Personally, I'd prefer nude Laura Croft models. I'm not going to fault anyone for trying, and it's just bad form to attack them personally (which is rampant here) rather than attack their crappy progs.
Ok, so the games come off as shit. So what, send em a bug report OR install that compiler gathering dust on your shelf and make one yourself (after, of course, you read C++ or ASM for Total Dipshit Scriptkiddies).
CyberNet Enterprises in Turlock, CA forges email addresses constantly, and it seems the authorities in Turlock do not seem to be interested in going after this guy. Seems such crimes are overlooked in lieu of more high-profile crimes. It's more glamorous to bust a crack house than a spammer. Actually, spammers break a number of laws from forgery to false advertisement (could say that in this case they go hand-in-hand). People can talk all they want about 'anti-spam' legislation, but there are already a number of laws on the books that can be used. Too bad the authorities arent interested.
"Ah shuddap you fucking whiner. Why don't you download a few nice songs to relax yourself. I've downloaded a few myself, and you know what bothers me the most about it? That I don't know where to send a dollar or two to the artists who made the music so that I may compensate them for my "theft"."
Nobody's stopping you from sending money to the artist. I'm sure if you take time out for a bit of research, you can find where to send the money.
"Not that I owe those artists anything, I know the vast majority dont make music to get rich,"
Yes, they happily go through the effort to learn and make music just for the pure enjoyment of it. As I said in my previous post "idealism".
" but I know they have bills to pay because we are all forced to live under *your* fucking rules where freely trading contributions amount to theft."
No, they are not *my* rules. They are rules that we all are expected to follow. I do not set them, I work within the framework, not outside of it.
"Until the day comes where we are judged by what we contribute freely to society, and not how much we can take from it, I'll glady send that artist his fucking dollar."
So, you want people to overlook that you have 'taken' (I.E. stolen) from society? OR, are you a proponent of communism. Looks great on paper, but doesn't work in reality. Ever heard of reality? Nobody is stopping you from sending the artist his dollar NOW. Absolutely nobody will get in your way from finding a contact for that artist, making out a check for a dollar (or however you want to get it to the artist), and giving that artist payment for the work. So, what's stopping you? After all, it's only a dollar. Or, is your intention to try to justify theft and hide the theft behind rhetoric?
Downloading an mp3 made from commercial music IS THEFT. Just because YOU think the recording companies are charging too much doesn't make the theft legal. Napster itself is just a tool, it's users are the ones who choose to break the law and steal music from record companies, and it's not just the record companies these people are stealing from, it's also the 'artists'.
Mostly on slashdot I see a lot of imbecelic juvenilist going on about 'open source', 'mp3's good', 'record labels bad', etc... ad nauseum. There are a few voices of sanity, but it does seem the majority are from the college and high school crowd who still haven't been introduced to the realities of life and wallow in the idealism of youth to their own detriment.
NOW, as for privacy, Seagrams is also going off the deep end with the juveniles. There are times when privacy depends heavily on anonymity, and more often then not on the net it's that way.
I started with Z80 assembly learned from Zaks Z80 programming book, and did a couple of programs in assembly then hand-coded them down to hex. Then moved down to BASIC. Mainly in todays programming world it's not the language that's as important as the programming style. VB is good for beginners since it IS BASIC, BUT is also event driven and modular (also relatively powerfull if you know what your doing and code tight). This will give a ground in data types, function calls, events, and modularity. Then, later C++ would be good to pick up.
It is a new paradigm for those kinds of people. They grew up, were raise, and conditioned to a world of consumerism and rampant capitalism. They simply don't know any better, and better scares them.
Don't blame the author for wanting to uphold the status quo. Open source is a relatively new paradigm in a world full of old, tire, and worn out paradigms. He fears open source, and so does a majority of people that write about or make purchasing decisions in IT. They feel that if they don't pay huge amounts of money for a broken product with pretty packaging in a shrink wrapped box that they are being ripped off, and aren't getting value for their money.
I really don't see any reason that this or any kind of forum on the internet should be viewed as a verbal discussion group. The similarites just arent there. Now, if you want to compare it to posting notes on a huge corkboard then go for it.
Absolutely, but it takes years of classes to learn the proper technique of crawling on your belly, the etiquitte of bottom feeding, and blowing smoke up people's butts to make a good lawyer.
No argument here that the US Patent Office is broken and needs to be fixed. The real problem is the companies that are taking unfair advantage of the broken patent system, and then have the gall to try to deflect attention from them by saying "the system is broke, don't blame us".
Just more newspeak BS from the bandits of internet and technology.
This is nuts. A) If it can't be built and working now, it's a concept and is unpatentable.
B) If this patent holds water I should patent a thruster that I have a concept of that works on the quantum scale.
C) For all you FTL/Relativity freaks out there. The signal doesn't travel faster than light, it takes a shorter distance from point A to point B which makes it appear to travel faster than light, but simply travels a shorter distance punched through a hole at coordinate A to coordinate B in space. (in a nutshell)
Companies have lost sight that to increase their value they must produce an item, and make a profit. Patents do nothing but make the companies stock more valuable in the eye's of stockholders. Amazon, to my knowledge, hasn't posted a proft yet, and the only way to make stockholders happy is to file patents which increases the value of the stock. Stock value is no longer linked to the company's profits, but to a perception of the company's value.
Looks like shit to me. He still refuses to rescind his patent which is based clarly on prior art and therefore hasn't budged an inch. Screw him, screw Amazon, and screw you if you eat up his newspeak shit.
"one. IMHO i think that this extends from the fact that they have never had to have been measured alongside their peers. College can be a humbling experience ( I am not saying that real life is not) but it is one instance where you will have to go toe to toe with some of the best peers in your career. "
No, we've been measured alongside college graduates, and find them seriously lacking untill they've gained experience rather than theory.
This whole proposal is stupid. It's like putting down good money for a car then finding out that you don't have any right to sell it off when your tired/finished with it. If anything were 'licensed' like software is everyone would have mounds of broken/used machinery stacked behind their houses.
"It's funny that US lawmakers seem to think that they can tax goods purchased over the Internet. That would involve all of them agreeing on a given method and value of tax, along with figuring out what state(s) get the revenue."
Actually, sales of items sold through the internet should be taxed exactly as items sold through mail order.
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Personally, I'd prefer nude Laura Croft models. I'm not going to fault anyone for trying, and it's just bad form to attack them personally (which is rampant here) rather than attack their crappy progs.
Ok, so the games come off as shit. So what, send em a bug report OR install that compiler gathering dust on your shelf and make one yourself (after, of course, you read C++ or ASM for Total Dipshit Scriptkiddies).
CyberNet Enterprises in Turlock, CA forges email addresses constantly, and it seems the authorities in Turlock do not seem to be interested in going after this guy. Seems such crimes are overlooked in lieu of more high-profile crimes. It's more glamorous to bust a crack house than a spammer. Actually, spammers break a number of laws from forgery to false advertisement (could say that in this case they go hand-in-hand). People can talk all they want about 'anti-spam' legislation, but there are already a number of laws on the books that can be used. Too bad the authorities arent interested.
Ya! It's an insult to flatworms!
Easy to say as an AC. It's like hidin behind mommy.
Ah, here's an example.
"Ah shuddap you fucking whiner. Why don't you download a few nice songs to relax yourself. I've downloaded a few myself, and you know what bothers me the most about it? That I don't know where to send a dollar or two to the artists who made the music so that I may compensate them for my "theft"."
Nobody's stopping you from sending money to the artist. I'm sure if you take time out for a bit of research, you can find where to send the money.
"Not that I owe those artists anything, I know the vast majority dont make music to get rich,"
Yes, they happily go through the effort to learn and make music just for the pure enjoyment of it. As I said in my previous post "idealism".
" but I know they have bills to pay because we are all forced to live under *your* fucking rules where freely trading contributions amount to theft."
No, they are not *my* rules. They are rules that we all are expected to follow. I do not set them, I work within the framework, not outside of it.
"Until the day comes where we are judged by what we contribute freely to society, and not how much we can take from it, I'll glady send that artist his fucking dollar."
So, you want people to overlook that you have 'taken' (I.E. stolen) from society? OR, are you a proponent of communism. Looks great on paper, but doesn't work in reality. Ever heard of reality? Nobody is stopping you from sending the artist his dollar NOW. Absolutely nobody will get in your way from finding a contact for that artist, making out a check for a dollar (or however you want to get it to the artist), and giving that artist payment for the work.
So, what's stopping you? After all, it's only a dollar. Or, is your intention to try to justify theft and hide the theft behind rhetoric?
Downloading an mp3 made from commercial music IS THEFT. Just because YOU think the recording companies are charging too much doesn't make the theft legal. Napster itself is just a tool, it's users are the ones who choose to break the law and steal music from record companies, and it's not just the record companies these people are stealing from, it's also the 'artists'.
Mostly on slashdot I see a lot of imbecelic juvenilist going on about 'open source', 'mp3's good', 'record labels bad', etc... ad nauseum. There are a few voices of sanity, but it does seem the majority are from the college and high school crowd who still haven't been introduced to the realities of life and wallow in the idealism of youth to their own detriment.
NOW, as for privacy, Seagrams is also going off the deep end with the juveniles. There are times when privacy depends heavily on anonymity, and more often then not on the net it's that way.
I started with Z80 assembly learned from Zaks Z80 programming book, and did a couple of programs in assembly then hand-coded them down to hex. Then moved down to BASIC. Mainly in todays programming world it's not the language that's as important as the programming style. VB is good for beginners since it IS BASIC, BUT is also event driven and modular (also relatively powerfull if you know what your doing and code tight). This will give a ground in data types, function calls, events, and modularity. Then, later C++ would be good to pick up.
It is a new paradigm for those kinds of people. They grew up, were raise, and conditioned to a world of consumerism and rampant capitalism. They simply don't know any better, and better scares them.
Don't blame the author for wanting to uphold the status quo. Open source is a relatively new paradigm in a world full of old, tire, and worn out paradigms. He fears open source, and so does a majority of people that write about or make purchasing decisions in IT. They feel that if they don't pay huge amounts of money for a broken product with pretty packaging in a shrink wrapped box that they are being ripped off, and aren't getting value for their money.
I really don't see any reason that this or any kind of forum on the internet should be viewed as a verbal discussion group. The similarites just arent there. Now, if you want to compare it to posting notes on a huge corkboard then go for it.
Anything written (yes, this is a 'written' medium) is immediately copyright of the person who writes the text.
The responses to the book are simply indicative of the total and complete ignorance of copyright at large in persons online.
Then there's the point that andover should have stated joint copyright, instead of sole copyright.
If you use a program to make the GIF file with such as Photoshop the license has already been paid.
Absolutely, but it takes years of classes to learn the proper technique of crawling on your belly, the etiquitte of bottom feeding, and blowing smoke up people's butts to make a good lawyer.
What planet are you from?
Live performances are done to boost sales of recorded material, not the other way around.
No argument here that the US Patent Office is broken and needs to be fixed. The real problem is the companies that are taking unfair advantage of the broken patent system, and then have the gall to try to deflect attention from them by saying "the system is broke, don't blame us".
Just more newspeak BS from the bandits of internet and technology.
This is nuts. A) If it can't be built and working now, it's a concept and is unpatentable.
B) If this patent holds water I should patent a thruster that I have a concept of that works on the quantum scale.
C) For all you FTL/Relativity freaks out there. The signal doesn't travel faster than light, it takes a shorter distance from point A to point B which makes it appear to travel faster than light, but simply travels a shorter distance punched through a hole at coordinate A to coordinate B in space. (in a nutshell)
Companies have lost sight that to increase their value they must produce an item, and make a profit. Patents do nothing but make the companies stock more valuable in the eye's of stockholders. Amazon, to my knowledge, hasn't posted a proft yet, and the only way to make stockholders happy is to file patents which increases the value of the stock. Stock value is no longer linked to the company's profits, but to a perception of the company's value.
Looks like shit to me. He still refuses to rescind his patent which is based clarly on prior art and therefore hasn't budged an inch. Screw him, screw Amazon, and screw you if you eat up his newspeak shit.
What tools do you use to make a web site fitting for the inventor of the internet?
"one. IMHO i think that this extends from the
fact that they have never had to have been
measured alongside their peers. College can be
a humbling experience ( I am not saying that
real life is not) but it is one instance where
you will have to go toe to toe with some of the
best peers in your career. "
No, we've been measured alongside college graduates, and find them seriously lacking untill they've gained experience rather than theory.
This whole proposal is stupid. It's like putting down good money for a car then finding out that you don't have any right to sell it off when your tired/finished with it. If anything were 'licensed' like software is everyone would have mounds of broken/used machinery stacked behind their houses.
There's no doubt that someone is gonna put Linux into one eventually. I'm still waitin on Linux for my Timex watch.
Hookers, lots and lots of hookers.
"It's funny that US lawmakers seem to think that they can tax goods purchased over the Internet. That would involve all of them agreeing on a given method and value of tax, along with figuring out what state(s) get the revenue."
Actually, sales of items sold through the internet should be taxed exactly as items sold through mail order.