Do you ever see words such as "their's", or "her's"? Then how in the name of Hell can you possibly think that "it's" is appropriate in this context?
The problem is that, unfortunately, I do see words such as "their's" or "her's" a lot lately...probably for the same reason that I see "it's" used incorrectly a lot (and probably by the same people).
People, Plurals and possessives do not have apostrophes. Thank you.
I personally don't like Windows (mainly because of the lack of stability), but in some respects I'd have to admit it's a much more mature windowing system, since nearly all the things on your wishlist are "things Windows already has that we wish we had in GNOME and KDE."
I don't know too much about the offspring, but I bought their first cd but not their second, had no idea if they have new material beyond that until now
You really bought their first, self-titled CD, in 1989? If so, you're one of the few. (excellent CD, though)
Unless, of course, you mean you bought Smash, their first MTV-popularized CD.
What about Metallica - Master of Puppets (live).mp3? This filename would show up as being Metallica, but Metallica have specifically said that live recordings of theirs are OK to trade (just not studio works). So this filename would show up in a search but not be illegal.
No, because the only reason books would not be available there is if the library did not wish to purchase them - this would not be the publisher's fault. There is no way for a publisher to legally prevent their books from being purchased and lent out by a library. Unfortunately, this is not the case with software.
Well, the original Son of Sam Law (the one in New York) was struck down by the courts on First Amendment grounds. None of the other states' copycat laws or the modified New York one have been tested in court, so it's doubtful if they could be enforced.
Well, PKZip seems to have stopped development around 1993, well before WinZip became popular. PKZIp v2.04g was pretty much the last version I know of, and it came out february 1, 1993. Up until then there had been fairly frequent updates, but throughout 1993, 1994, and 1995, PKZIp v2.04g for DOS remained the standard compression tool. Only then, after 2-3 years of no updates, did other tools like WinZip become popular. PKZIp finally made a Windows product in 1997 or 1998, but they were long gone by then. I'm not sure what led to the development halt, but the original stuff is fine coding...
Re:Is it just me.. or is this incredibly silly?
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Umm, your own "hypothetical" example argues against your point. Bruce Perens is filthy rich, and we still support him when she stands up for his rights.
References: He's the CEO of a VC firm There's also a/. feature he wrote a while back about what new-found Open Source millionaires (including himself) should do to give back to the movement that spawned their wealth, but i can't find a link to it by searching...
i personally have the opposite problem...i'm male, but (some) people assume that since my nick ends in a "y" i must be female. that leads to some interesting situations...
This isn't really intended as criticism, more curiousity...if you don'twant gender to matter on the web, why did you pick a name like grrl22? This seems to be specifically saying "i am a girl, and i want everybody to know that," which seems to be the opposite of your intent.
I see your point, but your example was a bad one. Software cracks are not illegal generally, unless a license was broken in their creation. Applying the software cracks to illegally use software is what is illegal.
People, stop kidding yourself: Napster is a tool that is used exclusively to steal from legitimate artists. Don't give me this crap about how you know "this guy who is a friend of a friend who has a garage band that uses Napster to distribute his music." That sort of hand-waving is nothing more than cheap mental masturbation.
Incorrect. Perhaps you use Napster illegally, but many of us use it legally. While some of the legal use is indeed garage bands distributing their music online, this is not the only legal use of Napster. A large number of artists (Pearl Jam and Phish come to mind offhand) allow recordings of their live performances to be freely distributed, and there is a great deal of this going on (legally) on Napster.
Now I don't know what the RIAA is going to do about all of these "open source" napster clones that have popped up, but the open source community would do well to get a life and realize that they're creating a public relations fiasco for everybody. If you aren't willing to pay for your music, you don't get to listen. Period. Don't like it? Deal with it.
You would do well to realize that the software is not going to go away just because you dislike it. If there is a demand for it, it will continue to be developed. And, of course, there will always be people who listen to music they didn't pay for. Period. Don't like it? Deal with it.
The idea was that, instead of having to go to the web sites of every single company and organisation that sells event tickets, you'd be able to just go to Tickets.com and search. Tickets.com would be making revenue by advertising on its index pages.
Of course, Ticketmaster's claim that tickets.com ended up being just a copy of their website is largely because of another fact Ticketmaster isn't fond of admitting - they have monopoly position in the advance ticket sales market.
Well, i consider musicians to be artists, and as such, consider their albums to be works of art (in the musical sense, I'm not talking about the cover art). Perhaps with some of the MTV-type crap albums are just collections of singles put on a single CD for convenience, but, in my opinion, the majority of what I'd term "quality artists" (some of whom I like, and some of whom I don't, but at least I respect them) create their album as more than just a collection of singles. If you're going to just download the 8 songs you like, you've pretty much destroyed the album. Sure, the individual songs may be good, but often the overall effect of the album enhances them. An example would be Nine Inch Nails albums - any one song from most of the albums would be much less effective out of the context of the album. The same can be said of many other bands/artists...
Re:Hey, it's just another way to meet people
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While I'd have to say that anything that stimulates conversation is good (and not necessarily just for potential dates...not every member of the opposite sex you meet is good for nothing but a potential date), it's based on the rather dubious assumption that the people you'd most like to meet are those with similar interests to your own. I personally find that many of my closest friends really don't have many of the same interests, which is what makes it more interesting - we each get exposed to new things we wouldn't normally do.
Maybe if people were just more friendly and honest these wouldn't be necessary...
While, yes, it is bundled with gnu tools, I cannot think of any that couldn't be replaced (with non gnu free software at that). The GNU tools are not essential to Linux any more than a particular window manager is essential to X.
Well, yes, they theoretically could be replaced, but so could the Linux kernel. In fact, it might take more time to write a complete replacement of gcc from scratch then it would to write a kernel work-alike from scratch...
You could always support some smaller record labels and pay only $10-$12 or per CD (this often includes shipping). Unless your taste in music consists of "whatever MTV plays," there's lots of good stuff that's not as well-known. I personally know mostly about the indie punk labels (epitaph.com, nitrorecords.com, etc.), but there are plenty of good indie labels in lots of other genres of music as well.
There's also some suprisingly good stuff on mp3.com. Sure, there's a lot of crap, but there's also a lot of genuinely talented artists there. Find some you like and buy their $8 CD. As an additional plus, they get half the profits, which is doing a hell of a lot more to support the artist than buying an $18 CD at the record store is.
The strange thing I see in all this is that everybody is making a big deal over the possibility of "faking" ownership of a CD so that you can download it illegally from my.mp3.com, but nobody (except several IRC channels who are doing this) seems to realize a much easier method - just share an account with lots of people. Each person legitimately "beams" the CDs they own, and all the people sharing the account can then access all the CDs. Sure, you could do this sort of piracy before by ripping your CDs and sending them to people, but here you're saved the trouble of ripping, and the bandwidth usage is all my.mp3.com's, rather than your modem/DSL/cablemodem/T1 connection.
Okay, I read Jon's responses to questions. I agreed with some, disagreed with others. Then I scrolled down to the comments to see what people were saying about them. What did I find? Absolutely nothing. Nearly all the responses were either people flaming Katz for his long article, people flaming/. for not having him post his own interview so they could have it filtered out, or people doing other assorted types of flaming. Where's the discussion about Open Source, the future of the Internet, Libertarianism, or any of the other ideas that Mr. Katz brought up that actually matter?
The problem with this is that it doesn't explain where God came from. You're replacing an improbable event - the creation of mankind - with an even more improbable event - the creation (or eternal existance, if you prefer) of a God. How is this supposed to explain anything?
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I agree with him that in retrospect, very little of his poetry is worth saving.
That "Funny Fan Mail" reminds me of those cheesy testimonial ads on TV...
Do you ever see words such as "their's", or "her's"? Then how in the name of Hell can you possibly think that "it's" is appropriate in this context?
The problem is that, unfortunately, I do see words such as "their's" or "her's" a lot lately...probably for the same reason that I see "it's" used incorrectly a lot (and probably by the same people).
People, Plurals and possessives do not have apostrophes. Thank you.
I personally don't like Windows (mainly because of the lack of stability), but in some respects I'd have to admit it's a much more mature windowing system, since nearly all the things on your wishlist are "things Windows already has that we wish we had in GNOME and KDE."
I don't know too much about the offspring, but I bought their first cd but not their second, had no idea if they have new material beyond that until now
You really bought their first, self-titled CD, in 1989? If so, you're one of the few. (excellent CD, though)
Unless, of course, you mean you bought Smash, their first MTV-popularized CD.
What about Metallica - Master of Puppets (live).mp3? This filename would show up as being Metallica, but Metallica have specifically said that live recordings of theirs are OK to trade (just not studio works). So this filename would show up in a search but not be illegal.
A new FPS.
Actually, I'm somewhat surprised nobody's made a Columbine High School level for Quake or Half-Life or something...
No, because the only reason books would not be available there is if the library did not wish to purchase them - this would not be the publisher's fault. There is no way for a publisher to legally prevent their books from being purchased and lent out by a library. Unfortunately, this is not the case with software.
exactly...i find it funny they're worried about lyrics when you can get the entire CD pirated along with the lyrics
Well, the original Son of Sam Law (the one in New York) was struck down by the courts on First Amendment grounds. None of the other states' copycat laws or the modified New York one have been tested in court, so it's doubtful if they could be enforced.
Well, PKZip seems to have stopped development around 1993, well before WinZip became popular. PKZIp v2.04g was pretty much the last version I know of, and it came out february 1, 1993. Up until then there had been fairly frequent updates, but throughout 1993, 1994, and 1995, PKZIp v2.04g for DOS remained the standard compression tool. Only then, after 2-3 years of no updates, did other tools like WinZip become popular. PKZIp finally made a Windows product in 1997 or 1998, but they were long gone by then. I'm not sure what led to the development halt, but the original stuff is fine coding...
Umm, your own "hypothetical" example argues against your point. Bruce Perens is filthy rich, and we still support him when she stands up for his rights.
/. feature he wrote a while back about what new-found Open Source millionaires (including himself) should do to give back to the movement that spawned their wealth, but i can't find a link to it by searching...
References:
He's the CEO of a VC firm
There's also a
Yet most people still supported him in the recent licensing issue with BeOS
Lignux?!? How could anybody forget the ever-popular "Gnulix"? Ahh, the old-school /. trolls, hehe...
yeah, that makes sense.
i personally have the opposite problem...i'm male, but (some) people assume that since my nick ends in a "y" i must be female. that leads to some interesting situations...
Not to mention that bugtraq is hosted by SecurityFocus anyway =P
This isn't really intended as criticism, more curiousity...if you don'twant gender to matter on the web, why did you pick a name like grrl22? This seems to be specifically saying "i am a girl, and i want everybody to know that," which seems to be the opposite of your intent.
I see your point, but your example was a bad one. Software cracks are not illegal generally, unless a license was broken in their creation. Applying the software cracks to illegally use software is what is illegal.
People, stop kidding yourself: Napster is a tool that is used exclusively to steal from legitimate artists. Don't give me this crap about how you know "this guy who is a friend of a friend who has a garage band that uses Napster to distribute his music." That sort of hand-waving is nothing more than cheap mental masturbation.
Incorrect. Perhaps you use Napster illegally, but many of us use it legally. While some of the legal use is indeed garage bands distributing their music online, this is not the only legal use of Napster. A large number of artists (Pearl Jam and Phish come to mind offhand) allow recordings of their live performances to be freely distributed, and there is a great deal of this going on (legally) on Napster.
Now I don't know what the RIAA is going to do about all of these "open source" napster clones that have popped up, but the open source community would do well to get a life and realize that they're creating a public relations fiasco for everybody. If you aren't willing to pay for your music, you don't get to listen. Period. Don't like it? Deal with it.
You would do well to realize that the software is not going to go away just because you dislike it. If there is a demand for it, it will continue to be developed. And, of course, there will always be people who listen to music they didn't pay for. Period. Don't like it? Deal with it.
The idea was that, instead of having to go to the web sites of every single company and organisation that sells event tickets, you'd be able to just go to Tickets.com and search. Tickets.com would be making revenue by advertising on its index pages.
Of course, Ticketmaster's claim that tickets.com ended up being just a copy of their website is largely because of another fact Ticketmaster isn't fond of admitting - they have monopoly position in the advance ticket sales market.
Well, i consider musicians to be artists, and as such, consider their albums to be works of art (in the musical sense, I'm not talking about the cover art). Perhaps with some of the MTV-type crap albums are just collections of singles put on a single CD for convenience, but, in my opinion, the majority of what I'd term "quality artists" (some of whom I like, and some of whom I don't, but at least I respect them) create their album as more than just a collection of singles. If you're going to just download the 8 songs you like, you've pretty much destroyed the album. Sure, the individual songs may be good, but often the overall effect of the album enhances them. An example would be Nine Inch Nails albums - any one song from most of the albums would be much less effective out of the context of the album. The same can be said of many other bands/artists...
While I'd have to say that anything that stimulates conversation is good (and not necessarily just for potential dates...not every member of the opposite sex you meet is good for nothing but a potential date), it's based on the rather dubious assumption that the people you'd most like to meet are those with similar interests to your own. I personally find that many of my closest friends really don't have many of the same interests, which is what makes it more interesting - we each get exposed to new things we wouldn't normally do.
Maybe if people were just more friendly and honest these wouldn't be necessary...
While, yes, it is bundled with gnu tools, I cannot think of any that couldn't be replaced (with non gnu free software at that). The GNU tools are not essential to Linux any more than a particular window manager is essential to X.
Well, yes, they theoretically could be replaced, but so could the Linux kernel. In fact, it might take more time to write a complete replacement of gcc from scratch then it would to write a kernel work-alike from scratch...
You could always support some smaller record labels and pay only $10-$12 or per CD (this often includes shipping). Unless your taste in music consists of "whatever MTV plays," there's lots of good stuff that's not as well-known. I personally know mostly about the indie punk labels (epitaph.com, nitrorecords.com, etc.), but there are plenty of good indie labels in lots of other genres of music as well.
There's also some suprisingly good stuff on mp3.com. Sure, there's a lot of crap, but there's also a lot of genuinely talented artists there. Find some you like and buy their $8 CD. As an additional plus, they get half the profits, which is doing a hell of a lot more to support the artist than buying an $18 CD at the record store is.
The strange thing I see in all this is that everybody is making a big deal over the possibility of "faking" ownership of a CD so that you can download it illegally from my.mp3.com, but nobody (except several IRC channels who are doing this) seems to realize a much easier method - just share an account with lots of people. Each person legitimately "beams" the CDs they own, and all the people sharing the account can then access all the CDs. Sure, you could do this sort of piracy before by ripping your CDs and sending them to people, but here you're saved the trouble of ripping, and the bandwidth usage is all my.mp3.com's, rather than your modem/DSL/cablemodem/T1 connection.
Okay, I read Jon's responses to questions. I agreed with some, disagreed with others. Then I scrolled down to the comments to see what people were saying about them. What did I find? Absolutely nothing. Nearly all the responses were either people flaming Katz for his long article, people flaming /. for not having him post his own interview so they could have it filtered out, or people doing other assorted types of flaming. Where's the discussion about Open Source, the future of the Internet, Libertarianism, or any of the other ideas that Mr. Katz brought up that actually matter?
The problem with this is that it doesn't explain where God came from. You're replacing an improbable event - the creation of mankind - with an even more improbable event - the creation (or eternal existance, if you prefer) of a God. How is this supposed to explain anything?