Information wants a new car and a townhouse with a full larder. But Information doesn't want to work. Information doesn't want to be responsible for itself. Information wants the world to pay for everything so it will never have to grow up and get a job to support itself. But Information is dreaming. Even socialist states recognize intellectual property.
The people who provide the most downloads will go to jail. The Fed is a little slow to get started some times but look out once they get started.
And there is plenty of space in jail for every one! We can always build more!. Just because tens of millions of people do some thing doesn't mean it is right or that the Fed will turn a blind eye to it. Just look at marijuana users. There are easily 80 million of them in the US. But that doesn't stop them from going to jail. Potheads don't hurt any one. It is a victimless crime. On the other hand, Napster steals revenue from artists and industry.
The Napster controversy is about a bunch of kids who don't work and can't pay for stuff they want. So they think the world should give them everything they want for free just because they want it.
Napster will be shut down. People who trade copyrighted material will be arrested and will do jail time. Some people may go for years without getting busted, but once the Fed decides to stop waiting it will be a lottery based on who give out the most files. Whoever's server is visited the most will get busted.
Read the Constitution of The United States. Intellectual property is not an afterthought like 'free speech' or giving women the vote. Intellectual property rights are in the main body. These rights form the foundation for our society. So you better get used to paying for the stuff you use, cause the tolerance isn't going to last. Every country in the world, even communist and Socialist states, recognize intellectual property. Only high school kids don't because they have never recieved a decent education and they are not equipped to judge these weighty issues. They just don't want to work so they imagine they are having some kind of revolution when they steal using Napster or Wrapster or Gnutella.
But they are just theives. Nothing special. And many of them will eventually go to jail.
We didn't bother to read all of the foolish ranting by that 9th grader and we can't understand what he could not, in his ignorance, put on the page. We are mindless but willing sheep who will follow anyone spouting what we think we want to hear.
"Information Wants... stuff! Lots of stuff!" Information just doesn't want to pay for it. Information thinks the world owes it a place to live for free and free food too. Information shouldn't have to pay for anything because it is way above working. Information is l33t!
"You can't even speak your own fucking language!" - Frank Zappa
AOL refuses to release the Gecko browser until the Microsoft case is over. They want to be able to whine in court that Netscape was destroyed by Microsoft when, in fact, Netscape is alive and well. Netscape has had a good standards compliant browser for over a year (Gecko). But Sun/AOL won't allow them to release it because they desperately feel a NEED to hurt Microsoft with Anti-trust DOJ goons.
Sun/AOL/Netscape decided they will never compete on product merits again. From now on Sun/AOL/Netscape will use Government Goons to do their competing for them.
Netscape gave up on their browser when AOL would not use it. AOL wouldn't use it because it was not componentized. So Netscape produced Gecko. But they refuse to release it because they hope to manipulate the courts in the Microsoft antitrust case. No sooner than that case is settled AOL/Netscape will release te Gecko version which has been on the shelf for over a year already.
After the way AOL/Sun has tried to manipulate the courts to go after Microsoft, nothing would please me more than to see AOL/Time Warner heavily regulated in the Broadband access and in Instant Messaging and hopefully in other areas as well. Nothing could please me more except maybe seeing Microsoft get the monopoly ruling reversed after AOL becomes regulated. It leaves out Sun, the ring leader of the Gang of Two (AOL, Sun, Netscape)but I have a feeling Sun's comeuppance is in the works even as I speak.
I want a little clamshell WinCE type device with a 640x480 5" or 6" color screen. I want IE 5+ on it. I want the other Pocket PC apps like Outlook, Word, Excel. I want a little keyboard to match the clamshell. Basically I want a HP Jornada 820 with a phone built in it.
But Nobody makes anything like it
Apparently it will be a while before I upgrade again...
Thanks for demonstrating your utter lack of understanding of the recording industry business model. You also show off your complete ignorance of The Constitution of The United States. If you don't like our capitalist system you are free to move to Russia or China. Go back to home room and ask the teacher, What does it mean when the Constituation says, "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"" You still have a chance to learn the truth!
This poor sap is just a front. He doesn't really have anything to do with the company. A mere figurehead for you to admire. I minority stockholder, he has no input on the business the company does.
Check your typing... Aside from leaving out your test operator I have to say that anyone who writes like this (defining the same variable name repeatedly in the same procedure) is just trying to write obfuscated code. And employers will not thank you for it... Of course if you don't want a job go right ahead and write with the worst possible style in the most unreadable ways. You name will be cursed long after you have been let go.
If you only want to do what you already know how will you learn?
As a real programmer of many years I know that I am often locked in to tool sets I don't know and don't want to know. You have to work on things other people wrote some time ago. And the tools used may not be the coolest compiler or my favorite platform, but I must overcome! I am able to work in hostile environments and it makes me valuable.
AOL(Road Runner) was down there screwing with SBC before. This sounds like more of Case/McNeely/Ellison tactics. You know, you can't compete honestly by the quality and features of your product. Instead you steal competitors trash, hire private detectives, and try to talk some goverment lawyers to go after them for you in the name of competition (Thank Gore's infinite gullability for these wild patents and anti-trust activity in all arenas)!
Mainsoft is not affiliated with Microsoft in any way, shape or form. Mainsoft is doing the port, Mainsoft will get the profit. Microsoft gets licensing for allowing it. Simple. But Mainsoft is doing it.
IE is integrated into the OS. Naturally, if you wanted to see it's source, you would be looking at the OS. Has no one read the Anti-Trust case filings?
You said >"In fact, unauthorized reprinting was common. "
I don't believe it for a second. When was it easy to get your hands on printing press to create a few hundred copies of the book you just read? This was never common. Intellectual property rights are in the main body of the Constitution. These rights are not an afterthought like 'free speech' or the right to bear arms. The right to intellectual property is integral to our free society. The idea that this is not true is wrong.
You are wrong to try tell people otherwise!
Find me a copy of a book from the eighteen hudreds that does not have the copyright in it! Find me lots of them because they must exist if it was as common as you say!
Yeah, sure... Any buffalo or indian would let you use their printing presses for free any time you want. This was very common. BULLSHIT!
Linux has to be as easy to use as Windows, or even easier. If people have to learn the CLI (Command line interface) then it will never catch on. If you have to be a programmer to manipulate the system then Linux will never catch on. Linux needs sound card support, 3D graphics support, easier network setup. (Easier everything setup.)
Linux is just to cryptic for normal users. Most people using Windows don't have a clue about the DOS CLI. And they don't need to. But Linux users must know how to use the shell.
Better support for devices needs to be there. If I want to code a game on Windows I have standard sound, video, 3D, networking, IP, everything is built in and standard on all boxes. So development is a snap. Under Linux none of those things can be expected to be present. So game developers have to start from scratch and write the 3d support, the sound support, and everything themselves. So development tools have to be better and hardware support needs to be better.
Until idiots can use it, Linux will never catch on.
I will be voting against Gore. No question about it. I will vote Bush because the Reform Party has gone to morons and buffoons. No More Gore! I will not vote in the 'Father of the Internet' because he lies as easily as Clinton does and about everything.
Who wants a president that never knows what is going on around him?? He did not know what was going on at the Buddist Fund raiser. Did you read his transcripts? He never has any idea what is going on. He really thought he was the father of the internet! What an idiot! These are the people who put Reno in charge of the DOJ. Reno, the person who uses a pencil because computers are too confusing!
Sorry, I just could not resist. You know they did NOT use the GPL on StarOffice as they would like you to beleive, they used the LGPL which says you can use OpenSource Binaries for linking without returning any changes to the community. Then they added a second license wich says any changes made by anyone to StarOffice will have copyrights assigned to Sun.
I Just could not resist when I saw the previous subject.
Mcnealy is so lame. He cannot improve his own code. He says he can't compete unless he sees Microsofts code because it is sooooo good. So he is trying to get it for free. He already quit supplying Microsoft with any JAVA updates years ago, in spite of having been told by Judge Whyte that he must follow the terms of the contract. But he thinks he can manipulate the courts, Like he did with the DOJ against Microsft. Of course that ruling will not stand...
At least Microsoft has fixed these problems. Where is your linux list of fixes? Don't have one? Gee isn't anyone fixing these things? Apparently Linux IS buggier than anything! Except BSD! Give me a red devil anytime!
I am sure McNealy will be happy to hear it. Since StarOffice is OWNED By SUN. If you make mods to the StarOffice Code you agree to assign the copyrights of those mods to Sun. Read both licences and don't believe hype. C-Net never had any integrity.
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Information wants a new car and a townhouse with a full larder. But Information doesn't want to work. Information doesn't want to be responsible for itself. Information wants the world to pay for everything so it will never have to grow up and get a job to support itself. But Information is dreaming. Even socialist states recognize intellectual property.
The people who provide the most downloads will go to jail. The Fed is a little slow to get started some times but look out once they get started.
And there is plenty of space in jail for every one! We can always build more!. Just because tens of millions of people do some thing doesn't mean it is right or that the Fed will turn a blind eye to it. Just look at marijuana users. There are easily 80 million of them in the US. But that doesn't stop them from going to jail. Potheads don't hurt any one. It is a victimless crime. On the other hand, Napster steals revenue from artists and industry.
Yeah, these kids can go to jail too!
The Napster controversy is about a bunch of kids who don't work and can't pay for stuff they want. So they think the world should give them everything they want for free just because they want it.
Napster will be shut down. People who trade copyrighted material will be arrested and will do jail time. Some people may go for years without getting busted, but once the Fed decides to stop waiting it will be a lottery based on who give out the most files. Whoever's server is visited the most will get busted.
Read the Constitution of The United States. Intellectual property is not an afterthought like 'free speech' or giving women the vote. Intellectual property rights are in the main body. These rights form the foundation for our society. So you better get used to paying for the stuff you use, cause the tolerance isn't going to last. Every country in the world, even communist and Socialist states, recognize intellectual property. Only high school kids don't because they have never recieved a decent education and they are not equipped to judge these weighty issues. They just don't want to work so they imagine they are having some kind of revolution when they steal using Napster or Wrapster or Gnutella.
But they are just theives. Nothing special. And many of them will eventually go to jail.
We didn't bother to read all of the foolish ranting by that 9th grader and we can't understand what he could not, in his ignorance, put on the page. We are mindless but willing sheep who will follow anyone spouting what we think we want to hear.
"Information Wants... stuff! Lots of stuff!" Information just doesn't want to pay for it. Information thinks the world owes it a place to live for free and free food too. Information shouldn't have to pay for anything because it is way above working. Information is l33t!
"You can't even speak your own fucking language!" - Frank Zappa
AOL refuses to release the Gecko browser until the Microsoft case is over. They want to be able to whine in court that Netscape was destroyed by Microsoft when, in fact, Netscape is alive and well. Netscape has had a good standards compliant browser for over a year (Gecko). But Sun/AOL won't allow them to release it because they desperately feel a NEED to hurt Microsoft with Anti-trust DOJ goons.
Sun/AOL/Netscape decided they will never compete on product merits again. From now on Sun/AOL/Netscape will use Government Goons to do their competing for them.
Netscape gave up on their browser when AOL would not use it. AOL wouldn't use it because it was not componentized. So Netscape produced Gecko. But they refuse to release it because they hope to manipulate the courts in the Microsoft antitrust case. No sooner than that case is settled AOL/Netscape will release te Gecko version which has been on the shelf for over a year already.
After the way AOL/Sun has tried to manipulate the courts to go after Microsoft, nothing would please me more than to see AOL/Time Warner heavily regulated in the Broadband access and in Instant Messaging and hopefully in other areas as well. Nothing could please me more except maybe seeing Microsoft get the monopoly ruling reversed after AOL becomes regulated. It leaves out Sun, the ring leader of the Gang of Two (AOL, Sun, Netscape)but I have a feeling Sun's comeuppance is in the works even as I speak.
Huh?
Everyone be sure and fill your shopping cart while you peruse the pointless assertions.
Olympus Mons is the site of the impact. The volcano itself spewed the volcanic material into space. That material fell here...
Maybe?
I want a little clamshell WinCE type device with a 640x480 5" or 6" color screen. I want IE 5+ on it. I want the other Pocket PC apps like Outlook, Word, Excel. I want a little keyboard to match the clamshell. Basically I want a HP Jornada 820 with a phone built in it.
But Nobody makes anything like it
Apparently it will be a while before I upgrade again...
Thanks for demonstrating your utter lack of understanding of the recording industry business model. You also show off your complete ignorance of The Constitution of The United States. If you don't like our capitalist system you are free to move to Russia or China. Go back to home room and ask the teacher, What does it mean when the Constituation says, "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"" You still have a chance to learn the truth!
This poor sap is just a front. He doesn't really have anything to do with the company. A mere figurehead for you to admire. I minority stockholder, he has no input on the business the company does.
He may still do jail time...
Check your typing... Aside from leaving out your test operator I have to say that anyone who writes like this (defining the same variable name repeatedly in the same procedure) is just trying to write obfuscated code. And employers will not thank you for it... Of course if you don't want a job go right ahead and write with the worst possible style in the most unreadable ways. You name will be cursed long after you have been let go.
If you only want to do what you already know how will you learn?
As a real programmer of many years I know that I am often locked in to tool sets I don't know and don't want to know. You have to work on things other people wrote some time ago. And the tools used may not be the coolest compiler or my favorite platform, but I must overcome! I am able to work in hostile environments and it makes me valuable.
AOL(Road Runner) was down there screwing with SBC before. This sounds like more of Case/McNeely/Ellison tactics. You know, you can't compete honestly by the quality and features of your product. Instead you steal competitors trash, hire private detectives, and try to talk some goverment lawyers to go after them for you in the name of competition (Thank Gore's infinite gullability for these wild patents and anti-trust activity in all arenas)!
Mainsoft is not affiliated with Microsoft in any way, shape or form. Mainsoft is doing the port, Mainsoft will get the profit. Microsoft gets licensing for allowing it. Simple. But Mainsoft is doing it.
IE is integrated into the OS. Naturally, if you wanted to see it's source, you would be looking at the OS. Has no one read the Anti-Trust case filings?
AOL Sucks. It is the suckiest ISP anywhere. Why would anyone use anything they had their grubby hands in?
You said >"In fact, unauthorized reprinting was common. "
I don't believe it for a second. When was it easy to get your hands on printing press to create a few hundred copies of the book you just read? This was never common. Intellectual property rights are in the main body of the Constitution. These rights are not an afterthought like 'free speech' or the right to bear arms. The right to intellectual property is integral to our free society. The idea that this is not true is wrong.
You are wrong to try tell people otherwise!
Find me a copy of a book from the eighteen hudreds that does not have the copyright in it! Find me lots of them because they must exist if it was as common as you say!
Yeah, sure... Any buffalo or indian would let you use their printing presses for free any time you want. This was very common. BULLSHIT!
Linux has to be as easy to use as Windows, or even easier. If people have to learn the CLI (Command line interface) then it will never catch on. If you have to be a programmer to manipulate the system then Linux will never catch on. Linux needs sound card support, 3D graphics support, easier network setup. (Easier everything setup.)
Linux is just to cryptic for normal users. Most people using Windows don't have a clue about the DOS CLI. And they don't need to. But Linux users must know how to use the shell.
Better support for devices needs to be there. If I want to code a game on Windows I have standard sound, video, 3D, networking, IP, everything is built in and standard on all boxes. So development is a snap. Under Linux none of those things can be expected to be present. So game developers have to start from scratch and write the 3d support, the sound support, and everything themselves. So development tools have to be better and hardware support needs to be better.
Until idiots can use it, Linux will never catch on.
I will be voting against Gore. No question about it. I will vote Bush because the Reform Party has gone to morons and buffoons. No More Gore! I will not vote in the 'Father of the Internet' because he lies as easily as Clinton does and about everything.
Who wants a president that never knows what is going on around him?? He did not know what was going on at the Buddist Fund raiser. Did you read his transcripts? He never has any idea what is going on. He really thought he was the father of the internet! What an idiot! These are the people who put Reno in charge of the DOJ. Reno, the person who uses a pencil because computers are too confusing!
No! More! Gore!
Sorry, I just could not resist. You know they did NOT use the GPL on StarOffice as they would like you to beleive, they used the LGPL which says you can use OpenSource Binaries for linking without returning any changes to the community. Then they added a second license wich says any changes made by anyone to StarOffice will have copyrights assigned to Sun.
I Just could not resist when I saw the previous subject.
Mcnealy is so lame. He cannot improve his own code. He says he can't compete unless he sees Microsofts code because it is sooooo good. So he is trying to get it for free. He already quit supplying Microsoft with any JAVA updates years ago, in spite of having been told by Judge Whyte that he must follow the terms of the contract. But he thinks he can manipulate the courts, Like he did with the DOJ against Microsft. Of course that ruling will not stand...
Most of the stuff about Microsoft on that site are also fixed bugs so your point is??? BSD is best? Give me a red demon every time...
At least Microsoft has fixed these problems. Where is your linux list of fixes? Don't have one? Gee isn't anyone fixing these things? Apparently Linux IS buggier than anything! Except BSD! Give me a red devil anytime!
I am sure McNealy will be happy to hear it. Since StarOffice is OWNED By SUN. If you make mods to the StarOffice Code you agree to assign the copyrights of those mods to Sun. Read both licences and don't believe hype. C-Net never had any integrity.