And I'm not. I'd say that for every person who inherits undue control of enormous assets, there are a thousand who inherit their dad's store, their mom's house, or the family farm or business.
Personally, this simply levels the playing field so that the average family isn't penalized when someone dies. It has little effect on larger estates, as the wealthy could already play the hide-the-money lawyer game with trusts, funds, and so on...
They are unaccountable. Try complaining to your states AG about your bank or CC company. You'll be told that the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) has jurisdiction. Want to complain to them? Well, they'd probably listen if they weren't staffed by governmental appointees and ex-industry insiders.
Want to sue? Sorry, but you've probably already given up that right under an "arbitration" clause. One could try a class-action suit, I suppose, though that avenue's been largely gutted by the "Class Action Fairness Act".
So what if the industry looses a few more dollars to identity theft? They'll just raise interest rates, late fees, and overlimit charges to make up for it.
Why do they always forget about books? Every time I look at the specs for one of these portable entertainment devices I find that they, 1) don't support Audible, and 2) do not have a book reader.
I have an iPaq that, quite literally, has over a hundred ebooks on it. And while I'd love to replace it with a device that could play movies and tv, I'm not going to dump my favorite form of recreation...
Which filename? Every entry must have a URL/LOC, which already has the... oh. You meant if you knew the page TITLE you could generate a TOC. Why didn't you say so?;)
The person who downloaded the copy, as an agent of the copyright holder, can be argued to have a right to make that copy.
I'd have to say that argument is specious. First, as ruled in mp3.com, that download is not YOUR copy, in that it wasn't created from your copy.
Further, just because I'm an employee of Sony, or work for them, doesn't mean I have the "right" to aquire/copy/download/steal every piece of music and film in the Sony catalog.
"Sony" owns them, not me. I, even as an employee, am not the corporation.
That would be nice, if google had made the map hierarchical, which they didn't, and if they allowed for directories, which they don't seem to have done, and if people included every page in their site in the map, which they also don't have to do.
It's too bad they couldn't use figure out a way to add addtional keywords to robots.txt. (w/o breaking it) Now one needs to create both files for a site to index properly.
Personally, I'd like a way to store electronic "cookies" so I don't need one of those stupid plastic affinity cards for every store I want to shop at just to get a good deal.
Or maybe it could just display the barcode on the screen... Hmmm.
Having to take non-major classes is useful IF the non-major classes contribute to the career the student wants to go into. If you are required to take a lot of non-major classes...
I completely, totally, 100% DIS-agree. Most people are not smart enough at that age to know what will be of future benefit, and what will not.
Secondarily, most development work, as an example, is done IN a field. Business, science, medicine. Having a base understanding of something OTHER than PHP is completely relevent. Do YOU know what kind of company you're going to be working for 10 years from now?
Finally, I think that, as a nation, we're much better off with people having a solid grounding across multiple disciplines. Because the alternative is to have a bunch of well-trained idiot-savants who THINK they know how the rest of the world works.
Yes. Since its OSS I don't have to worry about companies going under, licenses expiring, or old unreadable media.
Yes, you do. Or at least, most people do, as the vast majority of people using OSS are users, and not developers. As such, they may not have the ability, time, or resources (dollars) to develop, say, a new fibre-channel controller for their newest box.
OSS means you potentially could write one, not that you can.
As long as the tool does not log the IP-information, it would be much harder for someone like RIAA to find out who actually downloaded all those Britney Spears albums.
Actually, it would seem to me that each box that originates data is now responsible for uploading it.
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And like I'm interested in the highly educated opinion of someone who tells me "mouses" are bad...
Personally, this simply levels the playing field so that the average family isn't penalized when someone dies. It has little effect on larger estates, as the wealthy could already play the hide-the-money lawyer game with trusts, funds, and so on...
Free as in Beer.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Right. Society and culture in general gain nothing from the books, music, movies, plays, art, and other works those people created.
Damn them for actually CREATING things!
They are unaccountable. Try complaining to your states AG about your bank or CC company. You'll be told that the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) has jurisdiction. Want to complain to them? Well, they'd probably listen if they weren't staffed by governmental appointees and ex-industry insiders.
Want to sue? Sorry, but you've probably already given up that right under an "arbitration" clause. One could try a class-action suit, I suppose, though that avenue's been largely gutted by the "Class Action Fairness Act".
So what if the industry looses a few more dollars to identity theft? They'll just raise interest rates, late fees, and overlimit charges to make up for it.
No problem.
Forget "emulation modes". Need to run a PC app on your Mac? No problem. One non-virtual-machine Windows window coming right up.
One of the biggest reasons people DON'T switch is because the can't afford to repurchase Photoshop and Dreamweaver and all their other software.
What if you didn't have to? What if an intelMac could also run PC games?
You might need to buy an XP license, but it would STILL be cheaper.....
Archos? I'd rather have books, audiobooks, music, video, and movies on Apple's new vPod....
I have an iPaq that, quite literally, has over a hundred ebooks on it. And while I'd love to replace it with a device that could play movies and tv, I'm not going to dump my favorite form of recreation...
Want to bet? Forget "emulation modes". Need to run a PC app on your Mac? No problem. One non-virtual-machine Windows window coming right up.
Now THAT would be a killer box....
And Amazon is just another retailer. But either way, I'd rather order from them that wait a month for a library to get in a shipment...
Which filename? Every entry must have a URL/LOC, which already has the... oh. You meant if you knew the page TITLE you could generate a TOC. Why didn't you say so? ;)
And actually, I did RTFA.
I'd have to say that argument is specious. First, as ruled in mp3.com, that download is not YOUR copy, in that it wasn't created from your copy.
Further, just because I'm an employee of Sony, or work for them, doesn't mean I have the "right" to aquire/copy/download/steal every piece of music and film in the Sony catalog.
"Sony" owns them, not me. I, even as an employee, am not the corporation.
With all that, why not order from Amazon, save 30%, and have it next week (free shipping)?
That would be nice, if google had made the map hierarchical, which they didn't, and if they allowed for directories, which they don't seem to have done, and if people included every page in their site in the map, which they also don't have to do.
It's too bad they couldn't use figure out a way to add addtional keywords to robots.txt. (w/o breaking it) Now one needs to create both files for a site to index properly.
True, but I just remembered my phone has a camera in it. Hold on while I photograph the barcode on the card...
Or maybe it could just display the barcode on the screen... Hmmm.
Actually, finding a "capable" CS student you'd trust to do a mission critical app/driver/patch can be quite difficult.
Secondarily, most development work, as an example, is done IN a field. Business, science, medicine. Having a base understanding of something OTHER than PHP is completely relevent. Do YOU know what kind of company you're going to be working for 10 years from now?
Finally, I think that, as a nation, we're much better off with people having a solid grounding across multiple disciplines. Because the alternative is to have a bunch of well-trained idiot-savants who THINK they know how the rest of the world works.
Yes, you do. Or at least, most people do, as the vast majority of people using OSS are users, and not developers. As such, they may not have the ability, time, or resources (dollars) to develop, say, a new fibre-channel controller for their newest box.
OSS means you potentially could write one, not that you can.
They choose to be unpaid. And if they don't like the work, they don't do it and move on to something else...
Actually, it would seem to me that each box that originates data is now responsible for uploading it.
Sorry, but this is a major stretch. Yes, WB's may need anonymity, but I fail to see how all five of them need anonymous file sharing.
One can go out of the way to find potentially legitimate uses, but as you say, most (as in 99.99%) will not use it as such...
If that's all they did we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Not to flame, but conventional wisdom here on /. is that NO sales are lost due to copying. ;)