Right. And discrimination has nothing to do with race, religion, etc. Discrimination is just the act of making distinctions.
There's nothing wrong with discrimination defined this way and there's nothing wrong with censorship as you define it.
But that's not the way most people use these words.
A radio network has every right to decide what to play and what not to. No doubt they "censor" jazz and classical music as "99 Red Balloons". Fine. Take your ears elsewhere.
You need to apply more discrimination in your reaction to censorship.
I don't expect the American Wind Energy Association to be unbiased, but they state a 6-15 year payback period. The lower end of this sound like a decent investment. They also want only 5 m/s which covers a far greater portion of the US (for example) than a 7 m/s requirement.
I think the ugly factor is probably the real killer for residential. Maybe it would be better to put larger turbines on the many structures that are already polluting the visual environment -- cell phone towers, catenary towers, high tension line towers, church steeples, McDonalds' golden arches....
Ok, I've never looked at Wiki before now, so maybe I'm missing something. I've looked briefly at the TWiki and PHPWiki samples (I hate Perl). It may be true that "anybody can edit [wiki pages]", but they won't.
Editing wiki pages looks like a HUGE STEP BACKWARDS from the editing that most of us are familiar with. I can't imagine trying to get more than one or two of the people where I work using it, and how much good can a collaborative tool do if most of the intended collaborators won't?
I don't mean to be inflammatory, but how can you expend so much effort trying to change the way other people release software, comparing those who disagree with you to slaveholders, and think that "my call" relates to your life in no way?
Figure out where the people you want to support get their income from and support that. If it's all consulting, that might be tough (depending on who you are), but you can try to throw some business their way.
If they sell CDs, buy a CD. If they only sell CDs for stuff you don't really want, buy one anyway just for fun.
If you also want to see their stuff more widely distributed, buy it at a brick and mortar store and if they don't have it talk to a manager and try to get them to order it. Do whatever it takes to help make their ventures sustainable.
How lovly, I wonder how much money could be saved if some of those companies went around and optimized their code, I mean surly they are using FAR to much CPU power for what they have to do.
You've got to be kidding. Do you really think the dollars saved in hardware is going to be anywhere near the money paid to developers to do the optimization -- then fix the bugs inadvertantly added during optimization?
Someone running *nix is extremely unlikely to use a graphical WYSIWYG-type editor if they are doing any serious web design.
Exactly! That's the way *nix is and that's what Eazel is trying to change -- in the all the wrong ways. Having a UI where you can hover over a song title to get it to start playing is not going to get a single person to use *nix who wouldn't do so anyway.
OTOH have a UI where you can change daemon and driver configuration as easily as their inherent complexities allow, that'll get a few converts.
Add the ability to run that Windows program you can't live without, whatever it might be, and you'll get a lot more.
I'm getting tired of reading and hearing this "People buy applications and then chose the operating system that best runs those applications." It's just plain wrong.
People do buy operating systems to run applications, but they don't buy, or even choose, the applications first. All else being equal, people will buy the OS that is most likely to handle whatever application they decide to buy later. That OS is Windows. MacOS comes in second. Linux isn't in the same league.
If they added internet radio and an ethernet port to ReplayTV or Tivo, I'd buy one in a minute. The marginal cost to manufacture should be minimal and I'd sure pay extra for it.
Even some people without DSL or cable modem would pay extra if it wasn't too much extra. I doubt I'm the only knucklehead to buy a progressive scan DVD player just to be ready for the day when I have a progressive scanning tube.
Ummm... I don't know what news sources you have, but I don't see much evidence that the wealthy are any less likely to protect and profit from their intellectual property than those less well off. If anything, I'd say it's the other way around -- they have knowledge and connections beneficial to exploiting their inventions, and most often use them.
I just want to point out that your mother doesn't care about the "easyness to program".
Well of course not, but that's not the point. You don't try to attract programmers to your platform because the programmer market is so large. You want to get programmers building for your platform so that when one of them has some insanely great idea, she builds it for your platform rather than your competitors.
Signed on October 28, 1998. Mostly effective on that date, but the "prohibition on the act of circumvention of access control" not until 2 years after signing. see
Copyright Office Home Page.
I was also curious just where "fair use" ultimately comes from, and the answer is here
The fact that there is a quantifiable input for the poet or blacksmith or computer programmer absolutely does not mean that they are involved in zero sum games. The value of what the poet, blacksmith or programmer produces is not equal to the value of the inputs they consume. Hopefully it is greater, though I recall the Economist (some time ago) that many enterprises in (former) Eastern block countries subtracted value rather than adding it -- the steel produced was worth less than the ore, energy, labor, and capital depreciation that went into producing it.
There is a problem with valuation of shared goods. Things other than individual property (clean air and water, for example) are not well handled in our economy. A factory which pollutes but produces a valuable good is extracting shared value from the environment and producing a personal property value in its stead. It may sometimes be an even trade, but it certainly doesn't have to be. The problem is not that there is a zero-sum of value, but that value of some goods are not adequately modeled in the economy.
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There's nothing wrong with discrimination defined this way and there's nothing wrong with censorship as you define it.
But that's not the way most people use these words.
A radio network has every right to decide what to play and what not to. No doubt they "censor" jazz and classical music as "99 Red Balloons". Fine. Take your ears elsewhere.
You need to apply more discrimination in your reaction to censorship.
I think the ugly factor is probably the real killer for residential. Maybe it would be better to put larger turbines on the many structures that are already polluting the visual environment -- cell phone towers, catenary towers, high tension line towers, church steeples, McDonalds' golden arches....
According to this site, it's a helluva lot cheaper than solar panels of equivalent power.
Editing wiki pages looks like a HUGE STEP BACKWARDS from the editing that most of us are familiar with. I can't imagine trying to get more than one or two of the people where I work using it, and how much good can a collaborative tool do if most of the intended collaborators won't?
I don't mean to be inflammatory, but how can you expend so much effort trying to change the way other people release software, comparing those who disagree with you to slaveholders, and think that "my call" relates to your life in no way?
If they sell CDs, buy a CD. If they only sell CDs for stuff you don't really want, buy one anyway just for fun.
If you also want to see their stuff more widely distributed, buy it at a brick and mortar store and if they don't have it talk to a manager and try to get them to order it. Do whatever it takes to help make their ventures sustainable.
1996 (guess not revised since 1988)
This is a good option. It will provide revenue to web sites in a way the users may actually be willing to pay. Enough with the whining.
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When I was a young'un, the best game was, uhhh.. ,welll, damm, I just can't remember any slide-rule games.
OTOH have a UI where you can change daemon and driver configuration as easily as their inherent complexities allow, that'll get a few converts.
Add the ability to run that Windows program you can't live without, whatever it might be, and you'll get a lot more.
People do buy operating systems to run applications, but they don't buy, or even choose, the applications first. All else being equal, people will buy the OS that is most likely to handle whatever application they decide to buy later. That OS is Windows. MacOS comes in second. Linux isn't in the same league.
... but what enhancements to Linux, Gnome, KDE, or other open source SW would worry MS the most?
Even some people without DSL or cable modem would pay extra if it wasn't too much extra. I doubt I'm the only knucklehead to buy a progressive scan DVD player just to be ready for the day when I have a progressive scanning tube.
Ummm... I don't know what news sources you have, but I don't see much evidence that the wealthy are any less likely to protect and profit from their intellectual property than those less well off. If anything, I'd say it's the other way around -- they have knowledge and connections beneficial to exploiting their inventions, and most often use them.
Accoring to this article Verisign's public key is built-in to both Netscape and IE.
Well of course not, but that's not the point. You don't try to attract programmers to your platform because the programmer market is so large. You want to get programmers building for your platform so that when one of them has some insanely great idea, she builds it for your platform rather than your competitors.
I have one of these and it's also my hot water heater!
Signed on October 28, 1998. Mostly effective on that date, but the "prohibition on the act of circumvention of access control" not until 2 years after signing. see Copyright Office Home Page.
I was also curious just where "fair use" ultimately comes from, and the answer is here
There is a problem with valuation of shared goods. Things other than individual property (clean air and water, for example) are not well handled in our economy. A factory which pollutes but produces a valuable good is extracting shared value from the environment and producing a personal property value in its stead. It may sometimes be an even trade, but it certainly doesn't have to be. The problem is not that there is a zero-sum of value, but that value of some goods are not adequately modeled in the economy.
Let's not forget Indrema's Linux-based vapor.