the one saving grace of Lessing's argument to the Supreme Court is that Congress is allowed to roll back the copyright time if we can ever convince them to do it. The court said Congress sets the term. I'd like to see a push to get it rolled back 50 years and see how they squirm!
because in the scale of record companies CDs are nearly free anyway. They're paid for as soon as they ship by record stores... then the stores have to worry about stock. The number of releases has cut way more than 37% as they only cater to the very large stores like Walmart and Best Buy... independent record stores that sold new bands went away long before napster came on the scene.
That's already happened though. Look at how Microsoft won the browser wars, by giving away their browser with something they could charge for and other companies couldn't. In that respect Microsoft's consolidation of power is actually what makes people choose to put their projects out there for free. The small software shop died long ago. If you develop something interesting, the big companies can duplicate it in a day and it becomes another check box item. If you do manage to get big enough to start a company, then they can beat up your stock holders to sell out to them. IBM has the right place in the market because they build solutions.. they get paid for those big support contracts to make everything work... that's something you have to have if your open source or not.
Poster is willing to pay for consulting, but he wants them to consult on the Open source version. I'd have thought that's how this was supposed to work. The consultants are telling him they can ONLY consult on the enterprise version, which is not OSI approved. I'd agree it's fully legal, but it really does seem to go against the spirit of open source, essentially treating the free version as trialware but contracting all the consultants to do the work on the proprietary not-free version so you can doll out what gets to be free and not free.
you mean like some kind of signal in the TV signal that required DRM'd hardware? Something the FCC might try to shove down manufacturers throats at the last minute of a digital TV rollout.... oh wait they tried that!
there is a small difference. Apple makes their own OS and hardware. Microsoft puts these measures in place and demands other people build hardware around those restrictions.
If just MS and Apple got together on this, it would go away. I still can't figure out why MS made it there business to bother with DRM. It only hurts them.
That's exactly why the labels turned to Amazon's service. The industry is desperately afraid of those two companies because they do things so well. Both companies realize this and are far more ruthless to their business partners than record labels. Both Apple and Microsoft cut out well paying third party vendors from "their" customers whenever they feel like it. MS saw the writing on the wall and choose to be in the middle of content distribution, servers and OS components where they won't get cut completely out. Everybody went to "little" Apple to get away from Microsoft Everywhere only to find Apple holding a huge share of the market writing it's own ticket... we can't have that. The media cartels need to get back in charge, they're not "worker bees" making content to sell hardware.
and they also demand that new forms of DRM are included, so you have to have internet connection to update your firmware from time to time. That, again, keeps out companies they don't quite feel like revoking but don't like.
remember too, the "hurt" of BluRay is that you have to update your players' firmware whenever the license board tells you to keep up with DRM schemes and revoked keys and hackers. That's Apple's problem in a nutshell. Microsoft notably doesn't include BluRay codex for that reason... Microsoft doesn't play other people's DRM either.. it's just so big companies will pay big bucks to cobble it onto Windows.
Using Jerry made no sense anyway.. what's his shtick? Pointing out absurdity in the status quo... stupid things everybody does. Translate that to computers and he's advertising for the wrong company... think about it.
Vista was an OS about nothing. It's a nice upgrade, I use it every day at work. It took some suffering to get new version of some apps but most had free updates. All the "gee wiz" features geeks might like were canned. They added MCE in for "free" to Premium. They also crippled the "normal" versions from doing "real" work even further. If you have a happy XP box there is nothing to gain with it. If you use lots of tools the pain getting them to work has probably been bad or costly.
Hopefully Apple will step up the OS wars this round... talk the smack on the street. It'd be fun to see Apple & Microsoft ad-battle (like in zoolander) right before the next OS cycle.
M$ didn't say not to use ME.. but Win98 SE was on sale far longer than ME which quietly went away from retail and support, and when XP shipped 98SE was still installed when ME wasn't.
my company wanted to run the production workers that way... then put all the time clocks at the front door. It took them 30 years to add time clocks then the answer is that you have to punch in early enough to "prove" you walked to your station on time... again, why not just SUPERVISE the workers like they should have been all along!
on one hand yes, it would be good to start that much earlier so the computer is up at the proper time you expect to be paid. On the other hand, If I'm expected to be at work at 8 and the tools take time to warm up, that's their problem, not mine. Otherwise they'll just add more things to do eating up my time they're not paying for.
you would still have to log in... that's the thing that kicks of the AV, outlook, citrix, etc. The computer may be used on more than one shift with per-user accounts and variable seating just to make those lad times longer!
That's the point really. IBM only makes 2 Power 6 processors, fast and really fast. At a desktop price, they really don't want to sell these anymore. Like you said, they'd rather have you buying LPARs or Blades at better markup if you want to do programming or testing. They've also pulled a lot of the hardware OS locks out with AIX 6.1 and i5/OS 6.1 so they REALLY don't want people figuring out they could run i on this thing and not buying expensive servers.
the legal protections are standard form, just like a book. For all practical purposes console games are products.. you pay for a shiny disc all other options of normal software are technologically banned...and companies brag about it. The disc is required for play. An average user cannot copy the games, or run them on anything other than the console sold for. Consoles are "welded shut", if you tamper with them they will kick you off-line. So yes, a console game is a product, put a shiny disc in, pay a game. One disc = one play. Even downloaded content is tied to one piece of hardware you can't modify.
Um Apple's cool now. The RDF is in full effect here. Please take your Apple hate over to Digg. We all have Macbooks... we didn't notice the need for quicktime!
Actually, Apple's quicktime is not that bad... once Microsoft stopped trying to break it with each update like in the 9x days. Newer Windows media has been pulled from Macs so Quicktime is the most compatible codex out there without having to make 9 versions, except maybe Flash video... and it works on iPods.. and they're probably doing final editing on a Mac anyway.
TNG had some really crazy stuff in the first few seasons Roddenberry was in charge. Remember Troi's mother and her "freeness". There were some episodes they got away with "careful paint" as wardrobe.
Like other posters said, Kirk spent many episodes "boldly going" with alien girls. By the time we got to Riker, it was a cliche.
presumably, the others would have been slightly younger officers already assigned to the Enterprise under the other Captain while Kirk was out doing other stuff. In another ST post somebody pointed out that our current military officers are very young. They go to academy at 16-18 and then work 8 more years minimum... that's "old" and done by age 30. Even in our military you only get to stay past that age if you're really special and earn ranks quickly. Most of the crew officers would be 22-28 following what we do now. Ironically, most of the actors we have play teens on TV are 22-28 that's why the cast looks off.
Babylon 5 was the truest successor to Star Trek. They put out great stories with a few writers from that time. It was on a severe budget, just one step above paper rocks and cardboard box control panels. B5 started as a 7 year plan that ended up 5 years. It survived on writing and not effects.
I think Firefly also fits because again, the best episodes at the end were finished after the series was canceled. It was a push to tell the story with what we got.
I think Star Trek movies suffer from unlimited budgets and huge expectations of profit for the corporate masters. Everybody wants a lot of money and they never plan to set up the next one, each is the "last big blowout".
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the one saving grace of Lessing's argument to the Supreme Court is that Congress is allowed to roll back the copyright time if we can ever convince them to do it. The court said Congress sets the term. I'd like to see a push to get it rolled back 50 years and see how they squirm!
because in the scale of record companies CDs are nearly free anyway. They're paid for as soon as they ship by record stores... then the stores have to worry about stock. The number of releases has cut way more than 37% as they only cater to the very large stores like Walmart and Best Buy... independent record stores that sold new bands went away long before napster came on the scene.
That's already happened though. Look at how Microsoft won the browser wars, by giving away their browser with something they could charge for and other companies couldn't. In that respect Microsoft's consolidation of power is actually what makes people choose to put their projects out there for free. The small software shop died long ago. If you develop something interesting, the big companies can duplicate it in a day and it becomes another check box item. If you do manage to get big enough to start a company, then they can beat up your stock holders to sell out to them. IBM has the right place in the market because they build solutions.. they get paid for those big support contracts to make everything work... that's something you have to have if your open source or not.
Poster is willing to pay for consulting, but he wants them to consult on the Open source version. I'd have thought that's how this was supposed to work. The consultants are telling him they can ONLY consult on the enterprise version, which is not OSI approved. I'd agree it's fully legal, but it really does seem to go against the spirit of open source, essentially treating the free version as trialware but contracting all the consultants to do the work on the proprietary not-free version so you can doll out what gets to be free and not free.
you mean like this: http://xkcd.com/331/
you do realize mosquitos kill tens of thousands of people a year, far more than lions.
you mean like some kind of signal in the TV signal that required DRM'd hardware? Something the FCC might try to shove down manufacturers throats at the last minute of a digital TV rollout.... oh wait they tried that!
there is a small difference. Apple makes their own OS and hardware. Microsoft puts these measures in place and demands other people build hardware around those restrictions.
If just MS and Apple got together on this, it would go away.
I still can't figure out why MS made it there business to bother with DRM. It only hurts them.
That's exactly why the labels turned to Amazon's service. The industry is desperately afraid of those two companies because they do things so well. Both companies realize this and are far more ruthless to their business partners than record labels. Both Apple and Microsoft cut out well paying third party vendors from "their" customers whenever they feel like it. MS saw the writing on the wall and choose to be in the middle of content distribution, servers and OS components where they won't get cut completely out. Everybody went to "little" Apple to get away from Microsoft Everywhere only to find Apple holding a huge share of the market writing it's own ticket... we can't have that. The media cartels need to get back in charge, they're not "worker bees" making content to sell hardware.
and they also demand that new forms of DRM are included, so you have to have internet connection to update your firmware from time to time. That, again, keeps out companies they don't quite feel like revoking but don't like.
remember too, the "hurt" of BluRay is that you have to update your players' firmware whenever the license board tells you to keep up with DRM schemes and revoked keys and hackers. That's Apple's problem in a nutshell. Microsoft notably doesn't include BluRay codex for that reason... Microsoft doesn't play other people's DRM either.. it's just so big companies will pay big bucks to cobble it onto Windows.
Using Jerry made no sense anyway.. what's his shtick? Pointing out absurdity in the status quo... stupid things everybody does. Translate that to computers and he's advertising for the wrong company... think about it.
Vista was an OS about nothing. It's a nice upgrade, I use it every day at work. It took some suffering to get new version of some apps but most had free updates. All the "gee wiz" features geeks might like were canned. They added MCE in for "free" to Premium. They also crippled the "normal" versions from doing "real" work even further. If you have a happy XP box there is nothing to gain with it. If you use lots of tools the pain getting them to work has probably been bad or costly.
Hopefully Apple will step up the OS wars this round... talk the smack on the street. It'd be fun to see Apple & Microsoft ad-battle (like in zoolander) right before the next OS cycle.
M$ didn't say not to use ME.. but Win98 SE was on sale far longer than ME which quietly went away from retail and support, and when XP shipped 98SE was still installed when ME wasn't.
my company wanted to run the production workers that way... then put all the time clocks at the front door. It took them 30 years to add time clocks then the answer is that you have to punch in early enough to "prove" you walked to your station on time... again, why not just SUPERVISE the workers like they should have been all along!
on one hand yes, it would be good to start that much earlier so the computer is up at the proper time you expect to be paid. On the other hand, If I'm expected to be at work at 8 and the tools take time to warm up, that's their problem, not mine. Otherwise they'll just add more things to do eating up my time they're not paying for.
you would still have to log in... that's the thing that kicks of the AV, outlook, citrix, etc. The computer may be used on more than one shift with per-user accounts and variable seating just to make those lad times longer!
That's the point really. IBM only makes 2 Power 6 processors, fast and really fast. At a desktop price, they really don't want to sell these anymore. Like you said, they'd rather have you buying LPARs or Blades at better markup if you want to do programming or testing. They've also pulled a lot of the hardware OS locks out with AIX 6.1 and i5/OS 6.1 so they REALLY don't want people figuring out they could run i on this thing and not buying expensive servers.
the legal protections are standard form, just like a book. For all practical purposes console games are products.. you pay for a shiny disc all other options of normal software are technologically banned...and companies brag about it. The disc is required for play. An average user cannot copy the games, or run them on anything other than the console sold for. Consoles are "welded shut", if you tamper with them they will kick you off-line. So yes, a console game is a product, put a shiny disc in, pay a game. One disc = one play. Even downloaded content is tied to one piece of hardware you can't modify.
Um Apple's cool now. The RDF is in full effect here. Please take your Apple hate over to Digg. We all have Macbooks... we didn't notice the need for quicktime!
Actually, Apple's quicktime is not that bad... once Microsoft stopped trying to break it with each update like in the 9x days. Newer Windows media has been pulled from Macs so Quicktime is the most compatible codex out there without having to make 9 versions, except maybe Flash video... and it works on iPods.. and they're probably doing final editing on a Mac anyway.
TNG had some really crazy stuff in the first few seasons Roddenberry was in charge. Remember Troi's mother and her "freeness". There were some episodes they got away with "careful paint" as wardrobe.
Like other posters said, Kirk spent many episodes "boldly going" with alien girls. By the time we got to Riker, it was a cliche.
presumably, the others would have been slightly younger officers already assigned to the Enterprise under the other Captain while Kirk was out doing other stuff. In another ST post somebody pointed out that our current military officers are very young. They go to academy at 16-18 and then work 8 more years minimum... that's "old" and done by age 30. Even in our military you only get to stay past that age if you're really special and earn ranks quickly. Most of the crew officers would be 22-28 following what we do now. Ironically, most of the actors we have play teens on TV are 22-28 that's why the cast looks off.
Babylon 5 was the truest successor to Star Trek. They put out great stories with a few writers from that time. It was on a severe budget, just one step above paper rocks and cardboard box control panels. B5 started as a 7 year plan that ended up 5 years. It survived on writing and not effects.
I think Firefly also fits because again, the best episodes at the end were finished after the series was canceled. It was a push to tell the story with what we got.
I think Star Trek movies suffer from unlimited budgets and huge expectations of profit for the corporate masters. Everybody wants a lot of money and they never plan to set up the next one, each is the "last big blowout".
Hey.. space battle are flashy...and they keep the writers from ruining a waning season with plot.
they're all old! It's amazing the camera man can keep the camera from breaking in protest.
He was in that other Star thingy series... only one Sci-fi *Star series per actor!