Rubbish. You are arguably/potentially depriving someone of their rightful income - since we do not and can never know whether of the people who pirated the would have bought it if pirate channels did not exist.
That argument is kind of weak, and most fair use laws will allow you to take a backup of the CD, or copy it to your mp3-player or whatever. That someone has invented a mechanism for mass-copying content, is also OK. What's not OK is people taking advantage of that to infringe on others rights, and thus, depriving someone of their rightful income.
You can dismiss that admittedly subtle distinction as "mumbojumbo" or "newspeak" as well if you like. No skin off my nose; those of us who realise that the real world IS full of subtle distinctions can continue to have an appropriate nuanced debate, you can carry on boiling things down to oversimplified soundbites that sound better when chanted by a lynch mob;-)
Actually, I am trying to provide a variation of the "feel good about downloading copyrighted stuff for free."
Now, where's the rope...:-)
FWIW, I'm heavily involved in music of many forms. I've sold my music via record labels; I've also sold stuff without labels, selling direct from artist to fans; I've produced music on commission. I've given away music as a form of promotion in order to earn money from live gigs; I've done live gigs for free in order to earn money from CD sales. I'm confident I've done most any permutation of "create content" and "make money" you can care to name.
Admirable, and more power to you! I see that in all these circumstances, you have had control of whether you wanted to generate income directly by your recordings, or providing something for free (performance) and then selling your main-product at the door. That is good. And, it is your choice.
People downloading copyrighted stuff for free do not give the creators that choice.
Lets assume for a second that you aren't a record industry stooge.
If you check my posting history, I think you'll find that I'm a mortal retard, with no ties to the record industry itself. Honestly.
I watched my friends copy of true romance at their house. I payed nothing to do this. How is this different from me downloading it and watching it on my own? The movie is what, 15 years old now? Do corporations really have a right to profit from things that really aught to be - and indeed are - part of our collective culture? Indefinately?
Well, if your friend rented the DVD, he is allowed to watch it with his friends. Some money has been spent somewhere, which in the end, ends up at the owner or whoever they have pointed out as their representative (sold restribution rights to for that particular medium)
Is an old version of Oracle now "a part of our collective culture" (Not talking about horror stories using Oracle, I mean the product itself) How about those one-hit wonders, whose music is played regularly on radio, years after their initial release. Aren't they entitled some reimbursement for that?
If you release a movie, you want people to see it. This is why people have told stories for generations. You can't just legislate away peoples ability to enjoy and learn from culture. The problem here is that theres an attitude that everything has a right to profit. These rights were created by men, perverted by corporations, and now we are simply liberating them back.
If you release a movie, you probably want both people to see it, AND get your invesment back with profit. Noone is legislating your ability to "enjoy and learn from culture", they just want compensation for it.
Just forget it; when I posted my comment I had forgotten that Slashdot is a huge experiment in hive thinking. The queens have arrived with their "copyright infringment is not theft" arguments, which serves no other purpose in the discussion than to whore for some karma and justify their own leeching. The worker bees are busy modding.
Strawman argument. You can do all the legalese mumbojumbo you want, but you are still depriving someone of their rightful income. That some of us still use the word steal, instead of your newspeak and backpatting wording, is your problem.
Maybe you should try to create and make money of some content yourself?
I must admit a small part of me (Ok, I was jumping with joy) really hoped that thousands of badly programmed credit card verification pages now would fail miserably, and that quite a few webdevs would be struggling.
If I do need to know what the time is, I can be 100% sure that the cell phone is around. If the cell phone isn't around, I don't need to know what time it is.
Back in the old days, we had a programming seminar at work. Rather bored in the evening, and not sufficiently drunk, we spent 15 minutes using MFC, and had made an app we called Visual Notepad++. It supported CTRL+S, CTRL+P, CTRL+O, AND files larger than 64 kilobytes. Microsoft finally caught up with NT 4.0, I think.:-)
Have you tried casting a returned column which contains a date like '1900-0-0 18:30' (contained in a datetime field) to DateTime in Java from the resultset?
Unless you cannot assume that a datetime contained in the RDBMS is in fact a valid datetime, you will end up with a huge mess.
But I guess that is why I don't work with MySQL or web programmers anymore.:=)
A database allowing even simple datatypes to contain crap which is totally inconsistent with any calendar in use for the last 5000 years is responsible for some of the crap .
Foreign keys aren't "nice", THEY ARE ESSENTIAL TO A RDBMS.
It is the same thinking that probably made the retards at MySQL AB make a datatype that accepts 30th February as a date. (At least did, a few years ago.) Why EVEN include a datetime datatype if it isnt capable of the SIMPLEST validations ever.
Yes, I'm fuming. Those MySQL retards has made a generation of programmers think they can do SQL when they manage to put crap into MySQL. Gahhh, I hope their puny webapps will haunt them down sometime.
(I was once searching for a simple webbased forum, and tested phpnuke. It had the following gem to display the 5 most recent articles in the database:
1. "SELECT * FROM ARTICLES ORDER BY ID DESC" 2. Retrieve all articles from the database 3. Then a for loop printing out the 5 first entries.
They basically transferred all data in the articles database everytime, just to iterate over the 5 first rows. Gahhhhhh)
Version 1.01: * Misc bugs removed * Fixed Satan exploit, allowing him to take over the world * Spawn of Evil will now spawn in lesser numbers * The stone introduced as a new weapon, allowing you to stone the infidels * The Billy Graham level is now accessible in Realistic mode * Kofi Annan removed as head of evil, Son of satan; replaced with generic character awaiting the new appointment of the UN leader
It would be delivered in 2015 and certified for field use around 2020. There would also be a specop edition using depleted uranium for extra can protection.
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Well put. I work as an self-employed programmer, and have basically worked as an consultant all my working life. (1995-> now)
About 4 years ago, I started working for myself, and have so far had no problems getting work in my field of expertise. However, I've never spent that much of the money on things per se, but have had a rather "maniac" save for a rainy day attitude. Most of the time I've had around 2-3 major customers, and then quite a few smaller jobs on the side.
That was a big mistake. I know the saying "if you can turn down one customer, try without anyone for three weeks", but really, as a programmer, it is so stressful to always have a bad conscience about something. If you get all your work done by working your ass off, you will feel bad/stressed because you do not socialize with your friends. When you socialize, you feel bad about the work you should have done.
This culminated with a WoW-addiction on top of that. Needless to say, my health has suffered from this. (One doctor wondered if I was on drugs, since I was so skinny;-)
My advice to deal with burnout is to avoid as much sidework and distractions from your main sources of income. If you got like a 6-12 month contract with a major employer, you can do without the smaller side contracts, EVEN if you can do them on the evening for a week or so.
Having multiple deadlines for several customers occuring at the same day is pure hell. Do not do that on a regular basis, take care of the good customers, and learn to say no to work. Rather, network with other guys, and send them the business. The person you sent away will feel that you made an effort to help them out, and if the other guy needs the business, he owe you one. Win/Win!
It is OK to work a lot on the same project, as long as you can focus on that alone, and manage to take time off. Its all the distractions that has go. (My record is a major python app, one huge.NET-thing, and a J2EE-project at the same time. Sure, the pay was good, but I could probably have earned almost as much by working much harder on one of the projects instead.)
Ok, you are debating the use of one word from a article you don't like since it is written by a person you do not think much about which is a review of a game you admit to not care much about, either.
Slashdot Mirror
Rubbish. You are arguably/potentially depriving someone of their rightful income - since we do not and can never know whether of the people who pirated the would have bought it if pirate channels did not exist.
;-)
:-)
That argument is kind of weak, and most fair use laws will allow you to take a backup of the CD, or copy it to your mp3-player or whatever. That someone has invented a mechanism for mass-copying content, is also OK. What's not OK is people taking advantage of that to infringe on others rights, and thus, depriving someone of their rightful income.
You can dismiss that admittedly subtle distinction as "mumbojumbo" or "newspeak" as well if you like. No skin off my nose; those of us who realise that the real world IS full of subtle distinctions can continue to have an appropriate nuanced debate, you can carry on boiling things down to oversimplified soundbites that sound better when chanted by a lynch mob
Actually, I am trying to provide a variation of the "feel good about downloading copyrighted stuff for free."
Now, where's the rope...
FWIW, I'm heavily involved in music of many forms. I've sold my music via record labels; I've also sold stuff without labels, selling direct from artist to fans; I've produced music on commission. I've given away music as a form of promotion in order to earn money from live gigs; I've done live gigs for free in order to earn money from CD sales. I'm confident I've done most any permutation of "create content" and "make money" you can care to name.
Admirable, and more power to you! I see that in all these circumstances, you have had control of whether you wanted to generate income directly by your recordings, or providing something for free (performance) and then selling your main-product at the door. That is good. And, it is your choice.
People downloading copyrighted stuff for free do not give the creators that choice.
Lets assume for a second that you aren't a record industry stooge.
If you check my posting history, I think you'll find that I'm a mortal retard, with no ties to the record industry itself. Honestly.
I watched my friends copy of true romance at their house. I payed nothing to do this. How is this different from me downloading it and watching it on my own? The movie is what, 15 years old now? Do corporations really have a right to profit from things that really aught to be - and indeed are - part of our collective culture? Indefinately?
Well, if your friend rented the DVD, he is allowed to watch it with his friends. Some money has been spent somewhere, which in the end, ends up at the owner or whoever they have pointed out as their representative (sold restribution rights to for that particular medium)
Is an old version of Oracle now "a part of our collective culture" (Not talking about horror stories using Oracle, I mean the product itself) How about those one-hit wonders, whose music is played regularly on radio, years after their initial release. Aren't they entitled some reimbursement for that?
If you release a movie, you want people to see it. This is why people have told stories for generations. You can't just legislate away peoples ability to enjoy and learn from culture. The problem here is that theres an attitude that everything has a right to profit. These rights were created by men, perverted by corporations, and now we are simply liberating them back.
If you release a movie, you probably want both people to see it, AND get your invesment back with profit. Noone is legislating your ability to "enjoy and learn from culture", they just want compensation for it.
Just forget it; when I posted my comment I had forgotten that Slashdot is a huge experiment in hive thinking. The queens have arrived with their "copyright infringment is not theft" arguments, which serves no other purpose in the discussion than to whore for some karma and justify their own leeching. The worker bees are busy modding.
I can't see how that relates to downloading pirated movies and music from the bay or other places.
:-)
(But I agree with you an all accounts, and True Romance is an excellent movie.
No, I used steal in the meaning "using something you have no right to use" and "Depriving someone of their rightful income."
Who is talking about theft? I said steal.
Strawman argument. You can do all the legalese mumbojumbo you want, but you are still depriving someone of their rightful income. That some of us still use the word steal, instead of your newspeak and backpatting wording, is your problem.
Maybe you should try to create and make money of some content yourself?
£500m? Can't they just buy the stuff they steal on the bay for that kind of money?
God, no. Sorry to hear that!
:-)
(That alarm clock and management thing was just to tempting, sorry.
I have no idea, but according to his blog, he can't adjust his alarm clock. So, my guess is he's in management somehow.
( http://www.makesitgood.net/ )
I must admit a small part of me (Ok, I was jumping with joy) really hoped that thousands of badly programmed credit card verification pages now would fail miserably, and that quite a few webdevs would be struggling.
Damn, false hopes again, Slashdot!
Is it really true that Al Jazeera is blocked in the US? Any sources to backup that claim?
If I do need to know what the time is, I can be 100% sure that the cell phone is around. If the cell phone isn't around, I don't need to know what time it is.
Yay, yet another bunch of web pages with light grey text on white background! Just what the world needed.
Come on guys, it might be valid CSS, but it is not easy on the eyes.
A time enthusiast :-)
Check this one out as well, very nice overview and analysis. http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html
Back in the old days, we had a programming seminar at work. Rather bored in the evening, and not sufficiently drunk, we spent 15 minutes using MFC, and had made an app we called Visual Notepad++. It supported CTRL+S, CTRL+P, CTRL+O, AND files larger than 64 kilobytes. Microsoft finally caught up with NT 4.0, I think. :-)
Have you tried casting a returned column which contains a date like '1900-0-0 18:30' (contained in a datetime field) to DateTime in Java from the resultset?
:=)
Unless you cannot assume that a datetime contained in the RDBMS is in fact a valid datetime, you will end up with a huge mess.
But I guess that is why I don't work with MySQL or web programmers anymore.
A database allowing even simple datatypes to contain crap which is totally inconsistent with any calendar in use for the last 5000 years is responsible for some of the crap .
Foreign keys aren't "nice", THEY ARE ESSENTIAL TO A RDBMS.
It is the same thinking that probably made the retards at MySQL AB make a datatype that accepts 30th February as a date. (At least did, a few years ago.) Why EVEN include a datetime datatype if it isnt capable of the SIMPLEST validations ever.
Yes, I'm fuming. Those MySQL retards has made a generation of programmers think they can do SQL when they manage to put crap into MySQL. Gahhh, I hope their puny webapps will haunt them down sometime.
(I was once searching for a simple webbased forum, and tested phpnuke. It had the following gem to display the 5 most recent articles in the database:
1. "SELECT * FROM ARTICLES ORDER BY ID DESC"
2. Retrieve all articles from the database
3. Then a for loop printing out the 5 first entries.
They basically transferred all data in the articles database everytime, just to iterate over the 5 first rows. Gahhhhhh)
So true! In multiplayer, two or more players can lift and drop some rather big stones :)
Version 1.01:
* Misc bugs removed
* Fixed Satan exploit, allowing him to take over the world
* Spawn of Evil will now spawn in lesser numbers
* The stone introduced as a new weapon, allowing you to stone the infidels
* The Billy Graham level is now accessible in Realistic mode
* Kofi Annan removed as head of evil, Son of satan; replaced with generic character awaiting the new appointment of the UN leader
It would be delivered in 2015 and certified for field use around 2020. There would also be a specop edition using depleted uranium for extra can protection.
Well put. I work as an self-employed programmer, and have basically worked as an consultant all my working life. (1995-> now)
;-)
.NET-thing, and a J2EE-project at the same time. Sure, the pay was good, but I could probably have earned almost as much by working much harder on one of the projects instead.)
About 4 years ago, I started working for myself, and have so far had no problems getting work in my field of expertise. However, I've never spent that much of the money on things per se, but have had a rather "maniac" save for a rainy day attitude. Most of the time I've had around 2-3 major customers, and then quite a few smaller jobs on the side.
That was a big mistake. I know the saying "if you can turn down one customer, try without anyone for three weeks", but really, as a programmer, it is so stressful to always have a bad conscience about something. If you get all your work done by working your ass off, you will feel bad/stressed because you do not socialize with your friends. When you socialize, you feel bad about the work you should have done.
This culminated with a WoW-addiction on top of that. Needless to say, my health has suffered from this. (One doctor wondered if I was on drugs, since I was so skinny
My advice to deal with burnout is to avoid as much sidework and distractions from your main sources of income. If you got like a 6-12 month contract with a major employer, you can do without the smaller side contracts, EVEN if you can do them on the evening for a week or so.
Having multiple deadlines for several customers occuring at the same day is pure hell. Do not do that on a regular basis, take care of the good customers, and learn to say no to work. Rather, network with other guys, and send them the business. The person you sent away will feel that you made an effort to help them out, and if the other guy needs the business, he owe you one. Win/Win!
It is OK to work a lot on the same project, as long as you can focus on that alone, and manage to take time off. Its all the distractions that has go. (My record is a major python app, one huge
Sorry for rambling.
Ok, you are debating the use of one word from a article you don't like since it is written by a person you do not think much about which is a review of a game you admit to not care much about, either.
You would love USENET.
Collateral damage.