What I don't understand is why they think this is a problem, especially after their "single child" policy has left them with a massive shortage of females.
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I never claimed coding was not creative, although mostly it is "craft" rather than "art", if you recognise the distinction. Craftsmen have usually been paid by the hour or job, where as artist, in prior ages required a patron, but since the advent of the mass media, are now freed to make a living by controlling copyright.
I don't need to come up with a solution to the current ease of digital copying, since I believe that copyright already covers it. It is easy to do many illegal things, that does not mean you should throw out the laws, which are the social norms as agreed by our elected representitives. If you want to change the laws, you need to change that representation.
That does not mean that I think RIAA's claims for damages are reasonable, since they are being used more as a shock tactic to try to frighten others into compliance. Nor do I like the more extreme forms of DRM: simple, less invasive solutions suffice. I do support "fair use" rights, as established in the early days of video, and digital backups should be permitted. I also am opposed to software patents.
A solution to the problem? Reign in the corporate bully boy tactics against private individuals, but make peering services liable for enforcing copyright. Sure it's easy to get around the restrictions, but that does not make it right.
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I assume the parent is not creative because his statements are those I have never heard from creative people - even hippies and communists.
Yes I acknowlege the contribution of my peers and ancestors to inspire creativity. But each creator must be adding something of value if their work is to be more than merely derivative. That value can be exchanged for social kudos, or cold hard cash - and that decision is creators, not some asshole looking for freebies.
I'm happy for you that you consider social kudos sufficent reward for your contributions to open source. It must make that Wal-Mart job all the more satisfying.
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I just love it when people who have not done anything creative since pre-school preach to those blessed/cursed with talent on how they deserve free access to their creations.
hell, I've played games with a 27 handicap! Believe me, it makes a difference:) Although by that stage you're better off switching to a smaller board...
It sounds like your IT department has two major problems: they are underfunded and suffering from low worker moral. If your competent employees have not already fled the company, or never got employed due to low wages, improving the departments funding and employment levels could go a long way to improve the situation.
Who wants to bet that the final version will have compulsory adsense or sponsored links down the right hand side?
Who cares? It's what I would expect from a free service.
What I hate is how GeoCities was crippled by Yahoo with their traffic cap - your site can only get a pathetic number of hits per day before being shut off. I haven't bothered maintaining my GeoCities site since.
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sure, there was that big one between the pale blue pants & the dark blue pants. Plus of course the centuries old pants vs. no pants one. And that's just in the USA...
Which bit are you call nonsense? The Red Crescent is used in Muslim countries because they associate the symbol of the Red Cross with the Crusades, although curiously St. George is considered a Muslim saint under the name Al-Khadr.
Isn't the "red cross" (the symbol, not the org) an international icon for first aid?
No, it's the (formally Christian) West's symbol for first aid. In the Muslim world they use the Red Crescent, as the Red Cross is associated with the Crusaders, and was originally known as the Cross of St. George, which was used by King Richard the Lionheart during his crusades, and remains the flag of England and many other countries who took St. George as their patron.
Copyright came about as a result of the Gutenberg press. Prior to copyright, you wrote a book and made a deal with a printer to produce & distribute it for a cut of the profits. If another printer decided to copy your book and print it, keeping all the profit for himself, you had no legal recourse against him. Copyright enabled you to sue him for the income he had deprived you of.
Without that protection, you had less incentive to write another book, thereby depriving society of your creative output. Even today, creative people would like to make a living, or even get rich from their work. When you make their work available to anybody trawling the internet for "free stuff", you are depriving them of potential income. In the days before the Internet this was less of a problem, as the amount of sharing going on would likely be restricted to your circle of friends.
You cannot make that decision for the creator. The free program I am giving away in my sig is free because I am happy to give away a tool I made to make my own job easier.Even if I had decided to sell it, the limited (and crowded) market and cost of licensing the development environment it was created in means it probably would not have made economic sense. Instead I happy that it makes a couple of thousand COBOL programmers job less painful, But that is my decision to make as the author, not yours as the (potential) consumer.
For some strange reason Americans are incapable of using the terms "toilet" or "lavatory", and hide their true function behind the euphamisms "bathroom" and "restroom".
On the other hand our British ancestors were no better, as the roots of both "toilet" and "lavatory" are french word for washing!
I seem to recall it works that way in France - a used book seller adds 10% which goes to the copyright holder. Seems sensible, because I'm in favor of paying artists for the pleasure they give me. No I'm not pro RIAA, sod the industry, support the artists!
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What I don't understand is why they think this is a problem, especially after their "single child" policy has left them with a massive shortage of females.
I never claimed coding was not creative, although mostly it is "craft" rather than "art", if you recognise the distinction. Craftsmen have usually been paid by the hour or job, where as artist, in prior ages required a patron, but since the advent of the mass media, are now freed to make a living by controlling copyright.
I don't need to come up with a solution to the current ease of digital copying, since I believe that copyright already covers it. It is easy to do many illegal things, that does not mean you should throw out the laws, which are the social norms as agreed by our elected representitives. If you want to change the laws, you need to change that representation.
That does not mean that I think RIAA's claims for damages are reasonable, since they are being used more as a shock tactic to try to frighten others into compliance. Nor do I like the more extreme forms of DRM: simple, less invasive solutions suffice. I do support "fair use" rights, as established in the early days of video, and digital backups should be permitted. I also am opposed to software patents.
A solution to the problem? Reign in the corporate bully boy tactics against private individuals, but make peering services liable for enforcing copyright. Sure it's easy to get around the restrictions, but that does not make it right.
I assume the parent is not creative because his statements are those I have never heard from creative people - even hippies and communists.
Yes I acknowlege the contribution of my peers and ancestors to inspire creativity. But each creator must be adding something of value if their work is to be more than merely derivative. That value can be exchanged for social kudos, or cold hard cash - and that decision is creators, not some asshole looking for freebies.
I'm happy for you that you consider social kudos sufficent reward for your contributions to open source. It must make that Wal-Mart job all the more satisfying.
I just love it when people who have not done anything creative since pre-school preach to those blessed/cursed with talent on how they deserve free access to their creations.
Your really don't have a clue.
One major advantage glasses have over contacts is that you can take the damn things off and give your eyes a rest!
hell, I've played games with a 27 handicap! Believe me, it makes a difference :)
Although by that stage you're better off switching to a smaller board...
the ancient oriental game of Go has has an excellent handicap system that keeps the game interesting, no matter how wide the skill difference.
It sounds like your IT department has two major problems: they are underfunded and suffering from low worker moral. If your competent employees have not already fled the company, or never got employed due to low wages, improving the departments funding and employment levels could go a long way to improve the situation.
if you receieve an un-solicited CD thru the mail, you stick it in your CD drive and see what happens?
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You guys crack me up
Who wants to bet that the final version will have compulsory adsense or sponsored links down the right hand side?
Who cares? It's what I would expect from a free service.
What I hate is how GeoCities was crippled by Yahoo with their traffic cap - your site can only get a pathetic number of hits per day before being shut off. I haven't bothered maintaining my GeoCities site since.
doh! Slyck, not Skype.
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Bad ScuttleMonkey!
Sure, you don't want to move, but under what conditions would you reconsider?
Quit trying to lo-ball me and make an offer, ya cheapskate
The salary might be lower, but the fringe benefits could make up for it.
Liar, liar, pants on fire
You might be hired for a posting below your skills, with the opportunity to advance quickly.
keep 'em hungry and make them fight for a bone, eh?
According to their Website it is still part of Imperial, and covers Agricultural studies for post-graduates.
It is a lovely village. Anyone for a pint at the Tickled Trout?
even worse they picked undergraduates, who are universally known as the most humorless self-obsessed knob-heads in creation!
Don't be silly, there's no such thing as real money.
It's all a figment of our collective imagination.
sure, there was that big one between the pale blue pants & the dark blue pants. Plus of course the centuries old pants vs. no pants one. And that's just in the USA...
Which bit are you call nonsense? The Red Crescent is used in Muslim countries because they associate the symbol of the Red Cross with the Crusades, although curiously St. George is considered a Muslim saint under the name Al-Khadr.
Isn't the "red cross" (the symbol, not the org) an international icon for first aid?
No, it's the (formally Christian) West's symbol for first aid. In the Muslim world they use the Red Crescent, as the Red Cross is associated with the Crusaders, and was originally known as the Cross of St. George, which was used by King Richard the Lionheart during his crusades, and remains the flag of England and many other countries who took St. George as their patron.
Copyright came about as a result of the Gutenberg press. Prior to copyright, you wrote a book and made a deal with a printer to produce & distribute it for a cut of the profits. If another printer decided to copy your book and print it, keeping all the profit for himself, you had no legal recourse against him. Copyright enabled you to sue him for the income he had deprived you of.
Without that protection, you had less incentive to write another book, thereby depriving society of your creative output. Even today, creative people would like to make a living, or even get rich from their work. When you make their work available to anybody trawling the internet for "free stuff", you are depriving them of potential income. In the days before the Internet this was less of a problem, as the amount of sharing going on would likely be restricted to your circle of friends.
You cannot make that decision for the creator. The free program I am giving away in my sig is free because I am happy to give away a tool I made to make my own job easier.Even if I had decided to sell it, the limited (and crowded) market and cost of licensing the development environment it was created in means it probably would not have made economic sense. Instead I happy that it makes a couple of thousand COBOL programmers job less painful, But that is my decision to make as the author, not yours as the (potential) consumer.
For some strange reason Americans are incapable of using the terms "toilet" or "lavatory", and hide their true function behind the euphamisms "bathroom" and "restroom".
On the other hand our British ancestors were no better, as the roots of both "toilet" and "lavatory" are french word for washing!
I seem to recall something about the Pharasees criticising Jesus for hanging out with sinners. And another lesson about turning the other cheek.
Of course this seems lost on most people who describe themselves as fundamentalist "Christians".
you should tell your friend to flesh out the Thresh Wikipedia entry - it's a good tale :)
I seem to recall it works that way in France - a used book seller adds 10% which goes to the copyright holder. Seems sensible, because I'm in favor of paying artists for the pleasure they give me. No I'm not pro RIAA, sod the industry, support the artists!
Dr. Who gets laid in the third new season? Why, is it set in ancient Rome?