It takes effort to spray paint a wall. Should I also get paid for that, rather than charged with a crime?
Just because you put effort in does NOT make something worthwhile. You should have a reasonable term to profit from your efforts, but there's no reason an artist should expect to stop working after a hit or two. Everyone else works for a living, and does not expect to get paid again tomorrow for work they do today. Artists should not be an exception to this.
The point of copyright is NOT to make profits forever on what you make once. It's to encourage new development. Nintendo has kept making new stuff, but even though the old stuff is still popular, it should be in the public domain so EVERYONE can benefit from our shared culture. This pre-load console obviously has a market, and people aren't going to buy a Wii to play older games. This ruling is correct as far as the law stands, but I don't think that the law should be there.
Greater than average intelligence? What makes you say that? Really, if you can't understand even the rudimentary elements of calculus, why would you think you're above average, and not simply lazy, or possibly you have some kind of learning disability, which would make you decidedly BELOW average in many things?
That's stupid. Evolution has NOTHING to do with the beginnings of the universe. See the Big Bang Theory for something along those lines, which has much, much less evidence for it than evolution does.
Evidence is evidence, period. Science works because it takes all the evidence, and then fits a theory to it. If ANY evidence points differently than the theory (after the evidence has been experimentally and separately verified by many, many people), the theory is either thrown out or modified. With your "careful thought and planning" model, there is NO WAY to disprove it, therefore it is NOT science. Evolution happens, period. WHY it happens is a theological question to some, and immaterial to most others. Denying that it DOES happen in the face of all the evidence is just blatant stupidity.
Please, do propose an alternate interpretation of the evidence for evolution WITHOUT calling in some kind of "magical happening" simply because you (or a random book) says it happened. We have observations of all kinds of DNA spontaneous mutations, e. coli evolving into a new species before our eyes, and many other things that say "Yes, what we've proposed for evolution fits all known facts and weathers the experiments we conduct to test and investigate it". You know, science.
Religion isn't testable. That is why it is not science. You can't disprove a belief, you can disprove science all you want. Come up with evidence that evolution is false (such as an experiment that others can repeat reliably), and the theory will go out the window. Until then, get a fucking clue, and stop thinking that simply because someone believes something that it should be instantly validated and accepted at the same level as prevailing theories that HAVE withstood experimental rigor.
Get a working wireless card, then. Do you expect hardware that's made for a Mac to run in a PC? Hell, half of new machines any more don't even have drivers to work under XP, only Vista. And those are almost the same OS. Get a wireless chip that's supported, and you'll get wireless great on Linux. I've got 3 Linux machines on my wireless connection, and they show no signs of giving up.
He's saying that there's no killer application for the general user to upgrade to the latest and greatest. Gamers, sure, but they're a SMALL minority of computer users. Multi-threading and more cores than we have now doesn't really do anything for the average person. Until it does, these updates will be received with lukewarm approval. It won't be like the original Pentium again.
He must be talking about Windows Media Player. Windows guy who doesn't know that there's a much better piece of software out there actually called mplayer or something. Because mplayer doesn't ever nag or check for anything.
You get the add-on from the website. Game, set, match. You can't NOT trust the website and still trust the plugin. You bitching about it only reinforces the point that the rest of us are glad we don't depend on your web security skills (and hopefully not your coding skills, if they're as equally well thought-out).
So... you don't trust the extension then. Or, you install it once and never update it, even if there was a security bug in it?
Really, how do you live with that kind of cognitive dissonance? You HAVE to trust their website and their plugin IF you trust their plugin at all. Period, end of story. If you don't, don't use it.
A queue is a line, or the act of getting into one. A cue(2) is the act of telling someone to start. Homonyms are fun, kids!
Sorry, that's one that always gets me.
Anyway, back on topic, it really bothers me that so many people are against nuclear power. Yes, it's a "limited" supply, but given the amount of nuclear material that we have, we could generate electricity for a LONG time while making wind power worthwhile without being so dangerous, and figure out a way for solar panels to not be so toxic. Yes, you have to be careful with nuclear material, but with a properly designed and maintained reactor (including re-processing of fuel to make it reusable), you can have a plant that provides a lot of power with a very, very small environmental footprint. Much better than the current crop of coal and oil fired powerplants that are the only other option to hydro at the large energy scales we need to keep up with demand.
And you, sir, are full of shit. You can get away with no A/C, but we normally get 90 degree plus days in the summer along the entire front range. Air conditioning of some sort is installed in the majority of houses under, say, 7000ft in altitude. Swamp coolers work great here because the air is so dry, it sucks up a LOT of moisture and cools down quite a bit.
I'm not affiliated with the seller, and rarely buy things on eBay, but I usually find that it's great for finding those oddball things you want that you can't find anywhere else.
Because he enforced consequences for actions, and stuck to his word? I don't see a problem with that. I only had to lose a few toys I really liked before I started learning how to pick things up. There's no saying that their father threw it out... perhaps he just sold it or gave it away. Either way, it's called "parenting".
Just because the Atari cost more than other toys shouldn't make it any less susceptible to the rules.
What tax money? We're just borrowing money from China and sending it to Israel. Our taxes aren't doing shit in the scheme of our debt. They would if the spend would get under control, but who here sees that happening? The Neocons and the Democrats are both MORE than willing to spend money we don't have, and worry about paying it later.
Some of us like the game balanced that way, though. Teamwork is nice sometimes, but then you lose the competing with your teammates aspect. As in, "Look how many more frags I got than you did!". Not saying that teamwork isn't fun sometimes, just saying that people have different tastes, and trying to compete with ET on ET's turf is like all 160lbs of me saying "You know, I always wanted to be a sumo wrestler."
Except there will be no first-party support of Silverlight for Linux, ever, so it will always be a second class citizen in the.NET world. Assuming Moonlight even gets to the 1.0 status, or ever works as a browser plugin. The gnome guys working on it are so busy sucking Microsoft's dick for cash that they can't actually make it useful (it's compiled without any kind of multimedia support, which is the main feature that it's pushed with). And the Mac will get the same treatment, the Silverlight releases will always lag significantly behind the Windows one in version and bugfixes.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. They've done it before, they'll keep trying to do it again, and people like you who say "look how little work it takes to make something locked into a very expensive OS that actively works against it's user!" just enable them to keep doing so.
And then that jock gets a job in the city rec department, and his bangin' cheerleader girlfriend is a professional beautician, between them making as much as you do by yourself with your programming experience.
Stupid, non-applicable analogy aside, nobody else cares about whether they use IE or Firefox, but they sure as hell notice when things don't work right. This plugin will let people develop sites to standards that still work with IE, so companies should be ok with allowing their webdevs to work forward properly, and it'll have the side effect of proper sites making people sit up and take notice of their broken browser.
Hell, they even made it worse with their submission of their own checksums and attached to the court documents, placing them under public purview. That wouldn't have been released if they hadn't used the law as incompetently as they created their systems. It's like the Streisand Effect x2.
I wish criminals were as stupid as our politicians.
So why aren't the editors of High Times under lock and key? Why do head shops even exist?
There's a limit to how close you can be and still be called an accomplice. There's a reason they didn't disclose the key (or rather, weren't going to in the public presentation). It's the difference between "Here's a lock, and here's how to pick it" and "Here's a lock, here's how to pick it, and here are the tools".
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It takes effort to spray paint a wall. Should I also get paid for that, rather than charged with a crime?
Just because you put effort in does NOT make something worthwhile. You should have a reasonable term to profit from your efforts, but there's no reason an artist should expect to stop working after a hit or two. Everyone else works for a living, and does not expect to get paid again tomorrow for work they do today. Artists should not be an exception to this.
The point of copyright is NOT to make profits forever on what you make once. It's to encourage new development. Nintendo has kept making new stuff, but even though the old stuff is still popular, it should be in the public domain so EVERYONE can benefit from our shared culture. This pre-load console obviously has a market, and people aren't going to buy a Wii to play older games. This ruling is correct as far as the law stands, but I don't think that the law should be there.
Greater than average intelligence? What makes you say that? Really, if you can't understand even the rudimentary elements of calculus, why would you think you're above average, and not simply lazy, or possibly you have some kind of learning disability, which would make you decidedly BELOW average in many things?
That's stupid. Evolution has NOTHING to do with the beginnings of the universe. See the Big Bang Theory for something along those lines, which has much, much less evidence for it than evolution does.
Evidence is evidence, period. Science works because it takes all the evidence, and then fits a theory to it. If ANY evidence points differently than the theory (after the evidence has been experimentally and separately verified by many, many people), the theory is either thrown out or modified. With your "careful thought and planning" model, there is NO WAY to disprove it, therefore it is NOT science. Evolution happens, period. WHY it happens is a theological question to some, and immaterial to most others. Denying that it DOES happen in the face of all the evidence is just blatant stupidity.
Please, do propose an alternate interpretation of the evidence for evolution WITHOUT calling in some kind of "magical happening" simply because you (or a random book) says it happened. We have observations of all kinds of DNA spontaneous mutations, e. coli evolving into a new species before our eyes, and many other things that say "Yes, what we've proposed for evolution fits all known facts and weathers the experiments we conduct to test and investigate it". You know, science.
Religion isn't testable. That is why it is not science. You can't disprove a belief, you can disprove science all you want. Come up with evidence that evolution is false (such as an experiment that others can repeat reliably), and the theory will go out the window. Until then, get a fucking clue, and stop thinking that simply because someone believes something that it should be instantly validated and accepted at the same level as prevailing theories that HAVE withstood experimental rigor.
Get a working wireless card, then. Do you expect hardware that's made for a Mac to run in a PC? Hell, half of new machines any more don't even have drivers to work under XP, only Vista. And those are almost the same OS. Get a wireless chip that's supported, and you'll get wireless great on Linux. I've got 3 Linux machines on my wireless connection, and they show no signs of giving up.
He's saying that there's no killer application for the general user to upgrade to the latest and greatest. Gamers, sure, but they're a SMALL minority of computer users. Multi-threading and more cores than we have now doesn't really do anything for the average person. Until it does, these updates will be received with lukewarm approval. It won't be like the original Pentium again.
He must be talking about Windows Media Player. Windows guy who doesn't know that there's a much better piece of software out there actually called mplayer or something. Because mplayer doesn't ever nag or check for anything.
You get the add-on from the website. Game, set, match. You can't NOT trust the website and still trust the plugin. You bitching about it only reinforces the point that the rest of us are glad we don't depend on your web security skills (and hopefully not your coding skills, if they're as equally well thought-out).
So... you don't trust the extension then. Or, you install it once and never update it, even if there was a security bug in it?
Really, how do you live with that kind of cognitive dissonance? You HAVE to trust their website and their plugin IF you trust their plugin at all. Period, end of story. If you don't, don't use it.
A queue is a line, or the act of getting into one. A cue(2) is the act of telling someone to start. Homonyms are fun, kids!
Sorry, that's one that always gets me.
Anyway, back on topic, it really bothers me that so many people are against nuclear power. Yes, it's a "limited" supply, but given the amount of nuclear material that we have, we could generate electricity for a LONG time while making wind power worthwhile without being so dangerous, and figure out a way for solar panels to not be so toxic. Yes, you have to be careful with nuclear material, but with a properly designed and maintained reactor (including re-processing of fuel to make it reusable), you can have a plant that provides a lot of power with a very, very small environmental footprint. Much better than the current crop of coal and oil fired powerplants that are the only other option to hydro at the large energy scales we need to keep up with demand.
And you, sir, are full of shit. You can get away with no A/C, but we normally get 90 degree plus days in the summer along the entire front range. Air conditioning of some sort is installed in the majority of houses under, say, 7000ft in altitude. Swamp coolers work great here because the air is so dry, it sucks up a LOT of moisture and cools down quite a bit.
$26 + shipping and it's yours.
I'm not affiliated with the seller, and rarely buy things on eBay, but I usually find that it's great for finding those oddball things you want that you can't find anywhere else.
Because he enforced consequences for actions, and stuck to his word? I don't see a problem with that. I only had to lose a few toys I really liked before I started learning how to pick things up. There's no saying that their father threw it out... perhaps he just sold it or gave it away. Either way, it's called "parenting".
Just because the Atari cost more than other toys shouldn't make it any less susceptible to the rules.
Not everyone who uses Gnome is an imbecile. But the people that are in charge of the project are.
What tax money? We're just borrowing money from China and sending it to Israel. Our taxes aren't doing shit in the scheme of our debt. They would if the spend would get under control, but who here sees that happening? The Neocons and the Democrats are both MORE than willing to spend money we don't have, and worry about paying it later.
Some of us like the game balanced that way, though. Teamwork is nice sometimes, but then you lose the competing with your teammates aspect. As in, "Look how many more frags I got than you did!". Not saying that teamwork isn't fun sometimes, just saying that people have different tastes, and trying to compete with ET on ET's turf is like all 160lbs of me saying "You know, I always wanted to be a sumo wrestler."
I'll bet you get 40 rods to the hogshead in your car, too. And that's the way you likes it.
Except there will be no first-party support of Silverlight for Linux, ever, so it will always be a second class citizen in the .NET world. Assuming Moonlight even gets to the 1.0 status, or ever works as a browser plugin. The gnome guys working on it are so busy sucking Microsoft's dick for cash that they can't actually make it useful (it's compiled without any kind of multimedia support, which is the main feature that it's pushed with). And the Mac will get the same treatment, the Silverlight releases will always lag significantly behind the Windows one in version and bugfixes.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. They've done it before, they'll keep trying to do it again, and people like you who say "look how little work it takes to make something locked into a very expensive OS that actively works against it's user!" just enable them to keep doing so.
And then that jock gets a job in the city rec department, and his bangin' cheerleader girlfriend is a professional beautician, between them making as much as you do by yourself with your programming experience.
Stupid, non-applicable analogy aside, nobody else cares about whether they use IE or Firefox, but they sure as hell notice when things don't work right. This plugin will let people develop sites to standards that still work with IE, so companies should be ok with allowing their webdevs to work forward properly, and it'll have the side effect of proper sites making people sit up and take notice of their broken browser.
I'm using the 64bit 8.04 LTS here, and that's all I had to do with it. I think they've since fixed that bug in the install.
Hell, they even made it worse with their submission of their own checksums and attached to the court documents, placing them under public purview. That wouldn't have been released if they hadn't used the law as incompetently as they created their systems. It's like the Streisand Effect x2.
I wish criminals were as stupid as our politicians.
I couldn't afford ethyl alcohol, so I just drank rubbing alcohol.
Sometimes doing the cheap thing is worse than doing nothing, and much worse than doing the correct thing.
So why aren't the editors of High Times under lock and key? Why do head shops even exist?
There's a limit to how close you can be and still be called an accomplice. There's a reason they didn't disclose the key (or rather, weren't going to in the public presentation). It's the difference between "Here's a lock, and here's how to pick it" and "Here's a lock, here's how to pick it, and here are the tools".
I tend to do the "You just did, and in doing so you have used up your quota for the day. Try again tomorrow."
I usually don't stick to it, unless they're really annoying.