We used to sing this song with jacked up lyrics back in grade school. The copyright owners can kiss my ass, I'm gonna sing this "illicit version" from now on, until I die, just cause they pissed me off with this lawsuit threat.
This land is my land, It isn't your land, I've got a shotgun And you don't got one. If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off. This land is private proper-teeee.
Or maybe this.
This song is our song, It isn't your song, It wasn't intended to have an owner I don't care if you own it That doesn't mean you control it this song was made for you and me
you mean things aren't black or white? True or False? I have to actually reason and think and oouch, this hurts. O'Rielly, what should I believe. Please tell me fox news. I don't think I can do it all on my own.
The ACLU pisses me off in this respect, because they defend the KKK, but they also defend the 6th grader who gets expelled and labled a terrorist for drawing a picture of her teacher being shot with arrows. How can you not support an organization that helps defend the poor 6th grader. people have a hard time abstracting the issue in the KKK case or the burning flag case or what not with the content of the case. The ACLU defends liberty, even if that liberty is used to do somthing as dispicable as burn a flag. But that's why America is great, because we have the right to say America sucks. The ACLU defends that right.
but you have a good point, it's a mental challenge to understand the ACLU on a simplistic level, in fact, it's about as possible as it is to understand vector calculus on a simple level. Somethings in life require brain power, and can't be simplified. it's too bad we have so many simpletons in this country.
sorry for being offtopic, please have some pity modders.
There's a car ad that asks which car maker has the best something something something, and on the screen there are the names of like 100 car brands, they remove the names one by one saying, not bmw, not audi, etc. I've stopped the ad with 4 different people who were watching it for the first time (using tivo) and asked them to guess who the ad is for. The all said Saturn, as did I. It's not saturn. The people making the ad should have had their car makers name positioned where saturn's was, because as it is now, I can remember that the ad was not for saturn, but I can't remember who the ad was really for.
Signs of water upteen gazillion years ago are only useful in providing hope that fossil fuels exists. Why else would Bush want to go to Mars, other than to find oil, that and maybe to exact a preemptive strike to prevent the war of the worlds. I saw that movie, and those martians certainly had weapons of mass destruction.
At Yorktown, the victory that won the war, Frenchman outnumbered Americans almost three to one!
Washington had 11,000 men engaged in the battle, while the French had at least 29,000 soldiers and sailors. The 37 French ships-of-the-line played a crucial role in trapping the 8,700 strong British army and winning the engagement.
No shit. not to mention that the same fucktard "patriots" that talk about saving the french never mention how the french helped us significantly in that first war we fought, you know, against the english, for our independence, the same independence we're celebrating today.
"caching would be neat but it's a complicated issue that needs to be thought through before being implimented"
So think it through already. It's been how many years? When that was written google didn't even exist. Since then google has implimented a wonderful caching system that seems to work. If the geniuses at google can figure out how to cache the entire freaking intarweb, surely people smart enough to bring us slashdot can figure out a way to cache 7 or 8 sites.
not only that, but if he downloaded them, and then his p2p software shared them to other people who own legitimate copies than it is fair use.
I demand that they supoena everyone who downloaded a song from me to prove that they don't own legitimate copies. yeah that's it.
Scenario 1. There are two US companies making two competive products. Company A and Company B. Company A's is better, and about 20 bucks more than company B's. They are both about $120 for a 1 user package. (140,120)
Company A ships their PD department to India, and continues to charge 140. Comany B is now the company you SHOULD buy from. The savings from India is not being passed on to you, so screw em, buy local.
Scenario 2. Same as before, except now Company A is charging half the price of company B. You should buy from Company A. Now the benefit of India is being passed on to you, so it's ok. If Company B wants to survive they'll have to move there too, and get in a price war and we'll all be happy like we were when the RAM market went through the floor.
Right now companies are trying to have their cake and eat it too. I say, give me some of that cake or I'll buy from your competition until you have to give me some of that cake.
what was your major? I'm undecided EE/CompE/CS and trying to figure out what EE people really do in the real world. Are you one of them? Or just some hardware geek who's got an entirely unrelated education/career.
the qrio can recognize faces. check out the post. it's really pretty advanced. your complaints sound like the "who cares about the internet, I want a holodeck" dribble people said back before they had slashdot to post on - because there wasn't an internet yet.
Theres an interesting correlation with the kid (law student harvard I think)that sued to get the DMCA changed. He had reverse engineered the black list to some internet blocking software (which is legal under the dmca) and wanted to a) share that list with other professionals and b) distribute the device he used to get the list (which aren't legal under the dmca).
he believed that they should be legal, and knew if he did it he'd get sued by the company who made the blocking software. So he filed suit saying that the law should be changed on grounds that if he did it, he'd be sued.
The judge dismissed the court because he wasn't sued, it was all hypothetical, and the court couldn't decide whether the law was violating his rights if he wasn't being sued under the law, because he hadn't yet broken the law.
With that in mind, a similar judgement may be found in texas, because infinium hadn't sued yet, but since they did sue (and did threaten) that won't happen.
I'm in that situation. Made good money for 6 years after dropping out of college. Now I'm back in school. Currently CS/EE thinking about Finance. Strangely attracted to chemistry/materials engineering. Not sure what to do with my life. Feel like a 19 year old. I love it.
you should go back and get the business degree you've always wanted. from what I hear, any idiot can get one, but the smart folks who rise to the top rise FAAARRRRR to the top.
I was going to commend him on his choice for waiting to get married (based on my choices of marrying early), but then I read your post. I guess the lesson learned is to date as many girls as you can between the ages of 16-26 and then towards the 25,26,27,28 years pick one and keep her.
ok. one of life's lessons learned. Now people, listen to us old timers. We know what we're talking about.
The outsourcing of developers was all pretty quiet, relatively speaking. Those of us in the industry knew about it, but writers like to listen to themselves talk. Let a writer see the writing on the wall, and he'll write about it.
It's gonna get worse before it gets better. (and it's not going to get better)
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what's mine say? DUDE!
Sweet. Dude, what's mine say?
Sweet!
Dude!
we are the message.
We used to sing this song with jacked up lyrics back in grade school. The copyright owners can kiss my ass, I'm gonna sing this "illicit version" from now on, until I die, just cause they pissed me off with this lawsuit threat.
This land is my land,
It isn't your land,
I've got a shotgun
And you don't got one.
If you don't get off,
I'll blow your head off.
This land is private proper-teeee.
Or maybe this.
This song is our song,
It isn't your song,
It wasn't intended
to have an owner
I don't care if you own it
That doesn't mean you control it
this song was made for you and me
you mean things aren't black or white? True or False? I have to actually reason and think and oouch, this hurts. O'Rielly, what should I believe. Please tell me fox news. I don't think I can do it all on my own. The ACLU pisses me off in this respect, because they defend the KKK, but they also defend the 6th grader who gets expelled and labled a terrorist for drawing a picture of her teacher being shot with arrows. How can you not support an organization that helps defend the poor 6th grader. people have a hard time abstracting the issue in the KKK case or the burning flag case or what not with the content of the case. The ACLU defends liberty, even if that liberty is used to do somthing as dispicable as burn a flag. But that's why America is great, because we have the right to say America sucks. The ACLU defends that right. but you have a good point, it's a mental challenge to understand the ACLU on a simplistic level, in fact, it's about as possible as it is to understand vector calculus on a simple level. Somethings in life require brain power, and can't be simplified. it's too bad we have so many simpletons in this country. sorry for being offtopic, please have some pity modders.
he uses google to try to act smart while instant messaging her. yeah, I know this story well.
There's a car ad that asks which car maker has the best something something something, and on the screen there are the names of like 100 car brands, they remove the names one by one saying, not bmw, not audi, etc. I've stopped the ad with 4 different people who were watching it for the first time (using tivo) and asked them to guess who the ad is for. The all said Saturn, as did I. It's not saturn. The people making the ad should have had their car makers name positioned where saturn's was, because as it is now, I can remember that the ad was not for saturn, but I can't remember who the ad was really for.
Signs of water upteen gazillion years ago are only useful in providing hope that fossil fuels exists. Why else would Bush want to go to Mars, other than to find oil, that and maybe to exact a preemptive strike to prevent the war of the worlds. I saw that movie, and those martians certainly had weapons of mass destruction.
I'd agree. Sell it rather than let it crash into the pacific, or whatever they had in mind.
At Yorktown, the victory that won the war, Frenchman outnumbered Americans almost three to one!
Washington had 11,000 men engaged in the battle, while the French had at least 29,000 soldiers and sailors. The 37 French ships-of-the-line played a crucial role in trapping the 8,700 strong British army and winning the engagement.
No shit. not to mention that the same fucktard "patriots" that talk about saving the french never mention how the french helped us significantly in that first war we fought, you know, against the english, for our independence, the same independence we're celebrating today.
"caching would be neat but it's a complicated issue that needs to be thought through before being implimented"
So think it through already. It's been how many years? When that was written google didn't even exist. Since then google has implimented a wonderful caching system that seems to work. If the geniuses at google can figure out how to cache the entire freaking intarweb, surely people smart enough to bring us slashdot can figure out a way to cache 7 or 8 sites.
not only that, but if he downloaded them, and then his p2p software shared them to other people who own legitimate copies than it is fair use. I demand that they supoena everyone who downloaded a song from me to prove that they don't own legitimate copies. yeah that's it.
"Rambus believes that RDRAM was not the success it should have been because chip makers did not want to pay their royalties."
rambus, sco, that fuckin IP compnay that tried to patent e-commerce and a few other fuckheads can all suck a donkey's dick.
This same guy wrote DeCSS, FairPlay and DeCRMS....
wow. what a brilliant ballsy sun of a bitch.
It's simple.
Scenario 1.
There are two US companies making two competive products. Company A and Company B. Company A's is better, and about 20 bucks more than company B's. They are both about $120 for a 1 user package. (140,120)
Company A ships their PD department to India, and continues to charge 140. Comany B is now the company you SHOULD buy from. The savings from India is not being passed on to you, so screw em, buy local.
Scenario 2. Same as before, except now Company A is charging half the price of company B. You should buy from Company A. Now the benefit of India is being passed on to you, so it's ok. If Company B wants to survive they'll have to move there too, and get in a price war and we'll all be happy like we were when the RAM market went through the floor.
Right now companies are trying to have their cake and eat it too. I say, give me some of that cake or I'll buy from your competition until you have to give me some of that cake.
I'm ashamed.
what was your major? I'm undecided EE/CompE/CS and trying to figure out what EE people really do in the real world. Are you one of them? Or just some hardware geek who's got an entirely unrelated education/career.
If these aren't virii, then they must be parasites.
the qrio can recognize faces. check out the post. it's really pretty advanced. your complaints sound like the "who cares about the internet, I want a holodeck" dribble people said back before they had slashdot to post on - because there wasn't an internet yet.
we're sleeping through the revolution....
I bet the first thing we'll do, when we find life, is kill it!
Theres an interesting correlation with the kid (law student harvard I think)that sued to get the DMCA changed. He had reverse engineered the black list to some internet blocking software (which is legal under the dmca) and wanted to a) share that list with other professionals and b) distribute the device he used to get the list (which aren't legal under the dmca).
he believed that they should be legal, and knew if he did it he'd get sued by the company who made the blocking software. So he filed suit saying that the law should be changed on grounds that if he did it, he'd be sued.
The judge dismissed the court because he wasn't sued, it was all hypothetical, and the court couldn't decide whether the law was violating his rights if he wasn't being sued under the law, because he hadn't yet broken the law.
With that in mind, a similar judgement may be found in texas, because infinium hadn't sued yet, but since they did sue (and did threaten) that won't happen.
I'm in that situation. Made good money for 6 years after dropping out of college. Now I'm back in school. Currently CS/EE thinking about Finance. Strangely attracted to chemistry/materials engineering. Not sure what to do with my life. Feel like a 19 year old. I love it.
you should go back and get the business degree you've always wanted. from what I hear, any idiot can get one, but the smart folks who rise to the top rise FAAARRRRR to the top.
I was going to commend him on his choice for waiting to get married (based on my choices of marrying early), but then I read your post. I guess the lesson learned is to date as many girls as you can between the ages of 16-26 and then towards the 25,26,27,28 years pick one and keep her.
ok. one of life's lessons learned. Now people, listen to us old timers. We know what we're talking about.
The outsourcing of developers was all pretty quiet, relatively speaking. Those of us in the industry knew about it, but writers like to listen to themselves talk. Let a writer see the writing on the wall, and he'll write about it.
It's gonna get worse before it gets better. (and it's not going to get better)
I always thought it would be clever to simply make it send every mail in your inbox to everyone on you're address book.
When you wife reads teh letter from your girfriend you'll be mad. when you wife's parents read the letter from your girlfriend you'll really be mad.