That's really what I read at first too. I almost lost it.
But Grokster... I could take it or leave it. I've never used it. The only suspicious thing is not being able to distribute their software anymore. There are far more dangerous things that are still allowed to be sold
I've read the articles before... but as my PR friend says, behind every article about a product or consumable there is a publicist/PR person pushing that article.
What version of Slamd64 did you try? Recently 10.2 was released, I was considering installing it at home. I had been using Slackware until I went to AMD64, and at the time, Slamd64 was not even released, just a message saying it was being worked on. I've shuffled around to two 64bit distributions, Ubuntu lasting the longest so far.
I figure Fred Emmott could use more testers, so even if it's unstable (my home system doesn't need server stability) I'll probably install it anyway, downloaded it last night.
Well, when you borrow a book from a library you aren't making a copy of it. Digital media is easily copied. If the copyright owner doesn't grant you permission to make a copy then it's copyright violation. How is this difficult to understand? As someone previously mentioned, and I hold the same opinion, Google is going about this the wrong way. Google is saying that the publishers need to contact Google if they don't want their works online in full. That is just rediculous... Google pulling an "opt-out" scam? If Google wants to do this, it should be an "opt-in" thing.
Do no evil, Google. And understand that your definition of evil is not the same as everyone elses...
Don't count out a huge volcanic eruption. With all the natural disasters so far this year, a nice big poof out of a volcano would round things out nicely.
Degree in Computer Science & Engineering, been working for the past 4 years as a developer in an large international company, where if you don't like what you are doing, there are plenty of other reasons to quit. Money is average, insurance benefits are good, politics are crap, and the business folks think they can change requirements on a whim. But I'm not IT staff, I don't need a pager and I'm never on call. My work stays at work.
4 years isn't a long time, but it would feel like it if I didn't like what I do.
My opinions are my own. Do whatever you want, work unhappily if it provides you with what you need.
Who cares? Free Software in the 1990's and 2000's has revitalized the hobby of computing and programming. If you are in development for the money, your in it for the wrong reasons. You won't last.
But if they aren't distributing the software, they don't need to distribute the source. Otherwise, I'd have to give you the source for a handfull of GPL licensed personal projects that havn't seen the light of day.
Out of sight is out of mind! *AA will declare victory since there's no point in chasing ghosts (as long as they keep quiet).
No, they wont declare victory. They need someone to fight, someone to declare the enemy. They need "piracy" as an excuse to raise prices. Otherwise, they only have bad products as an excuse for slimmer profits.
Average users don't buy video cards. They buy a new computer.
If S3 is targeting the average audience, then they would need deals with dell, sony, etc.. people who sell prebuilt computers.
Window Gamers buy ATI or NVidia Linux Gamers buy NVidia, but are almost irrelevant. (i fall in this category) Mac Gamers are nearly as irrelevant as Linux Gamers.
Usually I'd say a third or fourth competitor is good. In this case, meh... I could take them or leave them. They would really need to do something different, like provide a decent amount of hardware, with Free/Source drivers. Even then you are hitting a niche and picky market. However, S3 will probably just cause a lot of computers to work less than brilliantly.
What I think would be useful would be to have stations set up where you can give your name, where you are, and where you are heading. Maybe also a list of relatives you are separated from. These lists are then transmited to other such stations and lists are compiled. Eventually you can find out if someone is still alive, where they last where, and possibly where they are heading.
I'd hate to see these abused, for instance people giving incorrect names leading to false hopes. But even in those rare cases, the benefits might outweigh the faults.
With the lack of food and water, the uncertainty of loved ones isn't helping the morals of the displaced.
I doubt Google has drained all the national, or even local talent.
But any newly available jobs are just as boring as our current jobs, with the same bad incentives. Without a reason to change jobs, I won't change jobs. Give me an environment as conducive to working as Google does (good pay, freedom to work on cool things you want to work on, cool things the company wants you to work on, etc...), and I'll gladly let you pay me for my talent.
Until then, I'll let my current employer keep paying me while I expand my knowledge and dream of new ideas.
Every time I try a new distribution (this time, i installed Ubuntu last month) I always just want to go back to Slackware. However, when I left as a user of Slackware it didn't have a AMD64 port, but it was under development. Slackware is just simple and understandable. It has a package system if you need it, but it's just as easy to install from source and not screw your system into dependency hell. Configurations are in text files which don't have silly front ends that try to do checksums on them to make sure you havn't modified them by hand.
I love slackware. I wish I had time to somehow support the development of the unofficial AMD64 port. looks like it's comming along well (havn't looked in months) slamd64
Ubuntu has been nice however. Years ago i used debian. Ubuntu seems to a great, polished product for desktop users.
You cannot commit digital piracy by creating software, unless you are not creating software but copying software code that you do not have the rights to use.
you can however commit a crime by illegally using legally created software.
However, the implications of being accused of a crime for an action that wasn't a crime when you engaged in the act are downright scarey. The can of worms that this would open is immeasureable. Think if abortion became illegal, the hundreds of thousands of girls who would now be criminals.
What about sharing books, if that became illegal? Forget "pre-crime", all of us would be guilty of "past-crime"
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Isn't it through "creative accounting" that most movies don't turn profits, enabling them to pay out less to stakeholders in the project?
Or is this an urban legend of sorts?
Send them a repackaged 1.0 version. That will really rattle their wombats.
That's really what I read at first too. I almost lost it.
But Grokster... I could take it or leave it. I've never used it. The only suspicious thing is not being able to distribute their software anymore. There are far more dangerous things that are still allowed to be sold
I smell a DMCA violation on the /. front page! Cue the Sony lawyers in 4..3..2....
That's ok. Just re-write the blurb to be wrapped in $sys$
Sony will never see it...
I've read the articles before... but as my PR friend says, behind every article about a product or consumable there is a publicist/PR person pushing that article.
What version of Slamd64 did you try? Recently 10.2 was released, I was considering installing it at home. I had been using Slackware until I went to AMD64, and at the time, Slamd64 was not even released, just a message saying it was being worked on. I've shuffled around to two 64bit distributions, Ubuntu lasting the longest so far.
I figure Fred Emmott could use more testers, so even if it's unstable (my home system doesn't need server stability) I'll probably install it anyway, downloaded it last night.
Well, when you borrow a book from a library you aren't making a copy of it. Digital media is easily copied. If the copyright owner doesn't grant you permission to make a copy then it's copyright violation. How is this difficult to understand? As someone previously mentioned, and I hold the same opinion, Google is going about this the wrong way. Google is saying that the publishers need to contact Google if they don't want their works online in full. That is just rediculous... Google pulling an "opt-out" scam? If Google wants to do this, it should be an "opt-in" thing.
Do no evil, Google. And understand that your definition of evil is not the same as everyone elses...
Don't count out a huge volcanic eruption. With all the natural disasters so far this year, a nice big poof out of a volcano would round things out nicely.
Degree in Computer Science & Engineering, been working for the past 4 years as a developer in an large international company, where if you don't like what you are doing, there are plenty of other reasons to quit. Money is average, insurance benefits are good, politics are crap, and the business folks think they can change requirements on a whim. But I'm not IT staff, I don't need a pager and I'm never on call. My work stays at work.
4 years isn't a long time, but it would feel like it if I didn't like what I do.
My opinions are my own. Do whatever you want, work unhappily if it provides you with what you need.
Who cares? Free Software in the 1990's and 2000's has revitalized the hobby of computing and programming. If you are in development for the money, your in it for the wrong reasons. You won't last.
But if they aren't distributing the software, they don't need to distribute the source. Otherwise, I'd have to give you the source for a handfull of GPL licensed personal projects that havn't seen the light of day.
This looks like a PR Vapor Trail.
And record labels themselves sow the seeds of Apple's own music recording label. Oh the looks on their faces :)
No, they wont declare victory. They need someone to fight, someone to declare the enemy. They need "piracy" as an excuse to raise prices. Otherwise, they only have bad products as an excuse for slimmer profits.
And call it MSLinux, for Most Secure Linux.
Average users don't buy video cards. They buy a new computer.
If S3 is targeting the average audience, then they would need deals with dell, sony, etc.. people who sell prebuilt computers.
Window Gamers buy ATI or NVidia
Linux Gamers buy NVidia, but are almost irrelevant. (i fall in this category)
Mac Gamers are nearly as irrelevant as Linux Gamers.
Usually I'd say a third or fourth competitor is good. In this case, meh... I could take them or leave them. They would really need to do something different, like provide a decent amount of hardware, with Free/Source drivers. Even then you are hitting a niche and picky market. However, S3 will probably just cause a lot of computers to work less than brilliantly.
What I think would be useful would be to have stations set up where you can give your name, where you are, and where you are heading. Maybe also a list of relatives you are separated from. These lists are then transmited to other such stations and lists are compiled. Eventually you can find out if someone is still alive, where they last where, and possibly where they are heading.
I'd hate to see these abused, for instance people giving incorrect names leading to false hopes. But even in those rare cases, the benefits might outweigh the faults.
With the lack of food and water, the uncertainty of loved ones isn't helping the morals of the displaced.
I doubt Google has drained all the national, or even local talent.
But any newly available jobs are just as boring as our current jobs, with the same bad incentives. Without a reason to change jobs, I won't change jobs. Give me an environment as conducive to working as Google does (good pay, freedom to work on cool things you want to work on, cool things the company wants you to work on, etc...), and I'll gladly let you pay me for my talent.
Until then, I'll let my current employer keep paying me while I expand my knowledge and dream of new ideas.
With all due respect, you sir are what we call a Dorkis Malorkis
where oh where are the + moderation points on the parent?
good call, CrayzyJ
Every time I try a new distribution (this time, i installed Ubuntu last month) I always just want to go back to Slackware. However, when I left as a user of Slackware it didn't have a AMD64 port, but it was under development. Slackware is just simple and understandable. It has a package system if you need it, but it's just as easy to install from source and not screw your system into dependency hell. Configurations are in text files which don't have silly front ends that try to do checksums on them to make sure you havn't modified them by hand.
I love slackware. I wish I had time to somehow support the development of the unofficial AMD64 port. looks like it's comming along well (havn't looked in months) slamd64
Ubuntu has been nice however. Years ago i used debian. Ubuntu seems to a great, polished product for desktop users.
i once threw up a torrent after eating some bad chicken wings and too way way way way too much Jolt.
bad chicken... mess you up! *barf*
You cannot commit digital piracy by creating software, unless you are not creating software but copying software code that you do not have the rights to use.
you can however commit a crime by illegally using legally created software.
However, the implications of being accused of a crime for an action that wasn't a crime when you engaged in the act are downright scarey. The can of worms that this would open is immeasureable. Think if abortion became illegal, the hundreds of thousands of girls who would now be criminals.
What about sharing books, if that became illegal? Forget "pre-crime", all of us would be guilty of "past-crime"
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Yeah, that broadcast flag enabled TV card will just have to follow the rules and not let you record what you aren't allowed to record.
9)No loss of features- you won't see disappearing features like 30 second skip.
this is one of the biggies i think. new products become popular for their features, then they become cheap when they cut those features.