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I think over the long haul the point is the RIAA controls the distribution of music. Not their current catalog. Check out IUMA or your favorite garage band's website. There is a large and growing body of good, legal and free music on the web. At some point this will destroy the people who are trying to control the music industry with or without P2P.
I use and enjoy wxWindows, but I do not think your criticism of QT and their licensing is very fair. They have a completely free license (GPL) which you can use - to create completely free applications. They have commercial licensing (admittited too expensive for "shareware" type applications).
There is a completely reasonable middle ground where you can release your application as GPL code - which you can legally sell for any price you want - yes you need to provide the source code to your customers (not a bad thing) and yes they can then give it away to their friends, family and even people they pass on the street - but if your application has true value - they will probably be more than willing to pay for it (especially if it is as low cost as you claim). Many users are not sophisticated enough to compile their own binaries and the making the "official" binaries what you sell - is legal.
Now if you are just upset because they will not give you (or sell at the price you pick) their library for you to use in closed source for profit applications, then it is far better that you found a different library.
I think that the difference is in how you define your "self." To me (and certainly correct me if I am wrong), it sounds as if your physical nature is a significant of how you define yourself.
Personally, I believe that the majority of my "self" is in my thoughts, ideas and interactions with others. Given the choice between dying or having my conciousness moved to a machine (not that I think we can realistically predict when such an ability will be developed), I would take the transfer as yet another amazing experience - I guess that you would say that I have forsaken myself - I would say that I would be expanding myself, experiencing something new when something old no longer was viable.
I like myself and I am happy with who and what I am, but I do not like illness, infirmary or death. I do not think that they can be avoided, nor do I live in fear of their inevitability; however, I will delay their onset and accept most any remedy available to prevent them from limiting myself.
I doubt you are the only one, but I am proud to not be in your company. I will avidly search out medical and mechanical advantage to increase my life span and ability - because of my sense of self worth. Time will defeat my flesh and I will die, but I will not give up without a fight.
As for charities, I suggest that they make an appeal to local universities. If their project scope could be accomplished by a semester project this is often a reasonable solution that is beneficial to both parties. Students get to work on code that will actual be used with actual "customers" (and can provide some fodder for otherwise skimpy resumes) and the charities get some free development.
But you are both missing the point. The vast majority of OSS developers write software for their own needs and wants. When I write free code, it is for me and/or for my friends. If you want a record management package - pay for it. Now the question is how it gets paid. If there is a real need then the organizations that want/need it can fund a developer(s) to write and customize it for them. OSS does not mean you can make me change my hobbies and interests to do free (as in beer) work to meet your needs.
The real power of OSS is that you get to build on the wants and needs of everyone else - you can be (you are welcome to assist too) a free loader if everything you need is already done. If not you can ignore OSS because the package(s) you need are not sitting out there (and turn around and pay for closed source packages) or you choose - either on your own or in concert with other people of similar needs to develop the base. In the long run, I believe virtually all general purpose software will have powerful OSS choices available as will most niche software, but this will take time - and first adopters will out of necessity contribute more so their own needs are met. Eventually more stories like this one by bigger and bigger companies will develop.
I am still waiting for a huge company (e.g. General Motors) that has clout to pull its suppliers along with it to make a long term commitment - the cost to a really big company when they do decide to upgrade their platforms (say from Win98 to WinXP) is enourmous - and the software cost is only a small part of that - at some point they will add it up and realize that they already have 99% of the support infrastructure in place they can save millions of dollars a year (which can fund internal or external development of they applications and customization that they require) and gives them long term control of an integral part of their business that they currently give to Microsoft.
I don't vote for them, I generally vote for a third party, that I feel better represents me; however, if I feel well represented by a Dem or Rep, I will vote for them as well.
That having been said, beyond the local level votes and (favorable) media exposure are strongly corralated. And you buy media exposure. You can also buy handy techniques like polling for ambivalent voters and then reminding them about your canidate on voting day.
There is a viscous circle of money and power. We will probably not get a govt that would do us physical harm or cross any "red lines" that would result in enraging the general population. But we will continue to bleed our money and freedoms to the rich and powerful a nick at a time.
Well some here might disagree, but I would state that nature did not "choose" anything, but rather that random mutations resulted in the structure of DNA. I would also guess (I am not a chemist) what simplifies building a digital circuit and what works "best" from a purely chemical point of view can vary dramatically.
All isotopes that are produced when uranium splits are relatively short lived; however, some of the uranium atoms do not fission with the first neutron impact. Rather, they absorb the neutron and become a more massive isotope, this process will continue these atoms eventually split forming trasuranics or actinides. Some of these (e.g. plutonium-239) , have long half lives.
Transuranics can be recycled into new reactor fuels rather easily. But it has been (misguided) US policy to restrict this process for fear of making "bomb" materials. There are new reactor designs that do the "recycle" internal which may be more palatable.
End of the day if you are being honest, you have two choices accept the risks associated high energy production (nuclear being one of the cleanest, safest, least understood choices) and industry or advocate that we reduce the size and impact of humanity through massive controls on human breeding. Other solutions available do not scale.
Of course in the case of the students at Hogwarts as long as they keep the filming of the movies more or less one a year, that would work well. Of course having Dumbeldore die is a problem
Assuming that the RIAA has anything other than the RIAA's best interests at heart is exactly like assuming a union has anything other than the union's best interest at heart. There is significant overlap, but they are not perfectly aligned.
If I work for a union and the union is offered a contract that will significantly increase my salary, but also reduce the number of union employees, it is very unlikely that the proposal will be accepted (even when the staff reduction is done via attrition).
Similarly the RIAA's interests have nothing to do with artist's best interests, so why the surprise? Artists (like misreprested union employees) need to realize when the people they pay (very well), are no longer working in their best interests and move to find new representation.
Well it is in high def, got the TV (65" Wide HDTV) earlier (before I got stiffed on my bonus) - and while it is the first time I have watched football on it, the super bowl looks good.
Now I also read that the Stanely Cup finals will be in HDTV this, now I will certainly have a party then.
Whats to keep an abusive husband from forcing his wife to vote his way.
Nothing. Other than the laws designed to protect wives from abusive husbands in general. i.e. What's to protect her from being beat up nomatter how she votes?
Whats to stop Unions from setting up there own Internet connected voting places where they can stand over peoples shoulders.
Nothing. What's to stop unions from sending a couple of goons to stand outside the polls and remind you about the union stance and imply they might be checking your results?
In the current system when you vote in person you have complete privacy while voting which does address all of the issues raised. Now if your arguement concerns absentee ballots then you should state that. If internet voting is however to be used as a replacement/supplement to traditional ballot voting, where we expect the majority (or at least a sizeable minority) of people to utilize it. Then these issues become more significant.
If I am married to a politically ambivilent person, what is to prevent me from casting their vote in addtion to my own? I know all the "identifing" information you might query, similarly I have access to it for my siblings as well, aging parents, etc. There are significant fraud issues which are difficult to address if you attempt to scale this into a primary voting procedure.
I do not much care for the current process, but have not yet been able to envision a much more automated system that does not have larger problems.
I do not disagree that the current documentation for Palladium shows that it does not provide public unique key information (on top of which DRM could be tied to a particular machine). But the core technologies would allow a trusted identity process do just that and then you could use Palladium to support content protection.
802.11b is plenty fast to stream DivX. Now as some point you could have too many players (and other 802.11b devices) in a home (possibly a bigger problem in apartment buildings?) trying to share the same bandwidth.
The ICRC also considers it important that when ratifying the Protocol States Parties make a declaration that the instrument applies "in all circumstances". This reflects the understanding among the negotiating countries that such weapons have no place in their arsenals and no legitimate utility in any situation.
Well I did read the article, did you read my link? I find it hard to image that a weapon that can be used to blind (and burn up electronics and do other stuff), cannot be considered a blinding weapon. Consider this now we will have a weapon that can be used as a blinding weapon - we may or may not choose to use it as such, but we can - no modifications - it will work fine in that capacity. This is against the letter of the treaty, even if you and the new scientist folks disagree.
There are treaties against using weapons that blind. Not wanting to even think about why it is better to kill someone than to blind them, how does this weapon effect those treaties. Of course we (the US) have shown a recent willingness to disregard (ABM) our previous agreements (yes I know the ABM had an "opt-out" clause).
If you are actually interested a number of body builders (and a smaller number of power lifters), follow diets similar to the Atkins diet (Body Opus, Anabolic Diet, etc).
I have lost 50lbs over the last 9 months, by eating a reasonably balanced mixture of carbs and protiens. Certianly not an Atkins diet (or either of the other diets I just mentioned), but far from low in fat (I have Steak, eggs and lots of other good food, but in reasonable amounts.
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I think over the long haul the point is the RIAA controls the distribution of music. Not their current catalog. Check out IUMA or your favorite garage band's website. There is a large and growing body of good, legal and free music on the web. At some point this will destroy the people who are trying to control the music industry with or without P2P.
I use and enjoy wxWindows, but I do not think your criticism of QT and their licensing is very fair. They have a completely free license (GPL) which you can use - to create completely free applications. They have commercial licensing (admittited too expensive for "shareware" type applications).
There is a completely reasonable middle ground where you can release your application as GPL code - which you can legally sell for any price you want - yes you need to provide the source code to your customers (not a bad thing) and yes they can then give it away to their friends, family and even people they pass on the street - but if your application has true value - they will probably be more than willing to pay for it (especially if it is as low cost as you claim). Many users are not sophisticated enough to compile their own binaries and the making the "official" binaries what you sell - is legal.
Now if you are just upset because they will not give you (or sell at the price you pick) their library for you to use in closed source for profit applications, then it is far better that you found a different library.
"Learning to program," oh is that we are calling taking a dump these days?
I think that the difference is in how you define your "self." To me (and certainly correct me if I am wrong), it sounds as if your physical nature is a significant of how you define yourself.
Personally, I believe that the majority of my "self" is in my thoughts, ideas and interactions with others. Given the choice between dying or having my conciousness moved to a machine (not that I think we can realistically predict when such an ability will be developed), I would take the transfer as yet another amazing experience - I guess that you would say that I have forsaken myself - I would say that I would be expanding myself, experiencing something new when something old no longer was viable.
I like myself and I am happy with who and what I am, but I do not like illness, infirmary or death. I do not think that they can be avoided, nor do I live in fear of their inevitability; however, I will delay their onset and accept most any remedy available to prevent them from limiting myself.
As for charities, I suggest that they make an appeal to local universities. If their project scope could be accomplished by a semester project this is often a reasonable solution that is beneficial to both parties. Students get to work on code that will actual be used with actual "customers" (and can provide some fodder for otherwise skimpy resumes) and the charities get some free development.
But you are both missing the point. The vast majority of OSS developers write software for their own needs and wants. When I write free code, it is for me and/or for my friends. If you want a record management package - pay for it. Now the question is how it gets paid. If there is a real need then the organizations that want/need it can fund a developer(s) to write and customize it for them. OSS does not mean you can make me change my hobbies and interests to do free (as in beer) work to meet your needs.
The real power of OSS is that you get to build on the wants and needs of everyone else - you can be (you are welcome to assist too) a free loader if everything you need is already done. If not you can ignore OSS because the package(s) you need are not sitting out there (and turn around and pay for closed source packages) or you choose - either on your own or in concert with other people of similar needs to develop the base. In the long run, I believe virtually all general purpose software will have powerful OSS choices available as will most niche software, but this will take time - and first adopters will out of necessity contribute more so their own needs are met. Eventually more stories like this one by bigger and bigger companies will develop.
I am still waiting for a huge company (e.g. General Motors) that has clout to pull its suppliers along with it to make a long term commitment - the cost to a really big company when they do decide to upgrade their platforms (say from Win98 to WinXP) is enourmous - and the software cost is only a small part of that - at some point they will add it up and realize that they already have 99% of the support infrastructure in place they can save millions of dollars a year (which can fund internal or external development of they applications and customization that they require) and gives them long term control of an integral part of their business that they currently give to Microsoft.
Just about everything, have you listened to it?
Ahh but this would be so much nerdier (and quieter) :-)
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I don't vote for them, I generally vote for a third party, that I feel better represents me; however, if I feel well represented by a Dem or Rep, I will vote for them as well.
That having been said, beyond the local level votes and (favorable) media exposure are strongly corralated. And you buy media exposure. You can also buy handy techniques like polling for ambivalent voters and then reminding them about your canidate on voting day.
There is a viscous circle of money and power. We will probably not get a govt that would do us physical harm or cross any "red lines" that would result in enraging the general population. But we will continue to bleed our money and freedoms to the rich and powerful a nick at a time.
Well some here might disagree, but I would state that nature did not "choose" anything, but rather that random mutations resulted in the structure of DNA. I would also guess (I am not a chemist) what simplifies building a digital circuit and what works "best" from a purely chemical point of view can vary dramatically.
All isotopes that are produced when uranium splits are relatively short lived; however, some of the uranium atoms do not fission with the first neutron impact. Rather, they absorb the neutron and become a more massive isotope, this process will continue these atoms eventually split forming trasuranics or actinides. Some of these (e.g. plutonium-239) , have long half lives.
Transuranics can be recycled into new reactor fuels rather easily. But it has been (misguided) US policy to restrict this process for fear of making "bomb" materials. There are new reactor designs that do the "recycle" internal which may be more palatable.
End of the day if you are being honest, you have two choices accept the risks associated high energy production (nuclear being one of the cleanest, safest, least understood choices) and industry or advocate that we reduce the size and impact of humanity through massive controls on human breeding. Other solutions available do not scale.
Of course in the case of the students at Hogwarts as long as they keep the filming of the movies more or less one a year, that would work well. Of course having Dumbeldore die is a problem
Check out the Ocelot and/or the Leopard from www.appdig.com
If I work for a union and the union is offered a contract that will significantly increase my salary, but also reduce the number of union employees, it is very unlikely that the proposal will be accepted (even when the staff reduction is done via attrition).
Similarly the RIAA's interests have nothing to do with artist's best interests, so why the surprise? Artists (like misreprested union employees) need to realize when the people they pay (very well), are no longer working in their best interests and move to find new representation.
Now I also read that the Stanely Cup finals will be in HDTV this, now I will certainly have a party then.
In the current system when you vote in person you have complete privacy while voting which does address all of the issues raised. Now if your arguement concerns absentee ballots then you should state that. If internet voting is however to be used as a replacement/supplement to traditional ballot voting, where we expect the majority (or at least a sizeable minority) of people to utilize it. Then these issues become more significant.
If I am married to a politically ambivilent person, what is to prevent me from casting their vote in addtion to my own? I know all the "identifing" information you might query, similarly I have access to it for my siblings as well, aging parents, etc. There are significant fraud issues which are difficult to address if you attempt to scale this into a primary voting procedure.
I do not much care for the current process, but have not yet been able to envision a much more automated system that does not have larger problems.
802.11b is plenty fast to stream DivX. Now as some point you could have too many players (and other 802.11b devices) in a home (possibly a bigger problem in apartment buildings?) trying to share the same bandwidth.
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If you are actually interested a number of body builders (and a smaller number of power lifters), follow diets similar to the Atkins diet (Body Opus, Anabolic Diet, etc).
I have lost 50lbs over the last 9 months, by eating a reasonably balanced mixture of carbs and protiens. Certianly not an Atkins diet (or either of the other diets I just mentioned), but far from low in fat (I have Steak, eggs and lots of other good food, but in reasonable amounts.
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