I come from a family that almost NEVER took pictures,. The last time we took family photos was when my dad was testing out his brand new polaroid instamatic.WHen I needed to find a photo for the web I only had one to choose from. Thankfully it was a good one. Over ten years old now, right before I got old and mmy health started to suffer. I've been tossing over whether I should take another one for the last decade;-)
Uh..Isn't that what it's for? Surely that's the only thing folks use BitTorrent for, right? I mean, I had a dream that it was being used to download "Star Wars XVI.... 'Behind the Scenes with the Vader family' - Questions for Darth in front of the Hearth" but I guess they were put off by repeated questions of "How do you tell the Vader kids apart?" but my dream got cancelled and replaced with yet another nightmarish flashback to Nathan's Gui Gallery. Must be that creepy "IE is EVIL" page. I asume he still has it up...
Blackmail these bast**rds instead of busting them for their kiddie pxrn, their theft, their graft,.. Busting these powerful people for all these immoral and sicko perversions has traditionallty been unsuccessful as they get off of everything, but blackmail their asses until they toe the ethical line should work...
It's not "Spyware", it's "protective observation". Surely you can't have any problem with Nanny Microsoft watching your back against these evil luddites and EFF maniacs. Plus if you take too many pills they can help you out with a phone call to the FDA for "your own good". OK we don't know if they would, but they certainly *could*. Doesn't that just make you feel ever so *safe* ? And the Adware? naw, it's essential information dispensation, to stimulate the economy. Don't ou want to do YOUR part? Or aren't you a patriot? Maybe you need to spend a little time in a FEMA "re-education" camp, to learn how to be a good "consumer". Spend spend spend. Don't you know the "American way" ? Microsoft can help with this too. We'll start charging for windows again, to help the economy.. Right?
I think it'll be a mainstream desktop OS soon after someone manage to get the word to the masses that they don't have to pay for Windows or Mac OS.
It wouldn't take much.
"You don't actually have to accept Windows or Mac as your OS when you buy a computer. - You are free to ask for your money back and install your own." - News @ 11
Freedom to accept the only option, or do nothing at all, is not freedom. And the masses already know they don't have to pay for Windows or Mac OSX.. in Windows, illegally, but regarding MacOS, legally if you have a mac, and "grey area" legality if you have a macintel. Furthermore, Linux isn't necessarily free. If you know your way around the software repository, IE, a "geek" then sure, but the "Great unwashed masses" will probably want a distro, including all the accompanying licences, for , OK, maybe, often only $10, but that ain't "free" Even so, for years (it's terribly obsolete now, though) during the first decade there was a stunning OS available for free. Didn't help, even though it was better (IMHO) than OSX 10.0 and possibly 10.1, better than the linux distros available then, and MUCH better than Windows ME. And it was FREE, being given away in virtual installations that could easily be installed onto a harddrive later. I'm talking about BeOS, of course. And "free" didn't help a bit. They "got the word to the masses" that it was free. Lots of folks had that "virtual" partition with BeOS installed. DIdn't help, free or not.
And that's exactly where the current form of copyright not only fails to address its original purpose but actually works against its purpose.
The purpose was to give people an incentive to create works of art by giving them an monetary incentive to do so. If you can monopolize something great for a time (instead of fearing that whatever you create immediately being copied by anyone, rendering your work worthless), you have an incentive to create something great and reap the rewards of your work. That's fine.
Now, last thing I heard about "happy birthday" was that it makes 5 grand a DAY for Warner. Now, imagine you made "happy birthday". And got 5 grand a day from it. Where the fuck is your incentive to EVER create anything again? 5 grand a day? Fuck, I couldn't be assed to do anything but sit there and rake in the money for the rest of my life. Why bother work ever again if you already get more money than you can sensibly spend without doing anything?
Actually, I've heard it makes a WHOLE lot more than 5 grand a day.. I mean, that's only one broadcast licence for 5Gs.. there's way more people than that publicly singing happy birthday...
And that's exactly where the current form of copyright not only fails to address its original purpose but actually works against its purpose.
The purpose was to give people an incentive to create works of art by giving them an monetary incentive to do so. If you can monopolize something great for a time (instead of fearing that whatever you create immediately being copied by anyone, rendering your work worthless), you have an incentive to create something great and reap the rewards of your work. That's fine.
Now, last thing I heard about "happy birthday" was that it makes 5 grand a DAY for Warner. Now, imagine you made "happy birthday". And got 5 grand a day from it. Where the fuck is your incentive to EVER create anything again? 5 grand a day? Fuck, I couldn't be assed to do anything but sit there and rake in the money for the rest of my life. Why bother work ever again if you already get more money than you can sensibly spend without doing anything?
THey SUE for 5 grand a day. A lot of the kid's birthday parties the sue could never ever pay that amount... 5 grand being the amount they charge PER licence.
Whether or not a copyright is used is irrelevant. You're thinking trademarks where they are granted for the context permanently as long as they remain used and defended.
Copyrights are explicitly intended to be for a limited time and for most of American history that limited time was well within the lifespan of an average person. Until relatively recently the only way to obtain a copyright was to explicitly submit the material to the Library of Congress for certification at which point you were granted a 14 year exclusive use. You could apply for an additional 14 year grant but after 28 years the material would be forced to fall into the Public Domain and permanently accessible from the Library of Congress. You had those maximum of 28 years to make as much return on your investment as possible, but you were expected to then reinvest that return into new ventures. It was never intended that an entity could squat on the material indefinitely regardless of whether they continued to make money on it as much of the purpose was to incentivize the creation of new material through the very loss of that monopoly.
The current form of copyright in the US is a perversion of that intention. Aside from the near indefinite monopoly status due to extensions granted to the Disney lobby there is also no requirement to submit the material to an archive. Works are simultaneously locked up permanently as well as lost forever. As with Disney an entity can create one work and rest on their laurels effectively eternally and never have to invest in new art forms. What's worse is that because of Disney everything else not explicitly put into the Public Domain is just as lost, regardless of whether or not anyone is still actively creating new works with it.
Ssshh. Don't let anyone in congress know about any of this. It might affect their financial arrangement with the large media companies. What am I saying?? "slaps forehead" They wouldn't care or believe it anyways, especially since every word is true. Well, maybe Ron Paul might, but he's retired... Well stated, incidentally.. best summary of the true intent of the copyright laws I have read...
I wish there was an easy way to disable/enable it.. there's no easy way to tell that that it's on.. often the "engaged" light is hardly visible. This can be a really bad problem for passwords which require correct case, since three strikes in a row can make you have to wait a day. I simply pry it off these days. I tried using software to reassign keys but some simply don't want to ge reassigned such as the switching caps lock with, say, scroll lock.. Maybe it an OSX issue?
Hey that's right.. I had one of those really old typewriters with the round ivory keys for years. I think it actually pushed the keyboard up. I held on to that typewriter until the mid 90s thinking it would be valuable one day.. finally donated it to a thrift shop.. JUST when ebay first started.. and that's when these mid 1800s typewriters skyrocketed in value.. "sigh"
First 1) they introduce feature nobody wants then 2) force everybody to use it, and when everyone's adjusted to it, they 3) remove it or "uncouple it"... often the first step to dropping it altogether.. Boy they do that a lot. Why don't they do more pre-release research instead?
And hey, how did twitter ever copyright "twit" anyways? Clearly that belongds to the Monty Python competetive series (or perhaps Commonwealth Games category?) "High Class Twit Of The Year" !
Here they have no maximum sentences. Only minimum ones. Re:that court ruling supposedly "once again making it illegal" to rip cds, actually, the judge stated that they SHOULD have introduced a compensation scheme. That can only exist if it is legal to do. You cannot legally sanction criminal behavior, and a compensation scheme while ripping was illegal would do just that.
Eat yer heart out.. Internal combustion! Electric rules, here! There is absolutely NO way that an IC engine could ever hope to match this accelleration, NOT "speed".."Speed" might sound better, but, way to bring the DOT down on ya, Tesla motors. You ASKING for it?
It's entirely pointless it being free or not, if, like in most of B.C. (and probably most of the reat of Canada) public transport is far and few between.. such as a 60 minute wait for a 45 minute walk.. for a healthy sober person anyways.. and of course, the big one.. public transport stops running a half hour before the bars close down, and maybe an hour before the clubs close. *If* it were free, and more usable, then in the city, yeah.. 100% probablilty I would use it, as I hate driving in town. I live in the country though, now.. Beyond "rural" as the nearest town of any size is a half hour away and the nearest real city is 45 minutes to an hour to town... Going to the city on the bus is almost 75 minutes, and the local town is 45 minutes, but a 15-25 minute drive on the highway. Considering the frequency of service, there's little likelyhood of ever using the bus to either town, or the city. If it were free, ANSD usable=y frequent, , I might more often. We would have already had a rapid transit system to town already. They started talking about it when the local train service stopped. Unfortunately, nobody wanted it because they liked the remotenmess of their location, and didn't want where I was living (and grew up, actually) to become a suburban community. It's coming our direction anyways, since the debate, 10 miles closer. Currently, it's a bedroom community for the affluent.. so much so that I couldn't even buy into my own community. People that were born and raised there can't afford to live there..;-( However, a free rapid transit system would possibly change that, as well as save lives.. Essential services should NEVER be run solely for profit, or even as a break-even exercise. That's why we have taxes, after all
I have 148 Steam games, only 11 of which are installed due to lack of space. I regularly have to run with less than 500MB left on my 1TB budget laptop harddrive. I figure we download about 200-300GB of data every month that is deleted once consumed/needed for something higher priority.
Wow, I'm not sure if I have played 148 different video games in my lifetime. But then, I am only 45 years old and I only spent most of my free time in my youth playing video games. I just finished playing Lego Jurassic Park and it took about 40 hours. Games like Skyrim I have not even gotten completed, but have hundreds of hours invested.
Ah yes, but a lot of people who call themselves "gamers", are often more than that. By rights you could call them game "collectors"..
A race condition in the software and counter overflows are not "Bad User Interfaces". They software defects. I'm pretty sure no one designed those bugs in to the code.
Well, perhaps the article could also say "how bad summaries can ruin articles" , because the submission say nothing about "Bad" useer interfaces - quote: "Submission: UI Fail: How Our User interfaces Help to Ruin Lives" but at the top of the page "How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives".
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I come from a family that almost NEVER took pictures,. The last time we took family photos was when my dad was testing out his brand new polaroid instamatic.WHen I needed to find a photo for the web I only had one to choose from. Thankfully it was a good one. Over ten years old now, right before I got old and mmy health started to suffer. I've been tossing over whether I should take another one for the last decade ;-)
Uh..Isn't that what it's for? Surely that's the only thing folks use BitTorrent for, right? I mean, I had a dream that it was being used to download "Star Wars XVI.... 'Behind the Scenes with the Vader family' - Questions for Darth in front of the Hearth" but I guess they were put off by repeated questions of "How do you tell the Vader kids apart?" but my dream got cancelled and replaced with yet another nightmarish flashback to Nathan's Gui Gallery. Must be that creepy "IE is EVIL" page. I asume he still has it up...
everybody knows who originally requested it.
Bush? Obama?
Actually, I *think* he was referring to Reagan...
everybody knows who originally requested it.
Bush? Obama?
Hardly.. It would be somebody with real power in the administration...
I blame /. for my knowledge of "cosmonaut"..
Blackmail these bast**rds instead of busting them for their kiddie pxrn, their theft, their graft, .. Busting these powerful people for all these immoral and sicko perversions has traditionallty been unsuccessful as they get off of everything, but blackmail their asses until they toe the ethical line should work...
It's not "Spyware", it's "protective observation". Surely you can't have any problem with Nanny Microsoft watching your back against these evil luddites and EFF maniacs. Plus if you take too many pills they can help you out with a phone call to the FDA for "your own good". OK we don't know if they would, but they certainly *could*. Doesn't that just make you feel ever so *safe* ? And the Adware? naw, it's essential information dispensation, to stimulate the economy. Don't ou want to do YOUR part? Or aren't you a patriot? Maybe you need to spend a little time in a FEMA "re-education" camp, to learn how to be a good "consumer". Spend spend spend. Don't you know the "American way" ? Microsoft can help with this too. We'll start charging for windows again, to help the economy.. Right?
I disagree.
I think it'll be a mainstream desktop OS soon after someone manage to get the
word to the masses that they don't have to pay for Windows or Mac OS.
It wouldn't take much.
"You don't actually have to accept Windows or Mac as your OS when you buy a computer. - You are free to ask for your money back and install your own." - News @ 11
Freedom to accept the only option, or do nothing at all, is not freedom. And the masses already know they don't have to pay for Windows or Mac OSX.. in Windows, illegally, but regarding MacOS, legally if you have a mac, and "grey area" legality if you have a macintel. Furthermore, Linux isn't necessarily free. If you know your way around the software repository, IE, a "geek" then sure, but the "Great unwashed masses" will probably want a distro, including all the accompanying licences, for , OK, maybe, often only $10, but that ain't "free" Even so, for years (it's terribly obsolete now, though) during the first decade there was a stunning OS available for free. Didn't help, even though it was better (IMHO) than OSX 10.0 and possibly 10.1, better than the linux distros available then, and MUCH better than Windows ME. And it was FREE, being given away in virtual installations that could easily be installed onto a harddrive later. I'm talking about BeOS, of course. And "free" didn't help a bit. They "got the word to the masses" that it was free. Lots of folks had that "virtual" partition with BeOS installed. DIdn't help, free or not.
And that's exactly where the current form of copyright not only fails to address its original purpose but actually works against its purpose.
The purpose was to give people an incentive to create works of art by giving them an monetary incentive to do so. If you can monopolize something great for a time (instead of fearing that whatever you create immediately being copied by anyone, rendering your work worthless), you have an incentive to create something great and reap the rewards of your work. That's fine.
Now, last thing I heard about "happy birthday" was that it makes 5 grand a DAY for Warner. Now, imagine you made "happy birthday". And got 5 grand a day from it. Where the fuck is your incentive to EVER create anything again? 5 grand a day? Fuck, I couldn't be assed to do anything but sit there and rake in the money for the rest of my life. Why bother work ever again if you already get more money than you can sensibly spend without doing anything?
Actually, I've heard it makes a WHOLE lot more than 5 grand a day.. I mean, that's only one broadcast licence for 5Gs.. there's way more people than that publicly singing happy birthday...
And that's exactly where the current form of copyright not only fails to address its original purpose but actually works against its purpose.
The purpose was to give people an incentive to create works of art by giving them an monetary incentive to do so. If you can monopolize something great for a time (instead of fearing that whatever you create immediately being copied by anyone, rendering your work worthless), you have an incentive to create something great and reap the rewards of your work. That's fine.
Now, last thing I heard about "happy birthday" was that it makes 5 grand a DAY for Warner. Now, imagine you made "happy birthday". And got 5 grand a day from it. Where the fuck is your incentive to EVER create anything again? 5 grand a day? Fuck, I couldn't be assed to do anything but sit there and rake in the money for the rest of my life. Why bother work ever again if you already get more money than you can sensibly spend without doing anything?
THey SUE for 5 grand a day. A lot of the kid's birthday parties the sue could never ever pay that amount... 5 grand being the amount they charge PER licence.
Whether or not a copyright is used is irrelevant. You're thinking trademarks where they are granted for the context permanently as long as they remain used and defended.
Copyrights are explicitly intended to be for a limited time and for most of American history that limited time was well within the lifespan of an average person. Until relatively recently the only way to obtain a copyright was to explicitly submit the material to the Library of Congress for certification at which point you were granted a 14 year exclusive use. You could apply for an additional 14 year grant but after 28 years the material would be forced to fall into the Public Domain and permanently accessible from the Library of Congress. You had those maximum of 28 years to make as much return on your investment as possible, but you were expected to then reinvest that return into new ventures. It was never intended that an entity could squat on the material indefinitely regardless of whether they continued to make money on it as much of the purpose was to incentivize the creation of new material through the very loss of that monopoly.
The current form of copyright in the US is a perversion of that intention. Aside from the near indefinite monopoly status due to extensions granted to the Disney lobby there is also no requirement to submit the material to an archive. Works are simultaneously locked up permanently as well as lost forever. As with Disney an entity can create one work and rest on their laurels effectively eternally and never have to invest in new art forms. What's worse is that because of Disney everything else not explicitly put into the Public Domain is just as lost, regardless of whether or not anyone is still actively creating new works with it.
Ssshh. Don't let anyone in congress know about any of this. It might affect their financial arrangement with the large media companies. What am I saying?? "slaps forehead" They wouldn't care or believe it anyways, especially since every word is true. Well, maybe Ron Paul might, but he's retired... Well stated, incidentally.. best summary of the true intent of the copyright laws I have read...
If this gets utilized in SSDs, then I am finally lining up at the door for the first usably big drive.. that being at least a TB
I wish there was an easy way to disable/enable it.. there's no easy way to tell that that it's on.. often the "engaged" light is hardly visible. This can be a really bad problem for passwords which require correct case, since three strikes in a row can make you have to wait a day. I simply pry it off these days. I tried using software to reassign keys but some simply don't want to ge reassigned such as the switching caps lock with, say, scroll lock .. Maybe it an OSX issue?
Wow that's a great snippet for those who don't play computer pinball ;-)
Hey that's right.. I had one of those really old typewriters with the round ivory keys for years. I think it actually pushed the keyboard up. I held on to that typewriter until the mid 90s thinking it would be valuable one day.. finally donated it to a thrift shop.. JUST when ebay first started.. and that's when these mid 1800s typewriters skyrocketed in value.. "sigh"
First 1) they introduce feature nobody wants then 2) force everybody to use it, and when everyone's adjusted to it, they 3) remove it or "uncouple it"... often the first step to dropping it altogether.. Boy they do that a lot. Why don't they do more pre-release research instead?
And hey, how did twitter ever copyright "twit" anyways? Clearly that belongds to the Monty Python competetive series (or perhaps Commonwealth Games category?) "High Class Twit Of The Year" !
Now I know why they named oit "Twit"ter (hey do I have to copyright that "joke"?)
Here they have no maximum sentences. Only minimum ones. Re:that court ruling supposedly "once again making it illegal" to rip cds, actually, the judge stated that they SHOULD have introduced a compensation scheme. That can only exist if it is legal to do. You cannot legally sanction criminal behavior, and a compensation scheme while ripping was illegal would do just that.
Eat yer heart out.. Internal combustion! Electric rules, here! There is absolutely NO way that an IC engine could ever hope to match this accelleration, NOT "speed". ."Speed" might sound better, but, way to bring the DOT down on ya, Tesla motors. You ASKING for it?
I think I would have taken amputation.
Case in point: You don't need legs to skate or surf or do gymnastics or swing like Spider-Man.
Well, no.. but they're handy for stopping, though..
Wow! What a list! And ALL counterfeit. THat's something you can take to the bank. Oh forgot.. "Replicas" Well, that's all right then eh?
It's entirely pointless it being free or not, if, like in most of B.C. (and probably most of the reat of Canada) public transport is far and few between.. such as a 60 minute wait for a 45 minute walk .. for a healthy sober person anyways.. and of course, the big one.. public transport stops running a half hour before the bars close down, and maybe an hour before the clubs close. *If* it were free, and more usable, then in the city, yeah.. 100% probablilty I would use it, as I hate driving in town. I live in the country though, now.. Beyond "rural" as the nearest town of any size is a half hour away and the nearest real city is 45 minutes to an hour to town... Going to the city on the bus is almost 75 minutes, and the local town is 45 minutes, but a 15-25 minute drive on the highway. Considering the frequency of service, there's little likelyhood of ever using the bus to either town, or the city. If it were free, ANSD usable=y frequent, , I might more often. We would have already had a rapid transit system to town already. They started talking about it when the local train service stopped. Unfortunately, nobody wanted it because they liked the remotenmess of their location, and didn't want where I was living (and grew up, actually) to become a suburban community. It's coming our direction anyways, since the debate, 10 miles closer. Currently, it's a bedroom community for the affluent.. so much so that I couldn't even buy into my own community. People that were born and raised there can't afford to live there.. ;-( However, a free rapid transit system would possibly change that, as well as save lives.. Essential services should NEVER be run solely for profit, or even as a break-even exercise. That's why we have taxes, after all
I have 148 Steam games, only 11 of which are installed due to lack of space. I regularly have to run with less than 500MB left on my 1TB budget laptop harddrive. I figure we download about 200-300GB of data every month that is deleted once consumed/needed for something higher priority.
Wow, I'm not sure if I have played 148 different video games in my lifetime. But then, I am only 45 years old and I only spent most of my free time in my youth playing video games. I just finished playing Lego Jurassic Park and it took about 40 hours. Games like Skyrim I have not even gotten completed, but have hundreds of hours invested.
Ah yes, but a lot of people who call themselves "gamers", are often more than that. By rights you could call them game "collectors"..
A race condition in the software and counter overflows are not "Bad User Interfaces". They software defects. I'm pretty sure no one designed those bugs in to the code.
Well, perhaps the article could also say "how bad summaries can ruin articles" , because the submission say nothing about "Bad" useer interfaces - quote: "Submission: UI Fail: How Our User interfaces Help to Ruin Lives" but at the top of the page "How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives".