if you can milk something infinately, it removes all incentive to create new creative works
Sherlock Holmes is a piss-poor example for this argument.
The character is arguably the most famous and instantly recognizable in all English literature.
There have been hundreds if not thousands of new Holmes stories published. Countless books, films, stage, radio and tv productions. In each generation, a new actor becomes the definitive Sherlock Holmes.
There have puppet shows, comics, cartoons, graphic novels - Dover even publishes a set of paper dolls.
The modern mystery and detective story begins with Holmes. Doyle introduced three important and suggestive ideas:
1 Holmes is a private detective, in the modern meaning of the word.He is almost never reduced to solving a problem with a fist or a gun, I don't think of how fresh and novel that was.
2 Doyle separated the narrator and the detective.
Watson can tell the story in the first person without cheating the reader.
He can ask the questions the reader wants answered. He can be an Archie Goodwin or a Nora Charles.
2 Holmes is firmly anchored in a particular time and place - a time and place he instantly invokes.
I expect an outpouring of sympathy from the international community at such a flagrant disregard of the basic human right to not suffer through another Chow Yun Fat performance.
No suffering required:
He is known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard-Boiled; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He mainly plays in dramatic films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for "Best Actor" and two Golden Horse Awards for "Best Actor" in Taiwan. Chow {is known ]for playing honorable tough guys, whether cops or criminals, but he also starred in comedies like Diary of a Big Man (1988) and Now You See Love, Now You Don't (1992) and romantic blockbusters such as Love in a Fallen City (1984) and An Autumn's Tale (1987), for which he was named best actor at the Golden Horse Awards. He brought together his disparate personae in the 1989 film God of Gamblers (Du Shen), directed by the prolific Wong Jing, in which he was by turns suave charmer, broad comedian and action hero. The film surprised many, became immensely popular, broke Hong Kong's all-time box office record, and spawned a series of gambling films, as well as several comic sequels Chow Yun-Fat
But unfortunately, the proponents of this defect own the incumbent news media. This makes it more difficult for free culture advocates to get the message out that DRM is a defect.
There is the slight additional difficulty that the free culture doesn't include product from Disney/Pixar, Fox, etc.
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Why is it double the price in the US?
It has to be packaged and shipped to the states - along with stocks of spare parts, etc.
It has to have an American distributor.
It has to be successfully advertised and promoted here.
It has to be sold with a warranty and service plan that will attract the American buyer.
ReactOS might just provide the necessary pressure for MS to dismantle the DRM subsystem in future versions of Windows if it begins gaining significant market share. This likely won't gain any traction in the retail market, but a successful implementation could destroy sales of MS licenses in the corporate climate, something MS would take very seriously as it accounts for most of the their windows income.
DRM in Windows has two components:
Distribution and performance rights management of digital media in the home entertainment market and others.
[This interests folks who look at the $1 billion dollars Avatar grossed in its first eighteen days of theatrical release.]
Enterprise digital rights management - sometimes called information rights management.
Authentication. Secure distribution and so on. These are things the corporate buyer wants and needs to see.
This seems kinda similar to FreeDOS, except less useful. FreeDOS is a binary-compatible version of MS-DOS that some OSS devs put together, and actually works well. Except that no one really uses it, except for specialty things like boot/driver disks
and the sale of classic MSDOS PC games through outlets like D2D, GOG.com and Steam.
You could begin building your collection with Commander Keen.
The first is in Costa Rica, which is included in the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Yet like with other free trade agreements that the US has agreed to elsewhere, this one includes draconian intellectual property law requirements
You knew that when you signed the treaty.
You knew what was coming when you began offering incentives to Intel, 20% of your exports in 2006. Costa Rica
The big corporation that lives and breathes IP.
You want to sell coffee and bananas. You want what Intel and Glaxo and P&G have to offer.
Interesting a lot of people defending this guy - but threatening to blow up an airport is just stupid don't even bother with proxy, just don't make bomb threats, it's not smart or funny
The proxy is a particularly stupid idea - and all too typically geek. If your defenses are breached, you will be approached as a real threat. No more fun and games.
Oh well, I just won't bother reading it then. I will read www.bbc.co.uk or www.telegraph.co.uk or theregister.co.uk or www.zeit.de or cnn.com or slashdot.org or www.dailymail.co.uk or and the list goes on.
What makes you think that any news site can continue to provide free service to everyone in the world?
These days, I get all my news from either FARK, Slashdot, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, or The Colbert Report.
No you don't.
You are getting your news second, third or fourth hand.
Filtered and packaged by whatever passes for an editor at these sites. The Reader's Digest version.
The same thing happened with the Wall Street Journal, too -- they're not even on my radar anymore (Thanks, Rupert!)
A celebration of ignorance does not inspire confidence.
The WSJ is on your CEO's radar. His customers and clients. His financial backers. His home-town banker.
You need to know what they are thinking.
The Journal has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the United States. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the paper has a circulation of 2.1 million copies (including 400,000 paid, online subscriptions) as of October 2009 compared to USA Today's 1.9 million. Its main rival in the Business newspaper sector is the London-based Financial Times, which also publishes several international editions.The Wall Street Journal
How many actual detonations do we hear about - at school or anywhere else? Like maybe 1 every couple of years?
Explosions are rare.
But kids do strange things:
A Pine Middle School 8th grader showed classmates spent CO2 cartridges modified to look like explosive devices on the morning bus ride to school, prompting his fellow students to alert school officials. He was showing them to kids on the bus and telling them he had made them. The young man had drilled holes in the top of the cartridges and inserted key chains which made them look like explosives to some of the youngstersPine Middle School bomb scare turns out to be fake
One question that never really gets answered in these stories is what a geek thinks a real bomb would look like - and how much he would be willing to risk if he had to make the call. With maybe 600 lives depending on the right answer.
NoReaction+Bomb is the worst outcome, yes, but its astonishingly unlikely. Getting hit by lightning in your office likely.
Maybe. Maybe not.
A 13-year-old elementary school student had "second thoughts" that stopped him from setting off pipe bombs in his Courtice school. The bomb squad examined explosives found in the boy's home and said they would have caused significant damage. [They] wouldn't say how many explosive devices -- which he apparently learned how to make from the Internet -- were seized.'Second thoughts' halt school bomb plot [Jan 14]
This piece is a little dated - but still suggestive:
Data on bomb incidents (any event in which an actual bomb or bomb look-alike is involved) and bomb threats (any event in which a bomb threat is communicated that may or may not involve an actual bomb or bomb look-alike) are limited. The FBI reports that close to 5 percent of bombing incidents in the United States in 1999 were targeted at schools. It is unknown what portion of these incidents involved threats. For the period January 1990 to February 28, 2002 the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recorded 1,055 incidents of bombs being placed in school premises. Again, we do not know what proportion of these incidents involved threats. For the most part, however, it is probably reasonable to conclude that bomb incidents involving real bombs in schools are relatively rare, though they have been with us for quite some time. Furthermore, relatively few bomb explosions are preceded by a warning or threat to officials. Of the 1,055 bomb incidents in schools reported by ATF, only 14 were accompanied by a warning to school or other authorities.
The first known school bombing occurred in May 1927 in Bath, Michigan. A local farmer blew up the school, killing 38 pupils, six adults and seriously injuring 40 other students.The Problem of Bomb Threats in Schools
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and it will doubtless use the rest of 2010 to look at how sites like the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times fare before deciding on specifics
The WSJ online has more than 1 million paying subscribers.
It is arguably the oldest anf most successful example of pay-for-news-content on the Internet. WSJ Online Expanded Pay Plans Include Bundles, Micropayments
if you can milk something infinately, it removes all incentive to create new creative works
Sherlock Holmes is a piss-poor example for this argument.
The character is arguably the most famous and instantly recognizable in all English literature.
There have been hundreds if not thousands of new Holmes stories published. Countless books, films, stage, radio and tv productions. In each generation, a new actor becomes the definitive Sherlock Holmes.
There have puppet shows, comics, cartoons, graphic novels - Dover even publishes a set of paper dolls.
The modern mystery and detective story begins with Holmes. Doyle introduced three important and suggestive ideas:
1 Holmes is a private detective, in the modern meaning of the word.He is almost never reduced to solving a problem with a fist or a gun, I don't think of how fresh and novel that was.
2 Doyle separated the narrator and the detective.
Watson can tell the story in the first person without cheating the reader.
He can ask the questions the reader wants answered. He can be an Archie Goodwin or a Nora Charles.
2 Holmes is firmly anchored in a particular time and place - a time and place he instantly invokes.
No suffering required:
He is known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard-Boiled; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
He mainly plays in dramatic films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for "Best Actor" and two Golden Horse Awards for "Best Actor" in Taiwan.
Chow {is known ]for playing honorable tough guys, whether cops or criminals, but he also starred in comedies like Diary of a Big Man (1988) and Now You See Love, Now You Don't (1992) and romantic blockbusters such as Love in a Fallen City (1984) and An Autumn's Tale (1987), for which he was named best actor at the Golden Horse Awards.
He brought together his disparate personae in the 1989 film God of Gamblers (Du Shen), directed by the prolific Wong Jing, in which he was by turns suave charmer, broad comedian and action hero. The film surprised many, became immensely popular, broke Hong Kong's all-time box office record, and spawned a series of gambling films, as well as several comic sequels Chow Yun-Fat
Dude, they spend $130 million dollars on advertising it. That's how you know it's a quality game.
Estimates for MW2:
$50 million in production. $150 million in marketing. Modern Warfare 2 Costs Millions To Make, Outsells Harry Potter Movies & GTA IV
Estimates for Avatar:
$250 million in production. $250 million in global marketing. A Movie's Budget Pops From the Screen
But unfortunately, the proponents of this defect own the incumbent news media. This makes it more difficult for free culture advocates to get the message out that DRM is a defect.
There is the slight additional difficulty that the free culture doesn't include product from Disney/Pixar, Fox, etc.
Why is it double the price in the US?
It has to be packaged and shipped to the states - along with stocks of spare parts, etc.
It has to have an American distributor.
It has to be successfully advertised and promoted here.
It has to be sold with a warranty and service plan that will attract the American buyer.
I understand the whole dress thing on the female bike design, which is where I'm lead to believe it came from.
The safety bicycle became popular and affordable in the 1880s and 1890s.
The "dress thing" was a serious barrier to women who wanted to engage in any active sport. The Prairie Pioneer
ReactOS might just provide the necessary pressure for MS to dismantle the DRM subsystem in future versions of Windows if it begins gaining significant market share. This likely won't gain any traction in the retail market, but a successful implementation could destroy sales of MS licenses in the corporate climate, something MS would take very seriously as it accounts for most of the their windows income.
DRM in Windows has two components:
Distribution and performance rights management of digital media in the home entertainment market and others.
[This interests folks who look at the $1 billion dollars Avatar grossed in its first eighteen days of theatrical release.]
Enterprise digital rights management - sometimes called information rights management.
Authentication. Secure distribution and so on. These are things the corporate buyer wants and needs to see.
why did Win 7 remove the telnet command???
Why do I find telnet.exe on 64 Bit Windows 7 Home Premium? It is not enabled by default - but it is there.
And RDP?????
In Win 7 Home Premium try searching for "Remote Desktop Connection." Remote Desktop Services
This seems kinda similar to FreeDOS, except less useful. FreeDOS is a binary-compatible version of MS-DOS that some OSS devs put together, and actually works well. Except that no one really uses it, except for specialty things like boot/driver disks
and the sale of classic MSDOS PC games through outlets like D2D, GOG.com and Steam.
You could begin building your collection with Commander Keen.
Fortunately, the developers of GNU, Linux, Wine, Open Office, didn't feel that way.
It does however speed things along when the big corporation is willing to invest megabucks in a project like Firefox.
What specific acts of terrorism are you thinking of here?
It's like personal home protection for many people - they don't want a gun in the house until after they've been robbed the first time
Understanding the problem correctly is the first step to a solution.
You don't want a gun in the house.
You want to ward off an intruder without a confrontation.
The armed encounter is damned unpredictable. You don't know when it will happen or who will have to face it.
Maybe your ten year old kid can pull it off.
But you might come home to find her dead.
The first is in Costa Rica, which is included in the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Yet like with other free trade agreements that the US has agreed to elsewhere, this one includes draconian intellectual property law requirements
You knew that when you signed the treaty.
You knew what was coming when you began offering incentives to Intel, 20% of your exports in 2006. Costa Rica
The big corporation that lives and breathes IP.
You want to sell coffee and bananas. You want what Intel and Glaxo and P&G have to offer.
You make the deal. You live by the deal.
Interesting a lot of people defending this guy - but threatening to blow up an airport is just stupid
don't even bother with proxy, just don't make bomb threats, it's not smart or funny
The proxy is a particularly stupid idea - and all too typically geek. If your defenses are breached, you will be approached as a real threat. No more fun and games.
Staten Island Teen Arrested in Apple Store Bomb Threat [Jam 13]
Oh well, I just won't bother reading it then. I will read www.bbc.co.uk or www.telegraph.co.uk or theregister.co.uk or www.zeit.de or cnn.com or slashdot.org or www.dailymail.co.uk or and the list goes on.
What makes you think that any news site can continue to provide free service to everyone in the world?
These days, I get all my news from either FARK, Slashdot, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, or The Colbert Report.
No you don't.
You are getting your news second, third or fourth hand.
Filtered and packaged by whatever passes for an editor at these sites. The Reader's Digest version.
The same thing happened with the Wall Street Journal, too -- they're not even on my radar anymore (Thanks, Rupert!)
A celebration of ignorance does not inspire confidence.
The WSJ is on your CEO's radar. His customers and clients. His financial backers. His home-town banker.
You need to know what they are thinking.
The Journal has the largest circulation of any newspaper in the United States. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the paper has a circulation of 2.1 million copies (including 400,000 paid, online subscriptions) as of October 2009 compared to USA Today's 1.9 million. Its main rival in the Business newspaper sector is the London-based Financial Times, which also publishes several international editions. The Wall Street Journal
Every small town has a newspaper. Most larger ones have several.
This is simply not true.
The Courier Express folded in 1982.
The Buffalo News [owned by Warren Buffet] has been the only daily newspaper worth a damn in Western New York for twenty-eight years.
The one newspaper city has become the norm. The major city without a daily newspaper is a very close at hand.
Ads that tell selfish old geezers that they can get an overpriced motorized wheelchair "for free" is what keeps health care costs high.
That selfish old geezer who now has mobility can continue to live at home.
Where he will remain more active and engaged. Healthier. Less dependent on others.
That saves the system a lot of money.
Have you priced the nursing home bed or "assisted living" for your parents or grandparents?
Young kids being duped into thinking that their doctor visits are "for free" is what keeps health costs high.
Keeping kids healthy keeps health costs low.
But as far as doing something more elaborate like a new Bond film starring a 'young' Sean Connery?
The Connery Bond films are as firmly anchored in the sixties as the classic image of Bogart is in the forties.
An actor with a minimum of common sense abandons these roles as he grows older and their time is past.
Actors face becoming obsolete sooner or later.
The showman has always known that the star is the best guarantee of a return at the box office.
Tech become routine. You keep reaching for the next big effect. New ways to tie the heroine to the railroad track.
But that won't be enough to make you care about the character and the story.
Is Ben Burtt a technician or an actor?
The lead animators for Eve and Wall-E? The geek who says "tech" doesn't know what acting means. Not in CG and not in live action.
He doesn't have the "face." He doesn't know how to use the "face."
How many actual detonations do we hear about - at school or anywhere else? Like maybe 1 every couple of years?
Explosions are rare.
But kids do strange things:
A Pine Middle School 8th grader showed classmates spent CO2 cartridges modified to look like explosive devices on the morning bus ride to school, prompting his fellow students to alert school officials. He was showing them to kids on the bus and telling them he had made them. The young man had drilled holes in the top of the cartridges and inserted key chains which made them look like explosives to some of the youngsters Pine Middle School bomb scare turns out to be fake
One question that never really gets answered in these stories is what a geek thinks a real bomb would look like - and how much he would be willing to risk if he had to make the call. With maybe 600 lives depending on the right answer.
We should constantly live in fear of tribal men in caves 8000 miles away at all times.
Osama isn't tribal.
He's medieval.
His family made its fortune in heavy construction for the Saudi royal family. Net worth $7 billion.
Chicken feed. Prince Alwaleed alone is worth $18 billion. No Saudi whatever his merit or ambition can climb higher so long as his family rules.
Do I have to tell you how this story ends?
Neither is it psychologically insignificant that building the iconic mosque or royal palace was where the bin Ladens began.
Osama has spent his entire life on the outside looking in.
Close but no cigar.
Rich List 2009 - 7# The Bin Laden Family
NoReaction+Bomb is the worst outcome, yes, but its astonishingly unlikely. Getting hit by lightning in your office likely.
Maybe. Maybe not.
A 13-year-old elementary school student had "second thoughts" that stopped him from setting off pipe bombs in his Courtice school. The bomb squad examined explosives found in the boy's home and said they would have caused significant damage. [They] wouldn't say how many explosive devices -- which he apparently learned how to make from the Internet -- were seized. 'Second thoughts' halt school bomb plot [Jan 14]
This piece is a little dated - but still suggestive:
Data on bomb incidents (any event in which an actual bomb or bomb look-alike is involved) and bomb threats (any event in which a bomb threat is communicated that may or may not involve an actual bomb or bomb look-alike) are limited. The FBI reports that close to 5 percent of bombing incidents in the United States in 1999 were targeted at schools. It is unknown what portion of these incidents involved threats. For the period January 1990 to February 28, 2002 the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recorded 1,055 incidents of bombs being placed in school premises. Again, we do not know what proportion of these incidents involved threats. For the most part, however, it is probably reasonable to conclude that bomb incidents involving real bombs in schools are relatively rare, though they have been with us for quite some time. Furthermore, relatively few bomb explosions are preceded by a warning or threat to officials. Of the 1,055 bomb incidents in schools reported by ATF, only 14 were accompanied by a warning to school or other authorities.
The first known school bombing occurred in May 1927 in Bath, Michigan. A local farmer blew up the school, killing 38 pupils, six adults and seriously injuring 40 other students. The Problem of Bomb Threats in Schools
I remember a story from almost 10 years back that you could buy a Mig-21 for $14k
Here are some fighter jet stories from 2006: Buying A Fighter Jet? and another from Wired: Building Your Own Air Force, One Mig at a Time [2005]