Predatory patent sharks will tell their victims: ``pay up, don't fight: we will accept a sum that Lloyds will pay'', it is best for them if they can get their money quickly and without having to get their parasitical lawyers out of bed.
If this happens to any extent Lloyds will pull out of the market.
Lloyds has plenty of friends with a lot of influence, if they see it to their benefit they will get the law changed - this might mean no patents in Europe at least.
It is their property so they get to choose the copyright (license).
It is your money so you get to choose what you spend it on.
If you don't like the fact that you spend £15 on a CD and can't give your friends a copy, then leave that £15 in you pocket or spend it on something else.
We (actually: RMS) didn't like the license on some software 20 years ago, so he started GNU and wrote his own putting it under the GPL. Rather than wingeing about the nasty record labels - do what RMS did: produce your own music and release it under the creating commons license (or something). Like that we will all be able to enjoy your music for free.
This sounds nice, the trouble is that music isn't like software: incremental improvement doesn't seem to work; the name of author of s/ware is (largely) unimportant, who did the music very often is (it helps if they are pretty as well - counts out most slashdotters then).
The above are in the nature of the way in which music is promoted, there is no established ''market'' in: artists putting their music up for free download; letting others take it, improve it, release it themselves. It would take time for this to catch on, but there are benefits: we are all richer since we don't give lots of $£$ to the record labels; many individuals all over become involved in the creation/performing/... of music - getting involved is a good thing.
The above would take time, but the meme could catch on. We have the technology, we just need some good musicians, we need to make this fashionable and make fashionable music freely available.
I think that good music is good music, I can't understand why it is so subject to fashion (disclaimer: I mostly listen to classical music).
No - after the first stat all the inode information will be in memory - there is no I/O, just a context switch to the Kernel to do the stat & back again... ie CPU cycles.
Anyway - the point is that there seems to be much unneeded work done, they are much too slow, that is all that matters.
Gnome is great at turning a fast computer into a sluggish one. Just because you have all of those CPU cycles doesn't mean that they have to use them, especially when lots of them seem to be wasted.
For instance: if you look (strace) at a typical gnome program when it starts up, it stats zillions of files; many of them more than once. This is why startup is so sloooooow.
Oh, I am trolling am I ? We all have fast computers so why am I making a fuss ? Think about: being able to save power (improve battery life) with a slower CPU laptop; people in the third world who cannot afford the super computers that we, in the 1st world, have on out desktops; think about sharing a server between many people (eg LTSP).
It would be nice to see a gnome release that just concentrated on making the code faster.
When my mother told my father that she was pregnant, he gave her some money and told her to get an abortion. She gave the money back, and told him to go to hell. They never spoke after that.
That is what your mother told you, but is it true ? Sorry to doubt her, but I deal with many men who's ex has told the kids lies to prevent the kids from wanting to see their dad. This is not to say that your father (not a dad, a dad would not do that) did not say that, there are many ass holes in this world.
Don't believe such a story unless you have verified it.
For instance Donald Betts has put up his own recordings of music by Chopin. Now that these are out there - no one need ever pay for those pieces again; unless they don't like his interpretation.
All that it takes is people like him and, over time, more and more music becomes unencumbered.
I am surprised that the large corporations have not cottoned onto the idea of free music as an inducement to advertising. Think of the vast sums that they spend just to have their name put in front of people's eyes (think: adverts in football or formula 1 racing). Those cost a lot of money.
What would it cost to commission an orchestra to play Mozart/Beethoven/... and release the MP3s with a short message of the form: ''Beethoven's Moonlight sonata brought to you by XXX, purveyors of fine YYY'' ? If it isn't too intrusive most people would not skip it or edit it from the MP3. The licence could be personal use, no redistribution which means that everyone who wants it should go to their web site and see more adverts for YYY.
Pay an orchestra a few thousand pounds to play some classical music
Put it up on a web site as a free personal download
Lots of people visit the web site
Lots of people listen to the name XXX when they listen to the music
This is all too common - world wide. I live in the UK and have been through 10 years of hell and trying to remain part of my kids' lives.
I am a lucky one, I still know my kids, many people that I know don't get to see theirs because ''dad seeing the kids upsets mum, mum being upset is bad for the kids, so dad must not see the kids''. I know many men ruined: emotionally as well as finacially by this so called ''justice''.
It has also cost me £250,000, I am behind with my taxes and her lawyers are trying to extract another £12,000 from me.
The courts only benefit those in the legal profession. They are corrupt, self serving parasites.
Google employees, interns, contractors, family members, roommates, or citizens from the countries on the US State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism, which we are bound by law from engaging in commerce with.
I haven't seen that list recently, but presumably it counts me out since I live in England and we illigally invaded Iraq a couple of years ago... can someone remind me of the name of the other big country that was involved ?
Microsoft and Sun (collectively, the "Co-Developers") each agree to grant you a license,
under royalty-free and otherwise reasonable, non-discriminatory terms and conditions,
to their respective essential patent claims that are necessary to implement the
Specification.
If it really is free, as the above suggests, this could be a nice component of single signon.
(I haven't read all of it - yet)
Both countries' cheap and plentiful labor has undercut the tech industry in America and other Western countries through outsourcing.
But how long will that last ? Once their workforces see the wealth that they are generating they are going to want a share of it, that is going to lead to demands for higher wages. This has happened before (see Eastern Europe).
Part of the West's wealth relies on an imbalance of income -- ie the West relies on low wages in Africa/Asia to supply them with cheap food/goods/holidays/... This is not to say that things won't change: they will -- there will be an averaging of standards of living; we in the West are going to have to accept a reduction in our standards of living or work much harder for it. This is good in global terms.
Where will the world's workhouse be ? Africa ?
BTW: Anyone remember 20-30 years ago the golden future that was painted for us -- that automation would mean that no one would have to work more than one day a week (or something like that). Whatever happened to that dream ?
I don't know about the USA, but in England it has long been held that a manufacturer of a kitchen knife cannot be held responsible for a murder carried out using the knife.
The point is that many people who matter will see this paper, they are busy people they will read the headlines and the conclusions, they won't even notice that there is something about funding. These peole are IT directors and the like.
Yes: we geeks say that the report is a joke because of the way that it is funded; learn that the joke is on us since we dismiss this paper as irrelevant when it is opinion forming.
Copyright was introduced to protect the financial interests of authors and composers; to allow them to earn a living by writing words or music. Before copyright others could make money off the backs of the writers without giving them a cut. Without copyright authors would find it much more difficult to earn a living and we would all have less books/music to enjoy.
Copyright law recognised this in that: a copyright was for a limited term (how long does an author live ?); and it allowed quoting of parts of the work (after reading the quote you may be enticed to buy the whole book).
The Church of Scientology (CoS) is using copyright to prevent criticism of itself. The people who it is acting against are not reproducing CoS works to make a quick buck. This is a very different scenario than was envisaged by the original authors of copyright legislation. This is a case where the judges should look at the purpose of legislation rather than the words in which it is written and, through precedent, fix it for the future. It is like when you write a program for some purpose, and using it for something extra breaks it (exposes a bug), so you fix it.
I suppose that you could say that the CoS is using copyright to protect it's financial interests, but that is through keeping potential adherents in the dark until they are well & truely hooked rather than preventing others from making a quick buck from it's works.
Anyone know when the fishman affidavit comes out of copyright ?
At least there was no possibility of confusion between a chocolate site and the French Designer site.
But why does the chocolate company NEED the French site ? Yes, it has a name of their product, but there are limited meaningful/nice/... names that can be used but millions of businesses around the world - just 'cos you are big doesn't mean that you can lay claim to all uses of what happens to be the name of your product(s) - follow that to conclusion and we will run out of names quite quickly.
Every town in the UK seems to have an ABC taxi company - no problem at all.
Why not try to stop the use of the name outside the shop ? Well, they would fail; it is just that the judges are sufficiently confused to think that 'E-space' is different from 'physical-space' that they come up with these stupid decisions.
fix some of the startup slowness. Have you ever done strace on a gnome app ? Did you ever see it open and read the same file again & again ? It might cost a little RAM to cache the results but should be worth it - most of these files are quite small. How about reading into a per user shared memory segment - just read once and share between all processes.
The best way of ensuring that it stays fixed is to give all the gnome developers PIIIs with 128 Mb RAM.
Florida passes a bill preventing local councils/government from emptying residents' trash cans. This is to encourage growth in companies providing waste services. It is expected that residents will save $100/year in local taxes and only have to pay $250/year to a waste collection corporation but residents are not expected to complain since the bill mandates that the new trash collection vans are brightly painted, spray sweet smelling rose water and play a merry tune.
Why not release under a dual licence as mysql have done... they seem to rake in money while giving the product away. Yes: most people will have it for free, but some will want to pay (to include in a proprietary bundle/...) - the extra market/awareness that open sourcing it will bring will mean that he will get a slice of a larger cake.
Sony, Philips, Samsung, Matsushita/Panasonic and Intertrust are pushing for
DRM, perhaps if they listen to Sony they will realise that people will not buy their crippled products.
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- Predatory patent sharks will tell their victims: ``pay up, don't fight: we will accept a sum that Lloyds will pay'', it is best for them if they can get their money quickly and without having to get their parasitical lawyers out of bed.
- Lloyds has plenty of friends with a lot of influence, if they see it to their benefit they will get the law changed - this might mean no patents in Europe at least.
I can't make my mind up which this might be...If this happens to any extent Lloyds will pull out of the market.
It is your money so you get to choose what you spend it on.
If you don't like the fact that you spend £15 on a CD and can't give your friends a copy, then leave that £15 in you pocket or spend it on something else.
We (actually: RMS) didn't like the license on some software 20 years ago, so he started GNU and wrote his own putting it under the GPL. Rather than wingeing about the nasty record labels - do what RMS did: produce your own music and release it under the creating commons license (or something). Like that we will all be able to enjoy your music for free.
This sounds nice, the trouble is that music isn't like software: incremental improvement doesn't seem to work; the name of author of s/ware is (largely) unimportant, who did the music very often is (it helps if they are pretty as well - counts out most slashdotters then).
The above are in the nature of the way in which music is promoted, there is no established ''market'' in: artists putting their music up for free download; letting others take it, improve it, release it themselves. It would take time for this to catch on, but there are benefits: we are all richer since we don't give lots of $£$ to the record labels; many individuals all over become involved in the creation/performing/... of music - getting involved is a good thing.
The above would take time, but the meme could catch on. We have the technology, we just need some good musicians, we need to make this fashionable and make fashionable music freely available.
I think that good music is good music, I can't understand why it is so subject to fashion (disclaimer: I mostly listen to classical music).
Anyway - the point is that there seems to be much unneeded work done, they are much too slow, that is all that matters.
Gnome is great at turning a fast computer into a sluggish one. Just because you have all of those CPU cycles doesn't mean that they have to use them, especially when lots of them seem to be wasted.
For instance: if you look (strace) at a typical gnome program when it starts up, it stats zillions of files; many of them more than once. This is why startup is so sloooooow.
Oh, I am trolling am I ? We all have fast computers so why am I making a fuss ? Think about: being able to save power (improve battery life) with a slower CPU laptop; people in the third world who cannot afford the super computers that we, in the 1st world, have on out desktops; think about sharing a server between many people (eg LTSP).
It would be nice to see a gnome release that just concentrated on making the code faster.
That is what your mother told you, but is it true ? Sorry to doubt her, but I deal with many men who's ex has told the kids lies to prevent the kids from wanting to see their dad. This is not to say that your father (not a dad, a dad would not do that) did not say that, there are many ass holes in this world.
Don't believe such a story unless you have verified it.
I know someone who copied a music CD ... should I go into hiding or turn him in & claim a bounty ?
All that it takes is people like him and, over time, more and more music becomes unencumbered.
I am surprised that the large corporations have not cottoned onto the idea of free music as an inducement to advertising. Think of the vast sums that they spend just to have their name put in front of people's eyes (think: adverts in football or formula 1 racing). Those cost a lot of money.
What would it cost to commission an orchestra to play Mozart/Beethoven/... and release the MP3s with a short message of the form: ''Beethoven's Moonlight sonata brought to you by XXX, purveyors of fine YYY'' ? If it isn't too intrusive most people would not skip it or edit it from the MP3. The licence could be personal use, no redistribution which means that everyone who wants it should go to their web site and see more adverts for YYY.
I am a lucky one, I still know my kids, many people that I know don't get to see theirs because ''dad seeing the kids upsets mum, mum being upset is bad for the kids, so dad must not see the kids''. I know many men ruined: emotionally as well as finacially by this so called ''justice''.
It has also cost me £250,000, I am behind with my taxes and her lawyers are trying to extract another £12,000 from me.
The courts only benefit those in the legal profession. They are corrupt, self serving parasites.
I haven't seen that list recently, but presumably it counts me out since I live in England and we illigally invaded Iraq a couple of years ago ... can someone remind me of the name of the other big country that was involved ?
And that does not cover the most important communication mechanism of all: Speech, so should we insist on audio recorders:
But what about those who communicate outside office hours: at home, in a local bar, ... Help, stop this , I want to get off!!!!
Should not be a problem in a few years time: just say who your are buying it for and the shop will look ker DNA up on a database and encode from that.
Maybe this is the real push for biometric data - not 9/11 and national security and that sort of rubbish.
If it really is free, as the above suggests, this could be a nice component of single signon. (I haven't read all of it - yet)
Yes: but they are all Intel compatible ... what about some interesting comparisons like: IBM's power PC, Sun's SPARC, IBM mainframe, ...
I think that Stalin said something similar and it is why Bill Gates is so keen to get his software into schools .....
But how long will that last ? Once their workforces see the wealth that they are generating they are going to want a share of it, that is going to lead to demands for higher wages. This has happened before (see Eastern Europe).
Part of the West's wealth relies on an imbalance of income -- ie the West relies on low wages in Africa/Asia to supply them with cheap food/goods/holidays/... This is not to say that things won't change: they will -- there will be an averaging of standards of living; we in the West are going to have to accept a reduction in our standards of living or work much harder for it. This is good in global terms.
Where will the world's workhouse be ? Africa ?
BTW: Anyone remember 20-30 years ago the golden future that was painted for us -- that automation would mean that no one would have to work more than one day a week (or something like that). Whatever happened to that dream ?
I don't know about the USA, but in England it has long been held that a manufacturer of a kitchen knife cannot be held responsible for a murder carried out using the knife.
The point is that many people who matter will see this paper, they are busy people they will read the headlines and the conclusions, they won't even notice that there is something about funding. These peole are IT directors and the like.
Yes: we geeks say that the report is a joke because of the way that it is funded; learn that the joke is on us since we dismiss this paper as irrelevant when it is opinion forming.
Copyright law recognised this in that: a copyright was for a limited term (how long does an author live ?); and it allowed quoting of parts of the work (after reading the quote you may be enticed to buy the whole book).
The Church of Scientology (CoS) is using copyright to prevent criticism of itself. The people who it is acting against are not reproducing CoS works to make a quick buck. This is a very different scenario than was envisaged by the original authors of copyright legislation. This is a case where the judges should look at the purpose of legislation rather than the words in which it is written and, through precedent, fix it for the future. It is like when you write a program for some purpose, and using it for something extra breaks it (exposes a bug), so you fix it.
I suppose that you could say that the CoS is using copyright to protect it's financial interests, but that is through keeping potential adherents in the dark until they are well & truely hooked rather than preventing others from making a quick buck from it's works.
Anyone know when the fishman affidavit comes out of copyright ?
OK: that won't fix all tracking (including this M$ one) but it helps.
But why does the chocolate company NEED the French site ? Yes, it has a name of their product, but there are limited meaningful/nice/... names that can be used but millions of businesses around the world - just 'cos you are big doesn't mean that you can lay claim to all uses of what happens to be the name of your product(s) - follow that to conclusion and we will run out of names quite quickly. Every town in the UK seems to have an ABC taxi company - no problem at all.
Why not try to stop the use of the name outside the shop ? Well, they would fail; it is just that the judges are sufficiently confused to think that 'E-space' is different from 'physical-space' that they come up with these stupid decisions.
Does this not open M$ to the charge of willfully withholding security patches from everyone else by a month ?
The best way of ensuring that it stays fixed is to give all the gnome developers PIIIs with 128 Mb RAM.
Florida passes a bill preventing local councils/government from emptying residents' trash cans. This is to encourage growth in companies providing waste services. It is expected that residents will save $100/year in local taxes and only have to pay $250/year to a waste collection corporation but residents are not expected to complain since the bill mandates that the new trash collection vans are brightly painted, spray sweet smelling rose water and play a merry tune.
Why not release under a dual licence as mysql have done ... they seem to rake in money while giving the product away. Yes: most people will have it for free, but some will want to pay (to include in a proprietary bundle/...) - the extra market/awareness that open sourcing it will bring will mean that he will get a slice of a larger cake.
Sony, Philips, Samsung, Matsushita/Panasonic and Intertrust are pushing for DRM , perhaps if they listen to Sony they will realise that people will not buy their crippled products.