Also, grow up and stop taking the absolute position, there are many possible answers here.
Media taxes are already in place in a lot of countries. If these do not entitle you to use said media for 'piracy' then they are unjust. If they do not cover the scale of the copying that is taking place then perhaps they need to rise to cover it.
Perhaps the profit margins on media need to be cut, drastically. Perhaps the middle men are taking too much. Perhaps the huge centralised media producers cannot survive in a society where the people do not care to pay them, and what's the fall out from that?
This is a hugely complex area and I'm afraid that it's just not as simple as "I came up with it, therefore it's mine!"
I'm just saying that by the time you get to a significant proportion of the population totally disregarding a law, it needs to be reviewed, because ultimately the law is there at the sufferance of the people. If what comes out of it is a legal and economic situation in which IP is no longer profitable then other ways would need to be found to produce these things at a profit, or society goes without.
"If a majority of the population decided bank robbery was okay, does that mean we should re-evaluate if robbing banks is really a bad thing? Of course not!"
Yes, it does. As I say, the answer may well be "this is objectively a bad thing", in which case we need to look at why people are robbing banks, why they think it's ok and what other possible solutions there are to the problem. One of them may be to enforce things a lot more harshly, but if 99% of people are doing it or think its ok then you may have revolution on your hands.
"No bones about it, if you pirate IP, you absolutely are harming the IP owners. Either that, or *everything* published on economics is wrong. The reasonable, safe bet, is the former rather than the later."
1. Not true that you are absolutely harming anyone. I do not support copyright infringement, but the argument that one copy is one lost sale doesn't hold water.
2. Economics is a soft science of guesswork, and its predictions and studies foul up constantly. Vis the recent world economic crisis. Lay people were predicting bad stuff was around the corner for years, but the best economists in the business somehow didn't see it.
"When a massive number of people feel entitled to take what isn't theirs, what do you expect is going to happen."
I expect an honest study of the effects of changes to the laws in more permissive and more draconian directions, without people shouting in shrill voices either that they're entitled to control their publications indefinitely or that they should be allowed to do what the hell they like, just because.
Then Hadopi will last a total of three days, the internets will be clean, honest and law abding, and France will once again become the world's foremost content-producing powerhouse.
IF it gets to the sorts of magnitudes they're predicting, then point stands. If huge numbers of your citizens are doing it then you need to take a look at the bigger picture for a while and evaluate things.
Your evaluation may come back 'it is good and right to combat this, regardless of popular opinion' or it may not, but blindly going the enforcement route ain't so good. And so you get doomed government initiatives like the war on drugs and the current war on copyright infringement.
My take on that would be that they were not allowed to use them directly, not that they would refuse to receive or relay... in a sensible world. But you may be right.
OTOH, when you say -
"How else do you send an email to the user (as required by the law) without using the ISP's SMTP servers"
I think that's rather the point, isn't it? They are not obligated to deliver anything are they? I'm sure they do spam filtering and various other things like that, so they can decide what to send to the user and what not to, legally, I would think.
If 10,000 people *a day* need to be notified that they are breaking the law then it's time to reevaluate who the law is for and why it's there. Not streamline the prosecution/judgement process.
My tv has built in streaming stuff, I can watch directly from NAS to screen via the network. No need for another device and it seems to support more formats than the PS3 too.
"But the British, maybe because of brains, maybe because of necessity, have been pushing the boundaries of computation for almost two hundred years. We owe a great debt of gratitude towards them."
Sure, we have indeed.
It might have been more helpful if we hadn't hidden all these advances under a rock and denied all knowledge of them for 40 or 50 years though eh?
Yeah, the N64 have been expensive, but C64 games were cheap in their time. I remember saving up my pocket money for 2.99 (pounds that is) tapes. There were premium titles, but they still never realyl cost more than 10 quid. About 22 pounds in today's money.
So really, about double that isn't much of a problem, given how much more effort goes in and how much more enjoyment I get out.
Oh I wasn't espousing the Democrats either. The aim of a smaller government that limits itself to areas where it's actually needed, rather than proliferating, taking ever more money and interfering more in everyone's life. well that aim is admirable in my opinion.
I don't see it being achievable whilst supporting either of the big two parties.
What the US (and most western democracies, thinking about it) needs is a credible, grass-roots movement that brings politics back to the people. New parties. Smaller government. More accountability. Less commercial interference in the form of lobbying and contributions.
At the moment the tea party seem to an outside observer to be a bunch or borderline crazies that thrive on hate for democrats and "liberals" in general. And they are being manipulated by FOX into being just another tool for the Reps and the corporate takeover of society.
(Again, mentioning they're being fooled into voting republican there doesn't mean I tacitly think they should be voting democrat)
Because I still only hear marketing speak whenever anyone mentions said cloud.
And I see no evidence that there's anything much to it other than a drive to sell more servers and virtual machines. The term itself seems to be used to cover everything from remote storage to SaaS, with a lot in between.
So is it really happening and can anyone tell me if it's actually anything useful?
I just don't see it. I especially don't see how CAD work would benefit from it. Don't you have a main workstation?
IBM has massive amounts of software and hardware engineering in the US, in the UK, some in Italy, Australia and a whole bunch of other places. Yes, they're also in India and China, but you'd be a fool not to in their growing economies.
Really wrong. If you got a TV that has a 1366x768 resolution you were sold one of the lower end models that downscales 1080p. Anything advertised as full HD has to have 1920x1080 pixels. By law.
Otherwise one of the biggest class actions in history is coming.
Ok, odd.... I suppose he's right, there are closed modules on the N900, you'd have a very hard time fully replacing the OS. The userland stuff would be easy enough, though IIRC the contacts app is closed at the moment.
Was it worth it/interesting going to see him? He's coming here to Perth in a couple of weeks and I was toying with the idea of going along.
Then still, some sort of reference please, because I've looked on google, can't find anything and I genuinely want to know.
Hell, the reason TVs were marked differently (and confusingly) in "HD Ready" and "Full HD" was exactly that, the HD Ready models had 1366x768 resolution, and Full HD models had 1920x1080.
Sorry, but that seems entirely unbelievable to me, especially as I'm using 1920x1080 samsung monitor right now. Look, sorry to out and out cry bullshit on this, but it would be a pretty damned huge scam if this were true, you got any sources, news stories, anything to back you up?
Openmoko failed as much because of bad management.
Or at least the software platform did. Developers (paid ones) were just allowed to go off and do what they liked, so you got people spending six months rewriting the onscreen keyboard when half the time the sound subsystem didn't work (kind of important on a phone) along with a variety of other massive problems. Oh yeah, and the two or three full-stack rewrites they seemed to have going at any one time.
It didn't even get good press amongst geeks because open was all it had going for it, and they burned through whatever capital they had by pissing into the wind.
The N900 is the most FOSS-geek friendly thing I can find at the moment, and I love it.
I actually don't need my 24 inch monitor to go much higher, my eyes generally occupy one, comfortable level. If I had a smaller widescreen monitor I can see the argument perhaps, but this is fine.
Jesus H Christ. The only people who will bother with this are the folks who are already curtain-twitchers by nature, and who have really got nothing to do with their lives.
FTFAQ - "Viewers can monitor for as much or as little as they want. Extended viewing is rewarded"
A quid fifty for sixty hours. You couldn't even buy a pint with that, but then you won't have time either, and if you're the sort of person this appeals to you probably think that 'public houses' are full of filth and scoundrels anyway.
I have (surprisingly) a lot of software dev friends. The ones that got into the games industry worked obscene hours under huge amounts of stress and for less money compared to the others. Only one person I know stuck with it and now, a decade later, she's got the experience and skills to call the shots a little more. I guess it's like going into 'the city'. They'll work you like a dog for a decade. 90% burn out and go off to do something else. the 10% left get an easier ride afterwards.
The guy saying linux is a mistake seems to be confusing the linux desktop market with the embedded device market.
The (x86/x64) linux desktop market is characterised by people who know what they're doing and may or may not buy many PC games. This in itself is something of circular/bootstrap problem, but even if game makers don't port PC games to the linux desktop because it's not significantly profitable, what on earth has that to do with a dedicated games handheld?
Given that they aren't going to be running iOS or whatever Sony's PSP OS is, they had the choice of various systems (Linux, QNX, BSD, RiscOS... ?) and none seems a better choice than the other from the perspective of 'stuff will have to be ported'.
Unless this is has an atom chip inside, nvidia or ati graphics and is capable of running windows and windows games unaltered, his argument is basically crap. And if it does have those things the battery will probably only last five minutes.
Now, that doesn't mean that I think this thing is going to make a dent on the market.
But if it's open to hacking, running on a decent kirkwood (or newer) or cortex ARM chip then it might be interesting to me.
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Also, grow up and stop taking the absolute position, there are many possible answers here.
Media taxes are already in place in a lot of countries. If these do not entitle you to use said media for 'piracy' then they are unjust. If they do not cover the scale of the copying that is taking place then perhaps they need to rise to cover it.
Perhaps the profit margins on media need to be cut, drastically. Perhaps the middle men are taking too much. Perhaps the huge centralised media producers cannot survive in a society where the people do not care to pay them, and what's the fall out from that?
This is a hugely complex area and I'm afraid that it's just not as simple as "I came up with it, therefore it's mine!"
I'm just saying that by the time you get to a significant proportion of the population totally disregarding a law, it needs to be reviewed, because ultimately the law is there at the sufferance of the people. If what comes out of it is a legal and economic situation in which IP is no longer profitable then other ways would need to be found to produce these things at a profit, or society goes without.
"If a majority of the population decided bank robbery was okay, does that mean we should re-evaluate if robbing banks is really a bad thing? Of course not!"
Yes, it does. As I say, the answer may well be "this is objectively a bad thing", in which case we need to look at why people are robbing banks, why they think it's ok and what other possible solutions there are to the problem. One of them may be to enforce things a lot more harshly, but if 99% of people are doing it or think its ok then you may have revolution on your hands.
"No bones about it, if you pirate IP, you absolutely are harming the IP owners. Either that, or *everything* published on economics is wrong. The reasonable, safe bet, is the former rather than the later."
1. Not true that you are absolutely harming anyone. I do not support copyright infringement, but the argument that one copy is one lost sale doesn't hold water.
2. Economics is a soft science of guesswork, and its predictions and studies foul up constantly. Vis the recent world economic crisis. Lay people were predicting bad stuff was around the corner for years, but the best economists in the business somehow didn't see it.
"When a massive number of people feel entitled to take what isn't theirs, what do you expect is going to happen."
I expect an honest study of the effects of changes to the laws in more permissive and more draconian directions, without people shouting in shrill voices either that they're entitled to control their publications indefinitely or that they should be allowed to do what the hell they like, just because.
Then Hadopi will last a total of three days, the internets will be clean, honest and law abding, and France will once again become the world's foremost content-producing powerhouse.
ROFLMAO.
Fair enough.
IF it gets to the sorts of magnitudes they're predicting, then point stands. If huge numbers of your citizens are doing it then you need to take a look at the bigger picture for a while and evaluate things.
Your evaluation may come back 'it is good and right to combat this, regardless of popular opinion' or it may not, but blindly going the enforcement route ain't so good. And so you get doomed government initiatives like the war on drugs and the current war on copyright infringement.
My take on that would be that they were not allowed to use them directly, not that they would refuse to receive or relay... in a sensible world. But you may be right.
OTOH, when you say -
"How else do you send an email to the user (as required by the law) without using the ISP's SMTP servers"
I think that's rather the point, isn't it? They are not obligated to deliver anything are they? I'm sure they do spam filtering and various other things like that, so they can decide what to send to the user and what not to, legally, I would think.
I know, seriously.
If 10,000 people *a day* need to be notified that they are breaking the law then it's time to reevaluate who the law is for and why it's there. Not streamline the prosecution/judgement process.
This is ridiculous.
My tv has built in streaming stuff, I can watch directly from NAS to screen via the network. No need for another device and it seems to support more formats than the PS3 too.
And seeing as I have no tablet or kindle or iPad or nook or whatever the hell, I shall keep reading them.
From my cold dead hands Mr Negroponte.
"But the British, maybe because of brains, maybe because of necessity, have been pushing the boundaries of computation for almost two hundred years. We owe a great debt of gratitude towards them."
Sure, we have indeed.
It might have been more helpful if we hadn't hidden all these advances under a rock and denied all knowledge of them for 40 or 50 years though eh?
Yeah, the N64 have been expensive, but C64 games were cheap in their time. I remember saving up my pocket money for 2.99 (pounds that is) tapes. There were premium titles, but they still never realyl cost more than 10 quid. About 22 pounds in today's money.
So really, about double that isn't much of a problem, given how much more effort goes in and how much more enjoyment I get out.
Oh I wasn't espousing the Democrats either. The aim of a smaller government that limits itself to areas where it's actually needed, rather than proliferating, taking ever more money and interfering more in everyone's life. well that aim is admirable in my opinion.
I don't see it being achievable whilst supporting either of the big two parties.
What the US (and most western democracies, thinking about it) needs is a credible, grass-roots movement that brings politics back to the people. New parties. Smaller government. More accountability. Less commercial interference in the form of lobbying and contributions.
At the moment the tea party seem to an outside observer to be a bunch or borderline crazies that thrive on hate for democrats and "liberals" in general. And they are being manipulated by FOX into being just another tool for the Reps and the corporate takeover of society.
(Again, mentioning they're being fooled into voting republican there doesn't mean I tacitly think they should be voting democrat)
Is data really moving to 'the cloud'?
Because I still only hear marketing speak whenever anyone mentions said cloud.
And I see no evidence that there's anything much to it other than a drive to sell more servers and virtual machines. The term itself seems to be used to cover everything from remote storage to SaaS, with a lot in between.
So is it really happening and can anyone tell me if it's actually anything useful?
I just don't see it. I especially don't see how CAD work would benefit from it. Don't you have a main workstation?
"Ignoring the grammar (although funny), what exactly is wrong with wanting a smaller, more effective government?"
Voting republican to try and get it. Good luck with that.
Eh, no.
IBM has massive amounts of software and hardware engineering in the US, in the UK, some in Italy, Australia and a whole bunch of other places. Yes, they're also in India and China, but you'd be a fool not to in their growing economies.
You believe wrong.
Really wrong. If you got a TV that has a 1366x768 resolution you were sold one of the lower end models that downscales 1080p.
Anything advertised as full HD has to have 1920x1080 pixels. By law.
Otherwise one of the biggest class actions in history is coming.
Ok, odd.... I suppose he's right, there are closed modules on the N900, you'd have a very hard time fully replacing the OS. The userland stuff would be easy enough, though IIRC the contacts app is closed at the moment.
Was it worth it/interesting going to see him?
He's coming here to Perth in a couple of weeks and I was toying with the idea of going along.
Then still, some sort of reference please, because I've looked on google, can't find anything and I genuinely want to know.
Hell, the reason TVs were marked differently (and confusingly) in "HD Ready" and "Full HD" was exactly that, the HD Ready models had 1366x768 resolution, and Full HD models had 1920x1080.
Ummm.... bullshit!
Sorry, but that seems entirely unbelievable to me, especially as I'm using 1920x1080 samsung monitor right now.
Look, sorry to out and out cry bullshit on this, but it would be a pretty damned huge scam if this were true, you got any sources, news stories, anything to back you up?
Openmoko failed as much because of bad management.
Or at least the software platform did. Developers (paid ones) were just allowed to go off and do what they liked, so you got people spending six months rewriting the onscreen keyboard when half the time the sound subsystem didn't work (kind of important on a phone) along with a variety of other massive problems. Oh yeah, and the two or three full-stack rewrites they seemed to have going at any one time.
It didn't even get good press amongst geeks because open was all it had going for it, and they burned through whatever capital they had by pissing into the wind.
The N900 is the most FOSS-geek friendly thing I can find at the moment, and I love it.
I thought HD (1080p) was 1920x1080?
OK, same ratio I guess. Still.
I actually don't need my 24 inch monitor to go much higher, my eyes generally occupy one, comfortable level. If I had a smaller widescreen monitor I can see the argument perhaps, but this is fine.
One pound fifty a month for two hours a day?
Jesus H Christ. The only people who will bother with this are the folks who are already curtain-twitchers by nature, and who have really got nothing to do with their lives.
FTFAQ - "Viewers can monitor for as much or as little as they want. Extended viewing is rewarded"
A quid fifty for sixty hours. You couldn't even buy a pint with that, but then you won't have time either, and if you're the sort of person this appeals to you probably think that 'public houses' are full of filth and scoundrels anyway.
Yeah, it's really not the same.
I have (surprisingly) a lot of software dev friends. The ones that got into the games industry worked obscene hours under huge amounts of stress and for less money compared to the others. Only one person I know stuck with it and now, a decade later, she's got the experience and skills to call the shots a little more. I guess it's like going into 'the city'. They'll work you like a dog for a decade. 90% burn out and go off to do something else. the 10% left get an easier ride afterwards.
If I hadn't already commented you'd be having one of my mod points.
Spot on.
The guy saying linux is a mistake seems to be confusing the linux desktop market with the embedded device market.
The (x86/x64) linux desktop market is characterised by people who know what they're doing and may or may not buy many PC games. This in itself is something of circular/bootstrap problem, but even if game makers don't port PC games to the linux desktop because it's not significantly profitable, what on earth has that to do with a dedicated games handheld?
Given that they aren't going to be running iOS or whatever Sony's PSP OS is, they had the choice of various systems (Linux, QNX, BSD, RiscOS ... ?) and none seems a better choice than the other from the perspective of 'stuff will have to be ported'.
Unless this is has an atom chip inside, nvidia or ati graphics and is capable of running windows and windows games unaltered, his argument is basically crap. And if it does have those things the battery will probably only last five minutes.
Now, that doesn't mean that I think this thing is going to make a dent on the market.
But if it's open to hacking, running on a decent kirkwood (or newer) or cortex ARM chip then it might be interesting to me.
Yeah, but illegal experimentation implies an aspect of wilfulness about it. Maybe murder 2...