I remember I actually submitted an essay that would contribute to my final grade for the UK high school level exams (GCSEs - the second year they were run) in which I basically accused a poet of being a miserable, death obsessed loner who only wanted to bring everyone down to the same level of depression. Now I just feel sorry for him - I mean, if the guy was so bad that a 16 year old thinks he's a miserable death-obsessed loner, he's in a really bad state.
Anyway, that's one motivation for bad poetry, the other major one is the one that effectively applies here - just wanting to get laid.
The BPI has stated that sites such as Kazaa will have to be eradicated 'in due course'. But their tactics seem rather more realistic, reasonable and practical than the RIAA.
"... I think you've got to grow viable legitimate alternatives so you can genuinely say to the consumer 'hey, stop stealing.'"
"It's got to be pretty easy for the consumer to do it properly before they will respond to you.
"I'm quite confident that once we have enough appropriate services out there, there will be - for all the right reasons - a drift towards them."
Recent quote from Peter Jamieson,
executive chairman, British Phonographic Industry
Four strikes against it for me - IE, WM9, DRM and USA. Maybe they're not touching us as we don't all have restrictive laws on copyright circumvention yet...
Or a little correct reading of the original announcement -
Hughes Electronics Corporation... today reported that second quarter 2003 revenues increased
8.1% to $2,370.7 million
Any journalist who can't tell the difference between a comma and a full stop needs their eyes checked...
No, a million is 1,000,000 in both the UK and the US. The difference is in what the definition of a billion is - in the US, it is a thousand million, in the UK it is strictly a million million, but the US sense is increasingly used.
but if I go to your neibors door and when he answers I tell him you are a soulless satan worshipping ballbag...thats slander.
I wonder - where's the line drawn between slander and abuse? If you declare that the innocent neighbour of being a kiddie-fiddler, that's slander. If you describe him as being a whining piece of shit, surely that's just abuse - so now, could your lawyer argue that when you described the neighbour as a satan-worshipper, you were just being abusive?
*sigh*. No they didn't. They merely proved that they'd misunderstood what the 'laws' were - or rather, they knew they weren't laws but merely oversimplified models (the same sort which says a bumblebee can't fly), which is why they bothered trying to build the damn thing in the first place. This isn't surprising, they still build models to put in wind tunnels because we don't understand turbulence.
Actually, they have computers in Africa, India, Iraq, Tokyo,Hong Kong. The computer is not something only we have.
There are a great many millionaires in India. There are just a hell of a lot more poor people. Iraq? Well, a computer is not much use when the occupying forces *still* haven't got the electricity working in your area yet. But in the past they were a well educated country - I have worked with an Iraqi scientist. The second man to pay his own way into space was a South African. As for Tokyo and Hong Kong - where the hell did you get the idea they were poor?
Give me an example of no way out?
Ever heard of subsistence farming? You spend all day trying to scratch a living. If the crop fails, you're in trouble. It's hard to get an education if there is no free school available and your family needs you to help in the fields or there will not be enough food.
It doesnt matter where you are, if you are smart you'll take advantage of what you have, and find ways around what you dont have.
Bullshit. Absolute utter bullshit. Only if you are lucky enough to be born in a country with free education and some form of welfare state does that apply, and even then not equally. If there is no free education, if you have to work every hour of the day just to get enough to live on, then there is no other way out. Are you trying to claim all those people on the breadline in the third world are just bone idle?
What makes you think a kid in Africa or China cant pick up a book on C++, then go to an internet cafe and practice programming so he can get a job?
Are you absolutely insane? Possibly if the Chinese kid lives in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangdong, and has the money to spend on the cafe. But what if you live in a village in Western China? Where do you get the book from? Where is the internet cafe? Especially if the government has just shut most of them down. Same with Africa. Possibly fine if you're in Accra , but what if you're in ha Konote?
to live in the USA you have to be the smartest hardest working person in the world.
Firstly, the US only work the longest hours of any western industrial nation. You work less hours than Hong Kong-China. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand all report working more than the US. You work for less time than the Koreans. Look up the original report rather than US media misunderstandings. Secondly - well, duration does not equal quality. And finally, yes, the French have it easier. That's because the French decided to have it easier. That's because they value their free time more than their bank balance - they go on strike to get better working conditions, not more money (and boy, do they go on strike). They work fewer hours, they're a bit poorer, but they are a damn sight happier than you. I'd rather be a happy cheese munching surrender monkey in Paris than a miserable cheese munching desk monkey in Wisconsin. If you are spending all your time working to get the money to buy consumeables and you are still miserable, when there are people with less money who are far happier, have you considered that they might actually be the smarter ones?
It doesnt change the fact that no matter if you live in a jungle or in a cubical its hard work, and its not fun.
The probability is that it isn't life that has the problem - it's you.
If you think what you have is 'hard work' then you're just spoilt. I *know* I have it easy compared to at least 5 billion of the world's population. I know I have it easy compared to 99% of the world's population prior to 1950. Since you have access to a computer, it's likely the same applies to you as well. There are many, many people out there for whom life is a horrible struggle from which there is no way out, and no hope of ever improving their lot. But for the vast majority of those who can post on Slashdot, this isn't true. Yes, I was broke and working over 60 hours a week a couple of years back - but I did that through choice and to get where I am today - my work is interesting, albeit underpaid.
Keep playing. The better you get, the better it gets.
if we discover it's theoretically possible to break one of the fundamental laws...
If you find out you can break one of the laws, that means you didn't understand what the law was. Not that the reality police are going to pull you over for performing an unsafe manouver in an unregistered universe...
The most accurate estimation of the age of the universe has been recently carried out by the WMAP mission, which measured the cosmic microwave background with 35 times the resolution of the previous COBE mission. The universe is 13.7 billion years old, plus or minus 200 million years.
The more often you have laws against guns, the more often the criminals you encounter will have them
What? Banning something means criminals are automatically more likely to have them? Shit, we'd better legalise nukes now, or someone might jump me with a ten megaton device on my way home!
Well, there is one slight difference - the New York pizzeria will have a New York telephone number. A US company just has a.com address - but there are companies operating in the UK that just have.com addresses, and the same probably applies to many other countries.
In other words, you see a.co.uk, you know where the company is. You see.com, you don't.
Well, you say you've read the article, but it appears you can't be bothered to read it well enough. The original author stated that their problem was that the US websites, which held a larger variety of stock than the local ones, wouldn't sell to him. Pointing out where the local one that doesn't have all the items he is after is is not going to help.
Czechs beating the professionals by eight months is EMBARRASSING.
I could translate it into Czech in a week - but it would be damn near incomprehensible.
The point is not to bash out a version in the minimum amount of time possible, but to do it correctly, and well. The more dialects, wordplay, puns, etc. that a book contains, the harder it is to do it to a professional standard.
28 Days Later is a bad example. They weren't going to sit on a Danny Boyle film aimed at the UK market (that's why it's low budget) while they waited to get a US distributor.
Unsurprisingly, JK Rowling and her publishers are way, way ahead of you on this.
The People's Publishing House have been selling Chinese translations of the Harry Potter books since 2000. News story here. The Chinese translation of The Order of the Phoenix will be out in October - 29-year-old Ma Aixin is doing the translation, as the old translators were making the language too elegant and stiff.
Ah, but what form does the legal action take? Albatros are in all probability merely taking legal action to have the text removed from the website. I'd be rather surprised if they are demanding thousands of Koruna in damages.
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Anyway, that's one motivation for bad poetry, the other major one is the one that effectively applies here - just wanting to get laid.
"... I think you've got to grow viable legitimate alternatives so you can genuinely say to the consumer 'hey, stop stealing.'"
"It's got to be pretty easy for the consumer to do it properly before they will respond to you.
"I'm quite confident that once we have enough appropriate services out there, there will be - for all the right reasons - a drift towards them." Recent quote from Peter Jamieson, executive chairman, British Phonographic Industry
Who said it had to be a US company? I was hoping someone like HMV might do something.
Really? I'm always offered things to put on weight. Enlarge this bit of the body, enlarge that bit...
Four strikes against it for me - IE, WM9, DRM and USA. Maybe they're not touching us as we don't all have restrictive laws on copyright circumvention yet...
Any chance of anything like this (preferably one that is capable of running on a more secure browser and computer) coming to Europe any time soon?
Hughes Electronics Corporation
Any journalist who can't tell the difference between a comma and a full stop needs their eyes checked...
No, a million is 1,000,000 in both the UK and the US. The difference is in what the definition of a billion is - in the US, it is a thousand million, in the UK it is strictly a million million, but the US sense is increasingly used.
But if you don't have any murderers in jail, who is the state governor going to have executed when he wants to show he's tough on crime?
I wonder - where's the line drawn between slander and abuse? If you declare that the innocent neighbour of being a kiddie-fiddler, that's slander. If you describe him as being a whining piece of shit, surely that's just abuse - so now, could your lawyer argue that when you described the neighbour as a satan-worshipper, you were just being abusive?
a value of 12.5 bn years is obtained for the age of the Cosmos, with an uncertainty of about 3 bn years.
You didn't bother reading down that far, did you? People should read the whole article before complaining.
*sigh*. No they didn't. They merely proved that they'd misunderstood what the 'laws' were - or rather, they knew they weren't laws but merely oversimplified models (the same sort which says a bumblebee can't fly), which is why they bothered trying to build the damn thing in the first place. This isn't surprising, they still build models to put in wind tunnels because we don't understand turbulence.
There are a great many millionaires in India. There are just a hell of a lot more poor people. Iraq? Well, a computer is not much use when the occupying forces *still* haven't got the electricity working in your area yet. But in the past they were a well educated country - I have worked with an Iraqi scientist. The second man to pay his own way into space was a South African. As for Tokyo and Hong Kong - where the hell did you get the idea they were poor?
Give me an example of no way out?
Ever heard of subsistence farming? You spend all day trying to scratch a living. If the crop fails, you're in trouble. It's hard to get an education if there is no free school available and your family needs you to help in the fields or there will not be enough food.
It doesnt matter where you are, if you are smart you'll take advantage of what you have, and find ways around what you dont have.
Bullshit. Absolute utter bullshit. Only if you are lucky enough to be born in a country with free education and some form of welfare state does that apply, and even then not equally. If there is no free education, if you have to work every hour of the day just to get enough to live on, then there is no other way out. Are you trying to claim all those people on the breadline in the third world are just bone idle?
What makes you think a kid in Africa or China cant pick up a book on C++, then go to an internet cafe and practice programming so he can get a job?
Are you absolutely insane? Possibly if the Chinese kid lives in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangdong, and has the money to spend on the cafe. But what if you live in a village in Western China? Where do you get the book from? Where is the internet cafe? Especially if the government has just shut most of them down. Same with Africa. Possibly fine if you're in Accra , but what if you're in ha Konote?
to live in the USA you have to be the smartest hardest working person in the world.
Firstly, the US only work the longest hours of any western industrial nation. You work less hours than Hong Kong-China. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand all report working more than the US. You work for less time than the Koreans. Look up the original report rather than US media misunderstandings. Secondly - well, duration does not equal quality. And finally, yes, the French have it easier. That's because the French decided to have it easier. That's because they value their free time more than their bank balance - they go on strike to get better working conditions, not more money (and boy, do they go on strike). They work fewer hours, they're a bit poorer, but they are a damn sight happier than you. I'd rather be a happy cheese munching surrender monkey in Paris than a miserable cheese munching desk monkey in Wisconsin. If you are spending all your time working to get the money to buy consumeables and you are still miserable, when there are people with less money who are far happier, have you considered that they might actually be the smarter ones?
The probability is that it isn't life that has the problem - it's you.
If you think what you have is 'hard work' then you're just spoilt. I *know* I have it easy compared to at least 5 billion of the world's population. I know I have it easy compared to 99% of the world's population prior to 1950. Since you have access to a computer, it's likely the same applies to you as well. There are many, many people out there for whom life is a horrible struggle from which there is no way out, and no hope of ever improving their lot. But for the vast majority of those who can post on Slashdot, this isn't true. Yes, I was broke and working over 60 hours a week a couple of years back - but I did that through choice and to get where I am today - my work is interesting, albeit underpaid.
Keep playing. The better you get, the better it gets.
If you find out you can break one of the laws, that means you didn't understand what the law was. Not that the reality police are going to pull you over for performing an unsafe manouver in an unregistered universe...
So now we're going to be stuck with the homicidal computers, death-dealing androids and kleptomaniac robots of science fiction, because someone has patented an AI with ethics? I mean, at least they're cheap...
Estimating from the decay of Uranium has been used. However, it could give a different answer to that obtained by estimating the expansion, although there was some overlap in the numbers because neither were that accurate. The best results have been obtained from latest measurements of the cosmic microwave background.
The most accurate estimation of the age of the universe has been recently carried out by the WMAP mission, which measured the cosmic microwave background with 35 times the resolution of the previous COBE mission. The universe is 13.7 billion years old, plus or minus 200 million years.
What? Banning something means criminals are automatically more likely to have them? Shit, we'd better legalise nukes now, or someone might jump me with a ten megaton device on my way home!
Well, there is one slight difference - the New York pizzeria will have a New York telephone number. A US company just has a .com address - but there are companies operating in the UK that just have .com addresses, and the same probably applies to many other countries.
.co.uk, you know where the company is. You see .com, you don't.
In other words, you see a
Well, you say you've read the article, but it appears you can't be bothered to read it well enough. The original author stated that their problem was that the US websites, which held a larger variety of stock than the local ones, wouldn't sell to him. Pointing out where the local one that doesn't have all the items he is after is is not going to help.
I could translate it into Czech in a week - but it would be damn near incomprehensible.
The point is not to bash out a version in the minimum amount of time possible, but to do it correctly, and well. The more dialects, wordplay, puns, etc. that a book contains, the harder it is to do it to a professional standard.
28 Days Later is a bad example. They weren't going to sit on a Danny Boyle film aimed at the UK market (that's why it's low budget) while they waited to get a US distributor.
The People's Publishing House have been selling Chinese translations of the Harry Potter books since 2000. News story here. The Chinese translation of The Order of the Phoenix will be out in October - 29-year-old Ma Aixin is doing the translation, as the old translators were making the language too elegant and stiff.
Ah, but what form does the legal action take? Albatros are in all probability merely taking legal action to have the text removed from the website. I'd be rather surprised if they are demanding thousands of Koruna in damages.