It isn't as if they'd just suddenly start claiming copyright. They'd tell all students to have their parents sign something giving them copyright, or leave the school.
Nod. So if half the parents refuse to sign, and it becomes a media circus, then what? This is not refusing to be vaccinated, this is refusing to allow your children to be a free content source for the school. If leave the school is the choice, then homeschooling is always an option.
> could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not the individual
So, my daughter went to an art magnet school. During that time she created many works of art, some of which she entered into contests and won awards. She has commercial plans for a series of cartoon characters she invented while in school. If the school claimed ownership, she would not hesitate to sue, and she'd have a lot of company. Content creators can get really sticky about their own content, even as teenagers.
Therefore, I don't think the part about the school copyrighting content created by the students is going to fly. All they'd need is a couple of high profile losses, and we'd skip immediately to step 4, punishment of the innocent.
RIANZ will be weighing $250,000 against the deterrent effect this will have on filesharers. NOT the return they get in fines.
Absolutely correct. Now, everyone raise their hand who thinks $600 in fines will be an effective deterrent. Or that some effective change actually comes about before politicians lose enough face to start to get de-elected.
Dunno about texting, but in particular, that crashes only result in scrapes and dents, not twisted-into-unrecognizable-shapes oozing circulatory fluid.
> Yes, and as they also want their products to be shown in a positive light, this is why most licensed cars are never shown with much more than light scraps on the doors or shattered windshields, even in the most absurd collision.
It seems like this would lead to young drivers having unrealistic expectations.
> You can see time and again that California's problems are related to the failures of the foreign and economic policies of the United States as a whole.
There is truth in that. I'd observe that the issues related to said foreign and economic policies affect all of us, but have the biggest effect in the high density coastal areas. So moving to a lower density area, or closer to the center, would seem in order.
> We are strangely territorial when it comes to our wireless networks.
False premise.
I don't particularly care if someone else uses bandwidth that I am not using. The problem is that if those people do illegal things, I am culpable. Whereas, if I have my network locked down and someone finds a way to break in and *then* do illegal things, I do have some recompense.
It's not some silly selfishness that prevents me from sharing my network. It's the way the laws are written. Guarantee that if someone borrows my network to download child porn, I *do not* get prosecuted, then fine. But otherwise, forget it.
> Ah, the good old days... I'm glad Microsoft has brought that all back.
Yeah, I remember when making a computer run was difficult, and you could only do one app at a time. I missed those days. Maybe we should call this new platform "retro-futuristic".
> The reason for the difference: space already taken up by the tablet's Windows 8 Pro operating system and various preinstalled apps.
The OS has become a rodent -- excuse me, os, of unusual size some time ago, so no surprise there. I think the issue is whether and to what extent the preinstalled apps are useful. If this includes, for instance, a usable copy (not just a demo) of Office, then I'd give up some disk space for that. But if it's the usual crufty collection of bloatware and demos of stuff we'd never use, then bleh.
I'd like to see one of the review organizations get hold of one and strip it down to the bare OS, and tell us how much space is left. That would be very useful information.
> Only when constrained by a single, text-based session can one truly grok emacs.
Ah, that explains it then. I started with BSD and had job control almost from the beginning, so wasn't constrained by a single text-based session, despite being confined (at first) to a VT100. By the time we were forced by business interests to bring SysV into the machine room, (which did not have job control) these things called Sun workstations had become available.
I did have to *support* emacs, but never felt the need to actually use it. I'm a little surprised it still exists. But I guess there are still people out there using PDP-11s.
I think J. J. Abrams writes boilerplate characters and contrived drama. Star Trek demonstrated this to a tee. The entire premise of the villain was about as simple as it gets. They destroyed his planet and now he's out for revenge. Lame. Kirk and Spock's conflict is equally boring and was not explored enough. Kirk doesn't respect authority. He follows his hunches. Spock is the opposite. That simple premise just gives way to lots of yelling and screaming and punching. I thought it was obnoxious. The original show explored interesting ethical conflicts through creative and fantastical plot devices. I only hope his Star Wars movie doesn't devolve into an episode of 90210.
It still falls short a bit of having a usable Photoshop on a tablet. The latest Photoshop is not touch-aware, and is (from experience) very difficult to use on a touch-only device. Adobe needs to do some work there, and their effortsthus far are toys, meant for dressing up tablet camera photos, not serious content creation.
This is, incidentally, the same issue on Windows 8 tablets. Yes, you can use the latest full version of Photoshop. (Assuming intel-based tablets, because on ARM you have the same issue -- there's no version compiled for your device.) Yes, the experience still sucks, unless you attach the optional keyboard and mouse and use it like a laptop. But then, why not just use a laptop? And if you're going to use a laptop anyway, why put up with the funky Windows 8 interface when you can continue to use the more KVM-friendly interface of Windows 7?
So, kudos to samzenpus for figuring this out -- it's pretty cool. But it's more an interesting gimmick than the thing everyone -- including me -- have been looking for.
And we have a perfect right to say "that's crap, and they'd have to duct tape me to the chair to get me to watch it" if appropriate.
Roger Ebert once thought as you do.
J. J. will show you the true meaning of the final episode of Lost. He is your master now.
It is pointless to resist, my son.
Well, Ebert makes a living critiquing films. It would be difficult for him to simply decline to see them. I wouldn't want his job.
You know, I never saw the end of Lost. It got stupid, so I stopped watching it. I have no idea how it turned out, and I really really don't care. It seemed like they were just changing up things just for the hell of it. When it became clear that there was no master story arc, that they were going nowhere in particular, I abandoned the series. Life, as I said, is too short.
And that, I think, is my point. Just because the first one or two installments of a franchise is worth watching doesn't mean they can now put any damned thing on the screen that squirts out of their collective ass, and expect us to face it.
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It isn't as if they'd just suddenly start claiming copyright. They'd tell all students to have their parents sign something giving them copyright, or leave the school.
Nod. So if half the parents refuse to sign, and it becomes a media circus, then what? This is not refusing to be vaccinated, this is refusing to allow your children to be a free content source for the school. If leave the school is the choice, then homeschooling is always an option.
> could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not the individual
So, my daughter went to an art magnet school. During that time she created many works of art, some of which she entered into contests and won awards. She has commercial plans for a series of cartoon characters she invented while in school. If the school claimed ownership, she would not hesitate to sue, and she'd have a lot of company. Content creators can get really sticky about their own content, even as teenagers.
Therefore, I don't think the part about the school copyrighting content created by the students is going to fly. All they'd need is a couple of high profile losses, and we'd skip immediately to step 4, punishment of the innocent.
> as in "Gee, that's my third ka-ching this year, and it's only February!"
I'm wondering how many ka-chings before "I was just watching these myself, but now I have to sell pirated DVDs to recoup costs."
RIANZ will be weighing $250,000 against the deterrent effect this will have on filesharers. NOT the return they get in fines.
Absolutely correct. Now, everyone raise their hand who thinks $600 in fines will be an effective deterrent. Or that some effective change actually comes about before politicians lose enough face to start to get de-elected.
> The question raised is whether or not this money pit trend will continue
God, I hope so.
Thank god!!
On the short term, this could help shore up their smartphone business.
Great points. I don't have the time to dive into them now, but will soon.
Dunno about texting, but in particular, that crashes only result in scrapes and dents, not twisted-into-unrecognizable-shapes oozing circulatory fluid.
> Yes, and as they also want their products to be shown in a positive light, this is why most licensed cars are never shown with much more than light scraps on the doors or shattered windshields, even in the most absurd collision.
It seems like this would lead to young drivers having unrealistic expectations.
> You can see time and again that California's problems are related to the failures of the foreign and economic policies of the United States as a whole.
There is truth in that. I'd observe that the issues related to said foreign and economic policies affect all of us, but have the biggest effect in the high density coastal areas. So moving to a lower density area, or closer to the center, would seem in order.
There were more horses then.
Computer science? Or beginning MCSE?
> We are strangely territorial when it comes to our wireless networks.
False premise.
I don't particularly care if someone else uses bandwidth that I am not using. The problem is that if those people do illegal things, I am culpable. Whereas, if I have my network locked down and someone finds a way to break in and *then* do illegal things, I do have some recompense.
It's not some silly selfishness that prevents me from sharing my network. It's the way the laws are written. Guarantee that if someone borrows my network to download child porn, I *do not* get prosecuted, then fine. But otherwise, forget it.
> Ah, the good old days... I'm glad Microsoft has brought that all back.
Yeah, I remember when making a computer run was difficult, and you could only do one app at a time. I missed those days. Maybe we should call this new platform "retro-futuristic".
> The reason for the difference: space already taken up by the tablet's Windows 8 Pro operating system and various preinstalled apps.
The OS has become a rodent -- excuse me, os, of unusual size some time ago, so no surprise there. I think the issue is whether and to what extent the preinstalled apps are useful. If this includes, for instance, a usable copy (not just a demo) of Office, then I'd give up some disk space for that. But if it's the usual crufty collection of bloatware and demos of stuff we'd never use, then bleh.
I'd like to see one of the review organizations get hold of one and strip it down to the bare OS, and tell us how much space is left. That would be very useful information.
> Only when constrained by a single, text-based session can one truly grok emacs.
Ah, that explains it then. I started with BSD and had job control almost from the beginning, so wasn't constrained by a single text-based session, despite being confined (at first) to a VT100. By the time we were forced by business interests to bring SysV into the machine room, (which did not have job control) these things called Sun workstations had become available.
I did have to *support* emacs, but never felt the need to actually use it. I'm a little surprised it still exists. But I guess there are still people out there using PDP-11s.
> But for docs, these are my files, I can't go to documentbay.se and get my files from there.
Write porn. It'll show up there.
> I think a lot of people will be careful with this.
Some will, but I think most people won't think about it until the servers are shut down. Then it'll be all "My What? isn't WHAT??"
I think J. J. Abrams writes boilerplate characters and contrived drama. Star Trek demonstrated this to a tee. The entire premise of the villain was about as simple as it gets. They destroyed his planet and now he's out for revenge. Lame. Kirk and Spock's conflict is equally boring and was not explored enough. Kirk doesn't respect authority. He follows his hunches. Spock is the opposite. That simple premise just gives way to lots of yelling and screaming and punching. I thought it was obnoxious. The original show explored interesting ethical conflicts through creative and fantastical plot devices. I only hope his Star Wars movie doesn't devolve into an episode of 90210.
One could argue that the prequels already had.
"Destroyed utterly. No survivors."
With that in the trailer, I'd be more interested in buying a ticket.
It still falls short a bit of having a usable Photoshop on a tablet. The latest Photoshop is not touch-aware, and is (from experience) very difficult to use on a touch-only device. Adobe needs to do some work there, and their efforts thus far are toys, meant for dressing up tablet camera photos, not serious content creation.
This is, incidentally, the same issue on Windows 8 tablets. Yes, you can use the latest full version of Photoshop. (Assuming intel-based tablets, because on ARM you have the same issue -- there's no version compiled for your device.) Yes, the experience still sucks, unless you attach the optional keyboard and mouse and use it like a laptop. But then, why not just use a laptop? And if you're going to use a laptop anyway, why put up with the funky Windows 8 interface when you can continue to use the more KVM-friendly interface of Windows 7?
So, kudos to samzenpus for figuring this out -- it's pretty cool. But it's more an interesting gimmick than the thing everyone -- including me -- have been looking for.
Yeah, but then the problem is, then you have to run Windows 8.
And we have a perfect right to say "that's crap, and they'd have to duct tape me to the chair to get me to watch it" if appropriate.
Roger Ebert once thought as you do.
J. J. will show you the true meaning of the final episode of Lost. He is your master now.
It is pointless to resist, my son.
Well, Ebert makes a living critiquing films. It would be difficult for him to simply decline to see them. I wouldn't want his job.
You know, I never saw the end of Lost. It got stupid, so I stopped watching it. I have no idea how it turned out, and I really really don't care. It seemed like they were just changing up things just for the hell of it. When it became clear that there was no master story arc, that they were going nowhere in particular, I abandoned the series. Life, as I said, is too short.
And that, I think, is my point. Just because the first one or two installments of a franchise is worth watching doesn't mean they can now put any damned thing on the screen that squirts out of their collective ass, and expect us to face it.