I don't mind waiting for an hour to get stuff from fileplanet. Hey if it saves money for them and lets them stay mostly banner-oriented, I say go for it. I just wish more web-companies would try to cut down on their costs more and try to up there profits less. I don't have the money to pay 5 bucks a month to every website I like. Cut a few workers if you have to, but in times like these thats what you have to do. A company must remain flexible in tough times so that its still there when times get better and they can then rehire the people they want. Too many execs just look at the bottom line and ask "How can we increase revenues?" when they should be asking themselves "How can we cut bloat?".
Funny how everyone worries so much about preventing "evil hackers" from breaking in to systems remotely and causing chaos, and then some burglars just go ahead and steal the critical computers to produce the same (unintended?) results."
The reason why everybody fears the hack more then the physical intrusion is because while on risk is a known one(physical) the other is a mystery to the normal person. People fear the unknown more then anything, your normal person knows they could buy a gun get some friends and scout out a place for a few weeks till they rob it, they are taught this from movies;). Small wonder when, in the movies any hacker can cause widespread destruction with the push of a button, people are for some reason more afraid of hackers;)
This isn't just a great hack this should be one of the main uses for Linux! An os thats stable as a rock and once you set it up you'd rarely have to 'reboot' the cash register. Come on, perfect for 24 hour Dairy Marts everywhere:).
In order to deliver a durable business productivity tool, we pursued two design avenues. First, we built durable mechanical and electrical systems to be in solid state, so even the moving parts were designed for longevity. For example, the motors are brushless servomotors, so there are no parts that could wear out. We then submitted the systems to extensive, rigorous testing to ensure we met our goals. Second, we created a modular design whereby if any part were to wear out or break, it could easily be replaced, ensuring a long product life.
In other words, we have no f'in clue, and we don't feel like saying something actually helpful like, its under warrantee for 20 years, for example. Nono, be safe with the knowledge that if something breaks on you thousand dollar scooter that the only place you will be able to fix it is here, and we like to make money:).
So I was just wondering is it now illegal to make money off of someone elses work if you make it better?
Call me crazy, but I thought that was the american way. See a product on the market, devise a way to make it better, and sell the upgrade to a public that wants it. You figure out a way to backlight a screen on a portable electronic device cheaply, you sell kits to do just that, and who knows you might make some money. You find out an ingenius way to boost a car's engine by 20 horsepower with $10 bucks worth of spare parts, by the gods sell a kit that does just that, only sell it for $15 bucks and make a profit.:)
Somehow its totally different when applied to software? Well I don't think it is. You don't like how Blizzard balances its online servers because they can be crashy, so you devise a application that acts as your own server on your computer. In what fucked up world should that be illegal? Because Blizzard has some lame ass excuse about piracy? How is that your problem? You aren't pirating games, and somehow your supposed to be held accountable for all those who did simply because they may (may!) have used your software. I'm sorry, thats not the america I grew up in.
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This guy says it can be done for 135 billion. Thats alot of money, but lets just put this in perspective. Lets say the project goes over budget by say 20 percent (as alot of space programs tend to do) and ends up costing in the neighborhood of around 160bill. Damn thats alot of cash!
Then wrap your mind around this. Our government spent 60 billion to design and buy the latest and best fighter jet the F-22. Our military budget is $68 billion a year and expected to jump to $100 billion in the next four years. And you guys all think that this guy's idea is to expensive? If he has done the groundwork on the project enough to come up with a estimate, and ABC put up a story about it I would hope that we can at least believe his estimate.
$135 billion is chump change when you think about what would be accomplished. It could be a marvel of human genius. And perhaps it might make the world think a little better of us if we started producing all the power we actually used, while selling it cheap to them to.
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Yes the earth recieves much more then the moon, but...
1. There is weather here, making a project like that demand huge ongoing costs. Rain/Snow/Wind/Erosion are all very powerful forces.
2. People don't want 100 miles of solar panels...anywhere, it doesn't matter if we try to stick them in texas/Arizona, they will still be in somebodies backyard. And those people won't want them there.
3. Power distribution will kill you, a massive project like this in Arizona will really (at the very most) just help North America. And that wouldn't be exactly great PR would it?
4. Building Phase. The building of something like this would require enormous amounts of materials to be shipped somewhere. And that somewhere wouldn't like the 20 semi's going by every 20 minutes.
5. If we don't want the world to stay as it is, 1 Super-Power/100 Little Powers/1,000 Crappy Third world nations where people still die of the plague, something like this needs to be built. We need a worldwide energy distribution net so that third world countries don't feel that to succedde they need to cut down all their trees for power plants and strip mine themselves to death.
6. We have a atmosphere so the efficiency of power per square foot generated would be much lower then it would be on the moon.
I don't see this as a question of "will we?" I see it as a question of "when will we?". There's only so much oil underneath Texas/Alaska/Saudi Arabia folks. Someday there won't be any left that is economically viable to drill for.
Besides, don't we all think that a city on the moon would be cool? That it would help the sciences leap forward? This is the first step guys, if there an economical reason for us to be there, we better pack our bags and go!
Yeah for all us idealists this seems horrible. But you know you just have to fight fire with fire sometimes. I'm sure the guy who is going to be up against Hollings next election would love such an easy ploy to play. The geek nation gives him alot of money, he reveals to the public that Hollings is an asshole. It's not exactly clean but politics is often dirty if you want to get anything done.
If a senator is annoying you give money (lots of money) to his compititor to scare them back into line. We don't need all the little senators to care much about our issues, frankly, thats not going to happen, what we need to do is show them that the tech industry is tired of being pushed around by Disney and its ilk. We just designed the house Disney, if you don't want to come live in it, you keep all your valuable intelectual property out of it. Oh, and don't sue us because the door locks we create don't lock the consumers inside the basement, make your own god-damn doorlocks!
The movie execs aren't scared 'cause they think that users can make movies as good as them. That is babble to them. Remember, these are the people that think "Tom Cruise's Face in any movie"=="money in the bank" To them the height of their art is when Independence Day made over 300 mil in US box office, and over 150 mil in rentals. Not the fact that Clerks was a good movie (though it was). To them Clerks wasn't even a almost-movie.
Sorry for the Kevin Smith movie reference, for those who don't know what Clerks is(it was his first movie made on a 20k budget, and quite a good one at that).
Hollywood, unfortunatly for us(the consumers), got a rude awakening at napster. They saw a brief glance at the future for the brief moment of time napster was around. Consumers actually empowered to do whatever they wanted to with property they bought. The napster for the movie industry will now, unfortunatly, never happen. We won't be able to point our fingers at how a low budget picture got a huge box office gross 3 weeks in because people previewed on the "movie version" of napster.
Before most movie execs prolly thought of computers as word processors that could play solitare. Now they know what they are really capable of, and we should be afraid. Even if this bill doesn't get passed, Hollywood will likey follow it up with something very much like it, only perhaps they might give M$ more money next time, to get them on their side. A lobbying force such as M$ and Hollywood together should be feared, as tech industry people will be much more hesitiant to speak up to them. And remember M$ also likes to employ good lawyers to do nothing, just so M$ won't have to fight them in court. I can think of very little that they wouldn't do, if they were to cut the right deal with Hollywood.
Everyday Hollywood wakes up and asks itself if the Napster for Movies has started, and everyday it doesn't happen, and they have more time to plan how to take our rights away.
"If only they would devote a little bit of the millions of dollars they're spending on this ad campaign to help stop illegal downloading... but that wouldn't help them sell more CD burners, would it?"
Said by Hilary Rosen.
How is it Gateway's responsiblity to spend actual money to police that? Somehow I don't see Gateway having Morpheous-type software preinstalled on its systems. A computer company sells a computer to its users and provides support for the software it provides with the computer, thats it. No more. Do you actually expect Gateway, Dell, HP or any other OEM to limit its user's options? Its called capitialism Hilary, it means that people sell things to make money. If somebody uses some product you sell for an illegal use, its not your problem. Its the Polices' problem.
While we are at it, lets sue the gun industry for making things that kill people. Lets sue the beer industry for drunk drivers. Lets sue the auto industry for making 2000 lb. objects that hit people walking on the sidewalk every once and a while. Etc Etc Etc
Its the users responsibility to police themselves, you break the law, you go to jail, not the person who sold you the computer.
Looks like somebody just discovered "NEW HAVEN OF HACKERS" over at CNN. Yeah, yeah I know we are all making fun of CNN here for being such doofuses but hold on a sec.
Ask 99% of the people you know (parents/relatives/friends),and unless you are a total geek and all of your friends happen to be geeks as well, they will have no clue what the IRC is. None at all. Yes the IRC is one of the last "Wild West" parts of the web. Its one of the last few places you can actually go to and not be censored because you said the f-word off-hand.
Well at least, tho the article is slanted, I won't have to explain what the IRC is to my friends quite as much, I'll just have to explain to them that I'm not a criminal, thanks for that CNN.
Some of these I don't really agree with, but one I most definitly do.
I want to be not reachable because I just want a day off.
Until I get a job that totally requires a cell phone (and even then) I won't buy one. Yeah they are neat gadgets, but some times I just don't want to be bothered. I don't want to be on call 24/7 unless I'm being paid quite a bit. Somebody needs to reach me when I'm not home, fine, thats what my answering machine is for, leave me a message and I'll get back to you after I have relaxed and had a beer.:)
The problem with this attitude is... Meat tastes good.
That and 'sentient' animals kill each other all the time. Save yourself anxiety and worry about 'self-aware' lifeforms please. If you think that eating a 'sentient' creature is murder, what do you think about chopping down a tree to build your house? Trees release chemicals into the air to warn other trees when they are being attacked by insects and the like. Why don't you consider them sentient as well? Trees, cows, lettuce, chickens, potatoes, I place them all on the same level.
The second problem is commonly referred to as the "Analog hole." As protected digital programming (usually delivered over satellite or cable, but also available on the Internet) is decrypted for viewing by consumers on legacy analog devices - most frequently on television sets - the programming is temporarily "in the clear." At this point, pirates have the opportunity to take advantage of an "Analog hole" by copying the content into a digital format (i.e. re-digitizing it) and then illegally copying and/or retransmitting the content. The technology to solve this problem either exists today, or will be available shortly. Regardless, the solution is technologically feasible. As with the "broadcast flag" the solution to the "Analog hole" will require a government mandate to ensure its ubiquitous adoption across consumer devices.
How are you going to fix this? Pass a law requiring all TV's be made a certain way? Wonderful.
The final problem poses the greatest threat. Literally millions of digital files of music and videos are illegally copied, downloaded, and transmitted over the Internet on a regular basis. Current digital rights management solutions are insufficient to rectify this problem. Some consumers resorting to illegal behavior do so unknowingly. Many others do so willingly. Regardless, consumers desire high-quality digital content on the Internet, and it is not being provided in any widespread, legal fashion. Fortunately, a solution to this problem is also technologically feasible.
Oh, you have a solution for this to? Great, what is it? How on earth do you propose to shut down a decentralised network (Gnuttela, etc.) without actually holding the users responsible and arresting them ?
America's creative artists deserve our protection. Our copyright industries are among our greatest economic and creative assets. The Framers recognized that innovation and creativity was instrumental to our country's economic health when they empowered Congress, in the Constitution, to protect copyrighted products.
This is a mockery of our constitution. Our constitution says that copyright is for a limited time. To me the lifetime of the artist plus 70 years isn't limited. I'm 21 and I'm likely going to die before Mickey Mouse falls into the public domain (through further lobbying and extensions). The framers will be rolling over in their graves when this bill passes.
Thank you all so much for the info, I apologise for my newbieness;) I'm not just a windows weenie, I have installed Mandrake, and I'm trying to learn.
Thanks again for your understanding:)
Ummm....What?
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First of all what is sed? Sorry for being late to the party here, but come on, I have no idea what this is about other then somebodies little text-like game?
Mike, don't you think that you could have contributed like a sentence at the end saying something that would bring the picture a little more into the real world focus? Heck, I would settle for something like "Sed is normally used for........ to do..... Pretty interesting use of sed because......"
So am I the only one whos shocked at the fact that the Russians (the former USSR!) are going to be the first ones to approach a capitalist space program?! Come on, get your act together USA! Our entire country is based on the ideal that if you come up with something cool to do/sell you should do it and get rich, and the Russians are beating us to the punch? Please NASA, do something similar so you can fund a fucking Mars mission when the gov cuts your funding! Just think, we have the shuttles, its the only way we are going to go to mars any time soon and not have johnny taxpayer pay about a zillion dollars for it.
Why would the RIAA want to fight streaming compulsory licenses? Because of Pressplay and Musicnet of course! The RIAA wants music to be pay-per-listen, and Musicnet and Pressplay, are an attempt at that. Letting other companies stream music competes with the 200 streams a month offered by Musicnet. Why take money from the middleman(Webcasters) when you can screw the customers yourself?
Everybody out there don't go crazy, stuff like this is bound to happen. All the time.
It's the same in every area of industry. Yeah, Mission Critical was a Linux company, and thats to bad, but take a step back.
Only so many companies can survive in any area, currently, there are many, many linux companies out there. This process may hurt right now ( you know, on the inside;) ) but most likely, if they had good linux programmers, I'm sure they'll get picked up by other linux companies. The not so good programmers they had, not so much. But remember, in other industries you get fired, and you were working on something you really loved, thats it, no more. At least here if the programmer gets fired, and he really has a passion for it, he can continue, at least in a way to contribute to his work/passion, until he gets picked up by another company.
The ones who don't have the passion, the love, will most likely go on to other things.
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I don't mind waiting for an hour to get stuff from fileplanet. Hey if it saves money for them and lets them stay mostly banner-oriented, I say go for it. I just wish more web-companies would try to cut down on their costs more and try to up there profits less. I don't have the money to pay 5 bucks a month to every website I like. Cut a few workers if you have to, but in times like these thats what you have to do. A company must remain flexible in tough times so that its still there when times get better and they can then rehire the people they want. Too many execs just look at the bottom line and ask "How can we increase revenues?" when they should be asking themselves "How can we cut bloat?".
Is it me or did I hear about this like 2 days ago?
:(
Fine mod me down as off-topic
Funny how everyone worries so much about preventing "evil hackers" from breaking in to systems remotely and causing chaos, and then some burglars just go ahead and steal the critical computers to produce the same (unintended?) results."
;). Small wonder when, in the movies any hacker can cause widespread destruction with the push of a button, people are for some reason more afraid of hackers ;)
The reason why everybody fears the hack more then the physical intrusion is because while on risk is a known one(physical) the other is a mystery to the normal person. People fear the unknown more then anything, your normal person knows they could buy a gun get some friends and scout out a place for a few weeks till they rob it, they are taught this from movies
I got a chuckle :)
This isn't just a great hack this should be one of the main uses for Linux! An os thats stable as a rock and once you set it up you'd rarely have to 'reboot' the cash register. Come on, perfect for 24 hour Dairy Marts everywhere :).
How long will a Segway HT last?
:).
In order to deliver a durable business productivity tool, we pursued two design avenues. First, we built durable mechanical and electrical systems to be in solid state, so even the moving parts were designed for longevity. For example, the motors are brushless servomotors, so there are no parts that could wear out. We then submitted the systems to extensive, rigorous testing to ensure we met our goals. Second, we created a modular design whereby if any part were to wear out or break, it could easily be replaced, ensuring a long product life.
In other words, we have no f'in clue, and we don't feel like saying something actually helpful like, its under warrantee for 20 years, for example. Nono, be safe with the knowledge that if something breaks on you thousand dollar scooter that the only place you will be able to fix it is here, and we like to make money
So I was just wondering is it now illegal to make money off of someone elses work if you make it better?
:)
Call me crazy, but I thought that was the american way. See a product on the market, devise a way to make it better, and sell the upgrade to a public that wants it. You figure out a way to backlight a screen on a portable electronic device cheaply, you sell kits to do just that, and who knows you might make some money. You find out an ingenius way to boost a car's engine by 20 horsepower with $10 bucks worth of spare parts, by the gods sell a kit that does just that, only sell it for $15 bucks and make a profit.
Somehow its totally different when applied to software? Well I don't think it is. You don't like how Blizzard balances its online servers because they can be crashy, so you devise a application that acts as your own server on your computer. In what fucked up world should that be illegal? Because Blizzard has some lame ass excuse about piracy? How is that your problem? You aren't pirating games, and somehow your supposed to be held accountable for all those who did simply because they may (may!) have used your software. I'm sorry, thats not the america I grew up in.
This guy says it can be done for 135 billion. Thats alot of money, but lets just put this in perspective. Lets say the project goes over budget by say 20 percent (as alot of space programs tend to do) and ends up costing in the neighborhood of around 160bill. Damn thats alot of cash!
Then wrap your mind around this. Our government spent 60 billion to design and buy the latest and best fighter jet the F-22. Our military budget is $68 billion a year and expected to jump to $100 billion in the next four years. And you guys all think that this guy's idea is to expensive? If he has done the groundwork on the project enough to come up with a estimate, and ABC put up a story about it I would hope that we can at least believe his estimate.
$135 billion is chump change when you think about what would be accomplished. It could be a marvel of human genius. And perhaps it might make the world think a little better of us if we started producing all the power we actually used, while selling it cheap to them to.
Yes the earth recieves much more then the moon, but...
1. There is weather here, making a project like that demand huge ongoing costs. Rain/Snow/Wind/Erosion are all very powerful forces.
2. People don't want 100 miles of solar panels...anywhere, it doesn't matter if we try to stick them in texas/Arizona, they will still be in somebodies backyard. And those people won't want them there.
3. Power distribution will kill you, a massive project like this in Arizona will really (at the very most) just help North America. And that wouldn't be exactly great PR would it?
4. Building Phase. The building of something like this would require enormous amounts of materials to be shipped somewhere. And that somewhere wouldn't like the 20 semi's going by every 20 minutes.
5. If we don't want the world to stay as it is, 1 Super-Power/100 Little Powers/1,000 Crappy Third world nations where people still die of the plague, something like this needs to be built. We need a worldwide energy distribution net so that third world countries don't feel that to succedde they need to cut down all their trees for power plants and strip mine themselves to death.
6. We have a atmosphere so the efficiency of power per square foot generated would be much lower then it would be on the moon.
I don't see this as a question of "will we?" I see it as a question of "when will we?". There's only so much oil underneath Texas/Alaska/Saudi Arabia folks. Someday there won't be any left that is economically viable to drill for.
Besides, don't we all think that a city on the moon would be cool? That it would help the sciences leap forward? This is the first step guys, if there an economical reason for us to be there, we better pack our bags and go!
Yeah for all us idealists this seems horrible. But you know you just have to fight fire with fire sometimes. I'm sure the guy who is going to be up against Hollings next election would love such an easy ploy to play. The geek nation gives him alot of money, he reveals to the public that Hollings is an asshole. It's not exactly clean but politics is often dirty if you want to get anything done.
If a senator is annoying you give money (lots of money) to his compititor to scare them back into line. We don't need all the little senators to care much about our issues, frankly, thats not going to happen, what we need to do is show them that the tech industry is tired of being pushed around by Disney and its ilk. We just designed the house Disney, if you don't want to come live in it, you keep all your valuable intelectual property out of it. Oh, and don't sue us because the door locks we create don't lock the consumers inside the basement, make your own god-damn doorlocks!
The movie execs aren't scared 'cause they think that users can make movies as good as them. That is babble to them. Remember, these are the people that think "Tom Cruise's Face in any movie"=="money in the bank" To them the height of their art is when Independence Day made over 300 mil in US box office, and over 150 mil in rentals. Not the fact that Clerks was a good movie (though it was). To them Clerks wasn't even a almost-movie.
Sorry for the Kevin Smith movie reference, for those who don't know what Clerks is(it was his first movie made on a 20k budget, and quite a good one at that).
Hollywood, unfortunatly for us(the consumers), got a rude awakening at napster. They saw a brief glance at the future for the brief moment of time napster was around. Consumers actually empowered to do whatever they wanted to with property they bought. The napster for the movie industry will now, unfortunatly, never happen. We won't be able to point our fingers at how a low budget picture got a huge box office gross 3 weeks in because people previewed on the "movie version" of napster.
Before most movie execs prolly thought of computers as word processors that could play solitare. Now they know what they are really capable of, and we should be afraid. Even if this bill doesn't get passed, Hollywood will likey follow it up with something very much like it, only perhaps they might give M$ more money next time, to get them on their side. A lobbying force such as M$ and Hollywood together should be feared, as tech industry people will be much more hesitiant to speak up to them. And remember M$ also likes to employ good lawyers to do nothing, just so M$ won't have to fight them in court. I can think of very little that they wouldn't do, if they were to cut the right deal with Hollywood.
Everyday Hollywood wakes up and asks itself if the Napster for Movies has started, and everyday it doesn't happen, and they have more time to plan how to take our rights away.
"If only they would devote a little bit of the millions of dollars they're spending on this ad campaign to help stop illegal downloading ... but that wouldn't help them sell more CD burners, would it?"
Said by Hilary Rosen.
How is it Gateway's responsiblity to spend actual money to police that? Somehow I don't see Gateway having Morpheous-type software preinstalled on its systems. A computer company sells a computer to its users and provides support for the software it provides with the computer, thats it. No more. Do you actually expect Gateway, Dell, HP or any other OEM to limit its user's options? Its called capitialism Hilary, it means that people sell things to make money. If somebody uses some product you sell for an illegal use, its not your problem. Its the Polices' problem.
While we are at it, lets sue the gun industry for making things that kill people. Lets sue the beer industry for drunk drivers. Lets sue the auto industry for making 2000 lb. objects that hit people walking on the sidewalk every once and a while. Etc Etc Etc
Its the users responsibility to police themselves, you break the law, you go to jail, not the person who sold you the computer.
Looks like somebody just discovered "NEW HAVEN OF HACKERS" over at CNN. Yeah, yeah I know we are all making fun of CNN here for being such doofuses but hold on a sec.
,and unless you are a total geek and all of your friends happen to be geeks as well, they will have no clue what the IRC is. None at all. Yes the IRC is one of the last "Wild West" parts of the web. Its one of the last few places you can actually go to and not be censored because you said the f-word off-hand.
Ask 99% of the people you know (parents/relatives/friends)
Well at least, tho the article is slanted, I won't have to explain what the IRC is to my friends quite as much, I'll just have to explain to them that I'm not a criminal, thanks for that CNN.
Because yoga and CPU's are just so similar, people could easily get them confused.
Sigh.
Some of these I don't really agree with, but one I most definitly do.
:)
I want to be not reachable because I just want a day off.
Until I get a job that totally requires a cell phone (and even then) I won't buy one. Yeah they are neat gadgets, but some times I just don't want to be bothered. I don't want to be on call 24/7 unless I'm being paid quite a bit. Somebody needs to reach me when I'm not home, fine, thats what my answering machine is for, leave me a message and I'll get back to you after I have relaxed and had a beer.
The problem with this attitude is ... Meat tastes good.
That and 'sentient' animals kill each other all the time. Save yourself anxiety and worry about 'self-aware' lifeforms please. If you think that eating a 'sentient' creature is murder, what do you think about chopping down a tree to build your house? Trees release chemicals into the air to warn other trees when they are being attacked by insects and the like. Why don't you consider them sentient as well? Trees, cows, lettuce, chickens, potatoes, I place them all on the same level.
Watch out! It's SYNAPSE !
The second problem is commonly referred to as the "Analog hole." As protected digital programming (usually delivered over satellite or cable, but also available on the Internet) is decrypted for viewing by consumers on legacy analog devices - most frequently on television sets - the programming is temporarily "in the clear." At this point, pirates have the opportunity to take advantage of an "Analog hole" by copying the content into a digital format (i.e. re-digitizing it) and then illegally copying and/or retransmitting the content. The technology to solve this problem either exists today, or will be available shortly. Regardless, the solution is technologically feasible. As with the "broadcast flag" the solution to the "Analog hole" will require a government mandate to ensure its ubiquitous adoption across consumer devices.
How are you going to fix this? Pass a law requiring all TV's be made a certain way? Wonderful.
The final problem poses the greatest threat. Literally millions of digital files of music and videos are illegally copied, downloaded, and transmitted over the Internet on a regular basis. Current digital rights management solutions are insufficient to rectify this problem. Some consumers resorting to illegal behavior do so unknowingly. Many others do so willingly. Regardless, consumers desire high-quality digital content on the Internet, and it is not being provided in any widespread, legal fashion. Fortunately, a solution to this problem is also technologically feasible.
Oh, you have a solution for this to? Great, what is it? How on earth do you propose to shut down a decentralised network (Gnuttela, etc.) without actually holding the users responsible and arresting them ?
America's creative artists deserve our protection. Our copyright industries are among our greatest economic and creative assets. The Framers recognized that innovation and creativity was instrumental to our country's economic health when they empowered Congress, in the Constitution, to protect copyrighted products.
This is a mockery of our constitution. Our constitution says that copyright is for a limited time. To me the lifetime of the artist plus 70 years isn't limited. I'm 21 and I'm likely going to die before Mickey Mouse falls into the public domain (through further lobbying and extensions). The framers will be rolling over in their graves when this bill passes.
Thank you all so much for the info, I apologise for my newbieness ;) I'm not just a windows weenie, I have installed Mandrake, and I'm trying to learn.
:)
Thanks again for your understanding
First of all what is sed? Sorry for being late to the party here, but come on, I have no idea what this is about other then somebodies little text-like game?
........ to do ..... Pretty interesting use of sed because ......"
Mike, don't you think that you could have contributed like a sentence at the end saying something that would bring the picture a little more into the real world focus? Heck, I would settle for something like "Sed is normally used for
Just a thought.
Go see Resident Evil!
;)
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So am I the only one whos shocked at the fact that the Russians (the former USSR!) are going to be the first ones to approach a capitalist space program?! Come on, get your act together USA! Our entire country is based on the ideal that if you come up with something cool to do/sell you should do it and get rich, and the Russians are beating us to the punch? Please NASA, do something similar so you can fund a fucking Mars mission when the gov cuts your funding! Just think, we have the shuttles, its the only way we are going to go to mars any time soon and not have johnny taxpayer pay about a zillion dollars for it.
Hey, this was from the other thread, and the new trailor is up there. Nice Compression.
http://node2.callihq.net/
Why would the RIAA want to fight streaming compulsory licenses? Because of Pressplay and Musicnet of course! The RIAA wants music to be pay-per-listen, and Musicnet and Pressplay, are an attempt at that. Letting other companies stream music competes with the 200 streams a month offered by Musicnet. Why take money from the middleman(Webcasters) when you can screw the customers yourself?
Everybody out there don't go crazy, stuff like this is bound to happen. All the time.
;) ) but most likely, if they had good linux programmers, I'm sure they'll get picked up by other linux companies. The not so good programmers they had, not so much. But remember, in other industries you get fired, and you were working on something you really loved, thats it, no more. At least here if the programmer gets fired, and he really has a passion for it, he can continue, at least in a way to contribute to his work/passion, until he gets picked up by another company.
It's the same in every area of industry. Yeah, Mission Critical was a Linux company, and thats to bad, but take a step back.
Only so many companies can survive in any area, currently, there are many, many linux companies out there. This process may hurt right now ( you know, on the inside
The ones who don't have the passion, the love, will most likely go on to other things.
Sorry if that last line sounded really corny.