If someone is given something, they've presumably been given privilege to do with it as they please: masturbate to it, respond to it, share it with friends, share it with the world. Whatever, as long as they don't sell it. That's how these things work.
Tell that to a wedding photographer. The prints you get do not come with permission to copy them and send them to everyone you know, whether for money or not.
unfortunately I see it being easy to spin this as "sharing your stuff with others is good. Taking from others without their permission is bad." without acknowledging the difference between borrowing an idea and borrowing a physical object.
actually, I was thinking he was doing a great job of bringing the more annoying and possibly stupid aspects of the law to light so folks might be interested in changing them.
The UK has somewhat different customs in this area (and possibly different laws). I recall reading a comment a few months ago from someone in the UK talking about how many more cars get through a green light in the UK than the US because the UK drivers are all ready to start moving as soon as the light is green, rather than waiting for the car in front of them to move before taking their foot off the brake. It is perhaps unwise, but if that's the habit, it's more understandable.
by putting in the labor, the professional is creating some amount of wealth, which is contrary to the definition of "rent seeking". If he weren't creating some amount of wealth, his employer wouldn't have any reason to pay him.
Edison is known to have attempted to use the power of his patents to suppress behavior he didn't like making him possibly the earliest known troll. That's why the movie industry cranked up in Hollywood CA; it was far enough from Edison to avoid enforcement of his patents on motion picture cameras/projectors.
it is. In particular it permits the user to use the open BSD-licensed code in non-open products. Folks who prefer the GPL over BSD (including me) do so because of moral beliefs. Therefore I would rephrase grandparent as "if BSD's permissions were as popular among the share-and-share-alike crowd as the GPL's permissions..."
You are correct, the Gimp team does not distribute Windows binaries. But (in case you want one) they do have a link on their page to someone who does: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Blender does distribute Windows binaries, as zip archives and installer programs: http://www.blender.org/download
Well, after RTFA, it's not omnidirectional. It apparently uses directional antennas to focus the power-bearing waves along paths that have low loss (which means ones that don't have absorbent items like people in them). There's still probably issues with transmission limits.
Directional radio has gotten cheap and common (enough so to go into commodity WAPs); could that be used to reduce the area of effect from 1200ish m^2 (full sphere surface) to something more on the 0.25m^2 level? Which would reduce the power to something on the order of 100W. Still high, definitely, but at least feasible to plug into the wall:)
This. Fingerprints (and retina prints and insert-biometric-of-choice) have a place in the login sequence: replacing username. But most phones assume only one user...
depends how much they're willing to discount the spybox to foster adoption. On the other hand, if they do that, craigslist will probably shortly have a flood of lightly used non-spybox TVs for sale:)
Ah, good to know. I had thought (based on legend and the existence of disc versions specifically intended for rental) that there were licensing issues. Thanks for the clarification:)
Sounds like they deal with two categories of stuff: things for which there's a market (e.g. parcel delivery), with competition, and for which they're allowed to set their prices as "what the market will bear", and things for which they're the sole supplier (first class letters) but which have regulations limiting what they charge (and which may be subsidized by their other operations). Getting DVDs moved from 'first class letter' to something with competition may raise their pricing ceiling.
indeed. The only reason I keep it is for the stuff that they don't have subtitled on streaming (or don't have on streaming at all), but more and more often, they have only half the discs in the series anyway. Pfui.
I mean I'd like that functionality in the Kindle app on my android tablet and iphone. Though I can see why they might want that to be a reason to get an actual Kindle.
One thing I really wish they'd add to the kindle reader (they had it in the WebOS beta version, but that never left beta) is categories for books. Would be nice to be able to put all the books in a series into one category. (Being able to file a book into multiple categories, a la gmail 'labels', would be even better:)
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If someone is given something, they've presumably been given privilege to do with it as they please: masturbate to it, respond to it, share it with friends, share it with the world. Whatever, as long as they don't sell it. That's how these things work.
Tell that to a wedding photographer. The prints you get do not come with permission to copy them and send them to everyone you know, whether for money or not.
Is a fake ID not by definition a forgery of a government document?
last week. GUI client for one of my favorite chat programs uses Java Web Start and is written/maintained by one guy in Denver.
unfortunately I see it being easy to spin this as "sharing your stuff with others is good. Taking from others without their permission is bad." without acknowledging the difference between borrowing an idea and borrowing a physical object.
One of the lights near me is like that. I've frequently seen it turn yellow before I was through it when I was the second car in line.
How about "let's move the database developers over to GUI work!"?
actually, I was thinking he was doing a great job of bringing the more annoying and possibly stupid aspects of the law to light so folks might be interested in changing them.
The UK has somewhat different customs in this area (and possibly different laws). I recall reading a comment a few months ago from someone in the UK talking about how many more cars get through a green light in the UK than the US because the UK drivers are all ready to start moving as soon as the light is green, rather than waiting for the car in front of them to move before taking their foot off the brake. It is perhaps unwise, but if that's the habit, it's more understandable.
by putting in the labor, the professional is creating some amount of wealth, which is contrary to the definition of "rent seeking". If he weren't creating some amount of wealth, his employer wouldn't have any reason to pay him.
Edison is known to have attempted to use the power of his patents to suppress behavior he didn't like making him possibly the earliest known troll. That's why the movie industry cranked up in Hollywood CA; it was far enough from Edison to avoid enforcement of his patents on motion picture cameras/projectors.
it is. In particular it permits the user to use the open BSD-licensed code in non-open products. Folks who prefer the GPL over BSD (including me) do so because of moral beliefs. Therefore I would rephrase grandparent as "if BSD's permissions were as popular among the share-and-share-alike crowd as the GPL's permissions..."
You are correct, the Gimp team does not distribute Windows binaries. But (in case you want one) they do have a link on their page to someone who does: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ Blender does distribute Windows binaries, as zip archives and installer programs: http://www.blender.org/download
their demo unit reportedly had 200; their proposed production unit would have 20k in an 18" cube.
Well, after RTFA, it's not omnidirectional. It apparently uses directional antennas to focus the power-bearing waves along paths that have low loss (which means ones that don't have absorbent items like people in them). There's still probably issues with transmission limits.
Directional radio has gotten cheap and common (enough so to go into commodity WAPs); could that be used to reduce the area of effect from 1200ish m^2 (full sphere surface) to something more on the 0.25m^2 level? Which would reduce the power to something on the order of 100W. Still high, definitely, but at least feasible to plug into the wall :)
This. Fingerprints (and retina prints and insert-biometric-of-choice) have a place in the login sequence: replacing username. But most phones assume only one user...
depends how much they're willing to discount the spybox to foster adoption. On the other hand, if they do that, craigslist will probably shortly have a flood of lightly used non-spybox TVs for sale :)
the rdbms may not, but the dba ought to.
Ah, good to know. I had thought (based on legend and the existence of disc versions specifically intended for rental) that there were licensing issues. Thanks for the clarification :)
Sounds like they deal with two categories of stuff: things for which there's a market (e.g. parcel delivery), with competition, and for which they're allowed to set their prices as "what the market will bear", and things for which they're the sole supplier (first class letters) but which have regulations limiting what they charge (and which may be subsidized by their other operations). Getting DVDs moved from 'first class letter' to something with competition may raise their pricing ceiling.
They charge more for the ones that are licensed to be lent/rented (even if they don't bother to change the fbi warning).
indeed. The only reason I keep it is for the stuff that they don't have subtitled on streaming (or don't have on streaming at all), but more and more often, they have only half the discs in the series anyway. Pfui.
this is why I don't have an account. When I need to pay, I do it as guest.
I mean I'd like that functionality in the Kindle app on my android tablet and iphone. Though I can see why they might want that to be a reason to get an actual Kindle.
One thing I really wish they'd add to the kindle reader (they had it in the WebOS beta version, but that never left beta) is categories for books. Would be nice to be able to put all the books in a series into one category. (Being able to file a book into multiple categories, a la gmail 'labels', would be even better :)