Why do you make it sound like copyrights can't be used as something other than good for the community?
If I come up with something to sell, and I have a big company that can do it for me, why do I have to give up my copyright to the community?
Clearly if that big company is abusing its privileges as my representative to the public, I would like them to stop representing me. It makes me look bad to my fans, and I don't want my fans to be abused.
So in short, I do not support the RIAA's stance on shutting down sharing services, but I do not think it is wrong for them to be able to hold copyrights if the artists gave them that right.
They have a right to do with those copyrights as they please, and they do not have to cater to any community. It doesn't make it right in my mind, but I don't have to support them.
Of course, I don't believe that music should be simply thrown out into the public domain either. I would not make things just so people can have them. While I believe that open source is for the benefit of the community, I do not believe that intellectual rights necessarily fall under the same rules as code.
If I want to release one of my songs as public domain, I have the right to do so. Of course, I have the right not to do so either. There is nothing wrong with that, and it isn't to screw everyone else.
Since the RIAA and Disney are businesses, they have a goal to make money. I doubt they maliciously use copyright law in the light you paint it in, but they use it to try to protect the investments of the artists, at least, they're supposed to. I am not happy with how much they overstep their authority though.
Just because they have the rights to some of the music, it doesn't mean they have the rights to all music and all the ways music can be distributed.
It is actually kind of funny. When he turns his computer on, it sounds like an aquarium.
He basically took a car radiator as I understand it.
Basically whenever we go to the computer store, he goes next door to the hardware store to pick up some tubing.
Pretty awesome.
I wasn't saying that Microsoft wasn't an illegal monopoly.
I was not attempting to invalidate any argument, and I don't understand what you are arguing here.
My purpose was saying that it is amazing that this thread wasn't full of "I HATE MICROSOFT AND LINUS SHOULD TOO" crap.
I think Linus is a great programmer, and if that is all he wants to do, then that is great.
He isn't some kind of Microsoft-killer, and he doesn't pretend to be, nor does he have a grand opinion against Microsoft.
THAT is what I was saying, and so if you can please make valid arguments, then we can argue about the "valid form" of the argument.
but are you telling me that you are nearly finished with your degree and all you do is fix programs in your classes?
That is what I did last year, and I am in my third year now.
I understand that a lot of my learning should be through experience,but if that is what I have to look forward to, I fear I won't learn very much more.
Once you learn how to program in general, all you need to program in a specific language is the syntax.
No wonder you are bored with CS. You're classes aren't challenging you.
Try to come up with a small project and implementing it yourself. Someone already mentioned games, but anything that involves you figuring out how to implement it and tweak it so it works better would do.
The joy of programming is in making the computer do what you tell it to do. And once you get that part right, it is even more fun to tweak and optimize.
If what you describe is typical of a college education, I better take advantage of this break to learn OpenGL and Intel Assembly and Windows API and GNU/Linux and etc...
I thought this entire posting would be anti-Microsoft.
So many people complain that Microsoft got where it was through trickery and cheating and illegal methods. Of course, the millions of Microsoft software users and developers don't seem to notice this for some reason.
It is good to see that Linus doesn't have this anti-Microsoft stance. I am sure that he doesn't have this idea that he can overthrow Microsoft.
In fact, I still don't understand why people ask him his opinion on so much stuff anyway.
I personally still use and program games in DOS. It is fun. I don't do it to make money.
I am using Linux only to learn how to use it. It is fun for me. I still use Windows as my main OS simply because it works. I like tinkering, and GNU/Linux makes it that much more easier to do, so I use that when I can.
If I program something major, I would have no problem making it for Linux and Windows. It isn't like Windows or IE or anything else Microsoft produced is intrinsically evil.
It is tiring to see posts about how Microsoft sucks or how it's products are going to send the world into the fiery pits of hell or how it's business practices are just wrong.
Then those same people who posted that contradict themselves and say that IE should be banned from websites among other things.
Linus did well not to bash Microsoft. He is smart enough to know he has no reason to do so. And the media needs to learn what it is they are investigating before they ask silly questions.
This is the third time that/. has news on it that isn't that new.
Panasonic was making this way back when they showed a picture of it at Spaceworld. I believe it was last year's Spaceworld at that.
Still it is good to hear, I suppose. I for one would buy GameCube for the games and not the DVDs...I have my PC for that.
I have seen plenty of websites telling me that I cannot access their pages because I was using IE.
Of course, when Microsoft makes the weak excuse about W3C compliance, I really had no way to try to look at in a pro-Microsoft view. I like to try to keep an open mind and not bash Microsoft just because, but in this case, it was really stupid.
If it was a marketing ploy, it is bad publicity in terms of the tech world, but Windows doesn't seem geared to techies and geeks. If anything, it is the new computer people that this was directed to. In that case, it has to be decided whether or not this was a violation of the Sherman Act.
New computer=new user=happy with working product
New user finds that working product direct him/her to MSN.COM.
If this new user has some other browser installed, then this new user will find that the program isn't working as it should. IE? Sounds like it will work. It DOES!!
New user is an IE fan for life.
I was at the club they had in Chicago three weeks ago, and about twice the games crashed.
I think they had the same systems and games that ran at CES or some other show, so they were all still in development.
Nintendo has always been good about quality in their games (in terms of bug-free workmanship).
I have only seen 3 bugs in my Nintendo playing career.
I wasn't completely impressed, but it was kind of cool to play it before a lot of other people did...Of course, I did this about a month ago...
Anyway, Super Smash Brothers still rocks. The basketball game I played still needed work, especially in terms of AI and graphics (the balloons during the free throws clashed terribly).
I plan on getting a GameCube but I am not in a big hurry. I used to be a really big fan of Nintendo's, but then I got a PC and started to like the feel of a keyboard and mouse. I still play NES and SNES and N64 though. Just not as much.
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but Microsoft likes to take code that is already completed and figure out how to make it better. They take Windows,Word,etc code and start working on improvements.
No one likes to admit it though. It is a perfectly good model to work with, and I am sure ideas get translated into working prototypes before they are submitted...they are probably given the green light much more easily that way.
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Why do you make it sound like copyrights can't be used as something other than good for the community?
If I come up with something to sell, and I have a big company that can do it for me, why do I have to give up my copyright to the community?
Clearly if that big company is abusing its privileges as my representative to the public, I would like them to stop representing me. It makes me look bad to my fans, and I don't want my fans to be abused.
So in short, I do not support the RIAA's stance on shutting down sharing services, but I do not think it is wrong for them to be able to hold copyrights if the artists gave them that right.
They have a right to do with those copyrights as they please, and they do not have to cater to any community. It doesn't make it right in my mind, but I don't have to support them.
Of course, I don't believe that music should be simply thrown out into the public domain either. I would not make things just so people can have them. While I believe that open source is for the benefit of the community, I do not believe that intellectual rights necessarily fall under the same rules as code.
If I want to release one of my songs as public domain, I have the right to do so. Of course, I have the right not to do so either. There is nothing wrong with that, and it isn't to screw everyone else.
Since the RIAA and Disney are businesses, they have a goal to make money. I doubt they maliciously use copyright law in the light you paint it in, but they use it to try to protect the investments of the artists, at least, they're supposed to. I am not happy with how much they overstep their authority though.
Just because they have the rights to some of the music, it doesn't mean they have the rights to all music and all the ways music can be distributed.
It is actually kind of funny. When he turns his computer on, it sounds like an aquarium.
He basically took a car radiator as I understand it.
Basically whenever we go to the computer store, he goes next door to the hardware store to pick up some tubing.
Pretty awesome.
I wasn't saying that Microsoft wasn't an illegal monopoly.
I was not attempting to invalidate any argument, and I don't understand what you are arguing here.
My purpose was saying that it is amazing that this thread wasn't full of "I HATE MICROSOFT AND LINUS SHOULD TOO" crap.
I think Linus is a great programmer, and if that is all he wants to do, then that is great.
He isn't some kind of Microsoft-killer, and he doesn't pretend to be, nor does he have a grand opinion against Microsoft.
THAT is what I was saying, and so if you can please make valid arguments, then we can argue about the "valid form" of the argument.
but are you telling me that you are nearly finished with your degree and all you do is fix programs in your classes?
That is what I did last year, and I am in my third year now.
I understand that a lot of my learning should be through experience,but if that is what I have to look forward to, I fear I won't learn very much more.
Once you learn how to program in general, all you need to program in a specific language is the syntax.
No wonder you are bored with CS. You're classes aren't challenging you.
Try to come up with a small project and implementing it yourself. Someone already mentioned games, but anything that involves you figuring out how to implement it and tweak it so it works better would do.
The joy of programming is in making the computer do what you tell it to do. And once you get that part right, it is even more fun to tweak and optimize.
If what you describe is typical of a college education, I better take advantage of this break to learn OpenGL and Intel Assembly and Windows API and GNU/Linux and etc...
I thought this entire posting would be anti-Microsoft.
So many people complain that Microsoft got where it was through trickery and cheating and illegal methods. Of course, the millions of Microsoft software users and developers don't seem to notice this for some reason.
It is good to see that Linus doesn't have this anti-Microsoft stance. I am sure that he doesn't have this idea that he can overthrow Microsoft.
In fact, I still don't understand why people ask him his opinion on so much stuff anyway.
I personally still use and program games in DOS. It is fun. I don't do it to make money.
I am using Linux only to learn how to use it. It is fun for me. I still use Windows as my main OS simply because it works. I like tinkering, and GNU/Linux makes it that much more easier to do, so I use that when I can.
If I program something major, I would have no problem making it for Linux and Windows. It isn't like Windows or IE or anything else Microsoft produced is intrinsically evil.
It is tiring to see posts about how Microsoft sucks or how it's products are going to send the world into the fiery pits of hell or how it's business practices are just wrong.
Then those same people who posted that contradict themselves and say that IE should be banned from websites among other things.
Linus did well not to bash Microsoft. He is smart enough to know he has no reason to do so. And the media needs to learn what it is they are investigating before they ask silly questions.
This is the third time that /. has news on it that isn't that new.
Panasonic was making this way back when they showed a picture of it at Spaceworld. I believe it was last year's Spaceworld at that.
Still it is good to hear, I suppose. I for one would buy GameCube for the games and not the DVDs...I have my PC for that.
I have seen plenty of websites telling me that I cannot access their pages because I was using IE.
Of course, when Microsoft makes the weak excuse about W3C compliance, I really had no way to try to look at in a pro-Microsoft view. I like to try to keep an open mind and not bash Microsoft just because, but in this case, it was really stupid.
If it was a marketing ploy, it is bad publicity in terms of the tech world, but Windows doesn't seem geared to techies and geeks. If anything, it is the new computer people that this was directed to. In that case, it has to be decided whether or not this was a violation of the Sherman Act.
New computer=new user=happy with working product
New user finds that working product direct him/her to MSN.COM.
If this new user has some other browser installed, then this new user will find that the program isn't working as it should. IE? Sounds like it will work. It DOES!!
New user is an IE fan for life.
I was at the club they had in Chicago three weeks ago, and about twice the games crashed.
I think they had the same systems and games that ran at CES or some other show, so they were all still in development.
Nintendo has always been good about quality in their games (in terms of bug-free workmanship).
I have only seen 3 bugs in my Nintendo playing career.
I wasn't completely impressed, but it was kind of cool to play it before a lot of other people did...Of course, I did this about a month ago...
Anyway, Super Smash Brothers still rocks. The basketball game I played still needed work, especially in terms of AI and graphics (the balloons during the free throws clashed terribly).
I plan on getting a GameCube but I am not in a big hurry. I used to be a really big fan of Nintendo's, but then I got a PC and started to like the feel of a keyboard and mouse. I still play NES and SNES and N64 though. Just not as much.
A lot of games can be found that are enjoyable yet small.
but Microsoft likes to take code that is already completed and figure out how to make it better. They take Windows,Word,etc code and start working on improvements.
No one likes to admit it though. It is a perfectly good model to work with, and I am sure ideas get translated into working prototypes before they are submitted...they are probably given the green light much more easily that way.
I have a GeForce2 GTS 64MB DDR RAM, and I love the way Homeworld: Cataclysm looks. Everything is so smooth and beautiful.