Ah, but this is what I'm talking about. At least, in earlier days, it was consider good practice not to hotlink pictures directly (hosting it on your server) to conserve the original party's bandwidth...
The content must be higher. Have you ever posted a photo, picture, cartoon, or anything of that nature in a forum/website/internet without the original copyright owner's permission?
Wouldn't that be copyright infringement also? Would you get jailtime for that as well?
I don't know, but the more I hear about Intellectual Property and laws like this, the more I wonder if in a hundred years, that the governments of the world will force every born child to have a version of the "V-chip" implanted within them - so as to block any content from reaching their brain that they are licensed to see while at the same time ensuring dangerous "revolutionary" ideas are block as well.
Not just that, but the burden on society to prosecute and jail these copyright infringers outweighs the damage done to it in the first place. Especially as a decent amount of the entertainment is from America - with minimal revenue going to German industry.
This is against that society's interest as a whole. I'd call it treason by the politicians (does anyone see the majority of constituents advocating this anywhere?), but the politicians do that so often these days I guess it hardly matters.
I wonder if posting unauthorized pictures (which could technically be considered copyright infringement) will land you in jail just the same? And that commercial clause is unusual too.
Um, weren't Mac computers the first to come out with USB (and firewire)? I understand intel invented the USB standard, but no PC compatible motherboard manufacture actually touched it until it became more popular on the Mac.
And what does certain hardware do whether or not something is a Mac?
My past professors requires me to take notes during class - I prefer to use a laptop over pen/paper (what this professor is requiring) because my hands hurt when I write (because I'm not used to writing anymore), I write slowly (not getting all the notes), and the result is ugly. OTOH, I type fast and it always looks good. Thus letting me pay MORE ATTENTION and LETTING ME ASK questions in the first place.
The only time pen/paper is better is for the odd diagram.
I also had some professor require a notebook at the end of the semester - it takes less time when I don't have to write everything again or when trading notes (missed classes) with other people.
This has nothing to do with free thinking - otherwise the professor wouldn't cut off what some people are comfortable with to enforce how she did it in school.
Not quite true on the scratch part - both the American and Soviet Space Programs had its beginnings in Nazi Germany - the first object in Space was a Germany V-2 rocket launched by the Americans in 1946 and the American Space Program was actually headed by Werner von Braun (German Scientist) until the 1970s and the Saturn Rockets were described as essentially huge V2 rockets.
"Uber" in this case is used like more "Super" not "Over" in common English usage - so it is quite like "Super - Person/Man"
I agree with your assessment of the differences between the two though, I only wanted to point out to the Grandparent that the word construction wasn't necessarily novel in 1967 (year of trademark).
You seem to have an issue with translating something literally meaning you take the most popular/common meaning of the word, in which "ueber" is always "over." The problem is that "over" is seldom used in that sense in English. There are exceptions - you have "overlord" and "overseer" - but if you agree with that usage - "super" essentially equals "over" in this case and the issue is mute.
For me, a literal translation would be picking the most precise definition that fits what's being said. You'd still have babel fish type translations because of out of order grammar - but you wouldn't have imprecise words.
Please, I have German Parents and am fluent in it. "Ueber" can be taken as "over" as in "ueber die Bruecke" meaning "over the bridge" but it shouldn't be translated into English as "over" in this context because you aren't actually actually physically going "over" something. "Ueber" can be translated more than one way and can in fact be taken for super:
you unleash the lawyers on smaller competition, with the help of state endorsed terrorism as all-encompassing patents (even cursory and half-assed thoughts will cover whole fields now), perpetual and backwards copyrights (didn't Disney come up with all those Brother Grimm stories?), and trademarks on every dictionary entry.
Who you can't sue, you buy. Who you can't buy, you merge with to create a synergistic whole.
Eventually we'll be one giant happy family under the one true megacorp who the government will outsource all it's divisions to. You'll see.
In the meantime, China will be laughing at us while they outsource their industries to a portion of the Third World formerly known as the United States. Which has been trademarked so we can't use it anymore.
By the way, I own the copyrights to all the tags such as "offtopic", "redundant", "overrated", "troll" and "flamebait" - so you'll have to ask my permission before you mod me down - or I'll see you in a court of law, perhaps:P
What computer skills do you miss out on by going with Linux instead of Windows?
Dealing with Clippy?
Using Microsoft Office? Oh, wait, can't afford that anyway with these computers. Open Office is close enough.
Point and click? Linux has that too.
The fact is, 95% of skills that computer USERS need, completely overlap in any platform. Word processing, spreadsheets, web development - all the same basically for the typical user. The one thing that might be confusing is instead of "/home/me/desktop", they have to get used to "c:\........."
And if they are power users, they will learn what to do in no time anyway.
The reason I would go for something like Edubuntu over Windows is that these kids can't afford programs (legally) anyway and probably don't have a great internet connection - so I would like to load up the computer full of useful programs for them right off the bat without worrying about license issues.
The reason I might go with windows, is that setting up dial-up internet on Linux is harder than windows. But maybe not, didn't have dial-up personally for 5 years.....
Plus the headline is concluding something much too optimistic from the improvements described in detail by the article itself:
Microsoft is taking a multipronged approach to fight spyware. Unlike XP, Vista will run by default with fewer user privileges. People will have to invoke full, "administrator," privileges to perform tasks such as installing an application.
Also, Internet Explorer 7, included with Vista, will prevent silent installs of malicious code by stopping the browser from writing data anywhere except in a temporary files folder without first seeking permission. Lastly, Windows Defender will clean up any infections that do make it through...........
"The aftermarket for Windows anti-spyware is going to dry up almost completely," said Yankee Group analyst Andrew Jaquith. "Windows Defender is going to become the default anti-spyware engine, certainly for most consumers that have Vista machines."
Gartner's Pescatore agreed. "Integrating Windows Defender into Windows Vista is sort of the last nail into the standalone anti-spyware coffin," he said.
Yeah, so it's not actually saying spyware will stop for that platform - just that Microsoft is taking over that market i.e. what IE initially did to other browsers.....
Microsoft has been promising the moon and been delivering old moldy cheese for years. This sounds like a thinly veiled advertisement for MS - is anybody really going to cry that they don't have to run x+1 spyware detectors anymore?
But, MS has been reluctant to close all the holes in their system due to backwards compatibility, I believe? Things like ActiveX, that leave holes open for abuse. How did they get around this?
How about Fair Use? Weren't music cassete back ups declared legal in a court of law in the 80's? Is that a good enough "excuse" for you?
Why in the world is a backup considered piracy? I have all my cds/movies on my harddrive precisely because I don't want to damage the discs and therefore have to buy the same crap again. It's the content industry that wants their products to have the advantages of both a physical medial and pure license, but without the downside of either.
They cost more, but then I have to burn less copies and I never had scratches on these DVDs that prevented the drive from reading them - actually, the discs still look pristine while similiar handling on normal DVDs/CDs look all scratched up.
Now, if only movies/musicCDs incorporated this coating....
Agreed. I figure HVD will have the necessary jump in capacity for people to adopt it on the computer side - as long as it's relatively open. Neither Blu-ray nor HD-DVD is exciting now to be more than a laserdisc of this era - luring the video-philes in who have to have the latest thing with the highest resolution - but for it to succeed on a wider market - it has to appeal to computer users in this day and age. For some reason, I don't see Blu-ray or HD-DVD taking off much in this area.
That depends - can you sell your copy of Windows (the CD) on ebay, if you don't want it on your computer? Or does ebay kick it off?
These days, you don't even get a normal CD-rom anymore but a manufacture's CD specific to your model - so it's just Microsoft enforcing it's new computer tax even further.
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Ah, but this is what I'm talking about. At least, in earlier days, it was consider good practice not to hotlink pictures directly (hosting it on your server) to conserve the original party's bandwidth...
deaf people must be pretty lot in this guy's IQ scale....
The content must be higher. Have you ever posted a photo, picture, cartoon, or anything of that nature in a forum/website/internet without the original copyright owner's permission?
Wouldn't that be copyright infringement also? Would you get jailtime for that as well?
I don't know, but the more I hear about Intellectual Property and laws like this, the more I wonder if in a hundred years, that the governments of the world will force every born child to have a version of the "V-chip" implanted within them - so as to block any content from reaching their brain that they are licensed to see while at the same time ensuring dangerous "revolutionary" ideas are block as well.
Not just that, but the burden on society to prosecute and jail these copyright infringers outweighs the damage done to it in the first place. Especially as a decent amount of the entertainment is from America - with minimal revenue going to German industry.
This is against that society's interest as a whole. I'd call it treason by the politicians (does anyone see the majority of constituents advocating this anywhere?), but the politicians do that so often these days I guess it hardly matters.
I wonder if posting unauthorized pictures (which could technically be considered copyright infringement) will land you in jail just the same? And that commercial clause is unusual too.
Domain names are to make remember addresses easier (instead of numerical addresses which they in turn are used to look up).
But how would:
com.ebay/
com.amazon/
org.slashdot/
have been easier to remember? Or really easier technically overall?
On a second thought, it would have been:
org.dotslash/
But still.
Um, weren't Mac computers the first to come out with USB (and firewire)? I understand intel invented the USB standard, but no PC compatible motherboard manufacture actually touched it until it became more popular on the Mac.
And what does certain hardware do whether or not something is a Mac?
My past professors requires me to take notes during class - I prefer to use a laptop over pen/paper (what this professor is requiring) because my hands hurt when I write (because I'm not used to writing anymore), I write slowly (not getting all the notes), and the result is ugly. OTOH, I type fast and it always looks good. Thus letting me pay MORE ATTENTION and LETTING ME ASK questions in the first place.
The only time pen/paper is better is for the odd diagram.
I also had some professor require a notebook at the end of the semester - it takes less time when I don't have to write everything again or when trading notes (missed classes) with other people.
This has nothing to do with free thinking - otherwise the professor wouldn't cut off what some people are comfortable with to enforce how she did it in school.
Not quite true on the scratch part - both the American and Soviet Space Programs had its beginnings in Nazi Germany - the first object in Space was a Germany V-2 rocket launched by the Americans in 1946 and the American Space Program was actually headed by Werner von Braun (German Scientist) until the 1970s and the Saturn Rockets were described as essentially huge V2 rockets.
Not to downplay achievements of any side.
You are correct. Yawn. I never claimed to spell my posts perfectly.
"Uber" in this case is used like more "Super" not "Over" in common English usage - so it is quite like "Super - Person/Man"
I agree with your assessment of the differences between the two though, I only wanted to point out to the Grandparent that the word construction wasn't necessarily novel in 1967 (year of trademark).
You seem to have an issue with translating something literally meaning you take the most popular/common meaning of the word, in which "ueber" is always "over." The problem is that "over" is seldom used in that sense in English. There are exceptions - you have "overlord" and "overseer" - but if you agree with that usage - "super" essentially equals "over" in this case and the issue is mute.
For me, a literal translation would be picking the most precise definition that fits what's being said. You'd still have babel fish type translations because of out of order grammar - but you wouldn't have imprecise words.
Please, I have German Parents and am fluent in it. "Ueber" can be taken as "over" as in "ueber die Bruecke" meaning "over the bridge" but it shouldn't be translated into English as "over" in this context because you aren't actually actually physically going "over" something. "Ueber" can be translated more than one way and can in fact be taken for super:
b er
http://dict.leo.org/se?lp=ende&p=/Ue0E.&search=ue
Ever hear of Ubermensch? I pretty sure the philosopher Nietsche coined it in the 1880's or around that time, but I could be wrong.
n owles.htm
From the German, it literally translates to "Super" "Person".
http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/great/projects/K
you unleash the lawyers on smaller competition, with the help of state endorsed terrorism as all-encompassing patents (even cursory and half-assed thoughts will cover whole fields now), perpetual and backwards copyrights (didn't Disney come up with all those Brother Grimm stories?), and trademarks on every dictionary entry.
Who you can't sue, you buy. Who you can't buy, you merge with to create a synergistic whole.
Eventually we'll be one giant happy family under the one true megacorp who the government will outsource all it's divisions to. You'll see.
In the meantime, China will be laughing at us while they outsource their industries to a portion of the Third World formerly known as the United States. Which has been trademarked so we can't use it anymore.
By the way, I own the copyrights to all the tags such as "offtopic", "redundant", "overrated", "troll" and "flamebait" - so you'll have to ask my permission before you mod me down - or I'll see you in a court of law, perhaps:P
Perhaps (the) Kluttz didn't relize it was a job handling delicate situations?
What computer skills do you miss out on by going with Linux instead of Windows?
Dealing with Clippy?
Using Microsoft Office? Oh, wait, can't afford that anyway with these computers. Open Office is close enough.
Point and click? Linux has that too.
The fact is, 95% of skills that computer USERS need, completely overlap in any platform. Word processing, spreadsheets, web development - all the same basically for the typical user. The one thing that might be confusing is instead of "/home/me/desktop", they have to get used to "c:\........."
And if they are power users, they will learn what to do in no time anyway.
The reason I would go for something like Edubuntu over Windows is that these kids can't afford programs (legally) anyway and probably don't have a great internet connection - so I would like to load up the computer full of useful programs for them right off the bat without worrying about license issues.
The reason I might go with windows, is that setting up dial-up internet on Linux is harder than windows. But maybe not, didn't have dial-up personally for 5 years.....
Plus the headline is concluding something much too optimistic from the improvements described in detail by the article itself:
.... ....
Microsoft is taking a multipronged approach to fight spyware. Unlike XP, Vista will run by default with fewer user privileges. People will have to invoke full, "administrator," privileges to perform tasks such as installing an application.
Also, Internet Explorer 7, included with Vista, will prevent silent installs of malicious code by stopping the browser from writing data anywhere except in a temporary files folder without first seeking permission. Lastly, Windows Defender will clean up any infections that do make it through...
"The aftermarket for Windows anti-spyware is going to dry up almost completely," said Yankee Group analyst Andrew Jaquith. "Windows Defender is going to become the default anti-spyware engine, certainly for most consumers that have Vista machines."
Gartner's Pescatore agreed. "Integrating Windows Defender into Windows Vista is sort of the last nail into the standalone anti-spyware coffin," he said.
Yeah, so it's not actually saying spyware will stop for that platform - just that Microsoft is taking over that market i.e. what IE initially did to other browsers.....
when I see it.
Microsoft has been promising the moon and been delivering old moldy cheese for years. This sounds like a thinly veiled advertisement for MS - is anybody really going to cry that they don't have to run x+1 spyware detectors anymore?
But, MS has been reluctant to close all the holes in their system due to backwards compatibility, I believe? Things like ActiveX, that leave holes open for abuse. How did they get around this?
"Anyone smart enough to understand this doesn't get to use this as an excuse to backup their games."
You forgot over $8 TRILLION in public debt - $30,000 for EVERY man, woman, and child in the US.
Let's just say Washington, D.C. instead....
How about Fair Use? Weren't music cassete back ups declared legal in a court of law in the 80's? Is that a good enough "excuse" for you?
Why in the world is a backup considered piracy? I have all my cds/movies on my harddrive precisely because I don't want to damage the discs and therefore have to buy the same crap again. It's the content industry that wants their products to have the advantages of both a physical medial and pure license, but without the downside of either.
I used to burn multiple copies of DVDs to prevent data loss, but since I adopted TDK Scratchproof DVDs - never had a problem.
d vd&btnG=Search
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=scratchproof+
They cost more, but then I have to burn less copies and I never had scratches on these DVDs that prevented the drive from reading them - actually, the discs still look pristine while similiar handling on normal DVDs/CDs look all scratched up.
Now, if only movies/musicCDs incorporated this coating....
Agreed. I figure HVD will have the necessary jump in capacity for people to adopt it on the computer side - as long as it's relatively open. Neither Blu-ray nor HD-DVD is exciting now to be more than a laserdisc of this era - luring the video-philes in who have to have the latest thing with the highest resolution - but for it to succeed on a wider market - it has to appeal to computer users in this day and age. For some reason, I don't see Blu-ray or HD-DVD taking off much in this area.
That depends - can you sell your copy of Windows (the CD) on ebay, if you don't want it on your computer? Or does ebay kick it off?
These days, you don't even get a normal CD-rom anymore but a manufacture's CD specific to your model - so it's just Microsoft enforcing it's new computer tax even further.