No one would think the maker of a table or any other product is deserving of recurring revenue if something they made once is passed from one person to another. Arbitrary is thinking that someone making a CD should be deserving where other creators and builders aren't.
Taxation is something completely different. It obviously is arbitrary because a goverment just decides it needs to take some money and comes up with some rules to do it.
I suspect one of the reasons for any possible reversal is that as the press about the lawsuits dies down so does peoples conciousness about it.
Scare tactics only work when you are scaring people. That's why the law suits won't work in the long term. You'd not only need new lawsuits all the time but you'd need the press to continue to be bothered to write about them. Otherwise for 99% of people they effectively aren't happening and there's nothing to worry about.
There is a reason these folks were singled out that should resonate beyond the consoles of the like-minded. That reason should state plainly the importance of open source to the mission of civilization overall: service to the higher ideas of truth, freedom
I don't see how "higher ideas of truth" are served by changing this from something that recognises and rewards real, practical, valuable contributions to the Open Source world into something that is essentailly cheerleading, PR orientated phooey.
Closed source apps often have non-obvious names too while they are being developed. It's only when marketing etc get involved that "reasonable" names get tacked on (and then only sometimes, I think you underestimate how hard finding a good name is and I don't see you offering any suggestions for alternatives). However all that happens behind closed doors.
In Open Source however the development is open to the public so a project can quickly become known by the first name it is given. Meanwhile coders aren't going to sit back and stop coding while focus groups and naming comittees mull over a good name. They'll quickly come up with something they are happy with and get on with the business at hand, actually creating the software.
At the end of the days names aren't that important . That's obviously true for infrastructure applications like most of those given these awards that no user needs to ever hear about. Even for end user apps assuming distributers/packagers follow sensible guidelines there should be no issue for end users.
There are people who are acting badly and there are those who aren't. Many of the RIAA/MPAA actions hurt both groups indiscriminently.
I'm not pirating or reselling their music but their aggravating "copy control" measures means I can't use CDs I buy with my Network Walkman.
I'm not pirating or reselling their movies but their irritating red dots spoil (to some extent) my enjoyment of their movies.
It is unnacceptable for them to be damaging legitimate users in this way. Not to mention the insanity of devalueing their own product in the process. I am not a criminal and won't be treated like one. I therefore do not buy any such product except in rare situations (eg LotR, I'm seeing Radiohead in concert later in the year so actually listening to the CD first is a pretty good idea). I used to buy about 4-6 CDs a month. Since this "copy controlled" stuff started showing up in Australia I have bought precicely three and only the Radiohead one has DRM.
Peter: I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything.
Interesting sales channel possability?
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Competing directly in the retail market against Sony and MS would be difficult in any case.
Phantom relys on content delivery over the network rather than on disks. (Why would any games store want to sell one of these things, they'd get no customers coming in to buy more games like they do with XBox or PS?)
It would make a lot of sense for them to partner with cable companies and the option of an inbuild cable modem could make it an attractive "drop in" package to some.
There is no wrongheaded mentality in the statement you quoted. He did not "conclude" that the technology "should be abandoned", he merely stated what the RIAA/MPAA likely reaction to it would be.
But what made Real Player (or Real One or whatever it is) worth keeping about for me was that it was the only free player for windows that I found which was capable of showing Quicktime movies full screen properly. Apple only offer that in their paid version and another free front end I found insisted in changing the aspect ratio of the content.
Then surely no other hijacker or terrorist ever will! Oh hang on. Before Sept 11th no hijackers had flown a plane into the WTC either. That didn't mean they never would.
No measure is going to offer 100% protection. All that can be done is to attempt to identify areas where a door is open for attack (whether someone has walked through that door previously or not) and to attempt to close that door.
A fingerprint is just a fingerprint. It is, essentialy, just a fact with no meaning. The fingerprint itself holds no information about who the fingerprint belongs to, it's just a token.
DNA on the other hand holds a load of information in and of itself.
Slashdot can REALLY get on my fucking nerves now and then. I think I'm going to have to use a Louisville slugger to beat this point into the editors' and submitters' thick skulls...
The NY Post is NOT a credible news source
Is fucktard posters who criticise when it isn't warranted. The Slashdot article did not cite the NY Post as a credible news source. It cited the article here as an example of "media opinion" which it undoubtably is and before as an "inflammatory article" which it also obviously is..
Ban all carry on baggage! Anything you want to bring on board you have to carry in your hands. A book, a couple of magazines or whatever but that's it. If you have special requirements (medicines etc) then they have to be in a clear pouch.
The problem is not so much that the current restrictions are stupid and time-wasting it's that people are bringing on board an enormous amount of shit they don't need. This simply means security has a larger haystack than necessary to look for the needle in.
Flying offers people enormous amounts of convenience (ie the ability to travel places in hours that would otherwise take days). It isn't unreasonable that this enormous convenience is part of a trade off for some other minor inconveniences.
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No one would think the maker of a table or any other product is deserving of recurring revenue if something they made once is passed from one person to another. Arbitrary is thinking that someone making a CD should be deserving where other creators and builders aren't.
Taxation is something completely different. It obviously is arbitrary because a goverment just decides it needs to take some money and comes up with some rules to do it.
When the first person got that copy. There's no reason why the artist should get another cut just because it changes hands.
I suspect one of the reasons for any possible reversal is that as the press about the lawsuits dies down so does peoples conciousness about it.
Scare tactics only work when you are scaring people. That's why the law suits won't work in the long term. You'd not only need new lawsuits all the time but you'd need the press to continue to be bothered to write about them. Otherwise for 99% of people they effectively aren't happening and there's nothing to worry about.
And with Robert Love now on board this year promises to be another good one for creating an even tighter desktop experience.
Keep up the good work monkeys.
The horse has bolted. To this day home recording is still a copyright violation in Australia. The practical significance of that is precisely zero.
Closed source apps often have non-obvious names too while they are being developed. It's only when marketing etc get involved that "reasonable" names get tacked on (and then only sometimes, I think you underestimate how hard finding a good name is and I don't see you offering any suggestions for alternatives). However all that happens behind closed doors.
In Open Source however the development is open to the public so a project can quickly become known by the first name it is given. Meanwhile coders aren't going to sit back and stop coding while focus groups and naming comittees mull over a good name. They'll quickly come up with something they are happy with and get on with the business at hand, actually creating the software.
At the end of the days names aren't that important . That's obviously true for infrastructure applications like most of those given these awards that no user needs to ever hear about. Even for end user apps assuming distributers/packagers follow sensible guidelines there should be no issue for end users.
There are people who are acting badly and there are those who aren't.
Many of the RIAA/MPAA actions hurt both groups indiscriminently.
I'm not pirating or reselling their music but their aggravating "copy control" measures means I can't use CDs I buy with my Network Walkman.
I'm not pirating or reselling their movies but their irritating red dots spoil (to some extent) my enjoyment of their movies.
It is unnacceptable for them to be damaging legitimate users in this way. Not to mention the insanity of devalueing their own product in the process. I am not a criminal and won't be treated like one. I therefore do not buy any such product except in rare situations (eg LotR, I'm seeing Radiohead in concert later in the year so actually listening to the CD first is a pretty good idea). I used to buy about 4-6 CDs a month. Since this "copy controlled" stuff started showing up in Australia I have bought precicely three and only the Radiohead one has DRM.
Peter: I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything.
- Competing directly in the retail market against Sony and MS would be difficult in any case.
- Phantom relys on content delivery over the network rather than on disks. (Why would any games store want to sell one of these things, they'd get no customers coming in to buy more games like they do with XBox or PS?)
It would make a lot of sense for them to partner with cable companies and the option of an inbuild cable modem could make it an attractive "drop in" package to some.You seem to have read what you wanted to into the article rather than what was written.
There has been a natural fear amoung engineers that using the number 5 could result in a technology becoming self aware and ruining it for everyone.
There is no wrongheaded mentality in the statement you quoted. He did not "conclude" that the technology "should be abandoned", he merely stated what the RIAA/MPAA likely reaction to it would be.
Makes them a good target for a bit of scaremongoring.
Xenon is simply a poncy name. Having built up the brand they'd be a bunch of numbnuts not to call it XBox 2.
But what made Real Player (or Real One or whatever it is) worth keeping about for me was that it was the only free player for windows that I found which was capable of showing Quicktime movies full screen properly. Apple only offer that in their paid version and another free front end I found insisted in changing the aspect ratio of the content.
Then surely no other hijacker or terrorist ever will! Oh hang on. Before Sept 11th no hijackers had flown a plane into the WTC either. That didn't mean they never would. No measure is going to offer 100% protection. All that can be done is to attempt to identify areas where a door is open for attack (whether someone has walked through that door previously or not) and to attempt to close that door.
When you get offered five fingers wrapped in a latex glove in return!
Just charge Americans extra airport tax!
A fingerprint is just a fingerprint. It is, essentialy, just a fact with no meaning. The fingerprint itself holds no information about who the fingerprint belongs to, it's just a token.
DNA on the other hand holds a load of information in and of itself.
I think I'll be taking these goggles to the bedroom tonight!
I suppose a lion or a horse might have more luck than a dog
The Slashdot article did not cite the NY Post as a credible news source. It cited the article here as an example of "media opinion" which it undoubtably is and before as an "inflammatory article" which it also obviously is..
Ban all carry on baggage! Anything you want to bring on board you have to carry in your hands. A book, a couple of magazines or whatever but that's it. If you have special requirements (medicines etc) then they have to be in a clear pouch.
The problem is not so much that the current restrictions are stupid and time-wasting it's that people are bringing on board an enormous amount of shit they don't need. This simply means security has a larger haystack than necessary to look for the needle in.
Flying offers people enormous amounts of convenience (ie the ability to travel places in hours that would otherwise take days). It isn't unreasonable that this enormous convenience is part of a trade off for some other minor inconveniences.