Hello. I recently happened upon your page for "The Lightning Field". I was curious about how you could protect your metal poles from being photographed by copyright law. Copyright law prevents the redistribution of one's original work, but not the creation of new work. If I sold pictures that you took, I would be in violation of your copyright. Unfortunately, there is no law that prevents me from photographing anything.
If there were, perhaps you would consider suing Microsoft and the USGS for the infringing aerial photograph at http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
On second thought, perhaps you shouldn't consider that. Because if you did, you would be laughed out of court.
I was just about to post a comment like this. I'm trying to find an email address so I can tell them how ludicrous this is. Copyright? Sorry. IANAL, but copyright would only cover me redistributing their pictures. If I want my own, and take them, that's legal. Sure you can refuse to let my camera on the premisis, but you can't say I'm infringing on their copyright./me is off to New Mexico with my watch camera:)
I had a problem like this for a while. It turned out that the APIC was killing the whole system. If you see the message "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7", that's why your computer is dying. Disable the APIC and say hello to 10 month uptimes:)
Has there ever been any technology that successfully prevents one from using their own property? CSS? That worked really well. iTunes DRM? Nobody cracked that? Etc, etc, etc. Satellite TV? Can't get that for free anymore.
My point is, I'll be the first one to hook this thing to 120VAC and see what happens. Did you short out? Ohhhhhhhhhhh. So sad. Guess what. If you turn off the lights and disconnect the horn, it can't sound the horn and flash the lights.
BTw, don't call 1-800-328-9890 and ask them about this. Oh wait. Do do that.
Why not sell something like a pencil or paperclip for $$$BIG$$$ and give the phone number away for free? In fact, why don't prositutes do that. Take them out to dinner and they'll fuck you. Seems legal (immoral, of course) to me. Hmm...
Umm, webmail? You mean fetchmail? It's a pretty important program. How else can you suck down email to read with a standard UNIX mail client? You can't:)
But, if you don't like him, that's fine. You can write Sun an open letter, too. Maybe people will like you better!
It depends on what "lying" is. When you tell Bob you like his pink flannel shirt, are you lying? When you tell your girlfriend you love her, do you really? If you're not sure, you're lying, right? It's tough to decide because we "lie" all day. People who don't lie at the right times are called "assholes". Think about that for a second. Isn't that kind of sad?
> "Uh, hello, NVidia? Remember how we whined to you to make drivers for XFree86? Well forget that, now we need you to do it all over again for this new implementation."
Yes. This is my greatest worry. If things keep changing, proprietary vendors will get tired of learning the new APIs ever week and will say "Fuck Linux". Now I know we shouldn't depend on proprietary software, but who else makes graphics cards?
Fortunately, new implementation != changing the APIs. We can always have a compatability layer.
Here's a better example: You can't use Mozilla to access an IIS server. This, of course, sounds rediculous. Mozilla [client] isn't a derivitave of IIS [server]!
The same goes for X apps. X apps contact the server, send it a message, and wait for a reply. That's not a derivitave either.
So X apps [client] and the X server [server] are pretty much unrelated. You might need an Xlib to talk to the server, though. AFAIK, those are available for linking under any license, though?
Who cares? It works well enough. At least it's stable and works.
Windows is no better. MacOS, yes. But is MacOS a Free operating system that runs on any piece-of-shit computer you throw at it? No.
The way I look it is like this: you can fix it, or not use it. Pick one, and stop complaining. Is your post on topic, even? Does it have anything to do with the license? No. Hmm.
Umm, microsoft claims that XP/2003 is more secure than Linux. In the wake of the last eight virus attacks and source code leak, I think M$ is wrong. Maybe I'm wrong, though?:)
You think the US is bad? Try Japan. My mobile rates were insane. $30 a month for a plan with 3cents/10 seconds on peak (peak is nighttime apparently... pretty smart) + some $5 a month for email. Insane. And this was Au, the cheapest company (with a school discount!). I used the internet a lot on my phone (no computer:( ), and payed almost $70 a month.
As I was leaving, 55MBps (yes, that's half of 100-BaseT) broadband + unlimited calling + faxing was down to $30 a month or something, though. Also insane:)
Yes. I have a friend who is quite the windows zealot. I told him I use linux because it's free (and Free:). He replied by saying that Windows is also free. He doesn't care about the legality. Both are equally free for him. If he had to go to jail for using an illegal copy of Windows, I think
In fact, I don't know ANYONE who has a legal copy of XP Professional* (XP Home, yes, everyone has one). I think a lot of people need to do a reality check. They are stealing. (I used to be quite the mp3 downloader, but I don't listen to them anymore. I like mods much better. I can edit them, and they're free/Free. I'm happy that I can enjoy myself in every way my friends can without spending money, and without breaking any laws [not that I agree with the laws, mind you]. It's nice.)
* OK, the WinXP box my brothers use has a legal copy from Dell. But I was talking about my friends at school.
That seems interesting. Care to elaborate? (Anonymously if you are worried about legality)
Re:I though otherwise, so did my physics teacher.
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BTW, it's intersession. Intersession is a session that's between two other sessions. Intercession is a Church thing, IIRC. Be careful. English is tricky:)
Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't. 40 years ago nobody would have dreamed of (ok, maybe dreamed of) shinny GUIs running on 3GHz 64-bit processors. But we have them now. The average Joe can surf teh intarweb and write documents. You couldn't do that with punch cards.
So yes, I think research could produce an easy-to-use database.
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Humans are 3D objects. Hence you can't fit them in a square. You have to use a cube, which happens to be 3/4 a mile in size.
xine/mplayer/ffmpeg are optimized for altivec. What we really need, though, is an optimized version of mprime, though. It's fun to factor prime numbers quickly:)
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OK. Done. I emailed them this message:
To: rights@diaart.org
Hello. I recently happened upon your page for "The Lightning Field". I
was curious about how you could protect your metal poles from being
photographed by copyright law. Copyright law prevents the
redistribution of one's original work, but not the creation of new
work. If I sold pictures that you took, I would be in violation of your
copyright. Unfortunately, there is no law that prevents me from
photographing anything.
If there were, perhaps you would consider suing Microsoft and the USGS
for the infringing aerial photograph at
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
On second thought, perhaps you shouldn't consider that. Because if you did, you would be laughed out of court.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Rockway
I was just about to post a comment like this. I'm trying to find an email address so I can tell them how ludicrous this is. Copyright? Sorry. IANAL, but copyright would only cover me redistributing their pictures. If I want my own, and take them, that's legal. Sure you can refuse to let my camera on the premisis, but you can't say I'm infringing on their copyright. /me is off to New Mexico with my watch camera :)
36 :-D
But if we convert that to base 10, 42 emerges. Amazing.
I had a problem like this for a while. It turned out that the APIC was killing the whole system. If you see the message "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7", that's why your computer is dying. Disable the APIC and say hello to 10 month uptimes :)
Umm, the NVNET NIC has been reverse engineered. It's in the 2.6 kernel now, it's open source.
So does Bluetooth. Radio waves and infrared waves move at the same speed, right?
No, that's SLUSHdot. Heh.
Your tax dollars built the road, and you paid for the car. Why isn't it your right to drive?
Tell them that the "enemy combatant" killed their girlfriend. That should make them mad.
Has there ever been any technology that successfully prevents one from using their own property? CSS? That worked really well. iTunes DRM? Nobody cracked that? Etc, etc, etc. Satellite TV? Can't get that for free anymore.
My point is, I'll be the first one to hook this thing to 120VAC and see what happens. Did you short out? Ohhhhhhhhhhh. So sad. Guess what. If you turn off the lights and disconnect the horn, it can't sound the horn and flash the lights.
BTw, don't call 1-800-328-9890 and ask them about this. Oh wait. Do do that.
Why not sell something like a pencil or paperclip for $$$BIG$$$ and give the phone number away for free? In fact, why don't prositutes do that. Take them out to dinner and they'll fuck you. Seems legal (immoral, of course) to me. Hmm...
Umm, webmail? You mean fetchmail? It's a pretty important program. How else can you suck down email to read with a standard UNIX mail client? You can't :)
But, if you don't like him, that's fine. You can write Sun an open letter, too. Maybe people will like you better!
It depends on what "lying" is. When you tell Bob you like his pink flannel shirt, are you lying? When you tell your girlfriend you love her, do you really? If you're not sure, you're lying, right? It's tough to decide because we "lie" all day. People who don't lie at the right times are called "assholes". Think about that for a second. Isn't that kind of sad?
> "Uh, hello, NVidia? Remember how we whined to you to make drivers for XFree86? Well forget that, now we need you to do it all over again for this new implementation."
Yes. This is my greatest worry. If things keep changing, proprietary vendors will get tired of learning the new APIs ever week and will say "Fuck Linux". Now I know we shouldn't depend on proprietary software, but who else makes graphics cards?
Fortunately, new implementation != changing the APIs. We can always have a compatability layer.
Here's a better example: You can't use Mozilla to access an IIS server. This, of course, sounds rediculous. Mozilla [client] isn't a derivitave of IIS [server]!
The same goes for X apps. X apps contact the server, send it a message, and wait for a reply. That's not a derivitave either.
So X apps [client] and the X server [server] are pretty much unrelated. You might need an Xlib to talk to the server, though. AFAIK, those are available for linking under any license, though?
Who cares? It works well enough. At least it's stable and works.
Windows is no better. MacOS, yes. But is MacOS a Free operating system that runs on any piece-of-shit computer you throw at it? No.
The way I look it is like this: you can fix it, or not use it. Pick one, and stop complaining. Is your post on topic, even? Does it have anything to do with the license? No. Hmm.
BTW, it's fine on my GeForce 4 card. YMMV.
Umm, microsoft claims that XP/2003 is more secure than Linux. In the wake of the last eight virus attacks and source code leak, I think M$ is wrong. Maybe I'm wrong, though? :)
You think the US is bad? Try Japan. My mobile rates were insane. $30 a month for a plan with 3cents/10 seconds on peak (peak is nighttime apparently... pretty smart) + some $5 a month for email. Insane. And this was Au, the cheapest company (with a school discount!). I used the internet a lot on my phone (no computer :( ), and payed almost $70 a month.
:)
As I was leaving, 55MBps (yes, that's half of 100-BaseT) broadband + unlimited calling + faxing was down to $30 a month or something, though. Also insane
Yes. I have a friend who is quite the windows zealot. I told him I use linux because it's free (and Free :). He replied by saying that Windows is also free. He doesn't care about the legality. Both are equally free for him. If he had to go to jail for using an illegal copy of Windows, I think
In fact, I don't know ANYONE who has a legal copy of XP Professional* (XP Home, yes, everyone has one). I think a lot of people need to do a reality check. They are stealing. (I used to be quite the mp3 downloader, but I don't listen to them anymore. I like mods much better. I can edit them, and they're free/Free. I'm happy that I can enjoy myself in every way my friends can without spending money, and without breaking any laws [not that I agree with the laws, mind you]. It's nice.)
* OK, the WinXP box my brothers use has a legal copy from Dell. But I was talking about my friends at school.
That seems interesting. Care to elaborate? (Anonymously if you are worried about legality)
BTW, it's intersession. Intersession is a session that's between two other sessions. Intercession is a Church thing, IIRC. Be careful. English is tricky :)
No wonder we have things like NASA engineers that can't convert units. If the Super-uber-heros couldn't do it, why should they!?
Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't. 40 years ago nobody would have dreamed of (ok, maybe dreamed of) shinny GUIs running on 3GHz 64-bit processors. But we have them now. The average Joe can surf teh intarweb and write documents. You couldn't do that with punch cards.
So yes, I think research could produce an easy-to-use database.
Humans are 3D objects. Hence you can't fit them in a square. You have to use a cube, which happens to be 3/4 a mile in size.
The calculations are correct. Amazing, eh?
xine/mplayer/ffmpeg are optimized for altivec. What we really need, though, is an optimized version of mprime, though. It's fun to factor prime numbers quickly :)