I believe that they want to remove HDs from peoples homes, and have everyone store their data on MS servers.
You'll pay a monthly fee to use your account and get terminal access to the approved software suite and library of games. Migrating to another platform will become well-nigh impossible.
And if you're a small-time developer? There's always telemarketing....
The BSD gives you something that the GPL doesn't: The ability to put your project code in closed releases after it has been around for awhile.
Being that most open source projects aren't composed of millions and millions of developers, but a core group that does most work plus many more that do only a little, this isn't unreasonable.
If you GPL your project, you can't release a closed version, because you violate the rights of every developer who contributed a patch.
MySQL, for example, requires you to attribute the rights to all contributions to them, then THEY release your contribution under the GPL... because they own your contribution, they can also use the code in closed source projects.
PostGreSQL using BSD achieves the same thing.
The difference is, any contributor can use PostGres code in their closed project, but if you contribute to MySQL and want to put the MySQL DB code in your closed product, you have to pay.
By 2005, the rollable displays, which can now be used to read e-mail, could initially be used in military applications as electronic, updatable maps on the battlefield, van Rens predicted. The monochrome display offers four gray levels.
Soldier 1: Where's the pickup point?
Soldier 2: Just a sec... SHIT!
Soldier 1: What?!?
Soldier 2: Got to reboot the map... got a grey screen of death!
I don't think you have to be much of a tree hugger to be appalled by this. Even if you don't think there's health risks or environmental consequences, it's gotta be enough just that it's plain gross. Yet people live there, somehow or another.
No one will buy their house, so they can't afford to move?
I'm more interested in the ads that won't be shown in other countries because they are too "racy", "religiously offensive", etc. It's always fascinating to see how another culture rules out elements that we think are normal. The other way around is not so surprising, since we all watch the TV here all the time, and we know what shows and what doesn't on our own tv's.
More fun to smell anothers stink than your own?
Try spending more time looking at what other cultures don't consider offensive, yet are taboo in your own country...
Release all music under a Creative Commons license, sell stuff by public ransom if you become popular, and own all your own music rights.
Instead of Marketing owning the musician, the popular musician could hire Marketing on commission when they've already got a hit, and sell rights to commercial interests.
Sounds pretty good to me.
Generalizations are essential to thought. It allows us to analyse things, percieve patterns, judge new things and make decisions. At the end of the day, you can never really be absolutely specific, all you can do is adjust your level of generalization. You simply can't analyse or discuss large scale things without using generalizations. That being the case, you'd be a fool to discard a statement just because it's a generalization.
The simple-minded thing is when you can't communicate with someone about things without nit-picking over exceptions instead of just accepting their comment as being a trend/pattern/norm/whatever and not an absolute.
it's only right that he be rewarded with the respect that a movie created in his books name will be the best ever
It was tolkiens express wish that his books NEVER be made into a movie.
His daughter sold him out, and his masterpeace hollywoodized for the consumption of the illiterate masses.
Were he to come back to life, I don't think respect is what he would feel.
Personally, I consider the movies to be utterly forgettable, and anyone who sees them before reading the books will miss out on one of the finest examples of fantasy literature ever written. Even if they read it later, the experience will have been forever ruined for them.
Right... copyright artifically created scarcity, but it is failing. RIAA is a dinosaur that is failing along with it.
Yeah, I listen to music. But I haven't bought music in over a decade, and never will again.
However, I've spent at least a couple of grand going to see live shows, not only because they are valuable and scarce, but because I believe in supporting musicians, not music.
Oh, and with regards to my work, if they could have gotten it somewhere else, they most certainly would have... the cost of hiring me to make it was insignificant compared to the cost of waiting for it. Perhaps you mean they could have hired someone else to make it... I'm sure they could have. If they couldn't, I would have been paid a lot more.
Simple really. Value comes from scarcity. Modern technology has destroyed scarcity in information, both the law and modern technology have proven increasingly ineffective in artifically maintaining that scarcity. Therefore, the only scarcity, and thus the only value, is in the unmade, and once its made, its value goes to zero.
This isn't yet an absolute, we're still in the middle of the paradigm shift, but it's becoming more and more true every day.
Oh, and I no longer hold the rights to the content I've created... I was commissioned to create it by people who couldn't find what they needed anywhere else. But if you want a copy, fine by me... ain't worth shit, unless you're running a promotional company.
The only "content" that is worth anything is the content that hasn't been developed yet. If it's already been made, it's valueless.
Which leaves lots of room for money making endeavors, as lots remains to be made. Of course, if you can't make, but only wish to "own", DRM is not going to change the fact that you are, ahem, fucked.
as discrimination based upon race, gender, or physical condition has become less socially acceptable, we began to frown upon the use of pejorative terms associated with race
Um, does anyone else think that referring to master and slave as perjorative terms associated with race is MUCH more offensive than using the terms to refer to hard drives?
Slashdot Mirror
Darl Goes to Clown College
Don't you mean Darl Goes to Con-College?
I believe that they want to remove HDs from peoples homes, and have everyone store their data on MS servers.
You'll pay a monthly fee to use your account and get terminal access to the approved software suite and library of games. Migrating to another platform will become well-nigh impossible.
And if you're a small-time developer? There's always telemarketing....
The BSD gives you something that the GPL doesn't: The ability to put your project code in closed releases after it has been around for awhile.
Being that most open source projects aren't composed of millions and millions of developers, but a core group that does most work plus many more that do only a little, this isn't unreasonable.
If you GPL your project, you can't release a closed version, because you violate the rights of every developer who contributed a patch.
MySQL, for example, requires you to attribute the rights to all contributions to them, then THEY release your contribution under the GPL... because they own your contribution, they can also use the code in closed source projects.
PostGreSQL using BSD achieves the same thing.
The difference is, any contributor can use PostGres code in their closed project, but if you contribute to MySQL and want to put the MySQL DB code in your closed product, you have to pay.
And get sued by WineX? That wouldn't be very good for Lindows at all...
Note: If you live in the Netherlands, it is prohibited for you to read this post.
I go to read about the 2.7 Linux Kernel and I get an advertisement telling me...
Firebird + Adblock
Problem solved...
Free trade has nothing whatsoever to do with migrating to a foreign country. Wherever did you get that idea?
I did RTFA... but I never let reality get in the way of a joke...
Besides, the target market for this joke is Slashdot... WTF does the article have to do with it?!?
By 2005, the rollable displays, which can now be used to read e-mail, could initially be used in military applications as electronic, updatable maps on the battlefield, van Rens predicted. The monochrome display offers four gray levels.
Soldier 1: Where's the pickup point?
Soldier 2: Just a sec... SHIT!
Soldier 1: What?!?
Soldier 2: Got to reboot the map... got a grey screen of death!
<boom>
<splat>
Perhaps they don't send a folio because the things cost money?
If you're not going to get an interview out of it, and you don't have a job right now, you can't afford to send out a ton of folios.
Other than sex appeal, what other reasons are there for 64-bit?
This is a man who is NEVER going to get laid.
And why sue for copyright infringement of all things, besides the irony factor?
Perhaps they want to give these organisations reason to limit the powers of these laws that they have bought?
nt
Nice to know that minors will be protected... but what about adults that inadvertently download c.p.?
I don't think you have to be much of a tree hugger to be appalled by this. Even if you don't think there's health risks or environmental consequences, it's gotta be enough just that it's plain gross. Yet people live there, somehow or another.
No one will buy their house, so they can't afford to move?
I'm more interested in the ads that won't be shown in other countries because they are too "racy", "religiously offensive", etc. It's always fascinating to see how another culture rules out elements that we think are normal. The other way around is not so surprising, since we all watch the TV here all the time, and we know what shows and what doesn't on our own tv's.
More fun to smell anothers stink than your own?
Try spending more time looking at what other cultures don't consider offensive, yet are taboo in your own country...
Can't another country simply give us the finger once and a while and do their own god damned thing
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Israel
Release all music under a Creative Commons license, sell stuff by public ransom if you become popular, and own all your own music rights. Instead of Marketing owning the musician, the popular musician could hire Marketing on commission when they've already got a hit, and sell rights to commercial interests. Sounds pretty good to me.
Generalizations are essential to thought. It allows us to analyse things, percieve patterns, judge new things and make decisions. At the end of the day, you can never really be absolutely specific, all you can do is adjust your level of generalization. You simply can't analyse or discuss large scale things without using generalizations. That being the case, you'd be a fool to discard a statement just because it's a generalization.
The simple-minded thing is when you can't communicate with someone about things without nit-picking over exceptions instead of just accepting their comment as being a trend/pattern/norm/whatever and not an absolute.
Never eaten fast food?
it's only right that he be rewarded with the respect that a movie created in his books name will be the best ever
It was tolkiens express wish that his books NEVER be made into a movie.
His daughter sold him out, and his masterpeace hollywoodized for the consumption of the illiterate masses.
Were he to come back to life, I don't think respect is what he would feel.
Personally, I consider the movies to be utterly forgettable, and anyone who sees them before reading the books will miss out on one of the finest examples of fantasy literature ever written. Even if they read it later, the experience will have been forever ruined for them.
You didn't read the article, did you... that was a direct quote from the letter sent to suppliers
Right... copyright artifically created scarcity, but it is failing. RIAA is a dinosaur that is failing along with it.
Yeah, I listen to music. But I haven't bought music in over a decade, and never will again.
However, I've spent at least a couple of grand going to see live shows, not only because they are valuable and scarce, but because I believe in supporting musicians, not music.
Oh, and with regards to my work, if they could have gotten it somewhere else, they most certainly would have... the cost of hiring me to make it was insignificant compared to the cost of waiting for it. Perhaps you mean they could have hired someone else to make it... I'm sure they could have. If they couldn't, I would have been paid a lot more.
Simple really. Value comes from scarcity. Modern technology has destroyed scarcity in information, both the law and modern technology have proven increasingly ineffective in artifically maintaining that scarcity. Therefore, the only scarcity, and thus the only value, is in the unmade, and once its made, its value goes to zero.
This isn't yet an absolute, we're still in the middle of the paradigm shift, but it's becoming more and more true every day.
Oh, and I no longer hold the rights to the content I've created... I was commissioned to create it by people who couldn't find what they needed anywhere else. But if you want a copy, fine by me... ain't worth shit, unless you're running a promotional company.
The only "content" that is worth anything is the content that hasn't been developed yet. If it's already been made, it's valueless.
Which leaves lots of room for money making endeavors, as lots remains to be made. Of course, if you can't make, but only wish to "own", DRM is not going to change the fact that you are, ahem, fucked.
as discrimination based upon race, gender, or physical condition has become less socially acceptable, we began to frown upon the use of pejorative terms associated with race
Um, does anyone else think that referring to master and slave as perjorative terms associated with race is MUCH more offensive than using the terms to refer to hard drives?