Isn't this copyright violation sufficiently serious as to be criminal? Why aren't the police dealing with this? What do we need a lawsuit for? I would like to know. IANAL and I'm from the UK, so my grasp of American law is tenuous.
Copyright isn't criminal at all in the states. It's a purely civil offense, so the only redress is a suit.
Is it criminal in the UK? How does that work, someone tells the police you copied their software so they arrest you? That sounds kind of scary.
I hope you don't think you are in the majority. Most people don't even have jobs that have anything to do with their degree.
Could have if they'd wanted. If you didn't want an overlap there, then no problem. I'm just bored with people whining about it and claiming college is worthless. It's worth what you put into it. If you get nothing out, well, that should say something.
Education, learning, and knowledge can't be spoon fed. Just made available.
Going to college isn't to make you smarter, or more educated, it is to tell a future employer that you can put up with a bunch of BS for at least 4 years.
Sounds like you wasted 4 (or more likely 5-6) years. If you didn't learn anything you didn't know after high school and you don't use at a job you wasted your time. I use my degrees every day at work.
Hey, we all came from somewhere else. It's the country, not the ethnicity that's making the difference.
Actually, no. America's vast capital reserves and efficient capital markets have allowed it to dominate R&D for the last 50 years. Russia and China have produced a huge amount of innovative and inventive research, but lack the virtuous, steal, innovate, capitalise, commercialise, rinse, repeat cycle that America excels (excelled?) at.
Hand in glove. America's university and research system is the best by far because it has resources and freedom. China hasn't done much (though it's improving very quickly), and Russia's done practically nothing since the fall.
An inordinate amount of the difference making inventions in the last 50 occurred in America. Often by people not born here. That's why the university system works so well - because something like 48 of the top 50 research universities are in America, we get to steal and often keep the best talent. We aren't winning because we're smarter, as a whole.
The rest of the world subsidises US growth by propping up the currency, having it's best brains and talent immigrate there and bending over when it's technology is stolen and commercialised by American companies. In return for this subsidy, the rest of the world recieves access to the world's largest export (or import) market for it's commodities, tourism and specialist products.
The US currency didn't get that way because people decided it would be a nice thing to do. It's a result of all the other things that made it stable and worth something. Foreigners come to the US for college especially in science/tech because they're the best by far in terms of resources, human and capital. Many of those people stay.
That won't matter as long as the US capital markets remain transparent and effecient. The current trend of poli-corporate-criminals indicates a trend towards corruption and opacity of those markets.
That'll work for 10 years but your view is too static. Innovation drives success. Capital's important but if you don't keep ahead technologically, you end up in businesses with no margins and suddenly your capital becomes worthless. Consider if we hadn't invested in tech and remained an agrarian society. The best financial system wouldn't mean a thing because we wouldn't have anything worth investing in.
Actually, you're wrong--electrons are particles of mass. They travel in waves, just like electromagnetic radiation (that is, light), and have a distinct De Broglie wavelength, but they are not, themselves, electromagnetic radiation.
By "last year" I meant 2004... I haven't filed yet (damn, I need to get on that). This was a complaint about both states collecting the taxes in the first place, then making you jump through hoops (non-resident forms and the such) to get your money back.
Oh, you're just talking about withholding. Allright, yeah, that's a bitch. You might think about changing your W-4 if you can get away with it so you don't give them so much of a free loan, you might talk to HR where you work.
I'm still confused though - you only get tax withheld from one state, and you only actually pay one state, right? You get tax withheld in the state you work, then you file 2 state returns - one paying the state in which you live, and one seeking a return in the state in which you work. So the only time you're out both amounts is the time between when the check you write clears and when you get the refund. Right?
The Japanese just like the Russians, are doing their research without any of our knowledge or bragging of any kind. I have a feeling that just like with the transistor in the 50s, these Japanese will come from behind and overwhelm our American companies in this new category of technology.
The transistor was invented in America, fuckstick.
I just looked around my living room and found that I have nothing electronic made here, save for the front door lock that was made by a company in Ohio.
Probably not, but why don't you check who had the original patent on whatever you look at? Commodity equipment is meaningless, and has nothing to do with R&D. Who developed the microprocessor? Telephone? TV?
America's research and university system is what has allowed it to dominate a lot of R&D for the last 50 years. Too bad we're stifling innovation at our national labs through bureaucracy and cutting funding to university research. Yay! Maybe you'll be right in 50 years, but you aren't now.
Hilary Clinton, and the "republican-lite" democratic party can take a hike. Something new, that will represent the actual interests of the working class, will take their place.
Soon (if not already), Microsoft Windows XP Media-Center Edition, Linux MythTv, and cable-network rebranded DVR boxes will supply all the services TiVo can do today. There will be no reason to buy TiVo anymore, except for inertia, nostalgia, or a subtle feeling that it's preference-matching code is superior.
The rebranded cable systems are a real threat, and are the sole reason for TiVo's problems. However, TiVo is still massively better than any of them (not counting systems that use TiVo, obviously).
Tivo still has a huge advantage over MS's box and MythTV in that you don't have to buy a computer. And to set up MythTV, you have to have 1) heard of it, and 2) be willing/able to set it up.
As long as I am only taxed in one state. Last year I was taxed in 2 states because my residence was listed in one and I worked in the other. But now that I want to file a refund to get that money back in one or the other, neither will want to give me anything back.
I think it'd be a pretty good idea if you went to H&R Block this year. Probably bring along that tax return you nuked last year too.
Odly enough, you're a troll, which is a bit of a cult, and thus following and behaving like a crowd. You link to goatse.cx which is a cultural meme among the trolls thus further follwing the sheep. You probably post on slashdot because your friends or someone else introduced you to it, and there's a good chance you believe you are independant because some misbegotten idol of yours told you that bucking trends would make you different, without of course mentioning that being different is what everyone like you strives to do.
Wow, that C in Psych 101 is really serving you well. Oddly enough, you're completely wrong. That's what you get for armchair psychiatry with someone you never met, retard.
1) I link to goatse simply *because* it's so hackneyed. Profile has a place for homepage, I didn't have one, so I'm making the joke that it's my asshole up there. You missed the point.
2) I found slashdot from google. So I guess you're right, if you count Page and Brin as my friends. But the assholes won't return my calls, so I don't know how that affects your theory.
3) I don't have an idol. What, you think we trolls have some sort of guild system? Now *that*'s fucked up.
4) I'm independent because I'm independent. I troll because I like fucking with tools like you. I don't confuse the two. No, trolling doesn't make me independent. You're right, though, that would be sad.
5) Sign your fucking posts you coward, so I can put you on my friends list.;)
The harm with this is that it diminishes my viewing experience. Tivo is attempting to sell my attention span, and I'm not amused.
Would you rather have no TiVo? Because unless TiVo turns around it's financials, that might be the options available. TiVo with unobtrusive commercials, or no TiVo?
To me, this is analagous to the ads that movie theaters have been playing in recent years--I'm suddenly the captive audience for a commercial, and I DON'T like it. Not coincidentally, I used to spend a great deal more money than I now do at the movies.
Badly flawed analogy. You'd be right if TiVo delayed or paused your program to show you an ad. If they did that I'd be screaming right there with you. But they're not. I guess it's like the commercials that appear in theaters if you get there like an hour early. They make no sound, and the alternative is a blank screen. That's different than the crap they show you at full volume after the lights go down.
I seek out advertising free zones in my life, and it's always sad to see another one passing away.
Life's tough that way. As for TiVo, if it's just your issue with all things advertisement, don't expect sympathy. By any rational measure, TiVo's plan doesn't affect viewing.
Last year's Usenix conference was full of Powerbooks. Most of the top dogs in the industry. That prompted me to buy a PowerMac. It's the best computing decision I've ever made.
I bet you also voted for whoever your favorite actor told you to.
TiVo has gone from a cool company with financial problems to another advertising laden CrapCo that's cutting it's own throat. Even more reason to cancel cable entirely, buy a divx/xvid ready dvd player (well under CA$100) and download what really interests you without ads. Don't worry, the big studios won't starve. They're making buckets on product placement within the shows now.
Come on. Exactly what is the harm with this? You're not missing your show. Tivo's just trying to stay alive. Do remember they're a company, and their goal is to sell things and make money. If it's not ads, it's higher subscription fees or more expensive hardware. If they can reduce my fees and stay in business in a nonintrusive fashion, go for it.
Personally, I'd rather see an ad banner while I'm FFing than take your suggestion and download everything I want to watch. Blech. Sounds like you're trading convenience for anti-ad ideology. I'm not much for ideology, I'll take the convenience of a hopefully still alive TiVo.
Remember, "cool companies with financial problems" become "cool bankrupt former companies" unless they find a way to reduce costs or make more money. I don't see an easy way for them to reduce costs, so how else do they make more money?
Do you really think a cell phone company is going to give up $3.95 every 90 days in exchange for a sharing agreement with Apple's 10 cents per song?
Maybe, if it means volume. Don't get me wrong, I think the odds are low, but Jobs is the guy who got the RIAA to go along with iTMS. And if the providers can get people to pay an extra $15/month for Apple goodness, of which they get some decent fraction, that beats the few people stupid enough to buy an annoying ringtone that expires.
The best analogy I can make is when Led Zeppelin in the 70's destroyed the system of concert promotion where the promoter got the 90 side of a 90/10 split with a band. They got promoters to realize that 10% of Zeppelin was worth more than 90% of anyone else. Similarly, if Apple keeps its pop culture growth trend, cell service providers might be willing to team up with Apple if it means value-add that pads their bottom line. Even if the margins are a tad lower than their ring-tone crap, which is the only value-add that most cell providers have.
That's the best sell Apple has: currently, services are failing miserably at selling a la carte services to people on cell plans. If Apple can make that happen, I don't think it's inconceivable someone would try a partnership, though I realize the cell providers would have to change their attitudes a bit.
I agree with you on the phone. No matter how nice a piece of hardware they can cook up, and no matter how well they think out the features, they're still going to have to wrestle for control with a carrier. Even ignoring the whole Jobs' ego deal, the amount of back and forth compromise will ruin a lot of it.
I don't think he'd do it unless you could keep your phone, switch phone companies, flash the bios, and keep using it and all the features you have with it. As you say, that would require a lot of working together. I don't think he'd do it unless he could get, say, three major wireless carriers to agree to do it.
That and I do believe Apple would insist on being in control of the features offered to a large degree. Though I could see them setting an iTMS-like agreement there where Apple and the wireless company shared fees for content or features activated at a monthly rate.
But who wouldn't kill for a truly well designed phone? And I tell you what would be cool - the article talked about a pull out number pad, but the iPod scroll wheel seems perfect to substitute as something of an old-school rotary phone. Could even put LEDs or whatever in the wheel that have numbers or play/stop/FF/RW buttons light up depending on the use mode.
but in using just a window manager, you lose all of the benefits of a desktop environment: session management, cross-application configuration parameters, uniform high-level drag and drop, etc.
I am not sure Windows has anything to do with it as any OS supports crypto, the question is why did an application designed to hold social security numbers on a insecure PC not encrypt the data store?
Something tells me the whole thing was on Excel.
There is absolutely no reason to have anything like this on a laptop. If there is some reason one would need the information from a laptop, you can access it from a server using a client that won't make a local copy. Ridiculous.
This contrasts significantly with "whom", which seems to appear most commonly in usage examples, old writing, and references to old writing, like the common title pattern "For Whom the * *"
Seriously? How else would one use that in a sentence? Do people replace "whom" with "who"? That sounds ridiculous, as in "For who the bell tolls". Do people just leave the preposition at the end, as "who the bell tolled for?"
Admittedly I just finished grad school so my peer group was fairly intelligent, but I'd say I hear that used correctly roughly 50% of the time in speech, and higher in print.
In Gentoo, you emerge each package, and hand configure each.config as necessary.. it teaches you about the interaction of programs, and most of all, how to cleanly get a system up and running.
What portion of Gentoo users, I wonder, actually do that?
99?! Okay, so it's not that expensive. 55Mhz processor, 2MB flash, 8MB RAM, serial port, 10/100 Ethernet... but I can go buy a cheap desktop for that. I hope it gets substantially cheaper with volume. If not, they're making a killer profit.
Wow, I guess every laptop in the world is also overpriced, being less powerful and more expensive than a similar desktop.
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Copyright isn't criminal at all in the states. It's a purely civil offense, so the only redress is a suit.
Is it criminal in the UK? How does that work, someone tells the police you copied their software so they arrest you? That sounds kind of scary.
Could have if they'd wanted. If you didn't want an overlap there, then no problem. I'm just bored with people whining about it and claiming college is worthless. It's worth what you put into it. If you get nothing out, well, that should say something.
Education, learning, and knowledge can't be spoon fed. Just made available.
Sounds like you wasted 4 (or more likely 5-6) years. If you didn't learn anything you didn't know after high school and you don't use at a job you wasted your time. I use my degrees every day at work.
Even granting that, it would indicate that said MIT education didn't make them any better. And think, all those student loans for nothing? ;)
Obviously the entire story is somewhat facetious.
Hey, we all came from somewhere else. It's the country, not the ethnicity that's making the difference.
Actually, no. America's vast capital reserves and efficient capital markets have allowed it to dominate R&D for the last 50 years. Russia and China have produced a huge amount of innovative and inventive research, but lack the virtuous, steal, innovate, capitalise, commercialise, rinse, repeat cycle that America excels (excelled?) at.
Hand in glove. America's university and research system is the best by far because it has resources and freedom. China hasn't done much (though it's improving very quickly), and Russia's done practically nothing since the fall.
An inordinate amount of the difference making inventions in the last 50 occurred in America. Often by people not born here. That's why the university system works so well - because something like 48 of the top 50 research universities are in America, we get to steal and often keep the best talent. We aren't winning because we're smarter, as a whole.
The rest of the world subsidises US growth by propping up the currency, having it's best brains and talent immigrate there and bending over when it's technology is stolen and commercialised by American companies. In return for this subsidy, the rest of the world recieves access to the world's largest export (or import) market for it's commodities, tourism and specialist products.
The US currency didn't get that way because people decided it would be a nice thing to do. It's a result of all the other things that made it stable and worth something. Foreigners come to the US for college especially in science/tech because they're the best by far in terms of resources, human and capital. Many of those people stay.
That won't matter as long as the US capital markets remain transparent and effecient. The current trend of poli-corporate-criminals indicates a trend towards corruption and opacity of those markets.
That'll work for 10 years but your view is too static. Innovation drives success. Capital's important but if you don't keep ahead technologically, you end up in businesses with no margins and suddenly your capital becomes worthless. Consider if we hadn't invested in tech and remained an agrarian society. The best financial system wouldn't mean a thing because we wouldn't have anything worth investing in.
Why? Cost or ideology? Because if your answer is ideology, no one not already reading this post is going to care.
I know he was but he was linking commercialization to R&D. I'm telling him and you that you're full of shit.
Damn, I bet you're fun at parties.
Oh, you're just talking about withholding. Allright, yeah, that's a bitch. You might think about changing your W-4 if you can get away with it so you don't give them so much of a free loan, you might talk to HR where you work.
I'm still confused though - you only get tax withheld from one state, and you only actually pay one state, right? You get tax withheld in the state you work, then you file 2 state returns - one paying the state in which you live, and one seeking a return in the state in which you work. So the only time you're out both amounts is the time between when the check you write clears and when you get the refund. Right?
The transistor was invented in America, fuckstick.
I just looked around my living room and found that I have nothing electronic made here, save for the front door lock that was made by a company in Ohio.
Probably not, but why don't you check who had the original patent on whatever you look at? Commodity equipment is meaningless, and has nothing to do with R&D. Who developed the microprocessor? Telephone? TV?
America's research and university system is what has allowed it to dominate a lot of R&D for the last 50 years. Too bad we're stifling innovation at our national labs through bureaucracy and cutting funding to university research. Yay! Maybe you'll be right in 50 years, but you aren't now.
You don't need to pay anyone to do you taxes: http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,1196 60,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp
Shit, I've never been to H&R. I do my own taxes by hand and I was doing my parents' when I was 16 (not too smart for them, but I did them right).
I was just talking about the guy who just filed taxes in like 18 states. I figure he could fuck up turbotax. He needs H&R.
You mean something like this?
The rebranded cable systems are a real threat, and are the sole reason for TiVo's problems. However, TiVo is still massively better than any of them (not counting systems that use TiVo, obviously).
Tivo still has a huge advantage over MS's box and MythTV in that you don't have to buy a computer. And to set up MythTV, you have to have 1) heard of it, and 2) be willing/able to set it up.
I think it'd be a pretty good idea if you went to H&R Block this year. Probably bring along that tax return you nuked last year too.
Wow, that C in Psych 101 is really serving you well. Oddly enough, you're completely wrong. That's what you get for armchair psychiatry with someone you never met, retard.
1) I link to goatse simply *because* it's so hackneyed. Profile has a place for homepage, I didn't have one, so I'm making the joke that it's my asshole up there. You missed the point.
2) I found slashdot from google. So I guess you're right, if you count Page and Brin as my friends. But the assholes won't return my calls, so I don't know how that affects your theory.
3) I don't have an idol. What, you think we trolls have some sort of guild system? Now *that*'s fucked up.
4) I'm independent because I'm independent. I troll because I like fucking with tools like you. I don't confuse the two. No, trolling doesn't make me independent. You're right, though, that would be sad.
5) Sign your fucking posts you coward, so I can put you on my friends list. ;)
Would you rather have no TiVo? Because unless TiVo turns around it's financials, that might be the options available. TiVo with unobtrusive commercials, or no TiVo?
To me, this is analagous to the ads that movie theaters have been playing in recent years--I'm suddenly the captive audience for a commercial, and I DON'T like it. Not coincidentally, I used to spend a great deal more money than I now do at the movies.
Badly flawed analogy. You'd be right if TiVo delayed or paused your program to show you an ad. If they did that I'd be screaming right there with you. But they're not. I guess it's like the commercials that appear in theaters if you get there like an hour early. They make no sound, and the alternative is a blank screen. That's different than the crap they show you at full volume after the lights go down.
I seek out advertising free zones in my life, and it's always sad to see another one passing away.
Life's tough that way. As for TiVo, if it's just your issue with all things advertisement, don't expect sympathy. By any rational measure, TiVo's plan doesn't affect viewing.
I bet you also voted for whoever your favorite actor told you to.
Sheep. Baaaaaaa! B-a-a-a-a!
Come on. Exactly what is the harm with this? You're not missing your show. Tivo's just trying to stay alive. Do remember they're a company, and their goal is to sell things and make money. If it's not ads, it's higher subscription fees or more expensive hardware. If they can reduce my fees and stay in business in a nonintrusive fashion, go for it.
Personally, I'd rather see an ad banner while I'm FFing than take your suggestion and download everything I want to watch. Blech. Sounds like you're trading convenience for anti-ad ideology. I'm not much for ideology, I'll take the convenience of a hopefully still alive TiVo.
Remember, "cool companies with financial problems" become "cool bankrupt former companies" unless they find a way to reduce costs or make more money. I don't see an easy way for them to reduce costs, so how else do they make more money?
Maybe, if it means volume. Don't get me wrong, I think the odds are low, but Jobs is the guy who got the RIAA to go along with iTMS. And if the providers can get people to pay an extra $15/month for Apple goodness, of which they get some decent fraction, that beats the few people stupid enough to buy an annoying ringtone that expires.
The best analogy I can make is when Led Zeppelin in the 70's destroyed the system of concert promotion where the promoter got the 90 side of a 90/10 split with a band. They got promoters to realize that 10% of Zeppelin was worth more than 90% of anyone else. Similarly, if Apple keeps its pop culture growth trend, cell service providers might be willing to team up with Apple if it means value-add that pads their bottom line. Even if the margins are a tad lower than their ring-tone crap, which is the only value-add that most cell providers have.
That's the best sell Apple has: currently, services are failing miserably at selling a la carte services to people on cell plans. If Apple can make that happen, I don't think it's inconceivable someone would try a partnership, though I realize the cell providers would have to change their attitudes a bit.
I don't think he'd do it unless you could keep your phone, switch phone companies, flash the bios, and keep using it and all the features you have with it. As you say, that would require a lot of working together. I don't think he'd do it unless he could get, say, three major wireless carriers to agree to do it.
That and I do believe Apple would insist on being in control of the features offered to a large degree. Though I could see them setting an iTMS-like agreement there where Apple and the wireless company shared fees for content or features activated at a monthly rate.
But who wouldn't kill for a truly well designed phone? And I tell you what would be cool - the article talked about a pull out number pad, but the iPod scroll wheel seems perfect to substitute as something of an old-school rotary phone. Could even put LEDs or whatever in the wheel that have numbers or play/stop/FF/RW buttons light up depending on the use mode.
You also lose a lot of bloat.
Something tells me the whole thing was on Excel.
There is absolutely no reason to have anything like this on a laptop. If there is some reason one would need the information from a laptop, you can access it from a server using a client that won't make a local copy. Ridiculous.
Seriously? How else would one use that in a sentence? Do people replace "whom" with "who"? That sounds ridiculous, as in "For who the bell tolls". Do people just leave the preposition at the end, as "who the bell tolled for?"
Admittedly I just finished grad school so my peer group was fairly intelligent, but I'd say I hear that used correctly roughly 50% of the time in speech, and higher in print.
What portion of Gentoo users, I wonder, actually do that?
Wow, I guess every laptop in the world is also overpriced, being less powerful and more expensive than a similar desktop.
Mods are sniffing glue today...