Err, since Microsoft is the popular one, maybe this is like the popular and attractive (but dumb) girl asking how Linux gets straight A's all the time, and then never talking to Linux ever again.
Or maybe that would hit too close to home for some people here:).
Fitting punishment for their heresy. We all know there can be no "flaws" in these holy movies. The silencing of this instigator is a victory for Truth and Justice everywhere.
Apple is not like a stranger on the street; they are selling you something, giving you a product in exchange for your money.
Perhaps if you sold someone a car with a key that recognized people's fingerprints so it could only be used by three people, unless it was copied by a key duplication place, in which case it could be used by anyone?
Still a ridiculous analogy, which is why we shouldn't place too much faith in analogies to make our point for us.
These Haitian "community leaders" are represent their community in the same way ESR represents everyone who's ever written code. That is to say, they don't.
This is completely offtopic, but was there ever a time in human history where a new product or service was offered without being given a catchy, "cool" name with deliberate mis-spellings like "FasTrack?" If it's an electronic toll collection system (from their FAQ), why can't we just call it an electronic toll collection system?
Names like this support my theory that today's marketing gurus are yesterday's IRC trolls.
The problem is not that someone is going to break into the database and look for your name, or use your name to find out how you voted. The problem is that someone is going to come over to your house, take your receipt, sit down with you, and see which way you voted.
We're talking about Mafia-like tactics here, not some 14 year old script kiddie invading your privacy.
Man, if the guy is threatening you or your family, don't you think he'll be right there, taking your stub, sitting down with you and checking your vote? If you can check your vote after the fact, anyone willing to go to the extent of threatening you will be able to as well.
Neither did the brothers Grimm, yet Disney seems to "need" copyrights to ensure their continued contribution to society.
Also, it was probably much harder to publish something and distribute it widely, so wouldn't copyright be more important to artists of that time? I can write a short story, stick it in a blog, and have it around the world in hours. So much less expense and financial risk for me, yet so much more incentive. Someone tell me again why we're stuck with the crap Disney produces?
Grand parent: Can copyrights really be that necessary to promote intellectual achievements when intellectual achievements have thrived without copyright?
You: In those times people were dismembered on stage, so therefore your argument is invalid.
Me: Ow, reading that post gave my logic muscle a hernia.
The problem is there isn't enough new stuff every month to justify the subscription model. There has to be an incentive for keeping the subscription, else why wouldn't I just burn everything I wanted and cancel, wait six months, subscribe for one month and burn everything, ad infinitum.
I mean, the way the music industry has always solved the lack of content problem is to release a few tracks from each album slowly, over a few weeks, then release some more album tracks from groups in the same genre.
That seems to be the antithesis of the instant gratification model that iTunes offers, which is essentially what the info age is all about. The entertainment industry in general seems to have a ton of people who are very good at doing what has been done, but very few (none at all?) visionaries.
Gerrymandering isn't just a problem for the miniority party in the gerrymandered district. The congressman with the shiny, new, practically permanent congressional seat just has to avoid pissing off his majority constituents, instead of actually trying to please them; (s)he in effect becomes useless, working just enough "for the people" to not get fired.
The problem is just a serious extension of the party system though, since there will be places (e.g. San Fransisco, rural Bible Belt country) which will have overwhelming majorities for one party. In fact, if you look at the votes-by-party map of the US from the 2000 election, it appears the whole country is "naturally" gerrymandered.
Michael Moore isn't really an idiot, he's just sort of a Jackal (sp?) and Hyde dichotomy. He can go from thought-provoking and insightful to pig-headed and obnoxious faster than anyone I've ever seen, but don't throw away the baby with the bath water.
10 bucks says Darl's troll culminates in SCO's homepage running Nero-Online.orgs "Last Measure" with a message saying "YHBT, LOLOL!!11!" within the next year. Truly inspirational trolling.
Man, you can't flash your processor; you flash your BIOS. Hot girls just laugh at guys that don't know the difference. OTOH, if you drop some words like "petabyte," "firewire," and "jump drive" you'll drive them wild. Just don't bring up floppies or teraflops and you'll do okay.
Man, that would have to be some security guard to stop 60 million (american) people, one out of every four customers assuming 240 million buy/would buy/care about RIAA music. Gary Coleman better start showing up to work in an ATST.
Nonsense, it just succeeded too well. With the crap the RIAA has been putting out the last couple years, I think people's downloading has caught up to the amount of good music put out by the RIAA...there's nothing left to pirate.
Aw, shucks. What am I gonna do with my weekends now?
If you read the article closely, you would know the owner and the person booking the bands wrote back to ASCAP saying the songs they listed were not actually played at the bar that night. The band they had hired played original jazz, not covers. Also, in the interest of maintaining his cover (of course), the undercover ASCAP agent was drinking. So, there seems to be some doubt as to whether or not "It's the damn bar[']s fault."
Would you pay $700 a year for something you didn't use?
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Err, since Microsoft is the popular one, maybe this is like the popular and attractive (but dumb) girl asking how Linux gets straight A's all the time, and then never talking to Linux ever again.
:).
Or maybe that would hit too close to home for some people here
Fitting punishment for their heresy. We all know there can be no "flaws" in these holy movies. The silencing of this instigator is a victory for Truth and Justice everywhere.
Ridiculous analogy.
Apple is not like a stranger on the street; they are selling you something, giving you a product in exchange for your money.
Perhaps if you sold someone a car with a key that recognized people's fingerprints so it could only be used by three people, unless it was copied by a key duplication place, in which case it could be used by anyone?
Still a ridiculous analogy, which is why we shouldn't place too much faith in analogies to make our point for us.
An especially ironic statement, considering how much of it we use for porn :)
Calm down.
These Haitian "community leaders" are represent their community in the same way ESR represents everyone who's ever written code. That is to say, they don't.
It's just a bunch of whiny people whining.
This is completely offtopic, but was there ever a time in human history where a new product or service was offered without being given a catchy, "cool" name with deliberate mis-spellings like "FasTrack?" If it's an electronic toll collection system (from their FAQ), why can't we just call it an electronic toll collection system?
Names like this support my theory that today's marketing gurus are yesterday's IRC trolls.
The problem is not that someone is going to break into the database and look for your name, or use your name to find out how you voted. The problem is that someone is going to come over to your house, take your receipt, sit down with you, and see which way you voted.
We're talking about Mafia-like tactics here, not some 14 year old script kiddie invading your privacy.
Huh?
Man, if the guy is threatening you or your family, don't you think he'll be right there, taking your stub, sitting down with you and checking your vote? If you can check your vote after the fact, anyone willing to go to the extent of threatening you will be able to as well.
That link says Firebird .7 (the latest release), but I just tested it in Firebird .7 and it didn't work.
Don't believe everything you read on the 'net.
Neither did the brothers Grimm, yet Disney seems to "need" copyrights to ensure their continued contribution to society.
Also, it was probably much harder to publish something and distribute it widely, so wouldn't copyright be more important to artists of that time? I can write a short story, stick it in a blog, and have it around the world in hours. So much less expense and financial risk for me, yet so much more incentive. Someone tell me again why we're stuck with the crap Disney produces?
Grand parent: Can copyrights really be that necessary to promote intellectual achievements when intellectual achievements have thrived without copyright?
You: In those times people were dismembered on stage, so therefore your argument is invalid.
Me: Ow, reading that post gave my logic muscle a hernia.
The problem is there isn't enough new stuff every month to justify the subscription model. There has to be an incentive for keeping the subscription, else why wouldn't I just burn everything I wanted and cancel, wait six months, subscribe for one month and burn everything, ad infinitum.
I mean, the way the music industry has always solved the lack of content problem is to release a few tracks from each album slowly, over a few weeks, then release some more album tracks from groups in the same genre.
That seems to be the antithesis of the instant gratification model that iTunes offers, which is essentially what the info age is all about. The entertainment industry in general seems to have a ton of people who are very good at doing what has been done, but very few (none at all?) visionaries.
Gerrymandering isn't just a problem for the miniority party in the gerrymandered district. The congressman with the shiny, new, practically permanent congressional seat just has to avoid pissing off his majority constituents, instead of actually trying to please them; (s)he in effect becomes useless, working just enough "for the people" to not get fired.
The problem is just a serious extension of the party system though, since there will be places (e.g. San Fransisco, rural Bible Belt country) which will have overwhelming majorities for one party. In fact, if you look at the votes-by-party map of the US from the 2000 election, it appears the whole country is "naturally" gerrymandered.
Michael Moore isn't really an idiot, he's just sort of a Jackal (sp?) and Hyde dichotomy. He can go from thought-provoking and insightful to pig-headed and obnoxious faster than anyone I've ever seen, but don't throw away the baby with the bath water.
...And they all answer to sysadmins, else (*clickety click*) they "lose" their research....
10 bucks says Darl's troll culminates in SCO's homepage running Nero-Online.orgs "Last Measure" with a message saying "YHBT, LOLOL!!11!" within the next year. Truly inspirational trolling.
Be careful?
As wooden and boring as he seemed in public, he must actually have a pretty god sense of humor- his daughter wrote for that show.
Dude, you just replaced Jack Valenti with a very small shell script.
Awesome.
Man, you can't flash your processor; you flash your BIOS. Hot girls just laugh at guys that don't know the difference. OTOH, if you drop some words like "petabyte," "firewire," and "jump drive" you'll drive them wild. Just don't bring up floppies or teraflops and you'll do okay.
....the assumption that people will pay $500 for hardware that will be obsolete in a year?
oh, wait....
Nonsense, it just succeeded too well. With the crap the RIAA has been putting out the last couple years, I think people's downloading has caught up to the amount of good music put out by the RIAA...there's nothing left to pirate.
Aw, shucks. What am I gonna do with my weekends now?
Nice troll.
If you read the article closely, you would know the owner and the person booking the bands wrote back to ASCAP saying the songs they listed were not actually played at the bar that night. The band they had hired played original jazz, not covers. Also, in the interest of maintaining his cover (of course), the undercover ASCAP agent was drinking. So, there seems to be some doubt as to whether or not "It's the damn bar[']s fault."
Would you pay $700 a year for something you didn't use?
The answer is that which will make them the most money. Unfortunately, that will be spam.