Yeah, and look at how no-one EVER plays chess any more. Its so old, no inovation, no new peices or moves.
Yet somehow, people still buy chess-sets. And packs of cards. And footballs.
OK, there are some genres (or combination of) that you can crowbar just about any idea into. The massively popular The Sims is just a person simulator, and we've had simulators for years. I mea, its merely a progression from Sim City. Where's the innovation in that? Combat Flight Sim iss just a flight sim with guns. Nothing to see here. Civilisation? Ah, that looks like Strategy. Move Along. Sid Meirs' Pirates? Sim. No, adventure. No, strategy. DanceDanceRevolution, we can put that in Sport. Or Sim. If you're going to pre-define your Labels, we can crowbar any new idea into them.
Point: There are some popular genres. And it takes more than a glance over the Top Ten Sellers to find Real Innovation. But it is still there. Come back to me in 10 years and see if we lok back on the 200x's as "The Decade That Computer Games Died". £10 says we'll still be playing. And probably playing a lot of FPS, RTS, sim and sports games. and also some new stuff.
How can a Tarrif on a Legal Purchase be considered to compensate for my Non-Purchase? If the music Industry wish to raise their prices, that is one thing, but to call it a Tarrif On Downloading just stinks. This has nothing to do with blank-media tarrifs. This is a pre-recorded-media Tarrif.
Taking in to account the replies you have already received.... The people reading this forum are (supposedly) technically competant, well educated, free-thinking people with above average mental skills and analytical minds.
This is not the case for most of the population. You are correct that most people buy things without even knowing why. They recognise the name. The comapny can afford prime-time TV adverts, and a big company like that would not stoop to underhand methods... must be safe to buy.
If i request to view a website by sending my browser to a URL, the webserver will send me code. My browser will then interpret that code and produce a display. Who has control over that final display? The webmaster designs his code so that it can display as he wants it to look. I can set my browser to render it how I want it to look. (CSS can do wonderful things these days. Also consider hard-of-sight, hard-of-hearing). If I choose to render the code in a different manner than the webmaster intended, am I breaking some sort of social contract? If i view a page in a text-only browser, I can;t see your flash-ads, or banners etc. Is this wrong of me? The webmaster is free to serve pretty much any code ( so long as it's not pushing trojans, phishing etc - but lets not go there today). I am free to render that code in any fashion I please. I may not even view it at all, but save the code for later, or just take a look at the META tags and headers.
In All - stop telling me what I can do at my end of the line. Your right to serve ads stops at the entrance to my property.
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By reading this, you have agreed to send me $1. By your computer parsing this, you agree to sned me $10
Some magazines are delivered for free because they are completely ad-supported...
I receive several of these. I usually manage to read the front-cover story between my letterbox and the recycling bin. Have I "boken a social contract" or "stolen their content" or any of the other phrases being used to mean "not read and fallen for our adverts". ?
It is the advertisers who are breaking the social contract. The internet was free, open and not filled with junk (sorry, ads). This was how people wanted it and how people expected it to be. Then along came Big Business and put adverts all over it. MY bandwidth was taken up downloading thier ads. My connection slowed down because of all the unsolicited high-memory adverts bundled with the content I requested. So, where is my compensation (to cover higher bandwidth needed, extra software/plugins, spam-blocking, ad-blocking etc) ?
If anyone broke a not-actually-agreed-to-by-anyone contract, then it was the advertisers.
It seems as though you don't come into contact with Users much. "...Everybody can figure out how to save a file or do simple tasks even if they've never seen the app before because they generally have the same basic UI...."
Not true. partly, they do NOT have the same basic interface (Windows Media Player, NeroStartSmart, Ad-Aware, and more). And people are NOT confident enough to even look for the same settings in different programs. They can master Word, but put them in front of FrontPage and they run for the hills.
OK, IMHO OS X is superior to any form of linux. IMHO, OS X will perform all the tasks I want, and is already installed.
Therefore, any article expressing a way of NOT using OS X on a mini-mac is a waste of everybody's time and effort. Why would a tech-site like Slashdot be publishing ways of altering your computer to be more to your own liking, when I say that OS X is already as good as computer systems will ever be?
"Not only are we changing the rules, we are changing them retroactively. "
Can someone explain this please? It sounds as though he wants to change the GPL liscence agreement, and then apply the new rules to existing agreements. Surely this is not allowed? Have I misunderstood, and if so, can somebody please enlighten me
A 14yr old who lies about their age should be treated as an adult?
I thought the whole point of the age-of-consent laws was that a child under that age was not capable of giving informed consent. Can a suspected child-abuser get away by saying "they said they were over 16" ? Maybe if they supplied the child with a fake ID, and convinced the child to cerry it, and say it was the childs idea?
On your point of traffic cameras, most people do not dispute the fines because they know damn well that if they weren;t breaking the law at the particualr moment the picture was taken, they definately were along most of the rest of their journey. People will drive fast to get to work and get paid enough to cover the fine.
Edit: and also, if this release is actually open source, then Bill is part of the OSS community, so yes, a great example is Bill Gates releasing anti-kiddy-porn software.
Hmmm... Google:Define: Philanthropy Philanthropy is defined in different ways. The origin of the word philanthropy is Greek and means love for mankind. Today, philanthropy includes the concept of voluntary giving by an individual or group to promote the common good.
what about... Releasing ones software to the community free of charge, free of restrictions, in an open format?
"Presumably you have spent / will spend money and time to go learn to drive a car? So what's the difference?"
The difference is that it is a legal requirement to learn to drive if you wish to be on public roads. Thre is no such requirements for computer/internet use.
One of the major points of this article was phishing scams (fake email pretending to be from a legitimate source in an attempt to gain your personal/security details). Is the Mac immune to such attacks?
Having never used a mac for email I do not know how its mail clients deal with such things. I do know that if people get an email saying "Your account has been hacked - Click Here to re-secure your account" then they will follow it. How does a Mac protect against this?
"According to Jim Strovink, a sheriff's office spokesman, Gray would check out books, then tap into the library computer system and record them as returned."
IANAL, but that sure sounds like stealing to me.
The answers to your questiones are easily found by clicking the link to the Page that has much of the information on it.
This is nothing like the RIAA. This is a man stealing books and selling them.
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"not what people might think of as 'stolen goods' "...
just goods that do not belong to them, being sold with no intention of passing any of the sales price to the owner of the goods...
ok, IANAL, but surely most people realise that taking something that is not yours, selling it and keeping the money is stealing? I agree that it may, in some people's eyes, be too small an infraction to be prosecuted for (one book, the odd army hat), but this does not mean it is not stealing. Epsecially if it is done with the express purpose of selling for personal profit.
To be issued with an Army Hat and keep it at home for years, then think "Oh, they've probably written it off now, i don;t want it, I wonder if I can get a few $ for it on EBay?" is quite different from wandering into the Army Stores thinking "I wonder which items I can get most for on EBay? "
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Yeah, and look at how no-one EVER plays chess any more. Its so old, no inovation, no new peices or moves.
Yet somehow, people still buy chess-sets. And packs of cards. And footballs.
OK, there are some genres (or combination of) that you can crowbar just about any idea into. The massively popular The Sims is just a person simulator, and we've had simulators for years. I mea, its merely a progression from Sim City. Where's the innovation in that? Combat Flight Sim iss just a flight sim with guns. Nothing to see here. Civilisation? Ah, that looks like Strategy. Move Along. Sid Meirs' Pirates? Sim. No, adventure. No, strategy. DanceDanceRevolution, we can put that in Sport. Or Sim. If you're going to pre-define your Labels, we can crowbar any new idea into them.
Point: There are some popular genres. And it takes more than a glance over the Top Ten Sellers to find Real Innovation. But it is still there. Come back to me in 10 years and see if we lok back on the 200x's as "The Decade That Computer Games Died". £10 says we'll still be playing. And probably playing a lot of FPS, RTS, sim and sports games. and also some new stuff.
www.irony.com
They have sevearl web-based apps and links to some perl scripts and other little files (Some GPL, some not).
Definately worth a look.
How about trying to get it on the front page of a Big news agregator?
Should get you a few hits, but your server could take a 'bigNewsAgregatoring'
How can a Tarrif on a Legal Purchase be considered to compensate for my Non-Purchase?
If the music Industry wish to raise their prices, that is one thing, but to call it a Tarrif On Downloading just stinks.
This has nothing to do with blank-media tarrifs. This is a pre-recorded-media Tarrif.
Taking in to account the replies you have already received ....
... must be safe to buy.
The people reading this forum are (supposedly) technically competant, well educated, free-thinking people with above average mental skills and analytical minds.
This is not the case for most of the population.
You are correct that most people buy things without even knowing why. They recognise the name. The comapny can afford prime-time TV adverts, and a big company like that would not stoop to underhand methods
If i request to view a website by sending my browser to a URL, the webserver will send me code. My browser will then interpret that code and produce a display.
Who has control over that final display?
The webmaster designs his code so that it can display as he wants it to look.
I can set my browser to render it how I want it to look. (CSS can do wonderful things these days. Also consider hard-of-sight, hard-of-hearing).
If I choose to render the code in a different manner than the webmaster intended, am I breaking some sort of social contract?
If i view a page in a text-only browser, I can;t see your flash-ads, or banners etc. Is this wrong of me?
The webmaster is free to serve pretty much any code ( so long as it's not pushing trojans, phishing etc - but lets not go there today).
I am free to render that code in any fashion I please. I may not even view it at all, but save the code for later, or just take a look at the META tags and headers.
In All - stop telling me what I can do at my end of the line. Your right to serve ads stops at the entrance to my property.
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By reading this, you have agreed to send me $1.
By your computer parsing this, you agree to sned me $10
Some magazines are delivered for free because they are completely ad-supported...
I receive several of these.
I usually manage to read the front-cover story between my letterbox and the recycling bin.
Have I "boken a social contract" or "stolen their content" or any of the other phrases being used to mean "not read and fallen for our adverts". ?
It is the advertisers who are breaking the social contract.
The internet was free, open and not filled with junk (sorry, ads). This was how people wanted it and how people expected it to be.
Then along came Big Business and put adverts all over it.
MY bandwidth was taken up downloading thier ads. My connection slowed down because of all the unsolicited high-memory adverts bundled with the content I requested.
So, where is my compensation (to cover higher bandwidth needed, extra software/plugins, spam-blocking, ad-blocking etc) ?
If anyone broke a not-actually-agreed-to-by-anyone contract, then it was the advertisers.
It seems as though you don't come into contact with Users much. ...Everybody can figure out how to save a file or do simple tasks even if they've never seen the app before because they generally have the same basic UI. ..."
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Not true. partly, they do NOT have the same basic interface (Windows Media Player, NeroStartSmart, Ad-Aware, and more). And people are NOT confident enough to even look for the same settings in different programs. They can master Word, but put them in front of FrontPage and they run for the hills.
"Survey finds Results it Expected"
Shock.
Can we see the survey?
What actual questions are asked?
It is very easy to weight a survey towards a prefered result. A good one on "Yes, Minister" about National Service.
Without context, all these results say is that the population surveyed is willing to answer questions and can be manipulated by survey-writers.
OK, IMHO OS X is superior to any form of linux.
IMHO, OS X will perform all the tasks I want, and is already installed.
Therefore, any article expressing a way of NOT using OS X on a mini-mac is a waste of everybody's time and effort. Why would a tech-site like Slashdot be publishing ways of altering your computer to be more to your own liking, when I say that OS X is already as good as computer systems will ever be?
Your opinion is irrelevant.
I have spoken.
well, apart from me, most of my friends, several of my customers and a reasonably large online community, I suppose I don;t know anyone ...
Colonisation, Masters Of Magic and Settlers (1) are my current favourites.
"Not only are we changing the rules, we are changing them retroactively. "
Can someone explain this please?
It sounds as though he wants to change the GPL liscence agreement, and then apply the new rules to existing agreements.
Surely this is not allowed?
Have I misunderstood, and if so, can somebody please enlighten me
...we especially could care less about rebates ...
So you do care more? You care about rebates.
Could care less==do care more.
do not care== could NOT care less.
A 14yr old who lies about their age should be treated as an adult?
I thought the whole point of the age-of-consent laws was that a child under that age was not capable of giving informed consent.
Can a suspected child-abuser get away by saying "they said they were over 16" ? Maybe if they supplied the child with a fake ID, and convinced the child to cerry it, and say it was the childs idea?
On your point of traffic cameras, most people do not dispute the fines because they know damn well that if they weren;t breaking the law at the particualr moment the picture was taken, they definately were along most of the rest of their journey. People will drive fast to get to work and get paid enough to cover the fine.
Are these "new versions" GPL also? If so, how can they impose such restrictions legally?
Edit:
and also, if this release is actually open source, then Bill is part of the OSS community, so yes, a great example is Bill Gates releasing anti-kiddy-porn software.
Hmmm ...
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Google:Define: Philanthropy
Philanthropy is defined in different ways. The origin of the word philanthropy is Greek and means love for mankind. Today, philanthropy includes the concept of voluntary giving by an individual or group to promote the common good.
what about
Releasing ones software to the community free of charge, free of restrictions, in an open format?
"Presumably you have spent / will spend money and time to go learn to drive a car? So what's the difference?"
The difference is that it is a legal requirement to learn to drive if you wish to be on public roads. Thre is no such requirements for computer/internet use.
One of the major points of this article was phishing scams (fake email pretending to be from a legitimate source in an attempt to gain your personal/security details).
Is the Mac immune to such attacks?
Having never used a mac for email I do not know how its mail clients deal with such things.
I do know that if people get an email saying "Your account has been hacked - Click Here to re-secure your account" then they will follow it.
How does a Mac protect against this?
you imply that Democrats ARE interested in the whole truth and rational discusions.
Personally, I would replace your "republican" with "politician".
I see your point.
Yes, this is not the "usual" way of stealing, but at the point where he registered the book as returned, yet still kept it, I consider it stealing.
"According to Jim Strovink, a sheriff's office spokesman, Gray would check out books, then tap into the library computer system and record them as returned."
IANAL, but that sure sounds like stealing to me.
The answers to your questiones are easily found by clicking the link to the Page that has much of the information on it.
This is nothing like the RIAA. This is a man stealing books and selling them.
"not what people might think of as 'stolen goods' " ...
just goods that do not belong to them, being sold with no intention of passing any of the sales price to the owner of the goods...
ok, IANAL, but surely most people realise that taking something that is not yours, selling it and keeping the money is stealing?
I agree that it may, in some people's eyes, be too small an infraction to be prosecuted for (one book, the odd army hat), but this does not mean it is not stealing.
Epsecially if it is done with the express purpose of selling for personal profit.
To be issued with an Army Hat and keep it at home for years, then think "Oh, they've probably written it off now, i don;t want it, I wonder if I can get a few $ for it on EBay?" is quite different from wandering into the Army Stores thinking "I wonder which items I can get most for on EBay? "
Indeed Sir, You are correct.
No murders have been commited since the first implimentation of the Death Penalty.