Just because code is text and literature is text doesn't make the two equivalent. Using this code is art principal, you could take a piece of hardware and take the mechanical drawings used in the design of the hardware and declare those to be art and whine about those patents too.
I'll agree that software patents are freaking stupid but come up with a better argument than code is a form of art. I don't know who the hell came up with this concept but I've heard it long before all the ad agency artsy folks broke into the "software business" when they got their first copy of Dreamweaver or Hotmetal.
Get all your customers together with their wish lists once a month and prioritize what needs to be done. Managers love meetings and they will love hashing this stuff out and fighting each other for your time. The only drawback is you have to sit through it and listen.
I just installed it in Firebird and it works great. Although having all the results in Spanish threw me for a loop I was able to figure out how to change the default location from Nicaragua to the USA.
Just so you don't have to read the whole article like I did...
There is a site called OpenLindows.org (or something like that) where Lindows users could download the same stuff Linux and BSD users can downlod. Only noone seems to know about it, or Lindows users don't care, or there aren't any Lindows users. Sorry to be so vague but I quit reading before any real conslusion was drawn because it didn't mention SCO or Kobe Bryant and I became bored.
Good point. I guess what is needed then is for these claims by the industry and the validity of the DMCA to be tried in the courts.
Sears doesn't have to stop selling wrenches when someone bashes someones head with a craftsman wrench so what is so different about the digital age where people can get presumed guilty and shut down on the basis of one party's complaint without any judge or jury?
When people don't buy something from you it is economics not theft.
I agree with you there. But when they don't buy it because they already got it for free from a source not authorized to distribute it what is that?
When you have reports like The Eminem Show being number 2 on Gracenote before the CD was even released, that goes a long way to support the RIAA's claims. An awefully lot of people had the CD before it was being sold. Therefore they didn't need to buy it on the Tuesday it was released.
Sorry, it isn't the same as radio. The radio doesn't put the full album out there in full CD quality. And radio isn't free. It costs money to play those songs.
Bigger icons and bigger text on a shiney blue background. Reminds me of Gnome, which reminds me of KDE, which reminds me of OS X. At least with Bob they had true innovation going for them. Bring back Bob!!!
CD's don't always cost about $20. Sure, I can go to the record store in the mall and pay that or and I can go to places like Target, Borders, Best Buy, etc and pay $3-$7 less for the same CD, maybe even less online. I don't see that as the industry sticking it to the customer. There are other factors involved there. Consumers need to be smarter. Not all stores sell at list price. Don't pay $20 for a CD that you can get for $14 down the street.
I've been boycotting the music industry since 1996, not because of the RIAA, but because I don't care about music enough to buy it
That's not a boycott. That is just you making a choice. It is the same as me, a non-smoker, saying I have boycotted the tobacco industry. If you're not in the market and you don't buy then it is not really a boycott is it.
We can argue all day that the music industry sucks and the bands all suck but when the bands sell out concert venues in 30 minutes then someone must like them. But why aren't their CD's selling? In 1983 I'd pay full price for a Billy Squire tape for a couple good songs. In 2003 I don't have to. Is P2P to blame? Hell yes. It might be hard to prove using sales figures. You can't look at a pile of receipts and figure out why there are more or less but when you look around at the popularity of P2P, the volume of files online, and the volume of comments HERE and other places as to why people trade there is your proof that P2P is hurting the industry.
This post will probably be modded as troll or flamebait but it is pretty close to the truth.
Offtopic here but what is with the parenthetical expression after you cite The Inquirer? This isn't the first time I have seen this. I can only think many people confuse them with The Enquirer and that is why they groan when citing the site as a reference. As far as I know there is no relation, one is a British web site on tech news and the other is an American tabloid. Is The Inquirer a bad source or something?
It seems like the Sobig release schedule is more consistent and on-time than... well... the software release schedules of a major company we love to hate;-)
And I was thinking they were almost as frequent as KDE releases.
We're closer to a police state than you think. Our freedom is slowly being chipped away. Today is Aug. 7 2003. Do we as citizens have more freedom, less freedom, or about the same freedom as we did 10 years ago? 20 years ago? 40 years ago? We have less. That to me is moving closer to a 1980's East German police state than moving away from it.
All that said, if you take an LCD designed to display 1024x768 and run it at 800x600 your web page, windows forms, even the text in notepad is going to look like shat. This isn't about scaling and sizing widgets, it is about the capability of the LCD.
What happens when the RIAA finds out it is one of their own members? That will be a cool.
In the mean time I'm just going to quit buying CD's. Oh wait, I did that a few years ago because new music sucks. Maybe I'll just write my favorite bands and tell them I'm not buying any CD's because of the strong arm tactics of the industry. Oh wait, my favorite bands have all quit or have gone Tango Uniform on us. I'm all out of options.
WTF is going on when I can assault someone, sell drugs, or some such and get a lenient sentence (which means I'll be out in less than half the time sentenced for) but if I do anything computer related its some gawd-awful thing.
Don't worry, when you go on your killing spree and Hollywood makes a movie out of it, you'll get your deserved time when you illegally trade the movie with your friends.
Is it about wardriving for tunes or is it about using WiFi hotspots with your favorite p2p app? It is the latter. Currently P2P traders can't be identified in a WiFi hotspot as was the case with Bryant Park.
I'll agree though, wardriving looking for shared tunes is a big waste of time and gasoline for that matter.
The thought of me getting fined or jailed for sharing would be enough for me to stop doing it as I'm 35 with a wife and kids. If I were 15 I don't think I would think twice about it. It sure didn't stop me from phreaking back then.
Since I use Linux and apparently many others here too, wouldn't stories about critical Linux bugs be nice to have? Last time I ran up2date I had 10 patched applications to download but I don't know how severe they were or if I really needed to bother.
You would have preferred they spent nothing and used an operating system that steals the intellecual property from SCO, is developed by forein nationals, and comes in silly sounding flavors like Knoppix and Gentoo?:)
It's kind of strange but the most likely, most capabale benefactors of free software would be the government where standards can be enforced and the millions or billions saved in licensing could be used to hire and train in house support.
If you read the article you'll see that they did mention Konqueror. Oh wait, this is slashdot. Nevermind, continue your "they left out my browser rant."
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Just because code is text and literature is text doesn't make the two equivalent. Using this code is art principal, you could take a piece of hardware and take the mechanical drawings used in the design of the hardware and declare those to be art and whine about those patents too.
I'll agree that software patents are freaking stupid but come up with a better argument than code is a form of art. I don't know who the hell came up with this concept but I've heard it long before all the ad agency artsy folks broke into the "software business" when they got their first copy of Dreamweaver or Hotmetal.
Get all your customers together with their wish lists once a month and prioritize what needs to be done. Managers love meetings and they will love hashing this stuff out and fighting each other for your time. The only drawback is you have to sit through it and listen.
I just installed it in Firebird and it works great. Although having all the results in Spanish threw me for a loop I was able to figure out how to change the default location from Nicaragua to the USA.
How about when I say "open link in new tab" that it switch to the fucking tab instead of having to click on it?????
I wouldn't like that. Then I wouldn't be able to queue up all the Fark boobies links.
Just so you don't have to read the whole article like I did...
There is a site called OpenLindows.org (or something like that) where Lindows users could download the same stuff Linux and BSD users can downlod. Only noone seems to know about it, or Lindows users don't care, or there aren't any Lindows users. Sorry to be so vague but I quit reading before any real conslusion was drawn because it didn't mention SCO or Kobe Bryant and I became bored.
Good point. I guess what is needed then is for these claims by the industry and the validity of the DMCA to be tried in the courts.
Sears doesn't have to stop selling wrenches when someone bashes someones head with a craftsman wrench so what is so different about the digital age where people can get presumed guilty and shut down on the basis of one party's complaint without any judge or jury?
1. Glue on pencil erasers to set the skin thickness
2. Cover with modeling clay to make the features using the erasers as a guide.
3. ???
You know the rest.
4. Profit ?
When people don't buy something from you it is economics not theft.
I agree with you there. But when they don't buy it because they already got it for free from a source not authorized to distribute it what is that?
When you have reports like The Eminem Show being number 2 on Gracenote before the CD was even released, that goes a long way to support the RIAA's claims. An awefully lot of people had the CD before it was being sold. Therefore they didn't need to buy it on the Tuesday it was released.
Sorry, it isn't the same as radio. The radio doesn't put the full album out there in full CD quality. And radio isn't free. It costs money to play those songs.
Bigger icons and bigger text on a shiney blue background. Reminds me of Gnome, which reminds me of KDE, which reminds me of OS X. At least with Bob they had true innovation going for them. Bring back Bob!!!
CD's don't always cost about $20. Sure, I can go to the record store in the mall and pay that or and I can go to places like Target, Borders, Best Buy, etc and pay $3-$7 less for the same CD, maybe even less online. I don't see that as the industry sticking it to the customer. There are other factors involved there. Consumers need to be smarter. Not all stores sell at list price. Don't pay $20 for a CD that you can get for $14 down the street.
I've been boycotting the music industry since 1996, not because of the RIAA, but because I don't care about music enough to buy it
That's not a boycott. That is just you making a choice. It is the same as me, a non-smoker, saying I have boycotted the tobacco industry. If you're not in the market and you don't buy then it is not really a boycott is it.
We can argue all day that the music industry sucks and the bands all suck but when the bands sell out concert venues in 30 minutes then someone must like them. But why aren't their CD's selling? In 1983 I'd pay full price for a Billy Squire tape for a couple good songs. In 2003 I don't have to. Is P2P to blame? Hell yes. It might be hard to prove using sales figures. You can't look at a pile of receipts and figure out why there are more or less but when you look around at the popularity of P2P, the volume of files online, and the volume of comments HERE and other places as to why people trade there is your proof that P2P is hurting the industry.
This post will probably be modded as troll or flamebait but it is pretty close to the truth.
Offtopic here but what is with the parenthetical expression after you cite The Inquirer? This isn't the first time I have seen this. I can only think many people confuse them with The Enquirer and that is why they groan when citing the site as a reference. As far as I know there is no relation, one is a British web site on tech news and the other is an American tabloid. Is The Inquirer a bad source or something?
It seems like the Sobig release schedule is more consistent and on-time than ... well ... the software release schedules of a major company we love to hate ;-)
And I was thinking they were almost as frequent as KDE releases.
We're closer to a police state than you think. Our freedom is slowly being chipped away. Today is Aug. 7 2003. Do we as citizens have more freedom, less freedom, or about the same freedom as we did 10 years ago? 20 years ago? 40 years ago? We have less. That to me is moving closer to a 1980's East German police state than moving away from it.
All that said, if you take an LCD designed to display 1024x768 and run it at 800x600 your web page, windows forms, even the text in notepad is going to look like shat. This isn't about scaling and sizing widgets, it is about the capability of the LCD.
What happens when the RIAA finds out it is one of their own members? That will be a cool.
In the mean time I'm just going to quit buying CD's. Oh wait, I did that a few years ago because new music sucks. Maybe I'll just write my favorite bands and tell them I'm not buying any CD's because of the strong arm tactics of the industry. Oh wait, my favorite bands have all quit or have gone Tango Uniform on us. I'm all out of options.
Yeah, my XP solution did the same. Sweet deal. Now if only Red Hat update worked that way. I suppose I could put up2date -u in my crontab.
What if you are using the smartcard reader to read your American Express Blue card? Is DirecTV going to sue you?
WTF is going on when I can assault someone, sell drugs, or some such and get a lenient sentence (which means I'll be out in less than half the time sentenced for) but if I do anything computer related its some gawd-awful thing.
Don't worry, when you go on your killing spree and Hollywood makes a movie out of it, you'll get your deserved time when you illegally trade the movie with your friends.
You just want them to roll their own Linux distro so you could run work for them and call yourself "The Man From G.O.O.S.E."
Is it about wardriving for tunes or is it about using WiFi hotspots with your favorite p2p app? It is the latter. Currently P2P traders can't be identified in a WiFi hotspot as was the case with Bryant Park.
I'll agree though, wardriving looking for shared tunes is a big waste of time and gasoline for that matter.
The thought of me getting fined or jailed for sharing would be enough for me to stop doing it as I'm 35 with a wife and kids. If I were 15 I don't think I would think twice about it. It sure didn't stop me from phreaking back then.
Since I use Linux and apparently many others here too, wouldn't stories about critical Linux bugs be nice to have? Last time I ran up2date I had 10 patched applications to download but I don't know how severe they were or if I really needed to bother.
You would have preferred they spent nothing and used an operating system that steals the intellecual property from SCO, is developed by forein nationals, and comes in silly sounding flavors like Knoppix and Gentoo? :)
It's kind of strange but the most likely, most capabale benefactors of free software would be the government where standards can be enforced and the millions or billions saved in licensing could be used to hire and train in house support.
Just hit it and forget it.
If you read the article you'll see that they did mention Konqueror. Oh wait, this is slashdot. Nevermind, continue your "they left out my browser rant."