It's obvious to most people that people buy the right to use a piece of software, not a magic number. Check out Ambrosia's Lost registration code policy as an example of a company who understands this.
Oh, brother. In the olden days, O'Gara would have been given a medal for generating readership. But in today's world of the so easily offended, she's apparently let go instead, and things calm down as the hissy fit subsides.
This is the key, right here. It's actually slightly shocking that he let himself shine through so clearly in this paragraph. Dvorak is actually just upset because, y'know, that's his schtick. Generating readership by making inflammatory and offensive articles? That's pure Dvorak. It strikes fear into his black little heart to see someone get fired for doing exactly what he does, so he lashes out at it.
Who needs to be right when you can be controversial?
My computers can make even a 250-watt powersupply catch fire (Panic and terror ensued, but the system survived)
They're all relatively green though, because I pay extra to my local utility to have them put enough power from wind farms onto the grid to power my home. It's a different solution perhaps, but everyone has different needs.
And I know what some of you want to say, so let me pre-empt you: Yes I know that my computers are powered by minced bird guts (B.S.) and weather pattern destruction (prove it)! Ha ha ha! I don't care. It's better than coal or gas or oil, so bite me, ok? Until direct solar energy becomes feasable, it's among the best solutions we've got.
Your analogy doesn't fit this case. To make it fit this case, you'd need to rob the self-storage places, take photographs of the "stolen" stuff sitting in your truck, then put it all right back where you found it and leave.
Well, based on the first link, the conditions they use seem to be the following:
There are two conjunctive considerations for determining "substantial similarity." 5 See Dam Things From Denmark, 290 F.3d at 561 (citing Whelan, 797 F.2d at 1232 (following Arnstein v. Porter, 154 F.2d 464, 468-69 (2d Cir. 1946) and subdividing test for substantial similarity into two considerations). First, with the aid of expert testimony, the fact-finder must decide whether there is sufficient similarity between the works at issue "in order to conclude that the alleged infringer 'copied the work.'" Id. at 562 (citing Whelan, 797 F.2d at 1232). Second, if the first consideration is answered affirmatively, the fact-finder must then decide, without the aid of expert testimony, whether a "'lay-observer' would believe that the copying was of protectible aspects of the copyrighted work." Id. (citing Whelan, 797 F.2d at 1232 (holding that first test must be answered in affirmative to proceed to second test)). The second consideration has also been described as determining "whether 'the ordinary observer, unless he set out to detect the disparities, would be disposed to overlook them, and regard their aesthetic appeal as the same." Id. (citing Folio Impressions, Inc. v. Byer California, 937 F.2d 759, 765 (2d Cir. 1991)).
While any OCRemix would likely fall under the first consideration, the second consideration is much trickier to pin it with. The disparities are tremendous and creative in and of themselves. There's no mistaking one of the remixes for the original songs. If you substituted one of them into the game, it would sound bizzare. They are clearly distinct and do not have the same aesthetic appeal.
Or look at it from the other point of view: how is it illegal?
If you've ever listened to any of those songs, the vast majority of them are making songs that sound similar to the originals using entirely original performances and scores, with only a few distinct melodies and riffs to remind you of the original. There are no lyrics, so no worry of copyright infringement there. And to the best of my knowledge, the actual melodies of the music cannot be copyrighted, only specific arrangements of the whole song can be copyrighted. It's the lyrics that snag people most of the time.
Sounds plausible to me. Let's see, the eastern hemisphere has both China - around 1 billion alone , and India - another billion. Add in the rest of Asia, plus the majority of Africa, much of Europe, and all of Austrailia, and it starts looking quite feasable.
North and South America really aren't that populous. You've got the USA, which is last I heard around 350 million, plus Mexico (no idea) and Brazil (also no idea) which I believe are the next two most populous countries. Canada's only 35 million or so... it's gonna be tough for all the remaining countries to push those numbers up past a billion, I think.
OMG, I just heard that while Apache started out as being just a bunch of patches to NCSA httpd, these days they do not even bother making their changes easy to integrate with NCSA httpd! I mean how rude can you be! Your whole project was based on NCSA httpd, but now you become the most popular webserver in the world and you just stab them in the back!!!
What a bunch of JERKS!
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Forks diverge. It's life. Get over it.
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That's some stupid bullshit right there. If Apple were doing "everything [they] possibly can to kill off the original" Safari would run on Linux.
The GPL exists only to provide access to the source code. That's all it is supposed to do, that's all it does. The KHTML people have access to the sourcecode. It is in a form that makes it extremely difficult to merge it with their own sourcecode, that may be true, but y'know what? So is Gecko.
The GPL is about having access to the methods and formats used to accomplish something. It's not written to allow you to copy and paste code. It's to prevent things like WineX from coming along and running over the original project that provided 99% of the code, because they added a few proprietary additions that people need, but the original developers can't figure out how to get them working. Too bad Wine wasn't GPL'd.
How do you think the standard of living in the US came to be what it is?
I'll tell you how: It's because Americans are getting paid top-dollar to create the cutting-edge products and technologies, until the methods and factories required to build them eventually trickle down to the developing nations where they can be created much cheaper, and then to complete the cycle they are shipped to the USA to be purchased with the large amount of money available to american consumers!
s/American/First-world/g, etc, if you'd like a more generic version of that process.
As soon as the third-world has the infrastructure and the resources to do a job that you're currently doing, it's time to start seriously looking into retraining. It's called progress, and it's inevitable. It's also happening a lot faster nowadays than it was 50 years ago, and it will keep accelerating, so you might as well get used to this retraining concept because it's only going to get worse as the developing nations continue growing their economies at exponential rates (at least until they finally catch up and their wages start equalizing). Protectionism can provide you with a buffer (at a significant cost), but it's a band-aid, it can't be a solution.
What is so difficult about the notion that while you enjoy a TV show, most of the world didn't want to watch it?
What's so difficult to accept about the notion that enough people DID like it to justify the making of a movie?
Contrary to the evidence provided in the form of Gigli, the studios do not normally make a movie without being fairly convinced they have a good chance of getting a substantial return on their investment. I'd like to imagine that they have access to better statistics about how popular Firefly is then random Slashdot anecdotes.
qtcomponents has not been updated in almost a year and has to my knowledge never really worked. It is open source, but according to a bug posted by an Apple developer, it uses the now obsolete SoundManager and will have to be rewritten to use CoreAudio before it'll work again.
The other component, while being even longer since it was last updated, worked great. Although it had a few annoying bugs, it was quite usable right up until QT7 landed, and now it doesn't work at all. It is not open source, so you're pretty much out of luck.
Has anyone found any alternative way of getting oggs to play in iTunes?
It's the standard (but insane) ANSI color naming system. "White" is actually light grey, and "Yellow" is actually brown, for example.
The colors were simply named by hue. All made sense and everyone was happy. Later, a 'bright' bit was provided to allow you to signal the system as to whether you wanted dark or bright versions of those colors. This sounded like a fine idea as well, except that programmers started naming the colors based on whether the 'bright' bit was set or not, and hence you get that wacky naming scheme.
Although it's not so much the selling, it's that it would cost them more to *develop* two products. As FSB, memory and CPU speeds have exploded, the margin of error for motherboards has decreased accordingly. Even tiny changes to the physical layout of a motherboard can make the difference between a rock-solid stable machine and one that crashes every 10 seconds. Lots of QA goes into testing board designs thoroughly. It's easier to simply drop all the ridiculously cheap, commonly used components (LAN and Audio definitely) onto the board right from the get-go, and as a bonus they only have to develop one BIOS setup, one manual, one box, and one set of drivers. And yes, they really are ridiculously cheap.. I assure you that when you buy a $10 PCI ethernet card, you are paying much more for the packaging than you are for the ethernet chip, for example.
Quite simply, it's not worth the hassle. And it's not worth saving the theoretical $10 either. If you ever end up needing a backup ethernet port, or want to use it as a hardware firewall, you'll appreciate little things like having onboard video and ethernet.
Here we have this troll that is ranting at a purported free software devloper that he should be glad to be bought because his mind is worthless.
Well the first thing this reminds me of is that comment in the Slashdot user page where is says...
Which brings me to my next point: Don't smoke crack!
I'm not american, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the 5th Amendment is only available to people who are testifying, NOT people who are on trial.
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It's a portable wireless hard drive for my laptop. Duh.
It's obvious to most people that people buy the right to use a piece of software, not a magic number. Check out Ambrosia's Lost registration code policy as an example of a company who understands this.
Okay, so Apple opening a retail store, even in a country that didn't have one before
Easy for you to say, yankee.
I, for one, welcome our new Apple store overlords!
From the article:
Oh, brother. In the olden days, O'Gara would have been given a medal for generating readership. But in today's world of the so easily offended, she's apparently let go instead, and things calm down as the hissy fit subsides.
This is the key, right here. It's actually slightly shocking that he let himself shine through so clearly in this paragraph. Dvorak is actually just upset because, y'know, that's his schtick. Generating readership by making inflammatory and offensive articles? That's pure Dvorak. It strikes fear into his black little heart to see someone get fired for doing exactly what he does, so he lashes out at it.
Who needs to be right when you can be controversial?
Lowest price contractor? Russian Space Agency? Uh, yes!
My computers can make even a 250-watt powersupply catch fire (Panic and terror ensued, but the system survived)
They're all relatively green though, because I pay extra to my local utility to have them put enough power from wind farms onto the grid to power my home. It's a different solution perhaps, but everyone has different needs.
And I know what some of you want to say, so let me pre-empt you: Yes I know that my computers are powered by minced bird guts (B.S.) and weather pattern destruction (prove it)! Ha ha ha! I don't care. It's better than coal or gas or oil, so bite me, ok? Until direct solar energy becomes feasable, it's among the best solutions we've got.
Your analogy doesn't fit this case. To make it fit this case, you'd need to rob the self-storage places, take photographs of the "stolen" stuff sitting in your truck, then put it all right back where you found it and leave.
While any OCRemix would likely fall under the first consideration, the second consideration is much trickier to pin it with. The disparities are tremendous and creative in and of themselves. There's no mistaking one of the remixes for the original songs. If you substituted one of them into the game, it would sound bizzare. They are clearly distinct and do not have the same aesthetic appeal.
Or look at it from the other point of view: how is it illegal?
If you've ever listened to any of those songs, the vast majority of them are making songs that sound similar to the originals using entirely original performances and scores, with only a few distinct melodies and riffs to remind you of the original. There are no lyrics, so no worry of copyright infringement there. And to the best of my knowledge, the actual melodies of the music cannot be copyrighted, only specific arrangements of the whole song can be copyrighted. It's the lyrics that snag people most of the time.
Sounds plausible to me. Let's see, the eastern hemisphere has both China - around 1 billion alone
, and India - another billion. Add in the rest of Asia, plus the majority of Africa, much of Europe, and all of Austrailia, and it starts looking quite feasable.
North and South America really aren't that populous. You've got the USA, which is last I heard around 350 million, plus Mexico (no idea) and Brazil (also no idea) which I believe are the next two most populous countries. Canada's only 35 million or so... it's gonna be tough for all the remaining countries to push those numbers up past a billion, I think.
To be fair, Slashdot's retarded and broken HTML is as much to blame for their screwy layout in Firefox as Firefox itself.
Yes, forget your silly ideas of dissent. You oughta just wait for the USA to come and "liberate" you.
What a bunch of JERKS!
Forks diverge. It's life. Get over it.
That's some stupid bullshit right there. If Apple were doing "everything [they] possibly can to kill off the original" Safari would run on Linux.
The GPL exists only to provide access to the source code. That's all it is supposed to do, that's all it does. The KHTML people have access to the sourcecode. It is in a form that makes it extremely difficult to merge it with their own sourcecode, that may be true, but y'know what? So is Gecko.
The GPL is about having access to the methods and formats used to accomplish something. It's not written to allow you to copy and paste code. It's to prevent things like WineX from coming along and running over the original project that provided 99% of the code, because they added a few proprietary additions that people need, but the original developers can't figure out how to get them working. Too bad Wine wasn't GPL'd.
How do you think the standard of living in the US came to be what it is?
I'll tell you how: It's because Americans are getting paid top-dollar to create the cutting-edge products and technologies, until the methods and factories required to build them eventually trickle down to the developing nations where they can be created much cheaper, and then to complete the cycle they are shipped to the USA to be purchased with the large amount of money available to american consumers!
s/American/First-world/g, etc, if you'd like a more generic version of that process.
As soon as the third-world has the infrastructure and the resources to do a job that you're currently doing, it's time to start seriously looking into retraining. It's called progress, and it's inevitable. It's also happening a lot faster nowadays than it was 50 years ago, and it will keep accelerating, so you might as well get used to this retraining concept because it's only going to get worse as the developing nations continue growing their economies at exponential rates (at least until they finally catch up and their wages start equalizing). Protectionism can provide you with a buffer (at a significant cost), but it's a band-aid, it can't be a solution.
What is so difficult about the notion that while you enjoy a TV show, most of the world didn't want to watch it?
What's so difficult to accept about the notion that enough people DID like it to justify the making of a movie?
Contrary to the evidence provided in the form of Gigli, the studios do not normally make a movie without being fairly convinced they have a good chance of getting a substantial return on their investment. I'd like to imagine that they have access to better statistics about how popular Firefly is then random Slashdot anecdotes.
Oh, you mean like qtcomponents? Or perhaps jordy@illadvised.com's Ogg Quicktime plugin? The two that I mentioned don't work anymore?
GG reading comprehension!
No, seriously.
qtcomponents has not been updated in almost a year and has to my knowledge never really worked. It is open source, but according to a bug posted by an Apple developer, it uses the now obsolete SoundManager and will have to be rewritten to use CoreAudio before it'll work again.
The other component, while being even longer since it was last updated, worked great. Although it had a few annoying bugs, it was quite usable right up until QT7 landed, and now it doesn't work at all. It is not open source, so you're pretty much out of luck.
Has anyone found any alternative way of getting oggs to play in iTunes?
Who wants to live in a rotating tin can their whole life?
*raises hand*
It's the standard (but insane) ANSI color naming system. "White" is actually light grey, and "Yellow" is actually brown, for example.
The colors were simply named by hue. All made sense and everyone was happy. Later, a 'bright' bit was provided to allow you to signal the system as to whether you wanted dark or bright versions of those colors. This sounded like a fine idea as well, except that programmers started naming the colors based on whether the 'bright' bit was set or not, and hence you get that wacky naming scheme.
Good point, maybe the best solution would be to spoof referrers so that I always appear to be coming from the site I'm retrieving.
Privoxy can do this, as well as filtering ads and blocking popups and various other cool stuff.
I can't live without it.
> > And then, of course, come the inevitable vulgar ACs, f**ktard.
> Like yourself and your hypocritical vulgar potty mouth?
Of course, we can't forget the "joke went *whooooosh* RIGHT over my head" crowd! Thanks for reminding us!
Agreed.
Although it's not so much the selling, it's that it would cost them more to *develop* two products. As FSB, memory and CPU speeds have exploded, the margin of error for motherboards has decreased accordingly. Even tiny changes to the physical layout of a motherboard can make the difference between a rock-solid stable machine and one that crashes every 10 seconds. Lots of QA goes into testing board designs thoroughly. It's easier to simply drop all the ridiculously cheap, commonly used components (LAN and Audio definitely) onto the board right from the get-go, and as a bonus they only have to develop one BIOS setup, one manual, one box, and one set of drivers. And yes, they really are ridiculously cheap.. I assure you that when you buy a $10 PCI ethernet card, you are paying much more for the packaging than you are for the ethernet chip, for example.
Quite simply, it's not worth the hassle. And it's not worth saving the theoretical $10 either. If you ever end up needing a backup ethernet port, or want to use it as a hardware firewall, you'll appreciate little things like having onboard video and ethernet.
Here we have this troll that is ranting at a purported free software devloper that he should be glad to be bought because his mind is worthless.
Well the first thing this reminds me of is that comment in the Slashdot user page where is says...
Which brings me to my next point: Don't smoke crack!
I'm not american, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the 5th Amendment is only available to people who are testifying, NOT people who are on trial.