It's sad, yes, but it's the way things work. Pretending there's a better, less money-centric world doesn't make this one disappear.
I have to disagree. It is the strive for idealism that results in progress. Just because a system is in a given state does not mean that it can not change. If that were the case then America's revolutionary war would never have succeeded and the world would be a vastly different place. More to the point, the parent poster is not "pretending," he is outright claiming that there is a better way and he is encouraging you to do nothing more than think about it with an open mind.
Let copyright law apply to those who require it to make a living.
The parent poster is clearly attacking the merit of such a system. His position is that people do not deserve to be financially supported by their respective creative works, at least not to the end where they are gauranteed dictatorship over who may experience and share the work and at what cost. A person who is able to sell his work to a person willing to support him has that right, but no more. He should not have absolute say in who can charge for his works or who can experience them. In his eyes, there should be nobody that requires copyright law to make a living. The system is deprecated.
If you like LaTeX, you'll love this. From the website:
What is MusiXTeX?
MusiXTeX is a set of TeX macros and fonts to typeset polyphonic or orchestral
music. It is still in progress and updated.
Usually TeX source files are typeset as texts with some control sequences.
But MusiXTeX source files are filled with macros to type musical marks,
and they look so complicated that many people hesitate at a glance. MusiXTeX
is not so easy, that's true. But once you master it, you can produce scores
no less quality than the ones on market.
Anyway, the website is here and it would seem that there is a large archive of classics and standard peices to download as well. I even think that there is a nice WYSIWYG editor someplace for it, but I'm too lazy to search.
Re:Does Anyone Remember Cold Fusion?
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At subatomic levels, every process is 100% efficient. The basic principles that you learn in mechanics which warn you that there is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine, etc... are results of statistics and macroscopic effects. Microscopic is not miniaturized macroscopic.
Point 1: The new CEO of the RIAA is a former staff member of former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a repulican from TN.
Point 2: The RIAA is seeking the close assistance of republicans with point 1.
Point 3: Sen. Norm Coleman is a republican.
Point 4: The parties mentioned in (3), merely question the methods that the RIAA used to get their subpoenas and whether or not the penalties are affecting "innocent" people. He does not think that P2P is legally or morally OK to use. In fact, he calls the copyright infringement "theft", which clearly it is not.
Theory: RIAA uses its connections to the Republican party to pass new laws, all the while the unsuspecting consumer is egging the republicans on because they are "talking a good talk". While I'm optimistic at the sound of this inquiry, I won't hold my breath for a favorable outcome, and I am suspicious of Coleman's motives.
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Terminator is trying to..excuse me RIAA/MPAA is trying to get Arnold to run for President under their banner..
I'm sorry but this is wrong. Actually Arnold is looking to run for the governership of the great state of California, which he declared that he would do if they recalled whatever-his-name-is.
Who wants to place bets on the name of the next hybrid OS? We've had Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, and now I'm guessing they'll switch to a softer more feminine side of things, like Tigger, or Hello Kitty. Anyone with me on this?
everyone else who pirates music does so because they do not have to face the consequences of their actions, either economic or legal. There is nothing noble or courageous about that.
Civil disobedience does not have to be noble or courageous, it is simply a person or group of people defying the law for their own agenda. Don't be so quick to dismiss the power of the people to enact a change in the law by "selfishly" disobeying it. They don't necessarily have to disobey the law with the intention of having it overturned - just look at prohibition, the law was ignored by many who took their crimes into basements and other hiding places because they did not WANT to get caught. The law got changed anyway.
Because clearly the ratio of people who shoplift to those who do not shoplift, or those who are shop owners is very small. Yes, America is a nation of laws that is based a great deal on morality - or tries to be - but don't forget that morality is defined by the people under its grasp. Up until very recently 13 states had anti-sodomy laws targeted at homosexuals (and all 50 states at one point) because there was a time when the majority of law makers saw this as wrong and immoral. But today, there is a much more open view of human sexuality, and homosexuality is a great deal more accepted than it once was. When enough people (like homosexuals) band together for a certain cause, it can improve.
Also I realize this wasn't YOUR point, but in regards to the drug laws, yes - many people smoke marijuanna, and yes it remains illegal. I forget what the statistic is, but I think its something like 1 in 5 people has -tried- it with 1 in 10 having used it recreationally. If that is the case, it is clearly not a sufficiently significant portion of the population. If however, 50%-67% of Americans (and not just adolescents) used marijuanna recreationally, or like they use alcohol, do you honestly think there would be a war on it? The likelyhood is that it would be regulated like alcohol and tobacco, and taxed and taxed until the government came to love it.
The fact is that many things are illegal and there is always some group of people willing to break the law, but when large groups of otherwise law-obiding adults begin to ignore a certain law, it deserves to be overturned.
Seriously, if enough people blatanly disobey copyright laws, if there is enough civil disobedience, it almost HAS to force a change in the law. The question, though, is how much is "enough" and do we REALLY need to go through all of the heavy handed law enforcement attempts before this happens? Can't the law makers see for once, that this is what the PEOPLE want and step up to the plate to do their job? Rant over.
And if the alternative is the same, looks the same, and takes the same amount of memory to run. Then whats the point?
The point is that the alternative isn't the same - it's not proprietary, it's source is open, there are no licensing fees, the community spirit of the developers is reflected in 98% of all software developed for it (iow, it's also open and free). There is an alternative, and it is better.
Even if there was a 100% compatible open sourced version of WindowsXP that had no licensing cost, which would you use? Now imagine if the "freeXP" had no anti-aliasing, onlyh ran in 8-bit color mode, and looked like Windows 3.1, would you still rather use that than the real McCoy? Emulation of an already successful product is not a bad thing, in many ways GTK has already surpassed MFC, now they are filling in the holes.
You missed the parent post about a screen door on a submarine, and he was making the kickstand on the horse analogy. The common link is utilities that don't make any sense on a given device, or more specifically a mode of transportation.
Yeah, I thought that was the case as well. Doesn't Apple have the only Java implementation that doesn't spawn a new VM for each new app? I can't remember what the terminology for it was.
Efficient, I think is the term you are looking for, perhaps also see good, nice, cost-effective, and elegant. Now as an excersise to the reader I leave you the task of assigning some terms to Microsoft products... (grin)...
The only hard part is then tying an IP address to a prosecutable person.
Exactly, how can you prove that the subscriber of the internet account was the one who was sharing the file, and not his 12 year old son or neighbor who tapped into his wireless router? Kind of like giving somebody a parking ticket when their car was stolen and then forcing them to show up in court to prove they weren't driving.
Since when does mod or modification have a negative context? Call it what you want, but until "piracy chip" becomes the term used, we have nothing to worry about...
What would happen if they continued to work on the project, releasing it over Gnutella or something similar, but without specifically taking credit for the coding? How could Blizzard ever prove WHO was actually writing the code? Without a target to send a cease and desist to, how can they sue for trademark damages? They can't feasibly C&D every person on a P2P network. And this isn't a case of copyright infringement. What could they possibly do?
Was getting together with a guy from the cold line (I was a dishwasher) and walking out of a Mexican restaurant after telling the manager we were going in search of the perfect taco...
And lo and behold! you found the commander on slashdot!
Slashdot Mirror
I have to disagree. It is the strive for idealism that results in progress. Just because a system is in a given state does not mean that it can not change. If that were the case then America's revolutionary war would never have succeeded and the world would be a vastly different place. More to the point, the parent poster is not "pretending," he is outright claiming that there is a better way and he is encouraging you to do nothing more than think about it with an open mind.
Let copyright law apply to those who require it to make a living.
The parent poster is clearly attacking the merit of such a system. His position is that people do not deserve to be financially supported by their respective creative works, at least not to the end where they are gauranteed dictatorship over who may experience and share the work and at what cost. A person who is able to sell his work to a person willing to support him has that right, but no more. He should not have absolute say in who can charge for his works or who can experience them. In his eyes, there should be nobody that requires copyright law to make a living. The system is deprecated.
...that Tomb Raider: Konqueror is the best...
What is MusiXTeX?
MusiXTeX is a set of TeX macros and fonts to typeset polyphonic or orchestral music. It is still in progress and updated.
Usually TeX source files are typeset as texts with some control sequences. But MusiXTeX source files are filled with macros to type musical marks, and they look so complicated that many people hesitate at a glance. MusiXTeX is not so easy, that's true. But once you master it, you can produce scores no less quality than the ones on market.
Anyway, the website is here and it would seem that there is a large archive of classics and standard peices to download as well. I even think that there is a nice WYSIWYG editor someplace for it, but I'm too lazy to search.
At subatomic levels, every process is 100% efficient. The basic principles that you learn in mechanics which warn you that there is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine, etc... are results of statistics and macroscopic effects. Microscopic is not miniaturized macroscopic.
But the fact that he wrote the Declaration of Independance might give him some credibility, no?
Point 2: The RIAA is seeking the close assistance of republicans with point 1.
Point 3: Sen. Norm Coleman is a republican.
Point 4: The parties mentioned in (3), merely question the methods that the RIAA used to get their subpoenas and whether or not the penalties are affecting "innocent" people. He does not think that P2P is legally or morally OK to use. In fact, he calls the copyright infringement "theft", which clearly it is not.
Theory: RIAA uses its connections to the Republican party to pass new laws, all the while the unsuspecting consumer is egging the republicans on because they are "talking a good talk". While I'm optimistic at the sound of this inquiry, I won't hold my breath for a favorable outcome, and I am suspicious of Coleman's motives.
I'm sorry but this is wrong. Actually Arnold is looking to run for the governership of the great state of California, which he declared that he would do if they recalled whatever-his-name-is.
According to this screen shot taken from the website, it does - at least in version 0.80.
Parent post double plus ungood refs unpersons...
Who wants to place bets on the name of the next hybrid OS? We've had Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, and now I'm guessing they'll switch to a softer more feminine side of things, like Tigger, or Hello Kitty. Anyone with me on this?
Civil disobedience does not have to be noble or courageous, it is simply a person or group of people defying the law for their own agenda. Don't be so quick to dismiss the power of the people to enact a change in the law by "selfishly" disobeying it. They don't necessarily have to disobey the law with the intention of having it overturned - just look at prohibition, the law was ignored by many who took their crimes into basements and other hiding places because they did not WANT to get caught. The law got changed anyway.
Also I realize this wasn't YOUR point, but in regards to the drug laws, yes - many people smoke marijuanna, and yes it remains illegal. I forget what the statistic is, but I think its something like 1 in 5 people has -tried- it with 1 in 10 having used it recreationally. If that is the case, it is clearly not a sufficiently significant portion of the population. If however, 50%-67% of Americans (and not just adolescents) used marijuanna recreationally, or like they use alcohol, do you honestly think there would be a war on it? The likelyhood is that it would be regulated like alcohol and tobacco, and taxed and taxed until the government came to love it.
The fact is that many things are illegal and there is always some group of people willing to break the law, but when large groups of otherwise law-obiding adults begin to ignore a certain law, it deserves to be overturned.
Seriously, if enough people blatanly disobey copyright laws, if there is enough civil disobedience, it almost HAS to force a change in the law. The question, though, is how much is "enough" and do we REALLY need to go through all of the heavy handed law enforcement attempts before this happens? Can't the law makers see for once, that this is what the PEOPLE want and step up to the plate to do their job? Rant over.
The point is that the alternative isn't the same - it's not proprietary, it's source is open, there are no licensing fees, the community spirit of the developers is reflected in 98% of all software developed for it (iow, it's also open and free). There is an alternative, and it is better.
Even if there was a 100% compatible open sourced version of WindowsXP that had no licensing cost, which would you use? Now imagine if the "freeXP" had no anti-aliasing, onlyh ran in 8-bit color mode, and looked like Windows 3.1, would you still rather use that than the real McCoy? Emulation of an already successful product is not a bad thing, in many ways GTK has already surpassed MFC, now they are filling in the holes.
You missed the parent post about a screen door on a submarine, and he was making the kickstand on the horse analogy. The common link is utilities that don't make any sense on a given device, or more specifically a mode of transportation.
Efficient, I think is the term you are looking for, perhaps also see good, nice, cost-effective, and elegant. Now as an excersise to the reader I leave you the task of assigning some terms to Microsoft products... (grin)...
Exactly, how can you prove that the subscriber of the internet account was the one who was sharing the file, and not his 12 year old son or neighbor who tapped into his wireless router? Kind of like giving somebody a parking ticket when their car was stolen and then forcing them to show up in court to prove they weren't driving.
Since when does mod or modification have a negative context? Call it what you want, but until "piracy chip" becomes the term used, we have nothing to worry about...
In that case, they should make the orcs wear bras and claim its a parody. Then release a no-bra mod...
What about if they called it "PhreeKrapht", or even "WahrCrapht"? Can you trademark a phonetic identity?
What would happen if they continued to work on the project, releasing it over Gnutella or something similar, but without specifically taking credit for the coding? How could Blizzard ever prove WHO was actually writing the code? Without a target to send a cease and desist to, how can they sue for trademark damages? They can't feasibly C&D every person on a P2P network. And this isn't a case of copyright infringement. What could they possibly do?
It's called PCI Express because it's a bus! Express Bus! That's cute.... hahahahahhahaha....
I had an idea like that once.
Really? What was it, Tom?
Well, alright. It was a jump to conclusions mat!
*puzzled looks*
You see, there'd be this mat that you'd lay on the floor and it would have different "conclusions" on it that you could jump to...
Never mind....
And lo and behold! you found the commander on slashdot!
... life is discovered on Venus in the form of tiny airborn microbes. Russian scientists are now calling it Venera Disease. *bada ching*