The DMCA was designed to give "The Monotype Corporation, International Typeface Corporation, and Agfa Monotype Corporation" the right to sue over this.
It's sad, and complete BS, but they do have a case. The tool was written to assist font designers create free fonts, but it also, purely accidentally, violates the DMCA.
I really am interested to see what happens in this case because it's a perfect example of what happens when you give unmoderated power to an entity with no morals whatsoever (a corporation).
Techno gets me coding like a nutcase and it keeps me from having to buy the shove-it-down-your-gullet crap the big label DJs produce on CDs. They want $15-$20 for those remixes and that just plain sucks ass. The whole alternative music genre started because we were sick of the crapy top 40.
I will never pay for D&B, house, progressive house, breakbeats, trance or any other mixed music unless it's $2-$5 for the cost of burning the CD to the DJ. If they take away digital radio I'll just get the mp3s. If they take away my internet I'll just go to raves with a tape recorder.
Without the constitution, the computer may have been invented but nobody would have one except political powers, so it wouldn't be a very great invention.
Ok so you got your degree in Psycology out of your arse or not at all. Depression *can* be caused by chemical imbalances, but the simple truth is that more often then not the chemical imbalances happen after a prerson becomes depressed.
That's why there is "Clinical" depression and "Psycological" Depression. It's also why counseling is the preferred method of curing depression, not drugs.
The only form of depression which Psycologists are even reasonably sure always comes from chemical imbalance is bipolar disorder, commonly called Manic Depression.
Actually, when I made that statement that is EXACTLY what I was talking about. Faith healing is lump-sumed in with every other kind of non-AMA approved medicine.
The term alternative medicine is a general term, meant to include every single kind of healing not practiced at large medical facilities and their satalite offices.
I think that *some* of the various types of alternative medicine out ther are complete bunk, but that doens't mean you can call *all* of them placebo.
That's just plain bullshit. I pointed out the possibility that they could be wrong, but the sure overwhelming number of people is enough to make it worth looking into.
Why the hell do scientists today believe that something must be proven to be true before it can be considered to be true? Many things are taken for granted before they are proven (or even disproven) simply because they are likely. The burden most definitely does not lie on ANYONE to prove or disprove the existance of a soul, unless they have a political or moral reason to do so.
As it stands, only the people trying to say that alternative medicine is useless have a reason to do that, and they have been completely unable to do it as of yet.
The definition of alternative medicine. = "A variety of therapeutic or preventive health care practices, such as homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, and herbal medicine, that do not follow generally accepted medical methods and may not have a scientific explanation for their effectiveness."
Let's not forget the other definition: "the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve self-awareness [syn: complementary medicine]"
Notice the part about "variety of therapeutic or preventive health care practices" kind of lump-sums all spiritual and well-being folks in with that. Everyone who believes in miracles and prayer-healing falls under that umbrella. Nearly everyone who believes that we have a soul also believes that the soul can be sick just like the body can. In addition to all of that, don't forget that non-physical sicknesses such as depression and stress can be linked to physical ailments.
I couldn't leave this review without commenting on this: "...or Tom Harkin using his power to force the NIH to embrace alternative medicine as anything other than a placebo. " statement.
Consider E=MC^2: Matter is energy, and energy is matter. Molecular structures break down as they release energy. Living things absorb energy (calories) by breaking down other materials.
We understand so little about life and energy and yet normally reasonable people are willing to throw out an entire realm of science because it threatens their superiority complex. Some things in this world might just be beyond Newton and Einstein's realm of expertise. To say that alternative medicine is placebo flies in the face of every single person who believes in an afterlife and a soul. Nearly three billion people might be wrong about that belief, but they sure as hell deserve to be credibly examined first.
This will have horrible side effects. When will people learn that there is simply no substitute for a good night's sleep.
Even natural stuff like gensing makes you feel like pure total SH*T when it wears off. Does funky things to yer pee to...
My dad is a hard-line baptist, will not drink ANYTHING with alcohol (or even anything that looks like alcohol, i.e. IBC Root Beer and Welches sparkling grape juice) but drinks up to 5 pots of coffee a day.
He gets kinds irate when I point out he's addicted, but...
Does anyone really believe...
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That this conference will have any effect? All the decisions are going to be made in court, and it will be a political fight. As with any political fight, the people who control public opinion will win.
In this particular case, public opinion is way out of control. This is not meant to imply that there is a problem, just that nobody can convince 100+ million internet users that they should give up their right to fair use.
I thought of this: if I don't sign a non-disclosure agreement with someone then anything I see and anything I hear I can rightfully tell anyone I choose about it.
If a person creates an AI with sufficient apparant intelligence to be simi-autonomous, and then that AI absorbs content information, then would it not be free to disiminate that information, from memory, as it saw fit? If I had a photographic memory and could reproduce another person's origional work of art from memeory with no flaws then wouldn't my work be considered my own, to do with as I please?
An artist who copies a Rembrandt ows no royalties to the current owner of the painting. Let's take someone more recently famous: Tomas Kinkade. If I paint a copy of one of his works from memory, then that work is my own to sell, or give away, as I see fit.
Would an AI that I owned, having a perfect memory and perfect ability to replicate a work, also have that right?
When I can 100% run it with voice, it speaks back to me via an earpiece and can project unobtrusive video onto my glasses when, and only when, I want it to.
Add some ultra-high bandwidth networking to that and jack me in baby.
I think it's BS. I don't care if it's a 6yr old girl or a 30,000,000 verticies 3DS Max mesh: if it's lewdly pornographic it should be banned.
The reason, at least to me, is simple. We have enough psychos, rapists and stalkers who get worse because of pornography without adding to the problem 10x over by letting them get their hands on "virtual" children. Read this for more info.
That, IMHO, CounterStrike is STILL selling copies of Half-Life, while the game itself is getting pretty old. This is a proven case where a mod was more popular than the origional game.
The even made a box edition because it was selling so well.
"Rs = Roupees, current exchange rate is about 1 dollar = 49 Roupees.
Studies vary, but the "average" family income in India works out at about $450 per year."found here
Very interesting and informative here. Proves price fixing doesn't it? You see, if the cost/person in Indea compaired to their income is the same as the cost/person in America compared to our income and the cost in the UK/person comapred to their income all work out to about the same rate, then we know they are fixing prices globaly.
I think that 10 Rp to an Indian making $450/year works out at about 22,050 Rp. That means an average income equivalant to the US, about $20k/year/citizen.
IANA Economist, but I would love to know if Indians are having to pay the same amount of their salary for music as Americans would have to pay for their music.
Doesn't change my opinion that it was a troll, even if he was overall right that AMD was siding with microsoft. He could take the time to point out *how* AMD is siding with microsoft.
I think the states have a terrible solution to the M$ problem, but that doesn't mean I side with M$.
I redilly admit I hadn't read the article becore I posted, because I READ THE SLASHDOT article. CT was setting of an AMD bashing melee without bothering to inform anyone of why. That's basically what a troll is.
"AMD Takes Microsoft's Side in Antitrust Case" is a long damned streatch from them/CEO being opposed to the "remedy being persued by the states".
Your comment was inflamatory and hurt AMD without cause. If they come out and say "M$ is our bestest buddies and they didn't do nothing wrong." then you might have a point, but they didn't do that.
Am I breaking the law because I go to Cracker Barrel and take advantage of their used audio book program?
For those of you who don't know, CB allows you to purchase a book at any their Old Country Store/Restaurants and then return that book at any CB OCS for a full refund minus a $3 restocking fee. This works out great for me because I LOVE to audio books. My commute to work helps me complete about 3 novels a week. CB's program saves me about $100/wk over the cost of new books. That's a moot point however because I wasn't buying that many books because I couldn't afford it and didn't have the time to go by the library. In addition, I work out of the state where I reside so getting to a library to which I have a card isn't easy. Is CB gonna be sued next? How about the local library?
Do what we have known forever is our best economical bet: switch to 100% ethonal alchohol.
In HS I did a science project with ethonal. I produced enough alchohol from fermenting garbage to power a small remote control car. The alchohol provided a much higher octain rating than gas, burnt much more cleanly, and kept the engine cleaner.
The main reason that alcohol isn't taken seriously as a fule alternative is because many people make the claim that it is too expensive to produce. That's like saying the PC would never sell because it was too expensive to produce. Alcohol could benefit just as much from mass-production as any other resource. Some conjecture suggests that the natural temperature in the mid-western states would allow construction of massive solar-powered brewing facilities to produce the alcohol from waste grain, third-grade hops and organic garbage. These types of facilities should be capable of producing enough alchohol to fule the majority of the cars in the US: just from waste resources.
But don't expect OPEC and the oil industry to let that happen without tons of lobbying and some mud-slinging.
Those types of people abhore using anything without menus in the first place, so it's still a good choice to add menus to Vim. The thing is, gVim already does that.
I started using Vim some time ago, and it's the very first thing I install on any machine if I'll be doing much work on it and if it's not already there..gvimrc and.vimrc are part of my port-a-persona that I carry from machine to machine. If it weren't for the menus on the windows port of gvim I probably wouldn't have been able to learn the commands quickly enough not to loose interest.
They'll figure out that the reason there are so many cities under water and so many civilizations have stories of massive floods about the same time is because there really was a Noah and he really built an ark.
Go and read about the canopy theory if you want to know what many creationists believe was the source for the majority of the water released in this flood.
This theory also explains why bones of pre-flood animals and civilizations would appear to be much older by our carbon dating standards. The reason is because carbon 14 is created by radiation bombarding carbon in our atmosphere and then being ingested or breated into the bodies of living creatures. Ask your average old-earth-theory carbon-dating scientist why C14, with a half-life of only 5730 years, is still found in all bones collected, no matter how old they are conjectured to be by some scientists. That's not supposed to be possible, but it makes sense when you consider the biblical view of the earths age at about 14,000 years max. The canopy would have blocked much more radiation than is blocked today, making radiocarbon levels much much lower.
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And I must say, they do have a case.
The DMCA was designed to give "The Monotype Corporation, International Typeface Corporation, and Agfa Monotype Corporation" the right to sue over this.
It's sad, and complete BS, but they do have a case. The tool was written to assist font designers create free fonts, but it also, purely accidentally, violates the DMCA.
I really am interested to see what happens in this case because it's a perfect example of what happens when you give unmoderated power to an entity with no morals whatsoever (a corporation).
When i went to my favorite station: http://www.digitallyimported.com to listen at work.
Techno gets me coding like a nutcase and it keeps me from having to buy the shove-it-down-your-gullet crap the big label DJs produce on CDs. They want $15-$20 for those remixes and that just plain sucks ass. The whole alternative music genre started because we were sick of the crapy top 40.
I will never pay for D&B, house, progressive house, breakbeats, trance or any other mixed music unless it's $2-$5 for the cost of burning the CD to the DJ. If they take away digital radio I'll just get the mp3s. If they take away my internet I'll just go to raves with a tape recorder.
Without the constitution, the computer may have been invented but nobody would have one except political powers, so it wouldn't be a very great invention.
Ok so you got your degree in Psycology out of your arse or not at all. Depression *can* be caused by chemical imbalances, but the simple truth is that more often then not the chemical imbalances happen after a prerson becomes depressed.
:-)
That's why there is "Clinical" depression and "Psycological" Depression. It's also why counseling is the preferred method of curing depression, not drugs.
The only form of depression which Psycologists are even reasonably sure always comes from chemical imbalance is bipolar disorder, commonly called Manic Depression.
Before you rant, research your bullshit.
Actually, when I made that statement that is EXACTLY what I was talking about. Faith healing is lump-sumed in with every other kind of non-AMA approved medicine.
The term alternative medicine is a general term, meant to include every single kind of healing not practiced at large medical facilities and their satalite offices.
I think that *some* of the various types of alternative medicine out ther are complete bunk, but that doens't mean you can call *all* of them placebo.
That just isn't fair.
That's just plain bullshit. I pointed out the possibility that they could be wrong, but the sure overwhelming number of people is enough to make it worth looking into.
Why the hell do scientists today believe that something must be proven to be true before it can be considered to be true? Many things are taken for granted before they are proven (or even disproven) simply because they are likely. The burden most definitely does not lie on ANYONE to prove or disprove the existance of a soul, unless they have a political or moral reason to do so.
As it stands, only the people trying to say that alternative medicine is useless have a reason to do that, and they have been completely unable to do it as of yet.
The definition of alternative medicine. = "A variety of therapeutic or preventive health care practices, such as homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, and herbal medicine, that do not follow generally accepted medical methods and may not have a scientific explanation for their effectiveness."
Let's not forget the other definition: "the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve self-awareness [syn: complementary medicine]"
Notice the part about "variety of therapeutic or preventive health care practices" kind of lump-sums all spiritual and well-being folks in with that. Everyone who believes in miracles and prayer-healing falls under that umbrella. Nearly everyone who believes that we have a soul also believes that the soul can be sick just like the body can. In addition to all of that, don't forget that non-physical sicknesses such as depression and stress can be linked to physical ailments.
For example migranes, Parkinsion's Disease and even Immune System problems can occur.
I couldn't leave this review without commenting on this: "...or Tom Harkin using his power to force the NIH to embrace alternative medicine as anything other than a placebo. " statement.
Consider E=MC^2: Matter is energy, and energy is matter. Molecular structures break down as they release energy. Living things absorb energy (calories) by breaking down other materials.
We understand so little about life and energy and yet normally reasonable people are willing to throw out an entire realm of science because it threatens their superiority complex. Some things in this world might just be beyond Newton and Einstein's realm of expertise. To say that alternative medicine is placebo flies in the face of every single person who believes in an afterlife and a soul. Nearly three billion people might be wrong about that belief, but they sure as hell deserve to be credibly examined first.
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That crap can kill any PC. Eventually it will die, and die hard.
This will have horrible side effects. When will people learn that there is simply no substitute for a good night's sleep.
Even natural stuff like gensing makes you feel like pure total SH*T when it wears off. Does funky things to yer pee to...
My dad is a hard-line baptist, will not drink ANYTHING with alcohol (or even anything that looks like alcohol, i.e. IBC Root Beer and Welches sparkling grape juice) but drinks up to 5 pots of coffee a day.
He gets kinds irate when I point out he's addicted, but...
That this conference will have any effect? All the decisions are going to be made in court, and it will be a political fight. As with any political fight, the people who control public opinion will win.
In this particular case, public opinion is way out of control. This is not meant to imply that there is a problem, just that nobody can convince 100+ million internet users that they should give up their right to fair use.
I thought of this: if I don't sign a non-disclosure agreement with someone then anything I see and anything I hear I can rightfully tell anyone I choose about it.
If a person creates an AI with sufficient apparant intelligence to be simi-autonomous, and then that AI absorbs content information, then would it not be free to disiminate that information, from memory, as it saw fit? If I had a photographic memory and could reproduce another person's origional work of art from memeory with no flaws then wouldn't my work be considered my own, to do with as I please?
An artist who copies a Rembrandt ows no royalties to the current owner of the painting. Let's take someone more recently famous: Tomas Kinkade. If I paint a copy of one of his works from memory, then that work is my own to sell, or give away, as I see fit.
Would an AI that I owned, having a perfect memory and perfect ability to replicate a work, also have that right?
When I can 100% run it with voice, it speaks back to me via an earpiece and can project unobtrusive video onto my glasses when, and only when, I want it to.
Add some ultra-high bandwidth networking to that and jack me in baby.
I think it's BS. I don't care if it's a 6yr old girl or a 30,000,000 verticies 3DS Max mesh: if it's lewdly pornographic it should be banned.
The reason, at least to me, is simple. We have enough psychos, rapists and stalkers who get worse because of pornography without adding to the problem 10x over by letting them get their hands on "virtual" children. Read this for more info.
That, IMHO, CounterStrike is STILL selling copies of Half-Life, while the game itself is getting pretty old. This is a proven case where a mod was more popular than the origional game.
The even made a box edition because it was selling so well.
Heck yeah, don't forget LMS + instagib, it added skill to the game, almost as an afterthought. :-)
"You have to remember something about this:
There's a huge difference between 25 cents here and 25 cents in India. The average income is much lower.
For instance, 25 cents in India could equate to around $4.00 there.
Now do you really want to pay four bucks a track? $40.00+ per CD?"
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"Rs = Roupees, current exchange rate is about 1 dollar = 49 Roupees.
Studies vary, but the "average" family income in India works out at about $450 per year." found here
Very interesting and informative here. Proves price fixing doesn't it? You see, if the cost/person in Indea compaired to their income is the same as the cost/person in America compared to our income and the cost in the UK/person comapred to their income all work out to about the same rate, then we know they are fixing prices globaly.
I think that 10 Rp to an Indian making $450/year works out at about 22,050 Rp. That means an average income equivalant to the US, about $20k/year/citizen.
IANA Economist, but I would love to know if Indians are having to pay the same amount of their salary for music as Americans would have to pay for their music.
Doesn't change my opinion that it was a troll, even if he was overall right that AMD was siding with microsoft. He could take the time to point out *how* AMD is siding with microsoft.
I think the states have a terrible solution to the M$ problem, but that doesn't mean I side with M$.
I redilly admit I hadn't read the article becore I posted, because I READ THE SLASHDOT article. CT was setting of an AMD bashing melee without bothering to inform anyone of why. That's basically what a troll is.
"AMD Takes Microsoft's Side in Antitrust Case" is a long damned streatch from them/CEO being opposed to the "remedy being persued by the states".
Your comment was inflamatory and hurt AMD without cause. If they come out and say "M$ is our bestest buddies and they didn't do nothing wrong." then you might have a point, but they didn't do that.
That was a GD troll CT and you know it.
Oh GAWD, I was a Sr in HS, about 17. Now I'm 26: I don't know where any of that stuff is anymore. ;)
LOL. American beer isn't... well... ok perhaps you're right.
Am I breaking the law because I go to Cracker Barrel and take advantage of their used audio book program?
For those of you who don't know, CB allows you to purchase a book at any their Old Country Store/Restaurants and then return that book at any CB OCS for a full refund minus a $3 restocking fee. This works out great for me because I LOVE to audio books. My commute to work helps me complete about 3 novels a week. CB's program saves me about $100/wk over the cost of new books. That's a moot point however because I wasn't buying that many books because I couldn't afford it and didn't have the time to go by the library. In addition, I work out of the state where I reside so getting to a library to which I have a card isn't easy. Is CB gonna be sued next? How about the local library?
When will the madness end?
Do what we have known forever is our best economical bet: switch to 100% ethonal alchohol.
In HS I did a science project with ethonal. I produced enough alchohol from fermenting garbage to power a small remote control car. The alchohol provided a much higher octain rating than gas, burnt much more cleanly, and kept the engine cleaner.
The main reason that alcohol isn't taken seriously as a fule alternative is because many people make the claim that it is too expensive to produce. That's like saying the PC would never sell because it was too expensive to produce. Alcohol could benefit just as much from mass-production as any other resource. Some conjecture suggests that the natural temperature in the mid-western states would allow construction of massive solar-powered brewing facilities to produce the alcohol from waste grain, third-grade hops and organic garbage. These types of facilities should be capable of producing enough alchohol to fule the majority of the cars in the US: just from waste resources.
But don't expect OPEC and the oil industry to let that happen without tons of lobbying and some mud-slinging.
Those types of people abhore using anything without menus in the first place, so it's still a good choice to add menus to Vim. The thing is, gVim already does that.
.gvimrc and .vimrc are part of my port-a-persona that I carry from machine to machine. If it weren't for the menus on the windows port of gvim I probably wouldn't have been able to learn the commands quickly enough not to loose interest.
I started using Vim some time ago, and it's the very first thing I install on any machine if I'll be doing much work on it and if it's not already there.
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"From where do you go from "new version" to port? The article doesn't say it will be a port either..."
RTFT: "Hall of Fame Game M.U.L.E. To Be Ported To PC"
They'll figure out that the reason there are so many cities under water and so many civilizations have stories of massive floods about the same time is because there really was a Noah and he really built an ark.
Go and read about the canopy theory if you want to know what many creationists believe was the source for the majority of the water released in this flood.
This theory also explains why bones of pre-flood animals and civilizations would appear to be much older by our carbon dating standards. The reason is because carbon 14 is created by radiation bombarding carbon in our atmosphere and then being ingested or breated into the bodies of living creatures. Ask your average old-earth-theory carbon-dating scientist why C14, with a half-life of only 5730 years, is still found in all bones collected, no matter how old they are conjectured to be by some scientists. That's not supposed to be possible, but it makes sense when you consider the biblical view of the earths age at about 14,000 years max. The canopy would have blocked much more radiation than is blocked today, making radiocarbon levels much much lower.