wow! the only PC that hasn't broken for me was my old 386. put together myself, from a (now defunct) company called CompuAdd. i even upgraded to a network card and (ye gads) 4 MB of memory on that sucker. chugged right along until the day i retired it (complete disassembly, tossed everything but the motherboard, which i put in a frame and hung on the office wall).
you can make 1 billion backup copies and put them in your closet. you can design and build 1 billion mod chips for yourself and put them in your closet. you can use these mod chips you have designed and built yourself to play your backup copies. you have the fair use to do ALL of that.
you simply cannot distribute the design for your modchip, one of your backup copies, or one of your modchips.
the most important part of that statement is that you cannot distribute the DESIGN for your modchip. courts have upheld that providing DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS for PIPE BOMBS is free speech. but distributing your modchip design plans would violate the DMCA because they describe a circumvention device.
CLEARLY the DMCA trumps free speech. but i am not without hope, if the DMCA got to the supreme court it would be RIPPED IN HALF. it just may take a while for that to happen. but that is much more likely than a repeal of the DMCA by our representatives, they are getting more money from the corps than from us.
actually Tuvalu sold the rights to.tv to a company called DotTV for 50 million last april. DotTV just sold the rights to.tv for 45 million, read the story.
or doors just open when they get close to them at the supermarket. how weird is that?
-rp
ps - for some reason, every time i get out of my car lately i get zapped as soon as i touch the outside of the car. i mean POW a big zap. it is starting to piss me off after like four months of it.
calling someone jewish does not necessary mean that you think that being jewish has anything to do with their actions. like if i said 'reverend jesse jackson' did so and so, and someone started yelling at me that his actions have nothing to do with his being a reverend.
in this case, yeah, maybe it was meant as a slur, but don't be so oversensitive. people call me 'that crazy jewish guy' all the time, doesn't bother me one bit. and i'm not even really jewish.
yes, the parent is a troll, but hey, if i've seen this troll once, i've seen it a thousand times.
just so you know, comparing a linux company to a car company is ver different. it takes very marginal resources to produce another copy of linux (cost of a CD), whereas building a car takes an investment of thousands of dollars. giving away 50 cents of plastic and selling services is a lot different that giving away $10K of plastic and steel.
not that i think that a linux company business model works, but hey, i'm tired of seeing this same tired troll.
now that is a good basis for a system of government. why aren't you running for office? all we (the masses) want is a simple government that is easy to understand and doesn't mess with our personal lives. if we want condemnation, we'll get it from our priest/rabbit/witch/etc. the government should basically just keep us from killing each other.
oh, and maybe build roads. but that's it. i could see a realistic private approach to education, police, and all kinds of regulatory things, but i've yet to hear a convincing argument about privately build road systems which would actually work. you think we have last mile issues with broadband?
-rp
ps - oh yeah. buy clean diesel. 50% more fuel economy, 20% lower greenhouse gasses. and more torque. yay.
internet explorer is included when you buy microsoft windows XP (100-200 dollars depending on home/upgrade/pro). internet explorer is hardly free just because you can download it. microsoft repeated several times during the netscape trial that IE was part of the operating system, and since you are paying for the OS, you are paying for IE.
they can't have their cake and eat it too, and neither can we (free/open software people). if they want to turn around and say IE is separate and you don't pay for it, well then they get fscked for purgery on the netscape case. if they take responsibility for IE security flaws, then either (a) they have to pay for the damages which ensue or (b, a far better choice) they actually make IE a stable, secure internet platform.
come ON, any song which references jason and the argonauts and doesn't sound utterly stupid is by definition a great song, and in my opiniong tmbg's best song.
i completely agree with your post, but by being an american company apple has to keep the shareholders happy, and shareholders like to see double-digit growth year-to-year. sure, apple, BMW, VW may be great companies with loyal customers (i should know, bought a new Golf last saturday), but they aren't good INVESTMENTS. eventually the apple board of directors has to answer to shareholders who want to see the stock go up year after year like the 'big boys' (IBM, for example). i just hope jobs and apple get out some more cool gadgetry before that happens.
But the middle class... wants easy of use, safety, utility.
shouldn't that be 'But, the middle class wants ease of use, safety, and utility.'? even office 2000 catches the 'and utility' fix. maybe this is proof that jonkatz doesn't use microsoft office?
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wow! the only PC that hasn't broken for me was my old 386. put together myself, from a (now defunct) company called CompuAdd. i even upgraded to a network card and (ye gads) 4 MB of memory on that sucker. chugged right along until the day i retired it (complete disassembly, tossed everything but the motherboard, which i put in a frame and hung on the office wall).
-rp
the point is not that outlook produces incomprehensible format, the point is that outlook cannot read a standard encoded message.
-rp
you can make 1 billion backup copies and put them in your closet. you can design and build 1 billion mod chips for yourself and put them in your closet. you can use these mod chips you have designed and built yourself to play your backup copies. you have the fair use to do ALL of that.
you simply cannot distribute the design for your modchip, one of your backup copies, or one of your modchips.
the most important part of that statement is that you cannot distribute the DESIGN for your modchip. courts have upheld that providing DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS for PIPE BOMBS is free speech. but distributing your modchip design plans would violate the DMCA because they describe a circumvention device.
CLEARLY the DMCA trumps free speech. but i am not without hope, if the DMCA got to the supreme court it would be RIPPED IN HALF. it just may take a while for that to happen. but that is much more likely than a repeal of the DMCA by our representatives, they are getting more money from the corps than from us.
-rp
sarcasm really is lost in text.
actually Tuvalu sold the rights to .tv to a company called DotTV for 50 million last april. DotTV just sold the rights to .tv for 45 million, read the story.
-rp
or doors just open when they get close to them at the supermarket. how weird is that?
-rp
ps - for some reason, every time i get out of my car lately i get zapped as soon as i touch the outside of the car. i mean POW a big zap. it is starting to piss me off after like four months of it.
calling someone jewish does not necessary mean that you think that being jewish has anything to do with their actions. like if i said 'reverend jesse jackson' did so and so, and someone started yelling at me that his actions have nothing to do with his being a reverend.
in this case, yeah, maybe it was meant as a slur, but don't be so oversensitive. people call me 'that crazy jewish guy' all the time, doesn't bother me one bit. and i'm not even really jewish.
-rp
yes, the parent is a troll, but hey, if i've seen this troll once, i've seen it a thousand times.
just so you know, comparing a linux company to a car company is ver different. it takes very marginal resources to produce another copy of linux (cost of a CD), whereas building a car takes an investment of thousands of dollars. giving away 50 cents of plastic and selling services is a lot different that giving away $10K of plastic and steel.
not that i think that a linux company business model works, but hey, i'm tired of seeing this same tired troll.
-rp
eventually the Church will declare the internet a Sin, and we'll all have to have private memberships to get into an internet cafe.
watch it happen.
-rp
that's right, sue al gore. he invented the internet, after all.
-rp
now that is a good basis for a system of government. why aren't you running for office? all we (the masses) want is a simple government that is easy to understand and doesn't mess with our personal lives. if we want condemnation, we'll get it from our priest/rabbit/witch/etc. the government should basically just keep us from killing each other.
oh, and maybe build roads. but that's it. i could see a realistic private approach to education, police, and all kinds of regulatory things, but i've yet to hear a convincing argument about privately build road systems which would actually work. you think we have last mile issues with broadband?
-rp
ps - oh yeah. buy clean diesel. 50% more fuel economy, 20% lower greenhouse gasses. and more torque. yay.
internet explorer is included when you buy microsoft windows XP (100-200 dollars depending on home/upgrade/pro). internet explorer is hardly free just because you can download it. microsoft repeated several times during the netscape trial that IE was part of the operating system, and since you are paying for the OS, you are paying for IE.
they can't have their cake and eat it too, and neither can we (free/open software people). if they want to turn around and say IE is separate and you don't pay for it, well then they get fscked for purgery on the netscape case. if they take responsibility for IE security flaws, then either (a) they have to pay for the damages which ensue or (b, a far better choice) they actually make IE a stable, secure internet platform.
-rp
come ON, any song which references jason and the argonauts and doesn't sound utterly stupid is by definition a great song, and in my opiniong tmbg's best song.
-rp
i completely agree with your post, but by being an american company apple has to keep the shareholders happy, and shareholders like to see double-digit growth year-to-year. sure, apple, BMW, VW may be great companies with loyal customers (i should know, bought a new Golf last saturday), but they aren't good INVESTMENTS. eventually the apple board of directors has to answer to shareholders who want to see the stock go up year after year like the 'big boys' (IBM, for example). i just hope jobs and apple get out some more cool gadgetry before that happens.
-rp
But the middle class ... wants easy of use, safety, utility.
shouldn't that be 'But, the middle class wants ease of use, safety, and utility.'? even office 2000 catches the 'and utility' fix. maybe this is proof that jonkatz doesn't use microsoft office?
-rp
i think you're on the wrong site. this is 'news for nerds' and you, obviously, are a moron, not a nerd :)
-rp