It's got a lot of philosophy woven in, no doubt, but has anyone ever seen/read about some more serious interpretations of the text?
If you haven't read it yet I would recommend picking up a copy of "The Salmon of Doubt". He talks about his ideas on atheism and whatnot. It also includes the novel he was working on when he died.
If you hold them responsible for hackers on their network, then they've got to start policing p2p, and then they give out the names of infringing customers, and then it's all over.
Huh? So they would have to start acting like good citizens and report illegal (yes, most P2P traffic is illegal; that's why P2P is explicitly banned in most institutions around here) behaviour?
I don't see what would be so wrong with that?
...except for the fact that it is physically impossible... What happens when (not if) they miss something?
And why does the effectively zero marginal cost of production of software somehow make software distribution into an ethical, rather than economic, issue in a way that it doesn't for real goods?
The question is entirely ethical by it's very nature. It is an arbitrary set of conditions designed to do turn something non-economic into an economy (for good or ill).
I personally believe a persons right to choose a scheme under which to license a work (or enter any sort of agreement) trump ethics though. So I don't see them as mutually exclusive.
I wonder if you could buy new DVDs from somewhere legally. Copy it and rip all the crap out. Re-burn it. Destroy the original (in some proveable way). And sell the better copy for a small markup.
Of course you would be sued eventually, but I wonder if you could win the case?
Ahh, see, you forgot to apply the 25% anecdotal tax rant fee. The is a madatory 25% increased of tax burden to be applied whenever revealing what was paid in taxes the previous year.
Uhh--- the first real mainstream desktop search I started to see people use was...
Google Desktop Search?
Which seems pretty much useless to me anyway
The fact that every single one of these threads turns into a Spotlight vs (whatever the longhorn one will be) debate makes me wonder what the incentive is for an upgrade to either.
This only applies in cases when dealers do not register the transaction (ie, link the serial number to the sales date) and the customer fails to register with Apple on the machine's first run. Failing these two things, how else will Apple know the date that the one year limited warranty should begin?
If you actually believe that this system will result in any tracks being priced less than 99c you are very naive. This is just a way to increase prices on more popular songs to subsidize cd sales.
Unnaturally fixed prices (such as, say, when fixed by a cartel) are bad.
Exactly, that is why we should NOT give a cartel control of the pricing structure.
Microsoft writes the specifications for x86 hardware, and Microsoft can choose to support, or not to support, what ever hardware suits them.
In no fashion is Microsoft forced or obligated to support *any* particular configuration, and recent history has shown quite well that even such an august institution as the United States government cannot force Microsoft to do anything they don't want to do
Ok, so they _choose_ to support almost all x86 hardware available. Difference in semantics perhaps, zero difference to the consumer.
What, exactly do you find proprietary about Apple hardware?
The fact that you can't buy clones.
...long thing about being based on open specs...
Again, difference in semantics, zero difference to the consumer.
I don't buy the argument that Apple will never release an x86 version of Mac OS X--after all, by the same logic, in no way is Apple obligated to make sure that an x86 Mac OS X would be compatible with commodity PC hardware. If Apple were to go down this path, you can be quite sure that commodity hardware would never live up to Steve Jobs' expectations.
huh? So they will release osx for PC but they won't because of Steve Jobs?
Does anyone know of a better player for this *.mp4 file? Quicktime player on windows is even worse than realplayer. I prefer MPC but can't find a codec.
It might just be consumer programming but I would be much more comfortable with a rental type d/l model for movies than I would for music (e.g. napster etc).
allright, thats the slashdot i know and love. None of this encouraging enlightened discussion crap. I, for one, welcome back our trollish first posting overlords.
mostly joking given the actual content of the link...
The estate tax is, primarily a way to redistribute wealth in an attempt to prevent permanent pseudo-nobility by limiting the number of generations across which nearly-infinite wealth can remain nearly infinite.
An inheritance is income. Income is generally taxed in the US.
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It's got a lot of philosophy woven in, no doubt, but has anyone ever seen/read about some more serious interpretations of the text?
If you haven't read it yet I would recommend picking up a copy of "The Salmon of Doubt". He talks about his ideas on atheism and whatnot. It also includes the novel he was working on when he died.
If you hold them responsible for hackers on their network, then they've got to start policing p2p, and then they give out the names of infringing customers, and then it's all over.
Huh? So they would have to start acting like good citizens and report illegal (yes, most P2P traffic is illegal; that's why P2P is explicitly banned in most institutions around here) behaviour? I don't see what would be so wrong with that?
...except for the fact that it is physically impossible... What happens when (not if) they miss something?
So they have to invade your privacy because they did not write a robust OS in the first place ? What an argument!
All Operating Systems crash. Wether it be the fault of the OS or the application. This is a tool to allow them to figure out which it was.
I will continue to click "don't send" like I have always done.
And why does the effectively zero marginal cost of production of software somehow make software distribution into an ethical, rather than economic, issue in a way that it doesn't for real goods?
The question is entirely ethical by it's very nature. It is an arbitrary set of conditions designed to do turn something non-economic into an economy (for good or ill).
I personally believe a persons right to choose a scheme under which to license a work (or enter any sort of agreement) trump ethics though. So I don't see them as mutually exclusive.
You should try a big block of solid potassium...fun!
I would recommend running though....
Corn isn't anywhere near what its original form is, being modified for years and years to be the tall vegetable we're accustomed to.
In fact, corn has been so un-naturally selected it can't even breed on its own any more.
Those people are called hypocrites and they exist in any arbitrary grouping of humans.
Or, you could hedge your bets by not distributing other people's music.
Why?? In Canada he has already paid for this right via the media levy.
I wonder if you could buy new DVDs from somewhere legally. Copy it and rip all the crap out. Re-burn it. Destroy the original (in some proveable way). And sell the better copy for a small markup.
Of course you would be sued eventually, but I wonder if you could win the case?
Ahh, see, you forgot to apply the 25% anecdotal tax rant fee. The is a madatory 25% increased of tax burden to be applied whenever revealing what was paid in taxes the previous year.
So your saying that no one makes a profit in this whole process. Ford doesn't make a profit on the crown vic?
sheesh, you sure showed that straw man a thing or two.
You can make a profit from selling a police car. You can not make a profit from selling the _idea_ of a police car. See the difference?
Uhh--- the first real mainstream desktop search I started to see people use was... Google Desktop Search?
Which seems pretty much useless to me anyway
The fact that every single one of these threads turns into a Spotlight vs (whatever the longhorn one will be) debate makes me wonder what the incentive is for an upgrade to either.
Did you just mis-type regular about 7 times in your last two posts or is regural some term I am unfamiliar with?
If you are knowledgeable enough to prefer a specific CPU you are probably not shopping Dell in the first place.
This only applies in cases when dealers do not register the transaction (ie, link the serial number to the sales date) and the customer fails to register with Apple on the machine's first run. Failing these two things, how else will Apple know the date that the one year limited warranty should begin?
By the reciept?
You can get at COM with the win32all package for Python. I automate word and excel all the time with it.
If you actually believe that this system will result in any tracks being priced less than 99c you are very naive. This is just a way to increase prices on more popular songs to subsidize cd sales.
Unnaturally fixed prices (such as, say, when fixed by a cartel) are bad.
Exactly, that is why we should NOT give a cartel control of the pricing structure.
Microsoft writes the specifications for x86 hardware, and Microsoft can choose to support, or not to support, what ever hardware suits them. In no fashion is Microsoft forced or obligated to support *any* particular configuration, and recent history has shown quite well that even such an august institution as the United States government cannot force Microsoft to do anything they don't want to do
...long thing about being based on open specs...
Ok, so they _choose_ to support almost all x86 hardware available. Difference in semantics perhaps, zero difference to the consumer.
What, exactly do you find proprietary about Apple hardware?
The fact that you can't buy clones.
Again, difference in semantics, zero difference to the consumer.
I don't buy the argument that Apple will never release an x86 version of Mac OS X--after all, by the same logic, in no way is Apple obligated to make sure that an x86 Mac OS X would be compatible with commodity PC hardware. If Apple were to go down this path, you can be quite sure that commodity hardware would never live up to Steve Jobs' expectations.
huh? So they will release osx for PC but they won't because of Steve Jobs?
Does anyone know of a better player for this *.mp4 file? Quicktime player on windows is even worse than realplayer. I prefer MPC but can't find a codec.
It might just be consumer programming but I would be much more comfortable with a rental type d/l model for movies than I would for music (e.g. napster etc).
allright, thats the slashdot i know and love. None of this encouraging enlightened discussion crap. I, for one, welcome back our trollish first posting overlords.
mostly joking given the actual content of the link...
In addition to the Cali. example. WA state law (I believe) requires id to be checked for anyone who looks under 35 (or some random age like that).
Taking pictures of cameras taking pictures of you is not keeping a record of your own actions.
To be fair, it is a record of the action of taking pictures of the cameras.
The estate tax is, primarily a way to redistribute wealth in an attempt to prevent permanent pseudo-nobility by limiting the number of generations across which nearly-infinite wealth can remain nearly infinite.
An inheritance is income. Income is generally taxed in the US.
I'm confused; I thought we were against software patents?
We are, if MS gets pissed off enough from this stuff they can afford to buy better legislation than we can.
I personally like to see as many large corporations and companies get bit in the ass by this crap as possible.