The economic future of the US is dependent upon the enforcement of intellectual property law. If you want to get an idea of what would happen if IP law went away, read Bruce Sterling's Distraction. Copyright is as much a matter of national security as ensuring that oil shipments to the US still occur. The US can't compete in manufacturing. Cannot compete in agricultural production. The only area the US can compete is in the generation of ideas.
Churchill is awesome. Without him we wouldn't have the wonderful situation in Iran, Iraq or the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Never, has so much fucking up been caused by so few of noble intent.
Yeah - that's the reason we didn't get the year of Linux Desktop - wasn't because Linux wasn't awesome enough... it was because Microsoft Cheated!!!!!!!
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The guy is a troll. Hasn't made any art in his life yet presumes to tell artists why they make art. Apparently if you don't do it for free, you aren't "philosophically pure" enough for him.
Wonder how "philosophically pure" he is when it comes to whatever he does to put food on the table.
On the other hand - perhaps circletimessquare simply leeches off welfare because, you know, you shouldn't do anything for profit - only for "love"
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What gives you the right to tell all musicians why they make music?
The price of computers is subsidized by a whole lot of closed source applications that would have trouble existing under an open source ecosystem. Computers would probably become more expensive if Linux was the only operating system sold because the subsidies are greater than the licensing cost of Windows. This is why, when vendors do provide a "Linux" option the Linux option is more expensive. With Linux you wouldn't get the subsidies involved by people paying to have demo versions of their software included on the machine. Why would any company pay money to place demo software on a Linux computer - it isn't as though they'd be able to sell an after market subscription, which is how they make that money back.
The new revenue stream is to target an audience that doesn't use ad blockers. Which do you think will happen first - advertisers will use ads that meet your approval, or they will shift their target audience to one that doesn't block their ads?
The smart content author does not target people that are unwilling to pay for content. There is no money to be made in writing content for the Slashdot audience - they will block your ads anyway. There is money to be made in writing content about Paris Hilton and whatever the Kardashians are up to. Rather than complaining about Slashdotters blocking ads, smart authors should be targeting a more remunerative audience.
This will sort itself out as content creators will find that it is impossible to make a profit on the sort of content that most Slashdotters enjoy (because Slashdotters block ads) and instead will generate content for people more willing to view and click-thru advertisements.
There is no business model where you can make a buck selling web content to the majority of Slashdot. There are lots of bucks to be made selling web content to audiences other than the technically literate. The invisible hand of the market at work.
Microsoft's Active Directory DRM service is called "Rights Management Services" (RMS). Intentional that the way to DRM documents on Microsoft networks uses the acronym used by the founder of the Free Software movement to identify himself?
Open is important to HTC and so on not because it gives them any control over the platform, but because it gives them a free ride on the hard expensive stuff (developing the operating system) allowing them to win on the stuff that they can compete on (which is hardware production). It is like that quote from Snow Crash - that the USA is really good at microcode and pizza delivery. It works for HTC and so on because Android hands over the crown jewels in providing a free operating system and the non-american manufacturers get to make all the profit on the hardware side. The US can't compete when it comes to manufacturing handsets and the thing that they can compete on, the writing of mobile phone operating systems, Google has decided to give away for free. The only people making $ out of the manufacture of mobile devices are companies outside America. While all that's perfectly fine, consider that the US will never be able to compete globally in manufacturing, that where the US can compete - in the creation of intellectual property, a lot of Slashdotters want to give it away for free. How does a country eventually pay for all those devices that are made offshore if it doesn't have anything to sell those offshore manufacturers because the crown jewels, one of the few things the US can do better than everyone else, are a charity offering?
Patents and IP law are the only thing stopping companies in other parts of the world making duplicate products and dumping them on the US market. If I could simply copy and profit from any smart idea that someone else came up with then all we'd end up with was people refusing to invest in research. Why invest in research if, in the fantastical world of no intellectual property, you can just copy everyone else's ideas. Without intellectual property, it just becomes a race to see who can most cheaply manufacture. That's not a race that anyone in the US can win. The founding fathers understood that if you don't protect ideas for a reasonable amount of time, when you don't allow people to profit from the fruits of their intellectual labor, progress stagnates. How many amazing technological innovations did the Soviets develop under their system where individuals or small groups were able to retain control of their IP? You can say that people will do it to scratch their own itch - but history repeatedly shows that without tangible reward based incentives, societies stagnate.
Leech is too generous. Parasite is more appropriate. You take without offering anything in return.
You aren't a fucking customer - customers pay for stuff. You are just a parasite that offers nothing.
The AWESOME thing about having open freshmen level textbooks is that currently the big sales of these textbooks subsidize the more obscure textbooks used in later years. So by killing the freshmen market - fewer less profitable more specialized titles will be funded!
Well it ain't as though there is any money in the kitty for Linux "Paid-for" blogging. Even if you wanted to try to earn a quid writing about Linux, everyone running Linux runs with advertisement blockers so it doesn't matter how many page views you get, you aren't going to end up with any click-thrus that actually allow you to earn a quid. Point this out and you are told that you should be selling T-Shirts as a method of making money from your writing.
A good library provides the same information as you would learn in a university degree, yet for most people they need the structure of a University course to learn that information. The information for training Open Source admins exists, but the lack of consistent formal training infrastructure is a big reason why Windows admins are far more prevalent,
How many RHCTechnicians are there compared to Microsoft Certified Technical Specialists? There is probably one RHCT for every MCTS - and *that* is the problem.
The majority of sysadmins don't learn by surfing google - but by going to some kind of class. Microsoft built a whole big infrastructure of training partners to pump out people who are minimally trained to administer their operating system. This keeps the cost of employing a Windows administrator down. There is production line of them. One leaves and another will be along in a moment.
Unless someone comes up with a way of mass-producing Linux admins, it will always be significantly cheaper to hire a Windows admin. While it is significantly cheaper to hire an Windows admin, Linux will always be more expensive to deploy. Lose your Linux admin and your chance of replacing them isn't at all good. It isn't that organizations don't want to deploy Linux, it is that they just can't find anyone minimally qualified to do it!
Hope you don't like stuff like BattleStar Galactica, Stargate, Warehouse 13, Star Trek or basically any Sci Fi. That's the stuff that's expensive to make. That's the stuff that you and your mates download and never pay for by watching advertisements and that's the first stuff that will go when cheap and nasty is all that's left.
If you think that the author is getting more than a buck or two a copy you're delusional. Do you think people who can proof read a calculus textbook work for free? What about the people that check the layout? Your time might not be worth more than a couple of cents per hour but given the level of skills that are required to create an advanced calculus textbook you shouldn't be surprised if it costs a fair amount.
You want to know why there aren't any "open source" maths textbooks? Because the amount of work required and the skill level required are prohibitive.
Thanks for that - the other places I've been going for the last 20 odd years no longer seem to stock Privateer Press stuff - which I found excessively weird as these places stock almost EVERYTHING. At some point I'll go in and ask WTF directly, but the only reasons I can think that these places would have dropped them was that PP stuff wasn't selling or PP was putting odd restrictions on FLGS - either of which aren't great.
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The economic future of the US is dependent upon the enforcement of intellectual property law. If you want to get an idea of what would happen if IP law went away, read Bruce Sterling's Distraction. Copyright is as much a matter of national security as ensuring that oil shipments to the US still occur. The US can't compete in manufacturing. Cannot compete in agricultural production. The only area the US can compete is in the generation of ideas.
Churchill is awesome. Without him we wouldn't have the wonderful situation in Iran, Iraq or the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Never, has so much fucking up been caused by so few of noble intent.
Yeah - that's the reason we didn't get the year of Linux Desktop - wasn't because Linux wasn't awesome enough... it was because Microsoft Cheated!!!!!!!
Mod parent up. He gets it.
The guy is a troll. Hasn't made any art in his life yet presumes to tell artists why they make art. Apparently if you don't do it for free, you aren't "philosophically pure" enough for him. Wonder how "philosophically pure" he is when it comes to whatever he does to put food on the table. On the other hand - perhaps circletimessquare simply leeches off welfare because, you know, you shouldn't do anything for profit - only for "love"
What gives you the right to tell all musicians why they make music?
The price of computers is subsidized by a whole lot of closed source applications that would have trouble existing under an open source ecosystem. Computers would probably become more expensive if Linux was the only operating system sold because the subsidies are greater than the licensing cost of Windows. This is why, when vendors do provide a "Linux" option the Linux option is more expensive. With Linux you wouldn't get the subsidies involved by people paying to have demo versions of their software included on the machine. Why would any company pay money to place demo software on a Linux computer - it isn't as though they'd be able to sell an after market subscription, which is how they make that money back.
The new revenue stream is to target an audience that doesn't use ad blockers. Which do you think will happen first - advertisers will use ads that meet your approval, or they will shift their target audience to one that doesn't block their ads?
The smart content author does not target people that are unwilling to pay for content. There is no money to be made in writing content for the Slashdot audience - they will block your ads anyway. There is money to be made in writing content about Paris Hilton and whatever the Kardashians are up to. Rather than complaining about Slashdotters blocking ads, smart authors should be targeting a more remunerative audience.
This will sort itself out as content creators will find that it is impossible to make a profit on the sort of content that most Slashdotters enjoy (because Slashdotters block ads) and instead will generate content for people more willing to view and click-thru advertisements. There is no business model where you can make a buck selling web content to the majority of Slashdot. There are lots of bucks to be made selling web content to audiences other than the technically literate. The invisible hand of the market at work.
Microsoft's Active Directory DRM service is called "Rights Management Services" (RMS). Intentional that the way to DRM documents on Microsoft networks uses the acronym used by the founder of the Free Software movement to identify himself?
Open is important to HTC and so on not because it gives them any control over the platform, but because it gives them a free ride on the hard expensive stuff (developing the operating system) allowing them to win on the stuff that they can compete on (which is hardware production). It is like that quote from Snow Crash - that the USA is really good at microcode and pizza delivery. It works for HTC and so on because Android hands over the crown jewels in providing a free operating system and the non-american manufacturers get to make all the profit on the hardware side. The US can't compete when it comes to manufacturing handsets and the thing that they can compete on, the writing of mobile phone operating systems, Google has decided to give away for free. The only people making $ out of the manufacture of mobile devices are companies outside America. While all that's perfectly fine, consider that the US will never be able to compete globally in manufacturing, that where the US can compete - in the creation of intellectual property, a lot of Slashdotters want to give it away for free. How does a country eventually pay for all those devices that are made offshore if it doesn't have anything to sell those offshore manufacturers because the crown jewels, one of the few things the US can do better than everyone else, are a charity offering?
Patents and IP law are the only thing stopping companies in other parts of the world making duplicate products and dumping them on the US market. If I could simply copy and profit from any smart idea that someone else came up with then all we'd end up with was people refusing to invest in research. Why invest in research if, in the fantastical world of no intellectual property, you can just copy everyone else's ideas. Without intellectual property, it just becomes a race to see who can most cheaply manufacture. That's not a race that anyone in the US can win. The founding fathers understood that if you don't protect ideas for a reasonable amount of time, when you don't allow people to profit from the fruits of their intellectual labor, progress stagnates. How many amazing technological innovations did the Soviets develop under their system where individuals or small groups were able to retain control of their IP? You can say that people will do it to scratch their own itch - but history repeatedly shows that without tangible reward based incentives, societies stagnate.
Leech is too generous. Parasite is more appropriate. You take without offering anything in return. You aren't a fucking customer - customers pay for stuff. You are just a parasite that offers nothing.
The collapse of Byzantium happened when the 4th Crusade sacked Constantinople. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire Though I guess that fact doesn't align with the your Tea Party agenda. Neither does anything in the following article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
This line wasn't written by PKD.
The AWESOME thing about having open freshmen level textbooks is that currently the big sales of these textbooks subsidize the more obscure textbooks used in later years. So by killing the freshmen market - fewer less profitable more specialized titles will be funded!
Well it ain't as though there is any money in the kitty for Linux "Paid-for" blogging. Even if you wanted to try to earn a quid writing about Linux, everyone running Linux runs with advertisement blockers so it doesn't matter how many page views you get, you aren't going to end up with any click-thrus that actually allow you to earn a quid. Point this out and you are told that you should be selling T-Shirts as a method of making money from your writing.
A good library provides the same information as you would learn in a university degree, yet for most people they need the structure of a University course to learn that information. The information for training Open Source admins exists, but the lack of consistent formal training infrastructure is a big reason why Windows admins are far more prevalent,
That should have read one RHCT for every 100 MCTS - not a one to one mapping.
How many RHCTechnicians are there compared to Microsoft Certified Technical Specialists? There is probably one RHCT for every MCTS - and *that* is the problem. The majority of sysadmins don't learn by surfing google - but by going to some kind of class. Microsoft built a whole big infrastructure of training partners to pump out people who are minimally trained to administer their operating system. This keeps the cost of employing a Windows administrator down. There is production line of them. One leaves and another will be along in a moment. Unless someone comes up with a way of mass-producing Linux admins, it will always be significantly cheaper to hire a Windows admin. While it is significantly cheaper to hire an Windows admin, Linux will always be more expensive to deploy. Lose your Linux admin and your chance of replacing them isn't at all good. It isn't that organizations don't want to deploy Linux, it is that they just can't find anyone minimally qualified to do it!
Hope you don't like stuff like BattleStar Galactica, Stargate, Warehouse 13, Star Trek or basically any Sci Fi. That's the stuff that's expensive to make. That's the stuff that you and your mates download and never pay for by watching advertisements and that's the first stuff that will go when cheap and nasty is all that's left.
Hopefully if your university is hosting torrents of pirated movies, they will go after you.
If you think that the author is getting more than a buck or two a copy you're delusional. Do you think people who can proof read a calculus textbook work for free? What about the people that check the layout? Your time might not be worth more than a couple of cents per hour but given the level of skills that are required to create an advanced calculus textbook you shouldn't be surprised if it costs a fair amount. You want to know why there aren't any "open source" maths textbooks? Because the amount of work required and the skill level required are prohibitive.
Thanks for that - the other places I've been going for the last 20 odd years no longer seem to stock Privateer Press stuff - which I found excessively weird as these places stock almost EVERYTHING. At some point I'll go in and ask WTF directly, but the only reasons I can think that these places would have dropped them was that PP stuff wasn't selling or PP was putting odd restrictions on FLGS - either of which aren't great.