I'm an author, and a journalist, and I think IP as a concept needs to go. And not just because it's been abused. You can't own ideas. It's counterintuitive. Ideas aren't naturally scare - they're infinitly reproducable. You don't diminish the original by giving an idea away. Trying to rein in the spread of an idea through law goes against the nature of ideas.
If you make creative works, great. Thanks for contributing to society. But if you're intent on profiting from those works, its up to you and not an artificial legal construct to figure out how. In my case, as a reporter, I write as a service. My more ambitious creative writing is done a side project. If you're a musician, make some dough off your performances, or create music with little replay value - say commercial jingles, for instance - on demand. Paint murals for patrons who like your art, and who value an original above a reproduction.
In most cases, its possible to profit off of ideas without IP protection. In some, it's not - and that's just the way it goes. Not everything worthwhile is profitable.
As bad idea as it would be, if you agree willingly to work somewhere that corporal punishment is practiced, why the hell not? Maybe I'm willing to get smacked on the wrist with a ruler every time I fuck up in exchange for a higher salary. If I'm not, I won't apply for a job there.
And as far as the sexual harassment comparison - -I- call bullshit. Those things that are legal to do outside of the workplace should be legal inside the workplace. If you're harrassing someone in an illegal way, you should be held accountable. THe rules shouldn't be stricter just because you're at your job - unless your employer choses to make them so.
If you want to work somewhere that meets XYZ, then find an employer who offers XYZ.
i'd be willing too if it opened up the job market further. lets say i'm not bothered by smoke, and i interview at a company where the powers-that-be insist smoke be allowed in the workplace. well, all of a sudden, i no longer have to compete with all the serious anti-smoking folks who might otherwise have applied.
likewise, they get to apply to companies with strict anti-smoking rules, and don't have to compete with smokers for those jobs. all removing a law like that would do is open up the options for both sides.
some supposed "job" protections would still apply - such as rules against sexual harassment - because, as another poster noted, that's inapropriate and arguably illegal ANYWHERE, not just in the workplace. Don't make laws apply oddball special restrictions to the workplace that don't apply to the rest of hte world - if an employer wants to create a specific environment, let 'em. and let me choose to refuse to work there if i don't like it.
people act like they have a basic right to work. if you don't like the conditions of a job, don't take it, and hope you can find something better. if you can't, then buck up and take the bad situation because its better than nothing.
because you don't HAVE to work for that boss, just like you don't HAVE to work for a boss who gives you long hours with little pay. You agree to a work situation in which the benefits of the job (pay, good location, good work environment) outweigh the negatives (low pay, bad locatoin, bad work environment). If you agree to one with a crummy tradeoff - say, one that allows smoking when you hate smoke - that's your own damn fault.
Maybe under the new leadership - and some subsequent partnerships - they can fix my biggest gripe aboue Ximian - dependency yuckiness.
Ximian works just fine if all you ever install are Ximian packages from its updater. But when I install a (for instance) Redhat package - rpm or otherwise - its expecting to find RH's menu format, RH's base libraries, etc. Ximian replaces too much of that, and a lot of things stop working right because of it.
It's bad enough I've got to distinguish between packages made for Suse, Redhat, Mandrake, etc - and then be sure they're only using libraries from the base configuration, and not funky updated experimental or hard-to-get libs. But when I've got to make sure the package is specifically for Ximian for Redhat (and not plain Redhat, or Ximian for Suse, or whatever) in order to know I'm getting menu entry and a consistently-placed file location, that's a real headache.
Maybe Novell, being a little more coprorate partnership-friendly (I hope), will work with the big verdors to avoid this? Maybe? Please?
In turn, I will note a simple spelling error in your post, such as "grammer," and guffaw to myself over the irony. Optionally, I may spell something wrong myself, or note a so-called error that was, in fact, perfectly correct.
I was under the impression the error reporting tool didn't send any personally identifiable info back to MS. How, exactly, is he figuring out the frequency with which individual machines crash?
I'm no gun control proponet, but I wonder if anyone has ever considered mandating these things inside handguns. ALthough there'd be a ton of black-market guns, guns built before the law, guns built outside of the us, etc around, the ones including an RFID would be awfully easy to detect in situations where security is paramount.
Not saying its a good idea, but I just wonder if its floating out there...
How tough is it to leak plan text? Even if the document's permissions prohibit copying and pasting, how tough is it to retype a memo you really want to see leaked?
It's... ahem... apples and oranges. That $10/month also gets you unlimitted streaming access to their enntire catalouge, at decent quality. For me, since my computer IS my stereo, that's a pretty sweet deal.
Also - I'm not sure about this, but in poking aronud the FAQs it looked like you could still purchase tracks to burn to CD -without- signing up for the $10/month service. I believe they give you a 30-sec preview. So on the service most comperable to Apple's (although you don't immediately get a lossy-compressed file) Listen/Real's service comes out more cost effective.
No, because those aren't distributed with the OS. But it WILL provide you with an updated device driver (in some cases) or with other third-party software microsoft has made arrangements to ship with its base installation.
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um, duh.
I'm an author, and a journalist, and I think IP as a concept needs to go. And not just because it's been abused. You can't own ideas. It's counterintuitive. Ideas aren't naturally scare - they're infinitly reproducable. You don't diminish the original by giving an idea away. Trying to rein in the spread of an idea through law goes against the nature of ideas.
If you make creative works, great. Thanks for contributing to society. But if you're intent on profiting from those works, its up to you and not an artificial legal construct to figure out how. In my case, as a reporter, I write as a service. My more ambitious creative writing is done a side project. If you're a musician, make some dough off your performances, or create music with little replay value - say commercial jingles, for instance - on demand. Paint murals for patrons who like your art, and who value an original above a reproduction.
In most cases, its possible to profit off of ideas without IP protection. In some, it's not - and that's just the way it goes. Not everything worthwhile is profitable.
you WERE trolling, right?
You wrote "beleive" instead of "believe."
As bad idea as it would be, if you agree willingly to work somewhere that corporal punishment is practiced, why the hell not? Maybe I'm willing to get smacked on the wrist with a ruler every time I fuck up in exchange for a higher salary. If I'm not, I won't apply for a job there.
And as far as the sexual harassment comparison - -I- call bullshit. Those things that are legal to do outside of the workplace should be legal inside the workplace. If you're harrassing someone in an illegal way, you should be held accountable. THe rules shouldn't be stricter just because you're at your job - unless your employer choses to make them so.
If you want to work somewhere that meets XYZ, then find an employer who offers XYZ.
i'd be willing too if it opened up the job market further. lets say i'm not bothered by smoke, and i interview at a company where the powers-that-be insist smoke be allowed in the workplace. well, all of a sudden, i no longer have to compete with all the serious anti-smoking folks who might otherwise have applied.
likewise, they get to apply to companies with strict anti-smoking rules, and don't have to compete with smokers for those jobs. all removing a law like that would do is open up the options for both sides.
some supposed "job" protections would still apply - such as rules against sexual harassment - because, as another poster noted, that's inapropriate and arguably illegal ANYWHERE, not just in the workplace. Don't make laws apply oddball special restrictions to the workplace that don't apply to the rest of hte world - if an employer wants to create a specific environment, let 'em. and let me choose to refuse to work there if i don't like it.
people act like they have a basic right to work. if you don't like the conditions of a job, don't take it, and hope you can find something better. if you can't, then buck up and take the bad situation because its better than nothing.
because you don't HAVE to work for that boss, just like you don't HAVE to work for a boss who gives you long hours with little pay. You agree to a work situation in which the benefits of the job (pay, good location, good work environment) outweigh the negatives (low pay, bad locatoin, bad work environment). If you agree to one with a crummy tradeoff - say, one that allows smoking when you hate smoke - that's your own damn fault.
MS wants a few hundred for my copy of XP. Doesn't mean they're goign to get it ...
I'm joking. I swear. Really.
Maybe under the new leadership - and some subsequent partnerships - they can fix my biggest gripe aboue Ximian - dependency yuckiness.
Ximian works just fine if all you ever install are Ximian packages from its updater. But when I install a (for instance) Redhat package - rpm or otherwise - its expecting to find RH's menu format, RH's base libraries, etc. Ximian replaces too much of that, and a lot of things stop working right because of it.
It's bad enough I've got to distinguish between packages made for Suse, Redhat, Mandrake, etc - and then be sure they're only using libraries from the base configuration, and not funky updated experimental or hard-to-get libs. But when I've got to make sure the package is specifically for Ximian for Redhat (and not plain Redhat, or Ximian for Suse, or whatever) in order to know I'm getting menu entry and a consistently-placed file location, that's a real headache.
Maybe Novell, being a little more coprorate partnership-friendly (I hope), will work with the big verdors to avoid this? Maybe? Please?
spanking the monkey, ...
choking the chicken,
taking old one-eye to the optomotrist,
wearing a tie
somehow it just doesn't have the same ring to it. kids today need better euphomisms, methinks.
sure. it's at babelfish.altavista.com.
In turn, I will note a simple spelling error in your post, such as "grammer," and guffaw to myself over the irony. Optionally, I may spell something wrong myself, or note a so-called error that was, in fact, perfectly correct.
wait just a gul darn minute ...
I was under the impression the error reporting tool didn't send any personally identifiable info back to MS. How, exactly, is he figuring out the frequency with which individual machines crash?
Was there a lot of spam in the wild west?
I dunno, I think its important we abuse things properly. My ex-girlfriend was an expert at that.
Sounds like a theory of Evolution to me.
oooooohhhhh (groan).
Microsoft will kill off first:
Media Player
MSN Messenger
Office
Outlook
Virtual PC
Cowboyneal, but I'll never give up my old fat binary of him.
I can't believe you ripped of the intellectual property in his comment like that.
I'm no gun control proponet, but I wonder if anyone has ever considered mandating these things inside handguns. ALthough there'd be a ton of black-market guns, guns built before the law, guns built outside of the us, etc around, the ones including an RFID would be awfully easy to detect in situations where security is paramount.
...
Not saying its a good idea, but I just wonder if its floating out there
How tough is it to leak plan text? Even if the document's permissions prohibit copying and pasting, how tough is it to retype a memo you really want to see leaked?
It's ... ahem ... apples and oranges. That $10/month also gets you unlimitted streaming access to their enntire catalouge, at decent quality. For me, since my computer IS my stereo, that's a pretty sweet deal.
Also - I'm not sure about this, but in poking aronud the FAQs it looked like you could still purchase tracks to burn to CD -without- signing up for the $10/month service. I believe they give you a 30-sec preview. So on the service most comperable to Apple's (although you don't immediately get a lossy-compressed file) Listen/Real's service comes out more cost effective.
No, because those aren't distributed with the OS. But it WILL provide you with an updated device driver (in some cases) or with other third-party software microsoft has made arrangements to ship with its base installation.
the videotape i understand. how do you arange for the sexual encounters with hot chicks?
And why can't those be the same thing, huh?
Dear god, whyyyyy?!
What happens when you slashdot a penis anyway?
Hey! I happen to have an '87 Chevy Celebrity, and it brings me the .... ah, nevermind.