I think it is fundamentally wrong to separate software from (other) ideas. After all, software is nothing more than a written down idea.
But I think that no idea should be “patentable”. I even think that such a process should not exist at all, since in reality it is 1. not enforceable anyway, and 2. only stifles innovation. Since every idea builds upon other ideas. But I still think inventors should be getting something for their ideas.
Of course unifying the two is the problem.;) But since it’s the only morally right choice, we have to find it anyway.
I can only see one chance for a solution: By the physics of bitspace (which are also the laws of ideas and neural networks like the brain), there is only one moment where an inventor can demand something in return: When first telling someone about it. After that, it depends on the trustworthiness of those he told it. Which is case of a company, patent office, magazine, or anyone who is not a very close friend, is absolutely zero. (If you think otherwise you are living in a delusion.)
Well, as long as that someone does any of - smoke - eat fast food crap - use nasty chemicals for cleaning - use nasty chemicals on the body - use furniture with nasty chemicals - live in a city with dirty air - live in a house with nasty chemicals built-in - gets too much radiadion (e.g. UV) - etc... he/she is an idiot when acting like that anyway.
I don’t shudder. since I don’t want to date idiots anyway. ^^
Now guess why it’s called COPYright, and not AUTHOR’s right...;)
Copyright was by definition never made to protect any creators. It was created to justify a business model, that in actual physical reality, would be impossible: Making money from something that can not be owned, sold, or controlled in any way. The only reason the inventors did not get laughed at, is that back then the information was always stored on physical media. Well, this is over now. So boo-hoo reproduction industry, cause you’re fucked!;)
Have you seen Idiocracy? What are they doing when there is no TV? Sex! Making even dumber children! Lots of them! Ok, it’s exercise, and it can also be playing a “board” game, if a board is involved. Even outside. Oh, and it will definitely end in a complete disaster.;)
When did “average hard-working folks” become a synonym for “retarded cattle-like idiots”? Average folks are not idiots. Unfortunately there’s a lot of non-average idiots out there nowadays.:/
Also saying “hard-working” alone is on enough. There are those who work hard for the success of themselves and those that they care for. And there are those who work hard, because they are basically voluntary slaves for others. Calling the second group an ideal, is perverse and only an ideal for those who abuse others. But somehow it became to be generally understood when mentioning the term.:/
You’ll kick yourself for not thinking ahead and building a plant that creates enough hydrogen in advance to get to even the worst night times 10?;)
Seriously. The granary is what... the second item of all you’ll ever build in a city in Civilization? Its advances should teach you something about buffering. ^^
Why would you open Firefox more than once a day? Put it in autostart, and close it before shutting down (or use autostop if available). To me any time between thinking of something, and entering it into a search engine it too much time. I can only recommend the following: 1. Shortcut to activate the already running browser. 2. Ctrl-L 3. Input "g $yourQuery", <enter>* 4. ??? (wait) 5. Profit!:)
* I chose this instead of the separate search field, because switching between engines is extremely inefficient in there (stupidly page trough them with the cursor), and because I always switch services (dictionary, youtube, imdb, google images, etc), which is really fast with just typing the one or two letters for it.
There is always the one guy who makes this exact comment. And my answer is always: No shit Sherlock? ^^
We knew that already. The original poster obviously meant "HTML5 with H.264 support" when we said “...will it support H264/HTML5?”. (And yes, we are aware that H.264 with HTML4 is available right now, trough the <object> tag referencing a video file, but of course not as a first-class element.)
Well, to me it looks exactly like Microsoftitis. The disease where don’t come up with other ideas, but imitate others, always runing behind them, but by definition never catching up. And if you can’t imitate or only imitate it badly, you at least make it look like it does, and make it all shiny.
I hate to say it, but: It’s the point where a project has jumped the shark. Because projects rarely get out of that endless catching up race again. And they forget about actually innovating and leading the way. I hope the Firefox team can quickly recover. But I don’t put any money on it anymore.
Maybe someone comes up with some KHTML or Opera thing that can beat Firefox’s range of extensions. (And make no mistake: People don’t switch their browser, until ALL features that they use are available PLUS some more. Same thing happened with the Internet Explorer. The same thing is true with Linux. (But with Linux, I don’t want it, since then it wouldn’t be Linux anymore, but would have become what it hates.)
Others have suggested that the Mozilla Foundation should just use the OS to playback video and stop complaining for nothing.
This. Just bind to ffmpeg on Linux (which already includes H.264, and interestingly is in all the “completely open-source” package managers), to DirectShow on Windows, and to CoreVideo on MacOS X and be done with it. No trouble, no nothing. Completely 100% legal and working on Windows And MacOS X, and if ffmpeg gets sued, the influence on Mozilla is zero. Plus, they get playback on ALL formats for free, allowing the site owner to choose what he prefers. Including Theora and other free codecs.
It’s a total no-brainer, but the Firefox team wants to get all evangelistic and completely irrational, making it a holy war.
Nobody is against preferring open codecs. We’re against removing freedom and choice over such childish shit, for no reason at all, based on a false dichotomy. Being grown-ups they should be ashamed of themselves. Or at least call themselves politicians, and not developers.;)
allowing power users running hundreds of tabs to quickly find the one they want.
Sorry, that”s not “power using” but “being a messie who clutters things up”. The same type of person whoses desk is full of paper sheets and his display borders are full of post-it notes. In other words: No a very healty person, and not someone you would want to hire.
A power user would use TabMix Plus storable sessions and bookmark folders, plus TagSifter tagging. Or even one writing his own extensions.
But I guess the guy who wrote it considers using any kind or CLI something only experts use...
[Disclaimer: This is not a troll or a flame. I’m just really shocked.]
I can not believe the utter absurdities mentioned on Slashdot. Most comments seem to say something like “The code belongs to $someone”. Now read that again: The code belongs to...?? Code belongs??
What the hell? It feels like the FUD and propaganda of the **AA have completely succeeded in brainwashing people that you could actually own information. What an absurd concept! How can you possess something that can not be stolen? How the hell do you own something, that you can not control? I mean, not ever! If you pass it one, your control is gone. If not, you can not prove its existence. It is not a physical object. You can’t possess it. You can own the container. Or offer the service that produces it. But that’s something different. All the premises required for something to be ownable, are not fulfilled for information.
It just makes so sense. How can grown up people with a healthy sense of reality believe such fantasies? I know that all humans start believing something, when they just hear it often enough. That’s kind of a side-effect of us being social beings. But come on. This is like believing in Santa. Or God. Or saying that you own happiness. Or the color magenta. You know: Things that would have gotten you locked away 100 years ago, and certainly require therapy nowadays.
I’m sad. Because it feels like they have won, and we are to blame, because we the experts — of all people — bought into their lies. We were supposed to be the last defense. Am I now really standing alone?? Oh well. At least they have to walk over my dead body before I give up.
First of all, wouldn’t that be warp 10? Since 9.9 is still a lot less than 10. And second: Yes, to someone from the outside, it would take 3.14 million years. But: No, to someone on the inside of the ship it would happen in an instant (at warp 10), since his time would stand still.*
So the trick is to get just fast enough to still have time (literally!) to stop again. ^^ Which means that warp 9.9 would again be a better choice than warp 10.:)
* And now a question to the real theoretical physicists: Does that mean that light has no rest mass, because its time stands still?
Well, thinking about what happens there serves as much purpose as asking what happened before time, or where everything came from: It is by definition not fathomable to our puny little human minds. We can create a calendar event that reminds us to think about if we may be able to think about it, every 5000 years or so. But apart from that...
What you are about to see in the comments to this story: - ”explanations” - excuses - denial - hate - ignorance - delusions
Then when they get some point right, cue the: - counter-”explanations” - counter-excuses - counter-denial - counter-hate - counter-ignorance - counter-delusions
Oh, and: - a lot of fun for the whole family!;)
Basically you can mod every comment “Troll” or “Flamebait”, and always be right.;)
Not exactly we. Rather the guys with (literally) no conscience at Monsanto, who have already shown to walk over the dead bodies of men, women, children and everything else for maximum profit.
Your statement is very deceptive, as it’s technically true, but actually wrong. There is still the same amount of vitamins, minerals, micronutrients, etc in the plants. They just are fatter, as they have more water (and carbohydrates) in them. So essentially they mostly deliver more water, which to me is the same as those large packages in store, that turn out to be 90 air at home, and partially more energy, without the vital nutrients to go with them that are essential to not becoming sick.
And interestingly, most of our so-called “age-related” diseases never pop up in people who don’t eat that disguised crap / bags of mostly sugar water. If you can find a translation, check Dr. Brucker’s experiences from 30 years of experience with over 30,000 patients.
Uuum, and you did expect what from a troll who calls himself “drinkypoo” (and also does that in RL)?
He is an elaborate troll though, as he has several sock puppet accounts who regularly get mod points, which he uses for the real trolling: Moderating things in his (trollish) favor. Even trolls hate him, as you can see when he clashes with other trolls. He’s a subhuman of the worst kind. And I don’t mean this as an insult, but as an objective measurement.
That “dielectric fluid” is really nasty stuff. To give you an idea, how nasty it is, I have an example for you:
Say you have attached your mouse to the computer, and sealed everything off with hot glue and everything. Now you fill the thing with that oil. Then that stuff creeps trough the connector, trough the inside of the cable (between the wire and the plastic), up to your mouse, out your mouse, over all your table and everything, down to your floor and trough the whole room. Unless you stop it first. Now add dust, and your desk remembers you of something that’s tarred and feathered.
Nasty nasty stuff. And hey, the heat of course doesn’t magically disappear. So you still need to cool the oil or the surrounding air somehow, and keep the oil moving. Or else you are much more prone to heat accumulation.
So all in all, it simply isn’t worth the effort. By the way: What’s so bad about fans anyway?
I am already saying this, in a version that is actually thought to the end, for a very long time. I was already talking about p2p social networks, when Facebook didn’t even exist yet. I have moved on to networks of trust, and so much other stuff, that right now, I got a system that can even be used for votes, since it by its natural structure inhibits abuse of the system, even without unique identities.
Sadly, I’m so full with making my other inventions real, that I can at best add this as a side-project into them.:/ We’ll see. I am not really caring who is developing it in the end, as long as he also thinks it trough to the end (can be accelerated by asking me:), and as long as he doesn’t brag about being the great and only inventor, nearly a decade after it was actually thought up.:)
Slashdot Mirror
I think it is fundamentally wrong to separate software from (other) ideas. After all, software is nothing more than a written down idea.
But I think that no idea should be “patentable”. I even think that such a process should not exist at all, since in reality it is 1. not enforceable anyway, and 2. only stifles innovation. Since every idea builds upon other ideas.
But I still think inventors should be getting something for their ideas.
Of course unifying the two is the problem. ;)
But since it’s the only morally right choice, we have to find it anyway.
I can only see one chance for a solution: By the physics of bitspace (which are also the laws of ideas and neural networks like the brain), there is only one moment where an inventor can demand something in return: When first telling someone about it. After that, it depends on the trustworthiness of those he told it. Which is case of a company, patent office, magazine, or anyone who is not a very close friend, is absolutely zero. (If you think otherwise you are living in a delusion.)
Well, as long as that someone does any of
- smoke
- eat fast food crap
- use nasty chemicals for cleaning
- use nasty chemicals on the body
- use furniture with nasty chemicals
- live in a city with dirty air
- live in a house with nasty chemicals built-in
- gets too much radiadion (e.g. UV)
- etc...
he/she is an idiot when acting like that anyway.
I don’t shudder. since I don’t want to date idiots anyway. ^^
Now guess why it’s called COPYright, and not AUTHOR’s right... ;)
Copyright was by definition never made to protect any creators. It was created to justify a business model, that in actual physical reality, would be impossible: Making money from something that can not be owned, sold, or controlled in any way. ;)
The only reason the inventors did not get laughed at, is that back then the information was always stored on physical media.
Well, this is over now. So boo-hoo reproduction industry, cause you’re fucked!
Have you seen Idiocracy? What are they doing when there is no TV? ;)
Sex! Making even dumber children! Lots of them!
Ok, it’s exercise, and it can also be playing a “board” game, if a board is involved. Even outside. Oh, and it will definitely end in a complete disaster.
It obviously has become sentient and doesn’t want to. ;)
When did “average hard-working folks” become a synonym for “retarded cattle-like idiots”? :/
Average folks are not idiots. Unfortunately there’s a lot of non-average idiots out there nowadays.
Also saying “hard-working” alone is on enough. There are those who work hard for the success of themselves and those that they care for. And there are those who work hard, because they are basically voluntary slaves for others. :/
Calling the second group an ideal, is perverse and only an ideal for those who abuse others. But somehow it became to be generally understood when mentioning the term.
I guess the molten rock does. ;)
You’ll kick yourself for not thinking ahead and building a plant that creates enough hydrogen in advance to get to even the worst night times 10? ;)
Seriously. The granary is what... the second item of all you’ll ever build in a city in Civilization? Its advances should teach you something about buffering. ^^
Why would you open Firefox more than once a day? Put it in autostart, and close it before shutting down (or use autostop if available). :)
To me any time between thinking of something, and entering it into a search engine it too much time.
I can only recommend the following:
1. Shortcut to activate the already running browser.
2. Ctrl-L
3. Input "g $yourQuery", <enter>*
4. ??? (wait)
5. Profit!
* I chose this instead of the separate search field, because switching between engines is extremely inefficient in there (stupidly page trough them with the cursor), and because I always switch services (dictionary, youtube, imdb, google images, etc), which is really fast with just typing the one or two letters for it.
There is always the one guy who makes this exact comment. And my answer is always:
No shit Sherlock? ^^
We knew that already. The original poster obviously meant "HTML5 with H.264 support" when we said “...will it support H264/HTML5?”. (And yes, we are aware that H.264 with HTML4 is available right now, trough the <object> tag referencing a video file, but of course not as a first-class element.)
Well, to me it looks exactly like Microsoftitis. The disease where don’t come up with other ideas, but imitate others, always runing behind them, but by definition never catching up. And if you can’t imitate or only imitate it badly, you at least make it look like it does, and make it all shiny.
I hate to say it, but: It’s the point where a project has jumped the shark.
Because projects rarely get out of that endless catching up race again. And they forget about actually innovating and leading the way.
I hope the Firefox team can quickly recover. But I don’t put any money on it anymore.
Maybe someone comes up with some KHTML or Opera thing that can beat Firefox’s range of extensions. (And make no mistake: People don’t switch their browser, until ALL features that they use are available PLUS some more. Same thing happened with the Internet Explorer. The same thing is true with Linux. (But with Linux, I don’t want it, since then it wouldn’t be Linux anymore, but would have become what it hates.)
Others have suggested that the Mozilla Foundation should just use the OS to playback video and stop complaining for nothing.
This.
Just bind to ffmpeg on Linux (which already includes H.264, and interestingly is in all the “completely open-source” package managers), to DirectShow on Windows, and to CoreVideo on MacOS X and be done with it. No trouble, no nothing. Completely 100% legal and working on Windows And MacOS X, and if ffmpeg gets sued, the influence on Mozilla is zero.
Plus, they get playback on ALL formats for free, allowing the site owner to choose what he prefers. Including Theora and other free codecs.
It’s a total no-brainer, but the Firefox team wants to get all evangelistic and completely irrational, making it a holy war.
Nobody is against preferring open codecs. We’re against removing freedom and choice over such childish shit, for no reason at all, based on a false dichotomy. ;)
Being grown-ups they should be ashamed of themselves. Or at least call themselves politicians, and not developers.
allowing power users running hundreds of tabs to quickly find the one they want.
Sorry, that”s not “power using” but “being a messie who clutters things up”.
The same type of person whoses desk is full of paper sheets and his display borders are full of post-it notes.
In other words: No a very healty person, and not someone you would want to hire.
A power user would use TabMix Plus storable sessions and bookmark folders, plus TagSifter tagging.
Or even one writing his own extensions.
But I guess the guy who wrote it considers using any kind or CLI something only experts use...
[Disclaimer: This is not a troll or a flame. I’m just really shocked.]
I can not believe the utter absurdities mentioned on Slashdot.
Most comments seem to say something like “The code belongs to $someone”.
Now read that again: The code belongs to...?? Code belongs??
What the hell?
It feels like the FUD and propaganda of the **AA have completely succeeded in brainwashing people that you could actually own information. What an absurd concept!
How can you possess something that can not be stolen? How the hell do you own something, that you can not control? I mean, not ever! If you pass it one, your control is gone. If not, you can not prove its existence. It is not a physical object. You can’t possess it. You can own the container. Or offer the service that produces it. But that’s something different. All the premises required for something to be ownable, are not fulfilled for information.
It just makes so sense. How can grown up people with a healthy sense of reality believe such fantasies?
I know that all humans start believing something, when they just hear it often enough. That’s kind of a side-effect of us being social beings. But come on. This is like believing in Santa. Or God. Or saying that you own happiness. Or the color magenta. You know: Things that would have gotten you locked away 100 years ago, and certainly require therapy nowadays.
I’m sad. Because it feels like they have won, and we are to blame, because we the experts — of all people — bought into their lies. We were supposed to be the last defense. Am I now really standing alone??
Oh well. At least they have to walk over my dead body before I give up.
Actually you are both right any wrong, in a way.
First of all, wouldn’t that be warp 10? Since 9.9 is still a lot less than 10.
And second:
Yes, to someone from the outside, it would take 3.14 million years. But:
No, to someone on the inside of the ship it would happen in an instant (at warp 10), since his time would stand still.*
So the trick is to get just fast enough to still have time (literally!) to stop again. ^^ :)
Which means that warp 9.9 would again be a better choice than warp 10.
* And now a question to the real theoretical physicists:
Does that mean that light has no rest mass, because its time stands still?
Well, thinking about what happens there serves as much purpose as asking what happened before time, or where everything came from: It is by definition not fathomable to our puny little human minds.
We can create a calendar event that reminds us to think about if we may be able to think about it, every 5000 years or so. But apart from that...
What you are about to see in the comments to this story:
- ”explanations”
- excuses
- denial
- hate
- ignorance
- delusions
Then when they get some point right, cue the:
- counter-”explanations”
- counter-excuses
- counter-denial
- counter-hate
- counter-ignorance
- counter-delusions
Oh, and: ;)
- a lot of fun for the whole family!
Basically you can mod every comment “Troll” or “Flamebait”, and always be right. ;)
Not exactly we. Rather the guys with (literally) no conscience at Monsanto, who have already shown to walk over the dead bodies of men, women, children and everything else for maximum profit.
Your statement is very deceptive, as it’s technically true, but actually wrong.
There is still the same amount of vitamins, minerals, micronutrients, etc in the plants. They just are fatter, as they have more water (and carbohydrates) in them. So essentially they mostly deliver more water, which to me is the same as those large packages in store, that turn out to be 90 air at home, and partially more energy, without the vital nutrients to go with them that are essential to not becoming sick.
And interestingly, most of our so-called “age-related” diseases never pop up in people who don’t eat that disguised crap / bags of mostly sugar water. If you can find a translation, check Dr. Brucker’s experiences from 30 years of experience with over 30,000 patients.
Well, I certainly know who the dealer was.
I heard it was some dude’s pop, Ben Addict (16).
Must be tough to have a child at that age. But I also heard he likes kids very much, so I think he’s OK with it.
Wasn’t decentralization the whole point of the Internet? You know, because centralization would offer a SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE?
Well, you could have saved those 15 bucks by simply booting your installation disk to the recovery console, and running fixmbr. Done. :)
Been there.
Uuum, and you did expect what from a troll who calls himself “drinkypoo” (and also does that in RL)?
He is an elaborate troll though, as he has several sock puppet accounts who regularly get mod points, which he uses for the real trolling: Moderating things in his (trollish) favor.
Even trolls hate him, as you can see when he clashes with other trolls. He’s a subhuman of the worst kind. And I don’t mean this as an insult, but as an objective measurement.
That “dielectric fluid” is really nasty stuff. To give you an idea, how nasty it is, I have an example for you:
Say you have attached your mouse to the computer, and sealed everything off with hot glue and everything. Now you fill the thing with that oil.
Then that stuff creeps trough the connector, trough the inside of the cable (between the wire and the plastic), up to your mouse, out your mouse, over all your table and everything, down to your floor and trough the whole room. Unless you stop it first.
Now add dust, and your desk remembers you of something that’s tarred and feathered.
Nasty nasty stuff. And hey, the heat of course doesn’t magically disappear. So you still need to cool the oil or the surrounding air somehow, and keep the oil moving. Or else you are much more prone to heat accumulation.
So all in all, it simply isn’t worth the effort. By the way: What’s so bad about fans anyway?
I am already saying this, in a version that is actually thought to the end, for a very long time. I was already talking about p2p social networks, when Facebook didn’t even exist yet. I have moved on to networks of trust, and so much other stuff, that right now, I got a system that can even be used for votes, since it by its natural structure inhibits abuse of the system, even without unique identities.
Sadly, I’m so full with making my other inventions real, that I can at best add this as a side-project into them. :/ :), and as long as he doesn’t brag about being the great and only inventor, nearly a decade after it was actually thought up. :)
We’ll see. I am not really caring who is developing it in the end, as long as he also thinks it trough to the end (can be accelerated by asking me