How can you give someone "permission" to infringe a copyright, patent, or other IP that you don't own?
--- by calling your site "mp3s4free.com" and presenting what for all practical purposes is a catalog of music files you do not have the right to distribute, directly or indirectly.
If you have a group of people discussing ways to infringe restrictions or bypass IP laws
There is no discussion or debate. You haven't come to talk, you've come for the files, your free, illicit, mp3 fix.
The courts do not live in the world of "IF." They are anchored in the here-and-now decisions of the "cases and controversies" which lie before them. Disputes are narrowed. Drastically. Speculation is discouraged.
If that is really the case, which I'm in no position to judge, then its culture needs changing. The point of universal human rights is that they're universal
It is a stretch to argue that imprisonment --- hard time --- for economic crimes violates a fundamental human right. If your argument is simply against the death penalty, that is another issue.
I'm pretty sure that everyone I know, friends and family alike, would drop Windows for Linux in a heartbeat if the following two conditions were met
There is a twenty year backlist of MSDOS and Windows titles. It's a paradise for the gamer on a budget.
The OEM Windows PC is mass-market.
Windows peripherals (which can include anything from an Orion telescope to a Singer sewing machine) are mass market.
You commit resources to what sells. Support and service costs money.
and probably get MUCH cheaper)
Linux at Walmart pricing couldn't undercut OEM Windows on price. There are enormous economies of scale in the production, distribution and marketing of the Windows PC.
This is yet another tactic from Microsoft to discourage the development of multi-platform titles by tying games to Windows even more.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Now tell me how you get retail display space for Linux games when there isn't a baseline hardware and software configuration for the home market like a PC with the Vista Premium sticker.
Customer: "Will this thing run Oblivion?"
Sales Clerk: "Go right ahead and crank everything you like up to the max. You are good to go."
Customer: "That is all I wanted to know."
It will never be that easy, but that is the general idea.
I'm not aware of any place in my town that will recycle them.
talk to your local fire department. they should be able to point you in the right direction. don't forget to ask about other hazardous materials you don't how to deal with. propane. industrial solvents, pesticides, and so forth.
One reason: Gravity. They have it on the moon. They don't have it in orbit. Makes showering, sleeping, eating, everything more comfortable.
Material and mass. For radiation shielding. Thermal insulation. In time, perhaps, mining and manufacturing for general construction. You can build to a much larger scale and with a greater margin of comfort, safety and convenience.
The economics of both manned and unmanned space exploration look much better at one-sixth earth's gravity.
For over a decade people have noted that Microsoft let Windows get copied and used throughout China with no attempt at all to force licensing. Microsoft didn't speak to China about it. And they didn't ask the US government to step in.
Microsoft China was the first foreign-funded corporation to gain full membership in CSIA (China Software Trade Association.)
In 2002.
"With the membership, Microsoft will be expected to participate in a series of activities to be held by the Association on protection of intellectual property rights and software technology developing.
As the most influential software company in the world, Microsoft's participation would play a positive role in the development of the Association, said Chen Chong, the CSIA board chairman.
However, by adding this game class of game to the open source arsenal, we increase the overall attractiveness of open source systems like Linux to people (especially kids and young adults) who are sitting on the fence.
Yes.
Of course.
Because it is the development model and the code which draws players into a game.
Not the game play.
The story. Art and animation. Vocal performance. Music. Oblivion sells poorly, because it demands bleeding-edge performance.
It does a driver for sales of the XBox 360. Dual core Vista rated systems. HDTV and the wide screen LCD monitor. Surround-sound audio.
The Geek goes to Disney World for the back-stage tours.
His family because they want to surrender themselves to the fantasy, if only for a single weekend.
So if you cannot get cheap Chinese DVD players any more - because they're making EVD now instead, and in fact EVD is cheaper because they're not paying a licence fee - the cost of players goes up. So, there are less people buying DVD players, less of a market for DVDs, and people buy the cheap EVD players
You need only cheap labor and the capacity for precision manufacturing to build a competitive DVD player. The Chinese OEM isn't going surrender his prime export markets by shipping EVD to the West.
the DVD Consortium needs to stop pissing consumers off with region coding and other shit
In the states, the collector of import video bids for the region-free player on eBay. The fan who simply wants his anime or Bollywood fix buys the cheapest DVD player off the shelves at Walmart. No one else gives a damn.
The Borg Cube bearing the Microsoft logo, destroying Earth, with flames reaching up from off-frame image just screams professionalism. I will take anything this site says very seriously.
The Billy-Borg and stained glass Windows icons of Slashdot invite the same response. The same is to be expected from BadVista.org, of course.
The bundled system with upgrade hardware and software at OEM pricing. That big, glorious, wide screen LCD. The 500 GB SATA hard drive. The multifunction printer. They have been out of the market for five years.
Vista is part of the package and it is the package that makes the deal. When Vista hits retail it will be displayed with HDTV and the XBox 360 as part of an integrated home network.
Are you content to be only a tenant in a system where someone else retains ultimate control?
The answer in the consumer market will be "Hell, Yes." No one there wants to deal with the internals of the machine on anything but the most superficial level.
Why don't they (the FSF) direct their energy to improving "end user" software on free operating systems like Linux with GUIs like KDE, GNOME, XFCE etc?
Because it is the Cause and not needs of the Users that ultimately drives the FSF?
Because the Geek doesn't understand the User? Because projects like OpenOffice.org can be safely left to corporations who ***must*** deliver product to Users and are not out there to scratch their own itch?
Bad design? It's a fairly standard-issue blog page at this point.
"At this point."
My god. How much time do you think they have here?
Vista will be the default OEM Windows install in one month. The upgrade will be free for anyone buying a PC this Christmas. The first DX10 cards are out now and there will be more, much more, to come.
...plenty of ignorant MSFT-aplogists' bitching about how the "zealots" are going "mad" about "Windows being teh suxx" and all after this campaign has been announced
---a campaign announced on a deadly dull, content free, text page that no one but a Geek will ever see.
There are two fundamental flaws. The first is that Vista's market is not the Geek. It is the reader who saw his first screenshots of Vista as a color feature in TIME magazine.
His interests and values are not the same as yours. We saw that yesterday from posters who passionately believe that you can sell a PC as a consumer product without the baseline OEM Windows install.
In the numbers which have meaning in big box retail.
The second flaw is a derivative of the first. The Geek has a piss-poor record in communicating with end users--who have come to despise the word "luser," which is what they hear subconciously.
If the EVD players are sitting on the shelves in ASDA for £24.95, the public will buy EVD players and demand EVD discs
and if the only legit import EVD pressings available are out of Hong Kong and Bollywood? with soundtracks in Mandarin and Hindi? no James Bond, no Harry Potter?
the format has no market in the West unless Western content can be licensed. on a massive scale.
What's the difference between you looking at these pics and someone else?
It is his job to protect the security of his network.
It is his job to protect his employer from criminal exploitation of network resources.
It is his job to report the crimes he discovers.
It is his job to report a potential threat to minors directly or indirectly under his protection. From the grade school teacher who routes his porn through district accounts.
There is a terrifying sense of arrogance, obsession and recklessness implied in such activity. There is something profoundly alien and inhumane in the collection of the images.
It is his obligation to sound an alarm when he senses danger.
Slashdot Mirror
--- by calling your site "mp3s4free.com" and presenting what for all practical purposes is a catalog of music files you do not have the right to distribute, directly or indirectly.
If you have a group of people discussing ways to infringe restrictions or bypass IP laws
There is no discussion or debate. You haven't come to talk, you've come for the files, your free, illicit, mp3 fix.
The courts do not live in the world of "IF." They are anchored in the here-and-now decisions of the "cases and controversies" which lie before them. Disputes are narrowed. Drastically. Speculation is discouraged.
It raises a red flag.
It busts holes in your defense when you are linking to hundreds or thousands of copyrighted mp3s.
The judge isn't obliged to ignore the obvious connection between what your site promises and what your site delivers.
The judge is a realist.
The Geek too damn clever for his own good.
We are a business, not cannon fodder for the war on Microsoft.
a successful "office suite" is shaped by how you define "office work."
and by what is convenient and practical to deploy.
the geek who complains about bloat doesn't have to find a single solution that works for the road warrior, the loading dock and the executive suite.
in this context, "unique and more effective" are not particularly easy goals to achieve.
the second problem for the competitor is that there is an ungodly number of third party applications and resources that integrate with MS Office.
a show of hands please from those who want to rebuild their entire office infrastructure from scratch
"sheep"
trust me on this one:
people pick up on the geek's attitude even when they don't hear the geek's words.
nothing is more likely to get the door slammed in your face.
It is a stretch to argue that imprisonment --- hard time --- for economic crimes violates a fundamental human right. If your argument is simply against the death penalty, that is another issue.
There is a twenty year backlist of MSDOS and Windows titles. It's a paradise for the gamer on a budget.
The OEM Windows PC is mass-market.
Windows peripherals (which can include anything from an Orion telescope to a Singer sewing machine) are mass market.
You commit resources to what sells. Support and service costs money.
and probably get MUCH cheaper)
Linux at Walmart pricing couldn't undercut OEM Windows on price. There are enormous economies of scale in the production, distribution and marketing of the Windows PC.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Now tell me how you get retail display space for Linux games when there isn't a baseline hardware and software configuration for the home market like a PC with the Vista Premium sticker.
Customer: "Will this thing run Oblivion?"
Sales Clerk: "Go right ahead and crank everything you like up to the max. You are good to go."
Customer: "That is all I wanted to know."
It will never be that easy, but that is the general idea.
talk to your local fire department. they should be able to point you in the right direction. don't forget to ask about other hazardous materials you don't how to deal with. propane. industrial solvents, pesticides, and so forth.
and there is no better last-minute gift for the seniors in your family.
an end to the dangerous balancing act of using a chair or step-stool to replace an overhead bulb.
You have to admire the impeccable sense of timing as well.
The story makes Slashdot on the 18th. The court is expecting a credible bid on or about the 19th.
The needs of local charities, the pressure of holiday shopping lists, all compete for the donor's time and money this time of year.
I'll take this as on a par with BadVista.org. Still-born in the cradle one month before Vista becomes the default OEM install in the consumer market.
Material and mass. For radiation shielding. Thermal insulation. In time, perhaps, mining and manufacturing for general construction. You can build to a much larger scale and with a greater margin of comfort, safety and convenience.
The economics of both manned and unmanned space exploration look much better at one-sixth earth's gravity.
China takes economic crimes seriously. That is part of its culture and I do not think unique to the present-day communist regime.
Microsoft China was the first foreign-funded corporation to gain full membership in CSIA (China Software Trade Association.)
In 2002.
"With the membership, Microsoft will be expected to participate in a series of activities to be held by the Association on protection of intellectual property rights and software technology developing.
As the most influential software company in the world, Microsoft's participation would play a positive role in the development of the Association, said Chen Chong, the CSIA board chairman.
With China's WTO accession, China's software industry has to steer onto the same track as internationally accepted practices and operate in a global market." Microsoft Joins in China Software Industry Association
Yes.
Of course.
Because it is the development model and the code which draws players into a game.
Not the game play. The story. Art and animation. Vocal performance. Music. Oblivion sells poorly, because it demands bleeding-edge performance.
It does a driver for sales of the XBox 360. Dual core Vista rated systems. HDTV and the wide screen LCD monitor. Surround-sound audio.
The Geek goes to Disney World for the back-stage tours.
His family because they want to surrender themselves to the fantasy, if only for a single weekend.
You need only cheap labor and the capacity for precision manufacturing to build a competitive DVD player. The Chinese OEM isn't going surrender his prime export markets by shipping EVD to the West.
the DVD Consortium needs to stop pissing consumers off with region coding and other shit
In the states, the collector of import video bids for the region-free player on eBay. The fan who simply wants his anime or Bollywood fix buys the cheapest DVD player off the shelves at Walmart. No one else gives a damn.
The Billy-Borg and stained glass Windows icons of Slashdot invite the same response. The same is to be expected from BadVista.org, of course.
When consumers make the move they go whole hog:
The bundled system with upgrade hardware and software at OEM pricing. That big, glorious, wide screen LCD. The 500 GB SATA hard drive. The multifunction printer. They have been out of the market for five years.
Vista is part of the package and it is the package that makes the deal. When Vista hits retail it will be displayed with HDTV and the XBox 360 as part of an integrated home network.
The answer in the consumer market will be "Hell, Yes." No one there wants to deal with the internals of the machine on anything but the most superficial level.
Nope. Never heard of it. Which probably puts me in the same place as every Mac user I know.
Because it is the Cause and not needs of the Users that ultimately drives the FSF?
Because the Geek doesn't understand the User? Because projects like OpenOffice.org can be safely left to corporations who ***must*** deliver product to Users and are not out there to scratch their own itch?
"At this point."
My god. How much time do you think they have here?
Vista will be the default OEM Windows install in one month. The upgrade will be free for anyone buying a PC this Christmas. The first DX10 cards are out now and there will be more, much more, to come.
---a campaign announced on a deadly dull, content free, text page that no one but a Geek will ever see.
There are two fundamental flaws. The first is that Vista's market is not the Geek. It is the reader who saw his first screenshots of Vista as a color feature in TIME magazine.
His interests and values are not the same as yours. We saw that yesterday from posters who passionately believe that you can sell a PC as a consumer product without the baseline OEM Windows install.
In the numbers which have meaning in big box retail.
The second flaw is a derivative of the first. The Geek has a piss-poor record in communicating with end users--who have come to despise the word "luser," which is what they hear subconciously.
and if the only legit import EVD pressings available are out of Hong Kong and Bollywood? with soundtracks in Mandarin and Hindi? no James Bond, no Harry Potter?
the format has no market in the West unless Western content can be licensed. on a massive scale.
a capitalist system demands respect for tangible and intangible property.
almost everything is ultimately reduced to pieces of papers. mere tokens. an entry in a ledger. a bill of lading.
abstraction demands literacy. competence in math.
a capitalist system demands a mechanism for the enforcement of contracts.
a capitalist system needs reliable weights and measures.
standard time. stable currencies. defenses against highwaymen, thieves and counterfeiters.
the list goes on and on and on.
a capitalist system needs a government.
It is his job to protect the security of his network.
It is his job to protect his employer from criminal exploitation of network resources.
It is his job to report the crimes he discovers.
It is his job to report a potential threat to minors directly or indirectly under his protection. From the grade school teacher who routes his porn through district accounts.
There is a terrifying sense of arrogance, obsession and recklessness implied in such activity. There is something profoundly alien and inhumane in the collection of the images.
It is his obligation to sound an alarm when he senses danger.