took a trip back to the 1700's France, you'd probably find there was a correlation between education and support for the divine right of nobility.
What do Beck, Stewart and Colbert have in common?
They're entertainers, not political scientists.
I don't want actors writing mission critical code for our spacecraft, and by the same token, we the voters shouldn't get our opinions from people who are paid to make us laugh, not make us see truth.
Labels labels labels... you hear that, NASA? If your coders are in a theater troop in their spare time, they shouldn't be allowed to write mission-critical code, because actors shouldn't be allowed to do that.
And what you can accomplish in life is limited by the title that someone is willing to bestow you upon hiring, not by who you are and what you can do; your identity and your potential are defined by the title you hold. If your paycheck says "make jokes", then anything you do that isn't a joke should be ignored.
So believes hessian, who is a slashdotter and therefore should not be allowed to have a girlfriend. Because labels define you and everything about you.
Indeed, but he does have a point about the relationship between the mass media and a democracy, paradoxically or ironically, I would recommend the BBC series "A Century Of Self" as a bit of an eye opener if you haven't thought to much about it. If I remember correctly, John has also pointed this relationship out, and it is often the butt of his jokes.
Here's Friedman on the Pinto, the scary thing is that I find myself agreeing with him, the guy frames the question as an issue of price. How much should ford have spent to make the car safe? The problem really lies with consumer awareness, if you knew the car had that fault you wouldn't buy it, or you would spend the $15 to make it that much safer. Nowadays we responsible consumers check The Dog and Lemon guide (I'm not sure if there is an equivalent in the US) before we make a purchase, and we can make the rational choice for ourselves as to what price versus safety trade-off's we might make.
As to the poisoning of water supplies, I think it is certainly a Govt's responsibility to regulate the commons, which I regard all natural resources to be part of.
Point out a current remote root exploit in Windows. To the best of my knowledge, there are none. Which means that the original poster is just fluffing his feathers trying to divert attention from the Linux issue.
While this isn't something that means Linux is majorly insecure or anything, it is a Linux issue. However fanboys don't like that, they can't just say "Yep, there's a problem." Instead they want to try and deflect it, make it about something else. So he deflects the issue by claiming there are some nebulous "remote root bugs," without any specifics.
Point out a current remote root exploit in Linux.
"Twilight" is art, just crappy art. So are my son's crayon drawings.
Hey! You're not supposed to think that!
Sorry that should be tertiary explosive.
I'm not going to say what in particular was wrong...
What, that he mistakingly used the wrong kind of fertilizer? That's not exactly uncommon knowledge.
Everyone knows you need ammonium-nitrate. Sheesh...
That's the easy part, the question is; how do you detonate it? The primary explosive and the trigger mechanism are easy, but unless you can get a blasting cap or manage to fabricate one you are out of luck. Hint: HTMD
You know I sometimes wonder if the world would be a richer or poorer place without copyright, pleanty of things would be different certainly and those who make their money from the current system will of course tell you the world would be a poorer worse off world for it.
It's almost taken as a given that the world would have less creativity without copyright but I do wonder.
If the chef at your local restaurant had to pay royalties whenever he used a recipe published by a celebrity chef would you have a tastier and more enjoyable meal?
What if he risked being sued into the ground if he created a derivative work by altering the recipe slightly without a liscence?
or would you just have a more bland, unoriginal, uninspired and ultimately vastly more expensive meal.
If your hairdresser had to pay royalties whenever some kid comes in with a magazine picture and says they want their hair to "look like that".
Would everyone have far more interesting hairstyles or would it just cost far more and see people getting sued for doing their own hair at home in a copyrighted style?
Both these things are creative and also involve a skill much like storytelling or playing a musical instrument and in both cases I've heard of people trying to get copyright protections extended to cover them.
Imagine a world where in the 17th century someone had decided that recipes and cooking should fall under copyright along with books.
You can be sure that were someone to call for it's repeal 300 years later there'd be no lack of "professional recipe composers" who would talk about how much work they put into working out new recipes and the time and effort it takes and how we're bad people for implying that they haven't worked hard and that they somehow don't deserve a cut whenever someone follows their recipies.
of course in a world where we're all free to take someone elses recipe, use it, copy it, publish it or even claim it as our own we know very well that fuck all harm has been done to the industry for the lack of legal protection on such creativity.
We live in a world where everyone has family recipes but hardly anyone has family music.
In a world where such legal protections existed and nobody ever knew such an open and unprotected situation as we have in this world it would be very easy to claim that there would be no creativity, no well paid chefs and that setting up a kitchen would be pointless since someone else would just copy the chefs recipes.
Similarly it's taken almost as a given that the world would have less good books, less good stories and less without copyright but try questioning that even for a moment.
Of course no someone is going to complain that composing and cooking a good meal can't be compared to composing and playing a good piece of music because..... well just because!
I agree to an extent, but once the haircut or meal has been created it can't be duplicated. If it could, then there would likely be few chefs or hairdressers. Of course a live music performance can't be duplicated either, but how will film producers and games studios generate revenue?
I agree that copyright law should be abolished, but I also believe that it is likely, and perhaps even beneficial that DRM will take its place.