Another big problem is that many spammers no longer use their own or paid-for/acquired servers, but viruses, trojans and exploited servers. This would not stop the spam from causing traffic problems on the web.
_Hominids_ is the first book of a Neanderthal trilogy, where Neanderthals on an alternate earth, where Homo sapiens died out instead, use a quantum computer which opens a portal to our world.
The other two books, _Humans_ and _Hybrids_, are now both available. _Humans_ and _Hominids_ are paperbacks and _Hybrids_ *just* came out in hardcover.
If you enjoy good science fiction, read all three. And hopefully _Humans_ or _Hybrids_ makes the ballot again next year (both published first in 2003).
The RIAA has pushed for legislation to grant them tariffs/taxes on sales of certain digital and recordable media sold to consumers, to defer some of the costs of piracy. They also have raised prices of materials such as CDs to help pay for losses they claim occur in the industry because of file sharing.
My question is that why does the RIAA need more legislation to go after filesharers or pirates to stop losses that no independent auditing company has been able to find, and with all the income they're getting from DAT and CD-R Music blanks, and lawsuits against filesharers, pirates and bootleggers, how much of this goes back to the artists, producers, engineers, etc? instead of simply in the RIAA and its labels' pockets?
And on a side note, why should the US or any other country continue listening to the RIAA talk about its losses, when no independent label or artist or distribution channel are getting any of these taxes or tariffs? Shouldn't we also be giving money to these labels, or should we start repealing these one-sided decisions?
id Software has always been about quality over quantity. They generally release software that requires some patches after release, but those patches fix mostly network and driver issues, and not serious game problems.
I'm glad id is waiting to release Doom III when it's done instead of releasing it on a schedule for holiday sales. The sound engine they've described, the lighting and camera abilities they've described, and just the basic plot make me really want this game, and I'd rather have it finished than nearly-there first.
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You buy a yellow pages cover to give out, including your advertisement and others. You also agree to ship some to other establishments you paid to carry your book covers.
On these are other ads people have paid for to show up alongside your main ad and information.
However, a couple competitors went to the print shop while they were going to print, and asked that 2000 of those covers going out to different places instead carried their ads all alongside yours.
You find out much later after you visit these locations, and already most are gone, that the print shop switched ads on you. People just got free handouts advertising your competitors and you got nothing for it.
Gator makes money doing the exact same thing. They use users' computers (the other locations) to sell ads to place on competitor or major websites without the knowledge of those websites using their software (the print shop). You can't stop it because it's on users' computers, and others are now making money selling ad space on your site and destroying the ability for you to do the same.
It's a novel idea. However, SCO's FUD has stated that somehow IBM or its independents' contributions have included journaling and multiprocessor support, among other things, which are part of the main kernel and not just enterprise level.
A huge chunk of the open source movement realizes this is false; however, since they claim that these are the problems, it dilutes what IBM code could be infringing, if any at all.
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If only they could keep PHP-GTK updated to reflect a better desktop programming language like Java?
I guess someone didn't read well enough into it to see what it was, since I can't figure out how this got rated 5, Funny.
This bug affects only those who use Japanese Outlook, which would, naturally, use the two different date formats in Japan. The standard BC/AD year format, and the Japanese Emperor Era format. The latter is just the year of the current Emperor's term (the current emperor, Emperor Akihito, was crowned in 1989, making the Emperor Era Year 15).
I guess a little knowledge kills the humor for me.
In that aspect, we might as well have just given patents to the first person who made the third floor in a building, the first person who invented a landing so that stairs take up less room in a building, setting up a business to sell used AND new CDs, etc.
A novel idea is something that NO ONE would have thought up until shown. A *good* business idea is way different. It's something that would have been done because the necessity to do so was there. Just someone was first out the door with it.
Netflix's concept is far from new. How many people work in businesses which charge a monthly fee for a service regardless of how often you use it? Internet, tech support, online gaming, etc.? So how is RENTING DVDS any different? All of those have per-play/per-use payments, same as DVD rentals. So why now is Renting DVDs by Monthly Fee, Get As Many As You Want "novel"?
How did I indicate XML as anything but a data transfer medium?
Have you ever used Peachtree or QuickBooks? If not, then you wouldn't realize that the information is locked into propietary formats, incompatible with other software except limited functions tying it to Microsoft Office products, and requiring subscriptions to maintain tax tables and other such updates.
An open source accounting suite capable of XML would allow a much more robust export/import ability, and richer compatibility with many other software suites.
Imagine being able to give your accountant your tax information in a widely accepted format, regardless of the system he uses. Or implementing an inventory tracking system that easily integrates into the accounting suite because both use XML. Even going so far as to allow online banking to communicate with your accounting software and updating it, without the need of purchasing an upgrade to your propietary accounting software.
SCO does not own the trademark for UNIX, nor any other trademarks alleged to be infringed in this suit. Trademarks are the only IP that can be lost if not actively defended.
Copyrights can be moderately defended and still kept. However, if you choose to widely ignore infringement for a lengthy period of time, your hopes of coming back to sue people for large amounts of damages will be laughed out of court. Especially if you continue to help give away those copyrights fully knowing that by doing so people would be infringing on your rights.
Patents don't have to be actively protected. You can sue even when you have a week left of the patent for all the sales which came before using your patents. As long as the patent is still valid, you can have a fair chance at getting people to stop using your patent and/or collecting your fees for use of your patent.
Here, though, SCO has only sued IBM for violating a contract, anticompetitive practices and illegally distributing trade secrets. Linux and the BSDs have not been sued for any IP problems.
Until they do file suit, technically there's no reason to stop distributing the code, working on the code, or using the code. They also haven't shown what infringes their rights, so it's impossible for anyone to guess what could be the problem. Can't really stop allegedly infringing if no one else seems to know what the infringing code is!
A bit off topic, but related. I got tired of trying to find a really decent store suite for e-commerce. Most of the ones which did what I needed cost hundreds to thousands of dollars, and would require additional licenses as more features or bugs got fixed and made a new version release. Going from version 3 to version 4 would be a $200 upgrade, or buying the package to include coupons would be $150.
The free or low-cost solutions did little, were hard to use, and were buggy as well.
So people really had two options. Pay plenty for good software that they would have to continue paying if they wanted to keep up to date in modules and features, or pay little or nothing and get software they would have to invest additional money into making work how they need.
So, like those before me in the free software world, it made me start my own software suite for e-commerce, to be released free under the GNU GPL license, because I would already need it for my site, so why not give it to those already in my position.
I think this is where business software will be going. A small company or a programmer will find that there is a need for a software package or suite. There will be two options, expensive lock-in software or cheap hobbling software. They will probably decide in this economy it will be easier to either build off FSF-approved-licensed software to make it work how they need, or just build their own.
I'd love to see this option work out well. An alternative to Peachtree/QuickBooks for all platforms that is XML based. Linux-based POS software for stores. Inventory management and shipping database applications.
Why spend $100,000 on such a suite when you can just build off a free project, or start your own using the knowledge you already have with the suite you couldn't get working how you wanted, open it up and reap benefits from servicing contracts and support to other companies in similar situations.
Afghan Whigs' "Black Love" is a good example of an album that should be listened to all in sequence, though there are a few songs that would standalone as singles (and have).
nine inch nails' "downward spiral" was also meant to be a sequential piece, but as most/.ers know, it can exist as singles as well.
These two albums alone should justify that singles and full albums can coexist and still represent an artistic merit. Artists who only think their songs go together as an album should rethink their current commercial ability to exist in the 21st century's economy of downloadable tunes.
If the songs themselves can't make it alone, then people probably won't bother with the entire album. And there are probably thousands of bands already through emusic, mp3, itunes and others whose songs are just the same price. I'd bet those people won't whine about their artistic merits being exploited.
I've seen two replies which state that the movies are PG or less (they aren't). Many are PG-13. So, here's a breakdown why they aren't G, probably:
Titanic - Sexuality, Nudity Star Wars - Violence ET: The Extra-Terrestrial - Violence Star Wars: Phantom Menace - Violence Spider-Man - Violence Jurassic Park - Violence Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Violence Forrest Gump - Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Vulgarity, Drug Use Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Violence Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Violence Lion King, The - The only G rated on this list Return of the Jedi - Violence Independence Day - Violence, Vulgarity Star Wars: Attack of the Clones - Violence Sixth Sense, The - Violence, Vulgarity The Empire Strikes Back - Violence Home Alone - Violence Shrek - PG but nothing too harsh Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Violence How the Grinch Stole Christmas - PG but nothing too harsh
There's going to be a little of anything objectionable in nearly any major movie studio movie not aimed at kids. Even those which are aimed at kids have some crude humor involved, so they're not completely vanilla. The original objection was that Hollywood was promoting the downfall of society through continuing to push sex, violence, drug use, etc., while they could reclaim more consumers by leaving those out.
But I do agree with the first part of the parent: If you buy a DVD movie, and want to edit it for your own personal use, you should be fully able to do so.
As much as I agree that what you do with your copy of a DVD without redistributing the content without permission, this is the wrong attitude.
Money talks, simple as that. Take a look at this list of Top 20 Movies in the US of all time, theater-ticket-wise. Nearly all of them would need some sort of editing to meet with most Mormon standards. Yet, as that list shows, a little violence, vulgarity, nudity, sexual situations and drug use is perfectly acceptable by those who pay to make a movie profitable.
Don't forget that it's not just a production company like Time Warner or Sony Pictures who has all this PG+ rating material in the movies. Writers, directors, producers all have weight in deciding what the movie should have. And the movie studios generally don't keep making movies that will keep losing them money.
There is just a severe lack of G rated movies that aren't just sequels sent directly to videos anymore. The money to recupe from these ventures just isn't there unless the movie is critically acclaimed and done cheaply. Yet with movies like Matrix: Reloaded and Spider-Man, both with death and violence integrated into the story, they break box office records.
If you want to see a good movie, see a good movie. If you want to see a good movie without sex and language, you're not seeing the true scope of the original intent of the writer, director and/or producer, but that's your choice. But please don't think that Hollywood would reclaim customers just because a few dozen thousand moviegoers would like to see stripped movies, while millions would rather see what's already out there.
Movies are a business. Businesses are there to make money. If a small portion of their target consumer wants something restrictive and that ends up losing them money, why should they continue to throw money at it?
Just a thought next time you think that Hollywood is merely overlooking the Mormons.
SCO has stated before that they won't reveal the source code because then IBM and other Linux developers will just remove the infringing code.
This doesn't take away damages already done, mind you. What this does is take away SCO's profits from licensing this code to IBM and the like, since it would still be distributed. What SCO plans to do, it seems, is make sure the infringing code stays in Linux so they can just make money doing absolutely nothing.
Problem is, without proving they themselves own the code, and without registering a copyright on it, they can't sue for infringement or recover damages. They would only be able to collect on the breach of contract, and thus probably not get money from other Linux vendors.
Good luck, SCO. Doesn't look like even that will help.
"NUMA (Non Uniform Memory access) a mechanism for enabling large multiprocessing systems, RCU (Read Copy Update) (and) SMP"
I am not completely familiar with the details of it, but don't the last two, RCU and SMP, both exist in FreeBSD?
Also this lady admits that she is not a copyright attorney nor is she a programmer, so she had a code analyst there with her reviewing the code. So why can't we get his or her opinion? Also, why would she give her statement on how the GPL works if she's neither a copyright attorney nor a programmer? Seems to me she was fed nearly everything she's saying.
i.e. Her statements and opinions are worth about as much as SCOX will be in a few months.
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Another big problem is that many spammers no longer use their own or paid-for/acquired servers, but viruses, trojans and exploited servers. This would not stop the spam from causing traffic problems on the web.
_Hominids_ is the first book of a Neanderthal trilogy, where Neanderthals on an alternate earth, where Homo sapiens died out instead, use a quantum computer which opens a portal to our world.
The other two books, _Humans_ and _Hybrids_, are now both available. _Humans_ and _Hominids_ are paperbacks and _Hybrids_ *just* came out in hardcover.
If you enjoy good science fiction, read all three. And hopefully _Humans_ or _Hybrids_ makes the ballot again next year (both published first in 2003).
Ah, thank you. The site was unreachable when I posted my comment earlier.
Little confusing, the title and the body have two different spellings.
The RIAA has pushed for legislation to grant them tariffs/taxes on sales of certain digital and recordable media sold to consumers, to defer some of the costs of piracy. They also have raised prices of materials such as CDs to help pay for losses they claim occur in the industry because of file sharing.
My question is that why does the RIAA need more legislation to go after filesharers or pirates to stop losses that no independent auditing company has been able to find, and with all the income they're getting from DAT and CD-R Music blanks, and lawsuits against filesharers, pirates and bootleggers, how much of this goes back to the artists, producers, engineers, etc? instead of simply in the RIAA and its labels' pockets?
And on a side note, why should the US or any other country continue listening to the RIAA talk about its losses, when no independent label or artist or distribution channel are getting any of these taxes or tariffs? Shouldn't we also be giving money to these labels, or should we start repealing these one-sided decisions?
id Software has always been about quality over quantity. They generally release software that requires some patches after release, but those patches fix mostly network and driver issues, and not serious game problems.
I'm glad id is waiting to release Doom III when it's done instead of releasing it on a schedule for holiday sales. The sound engine they've described, the lighting and camera abilities they've described, and just the basic plot make me really want this game, and I'd rather have it finished than nearly-there first.
That's Quake IV, not Doom IV, of course.
So...
They're all for innovation and creativity... but you should respect their own...
Yet you can't innovate or create new items with their hardware that you PURCHASE, because they won't respect YOUR innovation and creativity.
Sounds like they want their cake and to eat it, too.
I think the better analogy is this:
You buy a yellow pages cover to give out, including your advertisement and others. You also agree to ship some to other establishments you paid to carry your book covers.
On these are other ads people have paid for to show up alongside your main ad and information.
However, a couple competitors went to the print shop while they were going to print, and asked that 2000 of those covers going out to different places instead carried their ads all alongside yours.
You find out much later after you visit these locations, and already most are gone, that the print shop switched ads on you. People just got free handouts advertising your competitors and you got nothing for it.
Gator makes money doing the exact same thing. They use users' computers (the other locations) to sell ads to place on competitor or major websites without the knowledge of those websites using their software (the print shop). You can't stop it because it's on users' computers, and others are now making money selling ad space on your site and destroying the ability for you to do the same.
It's a bad ruling.
It's a novel idea. However, SCO's FUD has stated that somehow IBM or its independents' contributions have included journaling and multiprocessor support, among other things, which are part of the main kernel and not just enterprise level.
A huge chunk of the open source movement realizes this is false; however, since they claim that these are the problems, it dilutes what IBM code could be infringing, if any at all.
If only they could keep PHP-GTK updated to reflect a better desktop programming language like Java?
I guess someone didn't read well enough into it to see what it was, since I can't figure out how this got rated 5, Funny.
This bug affects only those who use Japanese Outlook, which would, naturally, use the two different date formats in Japan. The standard BC/AD year format, and the Japanese Emperor Era format. The latter is just the year of the current Emperor's term (the current emperor, Emperor Akihito, was crowned in 1989, making the Emperor Era Year 15).
I guess a little knowledge kills the humor for me.
"B S O D in the Army~~~"
Sorry, someone had to. (yeah, the syllables don't match up...)
How is an idea to do business novel?
In that aspect, we might as well have just given patents to the first person who made the third floor in a building, the first person who invented a landing so that stairs take up less room in a building, setting up a business to sell used AND new CDs, etc.
A novel idea is something that NO ONE would have thought up until shown. A *good* business idea is way different. It's something that would have been done because the necessity to do so was there. Just someone was first out the door with it.
Netflix's concept is far from new. How many people work in businesses which charge a monthly fee for a service regardless of how often you use it? Internet, tech support, online gaming, etc.? So how is RENTING DVDS any different? All of those have per-play/per-use payments, same as DVD rentals. So why now is Renting DVDs by Monthly Fee, Get As Many As You Want "novel"?
All right, then.
How did I indicate XML as anything but a data transfer medium?
Have you ever used Peachtree or QuickBooks? If not, then you wouldn't realize that the information is locked into propietary formats, incompatible with other software except limited functions tying it to Microsoft Office products, and requiring subscriptions to maintain tax tables and other such updates.
An open source accounting suite capable of XML would allow a much more robust export/import ability, and richer compatibility with many other software suites.
Imagine being able to give your accountant your tax information in a widely accepted format, regardless of the system he uses. Or implementing an inventory tracking system that easily integrates into the accounting suite because both use XML. Even going so far as to allow online banking to communicate with your accounting software and updating it, without the need of purchasing an upgrade to your propietary accounting software.
But, hey, think what you will about my statement.
Incorrect.
SCO does not own the trademark for UNIX, nor any other trademarks alleged to be infringed in this suit. Trademarks are the only IP that can be lost if not actively defended.
Copyrights can be moderately defended and still kept. However, if you choose to widely ignore infringement for a lengthy period of time, your hopes of coming back to sue people for large amounts of damages will be laughed out of court. Especially if you continue to help give away those copyrights fully knowing that by doing so people would be infringing on your rights.
Patents don't have to be actively protected. You can sue even when you have a week left of the patent for all the sales which came before using your patents. As long as the patent is still valid, you can have a fair chance at getting people to stop using your patent and/or collecting your fees for use of your patent.
Here, though, SCO has only sued IBM for violating a contract, anticompetitive practices and illegally distributing trade secrets. Linux and the BSDs have not been sued for any IP problems.
Until they do file suit, technically there's no reason to stop distributing the code, working on the code, or using the code. They also haven't shown what infringes their rights, so it's impossible for anyone to guess what could be the problem. Can't really stop allegedly infringing if no one else seems to know what the infringing code is!
A bit off topic, but related. I got tired of trying to find a really decent store suite for e-commerce. Most of the ones which did what I needed cost hundreds to thousands of dollars, and would require additional licenses as more features or bugs got fixed and made a new version release. Going from version 3 to version 4 would be a $200 upgrade, or buying the package to include coupons would be $150.
The free or low-cost solutions did little, were hard to use, and were buggy as well.
So people really had two options. Pay plenty for good software that they would have to continue paying if they wanted to keep up to date in modules and features, or pay little or nothing and get software they would have to invest additional money into making work how they need.
So, like those before me in the free software world, it made me start my own software suite for e-commerce, to be released free under the GNU GPL license, because I would already need it for my site, so why not give it to those already in my position.
I think this is where business software will be going. A small company or a programmer will find that there is a need for a software package or suite. There will be two options, expensive lock-in software or cheap hobbling software. They will probably decide in this economy it will be easier to either build off FSF-approved-licensed software to make it work how they need, or just build their own.
I'd love to see this option work out well. An alternative to Peachtree/QuickBooks for all platforms that is XML based. Linux-based POS software for stores. Inventory management and shipping database applications.
Why spend $100,000 on such a suite when you can just build off a free project, or start your own using the knowledge you already have with the suite you couldn't get working how you wanted, open it up and reap benefits from servicing contracts and support to other companies in similar situations.
Or am I just dreaming?
Afghan Whigs' "Black Love" is a good example of an album that should be listened to all in sequence, though there are a few songs that would standalone as singles (and have).
/.ers know, it can exist as singles as well.
nine inch nails' "downward spiral" was also meant to be a sequential piece, but as most
These two albums alone should justify that singles and full albums can coexist and still represent an artistic merit. Artists who only think their songs go together as an album should rethink their current commercial ability to exist in the 21st century's economy of downloadable tunes.
If the songs themselves can't make it alone, then people probably won't bother with the entire album. And there are probably thousands of bands already through emusic, mp3, itunes and others whose songs are just the same price. I'd bet those people won't whine about their artistic merits being exploited.
I've seen two replies which state that the movies are PG or less (they aren't). Many are PG-13. So, here's a breakdown why they aren't G, probably:
Titanic - Sexuality, Nudity
Star Wars - Violence
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial - Violence
Star Wars: Phantom Menace - Violence
Spider-Man - Violence
Jurassic Park - Violence
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Violence
Forrest Gump - Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Vulgarity, Drug Use
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Violence
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Violence
Lion King, The - The only G rated on this list
Return of the Jedi - Violence
Independence Day - Violence, Vulgarity
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones - Violence
Sixth Sense, The - Violence, Vulgarity
The Empire Strikes Back - Violence
Home Alone - Violence
Shrek - PG but nothing too harsh
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Violence
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - PG but nothing too harsh
There's going to be a little of anything objectionable in nearly any major movie studio movie not aimed at kids. Even those which are aimed at kids have some crude humor involved, so they're not completely vanilla. The original objection was that Hollywood was promoting the downfall of society through continuing to push sex, violence, drug use, etc., while they could reclaim more consumers by leaving those out.
But I do agree with the first part of the parent: If you buy a DVD movie, and want to edit it for your own personal use, you should be fully able to do so.
As much as I agree that what you do with your copy of a DVD without redistributing the content without permission, this is the wrong attitude.
Money talks, simple as that. Take a look at this list of Top 20 Movies in the US of all time, theater-ticket-wise. Nearly all of them would need some sort of editing to meet with most Mormon standards. Yet, as that list shows, a little violence, vulgarity, nudity, sexual situations and drug use is perfectly acceptable by those who pay to make a movie profitable.
Don't forget that it's not just a production company like Time Warner or Sony Pictures who has all this PG+ rating material in the movies. Writers, directors, producers all have weight in deciding what the movie should have. And the movie studios generally don't keep making movies that will keep losing them money.
There is just a severe lack of G rated movies that aren't just sequels sent directly to videos anymore. The money to recupe from these ventures just isn't there unless the movie is critically acclaimed and done cheaply. Yet with movies like Matrix: Reloaded and Spider-Man, both with death and violence integrated into the story, they break box office records.
If you want to see a good movie, see a good movie. If you want to see a good movie without sex and language, you're not seeing the true scope of the original intent of the writer, director and/or producer, but that's your choice. But please don't think that Hollywood would reclaim customers just because a few dozen thousand moviegoers would like to see stripped movies, while millions would rather see what's already out there.
Movies are a business. Businesses are there to make money. If a small portion of their target consumer wants something restrictive and that ends up losing them money, why should they continue to throw money at it?
Just a thought next time you think that Hollywood is merely overlooking the Mormons.
SCO has stated before that they won't reveal the source code because then IBM and other Linux developers will just remove the infringing code.
This doesn't take away damages already done, mind you. What this does is take away SCO's profits from licensing this code to IBM and the like, since it would still be distributed. What SCO plans to do, it seems, is make sure the infringing code stays in Linux so they can just make money doing absolutely nothing.
Problem is, without proving they themselves own the code, and without registering a copyright on it, they can't sue for infringement or recover damages. They would only be able to collect on the breach of contract, and thus probably not get money from other Linux vendors.
Good luck, SCO. Doesn't look like even that will help.
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Nice targeting ads. I'm sure SCO will need to use one of those in the coming months.
"NUMA (Non Uniform Memory access) a mechanism for enabling large multiprocessing systems, RCU (Read Copy Update) (and) SMP"
I am not completely familiar with the details of it, but don't the last two, RCU and SMP, both exist in FreeBSD?
Also this lady admits that she is not a copyright attorney nor is she a programmer, so she had a code analyst there with her reviewing the code. So why can't we get his or her opinion? Also, why would she give her statement on how the GPL works if she's neither a copyright attorney nor a programmer? Seems to me she was fed nearly everything she's saying.
i.e. Her statements and opinions are worth about as much as SCOX will be in a few months.
So where are the sharks with the frickin' lasers on their heads?
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