Slashdot "editors" have an explicit policy on not doing any... editing. That's just how they roll. In other news, I have decided that despite being employed as a coder, all I'll be doing from now on it copying and pasting random hits from Google Code. Compiling and debugging it is my customers job. That's just how I roll.
If you bother to read the article (I know you won't) then you may notice that what we're talking about is the cost of stopping filesharing, not subsiding it.
Sorry to hear that. Before I bought, I researched spares availability and owner reviews. I have a Huoniao HN125-8, a copy of the Honda CM125, with CG125 running gear. The parts are interchangeable with "genuine" Honda branded parts (all made in China anyway), and it's pretty much idiot proof - I should know, I'm a weapons grade idiot.
Funnily enough, I ride a Chinese-made motorycle at freeway speeds. It's surprisingly well built, and I've had it in bits to check. It should be, since most low end "Japanese" and "Italian" bikes and scooters are made in China now. Sure, there's still some crap coming out of China, but they can do decent quality when its in their interests.
Yes, I read it. All of it, all the nuances. The last time I heard a statement with that much equivocation in it was Sotomayor's confirmation hearings where she explained how she really wasn't kind of always sort of never entirely not unopposed in favour of the principle of equality. Hypothetically.
Perhaps pecause being a lesbian in Los Angeles, CA (pop. 9,862,049) is very different from being a lesbian in Moss Landing, CA (pop. 304)? Not everyone is as broad minded as big city folks.
Mmmm. Write Once Debug Everywhere. If you don't have absolute confidence that your object code will run everywhere then you have to test it everywhere that it could possibly run. In practice then, you can only confidently support a few platforms.
Damn straight. Publishing short, pointless messages saying whatever's on your mind to random intertubes strangers? Who would waste their time doing that?
so many trillions of hours of people's lives and attention are being wasted
To save everyone else doing it, a trillion hours spread over (say) a billion people worldwide is 1000 hours per person. If that's over 50 years (so far), that's 20 hours per person per annum, or 3.29 minutes per day.
You forgot Vietnam, where the US put up a brave guerilla resistance and eventually won an amazing victory against the overwhelmingly superior technology and training of the British. I mean, North Vietnamese Army.
Tend to agree, especially since current strategy is to only pick fights with opponents one step above the stone age, then bomb them right back into it.
You assume that the rights holder is a super rich celeb. What if it's me? What if - unlikely as this sounds - it's your work that's being ripped off?
Are you actually unable to comprehend that this mechanism would punish me and thee (OK, me) in terms of our ability to control our own work?
Ah, never mind, it's quite beyond your comprehension. Get back to leeching your Mettalicahead, or whatever it is that you kids are always playing too loudly on my lawn.
I'm damn sure that if I found some ripping off my work(*), that I wouldn't want to be reduced to sending them three "Pretty please stop" letters before finally being given the chance to inconvenience them temporarily.
Clearly the NZ government is heavily biased in favour of the leechers and pirates, and hates rights owners with a passion.
(*) Work is something that you produce in return for renumeration, once you move out of your parents' basement.
Maybe if you read the fine article before jerking one off, you'd be able to answer your own question.
On a PC, the vendor can't control the environment in which their software is run. Something else on the machine completely outwith their control could nobble their app, for example, Google desktop stopping Demigod from launching. I say "for example" since that's the example given in the article that you didn't bother to read.
You know what's "stupid"? Making ridiculous strawman arguments. Quote anything in the article that suggests "laws that would force software producers to run proper QA testing". Go on. I'll wait while you find someone to read it to you.
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They called Shenanigans? What was going on? Egregious Skylarking?
Slashdot "editors" have an explicit policy on not doing any... editing. That's just how they roll. In other news, I have decided that despite being employed as a coder, all I'll be doing from now on it copying and pasting random hits from Google Code. Compiling and debugging it is my customers job. That's just how I roll.
If you bother to read the article (I know you won't) then you may notice that what we're talking about is the cost of stopping filesharing, not subsiding it.
Unfortunately, the "tax" will be used to pay for stopping you downloading to your heart's content.
And the competition for Best Post of 2009 is now closed.
Sorry to hear that. Before I bought, I researched spares availability and owner reviews. I have a Huoniao HN125-8, a copy of the Honda CM125, with CG125 running gear. The parts are interchangeable with "genuine" Honda branded parts (all made in China anyway), and it's pretty much idiot proof - I should know, I'm a weapons grade idiot.
Funnily enough, I ride a Chinese-made motorycle at freeway speeds. It's surprisingly well built, and I've had it in bits to check. It should be, since most low end "Japanese" and "Italian" bikes and scooters are made in China now. Sure, there's still some crap coming out of China, but they can do decent quality when its in their interests.
Yes, I read it. All of it, all the nuances. The last time I heard a statement with that much equivocation in it was Sotomayor's confirmation hearings where she explained how she really wasn't kind of always sort of never entirely not unopposed in favour of the principle of equality. Hypothetically.
Us big city folk with our fancy book-learnin' call that gasoline.
If they're really watching the budget, then "who would build it" would be "China". It's not always about the bottom line.
Perhaps pecause being a lesbian in Los Angeles, CA (pop. 9,862,049) is very different from being a lesbian in Moss Landing, CA (pop. 304)? Not everyone is as broad minded as big city folks.
I bet if she got more injunctive relief, she wouldn't be a lesbian.
Mmmm. Write Once Debug Everywhere. If you don't have absolute confidence that your object code will run everywhere then you have to test it everywhere that it could possibly run. In practice then, you can only confidently support a few platforms.
If we're being honest, all O"RP"Gs are Death By Spreadsheet, and Epic weapons would deal +5 to SQL.
Very nearly enough for an intimate working lunch for 2 in Brussels, at least as far as expense claims go.
Damn straight. Publishing short, pointless messages saying whatever's on your mind to random intertubes strangers? Who would waste their time doing that?
To save everyone else doing it, a trillion hours spread over (say) a billion people worldwide is 1000 hours per person. If that's over 50 years (so far), that's 20 hours per person per annum, or 3.29 minutes per day.
So, not such a mad figure to bandy around.
But there ain't no whales! So what do the whalers do, then? Tell tall tales? Sing their whaling tune? Tell me that, smart guy.
You forgot Vietnam, where the US put up a brave guerilla resistance and eventually won an amazing victory against the overwhelmingly superior technology and training of the British. I mean, North Vietnamese Army.
Tend to agree, especially since current strategy is to only pick fights with opponents one step above the stone age, then bomb them right back into it.
You assume that the rights holder is a super rich celeb. What if it's me? What if - unlikely as this sounds - it's your work that's being ripped off?
Are you actually unable to comprehend that this mechanism would punish me and thee (OK, me) in terms of our ability to control our own work?
Ah, never mind, it's quite beyond your comprehension. Get back to leeching your Mettalicahead, or whatever it is that you kids are always playing too loudly on my lawn.
I'm damn sure that if I found some ripping off my work(*), that I wouldn't want to be reduced to sending them three "Pretty please stop" letters before finally being given the chance to inconvenience them temporarily.
Clearly the NZ government is heavily biased in favour of the leechers and pirates, and hates rights owners with a passion.
(*) Work is something that you produce in return for renumeration, once you move out of your parents' basement.
Remind me: how many millions of people play The Sims?
Maybe if you read the fine article before jerking one off, you'd be able to answer your own question.
On a PC, the vendor can't control the environment in which their software is run. Something else on the machine completely outwith their control could nobble their app, for example, Google desktop stopping Demigod from launching. I say "for example" since that's the example given in the article that you didn't bother to read.
You know what's "stupid"? Making ridiculous strawman arguments. Quote anything in the article that suggests "laws that would force software producers to run proper QA testing". Go on. I'll wait while you find someone to read it to you.