Or, it could be said that since your keyboard, which has a microprocessor in it, and also your hard drive, are both connected to the CPU that is attached to your computer, which is connected to the Internet through an ISP, that you've attached multiple machines to the network, even when you only have one 'computer' connected. Or is it the embedded controller in your modem or on your ethernet card that is connected and hence your main CPU is in violation of the 'one machine' rule??
The People and The Press are the only entities guaranteed freedom of speech?
Hmmm, I have this feeling that a lot of corporations own printing presses. Goodness gracious, it even seems that most news organizations are incorporated!
I guess we could ban all news dissemenation that doesn't travel over a peer-to-peer common carrier form of medium.
Journalism could be taught at the 4th grade level, since it would become a core knowledge thing, and not a 'profession.'
However, that isn't how things are today. Don't you think your utopian constructs are a little ridiculous?
Every time you buy a Disney product, you're buying a share in the entity called Disney. Not necessarily a voting share (although if enough people don't buy a particular DVD their 'vote' is clearly heard down at Disney headquarters), but a share nonetheless.
So all you Disney haters are up against a bigger 'foe' than you thought. People largely like the Disney product line. What do you have except rhetoric to compete against it?
Sorry. The rocket scientist is just burning up resources, in fact he's burning up MORE resources than the WalMart employee.
Put it this way: If we wait a hundred years before doing a lot more space exploration it will still be out there. Right now we're creating a huge belt of space junk ringing the planet. For a parallel example, think about what we'd have left if infinite funding had been provided to primative archaeologists around the year 1900 to excavate the Egyptian ruins. They burned and/or sold for fertilizer literally tons of cat mummies they excavated back then, because they were 'unimportant.' If they'd dug it ALL up we'd have jack shit to explore now with our better methods.
Ultimately, 'science funding' is about people ('scientists') who are too chickenshit to get off the damn campus and enter real life. Waiting a few generations to proceed with exploration will ruin their plans for a new powerboat to soar around the lake on, but it won't stop knowledge from slowly rolling forward.
I'd not weep to hear the whole bunch at NASA had been fired. Outer Space isn't going anywhere, and the 'urge' to explore is more like a sex drive than an imparative to seek out knowledge.
Why should we trust an entrenched bureaucracy to do 'good science'?
The 'good science' of the past was done by people who did it out of the spirit of discovery, not because their Union Settlement guaranteed a 4% pay raise each year. Not because the funding for their project came in smoothly yet again.
People who think 'science' would just wither away if the government wasn't regularly seeding the field with our tax dollars understands little about the history of science.
Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" has been stolen from so many libraries and official 'repositories' that it hasn't survived as a work people are able to get access too, outside rare collectors-item markets.
Since it's stolen primarily by people who are in those brief years of rebellion, those years during which they're living in rooms with disposable furniture from mom & dad pretending to be anarchists, etc. etc., most of the stolen copies of the book eventually are discarded with all the aluminum pots and pans and castoff furniture..
Copyright laws establish property rights. Once property rights have been established, theft becomes a possibility, so laws regarding theft become enforceable.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
How is some drivel pop music that Dr. Dre produces, or a few riffs of drivel pop music that he steals, the 'promotion of Progress of Science and useful Arts'???
Seems to me that progress isn't stopped, or even slowed down, by many copyrighted works being secured for 'non-limited Times' or by 'limited Times' at all. So either can be granted by congress (limited or unlimited time spans), and neither is unconstitutional. Now, if it were more than artistic expression, if it were an actual useful art it would be different.
The Scientific Method is a marvelous invention of humanity. However, it shouldn't be confused with the 'Job Security for Lardbutts Method' which many people mix in liberally with the former. Tenure, political correctness, grantsmanship, cronyism, and all the cancers of eliteism that infect most Academic Institutions these days are examples of the latter.
Much of Academia does NOT follow a Scientific Method, they give lip service to it, while they roll around in the feedlot provided for those who never, ever, leave school.
Fifteen years ago a 'cracker' was somebody who 'cracked' copy protected software, mostly games. This sort of person would step by hand through a computer game, find the bits of code that required copy protection, and put in NOPs or jumps over the blocks imposing the protection.
But the revisionist historians, i.e. the people maintaining the Jargon File, seem to miss this point, as they were snorting in derision at PC software back in that era, and totally missed out on the real 'crackers' of the period.
That's an 'old school' computer scientist. He probably hearkens back to the day when the 'Operator' was god, everybody was stuck out on dumb terminals with no chance at all of ever coming within five feet of the machine running the actual code.
His current disciples are the people advocating 'thin clients' and 'X terminals' and various other throwbacks to the dark ages of computing, and the inherent priesthood.
Thank goodness the common man won't stand for that ever again, and men dressed like him are treated as the freaks of history that they are.
It's disappointing that anybody treats the Science Fiction genre as something that goes 'out of print.' That implies shopping only at new bookstores, and that is a serious error. Much of the great SF writing out there is only obtainable through used bookstores. This seems to have almost always been the case with authors like Harlan Ellison. Some of the better SF bookstores (i.e. Dreamhaven in Minneapolis) mix out-of-print classics in with the new books on the shelf because of this. It's disappointing to think that there are SF readers out there with a 'new book only' mentality.
The last time I spent $800 all at once on my PC was when I bought a 486 motherboard with processor and 16 megs of RAM. That whole bundle cost me $1200. I've never since spent that much money on an incremental upgrade.
I can understand how if you deal in closed-architecture products from a single-source vendor, you'd be used to a $1000+ ream job at every upgrade. 'The Rest Of Us' (tm) aren't that kind of suckers.
Microsoft had much the same problem with Windows For Workgroups 3.11 and Office 4.3. It was really the best-offering they had ever had and a lot of businesses standardized on it for far longer than Microsoft wanted. It took Novell coming in with a client that basically cored out the Windows95 networking mess for many business units to upgrade out of WfW 3.11. And for most business uses, Office 4.3 is STILL good enough. The 8.3 filename limits are really one of the only feature limits for most usage.
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Nobody at all was behind Microchannel. It was hated, along with OS/2, by all the traditional PC-heads. We viewed it, correctly, as IBM trying to close the architecture, put the genie back into the bottle, because they couldn't control the clone market.
You won't find a history of anybody except for IBM shills and apologists who championed MCA when the PS/2 came out. It had it's technical merits, but it was a closed architecture, and people figured that out almost immediately.
Also noteworthy is that until a few years ago there was no MCA support in Linux. A PS/2 box with MCA was basically plastic and metal scrap to Linux enthusiasts.
I love how the girl case, through all the steps of construction, seems to have an unfinished bracket area down at the crotch. Even when completed (?) and at some sort of show display, it's still just a drive mounting bracket of some sort.
It's maybe somewhat good to see somebody doesn't spend all their time at porn sites revealing great mysteries they'll never see in person, but come on, guys. Take at least a peek sometime. It's not the expansion slot you seem to think it is....
My first CD-ROM was a 1x Sound Blaster Upgrade kit deal (way overpriced) that included: A 1x cdrom drive, a Sound Blaster Pro (8 bit) with CD interface. The CDROMs that came with the package were all hoopala-hoopala about MPC (multimedia PC thing) and included on one of the CD's was a full version of Windows 3.1.
It definitely wasn't one of the 'first' CD-ROM drives, but it was a 1x drive that carried an over $400 price tag.
The Music Industry knows that Jobs is a slippery weasel, and that they'll be able to do business with him long term. He proved his 'business sense' in the way that they needed when he pulled the rug out from beneath the Mac Clone manufacturers.
I am typing this on a Pentium II 233 machine. I have NetBSD running over there on a Pentium Pro 200 and the NFS server is a Pentium 90. I have several faster machines, too, but what's with the name calling as if the 'geeks' all have the latest multi-gigahertz machines?? My fastest Sparc box is 166 MHz, but it's 64 bit.
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When IBM released OS/2 and the PS/2 it was in collaboration with Microsoft. In case you've never looked, there's this thing called Microsoft OS/2 1.x out there. And there was a long period during which Microsoft's development tools were all dual targeted at DOS and OS/2. I have a version of MASM that has a seperate diskette for the OS/2 stuff. The 'anti-Microsoft' thrust of OS/2 came later after Microsoft decided OS/2 was a loser and forked the code to come out with NT. And even then Microsoft included an OS/2 1.0 subsystem on NT.
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Or, it could be said that since your keyboard, which has a microprocessor in it, and also your hard drive, are both connected to the CPU that is attached to your computer, which is connected to the Internet through an ISP, that you've attached multiple machines to the network, even when you only have one 'computer' connected. Or is it the embedded controller in your modem or on your ethernet card that is connected and hence your main CPU is in violation of the 'one machine' rule??
The People and The Press are the only entities guaranteed freedom of speech?
Hmmm, I have this feeling that a lot of corporations own printing presses. Goodness gracious, it even seems that most news organizations are incorporated!
I guess we could ban all news dissemenation that doesn't travel over a peer-to-peer common carrier form of medium.
Journalism could be taught at the 4th grade level, since it would become a core knowledge thing, and not a 'profession.'
However, that isn't how things are today. Don't you think your utopian constructs are a little ridiculous?
Every time you buy a Disney product, you're buying a share in the entity called Disney. Not necessarily a voting share (although if enough people don't buy a particular DVD their 'vote' is clearly heard down at Disney headquarters), but a share nonetheless.
So all you Disney haters are up against a bigger 'foe' than you thought. People largely like the Disney product line. What do you have except rhetoric to compete against it?
Ummm, dude, you're quoting an actor in a Science Fiction television program.
Sorry. The rocket scientist is just burning up resources, in fact he's burning up MORE resources than the WalMart employee.
Put it this way: If we wait a hundred years before doing a lot more space exploration it will still be out there. Right now we're creating a huge belt of space junk ringing the planet. For a parallel example, think about what we'd have left if infinite funding had been provided to primative archaeologists around the year 1900 to excavate the Egyptian ruins. They burned and/or sold for fertilizer literally tons of cat mummies they excavated back then, because they were 'unimportant.' If they'd dug it ALL up we'd have jack shit to explore now with our better methods.
Ultimately, 'science funding' is about people ('scientists') who are too chickenshit to get off the damn campus and enter real life. Waiting a few generations to proceed with exploration will ruin their plans for a new powerboat to soar around the lake on, but it won't stop knowledge from slowly rolling forward.
I'd not weep to hear the whole bunch at NASA had been fired. Outer Space isn't going anywhere, and the 'urge' to explore is more like a sex drive than an imparative to seek out knowledge.
Why should we trust an entrenched bureaucracy to do 'good science'?
The 'good science' of the past was done by people who did it out of the spirit of discovery, not because their Union Settlement guaranteed a 4% pay raise each year. Not because the funding for their project came in smoothly yet again.
People who think 'science' would just wither away if the government wasn't regularly seeding the field with our tax dollars understands little about the history of science.
Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" has been stolen from so many libraries and official 'repositories' that it hasn't survived as a work people are able to get access too, outside rare collectors-item markets.
Since it's stolen primarily by people who are in those brief years of rebellion, those years during which they're living in rooms with disposable furniture from mom & dad pretending to be anarchists, etc. etc., most of the stolen copies of the book eventually are discarded with all the aluminum pots and pans and castoff furniture..
I'm hoping somebody will provide the book in digital format to all of us for free sometime soon. Is there a URL yet where we can download it?
Except then John Cage or Terry Riley show up and start 'preparing' the Piano, and your permuations go to infinity.
Whoops.
Copyright laws establish property rights. Once property rights have been established, theft becomes a possibility, so laws regarding theft become enforceable.
It's really not that complicated.
In the case of Music, many times what is copyrighted is the sheet music; yes, the note sequence. Often a performance of the music is also copyrighted.
So you can't just listen to a recording, transcribe it to staff paper, and play it back yourself.
How is some drivel pop music that Dr. Dre produces, or a few riffs of drivel pop music that he steals, the 'promotion of Progress of Science and useful Arts'???
Seems to me that progress isn't stopped, or even slowed down, by many copyrighted works being secured for 'non-limited Times' or by 'limited Times' at all. So either can be granted by congress (limited or unlimited time spans), and neither is unconstitutional. Now, if it were more than artistic expression, if it were an actual useful art it would be different.
The Scientific Method is a marvelous invention of humanity. However, it shouldn't be confused with the 'Job Security for Lardbutts Method' which many people mix in liberally with the former. Tenure, political correctness, grantsmanship, cronyism, and all the cancers of eliteism that infect most Academic Institutions these days are examples of the latter.
Much of Academia does NOT follow a Scientific Method, they give lip service to it, while they roll around in the feedlot provided for those who never, ever, leave school.
Fifteen years ago a 'cracker' was somebody who 'cracked' copy protected software, mostly games. This sort of person would step by hand through a computer game, find the bits of code that required copy protection, and put in NOPs or jumps over the blocks imposing the protection.
But the revisionist historians, i.e. the people maintaining the Jargon File, seem to miss this point, as they were snorting in derision at PC software back in that era, and totally missed out on the real 'crackers' of the period.
That's an 'old school' computer scientist. He probably hearkens back to the day when the 'Operator' was god, everybody was stuck out on dumb terminals with no chance at all of ever coming within five feet of the machine running the actual code.
His current disciples are the people advocating 'thin clients' and 'X terminals' and various other throwbacks to the dark ages of computing, and the inherent priesthood.
Thank goodness the common man won't stand for that ever again, and men dressed like him are treated as the freaks of history that they are.
It's disappointing that anybody treats the Science Fiction genre as something that goes 'out of print.' That implies shopping only at new bookstores, and that is a serious error. Much of the great SF writing out there is only obtainable through used bookstores. This seems to have almost always been the case with authors like Harlan Ellison. Some of the better SF bookstores (i.e. Dreamhaven in Minneapolis) mix out-of-print classics in with the new books on the shelf because of this. It's disappointing to think that there are SF readers out there with a 'new book only' mentality.
Any cow is far, far more intelligent than any bird. Even flightless waterfowl with herring-breath.
The last time I spent $800 all at once on my PC was when I bought a 486 motherboard with processor and 16 megs of RAM. That whole bundle cost me $1200. I've never since spent that much money on an incremental upgrade.
I can understand how if you deal in closed-architecture products from a single-source vendor, you'd be used to a $1000+ ream job at every upgrade. 'The Rest Of Us' (tm) aren't that kind of suckers.
Microsoft had much the same problem with Windows For Workgroups 3.11 and Office 4.3. It was really the best-offering they had ever had and a lot of businesses standardized on it for far longer than Microsoft wanted. It took Novell coming in with a client that basically cored out the Windows95 networking mess for many business units to upgrade out of WfW 3.11. And for most business uses, Office 4.3 is STILL good enough. The 8.3 filename limits are really one of the only feature limits for most usage.
Nobody at all was behind Microchannel. It was hated, along with OS/2, by all the traditional PC-heads. We viewed it, correctly, as IBM trying to close the architecture, put the genie back into the bottle, because they couldn't control the clone market.
You won't find a history of anybody except for IBM shills and apologists who championed MCA when the PS/2 came out. It had it's technical merits, but it was a closed architecture, and people figured that out almost immediately.
Also noteworthy is that until a few years ago there was no MCA support in Linux. A PS/2 box with MCA was basically plastic and metal scrap to Linux enthusiasts.
I love how the girl case, through all the steps of construction, seems to have an unfinished bracket area down at the crotch. Even when completed (?) and at some sort of show display, it's still just a drive mounting bracket of some sort.
It's maybe somewhat good to see somebody doesn't spend all their time at porn sites revealing great mysteries they'll never see in person, but come on, guys. Take at least a peek sometime. It's not the expansion slot you seem to think it is....
My first CD-ROM was a 1x Sound Blaster Upgrade kit deal (way overpriced) that included: A 1x cdrom drive, a Sound Blaster Pro (8 bit) with CD interface. The CDROMs that came with the package were all hoopala-hoopala about MPC (multimedia PC thing) and included on one of the CD's was a full version of Windows 3.1.
It definitely wasn't one of the 'first' CD-ROM drives, but it was a 1x drive that carried an over $400 price tag.
The Music Industry knows that Jobs is a slippery weasel, and that they'll be able to do business with him long term. He proved his 'business sense' in the way that they needed when he pulled the rug out from beneath the Mac Clone manufacturers.
Huh? What's a 'muggle' PC consumer?
I am typing this on a Pentium II 233 machine. I have NetBSD running over there on a Pentium Pro 200 and the NFS server is a Pentium 90. I have several faster machines, too, but what's with the name calling as if the 'geeks' all have the latest multi-gigahertz machines?? My fastest Sparc box is 166 MHz, but it's 64 bit.
When IBM released OS/2 and the PS/2 it was in collaboration with Microsoft. In case you've never looked, there's this thing called Microsoft OS/2 1.x out there. And there was a long period during which Microsoft's development tools were all dual targeted at DOS and OS/2. I have a version of MASM that has a seperate diskette for the OS/2 stuff. The 'anti-Microsoft' thrust of OS/2 came later after Microsoft decided OS/2 was a loser and forked the code to come out with NT. And even then Microsoft included an OS/2 1.0 subsystem on NT.