At the very least, we will likely be seeing more education campaigns against copyright infringement and equating that with theft in the near future.
Of course enjoying the fruits of someone's work without paying
for it (when they expect to be paid) isn't theft!
Last night I went to see a movie I've been looking
forward to all summer. And the cool part was, it
was free! You see, the guy who takes the tickets
at the theater is kind of old and it's easy to
sneak by him. Geez, they're not even going to
try to protect their rights! Anyway, it's
not theft, because there were empty seats in the
theater, so they weren't going to get any money
even if I didn't go. And besides, everything
Hollywood produces is crap.
Then I took the subway home. It didn't cost me
anything because I jumped the turnstile. One
of my friends said I was committing "theft" --
obviously he can't think for himself. I mean,
the city was running the train anyway, and there
were empty seats. Besides, the subway sucks,
and they fill the route with lots of stops I'm
not interested in (I only want to pay for the
stop next to the theater and the one near my
apartment).
There used to be a bus line that
was more convenient, but the city shut it down,
with some lame excuae about not making enough
money to justify the expense. That just shows
that they suck and don't deserve my money anyway!
Fight the Man! Transportation wants to be free!
I probably won't go to that theater any more.
I heard they're installing some new "security system"
to prevent people from getting in without paying.
That really pisses me off! How dare they!
It just goes to show how evil they are. And
besides, it serves them right if they lose money --
watching movies in a big theater with other people
is an outdated business model!
Thus; it is a bit stupid to just ask "Is it legal to copy a CD", the obvious answer to that question is "YES, it IS LEGAL - unless the Copyright holder of the work on that CD objects to it"...
IABAL, but I thought that under the default definition of
copyright, you can't legally make a copy. That's why the
GPL has to spell it out. So, your statement would be
more properly stated as "No, it is not legal, unless the
Copyright holder of the work on that CD explicitly
permits it."
... he didn't want to infringe on the
patent I own, called "A mechanism to
improve the relevance of electronic
bulletin board comments via reading
TFA."
how would you keep the Wikipedia page on the Nazi regime balanced
Believe it or not, about 20 years ago,
PBS refused to
air a Canadian documentary about the
Soviet Union's deliberate creation of
a famine in the 1930's in Ukraine, even
though the film won many awards from credible
organizations. Their excuse was that
the Soviets didn't get to present
their viewpoint!
(Ultimately, PBS did run the film,
called "Harvest of Despair," but only
because William Buckley ran it on his
program. Even then, they forced
Buckley to include a discussion with
a panel of "experts," who bashed the
film.)
What you should have said was
"I was silly enough to try to
become a CS teacher..." since you
obviously never did if all you did was
teach Word/Excel. (Not that I blame
you; I assume that's just what
they made you teach.)
Maybe they should rename their
driver's ed class "Automotive
Engineering." (Although the average
driver's ed class is much better than
the typical Word/Excel class that
pretends it teaches computer literacy.
Driver's ed classes at least
acknowledge the existence of more than
one kind of car, and tell students
they need to get used to having some
controls in different positions
depending on the make.)
Why exactly did you make her life hard, instead of actually helping her?
I could've added that I went back and showed
her how to export to CSV, which I could
use. I also explained to her that
"plaintext is the format that
Notepad uses." But that wasn't the point
of the story, was it?:-)
Because most people using computers aren't computer-literate.
At my university, a secretary gave me a
list of all the students in my class.
The names were writtin in some fancy
scripty font. I asked her to email me
the file, so I could import it into a
spreadsheet. When I got the file, I
found it was a Word file, useless to me
because my spreadsheet couldn't import
those.
So I asked her if she could send it to
me in ASCII. She didn't know what I
was talking about. So I said I
wanted plaintext.
So she sent me the SAME Word file.
But the font had been changed to a
more "normal" looking font.
If someone were to make a class named "Jews: The Secret Rules of the World" or "Why blacks should be slaves again" I wouldn't like it very much. It would be pretty obvious that the professor was a racist bastard and should be fired under the policies of the university.
Then again, if someone were to compare
people who died on 9/11 to the Nazi
murderer Eichmann, people in academia
would leap to his defense.
It's ironic that, especially Hollywood, and, the recording industry, so much a target of Joe McCarthy should now be at the forefront of an hysterical witchhunt
You say that as if Hollywood is the
first group ever to suffer persecution,
and then turn around and do it to
someone else.
What strange rules of economics are they suggesting that more expensive items are more appealing for the same quality?
I read in a wine book that in the 50's,
California wine makers mostly sold their
wine from big vats in regional
supermarkets. You'd bring your own
jug, and fill it from a spigot on the
vat, like a big coffee urn. You'd pay
by the quart or whatever. And they'd
let you sample it, of course. Sellers
found that if they put three urns out
with three different prices, people
would almost always claim the most
expensive one tasted better, even when
they put the same wine in all
three!
[...] in emerging markets technology projects are more likely to be new installations, which means that licence fee savings for open source software make more of a difference, since updates and retraining are not an issue.
Repeat points made in TFA and get
free Karma for your original insight!
Suppose you sign a contract with me in which for $100 I promise to fix things so your neighbors stop complaining about your dog barking at night.... Now, does any person reasonably believe that you authorized me to shoot your dog
No, a reasonable person would
believe you were going to shoot
the neighbors.
My take is that they're using the difference in frequency between the carrier frequency and the generated sideband frequency to represent a value (ie. +10kHz = 0001; +15kHz = 0010; etc.).
It's been a long time since I took Signals and Systems, but isn't there a principle whereby if you sample a signal over less time, there is more uncertainty as to what its frequency is? (It's analogous to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, where the product of two
uncertainties is a physical constant.)
This puts a lower bound on how close the frequencies can be vs. how many cycles (or how much of one cycle) you use for one baud, even before taking noise into account.
So the *only* reason someone might think that sticking with a product that is used by 90% of market (formats included) is that they were influenced by Microsoft?
TFA said "might be influenced" --
you're the one trying to change that to
"the only reason."
Yes, but thats clearly what you wanted to imply isn't Linda?
There are big differences between
being "influenced," "bought"
and "owned" by someone. Microsoft
could target certain influential
groups, and take steps to ensure
that their position is heard in
preference to all others. This could
be done without any kind of direct
payment. "Bought" implies some
kind of payment, and explicit or
implicit quid pro quo. So
turning "influenced" into "bought" is
putting words into someone's mouth.
GWB was re-elected! Any country with an average IQ higher than that of the outside temperature (and I'm talking 'fall' here) would have kicked this guy to the curb.
Right now it's 290 degrees K outside.
Actually, Kerry won the high-school
dropout vote, as well as the Ph.D. vote.
Bush won the high-school graduate to
4-year degree sectors.
I knew someone who hand-coded HTML to make web pages around 1997,
before HTML-authoring tools were common. And these were pages
with graphics and menus. But she
was absolutely convinced that she should
use Microsoft products because you'd
have to be "a computer genius" to use
anything else. I couldn't convince her
that writing a file in LaTeX was
structurally very similar to
hand-editing HTML. She had a complete
psychological block, and would even
get mad at me for daring to use
anything else.
can you prove that this population is (a) represented by these bones, (b) genetically distinct, and (c) incapable of creating viable offspring with any other 'human' population.
They've been dead 12,000 years, so I'd guess that (c) is a yes.
Sometimes? If all it takes is a pawn sacrifice, I would say *always*.
Only if the setup is a sure thing. If you know that if you offer the pawn and it's taken, it will inevitably lead to checkmate, then yes, you always do it. More often, you just do it for a better position, in which you might get a checkmate later on.
Another way to interpret the sentence is to say that it sometimes happens, rather than always, because most players aren't able to detect that opportunity 100% of the time.
If MS and Linux were cars (never mind old jokes) people would be buying magazines to compare
And the mags would be totally worthless, as their editors would just praise the cars mindlessly, especially those produced by major advertisers. Better cars made by small companies would hardly ever be mentioned. And PHBs would decide which cars to use for their corporate fleets based on the magazines rather than their own mechanics, who actually understand cars.
Microsoft is not known for having complete and accurate documentation of any of its APIs or file formats. If you want the absolute truth, you go to the source code.
So either they give up their source code, and
endlessly whine about nasty governments "forcing
them to give up their crown jewels," or else
hand over a buggy spec, and risk having a court
find that they failed to comply with a court order.
No doubt, they would do the latter, and try to
argue that buggy specs is standard industry
practice, and drag it out forever.
Vi wasn't easy to learn either -- but while unintuitive, it is all logical
Yes, because typing L to go right, K to go
up, J for down and H for left is so much
more logical than ^F for forward, ^B for
backward, ^N for the next line and ^P for the
previous line!
(I realize non-English speakers will be hosed
either way.) Or that a linefeed character
has a special status in vi, so you can't just
delete it, you have to "join" the lines it
separates. Or having to switch constantly
between "navigating" and "inserting text,"
instead of just doing whichever you need to do
right away.
This argument has been going on almost as long
as the Catholic/Protestant thing. It seems once
people get the habit of doing things one way,
the other way is "strange" and "counterintuitive."
Kind of like every other UI debate.
To answer the GP question: you can get by with
about 10-15 basic commands. Open up emacs or
xemacs, then type control-H followed by a t
(no control). This gets you into the tutorial.
Learn the basic navigation, editing and file
commands. This will enable you to do all you
need to do. Get comfortable with these first,
because most of the special modes (like Dired,
which lets you navigate directories) use the
same keys for analogous operations). Also learn
how to do M-x commands, like query-replace.
After that, just learn new things a few at a
time. The ones that are most useful to whatever
you're doing will be the ones you remember.
It also helps to fix your keyboard. Try swapping
cntl and caps lock if you're on a PC keyboard
(the bane of emacs users), and using Alt as
the meta key (great for the meta-based navigation).
Gates: Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together.
Hey, how about a page size add [sic] in a newspaper for www.downloadOpenOffice.org
If Massachusetts is serious about the migration to
open formats (i.e., it's not just a ploy to get
MS to lower prices), then full-page ads in
the Boston Globe or Boston Herald would be
very appropriate.
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Of course enjoying the fruits of someone's work without paying for it (when they expect to be paid) isn't theft!
Last night I went to see a movie I've been looking forward to all summer. And the cool part was, it was free! You see, the guy who takes the tickets at the theater is kind of old and it's easy to sneak by him. Geez, they're not even going to try to protect their rights! Anyway, it's not theft, because there were empty seats in the theater, so they weren't going to get any money even if I didn't go. And besides, everything Hollywood produces is crap.
Then I took the subway home. It didn't cost me anything because I jumped the turnstile. One of my friends said I was committing "theft" -- obviously he can't think for himself. I mean, the city was running the train anyway, and there were empty seats. Besides, the subway sucks, and they fill the route with lots of stops I'm not interested in (I only want to pay for the stop next to the theater and the one near my apartment).
There used to be a bus line that was more convenient, but the city shut it down, with some lame excuae about not making enough money to justify the expense. That just shows that they suck and don't deserve my money anyway! Fight the Man! Transportation wants to be free!
I probably won't go to that theater any more. I heard they're installing some new "security system" to prevent people from getting in without paying. That really pisses me off! How dare they! It just goes to show how evil they are. And besides, it serves them right if they lose money -- watching movies in a big theater with other people is an outdated business model!
IABAL, but I thought that under the default definition of copyright, you can't legally make a copy. That's why the GPL has to spell it out. So, your statement would be more properly stated as "No, it is not legal, unless the Copyright holder of the work on that CD explicitly permits it."
Didn't their CEO go to Microsoft's antitrust trial to testify that the government should stop picking on poor Microsoft?
"... but I repeat myself."
... he didn't want to infringe on the patent I own, called "A mechanism to improve the relevance of electronic bulletin board comments via reading TFA."
Believe it or not, about 20 years ago, PBS refused to air a Canadian documentary about the Soviet Union's deliberate creation of a famine in the 1930's in Ukraine, even though the film won many awards from credible organizations. Their excuse was that the Soviets didn't get to present their viewpoint!
(Ultimately, PBS did run the film, called "Harvest of Despair," but only because William Buckley ran it on his program. Even then, they forced Buckley to include a discussion with a panel of "experts," who bashed the film.)
What you should have said was "I was silly enough to try to become a CS teacher..." since you obviously never did if all you did was teach Word/Excel. (Not that I blame you; I assume that's just what they made you teach.) Maybe they should rename their driver's ed class "Automotive Engineering." (Although the average driver's ed class is much better than the typical Word/Excel class that pretends it teaches computer literacy. Driver's ed classes at least acknowledge the existence of more than one kind of car, and tell students they need to get used to having some controls in different positions depending on the make.)
I could've added that I went back and showed her how to export to CSV, which I could use. I also explained to her that "plaintext is the format that Notepad uses." But that wasn't the point of the story, was it? :-)
At my university, a secretary gave me a list of all the students in my class. The names were writtin in some fancy scripty font. I asked her to email me the file, so I could import it into a spreadsheet. When I got the file, I found it was a Word file, useless to me because my spreadsheet couldn't import those.
So I asked her if she could send it to me in ASCII. She didn't know what I was talking about. So I said I wanted plaintext.
So she sent me the SAME Word file. But the font had been changed to a more "normal" looking font.
Then again, if someone were to compare people who died on 9/11 to the Nazi murderer Eichmann, people in academia would leap to his defense.
You say that as if Hollywood is the first group ever to suffer persecution, and then turn around and do it to someone else.
I read in a wine book that in the 50's, California wine makers mostly sold their wine from big vats in regional supermarkets. You'd bring your own jug, and fill it from a spigot on the vat, like a big coffee urn. You'd pay by the quart or whatever. And they'd let you sample it, of course. Sellers found that if they put three urns out with three different prices, people would almost always claim the most expensive one tasted better, even when they put the same wine in all three!
[...] in emerging markets technology projects are more likely to be new installations, which means that licence fee savings for open source software make more of a difference, since updates and retraining are not an issue.
Repeat points made in TFA and get free Karma for your original insight!
No, a reasonable person would believe you were going to shoot the neighbors.
It's been a long time since I took Signals and Systems, but isn't there a principle whereby if you sample a signal over less time, there is more uncertainty as to what its frequency is? (It's analogous to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, where the product of two uncertainties is a physical constant.) This puts a lower bound on how close the frequencies can be vs. how many cycles (or how much of one cycle) you use for one baud, even before taking noise into account.
TFA said "might be influenced" -- you're the one trying to change that to "the only reason."
Yes, but thats clearly what you wanted to imply isn't Linda?
There are big differences between being "influenced," "bought" and "owned" by someone. Microsoft could target certain influential groups, and take steps to ensure that their position is heard in preference to all others. This could be done without any kind of direct payment. "Bought" implies some kind of payment, and explicit or implicit quid pro quo. So turning "influenced" into "bought" is putting words into someone's mouth.
Right now it's 290 degrees K outside.
Actually, Kerry won the high-school dropout vote, as well as the Ph.D. vote. Bush won the high-school graduate to 4-year degree sectors.
I knew someone who hand-coded HTML to make web pages around 1997, before HTML-authoring tools were common. And these were pages with graphics and menus. But she was absolutely convinced that she should use Microsoft products because you'd have to be "a computer genius" to use anything else. I couldn't convince her that writing a file in LaTeX was structurally very similar to hand-editing HTML. She had a complete psychological block, and would even get mad at me for daring to use anything else.
They've been dead 12,000 years, so I'd guess that (c) is a yes.
Only if the setup is a sure thing. If you know that if you offer the pawn and it's taken, it will inevitably lead to checkmate, then yes, you always do it. More often, you just do it for a better position, in which you might get a checkmate later on.
Another way to interpret the sentence is to say that it sometimes happens, rather than always, because most players aren't able to detect that opportunity 100% of the time.
And the mags would be totally worthless, as their editors would just praise the cars mindlessly, especially those produced by major advertisers. Better cars made by small companies would hardly ever be mentioned. And PHBs would decide which cars to use for their corporate fleets based on the magazines rather than their own mechanics, who actually understand cars.
So either they give up their source code, and endlessly whine about nasty governments "forcing them to give up their crown jewels," or else hand over a buggy spec, and risk having a court find that they failed to comply with a court order.
No doubt, they would do the latter, and try to argue that buggy specs is standard industry practice, and drag it out forever.
Yes, because typing L to go right, K to go up, J for down and H for left is so much more logical than ^F for forward, ^B for backward, ^N for the next line and ^P for the previous line! (I realize non-English speakers will be hosed either way.) Or that a linefeed character has a special status in vi, so you can't just delete it, you have to "join" the lines it separates. Or having to switch constantly between "navigating" and "inserting text," instead of just doing whichever you need to do right away.
This argument has been going on almost as long as the Catholic/Protestant thing. It seems once people get the habit of doing things one way, the other way is "strange" and "counterintuitive." Kind of like every other UI debate.
To answer the GP question: you can get by with about 10-15 basic commands. Open up emacs or xemacs, then type control-H followed by a t (no control). This gets you into the tutorial. Learn the basic navigation, editing and file commands. This will enable you to do all you need to do. Get comfortable with these first, because most of the special modes (like Dired, which lets you navigate directories) use the same keys for analogous operations). Also learn how to do M-x commands, like query-replace. After that, just learn new things a few at a time. The ones that are most useful to whatever you're doing will be the ones you remember.
It also helps to fix your keyboard. Try swapping cntl and caps lock if you're on a PC keyboard (the bane of emacs users), and using Alt as the meta key (great for the meta-based navigation).
He must be thinking of Internet Explorer.
If Massachusetts is serious about the migration to open formats (i.e., it's not just a ploy to get MS to lower prices), then full-page ads in the Boston Globe or Boston Herald would be very appropriate.