The 'me' decade (the 1980s) saw a similar set of expectations (maybe couched differently and with more pastel fashion, but essentially an entitlement gap emerged).
I suspect what is being observed now is the same type of pop culture fallout to some degree.
...some of the more stellar behaviors I have seen over the years;
- No knowledge of actual standards (including refusal to believe in almost any Open Source options, the only one he agrees to is the MySQL boxen because he has no choice) - No actual technical knowledge. Claims to have been in management so long, its all antiquated. To which I wonder how you can be useful as anything other than a glorified secretary if you do not actually understand anything about your operating environment. - Fixation on paperwork-generating processes as a crutch against ineptitude and poor planning. - Completely devoid of a spine, and buckles like wet cardboard under any pressure from the COO, who is the only person more staggeringly incompetent than he is. - Is having an affair with the director of HR (possibly as a job-saving measure).
If you cannot actually do your job, I suppose your next best thing is to posture and be project your stupidity as some kind of avant-garde performance art.
My first game was Pong. I had a guy from junior high whose father led our Boy Scout troop and was some electronics engineer - he had a full arcade version of Pong in his garage. This would have been 1983/4 or so.
After that, I played some Atari 2600 games, but didn't really pay much attention to games until Star Control 2 and Dune 2 many years later.
...has long been riding his own virtual coattails, and rehashing his same old tropes, or otherwise rambling incoherently about things he can't or won't bother to fathom. This case, is the latter.
About the only thing of merit he has done in ten years was play a series of obscure wind instruments during a Living Colour show in San Francisco, which at least showed some moxy.
Seriously, does anyone think he has made a serious original insight in his career. At best he is creatively speculative within areas where he can operate in essentially total obscuram (i.e. his days with VPL), but has a hard time with anything of hard consequence otherwise.
...is that they are hedging multiple possibilities. If they can in the future use the licenses to cause confusion about motives, or because they have a bigger legal sleight of hand on their mind, I will not speculate. But I do think these are calculated, I do think questions about the motivation is valid, and in the end, if the licenses meet spec, they meet spec.
I was at the conference where RMS, in the middle of a semi-inchoate ramble, was upstaged by Linus's daughter. If you consider being an attentive father less admirable rather than a self-absorbed pedant, then more power to you. RMS at that point had turned what should have been a simple acceptance statement into a Fidel Castro length manifesto, and the audience was getting largely apathetic. Linux came out of it with a PR coup because he appeared less dogmatic and far easier to relate to both on personal and practical grounds.
You are right, RMS has a right to complain in much that we have the right to complain about RMS and his dogmatism, as well as his shortcomings as a social adept. And some of us also see a right to find his thinly disguised bruised ego largely inconsequential.
...it is easy to reach a human, does not mean it will make the experience any better. Netflix used to staff a call center in San Jose and from what I understood they used a horrid bit of home grown java bloatware that the support folken had to use on antiquated, underpowered hardware, all while suffering the normal call center pressures (including not having any authority to do much of anything save absorb abuse).
What you are stating doesn't mean that the current copyright system needs to be abolished, but that safeguards to keep the playing field level need to be implemented.
The Fair Use Doctrine has a little bit of fuzz to it (especially in lieu of recent technological advancements), but the principles behind it are those that the **AA's have generally never liked to start with, so hoping for their approval in any way is probably not going to take you very far.
I don't think it will "fail" at all, since it is OSS and ergo if a sufficiently large user base evolves, then that is all that it needs. It does not require becoming a defacto standard to be a success. While I agree that for it to make the crossover it needs to be part of a functionally integrated suite of apps, I think even for just web-work,it could pose as a replacement for GIMP on *nix (even though it has been improving, GIMP seems to be suffering under its own collective weight).
And there is always Plunderphonics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunderphonics which does not exactly apply here, but does bear some mention in terms of principle motivations.
It isn't necessarily about doing a "better job" than the original artist, but taking their own interpretive roll with it. It is akin to the common practice in jazz of taking standards and wringing all manner of new permutations of them in performance or recording (everyone knows Monk's "Straight No Chaser", but it keeps getting recorded in a growing body of fresh takes; the melody is timeless, and people gravitate towards that and find things they can use to build their own takes on).
Sampling and such goes back all the way to the musique concrete of the 1940s and 50s, and tape loops and found sounds have been part and parcel of the musical landscape for quite some time, so this is far from a new idea.
I am curious to see what kinds of lawsuits he will eventually run into (and I am quite sure he will), or in turn seeing people going in and editing their contact data to be extremely bogus (such as to change it to Mr. Fowler's for example).
And I for one, have seen things that are certainly similar. At best what you are creating is a series of like values (I live (Engliah) = Eu vivo (Portuguese) = Iskun (Arabic), etc), and that is if you are doing translation (where such things have already been around). If it is for one language, then it is basically taking a "501 X Verbs" Book and making it searchable electronically, and adding it to the grammar/cpell check of a writing application.
Unless there is some that extends beyond the simple idea of large tables of word/phrase data and maybe some kind of expert system with grammar rules that accounts for some of the varied iregular verbs of somelanguages, what you have is a rather bogus patent application.
...is one of the last people I would want making a presentation to a political figure. His dogmatic approach and generally oblivious nature (not to mention his decorum) would make him more damaging than useful in person.
His tendencies runs contra to almost every tenet of diplomatic/political chess. Linus is a far more adroit.
...since that pretty much nails the last spike in the coffin for me. After 8 years of almost total loyalty to the Thinkpad line (starting with the butterfly-kb 701cs to my current P43) I will have to find a new laptop. I think those new Apple models.....
...I have been feature averse on mobiles since I first started using them however many years ago. Basically I get the cheapest model that is not as big as a Mini Cooper and that takes calls and makes them.
I have never had much use for a phone doing anything other than what its original intent was.
But I have a general allergic reaction to phones, period, so I understand I am in the minority and would not expect my outlook to be a trend of any kind. I simply like the Unix-ish idea of a clean, simple utility (or in this case device) doing a certain thing very well and reliably.
...to be better at search instead of simply bigger. *That* is a goal worth supporting, as it pushes competition. Otherwise, it just sounds like Redmond as usual.
Marillion did something very similiar to this with an entire albums worth of tracks a few years back and actually took the best remixes from the pool of selections and placed it as a "b-side" to one of their legitimate single releases.
...on of the best survivors of the "figure out how to make the net work for us" bands is Marillion, who seem to have turned their core fan-base into not only consumers, but as a marketing team that far outstrips the "street-team" and that actually has a more direct contact with the band itself, to the point that they have effectively pre-funded tours and album advances for them without any record company intervention.
They literally have established what most marketing execs dream of...true brand loyalty.
www.marillion.com
...can in fact be very successful, but usually because they understand their limitations, and function in a largely administrative manner. They are more technocratic and practical rather than "idea" people.
I worked at a firm that hired some rather less than exemplary PHBs with not only a complete lack of technical clue, but no concept of legal issues (related to software licensing mostly) and a callous disregard for the opinions of those who were best suited to properly and honestly advise them. They were frankly, imbeciles.
While the spectacle of the Compaq deal gave her an inordinate amount of visibility, not all of it was good. Her own profile also seemed to clash with the well-established corporate culture of HP (which from what I undertstand was exemplified by the mostly low-key and self-deprecating style of Lew Platt).
There were simply too many gaffes, and I really am somewhat impressed she weathered it this far. Carlton Sneed Fiorina, whatever shall you do now...
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No Starch Press has been known to do ok with their authors.
The 'me' decade (the 1980s) saw a similar set of expectations (maybe couched differently and with more pastel fashion, but essentially an entitlement gap emerged). I suspect what is being observed now is the same type of pop culture fallout to some degree.
...some of the more stellar behaviors I have seen over the years;
- No knowledge of actual standards (including refusal to believe in almost any Open Source options, the only one he agrees to is the MySQL boxen because he has no choice)
- No actual technical knowledge. Claims to have been in management so long, its all antiquated. To which I wonder how you can be useful as anything other than a glorified secretary if you do not actually understand anything about your operating environment.
- Fixation on paperwork-generating processes as a crutch against ineptitude and poor planning.
- Completely devoid of a spine, and buckles like wet cardboard under any pressure from the COO, who is the only person more staggeringly incompetent than he is.
- Is having an affair with the director of HR (possibly as a job-saving measure).
If you cannot actually do your job, I suppose your next best thing is to posture and be project your stupidity as some kind of avant-garde performance art.
My first game was Pong. I had a guy from junior high whose father led our Boy Scout troop and was some electronics engineer - he had a full arcade version of Pong in his garage. This would have been 1983/4 or so.
After that, I played some Atari 2600 games, but didn't really pay much attention to games until Star Control 2 and Dune 2 many years later.
...has long been riding his own virtual coattails, and rehashing his same old tropes, or otherwise rambling incoherently about things he can't or won't bother to fathom. This case, is the latter.
About the only thing of merit he has done in ten years was play a series of obscure wind instruments during a Living Colour show in San Francisco, which at least showed some moxy.
Seriously, does anyone think he has made a serious original insight in his career. At best he is creatively speculative within areas where he can operate in essentially total obscuram (i.e. his days with VPL), but has a hard time with anything of hard consequence otherwise.
...is that they are hedging multiple possibilities. If they can in the future use the licenses to cause confusion about motives, or because they have a bigger legal sleight of hand on their mind, I will not speculate. But I do think these are calculated, I do think questions about the motivation is valid, and in the end, if the licenses meet spec, they meet spec.
I was at the conference where RMS, in the middle of a semi-inchoate ramble, was upstaged by Linus's daughter. If you consider being an attentive father less admirable rather than a self-absorbed pedant, then more power to you. RMS at that point had turned what should have been a simple acceptance statement into a Fidel Castro length manifesto, and the audience was getting largely apathetic. Linux came out of it with a PR coup because he appeared less dogmatic and far easier to relate to both on personal and practical grounds.
You are right, RMS has a right to complain in much that we have the right to complain about RMS and his dogmatism, as well as his shortcomings as a social adept. And some of us also see a right to find his thinly disguised bruised ego largely inconsequential.
...it is easy to reach a human, does not mean it will make the experience any better. Netflix used to staff a call center in San Jose and from what I understood they used a horrid bit of home grown java bloatware that the support folken had to use on antiquated, underpowered hardware, all while suffering the normal call center pressures (including not having any authority to do much of anything save absorb abuse).
What you are stating doesn't mean that the current copyright system needs to be abolished, but that safeguards to keep the playing field level need to be implemented.
The Fair Use Doctrine has a little bit of fuzz to it (especially in lieu of recent technological advancements), but the principles behind it are those that the **AA's have generally never liked to start with, so hoping for their approval in any way is probably not going to take you very far.
I don't think it will "fail" at all, since it is OSS and ergo if a sufficiently large user base evolves, then that is all that it needs. It does not require becoming a defacto standard to be a success. While I agree that for it to make the crossover it needs to be part of a functionally integrated suite of apps, I think even for just web-work,it could pose as a replacement for GIMP on *nix (even though it has been improving, GIMP seems to be suffering under its own collective weight).
...as Marillion had a successful project like this a few years ago which given the scope was much more ambitious: http://www.marillion.com/remix/index.htm
And there is always Plunderphonics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunderphonics which does not exactly apply here, but does bear some mention in terms of principle motivations.
It isn't necessarily about doing a "better job" than the original artist, but taking their own interpretive roll with it. It is akin to the common practice in jazz of taking standards and wringing all manner of new permutations of them in performance or recording (everyone knows Monk's "Straight No Chaser", but it keeps getting recorded in a growing body of fresh takes; the melody is timeless, and people gravitate towards that and find things they can use to build their own takes on).
Sampling and such goes back all the way to the musique concrete of the 1940s and 50s, and tape loops and found sounds have been part and parcel of the musical landscape for quite some time, so this is far from a new idea.
I am curious to see what kinds of lawsuits he will eventually run into (and I am quite sure he will), or in turn seeing people going in and editing their contact data to be extremely bogus (such as to change it to Mr. Fowler's for example).
And I for one, have seen things that are certainly similar. At best what you are creating is a series of like values (I live (Engliah) = Eu vivo (Portuguese) = Iskun (Arabic), etc), and that is if you are doing translation (where such things have already been around). If it is for one language, then it is basically taking a "501 X Verbs" Book and making it searchable electronically, and adding it to the grammar/cpell check of a writing application. Unless there is some that extends beyond the simple idea of large tables of word/phrase data and maybe some kind of expert system with grammar rules that accounts for some of the varied iregular verbs of somelanguages, what you have is a rather bogus patent application.
Non-compete clauses are unenforceable in the state of California (of which Chris DiBona does and has resided since about 1997).
...is one of the last people I would want making a presentation to a political figure. His dogmatic approach and generally oblivious nature (not to mention his decorum) would make him more damaging than useful in person.
His tendencies runs contra to almost every tenet of diplomatic/political chess. Linus is a far more adroit.
...since that pretty much nails the last spike in the coffin for me. After 8 years of almost total loyalty to the Thinkpad line (starting with the butterfly-kb 701cs to my current P43) I will have to find a new laptop. I think those new Apple models.....
...I have been feature averse on mobiles since I first started using them however many years ago. Basically I get the cheapest model that is not as big as a Mini Cooper and that takes calls and makes them.
I have never had much use for a phone doing anything other than what its original intent was.
But I have a general allergic reaction to phones, period, so I understand I am in the minority and would not expect my outlook to be a trend of any kind. I simply like the Unix-ish idea of a clean, simple utility (or in this case device) doing a certain thing very well and reliably.
...to be better at search instead of simply bigger. *That* is a goal worth supporting, as it pushes competition. Otherwise, it just sounds like Redmond as usual.
...ability to have files in more than one folder simultaneously
Symlinks?
Marillion did something very similiar to this with an entire albums worth of tracks a few years back and actually took the best remixes from the pool of selections and placed it as a "b-side" to one of their legitimate single releases.
...on of the best survivors of the "figure out how to make the net work for us" bands is Marillion, who seem to have turned their core fan-base into not only consumers, but as a marketing team that far outstrips the "street-team" and that actually has a more direct contact with the band itself, to the point that they have effectively pre-funded tours and album advances for them without any record company intervention. They literally have established what most marketing execs dream of...true brand loyalty. www.marillion.com
...can in fact be very successful, but usually because they understand their limitations, and function in a largely administrative manner. They are more technocratic and practical rather than "idea" people.
I worked at a firm that hired some rather less than exemplary PHBs with not only a complete lack of technical clue, but no concept of legal issues (related to software licensing mostly) and a callous disregard for the opinions of those who were best suited to properly and honestly advise them. They were frankly, imbeciles.
...she lasted this long.
While the spectacle of the Compaq deal gave her an inordinate amount of visibility, not all of it was good. Her own profile also seemed to clash with the well-established corporate culture of HP (which from what I undertstand was exemplified by the mostly low-key and self-deprecating style of Lew Platt).
There were simply too many gaffes, and I really am somewhat impressed she weathered it this far.
Carlton Sneed Fiorina, whatever shall you do now...