Wayland is a massive step backwards too. Everyone's just going to run an X server on top of Wayland, so it will do nothing but add another layer to slow things down and break.
If people start writing native Wayland apps, that's another massive step back since Wayland doesn't have network transparency, forces clients to provide their own window decorations, etc.
No. Software is numbers. Using software is just doing math. Doing math is a fundamental right.
There are certainly ways to compensate those who find useful numbers. Photoshop for instance serves many useful business functions. In the absence of Photoshop, a business that needs those functions would find it profitable to pay developers to implement the functions they need.
For some people its the news, for some its their mail, for some its coffee, and now for some its Facebook
Sure, but people tend to get out of bed for those.
Also reading the paper or mail is a self limiting activity. It's easy to spend all day on social networks, and starting something like that before you even get out of bed could just encourage you to stay there.
But something has changed, and now we are told that the pictures are in fact worth much less than the cost of the materials. They are, after all, just information, and according to piracy advocates, the cost of producing the information is limited to the cost of copying it. Never mind the cost of R&D, never mind the time spent getting the artwork just right.. it's not "stuff", it's just information, and if you can copy it in a second, then that's all it's worth.
You are (deliberately?) misrepresenting the argument. Nobody claims that the cost of the information is limited to the cost of copying it. We claim that the cost of copies of the information is limited to the cost of producing the copies. This is simple economics, zero marginal cost leads to zero marginal price.
Everyone knows and appreciates the fact that a lot more goes into creating an original work than into making copies. Financing creativity by charging for mechanical operations is a business model whose time has passed. People still value creativity, and will pay for it. People don't value copies.
For some reason there is a subset of people that believe they need to do this to "keep their Windows clean", though there's really no need to.
It's a hold over from 9x. If you installed/uninstalled a lot of software (e.g. games) from a 9x box its stability and speed really did start to suffer.
I just love the 1980s nostalgia easter eggs that Microsoft has hidden in Windows 7. Like having to remember program names and type them in order to start them. It brings back such fond memories of DOS and pre-GUI Unix.
I know. It's almost as much trouble as having to remember words before I can use them. Why can't I just communicate with a series of points and clicks?
In reality, it's a lot easier to remember a word than a location. I may lose my pen a half dozen times a day. I've never forgotten what it is called.
For free accounts, FileServe and FileSonic both allow FTP uploading.
What about downloading? I can pull a 450 GB torrent off of my favorite tracker in a couple of days with about 10 seconds of my attention. Or better yet, I can point a script at an RSS feed that watches for keywords, downloads matching.torrents, launches the torrent, and has the file appear in XBMC with no user interaction at all. Can FileServe compete with that?
Leechers love Mediafire and Megaupload
I can't stand either of them.
I am a big proponent of torrents, but torrent sites are falling by the wayside... for example, the 3 biggest porn trackers (Empornium, PureTnA, Pornolab) are all currently defunct,
And yet there are still many excellent trackers for music, movies and video games. I haven't lost a tracker I value since Oink went down. What's more, the quality is great since people are uploading out of a spirit of sharing instead of profit.
As long as these file sharing services are less convenient for downloaders than torrents are, torrent sites will continue to thrive. If profiteering uploaders go somewhere else, good riddance. We don't need what they have to offer anyway.
Do any of these file hosts provide FTP access or something actually usable? As long as they require you to click on ads or wait 40 seconds before downloading one part of a 60 part archive, they'll never replace torrents. Even USENET is more convenient than this crap.
I do the same thing here. We have microscope software, which for some reason does not add the TIFF extension to its output. Perhaps because it's OSX, and extensions aren't necessary for associations there.
Every month or so someone will come down and use the microscope not knowing of this quirk. After a few hours they come to me freaking out about their files. No problem, I pop open a terminal and do a little one line for loop in bash. Had one middle eastern lady here just about flip when she saw it. I don't think she could have been more amazed if I walked on water.
Actually, there's an existing legal opinion that they can't do this.
Judge Jed S. Rakoff, in the case UMG v. MP3.com, ruled in favor of the record labels against MP3.com and the service on the copyright law provision of "making mechanical copies for commercial use without permission from the copyright owner."
I became an expert on the laws surrounding this, and they can't prove shit. (The following is guaranteed for my [German] jurisdiction, but very likely also true in every other civilized country.)
If your government cannot deliver clean drinkable water it has utterly failed. Might as well not have one if it's just going to let industry ravage the land and expect you to pay for the consequences.
These trackers can probably operate passively. Simply sitting there, collecting location information until an agent with the proper equipment activates it and dumps the data.
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Wayland is a massive step backwards too. Everyone's just going to run an X server on top of Wayland, so it will do nothing but add another layer to slow things down and break.
If people start writing native Wayland apps, that's another massive step back since Wayland doesn't have network transparency, forces clients to provide their own window decorations, etc.
Do you agree with the idea of software licencing
No. Software is numbers. Using software is just doing math. Doing math is a fundamental right.
There are certainly ways to compensate those who find useful numbers. Photoshop for instance serves many useful business functions. In the absence of Photoshop, a business that needs those functions would find it profitable to pay developers to implement the functions they need.
For some people its the news, for some its their mail, for some its coffee, and now for some its Facebook
Sure, but people tend to get out of bed for those.
Also reading the paper or mail is a self limiting activity. It's easy to spend all day on social networks, and starting something like that before you even get out of bed could just encourage you to stay there.
Research shows that couples with a TV in their bedroom have less sex than those without. So good call.
This is actually an improvement for /. Save your criticism for the dupe on Monday.
But something has changed, and now we are told that the pictures are in fact worth much less than the cost of the materials. They are, after all, just information, and according to piracy advocates, the cost of producing the information is limited to the cost of copying it. Never mind the cost of R&D, never mind the time spent getting the artwork just right.. it's not "stuff", it's just information, and if you can copy it in a second, then that's all it's worth.
You are (deliberately?) misrepresenting the argument. Nobody claims that the cost of the information is limited to the cost of copying it. We claim that the cost of copies of the information is limited to the cost of producing the copies. This is simple economics, zero marginal cost leads to zero marginal price.
Everyone knows and appreciates the fact that a lot more goes into creating an original work than into making copies. Financing creativity by charging for mechanical operations is a business model whose time has passed. People still value creativity, and will pay for it. People don't value copies.
Don't make the mistake of looking at what it does to other people
Actions are only right or wrong depending on how they affect people. It's not a mistake, it's the only rational way to build a moral system.
For some reason there is a subset of people that believe they need to do this to "keep their Windows clean", though there's really no need to.
It's a hold over from 9x. If you installed/uninstalled a lot of software (e.g. games) from a 9x box its stability and speed really did start to suffer.
At least 90% of people are masochists. How else do you explain Sturgeon's law?
I just love the 1980s nostalgia easter eggs that Microsoft has hidden in Windows 7. Like having to remember program names and type them in order to start them. It brings back such fond memories of DOS and pre-GUI Unix.
I know. It's almost as much trouble as having to remember words before I can use them. Why can't I just communicate with a series of points and clicks?
In reality, it's a lot easier to remember a word than a location. I may lose my pen a half dozen times a day. I've never forgotten what it is called.
That moral high ground has always been a lie. This is just more of the same.
How is a browser based app going to keep track of all TCP/IP traffic?
Also, Kermit is a terminal emulator. Pick a different name.
Well at least now they can chat you up first.
For free accounts, FileServe and FileSonic both allow FTP uploading.
What about downloading? I can pull a 450 GB torrent off of my favorite tracker in a couple of days with about 10 seconds of my attention. Or better yet, I can point a script at an RSS feed that watches for keywords, downloads matching .torrents, launches the torrent, and has the file appear in XBMC with no user interaction at all. Can FileServe compete with that?
Leechers love Mediafire and Megaupload
I can't stand either of them.
I am a big proponent of torrents, but torrent sites are falling by the wayside... for example, the 3 biggest porn trackers (Empornium, PureTnA, Pornolab) are all currently defunct,
And yet there are still many excellent trackers for music, movies and video games. I haven't lost a tracker I value since Oink went down. What's more, the quality is great since people are uploading out of a spirit of sharing instead of profit.
As long as these file sharing services are less convenient for downloaders than torrents are, torrent sites will continue to thrive. If profiteering uploaders go somewhere else, good riddance. We don't need what they have to offer anyway.
Do any of these file hosts provide FTP access or something actually usable? As long as they require you to click on ads or wait 40 seconds before downloading one part of a 60 part archive, they'll never replace torrents. Even USENET is more convenient than this crap.
I do the same thing here. We have microscope software, which for some reason does not add the TIFF extension to its output. Perhaps because it's OSX, and extensions aren't necessary for associations there.
Every month or so someone will come down and use the microscope not knowing of this quirk. After a few hours they come to me freaking out about their files. No problem, I pop open a terminal and do a little one line for loop in bash. Had one middle eastern lady here just about flip when she saw it. I don't think she could have been more amazed if I walked on water.
Now I can patch my CPU. Oh...
There isn't any useful president from the mp3.com case because a "music locker" requires that people rip & upload the songs themselves
So what you're saying is that all MP3.com had to do was integrate cdparanoia and CDDB into their client, and they'd have won?
Actually, there's an existing legal opinion that they can't do this.
Where's MP3.com right now? They tried this 10 years ago, and got shot down in court. What's different now?
A TB HDD uses a lot less space than a CD binder.
I became an expert on the laws surrounding this, and they can't prove shit. (The following is guaranteed for my [German] jurisdiction, but very likely also true in every other civilized country.)
Yes, but what about the USA?
If your government cannot deliver clean drinkable water it has utterly failed. Might as well not have one if it's just going to let industry ravage the land and expect you to pay for the consequences.
Microsoft already has the technology necessary in their own audio/video/text Windows Live Messenger platform. So I don't think it's about that.
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These trackers can probably operate passively. Simply sitting there, collecting location information until an agent with the proper equipment activates it and dumps the data.