...the consumer now has the means to do the copying. It was very costly to copy a book, and you certainly couldn't copy a film. But, thanks to the digitization of works, consumers can easily make duplicates.
The "producer" of the work is not obliged to release digital copies of anything. Notice that no one in the written book realm is screaming about online piracy or lobbying for anything like the DMCA.
If you decide to release a work that is easy for me to copy, you can *expect* me to copy it whenever I see fit. Why else did you release it in such an easy to copy form? There are hard-to-copy formats for all of the types of work that we are talking about here, yet almost all "producers" choose to distribute their works in easy-to-copy forms. Why? The answer is simple, it is easy to copy for them as well. They want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the benefits(profit) of low cost replication without the natural consumer response to a work released in an easily copyable form.
To making online security questions real gates. The only places that have my real info are the places that really need it. Even then the answers that I give to the security screen questions are certainly not true.
What is the name of my first pet? Last three places I worked? Childhood friend? Favorite sports team? Favorite president? etc.
Anybody that knows the real me and knows the true answers to these questions will not be able to log on to my bank accounts using those "right" answers.
I construct passwords and these answers based on the site name itself and something else that is easy to remember. Using shapes is pretty simple. Things like: my yahoo email password makes a "Y" shape on the keyboard.
Well thought, clean clear delivery, and there are many Christians that agree with you. The same ones are often ashamed to be associated with ID proponents. That is why you rarely hear from them.
IANAL, but if I say "I'll sell you my email for $1" and you say "OK, here's $1" and I hit the "forward" button, then "property" has been exchanged.
If a burglar breaks into my house and starts erasing my emails and I shoot him claiming he was destroying my "valuables", no DA will press charges, at least not around here.
And that is the problem you are having in understanding this situation. You cannot conceive of people that are different from you even though they are observable in everyday life. You value your continued existence and perhaps that of others above all else. Others do not.
Try and face it, there have been people that chose to die rather than relinquish freedoms. There are still others alive today like them who are willing to die rather than not be free.
The manufacturer is the source of the problem and the source of the solution... If you really do want to keep the small scale business in operation, then stop selling mass quanitities to mass marketers at a discount that is unavailable to the small scale retailer.
Here I am cleaning up a build tree and Makefiles for release right now and I have to admit that in the hundreds of times I have done this, I have not made that keystroke error.
Don't have to use your imagination on this one, it really happened:...several Middle Eastern Looking Men rise from their seats and head for the front of the plane.
On the way, they kill a flight attendant that was standing in their way.
The unarmed passengers are unable to stop them.
The MELM eventually take over the plane and crash it into a large building.
Thousands die.
Thousands of children cry.
Feel Safer?
Just because you don't trust yourself with a gun does not mean that I, my brother, wife, father, son, daughter,... cannot be trusted with ours.
Here we are with The State unable to pay it's bills, but also unable to stop writing checks.
If only it was a crime for the state to write bad checks.
It could get really funny really quickly.
If only banks were so inept at money management that their software would force them to honor all checks presented. Hah! Banks are going out of business these days because of poor management.
If only The State could have the same thing happen to it.
It's not just about readability. Take a look at this.
It is quite readable, logical, easy to follow. It is still an abominable example of really bad/broken code. Especially since it is presented as an example of good code.
Penrose's "Road to Reality" is quite a bit more than Pop-Sci. I bought it a few months ago as a refresher. It has been 25 years since I got my degree and while I have kept up with the news it has been quite a while since I "practiced".
I'd also recommend "High Energy Astrophysics" V1 and V2 by Longair. Fascinating stuff in there.
Finally, set up a good newsreader and spend some time on the sci.astro and sci.physics newsgroups. If you can't get an education there, at least you will get some more suggestions from a far more qualified audience than here on/.;-)
As our knowledge of genetics inreases, eventually there will be choices like: This one might kill him by leukemia before he's 25, but if it doesn't it'll guarantee that he never has heart disease.
Some parents will opt for full out safety and take no risk at all. Their kids will turn out supremely average in all respects, dull.
Others will take every risk associated with every possibly beneficial gene and so opt for the chance at a super-kid that might inherit various diseases, but will also have a shot at brilliance.
There will be all levels of in-between choices as well.
Rei, you don't have to champion for Spacex all the time.
The only reason that Rutan/Virgin get the press they do is because they've already put up a manned flight. It doesn't matter that it was just a little suborbital flea-hop(to quote a famous Soviet leader). It was manned. They won the prize they were after. So....they get face time with the camera.
Soon enough Spacex will go sub-orbital, then orbital and when they do, all the cameras and/.ers will be there.
Take it easy man. Take a breath, sit back and smile. It'll all work out in the end.
I once built and still have (on the shelf) a linux system that fits entirely in an 80MB drive(including 20MB of swap, runs on an AMD 386SX40 with 16MB of RAM. There are two peripheral cards inserted into the ancient ISA bus, an 800x600 VGA card, and a 10Mb ethernet card. "Distro" was based on Slackware and hand-trimmed to fit. Original application was just an extra X server. Worked fine, years ago.
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...the consumer now has the means to do the copying. It was very costly to copy a book, and you certainly couldn't copy a film. But, thanks to the digitization of works, consumers can easily make duplicates.
The "producer" of the work is not obliged to release digital copies of anything. Notice that no one in the written book realm is screaming about online piracy or lobbying for anything like the DMCA.
If you decide to release a work that is easy for me to copy, you can *expect* me to copy it whenever I see fit. Why else did you release it in such an easy to copy form? There are hard-to-copy formats for all of the types of work that we are talking about here, yet almost all "producers" choose to distribute their works in easy-to-copy forms. Why? The answer is simple, it is easy to copy for them as well. They want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the benefits(profit) of low cost replication without the natural consumer response to a work released in an easily copyable form.
To making online security questions real gates. The only places that have my real info are the places that really need it. Even then the answers that I give to the security screen questions are certainly not true.
What is the name of my first pet?
Last three places I worked?
Childhood friend?
Favorite sports team?
Favorite president?
etc.
Anybody that knows the real me and knows the true answers to these questions will not be able to log on to my bank accounts using those "right" answers.
I construct passwords and these answers based on the site name itself and something else that is easy to remember. Using shapes is pretty simple. Things like: my yahoo email password makes a "Y" shape on the keyboard.
Well thought, clean clear delivery, and there are many Christians that agree with you. The same ones are often ashamed to be associated with ID proponents. That is why you rarely hear from them.
IANAL, but if I say "I'll sell you my email for $1" and you say "OK, here's $1" and I hit the "forward" button, then "property" has been exchanged.
If a burglar breaks into my house and starts erasing my emails and I shoot him claiming he was destroying my "valuables", no DA will press charges, at least not around here.
And that is the problem you are having in understanding this situation. You cannot conceive of people that are different from you even though they are observable in everyday life. You value your continued existence and perhaps that of others above all else. Others do not.
Try and face it, there have been people that chose to die rather than relinquish freedoms. There are still others alive today like them who are willing to die rather than not be free.
The manufacturer is the source of the problem and the source of the solution ... If you really do want to keep the small scale business in operation, then stop selling mass quanitities to mass marketers at a discount that is unavailable to the small scale retailer.
End of problem.
End of story.
Ouch!
Here I am cleaning up a build tree and Makefiles for release right now and I have to admit that in the hundreds of times I have done this, I have not made that keystroke error.
Of course there's always CVS...
Don't have to use your imagination on this one, it really happened: ...several Middle Eastern Looking Men rise from their seats and head for the front of the plane.
On the way, they kill a flight attendant that was standing in their way.
The unarmed passengers are unable to stop them.
The MELM eventually take over the plane and crash it into a large building.
Thousands die.
Thousands of children cry.
Feel Safer?
Just because you don't trust yourself with a gun does not mean that I, my brother, wife, father, son, daughter, ... cannot be trusted with ours.
You just noticed that California is not like the rest of the country!
HAHAHahhahahHAHAHaha!
LOL! That's a good one!
Here we are with The State unable to pay it's bills, but also unable to stop writing checks.
If only it was a crime for the state to write bad checks.
It could get really funny really quickly.
If only banks were so inept at money management that their software would force them to honor all checks presented. Hah! Banks are going out of business these days because of poor management.
If only The State could have the same thing happen to it.
Using free software written by someone else is not the only way to take advantage of the community knowledge base.
Come on man, get with the program. Everyone contributes, debugs, tweaks, uses.
It's not just about readability. Take a look at this.
It is quite readable, logical, easy to follow. It is still an abominable example of really bad/broken code. Especially since it is presented as an example of good code.
Famous quote: "I might not be able to define it, but I can recognise it when I see it."
Bad code is the same, especially when it is used as an example of good code. Just take a look at this.
Let's hope this guy's employer doesn't pay him to code.
Penrose's "Road to Reality" is quite a bit more than Pop-Sci. I bought it a few months ago as a refresher. It has been 25 years since I got my degree and while I have kept up with the news it has been quite a while since I "practiced".
I'd also recommend "High Energy Astrophysics" V1 and V2 by Longair. Fascinating stuff in there.
Finally, set up a good newsreader and spend some time on the sci.astro and sci.physics newsgroups. If you can't get an education there, at least you will get some more suggestions from a far more qualified audience than here on /. ;-)
You could offer them an NDA.
Seems reasonable in this day and age.
>So you can look into the future?
Yes, I can. Most humans can. Can't you?
As our knowledge of genetics inreases, eventually there will be choices like: This one might kill him by leukemia before he's 25, but if it doesn't it'll guarantee that he never has heart disease.
Some parents will opt for full out safety and take no risk at all. Their kids will turn out supremely average in all respects, dull.
Others will take every risk associated with every possibly beneficial gene and so opt for the chance at a super-kid that might inherit various diseases, but will also have a shot at brilliance.
There will be all levels of in-between choices as well.
In short, there will be no line.
Rei, you don't have to champion for Spacex all the time.
The only reason that Rutan/Virgin get the press they do is because they've already put up a manned flight. It doesn't matter that it was just a little suborbital flea-hop(to quote a famous Soviet leader). It was manned. They won the prize they were after. So....they get face time with the camera.
Soon enough Spacex will go sub-orbital, then orbital and when they do, all the cameras and /.ers will be there.
Take it easy man. Take a breath, sit back and smile. It'll all work out in the end.
Because by now, just about everyone has downloaded all the good songs. All that's left is a trickle of new stuff that's decent.
I know that's rare around here, but does it warrant a posting as "News for Nerds..."?
The Sun rises again.
Al Gore makes more hot air.
They might be true. They might be decent summaries of the article, but does that qualify them as "news"?
http://www.solatube.com/
So has the prism glass.
Nothing new here, move along...
It's just that simple.
Mod this guy up, as I don't have any more points.
Pure and simple, whoever can say "It's mine", do with it as they wish, and stop others from doing the same.
...are belong to us.
Even I can see that.
Obviously, these Fermilab folks don't get to go outside at all.
All you need is a screwdriver and a bucket. One is for punching a hole in the bottom of the tank, the other is for collecting what drains out.
I'll leave the deduction of which is for what as an exercise for the reader.
I once built and still have (on the shelf) a linux system that fits entirely in an 80MB drive(including 20MB of swap, runs on an AMD 386SX40 with 16MB of RAM. There are two peripheral cards inserted into the ancient ISA bus, an 800x600 VGA card, and a 10Mb ethernet card. "Distro" was based on Slackware and hand-trimmed to fit. Original application was just an extra X server. Worked fine, years ago.