MP3.com was charging for copyrighted materials which they did not own. No trading ever took place, and mechanisms were in place to ensure, at least ostensibly, that no unauthorised trading ever took place.
That having been said, I personally think the $118M is awfully high (and should be knocked down on appeals). A copyright violation should only be considered when a my.mp3.com user downloaded an mp3. I imagine the damages in that case would be much lower. But what do I know. Turning lead into gold (turning "copyright violations" into cash) isn't my area of expertise.
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I'm sorry, but RMS' latest little tirade just seems petty. Okay, so KDE is now "truly free", by his own admission. But, hey, it's still *okay* to bash them, my minions, because of their past transgressions. The funniest part was when he said KDE developers should fucking *beg for forgiveness*. For God's sake, man, give it up!! The war's over; it's a truce. Deal with it!
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Let someone write a DVD player for Linux so I can start buying DVDs.
There already are a couple of closed-source DVD players for Linux. This argument doesn't really hold water (and, actually, DeCSS has probably hurt DVD for Linux more than it's helped it.)
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Remember the 1992 "Dream Team"? Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson? Beat the fuck out of every other team by 50 points per game? Other countries send their pro athletes to the Olympics -- I'm sure the best Cuban professional players will be on their baseball team, as always. The only reason we don't send all our pro athletes is they either don't want to go (basketball players), or are too busy (baseball, football). The hockey players, of course, represent their own countries in the Olympics, so you might see some NHL players on the French, Finnish, USA, Canadian team.
It's all about selling the game to people. The IOC knows that; for this reason, they haven't banned "professional" athletes from competing because they put asses in seats and get others to buy "triplecast" subscriptions. (Remember the Triplecast? Hehehe!!)
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Once the IOC figured out they could make money off amateur athletic competition, they sure wasted no time making sure they squeezed every last red fucking cent out of their little racket, didn't they? (Suing anyone with "Olympic" in their name? Come on!)
I'm not watching a minute of the olympics this year. If someone asks why, they're gonna get an earful.
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A corporation is not a human being. No matter how many times I make fun of Microsoft, I will not damage its self-esteem. No matter how many times I say "APPLE SUCKS!" at the top of my lungs on the streets of Boston, Apple Computer will not cry or flail about. Why do some people think corporations should be above reproach and criticism? I guess it's the Libertarian crowd on slashdot.
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There was never a real motivation to post insightful stuff, for many people, beyond their karma number increasing. Hiding karma was probably the furthest it should've gone; limiting it really doesn't seem to make much sense.
I really don't care what my karma is (it's fun watching it drop), but those who do will probably start trolling just like eveyrone else now.
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The firewire you quoted is 800 megaBITS per second.
Let's see how much bandwidth I'd need per second to get my monitor working at a nominal refresh rate of 60 Hz:
1600x1200 = 1920000 pixels. Each pixel has a depth of 32 bits. So multiply that by 32. We get 61440000 bits. Now let's multiply that by 60, since we need to update these pixels 60 times a second.
61440000 * 60 = 3.686 * 10^9. That's bits. Let's divide by 8 to get the number of bytes we'll need. 4.608 * 10^8.
460,800,000 bytes per second. How many bytes per second does firewire supply?
800,000,000 / 8 = 100 megaBYTES per second.
Sorry, thanks for playing.
- A.P. --
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You're in college to learn the fundamentals of programming.
It's easiest to teach the entire class by making sure everyone codes on the same platform, using the same development toolkit.
If you already know how to code, by all means, petition the college to allow you to skip the intro courses. Later courses will allow you to program in whatever development environment you wish, in my experience.
Freshman-level courses, though, NEED to be taught on a STANDARDIZED platform/environment, because it's hard enough to teach people to think like a programmer; it's even harder to teach them if they're not using the exact same frames of reference as you are.
If you really want to skirt the rules, try installing CodeWarrior for Linux, programming your assignments there, and making sure they compile under the Windows version. Other than that, forget about it.
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That having been said, I personally think the $118M is awfully high (and should be knocked down on appeals). A copyright violation should only be considered when a my.mp3.com user downloaded an mp3. I imagine the damages in that case would be much lower. But what do I know. Turning lead into gold (turning "copyright violations" into cash) isn't my area of expertise.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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There already are a couple of closed-source DVD players for Linux. This argument doesn't really hold water (and, actually, DeCSS has probably hurt DVD for Linux more than it's helped it.)
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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It's all about selling the game to people. The IOC knows that; for this reason, they haven't banned "professional" athletes from competing because they put asses in seats and get others to buy "triplecast" subscriptions. (Remember the Triplecast? Hehehe!!)
- A.P., boycotting the Olympics.
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I'm not watching a minute of the olympics this year. If someone asks why, they're gonna get an earful.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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You get what you pay for.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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Western Digital18.0GB EIDE 7200 RPM OEM,1 YEAR WARRANTY $109
Doesn't look like 4-to-1 to me. I'll pay the extra $130 for SCSI, personally.
- A.P.
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Have you sued someone today?
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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:D (+1 Groupthink)
- A.P.
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I really don't care what my karma is (it's fun watching it drop), but those who do will probably start trolling just like eveyrone else now.
- A.P.
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This was supposed to discourage trolls? Whatever.
- A.P.
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I run my monitor at 1600x1200x32 bits.
The firewire you quoted is 800 megaBITS per second.
Let's see how much bandwidth I'd need per second to get my monitor working at a nominal refresh rate of 60 Hz:
1600x1200 = 1920000 pixels. Each pixel has a depth of 32 bits. So multiply that by 32. We get 61440000 bits. Now let's multiply that by 60, since we need to update these pixels 60 times a second.
61440000 * 60 = 3.686 * 10^9. That's bits. Let's divide by 8 to get the number of bytes we'll need. 4.608 * 10^8.
460,800,000 bytes per second. How many bytes per second does firewire supply?
800,000,000 / 8 = 100 megaBYTES per second.
Sorry, thanks for playing.
- A.P.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
It's easiest to teach the entire class by making sure everyone codes on the same platform, using the same development toolkit.
If you already know how to code, by all means, petition the college to allow you to skip the intro courses. Later courses will allow you to program in whatever development environment you wish, in my experience.
Freshman-level courses, though, NEED to be taught on a STANDARDIZED platform/environment, because it's hard enough to teach people to think like a programmer; it's even harder to teach them if they're not using the exact same frames of reference as you are.
If you really want to skirt the rules, try installing CodeWarrior for Linux, programming your assignments there, and making sure they compile under the Windows version. Other than that, forget about it.
- A.P.
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Oh, wait. Heh. It's not installed on any machines.
- A.P.
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"Geese migrating." *spits out a feather*.
- A.P.
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Idiots.
- A.P.
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Sure, they were shit, and, sure, they were little more than toy adverts, but they were anime.
- A.P.
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