I am a vegetarian; I do not believe that it is right to eat animals - my ideology. I had a friend who did not eat meat for medical reasons - purely pragmatic, nothing to do with anybody's ideology. Although the outcome was the same (neither of us eating meat), the fact that he abstained for purely pragmatic reasons did not negate my moral stance. Similarly, the fact that China does not recognize copyright for purely pragmatic purposes in no way diminishes the ideology of others who do not recognise copyright for religious reasons. Whether or not Islam actually has anything to say about copyright, I have no idea, but the fact that non-recognition of copyright may be practical, does not necessarily mean that there are no ideological reasons not to recognise it.
Absolutely right. From the standpoint of a pure logical argument, we can't conclude either way. I see a trend, and it doesn't follow ideaological lines. So, I'm skeptical. I worded too strongly in the first post.
According to Islamic law If I understand it correctly(), God is the source of all invention and creation and therefore the holder of all copyright. That means that things like MS anti-piracy drives are unknown there, as practically everything is pirated.
That sounds more like a rationalization. China has practically the same policy, but it's because it's in their national interest, as there is a preponderance of foreign copyrighted material. The U.S. didn't recognize foreign copyrights and patents in its early history for the same reason. Given this diverse set of ideaologies with the same policy, I conclude that this policy has nothing to do with ideology.
just out of curiousity, what do you think makes people assume that any attacks on sco are from the linux community? to me, its almost as if walmart.com got attacked and everyone blamed the mom-and-pop stores. ridiculous.
In your an analogy, it's like wal-mart is suing the local locksmith, and then wal-mart's safe's are raided. It's the sort of thing the hacker community is clearly capable of.
Let me defend my profession a bit. $103 dollars for an evaluation of an EKG is very, very cheap. An EKG is an easy way to rule multiple life-threating illnesses. Compare an EKG to an CT scan, for example. and it probably saves many, many more lives per dollar than many other studies.
That's a bit of a strawman. Nobody said EKGs aren't neat-o. It's the $3,000/hour part that's a problem.
I'm mean, wow, look at how great air is. Air is a fantastic thing, medically speaking. Without air, you'd be dead in just a few minutes.
Now please give me a $100 for my posting fee. Thanks.
I do the same thing. However, it has sometimes been a bitch to reconstruct the real password when I've been traveling abroad and had to use a non-US keyboard which has a different layout, especially since I tend to mix some punctuation characters into the password;)
Same here. I got France and couldn't remember my password for two days.
Ummm. Exactaly what does the ending tell about the person? Is Stallman an entire organization? Is Graham a commercial operation? What does a dot net say about me?
I always thought the idea of freezing yourself after death with the idea that future technology can cure whatever ails you was a touch silly. After all, you're not so much waiting for a day when they can cure a given disease, you're waiting for the day when they can re-animate the dead.
It strikes me as more selfish than silly. There are people starving today for lack of a loaf of bread or clean water. But instead of saving them, the rich spend outrageous amounts of money in the hopes that someone will give a shit about them in 200 years. Even if all the science comes about to revive the person, the whole scheme revolves around people caring more about the frozen person that he does about people here today.
Slightly simpler than that. An old friend of Lucas', first name Stevie, had an investment in an alternate dvd standard known as Divx, which died a slow, horrible death.
This theory would make a lot more sense if either the Indiana Jones movies or Star Wars had appeared in Divx format.
You know, I always got the feeling that "Mostly Harmless" was deliberately written by a bitter man to piss his fanbase off so that they'd stop bugging him to write sequels to the first four books.
Well, I started to write another Dirk Gently book, and I just lost it. For some reason, I couldn't get it going, so I had to put it aside. I didn't know what to do with it. I looked at the material again about a year later, and suddenly thought: Actually, the reason is that the ideas and the character don't match. I've tried to go for the wrong kind of ideas, and these ideas would actually fit much better in a Hitchhiker book, but I don't want to write another Hitchhiker book at the moment. So I sort of put them on one side. And maybe one day I will write another Hitchhiker book, because there's an awful lot of material sitting 'round waiting to go in it. Another reason is that the last one, Mostly Harmless, is a very bleak book. People have tried to read all sorts of complicated reasons into it, and the reason was that I just had a lousy year. Just for all sorts of personal reasons, from a terrible death in the family to... Every kind of area, whether it was personal or professional, had just gone sour on me, against a background in which I had to write a funny book, which turned out not to be very funny. So I'd quite like to maybe do another Hitchhiker book that sort of perks up the tone again.
Secondly, there's cost of living. It seems that a disproportionate amount of visiters to technical sites are from California. Far higher cost of living.
As the people with the money don't actually give a shit where you live, this isn't going to be that much of a factor.
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Yeah, I agree with you. Passive voice always makes me suspicious. Is is that they don't know who did the action, or don't want to tell me?
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Absolutely right. From the standpoint of a pure logical argument, we can't conclude either way. I see a trend, and it doesn't follow ideaological lines. So, I'm skeptical. I worded too strongly in the first post.
That sounds more like a rationalization. China has practically the same policy, but it's because it's in their national interest, as there is a preponderance of foreign copyrighted material. The U.S. didn't recognize foreign copyrights and patents in its early history for the same reason.
Given this diverse set of ideaologies with the same policy, I conclude that this policy has nothing to do with ideology.
Your quote is misattributed. It was delivered as a joke by Marcus Brigstock, as noted here.
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African or European?
Now there's some exageration. RAM was about $50/MB in 1993, making 128MB $6,400.
In your an analogy, it's like wal-mart is suing the local locksmith, and then wal-mart's safe's are raided. It's the sort of thing the hacker community is clearly capable of.
But yeah, they're making an asumption there.
That's a bit of a strawman. Nobody said EKGs aren't neat-o. It's the $3,000/hour part that's a problem.
I'm mean, wow, look at how great air is. Air is a fantastic thing, medically speaking. Without air, you'd be dead in just a few minutes.
Now please give me a $100 for my posting fee. Thanks.
Same here. I got France and couldn't remember my password for two days.
I'll be surprised if anything surprises me after I'm dead. Err, I mean I won't be . . . I'll be . . . Damn it!
On the other hand, cheap content (e.g., Reality and cheap animation) is finding a lot of success. I think the TV business will be OK.
Actors & directors get paid up front; musicians get money from concerts. Income from the concert is part of the equation.
You rescued that joke! Nice work. Laughed my ass off.
It says either:
It strikes me as more selfish than silly. There are people starving today for lack of a loaf of bread or clean water. But instead of saving them, the rich spend outrageous amounts of money in the hopes that someone will give a shit about them in 200 years. Even if all the science comes about to revive the person, the whole scheme revolves around people caring more about the frozen person that he does about people here today.
This theory would make a lot more sense if either the Indiana Jones movies or Star Wars had appeared in Divx format.
You can tell how valuable a person is to the company by asking him how much RAM he has in his computer. If he knows, he's not important.
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They were at my high school, and I don't think that's unusual. Most of us took geometry as sophomores. And we did a lot of proofs.
I have an Atari 2600 hooked up. I still play combat occasionally.
I was unnerved a bit to learn the provider of the C64's basic. Rather like Luke felt a bit unnerved at the end of Empire Strikes back.
Douglas Adams spoke to this himself in a 1998 interview
As the people with the money don't actually give a shit where you live, this isn't going to be that much of a factor.
Ok, 2 points.
One, if the people aren't creating value, then they society should encourage them to do something else that does create value.
Two, do you really think people will buy less stuff, or will that just buy it from brick & mortar stores?