In my opinion, the span of copyright is far longer than what reason should permit.
I don't say this as a consumer, I have produced three albums, all of which I released to the public domain.
I feel copyright should maybe last 25 or so years, much less the originator's whole life, plus 70 years.
I've actually bought 3 of the Motorola F3 phones off of 3 different websites. All cost no more than $30 each including shipping and handling. I didn't even care to get any plans.
One goes in my glove box with a car charger, one stays in the house, and one I keep in my briefcase.
Marvellous way to make sure you can make an emergency call and your normal phone's broken/dead. They're cheap, easy to use, and for the purpose that I've got them, are 100% effective so far.
well of course, you'd want health professionals to know their stuff, but I don't think it's necessary for, say, an insurance agent needs to know exactly (read word-for-word) the details of coverage in every coverage agreement they deal with, as long as they have immediate access to the information. I don't expect a structural engineer to know by heart every last measurement for a building they built
Haha, Man, how do you measure whether a Torrent is "Legal" anyway? The torrent itself carries no copyrighted data period. The transfer between peers is illegal. It's not illegal to make a hash of copyrighted data, It's not Illegal in many countries to torrent either.
I'm not an Australian, but from my observation of Government, I'd bet that AU's Gov't has made the decision to try and pass this policy.
I find it very ominous that the document had even basic definitions blacked out. There's no reasonable explanation for that, other than to obstrifucate what they intend to do. They don't say how extensive their data requisition would be.
In the U.S. to do home surveillance AFAIK a pretty hefty warrant is required, and there has to be evidence to show it is necessary. Probing an ISP's user data seems like an invasion of privacy, and essentially warrantless home surveillance.
I Know, you're all going to say that, I should be railing against web data mining, and consumer tracking, but that's technically illegal too without disclosure. Plus, you can take measures to protect your anonymity. With the ISP handing over all data to the Government, it essentially becomes a "thought police" type of system.
Let me clarify a little bit.... You may not be intending to do math with whatever computer program you may be writing. And you may not explicitly use math to do things in computer programming.
The point I'm trying to make is that: no matter what a program does, or how it's constructed, at the most basic level all a processor does is add, subtract, multiply, divide and compare two numbers. That's 4/5ths arithmetic, and 1/5th mathematical logic.
At the lowest levels, programming is translated entirely into math.
Seconded. Computer programming is math. Logic is built on the principles of mathematics, (inferring laws from properties and vice-versa, proving what we know, and describing the universe in absolute terms.) and all programs are themselves built on top of logic.
My personal belief is that of many physicists, the entirety of the universe can be reduced to mathematical representation, and we might as well try doing it, if not to further our own understanding, then to at least have some fun along the way.
Where Exactly does it say anywhere that theora is participating in any patent pool? AFAIK it's an oft flaunted fact that theora has no patents or trademarking issues. I would be very interested to know if they'd started patenting parts of theora.
I know theora's based on VP3, but the source for VP3 was released years ago wasn't it?
PS I DO understand that Theora is a horribly outdated video codec that only does marginally better than basic mpeg4 asp, and can't compare in quality to Xvid, h.264 or VP8.
Personally, I kinda want to believe it is "magic" or at least something unique to humanity.
But logically, I understand that (most likely) soulful technique is something that is just a product of randomness and imperfect perception.
I guess what I'm saying is: I'd like to believe good playing technique is unique to humans, but glad that it probably isn't.
As a Musican as are many of the replies, I gotta say, they're all accurate in my opinion. I suppose the way I could describe "Soul" in music is to say: It's the combination of the individual player's interpretation of the written music, and how it sounds in their mind when they read it, with the essentially random, or psuedorandom patterns of imperfections introduced by the human body.
It's a mixture of mental interpretation, along with the physical randomness and individuality inherent in the human body.
Soul is a phenomenon of perception in my mind, and is not too different from personality in general. I would think that when a system gets sufficiently complex, "soul" would essentially be an emergent phenomenon. A complex system requires a complex understanding in the human mind, and when a person connects deeply through understanding, they tend to see "soul"
At least, that's my observation and opinion.
I agree in principle that it would definitely be easier for OEMs to build the hardware with linux preinstalled. But I don't think an "Internet pad" type of device would be particularly marketable. I don't believe I've ever seen a popular internet only machine. Even the iPad runs local apps. I think most users would find it wasteful to have a device that's only designed for internet usage. Most people want some local storage, and at least some real world usefulness, like a camera, or usb ports for their awesome devs, like the electric stapler/USB hub combo.
This is essentially like playing lunarlander. The trajectory has to be just right, but once you nail it, you can do it a thousand times. I'm pretty sure this video only exhibits the persistence of the programmers, not the intelligence of the vehicle.
Lol Seriously. My little bro spends literally hours at the PC playing of all things RuneScape. In all the time he spends playing MMORPGs, he could at the very least, learn how to play at least one instrument well, as well as learn how to cook.
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In my opinion, the span of copyright is far longer than what reason should permit. I don't say this as a consumer, I have produced three albums, all of which I released to the public domain. I feel copyright should maybe last 25 or so years, much less the originator's whole life, plus 70 years.
I've actually bought 3 of the Motorola F3 phones off of 3 different websites. All cost no more than $30 each including shipping and handling. I didn't even care to get any plans. One goes in my glove box with a car charger, one stays in the house, and one I keep in my briefcase. Marvellous way to make sure you can make an emergency call and your normal phone's broken/dead. They're cheap, easy to use, and for the purpose that I've got them, are 100% effective so far.
well of course, you'd want health professionals to know their stuff, but I don't think it's necessary for, say, an insurance agent needs to know exactly (read word-for-word) the details of coverage in every coverage agreement they deal with, as long as they have immediate access to the information. I don't expect a structural engineer to know by heart every last measurement for a building they built
Haha, Man, how do you measure whether a Torrent is "Legal" anyway? The torrent itself carries no copyrighted data period. The transfer between peers is illegal. It's not illegal to make a hash of copyrighted data, It's not Illegal in many countries to torrent either.
I'm not an Australian, but from my observation of Government, I'd bet that AU's Gov't has made the decision to try and pass this policy. I find it very ominous that the document had even basic definitions blacked out. There's no reasonable explanation for that, other than to obstrifucate what they intend to do. They don't say how extensive their data requisition would be. In the U.S. to do home surveillance AFAIK a pretty hefty warrant is required, and there has to be evidence to show it is necessary. Probing an ISP's user data seems like an invasion of privacy, and essentially warrantless home surveillance. I Know, you're all going to say that, I should be railing against web data mining, and consumer tracking, but that's technically illegal too without disclosure. Plus, you can take measures to protect your anonymity. With the ISP handing over all data to the Government, it essentially becomes a "thought police" type of system.
Let me clarify a little bit.... You may not be intending to do math with whatever computer program you may be writing. And you may not explicitly use math to do things in computer programming.
The point I'm trying to make is that: no matter what a program does, or how it's constructed, at the most basic level all a processor does is add, subtract, multiply, divide and compare two numbers. That's 4/5ths arithmetic, and 1/5th mathematical logic.
At the lowest levels, programming is translated entirely into math.
Seconded. Computer programming is math. Logic is built on the principles of mathematics, (inferring laws from properties and vice-versa, proving what we know, and describing the universe in absolute terms.) and all programs are themselves built on top of logic.
My personal belief is that of many physicists, the entirety of the universe can be reduced to mathematical representation, and we might as well try doing it, if not to further our own understanding, then to at least have some fun along the way.
Where Exactly does it say anywhere that theora is participating in any patent pool? AFAIK it's an oft flaunted fact that theora has no patents or trademarking issues. I would be very interested to know if they'd started patenting parts of theora. I know theora's based on VP3, but the source for VP3 was released years ago wasn't it? PS I DO understand that Theora is a horribly outdated video codec that only does marginally better than basic mpeg4 asp, and can't compare in quality to Xvid, h.264 or VP8.
Personally, I kinda want to believe it is "magic" or at least something unique to humanity. But logically, I understand that (most likely) soulful technique is something that is just a product of randomness and imperfect perception. I guess what I'm saying is: I'd like to believe good playing technique is unique to humans, but glad that it probably isn't.
As a Musican as are many of the replies, I gotta say, they're all accurate in my opinion. I suppose the way I could describe "Soul" in music is to say: It's the combination of the individual player's interpretation of the written music, and how it sounds in their mind when they read it, with the essentially random, or psuedorandom patterns of imperfections introduced by the human body. It's a mixture of mental interpretation, along with the physical randomness and individuality inherent in the human body. Soul is a phenomenon of perception in my mind, and is not too different from personality in general. I would think that when a system gets sufficiently complex, "soul" would essentially be an emergent phenomenon. A complex system requires a complex understanding in the human mind, and when a person connects deeply through understanding, they tend to see "soul" At least, that's my observation and opinion.
I agree in principle that it would definitely be easier for OEMs to build the hardware with linux preinstalled. But I don't think an "Internet pad" type of device would be particularly marketable. I don't believe I've ever seen a popular internet only machine. Even the iPad runs local apps. I think most users would find it wasteful to have a device that's only designed for internet usage. Most people want some local storage, and at least some real world usefulness, like a camera, or usb ports for their awesome devs, like the electric stapler/USB hub combo.
This is essentially like playing lunarlander. The trajectory has to be just right, but once you nail it, you can do it a thousand times. I'm pretty sure this video only exhibits the persistence of the programmers, not the intelligence of the vehicle.
Lol Seriously. My little bro spends literally hours at the PC playing of all things RuneScape. In all the time he spends playing MMORPGs, he could at the very least, learn how to play at least one instrument well, as well as learn how to cook.