Since this has happened however, and now everyone is going to start reading EULA's, their will no longer be any worthwhile prizes buried in them... So, you can all go back to not reading EULAS's again...
Well, it actually said that the "IsNot" operator allowed comparisons of two variables to determine if the two point to the same location in memory. You probably learned about the more general NOT EQUAL operator... Which is actually much more flexible... This is a C# thing...
Well, I just want to say that I mostly agree with you. You're being eviscerated on this site, but thats because slashdot is chock full of leftist anti corporate irrationalists...
Digital copyright infrigement really is a form of theft. No, its not as bad as stealing a tangible physical thing, as the original owner still maintains possession, but it is not NOTHING either! It is a creation that would NOT EXIST if their were not a market, and you are (very minimally I will grant you) destroying that market. A small amount of damage done MILLIONS of times == a BIG amount of damage.
I know you REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT to have free access to all of this creative work, but unless the creators grant you that, you have no right to it.... If you continue on this path, and apply this reasoning throughout all of creative production you will destroy the entire motivation for MOST creative production and progress will CEASE. Welcome to the next dark ages.
While google is certainly currently over priced, they're value is not 0. They have lots of revenue.
Most of the dot bombs never had any real amount of revenue. The ones that did (ebay & amazon) are still around... Google will be around in 2007... Perhaps not at its current price, but it will be around...
Every new technological gift science has brought us has come along with a ton of FUD... We have 2 choices:
1) Oppose things because of a "potential" harm. 2) Embrace the new, and accept that with progress comes new problems, but fundamentally believe that the human mind is up to the task of solving them.
Yeah, and while we're at it, medicine is hard... We might screw up and kill somebody... Lets just let nature decide whether you should die or not when you step on a rusty nail...
Shoot, lets just all go back to living in caves...
In fact, I propose that we should just GIVE UP trying to solve any hard problem... Nature already does it better in most cases anyway, right?
Yup. I have been buying Shuttle SFF pc's from the beginning. My SV24 (the original shuttle SFF) was a LOT smaller than the current models (and noisier, and slower, and hotter, and more cramped, didn't have any USABLE slots, etc...)...
Actually, wasn't the tcp/ip stack (in windows) yoinked from BSD?
Sharing copyrighted media is not as bad as actual theft (because of its digital nature, if I take your copy, you still have it)... But you have slightly diluted the value of the material (proportional to the efficiency of your distribution... IE, how many people downloaded it) to the copyright owner...
Just because something is possible, and popular does not make it right... The argument that "The Cat is out of the bag." does not make you're position any less immoral... On the other hand, the Cat really is out of the bag... The courts and the government should do nothing more than honest enforcement of copyright (not trials based on trumped up "estimated losses"), and should certainly not create any new laws to support the music industrys obsolete business model... Capitalism and technology will destroy the current music industry business model (if allowed to by the goverment)... And this will be a good thing... BUT, theft is theft is theft!
Johnny Cochran employed the chewbacca defense to convict Chef (on South Park) of stealing a song that Chef wrote. Chef then owed 1 million dollars to the music industry, which he tried to earn as a male prostitue for the ladies of South Park. Unfortunatley he was only able to raise a couple hundread thousand (in 2 days) and so a bunch of celebrities threw him a benefit concert: "Chef Aid". After the benfit concert, Chef hire Johnny Cochran himself (who again employed the Chewbacca defense), and was victorious.
Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin. They both want freedom for the things they care about, and slavery for the things they don't. Hence, republicans lower taxes, and ban the teaching of evolution (IE, free body, slave mind). Democrats raise taxes and keep Mark Twain on the library shelves (IE, slave body, free mind). By supporting one or the other you buy into slavery in some form.
Libertarians on the other hand, reject the whole notion that freedom has to come mixed with slavery in any form...
It's one thing to have a different opinion, but his position is ridiculous... Easily justifying the word "delusional"... Some of our founding fathers were slave holders... Would a modern liberal keep slaves? Many of our founding fathers literally equated taxation without permission as THEFT... I'm sorry, but the only thing a modern liberal has in common with our founding fathers is a desire for change... From that common base, the two sides have split radically...
And I'm not a conservative ass, I'm a Libertarian ass...
I agree with all of the reponses to my post... Yes, the founding fathers were radical liberals THEN... But the original poster lives NOW, and he has equated his beliefs with those of the founding fathers... Yes it is true that they have some core principals in common, but nearly everything built on top of those principals is different...
"The liberals who founded this country"? Hmm... That is a very interesting statement... If I had to pick one or the other, (and I am neither Republican or Democrat), I would think the founding fathers would be Republicans... In all seriousness are you so delusional that you can actually believe that the founding fathers would support the Liberals?
First of all, Series 2 adds no additional ability to harvest you're watching habits... Series 1 TiVo's already know EVERYTHING (trust me) about what you watch...
Having said that, know this:
Their are three levels of privacy. The middle level, which is the default collects all of the information on you're viewing habits, but throws out you're box ID... IE, it gets munged with tons of other anonymous data...
You can opt out of even this level with 1 phone call... (I LIKE the fact that my viewing habits are affecting (via Nielsen partnership) TV)...
Slashdot Mirror
Its all about video games. Download a copy of DarkBasic and whip up something cool and short...
tony
Since this has happened however, and now everyone is going to start reading EULA's, their will no longer be any worthwhile prizes buried in them... So, you can all go back to not reading EULAS's again...
Profit!
Well, it actually said that the "IsNot" operator allowed comparisons of two variables to determine if the two point to the same location in memory. You probably learned about the more general NOT EQUAL operator... Which is actually much more flexible... This is a C# thing...
Well, I just want to say that I mostly agree with you. You're being eviscerated on this site, but thats because slashdot is chock full of leftist anti corporate irrationalists...
Digital copyright infrigement really is a form of theft. No, its not as bad as stealing a tangible physical thing, as the original owner still maintains possession, but it is not NOTHING either! It is a creation that would NOT EXIST if their were not a market, and you are (very minimally I will grant you) destroying that market. A small amount of damage done MILLIONS of times == a BIG amount of damage.
I know you REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT to have free access to all of this creative work, but unless the creators grant you that, you have no right to it.... If you continue on this path, and apply this reasoning throughout all of creative production you will destroy the entire motivation for MOST creative production and progress will CEASE. Welcome to the next dark ages.
Their is a crucial difference here.
While google is certainly currently over priced, they're value is not 0. They have lots of revenue.
Most of the dot bombs never had any real amount of revenue. The ones that did (ebay & amazon) are still around... Google will be around in 2007... Perhaps not at its current price, but it will be around...
Every new technological gift science has brought us has come along with a ton of FUD... We have 2 choices:
1) Oppose things because of a "potential" harm.
2) Embrace the new, and accept that with progress comes new problems, but fundamentally believe that the human mind is up to the task of solving them.
I pick 2.
Yeah, and while we're at it, medicine is hard... We might screw up and kill somebody... Lets just let nature decide whether you should die or not when you step on a rusty nail...
Shoot, lets just all go back to living in caves...
In fact, I propose that we should just GIVE UP trying to solve any hard problem... Nature already does it better in most cases anyway, right?
Hmm... whats this "dd" command...
I think i'll try it now...
dd of=/dev/hda1 if=/dev/null count=1000000
no problem!
td
Yup. I have been buying Shuttle SFF pc's from the beginning. My SV24 (the original shuttle SFF) was a LOT smaller than the current models (and noisier, and slower, and hotter, and more cramped, didn't have any USABLE slots, etc...)...
td
We would never hear the end of it!
Actually, wasn't the tcp/ip stack (in windows) yoinked from BSD?
Sharing copyrighted media is not as bad as actual theft (because of its digital nature, if I take your copy, you still have it)... But you have slightly diluted the value of the material (proportional to the efficiency of your distribution... IE, how many people downloaded it) to the copyright owner...
Just because something is possible, and popular does not make it right... The argument that "The Cat is out of the bag." does not make you're position any less immoral... On the other hand, the Cat really is out of the bag... The courts and the government should do nothing more than honest enforcement of copyright (not trials based on trumped up "estimated losses"), and should certainly not create any new laws to support the music industrys obsolete business model... Capitalism and technology will destroy the current music industry business model (if allowed to by the goverment)... And this will be a good thing... BUT, theft is theft is theft!
And whos gonna write the apache module that makes this happen?
Oh, it'll only happen on IIS? Well, good riddance...
asshole
So, umm, can I become CTO at Amazon now because I know how Makefile's work?
Off topic, BUT...
I should invent a PHP to C++ converter app.
td
I am totally against copyright violation, but I must say that this story made me think of the following:
All that need be done is build a torrent client that can also torrent these catalog pages...
td
Johnny Cochran employed the chewbacca defense to convict Chef (on South Park) of stealing a song that Chef wrote. Chef then owed 1 million dollars to the music industry, which he tried to earn as a male prostitue for the ladies of South Park. Unfortunatley he was only able to raise a couple hundread thousand (in 2 days) and so a bunch of celebrities threw him a benefit concert: "Chef Aid". After the benfit concert, Chef hire Johnny Cochran himself (who again employed the Chewbacca defense), and was victorious.
td
Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin. They both want freedom for the things they care about, and slavery for the things they don't. Hence, republicans lower taxes, and ban the teaching of evolution (IE, free body, slave mind). Democrats raise taxes and keep Mark Twain on the library shelves (IE, slave body, free mind). By supporting one or the other you buy into slavery in some form.
Libertarians on the other hand, reject the whole notion that freedom has to come mixed with slavery in any form...
Watch "Penn and Teller BS"!
It's one thing to have a different opinion, but his position is ridiculous... Easily justifying the word "delusional"... Some of our founding fathers were slave holders... Would a modern liberal keep slaves? Many of our founding fathers literally equated taxation without permission as THEFT... I'm sorry, but the only thing a modern liberal has in common with our founding fathers is a desire for change... From that common base, the two sides have split radically...
And I'm not a conservative ass, I'm a Libertarian ass...
Tony
I agree with all of the reponses to my post... Yes, the founding fathers were radical liberals THEN... But the original poster lives NOW, and he has equated his beliefs with those of the founding fathers... Yes it is true that they have some core principals in common, but nearly everything built on top of those principals is different...
Tony
"The liberals who founded this country"? Hmm... That is a very interesting statement... If I had to pick one or the other, (and I am neither Republican or Democrat), I would think the founding fathers would be Republicans... In all seriousness are you so delusional that you can actually believe that the founding fathers would support the Liberals?
Tony
Sweet... a fellow Libertarian on Slashdot... :)
Because of Immanual Kant.
Tony
I see... So, by this logic, if I sold you a gun, you could turn around and shoot me with it? Because it's you're property?
What if I RENTED you a book, and you turned around and sold it... ? Perfectly OK right?
Ahh, never mind... The Slashdot crowd will never get it...
Tony
Imagine a beowolf cluster of those!
Tony
Idiot.
First of all, Series 2 adds no additional ability to harvest you're watching habits... Series 1 TiVo's already know EVERYTHING (trust me) about what you watch...
Having said that, know this:
Their are three levels of privacy. The middle level, which is the default collects all of the information on you're viewing habits, but throws out you're box ID... IE, it gets munged with tons of other anonymous data...
You can opt out of even this level with 1 phone call... (I LIKE the fact that my viewing habits are affecting (via Nielsen partnership) TV)...
Tony
You should change you're sig to:
Boot Fast, Crash Young, and leave a good looking Core file...