The nice thing about selling things that cost nothing to make, they cost very very little to sell. Provided their licensing agreements with atari are on a reasonable basis (percentage, perhaps), even if they do poorly, they won't necessarily go down in flames.
The pirates would have to black out that corner (and maybe that number could move around from place to place). At best, it would discourage insiders from giving away copies, and at worst it would make the pirated editions look more obvious.
As opposed to the big scrolling. "This movie is for awards consideration only. If you paid money for this, please call 1-800-NO-COPYS" message? I have a filter that would blur that sucker right out (without looking too ugly) - people really just don't care.
They don't have this problem so much with action flicks, but comedies and the like often are only worth seeing once, especially with the crap the MPAA is currently putting out. Think about it. If you downloaded a movie that was supposed to be "funny", and it was a total bomb, would you still pay the $6.50 (or $8.50 as the case may be) to go see it? Perhaps you might, but many people (myself included) wouldn't.
> (you cant install redhat without installing X either)
Sure you can. The dependancies make it a pain, but it's quite possible. Also, in RH9, you can simply choose "minimal".
How is this redundant? It's making fun of the parent, who said "suing", instead of "using". It was a (poor) attempt at humor. Moderate me as "troll" if you must, but it's not "redundant".
Hey, just because it's superfluous doesn't mean it's not a selling point. Remember, pointy-haired management sometimes get on fads ("We'll only buy products that support XML!" "But sir, that's a toaster.")
They seemed to get along fine before telemarketers. Furthermore, who are you to say that _if_ people couldn't get their own telephones, another system wouldn't come up?
Go home, troll.
Your "permanent link" takes me to "To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reduce the annual income level at which a person petitioning for a family-sponsored immigrant's admission must agree to provide support... (Introduced in House)". I don't think that's the real link:)
SSH! Next thing you know, Ashcroft will be trying to get political speech declared commercial, so as to deny it constitutional protection... Oh wait, we don't have that anyway.
> Lots of 'discoveries' should be read as 'confirmations'.
But then what would the media use for sensationalist stories? After all, _somebody_ has probably figured it out already, the rest of us just haven't caught on yet.
The lesson is very simple (and obvious) one. As the article you ridicule points out, VOIP (like anything else) does have a price. Besides the quality aspect, you pay the price of losing phone if the power or internet goes down.
Some people are willing to pay that price to save a few bucks, get added features, or just say a big "screw you" to their local telco. So why don't you just pay your added monetary cost, for your added reliability, and those of us who don't care if the phone goes out for a bit (yes, even in an emergency) can save a few bucks. Consumers are free to purchase what they want, shut up and deal with it.
There are a couple of important differences between the TCPA and the GPL.
For the record, I hate the GPL, but I hate ignorance far more.
1.) The GPL is designed to take away the minimum amount of freedom needed to give everyone down the line the same amount of "freedom" on down the line. If you obtain a program (with source) under the BSD license, and I obtain it from you, you may take away almost _all_ of the freedom I would have with it.
2.) The _sole_ purpose of DRM is to take away rights. You already have the rights, the only "management" that can be done is to take them away.
3.) The GPL does not "take away rights" at all. Think about it, you already have the software, and the right to use it. DRM takes away your rights to modify, timeshift, or do anything else _you can legally do_ by attempting to make it technically impossible. On the other hand, the GPL doesn't say you can't modify it, and places no restrictions on running it. It only kicks in when you distribute programs. Under copyright law, YOU MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE programs unless you are specifically authorized to do so. The GPL gives you the _additional_ rights to distribute (albeit if you follow their terms). That's more freedom than what you normally get, not less.
No, it doesn't. The article does say "in the usual way", but it is _not_ proxying it. The computers use a 3rd party server to find their real IPs, then send an outbound packet to each other. Because they have both initiated outbount packets, they can then talk to each other. RTFA.
That wouldn't look too good for their antitrust case, would it? As I recall, a large part of their case was that Linux was a _viable_ alternative to windows.
Uh, huh... You should have tried going to the schools I went to. My high school fired me as a cashier because the cash registers ran DOS, and my college just banned me from CS classes for a year because I told them how someone could bypass their filterng proxy.
Anonymity is for people who don't like to learn the hard way.
As any animal becomes used to something, it inevitably ecomes less affected by it. By providing people with simulations closer imitating reality, you raise expectation for future simulations.
I'm just waiting for the cybernetic implants which allow simulations indistinguishable from reality. They already have brain cells growing on silicon (not made out of), it will just probably take a while for science to catch up with years and years of evolution.
It's not unheard of now. I do video encoding (hey, it's an excuse, but I needed a reason to do it), and I have a 1TB raid array. 10x100GB, 4 HDs mounted on each side of the case with 2 power supplies on top.
6.5gb will be coming sooner, not later.
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The nice thing about selling things that cost nothing to make, they cost very very little to sell. Provided their licensing agreements with atari are on a reasonable basis (percentage, perhaps), even if they do poorly, they won't necessarily go down in flames.
Been there, done that.
The pirates would have to black out that corner (and maybe that number could move around from place to place). At best, it would discourage insiders from giving away copies, and at worst it would make the pirated editions look more obvious.
As opposed to the big scrolling. "This movie is for awards consideration only. If you paid money for this, please call 1-800-NO-COPYS" message? I have a filter that would blur that sucker right out (without looking too ugly) - people really just don't care.
They don't have this problem so much with action flicks, but comedies and the like often are only worth seeing once, especially with the crap the MPAA is currently putting out. Think about it. If you downloaded a movie that was supposed to be "funny", and it was a total bomb, would you still pay the $6.50 (or $8.50 as the case may be) to go see it? Perhaps you might, but many people (myself included) wouldn't.
> (you cant install redhat without installing X either) Sure you can. The dependancies make it a pain, but it's quite possible. Also, in RH9, you can simply choose "minimal".
How is this redundant? It's making fun of the parent, who said "suing", instead of "using". It was a (poor) attempt at humor. Moderate me as "troll" if you must, but it's not "redundant".
> If there were any company in the world you could pick to be the precedent-setting defender of the GPL who would it be?
Microsoft?
Of course, the federal judge is blocking it yet again... This time on free speech grounds.
Wow, not only are they running from italy, they are actually taking NX to court? I thought that truly intelligent AI was years off.
Hey, just because it's superfluous doesn't mean it's not a selling point. Remember, pointy-haired management sometimes get on fads ("We'll only buy products that support XML!" "But sir, that's a toaster.")
They seemed to get along fine before telemarketers. Furthermore, who are you to say that _if_ people couldn't get their own telephones, another system wouldn't come up?
Go home, troll.
Your "permanent link" takes me to "To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reduce the annual income level at which a person petitioning for a family-sponsored immigrant's admission must agree to provide support... (Introduced in House)". I don't think that's the real link :)
They only quoted half the quote. The _real_ quote is "Fifty million Americans can't be wrong, as long as they agree with us".
SSH! Next thing you know, Ashcroft will be trying to get political speech declared commercial, so as to deny it constitutional protection... Oh wait, we don't have that anyway.
> Lots of 'discoveries' should be read as 'confirmations'.
But then what would the media use for sensationalist stories? After all, _somebody_ has probably figured it out already, the rest of us just haven't caught on yet.
The lesson is very simple (and obvious) one. As the article you ridicule points out, VOIP (like anything else) does have a price. Besides the quality aspect, you pay the price of losing phone if the power or internet goes down.
Some people are willing to pay that price to save a few bucks, get added features, or just say a big "screw you" to their local telco. So why don't you just pay your added monetary cost, for your added reliability, and those of us who don't care if the phone goes out for a bit (yes, even in an emergency) can save a few bucks. Consumers are free to purchase what they want, shut up and deal with it.
The software has been distributed to you, so yes.
However, they _can_ require you to ask for it...
There are a couple of important differences between the TCPA and the GPL.
For the record, I hate the GPL, but I hate ignorance far more.
1.) The GPL is designed to take away the minimum amount of freedom needed to give everyone down the line the same amount of "freedom" on down the line. If you obtain a program (with source) under the BSD license, and I obtain it from you, you may take away almost _all_ of the freedom I would have with it.
2.) The _sole_ purpose of DRM is to take away rights. You already have the rights, the only "management" that can be done is to take them away.
3.) The GPL does not "take away rights" at all. Think about it, you already have the software, and the right to use it. DRM takes away your rights to modify, timeshift, or do anything else _you can legally do_ by attempting to make it technically impossible. On the other hand, the GPL doesn't say you can't modify it, and places no restrictions on running it. It only kicks in when you distribute programs. Under copyright law, YOU MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE programs unless you are specifically authorized to do so. The GPL gives you the _additional_ rights to distribute (albeit if you follow their terms). That's more freedom than what you normally get, not less.
No, it doesn't. The article does say "in the usual way", but it is _not_ proxying it. The computers use a 3rd party server to find their real IPs, then send an outbound packet to each other. Because they have both initiated outbount packets, they can then talk to each other. RTFA.
That wouldn't look too good for their antitrust case, would it? As I recall, a large part of their case was that Linux was a _viable_ alternative to windows.
Uh, huh... You should have tried going to the schools I went to. My high school fired me as a cashier because the cash registers ran DOS, and my college just banned me from CS classes for a year because I told them how someone could bypass their filterng proxy.
Anonymity is for people who don't like to learn the hard way.
Absolutly. I don't want to take the risk of my car exploding, so I only use inflammable gasoline.
Well, those millions of nanoprobes for each person on the Dyson sphere will simply have to use NAT.
As any animal becomes used to something, it inevitably ecomes less affected by it. By providing people with simulations closer imitating reality, you raise expectation for future simulations.
I'm just waiting for the cybernetic implants which allow simulations indistinguishable from reality. They already have brain cells growing on silicon (not made out of), it will just probably take a while for science to catch up with years and years of evolution.
It's not unheard of now. I do video encoding (hey, it's an excuse, but I needed a reason to do it), and I have a 1TB raid array. 10x100GB, 4 HDs mounted on each side of the case with 2 power supplies on top. 6.5gb will be coming sooner, not later.