The idea that you can spend 2 weeks or 2 years creating one record and then reap 70 years of income is ridiculous. Does a plumber go to school for 2 years to learn how to fix toilets only to get paid for 70 years whenever you flush that toilet? No, they continue to work. Does an architect spend 2 years designing plans only to get paid forever by those who live or use the building that came forth from the plans? No, they keep designing. Artists are no different -- they should continue their labors in order to continue to reap incomes.
The artist reaps 70 years of income only if his product generates 70 years of sales.
Talent at that level, a single performance at that level, is extraordinarily rare. Dashiell Hammett wrote five incomparable crime novels between 1929 and 1934. There would be nothing more.
But if you showed a painting or a drawing to the public...you can't sue the person who put it up for display. Artists and painters have had (to this day) to deal with the world "without Intectual Property rights" for ages
It is only DRM-related drivers that absolutely require a free Microsoft-issued PIC (Publishers Identification Certificate), which in turn requires a class 3 Verisign certificate ($500/yr). All other drivers can be loaded unsigned.
I won't be buying hardware from a company that can't afford to sign a driver.
And suddenly the popularity of the "Piratpartiet" bumps up to 56%, and steals 2/3 of the sweedish parliament on next election...
and if this Geek fantasy doesn't materialize, what then?
Sweden has 800 movie theaters for a population of nine million, tickets cost about $10 US. Film in Sweden That suggests something less than a blanket popular endorsement of piracy.
it is a private company training a foreign national police force to enforce their private agenda.
Cultural nationalism can put piracy on the public agenda.
The domestic product withers in the face of the big-budget foreign film or video. You have no hope of building an export market if your rare commercial success abroad is casually pirated.
I think it is time the people realise that the government is an instrument of the PEOPLE, they work for and represent the PEOPLE. I think alot of people have forgotten this.
The people also include the voters of New York, Los Angeles, Orlando, Nashville, etc. Quite a number of whom have a direct stake in the entertainment industry.
Now and again, they become Governor of California or President of the United States.
Get out your guns and start shooting at heads of state and their cronies, and also the corporate CEO's and their cronies. It's time the governments of the world feared the people.
It is this kind of talk, modded up "Insightful," that makes the world fear the Geek.
The bearded bomb-throwing anarchist who would be instantly recognizable in the editorial cartoons of 1906.
The old-time anarchist had at least some sense of proportion. His cause somewhat larger than having to pay for a print of a movie that cost $100 million dollars to produce.
I think preinstalled OpenOffice would do more to promote Open Source and MS Alternatives than anything else.
If the throw-away ("free as in beer') OEM WordPerfect install had no significant impact on OEM Office sales, what makes you think OpenOffice will fare any better?
That's because retailers like Wal-Mart only consider Linux to be a way to make their bottom-of-the-barrel computer even cheaper
The poor weren't buying PCs at any price and the down-market image of the Linspire Linux box was a certainly a negative for Walmart. But not the only problem.
Microsoft positions Windows Vista as an integral part of the all-digital home.
The HDTV. The XBox 360. Windows Home Server. Etc. Strong after-market sales. Strong ties to other products. This makes the Microsoft OS very attractive to the direct seller or big box retailer.
Dell somehow read this as #1 preinstalled Vista and #2 Preinstalled Microsoft Office. There still seems to be a language barrier between Corporate and English.
The language barrier is between Sales and the Geek. Which is Walmart buried OEM Linux.
I'll put more faith in this alleged consumer demand when Linux boxes start outselling all other systems by a 2-to-1 margin. In fact, I'd be amazed if they even sold at a 1:2 margin.
Walmart.com tried to make a go of every OEM Linux distro known to man.
January 31st came and went with one lone Xandros box remaining ---buried deep---and thirty Vista systems ready for sale.
I started working in a steel mill in Buffalo in the 1950s. You should have heard some of the stuff that basically everyone there would say. It was some of the raunchiest, dirtiest, filthiest motherfucking stuff that you could ever imagine.
The mills were an all-male work force. The mills are gone.
The world changes---and in looking back, sometimes our memories betray us.
The reason for GM crops is only one: profit. Profit may come from improved appearance, from increased shelf-life, or from increased yields due to lower pest numbers.
and to the third world farmer this is all to the good.
lower costs. better yields. new markets. stronger sales at a higher price. ask any farmer which pays better, selling to the canner or selling fresh.
you might also usefully ask how much labor is involved in harvesting your own seed.
So says the company that charges me $60 a year so I can keep my Madden rosters up to date...and not much else.
Sports fans are obsessed with details. The rosters. The stats. The rules. The stadiums. The uniforms.
They are on their own terms a very demanding but also a very profitable market to serve.
I walk around with my badge concealed, to see how much of a problem it causes...I have been stopped less than a handful of times this year, and probably less than twenty last year
so you are saying you are stopped every other week for being a horse's ass?
A standardized rechargeable battery that could be slipped out of the vehicle and replaced...the actual swap-out could probably even be handled by a simple robotic mechanism at the vendor location
I don't think exchanging a half-ton battery pack is going to be all that simple.
It has to be an all-weather solution. It has to meet peak demands. The charging station needs to be a "drop in" replacement for the gas station. The exchange has to be as fast and reliable as the self-service pump.
How much land does this require? How much power?
Your suburban neighbors won't welcome an industrial-sized sub-station out back.
...another "Linux is planned to be adopted at some future date by {insert government here}" story.
I am less interested in government mandates than in what is happening on the street, in small business, agriculture, industry, etc. Choices made from the ground up, rather than dictated from the top down.
Too often in these conversion stories it is Linux that looks like the Cathedral, and Windows the open marketplace, the thieves' Bazaar.
it could be argued that if the filters, in any way, are not in the best interest of the children or the public then bypassing them is, if not an act of public good, an inconsequential act otherwise
judges have this odd notion that the interests of the child are best served by listening to those who are responsible for his care and instruction.
I'm not saying limiting what children can do is a Bad Thing, but you have to consider that, by restricting them, you limit what can go wrong _and_ what can go right. Limiting bright kids in their development is an effective way of turning them into trouble kids.
These are decisions for schools to make.
These are decisions for parents to make. They are not decisions for you to make. This is where the Geek goes wrong.
I used up all my good Vista jokes on the last article!:-(
jokes which will be replayed endlessly even as Vista gains significant market share. jokes which will become ever more strident as Vista gains market share.
In general you don't buy software for linux. So of course you won't find software for linux on amazon. You'll find it on sourceforge or using apt-get. Even looking in the CNR warehouse, most of the programs are free (most of them are the standard open source projects).
The problem is that the warehouse looks pretty empty when you are shopping for the home.
You want to know why Windows remains the dominant OS in this market? Then you need to know what the middle class is looking for in software. You need know why users ignore the FOSS alternative ---if it exists---and if they can find it.
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The artist reaps 70 years of income only if his product generates 70 years of sales.
Talent at that level, a single performance at that level, is extraordinarily rare. Dashiell Hammett wrote five incomparable crime novels between 1929 and 1934. There would be nothing more.
Not any more: Artists Rights Society, Visual Artists Rights Act
Think of why most of the great artists in the past died poor.
Did they now? I'm not so sure. Some retire to country estates. Olana
Most had patrons: the royals, the aristocrats. the merchant prince, the church. Many had independent incomes, aristocrats themselves.
Some. like Shakespeare, were businesmen. They owned theatres and galleries, "museums" or schools.
In the past, most visual art (not commisioned for public display) simply disappeared from public view and into private collections. Wadsworth Atheneum
I won't be buying hardware from a company that can't afford to sign a driver.
and if this Geek fantasy doesn't materialize, what then?
Sweden has 800 movie theaters for a population of nine million, tickets cost about $10 US. Film in Sweden That suggests something less than a blanket popular endorsement of piracy.
Cultural nationalism can put piracy on the public agenda.
The domestic product withers in the face of the big-budget foreign film or video. You have no hope of building an export market if your rare commercial success abroad is casually pirated.
The people also include the voters of New York, Los Angeles, Orlando, Nashville, etc. Quite a number of whom have a direct stake in the entertainment industry.
Now and again, they become Governor of California or President of the United States.
It is this kind of talk, modded up "Insightful," that makes the world fear the Geek.
The bearded bomb-throwing anarchist who would be instantly recognizable in the editorial cartoons of 1906.
The old-time anarchist had at least some sense of proportion. His cause somewhat larger than having to pay for a print of a movie that cost $100 million dollars to produce.
If the throw-away ("free as in beer') OEM WordPerfect install had no significant impact on OEM Office sales, what makes you think OpenOffice will fare any better?
The poor weren't buying PCs at any price and the down-market image of the Linspire Linux box was a certainly a negative for Walmart. But not the only problem.
Microsoft positions Windows Vista as an integral part of the all-digital home.
The HDTV. The XBox 360. Windows Home Server. Etc. Strong after-market sales. Strong ties to other products. This makes the Microsoft OS very attractive to the direct seller or big box retailer.
The language barrier is between Sales and the Geek. Which is Walmart buried OEM Linux.
Tell me about it.
This has the smell of the Bad Vista crapflood you'll find in postings to Amazon.com., etc.
Walmart.com tried to make a go of every OEM Linux distro known to man.
January 31st came and went with one lone Xandros box remaining ---buried deep---and thirty Vista systems ready for sale.
this assumes that grandma can "shop" through a catalog that adequately describes a program, it's intended audience, state of development, etc., etc.
reviews are helpful, ratings are helpful. screenshots are helpful.
The mills were an all-male work force. The mills are gone.
The world changes---and in looking back, sometimes our memories betray us.
and to the third world farmer this is all to the good.
lower costs. better yields. new markets. stronger sales at a higher price. ask any farmer which pays better, selling to the canner or selling fresh.
you might also usefully ask how much labor is involved in harvesting your own seed.
"The" culture or "Our Geek Culture?" There can be a difference, and, in a population of 300 million, a differece that matters.
Sports fans are obsessed with details. The rosters. The stats. The rules. The stadiums. The uniforms. They are on their own terms a very demanding but also a very profitable market to serve.
so you are saying you are stopped every other week for being a horse's ass?
what goes up like a rocket can come down like a rocket.
I don't think exchanging a half-ton battery pack is going to be all that simple.
It has to be an all-weather solution. It has to meet peak demands. The charging station needs to be a "drop in" replacement for the gas station. The exchange has to be as fast and reliable as the self-service pump.
How much land does this require? How much power?
Your suburban neighbors won't welcome an industrial-sized sub-station out back.
I am less interested in government mandates than in what is happening on the street, in small business, agriculture, industry, etc. Choices made from the ground up, rather than dictated from the top down.
Too often in these conversion stories it is Linux that looks like the Cathedral, and Windows the open marketplace, the thieves' Bazaar.
judges have this odd notion that the interests of the child are best served by listening to those who are responsible for his care and instruction.
not to the buttinski who thinks he knows better.
These are decisions for schools to make.
These are decisions for parents to make. They are not decisions for you to make. This is where the Geek goes wrong.
jokes which will be replayed endlessly even as Vista gains significant market share. jokes which will become ever more strident as Vista gains market share.
So of course you won't find software for linux on amazon. You'll find it on sourceforge or using apt-get. Even looking in the CNR warehouse, most of the programs are free (most of them are the standard open source projects).
The problem is that the warehouse looks pretty empty when you are shopping for the home.
You want to know why Windows remains the dominant OS in this market? Then you need to know what the middle class is looking for in software. You need know why users ignore the FOSS alternative ---if it exists---and if they can find it.