Have you ever heard a live recording of a band you loved and then said to yourself, "Gee, I guess I can skip the concert now"?
A percentage of the people buying the bootlegs will wind up short of ticket money? Are you fucking serious?
And, finally, I don't know how many times we're going to have to go through this:
Recording artists do not make money off of recordings. Recording companies make money off of recordings. Artists almost always lose money on recording. The value of going into massive debt on making an album is that it might induce more people to come to your shows.
If people are recording and distributing recordings of your shows for you, it's free advertisement.
...and allow artist/inventers to prosper from there work...
Actually, that's wrong. The SOLE constitutional purpose of copyright is to encourage innovation. Allowing artists or inventors to profit from creative work is unconstitutional unless it demonstrably contributes to that end.
But, then, nobody follows the constitution for shit anyway.
While living in downtown Miami, my passenger-side window was bashed out one night at a time when I lacked the funds to replace it.
Nearly every night thereafter for several months, there were intruders into my vehicle. Bums slept in it, random shady passersby stuck their heads in for a look just in case anything good might have been forgotten there; the crappy broken CD player was ripped out of it (I should have thought to stick a little post-it on the thing that said 'only the radio works on this one, please ignore') which sucked because it left me to drive in silence (aside, of course, for the blaring wind and driving rain which couldn't be helped.)
I was living, at this time, in an apartment directly above the busy street (Biscayne & 24th, for those familiar) on which I left the car parked, and became obsessed with running to the window to see if anyone was rooting through my poor little car, and dialing 911 and giving them descriptions of the people in the car right then.
Anyway, I finally solved the problem (until I was able to replace the window, anyway) with a home-made, zero-cost, silly-as-fucking-shit system of my own device: I ran a piece of twine down from my window and around the opposite side of the car, such that it was tied to the inside door-handle of the passenger side. That way, if the passenger door were to be opened, the bag of loud things I tied the other end of the string to would jingle! Ingenious, I know! I did this every single night.
Sure, the system could have been circumvented easily enough, but it wasn't! My car was never entered by another single foreign body. Which leads me to the MORAL OF THE STORY:
Don't shy away from doing silly shit like this, because it doesn't even matter whether it would work or not: it's the psychology of the thing that's important. If you make people feel like they're being watched--especially if you're able to make them feel like they're being watched by a crazy, potentially violent person (as I no doubt did and possibly was)--then they will leave your shit alone.
Umm... no; if you make the job more desirable (by way of greater compensation, for example,) you attract a greater number of applicants and more competetive applicants.
I personally have no idea what they sort of wage they make in the patent office or if it ought to be increased, but this is the principle whereby one would make such an increase.
Word has been a piece of shit since 6.0. That was, what, 1996? This late in the game, someone looking for a Word 'replacement' is just clueless.
My primary word processor is, and has been for a couple years now, OpenOffice Writer. It's got good enough Word compatibility that I've had no trouble exchanging files with dunces during that time, and with the extra advantage that I can save to PDF (I don't know, can Word do that too now?)
AbiWord, though, is a damn fine little word processor, and I find myself using occasionally, when I feel spunky. AbiWord is the equivalent of what Windows users call 'WordPad'. It's quick, it's convenient, you don't have to wait for it to start up but you still get more to work with than plain text. The only difference is that Abi's that fast without being crippled.
For a primary word processor on an old box or for someone who doesn't anything too layout-intensive, it simply can't be beat.
Yes, right now memory cards are wildly more expensive. But hard drives used to be wildly more expensive than they currently are, too.
The first round of very fast and very efficient (if also very expensive) flash memory cards large enough to be considered viable hard-drive replacements are coming around now.
Just as demand for hard-drives has pushed down hard-drive price, and demand for increasing amounts of RAM has pushed down RAM prices, so will increasing demand for solid-state memory hard-drive replacement cards increase.
It's been a long time since I've been to one of those!
This particular one is really more a convention of conventional origamiists, not those japatrash reform origamiists you read about in NewsWeek.
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It's true, there's a workaround, but the problem hasn't been fixed. What's more, the workaround is hardly foolproof, and in certain situations doesn't help at all. I've dealt with machines on which Fedora absolutely would not install itself unless allowed to format the hard disk.
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We won the DeCss case based free speech, right?
Code == Speech, right?
So how can they now tell us Code == Patentable Technology != Speech?
Don't we already have US precedent against these these things? Has anybody tried to run that argument in court yet?
Have you ever heard a live recording of a band you loved and then said to yourself, "Gee, I guess I can skip the concert now"?
A percentage of the people buying the bootlegs will wind up short of ticket money? Are you fucking serious?
And, finally, I don't know how many times we're going to have to go through this:
Recording artists do not make money off of recordings. Recording companies make money off of recordings. Artists almost always lose money on recording. The value of going into massive debt on making an album is that it might induce more people to come to your shows.
If people are recording and distributing recordings of your shows for you, it's free advertisement.
...and allow artist/inventers to prosper from there work...
Actually, that's wrong. The SOLE constitutional purpose of copyright is to encourage innovation. Allowing artists or inventors to profit from creative work is unconstitutional unless it demonstrably contributes to that end.
But, then, nobody follows the constitution for shit anyway.
The appeals process is intended to allow regress for those FOUND GUILTY. The law allows for no retrial of those found Not Guilty.
Maybe they'll win a case against someone else, but this guy's off the hook (until the next time they arrest him, on a fresh set of charges.)
offtopic as hell, but funny, so funny!
You, obviously, do not play GO.
I want to see hacks for things like dashboard-console mp3 servers running out of the trunk on the existing alternator,
how to make my computer trick my thermostat into thinking it's a full-fledged climate control system,
how to make an uber-scary AI haunted house at halloween,
how to make a creepy surveillance systems that automatically close the storm shutters and say nasty things to intruders...
I'm envisioning Martha Stuart meets Kevin Mitnick
Kneel Before Zod!
Regarding your sig, it should read, properly:
The reason for this should be obvious.
Hope to have helped,
Duke Machesne
While living in downtown Miami, my passenger-side window was bashed out one night at a time when I lacked the funds to replace it.
Nearly every night thereafter for several months, there were intruders into my vehicle. Bums slept in it, random shady passersby stuck their heads in for a look just in case anything good might have been forgotten there; the crappy broken CD player was ripped out of it (I should have thought to stick a little post-it on the thing that said 'only the radio works on this one, please ignore') which sucked because it left me to drive in silence (aside, of course, for the blaring wind and driving rain which couldn't be helped.)
I was living, at this time, in an apartment directly above the busy street (Biscayne & 24th, for those familiar) on which I left the car parked, and became obsessed with running to the window to see if anyone was rooting through my poor little car, and dialing 911 and giving them descriptions of the people in the car right then.
Anyway, I finally solved the problem (until I was able to replace the window, anyway) with a home-made, zero-cost, silly-as-fucking-shit system of my own device: I ran a piece of twine down from my window and around the opposite side of the car, such that it was tied to the inside door-handle of the passenger side. That way, if the passenger door were to be opened, the bag of loud things I tied the other end of the string to would jingle! Ingenious, I know! I did this every single night.
Sure, the system could have been circumvented easily enough, but it wasn't! My car was never entered by another single foreign body. Which leads me to the MORAL OF THE STORY:
Don't shy away from doing silly shit like this, because it doesn't even matter whether it would work or not: it's the psychology of the thing that's important. If you make people feel like they're being watched--especially if you're able to make them feel like they're being watched by a crazy, potentially violent person (as I no doubt did and possibly was)--then they will leave your shit alone.
Insightful as all get-out, I know.
Umm... no; if you make the job more desirable (by way of greater compensation, for example,) you attract a greater number of applicants and more competetive applicants.
I personally have no idea what they sort of wage they make in the patent office or if it ought to be increased, but this is the principle whereby one would make such an increase.
Word has been a piece of shit since 6.0. That was, what, 1996? This late in the game, someone looking for a Word 'replacement' is just clueless.
My primary word processor is, and has been for a couple years now, OpenOffice Writer. It's got good enough Word compatibility that I've had no trouble exchanging files with dunces during that time, and with the extra advantage that I can save to PDF (I don't know, can Word do that too now?)
AbiWord, though, is a damn fine little word processor, and I find myself using occasionally, when I feel spunky. AbiWord is the equivalent of what Windows users call 'WordPad'. It's quick, it's convenient, you don't have to wait for it to start up but you still get more to work with than plain text. The only difference is that Abi's that fast without being crippled.
For a primary word processor on an old box or for someone who doesn't anything too layout-intensive, it simply can't be beat.
"You, under the hand..."
ROTFLOL; that's the best new linguistic fuckup since "beck and call"!
heh... don't take it so hard ;)
I once spent fifteen minutes arguing that Elvis Costello was in Styx.
That was slate.
The trick is to get the doppelganger into the workplace while the original is sipping cocktails on the ninth green...
Very astute! I want!
Yes, right now memory cards are wildly more expensive. But hard drives used to be wildly more expensive than they currently are, too.
The first round of very fast and very efficient (if also very expensive) flash memory cards large enough to be considered viable hard-drive replacements are coming around now.
Just as demand for hard-drives has pushed down hard-drive price, and demand for increasing amounts of RAM has pushed down RAM prices, so will increasing demand for solid-state memory hard-drive replacement cards increase.
I, for one, am optimistic.
But will they make it to market before memory cards large enough and cheap enough to feasibly replace hard drives altogether do?
How long you figure it would take to emerge a new version of OpenOffice on 10,000 machines?
Ah, it probably wasn't a very good one, anyway.
Actually, we can eliminate gang warfare by:
* eliminating the sanctioned ghettoization of minorities
* eliminating the CIA-run black-market drug trade by legalizing all substances
* eliminating the governmental redistribution of wealth from the lower classes to the upper classes (in the old days, they called it 'tribute')
See, that's easy enough?
So how can we eliminate terrorism? Well...
* remove our support for Israel's unreasonable stockpile of WMDs and instead support standards very much like the ones we support for, say, Iraq
* stop trying to build military bases on the sites of shrines that we've 'inadvertantly' bombed
* stop bombing everybody!
* tell the soldiers sleeping in the sand to pack up their things and come home
* give Saddam Hussein his freakin' country back and issue a worldwide press release apologizing for our tyranny
But I, for one, prefer the terrorists.
It's been a long time since I've been to one of those!
This particular one is really more a convention of conventional origamiists, not those japatrash reform origamiists you read about in NewsWeek.
It's true, there's a workaround, but the problem hasn't been fixed. What's more, the workaround is hardly foolproof, and in certain situations doesn't help at all. I've dealt with machines on which Fedora absolutely would not install itself unless allowed to format the hard disk.