In the example of a chef "copying" another chefs recipe, you're right in that the world would be a worse place if we couldn't use one anothers recipes. It was also be ridiculous to think that a hairdresser could "copy" another persons hairstyle because it had been copyrighted. The difference here is that the copied recipe and the copied haircuts are not copies, but attempts at imitation. The amount of work required of an individual to produce the imitation would be approximately equal to the work put in by the original creator. This is not the case when you copy a film or album.
The distribution companies have invested heavily in coming up with ways to make the duplication of a single recording as easy as possible for themselves in order to spend less effort duplicating and more money distributing. The problem lies in the fact that when we as consumers buy a copy of that media, we are not buying the content itself, but the distribution media it comes on along with a right to enjoy the content it contains.
The "Media" industry (and really, they should be called the "Content Distribution" industry) want us to buy more "Media" containing the same content as previous "Media" we have purchased. Having once paid for the right to enjoy that content, why the fuck should we as individuals be forced to pay to enjoy that same content again and again, when it's plain to see that by doing so, we are not supporting the people that create the content, but only those who profit by copying and distributing it. They are the fucking pirates! And they don't like it when someone muscles in on their turf. Fuck 'em!
I've been a professional developer for nearly 15 years, and before that I was developing as a hobby. I stopped using windows on my own computers shortly after windows 98 and started using slackware. It was fun, it was interesting and it appealed to me because I was able to dig into it and see how it worked, and then change the way it worked to suit my needs. The computer was mine personally once again. Over the years I tried various other distributions and particularly enjoyed gentoo as it allowed me to configure my entire software environment to squeeze every last bit of performance out of the aging hardware that I had. As the computer allowed me to do more and more of the things I wanted to do, I found more and more interesting little projects and became less interested in what the underlying software was doing.
When OSX came along I switched to a mac because the things I was doing seemed easier to do on a mac then they did on Linux, and numerous working environments had showed me that windows was still, at least to my mind, as horrific as it had always been. I don't want to say that osx is better than linux, or better than windows, or any of that nonsense (yes I know this is slashdot), because "better" is such a subjective thing. My personal computer is my "Personal" computer. It is there to allow me to work in the way that is best for me, not best for you, and certainly not best for Microsoft, whose software I still find to be completely counter-intuitive and proscriptive.
I pick the software that allows me to do what I want to do with the minimum amount of effort. When VMWare became available on OSX I thought it would be fantastic as I would finally be able to run linux on my mac alongside osx. Dual booting was too disruptive. I immediately installed my favourite distribution (gentoo) and was frustrated by how much technical knowledge I had to apply to get it working. During the course of configuring my virtual machine to suit my purposes, I scoured the internet for documentation and support with various problems and was amazed to find that most of the relevant documentation and support I need was provided by ubuntu. While I had no problem taking what the ubuntu docs said and applying it to gentoo, it was an extra step that I needed to take with absolutely no payout. I switched to Ubuntu.
What ubuntu does is allows me to get on with the stuff I need to get on with. The same could be said of any linux distribution, but ubuntu lowers the barrier of entry. Yes I could install Linux from Scratch, and have done in the past, but why bother when I just want to get my work done? Lots of my non-technical friends use Ubuntu, and thankfully they hardly ever bother to ask me any kind of technical support type questions as they are usually able to figure things out by themselves through the ubuntu forums. Which leaves both me and them with more time to get on with what we need to get on with.
Ubuntu would be nothing without debian which, in turn, would be nothing without GNU/Linux. Having better tools to do the job I need to do is far more important than who makes the tools, but if those tools come with clear documentation and fantastic support then even better. I don't want to spend my life hunched over a keyboard. The time I spend on a computer pays for me to spend time doing other much more interesting things, so anything that let me do my job easier is fine by me. Linux and the whole OSS ecosystem amazes me, but what Ubuntu have done is made it so much easier for anybody to benefit from that ecosystem, and consequently enriched the lives of everybody that uses it.
Thank you, Canonical, and thank you to the wider OS community. You really are changing the world for the better. Keep up the good work.
It's probably quite accurate wording. Unfortunately the government have failed to realise (yet again) that when you cut the backbone of anything you leave it paralysed.
Fortuny: 'bringing legal action against me may punish me, but it won't change or even impact online culture.'
Judge: 'No it won't change or even impact online culture, but you're being punished for being a twat. Now give me my fucking pictures back, and get the fuck out of my courtroom.'
I think the really exciting part about all this teleportation speculation is that as Human Beings move ever closer to creating a matter teleportation device, we become closer to discovering the answers to questions such as "What makes me me?" and "Do I have a soul?".
These are questions that philosophers have been asking for thousands of years, and yet empirical science has failed to come up with any satisfactory answers. Will we ever make a functional teleporter? Who knows, and who cares? I'm sure that we'll learn a lot about ourselves and the universe we live in trying.
You work in advertising? Cool, I've got a great new advertising medium for you. You take all the advertising agencies worldwide and send them to the centre of the sun. From there your clients message can ride the solar winds to the furthest edges of the galaxy. Don't forget your sun-tan lotion though.
Tech 1: Is that your new graphics card? Tech 2: Pretty sweet huh? Tech 1: It's Huge!! tech 2: Well it needs to be, it's got 4 Cell processors and 4G of RAM on it, plus integrated Freon cooling system so I can keep it cool while overclocking it by up to 50 times. Tech 1: Nice! Quake's gonna rock on that thing. What that little bit sticking out of the end? Tech 2: Oh, that's my new motherboard.
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In the example of a chef "copying" another chefs recipe, you're right in that the world would be a worse place if we couldn't use one anothers recipes. It was also be ridiculous to think that a hairdresser could "copy" another persons hairstyle because it had been copyrighted. The difference here is that the copied recipe and the copied haircuts are not copies, but attempts at imitation. The amount of work required of an individual to produce the imitation would be approximately equal to the work put in by the original creator. This is not the case when you copy a film or album.
The distribution companies have invested heavily in coming up with ways to make the duplication of a single recording as easy as possible for themselves in order to spend less effort duplicating and more money distributing. The problem lies in the fact that when we as consumers buy a copy of that media, we are not buying the content itself, but the distribution media it comes on along with a right to enjoy the content it contains.
The "Media" industry (and really, they should be called the "Content Distribution" industry) want us to buy more "Media" containing the same content as previous "Media" we have purchased. Having once paid for the right to enjoy that content, why the fuck should we as individuals be forced to pay to enjoy that same content again and again, when it's plain to see that by doing so, we are not supporting the people that create the content, but only those who profit by copying and distributing it. They are the fucking pirates! And they don't like it when someone muscles in on their turf. Fuck 'em!
I've been a professional developer for nearly 15 years, and before that I was developing as a hobby. I stopped using windows on my own computers shortly after windows 98 and started using slackware. It was fun, it was interesting and it appealed to me because I was able to dig into it and see how it worked, and then change the way it worked to suit my needs. The computer was mine personally once again. Over the years I tried various other distributions and particularly enjoyed gentoo as it allowed me to configure my entire software environment to squeeze every last bit of performance out of the aging hardware that I had. As the computer allowed me to do more and more of the things I wanted to do, I found more and more interesting little projects and became less interested in what the underlying software was doing.
When OSX came along I switched to a mac because the things I was doing seemed easier to do on a mac then they did on Linux, and numerous working environments had showed me that windows was still, at least to my mind, as horrific as it had always been. I don't want to say that osx is better than linux, or better than windows, or any of that nonsense (yes I know this is slashdot), because "better" is such a subjective thing. My personal computer is my "Personal" computer. It is there to allow me to work in the way that is best for me, not best for you, and certainly not best for Microsoft, whose software I still find to be completely counter-intuitive and proscriptive.
I pick the software that allows me to do what I want to do with the minimum amount of effort. When VMWare became available on OSX I thought it would be fantastic as I would finally be able to run linux on my mac alongside osx. Dual booting was too disruptive. I immediately installed my favourite distribution (gentoo) and was frustrated by how much technical knowledge I had to apply to get it working. During the course of configuring my virtual machine to suit my purposes, I scoured the internet for documentation and support with various problems and was amazed to find that most of the relevant documentation and support I need was provided by ubuntu. While I had no problem taking what the ubuntu docs said and applying it to gentoo, it was an extra step that I needed to take with absolutely no payout. I switched to Ubuntu.
What ubuntu does is allows me to get on with the stuff I need to get on with. The same could be said of any linux distribution, but ubuntu lowers the barrier of entry. Yes I could install Linux from Scratch, and have done in the past, but why bother when I just want to get my work done? Lots of my non-technical friends use Ubuntu, and thankfully they hardly ever bother to ask me any kind of technical support type questions as they are usually able to figure things out by themselves through the ubuntu forums. Which leaves both me and them with more time to get on with what we need to get on with.
Ubuntu would be nothing without debian which, in turn, would be nothing without GNU/Linux. Having better tools to do the job I need to do is far more important than who makes the tools, but if those tools come with clear documentation and fantastic support then even better. I don't want to spend my life hunched over a keyboard. The time I spend on a computer pays for me to spend time doing other much more interesting things, so anything that let me do my job easier is fine by me. Linux and the whole OSS ecosystem amazes me, but what Ubuntu have done is made it so much easier for anybody to benefit from that ecosystem, and consequently enriched the lives of everybody that uses it.
Thank you, Canonical, and thank you to the wider OS community. You really are changing the world for the better. Keep up the good work.
His tweet also says "Charlatons exposed. Media Enquiries Welcome." Perhaps it's worth asking him?
Given the that officials sources have be shown to be full of shit, how can they expect us to believe them now?
It's probably quite accurate wording. Unfortunately the government have failed to realise (yet again) that when you cut the backbone of anything you leave it paralysed.
Wankers, the lot of them!
I can't forget. Try as I might I can't get the image of Indy being raped by Stephen Speilberg and George Lucas out of my mind.
That website sucks. The entire bottom half of the website is missing on my screen
If this stops my screen going blue every 15 minutes I'll be happy
Shh! They'll hear you!
actually no! By making light travel slower, it should be easier to travel faster than it.
Fortuny: 'bringing legal action against me may punish me, but it won't change or even impact online culture.'
Judge: 'No it won't change or even impact online culture, but you're being punished for being a twat. Now give me my fucking pictures back, and get the fuck out of my courtroom.'
"I went to the LHC and all I got was a third arm, a tail, six sets of testicles and radiation poisoning!"
just because we know how to read now, doesn't mean the articles are gonna get read
... sound like THEY are blowing smoke up your arses!
1) Lie through your teeth to the whole country
2) Gain Power
3) ???
4) Profit!!
I think the really exciting part about all this teleportation speculation is that as Human Beings move ever closer to creating a matter teleportation device, we become closer to discovering the answers to questions such as "What makes me me?" and "Do I have a soul?".
These are questions that philosophers have been asking for thousands of years, and yet empirical science has failed to come up with any satisfactory answers. Will we ever make a functional teleporter? Who knows, and who cares? I'm sure that we'll learn a lot about ourselves and the universe we live in trying.
p.s. Apparently KFC's got Soul.
You want me to use Vista?
OK then, but first I want you to get on your knees and beg me to use it.
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsite s/S/spacecadets/
We're not falling for it twice!
"Bare" robot terrorizes female onlookers. Film at 11:00
You work in advertising? Cool, I've got a great new advertising medium for you. You take all the advertising agencies worldwide and send them to the centre of the sun. From there your clients message can ride the solar winds to the furthest edges of the galaxy. Don't forget your sun-tan lotion though.
Guy: grnngngngnnnhhhgghhgnnnrrrnrn! ahhhhhh!
Paper: You have traces of blood and 2.5 peanuts in your excrement.
Tech 1: Is that your new graphics card?
Tech 2: Pretty sweet huh?
Tech 1: It's Huge!!
tech 2: Well it needs to be, it's got 4 Cell processors and 4G of RAM on it, plus integrated Freon cooling system so I can keep it cool while overclocking it by up to 50 times.
Tech 1: Nice! Quake's gonna rock on that thing. What that little bit sticking out of the end?
Tech 2: Oh, that's my new motherboard.
a new TLD .clueless?
http://i.am.clueless/, http://you.are.clueless/, http://we.are.clueless/, http://www.whitehouse.clueless/
He doesn't really support marriage between two passionate females? Well he's lost my vote!
Create a blog or upload some videos. Doesn't mean that people will want to hear what you've got to say, however.