Who gives a shit? Man, this philosophy thing is kind cool.
You have no idea how cool it can be. It can really wake up your mind, to the point you scare yourself with the stuff you imagine. All from inside your own head!
I like Aristotle, and King Lionides. And Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard and F. A. Hayek and and and...
Then I got into pottery in the "Arts & Crafts" class, and THAT impressed me.
But is that "Art?" Good pottery well done *can* be art. Usually, it's utilitarian/useful (hence "Crafts"). Japanese pottery (ie. Raku) is fantastic stuff. There's whole civilizations, about which we only know of their pottery. Mere mortals can take mud and turn it into rock that lasts longer than their civilization, to be found by later civilizations' archaeologists.
For a mere craft, it can be pretty seductive. Art? What's art?
Meh. Depends how you do it. I think Mona Lisa is overrated. I've seen pottery that damned near glowed with life in the right light. There are glazes that were once used regularly that have been lost and we cannot replicate today.
I know there is a big selection bias involved in being an artist, where a lack of realistic expectations is kind of a given, but seriously... I can't even read this summary it's so optimistically cavalier about the scale of the task described my eyes just glaze over. Doing difficult things without purpose isn't art.
When I hung around the "Fine Arts" class in high school, I used an acetylene torch to cut up scrap into shapes I could then weld together into fanciful animal or plant shapes. I'd guess about fifteen girlfriends wound up with my creations gracing their front lawns. Art? They thought so. Years later, they were still out on their lawns, so their families agreed? Me, I just thought it was either fun or interesting to do.
Then I got into pottery in the "Arts & Crafts" class, and THAT impressed me. Shimpo wheels, building kilns with fire bricks, all the interesting chemicals that go into glazes, Raku and reduction methods (suck the O2 out of silver oxide and you've got silver!).
All these groups and laws are doing is sucking the pleasure out of music, movies, etc.
No, they're not. I've already got all the music I want. I bought it long ago to play in the cassette deck in my car. I haven't heard much recently that I'd want to buy.
Pink Floyd, Mike & the Mechanics, Buena Vista Social Club, Tananas, Sipho Gumede, Carlos Santana, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, CSN&Y, Joe Jackson, Yes, Tom Cochrane, Allman Bros., Van Morrison, Luba, Steely Dan, Loreena McKennitt, Bonnie Raitt, Boz Scaggs, not to mention a boatload of classical (Mahler, Bach,...),... I don't need any more, and with the limitations placed on how they want to sell it today, no thanks, pass.
As for the IPv4/6 thing, large blocks of IPv4 are returning back onto the market now that scarcity has increased their value to some.
Move to IPv6, and there will be no reason to buy IPv4 addresses period!
Which is why they're unloading their IPv4 blocks now, ASAP, before they're worthless! Damn, some of you just don't get Capitalism. P. T. Barnum's got a bridge you'd be interested in.
I will grudgingly give you that but I've got to say, I've never liked that. Continents are supposed to be land masses separated by some very substantial feature, such as oceans or seas, or at least a Bosporus, or the Ural Mountains. "Eurasia" is a hack job, as if you feel Europe's better than Asia, so you want your own name to distinguish yourselves from them.
You massively underestimate the capabilities of determined individuals. One guy on his own reinvented Unix.
For a Slashdotter, I think you've massively misunderstood this whole "open source" concept.
Gee, how many signatures were on that email that Linus sent to the Minix mailing list announcing he'd got something like a kernel working? Oh yeah, one! Then people piled on, throwing stuff at him to incorporate into it. "Does it have a network stack?" "What's a network stack?" "Here, use this."
No, I do not misunderstand Free Software (damnit!) and that a working whole system takes many hands. I do know Gnu had been banging its head on Hurd for years, yet it was Linus who did it!
Go bang your head on a post ten times, Grasshopper.
Listen to you, same old "durr, porn's not bad for kids!" nonsense.
Listen to you, in the same camp as those horrified about a bit of female nipple shown on network TV. Ever noticed that pretty much all humans have a couple? Wanna outlaw mirrors now?
No, no, no -- just use a text browser, obviously...
Well, you're no fun.:-(
What kind of nutbar goes to Wikipedia for porn? Then again, maybe that'll teach a lesson to all those corporate nazis who're filtering their employees' web access. "Ha haaaa!"
Besides, porn? Why's anyone going nuts about porn? Discovery channel shows animals going at it all the time. Wait'll you see the one with the amorous elephant chasing after his intended. "Look at the size of that thing!"
In the US, the split is notoriously in favour of the labels with the labels more often than not never bothering to forward the artist's share.
Canada's collection societies have recently been determined to be doing the same. Michael Geist probably has a story on it. I've read the same story or something much like it from Europe, UK, and Australia. Sometimes they pay only the big players and if your share is under a certain minimum, you get nothing. It's a corrupt, rigged game. Artists should give collection societies and labels the bird.
I, for one, welcome (y)our new mayonnaise-on-fries-eating cover band overlords.
Mayonnaise on fries?!? You just about made me throw up! I've never heard of that in Canada. Now, Poutine (cheese and gravy on fries?) is another thing. I've never had it, but have heard of it.
Some of the things US' fast food joints come up with is far more disgusting than anything we do.
Why don't Canadians fuck standing up? Because god might think they're dancing.
That makes no sense. The joke was about Baptists.
Yup. And demonstrably untrue. I'm Canadian, and they loved it. That's all I have to say about that.
God isn't in the business of collecting license fees. Granted she's not in the business of preventing dancing (except for techno 'music' that crap is from the devil).
Record the event... Ask anyone attending who recorded a video with their mobile phone/tablet/e-glasses to send you a copy of the video for the compilation DVD.
Yes, so merely by implementing this new policy, the cost of doing any of these things has gone up, whether you play their stuff or not. Now you need to document the entire event from start to end, and keep that recording until the statute of limitations runs out? Multiply that by the number of potentially infringing events.
What happens if some little girl at a wedding hums an infringing tune? The event infringes; minimum payment is due. "For the artists."
Progress. Full employment for moochers and lawyers. Thanks. This is nuts.
Every single thing that I was told this country stood for is a lie.
I think your citizenry still largely stand for those things. Your government hasn't for quite some time.
It's interesting that in Ajax, it was Britain that was peed off and wanted to change things, and the US went along. Now, the UK is considered the US' lapdog.
well, I guess that whole war of 1812 thing is still debatable...
No, it's not.
You can add the Bay of Pigs fiasco and your abject failures in Central (Nicaragua) and South America. "American Imperialism" is a very real fact to them. Cf. Venezuela's Chavez. They have lots of good reasons to hate the things you do, or the things that are done in your name.
Salvador Allende was in bed with the Russians, but was Pinochet an improvement?
Or will Google have to make changes to Android in order to satisfy the end result of all these court rulings?
Google is off the hook and Oracle is not only left looking very stupid, it's also left looking very poor and ripe for a Google takeover.
I hope you're not just toying with us, and there's at least a shred of truth in that, because that'd be hilarious.
Google takes over Oracle, retires the Oracle db (or opensources it, whatever), promotes MySQL back to where it should have been and opensources it, Google reinvigorates Sun, Solaris, and its hardware division, and Larry Ellison's seen pushing a shopping cart in Utah,...
So; API is a "system of method of operation", and hence non-copyrightable.
What an incredibly stupid tragedy it is that a megacorp like Oracle could be driven by such greed and "Dumbth" that they, including their lawyers (though I don't doubt the latter were compensated handsomely), could force anyone through such a long, expensive, and unnecessary process. I'm glad they lost, they should have lost, and they should have known they'd lose. Thanks to Google/Android, they did. I don't often cheer for Google (though I haven't really anything against them (I don't use them)). Today, I am. Good job.
Suck it, Larry. Dipshit. For someone who sells software for a living, you sure don't understand it, do you?
Thanks to the judge for knowing his stuff, and for not falling for the BS Oracle was spouting.
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Thx mon. Keep on livin on.
What's art?
Who gives a shit?
Man, this philosophy thing is kind cool.
You have no idea how cool it can be. It can really wake up your mind, to the point you scare yourself with the stuff you imagine. All from inside your own head!
I like Aristotle, and King Lionides. And Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard and F. A. Hayek and and and ...
What've you got against seven year olds and midgits, you Nazi!
Continuing the thought (sorry):
Then I got into pottery in the "Arts & Crafts" class, and THAT impressed me.
But is that "Art?" Good pottery well done *can* be art. Usually, it's utilitarian/useful (hence "Crafts"). Japanese pottery (ie. Raku) is fantastic stuff. There's whole civilizations, about which we only know of their pottery. Mere mortals can take mud and turn it into rock that lasts longer than their civilization, to be found by later civilizations' archaeologists.
For a mere craft, it can be pretty seductive. Art? What's art?
Meh. Depends how you do it. I think Mona Lisa is overrated. I've seen pottery that damned near glowed with life in the right light. There are glazes that were once used regularly that have been lost and we cannot replicate today.
Sorry for the segue. This's dear to me.
I know there is a big selection bias involved in being an artist, where a lack of realistic expectations is kind of a given, but seriously... I can't even read this summary it's so optimistically cavalier about the scale of the task described my eyes just glaze over. Doing difficult things without purpose isn't art.
When I hung around the "Fine Arts" class in high school, I used an acetylene torch to cut up scrap into shapes I could then weld together into fanciful animal or plant shapes. I'd guess about fifteen girlfriends wound up with my creations gracing their front lawns. Art? They thought so. Years later, they were still out on their lawns, so their families agreed? Me, I just thought it was either fun or interesting to do.
Then I got into pottery in the "Arts & Crafts" class, and THAT impressed me. Shimpo wheels, building kilns with fire bricks, all the interesting chemicals that go into glazes, Raku and reduction methods (suck the O2 out of silver oxide and you've got silver!).
Too bad there's no money in it. I loved it.
All these groups and laws are doing is sucking the pleasure out of music, movies, etc.
No, they're not. I've already got all the music I want. I bought it long ago to play in the cassette deck in my car. I haven't heard much recently that I'd want to buy.
Pink Floyd, Mike & the Mechanics, Buena Vista Social Club, Tananas, Sipho Gumede, Carlos Santana, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, CSN&Y, Joe Jackson, Yes, Tom Cochrane, Allman Bros., Van Morrison, Luba, Steely Dan, Loreena McKennitt, Bonnie Raitt, Boz Scaggs, not to mention a boatload of classical (Mahler, Bach, ...), ... I don't need any more, and with the limitations placed on how they want to sell it today, no thanks, pass.
They are destroying their own industries.
That, I agree with. The sooner, the better.
Just so's you know you started this:
Your other comments are almost equally stupid.
To which I'll happily respond, Fuck off, asshole!
... so they've got a bit more capability than one fat geek with a grudge.
Archimedes. Isaac Newton. Leonardo DaVinci. Giordano Bruno. Marie Curie. Richard Feynman. Niels Bohr. Albert Einstein. Shakespear.
Shall I go on? By the way, you're an idiot. HAND. :-)
So you're saying I AM psychic. I hate it when that happens.
As for the IPv4/6 thing, large blocks of IPv4 are returning back onto the market now that scarcity has increased their value to some.
Move to IPv6, and there will be no reason to buy IPv4 addresses period!
Which is why they're unloading their IPv4 blocks now, ASAP, before they're worthless! Damn, some of you just don't get Capitalism. P. T. Barnum's got a bridge you'd be interested in.
Of the continent of Eurasia, maybe.
I will grudgingly give you that but I've got to say, I've never liked that. Continents are supposed to be land masses separated by some very substantial feature, such as oceans or seas, or at least a Bosporus, or the Ural Mountains. "Eurasia" is a hack job, as if you feel Europe's better than Asia, so you want your own name to distinguish yourselves from them.
You massively underestimate the capabilities of determined individuals. One guy on his own reinvented Unix.
For a Slashdotter, I think you've massively misunderstood this whole "open source" concept.
Gee, how many signatures were on that email that Linus sent to the Minix mailing list announcing he'd got something like a kernel working? Oh yeah, one! Then people piled on, throwing stuff at him to incorporate into it. "Does it have a network stack?" "What's a network stack?" "Here, use this."
No, I do not misunderstand Free Software (damnit!) and that a working whole system takes many hands. I do know Gnu had been banging its head on Hurd for years, yet it was Linus who did it!
Go bang your head on a post ten times, Grasshopper.
Listen to you, same old "durr, porn's not bad for kids!" nonsense.
Listen to you, in the same camp as those horrified about a bit of female nipple shown on network TV. Ever noticed that pretty much all humans have a couple? Wanna outlaw mirrors now?
Good or bad. If people are spamming the site with it, it is still a nuisance.
From what I've seen so far, a fair number of Wikipedians don't consider it spam.
No, no, no -- just use a text browser, obviously...
Well, you're no fun. :-(
What kind of nutbar goes to Wikipedia for porn? Then again, maybe that'll teach a lesson to all those corporate nazis who're filtering their employees' web access. "Ha haaaa!"
Besides, porn? Why's anyone going nuts about porn? Discovery channel shows animals going at it all the time. Wait'll you see the one with the amorous elephant chasing after his intended. "Look at the size of that thing!"
In the US, the split is notoriously in favour of the labels with the labels more often than not never bothering to forward the artist's share.
Canada's collection societies have recently been determined to be doing the same. Michael Geist probably has a story on it. I've read the same story or something much like it from Europe, UK, and Australia. Sometimes they pay only the big players and if your share is under a certain minimum, you get nothing. It's a corrupt, rigged game. Artists should give collection societies and labels the bird.
I, for one, welcome (y)our new mayonnaise-on-fries-eating cover band overlords.
Mayonnaise on fries?!? You just about made me throw up! I've never heard of that in Canada. Now, Poutine (cheese and gravy on fries?) is another thing. I've never had it, but have heard of it.
Some of the things US' fast food joints come up with is far more disgusting than anything we do.
Why don't Canadians fuck standing up? Because god might think they're dancing.
That makes no sense. The joke was about Baptists.
Yup. And demonstrably untrue. I'm Canadian, and they loved it. That's all I have to say about that.
God isn't in the business of collecting license fees. Granted she's not in the business of preventing dancing (except for techno 'music' that crap is from the devil).
I thought that was rap, and Justin Bieber.
Record the event ... Ask anyone attending who recorded a video with their mobile phone/tablet/e-glasses to send you a copy of the video for the compilation DVD.
Yes, so merely by implementing this new policy, the cost of doing any of these things has gone up, whether you play their stuff or not. Now you need to document the entire event from start to end, and keep that recording until the statute of limitations runs out? Multiply that by the number of potentially infringing events.
What happens if some little girl at a wedding hums an infringing tune? The event infringes; minimum payment is due. "For the artists."
Progress. Full employment for moochers and lawyers. Thanks. This is nuts.
When you can't innovate you create a legal scam to charge for everything else.
They also create a golden opportunity for previously unknown, unsigned bands. Throw it back in their face.
"Play our music for free and get us publicity."
"Good idea!"
Every single thing that I was told this country stood for is a lie.
I think your citizenry still largely stand for those things. Your government hasn't for quite some time.
It's interesting that in Ajax, it was Britain that was peed off and wanted to change things, and the US went along. Now, the UK is considered the US' lapdog.
you fool, he is joking.
You fool, the AC is not.
Stuxnet was introduced using infected USB sticks.
"Okay Microsoft, we'll let you off on the antitrust shit if you'll make sure we can compromise anybody's computer."
"How about if we enable something stupid like autorun?"
"Won't that mean any computer will be vulnerable to anyone plugging in a USB key?"
"Yes."
"Do it."
well, I guess that whole war of 1812 thing is still debatable...
No, it's not.
You can add the Bay of Pigs fiasco and your abject failures in Central (Nicaragua) and South America. "American Imperialism" is a very real fact to them. Cf. Venezuela's Chavez. They have lots of good reasons to hate the things you do, or the things that are done in your name.
Salvador Allende was in bed with the Russians, but was Pinochet an improvement?
Or will Google have to make changes to Android in order to satisfy the end result of all these court rulings?
Google is off the hook and Oracle is not only left looking very stupid, it's also left looking very poor and ripe for a Google takeover.
I hope you're not just toying with us, and there's at least a shred of truth in that, because that'd be hilarious.
Google takes over Oracle, retires the Oracle db (or opensources it, whatever), promotes MySQL back to where it should have been and opensources it, Google reinvigorates Sun, Solaris, and its hardware division, and Larry Ellison's seen pushing a shopping cart in Utah, ...
So; API is a "system of method of operation", and hence non-copyrightable.
What an incredibly stupid tragedy it is that a megacorp like Oracle could be driven by such greed and "Dumbth" that they, including their lawyers (though I don't doubt the latter were compensated handsomely), could force anyone through such a long, expensive, and unnecessary process. I'm glad they lost, they should have lost, and they should have known they'd lose. Thanks to Google/Android, they did. I don't often cheer for Google (though I haven't really anything against them (I don't use them)). Today, I am. Good job.
Suck it, Larry. Dipshit. For someone who sells software for a living, you sure don't understand it, do you?
Thanks to the judge for knowing his stuff, and for not falling for the BS Oracle was spouting.