The RI/MPAA has stupidly forgotten that people like to OWN physical objects...
Yeah, but where does that leave game software? I know lots of people who prefer a physical CD over a music download but almost nobody who prefers a physical CD-ROM over a free game download, given the choice.
Here we see that they both used the name "elf" to name a pointer to the ELF structure! Why the chances of two programmers deciding to do that must be astronomical!
Not to mention, they both named a variable, which acts as an index, "index". Holy shit!
It's not an "outdated idea". If you really think that copyrights and patents are a bad idea, you need only look at countries where they did not exist -- like Russia during its peak of Socialist power -- to see how that works out economically. Hint: it doesn't.
You know what else they didn't have? Mickey Mouse.
Again, 20 years programming experience, no experience with some, apparently very important for *NIX, POSIX IEE document.
Clearly. I have 0 years professional programming experience and even I can see how full of shit you are.
If this is a published standard, obviously they'll be similar. I just didn't understand why every function definition from line 138 to 176 is copied verbatim. With the same cryptic series of letters which obviously imply meaning (strptr, newscn, getshdr, getphdr, newehdr, elf_flagelf, elf32_faize) are VERBATIM.
Ok genius, you tell me how to right a header file containing a structure named struct_type and declaring a function to deal with said structures that will allow source like the following:
to still compile unaltered, if my field names and function name must be changed? If sillynamedfield3 can't be named sillynamedfield3 anymore, and functionxx can't be functionxx, then *every* *single* *program* compiled against this library will break until rewritten for these changes. The very stuff that must be verbatim for implementing the same API to work is the stuff you are criticizing for being verbatim. Furthermore, if you actually read the lines in both documents instead of just looking to see that they're red, you'd know none of the lines you claim are "copied verbatim" actually are. The Linux file adds extern and also declares the name of the arguments, as well as the goofy markup of "_(("/"))" being instead the normal "("&")". In other words, everything that could possibly be different while making the code still work properly is different.
Ostriches aren't Australian, they're African. Omelettes can be made from emu eggs and I have tasted one. It really wasn't any different to one prepared from hen's eggs. It looked no different to this observer. Compare an emu egg to a hen's egg and they are quite different in size, colour and even texture internally and externally. The formula (recipe) however was just for a standard omelette that we would all recognise by sight instantly....
[only] the chart they had in the WMO report was misleading if you didn't read the report carefully.
Which incidentally describes the vast majority of charts I've seen in scientific reports. You have to read the report carefully to understand WTF they're charting. Lots of bloggers fail to read the report, misread the chart, and blow things out of proportion, but pointing this out is a whitewash, apparently.
I'm just stating the facts that are obvious if you've read any of the Climategate emails or dug into the real criticisms of the alleged climate science.
Funny, I keep reading the links you and others post here, yet find none that meet that description. Will you please post the links to the real criticisms of the alleged climate science? I am very interested.
I fail to see how you can pirate someone's music and "support" him at the same time.
Easy...by giving them more money than they would have if you never consumed or paid for any of their work. It's not the people who pirate with conscience who are the problem, it's the people who aren't spending time on slashdot debating the best way to support artists but rather spending time on 4chan posting "TITS!" while downloading infinite quantities of music they never pay for in any form who are the problem.
(Unless what you pirate is bootlegs or material the artist for some reason doesn't
reissue, like My Bloody Valentine's "You Made Me Realise EP".)
Wait, what?? You can't pirate something the artist made directly, but you can pirate something pirated from something the artist made????
It's time to put this dog to sleep. Don't buy their shit. Don't talk about their shit. Don't even watch their shit pirated unless you absolutely must based upon your childhood comic book consumption.
What about adolescent and young-adulthood comic book consumption?
A film producer had his film stolen, and the thief got a lot of money for the screenings.
The producer that ended penniless: Georges Melies
The Thief: Thomas Edison
That's actually pretty typical of Edison's entire career. People should read about his dealings with Nikola Tesla, and ask themselves if between that and what you posted our society should continue to revere Edison the way that we do.
Ask yourself how many popular sci-fi shows that plenty of geeks enjoy still get cancelled in their infancy, because they don't bring in enough money almost immediately for those who bankroll them to continue writing the cheques until the series is established.
Here's a funny thought though: the way people have complained about how everything about the next generation is worse for the last, oh, 2000-3000 years straight, if there were any truth to that, by now we've _all_ been listening only to crap, unlike the wholesome and good music that the likes of Socrates listened to.
Socrates was a corrupter of youth. The wholesome and good music must have been what the pre-Socratics listened to.
To that end, what do you think a Lady Gaga CD will go for in (roughly) 2070, do you think?
With perfect digital copying and basically unlimited copies out there in the cloud? Moot question, the good old records are so expensive because a limited quantity were manufactured and you can't just make a copy without some degradation on that old analog media.
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The RI/MPAA has stupidly forgotten that people like to OWN physical objects...
Yeah, but where does that leave game software? I know lots of people who prefer a physical CD over a music download but almost nobody who prefers a physical CD-ROM over a free game download, given the choice.
Tanning is a wonderful process you know.
Yes, albinos will also go extinct at that point.
Just don't forget to pay your SCO licensing fees you cock-smoking teabaggers!
Okay. Now I'm really confused. What does Sarah Palin have to do with SCO???
One is a copyright troll, the other is a talking-point troll.
(here is a choice one that is such an absurd claim of copyright violation that I can't believe they did it: http://www.mcbride-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Tab-2421.pdf)
You are my hero for finding this.
So you don't waste your time, after quite a lot of clicking I finally found some actual code: http://www.mcbride-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Tab-415.pdf
Here we see that they both used the name "elf" to name a pointer to the ELF structure! Why the chances of two programmers deciding to do that must be astronomical!
Not to mention, they both named a variable, which acts as an index, "index". Holy shit!
But of course - a lawyer wouldn't understand that, it's just a question of money.
Well, clearly enough lawyers understood enough of it for SCO to get judgments against it.
veritas aeternum: Don't SETQ T
Even if it will gain me a point on the hacker purity test?
Your reasoning would lead us to conclude that the high rate of alcoholism and consumption of vodka was caused by the lack of copyrights ...
Little known fact, that's actually true.
It's not an "outdated idea". If you really think that copyrights and patents are a bad idea, you need only look at countries where they did not exist -- like Russia during its peak of Socialist power -- to see how that works out economically. Hint: it doesn't.
You know what else they didn't have? Mickey Mouse.
It's almost like suing an author for starting with "Once upon a time".
Ah ha! You used the phrase "Once upon a time" in a /. post! Expect to hear from my lawyer promptly, copyright thief!
(same AC)
Again, prove it, Spartacus.
Again, 20 years programming experience, no experience with some, apparently very important for *NIX, POSIX IEE document.
Clearly. I have 0 years professional programming experience and even I can see how full of shit you are.
If this is a published standard, obviously they'll be similar. I just didn't understand why every function definition from line 138 to 176 is copied verbatim. With the same cryptic series of letters which obviously imply meaning (strptr, newscn, getshdr, getphdr, newehdr, elf_flagelf, elf32_faize) are VERBATIM.
Ok genius, you tell me how to right a header file containing a structure named struct_type and declaring a function to deal with said structures that will allow source like the following:
struct_type foo; char blah="fred"; foo.sillynamedfield3 = 7; strcpy(foo.nameofthestruct,blah); functionxx(foo);
to still compile unaltered, if my field names and function name must be changed? If sillynamedfield3 can't be named sillynamedfield3 anymore, and functionxx can't be functionxx, then *every* *single* *program* compiled against this library will break until rewritten for these changes. The very stuff that must be verbatim for implementing the same API to work is the stuff you are criticizing for being verbatim. Furthermore, if you actually read the lines in both documents instead of just looking to see that they're red, you'd know none of the lines you claim are "copied verbatim" actually are. The Linux file adds extern and also declares the name of the arguments, as well as the goofy markup of "_(("/"))" being instead the normal "("&")". In other words, everything that could possibly be different while making the code still work properly is different.
Ostriches aren't Australian, they're African. Omelettes can be made from emu eggs and I have tasted one. It really wasn't any different to one prepared from hen's eggs. It looked no different to this observer. Compare an emu egg to a hen's egg and they are quite different in size, colour and even texture internally and externally. The formula (recipe) however was just for a standard omelette that we would all recognise by sight instantly....
Egg analogies make me hungry.
...und keine Eier.
(same AC)
Prove it.
Actually, I've been programming for just over twenty years.
Prove it.
Because in the post-apocalyptic future we may not have anything else to make clothing from.
It's easy to respond to such requests - just publish your raw data in the same place you publish your conclusions. This is *not* a budget thing.
I would like you to publish your raw data supporting this assertion.
[only] the chart they had in the WMO report was misleading if you didn't read the report carefully.
Which incidentally describes the vast majority of charts I've seen in scientific reports. You have to read the report carefully to understand WTF they're charting. Lots of bloggers fail to read the report, misread the chart, and blow things out of proportion, but pointing this out is a whitewash, apparently.
I'm just stating the facts that are obvious if you've read any of the Climategate emails or dug into the real criticisms of the alleged climate science.
Funny, I keep reading the links you and others post here, yet find none that meet that description. Will you please post the links to the real criticisms of the alleged climate science? I am very interested.
Another feature of the blogsphere is that it gives a loud megaphone to anyone who has the intelligence to type, and many who do not.
Case in point: see "infinite monkeys". I assure you there are infinite monkeys in the blogosphere.
Bullshit to your bullshit. Have you read anything on ClimateAudit? Steve McIntyre is not claiming to be a climatologist...
No, but GGP has claimed that, and GP's "bullshit" was to rebut that claim from GGP.
They can't force me to buy, but they can make me want to buy. How? That's what marketing departments are for.
So what kind of marketing would allow paid to compete with free? For an identical product? (after they get rid of DRM as you suggest)
I fail to see how you can pirate someone's music and "support" him at the same time.
Easy...by giving them more money than they would have if you never consumed or paid for any of their work. It's not the people who pirate with conscience who are the problem, it's the people who aren't spending time on slashdot debating the best way to support artists but rather spending time on 4chan posting "TITS!" while downloading infinite quantities of music they never pay for in any form who are the problem.
(Unless what you pirate is bootlegs or material the artist for some reason doesn't reissue, like My Bloody Valentine's "You Made Me Realise EP".)
Wait, what?? You can't pirate something the artist made directly, but you can pirate something pirated from something the artist made????
It's time to put this dog to sleep. Don't buy their shit. Don't talk about their shit. Don't even watch their shit pirated unless you absolutely must based upon your childhood comic book consumption.
What about adolescent and young-adulthood comic book consumption?
A film producer had his film stolen, and the thief got a lot of money for the screenings.
The producer that ended penniless: Georges Melies
The Thief: Thomas Edison
That's actually pretty typical of Edison's entire career. People should read about his dealings with Nikola Tesla, and ask themselves if between that and what you posted our society should continue to revere Edison the way that we do.
Ask yourself how many popular sci-fi shows that plenty of geeks enjoy still get cancelled in their infancy, because they don't bring in enough money almost immediately for those who bankroll them to continue writing the cheques until the series is established.
What, like Star Trek?
Here's a funny thought though: the way people have complained about how everything about the next generation is worse for the last, oh, 2000-3000 years straight, if there were any truth to that, by now we've _all_ been listening only to crap, unlike the wholesome and good music that the likes of Socrates listened to.
Socrates was a corrupter of youth. The wholesome and good music must have been what the pre-Socratics listened to.
To that end, what do you think a Lady Gaga CD will go for in (roughly) 2070, do you think?
With perfect digital copying and basically unlimited copies out there in the cloud? Moot question, the good old records are so expensive because a limited quantity were manufactured and you can't just make a copy without some degradation on that old analog media.