Reading the whole article, I think his point was to mislead. In his whole time talking, he trots fair use out as a way to criticize, parody or comment on a work.
For me, fair use is being able to backup my cds onto my harddrive and encode them in any format I please for my mp3 player.
If it were up to the RIAA, they would determine exactly which format I would purchase and keep my music on, and that I would have to buy the same music over and over again everytime the next best thing came out.
Given their history, their hypocritical actions against artists, I have very little reason to believe they are arguing anything in good faith, hence I have very little reason to listen to them at all.
Who said I advocated a pure free market or laissez faire ideology? In times of crisis, no.
The US doesn't advocate a pure free market either. It has minimum wage (a socialist idea if there ever was one), copyrights that are totally out of bounds from the original intent and length (corporatism), software patents, etcetera. I don't think all of these are good but I am for social nets.
Keep in mind the US also rationed food, gas, etcetera during WW2 because it was in short supply (i.e. like the PS3). The government apparently thought it would be good idea to spread the food out to a wide population rather than let only the richest eat.
Anyway, this in no way compares to the PS3 situation. I couldn't care less if Bill Gates himself bought all the PS3s in the world and sat on them.
TFA is sparse on details but this seems harsh. It is one thing to bypass WPA keys or other security, it is another to just enter a completely open network and just assume it was meant to be public. I hope this is the former and not the latter, in this case.
As a business traveler, I have to rely on WiFi spots, and I don't always know the origin because they are "linksys" or some other generic name and I trust they were left open for a purpose. However, I never tried to crack any keys nor do I enter ones that the owners think are hidden since they don't broadcast their names/etcetera.
Singapore is known for their harsh punishments though, (in many cases deserved, considering that one American kid who vandalized all those cars).
Why blame anybody? Is this food or another necessity that we are talking about? Will people die to the lack of PS3s?
Seriously, I want to laugh at the jackasses who don't have the patience to wait 2 months (mid to end January) to get one at a reasonable price or perhaps even better, at the "scalpers" who will overestimate demand and be left hanging.
If the "scalpers" make money, more power to them, I really don't care that much. The PS3 isn't like a concert, it'll be back again soon enough and everybody can catch another "performance".
Oh, I'm sure you'd be able to get it without paying a premium by the end of January. All it takes is some patience, which seems to be in short supply these days among consumers.
Don't get excited by the hype and you won't be shellingout 3K for a $600 system:)
When Microsoft traditionally goes into a market, it brings out a less than stellar first version and incrementally improves it. It throws money at the problem until it is good enough for most people. Then they migrate toward it. In software, this strategy depends on branding, OS leverage, and most importantly a much weaker opponent several magnitudes. It worked with IE and MS Office.
But they are going to have problems with the Zune like they had with the Xbox. In the videogame market, they face a very rich opponent (Sony) and haven't been able to dominate because of that. They have their fair market share, but they bled enough money for that.
Now in the mp3 player market, they face a strong entrenched opponent Apple, who is rich enough and has the incentive to throw money/R&D at iPods as well. Apple also enjoys a very dominant position on top, similiar to MS in the OS market. It's not as stable because the lock-in isn't as bad, but it also means any features MS incorporates that are very good, short of killer, Apple can incorporate the same the next generation.
And I don't see any killer features on the Zune. Maybe next time, though I doubt it. Currently, MS is going to be in the 2ndary mp3 market I think, meaning it will have to split marketshare with players other than ipod. I mean, if I wanted an mp3 player other than iPod, I'd look to iRiver first. They incorporate the features I want (ogg, etcetera) at a lower price.
Thanks for generalizing an entire medium. It's much more mentally taxing to look at it as a case by case basis, having to seperate the excellent 1% from the mediocre and the bad 99%.
The evening news, as shown on TV, is mostly not news either. Either there are trivial local stories about Aunt Betty's cat stuck in a tree with a nice fireman coming to rescue it, or "stories" originating from a press conference in the whitehouse or some corporate press conference where they make sure to feed/treat the reporters nicely too. Oh my, the investigative journalism goes on is awe-inspiring.
Then there are shows on CNN/Fox that just have "experts"/industry_insiders/journalists bicker back and forth to grab ratings in a vein similiar to Jerry Springer.
There was a report a while back that The Daily Show had as much news content as the typical evening broadcast. That says something.
Um, because these cameras are on 24/7, 365 days a year, in the same spot continuously, in many many locations. A photographer can't and won't have that many opportunities. And a normal person has a chance not to be photographed by them.
that this all is very necessary to catch the bad guys and if you have nothing to hide, what's the problem?
He's planning to move to America next year because he can't take the high taxes and cost of living anymore, among other things. I wonder if he ever connected the two. (Remember all those new surcharges to fly these days after 9/11 to pay for the federalization of the security workforce and multiply that throughout an entire society.)
If you want to introduced them to linux, do this, install it on their computers as the secondary partition. Take care to resize their original partition (and save ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING FIRST) before you install linux. Then have Grub make Windows as the primary boot up.
Tell them that if Windows is ever broken or whatever, to try the Ubuntu.
Better yet, instead of installing Ubuntu at all, give it to them on a USB stick, (I'm fairly certain Ubuntu can boot off USB, like Knoppix, but not 100%, if not, go with Knoppix instead). Tell them that if their computer is broken, use Ubuntu on a stick. If they don't want it, they have a nifty 1GB USB stick (a decent present, I saw 1GB sticks at Aldi for $22 last week, not too expensive either) and can use it for other purposes.
This way you can introduce them to Linux without forcing them and stay their friend. Yeah, most people won't use it, but perhaps 1 or 2 will and like it. The way you are doing it, you are almost guaranteed to have them all hate it and fill your time with more calls than ever before.
Also, give them a disk with Windows Apps (ad-aware, AVG virus scanner) so it seems that they still have a choice.
The first argument assumes the fish have unlimited places to hide in the ocean, but many species stick to a certain general route and ocean depth. To assume fish can't go extinct due to overfishing would be like denying that species of whales got overhunted in the 1800's and thus went extinct. And what about
Yes, once the number depletes, it'll be harder and harder to kill fish, but for those same fish it will be harder and harder to find a mate and reproduce.
I'd buy one and pay $200 so another kid can get one. But $300 is stretching it for my budget, since I suppose this donation isn't considered as such (tax deductible).
Indeed, for all the (justified) naysaying about the youtube deal, what some people forget is that Google may possibly now own the central TV distribution channel of the future. Putting economic incentive to create content for it is just another step for them down this path.
If Google's bet pays off eventually, they're in for another big pay day in the future.
I have seen this thing in the past on the Discovery Channel numerous times. From what I read at most credible places (not saying the wiki link is credible, simply convenient) it appears to be vaporware more or less:
Really just talking about patents and not copyrights or trademarks, I think your claim that patents have hindered progress more than help it is debatable. Patents as we currently know them first appeared [wikipedia.org] in Italy in 1474. In case you have not noticed, we have had a bit of progress since 1474. Yes, patents have sometimes slowed things down, however, they also help a bunch, which you appear to want to deny.
Mankind has probably had far more inventive progress since patents were first issued than before they were issued. Why do you think the US has been the center of invention for so long?
Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc.
Historians argue that the ancient Romans were extremely close to an industrial revolution, but I never heard the reason they never went through one being because of the lack of patents. Mainly, it was because labor (through slaves) were plentiful, therefore there was no urgent incentive to innovate.
If necessity is the mother of invention, capitalism should be the father. Patents may be the father's friends, but can also easily be his enemy.
So even if you are correct, there's such a thing as too much of a good thing.
Where are our flying cars predicted 50 years ago? They should have been here 10 years ago already.
Let's face it, we progressed a lot in the last 50 years in some areas but not so much in others. Often, we don't overcome the predicted physical limits not by advancing the same technology, but we do find new ways to attack the problem that are more efficient.
That said, nothing is a given, even gigapixel digital consumer size cameras in 20 years.
Yup, the excuse for bad variable names all around. Data types and variable types change, don't stick it in the name - the IDE should tell you the type, it's more reliable too. Hungarian notation can be a source of errors in this way if the type is changed but not the name. Yeah, you can change the name in some cases, and in some cases you can't (like when the functions and inputs become an API).
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Reading the whole article, I think his point was to mislead. In his whole time talking, he trots fair use out as a way to criticize, parody or comment on a work.
For me, fair use is being able to backup my cds onto my harddrive and encode them in any format I please for my mp3 player.
If it were up to the RIAA, they would determine exactly which format I would purchase and keep my music on, and that I would have to buy the same music over and over again everytime the next best thing came out.
Given their history, their hypocritical actions against artists, I have very little reason to believe they are arguing anything in good faith, hence I have very little reason to listen to them at all.
Who said I advocated a pure free market or laissez faire ideology? In times of crisis, no.
The US doesn't advocate a pure free market either. It has minimum wage (a socialist idea if there ever was one), copyrights that are totally out of bounds from the original intent and length (corporatism), software patents, etcetera. I don't think all of these are good but I am for social nets.
Keep in mind the US also rationed food, gas, etcetera during WW2 because it was in short supply (i.e. like the PS3). The government apparently thought it would be good idea to spread the food out to a wide population rather than let only the richest eat.
Anyway, this in no way compares to the PS3 situation. I couldn't care less if Bill Gates himself bought all the PS3s in the world and sat on them.
TFA is sparse on details but this seems harsh. It is one thing to bypass WPA keys or other security, it is another to just enter a completely open network and just assume it was meant to be public. I hope this is the former and not the latter, in this case.
As a business traveler, I have to rely on WiFi spots, and I don't always know the origin because they are "linksys" or some other generic name and I trust they were left open for a purpose. However, I never tried to crack any keys nor do I enter ones that the owners think are hidden since they don't broadcast their names/etcetera.
Singapore is known for their harsh punishments though, (in many cases deserved, considering that one American kid who vandalized all those cars).
20,000 yen is not a bad sum, about $170. Though that probably doesn't go far in Tokyo, it's not to shabby for other parts of Japan.
Why blame anybody? Is this food or another necessity that we are talking about? Will people die to the lack of PS3s?
Seriously, I want to laugh at the jackasses who don't have the patience to wait 2 months (mid to end January) to get one at a reasonable price or perhaps even better, at the "scalpers" who will overestimate demand and be left hanging.
If the "scalpers" make money, more power to them, I really don't care that much. The PS3 isn't like a concert, it'll be back again soon enough and everybody can catch another "performance".
"Oh and by the way, we need people to love it the tenth, or the hundredth, or the thousandth time they hear it."
I'll settle for "just not annoy me." If I'm supposed to love it, that sounds like too much distraction already.
Why not Wyoming, the Dakotas, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, Eastern Washington, etcetera?
Any specific reason? I think land in some of those spots would be even cheaper..... but probably even more desolate.
Oh, I'm sure you'd be able to get it without paying a premium by the end of January. All it takes is some patience, which seems to be in short supply these days among consumers.
Don't get excited by the hype and you won't be shellingout 3K for a $600 system:)
When Microsoft traditionally goes into a market, it brings out a less than stellar first version and incrementally improves it. It throws money at the problem until it is good enough for most people. Then they migrate toward it. In software, this strategy depends on branding, OS leverage, and most importantly a much weaker opponent several magnitudes. It worked with IE and MS Office.
But they are going to have problems with the Zune like they had with the Xbox. In the videogame market, they face a very rich opponent (Sony) and haven't been able to dominate because of that. They have their fair market share, but they bled enough money for that.
Now in the mp3 player market, they face a strong entrenched opponent Apple, who is rich enough and has the incentive to throw money/R&D at iPods as well. Apple also enjoys a very dominant position on top, similiar to MS in the OS market. It's not as stable because the lock-in isn't as bad, but it also means any features MS incorporates that are very good, short of killer, Apple can incorporate the same the next generation.
And I don't see any killer features on the Zune. Maybe next time, though I doubt it. Currently, MS is going to be in the 2ndary mp3 market I think, meaning it will have to split marketshare with players other than ipod. I mean, if I wanted an mp3 player other than iPod, I'd look to iRiver first. They incorporate the features I want (ogg, etcetera) at a lower price.
Thanks for generalizing an entire medium. It's much more mentally taxing to look at it as a case by case basis, having to seperate the excellent 1% from the mediocre and the bad 99%.
The evening news, as shown on TV, is mostly not news either. Either there are trivial local stories about Aunt Betty's cat stuck in a tree with a nice fireman coming to rescue it, or "stories" originating from a press conference in the whitehouse or some corporate press conference where they make sure to feed/treat the reporters nicely too. Oh my, the investigative journalism goes on is awe-inspiring.
Then there are shows on CNN/Fox that just have "experts"/industry_insiders/journalists bicker back and forth to grab ratings in a vein similiar to Jerry Springer.
There was a report a while back that The Daily Show had as much news content as the typical evening broadcast. That says something.
Are you talking about Apple?
Um, because these cameras are on 24/7, 365 days a year, in the same spot continuously, in many many locations. A photographer can't and won't have that many opportunities. And a normal person has a chance not to be photographed by them.
that this all is very necessary to catch the bad guys and if you have nothing to hide, what's the problem?
He's planning to move to America next year because he can't take the high taxes and cost of living anymore, among other things. I wonder if he ever connected the two. (Remember all those new surcharges to fly these days after 9/11 to pay for the federalization of the security workforce and multiply that throughout an entire society.)
If you want to introduced them to linux, do this, install it on their computers as the secondary partition. Take care to resize their original partition (and save ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING FIRST) before you install linux. Then have Grub make Windows as the primary boot up.
Tell them that if Windows is ever broken or whatever, to try the Ubuntu.
Better yet, instead of installing Ubuntu at all, give it to them on a USB stick, (I'm fairly certain Ubuntu can boot off USB, like Knoppix, but not 100%, if not, go with Knoppix instead). Tell them that if their computer is broken, use Ubuntu on a stick. If they don't want it, they have a nifty 1GB USB stick (a decent present, I saw 1GB sticks at Aldi for $22 last week, not too expensive either) and can use it for other purposes.
This way you can introduce them to Linux without forcing them and stay their friend. Yeah, most people won't use it, but perhaps 1 or 2 will and like it. The way you are doing it, you are almost guaranteed to have them all hate it and fill your time with more calls than ever before.
Also, give them a disk with Windows Apps (ad-aware, AVG virus scanner) so it seems that they still have a choice.
But what about the Me Fund?
Not only can I contribute for them, they can contribute to this themselves this Christmas too!
And why would you want Ubuntu with such a negative attitude toward it?
I ordered Ubuntu CDs once, came about 6 weeks later. You must be a special case in every sense of the word.
12 hours battery runtime on a G4?
The best my 1 year old G4 gets is 2.5-3.5 hours depending if I have the screen reasonably dimmed.
The first argument assumes the fish have unlimited places to hide in the ocean, but many species stick to a certain general route and ocean depth. To assume fish can't go extinct due to overfishing would be like denying that species of whales got overhunted in the 1800's and thus went extinct. And what about
l o_hunts
Yes, once the number depletes, it'll be harder and harder to kill fish, but for those same fish it will be harder and harder to find a mate and reproduce.
American Buffalo were also almost hunted down to extinction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bison#Buffa
If anything, Private Industry has shown to be very poor at regulating themselves in this area.
I'd buy one and pay $200 so another kid can get one. But $300 is stretching it for my budget, since I suppose this donation isn't considered as such (tax deductible).
Indeed, for all the (justified) naysaying about the youtube deal, what some people forget is that Google may possibly now own the central TV distribution channel of the future. Putting economic incentive to create content for it is just another step for them down this path.
If Google's bet pays off eventually, they're in for another big pay day in the future.
I have seen this thing in the past on the Discovery Channel numerous times. From what I read at most credible places (not saying the wiki link is credible, simply convenient) it appears to be vaporware more or less:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_Skycar
But I would love to be proven wrong.
Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc.
Historians argue that the ancient Romans were extremely close to an industrial revolution, but I never heard the reason they never went through one being because of the lack of patents. Mainly, it was because labor (through slaves) were plentiful, therefore there was no urgent incentive to innovate.
If necessity is the mother of invention, capitalism should be the father. Patents may be the father's friends, but can also easily be his enemy.
So even if you are correct, there's such a thing as too much of a good thing.
Where are our flying cars predicted 50 years ago? They should have been here 10 years ago already.
Let's face it, we progressed a lot in the last 50 years in some areas but not so much in others. Often, we don't overcome the predicted physical limits not by advancing the same technology, but we do find new ways to attack the problem that are more efficient.
That said, nothing is a given, even gigapixel digital consumer size cameras in 20 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act
Yup, the excuse for bad variable names all around. Data types and variable types change, don't stick it in the name - the IDE should tell you the type, it's more reliable too. Hungarian notation can be a source of errors in this way if the type is changed but not the name. Yeah, you can change the name in some cases, and in some cases you can't (like when the functions and inputs become an API).