Don't be a jackass. If you aren't going to bother addressing the obvious differences between copyright infringement and petty theft, then you don't have any business expressing your ignorant opinion on the subject.
The point is, since you are incapable of figuring it out yourself, that accountability has completely gone out the window. Whether I am a jackass or not has nothing to do with my comparison of petty theft to anything. I am a jackass because I am a jackass, it is unrelated to the topic. The obvious similarity is that both are wrong and the fact that you feel that there are different levels of wrong demonstrates how right I am. Rest assured that my opinion is anything but ignorant.
You know I read somewhere recently that a majority (I will look for the story and post a link) people do not think that software use of the unlicensed variety is not stealing. This coupled with the fact that it is so ease to get information from one place to another seems to be part of the problem. How many forums have you been on that have license keys to software or other IP that seem to imply that it is OK to share this information? I believe that we need to start to instil in our children right and wrong and it needs to include that it is not OK to steal software or anything else for that matter. You cannot âoetaste testâ fruit in a grocery store, you cannot download copyrighted documents with impunity, and you cannot give these things away to the general public because it is stealing and it is wrong.
I am using PuTTY 0.60, but I know that putty is one of the best, not the best, but one of them. If you are making a product for non-IT people you might be better off with a release of >2.something, simply because I believe there might be a stigma (for non-IT people) for the lower versions.
Methane is a gas that contains molecules of methane with one
atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen (CH4 ). It is the major component of
the "natural" gas used in many homes for cooking and heating. It is
odorless, colorless, and yields about 1,000 British Thermal Units (Btu) [252
kilocalories (kcal)] of heat energy per cubic foot (0.028 cubic meters) when
burned. Natural gas is a fossil fuel that was created eons ago by the anaerobic
decomposition of organic materials. It is often found in association with oil
and coal.
The same types of anaerobic bacteria that produced natural
gas also produce methane today. Anaerobic bacteria are some of the oldest forms
of life on earth. They evolved before the photosynthesis of green plants
released large quantities of oxygen into the atmosphere. Anaerobic bacteria
break down or "digest" organic material in the absence of oxygen and
produce "biogas" as a waste product. (Aerobic decomposition, or
composting, requires large amounts of oxygen and produces heat.) Anaerobic
decomposition occurs naturally in swamps, water-logged soils and rice fields,
deep bodies of water, and in the digestive systems of termites and large
animals. Anaerobic processes can be managed in a "digester" (an
airtight tank) or a covered lagoon (a pond used to store manure) for waste
treatment. The primary benefits of anaerobic digestion are nutrient recycling,
waste treatment, and odor control. Except in very large systems, biogas
production is a highly useful but secondary benefit.
...today the hosts of Slashdot.org, an everything geek website, was accused of causing a DDoS on an online magazine's website. It seems that for several hours the site was unavailable as a result. Site owners of Slashdot.org refused to comment as the zombies they were using had no choice but to hit the link to the downed web site time and again.
If what you say is the more appropriate non-communist way to be then I would say that government should not get involved at all. If you cannot invent, produce, market, and profit from your own invention then too bad. Governments should protect their citizens from invasion, from each other, and stay the hell out of everything else. If you cannot do something better than I can, too bad for you. If I steal your idea and produce it cheaper and under sell you then you must be incompetent. If you want to use the argument that there should be no limitation on copyrights and patents, because a little is communist, then I assert that true Capitalism calls for true competition.
I noticed while reading the article that the word patent did
not come up as much as I would have thought.
The interesting thing is that companies are quickly swiping up all of
the patents that have not been applied for, yet folks who know better are
scratching their heads. I wonder how it
is that some of these patents even get awarded. The idea of Intellectual Property makes plenty of sense.
One should be REASONABLY rewarded for something that they
came up with. One of the problems now
is that because some things, Elvis' estate, do not seem to die, things are
carried to far, with respect to copyright.
I apologize that this turned into a rant and does not make all that much
sense, but I think that my problem is rooted in quicksand and the more I think
about it the more it seems to spiral into some thing that I cannot really
understand.
With today's technology you could almost make a movie that was based word for word from the book. How close to the content of the book did you stay? More importantly, if you did stay as close to the book as I suggest, would only those that read it, or the types of people that enjoyed the book, go to see it? The humor is dry and some of it is actually based upon things like improbability (the humor is geek humor), are you afraid that you will not draw in the blocks to buster?
It really is too bad that he is right. I have used Linux since 1994 and I have always thought of it as my tool. I have had consulting jobs where I did not even consider installing Linux, plain and simply because the customer would never have been able to support it. The IT staff was two people, one who knew how to turn on the computers and servers and one who knew how to crash them. Not being one of those people who builds in repeat work I really had no choice in OSes. I might disagree that the Apple OS cannot replace Windows, theoretically, but practically it cannot. Bill Gates was smart early on by staying focused on DOS, licenses, and getting his OS on as many machines as possible. It is the sheer quantity that worked in Bill's favor and he is the, hands down, winner.
I have never actually paid all that much attention to the exact amount of bandwidth that I use. I play EQ2 and leave my characters (until recently) logged in all of the time to sell items. This in mind, I hope that my ISP is not wasting resources in tracking my usage, they would find out that I am quite boring. If they did, however, and were to limit my access I would be very upset, there is the term unlimited used to describe my service.
I have to wonder though, is the music industry (or anyone that wants monitoring done) going to pay the ISPs to keep track of what we are doing? It will not be cheap to watch all of those packets and much more importantly, there is no way that anyone, save for just stopping usage after "X" amount of bandwidth is used up, to stop the sharing.
See post above about p0rn. There is no way that people who have had an opportunity to use the boardband providers could possibly go back to dial-up or anything else for that matter. Bandwidth is a drug and we are all addicted to speed. Besides, it might just push folks to look to legal sites to get their music and movies, you just never know.
There is no video tie in with this but I use TeamSpeak all the time to keeping in touch with my gaming pals. It does not use up so much bandwidth that it will crush you, but the performance is pretty good. Best part is there is a Linux server version. http://www.teamspeak.org/
It is amazing that in the year 2004 there is no real IT department that is competent enough to head up the reforms of the patent office. Everyone who understands enough about software that is involved is looking out for the interests of someone or something other than consumers and people. A search for the keyword "patents" on/. returns so many hits, new stories abound, it is perfect illustration of how hot a topic it is, but who can we trust to have our best interests in mind when writing legislation? I, for one, do not trust the current administration to get it right, but who then?
I bet, as with most of the Babylon 5 movies, that there is enough of an explanation to make it interesting for someone who has never seen the series. I would suggest, being a fan of the show, that you rent it and watch the show. The first four seasons can be rented from www.netflix.com.
I know that the corporations seem to have a strangle hold on a lot of things, but the fact remains that many of the artists have slept in vans, eaten Mac and Cheese three meals a day, and worked very hard to make the music. Forget about the greedy people and think about those who have worked so hard to produce that which is being stolen. I agree that fat cats are just that, but file sharing also takes away from the band. File sharing if it really helps to sell the records is a great thing... if it stops people from buying them then it is unfair and should be stopped.
I travel on business quite a bit. Last year I was outside of the US more than I was in it. I was in Yokosuka Japan and Naples Italy for more than half the year. I tried to learn enough of each language to be polite, but the truth is that I will be in Greece, Japan, and Singapore this year and I do not have time to keep refreshing myself on the languages. One of my biggest concerns, when I travel, are the local customs and laws. I have to admit that if this works, I mean works well, it may take some of the stress of traveling abroad for those who go to many different countries. I need a PDA that tells me the local customs and helps me with the language.
I travel enough that I broke down and purchased a backpack style laptop case from Easterm Mountain Sports http://www.ems.com and I love it. I comes with a padded laptop area that also contains a removable laptop holder that is padded as well. Which turned out to be quite useful when I forgot to remove my Leatherman from my bag and went through airport security. I wound up just checking my backpack and kept the separate removable insert with my laptop in it. It was about $65.00 when I bought it at an ESM store, it lists for $79.00 on the web site.
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Don't be a jackass. If you aren't going to bother addressing the obvious differences between copyright infringement and petty theft, then you don't have any business expressing your ignorant opinion on the subject.
The point is, since you are incapable of figuring it out yourself, that accountability has completely gone out the window. Whether I am a jackass or not has nothing to do with my comparison of petty theft to anything. I am a jackass because I am a jackass, it is unrelated to the topic. The obvious similarity is that both are wrong and the fact that you feel that there are different levels of wrong demonstrates how right I am. Rest assured that my opinion is anything but ignorant.
You know I read somewhere recently that a majority (I will look for the story and post a link) people do not think that software use of the unlicensed variety is not stealing. This coupled with the fact that it is so ease to get information from one place to another seems to be part of the problem. How many forums have you been on that have license keys to software or other IP that seem to imply that it is OK to share this information? I believe that we need to start to instil in our children right and wrong and it needs to include that it is not OK to steal software or anything else for that matter. You cannot âoetaste testâ fruit in a grocery store, you cannot download copyrighted documents with impunity, and you cannot give these things away to the general public because it is stealing and it is wrong.
I am using PuTTY 0.60, but I know that putty is one of the best, not the best, but one of them. If you are making a product for non-IT people you might be better off with a release of >2.something, simply because I believe there might be a stigma (for non-IT people) for the lower versions.
Methane (Biogas) from Anaerobic Digesters
Methane is a gas that contains molecules of methane with one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen (CH4 ). It is the major component of the "natural" gas used in many homes for cooking and heating. It is odorless, colorless, and yields about 1,000 British Thermal Units (Btu) [252 kilocalories (kcal)] of heat energy per cubic foot (0.028 cubic meters) when burned. Natural gas is a fossil fuel that was created eons ago by the anaerobic decomposition of organic materials. It is often found in association with oil and coal.
The same types of anaerobic bacteria that produced natural gas also produce methane today. Anaerobic bacteria are some of the oldest forms of life on earth. They evolved before the photosynthesis of green plants released large quantities of oxygen into the atmosphere. Anaerobic bacteria break down or "digest" organic material in the absence of oxygen and produce "biogas" as a waste product. (Aerobic decomposition, or composting, requires large amounts of oxygen and produces heat.) Anaerobic decomposition occurs naturally in swamps, water-logged soils and rice fields, deep bodies of water, and in the digestive systems of termites and large animals. Anaerobic processes can be managed in a "digester" (an airtight tank) or a covered lagoon (a pond used to store manure) for waste treatment. The primary benefits of anaerobic digestion are nutrient recycling, waste treatment, and odor control. Except in very large systems, biogas production is a highly useful but secondary benefit.
Good source to understand organisms and methane.
Actually Methane gas has no odor. We add impurities to it in order to make it detectable.
...today the hosts of Slashdot.org, an everything geek website, was accused of causing a DDoS on an online magazine's website. It seems that for several hours the site was unavailable as a result. Site owners of Slashdot.org refused to comment as the zombies they were using had no choice but to hit the link to the downed web site time and again.
If what you say is the more appropriate non-communist way to be then I would say that government should not get involved at all. If you cannot invent, produce, market, and profit from your own invention then too bad. Governments should protect their citizens from invasion, from each other, and stay the hell out of everything else. If you cannot do something better than I can, too bad for you. If I steal your idea and produce it cheaper and under sell you then you must be incompetent. If you want to use the argument that there should be no limitation on copyrights and patents, because a little is communist, then I assert that true Capitalism calls for true competition.
I noticed while reading the article that the word patent did not come up as much as I would have thought. The interesting thing is that companies are quickly swiping up all of the patents that have not been applied for, yet folks who know better are scratching their heads. I wonder how it is that some of these patents even get awarded. The idea of Intellectual Property makes plenty of sense.
One should be REASONABLY rewarded for something that they came up with. One of the problems now is that because some things, Elvis' estate, do not seem to die, things are carried to far, with respect to copyright. I apologize that this turned into a rant and does not make all that much sense, but I think that my problem is rooted in quicksand and the more I think about it the more it seems to spiral into some thing that I cannot really understand.
With today's technology you could almost make a movie that was based word for word from the book. How close to the content of the book did you stay? More importantly, if you did stay as close to the book as I suggest, would only those that read it, or the types of people that enjoyed the book, go to see it? The humor is dry and some of it is actually based upon things like improbability (the humor is geek humor), are you afraid that you will not draw in the blocks to buster?
It really is too bad that he is right. I have used Linux since 1994 and I have always thought of it as my tool. I have had consulting jobs where I did not even consider installing Linux, plain and simply because the customer would never have been able to support it. The IT staff was two people, one who knew how to turn on the computers and servers and one who knew how to crash them. Not being one of those people who builds in repeat work I really had no choice in OSes. I might disagree that the Apple OS cannot replace Windows, theoretically, but practically it cannot. Bill Gates was smart early on by staying focused on DOS, licenses, and getting his OS on as many machines as possible. It is the sheer quantity that worked in Bill's favor and he is the, hands down, winner.
I have never actually paid all that much attention to the exact amount of bandwidth that I use. I play EQ2 and leave my characters (until recently) logged in all of the time to sell items. This in mind, I hope that my ISP is not wasting resources in tracking my usage, they would find out that I am quite boring. If they did, however, and were to limit my access I would be very upset, there is the term unlimited used to describe my service. I have to wonder though, is the music industry (or anyone that wants monitoring done) going to pay the ISPs to keep track of what we are doing? It will not be cheap to watch all of those packets and much more importantly, there is no way that anyone, save for just stopping usage after "X" amount of bandwidth is used up, to stop the sharing.
See post above about p0rn. There is no way that people who have had an opportunity to use the boardband providers could possibly go back to dial-up or anything else for that matter. Bandwidth is a drug and we are all addicted to speed. Besides, it might just push folks to look to legal sites to get their music and movies, you just never know.
There is no video tie in with this but I use TeamSpeak all the time to keeping in touch with my gaming pals. It does not use up so much bandwidth that it will crush you, but the performance is pretty good. Best part is there is a Linux server version. http://www.teamspeak.org/
It is amazing that in the year 2004 there is no real IT department that is competent enough to head up the reforms of the patent office. Everyone who understands enough about software that is involved is looking out for the interests of someone or something other than consumers and people. A search for the keyword "patents" on /. returns so many hits, new stories abound, it is perfect illustration of how hot a topic it is, but who can we trust to have our best interests in mind when writing legislation? I, for one, do not trust the current administration to get it right, but who then?
I bet, as with most of the Babylon 5 movies, that there is enough of an explanation to make it interesting for someone who has never seen the series. I would suggest, being a fan of the show, that you rent it and watch the show. The first four seasons can be rented from www.netflix.com.
I know that the corporations seem to have a strangle hold on a lot of things, but the fact remains that many of the artists have slept in vans, eaten Mac and Cheese three meals a day, and worked very hard to make the music. Forget about the greedy people and think about those who have worked so hard to produce that which is being stolen. I agree that fat cats are just that, but file sharing also takes away from the band. File sharing if it really helps to sell the records is a great thing... if it stops people from buying them then it is unfair and should be stopped.
I travel on business quite a bit. Last year I was outside of the US more than I was in it. I was in Yokosuka Japan and Naples Italy for more than half the year. I tried to learn enough of each language to be polite, but the truth is that I will be in Greece, Japan, and Singapore this year and I do not have time to keep refreshing myself on the languages. One of my biggest concerns, when I travel, are the local customs and laws. I have to admit that if this works, I mean works well, it may take some of the stress of traveling abroad for those who go to many different countries. I need a PDA that tells me the local customs and helps me with the language.
I travel enough that I broke down and purchased a backpack style laptop case from Easterm Mountain Sports http://www.ems.com and I love it. I comes with a padded laptop area that also contains a removable laptop holder that is padded as well. Which turned out to be quite useful when I forgot to remove my Leatherman from my bag and went through airport security. I wound up just checking my backpack and kept the separate removable insert with my laptop in it. It was about $65.00 when I bought it at an ESM store, it lists for $79.00 on the web site.