Interesting. There may be definitions provided elsewhere in the text, but if not, then any device used to reference external information would probably make your use of the information legal. Which means, if you decide to post the contents of Visa's mailing list, just be sure to include a footnote telling people where you got the information.
There is no logical need, reason, or purpose behind generating artificial scarcity. Many intellectual 'property' disputes raise barriers to productivity when they wouldn't previously have existed.
Except that intellectual property laws are unconcerned with productivity. They are, however, very much concerned with *profit*, and profits can only be increased with scarcity due to the law of supply and demand (which has not be repealed, nor declared unconstitutional).
If I could get basic cable for $12 a month, then, yeah, it would be worth it. But my local provider, Adelphia, starts around $50 a month for basic cable. Adding HBO and whatnot pushes it up closer to $100.
I understand that some ministry or other (Ministry of Housinge, maybe?) is responsible for tracking down TV owning scofflaws by detecting the faint signals eminating from their TVs (because any receiver is also a broadcaster). I've always wondered, what's to stop people from not paying the tax, and simply grounding their TV properly so it doesn't emit any radiation? Haven't you people ever heard of a Faraday cage?
We also tune in for the occasional Discovery Channel feature, or some good college football, other than that TV is shite, but hopefully I didn't have to tell you that.
Um, TV is "shite", but you pay money each month for cable? (Discovery Channel is not available for free, ya know.)
Personnally, I don't see TV as entertaining enough to pay someone $50 a month to get more channels, and another $20 to skip commercials. With seven broadcast networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, WB, UPN, and PBS), there's usually something on worth watching in the evening. If not, there's the Internet and books, or, dare I say it, interacting with other human beings. Someone willing to spend $70 every month on TV isn't living a very balanced life.
or for only $1250 you can sign up for *my* course where we even show you how to build your own software from source code with the magic of "configure, make, make install"
Egads, you've never worked in an environment with more than one server, have you? If I caught one of my guys doing that, I'd either fire him (if at my civilian job) or Article 15 him (if at my Reserve unit). Never, never, ever run "configure,make,make install", take a few extra steps and build an actual package, *then* install the software. This way you can: * back out easily. 'rpm -e' or 'pkgrm' are easier than grepping through the Makefiles for all of the installed programs and piping that to 'find / -name $1 -exec rm' or whatever. * copy the package to other servers and install quickly and easily. This allows you create once, install anywhere, and you can even script the installation process. * avoid overwriting existing files. Any decent package manager will complain if the target file(s) already exists.
This is somewhat addressed in the article, when the author talks about the importance of the release window. Since the value of content goes down as it ages (seeing a new movie at the theater is $9, renting a newly released DVD is $4 for two nights, renting that same DVD two months later is $3 for five nights), the only thing(s) of real value is that which is new. So, yes, the only content worth anything is stuff that hasn't been developed yet.
Um, that doesn't look right. I'm not a great Turkish speaker, but I do know some.
"Are you sure you want to delete this file?" should be:
"Emin misin bu ede silmek istimiyorsun?"
(Literally, "Are you sure this file to delete do you want?")
However, the site you linked for translation services doesn't know how to handle "misin" or "istimiyorsun", so it's probably not the best choice for translation ('mi' or 'mu' are prefixes used to connote a question, '-sin' is the second person singular form of 'to be' and would usually be a suffix, in a question it is seperated with 'mi-' attached). Also, the fact that it couldn't handle conjugation of "to be" into or out of Turkish (admittedly, not the easiest thing in the world to do) further argues against using their services.
Also, Turkish is a poor selection for something "Hindi-like". Hindi is part of the IndoEuropean language family, Turkish is not. It's part of the Turkic language family, and has almost nothing in common with either Hindi or English.
That said, in an effort to keep this on topic, it is much more difficult for computers to transliterate between human languages than it is for humans to do so. With proper training, any human is capable for fulling understanding not just the words of a language, but also their "hidden meaning", so to speak. Offshore outsourcing has a lot of problems, but the linguistic and cultural ones are, at least, surmountable, given enough time. Of course, part of that solution means homogenizing the culture of the country performing the outsourcing services, but that's their problem, not ours.
"The question is, will anyone remember SCO in 5 years to mention them in the same breath as innovators like Samuel Adams and Sid Vicious? Or are they doomed to VH1 "Where are they now" type obscurity. I would hope for the former, because there is no question that what they are doing is important, and needs to be remembered."
Personnally, I hope for the latter. But then, I want SCO to be dropped into VH1 "Where are they now" type obscurity.
His themes are everywhere, they are all around us, even now on this very blog. You can see them when you look out your window, or when you turn on you television. You can feel them when you go to work, and when you go to church or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth!
"If you've got no guarantee of the same location, what do you do about stuff you have to store (reference books, nerf guns,...)?"
That was exactly my first thought. I've got a small library of reference books at my desk, and if I was forced to hunt around for a new workspace every day I would quickly grow exasperated and just use the company's internet connection to surf Dice and Monster instead of doing my job. Besides, humans are territorial animals. It's hardwired into us to want to be able to say "that's mine", taking that ability away from your employees is only going to depress the lot of them.
California, the state in which the offense was committed and which is prosecuting him, doesn't have a "fighting words" concept. I can say anything short of actually threatening you (at which point I've committed assault), and you can't do anything in turn. Even if you respond physically to my verbal assault, you'd have to justify it later, and most likely you wouldn't be able to.
Exactly. And don't forget that California has laws against making terrorist threats. Since he threatened the use of a weapon of mass destruction (anthrax), even though he didn't have the ability to carry through on the threat, it's almost guaranteed he'll serve some time.
The upshot: he's an employed programmer in Silicon Valley. Which means, look for a Dice posting real soon!
"Well both Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein are still have not been captured or killed. The primary objectives of this war against terrorism."
OMG, you're right! We haven't found bin Laden after two years of fighting (but have put caps in the asses of most of his homies), and haven't found Saddam after 8 months (but did get his sons and a bunch of other cronies). We should just give up now, no war in history ever took this long.
So, mister armchair general, got any suggestions for how you would run things, if given the chance?
Think about it. You charge based on traffic, and just inflate the numbers. If a site gets 300 KB of traffic one month, you bill them for 300 GB. As long as you have all-you-can-eat peering arrangements, noone's ever gonna know. On top of this, you can run the actual hosting in some other country, with tighter controls on who can ask whom what (like, say, the Caymans).
"Seems the right to get the service you pay for trumps the 'right' of the FBI to spy on you, using your own vehicle's systems!
No, it seems that a court has ruled otherwise, now doesn't it?"
Umm, do you know the definition of "to trump"?
Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 (Note #2)
trump
n : a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps [syn: trump card]
v 1: produce a sound as if from a trumpet
2: get the better of [syn: outdo, outflank, best, scoop]
3: play a trump, in card games [syn: ruff]
4: proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare [syn: trump out]
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I'd buy a T-Shirt with that on it! You should suggest it to ThinkGeek.
Given ThinkGeek is part of the infamous VA keiretsu, I think he just did.
Interesting. There may be definitions provided elsewhere in the text, but if not, then any device used to reference external information would probably make your use of the information legal. Which means, if you decide to post the contents of Visa's mailing list, just be sure to include a footnote telling people where you got the information.
There is no logical need, reason, or purpose behind generating artificial scarcity. Many intellectual 'property' disputes raise barriers to productivity when they wouldn't previously have existed.
Except that intellectual property laws are unconcerned with productivity. They are, however, very much concerned with *profit*, and profits can only be increased with scarcity due to the law of supply and demand (which has not be repealed, nor declared unconstitutional).
'Cause the die was used to tell the future. That's what the patent covered. Jeez, didn't you RTFA?
If I could get basic cable for $12 a month, then, yeah, it would be worth it. But my local provider, Adelphia, starts around $50 a month for basic cable. Adding HBO and whatnot pushes it up closer to $100.
"They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
I understand that some ministry or other (Ministry of Housinge, maybe?) is responsible for tracking down TV owning scofflaws by detecting the faint signals eminating from their TVs (because any receiver is also a broadcaster). I've always wondered, what's to stop people from not paying the tax, and simply grounding their TV properly so it doesn't emit any radiation? Haven't you people ever heard of a Faraday cage?
We also tune in for the occasional Discovery Channel feature, or some good college football, other than that TV is shite, but hopefully I didn't have to tell you that.
Um, TV is "shite", but you pay money each month for cable? (Discovery Channel is not available for free, ya know.)
Personnally, I don't see TV as entertaining enough to pay someone $50 a month to get more channels, and another $20 to skip commercials. With seven broadcast networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, WB, UPN, and PBS), there's usually something on worth watching in the evening. If not, there's the Internet and books, or, dare I say it, interacting with other human beings. Someone willing to spend $70 every month on TV isn't living a very balanced life.
or for only $1250 you can sign up for *my* course where we even show you how to build your own software from source code with the magic of "configure, make, make install"
Egads, you've never worked in an environment with more than one server, have you? If I caught one of my guys doing that, I'd either fire him (if at my civilian job) or Article 15 him (if at my Reserve unit). Never, never, ever run "configure,make,make install", take a few extra steps and build an actual package, *then* install the software. This way you can:
* back out easily. 'rpm -e' or 'pkgrm' are easier than grepping through the Makefiles for all of the installed programs and piping that to 'find / -name $1 -exec rm' or whatever.
* copy the package to other servers and install quickly and easily. This allows you create once, install anywhere, and you can even script the installation process.
* avoid overwriting existing files. Any decent package manager will complain if the target file(s) already exists.
This is somewhat addressed in the article, when the author talks about the importance of the release window. Since the value of content goes down as it ages (seeing a new movie at the theater is $9, renting a newly released DVD is $4 for two nights, renting that same DVD two months later is $3 for five nights), the only thing(s) of real value is that which is new. So, yes, the only content worth anything is stuff that hasn't been developed yet.
Um, that doesn't look right. I'm not a great Turkish speaker, but I do know some.
"Are you sure you want to delete this file?" should be:
"Emin misin bu ede silmek istimiyorsun?"
(Literally, "Are you sure this file to delete do you want?")
However, the site you linked for translation services doesn't know how to handle "misin" or "istimiyorsun", so it's probably not the best choice for translation ('mi' or 'mu' are prefixes used to connote a question, '-sin' is the second person singular form of 'to be' and would usually be a suffix, in a question it is seperated with 'mi-' attached). Also, the fact that it couldn't handle conjugation of "to be" into or out of Turkish (admittedly, not the easiest thing in the world to do) further argues against using their services.
Also, Turkish is a poor selection for something "Hindi-like". Hindi is part of the IndoEuropean language family, Turkish is not. It's part of the Turkic language family, and has almost nothing in common with either Hindi or English.
That said, in an effort to keep this on topic, it is much more difficult for computers to transliterate between human languages than it is for humans to do so. With proper training, any human is capable for fulling understanding not just the words of a language, but also their "hidden meaning", so to speak. Offshore outsourcing has a lot of problems, but the linguistic and cultural ones are, at least, surmountable, given enough time. Of course, part of that solution means homogenizing the culture of the country performing the outsourcing services, but that's their problem, not ours.
"It's not like muscles and sexual organs have much to do with acting ability after all."
I think these people would disagree.
"The question is, will anyone remember SCO in 5 years to mention them in the same breath as innovators like Samuel Adams and Sid Vicious? Or are they doomed to VH1 "Where are they now" type obscurity. I would hope for the former, because there is no question that what they are doing is important, and needs to be remembered."
Personnally, I hope for the latter. But then, I want SCO to be dropped into VH1 "Where are they now" type obscurity.
Since the government has no secretly passed a bill further curtailing our privacy, I feel it is neccessary to make the following ISR comment:
In Soviet Russia, government protects YOUR privacy!
Do you want to know what PKD's themes are?
His themes are everywhere, they are all around us, even now on this very blog. You can see them when you look out your window, or when you turn on you television. You can feel them when you go to work, and when you go to church or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth!
"...read Opus and was slightly confused and amused."
Much like the bird, himself.
"If you've got no guarantee of the same location, what do you do about stuff you have to store (reference books, nerf guns, ...)?"
That was exactly my first thought. I've got a small library of reference books at my desk, and if I was forced to hunt around for a new workspace every day I would quickly grow exasperated and just use the company's internet connection to surf Dice and Monster instead of doing my job. Besides, humans are territorial animals. It's hardwired into us to want to be able to say "that's mine", taking that ability away from your employees is only going to depress the lot of them.
Maybe they can get him for copyright infringement. With all those images of kiddie porn, at least one has to be copied illegally!
California, the state in which the offense was committed and which is prosecuting him, doesn't have a "fighting words" concept. I can say anything short of actually threatening you (at which point I've committed assault), and you can't do anything in turn. Even if you respond physically to my verbal assault, you'd have to justify it later, and most likely you wouldn't be able to.
Exactly. And don't forget that California has laws against making terrorist threats. Since he threatened the use of a weapon of mass destruction (anthrax), even though he didn't have the ability to carry through on the threat, it's almost guaranteed he'll serve some time.
The upshot: he's an employed programmer in Silicon Valley. Which means, look for a Dice posting real soon!
"What should scare you is that some very sane people feel strongly enough to blow themselves up for their cause."
If you're willing to blow yourself up for your cause, you are, by definition, insane.
"Well both Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein are still have not been captured or killed. The primary objectives of this war against terrorism."
OMG, you're right! We haven't found bin Laden after two years of fighting (but have put caps in the asses of most of his homies), and haven't found Saddam after 8 months (but did get his sons and a bunch of other cronies). We should just give up now, no war in history ever took this long.
So, mister armchair general, got any suggestions for how you would run things, if given the chance?
Webhosting.
Think about it. You charge based on traffic, and just inflate the numbers. If a site gets 300 KB of traffic one month, you bill them for 300 GB. As long as you have all-you-can-eat peering arrangements, noone's ever gonna know. On top of this, you can run the actual hosting in some other country, with tighter controls on who can ask whom what (like, say, the Caymans).
Couldn't find anything for the RIAA, but here's a job with their evil twin, the MPAA:4 2039&AVSDM=2003%2D11%2D20+17%3A58%3A00&Logo=1&col= dltci&cy=US&brd=1%2C1862%2C1863&lid=348&fn=&q=copy right.
http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=199
Enjoy your new career!
"Seems the right to get the service you pay for trumps the 'right' of the FBI to spy on you, using your own vehicle's systems!
No, it seems that a court has ruled otherwise, now doesn't it?"
Umm, do you know the definition of "to trump"?
Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 (Note #2)
trump
n : a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps [syn: trump card]
v 1: produce a sound as if from a trumpet
2: get the better of [syn: outdo, outflank, best, scoop]
3: play a trump, in card games [syn: ruff]
4: proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare [syn: trump out]