Why didn't they choose "CRAP", the Copyright Roalty Arbitration Panel? That's better english...
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And what happened to Napster with that same philosophy? This "I can get away with it as long as I don't get caught" mentality is positively sickening.
The original poster is right. People will forge credentials and get Creative Commons to mark goods as free. Other people will then use the goods illegally,m actual copyright holder finds out, and it all hits the fan.
If they cannot prove that the person "freeing" the work is the actual creator of the work. they will fail miserably. 1 year, 5 years, who knows, but failure is the only possible outcome.
Now it's not that they COULDN'T do it. A face to face meeting with physical proof. Positive ID and noterized documents would go a long way to preventing fraud. But if you can do all this on line, they are in for a lot of trouble.
Which of course is immoral. No suprise that/.ers think nothing of doing something wrong if it's for their own personal gain. You're as bad if not worse than those you scrail against!
About Hailstorm. As I understand it, besides it not being critically needed at this point as you mentioned. Companies really want to house the information locally rather than pay MS to do it. So much so that the system was just not going to sell the way it was. It looks like the services package will probably be released after some rework under a new name as a local server package much like the "Back Office" server.
BTW you got a "Troll" because you said "Microsoft" and didn't append the word "Sucks"! That's not just a joke, it's true unfortunately. Do a little metamoderation when you get the chance and metamoderate such moderators off of slashdot. It'll do the place a lot of good.
They ask viewers to donate, but that's just to keep the facilities on the air (mostly). I.e. paying workers salaries, broadcast liscence, equipemnt charges, rentals, power etc. The majority of funding for programs comes from corporate donations which is money received through traditional advertising mechanisms. Heck, even the private viewer donations are money earned most likely from working in the commercial sector.
As usual, "free" is only free in small scale due to support of commercial interests. A suitable balance must be struck.
Quote: "Well, even if slashdot readers were pissed and angrily deleted their accounts, the vast majority of users did nothing." and "So much for the big popular revolt, I guess. Market away, Yahoo!" Sigh."
I know that/. readers like to think they are intellectually and morally superior to everone else. But what that statement really points out is that/. is infact one giant Chicken Little. And in fact the sky is NOT continuously falling.
Virtually every story here gets treated like the subject is going to bring about the end of the world. 99% of the time nothing comes of it. In the rare cases where actualy harm is done, then things ARE usually actually done about it (I.e. the deregulation of electricity scams)
So nearly everyone on yahoo just doesn't f*cking care. Well then either it doesn't bother them or they get what they deserve for not caring. What's that to/.?
It's one thing to run a story on/. about the impending ad spamming that yahoo intends to start. That's fine, all/. readers can "Angrily delete their accounts". But this follow up with it's derogatory commentary is just not called for./. does not run the universe, just because the rest of the world does not follow/.'s "lead" does not mean anything important. In fact it means nothing at all.
Then try this experiment. Open a paint program, select a nice medium, fully saturated blue and paint 1/2 the screen with it. Now edit that color and change one of the color components by a single value. I.e. from FF to FE or something. Then paint the other half of the screen.
MOST people can see a mach band where the two colors that differ by only 1 value of one color component meet in the middle. (If you don't see it at first, try a slightly darker shade of blue) That is why you need more than 256 values per component. Even when you are only showing two of the 2^24 colors on the screen, the fact that there are "only" 2^24 colors becomes a limiting factor.
10 bits (1024 values) is reaching the level of human perception for the most part. BUT that's still not good enough because gamma correction in the hardware can reduce the actual color resolution back down to 8 bits pretty fast. Eventually we'll all be using 16 bits per component all the way through. (Well for graphics work anyway) That'll give enough user color matching and adjustment and hardware color matching enough "breathing room".
Heh, you don't need a giant machine to do that...
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Actually yes, if a lawsuit is judged as frivolous or harassing by the judge at the end of the trial. The judge can immediately order the bringer of the suit to pay all legal costs for the defendand without a new trial. It is done all the time.
This would have a MASSIVE chilling effect on small time consumers from suing large companies. That's why there isn't a law for automatic payment of fees by the loser. A judge has to decide if the lawsuit was harrassing or frivolous before imposing such fees. If it were not so, the fear of being 5 million in debt for paying Ford's lawyer fees because you sued over their poor SUV design that killed your mother and lost would allow them to completly frighten off all possible litigation for wrong doing!
get the answers through Sun's Legal and PR departments!
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Well since Stallman did it to himself (Likable people are far more likely to be liked than well, Stallman) then it's not really "not fair" I mean he reaps what he sows. Act crazy and people will think your crazy. Just like Ellison, I don't under stand how people think that being a loud mouthed flaming jerk or is any way to further your cause.
I guess it all comes down to "Those that wish to lead shouldn't".
Yes but I guarantee that the Mozilla rendering engine com object would not be a drop in replacement for the IE object and tons of software would suddenly not work if it went missing.
A modular windows is great for embedded applications but a nightmare for consumers. Even Linux is headed twards some sort of standardization for consumers. Your example of KDE is a good one. KDEs file manager uses the built in Konquer engine. If you completely removed Konq from a KDE install then the file manager is crippled or completely non functional. So even if you hate Konq and want to use mozilla on KDE you still need Konq (Or atleast it's rendering engine) installed. Same with IE. Allow manufactuerers to install Netscape if they want, but Leave IE intact!
No it's more like buying a "Ford" from "Joe's car sales" where "Joe" has taken out the ford engine and put in a Hyundai engine and a mercedes muffler and a chevy tranny. And yes, chaos would ensue.
VBA? Did you mean VBS? And besides, compairing scripting languages to (at least partially) compiled languages isn't really fair. Even VB is much much faster than Java. It really is the slowest compiled languages I've ever seen or used.
With THEIR information! If you write a song and you want to protect it shouldn't you be able to? Or not protect it if you don't wan't? Isn't that your descision? Then why the hell is it suddenly not allowed for the other person? If it's their book or their song, or their data, then it's their choice as to how to distribute it.
DRM does not FORCE people to M their data. It only provides the mechanism to do so if they desire. Views such as yours only come about by people that produce nothing and don't wish to pay for anything. Such a thing will never happen no matter how much you whine about it.
Take it as a sign of just how many people he royally pissed off! Are you saying that people should just shut up about it? Isn't that what "other" websites, "those" companies and "that" religeon does? La la la [finger in ears] I don't wanna hear about it la la la!
/. makes a LOT of mistakes like this and posting incorrect and sometimes entirely fake articles (or posting anything by Katz). Having hundreds of people yell about it is the only way they will EVER learn.
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"Score:0 off topic" How opressive! Someone mentions the truth and they get censored for it. There is no way to get a fair critical article posted to/. Offtopic posts are the only way to be heard. And that "Freedom of speech" is routinely taken away by those in power (the moderators) that don't want to hear it.
It was a fair comment ON THE ARTICLE. Use your moderation to get rid of GoatS.cx ASCII art. not as a way to bury your head in the sand!
Win95/98/ME are dead, you can stop talking about old OSs now unless we want to start comparing XP to Slackware 3. I mean who in 2003 is going to buy a new hyperthreaded p4 machine and put a 7 year old OS on it? How many of you are running slack 3 on your new AMD/P4 2 gig machines?
Second regular single user liscence of NT/2k/XP allows for 2 processors so it will work (to some degree) without paying extra.
That depends. Is the link to the page that has the article with the original web site's "home" button and advertisements on it? (ok) Or is the links to the article's.jpg where people don't ever realise that the content isn't coming from the site that did the linking? (Not ok)
This (Like all other issues) is not black and white. Sometimes it's ok and should be fine, other times it's clearly not ok. But that descision is made on a case by case basis. Not by making armchair philosophical generalities.
Web site should of course do what they can to prevent deep linking if they feel it's aiding their competitors at their expense. But when the limit of technology to do so its reached, then people may have to go to court.
Yes, and about 5 thousand watts were being broadcasted in almost every direction just to do 3 watts of lighting. It's emmensely inefficient. Fun, and interesting. But impractical beyond belief.
Course besides being illegal, think about it. How many times to people space out and open their cars before turning the alarm off by accident? Just takes one little slip up and you get caught in your own trap. Ouch!:)
Exactly, and conversely if an e-book reader comes out that IS as comfortable and convienient to read in bed as a regular book (2 years from now? 5, 20? It'll happen sometime) then book sales will drop. This case example does not extend to music and movies at all.
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Why didn't they choose "CRAP", the Copyright Roalty Arbitration Panel? That's better english...
And what happened to Napster with that same philosophy? This "I can get away with it as long as I don't get caught" mentality is positively sickening.
The original poster is right. People will forge credentials and get Creative Commons to mark goods as free. Other people will then use the goods illegally,m actual copyright holder finds out, and it all hits the fan.
If they cannot prove that the person "freeing" the work is the actual creator of the work. they will fail miserably. 1 year, 5 years, who knows, but failure is the only possible outcome.
Now it's not that they COULDN'T do it. A face to face meeting with physical proof. Positive ID and noterized documents would go a long way to preventing fraud. But if you can do all this on line, they are in for a lot of trouble.
Which of course is immoral. No suprise that /.ers think nothing of doing something wrong if it's for their own personal gain. You're as bad if not worse than those you scrail against!
About Hailstorm. As I understand it, besides it not being critically needed at this point as you mentioned. Companies really want to house the information locally rather than pay MS to do it. So much so that the system was just not going to sell the way it was. It looks like the services package will probably be released after some rework under a new name as a local server package much like the "Back Office" server.
BTW you got a "Troll" because you said "Microsoft" and didn't append the word "Sucks"! That's not just a joke, it's true unfortunately. Do a little metamoderation when you get the chance and metamoderate such moderators off of slashdot. It'll do the place a lot of good.
They ask viewers to donate, but that's just to keep the facilities on the air (mostly). I.e. paying workers salaries, broadcast liscence, equipemnt charges, rentals, power etc. The majority of funding for programs comes from corporate donations which is money received through traditional advertising mechanisms. Heck, even the private viewer donations are money earned most likely from working in the commercial sector.
As usual, "free" is only free in small scale due to support of commercial interests. A suitable balance must be struck.
Quote: "Well, even if slashdot readers were pissed and angrily deleted their accounts, the vast majority of users did nothing." and "So much for the big popular revolt, I guess. Market away, Yahoo!" Sigh."
/. readers like to think they are intellectually and morally superior to everone else. But what that statement really points out is that /. is infact one giant Chicken Little. And in fact the sky is NOT continuously falling.
/.?
/. about the impending ad spamming that yahoo intends to start. That's fine, all /. readers can "Angrily delete their accounts". But this follow up with it's derogatory commentary is just not called for. /. does not run the universe, just because the rest of the world does not follow /.'s "lead" does not mean anything important. In fact it means nothing at all.
I know that
Virtually every story here gets treated like the subject is going to bring about the end of the world. 99% of the time nothing comes of it. In the rare cases where actualy harm is done, then things ARE usually actually done about it (I.e. the deregulation of electricity scams)
So nearly everyone on yahoo just doesn't f*cking care. Well then either it doesn't bother them or they get what they deserve for not caring. What's that to
It's one thing to run a story on
Try thinking that bit of logic over again. :)
Then try this experiment. Open a paint program, select a nice medium, fully saturated blue and paint 1/2 the screen with it. Now edit that color and change one of the color components by a single value. I.e. from FF to FE or something. Then paint the other half of the screen.
MOST people can see a mach band where the two colors that differ by only 1 value of one color component meet in the middle. (If you don't see it at first, try a slightly darker shade of blue) That is why you need more than 256 values per component. Even when you are only showing two of the 2^24 colors on the screen, the fact that there are "only" 2^24 colors becomes a limiting factor.
10 bits (1024 values) is reaching the level of human perception for the most part. BUT that's still not good enough because gamma correction in the hardware can reduce the actual color resolution back down to 8 bits pretty fast. Eventually we'll all be using 16 bits per component all the way through. (Well for graphics work anyway) That'll give enough user color matching and adjustment and hardware color matching enough "breathing room".
Just a black marker!
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Actually yes, if a lawsuit is judged as frivolous or harassing by the judge at the end of the trial. The judge can immediately order the bringer of the suit to pay all legal costs for the defendand without a new trial. It is done all the time.
This would have a MASSIVE chilling effect on small time consumers from suing large companies. That's why there isn't a law for automatic payment of fees by the loser. A judge has to decide if the lawsuit was harrassing or frivolous before imposing such fees. If it were not so, the fear of being 5 million in debt for paying Ford's lawyer fees because you sued over their poor SUV design that killed your mother and lost would allow them to completly frighten off all possible litigation for wrong doing!
When Doom crashed it was just an inconvienience, but this...
get the answers through Sun's Legal and PR departments!
Well since Stallman did it to himself (Likable people are far more likely to be liked than well, Stallman) then it's not really "not fair" I mean he reaps what he sows. Act crazy and people will think your crazy. Just like Ellison, I don't under stand how people think that being a loud mouthed flaming jerk or is any way to further your cause.
I guess it all comes down to "Those that wish to lead shouldn't".
Yes but I guarantee that the Mozilla rendering engine com object would not be a drop in replacement for the IE object and tons of software would suddenly not work if it went missing.
A modular windows is great for embedded applications but a nightmare for consumers. Even Linux is headed twards some sort of standardization for consumers. Your example of KDE is a good one. KDEs file manager uses the built in Konquer engine. If you completely removed Konq from a KDE install then the file manager is crippled or completely non functional. So even if you hate Konq and want to use mozilla on KDE you still need Konq (Or atleast it's rendering engine) installed. Same with IE. Allow manufactuerers to install Netscape if they want, but Leave IE intact!
No it's more like buying a "Ford" from "Joe's car sales" where "Joe" has taken out the ford engine and put in a Hyundai engine and a mercedes muffler and a chevy tranny. And yes, chaos would ensue.
VBA? Did you mean VBS? And besides, compairing scripting languages to (at least partially) compiled languages isn't really fair. Even VB is much much faster than Java. It really is the slowest compiled languages I've ever seen or used.
With THEIR information! If you write a song and you want to protect it shouldn't you be able to? Or not protect it if you don't wan't? Isn't that your descision? Then why the hell is it suddenly not allowed for the other person? If it's their book or their song, or their data, then it's their choice as to how to distribute it.
DRM does not FORCE people to M their data. It only provides the mechanism to do so if they desire. Views such as yours only come about by people that produce nothing and don't wish to pay for anything. Such a thing will never happen no matter how much you whine about it.
Take it as a sign of just how many people he royally pissed off! Are you saying that people should just shut up about it? Isn't that what "other" websites, "those" companies and "that" religeon does? La la la [finger in ears] I don't wanna hear about it la la la!
/. makes a LOT of mistakes like this and posting incorrect and sometimes entirely fake articles (or posting anything by Katz). Having hundreds of people yell about it is the only way they will EVER learn.
MOD PARENT UP!
"Score:0 off topic" How opressive! Someone mentions the truth and they get censored for it. There is no way to get a fair critical article posted to /. Offtopic posts are the only way to be heard. And that "Freedom of speech" is routinely taken away by those in power (the moderators) that don't want to hear it.
It was a fair comment ON THE ARTICLE. Use your moderation to get rid of GoatS.cx ASCII art. not as a way to bury your head in the sand!
Win95/98/ME are dead, you can stop talking about old OSs now unless we want to start comparing XP to Slackware 3. I mean who in 2003 is going to buy a new hyperthreaded p4 machine and put a 7 year old OS on it? How many of you are running slack 3 on your new AMD/P4 2 gig machines?
Second regular single user liscence of NT/2k/XP allows for 2 processors so it will work (to some degree) without paying extra.
That depends. Is the link to the page that has the article with the original web site's "home" button and advertisements on it? (ok) Or is the links to the article's .jpg where people don't ever realise that the content isn't coming from the site that did the linking? (Not ok)
This (Like all other issues) is not black and white. Sometimes it's ok and should be fine, other times it's clearly not ok. But that descision is made on a case by case basis. Not by making armchair philosophical generalities.
Web site should of course do what they can to prevent deep linking if they feel it's aiding their competitors at their expense. But when the limit of technology to do so its reached, then people may have to go to court.
Yes, and about 5 thousand watts were being broadcasted in almost every direction just to do 3 watts of lighting. It's emmensely inefficient. Fun, and interesting. But impractical beyond belief.
Course besides being illegal, think about it. How many times to people space out and open their cars before turning the alarm off by accident? Just takes one little slip up and you get caught in your own trap. Ouch! :)
Exactly, and conversely if an e-book reader comes out that IS as comfortable and convienient to read in bed as a regular book (2 years from now? 5, 20? It'll happen sometime) then book sales will drop. This case example does not extend to music and movies at all.