And mine will probably have 10 TB. "You got room for only one OS in there ? Do you know that virtualization is all the rage right now ? Be secure, man !"
Heh, I don't really think so. I think that within ten years, common sense will prevail. The Pirate Party is almost 9% strong in Sweden and growing in many countries. The days of unlimited copyrights come to an end.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930. Copyright extends crazily 70 years after the death of the author. That means that Sherlock Holmes entered public domain in 2000. Walt Disney died in 1966. Though some of his work were made before the last Sherlock Holmes stories, none of these will become public domain before 2036. Yeah. 2036. At this date, the cartoon that inspired Turing's suicide in 1954 (Snow White) will finally be considered part of history.
Realize that there may be a human settlement on the moon before the cartoons broadcasted before WWII will be public domain.
Realize that we only put a ridiculous proportion of these on digital form and that 99% of them are decaying in analog form. Consider how much cultural heritage is lost for the profit of so few people.
When every text content was crawlable and accessible via links.
When you didn't have to go through a slow (but shiny) flash animation to get twenty bytes of content. When the only annoyances were the animated gifs and the <blink> tag
Well, I don't know if I agree with this analysis, all I want to say right now is : Thanks Adobe ! Welcome to the open web ! Finally ! Stop being an enemy and let's be friends ! Let's make the web fantastic again !
On a related note, all the owners of ethernet controllers were asked to register with their real names too.
Differently shocked ? Why ? Because we are now used of having a non-neutral wireless net, as opposed to a neutral wired one.
Google is still the best tool to do a search on the whole internet.
If you have another solution to find an answer to a tech question than checking the 40 first google entries, I am more than willing to check it out, but as crappy as one might call it, I have the feeling that it remains the best.
This is the one. He wants apps written for the iPhone, not apps that try to shoehorn some kind of cross-platform abstraction on top of the iPhone, because that usually sucks, and (at least in his eyes) it makes the iPhone look bad if the apps look bad.
Yeah, cause you know, the iPhone is not exactly a phone, it is actually some kind of alien artifact from another dimension that contains gems of magical technlogy unknown to mankind. Proposing it should obey an API is therfore compltetely absurd.
The first vehicle will drive autonomously in selected sections of the trip and will conduct experimental tests on sensing, decision, and control subsystems, and will continuously collect data. Although limited, human interventions will be needed to define the route and intervene in critical situations.
The second vehicle will automatically follow the route defined by the preceding vehicle, requiring no human intervention (100% autonomous). This will be regarded as a readily exploitable vehicle, able to move on predefined routes; at the end of the trip, its technology will be transferred to a set of vehicles to move in the inner part of Rome in the close future.
The first vehicle is a bit more than a drone and the second one is a bit more than a mere follower. From what they say, once the trip has been made once, a vehicle could be autonomously doing the road without following anyone. That is an interesting achievment.
you shouldn't be allowed leave and take you current employers clients with you over to another firm.
If you can "take" your former employer's clients, it means that they were not really clients of the company but rather clients of a single person. That is a poor way to handle business relationships.
This shows yet again that no matter how open the consumer device is, as long as the carrier operator does not endorse some sort of net neutrality, openness will be only superficial.
For example, what should professional musicians do, only record advertisements?
I am sure that, like me, you know many music fans who buy CDs "for the artist" but never even open the case : they have all of it in MP3s. Sell goodies, sell concert tickets and even send simple $30 bricks saying "I gave $30 dollars to artist X" to put on display and people will buy them if they like your music. I think that systems a la flattr should have been tried by majors at least once, as they are probably the antidote to the current situation. There are other models, like the so-called 'ransom model' : "I'll release a new album if the donations reach $15,000, I'll give back if they don't". Commercial use of a work includes the use of a song in a party where there is an entrance fee, on a radio where there are advertisements, on a website that tries to sell something.
I know that all these models seem risky, but really, relying on the scarcity of copies to pay back artists seems safer to you ?
Or computer games - I can't imagine a business model that would work for them if non-commercial sharing was allowed.
The problem is, I can't imagine a situation where it would be possible to technically enforce a copy interdiction and still have freedom on internet. Dwarf Fortress has a business model that works (donation based, the game is free, awesome and obscure), World of Warcraft has a business model that works and would work even if you were able to share copies. What is certain is that the current model of Doom wouldn't work, does this mean they are condemned ? Well they are condemned to change, that is for sure. I could easily see them sponsored by ATI or NVidia.
The pirate party i s abit more extreme than that:
* Authorization of non-commercial sharing
* 5 years of commercial exclusivity
* +5 years if derivative non-commercial work is authorized
* +10 years if derivative commercial work is authorized (but you still want to get credit)
The pirate parties usually don't see themselves on the political axis. They just call for sane laws. This is (this should) be non-partisan. Pirate parties exist only because none of the regular parties accepts internet and its new freedom for speech and sharing as an opportunity.
This is not about left vs right, this is about technical sound laws vs impossible laws that will make everyone waste valuable time.
Depends. If you consider just the number of living animal as a metric, I would say that chicken farms are one of the incredible environment that humans created for animals that are indeed more successful than many others.
Yes I am ironic. I heard that in Chernobyl, while one can see wild horses, no bird can be heard as they are very sensitive to radiation. Walking into a silent birdless forest is said to be a very strange feeling.
The popular view of the accident would be that the area was unusable, and most probably lethal - it would seem not.
Of course, the wildlife in the area also shows this, however it is interesting how reality gets buried in popular belief.
Depends on your definition of "lethal". It is not lethal as in "breath there and suffocate, die within 5 minutes". It is lethal as in "die of a cancer within the year if you eat food and drink water from here" or in "live there several years and lose 10 years of life expectancy". Not a barren land, but not exactly hospitable either.
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Or simply, every tablet PC manufacturer now compares his to an iPad. That concept isn't that really new you know...
Or maybe is the RIAA beginning to be short on bribe money ?
Actually while I ackowledge Apache's response was adequate, isn't it worrying that such a thing can happen ?
Heh, everyday I find a new reason why we need open BIOSes as well.
And mine will probably have 10 TB. "You got room for only one OS in there ? Do you know that virtualization is all the rage right now ? Be secure, man !"
Heh, I don't really think so. I think that within ten years, common sense will prevail. The Pirate Party is almost 9% strong in Sweden and growing in many countries. The days of unlimited copyrights come to an end.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930. Copyright extends crazily 70 years after the death of the author. That means that Sherlock Holmes entered public domain in 2000. Walt Disney died in 1966. Though some of his work were made before the last Sherlock Holmes stories, none of these will become public domain before 2036. Yeah. 2036. At this date, the cartoon that inspired Turing's suicide in 1954 (Snow White) will finally be considered part of history.
Realize that there may be a human settlement on the moon before the cartoons broadcasted before WWII will be public domain.
Realize that we only put a ridiculous proportion of these on digital form and that 99% of them are decaying in analog form. Consider how much cultural heritage is lost for the profit of so few people.
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When every text content was crawlable and accessible via links.
When you didn't have to go through a slow (but shiny) flash animation to get twenty bytes of content. When the only annoyances were the animated gifs and the <blink> tag
Well, I don't know if I agree with this analysis, all I want to say right now is : Thanks Adobe ! Welcome to the open web ! Finally ! Stop being an enemy and let's be friends ! Let's make the web fantastic again !
On a related note, all the owners of ethernet controllers were asked to register with their real names too.
Differently shocked ? Why ? Because we are now used of having a non-neutral wireless net, as opposed to a neutral wired one.
Google is still the best tool to do a search on the whole internet.
If you have another solution to find an answer to a tech question than checking the 40 first google entries, I am more than willing to check it out, but as crappy as one might call it, I have the feeling that it remains the best.
This is the one. He wants apps written for the iPhone, not apps that try to shoehorn some kind of cross-platform abstraction on top of the iPhone, because that usually sucks, and (at least in his eyes) it makes the iPhone look bad if the apps look bad.
Yeah, cause you know, the iPhone is not exactly a phone, it is actually some kind of alien artifact from another dimension that contains gems of magical technlogy unknown to mankind. Proposing it should obey an API is therfore compltetely absurd.
The first vehicle will drive autonomously in selected sections of the trip and will conduct experimental tests on sensing, decision, and control subsystems, and will continuously collect data. Although limited, human interventions will be needed to define the route and intervene in critical situations. The second vehicle will automatically follow the route defined by the preceding vehicle, requiring no human intervention (100% autonomous). This will be regarded as a readily exploitable vehicle, able to move on predefined routes; at the end of the trip, its technology will be transferred to a set of vehicles to move in the inner part of Rome in the close future.
The first vehicle is a bit more than a drone and the second one is a bit more than a mere follower. From what they say, once the trip has been made once, a vehicle could be autonomously doing the road without following anyone. That is an interesting achievment.
I expect China will disassemble, reverse engineer, and then copy these vehicles en masse. [[//satire]]
Well don't blame China for US' inability to do so...
At what point does child pornography become a thought crime?
When we began apply it to cartoons instead of live "models" it became a thought crime.
You should be modded insightful.
If this kind of armors begin to be used, this gives an incentive for using blades.
you shouldn't be allowed leave and take you current employers clients with you over to another firm.
If you can "take" your former employer's clients, it means that they were not really clients of the company but rather clients of a single person. That is a poor way to handle business relationships.
This shows yet again that no matter how open the consumer device is, as long as the carrier operator does not endorse some sort of net neutrality, openness will be only superficial.
For example, what should professional musicians do, only record advertisements?
I am sure that, like me, you know many music fans who buy CDs "for the artist" but never even open the case : they have all of it in MP3s. Sell goodies, sell concert tickets and even send simple $30 bricks saying "I gave $30 dollars to artist X" to put on display and people will buy them if they like your music. I think that systems a la flattr should have been tried by majors at least once, as they are probably the antidote to the current situation. There are other models, like the so-called 'ransom model' : "I'll release a new album if the donations reach $15,000, I'll give back if they don't". Commercial use of a work includes the use of a song in a party where there is an entrance fee, on a radio where there are advertisements, on a website that tries to sell something.
I know that all these models seem risky, but really, relying on the scarcity of copies to pay back artists seems safer to you ?
Or computer games - I can't imagine a business model that would work for them if non-commercial sharing was allowed.
The problem is, I can't imagine a situation where it would be possible to technically enforce a copy interdiction and still have freedom on internet. Dwarf Fortress has a business model that works (donation based, the game is free, awesome and obscure), World of Warcraft has a business model that works and would work even if you were able to share copies. What is certain is that the current model of Doom wouldn't work, does this mean they are condemned ? Well they are condemned to change, that is for sure. I could easily see them sponsored by ATI or NVidia.
The pirate party i s abit more extreme than that :
* Authorization of non-commercial sharing
* 5 years of commercial exclusivity
* +5 years if derivative non-commercial work is authorized
* +10 years if derivative commercial work is authorized (but you still want to get credit)
I am fine with this position.
The pirate parties usually don't see themselves on the political axis. They just call for sane laws. This is (this should) be non-partisan. Pirate parties exist only because none of the regular parties accepts internet and its new freedom for speech and sharing as an opportunity.
This is not about left vs right, this is about technical sound laws vs impossible laws that will make everyone waste valuable time.
Depends. If you consider just the number of living animal as a metric, I would say that chicken farms are one of the incredible environment that humans created for animals that are indeed more successful than many others.
Yes I am ironic. I heard that in Chernobyl, while one can see wild horses, no bird can be heard as they are very sensitive to radiation. Walking into a silent birdless forest is said to be a very strange feeling.
The popular view of the accident would be that the area was unusable, and most probably lethal - it would seem not. Of course, the wildlife in the area also shows this, however it is interesting how reality gets buried in popular belief.
Depends on your definition of "lethal". It is not lethal as in "breath there and suffocate, die within 5 minutes". It is lethal as in "die of a cancer within the year if you eat food and drink water from here" or in "live there several years and lose 10 years of life expectancy". Not a barren land, but not exactly hospitable either.
If you refer to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both are lively cities as of today. This is not the case of Chernobyl.