Not an illiterate moron; just hoping that for once the confusion can work *FOR* us. keeping information proprietary is evil, even deception lies and confusion are good and just weapons against any who would withold information from anyone else.
This is sort of what Apple does with their extended support deal, Apple Care. They will not support the use of ANYTHING else and tell you to uninstall it/blame it for any problems you have. They gave my mom a rasher of shit because she put Opera on there instead of Exploiter.
"Why does the rest of the world, let alone a bunch of irrelevant geeks, have to be involved in this issue?"
Because this bunch of "irrelevent geeks" INVENTED and MAINTIAN the friggin internet and all of the infrastructure that make it possible!! Why should some dimwit who just happened to bribe or steal enough votes to sleaze his or her way into an elective office have DIDDLY SQUAT to say about how the international information structure is run? Sorry, IMHO the 'net is BY GEEKS and FOR GEEKS; if somebody else (politician, marketroid) gets to use it and/or make a few dollars, fine- but that is like this fat white boy being allowed to shoot hoops on an inner city basket ball court- just until the homies show up and then slink off or get my ass kicked.
to at least not research it. All research is good, all knowledge and information is good; the application may be bad, but I have major contempt for people who say "we shouldn't look into this at all". Personally, once the internal combustion engine is a thing of the past the earth will be a much better place. And still can't decide which is the bigger mindfuck of a pacifier, broadcast TV or this Valium spray.
That is how they avoid paying taxes, by having 'productive losses'. There is a possibility that the status of stock options might change; companies want to write them off as a loss but not show them as a loss to stockholders (I'm simplifying a bit, point is there is no guarentee that the situation you point out will continue). It is my understanding, however, that losses such as the above is WHY they didn't pay taxes.
They are quite capable of losing millions of dollars, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars a year for the next five or ten years, or more. All it would be for them is a tax-loss write off. I do not doubt that they would be willing to LOSE as much as Sony has ever made on the Playstation, if it meant that there was a "TV in every house, all running Microsoft Software" in 20 years time.
Give the devil their due, the Information Superhighway is littered with the corpses of companies and products that were technically superior but underestimated Gates and Co. Who *EVER* thought that Word stood a chance against WordPerfect? How many of us laughed at Runtime Windows 1.0, or 2.0? And of course Novell had a much better product and was earlier to market to boot.
I'm no real fan of Microsoft, but IMHO nearly everyone is seriously underestimating the amount of money and effort they will put into this; I also bet that they are currently 'playing nice' due to being under a lot of legal scrutiny; once the various attorney generals' attention is elsewhere, the gloves will come off and people who do NOT release for Xbox first, or exclusively will find their "air supply choked off".
The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number
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All laws and systems exist, in the end, to ensure the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number.
Thus the goal should be to ensure sufficent renumeration for the creators to have an incentive to create while ensuring that the products of their creativity are made available as soon as possible to serve as the foundation of further creativity.
The question, of course, is quantification of the length of time; 3,5,7 or 99, years. Secondary question: should all forms of IP have the same protection? Arguably, a patent should expire, but what about a Trademark?
IMHO the Constitution got it right with 7 years for a patent. I cannot see ANY justification whatsoever for Copyright to extend past the life of the author. Trademark *IS* important, if you buy a Plextor drive or drink Jolt you have a right to be sure that the product you get is the product you expect to get; otherwise it's fraud. But I do think that Trademark should be subject to Fair Use, especially in the realm of satire and product review.
"Our" core geek mantra is sound "Information Wants To Be Free". The greatest good for the greatest number is best served by erring on the side of too free a dissemination of information rather than too restricted, if err we must-and err we will!
Attend part time, get experience part time. Several friends have done this. It may take a bit longer but then you will have both a freshly minted degree and a few years real world experience. If your are totally gung ho do one full time and the other part time. If I were hiring and had a choice between three candidates, other things being equal, one with a degree, one with a few years experience and one with a degree AND a few years as sysop or asst. sysop, the advantage would lie with the last person.
I love his concept of Copyright as it should be, "open and fluid", of use, not abuse.
Finally, too, the first GOOD thing that EVER came out of somebody listening to Rap:
"JH: Your book, Copyrights and Copywrongs, covers the evolution of copyright law from its origins to the late twentieth century. Where did you get the idea for this?
If it is digital,it cannot be evil or bad, and should under no circumstance be regulated. Period.
Information, eg bits, cannot be "Good" or "bad", only "accurate" or "inaccurate". All the data that exists or has ever existed is MINE, and belongs to all members of H.Sap.
Call it the ultimate anti-censorship position, I don't care; Information is, to me, sacred, good and should NEVER be restricted. There is an arguable need for personal confidentiality (e.g. credit card numbers), but I'd rather be in a all cash world if the choice came down to freedom (yes, that INCLUDES the right to yell FIRE in a crowded theater- go and see for YOURSELF if there really is a fire; it was a stupid case a ruling if you look at the facts).
Perhaps if the documentary is popular enough the market will be demonstrated for a movie. The screenplay is already written and there *IS* a worldwide fan base. CGI might well reduce the costs to where a profit could be made.
And to the people saying "well, he wrote ONE good book" and the like a simple question: what wildly beloved and world famous work have YOU done?
Division of statment here- My point is that DRIVING is a privilege. Gun ownership is a right, but that dosen't mean you aren't responsible for what is done with that gun. My point was about driving, I could have been more clear! My analogy is regarding the potential for damage of the item that one is responsible for. BTW the sick, backwards socialist place is live in is California:-)
Same arguments apply to a gun, or a dog. You are the owner of a potentially dangerous piece of equipment, if you can't be responsible for it (can we say keys?), then you shouldn't own it. It's called adulthood, not "guilty until proven innocent". There is a difference between a PRIVELEGE and a RIGHT; priveleges come with concommitant responsibilities, rights are inherent. Driving is a privelege.
Always wanted a programmable globe
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Paintable LCDs
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Tried to design one a few years ago, but this might make it possible. Imagine a globe that could be updated via the web or disc, could illustrate the route of a voyabe or flight paths or tectonic drift, or weather, satellite orbits....
In other news Micro$oft spokesman says "we magnanimously concede that breathing oxygen is not, in and of itself, stealing from us".
To me, the big brotherish quote was:
"Criminal organisations can sell software direct, as well as through retail channels," said Symantec lawyer Art Courville. "So, it is harder to monitor."
yep- can't have that ol' free market in the way, somebody might be doing something unlawful
Well there is a site with quite a few versions of the Bible, searchable and no registration required. More geared towards the serious student than evangalism.
Nothing is free, period. If you don't pay one way you will pay another; why this is anything other than totally obvious beats the hell out of me. I mean if you sign up for a prize drawing for car or boat etc you KNOW your name is going on a solicitation list, what the heck does anyone expect with a 'free' email acount/web hosting/mailserver?
Now the part about AOL selling, excuse me, 'renting' customer data crackes me up, after all these people are paying customers, but then somehow not too terribly suprising.
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Time Travel
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Because, nothing can 'just vanish'. Matter can be transformed into energy but if the subatomic particle, or person ceased to exist as a physical entity then there would be a measurable amount of energy discharged as they transformed (burned, fused, fissioned whatever). If they acutally CHANGED location than you wouldn't have the energy discharge.
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Not an illiterate moron; just hoping that for once the confusion can work *FOR* us. keeping information proprietary is evil, even deception lies and confusion are good and just weapons against any who would withold information from anyone else.
This is sort of what Apple does with their extended support deal, Apple Care. They will not support the use of ANYTHING else and tell you to uninstall it/blame it for any problems you have. They gave my mom a rasher of shit because she put Opera on there instead of Exploiter.
"Why does the rest of the world, let alone a bunch of irrelevant geeks, have to be involved in this issue?"
Because this bunch of "irrelevent geeks" INVENTED and MAINTIAN the friggin internet and all of the infrastructure that make it possible!! Why should some dimwit who just happened to bribe or steal enough votes to sleaze his or her way into an elective office have DIDDLY SQUAT to say about how the international information structure is run? Sorry, IMHO the 'net is BY GEEKS and FOR GEEKS; if somebody else (politician, marketroid) gets to use it and/or make a few dollars, fine- but that is like this fat white boy being allowed to shoot hoops on an inner city basket ball court- just until the homies show up and then slink off or get my ass kicked.
18 posts and NO ONE has asked us to imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
seriously, on one hand it sure sounds like marketing hype but on the other hand what I want to know is how well it will benchmark on Doom III!
to at least not research it. All research is good, all knowledge and information is good; the application may be bad, but I have major contempt for people who say "we shouldn't look into this at all". Personally, once the internal combustion engine is a thing of the past the earth will be a much better place.
And still can't decide which is the bigger mindfuck of a pacifier, broadcast TV or this Valium spray.
"Society needs to take a stand against actions that we feel are wrong"
And people who create and innovate need to tell society to FUCJ OFF once in a while. It ain't a human intil it can play a game of chess.
With all due respect, you might well be right, and I hope so, but in cold hard cash dollars I wouldn't bet against Microsoft.
That is how they avoid paying taxes, by having 'productive losses'. There is a possibility that the status of stock options might change; companies want to write them off as a loss but not show them as a loss to stockholders (I'm simplifying a bit, point is there is no guarentee that the situation you point out will continue). It is my understanding, however, that losses such as the above is WHY they didn't pay taxes.
They are quite capable of losing millions of dollars, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars a year for the next five or ten years, or more. All it would be for them is a tax-loss write off. I do not doubt that they would be willing to LOSE as much as Sony has ever made on the Playstation, if it meant that there was a "TV in every house, all running Microsoft Software" in 20 years time.
Give the devil their due, the Information Superhighway is littered with the corpses of companies and products that were technically superior but underestimated Gates and Co. Who *EVER* thought that Word stood a chance against WordPerfect? How many of us laughed at Runtime Windows 1.0, or 2.0? And of course Novell had a much better product and was earlier to market to boot.
I'm no real fan of Microsoft, but IMHO nearly everyone is seriously underestimating the amount of money and effort they will put into this; I also bet that they are currently 'playing nice' due to being under a lot of legal scrutiny; once the various attorney generals' attention is elsewhere, the gloves will come off and people who do NOT release for Xbox first, or exclusively will find their "air supply choked off".
All laws and systems exist, in the end, to ensure the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number.
Thus the goal should be to ensure sufficent renumeration for the creators to have an incentive to create while ensuring that the products of their creativity are made available as soon as possible to serve as the foundation of further creativity.
The question, of course, is quantification of the length of time; 3,5,7 or 99, years.
Secondary question: should all forms of IP have the same protection? Arguably, a patent should expire, but what about a Trademark?
IMHO the Constitution got it right with 7 years for a patent. I cannot see ANY justification whatsoever for Copyright to extend past the life of the author. Trademark *IS* important, if you buy a Plextor drive or drink Jolt you have a right to be sure that the product you get is the product you expect to get; otherwise it's fraud. But I do think that Trademark should be subject to Fair Use, especially in the realm of satire and product review.
"Our" core geek mantra is sound "Information Wants To Be Free". The greatest good for the greatest number is best served by erring on the side of too free a dissemination of information rather than too restricted, if err we must-and err we will!
Air Traffic Controller 1.0 for XP!
Attend part time, get experience part time. Several friends have done this. It may take a bit longer but then you will have both a freshly minted degree and a few years real world experience. If your are totally gung ho do one full time and the other part time. If I were hiring and had a choice between three candidates, other things being equal, one with a degree, one with a few years experience and one with a degree AND a few years as sysop or asst. sysop, the advantage would lie with the last person.
I love his concept of Copyright as it should be, "open and fluid", of use, not abuse.
Finally, too, the first GOOD thing that EVER came out of somebody listening to Rap:
"JH: Your book, Copyrights and Copywrongs, covers the evolution of copyright law from its origins to the late twentieth century. Where did you get the idea for this?
SV: From rap music. I grew up with rap music
Well, IMHO:
If it is digital,it cannot be evil or bad, and should under no circumstance be regulated. Period.
Information, eg bits, cannot be "Good" or "bad", only "accurate" or "inaccurate". All the data that exists or has ever existed is MINE, and belongs to all members of H.Sap.
Call it the ultimate anti-censorship position, I don't care; Information is, to me, sacred, good and should NEVER be restricted. There is an arguable need for personal confidentiality (e.g. credit card numbers), but I'd rather be in a all cash world if the choice came down to freedom (yes, that INCLUDES the right to yell FIRE in a crowded theater- go and see for YOURSELF if there really is a fire; it was a stupid case a ruling if you look at the facts).
Perhaps if the documentary is popular enough the market will be demonstrated for a movie. The screenplay is already written and there *IS* a worldwide fan base. CGI might well reduce the costs to where a profit could be made.
And to the people saying "well, he wrote ONE good book" and the like a simple question: what wildly beloved and world famous work have YOU done?
This would make a computerized poker game MUCH more challanging; to say nothing about the possibilities of, er, interactive, adult entertainment.
Division of statment here- My point is that DRIVING is a privilege. Gun ownership is a right, but that dosen't mean you aren't responsible for what is done with that gun. My point was about driving, I could have been more clear! My analogy is regarding the potential for damage of the item that one is responsible for. BTW the sick, backwards socialist place is live in is California :-)
Same arguments apply to a gun, or a dog. You are the owner of a potentially dangerous piece of equipment, if you can't be responsible for it (can we say keys?), then you shouldn't own it. It's called adulthood, not "guilty until proven innocent". There is a difference between a PRIVELEGE and a RIGHT; priveleges come with concommitant responsibilities, rights are inherent. Driving is a privelege.
Tried to design one a few years ago, but this might make it possible. Imagine a globe that could be updated via the web or disc, could illustrate the route of a voyabe or flight paths or tectonic drift, or weather, satellite orbits....
In other news Micro$oft spokesman says "we magnanimously concede that breathing oxygen is not, in and of itself, stealing from us".
To me, the big brotherish quote was:
"Criminal organisations can sell software direct, as well as through retail channels," said Symantec lawyer Art Courville. "So, it is harder to monitor."
yep- can't have that ol' free market in the way, somebody might be doing something unlawful
But this is for the CHILDRUUUUUUN. Anything is permissible if it is fur the CHILDRUUUUUUUN.
Yeah, it would be so much better if there was a tank of Zyklon B that released 30 right after the doors locked.
Well there is a site with quite a few versions of the Bible, searchable and no registration required. More geared towards the serious student than evangalism.
http://unbound.biola.edu/
Nothing is free, period. If you don't pay one way you will pay another; why this is anything other than totally obvious beats the hell out of me. I mean if you sign up for a prize drawing for car or boat etc you KNOW your name is going on a solicitation list, what the heck does anyone expect with a 'free' email acount/web hosting/mailserver?
Now the part about AOL selling, excuse me, 'renting' customer data crackes me up, after all these people are paying customers, but then somehow not too terribly suprising.
Because, nothing can 'just vanish'. Matter can be transformed into energy but if the subatomic particle, or person ceased to exist as a physical entity then there would be a measurable amount of energy discharged as they transformed (burned, fused, fissioned whatever). If they acutally CHANGED location than you wouldn't have the energy discharge.