And, considering StarOffice, you think this is needed? I would suggest otherwise. The best thing that can happen is for a major competitor to arise. But compatibility is necessary for interoperability. So CLR and C# are standards that can be implemented on any platform by any individual at any time without any obligation to Microsoft. Huh? What words don't you understand? Microsoft is desperate for a strong rival. It would help in court. What better than Linux?
Imagine being able to install and run your code in C# regardless of whether you are using Corel's implementation or HP's on your favorite Linux Distribution. Of course IBM is playing over here in the Linux market and has from time to time regretted investing time and energy on Java.
You are asking yourselves how you can circumvent copyright protection. Let's see... Some poor sap spends a couple of years writing and working hard at it then you goons rip his work and post it on the Internet where millions of people can download the whole thing for free (illegaly.) So the poor sap looses all the time and energy spent creating it. You are just theives You clearly do not understand the incentives to create. You clearly have never created anything yourselves or you would be a little more protective of your rights.
Because of all the dark planets out there. That big-eyed grey? Has big eyes to see infrared (heat vision.)
You don't have to go to the nearest visible star to be somewhere. You really only have to go a small distance into the dark. It is probably a small jump from planet to planet. Space is full of dark planets. Stepping stones to everywhere...
Can't get to the linux site. Must be evidence of the almightly Linux servers superior web server abilities. Linux is so powerful that servers powered by it cannot even take the curious traffic from slashdot. Took the server right down...
I forgot my Atari ST when they quit making them. It became a dead market. Why develop software for computers that are no longer made? Emulators are always crappy. They never work quite right.
This bone head says WinMe is buggy but he can't seem to actually identify any. He seems to feel the performance drop from Win98 on the same hardware is a problem. Actually WinMe is for computer novices. It does not allow bad dlls to be installed. It is very pro-actively protective of system files. This is not a bug.
Why on earth would anyone want a WinME emulator for anyway? What is the point?
Sun has never been altruistic. THey are trying to take over Gnome or something. You can't trust them... Look how Java leads to Java Enterprise and how expensive it gets... Look at how much it costs to get a fully functional system when you download the 'free' Solaris. Sun only lies... They must not be trusted.
Like the 'one-click' shopping that Amazon thinks they own. This is completely and utterly wrong. Anyone should be allowed to implement a one-click buy from a web page. Although our government is too stupid to see it, these are common things dne with a computer with lots of prior art. Al Gore is largely responsible for these patent awards. It would not have been given under prior administrations... Certainly Bush will eliminate some of these moronic patents
Overall record sales are up, not because Napster did anything, but because the economy is good and sales are up. If not for Napster then sales would likely have been even higher.
Get Real! Pay for you own stuff. Stealing is wrong!
Napster's participation could be seen as contributory and conspiratory. Otherwose known as racketeering. This is especially true considering the vast amount of material over the last several months published on the Napster web site exhorting exactly the kind of sharing considered illegal.
How do you write a peer-to-peer file sharing system that guarantees the anonymity of it's user's/sharer's. How do you eradicate those tell-tale packet addresses?
Pretty well too. I can repair them. I can program them. I can describe thier functions. And I have been doing it for twenty years on a wide variety of platforms.
Computers are not magic!
"Any Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - A.C. Clarke"
The big fallacy I see in this case is the idea that if Napster is convicted then peer to peer will be made illegal.
Say people start stealing fish. Suddenly, one day it occurs to them that using a bucket to steal the fish is much more efficient. So everone who steals fish starts using buckets. Does this mean buckets must then be made illegal? No, not necessarily. No change is required; It is already illegal to steal fish. You don't need to specify how the fish are stolen.
And you cannot discount all the hype on Napsters web site telling everyone they are above the law and esentially telling users to break the law. The web pages at Napster have been full of this kind of rhetoric. So proving intent to subvert existing law is easy.
Clearly I am speaking to a bone head so I will not address the bonehead directly. That would almost be like he was 'human' or something.
Nevertheless;
1) Fair use is 'sharing with immediate family and friends.' 20 million people 'sharing' 5 million people's personal copies of copyrighted material is stealing. Napster could be convicted of conspiring with the 25% who actually do the providing. This is called 'racketeering.' I also do not think you, oops, I mean 'bonehead', will find any precedents of families and immediate friends numbering in the millions. There are no records of this anywhere. No court will hold that this is fair use.
2) It is only the injunction which has been stayed. It has NOT been remanded! The case will not be settled until appeals and supreme courts get a chance at it anyway, so don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
3) In 1960 you could not count the number of people arrested for pot on one finger! There were NONE! It wasn't against the law. Anyway MANY people do go to jail every day for infringing on intellectual property one way or another. People who disclose after signing non-disclosure agreements. People who steal patents. People who plagarize. Remember when Eddie Murphy was sued over 'Coming to America' because Buchwald said he wrote it? Well there was no jail but Eddie paid a big fine. Usually you will go to jail if you cannot pay the fine. How many people have gone to jail this year in the US due to Microsoft's new efforts? At least 70 people this year across the US have been convicted of 'Piracy' in one form or another for selling illegal copies of Microsoft's OSes. Why did Mitnick go to jail? Was it for accessing private intellectual property without permission?
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And, considering StarOffice, you think this is needed? I would suggest otherwise. The best thing that can happen is for a major competitor to arise. But compatibility is necessary for interoperability. So CLR and C# are standards that can be implemented on any platform by any individual at any time without any obligation to Microsoft. Huh? What words don't you understand? Microsoft is desperate for a strong rival. It would help in court. What better than Linux?
Imagine being able to install and run your code in C# regardless of whether you are using Corel's implementation or HP's on your favorite Linux Distribution. Of course IBM is playing over here in the Linux market and has from time to time regretted investing time and energy on Java.
I just knew it! Why else would Microsoft make such a huge investment if not to evangelize CLR and C#???
Well?
the article states that the Solaris port will follow soon.
But personally I think Sun Sucks so I would recommend you get a real OS like FreeBSD or SuSE Linux and tell Scott McNealy to go jump!
Are you bragging about being anal?
You are asking yourselves how you can circumvent copyright protection. Let's see... Some poor sap spends a couple of years writing and working hard at it then you goons rip his work and post it on the Internet where millions of people can download the whole thing for free (illegaly.) So the poor sap looses all the time and energy spent creating it. You are just theives You clearly do not understand the incentives to create. You clearly have never created anything yourselves or you would be a little more protective of your rights.
The real thing
Because of all the dark planets out there. That big-eyed grey? Has big eyes to see infrared (heat vision.)
You don't have to go to the nearest visible star to be somewhere. You really only have to go a small distance into the dark. It is probably a small jump from planet to planet. Space is full of dark planets. Stepping stones to everywhere...
Right after he finished inventing the tech industry's economic boom.
Can't get to the linux site. Must be evidence of the almightly Linux servers superior web server abilities. Linux is so powerful that servers powered by it cannot even take the curious traffic from slashdot. Took the server right down...
I forgot my Atari ST when they quit making them. It became a dead market. Why develop software for computers that are no longer made? Emulators are always crappy. They never work quite right.
This bone head says WinMe is buggy but he can't seem to actually identify any. He seems to feel the performance drop from Win98 on the same hardware is a problem. Actually WinMe is for computer novices. It does not allow bad dlls to be installed. It is very pro-actively protective of system files. This is not a bug.
Why on earth would anyone want a WinME emulator for anyway? What is the point?
Sun has never been altruistic. THey are trying to take over Gnome or something. You can't trust them... Look how Java leads to Java Enterprise and how expensive it gets... Look at how much it costs to get a fully functional system when you download the 'free' Solaris. Sun only lies... They must not be trusted.
Like the 'one-click' shopping that Amazon thinks they own. This is completely and utterly wrong. Anyone should be allowed to implement a one-click buy from a web page. Although our government is too stupid to see it, these are common things dne with a computer with lots of prior art. Al Gore is largely responsible for these patent awards. It would not have been given under prior administrations... Certainly Bush will eliminate some of these moronic patents
Lucky he didn't do jail time.
my IE 5.5 does not do what you describe. I do not go through any redirect when going to a page. You are all paranoids.
Overall record sales are up, not because Napster did anything, but because the economy is good and sales are up. If not for Napster then sales would likely have been even higher.
Get Real! Pay for you own stuff. Stealing is wrong!
And you will be the replacing our capitalist system with... What? Communism?
Well, doesn't it?
This is exactly the kind of thing you can expect from the Gore DOJ!
Napster's participation could be seen as contributory and conspiratory. Otherwose known as racketeering. This is especially true considering the vast amount of material over the last several months published on the Napster web site exhorting exactly the kind of sharing considered illegal.
it is called 'Public Domain'
How do you write a peer-to-peer file sharing system that guarantees the anonymity of it's user's/sharer's. How do you eradicate those tell-tale packet addresses?
Pretty well too. I can repair them. I can program them. I can describe thier functions. And I have been doing it for twenty years on a wide variety of platforms.
Computers are not magic!
"Any Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - A.C. Clarke"
The big fallacy I see in this case is the idea that if Napster is convicted then peer to peer will be made illegal.
Say people start stealing fish. Suddenly, one day it occurs to them that using a bucket to steal the fish is much more efficient. So everone who steals fish starts using buckets. Does this mean buckets must then be made illegal? No, not necessarily. No change is required; It is already illegal to steal fish. You don't need to specify how the fish are stolen.
And you cannot discount all the hype on Napsters web site telling everyone they are above the law and esentially telling users to break the law. The web pages at Napster have been full of this kind of rhetoric. So proving intent to subvert existing law is easy.
Clearly I am speaking to a bone head so I will not address the bonehead directly. That would almost be like he was 'human' or something. Nevertheless;
1) Fair use is 'sharing with immediate family and friends.' 20 million people 'sharing' 5 million people's personal copies of copyrighted material is stealing. Napster could be convicted of conspiring with the 25% who actually do the providing. This is called 'racketeering.' I also do not think you, oops, I mean 'bonehead', will find any precedents of families and immediate friends numbering in the millions. There are no records of this anywhere. No court will hold that this is fair use.
2) It is only the injunction which has been stayed. It has NOT been remanded! The case will not be settled until appeals and supreme courts get a chance at it anyway, so don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
3) In 1960 you could not count the number of people arrested for pot on one finger! There were NONE! It wasn't against the law. Anyway MANY people do go to jail every day for infringing on intellectual property one way or another. People who disclose after signing non-disclosure agreements. People who steal patents. People who plagarize. Remember when Eddie Murphy was sued over 'Coming to America' because Buchwald said he wrote it? Well there was no jail but Eddie paid a big fine. Usually you will go to jail if you cannot pay the fine. How many people have gone to jail this year in the US due to Microsoft's new efforts? At least 70 people this year across the US have been convicted of 'Piracy' in one form or another for selling illegal copies of Microsoft's OSes. Why did Mitnick go to jail? Was it for accessing private intellectual property without permission?
Hmmmm, who is a bone head now?
Consider the futility of stopping the Potheads. You can't stop them, but many of them do jail time. And now you can too!