High pay and nowhere to spend it sure builds the bank account.
There's a rumour going roung that there's a couple of places selling stuff over the internet now. Also in return for your credit card number, apparently some nice foreign ladies will give you phone sex, but over the internet! Imagine that!;)
Piracy: 3: the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
Sorry, we lost that hearts and minds battle a while ago.:( You're damn straight about the rest of it though, the RIAA couldn't care less about artists.
While the RIAA may be protecting a large income, they do also happen to stand for a lot of artists
Huh? The RIAA is the paralegal arm of the recording/distribution companies. They don't give a rat's arse about artists, and most artists whore away the copyright of their tracks to their publishers. The issue is We the People vs five publishing megacorps.
I missed a good bit of the series, but only the Year of Hell storyline and the episode about some weird temporary clones of them stick out in my mind as really "wasting time".
Are you sure you missed a lot of it? Becuase quite frankly, you could have watched every episode and only remember seeing Year of Hell and weird temporary clone memes.
I like how Bakula will be adding creative input to the script. From what I've seen on Quantum Leap, he's really quite a talented actor, and knows how to get a character across
Unfortunately, I've only ever seen him play angsty and introspective, with occasional bursts of reluctanct anger. The other cast/crew combinations look equally as stereotyped.
That by itself isn't necessarily bad, but what scares me is that they look as though they'll start as trite and uninvolving and then deliberately develop in a trite and uninvolving way. Lame ass and predictable character development looks like the main theme of this series, with actual plots tacked on as an afterthought.
Perhaps that's unfair, but based on the big old mess that was Voyager, I don't hold high hopes that this will be more than a series of "Grudging respect and Deus Ex Machina" snooze fests.
Will services like SpamCop now be in a type of "repo-man" business? Trying to get some of the $500 cut if they help catch a spammer?
Great point! Heck, they can have all of it, I just want to receive a mail that says: "Thanks in part to your contribution, Jane Q Spammer has just had her assets seized pending payment of her $20,000 fine." Mmmmm, yummy.
...you're upset because someone's trying to make a profit off of something you made without compensating you for it? Almost like... Napster?
Let's see:
Napster: Non-commerical fair use use of content by We the People upsets greedy corporate entities who churn out cynical crap-padded albums with the sole intention of screwing us.
CDDB: Greedy corporate entity screws We the People by stealing and commercialising non-commerical content provided in good faith by We the People for each other's benefit.
Was Sesame Street a little unclear on the concept of opposites, or did you just miss that show? We, you and me, are the We in We the People, not a few corporate Thems. When the system humps We for the benefit of Them, the system needs a fixin'.
I especially like his comparison of the present government attitude to copying to that of the Soviet Union.
Personally, I find Stallman repetitive and over wordy and repetitive, but that's probably because I read so much of his stuff. But he can still occasionally send a shudder down my spine, and that comparison was spot on.
Ideally, I'd like to see him become a proper media whore and push more emotive issues like that. He's talking sense, but he needs to dumb it down a lot and come up with some bullet points that Joe Sixpack can understand.
He has a clear grasp of the language of propaganda, so instead of berating Big Business for abusing it (like they'll care), why doesn't he use it? Publishers lie about "losing" money to fair use music/video sharing (they never had it in the first place, so how did they "lose" it?), so it's equally (non)sensical to say that DMCA et al will "lose" the public X jillion credits by stopping them performing (legal) fair use sharing.
Basically, I appreciate what Stallman says, but I feel that if he really wants to make a difference, he needs to stop preaching to the choir and fight dirty.
Alamosaurus, which is believed to be the largest land animal ever to exist.
Before we all start whooping and hollering, go and read the article:
may be the largest dinosaur backbone ever found [My bold]
Alamosaurus, a long-necked plant-eating creature from 70 to 90 feet long, weighing 30 tons
It's an important find, we often just recreate these things from little more than a pelvis fragment and a couple of toes, but it's not Godzilla. Don't worry, Texans can still claim they've got the biggest chickens to choke:
Big Bend area was once the home of [...] the largest known flying creature of all time, a pterosaur with a 35-foot wingspan
the broom stick up your ass price of $2.00 per gallon
Oh, my heart bleeds. In the UK I pay 75.9p a litre, or about $4.94 a gallon. 4.54 litres of fuel go to the first poster to say "That's because you don't have guns.";)
what is the difference between a company violating the GPL's copyright and Napster users violatin an artist's copyright
First, most artists sell copyright to their studios, like many GPL developers assign copyright to the FSF.
Compare grabbing a track from Napster for personal use versus relabelling a copyrighted work as your own property and selling it for profit. Seem like rather different cases to me.
First step is to check the facts. We're already two steps away from an anonymous source. Good luck finding a journalist lazy and incompetent enough to run with this.
Frankly, I really don't want to support hundreds of thousands of installations on corporate nose pickers' desktops. I don't want to work to artificial trade show deadlines, and I don't want to be strongarmed into upping a major version number because it's convenient for the tech pubs people.
I try to be honest about these things. I enjoy hacking (remember when that wasn't a dirty word?), and I'd like to see M$ lose some desktop mindshare. However, I fear greatly that to usurp the Beast, open source systems will have to become a lot more like the Beast, and that means writing systems that Joe Watercooler can use.
Ask yourself why you want to see open source takeup grow (for its own sake, or to punish M$?), and whether you're honestly, in your heart of hearts, turned on by the idea of dumbing down to support millions of typical M$ users.
They're "lamerz" or "lusers", and should "RTFM" before they call support, right?
Frankly? Yes. I'd be prepared to pay more for products that are sold to a smaller market of clued people, with tech support people who assume you've already RTFM'd. The problem is that I often don't have a choice.
Example: I was having problems with the TV output on a commodity RealMagic DVD decoder card. I RTFM'd, I searched, I followed the FAQ, I did everything I could, including trying fixes that addressed my problem but didn't work. So I contacted tech support, giving them complete details of my setup, problem, and attempted solutions.
I got a form reply quoting the FAQ and suggesting that I try everything that I'd just told them I'd already tried.
In the end, I dived in with a multimeter and a 3rd party wiring diagram and fixed the problem myself, but it aggravates me that tech support is aimed so squarely at lazy Joe Sixpacks.
I accept that this is inevitable for commodity consumer items where the vendors simply can't afford to solve anything beyond the "Is your printer plugged in?" level, but what's shocking is the number of vendors that offer the same level of non-support on development products. The worst culprits I've found so far have been WindRiver and Microsoft, where the resolution of the problem has usually been me sending them a fix.
The thing that really gets to me is that no matter how polite you are, if you persist with chasing a problem, eventually it always comes down to you being called a liar and an idiot by people who often don't know a pointer from a penguin. The only thing that's got me through many a problem with a lousy product is a burning determination to send a complete solution back to a tech support department in the futile hope that it'll save some other developer from going through the infuriating "You must be mistaken" harangue.
Incidentally, I notice that Merriam-Webster has (genuinely) added this to their definition of piracy:
3 : the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
So we can no longer claim accurately that "software piracy" is a misnomer because the owner isn't deprived of property. Theft however still requires deprivation of an object, so I'm a pirate, but not a thief. Hurrah.
By "we", I'll assume blithely that you mean the USA. Should the rest of the world comply with (or care about) English language US trademarks that apply to US brands in a US market?
Reserving single letter domain names is also reasonable considering how few there are and no one really has a "legitamate claim" to any of them. How would you settle a dispute between two people who wanted a.com?
Same way you'd settle it with any other domain; first come, first served (better make sure the root DB is thread safe come the new tld registration frenzy, eh?). Out of curiosity, how do you think tla.com disputes are resolved?
I no longer think that it is possible to change it
Why would you want to? More carcasses to strip and integrate into The Project. Mine's a security bot with integrated flashbulb tazer, betamax VCR capability and Data-Over-CB networking.;)
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There's a rumour going roung that there's a couple of places selling stuff over the internet now. Also in return for your credit card number, apparently some nice foreign ladies will give you phone sex, but over the internet! Imagine that! ;)
From Merriam-Webster:
Piracy: 3: the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
Sorry, we lost that hearts and minds battle a while ago. :( You're damn straight about the rest of it though, the RIAA couldn't care less about artists.
Huh? The RIAA is the paralegal arm of the recording/distribution companies. They don't give a rat's arse about artists, and most artists whore away the copyright of their tracks to their publishers. The issue is We the People vs five publishing megacorps.
Are you sure you missed a lot of it? Becuase quite frankly, you could have watched every episode and only remember seeing Year of Hell and weird temporary clone memes.
Unfortunately, I've only ever seen him play angsty and introspective, with occasional bursts of reluctanct anger. The other cast/crew combinations look equally as stereotyped.
That by itself isn't necessarily bad, but what scares me is that they look as though they'll start as trite and uninvolving and then deliberately develop in a trite and uninvolving way. Lame ass and predictable character development looks like the main theme of this series, with actual plots tacked on as an afterthought.
Perhaps that's unfair, but based on the big old mess that was Voyager, I don't hold high hopes that this will be more than a series of "Grudging respect and Deus Ex Machina" snooze fests.
Fat chested badly acting bimbo, looks like. Uh oh.
Great point! Heck, they can have all of it, I just want to receive a mail that says: "Thanks in part to your contribution, Jane Q Spammer has just had her assets seized pending payment of her $20,000 fine." Mmmmm, yummy.
Let's see:
Was Sesame Street a little unclear on the concept of opposites, or did you just miss that show? We, you and me, are the We in We the People, not a few corporate Thems. When the system humps We for the benefit of Them, the system needs a fixin'.
Personally, I find Stallman repetitive and over wordy and repetitive, but that's probably because I read so much of his stuff. But he can still occasionally send a shudder down my spine, and that comparison was spot on.
Ideally, I'd like to see him become a proper media whore and push more emotive issues like that. He's talking sense, but he needs to dumb it down a lot and come up with some bullet points that Joe Sixpack can understand.
He has a clear grasp of the language of propaganda, so instead of berating Big Business for abusing it (like they'll care), why doesn't he use it? Publishers lie about "losing" money to fair use music/video sharing (they never had it in the first place, so how did they "lose" it?), so it's equally (non)sensical to say that DMCA et al will "lose" the public X jillion credits by stopping them performing (legal) fair use sharing.
Basically, I appreciate what Stallman says, but I feel that if he really wants to make a difference, he needs to stop preaching to the choir and fight dirty.
~$4.25 for a gallon of gas (DFL 2.70/liter in NL)
In the UK:
The giggle is that we import CD-R's but export gasoline. What's with that?
Before we all start whooping and hollering, go and read the article:
It's an important find, we often just recreate these things from little more than a pelvis fragment and a couple of toes, but it's not Godzilla. Don't worry, Texans can still claim they've got the biggest chickens to choke:
Oh, my heart bleeds. In the UK I pay 75.9p a litre, or about $4.94 a gallon. 4.54 litres of fuel go to the first poster to say "That's because you don't have guns." ;)
IANAL, but that's trademarks, not copyrights.
First, most artists sell copyright to their studios, like many GPL developers assign copyright to the FSF.
Compare grabbing a track from Napster for personal use versus relabelling a copyrighted work as your own property and selling it for profit. Seem like rather different cases to me.
First step is to check the facts. We're already two steps away from an anonymous source. Good luck finding a journalist lazy and incompetent enough to run with this.
Isn't that exactly what UCITA is designed to "correct"? To make them binding?
Frankly, I really don't want to support hundreds of thousands of installations on corporate nose pickers' desktops. I don't want to work to artificial trade show deadlines, and I don't want to be strongarmed into upping a major version number because it's convenient for the tech pubs people.
I try to be honest about these things. I enjoy hacking (remember when that wasn't a dirty word?), and I'd like to see M$ lose some desktop mindshare. However, I fear greatly that to usurp the Beast, open source systems will have to become a lot more like the Beast, and that means writing systems that Joe Watercooler can use.
Ask yourself why you want to see open source takeup grow (for its own sake, or to punish M$?), and whether you're honestly, in your heart of hearts, turned on by the idea of dumbing down to support millions of typical M$ users.
Frankly? Yes. I'd be prepared to pay more for products that are sold to a smaller market of clued people, with tech support people who assume you've already RTFM'd. The problem is that I often don't have a choice.
Example: I was having problems with the TV output on a commodity RealMagic DVD decoder card. I RTFM'd, I searched, I followed the FAQ, I did everything I could, including trying fixes that addressed my problem but didn't work. So I contacted tech support, giving them complete details of my setup, problem, and attempted solutions.
I got a form reply quoting the FAQ and suggesting that I try everything that I'd just told them I'd already tried.
In the end, I dived in with a multimeter and a 3rd party wiring diagram and fixed the problem myself, but it aggravates me that tech support is aimed so squarely at lazy Joe Sixpacks.
I accept that this is inevitable for commodity consumer items where the vendors simply can't afford to solve anything beyond the "Is your printer plugged in?" level, but what's shocking is the number of vendors that offer the same level of non-support on development products. The worst culprits I've found so far have been WindRiver and Microsoft, where the resolution of the problem has usually been me sending them a fix.
The thing that really gets to me is that no matter how polite you are, if you persist with chasing a problem, eventually it always comes down to you being called a liar and an idiot by people who often don't know a pointer from a penguin. The only thing that's got me through many a problem with a lousy product is a burning determination to send a complete solution back to a tech support department in the futile hope that it'll save some other developer from going through the infuriating "You must be mistaken" harangue.
No, but we are pirates. FYI, Merriam-Webster has expanded their definition of "piracy":
And your counter argument iiiiiiiis?
Incidentally, I notice that Merriam-Webster has (genuinely) added this to their definition of piracy:
So we can no longer claim accurately that "software piracy" is a misnomer because the owner isn't deprived of property. Theft however still requires deprivation of an object, so I'm a pirate, but not a thief. Hurrah.
By "we", I'll assume blithely that you mean the USA. Should the rest of the world comply with (or care about) English language US trademarks that apply to US brands in a US market?
Internet.
Getting a personalised response from the registered contact email address would be a good start.
Same way you'd settle it with any other domain; first come, first served (better make sure the root DB is thread safe come the new tld registration frenzy, eh?). Out of curiosity, how do you think tla.com disputes are resolved?
Why would you want to? More carcasses to strip and integrate into The Project. Mine's a security bot with integrated flashbulb tazer, betamax VCR capability and Data-Over-CB networking. ;)