The _bigger_ problem is that there exist consortiums of corporations which hate abandonware.
This is part of a bigger, deeper problem. Anything that satisfies any kind of need in a "commons" kind of way necessarily detracts from some corporation's profit. Whenever you decide to drink water from some natural source, that's one instance of human thirst Coca-Cola will never make a profit out of. Ditto for breastfeeding and Nestle. And for MP3s and the RIAA. And for MAME and the IDSA. And for Free Software + abandonware and the BSA.
I'm not going to complete the reasoning and look like a terminally radical Commie Pinko Dirtbag. Instead, YOU do that.;-P
Well if they were smart, the arcade game makers would bundle MAME with some of their older ROMS on a CD-ROM and sell it
I remember reading about Capcom having done just that with a few of their older games, I think they were bundled with a Hanaho arcade-like joystick. Anyone has references on that?
NetWare volumes kick ass. Fantastic permission architecture, unbelievable performance. I hope their strategy shift doesn't include letting it die. Would'n it be nice to have it integrated in the Linux kernel?
That goes for NCP too, although I think NDS (or whatever they call it these days) depends heavily on that. Am I right?
Ahhh, good memories of being a CNE! (circa 1994/97)
The kernel developers inserted the (alleged) offending code in good faith, not knowing it was somebody else's. You don't embezzle from your company in good faith. Now be honest and tell your bosses at SCO your FUD didn't work.
GOOGLE! At SCO's prices, the amount of "Linux licenses" they'd have to pay would be enough to buy the Universe! And they probably have even more cash than Red Hat.
I wonder if SuSE is also going to file suit. Maybe they should. SCO's FUD applies to SuSE as well as Red Hat.
Remember SuSE (and Conectiva) are locked with SCO in the UnitedLinux Dance o' Death. Things are more complicated to them. Mandrake could, but they can barely keep their noses above water financially. Maybe Lycoris? Lindows?
I can't get one of the font files here at work because the URL contains the word ARNOLD!!! I can't effin believe it!
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Hi, Mr. Leonard, and let me first thank you all at Salon for making a great general-interest site for geeks and non-geeks alike.
The Day Pass is a great idea, but some day or other I notice it plain doesn't work. Today, I tried to go to the article mentioned here, only to be redirected again and again to the same partial-content page. The Sprint ad never appears. Under Win 2000. Bot from IE and from Mozilla 1.4. I'd guess a technical problem on your (Ultramercial's?) side.
In this circumstances, I'd consider the posting of the entire article forgivable (although the poster didn't state Day Pass problems as the reason, which puts his/her motives in question). Otherwise, I agree it's a rather uncivilized behavior.
i was pleased to see the bbc related links included this balancing (if unfortunately titled) article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3022996.s tm
Any bets on when is the RIAA going to demand that BBC discloses the identity of this author's article?
Seems to me, that this is a Fa[s]cist detector. If you own one, you are probably a Fa[s]cist.
Oooooh-kay. Let's suppose I customize one of those devices for my own use, so that it beeps only when I scan CDs or DVDs by anti-Bush/anti-war artists, such as the Dixie Chicks or Michael Moore or Warren Beatty.
You either hate software patents in all cases or you don't, no matter who the defendant is.
Yeah, right, Microsoft will see the error of their ways and defend Free Software from patents, because, well, they're moral beings and would never use double standards.
1) Get blade and get photographed. 2) Drop blade at another part of the store where the cameras aren't pointing. 3) Check out. 4) Be submitted to embarassing treatment. The worse the better. 5) SUE! 6) PROFIT!
Right-o. I started watching the trailer for chapter one, and while the artwork is nothing short of genius, the endless psychobabble quickly overloaded my patience. I stopped watching while some girl was ranting about being in paradise.
Gimme some Grant Morrison-like stories (lots of extremely disturbing concepts, delivered with economy of words). Or, if you use lots of words, make them meaningful (like in Watchmen).
Having said that, I have to admit the concept has a bright future.
(...) they're just ring tones! Their whole purpose is to indicate a call is coming in. That was never the purpose of the artist in writing the songs (when you have such a large disconnect between purposes, fair use is easier to argue). Perhaps there's an argument that they are derivative works. Still, there you see how copyright is breaking down...:(
"Breaking down"? More like "methastasizing"... we all are going to be eaten by it. Copyright has all the traits of a cancer. A useful part of the system which, all of a sudden, starts to grow without bounds and ends up killing the system.
Now that you mention it, I wonder. How do we know HP is not paying the Microsoft tax anyway on those Mandrake PCs? The press release says nothing about price differences.
And why would someone not want to extend their copyright?
Social conscience, maybe? "Oh, I'm making lots of money off my current books, let the oldest ones' copyright expire. This way schools and libraries in poor Third World countries can have them for less."
There IS such a thing as non-infinite greed, you know. Not from corporations, of course, but from humans. And some authors do own their work's copyrights instead of having sold them to big publishing houses.
Arthur Clarke is one author with very old books I could see doing such a thing. If he owns his (C)'s of course.
I believe, then, the next step would be to walk into a library, bump into the filter, ask for its removal and, if they don't, raise hell about it. The next case may be about the obligations to raise the filters if an adults asks it.
It's only considered flamebait because there's no "-1; Idiot" moderation available. Denouncing any politician as one of the ten worst anything because of a single remark is beyond stupid.
Of course, that's why the list is weekly. They pick this week's ten worst idiocies and rank them on the site. For an all-time list, of course, only much more serious things would apply.
And by the way, he made it to this week's list, and ranked 2 no less (nice hat)!:) I'like to think I have made a small contribution.
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The _bigger_ problem is that there exist consortiums of corporations which hate abandonware.
;-P
This is part of a bigger, deeper problem. Anything that satisfies any kind of need in a "commons" kind of way necessarily detracts from some corporation's profit. Whenever you decide to drink water from some natural source, that's one instance of human thirst Coca-Cola will never make a profit out of. Ditto for breastfeeding and Nestle. And for MP3s and the RIAA. And for MAME and the IDSA. And for Free Software + abandonware and the BSA.
I'm not going to complete the reasoning and look like a terminally radical Commie Pinko Dirtbag. Instead, YOU do that.
Well if they were smart, the arcade game makers would bundle MAME with some of their older ROMS on a CD-ROM and sell it
I remember reading about Capcom having done just that with a few of their older games, I think they were bundled with a Hanaho arcade-like joystick. Anyone has references on that?
This is just expanding an already good system to the regular mail. If it can be done reasonably fast and efficiently, I see no problems here.
I agree with you. As long as it's an OPTION and good, old, anonymous-capable mail still exists and still works. Think whistleblowers.
By the way, is filling a bogus return address in regular mail illegal in the US?
NetWare volumes kick ass. Fantastic permission architecture, unbelievable performance. I hope their strategy shift doesn't include letting it die. Would'n it be nice to have it integrated in the Linux kernel?
That goes for NCP too, although I think NDS (or whatever they call it these days) depends heavily on that. Am I right?
Ahhh, good memories of being a CNE! (circa 1994/97)
The kernel developers inserted the (alleged) offending code in good faith, not knowing it was somebody else's. You don't embezzle from your company in good faith. Now be honest and tell your bosses at SCO your FUD didn't work.
GOOGLE! At SCO's prices, the amount of "Linux licenses" they'd have to pay would be enough to buy the Universe! And they probably have even more cash than Red Hat.
I wonder if SuSE is also going to file suit. Maybe they should. SCO's FUD applies to SuSE as well as Red Hat.
Remember SuSE (and Conectiva) are locked with SCO in the UnitedLinux Dance o' Death. Things are more complicated to them. Mandrake could, but they can barely keep their noses above water financially. Maybe Lycoris? Lindows?
I can't get one of the font files here at work because the URL contains the word ARNOLD!!! I can't effin believe it!
Hi, Mr. Leonard, and let me first thank you all at Salon for making a great general-interest site for geeks and non-geeks alike.
The Day Pass is a great idea, but some day or other I notice it plain doesn't work. Today, I tried to go to the article mentioned here, only to be redirected again and again to the same partial-content page. The Sprint ad never appears. Under Win 2000. Bot from IE and from Mozilla 1.4. I'd guess a technical problem on your (Ultramercial's?) side.
In this circumstances, I'd consider the posting of the entire article forgivable (although the poster didn't state Day Pass problems as the reason, which puts his/her motives in question). Otherwise, I agree it's a rather uncivilized behavior.
i was pleased to see the bbc related links included this balancing (if unfortunately titled) article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3022996.s tm
Any bets on when is the RIAA going to demand that BBC discloses the identity of this author's article?
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Seems to me, that this is a Fa[s]cist detector. If you own one, you are probably a Fa[s]cist.
Oooooh-kay. Let's suppose I customize one of those devices for my own use, so that it beeps only when I scan CDs or DVDs by anti-Bush/anti-war artists, such as the Dixie Chicks or Michael Moore or Warren Beatty.
Is it still Fascist?
Who cares. No one with half a brain listens to the group.
Three letters: PHB.
You either hate software patents in all cases or you don't, no matter who the defendant is.
Yeah, right, Microsoft will see the error of their ways and defend Free Software from patents, because, well, they're moral beings and would never use double standards.
1) Get blade and get photographed.
2) Drop blade at another part of the store where the cameras aren't pointing.
3) Check out.
4) Be submitted to embarassing treatment. The worse the better.
5) SUE!
6) PROFIT!
See? And no "?????" step even!
From the article, it seems a judge in California smacked down one of those suits against DirecTV.
Remember the judge in "Revenge of the Nerds"?
> no tech support rep ever got a raise for being smart
:)
HA! I want to turn this into my e-mail tagline. May I?
Right-o. I started watching the trailer for chapter one, and while the artwork is nothing short of genius, the endless psychobabble quickly overloaded my patience. I stopped watching while some girl was ranting about being in paradise.
Gimme some Grant Morrison-like stories (lots of extremely disturbing concepts, delivered with economy of words). Or, if you use lots of words, make them meaningful (like in Watchmen).
Having said that, I have to admit the concept has a bright future.
(...) they're just ring tones! Their whole purpose is to indicate a call is coming in. That was never the purpose of the artist in writing the songs (when you have such a large disconnect between purposes, fair use is easier to argue). Perhaps there's an argument that they are derivative works. Still, there you see how copyright is breaking down... :(
"Breaking down"? More like "methastasizing"... we all are going to be eaten by it. Copyright has all the traits of a cancer. A useful part of the system which, all of a sudden, starts to grow without bounds and ends up killing the system.
Now that you mention it, I wonder. How do we know HP is not paying the Microsoft tax anyway on those Mandrake PCs? The press release says nothing about price differences.
If you write bad closed source code, all the developers in the company will se it.
If you write bad open source code, the entire fscking world will see it.
More shame -> more incentive to write clean, solid, well-commented code.
And why would someone not want to extend their copyright?
Social conscience, maybe? "Oh, I'm making lots of money off my current books, let the oldest ones' copyright expire. This way schools and libraries in poor Third World countries can have them for less."
There IS such a thing as non-infinite greed, you know. Not from corporations, of course, but from humans. And some authors do own their work's copyrights instead of having sold them to big publishing houses.
Arthur Clarke is one author with very old books I could see doing such a thing. If he owns his (C)'s of course.
I believe, then, the next step would be to walk into a library, bump into the filter, ask for its removal and, if they don't, raise hell about it. The next case may be about the obligations to raise the filters if an adults asks it.
It's only considered flamebait because there's no "-1; Idiot" moderation available. Denouncing any politician as one of the ten worst anything because of a single remark is beyond stupid.
:) I'like to think I have made a small contribution.
Of course, that's why the list is weekly. They pick this week's ten worst idiocies and rank them on the site. For an all-time list, of course, only much more serious things would apply.
And by the way, he made it to this week's list, and ranked 2 no less (nice hat)!
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