Deng Xiao Ping once said "There is nothing wrong with getting rich". When the defacto ruler of your country says that, you don't live in a communist country anymore.
When Mao died the CCP leadership basically decided that 'capitalism' was better then 'Maoism' and the related insanity. They now claim only to be 'socialist' and are trying to model their government on the neo-fascist Asian governments in Singapore, South Korea and (formerly) the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Che left Cuba was because he felt that the principle "no man shoudl have two coats until..." wasnt really being followed..... Some people actully practice what they preach. Dont be so cynical.
In using software from a Pirated CD, you're going to have to copy it to the computers. In the case of the teacher there, she's be copying it on to dozens of machines that probably would be running licensed software.
I mean, yeh if you just want to have a day planner get a palm pilot. If you want to have a fully loaded modern computer in your pocket, get a WinCE device. I mean, I don't need to be able to emulate a Nintendo or play MPEG video on my PDA but I can. And that's the whole point of being a geek. Doing things with computers because you can not because it's useful.
Oh, also I just got a slim line Sony notebook SR33k (yay for student loans:). Very smooth. It also only lasts two hours on battery and while its a lot smaller then most laptops its still pretty unwieldy.
Dude, you can run a web server on anything. It's just about one of the simplest things to implement. The ability to run one on a PDA is not something you should really italicize unless you want to look like a dumbass. People have put web servers on Apple IIs.
WinCE devices are much better for 'geeks' then palms. large, color screens, lots of expandablity, not to mention a powerfull multithreaded OS to play with and a nice (now free) Dev kit.
The palm may be 'simple and elegant' but I don't want simple and elegant, I want a real computer. with all the features and functionality of a deskop. And I can get that with WinCE.
Right now, corporations do in fact patent things through the employees who think them up. However, if one were to make it illegal to actualy transfer an 'individual' patent indefinetly and make it legal for corporations to co-sign patents, I don't think manny companies would trust their employees with the company 'crown jewls' so to speak.
In the real world you also won't get fired for being a complete fucking idiot. What's your point?
Well, I suppose that depends on where you work. And like whether or not they suck. The fact of the matter is, there are a lot of people out there who do cut a lot of corners in their code, and still manage to make money. Those people suck to work with, of course, because their code is always shit and they don't really know what they're doing.
Personally, I find that to be rather a bad idea. I think up interesting things all the time, and I think I should be able to patent them, even if I haven't got the capital to build a working model or anything like that.
Maybe the burden of proof could be higher or something for a corporation rather then an individual. But I don't really see a reason for not allowing people to patent something if it wasn't difficult to come up with, I mean sometimes the most useful things are 'obvious' in retrospect and their genesis consisted mostly of a flash of insight and a quick jotting down. I read a report on a guy who made most of his money coming up with new kinds of condiments containers. Those things do make your life better, and might not even ever be developed if the person who thought them up didn't think they could make money off of it.
You know, I wonder if this wouldn't be a good way to fight the RIAA. I remember a quote from the guy who leads the patent office saying he thought legal arguments should be patentable. His argument was basically "Why the hell not?" as I recall.
Now, I don't think that you can patent legal arguments at this point in time, but you can patent business models. I mean, we're all smart people, I say why not just patent everything we can think of that the riaa might need technological to fight fair use, etc. I mean they already have things like digital watermarking, and some business models, but why not try to stay ahead of the curve? I remember thinking about a Digital Rights management system built into an OS a couple of months before Microsoft's patent was announced. If I'd thought of it years ago and patented it I would have stopped MS from ever implementing it in the core of the OS. Hrm... not that I wouldn't have been unbribeable, but, maybe this could be done through some non-profit organization like the EFF or something.
Hrm, maybe I should patent this idea... method stopping tyranny through abuse of the patent system...
Well, I would find that funny. Of course, you don't really need to be an economist to know the new napster will fail, just like you don't need to be a computer scientist to know the Gnutella network was fucked (at least in it's original conception)
Before anyone cries "Sell Out" put yourself in Shawns shoes;
You mean sell your tech to your VC uncle and get subsiquently shafted by him for a few hundred thousand dolars on your million (billion?) dolar idea? Or prance around like an idiot frat boy on MTV, totaly blowing your chance to get the MTV generation to care about copyright law?
Or were you under some sort of impression that Sean Fanning has or ever had any kind of control over napster?
You can record live audio from microphones to MP3. You can also record from DVD-audio or DAT which have slightly higher audio quality then CDs. I mean. Duh.
Well, I didn't read through the whole thing, just the first few messages. But what I don't get is why you kept replying with these long emails when it was mostly obvious that the guy didn't really want to do anything other then piss you off.
No one is threating lawsuits here. Just because the guy flamed you dosn't mean you have to get all bitchy about it. So he's a dick? So what? Does it make any real diffrence in your life?
Its really amazing how quickly gopher dried up as http took off. The gopher clients for windows are all written for Windows 3.1 or NT 3.1 and the major browser vendors seemed to have left the code in a state of neglect.
Mozilla and all versions of Internet explorer support gopher. Just type in gopher:// and then the rest of the URL the way you normally would. You don't need to go digging up ancient software to browse.
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Deng Xiao Ping once said "There is nothing wrong with getting rich". When the defacto ruler of your country says that, you don't live in a communist country anymore.
When Mao died the CCP leadership basically decided that 'capitalism' was better then 'Maoism' and the related insanity. They now claim only to be 'socialist' and are trying to model their government on the neo-fascist Asian governments in Singapore, South Korea and (formerly) the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Che left Cuba was because he felt that the principle "no man shoudl have two coats until..." wasnt really being followed. .... Some people actully practice what they preach. Dont be so cynical.
Yes, and then they get killed.
What does Raise the Red Lantern have to do with the revolution? And you listed it twice too, btw.
Oh Ok, how about I make it easy and just ask for the Apache port? That will never happen either because: [sniped random idiocy]
you mean like this?
It took me a whole 2 seconds of searching on google to find that. If you knew anything about computers you would know the following:
1) WinCE is as much a 'real' OS as Linux and Windows (premtive multithreading, protected memory, sockets, etc)
2) You don't need a 'real OS' to run a webserver and you never did. You can run a web server on an Atari 800.
3) The quality of the OS has nothing to do with the quality of the Excel port.
I wish I could find a pirated copy of psp4. 6.0b loads like a pig.
That's not really true, Copyright laws help out big corporations, whereas most drug laws help absolutely no one.
In using software from a Pirated CD, you're going to have to copy it to the computers. In the case of the teacher there, she's be copying it on to dozens of machines that probably would be running licensed software.
There is no point. that's what makes it geeky!
:). Very smooth. It also only lasts two hours on battery and while its a lot smaller then most laptops its still pretty unwieldy.
I mean, yeh if you just want to have a day planner get a palm pilot. If you want to have a fully loaded modern computer in your pocket, get a WinCE device. I mean, I don't need to be able to emulate a Nintendo or play MPEG video on my PDA but I can. And that's the whole point of being a geek. Doing things with computers because you can not because it's useful.
Oh, also I just got a slim line Sony notebook SR33k (yay for student loans
Dude, you can run a web server on anything. It's just about one of the simplest things to implement. The ability to run one on a PDA is not something you should really italicize unless you want to look like a dumbass. People have put web servers on Apple IIs.
WinCE devices are much better for 'geeks' then palms. large, color screens, lots of expandablity, not to mention a powerfull multithreaded OS to play with and a nice (now free) Dev kit.
The palm may be 'simple and elegant' but I don't want simple and elegant, I want a real computer. with all the features and functionality of a deskop. And I can get that with WinCE.
you're depriving society of technology if you just forget about it as well.
Maybe the current patent system should be replaced with a 'compulsory rights' system, where everyone can license your idea for a price you set.
Right now, corporations do in fact patent things through the employees who think them up. However, if one were to make it illegal to actualy transfer an 'individual' patent indefinetly and make it legal for corporations to co-sign patents, I don't think manny companies would trust their employees with the company 'crown jewls' so to speak.
In the real world you also won't get fired for being a complete fucking idiot. What's your point?
Well, I suppose that depends on where you work. And like whether or not they suck. The fact of the matter is, there are a lot of people out there who do cut a lot of corners in their code, and still manage to make money. Those people suck to work with, of course, because their code is always shit and they don't really know what they're doing.
Personally, I find that to be rather a bad idea. I think up interesting things all the time, and I think I should be able to patent them, even if I haven't got the capital to build a working model or anything like that.
Maybe the burden of proof could be higher or something for a corporation rather then an individual. But I don't really see a reason for not allowing people to patent something if it wasn't difficult to come up with, I mean sometimes the most useful things are 'obvious' in retrospect and their genesis consisted mostly of a flash of insight and a quick jotting down. I read a report on a guy who made most of his money coming up with new kinds of condiments containers. Those things do make your life better, and might not even ever be developed if the person who thought them up didn't think they could make money off of it.
You know, I wonder if this wouldn't be a good way to fight the RIAA. I remember a quote from the guy who leads the patent office saying he thought legal arguments should be patentable. His argument was basically "Why the hell not?" as I recall.
Now, I don't think that you can patent legal arguments at this point in time, but you can patent business models. I mean, we're all smart people, I say why not just patent everything we can think of that the riaa might need technological to fight fair use, etc. I mean they already have things like digital watermarking, and some business models, but why not try to stay ahead of the curve? I remember thinking about a Digital Rights management system built into an OS a couple of months before Microsoft's patent was announced. If I'd thought of it years ago and patented it I would have stopped MS from ever implementing it in the core of the OS. Hrm... not that I wouldn't have been unbribeable, but, maybe this could be done through some non-profit organization like the EFF or something.
Hrm, maybe I should patent this idea... method stopping tyranny through abuse of the patent system...
I was just pointing out that enjoying rectum does not necessarily equate homosexuality.
Well, I would find that funny. Of course, you don't really need to be an economist to know the new napster will fail, just like you don't need to be a computer scientist to know the Gnutella network was fucked (at least in it's original conception)
It's more like selling tickets to a game where you play.
You know, there are some people out there who actualy create their own music...
Before anyone cries "Sell Out" put yourself in Shawns shoes;
You mean sell your tech to your VC uncle and get subsiquently shafted by him for a few hundred thousand dolars on your million (billion?) dolar idea? Or prance around like an idiot frat boy on MTV, totaly blowing your chance to get the MTV generation to care about copyright law?
Or were you under some sort of impression that Sean Fanning has or ever had any kind of control over napster?
What's wrong with sucking on a chicks rectum? A real man goes to great lenghts to please his woman.
You can record live audio from microphones to MP3. You can also record from DVD-audio or DAT which have slightly higher audio quality then CDs. I mean. Duh.
Well, I didn't read through the whole thing, just the first few messages. But what I don't get is why you kept replying with these long emails when it was mostly obvious that the guy didn't really want to do anything other then piss you off.
No one is threating lawsuits here. Just because the guy flamed you dosn't mean you have to get all bitchy about it. So he's a dick? So what? Does it make any real diffrence in your life?
Its really amazing how quickly gopher dried up as http took off. The gopher clients for windows are all written for Windows 3.1 or NT 3.1 and the major browser vendors seemed to have left the code in a state of neglect.
Mozilla and all versions of Internet explorer support gopher. Just type in gopher:// and then the rest of the URL the way you normally would. You don't need to go digging up ancient software to browse.