So in mathematical terms, this is a function with a limit of infinite downloads and the MPAA stopping to offer anything that anyone could decode at all. ^^
No corporation, regardless of size, has remotely close to the power of the federal government. Go look up the money available to a given company and then look at how much the federal budget is. The difference is staggering.
Yes. As in: Big companies are already way above the most governments on this planet, and some are even above all governments. Have you actually checked what you assumed to be true?
Well, 1. Shell is definitely not the only company with a private army, that does exactly that. 2. Wait until the utilities companies who have a monopoly to deliver water, electricity, Internet and in the future maybe air, stop delivering, until you comply with their rules. 3. What you call ”the government” is what I call a group of professional PR actors, being straw-men for the industry’s most powerful feudalists. Look at the popular stock indexes, to find out who those are.
Yeah, because those people in school that got lots of girls didn’t constantly make jokes about sex, while the geeks constantly talked about geeky stuff...
It’s not whether you make the jokes, but how you act while doing so. Confident, or ashamed? Most geeks seem to be ashamed of her noticing that they would want sex with her. While the playboys see it as a compliment, making her special, because amongst a thousand girls, he chose her.
And what most geeks don’t seem to know: The can see that. The microexpressions, the little changes in intonation, the posture, everything in you tells her how you meant it. And women don’t care much what you say. They care how you say it, and especially how that feels.
I would. Out of respect. Because I think they deserve it, and feel bad if I have done something unfair. Maybe you are just like those MAFIAA dicks, who don’t feel bad to overprice their “products” a hundred times, and have the balls to attach 20 pages of terms and conditions to it, that are designed to fuck you over an any possible event.
But normal people have a conscience. We know that we get something back from people that we treat nicely. This is easily provable. Call up the hotline of any company you have a problem with. Now be nice and make that person there smile ( =value-giver) and he/she is very likely to feel a bigger urge to help you in return, than if you would just have complained and been a dick. (Of course some people themselves don’t follow the same rule, but nobody can stay unfriendly for long to someone who is just so likable.) A friend of mine was very successful in his job managing a large web shop’s supplier side. His secret: He made his suppliers happy. So they sometimes just called because they liked talking to him. Some became friends. And he got lots of favors and good deals that nobody else got.
Don’t let some dicks drag you into their miserable dog-eat-dog world. You can gain so much more but either staying nice, or staying away, than by being crooked and unfriendly.
And that is why copyright is wrong. It has nothing to do with physical reality. And additionally, with a business model that is also based on reality, there also is no need for it. At all.
Exactly. As soon as you see the production of information as a service, all the problems with laws, making money from it, DRM, file sharing etc instantly vanish.
And interestingly, most artist already do the service business model. They just don’t know it. They offer the service of music production to the distributors. But it’s those distributors, who then try to cram it into a business model that has no relation to physical reality. If the artists just start seeing the end users themselves as the “distributors”, and offer the service to them, then there simply is no problem anymore, and we’re all happy.
(I won’t repeat the business model I designed, to make this work. But I will repeat the main rules: If you want money, demand it at the first time you pass it on. Later it’s too late, because then the one you passed it on to, can just as well give it away for free to everyone, if he does not have something to gain from keeping it a secret. And for the rest, just act like your community were your investor. From the first pitch, over the demo, to the final completion of the contract.)
Software is information. Information exists in bitspace. Goods are matter that is traded. Matter exists in meatspace. The laws of bitspace are fundamentally different than those of meatspace. Because in bitspace, ownership is not an applicable concept, since information can not be taken away from you (only the meatspace container can), and reproduction does not require production since the copies are loss- and effortless. Trade requires ownership. Ownership requires control. Information that is passed on, can not be controlled anymore. Information that in not passed on, can not be proven to exist. Hence Software is not “goods”.
You can ask money for the service that creates the information. Or for the physical container that holds it. Since such a service itself requires work and the container is matter. But not for information itself.
No, that would be possible. It actually went like this:
Your Phalanx unit successfully attacked and destroyed an enemy aircraft carrier.
I have seen this myself.
Luckily, you could fix the game. But I did it the other way around. In my version, none of the rules made sense.;) My settlers could move 16 squares in one round, over water, nuke cities, and conveniently carry up to 16 aircraft carriers in its wagon. And in the diplomacy screen your choices for making war were “Yes” and “Yes*”.:D
Good luck with that “not worrying” when your games stop being on Steam.
Remember: With DRM you don’t actually have the game at all. Instead you have a subscription, that is checked every time you try to run the game. And when they think they have given you enough back, the game stops working. Of course with companies like EA or Ubisoft, that moment can be anytime right after they have your money in their hands. You may call it business. I call it fraud.
You know, in modern languages, you can once abstract that concept out that you don’t want buffer overflows and dereference null pointers, and you’re done. In C, you have to re-invent the wheel again and again and do the same micromanagement over and over. It’s like the man with three buttocks on Monty Python: We’ve done that! We’ve solved it. We have nice standardized solutions. (Java doing runtime checks by default. And Haskell doing them at compile time.) Use them!
With modern languages, you can use your mental resources to tackle the actual problem, instead of having to constantly think about decades old and long solved problems that should long be included by default. And the biggest joke is, that most C programmers manually implement those systems themselves, and then act all proud, because they re-invented the wheel, except that it never received the literally decades of testing of the well-studied existing solutions.
It’s dumb. Like those people re-implementing standard library functions. It’s unprofessional and inefficient. And very error-prone for no reason at all.
You forgot the functional programming languages, like Haskell, Ocaml, standard ML, Erlang, etc. They usually have a track record of higher security without loss in performance (that Java has), since the checks can happen at compile time.
Of course you can still mess up things even in Haskell. E.g. [0,1,2,3,4,5]!!10 will cause a runtime exception. But the functions that can cause errors are well-known and can be avoided. Also, QuickCheck is a really great tool to test out all the possibilities. If I ever had a heat-lung machine attached, I would want it to be written in Haskell. But never ever C, C++, or similar languages. Ever.
There isn’t just “secure” and “not secure”, you know? Some are more and others less secure.
And I have only one thing to say:
Haskell > Java > C:)
(Java has built-in checks that prevent the worst errors of C. And Haskell also has them, but at compile time, so you get back the performance. Of course those language are just examples, and any similar languages could be placed in there instead.)
Didn’t you know? The trolls now have mod points too! And they mod everything down that they don’t like. No matter if it’s actually true, insightful, informative or anything. The behavior can be compared to religious fundamentalist in rage over you calling out their bullshit.
I very often post comments that are true but that many people would like to censor, and I got a weird rise in comments being modded Troll or Flamebait for no reason at all. I call those people trollerators. And I fear Slashdot is going down the drains because of them.:/ (Ok, anyone with a four-digit id might tell me, that it already did a loong time ago.;)
But what is the point of Scribd? (Hint: There is absolutely none.) Just replace every link to Scribd with the link to the PDF, and you’re good. Oh, wait, that’s actually easy to do with Greasemonkey. Except that Scribd still requires you to log in, and get a session id to download it. So it’s still pointless DRM / obfuscation.
Calling Michael Pachter an analyst is akin to calling your local butcher a surgeon. This so called analyst has a long history of ridiculous claims.
Huh? There are analysts that are not butchers? That’s news to me... What the hell is an “analyst” anyway, other than someone who is so sure of himself that he pulls others into believing him? (Completely unrelated to the question of he actually knows anything. ^^)
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So in mathematical terms, this is a function with a limit of infinite downloads and the MPAA stopping to offer anything that anyone could decode at all. ^^
I approve. Please continue. ;)
No corporation, regardless of size, has remotely close to the power of the federal government. Go look up the money available to a given company and then look at how much the federal budget is. The difference is staggering.
Yes. As in: Big companies are already way above the most governments on this planet, and some are even above all governments.
Have you actually checked what you assumed to be true?
Well,
1. Shell is definitely not the only company with a private army, that does exactly that.
2. Wait until the utilities companies who have a monopoly to deliver water, electricity, Internet and in the future maybe air, stop delivering, until you comply with their rules.
3. What you call ”the government” is what I call a group of professional PR actors, being straw-men for the industry’s most powerful feudalists. Look at the popular stock indexes, to find out who those are.
Politics, marketing, public relations, etc... are just other names for “professional lying”. That’s all.
Yeah, because those people in school that got lots of girls didn’t constantly make jokes about sex, while the geeks constantly talked about geeky stuff...
It’s not whether you make the jokes, but how you act while doing so. Confident, or ashamed?
Most geeks seem to be ashamed of her noticing that they would want sex with her.
While the playboys see it as a compliment, making her special, because amongst a thousand girls, he chose her.
And what most geeks don’t seem to know: The can see that. The microexpressions, the little changes in intonation, the posture, everything in you tells her how you meant it. And women don’t care much what you say. They care how you say it, and especially how that feels.
I would. Out of respect. Because I think they deserve it, and feel bad if I have done something unfair.
Maybe you are just like those MAFIAA dicks, who don’t feel bad to overprice their “products” a hundred times, and have the balls to attach 20 pages of terms and conditions to it, that are designed to fuck you over an any possible event.
But normal people have a conscience. We know that we get something back from people that we treat nicely.
This is easily provable. Call up the hotline of any company you have a problem with. Now be nice and make that person there smile (
=value-giver) and he/she is very likely to feel a bigger urge to help you in return, than if you would just have complained and been a dick. (Of course some people themselves don’t follow the same rule, but nobody can stay unfriendly for long to someone who is just so likable.)
A friend of mine was very successful in his job managing a large web shop’s supplier side. His secret: He made his suppliers happy. So they sometimes just called because they liked talking to him. Some became friends. And he got lots of favors and good deals that nobody else got.
Don’t let some dicks drag you into their miserable dog-eat-dog world. You can gain so much more but either staying nice, or staying away, than by being crooked and unfriendly.
And that is why copyright is wrong. It has nothing to do with physical reality.
And additionally, with a business model that is also based on reality, there also is no need for it. At all.
Exactly. As soon as you see the production of information as a service, all the problems with laws, making money from it, DRM, file sharing etc instantly vanish.
And interestingly, most artist already do the service business model. They just don’t know it.
They offer the service of music production to the distributors. But it’s those distributors, who then try to cram it into a business model that has no relation to physical reality.
If the artists just start seeing the end users themselves as the “distributors”, and offer the service to them, then there simply is no problem anymore, and we’re all happy.
(I won’t repeat the business model I designed, to make this work. But I will repeat the main rules: If you want money, demand it at the first time you pass it on. Later it’s too late, because then the one you passed it on to, can just as well give it away for free to everyone, if he does not have something to gain from keeping it a secret. And for the rest, just act like your community were your investor. From the first pitch, over the demo, to the final completion of the contract.)
Software is information.
Information exists in bitspace.
Goods are matter that is traded.
Matter exists in meatspace.
The laws of bitspace are fundamentally different than those of meatspace.
Because in bitspace, ownership is not an applicable concept, since information can not be taken away from you (only the meatspace container can), and reproduction does not require production since the copies are loss- and effortless.
Trade requires ownership.
Ownership requires control.
Information that is passed on, can not be controlled anymore.
Information that in not passed on, can not be proven to exist.
Hence Software is not “goods”.
You can ask money for the service that creates the information. Or for the physical container that holds it.
Since such a service itself requires work and the container is matter.
But not for information itself.
(cattle in line look worryingly at each other as if no one wants to go, one cow lowers blockhead and begrudgingly steps forward toward the scanner)
There. Fixed that for ya.
Poor Terminator...
*bursts out in tears*
Billard?
Poker?
Chess?
At least cricket or golf are played outside.
No, that would be possible. It actually went like this:
Your Phalanx unit successfully attacked and destroyed an enemy aircraft carrier.
I have seen this myself.
Luckily, you could fix the game. But I did it the other way around. In my version, none of the rules made sense. ;) :D
My settlers could move 16 squares in one round, over water, nuke cities, and conveniently carry up to 16 aircraft carriers in its wagon. And in the diplomacy screen your choices for making war were “Yes” and “Yes*”.
Good luck with that “not worrying” when your games stop being on Steam.
Remember: With DRM you don’t actually have the game at all. Instead you have a subscription, that is checked every time you try to run the game. And when they think they have given you enough back, the game stops working. Of course with companies like EA or Ubisoft, that moment can be anytime right after they have your money in their hands.
You may call it business. I call it fraud.
Don’t worry. I just needed a ride back, after Satan dumped me.
Your friend Saddam
P.S.: On second though: Do worry. Do worry very much! MUHAHAHAHAAA
Either the probe has been out there long enough to become sentient or this is an elaborate trap set by aliens.
Well, I’d say that’s the same thing by now. ^^
You got a nice statement there. Care to back it up with some actual arguments? You know:
I'm afraid it's you who is insecure, not C, because...
Ye Olde Excuse: “you’re just not good enough”
You know, in modern languages, you can once abstract that concept out that you don’t want buffer overflows and dereference null pointers, and you’re done.
In C, you have to re-invent the wheel again and again and do the same micromanagement over and over. It’s like the man with three buttocks on Monty Python: We’ve done that! We’ve solved it. We have nice standardized solutions. (Java doing runtime checks by default. And Haskell doing them at compile time.) Use them!
With modern languages, you can use your mental resources to tackle the actual problem, instead of having to constantly think about decades old and long solved problems that should long be included by default.
And the biggest joke is, that most C programmers manually implement those systems themselves, and then act all proud, because they re-invented the wheel, except that it never received the literally decades of testing of the well-studied existing solutions.
It’s dumb. Like those people re-implementing standard library functions. It’s unprofessional and inefficient. And very error-prone for no reason at all.
You forgot the functional programming languages, like Haskell, Ocaml, standard ML, Erlang, etc.
They usually have a track record of higher security without loss in performance (that Java has), since the checks can happen at compile time.
Of course you can still mess up things even in Haskell. E.g. [0,1,2,3,4,5]!!10 will cause a runtime exception. But the functions that can cause errors are well-known and can be avoided. Also, QuickCheck is a really great tool to test out all the possibilities.
If I ever had a heat-lung machine attached, I would want it to be written in Haskell. But never ever C, C++, or similar languages. Ever.
There isn’t just “secure” and “not secure”, you know? Some are more and others less secure.
And I have only one thing to say:
Haskell > Java > C :)
(Java has built-in checks that prevent the worst errors of C. And Haskell also has them, but at compile time, so you get back the performance. Of course those language are just examples, and any similar languages could be placed in there instead.)
Didn’t you know? The trolls now have mod points too! And they mod everything down that they don’t like. No matter if it’s actually true, insightful, informative or anything. The behavior can be compared to religious fundamentalist in rage over you calling out their bullshit.
I very often post comments that are true but that many people would like to censor, and I got a weird rise in comments being modded Troll or Flamebait for no reason at all. I call those people trollerators. And I fear Slashdot is going down the drains because of them. :/ ;)
(Ok, anyone with a four-digit id might tell me, that it already did a loong time ago.
But what is the point of Scribd? (Hint: There is absolutely none.)
Just replace every link to Scribd with the link to the PDF, and you’re good.
Oh, wait, that’s actually easy to do with Greasemonkey. Except that Scribd still requires you to log in, and get a session id to download it. So it’s still pointless DRM / obfuscation.
What is a gram bit? ^^
Calling Michael Pachter an analyst is akin to calling your local butcher a surgeon. This so called analyst has a long history of ridiculous claims.
Huh? There are analysts that are not butchers? That’s news to me...
What the hell is an “analyst” anyway, other than someone who is so sure of himself that he pulls others into believing him? (Completely unrelated to the question of he actually knows anything. ^^)
Well, it’s always the wizard alien. Didn’t you know?