Remember how in 98 IE crashes could make the taskbar disappear? you mean the same crashes in XP are a fragment of my imagination? mostly when you insert a cd that win can't read. there you go, killing explorer and the taskbar along. yupi.
except the random crashing and the need to bang the player to get it back to work. unless things have changed since the last iRiver story on slashdot...
the ultimate goal to copyright is to provide a temporal monopoly in such a way as to promote the creation of more work, a money is a good incentive. There is, however, no need to streghten copyright as it is now, nor to enhace it with technical limitations that limit fair and previously unregulated uses. people that give their stuff away on the internet ARE making money and are quite happy with it.
The thing is, intelectual property is not a right in the same way physical property is. it's not, and never was, the case that one who has an ideia should benefit from it exclusivly, for the simple fact that anyone else can come up with it. It's an agreement between the producer and society, and in a way that ensures that society as a whole benefits, NOT a business model.
The thing is, sales are up thanks to sharing. People have access to things that are no longer avaiable at any price. Sharing knowledge, experiences, music, stories, is the way that mankind has always evolved.
Disney, RIAA, MPAA and others benefitted from this "piracy", but ensured that noone else could. That's why we don't give a damn, there's no true competition, no real value. Even documentaries are having trouble due to copyrights, since they have to pay for the rights to a 4 second clip that appears on a TV set in the backgound of a shot. Remember the students that sing on Pink Floyd's The Wall? Well, they're demanding royalties now, thanks to 1997 legislation.
Things have reached a ridiculous stage, and people stopped caring. You've swollen the line that whatever you create, is yours, when it was never so.
please, read Free Culture, Lessig writes and argues much better than I can. You'll be sickend at the current events by the first few chapters. BTW, it's free, freely modifiable (as things were not so long ago).
hey, i loved space above and beyond! shame i wasn't at home when it aired the last episode, and the VCR was ruined. how was the last episode? the series was cut short, like firescape (have to see that one), right?
well, you can do that with the GPL as well, but Microsoft tells their employees not to look at it, as it might be said that you're producing competing products and copying ideas. remember all the discussion on the leaked MS code, not to look at it at stuff? same thing.
you're right, of course. of course, the idea is that sun can take things of mono or whatever as well, and that everything could evolve together in the spirit of free software.
so, refrasing your comment, all we want is to copy code freely so that we can get on with the technical stuff and leave the licenses asside.
all i can say is, good luck Americans. hope the next four year changes you, and that you keep fighting the (mostly) bad parts of this administration. I am at a loss here. The last year, in which i've become a lot more politicly informed, i've found incredible that someone like Bush can get elected. Or thar Kerry is the best de DOP can muster. on hindsight, it even seems he didn't really try to win. i hope Europe pulls together and goes in a much more liberal and socialist stance, otherwise... the world is screwed...
Obligatoy expletive: how the fuck can this guy win? WE'RE SO SCREWED! 4 more years of this and we could very well end up in a new Dark Age... FUCK!
everyone knows that. it's a freaking hack n slash RPG that anyone criticises for precisly that. It's a shame too, since it can be sidestepped, and usually is AFAIK.
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Remember how in 98 IE crashes could make the taskbar disappear?
you mean the same crashes in XP are a fragment of my imagination? mostly when you insert a cd that win can't read. there you go, killing explorer and the taskbar along. yupi.
except the random crashing and the need to bang the player to get it back to work.
unless things have changed since the last iRiver story on slashdot...
and...
The signature was on fire?
interesting... thanks!
misses out on quite a few extensions, unfortunatly... ah well... i'm just being lazy by not going completly linux anyway.
i think it runs of the cd.
winamp 2 sure didn't have to be installed, i remember keeping it around during windows reinstalls
yeah, the same people that complain about a subscription based music services, and yet pay MMORPGS every month.
the ultimate goal to copyright is to provide a temporal monopoly in such a way as to promote the creation of more work, a money is a good incentive.
There is, however, no need to streghten copyright as it is now, nor to enhace it with technical limitations that limit fair and previously unregulated uses. people that give their stuff away on the internet ARE making money and are quite happy with it.
The thing is, intelectual property is not a right in the same way physical property is. it's not, and never was, the case that one who has an ideia should benefit from it exclusivly, for the simple fact that anyone else can come up with it. It's an agreement between the producer and society, and in a way that ensures that society as a whole benefits, NOT a business model.
The thing is, sales are up thanks to sharing. People have access to things that are no longer avaiable at any price. Sharing knowledge, experiences, music, stories, is the way that mankind has always evolved.
Disney, RIAA, MPAA and others benefitted from this "piracy", but ensured that noone else could. That's why we don't give a damn, there's no true competition, no real value.
Even documentaries are having trouble due to copyrights, since they have to pay for the rights to a 4 second clip that appears on a TV set in the backgound of a shot. Remember the students that sing on Pink Floyd's The Wall? Well, they're demanding royalties now, thanks to 1997 legislation.
Things have reached a ridiculous stage, and people stopped caring. You've swollen the line that whatever you create, is yours, when it was never so.
please, read Free Culture, Lessig writes and argues much better than I can. You'll be sickend at the current events by the first few chapters. BTW, it's free, freely modifiable (as things were not so long ago).
yep, read up on pipelines. it means that as soon as the result is calculated, but before storing the result, the next op is already working.
so THAT is why i find my new laptop acting weird!!! lol.
neat, though. i don't think i'll get used to it...
hey, i loved space above and beyond!
shame i wasn't at home when it aired the last episode, and the VCR was ruined. how was the last episode?
the series was cut short, like firescape (have to see that one), right?
read it, true.
and we don't praise everything linux either. check the mods on the comments, FCS!
nobody said it's legal. when you don't buy the laws, make sure the victim is too dumb/poor not to sue. guess what? it's a great way to do business.
want to know what's more amazing?
thatslashdot stopped having link tags on the articles, so that they wouldn't link to the new story just the same.
besides the other problems...
Atms have a lot of problems right now, too.
fucking most insightful thing i've read here in a while.
newsflahs, most news from conventional media comes from places like reuters.
well, you can do that with the GPL as well, but Microsoft tells their employees not to look at it, as it might be said that you're producing competing products and copying ideas.
remember all the discussion on the leaked MS code, not to look at it at stuff? same thing.
you're right, of course.
of course, the idea is that sun can take things of mono or whatever as well, and that everything could evolve together in the spirit of free software.
so, refrasing your comment, all we want is to copy code freely so that we can get on with the technical stuff and leave the licenses asside.
all i can say is, good luck Americans. hope the next four year changes you, and that you keep fighting the (mostly) bad parts of this administration.
I am at a loss here. The last year, in which i've become a lot more politicly informed, i've found incredible that someone like Bush can get elected. Or thar Kerry is the best de DOP can muster. on hindsight, it even seems he didn't really try to win.
i hope Europe pulls together and goes in a much more liberal and socialist stance, otherwise... the world is screwed...
Obligatoy expletive: how the fuck can this guy win? WE'RE SO SCREWED! 4 more years of this and we could very well end up in a new Dark Age... FUCK!
i really laughed at that one.
thanks and kudos!
i believe arafat is forbiden from entering the arab nations of the region.
why should you wait? it's not like the PC is unusable while it's updating...
i dunnow, it's not known here
Gambas in Portuguese, as spoken in Portugal, as opposed to slang in Brasil, is shrimp.
everyone knows that. it's a freaking hack n slash RPG that anyone criticises for precisly that. It's a shame too, since it can be sidestepped, and usually is AFAIK.