Other countries recognize intellectual property rights? What does that mean? Intellectual property is NOT a natural right and has never been considered as such by law. Under law, IP is an ARTIFICAL right set up to give only temporary rights for a limited time, and only so far as it PROMOTES the advancement of the arts/sciences. NOT promotes an economy. Again - NOT a natural right, but rather a temporary PRIVELEGE designed to promote advances... in this way not much different than enterprise zones, tax breaks, etc. As such, as an artifical construct, it is not something that we can say crosses political boundaries, as we can say human rights do.
What right do we have to demand that other countries fall in line with OUR economic or social development policies? Countries look after their own interests. in creating the temporary and artifical "intellectual property rights" we were looking after our interests - in IGNORING our policies, they may be looking after their own.
House of cards? You know what is a house of cards? Trying to base an entire nation's economy on this artificial "property" and then demanding that all other countries and cultures - often cultures where the entire concept is anathema, follow suit, play along and hand us their money simply because its what WE want.
"I often think that the RIAA is going to turn many novice computer users off from online purchasing altogether"
They would be ok with that. They aren't really the music industry, after all - they are the "distributing plastic discs" industry. With online purchasing dead they would hope people might buy plastic discs again.
Their business is distribution - yet they want to continue to exist even when distribution is no longer necessary, or at least what minor amount is necessary is now handled by the customer.
It's as if a trolley company wanted to stay in business after everyone started buying cars - the company sold off all its trolleys, sold off the rights-of-way, fired all the trolley conductors, but still wants you to pay them the fare every time you drive yourself in to work.
I have all those cards, but no company has my info. Of all the times I've gotten the card, only once has the vashier tried to get me to fill out the form on the spot - they usually just toss you the card and the form, trusting you to fill the form in later. I never do.
The one time the cashier DID wait for me to fill in the form, Mickey Mouse got signed up for a grocery store card.
I had an AIW that I fionally gave up on... it just wasn't worth the hassle to keep it running. After I installed it on my last system, it would work exactly once for a few minutes after doing a fresh install of the drivers... then turned to random bars. Uninstall all the drivers, reinstall (but watch that order!) and it would work again - for a few minutes.
I see. You're not saying a guy should be investigated because he exercised one of his constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. he should because he exercised TWO of them. That is damned suspicious!
He travelled overseas! And as we all know, since America is God's Bastion of Freedom and Liberty and Everything Good and Nothing Bad, and therefore since anywhere NOT the US is the exact opposite of this, i.e. Evil (because if you're not with us you're against us, there are no other ways to do things, no gray areas, everything is black and white) then that means anyone who would want to travel overseas must like them i.e. love them i.e. love evil.
Desktop does not refer to the start menu and file explorer. The desktop ever since the Mac was introduced refers to the default screen which was supposed to represent and resemble a desktop, with icons shaped like folders and pieces of paper to represent folder and documents laying on the desktop. See, that's why the CALLED it a desktop, because it was supposed to resemble one.
The file explorer and start menu are not the desktop any more than the mac's pull-down menus were called the dektop, because they were actually added to the interface later in development - they were a break from the metaphor because there was no other decent way to accomplish what they needed to do..
While these manu-based devices do have some limited graphics, they were not part of the desktop metaphor, and thats not what is meant by "desktop." The mac team was trying to be logical... if the main focus of the interface was a menu, and the part they thought was most important were the text menus, and the graphical metaphor they wanted to get across was that of menus, they would not have called it a "desktop." They obviously would have called it a banana.
They would have called it "menus."
The start menu and the file manager are a text-based list of items. They have slight graphical embellishments, but other than that are not different than the Newdos directory listing from my old TRS-80 in 1978. The are most certainly NOT the "desktop."
I dont think its likely that 3-D will do anything but make the experience worse. It would take some very smart design to make it useful. Bottom line is that essentially what 3-D does is add more visual information for your brain to have to process - even if you aren't thinking about it. Adding all of that stuff your brain has to process even if you think you're ignore it could only be good if the interface is some amazingly smart idea we've never seen before.
Desktops? I haven't even SEEN my windows XP desktop in months. I start programs from the start menu, and I look through my gazillions of files with File Explorer, modified with several add-ons and extensions to make it function smarter.
Graphics are better than command-line interface, but beyond that adding more rarely helps.
A man has been arrested for threatening Janie Dillard. Don't know who the fuck Janie Dillard is? Good. Now you're in the same boat as I am with regard to Jack fucking Thompson.
Why am I assumed to know who the hell this guy is? A few words in the summary could have made it a bit more clear.
Why are you surprised? He was behaving EXACTLY like a preacher.
90% of what passes for "preaching" in this country is vile, hate-filled speech. Robertson, Dobson and their ilk spend the majority of their time instructing their minions on who to HATE. gays, liberals, etc. For their followers, religion is not a philosphy about how to do good - it's a club you join so you can feel better about yourself because you're better than those fags/commies/heathens.
Now, you may say Robertson and Dobson and the like are extremists. Perhaps. but even mainstream christian faiths say that if you don't believe in their mythology, you'll go to hell.
Don't believe their BS, and you will suffer the ultimate torture for ETERNITY, and you will DESERVE it. THAT is hateful, vile, disgusting - and apart from perhaps the unitarians, its standard.
So he said "big fat faces" The Horror!! Tell you what - take a statement about 20 times that harsh. Have millions of people say it instead of just one. Keep it up for, say, 2000 years. Toss in a bunch of killings, and top it off with "Christians are Fucking Stupid" printed on all the money. After THAT, maybe, just maybe, things will be close to even and the poor christians can start to feel offended.
Seriously though... thini about it. Sony likes things to be nice and proprietary.
If they make this work they will structure it so it is only usable in their products, they won't allow others to use their patent, and it will be at best a marginal product like memory sticks.
I once saw someone call Bush a genius. Apparently this comment comes from the same alternate universe, where the word insightful is a synonym for "fucking idiotic." As others have said, antarctica used to be in the fucking TROPICS.
Are you arguing that if a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, the laws of physics change so that it doesn't cause the air molecules nearby to vibrate?
I always wished someone would ask me that old question, because I have the perfect answer and I've never heard anyone use it.
The answer depends on how you define "sound." Do you define sound as the movement of air molecules? If so, then yes, the tree makes a sound.
Some might say that is a bad definition of sound though, since air molecules are always moving everywhere, etc...
You could define sound as the sensation experienced by a living organism that has some mechanism for the detection of the motion of air molecules, or as the effect of air molecules impacting a tympanic membrane, etc... and if you do, then the answer is no, the tree does NOT make a sound.
I appreciate your point of view, though I have to say I prefer slashdot as it is now... I can find hardcore tech stuff when I want it, though I find I'm wanting it less and less as I age and lose brain cells...
What I do find useful and unique about/. is the political stuff - politics as it affects/is affected by tech, which is actually HARD to find on the net elsewhere. Plenty of "Bush is Hitler" or "Ann Coulter is a MAN!" stuff, but not much out there where people are thinking about how policy is changing or should be changed in a more technically advanced society.
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We'll just have to annex Ecuador. Hey - bin laden is probably hiding there! yeah, that's the ticket!
Other countries recognize intellectual property rights? What does that mean? Intellectual property is NOT a natural right and has never been considered as such by law. Under law, IP is an ARTIFICAL right set up to give only temporary rights for a limited time, and only so far as it PROMOTES the advancement of the arts/sciences. NOT promotes an economy.
Again - NOT a natural right, but rather a temporary PRIVELEGE designed to promote advances... in this way not much different than enterprise zones, tax breaks, etc. As such, as an artifical construct, it is not something that we can say crosses political boundaries, as we can say human rights do.
What right do we have to demand that other countries fall in line with OUR economic or social development policies? Countries look after their own interests. in creating the temporary and artifical "intellectual property rights" we were looking after our interests - in IGNORING our policies, they may be looking after their own.
House of cards? You know what is a house of cards? Trying to base an entire nation's economy on this artificial "property" and then demanding that all other countries and cultures - often cultures where the entire concept is anathema, follow suit, play along and hand us their money simply because its what WE want.
This is just one of those dot com bubble idead being trotted out again.
Remember Swapit.com?
No?
Neither does anyone else. They had the same business model.
They would be ok with that. They aren't really the music industry, after all - they are the "distributing plastic discs" industry. With online purchasing dead they would hope people might buy plastic discs again.
Their business is distribution - yet they want to continue to exist even when distribution is no longer necessary, or at least what minor amount is necessary is now handled by the customer. It's as if a trolley company wanted to stay in business after everyone started buying cars - the company sold off all its trolleys, sold off the rights-of-way, fired all the trolley conductors, but still wants you to pay them the fare every time you drive yourself in to work.
I have all those cards, but no company has my info.
Of all the times I've gotten the card, only once has the vashier tried to get me to fill out the form on the spot - they usually just toss you the card and the form, trusting you to fill the form in later. I never do.
The one time the cashier DID wait for me to fill in the form, Mickey Mouse got signed up for a grocery store card.
What, no TURKEY? No FISH?
(and no bison - which I found kind of borking, frankly.)
:D
I had an AIW that I fionally gave up on... it just wasn't worth the hassle to keep it running. After I installed it on my last system, it would work exactly once for a few minutes after doing a fresh install of the drivers... then turned to random bars. Uninstall all the drivers, reinstall (but watch that order!) and it would work again - for a few minutes.
No more ATI for me.
Google scallop eyes.
also, you need to embellish - the radiation adversely effects the robot's "brain," turning it evil - it then tries to conquer Poughkeepsie.
:) no text!
I see. You're not saying a guy should be investigated because he exercised one of his constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. he should because he exercised TWO of them.
That is damned suspicious!
He travelled overseas! And as we all know, since America is God's Bastion of Freedom and Liberty and Everything Good and Nothing Bad, and therefore since anywhere NOT the US is the exact opposite of this, i.e. Evil (because if you're not with us you're against us, there are no other ways to do things, no gray areas, everything is black and white) then that means anyone who would want to travel overseas must like them i.e. love them i.e. love evil.
String him up!
of course I've used control/alt/function.
Desktop does not refer to the start menu and file explorer. The desktop ever since the Mac was introduced refers to the default screen which was supposed to represent and resemble a desktop, with icons shaped like folders and pieces of paper to represent folder and documents laying on the desktop. See, that's why the CALLED it a desktop, because it was supposed to resemble one.
The file explorer and start menu are not the desktop any more than the mac's pull-down menus were called the dektop, because they were actually added to the interface later in development - they were a break from the metaphor because there was no other decent way to accomplish what they needed to do..
While these manu-based devices do have some limited graphics, they were not part of the desktop metaphor, and thats not what is meant by "desktop." The mac team was trying to be logical... if the main focus of the interface was a menu, and the part they thought was most important were the text menus, and the graphical metaphor they wanted to get across was that of menus, they would not have called it a "desktop." They obviously would have called it a banana.
They would have called it "menus."
The start menu and the file manager are a text-based list of items. They have slight graphical embellishments, but other than that are not different than the Newdos directory listing from my old TRS-80 in 1978. The are most certainly NOT the "desktop."
I dont think its likely that 3-D will do anything but make the experience worse. It would take some very smart design to make it useful.
Bottom line is that essentially what 3-D does is add more visual information for your brain to have to process - even if you aren't thinking about it. Adding all of that stuff your brain has to process even if you think you're ignore it could only be good if the interface is some amazingly smart idea we've never seen before.
Desktops? I haven't even SEEN my windows XP desktop in months. I start programs from the start menu, and I look through my gazillions of files with File Explorer, modified with several add-ons and extensions to make it function smarter.
Graphics are better than command-line interface, but beyond that adding more rarely helps.
A man has been arrested for threatening Janie Dillard.
Don't know who the fuck Janie Dillard is? Good. Now you're in the same boat as I am with regard to Jack fucking Thompson.
Why am I assumed to know who the hell this guy is? A few words in the summary could have made it a bit more clear.
Why are you surprised? He was behaving EXACTLY like a preacher.
90% of what passes for "preaching" in this country is vile, hate-filled speech. Robertson, Dobson and their ilk spend the majority of their time instructing their minions on who to HATE. gays, liberals, etc. For their followers, religion is not a philosphy about how to do good - it's a club you join so you can feel better about yourself because you're better than those fags/commies/heathens.
Now, you may say Robertson and Dobson and the like are extremists. Perhaps. but even mainstream christian faiths say that if you don't believe in their mythology, you'll go to hell.
Don't believe their BS, and you will suffer the ultimate torture for ETERNITY, and you will DESERVE it.
THAT is hateful, vile, disgusting - and apart from perhaps the unitarians, its standard.
So he said "big fat faces" The Horror!!
Tell you what - take a statement about 20 times that harsh. Have millions of people say it instead of just one. Keep it up for, say, 2000 years. Toss in a bunch of killings, and top it off with "Christians are Fucking Stupid" printed on all the money. After THAT, maybe, just maybe, things will be close to even and the poor christians can start to feel offended.
Save them, and in a few years when you're found guilty of price fixing, send them all to libraries as part of the settlement.
"The owner of godaddy seems like a real standup guy"
Wasn't he the one who posted a rabid rant applauding the use of torture? (my apologies if i have the wrong guy)
His TV commercials are also disgustingly sexist. While not related to service, in my book this is not a stand-up guy.
For the best satire about this sort of thing, read Phl and Kornbluth'd "The Space Merchants."
Written in the 1950s, it still on the mark.
This is the first tactic I use when trying to identify a song.
The cryosphere is crying. :(
Seriously though... thini about it. Sony likes things to be nice and proprietary. If they make this work they will structure it so it is only usable in their products, they won't allow others to use their patent, and it will be at best a marginal product like memory sticks.
I once saw someone call Bush a genius. Apparently this comment comes from the same alternate universe, where the word insightful is a synonym for "fucking idiotic."
As others have said, antarctica used to be in the fucking TROPICS.
Jesus fucking christ.
I always wished someone would ask me that old question, because I have the perfect answer and I've never heard anyone use it.
The answer depends on how you define "sound." Do you define sound as the movement of air molecules? If so, then yes, the tree makes a sound. Some might say that is a bad definition of sound though, since air molecules are always moving everywhere, etc...
You could define sound as the sensation experienced by a living organism that has some mechanism for the detection of the motion of air molecules, or as the effect of air molecules impacting a tympanic membrane, etc... and if you do, then the answer is no, the tree does NOT make a sound.
Thank you. :)
I appreciate your point of view, though I have to say I prefer slashdot as it is now...
/. is the political stuff - politics as it affects/is affected by tech, which is actually HARD to find on the net elsewhere. Plenty of "Bush is Hitler" or "Ann Coulter is a MAN!" stuff, but not much out there where people are thinking about how policy is changing or should be changed in a more technically advanced society.
I can find hardcore tech stuff when I want it, though I find I'm wanting it less and less as I age and lose brain cells...
What I do find useful and unique about