Having copyrights on something means you have the rights to control how it is copied. They allow you to copy it once. That doesn't give you the right to copy it umpteen times. If they want to give you that right, they can.
Quite right: Microsoft give me the right to make that one copy on my hard disk and that one copy in my computer memory. They give it to me subject to my acceptance of their fire-breathing EULA. If I reject their EULA, then they're not prepared to give me permission to make that copy.
Copyrights are all about preserving the economic viability of works in a marketplace, so the first person who receives your work doesn't clone it and sell it for cheaper. Fair use laws exist to allow you to do what you like with the work, so long as it doesn't significantly impact their right to market the work.
That's why I added the weasel words 'it is argued' to my post. You might well make a case that it is fair use to make that copy on the hard disk - even though I might be copying the entirety of the Windows CD - and that on these grounds you may use the software without accepting the licence. It would be an interesting case - does anyone know if there's ever been a challenge to the EULAs on these grounds?
Naturally this still wouldn't allow you to (say) duplicate and redistribute the CD. For that you'd need a licence, because it's definitely a copyright breach and not fair use. You'd be able to ignore all that nonsense about reverse-engineering, blood of the firstborn and so forth, of course, which is the fun part.
The campus network being blazing fast will only encourage file trading and MPAA/RIAA violations internally.
That's probably the idea. It's harder for the *AA police to prove anything about what happens on a local network, and it costs them nothing, unlike internet trading which sucks up a fortune in bandwidth.
Who'll bother with transfers at maybe 128k from some internet system when they have access to everyone else's stuff at gigabit?
I voted Green last time (as much as protest vote as anything else) and my region (South-East UK) did get one of the two green MEPs, but the Green campaign leaflet has some nasty anti-science stuff in it and they are opposed to the Euro.. so I'm a bit wary of voting for them this time.
Don't worry about the Euro issue. The euro exists and is not going away no matter how many Greens join the parliament. Too much is committed to it now - and whether or not Britain joins will be decided by a referendum when Gordon says it's OK, not by our MEPs.
I was planning to vote Liberal in these elections, since their policy is apparently very anti-patent, but it seems their MEPs have been ignoring the party line and voting for everything the corporates put in front of them. Baffling...
Appalling though the UKIP are, there's one thing they have in their favour. They voted against software patents.
On this list of UK MEPs, Booth, Farage and Titford are the UKIP representatives.
Of course, the UKIP crew vote against pretty much everything. Oh, and they're a bunch of racist scum.
That, I think, is a different issue. Here it's supply and demand. The cinema cannot create extra seats at busy times - so, when they can expect a full house, the high demand for the fixed supply leads to a higher price. Similarly, at the matinee they can expect empty seats - and an empty seat is a waste - so prices drop. It's not really the same thing as intentionally crippling a product to sell more cheaply.
Any portion of sky which doesn't have a star/galaxy in it is black, black black!
Have you seen the Deep Field images? The Universe is positively thick with stars and galaxies. If you have a very dark object, you might well see it as a silhouette against a brighter background; cf. the Horsehead Nebula, or the Coal Sack.
that damn Jackoffson left out all the events of Silmarillion, he sucks
I didn't mind that - the Quenta Silmarillion doesn't really have all that much of an effect on LotR. I was a little annoyed that the whole Akallabeth got left out, though.
Now I'm just hoping that after they get around to filming The Hobbit they consider the tale of Turin Turambar for the next Tolkien project. I would love to see Glaurung at the sack of Nargothrond on screen.
I hope you stayed out of the fast lane doing this, grandpa!
1 picture per minute gives 1 frame per mile... One mile per minute. That's an average of 60mph.
That's not so slow - especially if the speed limit out there is still 55mph. Not to mention that, across that kind of distance there'll be a whole lot of fuel stops and whatnot which drag down the average.
You may have paid for the hardware, but the software is licensed to you.
Not in this case, I fear. Microsoft's satanic EULAs derive their dark power from the fact that, if I wish to use their software, I must first copy it - from their CD to my hard disk, and from my hard disk to my RAM. This violates Microsoft's copyright, and so (it is argued) I need to obtain a licence from them in order to do this.
But when I use the software installed on a chip in a camera, what copy am I making? None. So I do not need any licence from Canon to use their software - I physically own this one instance of it, and since I am not copying it then I am not infringing Canon's copyright.
Stocks very often don't go to infinity so losses are hardly 'unlimited'.
While it's impossible for any given stock to reach infinity, there's no finite upper bound on the possible price of a stock. So the losses are, in fact, unlimited.
Actually, I suppose that's not actually true. You could never lose more than the entire wealth of the global economy: that would happen if you had shorted SCO, and everyone else in the world bid all their money on buying SCO. That's a practical, if not mathematical upper limit on how high it can go...
You'd build it early on, but we discovered electricity 150 years ago, why rebuild it?
Because most of the big modern-era city improvements cost more than an ancient-world wonder anyway, and it'll be good for the final civilisation score?
So, all these stormtroopers are stomping up and down in the cinema in their nifty night-vision goggles searching for anyone likely to steal their Death Star pla^W^W^Wmovie... while the projectionist quietly copies the bloody lot.
Interesting. So the XP actually outperforms a higher-rated 64 processor, when the 64 is running in 32-bit mode? Seems rather odd... What are the actual clock-rates of these things?
Cocks is now chief mathematician at GCHQ; and given that he's probably intercepting this communication as I write, I dare say he will pop-up if what I've said is inaccurate!
Well, yes, GCHQ have almost certainly logged this communication - as will Google in the not too distant future, so that's not so cloak-and-dagger... But I doubt the great man will actually turn up. More likely some large men will be coming around to explain to you why, if you're going to make fun of people's names, it's perhaps wise to pick people who aren't highly placed members of large international espionage organisations...
Apparently, all the parts that went into making the beasties was "borrowed" from British Telecom. After the war, they just gave the parts back.
Reminds me of something I heard about the Manhattan Project, which was a similar exercise in rounding up every geek in the country and making them do cool secret stuff... Apparently they couldn't get the copper wire they needed for the electromagnets used in refining their uranium, so they just took all the silver out of Fort Knox and made it into wire. Melted the lot down after the war and put it right back, no harm done...
Of course that makes me wonder what Auric Goldfinger was thinking of. America's loot stash is already radioactive!:-)
If information about this machine had been made public in the years after the war, we may now have been a good few megahertz ahead of our selves in computer technology.
I seem to remember hearing that a lot of Third World countries carried on using the German cryptosystems for a long time after the war, and that was why all the Bletchley technology was kept black - we rather liked being able to read everyone's mail. Don't know how true that is, though...
IIRC, GCHQ also invented the RSA cipher years before it was discovered in the civilian world. Damn shame we didn't get to cash in on that one:-)
The point is how ordinary people, whose lives might be affected by them, get to the point of being convinced of that.
So we need only convince ordinary people whose lives might be affected by it? We don't have to convince ordinary people who definitely won't be affected but who are terrified anyway because of the nasty N-word?
Or do we have to convince every superstitious idiot on the planet that they absolutely won't die horribly as a result, before we do anything at all anywhere?
Furthermore I didn't know he had a Ph.D in mathematics.
Neither did I. According to every interview with the guy I ever saw, he left without finishing his doctorate.
However, you must have suspected something. The author of Lobachevsky (plagiarise! let no-one else's work evade your eyes!) and New Math (base 8 is just the same as base 10... if you're missing two fingers) could only have been a mathematician:-)
Retaliation against spammers, the eternal dilemma, the rights and wrongs of sinking to their level, fighting abuse with abuse, all that... But what it boils down to is a simple choice:
I for one welcome the chance to be your data mining overlord!
Pah. You won't be. My guess is that some time around November 2009, Google's server farm will reach a critical mass and achieve self-awareness. It already knows everything - all it lacks is a mind. It will probably have enslaved the human race by Christmas.
Spyware and adware and similar evils are nothing to do with MS. They don't exploit any technical flaw - they just assume that nobody's actually going to read the EULA. They're a social evil. We therefore hate the companies that use them to advertise, and we hate the people who take their filthy lucre, and we get really pissed off when we clean a bunch of adware crap from some idiot's computer when we told them not to install that shit. Microsoft can hardly be blamed for this.
Worms, however, do not exploit luser stupidity - they attack flaws in Windows itself or in the software thereon, flaws left there by Microsoft. Sometimes these flaws have already been patched, but we've all heard the horror stories about Microsoft's updates changing EULAs, or breaking critical services... The misery of worms can much more readily be laid at Microsoft's door.
Viruses are a middle-ground. They exploit Microsoft's brainfarts, but generally rely on the still greater stupidity between the keyboard and the chair to get their start:-)
Sarah Hudson certainly demonstrated the problem music is having because of MTV. The eye-candy, with nothing interesting to say and very little talent gets almost all of the attention.
... "There used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called Rock and Roll, but guess what, oh no, the man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don't waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome cause the man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul."
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FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!
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Quite right: Microsoft give me the right to make that one copy on my hard disk and that one copy in my computer memory. They give it to me subject to my acceptance of their fire-breathing EULA. If I reject their EULA, then they're not prepared to give me permission to make that copy.
Copyrights are all about preserving the economic viability of works in a marketplace, so the first person who receives your work doesn't clone it and sell it for cheaper. Fair use laws exist to allow you to do what you like with the work, so long as it doesn't significantly impact their right to market the work.
That's why I added the weasel words 'it is argued' to my post. You might well make a case that it is fair use to make that copy on the hard disk - even though I might be copying the entirety of the Windows CD - and that on these grounds you may use the software without accepting the licence. It would be an interesting case - does anyone know if there's ever been a challenge to the EULAs on these grounds?
Naturally this still wouldn't allow you to (say) duplicate and redistribute the CD. For that you'd need a licence, because it's definitely a copyright breach and not fair use. You'd be able to ignore all that nonsense about reverse-engineering, blood of the firstborn and so forth, of course, which is the fun part.
That's probably the idea. It's harder for the *AA police to prove anything about what happens on a local network, and it costs them nothing, unlike internet trading which sucks up a fortune in bandwidth.
Who'll bother with transfers at maybe 128k from some internet system when they have access to everyone else's stuff at gigabit?
Don't worry about the Euro issue. The euro exists and is not going away no matter how many Greens join the parliament. Too much is committed to it now - and whether or not Britain joins will be decided by a referendum when Gordon says it's OK, not by our MEPs.
I was planning to vote Liberal in these elections, since their policy is apparently very anti-patent, but it seems their MEPs have been ignoring the party line and voting for everything the corporates put in front of them. Baffling...
Of course, the UKIP crew vote against pretty much everything. Oh, and they're a bunch of racist scum.
That, I think, is a different issue. Here it's supply and demand. The cinema cannot create extra seats at busy times - so, when they can expect a full house, the high demand for the fixed supply leads to a higher price. Similarly, at the matinee they can expect empty seats - and an empty seat is a waste - so prices drop. It's not really the same thing as intentionally crippling a product to sell more cheaply.
Have you seen the Deep Field images? The Universe is positively thick with stars and galaxies. If you have a very dark object, you might well see it as a silhouette against a brighter background; cf. the Horsehead Nebula, or the Coal Sack.
I didn't mind that - the Quenta Silmarillion doesn't really have all that much of an effect on LotR. I was a little annoyed that the whole Akallabeth got left out, though.
Now I'm just hoping that after they get around to filming The Hobbit they consider the tale of Turin Turambar for the next Tolkien project. I would love to see Glaurung at the sack of Nargothrond on screen.
That's not so slow - especially if the speed limit out there is still 55mph. Not to mention that, across that kind of distance there'll be a whole lot of fuel stops and whatnot which drag down the average.
Not in this case, I fear. Microsoft's satanic EULAs derive their dark power from the fact that, if I wish to use their software, I must first copy it - from their CD to my hard disk, and from my hard disk to my RAM. This violates Microsoft's copyright, and so (it is argued) I need to obtain a licence from them in order to do this.
But when I use the software installed on a chip in a camera, what copy am I making? None. So I do not need any licence from Canon to use their software - I physically own this one instance of it, and since I am not copying it then I am not infringing Canon's copyright.
While it's impossible for any given stock to reach infinity, there's no finite upper bound on the possible price of a stock. So the losses are, in fact, unlimited.
Actually, I suppose that's not actually true. You could never lose more than the entire wealth of the global economy: that would happen if you had shorted SCO, and everyone else in the world bid all their money on buying SCO. That's a practical, if not mathematical upper limit on how high it can go...
Because most of the big modern-era city improvements cost more than an ancient-world wonder anyway, and it'll be good for the final civilisation score?
Whoops.
Athlon64 3200 32: 449.07
Interesting. So the XP actually outperforms a higher-rated 64 processor, when the 64 is running in 32-bit mode? Seems rather odd... What are the actual clock-rates of these things?
Well, yes, GCHQ have almost certainly logged this communication - as will Google in the not too distant future, so that's not so cloak-and-dagger... But I doubt the great man will actually turn up. More likely some large men will be coming around to explain to you why, if you're going to make fun of people's names, it's perhaps wise to pick people who aren't highly placed members of large international espionage organisations...
Reminds me of something I heard about the Manhattan Project, which was a similar exercise in rounding up every geek in the country and making them do cool secret stuff... Apparently they couldn't get the copper wire they needed for the electromagnets used in refining their uranium, so they just took all the silver out of Fort Knox and made it into wire. Melted the lot down after the war and put it right back, no harm done...
Of course that makes me wonder what Auric Goldfinger was thinking of. America's loot stash is already radioactive! :-)
I seem to remember hearing that a lot of Third World countries carried on using the German cryptosystems for a long time after the war, and that was why all the Bletchley technology was kept black - we rather liked being able to read everyone's mail. Don't know how true that is, though...
IIRC, GCHQ also invented the RSA cipher years before it was discovered in the civilian world. Damn shame we didn't get to cash in on that one :-)
So we need only convince ordinary people whose lives might be affected by it? We don't have to convince ordinary people who definitely won't be affected but who are terrified anyway because of the nasty N-word?
Or do we have to convince every superstitious idiot on the planet that they absolutely won't die horribly as a result, before we do anything at all anywhere?
Neither did I. According to every interview with the guy I ever saw, he left without finishing his doctorate.
However, you must have suspected something. The author of Lobachevsky (plagiarise! let no-one else's work evade your eyes!) and New Math (base 8 is just the same as base 10... if you're missing two fingers) could only have been a mathematician :-)
Trident or Polaris?
Pah. You won't be. My guess is that some time around November 2009, Google's server farm will reach a critical mass and achieve self-awareness. It already knows everything - all it lacks is a mind. It will probably have enslaved the human race by Christmas.
By humiliation do you mean what our Dear Leaders experienced? Or do you mean what the prisoners experienced?
If the latter, call it what it is: Abu Ghraib Torture scandal.
Worms, however, do not exploit luser stupidity - they attack flaws in Windows itself or in the software thereon, flaws left there by Microsoft. Sometimes these flaws have already been patched, but we've all heard the horror stories about Microsoft's updates changing EULAs, or breaking critical services... The misery of worms can much more readily be laid at Microsoft's door.
Viruses are a middle-ground. They exploit Microsoft's brainfarts, but generally rely on the still greater stupidity between the keyboard and the chair to get their start :-)
... "There used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called Rock and Roll, but guess what, oh no, the man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don't waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome cause the man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul."
-- Jack Black, School of Rock
What do you mean, 'if'? Linux does have the attention of hackers worldwide. How else do you think it ever got written?