wow.. maybe I should move to the US, where you can't only run your computer on illegally tapped power, but also tap the liquid N2 for that perfect overclocking cooling system!
There IS a niche for small hardware vendors, and it's pretty much n established niche too:
You want a computer that's ready to run, no silly shit, and a hefty software bundle? get a standard puter from Dell or compaq.
You want a computer that screams, built to your exact specifications, with the latest and greatest in cutting-edge graphics, a really cool soundcard and some less conventional stuff (e.g. multiprocessor athlon board)? go for a small vendor.
small vendors, because of their limited supply can react faster to the latest hardware.
sure I have thoughts on this. how about we use genetic testing for only 2 things, by law:
-medical purposes: diagnoses, and treatment. only practicing medical personnel (please note: pracicing, not just someone who has a medical degree and works for an insurance company to assess risks) should be able to see it
-investigation by authorities. This data should be independant from the medical data to protect consumer privacy. This data should never be seen outside established, controlled and monitored authorities.
Most of all, we need to get rid of the fallacious idea that self-regulation in any way works. It has been shown time and time again that regulation is needed.
yup. people use a lot of customercards. all my friends have'em. I have'em. There's no personal info given by me for getting the card, because stores are required by law to give you the card regardless wether you give the info or not. every once in a while we trade our cards, and I encourage everyone to do the same. Since the owner of the card changes, even demographics on cardnumbers are completely bogus. they just show changeing buying habits. poison the database, since it's of no use for you.
I guess in the US stores CAN require that you fill in a name, address, shoesize, and favourite taste in flavoured condoms.
They don't have a real skirt, like hovercrafts, but an almost normal wing that is extended back to the tail of the 'plane' (it's not a real plane, since it can reach only very limited heights). What really makes it interesting is that those ekrano-planes or WIG (wing in ground) planes don't count as planes for the law either: no flying permit (or whatever it's called) needed. They're boats for law.
I don't know about MOO... but I've tried it with MOM (master of magic), and it ran like a charm.. or at least no less instable then the original dos version. I liked MOM better than MOO though, and I still think it's a mistake that there was no MOM2.
yeah, the classics run fine:)
TesaROM is cool. burn DVD on tape. include DeCSS. Get brick. wrap well in brown paper. use DVD tape to tape it all closed. send to RIAA. btw.. although off-the-shelf tape was used, it does need to be good quality tape: the glue layer needs to be clear, and both the tape part and the glue layer need to be very even in thickness. Basically, get good quality tape. Bad tape don't work. Tesa (who experimented with this) confirmed the story when I asked them about it. I think I have the docs around here somewhere...
Another option would be to produce the drugs locally, and bring it on the market at cost-price. All that's needed is a suspension of of the patent, which is feasible since a patent is a government granted monopoly. Also, patents can be suspended for reasons of national security (I guess a few million countrymen dying of a disease is an important national disaster, which could warrant this). This suggestion by african leaders was met with threats of trade embargoes. No company needs to give away anything.
Actually I find it hard too. But because of another reason. I've had some troubles with the Dutch post. My mail was consistently arriving either late, or not arriving at all. Went to complain at the Post Office, and got brushed off. Turns out that a recipient isn't a customer of the post, and so has no right to complain about delivery. seems strange that he can be held responsible than.
>Can the record company really stop unauthorised lending?
they probably can stop unauthorized lending, but that doesn't apply to consumers. AFAIK libraries and such pay a fee to record companies. You can freely lend your CDs to a friend, provided you get back your CD:)
For anything meant for a market, I don't think it's good. However, it could be useful for experimentation. The first thing I thought was "security hazard". Looks to me like a developertool, not consumer-technology.
>Does English communication itself need actually make sense in order to be protected under the US Constitution?
Nope, it doesn't.
>If I were to string words together without 'meaning' in its conventional sense because, say, I liked the way in which they sounded, would that be protected?
Yes. What you describe exists, Dadaism makes a lot of use of this. It's filled with nonsensical 'words', chosen for their sound(or even the way they look). I found this one quite a good example: Gedicht by Kurt SChwitters. (don't bother with the bable fish. The title means simply 'poem').
>If I were to write a long rant that was meaningless to the casual listener, would that be?
unfortunately, science is rarely fact. usually it's theory. While the theory may not be perfect, the results are clear enough and close enough to reality. See classical mechanics as a good example: ALL scientists know that classical mechanics are an approximation. Still the theory is widely used since it gives an undecently close approximation of reality. but it's not perfectly accurate.
ofcourse Napster and using GPL in closed source are two different things in copyright law:
Napster is piracy (illegal exploitation): it infringes on the right of sale (or whatever it's called in english. it's not my first language and IANAL)
GPL in closed source: This infringes on the moral right of the creator: the original creator is not fully accredited.
As for my view on copyright: the second case of plagiarism is, IMO, the good part of copyright. the piracy clause should be done away with. But those are just my views.
ofcourse she didn't think it unusual. can't say more about it really, since I don't know the paintings in question. was it an art book? a lot of artbooks have paintings of naked people. or photos of naked statues. Anyway.. if nudity bothers someone that much, just don't come to europe where you may find pornographic statues in the streets! Where most women on the beach go topless! Think of the children!
P.S. Did you also notice that not all the kids were crowding around that bottom shelf?
if I am interested about 1 product, and ask for info about it, I am not necessarily interested in another product from the same company. I get email I didn't ask for. It's spam. and it will be reported to the RBL. It's time some companies went bankrupt specifically because of the RBL. It wouyld be a good signal sent out: spam is bad.. it can cost you..
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wow.. maybe I should move to the US, where you can't only run your computer on illegally tapped power, but also tap the liquid N2 for that perfect overclocking cooling system!
//rdj
you mean spent alone with a case of good beer, wallowing in self-pity and tomorrow morning's hangover
how much cubes do I need for a lawyer?
//rdj
There IS a niche for small hardware vendors, and it's pretty much n established niche too:
You want a computer that's ready to run, no silly shit, and a hefty software bundle? get a standard puter from Dell or compaq.
You want a computer that screams, built to your exact specifications, with the latest and greatest in cutting-edge graphics, a really cool soundcard and some less conventional stuff (e.g. multiprocessor athlon board)? go for a small vendor.
small vendors, because of their limited supply can react faster to the latest hardware.
//rdj
>What is illegal is to play a US encoded DVD in a non-US DVD player.
:)
When you're in the US
//rdj
it's a beer picture..
//rdj
sure I have thoughts on this. how about we use genetic testing for only 2 things, by law:
-medical purposes: diagnoses, and treatment. only practicing medical personnel (please note: pracicing, not just someone who has a medical degree and works for an insurance company to assess risks) should be able to see it
-investigation by authorities. This data should be independant from the medical data to protect consumer privacy. This data should never be seen outside established, controlled and monitored authorities.
Most of all, we need to get rid of the fallacious idea that self-regulation in any way works. It has been shown time and time again that regulation is needed.
//rdj
yup. people use a lot of customercards. all my friends have'em. I have'em. There's no personal info given by me for getting the card, because stores are required by law to give you the card regardless wether you give the info or not. every once in a while we trade our cards, and I encourage everyone to do the same. Since the owner of the card changes, even demographics on cardnumbers are completely bogus. they just show changeing buying habits. poison the database, since it's of no use for you.
I guess in the US stores CAN require that you fill in a name, address, shoesize, and favourite taste in flavoured condoms.
//rdj
They don't have a real skirt, like hovercrafts, but an almost normal wing that is extended back to the tail of the 'plane' (it's not a real plane, since it can reach only very limited heights). What really makes it interesting is that those ekrano-planes or WIG (wing in ground) planes don't count as planes for the law either: no flying permit (or whatever it's called) needed. They're boats for law.
There's some info here
//rdj
I don't know about MOO... but I've tried it with MOM (master of magic), and it ran like a charm.. or at least no less instable then the original dos version. I liked MOM better than MOO though, and I still think it's a mistake that there was no MOM2. :)
yeah, the classics run fine
//rdj
I used to play basketball. Dino Radja was a basketball player. he was muscled, tall, strong, a good basketball player and made the occasional block.
I just made the occasional block. And Radja kind of resembles my real name. IMO, the best nicknames are the ones given to you by others.
//rdj
TesaROM is cool. burn DVD on tape. include DeCSS. Get brick. wrap well in brown paper. use DVD tape to tape it all closed. send to RIAA. btw.. although off-the-shelf tape was used, it does need to be good quality tape: the glue layer needs to be clear, and both the tape part and the glue layer need to be very even in thickness. Basically, get good quality tape. Bad tape don't work. Tesa (who experimented with this) confirmed the story when I asked them about it. I think I have the docs around here somewhere...
//rdj
My mp3s are mine and mine alone, and you can copy 'em as much as you like. Not that you'd want to, but hey.. that's hardly the point.
//rdj
Another option would be to produce the drugs locally, and bring it on the market at cost-price. All that's needed is a suspension of of the patent, which is feasible since a patent is a government granted monopoly. Also, patents can be suspended for reasons of national security (I guess a few million countrymen dying of a disease is an important national disaster, which could warrant this). This suggestion by african leaders was met with threats of trade embargoes. No company needs to give away anything.
//rdj
Actually I find it hard too. But because of another reason. I've had some troubles with the Dutch post. My mail was consistently arriving either late, or not arriving at all. Went to complain at the Post Office, and got brushed off. Turns out that a recipient isn't a customer of the post, and so has no right to complain about delivery. seems strange that he can be held responsible than.
//rdj
>Can the record company really stop unauthorised lending?
:)
they probably can stop unauthorized lending, but that doesn't apply to consumers. AFAIK libraries and such pay a fee to record companies. You can freely lend your CDs to a friend, provided you get back your CD
//rdj
For anything meant for a market, I don't think it's good. However, it could be useful for experimentation. The first thing I thought was "security hazard". Looks to me like a developertool, not consumer-technology.
//rdj
I really feel sorry for women who had their labiae pierced...
//rdj
>Does English communication itself need actually make sense in order to be protected under the US Constitution?
;)
Nope, it doesn't.
>If I were to string words together without 'meaning' in its conventional sense because, say, I liked the way in which they sounded, would that be protected?
Yes. What you describe exists, Dadaism makes a lot of use of this. It's filled with nonsensical 'words', chosen for their sound(or even the way they look). I found this one quite a good example: Gedicht by Kurt SChwitters. (don't bother with the bable fish. The title means simply 'poem').
>If I were to write a long rant that was meaningless to the casual listener, would that be?
Yes. but why write rants in Welsh?
Ah.. and the french have a real liking for america.. ESPECIALLY hollywood..ofcourse the french will comply with what hollywood wants.
//rdj
quicky maybe... but full story?
//rdj
unfortunately, science is rarely fact. usually it's theory. While the theory may not be perfect, the results are clear enough and close enough to reality. See classical mechanics as a good example: ALL scientists know that classical mechanics are an approximation. Still the theory is widely used since it gives an undecently close approximation of reality. but it's not perfectly accurate.
//rdj
ofcourse Napster and using GPL in closed source are two different things in copyright law:
Napster is piracy (illegal exploitation): it infringes on the right of sale (or whatever it's called in english. it's not my first language and IANAL)
GPL in closed source: This infringes on the moral right of the creator: the original creator is not fully accredited.
As for my view on copyright: the second case of plagiarism is, IMO, the good part of copyright. the piracy clause should be done away with. But those are just my views.
//rdj
ofcourse she didn't think it unusual. can't say more about it really, since I don't know the paintings in question. was it an art book? a lot of artbooks have paintings of naked people. or photos of naked statues. Anyway.. if nudity bothers someone that much, just don't come to europe where you may find pornographic statues in the streets! Where most women on the beach go topless! Think of the children!
P.S. Did you also notice that not all the kids were crowding around that bottom shelf?
//rdj
if I am interested about 1 product, and ask for info about it, I am not necessarily interested in another product from the same company. I get email I didn't ask for. It's spam. and it will be reported to the RBL. It's time some companies went bankrupt specifically because of the RBL. It wouyld be a good signal sent out: spam is bad.. it can cost you..
//rdj