You're definitely right, there's a huge difference between the what happened in the USSR and what we're talking about here. But I do believe (or maybe just hope) that one day in the future, our overreaching copyright policies will be viewed the same way as the USSR's policy with photocopiers. And, yes, this has nothing to do with the article. Maybe I was reaching a little;)
But I guess my main point was that letting innovation stumble because of greed will only do our country, and the world, harm. (an obvious point I suppose).
Like look at Ultra Wide Band technology. Maybe the technology isn't mature enough to handle what it could potentially do, so the FCC is technically justified for splitting up the spectrum the way it does. Because some people argue that even if the technology were mature, the FCC wouldn't be reallocating the spectrum. But maybe even staying neutral isn't good enough (staying neutral = only reallocating spectrum when it is clear that UWB works, and is powerful). Why isn't the government actively pursuing research to bring this technology to maturity. There is no doubt that if some of the ideas that people have about this tech were put into practice, it would help the economy tremendously. In fact, it would help the economy much more than it would hurt individuals who stand to lose from it, and of course, the benefits would outweight the costs of expediting the tech. So why aren't they pursuing it? It's just greed.
Well, I'm not really sure what you're trying to say. My point was that limiting freedoms and innovations will hurt the country and lead to it's downfall. Just like the USSR. Now, can you explain your point again?
I remember reading an article about some scientist in the USSR who had the privelege of leaving the country on a trip because of his prominence. Before he was going to go back to his country, someone asked him what he will miss the most once he's back home. His answer: photocopiers. Apparently, the USSR very tightly regulated photocopiers, so it was available to almost no one. He would have to copy scientific articles by hand.
I suppose the fact that he said "napster" and not P2P makes his comment seem outdated, but essentially what he's saying is entirely true. Someone please mod him up.
[sic] is incredibly obnoxious, especially when original quote is right above your post. What's the point exactly? And it makes it doubly obnoxious considering that "practice" is the accepted spelling in the United States. Oh, I get it, because British English is the only "real" English, right?
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This is slashdot! Do people on car enthusiast sites talk about the fact that most people don't need 500 HP cars? I mean, seriously, what planet are you living on. Luddite;)
Exactly! Food is a bad example. I'm not usually susceptible to ads and brand names, but with certain foods, there will always be slight differences between brand names and generics. Not that brand names are superior, but with foods people often like the familiar.
Ever hear of Half Life? Deus Ex? No One Lives Forever? Medal Of Honor? Dude, get with it. It's so obvious that most people on slashdot, despite being geeks, aren't really gamers. You don't know anything about games.
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You know, in britain, after cars were invented, they passed a law that said that any vehicle going over 10 miles an hour (or some speed I don't remember exactly), need to be preceded by a man waving a flag in order to warn people. This legislation was created just to help the companies who made carriages stay in business. Simple darwinism. Even the law can't stop it.
Especially when you consider people who download ten times the amount they can possibly afford. Often if I hear a song I like from a movie or something I might download it to hear the whole song. I'm still not gonna buy the album for every song I hear in a movie. So that's why I believe we should have shorter copyrights.
I know you weren't saying otherwise, but I'd just like to point out that case is settled only if both sides agree to settle. If you'd really like to test the enforcibility of the GPL you can take them to court and just not settle and see what happens
Yeah, like Jugulator said, just because word runs fast enough for you doesn't mean there's no point in this. I am converting DVDs to divx and it takes a really long time. Usually takes about 16 to 18 hours to encode a high quality divx 5 movie in two passes (that's with my 1 GHz). It would be great if I could do it in 10 hours, or 7 hours, or 15 minutes.
And also, speed is really important if you play games. You think the only point in having a faster PC is having Word load up faster? You're right, this is the problem with the PC industry, and why no one is buying new computers anymore. Most people don't encode divx. But then again, this is slashdot, so you'd imagine that most people here put their cycles to good use.
You know, I'd love to get a mac. In fact, when I buy a laptop it will be a mac. The only reason why I don't plan to ever get a mac desktop (at least not for the near future) is because I like to play games, and as you well know, the mac has like 6 games. And they're all on the PC already anyway.
Yes, I suppose that's true. When you said "breaching the microsoft monopoly" I assumed that simply not giving them money was enough to do that. I see your point though. But I'm sure you also realize that people who are dependent on Windows are usually simply not capable of running Unix, either because a lack of intelligence, a lack of interest, but it's usually a combination of both. I'm sure you also realize that if you do try to convince someone to run Unix, who isn't interested, they will just learn to ignore you and probably all your advice.
Well, now you can get a Dell with FreeDOS. And then you can just download a corporate version of windows xp (for those that use windows) without product activation.
Man, I'm really surprised, because I thought the first season and the early shows were really cheesy and I couldn't stand it. Even though all the shows were cheesy, even the later episodes, it was still very enjoyable. I remember the last season had so many good episodes. One episode (two part episode) I remember in particular was "workforce". I really liked that one. I'm surprised most people don't agree with me about the later, and especially the seventh, season(s).
Duh, why do you think AMDs processors are better (cheaper)? Maybe because they don't waste money on advertising. I frankly don't care what the "mindless mainstream users" use, or pay. I don't want to have to pay extra just to get mainstream users to convert. I don't care if AMD is successful as long as I'm getting a deal.
To say voyager went downhill at the end is crazy. Every single episode of the last season, I thought, was great. And even if you didn't particularly like even the last season, the later seasons were all much better than the earlier season. Am I the only one who feels that way?
It's kind of interesting actually, the more "common" words (of the commoners) are usually from German, while the more sophisticated words, or words of the "upper class" are more likely to be french. Like house (german "haus") and mansion (french "maison").
HBO and pay per view are mutually exclusive. I don't know what SKY is or how it works, but the joke would just be confusing if you put in HBO instead of SKY. And you're making the assumption that gets everyone mad at Americans: that everyone on the internet is American, and that the internet is only for Americans.
I think he's trying to say that there are certain issues that are worth getting worked up about. I agree with him, and I think this is one of those times.
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You're definitely right, there's a huge difference between the what happened in the USSR and what we're talking about here. But I do believe (or maybe just hope) that one day in the future, our overreaching copyright policies will be viewed the same way as the USSR's policy with photocopiers. And, yes, this has nothing to do with the article. Maybe I was reaching a little ;)
But I guess my main point was that letting innovation stumble because of greed will only do our country, and the world, harm. (an obvious point I suppose).
Like look at Ultra Wide Band technology. Maybe the technology isn't mature enough to handle what it could potentially do, so the FCC is technically justified for splitting up the spectrum the way it does. Because some people argue that even if the technology were mature, the FCC wouldn't be reallocating the spectrum. But maybe even staying neutral isn't good enough (staying neutral = only reallocating spectrum when it is clear that UWB works, and is powerful). Why isn't the government actively pursuing research to bring this technology to maturity. There is no doubt that if some of the ideas that people have about this tech were put into practice, it would help the economy tremendously. In fact, it would help the economy much more than it would hurt individuals who stand to lose from it, and of course, the benefits would outweight the costs of expediting the tech. So why aren't they pursuing it? It's just greed.
Well, I'm not really sure what you're trying to say. My point was that limiting freedoms and innovations will hurt the country and lead to it's downfall. Just like the USSR. Now, can you explain your point again?
Mod this guy up, he's on to something.
I remember reading an article about some scientist in the USSR who had the privelege of leaving the country on a trip because of his prominence. Before he was going to go back to his country, someone asked him what he will miss the most once he's back home. His answer: photocopiers. Apparently, the USSR very tightly regulated photocopiers, so it was available to almost no one. He would have to copy scientific articles by hand.
I suppose the fact that he said "napster" and not P2P makes his comment seem outdated, but essentially what he's saying is entirely true. Someone please mod him up.
[sic] is incredibly obnoxious, especially when original quote is right above your post. What's the point exactly? And it makes it doubly obnoxious considering that "practice" is the accepted spelling in the United States. Oh, I get it, because British English is the only "real" English, right?
This is slashdot! Do people on car enthusiast sites talk about the fact that most people don't need 500 HP cars? I mean, seriously, what planet are you living on. Luddite ;)
Exactly! Food is a bad example. I'm not usually susceptible to ads and brand names, but with certain foods, there will always be slight differences between brand names and generics. Not that brand names are superior, but with foods people often like the familiar.
Food is the bad example.
Ever hear of Half Life? Deus Ex? No One Lives Forever? Medal Of Honor? Dude, get with it. It's so obvious that most people on slashdot, despite being geeks, aren't really gamers. You don't know anything about games.
You know, in britain, after cars were invented, they passed a law that said that any vehicle going over 10 miles an hour (or some speed I don't remember exactly), need to be preceded by a man waving a flag in order to warn people. This legislation was created just to help the companies who made carriages stay in business. Simple darwinism. Even the law can't stop it.
Especially when you consider people who download ten times the amount they can possibly afford. Often if I hear a song I like from a movie or something I might download it to hear the whole song. I'm still not gonna buy the album for every song I hear in a movie. So that's why I believe we should have shorter copyrights.
Copyright infringement is not "STEALING"!
I know you weren't saying otherwise, but I'd just like to point out that case is settled only if both sides agree to settle. If you'd really like to test the enforcibility of the GPL you can take them to court and just not settle and see what happens
In fact, I do. It's not stealing, even if you consider it wrong, stealing is the wrong word. Now go away.
Sure, many are bright, but like I said, I think the bigger problem is lack of interest. Most people just don't give a fuck.
Yeah, like Jugulator said, just because word runs fast enough for you doesn't mean there's no point in this. I am converting DVDs to divx and it takes a really long time. Usually takes about 16 to 18 hours to encode a high quality divx 5 movie in two passes (that's with my 1 GHz). It would be great if I could do it in 10 hours, or 7 hours, or 15 minutes.
And also, speed is really important if you play games. You think the only point in having a faster PC is having Word load up faster? You're right, this is the problem with the PC industry, and why no one is buying new computers anymore. Most people don't encode divx. But then again, this is slashdot, so you'd imagine that most people here put their cycles to good use.
You know, I'd love to get a mac. In fact, when I buy a laptop it will be a mac. The only reason why I don't plan to ever get a mac desktop (at least not for the near future) is because I like to play games, and as you well know, the mac has like 6 games. And they're all on the PC already anyway.
Yes, I suppose that's true. When you said "breaching the microsoft monopoly" I assumed that simply not giving them money was enough to do that. I see your point though. But I'm sure you also realize that people who are dependent on Windows are usually simply not capable of running Unix, either because a lack of intelligence, a lack of interest, but it's usually a combination of both. I'm sure you also realize that if you do try to convince someone to run Unix, who isn't interested, they will just learn to ignore you and probably all your advice.
Well, now you can get a Dell with FreeDOS. And then you can just download a corporate version of windows xp (for those that use windows) without product activation.
Man, I'm really surprised, because I thought the first season and the early shows were really cheesy and I couldn't stand it. Even though all the shows were cheesy, even the later episodes, it was still very enjoyable. I remember the last season had so many good episodes. One episode (two part episode) I remember in particular was "workforce". I really liked that one. I'm surprised most people don't agree with me about the later, and especially the seventh, season(s).
Duh, why do you think AMDs processors are better (cheaper)? Maybe because they don't waste money on advertising. I frankly don't care what the "mindless mainstream users" use, or pay. I don't want to have to pay extra just to get mainstream users to convert. I don't care if AMD is successful as long as I'm getting a deal.
To say voyager went downhill at the end is crazy. Every single episode of the last season, I thought, was great. And even if you didn't particularly like even the last season, the later seasons were all much better than the earlier season. Am I the only one who feels that way?
It's kind of interesting actually, the more "common" words (of the commoners) are usually from German, while the more sophisticated words, or words of the "upper class" are more likely to be french. Like house (german "haus") and mansion (french "maison").
HBO and pay per view are mutually exclusive. I don't know what SKY is or how it works, but the joke would just be confusing if you put in HBO instead of SKY. And you're making the assumption that gets everyone mad at Americans: that everyone on the internet is American, and that the internet is only for Americans.
I think he's trying to say that there are certain issues that are worth getting worked up about. I agree with him, and I think this is one of those times.
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