> Copyright infringement for personal use or to share freely, or legal copying under fair use, are not piracy. Piracy is selling copies, especially a large number of copies.
Close but you are conflating a few issues. Let's break that down:
* personal use -- is not piracy due to fair use; note that the DMCA hijacks this by making the circumvention illegal not the copying itself * share freely - IS piracy ONLY IF there is copyright infringement . i.e. Copying Shareware is not piracy * legal copying -- is not piracy by definition -- it is legal * selling copies -- the price is irrelevant, the only thing that matters if you are infringing copyright or not. e.g. You can sell GPL software. * especially a large number of copies -- the quantity is irrelevant, (*) the only thing that matters if you are infringing copyright or not
(*) MAFIIA will argue the quantity should be used in the calculation of the "amount of damages" and pull some bullshit number out of their ass: "This person distributed this song X times so we "lost" $$$ MILLION dollars!!!"
> MAFIIA is just trying to call mundane copying piracy to muddle the distinction between the two
Agreed.
I can legally copy GPL software; there is no piracy. I can legally copy software for personal use The instant I distribute it then is when the "piracy" has started.
A new world will NOT solve the problem. The media will just hijack it like they have in the past:
i.e.
* Piracy = practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea --> illegal copying of numbers * Hacking = implementing a quick fix or investing systems for curiosity's sake --> digital breaking and entering
While I generally agree with your premises, and that consumer "trust" in MS is low, I think you are giving the general populace FAR too much credit.
Litmus Test / Proof: Look at the number of people who have actually stopped using FecesBook after the scandal. Only 10%?
People are generally apathetic towards computers. They have become complacent. They don't know, and don't care, about software, hardware, privacy, security. e.g. Even in 2018 you STILL read about some dumb-asses that stores their passwords in plain text!
The problem is that Office and Exchange have their tentacles in the corporate world. While LibreOffice is good, people STILL need to exchange documents. PHB (Pointed-Haired-Bosses) "need" shared Calendars. There is just too much momentum and inertia in the entire MS ecosystem.
If people were smart they would:
* Set a date, say 5 years in the future, * Make a game plan towards transitioning to free alternatives, and * Ditch the proprietary MicroShift once and for all.
Unfortunately, that requires work, time, money, knowledge, commitment, and coordination. There are far too many other higher priority problems that need to handled. People generally aren't interested in the long term -- especially when the short term of switching provides almost no benefit, and doing nothing doesn't make things worse.
People don't know how to look at the bigger picture, and agree about what action to take. It is partially why we have Government regulations -- because people, for the most part, aren't self-disciplined.
In other news: MicroShaft has become IBM. Boring but Safe.
Digital fonts tends to be Sans Serif. This means glyphs such as one (1), uppercase i (I), lowercase L (l), tend to be very difficult to visually tell apart. It sucks.
Print fonts tend to be Serif -- glyphs are easier to tell apart but they also take up more space.
There are reasons we have Programming fonts -- which tend to be a hybrid between Serif and Sans Serif. Why? We need the ability to be able to quickly visually distinguish between similar glyphs.
Set 1: zero and O: O, o, 0 Set 2: one, I, and L: 1 I i L l Set 3: five and S: 5 S s Set 4: two and Z: 2 Z z Set 5: parenthesis and brackets: ( { [ ] } )
Also due to crappy "low resolutions" monitors (anything less then 300 dpi), Sans Serif fonts are much easier to read, and they take up less screen space. i.e. Pixel Fonts tend to be sans serif due to physically not having enough pixels for details -- the serifs.
The term A.I. is a bullshit term. It should be called Artificial Ignorance, or Algorithmic Table-Lookup because there is no fucking intelligence in there; in contradistinction to a.i. = actual intelligence. Take the worlds best Go/Chess program, change the rules of the game slightly, and watch it crash-and-burn. Where is all the intelligence it learnt? Oh wait, there is ZERO. It needs to play thousands of games to rebuild its tables.
At least the term Machine Learning isn't as obnoxious, plus the acronym, ML, is readable regardless if you use a Serif or Sans Serif typeface.
-- Atheist, noun; a blind man arguing there is no proof of color. Theist, noun; a monochromatic man arguing their color is the only valid color.
The Netherlands Gaming Authority studied ten games. These ten games were selected based on popularity on a leading platform that streams videos of games and players.
> turn a large, high-res second display 90 degrees to have a two foot+ tall screen
Yup! The monitor in portrait mode (90 degrees) has a few, sweet, advantages:
1. You can see LOTS of code -- since code tends to be WAY more vertical more then horizontal. (80 - 132 columns.) You can even vertically split the view to see multiple locations WHILE maintaining a nice big (or tiny) programming font.
2. Makes reading PDFs enjoyable -- you can zoom the page to "page width" or have a page take up the *entire* screen where the font is super sharp/smooth.
3. A 2160p monitor (3840 x 2160) in portrait mode (2160x3840) allows for THREE 1080p windows to be stacked vertically on top of one another. Awesome for multi-boxing, or seeing multiple data.
If/. didn't SUCK so bad I could show you a nice ASCII table; instead you get this crappy 2D layout chart. Imagine your monitor is laid out like this:
+--+ |1h| |2h| |3h| 3840 |vv| +--+ 2160
Legend:
1 = 1st 1920x1080 2 = 2nd 1920x1080 3 = 3rd 1920x1080 H = horizontal end space (2160 - 1920) = 240 px V = vertical end space (3840 - 1080*3) = 600 px
Back in February there was a decent write up on the Verge behind some of the tech. Intel was hoping "data is the new oil", aka data-mine-the-hell-out-of-people would pay off in the long run, along with practical applications.
âoeYouâ(TM)re in the kitchen, youâ(TM)re cooking. You can just go âAlexa, I need that recipe for cookies,â(TM) and bam, it appears in your glasses,â Vonshak says.
> Reddit's "problem" has _nothing_ to do with their communities
Nonsense.
When a person gets downvoted just for asking a question then they have a community problem.
When subs encourage group-think then they have a moderator problem.
When posts are censored, deleted, or shadow banned then it has a management problem.
Reddit's advantages over/.:
* Unicode fucking works * Markdown formatting works for code * Sub-reddit for every possible fetish, er, I mean interest. * Can edit posts * AMA popularity * Editors actually fucking do their job * Can post to a thread up to 6 months * F.A.Q. per sub-reddit/. advantages over Reddit:
* Readers are given a clue _why_ a post was moderated * Moderation is limited to +5 * Less circlejerk * Less groupthink * Can't edit posts
Now one could argue "How many fucking times does Usenet need to be re-invented??" and you'd probably have a point.
However it could also be argued that/. and reddit serve different needs.
* The average/. reader tends to be more civil with the average age in their mid 40's. * The average reddit user tends to be far more immature with the average age in their mid 20's.
Both
* have their share of fantastic posts. * have their share of slashtards and redditards.
There needs to be a balance between management, moderators, AND community.
i.e. There is nothing you can do to make trolls go away. It really is up to the community to police themselves. But you also don't want to censor those with a different opinion.
This is nothing new. We just see the problem more with reddit due to its younger age and greater popularity.
Slashdot Mirror
Not right now, but in ~15 years everyone will have _that level of performance_ in new devices a GPU's continue to get smaller and faster.
Yes, that's what I meant with "near the outside edges."
You are right though -- I should have used the world "alternating corners" to make it crystal clear.
Thanks grammar Nazi !
I forgot to consult my Oatmeal cheat sheet :-/
> you're telling me that, instead of simply using spaces and getting it all correct,
Are you not understanding the phrase? "this isn't a binary choice"
Meaning, there are AT LEAST 3 choices:
1. Use only spaces
2. Use only tabs
3. Use some hybrid combination -- of which there are a few variations
> Copyright infringement for personal use or to share freely, or legal copying under fair use, are not piracy. Piracy is selling copies, especially a large number of copies.
Close but you are conflating a few issues. Let's break that down:
* personal use -- is not piracy due to fair use; note that the DMCA hijacks this by making the circumvention illegal not the copying itself
* share freely - IS piracy ONLY IF there is copyright infringement . i.e. Copying Shareware is not piracy
* legal copying -- is not piracy by definition -- it is legal
* selling copies -- the price is irrelevant, the only thing that matters if you are infringing copyright or not. e.g. You can sell GPL software.
* especially a large number of copies -- the quantity is irrelevant, (*) the only thing that matters if you are infringing copyright or not
(*) MAFIIA will argue the quantity should be used in the calculation of the "amount of damages" and pull some bullshit number out of their ass: "This person distributed this song X times so we "lost" $$$ MILLION dollars!!!"
> MAFIIA is just trying to call mundane copying piracy to muddle the distinction between the two
Agreed.
I can legally copy GPL software; there is no piracy.
I can legally copy software for personal use
The instant I distribute it then is when the "piracy" has started.
LOL, nice catch of a Freudian slip!
Sadly, it applies too. :-/
Sorry, never heard of KGIII. Who is that?
/sarcasm I wonder when the media will start using "Quantum Hacking" ... :-)
A new world will NOT solve the problem. The media will just hijack it like they have in the past:
i.e.
* Piracy = practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea --> illegal copying of numbers
* Hacking = implementing a quick fix or investing systems for curiosity's sake --> digital breaking and entering
And if you are working for someone else, chances are, there is a *Coding Convention* to adhere to, McFly.
You DO realize this isn't a binary choice, right?
* Indent with tabs; align with spaces
* Elastic Tabstops
* Smart Tabs
= Smart Tabs =
Emacs:
* https://github.com/jcsalomon/s...
Vim:
* https://www.vim.org/scripts/sc...
* http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Inde...
You expect people to remember FTP, let alone an obscure, alternative, protocol like File Service Protocol? Living dangerous. :-)
Aside, does anyone know when FSP was invented? I can find FTP but not FSP ..
Holy shit -- do we have a slow news day?
* If you have single sided printing, you can put the page number centered at the bottom.
* If you have double-sided printing, you can put the page number near the outside edges.
But let's keep over analyzing something that takes less then 10 second to think about.
This reminds me of a similar saying in the motorcycle world:
It is not a matter of IF you will wipe but WHEN you will wipe.
As a result we have the acronym: ATGATT: All the gear, all the time.
i.e. You don't wear gear for the 99.99%, but for that 0.01% of the time.
Bringing this back on top: It doesn't matter how fast you can do backups if your restore procedure is completely botched! You DID test it, right?
I've seen but couldn't recall the variations.
Thanks for that great alternative!
While I generally agree with your premises, and that consumer "trust" in MS is low, I think you are giving the general populace FAR too much credit.
Litmus Test / Proof: Look at the number of people who have actually stopped using FecesBook after the scandal. Only 10%?
People are generally apathetic towards computers. They have become complacent. They don't know, and don't care, about software, hardware, privacy, security. e.g. Even in 2018 you STILL read about some dumb-asses that stores their passwords in plain text!
The problem is that Office and Exchange have their tentacles in the corporate world. While LibreOffice is good, people STILL need to exchange documents. PHB (Pointed-Haired-Bosses) "need" shared Calendars. There is just too much momentum and inertia in the entire MS ecosystem.
If people were smart they would:
* Set a date, say 5 years in the future,
* Make a game plan towards transitioning to free alternatives, and
* Ditch the proprietary MicroShift once and for all.
Unfortunately, that requires work, time, money, knowledge, commitment, and coordination. There are far too many other higher priority problems that need to handled. People generally aren't interested in the long term -- especially when the short term of switching provides almost no benefit, and doing nothing doesn't make things worse.
People don't know how to look at the bigger picture, and agree about what action to take. It is partially why we have Government regulations -- because people, for the most part, aren't self-disciplined.
In other news: MicroShaft has become IBM. Boring but Safe.
Ironically, 33% of Azure runs on Linux. Heck, you can even get Azure Linux certification
Even MS uses open source when it helps their bottom line. LOL.
Digital fonts tends to be Sans Serif. This means glyphs such as one (1), uppercase i (I), lowercase L (l), tend to be very difficult to visually tell apart. It sucks.
Print fonts tend to be Serif -- glyphs are easier to tell apart but they also take up more space.
There are reasons we have Programming fonts -- which tend to be a hybrid between Serif and Sans Serif. Why? We need the ability to be able to quickly visually distinguish between similar glyphs.
Also due to crappy "low resolutions" monitors (anything less then 300 dpi), Sans Serif fonts are much easier to read, and they take up less screen space.
i.e. Pixel Fonts tend to be sans serif due to physically not having enough pixels for details -- the serifs.
If you want more details I've posted about Serif vs Sans Serif before.
You can also read about Typeface anatomy
Getting this back on-topic ...
The term A.I. is a bullshit term. It should be called Artificial Ignorance, or Algorithmic Table-Lookup because there is no fucking intelligence in there; in contradistinction to a.i. = actual intelligence. Take the worlds best Go/Chess program, change the rules of the game slightly, and watch it crash-and-burn. Where is all the intelligence it learnt? Oh wait, there is ZERO. It needs to play thousands of games to rebuild its tables.
At least the term Machine Learning isn't as obnoxious, plus the acronym, ML, is readable regardless if you use a Serif or Sans Serif typeface.
--
Atheist, noun; a blind man arguing there is no proof of color.
Theist, noun; a monochromatic man arguing their color is the only valid color.
"When 1 person does it -- they are a pervert,
When N people do it -- they have a fetish."
If anything, the Internet has taught me:
1. You can always find someone who enjoys the same fetishes as you, ... =P
2. I don't even want to know about half of THOSE fetishes
I can't find the list of 10 games mentioned in the study:
Study into loot boxes: A treasure or a burden?
> turn a large, high-res second display 90 degrees to have a two foot+ tall screen
Yup! The monitor in portrait mode (90 degrees) has a few, sweet, advantages:
1. You can see LOTS of code -- since code tends to be WAY more vertical more then horizontal. (80 - 132 columns.) You can even vertically split the view to see multiple locations WHILE maintaining a nice big (or tiny) programming font.
2. Makes reading PDFs enjoyable -- you can zoom the page to "page width" or have a page take up the *entire* screen where the font is super sharp/smooth.
3. A 2160p monitor (3840 x 2160) in portrait mode (2160x3840) allows for THREE 1080p windows to be stacked vertically on top of one another. Awesome for multi-boxing, or seeing multiple data.
If /. didn't SUCK so bad I could show you a nice ASCII table; instead you get this crappy 2D layout chart. Imagine your monitor is laid out like this:
+--+
|1h|
|2h|
|3h| 3840
|vv|
+--+
2160
Legend:
1 = 1st 1920x1080
2 = 2nd 1920x1080
3 = 3rd 1920x1080
H = horizontal end space (2160 - 1920) = 240 px
V = vertical end space (3840 - 1080*3) = 600 px
Back in February there was a decent write up on the Verge behind some of the tech. Intel was hoping "data is the new oil", aka data-mine-the-hell-out-of-people would pay off in the long run, along with practical applications.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
> unified language
unify != one.
>> albeit it would need several transition phases
> Reddit's "problem" has _nothing_ to do with their communities
Nonsense.
When a person gets downvoted just for asking a question then they have a community problem.
When subs encourage group-think then they have a moderator problem.
When posts are censored, deleted, or shadow banned then it has a management problem.
Reddit's advantages over /.:
* Unicode fucking works /. advantages over Reddit:
* Markdown formatting works for code
* Sub-reddit for every possible fetish, er, I mean interest.
* Can edit posts
* AMA popularity
* Editors actually fucking do their job
* Can post to a thread up to 6 months
* F.A.Q. per sub-reddit
* Readers are given a clue _why_ a post was moderated
* Moderation is limited to +5
* Less circlejerk
* Less groupthink
* Can't edit posts
Now one could argue "How many fucking times does Usenet need to be re-invented??" and you'd probably have a point.
However it could also be argued that /. and reddit serve different needs.
* The average /. reader tends to be more civil with the average age in their mid 40's.
* The average reddit user tends to be far more immature with the average age in their mid 20's.
Both
* have their share of fantastic posts.
* have their share of slashtards and redditards.
There needs to be a balance between management, moderators, AND community.
i.e. There is nothing you can do to make trolls go away. It really is up to the community to police themselves. But you also don't want to censor those with a different opinion.
This is nothing new. We just see the problem more with reddit due to its younger age and greater popularity.
> Without profits, there is no incentive to do any R&D.
1. /cynical So basically profiting off people's suffering is OK. Got it.
2. ./sarcasm Because money is the ONLY motivation to find a cure. Riiight.
Money needs to be REMOVED from Big Pharma.
> If you don't do anything for anyone, WTF good are you?
That hasn't stopped politicians from trying ...
*Ba dum tss*