Using the CIA Factbook for 2001 the US economy is 81 times the size of Peru's the this equates to about 40 and a half million dollars in terms of its percentage of the country's income.
Scaled to GDP per capita it's about 4 million. Statistics: you pay your money, ya takes your pick.
CVS is a bastard to sort out if someone checks something in which later turns out to have some unnoticed hideous implication (eg deletes hard drive every Feb 29th).
The ability to say "move this branch back to the way it was on 8th Nov and forget everything after that" without starting a new branch would be good.
Handling links is a must too.
A further nice option would be "these file extensions are always binary unless stated otherwise".
You give two reasons to like the guy (refuses to knuckle down to President Tony and makes fun of the KGE) but the tone seems to suggest you don't like him.
How many people have had real trouble installing anything on a Linux box, really? Not upgrading (that can quickly get seriously bad), but the initial install.
I've recently installed OpenOffice, Gimp, Gimp-Print, QT3, Ogg v 1.0 (released today!), and Ghostscript - some source, some binary - and all I had to do was follow the short instructions in the INSTALL/README files.
It just doesn't get much easier than that on a system that's worth having.
Like I said, though, upgrades of binaries quickly becomes a nightmare with things like KDE where there's lots of interdependacies between lots of packages but installing isn't that hard any more.
Even then, if you are Joe Average you'll probably just wait for the next point-release of the whole distro and that will generally update everything in one fell swoop anyway.
Maybe even upgrades are just a problem because the sort of people that use/. are the sort that fiddle with their systems all the time and get themselves into trouble.
Things like the legislation which made recorded music "works for hire" for example,
That's the default; if artists did not have to go along with publishers they could simply agree terms in their contracts that overrides that so this is just another example of agreeing to whatever is needed to get the work "out there".
The fact that copyrights can now more or less last forever, because corporations never die, but can buy and sell copyrights.
This is a problem with how copyright and corporate law have developed rather than a fundimental flaw in the idea of copyright. But it is a big problem.
The days before music was copyrightable were not a golden age of rich artists, and if it were revoked, as opposed to reformed, it would destroy any real hope of making a living in music and many other fields other than by live performance.
KDE has done the hour-glass thing since version 2.
If Moz, say, is thinking about how to render a page does it bring up an hourglass? In other words, can non-KDE/QT programs easily request an hourglass from the system?
Our firewall in the office gets four or five sniffs a day from script kiddies so, unless we're a special target, these numbers are orders of magnitude too low.
So all of a sudden mass-production is back to the level of the late Industrial age with absolutely no automation at all. How nice.
Well, I don't think the average Nike or DeBeers worker would see any great changes in working conditions over the last 300 years and they ain't insignificent companies.
I think the poster had a point, for the mass of humans the idea that you can look up Perl6 on google and find information and that you have any use for that information is almost like something from a myth. There is a parallel here between you (and me) and the upper classes in Metropolis.
Slavery still exists and is perhaps more common than you'd like to think.
This is why modern copyright favors publishers so much, at the direct expense of artists and at an even greater expense to consumers
What do you mean? Surely what gives (and has given) publishers more power than artists is that they have the means of reproduction and generally more money than the artists. The artists have historically had little choice if they wanted to get published than to agree to unpleasant contracts. What does copyright law contribute to this and how could it be changed to make life easier for the artists (who still would have to go to someone for their printing/publication/distribution etc)?
Most of the items listed are problems with KDE. I don't care since I don't have KDE=GNOME=Windows installed but here are two things that are problems with Linux machines, one small and one big:
There are very few programs that indicate that they are busy under X. This annoys users who are used to Windows' hourglass and, actually, even power users from time to time. If you think about it, the "busy" icon is probably the single most frequent piece of feedback from the machine in Windows and MacOS. The reason being that it's the most frequently useful feedback. I assume that this is an issue from the underlying X system that makes it difficult to do in some way.
Dependancy hell. APT-GET tries to solve this but at the cost of being tied to a particular database of files which has a tendancy to throw a wobbler if you've installed something not in the distribution, plus of course Debian is very very late (still on 2.2!) unless you use the unstable DB which sort of undermines the idea a bit.
Watching users on the machines brings these two points up over and over again for me (the second only when I'm installing something they need - I don't let people just out of Windows have root access!).
Everything else is down to issues with particular apps (Moz is slow, Opera hangs once or twice a day, there's no good graphical page layout program or Quick Books replacement) and these are all being worked on as we speak. At least I hope they're trying to speed Mozilla up!
You lose power, and your server does not boot up because it is prompting for an fsck. This is not a flaw?
On the RH boxes I have it only prompts if it hasn't got a journal and then the prompt times out anyway (4 sec default). After that it only needs your attention if something's wrong, in which case you really don't want it to continue.
Well done, you've just summarised why XML is crap in three bullet points (point one being the most important because it's the fundimental flaw in the basic idea of XML). If I had mod points you could have had them all!
(I refer anyone to your posting history if they are in any doubt).
Another FotR fan, I take it!
Quite the contrary. I stated that copyright violation is not the same as theft,
In fact the original claim you made was that
"Neither the original creator, nor those who comply with the creator's copyrights, nor those others who do not, are being deprived of anything".
They are, and depriving someone of something against their will and against the law is commonly known as theft. There may be other legal terms that cover it but in normal daily language "theft" is fine and everyone knows what is meant.
If you equate the taking of theoretical, or potential profit with theft, then you have by definition redefined every act of competition, legal or illegal, as theft, which is demonstrably nonsense.
I am not interested in theoretical or pontential profit. As I said, the moment you make the copy you have moved into actuality and out of theory. You have demonstrated in the clearest possible way that the profit was not just a possibility. Competition to (try to) make you choose what item you want to copy and pay for is not the same thing since until you make that choice all sales are, as you say, theoretical. Having made the choice, if you don't pay (or otherwise abide by reasonable conditions on the copying) then you have in your possesion a stolen item and the seller has lost your actual, real payment.
This is not only common sense but is the basis for many, many, successful plagiarism lawsuits in every creative medium. Rather than being some radical departure from law it is in fact one of the best established areas of the law in both the US and the UK and Europe over centuries of case history (I seem to remember some Greek playwrite demanding compensation for his work being copied by another back in BC days).
So the umbrella either has to be going with the flow, in which case it's not going to catch up to any of the space debris (unless the debris has an eccentric orbit),
I was assuming that the debris would be in an eccentric orbit and that some number of "umbrella orbits" would be needed to reach a desired level of confidence.
I couldn't think of a word that meant "allows objects to embed themselves and hold them in place afterwards", 'abaltive' is definately wrong and that was as close as I could think of.
The biggest problem with this is that there aren't specific "debris-only" orbits.
But there are "useful-only" orbits that we want clear. You would have to do some sort of analysis of how long a given size disc would have to be in orbit to clear it to a specific level of safety.
How about a large dish coated with a think layer of soft material which you put into an orbit you want to clean and after its been there for a while fire the retros and burn the lot up in the atmosphere.
Obviously this only works for grit and other small things.
He said copying != the same as stealing. He backed his arguments up with facts.
I must have missed that post. I remember him saying that nobody lost anything when things were copied and making false assertions about the law.
You resorted to circular reasoning
Nope, he said I was using circular reasoning in order to avoid answering my point.
Then you admitted to using a tautology
Nope again. I pointed out that he was denying a tautology (that one takes things because one wants them) with no evidence and again he tried to avoid the issue by pretenting that he didn't understand what I was saying.
Now you are setting up a strawman by putting words in his mouth he never said.
What he said was: "Neither the original creator, nor those who comply with the creator's copyrights, nor those others who do not, are being deprived of anything.", in other words copying someones work is fine since they haven't lost anything. Which part of this do you find so difficult to follow?
Your argument is wrong, his argument is right. But nice try changing the subject.
He hasn't got an argument, just a bunch of decisions he's made about copying. He refused to even attempt to formulate any basis for these decisions and instead resorted to name-calling in order to try changing the subject.
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Scaled to GDP per capita it's about 4 million. Statistics: you pay your money, ya takes your pick.
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The ability to say "move this branch back to the way it was on 8th Nov and forget everything after that" without starting a new branch would be good.
Handling links is a must too.
A further nice option would be "these file extensions are always binary unless stated otherwise".
TWW
Better look again; your post was pro-Linux!
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Yes. To read some of the comments here one would think that Windows users never had a problem with their installs.
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I've recently installed OpenOffice, Gimp, Gimp-Print, QT3, Ogg v 1.0 (released today!), and Ghostscript - some source, some binary - and all I had to do was follow the short instructions in the INSTALL/README files.
It just doesn't get much easier than that on a system that's worth having.
Like I said, though, upgrades of binaries quickly becomes a nightmare with things like KDE where there's lots of interdependacies between lots of packages but installing isn't that hard any more.
Even then, if you are Joe Average you'll probably just wait for the next point-release of the whole distro and that will generally update everything in one fell swoop anyway.
Maybe even upgrades are just a problem because the sort of people that use /. are the sort that fiddle with their systems all the time and get themselves into trouble.
TWW
Go to bed!
i just dont get the gentoo system, why dont they have i386 binary packages?
Are you using a 386?
TWW
That's the default; if artists did not have to go along with publishers they could simply agree terms in their contracts that overrides that so this is just another example of agreeing to whatever is needed to get the work "out there".
The fact that copyrights can now more or less last forever, because corporations never die, but can buy and sell copyrights.
This is a problem with how copyright and corporate law have developed rather than a fundimental flaw in the idea of copyright. But it is a big problem.
The days before music was copyrightable were not a golden age of rich artists, and if it were revoked, as opposed to reformed, it would destroy any real hope of making a living in music and many other fields other than by live performance.
TWW
If Moz, say, is thinking about how to render a page does it bring up an hourglass? In other words, can non-KDE/QT programs easily request an hourglass from the system?
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Well, I don't think the average Nike or DeBeers worker would see any great changes in working conditions over the last 300 years and they ain't insignificent companies.
I think the poster had a point, for the mass of humans the idea that you can look up Perl6 on google and find information and that you have any use for that information is almost like something from a myth. There is a parallel here between you (and me) and the upper classes in Metropolis.
Slavery still exists and is perhaps more common than you'd like to think.
TWW
What do you mean? Surely what gives (and has given) publishers more power than artists is that they have the means of reproduction and generally more money than the artists. The artists have historically had little choice if they wanted to get published than to agree to unpleasant contracts. What does copyright law contribute to this and how could it be changed to make life easier for the artists (who still would have to go to someone for their printing/publication/distribution etc)?
TWW
Watching users on the machines brings these two points up over and over again for me (the second only when I'm installing something they need - I don't let people just out of Windows have root access!).
Everything else is down to issues with particular apps (Moz is slow, Opera hangs once or twice a day, there's no good graphical page layout program or Quick Books replacement) and these are all being worked on as we speak. At least I hope they're trying to speed Mozilla up!
TWW
On the RH boxes I have it only prompts if it hasn't got a journal and then the prompt times out anyway (4 sec default). After that it only needs your attention if something's wrong, in which case you really don't want it to continue.
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If you hit it very hard with a hammer it shatters! Amazing what they can do these days, eh?
A disc might not be the right design. Just a balloon full of honey or syrup.
Like a big flypaper. We could call it the "Venus Flytrap". Perhaps not...
TWW
Another FotR fan, I take it!
Quite the contrary. I stated that copyright violation is not the same as theft,
In fact the original claim you made was that
They are, and depriving someone of something against their will and against the law is commonly known as theft. There may be other legal terms that cover it but in normal daily language "theft" is fine and everyone knows what is meant.If you equate the taking of theoretical, or potential profit with theft, then you have by definition redefined every act of competition, legal or illegal, as theft, which is demonstrably nonsense.
I am not interested in theoretical or pontential profit. As I said, the moment you make the copy you have moved into actuality and out of theory. You have demonstrated in the clearest possible way that the profit was not just a possibility. Competition to (try to) make you choose what item you want to copy and pay for is not the same thing since until you make that choice all sales are, as you say, theoretical. Having made the choice, if you don't pay (or otherwise abide by reasonable conditions on the copying) then you have in your possesion a stolen item and the seller has lost your actual, real payment.
This is not only common sense but is the basis for many, many, successful plagiarism lawsuits in every creative medium. Rather than being some radical departure from law it is in fact one of the best established areas of the law in both the US and the UK and Europe over centuries of case history (I seem to remember some Greek playwrite demanding compensation for his work being copied by another back in BC days).
TWW
I was assuming that the debris would be in an eccentric orbit and that some number of "umbrella orbits" would be needed to reach a desired level of confidence.
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I know that, I was just saying that things like old satellites (which can also create a hole in the shuttle's windshield) would be too big to handle.
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Well, I can't think of a name Bush would be sure NOT to make sound silly, so why not just go for it?
"In a bold move yesterday, Bush declared that a nuclearable rocketmobile would scatterfy any incoming meteoritiles."
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But there are "useful-only" orbits that we want clear. You would have to do some sort of analysis of how long a given size disc would have to be in orbit to clear it to a specific level of safety.
Well, it was just an idea.
TWW
Obviously this only works for grit and other small things.
TWW
I must have missed that post. I remember him saying that nobody lost anything when things were copied and making false assertions about the law.
You resorted to circular reasoning
Nope, he said I was using circular reasoning in order to avoid answering my point.
Then you admitted to using a tautology
Nope again. I pointed out that he was denying a tautology (that one takes things because one wants them) with no evidence and again he tried to avoid the issue by pretenting that he didn't understand what I was saying.
Now you are setting up a strawman by putting words in his mouth he never said.
What he said was: "Neither the original creator, nor those who comply with the creator's copyrights, nor those others who do not, are being deprived of anything.", in other words copying someones work is fine since they haven't lost anything. Which part of this do you find so difficult to follow?
Your argument is wrong, his argument is right. But nice try changing the subject.
He hasn't got an argument, just a bunch of decisions he's made about copying. He refused to even attempt to formulate any basis for these decisions and instead resorted to name-calling in order to try changing the subject.
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