Not so ridiculous, if I am engaged in a search for work, it is unlikely that I will want to spend energy that isn't geared to re-employing me. I know this for a fact in my five year search for work. I started thinking about getting back into an open source project once I had the bread basket once again full. Also most of the open source work I had done in the past happened because the company I was working for needed the open source project to get our work done, so the contribution was actually paid for by my employer. Many of the developers out there working on open source are doing so to further some paid projects goals and have little or nothing to do with giving away anything. As much as we want to believe that open source is about giving stuff away and all that altruistic crap it really isn't.
There are a whole bunch of different "pirate" groups out there.
Those that just out and out steal (yes it is appropriate, because it means taking something without paying, regardless of the lack of a physical item taken).
There are those that justify it by saying, "Oh it's OK I wouldn't have bought it anyway"
there are those that claim "there is no such thing as intellectual property" and take it because they can see it.
There are those that claim that "Oh it's OK I'm just trying it before I buy it."
There are those that take it saying "It's over priced and I won't pay that much for it." Here's a hint on this one. If it's over priced "Don't buy it". If you want it it is worth paying for, other wise it obviously isn't valuable to you and you don't get to have it.
No matter how you justify, or perhaps rationalize it it is still not right.
There is no real reason to take something without paying what is asked. You can try to negotiate and get it cheaper, or not buy it and they eventually lower the price but you don't get to have it anyway.
I wish people would see this and stop rationalizing this stuff.
The pirate bay is not guilty here because they are not the people stealing stuff. They at the worst are helping people find stuff to steal, but that has never been illegal as far as I can tell.
This is getting close the ideal kit for what I want to try to do. I want to plug in a bunch of these things everywhere with wifi in them as a background network. Extend the internet into areas that can't be filtered easily. Go around backbones (may be a bit slower but unstoppable) and other blockages that could be put up in our way. in most metro areas we could easily get a few thousand of these things plugged in behind a fridge or other inconspicuous places. Might be cool. Could be free (well sort of, people would need to share I guess) wifi city wide at the very least.
So who exactly is clueless here. I think that before you just throw that out you need to understand the business model. People can't pull food out of the air yet and shelter costs, so unless and untill these things become free somebody needs to put money in there somewhere. Ap doesn't sell advertising, they sell news.
I think you place too much value on being obscure. I can be honest in my opinions on line without embarrassing clients, it's very easy to keep your mouth shut rather than air dirty laundry of your clients anonymously.
Wow, precisely my point. Now explain how that should apply to intellectual property as well.
I have slashdot people telling me that "If you don't want me to modify it and re-use it, don't write it and display it". Telling me that they believe that "if they can see it it is theirs".
It is the fact that you can hook boxee to your TV that has caused hulu to be removed.
It is the TV stations and cable companies that are applying pressure. Neither hulu nor boxee want to be divorced.
That does not mitigate the fact that your property was stolen and you house was in fact burglarized. I agree we must stop this stupid idea that if I can see it it is mine.
Since I work for one of the companies that distributes the "DCI compliant prints" to the theaters I can assure you that even though compression is allowed it is not required. I'm quite familiar with the DCI. They are encrypted but according to my math they are not compressed.
Debuggers are legal, and after the reading TFA it seems that Apple is not actually asking that jailbreaking be declared illegal, they simply do not want it specifically legalized.
I can see why they wouldn't want that.
Ya know, the only reality distortion I see is the people that seem to think that the worlds corporations and manufacturers owe them something because they make and sell a product that they have bought.
Apple owes you nothing except the responsibility to keep the product working to their specs for as long as the warranty lasts. Period end of contract.
If you take it apart their responsibility ends.
The reason that Apple claims that jail breaking the iPhone is illegal is to protect the investment of the developers and to keep them developing for people that want to buy them.
Now some people develop for reasons other than money and they are free to give away their work.
Personally I hope to be able to pay my bills by selling apps. It may not happen and the way things are going with crakulous it may be that the iPhone is a dead platform and I'll have to go elsewhere to make a buck.
That is what Apple hopes to prevent.
So I hope that they can win and prosecute as many people with this as they need to to reassure investors that they still have a viable platform. That way my favorite phone will continue to get neat apps and there will still continue to be money to be made.
But anything you can get on your TV is going to have been compressed. In a digital theater, there is no image compression. No artifacts and no glitches. The major difference between a digital theater and a 35mm is the lack of lint, hair scratches and image wobble in the movie. Usually it's still 24 fps well actually 23.97 fps. 3D is at 59.94 fps or 29.97 fps per eye.
I don't think that diametrically means what you think it does. I know irony doesn't mean what you think it does.
A "Free Market" is a myth like a "true democracy". In a free market it's buyer beware, and think how the people would scream then. Who would be an advocate for the consumer? Well we wouldn't need one it's a free market.
The reason most of these things come in so expensive is that the case must be very quiet to sit in the living room. You need quiet fans and HD.
other than that you could build it for sub $300.00 and have the noisiest cable pvr (or ota pvr) on the block.
Yeah it seems that we have produced a generation of people that think that a free market means that everything in it is free. the "If i can see it it is mine!" attitude has got to be countered by a respect for property, intellectual or otherwise.
Couldn't agree more actually. What psystar is displaying is the recent thought process of a lot of people I've been running into on/.
"If I can see it/acquire it, I can do what I want with it."
Sorry people that's not how the world works.
If they want to compete go the way the Wine project is or maybe the other windows compatible OS that's being written.
Distribute a compatible OS on generic hardware.
Add some value to it that way.
If I can See It It is MINE. is a pretty juvenile attitude. Also not what a civilized nation should be producing. I would expect this attitude from a very primitive culture. You sir are not cultured.
Ok, I see the problem, pronoun trouble. You seem to think that if you can see it it is yours. Well all I can say to you at this point is. "Get off My Lawn!"
Ok, so I see that the government reserves the responsibility of securing my copyrights but I see no where in this document that you have a right to seize my works and pervert them for your purposes.
Inherently I understand what you want but it is at odds with my desire and according to the Constitution inalienable right to secure my good works and the profits from them for me and my posterity. The pursuit of happiness being inherent in the desire for security both financial and physical.
So there are laws and perhaps they are a bit excessive, however you can, and many people do derive works from other peoples art and industry by simply securing a license, the value of which is determined by the public at large's desire for that work.
However I support and always will support an artist's right to a prohibition on a work derived for a hateful purpose or a political purpose which the artist does not support.
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Not so ridiculous, if I am engaged in a search for work, it is unlikely that I will want to spend energy that isn't geared to re-employing me. I know this for a fact in my five year search for work. I started thinking about getting back into an open source project once I had the bread basket once again full. Also most of the open source work I had done in the past happened because the company I was working for needed the open source project to get our work done, so the contribution was actually paid for by my employer. Many of the developers out there working on open source are doing so to further some paid projects goals and have little or nothing to do with giving away anything. As much as we want to believe that open source is about giving stuff away and all that altruistic crap it really isn't.
Small technical problem. Completely solvable in software. This is now an engineering exercise, the concept is out there.
There are a whole bunch of different "pirate" groups out there.
Those that just out and out steal (yes it is appropriate, because it means taking something without paying, regardless of the lack of a physical item taken).
There are those that justify it by saying, "Oh it's OK I wouldn't have bought it anyway"
there are those that claim "there is no such thing as intellectual property" and take it because they can see it.
There are those that claim that "Oh it's OK I'm just trying it before I buy it."
There are those that take it saying "It's over priced and I won't pay that much for it." Here's a hint on this one. If it's over priced "Don't buy it". If you want it it is worth paying for, other wise it obviously isn't valuable to you and you don't get to have it. No matter how you justify, or perhaps rationalize it it is still not right. There is no real reason to take something without paying what is asked. You can try to negotiate and get it cheaper, or not buy it and they eventually lower the price but you don't get to have it anyway. I wish people would see this and stop rationalizing this stuff. The pirate bay is not guilty here because they are not the people stealing stuff. They at the worst are helping people find stuff to steal, but that has never been illegal as far as I can tell.
This is getting close the ideal kit for what I want to try to do. I want to plug in a bunch of these things everywhere with wifi in them as a background network. Extend the internet into areas that can't be filtered easily. Go around backbones (may be a bit slower but unstoppable) and other blockages that could be put up in our way. in most metro areas we could easily get a few thousand of these things plugged in behind a fridge or other inconspicuous places. Might be cool. Could be free (well sort of, people would need to share I guess) wifi city wide at the very least.
So who exactly is clueless here. I think that before you just throw that out you need to understand the business model. People can't pull food out of the air yet and shelter costs, so unless and untill these things become free somebody needs to put money in there somewhere. Ap doesn't sell advertising, they sell news.
I think you place too much value on being obscure. I can be honest in my opinions on line without embarrassing clients, it's very easy to keep your mouth shut rather than air dirty laundry of your clients anonymously.
Wow, precisely my point. Now explain how that should apply to intellectual property as well.
I have slashdot people telling me that "If you don't want me to modify it and re-use it, don't write it and display it". Telling me that they believe that "if they can see it it is theirs".
It is the fact that you can hook boxee to your TV that has caused hulu to be removed. It is the TV stations and cable companies that are applying pressure. Neither hulu nor boxee want to be divorced.
Prone to falling out?
That does not mitigate the fact that your property was stolen and you house was in fact burglarized. I agree we must stop this stupid idea that if I can see it it is mine.
Hey I'm helping run a Dr. Who convention this weekend in Los Angeles, we have our own TARDIS. I'll celebrate it as many times as I want!
Since I work for one of the companies that distributes the "DCI compliant prints" to the theaters I can assure you that even though compression is allowed it is not required. I'm quite familiar with the DCI. They are encrypted but according to my math they are not compressed.
Debuggers are legal, and after the reading TFA it seems that Apple is not actually asking that jailbreaking be declared illegal, they simply do not want it specifically legalized. I can see why they wouldn't want that.
Ya know, the only reality distortion I see is the people that seem to think that the worlds corporations and manufacturers owe them something because they make and sell a product that they have bought.
Apple owes you nothing except the responsibility to keep the product working to their specs for as long as the warranty lasts. Period end of contract.
If you take it apart their responsibility ends.
The reason that Apple claims that jail breaking the iPhone is illegal is to protect the investment of the developers and to keep them developing for people that want to buy them.
Now some people develop for reasons other than money and they are free to give away their work.
Personally I hope to be able to pay my bills by selling apps. It may not happen and the way things are going with crakulous it may be that the iPhone is a dead platform and I'll have to go elsewhere to make a buck.
That is what Apple hopes to prevent.
So I hope that they can win and prosecute as many people with this as they need to to reassure investors that they still have a viable platform. That way my favorite phone will continue to get neat apps and there will still continue to be money to be made.
But anything you can get on your TV is going to have been compressed. In a digital theater, there is no image compression. No artifacts and no glitches. The major difference between a digital theater and a 35mm is the lack of lint, hair scratches and image wobble in the movie. Usually it's still 24 fps well actually 23.97 fps. 3D is at 59.94 fps or 29.97 fps per eye.
I don't think that diametrically means what you think it does. I know irony doesn't mean what you think it does.
A "Free Market" is a myth like a "true democracy". In a free market it's buyer beware, and think how the people would scream then. Who would be an advocate for the consumer? Well we wouldn't need one it's a free market.
The reason most of these things come in so expensive is that the case must be very quiet to sit in the living room. You need quiet fans and HD. other than that you could build it for sub $300.00 and have the noisiest cable pvr (or ota pvr) on the block.
well maybe we can see if it's true.
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Yeah it seems that we have produced a generation of people that think that a free market means that everything in it is free. the "If i can see it it is mine!" attitude has got to be countered by a respect for property, intellectual or otherwise.
I don't think "free" means what you think it does.
Couldn't agree more actually. What psystar is displaying is the recent thought process of a lot of people I've been running into on /.
"If I can see it/acquire it, I can do what I want with it."
Sorry people that's not how the world works.
If they want to compete go the way the Wine project is or maybe the other windows compatible OS that's being written. Distribute a compatible OS on generic hardware. Add some value to it that way.
Wow if you think Apple's hardware is overpriced, you must think HP and Dell are through the roof!
If I can See It It is MINE. is a pretty juvenile attitude. Also not what a civilized nation should be producing. I would expect this attitude from a very primitive culture. You sir are not cultured.
Ok, I see the problem, pronoun trouble. You seem to think that if you can see it it is yours. Well all I can say to you at this point is. "Get off My Lawn!"
Ok, so I see that the government reserves the responsibility of securing my copyrights but I see no where in this document that you have a right to seize my works and pervert them for your purposes.
Inherently I understand what you want but it is at odds with my desire and according to the Constitution inalienable right to secure my good works and the profits from them for me and my posterity. The pursuit of happiness being inherent in the desire for security both financial and physical.
So there are laws and perhaps they are a bit excessive, however you can, and many people do derive works from other peoples art and industry by simply securing a license, the value of which is determined by the public at large's desire for that work.
However I support and always will support an artist's right to a prohibition on a work derived for a hateful purpose or a political purpose which the artist does not support.