I don't quite follow this... what is your rationale? Also, what defines "real" art? This is a nice idea, but in my mind it's reasonable to charge for art (concert tickets) and all art is "real".
I'd like to see some of these software companies that do this get sued for such poor coding practices.
Oh? I hope you posted that because it's the first method of revenge that came to mind. Can you imagine what that would really mean? I'd be at the front of the people ranting when that article hit slashdot.
We're not talking about the "fire missile" function on a jet-fighter, we're talking about a free(...) and dealloc(...). Do you want to see every Auto maker sued if they don't squeeze EVERY FRACTION of an mile out of a gallon of gasoline? SUED?
I appreciate the research. The director I referenced had approximately 50 videos with thousands of views before any of them crossed 10 minutes. The pieces fit!
I guess what I really wanted to point out in my original post is that I think it's a storage limit, rather than a time limit to avoid something so abstract as violating copyright...
Sorry, but you're incorrect (if a single counter-example proves such).
My favorite channel on youtube has plenty of videos over 10 minutes. (http://www.youtube.com/viperkeeper) This is not meant as any sort of plug, I have no relationship with the director of this channel, other than being a fan.
that position, of course, means the GPL cannot exist
Why? IA(definitely)NAL, but You don't refer to any position that suggests abolishing all contracts. Unless this law were to proactively forbid any compensation to the original artist in any case, I could still set up a contract with my end-user that required (or forbid) compensation for copies or derivative works.
The book "Mythical Man-Month" by Frederick P. Brooks addresses this EXACT issue. The idea of a "Man-month" in software development is a joke (specifically software development, but it applies to other fields as well).
Often times, the more people you put on a specific problem/project, the SLOWER it goes because of issues like communication, and stumbling over each others' toes, not to mention simply dividing tasks.
Microsoft is trying to push in on Google's territory, so it makes perfect sense for Google to push in on Microsoft's territory.
Because entering the Operating System market is near impossible (Linux is an amazing OS, and it accounts for... WHAT percentage of the desktop? even among those who know how to use it??).
Microsoft = computers in many minds, where google is a website... so Microsoft can enter the Google market without much difficulty (not commenting on their success in the market, but their ability to do it).
Granted, the Accoona one has relavent results... but I would say at the very least, google's results are more appropriate to my search -- at worst one would suggest that "Using the search engine from inside the US doesn't show any noticeable amount of censorship" may in fact be false (although I'm not prepared to say that Accoona is censored).
The x86 is one of the most ROBUST chips ever manufactured in that respect.
Absurdly low number of general purpose registers?
Fair, perhaps. The only reason to boost the register count is to increase performance -- and if the chip CAN perform well with a lower number of registers, more power to it.
Lack of register windowing?
See above. It's not like you can DO less because the chip doesn't have register windows, it just takes more work. [Although in my head it's straight forward, but not too many write in assembly any more, and for good enough reason].
Tiny cache?
Hardly a part of the x86/IA-32 architecture.
Insanely long pipeline: I'll give you this one by default, I'm not knowledgable about it.
Design features which aimed for "as cheap as possible": Not quite: Design features that aimed for "we still have to support stuff that our processors supported 20 years ago." A more NOBLE fault, but most likely still a fault.
And this last point sums up all that IS bad about the x86, or at least the things that are confusing.
Honestly, the x86 was one of the most amazing chips ever built. It had extensive built-in support for task switching, and memory protection. Segmented memory is NOT a bad idea (just ends up that a lot of system software isn't written to use it, some of it even copies the hardware features in software for protability purposes).
I'd be really interested to see an OS on the scale of Windows, Linux, or OSX written SPECIFICALLY for this architecture (read: uses all of the hardware features).
I'd love to hear that I'm wrong on all of the above points if you can back up your arguments.
as there's no way to measure reliably "what would have happened."
Not quite true. I mean, you're right in the sense that we don't KNOW -- but have you ever taken a statistics class? Statistics is the science of predicting results, and Probability is the science of determining how likely it is that an event will occur.
Of course, careful wording can make any statistic suggest just about anything, and I don't know how careful the researchers were... but to say that you can't measure such a thing reliably is too simplistic.
Technically (the best kind of correct): they have "both CDs".
To make this comment at least +0.5 Interesting, they've ALMOST got the format down... I'd suggest two changes:
First, I like how they let you sample the song before purchasing, but my envisioned online music store would let you hear THE WHOLE song, however many times you wanted, before you paid to own a copy. I'm sure the RIAA wouldn't be too happy about it (offering music whenever you wanted to hear it), but maybe the free sample could just be poor quality (as you'd hear the song on the radio).
Secondly, of course, I'd like the music in MP3 or OGG, -- something that'll play anywhere.
Also a full page ad in my school's campus newspaper yesterday. Tried to find a link, but here's the text...
THE KAZAA REVOLUTION 1990 - Made a compilation tape off the radio. 1992 - Bought my first CD. Went to my first concert. 1995 - Logged onto the net for the first time. 2002 - Discovered Kazaa and peer-to-peer. 2003 - Called a pirate. Joined the revolution. 2004 - Buying all my music on Kazaa. 2006 - Formed a band. Sold first song on Kazaa. 2007 - First sold out gig.
The Kazaa Revolution is about you and the other 60 million fans of music, movies and games. It's a new technology that could make life better for everyone. Lower prices. Unlimited catalogs. A smarter way to buy and share online. The record and movie industry are trying to stop it. Don't let them. Go to www.kazaa.com/revolution and change to world of entertainment.
Join the Revolution www.kazaa.com/revolution
---- With a logo that I won't even pretend to copy via ASCII art.
The thing that shocks me the most about it is how they stress BUYING music online. And throw in the line "The record and movie industry are trying to stop it. Don't let them."
That's like saying "The Federal government is trying to invade your privacy! Don't let them! Instead, send all of your personal information to this website: ~~~~~~". Not that I think buying music is rediculous (have a large CD collection myself).
I'll keep my own opinions about filesharing quiet, but I was really suprised that they'd put this in a college newspaper. I know college campuses are one of the leading "frontiers" (lacking a better word atm) of p2p-filesharing, but I have to wonder how many people will read that and say "Yeah! I want to stop downloading my music and rebel by buying my music online! !Viva la revolution!"
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Stallman? I would have expected your UID to be lower...
I don't quite follow this... what is your rationale? Also, what defines "real" art? This is a nice idea, but in my mind it's reasonable to charge for art (concert tickets) and all art is "real".
Oh? I hope you posted that because it's the first method of revenge that came to mind. Can you imagine what that would really mean? I'd be at the front of the people ranting when that article hit slashdot.
We're not talking about the "fire missile" function on a jet-fighter, we're talking about a free(...) and dealloc(...). Do you want to see every Auto maker sued if they don't squeeze EVERY FRACTION of an mile out of a gallon of gasoline? SUED?
I appreciate the research. The director I referenced had approximately 50 videos with thousands of views before any of them crossed 10 minutes. The pieces fit!
I guess what I really wanted to point out in my original post is that I think it's a storage limit, rather than a time limit to avoid something so abstract as violating copyright...
Sorry, but you're incorrect (if a single counter-example proves such).
My favorite channel on youtube has plenty of videos over 10 minutes. (http://www.youtube.com/viperkeeper) This is not meant as any sort of plug, I have no relationship with the director of this channel, other than being a fan.
Why? IA(definitely)NAL, but You don't refer to any position that suggests abolishing all contracts. Unless this law were to proactively forbid any compensation to the original artist in any case, I could still set up a contract with my end-user that required (or forbid) compensation for copies or derivative works.
The book "Mythical Man-Month" by Frederick P. Brooks addresses this EXACT issue. The idea of a "Man-month" in software development is a joke (specifically software development, but it applies to other fields as well).
Often times, the more people you put on a specific problem/project, the SLOWER it goes because of issues like communication, and stumbling over each others' toes, not to mention simply dividing tasks.
Microsoft is trying to push in on Google's territory, so it makes perfect sense for Google to push in on Microsoft's territory.
Because entering the Operating System market is near impossible (Linux is an amazing OS, and it accounts for... WHAT percentage of the desktop? even among those who know how to use it??).
Microsoft = computers in many minds, where google is a website... so Microsoft can enter the Google market without much difficulty (not commenting on their success in the market, but their ability to do it).
Compare a google search for "Chinese Human Rights Violations" to the Accoona one.
For the lazy:
Google
Accoona
Granted, the Accoona one has relavent results... but I would say at the very least, google's results are more appropriate to my search -- at worst one would suggest that "Using the search engine from inside the US doesn't show any noticeable amount of censorship" may in fact be false (although I'm not prepared to say that Accoona is censored).
Just one interesting search...
crappy task switching?
The x86 is one of the most ROBUST chips ever manufactured in that respect.
Absurdly low number of general purpose registers?
Fair, perhaps. The only reason to boost the register count is to increase performance -- and if the chip CAN perform well with a lower number of registers, more power to it.
Lack of register windowing?
See above. It's not like you can DO less because the chip doesn't have register windows, it just takes more work. [Although in my head it's straight forward, but not too many write in assembly any more, and for good enough reason].
Tiny cache?
Hardly a part of the x86/IA-32 architecture.
Insanely long pipeline:
I'll give you this one by default, I'm not knowledgable about it.
Design features which aimed for "as cheap as possible":
Not quite: Design features that aimed for "we still have to support stuff that our processors supported 20 years ago." A more NOBLE fault, but most likely still a fault.
And this last point sums up all that IS bad about the x86, or at least the things that are confusing.
Honestly, the x86 was one of the most amazing chips ever built. It had extensive built-in support for task switching, and memory protection. Segmented memory is NOT a bad idea (just ends up that a lot of system software isn't written to use it, some of it even copies the hardware features in software for protability purposes).
I'd be really interested to see an OS on the scale of Windows, Linux, or OSX written SPECIFICALLY for this architecture (read: uses all of the hardware features).
I'd love to hear that I'm wrong on all of the above points if you can back up your arguments.
as there's no way to measure reliably "what would have happened."
Not quite true. I mean, you're right in the sense that we don't KNOW -- but have you ever taken a statistics class? Statistics is the science of predicting results, and Probability is the science of determining how likely it is that an event will occur.
Of course, careful wording can make any statistic suggest just about anything, and I don't know how careful the researchers were... but to say that you can't measure such a thing reliably is too simplistic.
Technically (the best kind of correct): they have "both CDs".
To make this comment at least +0.5 Interesting, they've ALMOST got the format down... I'd suggest two changes:
First, I like how they let you sample the song before purchasing, but my envisioned online music store would let you hear THE WHOLE song, however many times you wanted, before you paid to own a copy. I'm sure the RIAA wouldn't be too happy about it (offering music whenever you wanted to hear it), but maybe the free sample could just be poor quality (as you'd hear the song on the radio).
Secondly, of course, I'd like the music in MP3 or OGG, -- something that'll play anywhere.
I think the point is this however:
I think the idea is to get the word "Linux" in peoples minds, so they think of it as an added feature, or something like that.
"Oh, I have my Linux TiVo, I bet this Linux PDA works really well too."
It's sort of a "brand awareness" issue or something. That aspect of the marketing doesn't really bother me much.
I do agree with you in a general sense though, people don't want Linux, they want the products.
"We are exploring ways to add value to Windows XP."
Oh, so they are adding new features!!!
No wonder these guys were so smart!
For those whose assembly (DOS asm none the less!) is rusty, function 09 of int 21h is/was used to print a string to stdout.
d'oh
;P
"Quantum mechanics" but same joke
Since I'm boring you with a second post, you win a free one-liner:
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
Quantum Physics - The Dreams that Stuff is made of.
(from fortune)
So you're saying sterility is hereditary then?
[note to the anal: I know I just oversimplified genetics].
Also a full page ad in my school's campus newspaper yesterday. Tried to find a link, but here's the text...
THE KAZAA REVOLUTION
1990 - Made a compilation tape off the radio.
1992 - Bought my first CD. Went to my first concert.
1995 - Logged onto the net for the first time.
2002 - Discovered Kazaa and peer-to-peer.
2003 - Called a pirate. Joined the revolution.
2004 - Buying all my music on Kazaa.
2006 - Formed a band. Sold first song on Kazaa.
2007 - First sold out gig.
The Kazaa Revolution is about you and the other 60 million fans of music, movies and games. It's a new technology that could make life better for everyone. Lower prices. Unlimited catalogs. A smarter way to buy and share online.
The record and movie industry are trying to stop it. Don't let them.
Go to www.kazaa.com/revolution and change to world of entertainment.
Join the Revolution
www.kazaa.com/revolution
----
With a logo that I won't even pretend to copy via ASCII art.
The thing that shocks me the most about it is how they stress BUYING music online. And throw in the line "The record and movie industry are trying to stop it. Don't let them."
That's like saying "The Federal government is trying to invade your privacy! Don't let them! Instead, send all of your personal information to this website: ~~~~~~". Not that I think buying music is rediculous (have a large CD collection myself).
I'll keep my own opinions about filesharing quiet, but I was really suprised that they'd put this in a college newspaper. I know college campuses are one of the leading "frontiers" (lacking a better word atm) of p2p-filesharing, but I have to wonder how many people will read that and say "Yeah! I want to stop downloading my music and rebel by buying my music online! !Viva la revolution!"
Hey, I admit it, I just like the sound file...
pronunciation
Still, ther are probably more than 836 people violating copyrights via P2P networks.
You're new around here, aren't you?
Ironically, this word is very similar to another word...
I doubt anyone who learned English as a second language would be able to read the scrambled words as easily as most Slashdotters.
Thank you, I'm getting so tired of these damn SU-centric articles!