You're talking rubbish. It does nothing to bring it in to line with European copyright law, which already has shorter terms than the United States.
As for ther "heriditary privilege", European nations now (for the first time in history) spend less on farm subsidies (taxes to donate to people who have land) than the United States.
You can be as sure as you like, but that doesn't mean I'll agree.
The DMCA does not refer to removing protection - it refers to cirumventing; if the intent of the protection scheme is to have a deterrent effect (much like the rumours that some protection schemes could damage speakers), then avoiding damage becomes circumvention.
It's a wonderful principle, isn't it? If a group of people don't like how Starbucks or McDonalds do things and smash up their property, riot squads (paid for by the citizens against who they are being used) will appear to safeguard the company; if Sony destroy your property because they don't like what you do with it, then they get away scot free.
Oh, and don't even think about attempting to circumvent the smashing up device. Or that riot squad will be coming for you.
If Apple and Pioneer were to produce a combination of firmware and software that avoided the system-destroying effect, Sony would be able to sue them for cirumventing the protection system.
Great, innit? Sony can fuck up Apple's product line, and if Apple try to protect their customers, Sony can sue them for the "right" to keep destroying their computers!
The problem is that most publications such as the NYT Review are not covering really good stories, either; they're concerned with whether you've gone to a University course teaching dummies how to write the genre of modern literary fiction. Which is a genre, and is mostly crap. Just like the other genres the same reviewers look snidely upon.
You can't benefit comemrcially. So you could indeed port it to Linux if you were so inclined, but you couldn't sell it (although you couldn't be compelled to release the source code if you wanted to do a binary only release).
Especially when it comes to configuring a farm of systems - copying text files around is a lot easier than pointing and clicking again, and again, and again...
Telsa thought AC was the way to go for long distance power transmission; he'd fallen out with Edison after Edison had already ripped him off, and took the idea to Westinghouse.
Edison, meanwhile, had invested a lot in using DC for long distance transmission, even though it's quite inferior. Since he couldn't compete on the merits of the technology he was pushing, he ran a campaign to try and scare people away from AC by pointing to its use in the electric chair, and by slaughtering animals with AC driven apparatus.
Of course, at the kind of volatages and currents used for transmission, DC is just as dangerous as AC (grab the poisitive 550V DC terminal on a Wellington trolley bus while grounded if you don't believe me), but Edison wasn't about to allow the pesky facts to get in the way.
Telsa attracts people because he's both unappreciated and became a crackpot. There's a huge amount of stuff he did right, and he was often mocked for ideas that came good; your common or garden crackpot usually can't point to a single success.
So from that point of view, he's far more compelling. They may laugh at his death rays, but they laughed at using alternating current for long distance power transmission, too!
All three were filmed at the same time; that doesn't mean they were finished at the same time. Postproduction is still happenning on The Two Towers, and will continue for some time.
I can consider the purchase of a new computer an investment, but then I'm a contractor/consultant, so I make money with my computers. Which is a pretty good definition of an investment.
I hope you enjoy tracking down the bazillion copies of statically or locally linked binaries on your system when one of those libraries turns out to have a security problem, a la zlib.
Shared libraries are valuable for more than disk space.
Wrong. Happy citizens do revolt. Poor peasants who are worried about their next meal tend not to agitate against the state; wealthy middle class citizens tend to have the time to worry about the bigger picture.
I was of the same opinion until I saw the memo where he attempted to explain the workings of aD by an analogy with Nazi death camps, sent as a company wide email.
I can see why people working under him might perhaps hold a less than rosy view.
(And Philip is the guy who makes snotty, racist sideswipes at Germans and Arabs because he believes they're universally anti-Semitic. Sheesh).
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You're talking rubbish. It does nothing to bring it in to line with European copyright law, which already has shorter terms than the United States.
As for ther "heriditary privilege", European nations now (for the first time in history) spend less on farm subsidies (taxes to donate to people who have land) than the United States.
That's why the rich guys who have gone to space thus far went to Russia. NASA would rather use spare capacity to give jaunts to aging politicians.
US$40-US$80 an hour? That's NZD$100-NZD$200 an hour. You'd have no trouble picking up Kiwi firms to do that sort of work.
You can be as sure as you like, but that doesn't mean I'll agree.
The DMCA does not refer to removing protection - it refers to cirumventing; if the intent of the protection scheme is to have a deterrent effect (much like the rumours that some protection schemes could damage speakers), then avoiding damage becomes circumvention.
It's a wonderful principle, isn't it? If a group of people don't like how Starbucks or McDonalds do things and smash up their property, riot squads (paid for by the citizens against who they are being used) will appear to safeguard the company; if Sony destroy your property because they don't like what you do with it, then they get away scot free.
Oh, and don't even think about attempting to circumvent the smashing up device. Or that riot squad will be coming for you.
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Wonder law in vogue.
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If Apple and Pioneer were to produce a combination of firmware and software that avoided the system-destroying effect, Sony would be able to sue them for cirumventing the protection system.
Great, innit? Sony can fuck up Apple's product line, and if Apple try to protect their customers, Sony can sue them for the "right" to keep destroying their computers!
The new 7 series have massage units built into the seats. A reviewer in NZ described it as "like being molested by a car".
I think you meant "pidgin".
Of course, I suppose that could be irony at work...
Reading 101: You'll note Costa Ricans have only one ISP, a government protected monopoly. Where are the consumers going to go?
The problem is that most publications such as the NYT Review are not covering really good stories, either; they're concerned with whether you've gone to a University course teaching dummies how to write the genre of modern literary fiction. Which is a genre, and is mostly crap. Just like the other genres the same reviewers look snidely upon.
You can't benefit comemrcially. So you could indeed port it to Linux if you were so inclined, but you couldn't sell it (although you couldn't be compelled to release the source code if you wanted to do a binary only release).
Especially when it comes to configuring a farm of systems - copying text files around is a lot easier than pointing and clicking again, and again, and again...
So, when one of Microsoft's fine products is riddled with security holes, apologists blame the systems admins for not being competent.
When deriding superior, free alternatives, they claim any baboon can administer Microsoft products.
I'm failing to see the value proposition in a range of products which allow idiots to render a business vulnerable to serious damage.
You mean the European theatre would be won by the Soviet Empire, with a half-hearted US entry after they'd done all the work?
Not in the way Edison was trying to claim.
Telsa thought AC was the way to go for long distance power transmission; he'd fallen out with Edison after Edison had already ripped him off, and took the idea to Westinghouse.
Edison, meanwhile, had invested a lot in using DC for long distance transmission, even though it's quite inferior. Since he couldn't compete on the merits of the technology he was pushing, he ran a campaign to try and scare people away from AC by pointing to its use in the electric chair, and by slaughtering animals with AC driven apparatus.
Of course, at the kind of volatages and currents used for transmission, DC is just as dangerous as AC (grab the poisitive 550V DC terminal on a Wellington trolley bus while grounded if you don't believe me), but Edison wasn't about to allow the pesky facts to get in the way.
Telsa attracts people because he's both unappreciated and became a crackpot. There's a huge amount of stuff he did right, and he was often mocked for ideas that came good; your common or garden crackpot usually can't point to a single success.
So from that point of view, he's far more compelling. They may laugh at his death rays, but they laughed at using alternating current for long distance power transmission, too!
All three were filmed at the same time; that doesn't mean they were finished at the same time. Postproduction is still happenning on The Two Towers, and will continue for some time.
Yeah. Buffy's a hell of a lot better than most of the Star Wars franchise, and Brazil leaves it in the dust.
I can consider the purchase of a new computer an investment, but then I'm a contractor/consultant, so I make money with my computers. Which is a pretty good definition of an investment.
It's also worth noting Joel is discussing building commercially successful software.
Microsoft is not an OS company. They sell - and historically made most of their money with - applications as well.
I hope you enjoy tracking down the bazillion copies of statically or locally linked binaries on your system when one of those libraries turns out to have a security problem, a la zlib.
Shared libraries are valuable for more than disk space.
Wrong. Happy citizens do revolt. Poor peasants who are worried about their next meal tend not to agitate against the state; wealthy middle class citizens tend to have the time to worry about the bigger picture.
I was of the same opinion until I saw the memo where he attempted to explain the workings of aD by an analogy with Nazi death camps, sent as a company wide email.
I can see why people working under him might perhaps hold a less than rosy view.
(And Philip is the guy who makes snotty, racist sideswipes at Germans and Arabs because he believes they're universally anti-Semitic. Sheesh).
Power hungry villain with a beard. Sounds right to me.