They have the right idea in this to sell the idea of open source to the public. A vast majority of them will never understand the difference, but they will definately understand the universal language of dollars and cents. I really can't think of a logical argument that can be made against this, really.
Just wondering, I haven't really heard much more about in a while, but whatever happened to the huge rollout of 3G services that we were promised back in 1999-2000. I remember one company in particular, Qualcomm, had wonderful times in 99 on the 3G hype, but it never really delivered as much as promised, and only had a huge rollout in Japan. Is that finally changing, and are these 3G phones that we look at actually ready to be used nationwide yet, or are we still talking major-city-only deals?
1 is.. well.. RTFP. 3, 4, and 5 are made up of the large dollar signs that pop into a consumer's head every time they look at buying an upgrade or new version of Windows.
Go ahead and pull the trigger, start suing thousands upon thousands of music listeners. You'll spook the old people who don't understand it, and then when they die off, I invite you to try and maintin the same profits with the then grown-up and pissed off crowd whose lives you tried to wreck, when they become the dominant people buying what you put out.
Not just geeks use file sharing apps, and not just geeks buy music. Do you really have any idea how many future customers you're turning off?
Well the idea sounds cool and all, but isn't this just a bit too involved to help people come up with and remember what will become basically random strings of characters? This seems like going through lots more of an effort then just using a random password generator of x-characters and handing the person something to memorize. When it comes to cracking, wouldn't you have just about the same odds of guessing what random password the person got through inkblots with what the person would have got with a random character generator? Sure neither would be really easy, but to hackers... it's still just a password.
So if the nazis won the war, eliminating a cold war between the U.S. and Russia, then why would Germany want to go into space at all? Also I believe Germany would have been much more intrested in devloping ICBMs before devloping rockets to go to the moon. They were after all using the tech for war, not exploration or competition.
As long as humans get into space, I could care less under what flag or what government it is for, just as long as we get out there... and then resist having a war over it.
...and blown up everything from toasters to curling irons - all in the name of consumer safety.
So is it him we have to thank for the warning label on my paper shredder that indicates I shouldn't try and shread my tie while it's still around my neck?
If you're going to stand in a bookstore, taking 500 pictures of the latest fav-novel of your choice, and *not* get caught, then you probably deserve to get away with the pictures.
On the other hand, if someone didn't spend so much money on the cell phone to take 600 pictures of a book, they probably could.. well.. buy the book.
Copyright is all about protecting a competitive edge, given that time and resources have been invested in creating it. User interfaces certainly sound to me like something that can enjoy Copyright protection.
But where does it end? Where is the line? I'm going to bite the big one for this but how much is KDE starting to look like windows? If GUIs can enjoy protection, and what's to stop Microsoft from patenting a GUI in which the main menu can be accessed with a button containing the company's logo in the bottom left corner of the screen by default, and using icons to represent running programs along with a clock in the bottom right? I believe that yes, you can't copy a GUI bit for bit, but there has got to be some leeway allowed.
Right now as I sit here with Opera7 and IE6 opened, I notice that each has the sequence of buttons: back, forward, refresh, home in the same order. Is that a potential breech of copyright, though the buttons look nothing like each other? I'm saying that GUIs that let the user perform the same task should be protected from being exact replicas, but not protected to the point where having too many overlapping features will cause suspicion.
If consumers go out and buy software to preform a certain sort of task, doesn't everyone involved have the right to make their own product like that to try and compete? Ford gave us the car, but other companies could take a look at it and try to improve upon it. How many resturants and burger joints are their in existance? How many computer operating systems are there? How many web browsers? How many things or places that do or offer the same thing as others, just at a different price, or in a different form, look, shape, etc.
Unless it's so blatant that the company took everything down to the GUI in reverse engineering, it's just trying to better the same service, thus helping out competition, lowering prices, so on, so forth.
RIAA sues one kid for $97 billion, settles for $17,000 or.0000000175% of the orginal total, so if they sue me for say.. 100 million, I'll only have to cough up $1.75 to them, so if that's all I have to pay for unlimited downloads, I'm game.
In terms of mining, minerals, resources we could acquire out there, if it takes China or whoever else to spank around the U.S. and make them realise that they'll gladly take the whole pie if we do nothing about it.. if that's what it takes to get NASA off of life support and back into space, then bring it on. The ultimate end will justify all the means.
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But if you spend more right now, and get all of that out of the way, wouldn't money ultimately be saved later on to justify the change?
They have the right idea in this to sell the idea of open source to the public. A vast majority of them will never understand the difference, but they will definately understand the universal language of dollars and cents. I really can't think of a logical argument that can be made against this, really.
Just wondering, I haven't really heard much more about in a while, but whatever happened to the huge rollout of 3G services that we were promised back in 1999-2000. I remember one company in particular, Qualcomm, had wonderful times in 99 on the 3G hype, but it never really delivered as much as promised, and only had a huge rollout in Japan. Is that finally changing, and are these 3G phones that we look at actually ready to be used nationwide yet, or are we still talking major-city-only deals?
1 is.. well.. RTFP. 3, 4, and 5 are made up of the large dollar signs that pop into a consumer's head every time they look at buying an upgrade or new version of Windows.
It's the world of product placement. Amazing, no?
Yeah I found that funny too.
How nice of Microsoft. That's like someone asking for a steak and being given in-flight peanuts. Maybe a glass of water, too.
It's a start, I guess.
Go ahead and pull the trigger, start suing thousands upon thousands of music listeners. You'll spook the old people who don't understand it, and then when they die off, I invite you to try and maintin the same profits with the then grown-up and pissed off crowd whose lives you tried to wreck, when they become the dominant people buying what you put out.
Not just geeks use file sharing apps, and not just geeks buy music. Do you really have any idea how many future customers you're turning off?
Well the idea sounds cool and all, but isn't this just a bit too involved to help people come up with and remember what will become basically random strings of characters? This seems like going through lots more of an effort then just using a random password generator of x-characters and handing the person something to memorize. When it comes to cracking, wouldn't you have just about the same odds of guessing what random password the person got through inkblots with what the person would have got with a random character generator? Sure neither would be really easy, but to hackers... it's still just a password.
Ha! amen to that! 1999 has never lasted so long!
Red Green would be so proud...
Microsoft is already threatening them with legal action.
Too late. Just ask AOL at trying to stop WASTE when it came out. Up for a day, and mirrored more times then they will ever be able to count.
Microsoft lost right at the point they decided to not talk to them beforehand. They can shut these people down, but it's out there now, game over.
Right. If the Nazis won the war we probably wouldn't have gotten into space.
Now if you're going to criminalize devlopers of rocketry, then who *can* get into space with a clear conscience?
So if the nazis won the war, eliminating a cold war between the U.S. and Russia, then why would Germany want to go into space at all? Also I believe Germany would have been much more intrested in devloping ICBMs before devloping rockets to go to the moon. They were after all using the tech for war, not exploration or competition.
I think you misunderstood the German's rocket potential. They were firing stuff from Germany to Paris, which is not quite to the moon and back.
Better luck next time!
As long as humans get into space, I could care less under what flag or what government it is for, just as long as we get out there... and then resist having a war over it.
...and blown up everything from toasters to curling irons - all in the name of consumer safety.
So is it him we have to thank for the warning label on my paper shredder that indicates I shouldn't try and shread my tie while it's still around my neck?
If you're going to stand in a bookstore, taking 500 pictures of the latest fav-novel of your choice, and *not* get caught, then you probably deserve to get away with the pictures.
On the other hand, if someone didn't spend so much money on the cell phone to take 600 pictures of a book, they probably could.. well.. buy the book.
Taco Hut and Pizza Bell... *nods*
mass production-produced car. car in every home.
Copyright is all about protecting a competitive edge, given that time and resources have been invested in creating it. User interfaces certainly sound to me like something that can enjoy Copyright protection.
But where does it end? Where is the line? I'm going to bite the big one for this but how much is KDE starting to look like windows? If GUIs can enjoy protection, and what's to stop Microsoft from patenting a GUI in which the main menu can be accessed with a button containing the company's logo in the bottom left corner of the screen by default, and using icons to represent running programs along with a clock in the bottom right? I believe that yes, you can't copy a GUI bit for bit, but there has got to be some leeway allowed.
Right now as I sit here with Opera7 and IE6 opened, I notice that each has the sequence of buttons: back, forward, refresh, home in the same order. Is that a potential breech of copyright, though the buttons look nothing like each other? I'm saying that GUIs that let the user perform the same task should be protected from being exact replicas, but not protected to the point where having too many overlapping features will cause suspicion.
If consumers go out and buy software to preform a certain sort of task, doesn't everyone involved have the right to make their own product like that to try and compete? Ford gave us the car, but other companies could take a look at it and try to improve upon it. How many resturants and burger joints are their in existance? How many computer operating systems are there? How many web browsers? How many things or places that do or offer the same thing as others, just at a different price, or in a different form, look, shape, etc.
Unless it's so blatant that the company took everything down to the GUI in reverse engineering, it's just trying to better the same service, thus helping out competition, lowering prices, so on, so forth.
RIAA sues one kid for $97 billion, settles for $17,000 or .0000000175% of the orginal total, so if they sue me for say.. 100 million, I'll only have to cough up $1.75 to them, so if that's all I have to pay for unlimited downloads, I'm game.
Or simply just a direct link to the picture, since the text is the same.
In terms of mining, minerals, resources we could acquire out there, if it takes China or whoever else to spank around the U.S. and make them realise that they'll gladly take the whole pie if we do nothing about it.. if that's what it takes to get NASA off of life support and back into space, then bring it on. The ultimate end will justify all the means.
Slashdot will surely keep this site down for a while to come!