so if this future comes about does it mean ill be charged for music i download before i even listen to it? damn the riaa would have a field day with that! =)
Sadly this is already true. Aren't we all paying a media tax on blank CD's purchased? Even if you don't use the CD's for anything, you're still giving the record industry money for a crime you didn't commit (yet).
.. the real reason why software is so crappy is that technology is improving so fast. Think about it for a second. If tomorrow Intel/AMD/whoever announced that the current processors was as fast as things were going to get, what would happen? Developers would be forced to write code more efficiently. If we're stuck with Pentium IV's forever, well we better squeeze every last ounce of goodness out of each clock cycle. And in the meantime, hunt down bugs that cause problems and/or efficiency issues. As it is right now, programmers don't care much if their code is bloaty and slow. By the time it hits the market, processors will be faster, everyone will have more RAM, and it'll run fine. And for version 2.0, they just add more features and bloat.. since processors will be even faster then. It's like a constant race for all the bells and whistles possible. If we started hitting real limits of speed, memory, storage, then coders would have to be better.
and "protected CD's" become more common, will they be giving up the recording media tax? The original assumption behind it was that blank media would be used to copy copyrighted works, but if the works in question are "protected" from copying, then they no longer have a case for the media tax, correct?
I never understood this "recording media tax." Doesn't it go against the whole "innocent until proven guilty" ?? Seems like I'm paying a fee for damages rendered (i.e. the media tax) up front as I'm buying the CD's. So before I even have a chance to commit the crime, I'm already paying for it? Gotta love a system where might buys right. I hate lobbyists and campaign contributions.
Stallman convieniently ignores the contributions made by X11, the BSD people and the many others who have worked to create the operating system I conveniently call "Linux".
That's great, but how are you compiling X11, and the contributions from the BSD folk? Oh, you're using GCC? And where did that come from? Do you use GCC for compiling your kernel too?
Clearly there are two sides to every argument. If Stallman wants to call it something different than you, why not let him? If he wants to refuse to speak somewhere because of what he perceives as conflicting viewpoints, that's his right. Give the man a break.
Sorry, but you're wrong -- the movie Wild Things has full frontal male nudity (i.e. The Full Bacon) and it's rated R. So does Boogie Nights. I'm sure there's more, but those are a couple I can think of off the top of my head.
Just post a bunch of messages about how Chinese hackers "c0uldnt g3t r00t 0n a mS-d0s b0x." That should piss them off enough for them to actively test your network. Just sit back and see if/how they get in.
(They also don't like it when you make fun of their fighter pilot who ran into our plane, so throw some of those insults in there as well.)
An interesting one from Hilary Rosen: "I ask them, 'What have you done last week?' They may say they wrote a paper on this or that. So I tell them, 'Oh, you wrote a paper, and you got an A? Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get an A too? Would that bug you?' So this sense of personal investment does ring true with people."
This analogy makes no sense. Maybe if people were selling burned CD's, then it would ring true, but how am I "getting an A" by listening to a CD with burned music? A better analogy might be: "Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and read it and enjoy it too? Would that bug you?" That's the right analogy, and my answer is: No, it would not bug me. My master's thesis is online for all to enjoy.
.. when you didn't tell me what company you work for? like i'm supposed to sort through all these emails for eval software and guess which one is for your company?
.. this story made me think of a old Georgia Tech joke I found very funny. Here it goes:
A Georgia Tech student and an MIT student are talking to each other one day. Very proud of his school, the Georgia Tech student says, "You know, at Georgia Tech, we consider ourselves the MIT of the South." The MIT student turns to him and replies, "You know that's funny, because at MIT we don't consider Georgia Tech."
I think this guy has seen Good Will Hunting too many times. What did he think was going to happen? The judge was going to order him into the care of an MIT professor under whom he would subsequently make mathematical breakthroughs that dwarfed the achievements of the world's best mathematicians, while meanwhile getting-it-on with a hot Harvard grad student in biochemistry? C'mon..
Actually you might be a little wrong there bucko. Years and years ago, when the earth was new, I was an undergrad at MIT and then-Media-Lab-graduate-student Mann spoke in a class I was taking. At the time, I believe he was trying to recruit people to do heavy-duty graphics work (i.e. when he moves his head side to side, his camera is taking discrete pictures of a room/building/whatever at different angles. He was working on algorithms to put them all together and make them coherent). Anyhow, the point is, I distinctly remember him saying that he got nauseous when he removed his visor. The reason was very simple. He spent all of his waking life (outside of the shower) in a 2D world. His body was so used to it, that living in 3D took some serious getting used to, and he would feel sick. My guess is that this is what happened. Ever feel like your eyes need some adjusting after staring at a 2D object (such as a movie theatre screen) for hours at a time? Now image doing that 24/7 for years and trying to re-adjust to the real world.
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This may be a stupid question, but how does it play DVD movies? I mean, obviously it has a DVD-ROM, but where does the software to play it come from? Do you need a boot CD to load up the OS/player, then you swap in the DVD? Or is there a small Windows OS on the hard disk itself that contains a player? If there's a Windows OS on the HD, what's stopping the natural corruption of some DLL's and the player breaking?
Are you kidding or what? In 1999 Virtual Reality became a reality when we all got enslaved in The Matrix. Until Keanu Reeves sets us free in the next movie we're all stuck in here. It's just so real that we can't tell.
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... just buy a bigger monitor dude. Then it'll all fit on one screen. Trust me.
Sadly this is already true. Aren't we all paying a media tax on blank CD's purchased? Even if you don't use the CD's for anything, you're still giving the record industry money for a crime you didn't commit (yet).
.. the real reason why software is so crappy is that technology is improving so fast. Think about it for a second. If tomorrow Intel/AMD/whoever announced that the current processors was as fast as things were going to get, what would happen? Developers would be forced to write code more efficiently. If we're stuck with Pentium IV's forever, well we better squeeze every last ounce of goodness out of each clock cycle. And in the meantime, hunt down bugs that cause problems and/or efficiency issues. As it is right now, programmers don't care much if their code is bloaty and slow. By the time it hits the market, processors will be faster, everyone will have more RAM, and it'll run fine. And for version 2.0, they just add more features and bloat.. since processors will be even faster then. It's like a constant race for all the bells and whistles possible. If we started hitting real limits of speed, memory, storage, then coders would have to be better.
I never understood this "recording media tax." Doesn't it go against the whole "innocent until proven guilty" ?? Seems like I'm paying a fee for damages rendered (i.e. the media tax) up front as I'm buying the CD's. So before I even have a chance to commit the crime, I'm already paying for it? Gotta love a system where might buys right. I hate lobbyists and campaign contributions.
That's great, but how are you compiling X11, and the contributions from the BSD folk? Oh, you're using GCC? And where did that come from? Do you use GCC for compiling your kernel too?
Clearly there are two sides to every argument. If Stallman wants to call it something different than you, why not let him? If he wants to refuse to speak somewhere because of what he perceives as conflicting viewpoints, that's his right. Give the man a break.
Sorry, but you're wrong -- the movie Wild Things has full frontal male nudity (i.e. The Full Bacon) and it's rated R. So does Boogie Nights. I'm sure there's more, but those are a couple I can think of off the top of my head.
.. piracy jumps 1600% as teenagers are now forced to pirate games since they can't buy them.
Just post a bunch of messages about how Chinese hackers "c0uldnt g3t r00t 0n a mS-d0s b0x." That should piss them off enough for them to actively test your network. Just sit back and see if/how they get in.
(They also don't like it when you make fun of their fighter pilot who ran into our plane, so throw some of those insults in there as well.)
This analogy makes no sense. Maybe if people were selling burned CD's, then it would ring true, but how am I "getting an A" by listening to a CD with burned music? A better analogy might be: "Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and read it and enjoy it too? Would that bug you?" That's the right analogy, and my answer is: No, it would not bug me. My master's thesis is online for all to enjoy.
My God!!? If you're really worried about global warming, turn that computer off! I can't imagine the heat it generates.
.. when you didn't tell me what company you work for? like i'm supposed to sort through all these emails for eval software and guess which one is for your company?
.. this story made me think of a old Georgia Tech joke I found very funny. Here it goes:
A Georgia Tech student and an MIT student are talking to each other one day. Very proud of his school, the Georgia Tech student says, "You know, at Georgia Tech, we consider ourselves the MIT of the South." The MIT student turns to him and replies, "You know that's funny, because at MIT we don't consider Georgia Tech."
I think this guy has seen Good Will Hunting too many times. What did he think was going to happen? The judge was going to order him into the care of an MIT professor under whom he would subsequently make mathematical breakthroughs that dwarfed the achievements of the world's best mathematicians, while meanwhile getting-it-on with a hot Harvard grad student in biochemistry? C'mon..
Actually you might be a little wrong there bucko. Years and years ago, when the earth was new, I was an undergrad at MIT and then-Media-Lab-graduate-student Mann spoke in a class I was taking. At the time, I believe he was trying to recruit people to do heavy-duty graphics work (i.e. when he moves his head side to side, his camera is taking discrete pictures of a room/building/whatever at different angles. He was working on algorithms to put them all together and make them coherent). Anyhow, the point is, I distinctly remember him saying that he got nauseous when he removed his visor. The reason was very simple. He spent all of his waking life (outside of the shower) in a 2D world. His body was so used to it, that living in 3D took some serious getting used to, and he would feel sick. My guess is that this is what happened. Ever feel like your eyes need some adjusting after staring at a 2D object (such as a movie theatre screen) for hours at a time? Now image doing that 24/7 for years and trying to re-adjust to the real world.
This is really good to hear. I was pretty worried about losing access to features once I gave them money.
Looks like it's /.'d already, so use the power of the google.
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
Do you mean a non-traditional career path like my uncle? He dropped out of grad school at Princeton in physics to drive a cab. Is that what you mean?
This is nothing new, MIT has been doing this for awhile...
This lawsuit could be easily avoided if they just defined "LindowsOS" as:
LindowsOS is not dumb old windows software Or Something
That way, right in the name of the product, they're saying it's not Windows. How much more straightforward can they get?
This list is nice, but incomplete. It would nice to see a *COMPLETE* "Great Moments in Usenet History" list, including:
First alt.binaries porn image
Birth of alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die
First use of the word "pr0n"
First appearance of "31337"
First reference to Bill Gates as the anti-christ.
I'm sure my list is incomplete as well, but it's a start.
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This may be a stupid question, but how does it play DVD movies? I mean, obviously it has a DVD-ROM, but where does the software to play it come from? Do you need a boot CD to load up the OS/player, then you swap in the DVD? Or is there a small Windows OS on the hard disk itself that contains a player? If there's a Windows OS on the HD, what's stopping the natural corruption of some DLL's and the player breaking?
Are you kidding or what? In 1999 Virtual Reality became a reality when we all got enslaved in The Matrix. Until Keanu Reeves sets us free in the next movie we're all stuck in here. It's just so real that we can't tell.