Having the text up on the web for personal use is no different, at least as far as I can see, from having the book in a library. As long as you don't start printing books and selling them, having the text available online seems just like having the book in a library - except that it is always there, you can search it, and easily quote from it.
This is such a pet-peeve of mine. Anime is a *medium* not a *genre*. You might just as easily generalize film or computer games, for that matter. There are romances, dramas, tradgedies and comedies, not just cyberpunk action. Sorry for the whiny nature of this post, but if the japanese did it to american movies, it would be just as irritating.
Why wouldn't MS want people to pirate their software? Why do you think copies of their software is installed on all 3500 of those machines in the first place? It's because microsoft has, and wants to propogate a standard - the standard being their software. If everyone had to pay a fee to use the metric system, not many people would adopt it. But if, after a few years, all of a sudden you had to pay to use the metric system, I think a lot of people would find that it is easier to pay money to keep current knowlege useful rather than throwing that knowlege away and learning something new. It takes a long time for new users to learn software, and microsoft knows full well that companies would rather pay for software than training.
Thanks to the iMac, it looks like everyone feels the need to make every product translucent, candy colored and curvy. While I highly respect Apple's design dept., does it seem to anyone else that they've set back design 20 years?
This always bugged the hell out of me. Japan has the coolest wireless technology around. Everyone over the age of 14 in tokyo has these ridiculously tiny, color, internet-ready cell phones. When I look at American cell phones they might as well be 6-lb rotary phones in comparison. Why can't companies get their shit together and go figure out what they're missing?
Another interesting thing to note is that in japan, the services are offered by companies who license it to electronics companies. This way, you get one company focusing on offering great service, and other company pumping out kick-ass electronics (companies like sony, jvc, panasonic, etc, since that's what they do best.) Why did this model never make it here?
It seems to me that these laws don't really threaten anyone. They are primarily knee-jerk reactions by the legal community that doesn't have a clue about (relatively) new technology. In time, we'll look back and laugh at the idiot judge who made hyperlinking illegal.
Now what we should *really* worry about is the nature of fair-use in copyright laws. I don't know about anyone else, but I really, really don't want to be sitting around 5 years from now paying out of my ass to watch TV, listen to the radio or look at a webpage. It scares me that all new technology is in the hands of big companies that want to separate me from my money long before they make any significant contribution to society.
Somehow I think David Therou (sp?) is laughing at us.
The article here states that there are 2,200,000 PS2 units sold in japan but only 4,000,000 software titles sold (of of 35.) Apparently this means the PS2 is only being used as a DVD player.
But what about the hundreds of millions of original PS titles that the PS2 is still compatible with?
The "Ncube" or whatever will be DVD based, so you can forget about the rest of your nintendo cartridges.
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This is such a pet-peeve of mine. Anime is a *medium* not a *genre*. You might just as easily generalize film or computer games, for that matter. There are romances, dramas, tradgedies and comedies, not just cyberpunk action. Sorry for the whiny nature of this post, but if the japanese did it to american movies, it would be just as irritating.
Milinar
Not sure what this has to do with supercomputing, but there are picture of IBMs new $20k monitor in the "geek porn" section.
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Why wouldn't MS want people to pirate their software? Why do you think copies of their software is installed on all 3500 of those machines in the first place? It's because microsoft has, and wants to propogate a standard - the standard being their software. If everyone had to pay a fee to use the metric system, not many people would adopt it. But if, after a few years, all of a sudden you had to pay to use the metric system, I think a lot of people would find that it is easier to pay money to keep current knowlege useful rather than throwing that knowlege away and learning something new. It takes a long time for new users to learn software, and microsoft knows full well that companies would rather pay for software than training.
Oh come on.
Thanks to the iMac, it looks like everyone feels the need to make every product translucent, candy colored and curvy. While I highly respect Apple's design dept., does it seem to anyone else that they've set back design 20 years?
Don't kill this movie by dubbing the voices horribly.
I wouldn't want to spoil the visuals with ugly subtitles, but the voices in the beginning (james woods and ???) really don't do it justice.
But knowing square, the soundtrack will kick some serious ass.
As in, a couple G4s?
Perhaps I'm mistaking what LiVid is (the commercial Linux DVD player, right?)
If I'm not, then the people that make it are paying massive licensing fees to the MPAA for the privlege of using DVD technology.
I'm kinda doubting that Connetix payed Sony licensing fees.
Milinar
Just imagine, having to wait a few minutes while you compile your motherboard.
-Milinar
p.s. anyone else thinking "The Diamond Age"?
This always bugged the hell out of me. Japan has the coolest wireless technology around. Everyone over the age of 14 in tokyo has these ridiculously tiny, color, internet-ready cell phones. When I look at American cell phones they might as well be 6-lb rotary phones in comparison. Why can't companies get their shit together and go figure out what they're missing?
Another interesting thing to note is that in japan, the services are offered by companies who license it to electronics companies. This way, you get one company focusing on offering great service, and other company pumping out kick-ass electronics (companies like sony, jvc, panasonic, etc, since that's what they do best.) Why did this model never make it here?
It seems to me that these laws don't really threaten anyone. They are primarily knee-jerk reactions by the legal community that doesn't have a clue about (relatively) new technology. In time, we'll look back and laugh at the idiot judge who made hyperlinking illegal.
Now what we should *really* worry about is the nature of fair-use in copyright laws. I don't know about anyone else, but I really, really don't want to be sitting around 5 years from now paying out of my ass to watch TV, listen to the radio or look at a webpage. It scares me that all new technology is in the hands of big companies that want to separate me from my money long before they make any significant contribution to society.
Somehow I think David Therou (sp?) is laughing at us.
if Stephenson will have any say on the relative Codpiece sizes.
The article here states that there are 2,200,000 PS2 units sold in japan but only 4,000,000 software titles sold (of of 35.) Apparently this means the PS2 is only being used as a DVD player.
But what about the hundreds of millions of original PS titles that the PS2 is still compatible with?
The "Ncube" or whatever will be DVD based, so you can forget about the rest of your nintendo cartridges.
Borg Sue Apple Over Cube
The page of the developer lists only Win95 and unix, what gives?