Let's say I've composed a piece of music and someone spreads it on a P2P network. Hundreds of people download and enjoy it, but none would have bought it if they have had to pay for it since it wasn't *that* good.
But suppose there's that one single person who would have bought it, but now he simply got it for free.
So what? I've just lost a single measly sale. But really, what's best for me as a composer? No sales at all because everyone got it for free, or that one sale?
And I can't write it off as free advertizing either, since all my other music would sooner or later show up for free on that P2P network as well. The only thing I could count on is charity...
Because it's not "piracy". No physical property is being stolen, there is no owner being deprived of its use. No seagoing vessels have been boarded, and no villages raped and plundered.
If I give away copies of your stuff for free I deprive you of potential sales. Thats reason enough for todays witch hunt on fair use and any other leeway ordinary people used to have...
Well, ofcourse Moore's documentaries are slanted to reflect his political views and the message he wants to tell. But judging from the mudslinging his opponents has to resort to he seems to have done a good job in getting his basic facts right.
As a non-US citizen I even have to wonder what people in the states gets so worked up over in the first place, he's just a reporter who wants to illuminate problems in the society and he happens to have a real knack for storytelling and presentation.
Makers of Spyware are bad. But someone is enabling them--and someone is profiting from our woes. As a technician
approximately 30% of my time is spent handling malware of some sort.
Aha! So you're the one profiting from the spyware...
Seriously, broken software, spyware, never ending upgrades, bugs, bad design, etc. is what created a whole occupation... Add some unions to that and soon Microsoft will be mandated by law to add extra bugs to Windows and release at least one broken service pack a year.
'Somebody ends up paying for this,' said Microsoft attorney Robert Rosenfeld. 'These large fee awards get passed on to consumers.'
Doesn't matter if its Microsoft or any other corporation, the costs of punishment ALLWAYS end up in the lap of said companys customers one way or another.
The only thing that's effective is either fine (or jail if appropriate) the owners of the company or force a liquidation, anything else is just a strike in the air.
And perhaps more exciting is that several game companies are planning on using it for their next generation games. So John Carmack are you listening? Any chance this can be included in DOOM3?
Well since AOL apparently bothced their get-out-of-jail feee card I wonder if they are going to spend some of that cash pile of theirs to put a big dent in the DMCA to get of the hook.
Or if the AOL part will just bend over and take it so that the Time Warner part can keep their beloved DMCA intact.
It's not on the far side of the moon, it's in an orbit farther away from the sun than the farthest point of the moon's orbit. The orbit is also set up such that the telescope, earth and sun are always on a straight line.
The times the moon happen to be on the far side of the earth (as seen from the sun) just as the telescope it'll still be out of the way because it'll pass above or below the telescope-earth-sun line. Sometimes it'll manage to get in the way but it'll be no more common than solar eclipses.
I concur. One thing they happily forget to mention is that LCD TVs have uneven brightness since the backlights are placed att the edges. The LCD TVs I have checked out havn't been as bad as regular computer LCD monitors but it's still noticable, especially on dark scenes...
Eh? Thats TWO years AND three months, if you leave it running 24h a day. Don't know about you, but even though I'm pretty lazy I usually manage to hit the off button on the remote when I leave the couch...:)
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But suppose there's that one single person who would have bought it, but now he simply got it for free.
So what? I've just lost a single measly sale. But really, what's best for me as a composer? No sales at all because everyone got it for free, or that one sale?
And I can't write it off as free advertizing either, since all my other music would sooner or later show up for free on that P2P network as well. The only thing I could count on is charity...
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If I give away copies of your stuff for free I deprive you of potential sales. Thats reason enough for todays witch hunt on fair use and any other leeway ordinary people used to have...
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Dude, I have enough trouble debugging my code without having my homemade, guaranteed to be buggy, optimizer introducing even more bugs...
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As a non-US citizen I even have to wonder what people in the states gets so worked up over in the first place, he's just a reporter who wants to illuminate problems in the society and he happens to have a real knack for storytelling and presentation.
But maby it's just that truth hurts...
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Aha! So you're the one profiting from the spyware...
Seriously, broken software, spyware, never ending upgrades, bugs, bad design, etc. is what created a whole occupation... Add some unions to that and soon Microsoft will be mandated by law to add extra bugs to Windows and release at least one broken service pack a year.
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Doesn't matter if its Microsoft or any other corporation, the costs of punishment ALLWAYS end up in the lap of said companys customers one way or another.
The only thing that's effective is either fine (or jail if appropriate) the owners of the company or force a liquidation, anything else is just a strike in the air.
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The technology is already available for games, check out the subsurface scattering demo from ATI: http://www.ati.com/developer/demos/rx800.html
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Nope, you can insert multiple records with one statement, the syntax is:
insert into foo (x,y,z) values (1,1,1), (2,2,2), (3,3,3),...
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Well since AOL apparently bothced their get-out-of-jail feee card I wonder if they are going to spend some of that cash pile of theirs to put a big dent in the DMCA to get of the hook.
Or if the AOL part will just bend over and take it so that the Time Warner part can keep their beloved DMCA intact.
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I'm sure that's deliberate.
It's much easier to get your troops to take part in the nastiness of war if they are trained to think it's all a game...
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> Bush's science adviser, John Marburger...
As in the Marburg virus? :)
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So how come they invent and thath that fantastic serial fearure just to chuck it out the door and make it into a parallel bus again?
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I know atlest 2 families where the children got PS2s for presents and the kids then went out and bought PS1 games. Two reasons:
There weren't a PS2 version available (yet?) of that must have game.
The games are cheaper and there are also lots of dirt cheap second hand stuff available which equals more games to play.
I'm sure the backward compatibility influenced their wishlists and that the kids are a lot happier with their PS2s than if they had been given xboxes.
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It's not on the far side of the moon, it's in an orbit farther away from the sun than the farthest point of the moon's orbit. The orbit is also set up such that the telescope, earth and sun are always on a straight line.
The times the moon happen to be on the far side of the earth (as seen from the sun) just as the telescope it'll still be out of the way because it'll pass above or below the telescope-earth-sun line. Sometimes it'll manage to get in the way but it'll be no more common than solar eclipses.
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I concur. One thing they happily forget to mention is that LCD TVs have uneven brightness since the backlights are placed att the edges. The LCD TVs I have checked out havn't been as bad as regular computer LCD monitors but it's still noticable, especially on dark scenes...
Kinda spoils horror movie night. :)
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Eh? Thats TWO years AND three months, if you leave it running 24h a day. Don't know about you, but even though I'm pretty lazy I usually manage to hit the off button on the remote when I leave the couch...
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I'm sure PDAs are reliable enough when they are used on mother earth.
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