Weak, dude. Good aim, but weak. This is a quintessential example of geeky passive-agressiveness. Rather than deal witht the problem rationally, you go and be an annoying little geeky kid again. I only hope you are still 16 and aren't expected to make mature decisions... Really. That was just weak.
If you would bother to actually listen to the politicians out there rather than just try to glean what you read off the sidestory article on CNN or hear in some IRC channel, you'd realize something.
Politicians understand the role of government. Lieberman in office doesn't mean that we all lose moral freedoms. Political office provides two things:
1) A role and governemnt
2) Celebrity
And what people like Lieberman or most other moral-right politicians do is use their newfound Celebrity status to voice their opinions. That's all well and good, really. When you see legislation mandating that companies or citizens do something unconstitutional successfully working it's way through the legislative process, maybe you have the right to complain.
But, if you really believe in freedom of speech as much as you claim to, you have to remember that politicions and Luddites and every other person you disagree with has that some right to freedom of Speech, and there is not reason that holding a government salary should prevent them from saying what they belive.
"Additionally, in this case, if there is no loss of profit for the artists or record labels, then the claim that Napster represents "fair use" is strengthened a bit"
To say that because the recording industry didn't LOSE money last year, Napster is automatically fair use is stretching it a bit, don't you think? I mean, then all other forms of profit-free piracy would be fair use too, no?
Just because they profited SOME doesn't mean they didn't LOSE profit because of Napster. It's pretty hard for either side to prove how Napster affected profits, although I'm (sadly) sure that the record folks have "projected statististics" and whatnot that they could reference...
I was lucky enough to see a Transmeta chip in action at a "Java in the gaming world" (or something) seminar at E3 this year. A guy from Transmeta was there, whose name I don't remember, although you can find him if you cross-check "who works for transmeta" with "who worked on Doom". Anyway, in order to show off Transmeta's code-morphing, they conveerted a graphics processing segment of Doom to Java, and implemented a Java-to-VILP code-morpher. From the benchmarks they were showing, code-morphed Java ran just as fast as code-morphed x86, and with the inclusion of a special kind of Jump statement in the command set, they could have the Transmeta chip change which code-morpher it was using on the fly.
Very cool stuff, and I expect that implementing a 68k or G4 code-morpher wouldn't be impossible either. HOWEVER, I don't think tansmeta is looking to much at theat sort of thing right now, until they are sure they have a base somewhere. The Java code-morpher was written as an off-the-clock project by a couple of guys at Transmeta, and is totally not supported by Transmeta.
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Weak, dude. Good aim, but weak. This is a quintessential example of geeky passive-agressiveness. Rather than deal witht the problem rationally, you go and be an annoying little geeky kid again. I only hope you are still 16 and aren't expected to make mature decisions... Really. That was just weak.
If you would bother to actually listen to the politicians out there rather than just try to glean what you read off the sidestory article on CNN or hear in some IRC channel, you'd realize something.
Politicians understand the role of government. Lieberman in office doesn't mean that we all lose moral freedoms. Political office provides two things:
1) A role and governemnt
2) Celebrity
And what people like Lieberman or most other moral-right politicians do is use their newfound Celebrity status to voice their opinions. That's all well and good, really. When you see legislation mandating that companies or citizens do something unconstitutional successfully working it's way through the legislative process, maybe you have the right to complain.
But, if you really believe in freedom of speech as much as you claim to, you have to remember that politicions and Luddites and every other person you disagree with has that some right to freedom of Speech, and there is not reason that holding a government salary should prevent them from saying what they belive.
"Additionally, in this case, if there is no loss of profit for the artists or record labels, then the claim that Napster represents "fair use" is strengthened a bit"
To say that because the recording industry didn't LOSE money last year, Napster is automatically fair use is stretching it a bit, don't you think? I mean, then all other forms of profit-free piracy would be fair use too, no?
Just because they profited SOME doesn't mean they didn't LOSE profit because of Napster. It's pretty hard for either side to prove how Napster affected profits, although I'm (sadly) sure that the record folks have "projected statististics" and whatnot that they could reference...
I was lucky enough to see a Transmeta chip in action at a "Java in the gaming world" (or something) seminar at E3 this year. A guy from Transmeta was there, whose name I don't remember, although you can find him if you cross-check "who works for transmeta" with "who worked on Doom". Anyway, in order to show off Transmeta's code-morphing, they conveerted a graphics processing segment of Doom to Java, and implemented a Java-to-VILP code-morpher. From the benchmarks they were showing, code-morphed Java ran just as fast as code-morphed x86, and with the inclusion of a special kind of Jump statement in the command set, they could have the Transmeta chip change which code-morpher it was using on the fly.
Very cool stuff, and I expect that implementing a 68k or G4 code-morpher wouldn't be impossible either. HOWEVER, I don't think tansmeta is looking to much at theat sort of thing right now, until they are sure they have a base somewhere. The Java code-morpher was written as an off-the-clock project by a couple of guys at Transmeta, and is totally not supported by Transmeta.