I would love to see this logic applied to commercial radio stations:
It's unknown how many other users accessed the music distributed by the radio station in question and committed further acts of copyright infringement.
They are transmitting songs over the fcc-licensed airwaives, fully unencrypted, that anyone can just tap into and save. Those people can then distribute that music, and so forth. Apparently, the music industry is losing $1.2 x 10^13 a minute this way.
Seriously! And how does one own an idea? If your phone rings and you are distracted by that enough to suddenly forget something you just thought of, did that person "steal" your idea? (defining theft as depriving someone of property)
The DMCA is simply an available tool, put to good use in this case. Invoking the DMCA like this does nothing to prolong it or popularize it any more than I'm endorsing waterboarding by paying taxes. Fixing or aggravating the absolute disaster of extended copyright is well beyond the scope of this guy's situation. Think of it as a jujitsu tactic to disable an opponent with the weapon they intend to use against your clan, rather than an escalating arms race.
Had he lobbied to get the DMCA passed for abusing powers of the ubuntu monopoly, then there might be a discussion about bad strategy.
I bought all the dvd's at once a few years ago. I'm not really the person to collect dvd's or cd's. I find that compared to encoded files on my hard drive they're cumbersome, prone to failure, and slow to access. For what it costs to procure these "info disks", I find it to to a poor value, particularly in resale.
But I bought futurama because the network never really gave it a fair chance during its original airing. They had it in a crappy, moving time slot and never promoted it enough. I paid all that money to give send a message:
"You were mistaken in cancelling futurama, so I appeal to your greedy side in hopes that you will find it profitable enough to produce future episodes"
I was thrilled to see news about these movies and now I'm glad to see them out!
I'm planning on running leopard at some point in the future, having used tiger extensively, but am currently using xp. So this article was interesting to me, but this part about time machine is hilarious:
"Third, Vista's backup works over a network. In its ads Apple blithely says that Time Machine can, too, but when you read the fine print--or try it in real life--you discover that Time Machine works with USB- or FireWire-connected drives only. Really? In 2007? When I saw that, I actually looked around to see if Ashton Kutcher was going to pop out from behind my lab bench and tell me I'd been punked."
My assessment of the judge's intellectual deficiency is based on the evidence, and the verbatim statements made by the judge. Just because the loser of this suit has brought the story to the attention of many, this does not compromise these details.
Did you rtfa? The judge said clearly that this was not spam despite:
1. Being mailed using PHPMailer [version 1.72] 2. Addressing "Dear webmaster" about link exchange with "your site", slashdot 3. Providing links with GET url parameters to "linkmachine/resources/link_exchange.php"
And she even said that "real spam" implies mass mailing and is the "antithesis" of correspondence like this. Oh, also that he was suing an individual, not a big company or something (as though an individual is incapable of spam)
So yeah, maybe he did a poor job as auto lawyer, but look at what he was up against.
I think characterizing this judge as a moron is a fair assessment. Also, if you rtfa he's not downplaying this particular judge's ability to decide other types of cases, just that people in such positions of power are completely capable of making poor decisions that can wreck your life (and that this was not one), thereby exposing a weakness of the criminal justice system.
It wasn't a design failure OUTSIDE a specific range of operation for the temperature. Engineers warned against this specific failure when launching in colder temperatures than had been tested, and management shut them down because they had gotten lucky a few times before.
I have a multipurpose headless server that I use for things. I does literally have no video output whatsoever, but I did once have to plug in a agp vid card long enough to find out why it wasn't booting (a bios thing), so it's not completely useless to have video. Makes me wish you could still pick up a pci video card for $5 at places.
he's dangerously skirting the outer edges of propaganda
I don't really know what other people, or teh internets, have to say specifically about this, but I am under the impression that this is a propaganda piece. That's part of what I'm interested in seeing. I do boring research on this crap all the time, but I want someone to produce something like this I can watch and go 'OOOooo, that's interesting!" while comfortably not forming a whole belief system around it.
What's the worst that could happen, people try to academically challenge his info? The US healthcare system sucks, and someone needs to shake up a lively discussion of how it can be fixed. I have a lot of ideas, and I'd be curious to see if any of them are suggested in the film.
I've thought about this before, and I currently work in a "virtual office" situation. If you have to go that route, it would be a good idea to have just one concise (voice ?) meeting every day starting in the morning to get everyone synchronized and aware of who is available to help out. That serves its functional role while keeping everyone connected in a more human way as they are at the office. People who need to collaborate more closely can do so. I think the trick is to keep it short and not have idle bs get in the way of boring anyone.
Good insight - thank you. I suppose I read it in a "problem solving" tone on account that dan had already solved a problem with the patch and was now defending the idea by putting a practical viewpoint on issues that were raised, such as supporting platforms with greater than 20% desk share, thereby avoiding genuine fs naming limitations (dos 8.3) and supporting something that is more a matter of choice than technical advantages.
wow, reading that whole post painted the author to be quite a pretentious jerk ("Problem? IIRC, I don't care."). Dan Kiegel's response was very well written and solution-oriented, a great model on how to deal with problem people and very relevant to the article.
Also Harald misspelled 'distinction', which makes it hard to take him seriously when asserting the value of colliding namespace like that.
I hate how it takes so damn long to run around on feet until I can get a mount at level 40. At least when I play GTA I can steal transportation easily. Why can't I put a harness on a raptor to make it my personal taxi? The raptor would probably rather have that than a fatal backstab in passing.
I've actually digitized a few LP's using decent quality equipment. Once you get the levels right, it's pretty straight for recording. Encoding's not much of a pain, but splitting the tracks and labeling everything is not especially convenient.
I'm guessing you weren't around 20 years ago then. The supercomputers of the mid 80s would still easy blow a current desktop PC into the weeds, plus the fact that given a current desktop runs at 3Ghz and computers then were (for the sake of argument) 3Mhz , you'd only need 1000 of them to equal a current desktop. Ok , chips now carry out more instructions per clock cycle than then so say you'd need 10,000 of the old CPUs. Still hardly a whole world of machines.
I'm a young guy who was around 20 years ago, and I was using computers at the time. To say that 80's supercomputers have some level of equality with modern desktop machines sounds very naive to me. Beyond just multiplying processor quantities, think of the growth of data bandwidth. How many tape drives (hd's if you want to go spendy) would you have to parallelize to even play back that episode of the daily show you just downloaded? What about wrangling all that data together into one cohesive output? The cooling equipment alone for such a computer could indeed "blow a current desktop PC into the weeds".
I even used to play with SMP machines that had different x86 architectures (386 + 486) *simultaneously* not that long ago. Such a machine had many uses, but improving my doom fps wasn't one.
If your snotty brats won't behave and do their homework, just rig their console so all it'll play is superman 64. Of course, then you may find a genuine correlation between video games and violence.
The focus on consoles would also undermine (as it is today) [Microsoft's] PC operating system business.
I see Microsoft's gaming division as a separate entity that comingles with MS's "core" businesses in a way that is beneficial all over to MS, hardly undermining or distracting from anything else that they do. This is a good thing - it makes for some nice gaming (good to consumers) and promotes Microsoft's brand in a good way.
As for MS's OS biz, I think the biggest thing undermining that is this pattern of them (Ballmer especially) just not "getting it". For myself, I'm frustrated that they haven't improved simple things that I use all the time, like alt-tabbing and the windows explorer interface (directory opus is great though!). Why does the entire shell have to wait when a network resource is laggy? Instead, they're putting a lot of effort into DRM, WGA, clippy and countless other distractions instead of just making Windows something that is genuinely useful and helpful. Certainly it's "good enough" that I can use my computer, but it's ludicrous that something so expensive requires so much maintenance to meet a level of quality operation - not to mention all the security pitfalls.
Geez, if Windows was as pleasant to use as my Xbox I think they would be doing a lot better for themselves in that area. As it is, it seems like a lot of people use windows because they've been denied any real choice for so long.
You might be interested in Bang Howdy then, which is still in beta. It's made by the same people who make yohoho puzzle pirates. (sorry I'm turnign out a project and don't have time to dig up links) There's a lot of fast-paced action, but it operates on a clock-tick operation so you get a chance to queue your actions before your units and everyone else actually move. Of course, there's an advantage to being fast, say if you tell your unit to move to an area first, when the clock ticks you'll get there and the other guy will just get up next to you.
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I would love to see this logic applied to commercial radio stations:
It's unknown how many other users accessed the music distributed by the radio station in question and committed further acts of copyright infringement.
They are transmitting songs over the fcc-licensed airwaives, fully unencrypted, that anyone can just tap into and save. Those people can then distribute that music, and so forth. Apparently, the music industry is losing $1.2 x 10^13 a minute this way.
Seriously! And how does one own an idea? If your phone rings and you are distracted by that enough to suddenly forget something you just thought of, did that person "steal" your idea? (defining theft as depriving someone of property)
The DMCA is simply an available tool, put to good use in this case. Invoking the DMCA like this does nothing to prolong it or popularize it any more than I'm endorsing waterboarding by paying taxes. Fixing or aggravating the absolute disaster of extended copyright is well beyond the scope of this guy's situation. Think of it as a jujitsu tactic to disable an opponent with the weapon they intend to use against your clan, rather than an escalating arms race.
Had he lobbied to get the DMCA passed for abusing powers of the ubuntu monopoly, then there might be a discussion about bad strategy.
I bought all the dvd's at once a few years ago. I'm not really the person to collect dvd's or cd's. I find that compared to encoded files on my hard drive they're cumbersome, prone to failure, and slow to access. For what it costs to procure these "info disks", I find it to to a poor value, particularly in resale.
But I bought futurama because the network never really gave it a fair chance during its original airing. They had it in a crappy, moving time slot and never promoted it enough. I paid all that money to give send a message:
"You were mistaken in cancelling futurama, so I appeal to your greedy side in hopes that you will find it profitable enough to produce future episodes"
I was thrilled to see news about these movies and now I'm glad to see them out!
I'm planning on running leopard at some point in the future, having used tiger extensively, but am currently using xp. So this article was interesting to me, but this part about time machine is hilarious:
"Third, Vista's backup works over a network. In its ads Apple blithely says that Time Machine can, too, but when you read the fine print--or try it in real life--you discover that Time Machine works with USB- or FireWire-connected drives only. Really? In 2007? When I saw that, I actually looked around to see if Ashton Kutcher was going to pop out from behind my lab bench and tell me I'd been punked."
My assessment of the judge's intellectual deficiency is based on the evidence, and the verbatim statements made by the judge. Just because the loser of this suit has brought the story to the attention of many, this does not compromise these details.
Did you rtfa? The judge said clearly that this was not spam despite:
1. Being mailed using PHPMailer [version 1.72]
2. Addressing "Dear webmaster" about link exchange with "your site", slashdot
3. Providing links with GET url parameters to "linkmachine/resources/link_exchange.php"
And she even said that "real spam" implies mass mailing and is the "antithesis" of correspondence like this. Oh, also that he was suing an individual, not a big company or something (as though an individual is incapable of spam)
So yeah, maybe he did a poor job as auto lawyer, but look at what he was up against.
I think characterizing this judge as a moron is a fair assessment. Also, if you rtfa he's not downplaying this particular judge's ability to decide other types of cases, just that people in such positions of power are completely capable of making poor decisions that can wreck your life (and that this was not one), thereby exposing a weakness of the criminal justice system.
It wasn't a design failure OUTSIDE a specific range of operation for the temperature. Engineers warned against this specific failure when launching in colder temperatures than had been tested, and management shut them down because they had gotten lucky a few times before.
Challenger was a failure of management. The engineers warned against the specific failure and were shut down.
With all the cars they use in the game with festive renames, they owe the public at least that much liberty in parodizing them.
I've been harvesting feathers off of raptors for months now.
http://www.wowhead.com/?search=raptor%20feather
I have a multipurpose headless server that I use for things. I does literally have no video output whatsoever, but I did once have to plug in a agp vid card long enough to find out why it wasn't booting (a bios thing), so it's not completely useless to have video. Makes me wish you could still pick up a pci video card for $5 at places.
he's dangerously skirting the outer edges of propaganda
I don't really know what other people, or teh internets, have to say specifically about this, but I am under the impression that this is a propaganda piece. That's part of what I'm interested in seeing. I do boring research on this crap all the time, but I want someone to produce something like this I can watch and go 'OOOooo, that's interesting!" while comfortably not forming a whole belief system around it.
What's the worst that could happen, people try to academically challenge his info? The US healthcare system sucks, and someone needs to shake up a lively discussion of how it can be fixed. I have a lot of ideas, and I'd be curious to see if any of them are suggested in the film.
I've thought about this before, and I currently work in a "virtual office" situation. If you have to go that route, it would be a good idea to have just one concise (voice ?) meeting every day starting in the morning to get everyone synchronized and aware of who is available to help out. That serves its functional role while keeping everyone connected in a more human way as they are at the office. People who need to collaborate more closely can do so. I think the trick is to keep it short and not have idle bs get in the way of boring anyone.
Good insight - thank you. I suppose I read it in a "problem solving" tone on account that dan had already solved a problem with the patch and was now defending the idea by putting a practical viewpoint on issues that were raised, such as supporting platforms with greater than 20% desk share, thereby avoiding genuine fs naming limitations (dos 8.3) and supporting something that is more a matter of choice than technical advantages.
wow, reading that whole post painted the author to be quite a pretentious jerk ("Problem? IIRC, I don't care."). Dan Kiegel's response was very well written and solution-oriented, a great model on how to deal with problem people and very relevant to the article.
Also Harald misspelled 'distinction', which makes it hard to take him seriously when asserting the value of colliding namespace like that.
I want to see that segway-footed bully bot push an asimo around, preferably down some stairs.
I hate how it takes so damn long to run around on feet until I can get a mount at level 40. At least when I play GTA I can steal transportation easily. Why can't I put a harness on a raptor to make it my personal taxi? The raptor would probably rather have that than a fatal backstab in passing.
I've actually digitized a few LP's using decent quality equipment. Once you get the levels right, it's pretty straight for recording. Encoding's not much of a pain, but splitting the tracks and labeling everything is not especially convenient.
I just bought $40 of credit there!
To, um... buy copies of music I have on LP and lack the means to digitize. Yeah...
I'm guessing you weren't around 20 years ago then. The supercomputers of the mid 80s would still easy blow a current desktop PC into the weeds, plus the fact that given a current desktop runs at 3Ghz and computers then were (for the sake of argument) 3Mhz , you'd only need 1000 of them to equal a current desktop. Ok , chips now carry out more instructions per clock cycle than then so say you'd need 10,000 of the old CPUs. Still hardly a whole world of machines.
I'm a young guy who was around 20 years ago, and I was using computers at the time. To say that 80's supercomputers have some level of equality with modern desktop machines sounds very naive to me. Beyond just multiplying processor quantities, think of the growth of data bandwidth. How many tape drives (hd's if you want to go spendy) would you have to parallelize to even play back that episode of the daily show you just downloaded? What about wrangling all that data together into one cohesive output? The cooling equipment alone for such a computer could indeed "blow a current desktop PC into the weeds".
I even used to play with SMP machines that had different x86 architectures (386 + 486) *simultaneously* not that long ago. Such a machine had many uses, but improving my doom fps wasn't one.
If your snotty brats won't behave and do their homework, just rig their console so all it'll play is superman 64. Of course, then you may find a genuine correlation between video games and violence.
Nice post - I want to chime in on this:
The focus on consoles would also undermine (as it is today) [Microsoft's] PC operating system business.
I see Microsoft's gaming division as a separate entity that comingles with MS's "core" businesses in a way that is beneficial all over to MS, hardly undermining or distracting from anything else that they do. This is a good thing - it makes for some nice gaming (good to consumers) and promotes Microsoft's brand in a good way.
As for MS's OS biz, I think the biggest thing undermining that is this pattern of them (Ballmer especially) just not "getting it". For myself, I'm frustrated that they haven't improved simple things that I use all the time, like alt-tabbing and the windows explorer interface (directory opus is great though!). Why does the entire shell have to wait when a network resource is laggy? Instead, they're putting a lot of effort into DRM, WGA, clippy and countless other distractions instead of just making Windows something that is genuinely useful and helpful. Certainly it's "good enough" that I can use my computer, but it's ludicrous that something so expensive requires so much maintenance to meet a level of quality operation - not to mention all the security pitfalls.
Geez, if Windows was as pleasant to use as my Xbox I think they would be doing a lot better for themselves in that area. As it is, it seems like a lot of people use windows because they've been denied any real choice for so long.
This thing with the fish sounds great and all, but I'm worry about my 4th amendment rights being eroded by little birds telling my government things.
At least I can count on moles to uphold le resistance.
You might be interested in Bang Howdy then, which is still in beta. It's made by the same people who make yohoho puzzle pirates. (sorry I'm turnign out a project and don't have time to dig up links) There's a lot of fast-paced action, but it operates on a clock-tick operation so you get a chance to queue your actions before your units and everyone else actually move. Of course, there's an advantage to being fast, say if you tell your unit to move to an area first, when the clock ticks you'll get there and the other guy will just get up next to you.