I mean Red Hat, Caldera, VA Linux and all those guys have been non-profitable for a long time now...
Oh please... call for another govt handout
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Look, you can get a computer for a couple of hunder bucks if you sign up for interenet acess which you are gong to need anyway these days. People don't appreciate things when they are just handed to them anyway, and the last thing we need is another govt program giveaway to the poor. If some provate group wants to waste their money like this, fine, but don't blow my tax dollar on this stuff.
Am I the only one who thinks 70 years is a ridiculous amount of time for a dead person to hold onto a copyright?
Yes, probably.
Hell, what is the purpose of musical copyright in the first place?
To provide motivation for artists to publish their works by giving them a limited monopoly on them.
Music, like digital information, is nothing more than a specific arrangement of a finite number of symbols. The entire concept that someone can "own" a particular grouping of symbols is at best ludicrous.
They don't "own" the music. They own the copyright to a piece of music. Sigh......
...to sumbit my comments about what a great idea this is. I'm glad the may tax dollars will no longer go to subsudize people looking at pr0n in public libraries.
It's a scary idea, because the obvious extrapolation on this idea is virtual reality, but from a legal point of view, no children are being harmed in its production, so I don't see how it could be illegal.
I'm sure anything along those lines would be considered illegal under any number of obscenity laws. Too bad people keep framing this as a free speech issue...
I swear it is just like watch a bunch of preschoolers arguing over a toy or something.
Unfortunately, there is nobody to come in and make them "share".
Why the hell should AOL share? They spent the money to develop the service and view it as a differentiation to sell their services. Its their servers and they should have the right to tell other people who want to use them to go screw themselves.
You can bet if IM had failed, all of AOL's competitors wouldn't be falling over themselves to help AOL pay for their failure....
So, what is it that Jobs has against the poor floppy drive? I mean, look at the NeXT box, the iMac... Did he once lose some important file he saved on a floppy and take some oath to remove the from the face of the earth or something???
Randal Graves: [reading a magazine] Have you ever wondered how much the average jizz-mopper makes per hour?
Dante Hicks: What's a jizz-mopper?
Randal Graves: He's the guy that cleans up the nudie booth after each guy jerks off.
Dante Hicks: Nudie booth?
Randal Graves: Yeah, nudie booth. You've never been in a nudie booth?
Dante Hicks: I guess not.
Randal Graves: Oh, it's great. There's this glass between you and these chicks, and they put on a show for you for like 10 bucks.
Dante Hicks: What kinda show?
[Customer walks up to counter with a bottle of glass cleaner and a roll of paper towels.]
Randal Graves: They do the weirdest, craziest shit you like to see chicks do. They insert things into any opening on their body - ANY opening.
Dante Hicks: Could we not talk about this right now?
Randal Graves: The jizz-mopper's job is to clean off the glass after each guy shoots a load. I don't know if you noticed, but cum leaves streaks if you don't clean it right away.
It seems like the government and the business world are working together to create an economic down-slump by creating huge multi-national corporations that will charge such extreme rates for everything that no one will be able to afford it.
1) Get a simple economics text
2) Read about economies of scale
3) Slap forhead making "D'oh" sound.
I'm sure that we will all be able to use Linux whether M$ percieves it as a threat or not. There is nothing that M$ can do to stop Linux.
Insightful? *chortle*
I can think of tons of things MS can do to stop MS. Like:
1) Support tons of peripherals that Linux doesn't
2) Have a nice standard, easy to use and intuitive GUI
3) Using MS means you never have to hear stupid arguments about licenses or asinine definitions of "free"
4) Plus it will be a cold day in hell before you have Office for Linux anyway...
I mean, that's why they are my preferences. So, today, eBay lost at least me as customer. .
Oh man, I guess they'll have to get by with 3,499,999 registered users instead of their 3.5 million.... I hope I have time to short their stock before the market reacts to this.
Success of this scheme will depend on whether the mass of consumers is wants and is willing to pay for higher resolution TV. Evidence so far is no. HDTV is not selling well.
Well, I think the conclusion is more like no, not until there is more HDTV content and prices come down.
It's a shame that they're being held back by Motorola when their Mac OS X is so wonderful.
Apple, as usual, is being held back by Apple. They've switched processor families before and there is no technical reason they couldn't again. For some reason, everyone else in the world knows that selling PC hardware is a low margin game and that Apple's forte is their OS and some of their applications, but they keep stumbling around trying to convince themselves that making cool looking boxes is going to recapture their past and short lived glory years.
How can you say that? Last I checked not only is the US paying for the majority of the Space Station, we are also paying the Russians for modules that they deliver years late and hundereds of millions of dollars over budget.
...I'm glad my tax dollars are going to help the Russians run some sort of Dacha in space program. One last revolting, fucked up development brought to you by the Klinton administration, who were the forces behind this whole, oh, let's bring the Russians in on the ISS program. Great job, Bill....
One of the irony's about the constitution of the United States is it gives us the freedom to setup private entities that violate the spirit of the constitution
Spirit of the constitution? The constitution only applies to the government anyway... What's wrong with Yahoo exercising their rights and freedom?
I guess you wouldn't mind if 50 anti-whatever protesters assembled on your front lawn since the constitution gives people the right to freely assemble, and you wouldn't want to violate spirit of the constitution by asking them to disperse..
No one is having their rights violated here. No one has a right to list items on Yahoos auctions and Yahoo is well within their rights to prohibit or allow whatever they want. Quite correctly, Yahoo doesn't want to be seen as profiting from the sales of such items.
The market will surely react and people will find other outlets for this sort of thing (with or without the French), but good for Yahoo for taking a positive step.
Quadrantid meteors take their name from an obsolete constellation, Quadrans Muralis, found in early 19th-century star atlases between Draco, Hercules, and Bootes. It was removed, along with a few other constellations, from crowded sky maps in 1922 when the International Astronomical Union adopted the modern list of 88 officially-recognized constellations.
Hey, nice constellation you have there... be a shame if something happened to it...
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I mean Red Hat, Caldera, VA Linux and all those guys have been non-profitable for a long time now...
Look, you can get a computer for a couple of hunder bucks if you sign up for interenet acess which you are gong to need anyway these days. People don't appreciate things when they are just handed to them anyway, and the last thing we need is another govt program giveaway to the poor. If some provate group wants to waste their money like this, fine, but don't blow my tax dollar on this stuff.
Am I the only one who thinks 70 years is a ridiculous amount of time for a dead person to hold onto a copyright?
Yes, probably.
Hell, what is the purpose of musical copyright in the first place?
To provide motivation for artists to publish their works by giving them a limited monopoly on them.
Music, like digital information, is nothing more than a specific arrangement of a finite number of symbols. The entire concept that someone can "own" a particular grouping of symbols is at best ludicrous.
They don't "own" the music. They own the copyright to a piece of music. Sigh......
...to sumbit my comments about what a great idea this is. I'm glad the may tax dollars will no longer go to subsudize people looking at pr0n in public libraries.
Broadcasting power over long distances
What a bastard Edison was
How Tesla could have split the world in half or produced earthquakes or some such rot
How the government dicked him over
Great... yawn...
Corel's linux divison? I mean hell, you can just copy their work for free....
It's a scary idea, because the obvious extrapolation on this idea is virtual reality, but from a legal point of view, no children are being harmed in its production, so I don't see how it could be illegal.
I'm sure anything along those lines would be considered illegal under any number of obscenity laws. Too bad people keep framing this as a free speech issue...
I swear it is just like watch a bunch of preschoolers arguing over a toy or something.
Unfortunately, there is nobody to come in and make them "share".
Why the hell should AOL share? They spent the money to develop the service and view it as a differentiation to sell their services. Its their servers and they should have the right to tell other people who want to use them to go screw themselves.
You can bet if IM had failed, all of AOL's competitors wouldn't be falling over themselves to help AOL pay for their failure....
So, what is it that Jobs has against the poor floppy drive? I mean, look at the NeXT box, the iMac... Did he once lose some important file he saved on a floppy and take some oath to remove the from the face of the earth or something???
Randal Graves: [reading a magazine] Have you ever wondered how much the average jizz-mopper makes per hour?
Dante Hicks: What's a jizz-mopper?
Randal Graves: He's the guy that cleans up the nudie booth after each guy jerks off.
Dante Hicks: Nudie booth?
Randal Graves: Yeah, nudie booth. You've never been in a nudie booth?
Dante Hicks: I guess not.
Randal Graves: Oh, it's great. There's this glass between you and these chicks, and they put on a show for you for like 10 bucks.
Dante Hicks: What kinda show?
[Customer walks up to counter with a bottle of glass cleaner and a roll of paper towels.]
Randal Graves: They do the weirdest, craziest shit you like to see chicks do. They insert things into any opening on their body - ANY opening.
Dante Hicks: Could we not talk about this right now?
Randal Graves: The jizz-mopper's job is to clean off the glass after each guy shoots a load. I don't know if you noticed, but cum leaves streaks if you don't clean it right away.
It seems like the government and the business world are working together to create an economic down-slump by creating huge multi-national corporations that will charge such extreme rates for everything that no one will be able to afford it.
1) Get a simple economics text
2) Read about economies of scale
3) Slap forhead making "D'oh" sound.
I mean, this could be real useful when you are in one of those holding patterns trying to land at O'Hare....
Yeah, but don't you think a native version would be nice?
The whole "A better Windows than Windows" strategy worked oh so well for OS/2.
How about having to press Start to turn the computer off? :P
:)
What? I gotta run a program called shutdown to turn the computer off????
I'm sure that we will all be able to use Linux whether M$ percieves it as a threat or not. There is nothing that M$ can do to stop Linux.
Insightful? *chortle*
I can think of tons of things MS can do to stop MS. Like:
1) Support tons of peripherals that Linux doesn't
2) Have a nice standard, easy to use and intuitive GUI
3) Using MS means you never have to hear stupid arguments about licenses or asinine definitions of "free"
4) Plus it will be a cold day in hell before you have Office for Linux anyway...
I mean, that's why they are my preferences. So, today, eBay lost at least me as customer. .
Oh man, I guess they'll have to get by with 3,499,999 registered users instead of their 3.5 million.... I hope I have time to short their stock before the market reacts to this.
Should be shot... isn't there some sort of w3 recommendation against using fonts like that???
Success of this scheme will depend on whether the mass of consumers is wants and is willing to pay for higher resolution TV. Evidence so far is no. HDTV is not selling well.
Well, I think the conclusion is more like no, not until there is more HDTV content and prices come down.
...which means the black-helicopter types on /. will hate it.
It's a shame that they're being held back by Motorola when their Mac OS X is so wonderful.
Apple, as usual, is being held back by Apple. They've switched processor families before and there is no technical reason they couldn't again. For some reason, everyone else in the world knows that selling PC hardware is a low margin game and that Apple's forte is their OS and some of their applications, but they keep stumbling around trying to convince themselves that making cool looking boxes is going to recapture their past and short lived glory years.
How can you say that? Last I checked not only is the US paying for the majority of the Space Station, we are also paying the Russians for modules that they deliver years late and hundereds of millions of dollars over budget.
...I'm glad my tax dollars are going to help the Russians run some sort of Dacha in space program. One last revolting, fucked up development brought to you by the Klinton administration, who were the forces behind this whole, oh, let's bring the Russians in on the ISS program. Great job, Bill....
One of the irony's about the constitution of the United States is it gives us the freedom to setup private entities that violate the spirit of the constitution
Spirit of the constitution? The constitution only applies to the government anyway... What's wrong with Yahoo exercising their rights and freedom?
I guess you wouldn't mind if 50 anti-whatever protesters assembled on your front lawn since the constitution gives people the right to freely assemble, and you wouldn't want to violate spirit of the constitution by asking them to disperse..
No one is having their rights violated here. No one has a right to list items on Yahoos auctions and Yahoo is well within their rights to prohibit or allow whatever they want. Quite correctly, Yahoo doesn't want to be seen as profiting from the sales of such items.
The market will surely react and people will find other outlets for this sort of thing (with or without the French), but good for Yahoo for taking a positive step.
Quadrantid meteors take their name from an obsolete constellation, Quadrans Muralis, found in early 19th-century star atlases between Draco, Hercules, and Bootes. It was removed, along with a few other constellations, from crowded sky maps in 1922 when the International Astronomical Union adopted the modern list of 88 officially-recognized constellations.
Hey, nice constellation you have there... be a shame if something happened to it...