Sierra game company will sue MS for illegally bundling solitaire with windows, claiming that their wonderful solitaire product just couldn't compete with the one shipped with nearly every version of MS Windows since the early 1980's. "People will generally use whats on the desktop as long as its good enough" By MS using their monopoly power to illegally integrate solitaire into their OS and restricting vendors from selling Seirra's product as an OEM, the downfall of sierra is eminant.
Faraz has been interviewed by the Times, saying that they spent more like three days on the project and that the other two students (both unnamed, though both are apparently attending U.C.L.A.) barely used P2P file-sharing programs at all. Instead, they used AOL's popular Instant Messenger to receive song files from friends."
The speech specifically said easily accessible websites, it didn't even mention p2p or im clients. Either way, they should arrest this guy and the kids he hired to do is dirty work.
I think this issue really depends on where you stand when it comes to intellectual property or the lack thereof.
Theres the record companies and the 4 letter acronyms on one side saying "If you take anything its bad bad bad.."
Then you have the/. crowd and the normal people saying or atleast mostly thinking "If you copy something for yourself then no one has actually lost anything"
The articles says something like 10 million people 'steal' things from the internet. If 10 million people think sharing music is OK, does that make it OK? In this case, I think it does. As a society, we are saying to the recording artists of america and everyone else that we don't feel you can stop of from sharing music just by virtue of the fact that you technically 'own' it or own the 'rights' to it.
This isn't like murder, where its most definately wrong in the eyes of everyone. This is an issue that doesn't necessarily have a clear moral standing you can cling to. If everyone thinks music should be free.. then perhaps shouldn't be free.
If this means some musician might have to cut back on the drugs and underage groupie sex, does that mean its wrong? Maybe society is saying that playing music shouldn't be something you are allowed to make your living off of. Maybe society is saying musicians should get real jobs and just play music for the sheer joy of it.
Who knows.. but this definately raises some questions that people need to decide for themselves.. but if 10 million people want music to be free, then who is the united states gov't to tell them otherwise? It didn't take 10 million people to decide they didn't like paying taxes on tea to change the world.
The problem is with the parts you are imply inbetween the []'s the constitution specifically protects us from the federal government, and was later extended to protect us from state and local governments. A decent highschool or college law class will specifically point that out, generally within the first few classes when they are explaining what various legal terms mean and when they try to clean up any myths people may be clinging to out of ignorance.
If what you are implying is true, then parents couldn't infringe your their childs freedom of speech and employers couldn't have policies which basically infringe on their employees freedoms.
Anyone know if there is a way to quickly reset the ipod? If you get caught borrowing software, it would be nice to be able to quickly and easily delete all the evidence.
How so? No matter how much you want to estow the virtues of open source yada yada, blizzard will probably win.. hell they probably won't even have to go to court to win.. the bnetd guys will probably appologize and settle out of court just to keep from losing millions of dollars trying to fight this.
ebay and porn are both shopping.. exactly what you said the internet wasn't about.. just admit your anology is bad and get over it.
Going by your 'ebay provides people with information about items people want to sell' you could just as easily say hottopic.com provides information about item they want to sell.
Yeh he hates it all the way to the bank.. reluctantly putting out merchandise isn't adding something new everytime cafepress ads a new object to their inventory.
That's actually pretty good advice.. I know several people that either aren't ready to enter the work force or are having a hard time finding a job, (hell even people I know with 4.0's are having a hard time finding jobs atm) are either going back for a 2nd undergrad degree or continuing on for masters in CS.
...so the doctrine of the Trinity was just the result of NSA factoring an integer God?;)
No its an old joke that goes back to fortran where variables named a-h were reals (floats) and i-z were integers unless you specifically declared them otherwise.
Does anyone see this happening anytime soon? Half the reason they sell some many computers (whether they admit it or not) is so people can listen to music and watch videos and such.. Getting involved with the mpaa at this kind of scale would probably just drag the pc market further into repression making it even harder for college graduates to get jobs.
It seems like thing were better back in the day when they weren't regulated. Sure it was a monopoly.. but the better rates and such they promised when breaking them up never were realized.
I like slash for sites like slashdot.. but for most joe average sites, slash is somewhat overkill. I think thats why you find so many sites that look and act like slashdot using phpnuke or postnuke or some of the other slash-alike systems that are easier to install and use, and while having all the features you want and more, don't necessarily have features that don't apply to sites having less than 100,000.
We don't follow british laws, we do however refer to british commonlaw to help decide cases that don't have precedence in the US, since its a widely known fact that the majority of our law, while deriving its authority from our US Constitution, is mostly found in british common law. Our civil and tort law is almost exactly like british law.
1. Scantily-clad white girl dances while singing about how much she wants to please you. 3. A bunch of pretty black girls sing in harmony about how bad-ass they are. ??
The team studied the statistical properties of each character, the books they were in, and who else appeared in them (through resources like the MCP). While there were some similarities to real society, a close look revealed that comics actually have no similarity to reallife at all.
hehe.. the sentances are so much truer when I finish them.
That is an excellant book.. I believe there was a/. review a while back. I recommend it for anyone.. its a fairly short book and is written well enough to be easily understood.
My concern is that google won't be as useful as a search engine now that the highest bidder can get their sites listed first. Hopefully, I won't waste more time searching for what I really wanted... It is a shame though, but this appears to be the post dotcom reality.
people that think this way obvious didn't read the story or they lack some sort of common intelligence.. the sites that pay money don't get listed first in searches, they get listed first in the "sponsed links" section that is obviously ads and has been around for quite some time. The normal search results still aren't biased and probably never will be at google. Google has always made a pretty clear distinction between the real search results and the paid placement results listed to the side.
The only bad thing about their new plan is that smaller businesses that think search engine ads are a good idea, will now have to pay high rates to play in the same league as bigger businesses, since now the ads are ranked somewhat on the amount paid for placement as opposed to being first come first serve like before.
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Sierra game company will sue MS for illegally bundling solitaire with windows, claiming that their wonderful solitaire product just couldn't compete with the one shipped with nearly every version of MS Windows since the early 1980's. "People will generally use whats on the desktop as long as its good enough" By MS using their monopoly power to illegally integrate solitaire into their OS and restricting vendors from selling Seirra's product as an OEM, the downfall of sierra is eminant.
Faraz has been interviewed by the Times, saying that they spent more like three days on the project and that the other two students (both unnamed, though both are apparently attending U.C.L.A.) barely used P2P file-sharing programs at all. Instead, they used AOL's popular Instant Messenger to receive song files from friends."
The speech specifically said easily accessible websites, it didn't even mention p2p or im clients. Either way, they should arrest this guy and the kids he hired to do is dirty work.
I think this issue really depends on where you stand when it comes to intellectual property or the lack thereof.
/. crowd and the normal people saying or atleast mostly thinking "If you copy something for yourself then no one has actually lost anything"
Theres the record companies and the 4 letter acronyms on one side saying "If you take anything its bad bad bad.."
Then you have the
The articles says something like 10 million people 'steal' things from the internet. If 10 million people think sharing music is OK, does that make it OK? In this case, I think it does. As a society, we are saying to the recording artists of america and everyone else that we don't feel you can stop of from sharing music just by virtue of the fact that you technically 'own' it or own the 'rights' to it.
This isn't like murder, where its most definately wrong in the eyes of everyone. This is an issue that doesn't necessarily have a clear moral standing you can cling to. If everyone thinks music should be free.. then perhaps shouldn't be free.
If this means some musician might have to cut back on the drugs and underage groupie sex, does that mean its wrong? Maybe society is saying that playing music shouldn't be something you are allowed to make your living off of. Maybe society is saying musicians should get real jobs and just play music for the sheer joy of it.
Who knows.. but this definately raises some questions that people need to decide for themselves.. but if 10 million people want music to be free, then who is the united states gov't to tell them otherwise? It didn't take 10 million people to decide they didn't like paying taxes on tea to change the world.
The problem is with the parts you are imply inbetween the []'s the constitution specifically protects us from the federal government, and was later extended to protect us from state and local governments. A decent highschool or college law class will specifically point that out, generally within the first few classes when they are explaining what various legal terms mean and when they try to clean up any myths people may be clinging to out of ignorance.
If what you are implying is true, then parents couldn't infringe your their childs freedom of speech and employers couldn't have policies which basically infringe on their employees freedoms.
Just like the people that talk about how great /. was before the trolls, I'll be able to talk about how great /. was before the ads.
Anyone know if there is a way to quickly reset the ipod? If you get caught borrowing software, it would be nice to be able to quickly and easily delete all the evidence.
I looks like he forgot to cut in a nice little indentation for the AMD case badge.
Conclusion: Blizzard has an uphill legal battle
How so? No matter how much you want to estow the virtues of open source yada yada, blizzard will probably win.. hell they probably won't even have to go to court to win.. the bnetd guys will probably appologize and settle out of court just to keep from losing millions of dollars trying to fight this.
Conclusion: Money talks. Period.
ebay and porn are both shopping.. exactly what you said the internet wasn't about.. just admit your anology is bad and get over it.
Going by your 'ebay provides people with information about items people want to sell' you could just as easily say hottopic.com provides information about item they want to sell.
Yeh he hates it all the way to the bank.. reluctantly putting out merchandise isn't adding something new everytime cafepress ads a new object to their inventory.
That's actually pretty good advice.. I know several people that either aren't ready to enter the work force or are having a hard time finding a job, (hell even people I know with 4.0's are having a hard time finding jobs atm) are either going back for a 2nd undergrad degree or continuing on for masters in CS.
> God is real unless declared integer
;)
...so the doctrine of the Trinity was just the result of NSA factoring an integer God?
No its an old joke that goes back to fortran where variables named a-h were reals (floats) and i-z were integers unless you specifically declared them otherwise.
Does anyone see this happening anytime soon?
Half the reason they sell some many computers (whether they admit it or not) is so people can listen to music and watch videos and such.. Getting involved with the mpaa at this kind of scale would probably just drag the pc market further into repression making it even harder for college graduates to get jobs.
It seems like thing were better back in the day when they weren't regulated. Sure it was a monopoly.. but the better rates and such they promised when breaking them up never were realized.
I like slash for sites like slashdot.. but for most joe average sites, slash is somewhat overkill. I think thats why you find so many sites that look and act like slashdot using phpnuke or postnuke or some of the other slash-alike systems that are easier to install and use, and while having all the features you want and more, don't necessarily have features that don't apply to sites having less than 100,000.
We don't follow british laws, we do however refer to british commonlaw to help decide cases that don't have precedence in the US, since its a widely known fact that the majority of our law, while deriving its authority from our US Constitution, is mostly found in british common law. Our civil and tort law is almost exactly like british law.
my bad.. i guess you need one to setup the actual account.. that sucks.. they are pulling an aol tactic.
Of course they need a credit card if you are buying the cd.. they need to be able to charge your for shipping..
If you just click the download button, they dont collect any info from you at all.. not even email.
give /. a break.. they are putting a lot of effort into trying to support the mac community..
whats wrong with:
1. Scantily-clad white girl dances while singing about how much she wants to please you.
3. A bunch of pretty black girls sing in harmony about how bad-ass they are.
??
The team studied the statistical properties of each character, the books they were in, and who else appeared in them (through resources like the MCP). While there were some similarities to real society, a close look revealed that comics actually have no similarity to reallife at all.
hehe.. the sentances are so much truer when I finish them.
That is an excellant book.. I believe there was a /. review a while back. I recommend it for anyone.. its a fairly short book and is written well enough to be easily understood.
yeh.. its barratry or something..
My concern is that google won't be as useful as a search engine now that the highest bidder can get their sites listed first. Hopefully, I won't waste more time searching for what I really wanted... It is a shame though, but this appears to be the post dotcom reality.
people that think this way obvious didn't read the story or they lack some sort of common intelligence.. the sites that pay money don't get listed first in searches, they get listed first in the "sponsed links" section that is obviously ads and has been around for quite some time. The normal search results still aren't biased and probably never will be at google. Google has always made a pretty clear distinction between the real search results and the paid placement results listed to the side.
The only bad thing about their new plan is that smaller businesses that think search engine ads are a good idea, will now have to pay high rates to play in the same league as bigger businesses, since now the ads are ranked somewhat on the amount paid for placement as opposed to being first come first serve like before.
A 2ghz Intel chip is only about 1/2 as fast as a 500mhz G4 executing Altivec optimized instructions.
haha.. anyone that believes that deserves to use an apple.