JV:... You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way
Not quite Jack. We are talking about the fair use rights of 100,000 engineers and millions of Linux users against the copy rights of a few 100,000 employed in the entertainment industry. That is a much different situation.
JV:...So once you let the barriers down for your perfectly sensible reason, you gotta let it down for everybody.
In other words, you can't allow people their fair use rights because of the possibility that some of them will abuse your copy rights.
The thing is that throughout the histry of the US we have always protected the actual rights of one group against the potential infringement of rights of someone else. In other words, until your rights are actually infringed, you got nothing.
Except in copy right law, recently we have started to say that the potential to commit a crime is a crime.
A few years ago pepsi did their pepsi points promotion. Several of us were living in DC at the time in an apartment behind the home of a couple that drove catering trucks to construction sites. They were a nice couple and let us take anything we wanted off the trucks each night while they were loading them for the next days deliveries.
We did this same thing back then and saved up thousands of those pepsi points in a matter of weeks. Unfortunatley, I never cashed in as the points were pooled amongst us in the apartment and I had to move soon after. I did gain almost 20 pounds while living there for only a few months.
My love for games has been rekindled recently. The reason is becuase I finally bit the bullet and tried a game genre that I had always shyed away from. I always thought I wouldn't like certain genres. It turns out that I am addicted to some of the games I thought I would never play. If you lament the fact that you are losing interest in games just try one game that has gotten great reviews in a genre you have never tried or have avoided. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. If you don't lament your lack of interest than bugger off.
In the very begining of the article the author states that gentoo is the 3rd fastest growing distro at 19%. Then they never mention gentoo again. I found that really interesting since, like other have mentioned, I have always seen gentoo as a niche distro. I only recently installed it at home to play around with it. I thought I was all cool and cutting edge but now I read this and find out I am just one of a huge herd of sheep.
considering that every Pixar film has been a huge success, and the last animated cartoon Disney has put out that came close to any Pixar film was Aladin.
Of course, Disney films will continue to suck, CGI or not as long as they continue to do unoriginal, unimaginitive work. The reason Pixar has been successful is not because they do CGI, but because they don't rehash the same theme endlessly and they don't follow formulaic storytelling.
California is considered the capitol of the content industry (RIAA, MPAA) and the technology industry (Silicon Valley). These two industries are at odds with each other over intellectual propery rights issues. They are probably also a large chunk of California's huge economy. Do you think you can balance the needs/wants of both lobbying groups in a manner that will be beneficial to both industries?
If so how?
I realize that this is mostly a federal matter as far as the law and politics go but there are many that believe that California kind of sets the standard for the rest of the nation to follow(at least economically and politically) so I am intersted in your ideas on this matter.
I work for a software company that produces a vaguely similar product for schools. From my experience when it comes to "Parental Involvement" issues (such as Pinnacle and our product are supposed to help encourage) security is just about the last thing on any school administrators mind. Compared to some other stories I could tell this school using the soc sec # and name combined is like freaking Fort Knox. This is becuase most school officials I have come in contact with that are considering using this kind of technology aren't doing it out of concern for the kids or parents best interest but becuase there is some state mandate, or so they have an easy way of getting most parents off their backs.
This sounds very familiar to Digital Audio Tapes which came out soon after Audio CDs became very popular. Many people thought because of their ability to record audio with digital quality they would replace CDs. At that time CD burners weren't really available. However the cost of DAT and DAT players and the lack of other features like being able to jump from track to track easily really put them at a disadvantage. I think the D-VHS will probably experience the same problems.
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JV: ... You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way
...So once you let the barriers down for your perfectly sensible reason, you gotta let it down for everybody.
Not quite Jack. We are talking about the fair use rights of 100,000 engineers and millions of Linux users against the copy rights of a few 100,000 employed in the entertainment industry. That is a much different situation.
JV:
In other words, you can't allow people their fair use rights because of the possibility that some of them will abuse your copy rights.
The thing is that throughout the histry of the US we have always protected the actual rights of one group against the potential infringement of rights of someone else. In other words, until your rights are actually infringed, you got nothing.
Except in copy right law, recently we have started to say that the potential to commit a crime is a crime.
A few years ago pepsi did their pepsi points promotion. Several of us were living in DC at the time in an apartment behind the home of a couple that drove catering trucks to construction sites. They were a nice couple and let us take anything we wanted off the trucks each night while they were loading them for the next days deliveries.
We did this same thing back then and saved up thousands of those pepsi points in a matter of weeks. Unfortunatley, I never cashed in as the points were pooled amongst us in the apartment and I had to move soon after. I did gain almost 20 pounds while living there for only a few months.
My love for games has been rekindled recently. The reason is becuase I finally bit the bullet and tried a game genre that I had always shyed away from. I always thought I wouldn't like certain genres. It turns out that I am addicted to some of the games I thought I would never play. If you lament the fact that you are losing interest in games just try one game that has gotten great reviews in a genre you have never tried or have avoided. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. If you don't lament your lack of interest than bugger off.
In the very begining of the article the author states that gentoo is the 3rd fastest growing distro at 19%. Then they never mention gentoo again. I found that really interesting since, like other have mentioned, I have always seen gentoo as a niche distro. I only recently installed it at home to play around with it. I thought I was all cool and cutting edge but now I read this and find out I am just one of a huge herd of sheep.
considering that every Pixar film has been a huge success, and the last animated cartoon Disney has put out that came close to any Pixar film was Aladin.
Of course, Disney films will continue to suck, CGI or not as long as they continue to do unoriginal, unimaginitive work. The reason Pixar has been successful is not because they do CGI, but because they don't rehash the same theme endlessly and they don't follow formulaic storytelling.
California is considered the capitol of the content industry (RIAA, MPAA) and the technology industry (Silicon Valley). These two industries are at odds with each other over intellectual propery rights issues. They are probably also a large chunk of California's huge economy. Do you think you can balance the needs/wants of both lobbying groups in a manner that will be beneficial to both industries?
If so how?
I realize that this is mostly a federal matter as far as the law and politics go but there are many that believe that California kind of sets the standard for the rest of the nation to follow(at least economically and politically) so I am intersted in your ideas on this matter.
I work for a software company that produces a vaguely similar product for schools. From my experience when it comes to "Parental Involvement" issues (such as Pinnacle and our product are supposed to help encourage) security is just about the last thing on any school administrators mind. Compared to some other stories I could tell this school using the soc sec # and name combined is like freaking Fort Knox. This is becuase most school officials I have come in contact with that are considering using this kind of technology aren't doing it out of concern for the kids or parents best interest but becuase there is some state mandate, or so they have an easy way of getting most parents off their backs.
This sounds very familiar to Digital Audio Tapes which came out soon after Audio CDs became very popular. Many people thought because of their ability to record audio with digital quality they would replace CDs. At that time CD burners weren't really available. However the cost of DAT and DAT players and the lack of other features like being able to jump from track to track easily really put them at a disadvantage. I think the D-VHS will probably experience the same problems.