If you could just cover the little matter of "We don't have the technology to do it yet" then that would be an excellent and pretty complete summary of the situation...
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Totally true. I speak perfectly good French, but can't read it or write it to any degree. If I looked at some French text that'd been centre-scrambled, I'd have no idea.
This is the ultimate democracy in action: if we all break the law, it can't be democratic, right? So clearly the copyright law is broken cos a majority of people don't agree with its provisions.
Whether the change should be something about reasonable cost of acquiring a copy (not unlimited profits) or or reasonable ease or what, I don't know.
Over here in the UK, the Brits are file-sharing just as much as the USA. However, a cut of about a third in the price of a CD has produced the biggest year's sales of CDs ever.
I think that this disproves the allegation that swapping is killing music and that the real culprit is a CD price that has stayed high while production costs have gone through the floor. Do you agree? If not, why not?
By the magic of Google, I think it's Brockman of The Simpsons:
"Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over- 'conquered' if you will- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive Earthman or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves." (Deep Space Homer)
But those use heat reduction techniques to keep their inner temps lower, right? Or they withstand it for short periods. These things are 121C all the way through, 24/7!
I can understand that POV (although I'm not sure that I agree with you that there should be boundaries), but people trying to define the boundaries without even bothering to understand the purpose of the experiment are just Luddites.
I totally agree with you, and in fact (most? all?) foetuses used for research in the UK are the 'spare' ones from IVF, so there's even less of an issue.
Sadly, the 'moral majority' aka Christians (and other people with imaginary friends who apparently tell them what to think), have votes too.
The 'perceived benefit' you can't see is eventually to create a source of stem cells without using aborted foetuses.
This kind of knee-jerk 'this is bad/immoral/whatever' comment, even though you clearly didn't finish (start?) reading the article is exactly the kind of piss-poor commentary that prevents science doing good.
Actually, I suggets that this is just the sort of thing that must be presented correctly, rather than kept quiet about. It is a useful and viable scientifc endeavour, not just a "Hey, let's put a cat in a blender and see what happens!" type of experiment.
It should be phrased in as scientifically opaque a way as possible though, so that the tabloid journalists can't understand it;-)
Given the choice between doing something shitty for money and doing something good for money, I'd like to do something good. MS crapware ensures that a fair percentage of geeks are doing something shitty.
IT budgets getting wasted like that isn't job creation, it just means that otherwise they could be using the same money to pay us to do something creative and useful. No PHB will ever say 'Now we have secure products, you can cut my budget'!
In order for your brain to properly "fuse" the images together, your eyes will have to perform some tiresome calisthenics -- that is, your left eye is going to have to turn slightly right, to face the right half of the screen, while your right eyes turns slightly left. Basically, you're crossing your eyes.
Actually, that's exactly what you do to view a 'Magic Eye' image - and lots of us out there don't find that tiring at all. Bending your eye's 'outwards' is very tiring, but inwards is easy.
The cellophane is a pretty neat and cheap way of getting rid of the 'extra' images to the left and right too.
What inherently flawed OS structure? Could you please elaborate?
Well, clearly the one that allows their OSs to crash on average once every ten days.
Also, please submit the OS that you designed that can work with millions of hardware combinations with a device driver system that makes it impossible for device drivers to crash the OS.
Dude, if I am paying money for something, that absolves me of the need to do better.
Interesting post, thanks. I read all this slightly differently to you, as hinging on the phrase:
derivative works and modifications
where presumably SCO will say that the disputed code is a modification of SysV, but IBM will say that it is an addition to SysV. IANAL, but I think a judge will find that one pretty easy to call;-)
I assume you're talking about a home box then? Or a small company. Certainly not a corporate set-up unless you're (in most admin's opinions) incompetent.
Anyway, why do you keep jabbering about Linux? I never mentioned it.
Do you do this for every piece of software you install from reputable sources?
Firstly, MS patches have been broken before, so they're not that reputable. Plus they have ten times as many problems as, for example, Sun.
Now on to the main point: You've never worked for a big corporation have you? That's exactly what happens. Of course I don't at home, but I'm not going to worry too much if I have to reinstall one machine - big corps have thousands and hence need to do full regression tests, which is why the MS patch-of-the-week is such a pain.
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He must've tightened it up since you got in, cos I get connection refused!
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It's Gecko based, so in a sense it *is* Firebird. Anyway, good code/features will jump to other apps: that's the point of OS!
Whether the change should be something about reasonable cost of acquiring a copy (not unlimited profits) or or reasonable ease or what, I don't know.
J.
Is it just me that is amused by pronouncing this 'S-Cocks'?
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http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-0
The code seems to come from arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c, copyright by SGI:a tch-html/patch-2.4.19/linux-2.4.19_arch_ia64_sn_io _ate_utils.c.html
http://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/v2.4/p
Does this code come from:l loc.c.html l loc.c.html
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V5/usr/sys/ken/ma
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/ma
Plus...
For version referencing, look here
Justin.
I think that this disproves the allegation that swapping is killing music and that the real culprit is a CD price that has stayed high while production costs have gone through the floor. Do you agree? If not, why not?
Justin.
J.
"Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over- 'conquered' if you will- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive Earthman or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves." (Deep Space Homer)
No idea about IN SOVIET RUSSIA though mate.
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Well, of course it was... and you bit ;-)
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Sadly, the 'moral majority' aka Christians (and other people with imaginary friends who apparently tell them what to think), have votes too.
J.
This kind of knee-jerk 'this is bad/immoral/whatever' comment, even though you clearly didn't finish (start?) reading the article is exactly the kind of piss-poor commentary that prevents science doing good.
J.
It should be phrased in as scientifically opaque a way as possible though, so that the tabloid journalists can't understand it ;-)
J.
IT budgets getting wasted like that isn't job creation, it just means that otherwise they could be using the same money to pay us to do something creative and useful. No PHB will ever say 'Now we have secure products, you can cut my budget'!
J.
Actually, that's exactly what you do to view a 'Magic Eye' image - and lots of us out there don't find that tiring at all. Bending your eye's 'outwards' is very tiring, but inwards is easy.
The cellophane is a pretty neat and cheap way of getting rid of the 'extra' images to the left and right too.
I think it's clever.
J.
How many 3rd party apps are there?
Each 3rd party company is responsible for perhaps 1-5% each, and waaaaaaaay out in front is....
J.
Well, clearly the one that allows their OSs to crash on average once every ten days.
Also, please submit the OS that you designed that can work with millions of hardware combinations with a device driver system that makes it impossible for device drivers to crash the OS.
Dude, if I am paying money for something, that absolves me of the need to do better.
J.
Anyone here know about Linux driver writing?
J.
derivative works and modifications
where presumably SCO will say that the disputed code is a modification of SysV, but IBM will say that it is an addition to SysV. IANAL, but I think a judge will find that one pretty easy to call ;-)
J.
I assume you're talking about a home box then? Or a small company. Certainly not a corporate set-up unless you're (in most admin's opinions) incompetent.
Anyway, why do you keep jabbering about Linux? I never mentioned it.
J.
Firstly, MS patches have been broken before, so they're not that reputable. Plus they have ten times as many problems as, for example, Sun.
Now on to the main point: You've never worked for a big corporation have you? That's exactly what happens. Of course I don't at home, but I'm not going to worry too much if I have to reinstall one machine - big corps have thousands and hence need to do full regression tests, which is why the MS patch-of-the-week is such a pain.
J.