Because AT&T and Comcast actually pay money to companies when they host their copyrighted content.
I never said anything about hosting, just their ISP service. After all, if I'm paying them money to illegally download files, aren't they just as guilty as MegaUplaod? Uou don't believe AT&T and Comcast aren't paying the RIAA and MPAA for all the BitTorrent download their users are downloading, do you?
You could make the argument that the ISP doesn't know about piracy, but given that it's 50% of all internet traffic I don't think anyone would buy that argument. ISPs profit off of piracy, period.
So basically, this guy bought a $24 million house by selling ad space and premium accounts to media that he neither made, nor owned, nor invested in, nor had a legal right (as dubious as those may be) to distribute? I get that you can't stop people from sharing, but anyone can see the negative repercussions of people making millions of dollars off of the transaction, when he is neither the sharer, the viewer, nor the author. He's a middleman and this money was ill-gotten; he's happy to play the victim to you guys but it's not about your right to copy, not remotely. It's about his right to make money off copying.
ISPs act as a "middleman" and profit off of IP theft all the time, making "millions of dollars off of the transaction, when [they are] neither the sharer, the viewer, nor the author."
Yet I don't see the government putting the CEO of AT&T or Comcast on trial. Why is Megaupload any different?
Forbes is free to rank companies any way they like. But when people say "Toyota is the #1 car manufacturer" the're simply talking about production totals.
If someone told you to just reboot your system because it was running low on memory you would tell them to fuck off.
Consumer level operating systems took decades to get to the point where one program couldn't bring down the entire OS. Web browsers are still relatively new, and the underlying standards are in a constant state of flux. Javascript went from something you'd use for little effects to a language for building sophisticated applications.
Eventually the day will arrive when browsers are heavily optimized and fast, but we're just not there yet. Have patience.
Unless you support the DEA harassing sick people in other states, then you need to lay off the weed and quit pretending like this is a state's rights issue.
Ah yes, the ol' "leave it to the states" argument.
Which, if you took and passed any American history class, should be raising some red flags. This is the same tactic that the pro-slavery people used, the anti-civil rights people, etc. etc.
"State's rights" in practice is almost always a way to hide one's immoral motives. Certainly it's the same when it come to gay rights; the definition of marriage comes into play in federal law, so it simply can't be a matter of leaving it to the states. To even suggest such a thing is disingenuous at best, a bold-faced lie at worst.
Seems like Ron Paul's congressional record is about the same as a paperweight. The guy might have an interesting idea now and then (and a lot of nutjob ideas in between) but those ideas don't translate to anything real.
Given his failure as a representative, why should we pay attention to anything else he says?
Seems like they're just moving their online document storage service from iWork.com to iCloud. It's not like iDrive, where they killed it and offered no replacement.
And you didn't even touch on "permission" as the theory is that voluntarily living in the US is implicit permission to tax.
As opposed to all those countries that have no tax?
It always seemed odd to me that those who have the most radical ideas about changing their country are the ones who've spent the least time outside of it.
GSettings doesn't come close to the Windows registry in terms of ease of use, documentation, or features. And unlike the registry, GSettings requires special install steps that either need root access or use of undocumented features.
If I buy something at the store and it doesn't work as advertised, I return it.
Many things cannot be returned once you tried them out: underpants, building materials, movies, food...
I'm not saying I have a problem with pirating software to try it out -- I've done that myself with pricier software (and often ended up buying a legit copy.) But to say that software is unusual in this regard is demonstrably false.
That's good, but I don't think it's fair to blame the poor quality of Facebook's app entirely on HTML5. For example, the app will occasionally chew through hundreds of megs of space, crash randomly, or even navigate to the wrong page when you click a link. Pretty glaring bugs that even the greenest QA testers would have noticed.
At some point you have to blame management for not spending the time for proper testing and bug fixes. It *should* be a fairly straightforward app no matter how it was written.
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I never said anything about hosting, just their ISP service. After all, if I'm paying them money to illegally download files, aren't they just as guilty as MegaUplaod? Uou don't believe AT&T and Comcast aren't paying the RIAA and MPAA for all the BitTorrent download their users are downloading, do you?
You could make the argument that the ISP doesn't know about piracy, but given that it's 50% of all internet traffic I don't think anyone would buy that argument. ISPs profit off of piracy, period.
ISPs act as a "middleman" and profit off of IP theft all the time, making "millions of dollars off of the transaction, when [they are] neither the sharer, the viewer, nor the author."
Yet I don't see the government putting the CEO of AT&T or Comcast on trial. Why is Megaupload any different?
If you're talking about C vs. C++, sure. But keep in mind GObject/GTK has bindings for C++, Vala, Python, etc.
Forbes is free to rank companies any way they like. But when people say "Toyota is the #1 car manufacturer" the're simply talking about production totals.
The obvious counterexample would be Gnome's GObject. It's a C-based OOP framework, which GTK is based on.
C's philosophy doesn't integrate well with Ayn Rand's.
Consumer level operating systems took decades to get to the point where one program couldn't bring down the entire OS. Web browsers are still relatively new, and the underlying standards are in a constant state of flux. Javascript went from something you'd use for little effects to a language for building sophisticated applications.
Eventually the day will arrive when browsers are heavily optimized and fast, but we're just not there yet. Have patience.
Church of the SubGenius. (And yes, I know they won't really sue you.)
Unless you support the DEA harassing sick people in other states, then you need to lay off the weed and quit pretending like this is a state's rights issue.
Ah yes, the ol' "leave it to the states" argument.
Which, if you took and passed any American history class, should be raising some red flags. This is the same tactic that the pro-slavery people used, the anti-civil rights people, etc. etc.
"State's rights" in practice is almost always a way to hide one's immoral motives. Certainly it's the same when it come to gay rights; the definition of marriage comes into play in federal law, so it simply can't be a matter of leaving it to the states. To even suggest such a thing is disingenuous at best, a bold-faced lie at worst.
But that was never his goal -- the guy has sponsored hundreds of pieces of legislation, all but a couple were never passed.
My point is that if you judge him by his own goals, he's a failure. We don't need to bring our own politics into the picture to see that.
Seems like Ron Paul's congressional record is about the same as a paperweight. The guy might have an interesting idea now and then (and a lot of nutjob ideas in between) but those ideas don't translate to anything real.
Given his failure as a representative, why should we pay attention to anything else he says?
Seems like they're just moving their online document storage service from iWork.com to iCloud. It's not like iDrive, where they killed it and offered no replacement.
As opposed to all those countries that have no tax?
It always seemed odd to me that those who have the most radical ideas about changing their country are the ones who've spent the least time outside of it.
How about MyYahoo? iGoogle was a knockoff of 90's "personalized web portals" anyway, so why not go with the original?
The computer industry: more important than not dying of deadly diseases. Who knew?
Yeah, running a massive charity that helps eradicate disease around the world and improve education? What a selfish jerk.
GConf was at least a half decent system, but it's gone for good.
^ Please see the above wall of text for an example of the type of user who finds Linux usable on the desktop.
GSettings doesn't come close to the Windows registry in terms of ease of use, documentation, or features. And unlike the registry, GSettings requires special install steps that either need root access or use of undocumented features.
"These days"? Get real, Microsoft has NEVER had a consistent user interface across their applications.
Just so we're clear, Quake 3 and its source code are NOT in the public domain.
Many things cannot be returned once you tried them out: underpants, building materials, movies, food...
I'm not saying I have a problem with pirating software to try it out -- I've done that myself with pricier software (and often ended up buying a legit copy.) But to say that software is unusual in this regard is demonstrably false.
Why not? Why should software be different than anything else you'd pay for?
That's good, but I don't think it's fair to blame the poor quality of Facebook's app entirely on HTML5. For example, the app will occasionally chew through hundreds of megs of space, crash randomly, or even navigate to the wrong page when you click a link. Pretty glaring bugs that even the greenest QA testers would have noticed.
At some point you have to blame management for not spending the time for proper testing and bug fixes. It *should* be a fairly straightforward app no matter how it was written.