This is less of an issue over copyright protection as it is over power. The media is looking at new distribution medium that has true potential to destroy them. The TV industry is worried about the same thing the RIAA is: being obsolete.
But they have realized that in the reality of consumerism, the Internet must be used to distribute old media content before it will grow to have its on media content. Everything they can do to discourage the new distribution format, they believe, is in their favor.
But then again, you could say that when the Windows technology comes around for Itanium it will still be untested, while Linux will already have a tested track record on the chip. Most decision makes I deal with see the trust not just with the chip, but with the chip/software combo.
But then again, they are informed. You were talking about IT managers, right? Nevermind.:)
We've already seen most of this. If not in the direct effects of libraries having censorware, we have history to testify to the silencing of geniuses. The difference between that and censorware is that censorware is more effective. R and X ratings don't keep people from watching those movies, and the Acadamy doesn't even pay attention.
The only real difference I see is that the effectiveness of censorware could keep those in power from silencing muckrakers who would expose them. The social effects of censorship have already been witnessed.
Camping? Camping indeed. Camping with night vision goggles, infrared spying equipment, and radio spy equipment!! Ever wonder why they always camp in the woods? That's right, Washington has a lot of trees, surrounding Redmond perhaps?
It's a conspiracy I tell you. What's really suspect is that this came out on the same time this so-called "recount" did. I tell you man, Mulder is in trouble!!
It's a bluff. One of the things I've noticed about a lot of cases where (*cough* Microsoft *cough*) a software vendor sues another company over software copyright infringement is that if they extract the information about the piracy illegally, it's not admissible. And there's certainly nothing to show this would be legal.
Does anyone have the URL for the case where Microsoft lost a piracy case because they were illegally investigating someone's computer files?
We've got that book in the office, and among some of us, it's coveted. One thing I really liked about it is its chapters on some of the tools like sed and awk -- very good examples that couldn't be replaced with eighty pages of typical technical docs. The only book I've seen with such good examples is Unix in a Nutshell -- another fine book.
By your comment "M$ isn't always bad" I assume you would use IE if it were ported to Linux? I don't know if I would or not. Technical superiority isn't everything, freedom is everything. Even if IE is a better browser, and it were ported to Linux, a better OS, I'd still take freedom.
What about all of you? Would you use IE if it were ported to Linux?
Right, I think he suggested that Ralph is a communist because his political idealogy similar to the old USSR socialism. Have you actually READ his web page or heard about his ideas? He wants the government to tell you whether or not you can own a car, and if you do, what kind you will have. That's exactly the process East Germans went through about twenty years ago.
When it comes down to it, Ralph's popularity is because people don't know about him. We hear a lot about how terrible Al Gore is or how business has Bush in his pocket. Nadar may not be in anyone's pocket, but the fundamental reason that I'm not voting for him is that I'm not a communist.
There is one existing country that has the same ideas as Nadar: China.
Library and schools. But it can go further: Australia is passing laws that force consumers to use censorware. The first step is always "protecting children" which soon developers to protecting us from ourselves.
Did you know what the English Church/Government tried to shutdown Shakespear in his day? It's no different today. Books like The Red Badge of Courage and This Side of Paradise were called "violent" and "pornographic" in their day. Reading both of those greatly benefitted me as a child, and probably millions of others too.
We need to end censorship, for children and adults. Having access to reality doesn't hurt children. I'd rather have a child learn about the anatomy of the opposite gender than grow up in a world that condemns realism.
Well, that's what's being debated... Is accessing information unfiltered one of your rights? Tell your representatives in Congress whether it is or not!
It seems obvious to me: when the government does everything, there are a few things it does well. For solving social problems, the government is about the least effective institution possible. But, for scientific research and militarization, it's very effective.
I really like how in this country we keep moving more and more socialist in regard to our social problems, but cut the military budget. Keep doing what doesn't work.:)
On a side note, it's important to keep in mind that the USSR was pouring all its money into its military and space program. In its now democratic system, all the money goes toward corruption.:) That's terrific.
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Yeah, and besides that, the thing about the guest book? Hrm. What if those "direct marketing" types got a hold of it. Argggh.
It's another cool, although useless idea, foiled by spammers!!
Hrm, aside from NT jokes it comes down to this for me: take a few minutes to chill out about situations as they come up. Everything is always an emergency to everyone, but you don't have to buy into it. After a while, all us admin types stop treating everything as an epidimic and there are less hasty mistakes.
I thought the free KDE and GNOME would have finished off CDE long ago
They have effectively done it for the Linux community. Not too long ago, I remember that Red Hat was selling its highest priced boxed distribution with a port of CDE and MetroX. However, if you buy any expensive Unix set, even still, it comes with CDE. The shipping version of Solaris comes with CDE and OpenView, although that will change according to Sun.
What is ultimatly being said to the Linux community is "Here, you want to be like the bug ugly Unix systems you've managed to defeat? Buy this, and pray it works."... What their marketing department doesn't understand is that we're using Linux for some damn good reasons, and that if we wanted CDE, we would have embraced it long ago. If I wanted CDE, I'd go get Solaris for Intel.
See kids, there can be stupidity outside of the techno world too! The olympics can be influenced by evil too, not just IP protocols! After we compare our industries with cars and athletics, we can finally point to something non-computer-related that's so evil, so stupid, it makes you laugh. It makes you cry. It amkes you say "WTF?"
BTW, how the fans allowed to tell their stories of the games or is that privilaged to NBC as well?
Yeah, since it came out today, and they sink every 24 hrs usually, I wouldn't think so. Still, it would have been kind of them to coordinate that with their mirrors. Unless of course the good poeple at Red Hat really really really want you to buy the $60 boxed set! Is that on a 24 hr lag too?;)
The Truth is, both of these "technologies" look pretty straight forward. I love how pointie haired ones always want to make obvious programming a tradesecret. On the more interesting side: perhaps patents could serve the purpose of seeing who figured out the obvious first?
I'll apply for the Making Font Colors Consistant Through Internet Documents Using References to Style Metadata patent next week.;)
Well, to politicans it's "a rock" and the tellescope looks like a bong.
Besides, a tellescope tells you when a rock is going to crash into the earth. It shows the Windows bias in government. It's made like Norten CrashGaurd which tells you when you're computer is going to crash and crashes it ahead of time.
Great. Notebook high-resolution action that's easy on the eyes. Now if the damn, freaking web page that shows them off lucked decent at that high-resolution.:p
Of course, for about the same amount of money I could hire some body builder to lug around a 19" monitor in front of me all the time.:) Hire another to carry its power supply.
BTW, for the "GNU is bloated and sloppy" comment parallel to this one: BSD's sort will die on anything over 50, 60 megs on any server. I've had Linux on an emachine desktop sort hundreds of megs while the SMP BSD box down the hall's sort command dies on "out of filehandles" after taking up crazy amounts of memory.
In my data importing experience, GNU's sort, sed, awk, and grep are far faster and take less memory.
Artists sign little contracts that give record companies control over their copyrights, and usually their band name. If there were shrewd lawyers and negotiators were looking out for artists, it might not be this way. When a struggling artist is aproached by a record company, they aren't really in a position to demand major changes to the record company's standard contract. After they are big, they have more leverage but still often loose (again, Prince is a good example. There are others, like Beastie Boyz). Frankly, the artists usually want to be busy creating music, not pushing their record companies.
As I see it, the problem is that she doesn't actually own the copyright to her own music. Record Companies own the copyrights. They didn't actually breach any agreements with her, and since it's not her copyright, she could loose.
I think the way the record industry works needs to be adjusted. Prince had to change his name because his record company thought it owned it. One way to limit the power record companies have is to reform the system so that artists have the copyright. That's how I've seen it with most - say - shareware marketing companies -- the artists lisenses the work to the distribution company.
Down that road, if records didn't have exclusionary contracts, several record companies could release the same record from the same artist with the same royalties. Therefor, there could actually be a price way. Like what happened to the movie industry.
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But they have realized that in the reality of consumerism, the Internet must be used to distribute old media content before it will grow to have its on media content. Everything they can do to discourage the new distribution format, they believe, is in their favor.
Unfortunately though, RTF cannot be structured, at least as most programs use it.
But then again, they are informed. You were talking about IT managers, right? Nevermind. :)
The only real difference I see is that the effectiveness of censorware could keep those in power from silencing muckrakers who would expose them. The social effects of censorship have already been witnessed.
- I remember when it was all about camping.
Camping? Camping indeed. Camping with night vision goggles, infrared spying equipment, and radio spy equipment!! Ever wonder why they always camp in the woods? That's right, Washington has a lot of trees, surrounding Redmond perhaps?It's a conspiracy I tell you. What's really suspect is that this came out on the same time this so-called "recount" did. I tell you man, Mulder is in trouble!!
Does anyone have the URL for the case where Microsoft lost a piracy case because they were illegally investigating someone's computer files?
We've got that book in the office, and among some of us, it's coveted. One thing I really liked about it is its chapters on some of the tools like sed and awk -- very good examples that couldn't be replaced with eighty pages of typical technical docs. The only book I've seen with such good examples is Unix in a Nutshell -- another fine book.
What about all of you? Would you use IE if it were ported to Linux?
Now if it were just Debian.
When it comes down to it, Ralph's popularity is because people don't know about him. We hear a lot about how terrible Al Gore is or how business has Bush in his pocket. Nadar may not be in anyone's pocket, but the fundamental reason that I'm not voting for him is that I'm not a communist.
There is one existing country that has the same ideas as Nadar: China.
Did you know what the English Church/Government tried to shutdown Shakespear in his day? It's no different today. Books like The Red Badge of Courage and This Side of Paradise were called "violent" and "pornographic" in their day. Reading both of those greatly benefitted me as a child, and probably millions of others too.
We need to end censorship, for children and adults. Having access to reality doesn't hurt children. I'd rather have a child learn about the anatomy of the opposite gender than grow up in a world that condemns realism.
Well, that's what's being debated... Is accessing information unfiltered one of your rights? Tell your representatives in Congress whether it is or not!
I really like how in this country we keep moving more and more socialist in regard to our social problems, but cut the military budget. Keep doing what doesn't work. :)
On a side note, it's important to keep in mind that the USSR was pouring all its money into its military and space program. In its now democratic system, all the money goes toward corruption. :) That's terrific.
It's another cool, although useless idea, foiled by spammers!!
Hrm, aside from NT jokes it comes down to this for me: take a few minutes to chill out about situations as they come up. Everything is always an emergency to everyone, but you don't have to buy into it. After a while, all us admin types stop treating everything as an epidimic and there are less hasty mistakes.
- I thought the free KDE and GNOME would have finished off CDE long ago
They have effectively done it for the Linux community. Not too long ago, I remember that Red Hat was selling its highest priced boxed distribution with a port of CDE and MetroX. However, if you buy any expensive Unix set, even still, it comes with CDE. The shipping version of Solaris comes with CDE and OpenView, although that will change according to Sun.What is ultimatly being said to the Linux community is "Here, you want to be like the bug ugly Unix systems you've managed to defeat? Buy this, and pray it works." ... What their marketing department doesn't understand is that we're using Linux for some damn good reasons, and that if we wanted CDE, we would have embraced it long ago. If I wanted CDE, I'd go get Solaris for Intel.
BTW, how the fans allowed to tell their stories of the games or is that privilaged to NBC as well?
Yeah, since it came out today, and they sink every 24 hrs usually, I wouldn't think so. Still, it would have been kind of them to coordinate that with their mirrors. Unless of course the good poeple at Red Hat really really really want you to buy the $60 boxed set! Is that on a 24 hr lag too? ;)
I'll apply for the Making Font Colors Consistant Through Internet Documents Using References to Style Metadata patent next week. ;)
Besides, a tellescope tells you when a rock is going to crash into the earth. It shows the Windows bias in government. It's made like Norten CrashGaurd which tells you when you're computer is going to crash and crashes it ahead of time.
Use AltaVista thingie http://babel.altavista.com/translate.dyn and it'll translate well enough to get the idea.
Of course, for about the same amount of money I could hire some body builder to lug around a 19" monitor in front of me all the time. :) Hire another to carry its power supply.
BTW, for the "GNU is bloated and sloppy" comment parallel to this one: BSD's sort will die on anything over 50, 60 megs on any server. I've had Linux on an emachine desktop sort hundreds of megs while the SMP BSD box down the hall's sort command dies on "out of filehandles" after taking up crazy amounts of memory.
In my data importing experience, GNU's sort, sed, awk, and grep are far faster and take less memory.
Can you blame them?
I think the way the record industry works needs to be adjusted. Prince had to change his name because his record company thought it owned it. One way to limit the power record companies have is to reform the system so that artists have the copyright. That's how I've seen it with most - say - shareware marketing companies -- the artists lisenses the work to the distribution company.
Down that road, if records didn't have exclusionary contracts, several record companies could release the same record from the same artist with the same royalties. Therefor, there could actually be a price way. Like what happened to the movie industry.