1) The seven year old probably didn't understand the message and won't for a couple of years.
2) The grandfather is STUPID. He's old enough to know better. If he is senile why is he on the internet in the first place?
Part 1 is damn close to "what about the childen" argument, which is abused so much as to be worthless. Sorry.... I don't buy either. Neither one is an excuse for violence, either.
Actually... Lou Dobbs has been hammering on this. I don't have the figures here, but Lou has been showing that the little job growth that IS going on is in the public sector. Private employment continues to decrease while public employment is increasing in drips and drabs thanks to all the new government that continues to be added for defense or anti-terrorist or whatevers sake.
I mentioned this yesterday but it was too late to get much notice...
There is an important parallel with what is happening here and what happened to the Hollywood studio system in the 30s and 40s. Hollywood studios owned most of the theaters at that time outright but there were some independents that were trying to stay in the game. The studios would work with these indeprendents, but in order to get a good A movie they would force the theaters to take 4 or 5 crappy B movies as well. This was found to be an illegal practice in the vertical integration lawsuits that concluded after WWII.
This is almost the exact same situation... but now it's actually legal. It was made legal by Ronald Reagan who explicitly made vertical integration legal again (as part of his deregulation program) early in his presidentcy.
It's an anti-cometitive practice and it hasn't always been allowed. There is a good reason bundling was made illegal in the trustbuster days and it should be illegal again... and the practices of both the cable companies and providers like viacom are a great example. Not all regulation are "undue hinderances."
Why do idiots^m^m I mean "industry analysts" like the writer of this article always quote insiders at Microsoft but never talk to ANYONE within the open source movement... not even someone like Linus Torvalds or the CEO or red hat? Why do they get ALL their information from the corprate world and NEVER even THINK about getting information from inside the open source world?
I am not going to take any of these types of reports seriously unless they can get outside of their little corporate biosphere at least once in a while and understand that there is a world outside. I am tired of seeing reports on TV and on bignamed media sites act like anything that is outside of corporate-think is odd, alien, and totally not worthy of mention.
The platform the the PS2 is now releasing their online games on (it escapes me now) is pretty damn good... and like Xbox live it doesn't require companies to have their own huge server farms for their online games which was the huge problem that caused the PS2's lack of multiple good online titles. I think the PS2 is catching up quickly, and if the PS3 takes more cues from Xbox Live they could outpace it quickly... oh, and online gaming is free with the PS, which doesn't hurt things either.
When is the PS3 supposed to be released, anyway? Last I heard it was supposed to be ready for X-mas 2004, but I have heard about other things since then.
Anyway... I don't understand why these type of predictions make news. Remember a couple of years ago when they said the US would have a budget surplus of billions by now? The media doesn't... but I sure do. Anything can happen in that period of time... direct interpolation of the numbers doesn't mean anything. If Sony botches the PS3 they could lose everything... of course based on the direction the Xbox2 is going, they could be out of existance just as easily.
Microsoft might be gone by then... really! Who knows.
I can play classic arcades games on my laptop, my X-Box, my Playstation... even in some cases my Palm. Even if you have mame you can legally buy huge collections for every platform you can imagine.
Sorry... this is almost as impressive as a story that says "Wow! My refridgerator makes ice!" or "CD Players now in cars". Come on... you can go better than this story.
No... seriously... there are girls that find gifted guys a REAL TURN on. The best girls are able to look beyond such things... at least for a little while.
She'll say at first that she wouldn't want to change a thing... but she'll either change his ways (taste in clothes, hair, etc...) or he'll want to do it himself.
It's also morally wrong to use your "Intellectual Property" as a sword and not a shield... and it's also morally wrong to use your "I.P." to fleese every nickel out of someone for a product that has already legally paid for. If YOU are in favor of the GPL you will already know that the reason it even exists.
The GPL has neither one of these problem, thank you. I have paid for windows, and, for your information, I have a legal association with a university with an extended site license so EVERY copy I have is legal and I can run it where I want... LEGALLY.
I am pretty sure the only true "pirates" out there are the people in china making thousands of copies and selling them. Why don't we ever go after them?????!?!?!
Is this the Microsoft definition that says that since I don't have a license for each and every CPU that I am "casually pirating" their software?
That's just dumb. I have bought Windoze many times in many different ways ranging from the Microsoft tax to computer shows to computer software stores... if I use windows on 4 machines and I have 3 licenses why should I be given this highly inflamatory label as a pirate? Once it gets through my door I should be able to use it as I please just as any other form of "Intelectual Property."
Wow.. fair use really must be dead as the corp guys said...
BUT... like it or not Ebay is a good way to get items that are hard to buy locally or through retailers, and being so large and well known does mean they have to behave to some extent (remember when they had the server problems a couple of years back???)
The problem is that there are so many people on there that REQUIRE paypal. Something needs to be done about this. Should they require at least 2 method of payments for any auction? Then need to do something...
Well..... they certainly are growing up as a corp, aren't they...
Making sure that they keep their users in the dark, starting to NOT publicly reply to persons on their forums, giving people the runaround, keeping all information propritary....
it's a technique worthy of any fortune 500 company...
I have a big problem with the fact that after using paypal to pay some set dollar amount that the account is suspended until I give them a checking account number. I don't want to give them this information... I just want to use the service to pay for something. I don't want to use it for a checking account or anything like that. And you can't use a credit card for more than account... so basically if you don't want to send them information that credit card becomes useless. If I was a regular user with just one e-mail address, there would be no way around this at all, even with other credit cards.
Their practices leave a hell of a lot be desired... give us your info or we'll make you jump through hoops or just not service you at all. Gee.. I wonder if they sell or use that info in questionable ways.. ya think?
Well.. this is a good point... these industries never totally die... hell, even the Scribe business as mentioned above still has a niche.
Candles retooled to become a niche business and I am sure that encyclopedias will too. In America it always seems that people think that businesses have to be big to be good (or like GWB to benifit the economy), but there are plenty of people working and making a living at small businesses at service small numbers of people... and there is nothing wrong with that, it benifits those individuals (and the economy).
This is all about Viacom forcing cable/sat companies to take packages of programs. Am I remembering history correctly, but wasn't this what the hollywood anti-trust trials in the 30s and 40s all about... studios so big that they would require independent theatres to take 5 crappy B movies for every good A movie they put out? That was found majorly illegal....
but, having said that, one of the first thing Ronald Reagan did was to explicitly make it legal again in law. Looks like that little change that Gipper made for his buddies is making these problems crop up again (and again.. and again...). Thanks, government.... goes to prove once again that some regulation is actually good and necessary.
Because that would be smart. Governments have trouble doing anything smart.
Opening formats, all formats, would be a great solution for all these Monopoly problems. Not only would stuff like OpenOffice and media players interoperate perfectly, the public wouldn't get in an uproar because they will not see it as some stupid "hinderance to capitalism." I mean is the public sofisticated enough to see how important these formats are? No... CNN still makes incipid comments like "the source code is the recipe for the programs" and stuff like that. If the opened the formats and doggedly forced the ENTIRE api to be published then a huge amount of this problem might go away.
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1) The seven year old probably didn't understand the message and won't for a couple of years.
2) The grandfather is STUPID. He's old enough to know better. If he is senile why is he on the internet in the first place?
Part 1 is damn close to "what about the childen" argument, which is abused so much as to be worthless. Sorry.... I don't buy either. Neither one is an excuse for violence, either.
This should be modded flamebait. Talking about violence as a solution to spam is frankly just total bullshit.
If you get that angry because of hitting delete (even if is an excessive number of times) you have an anger management problem.
Actually... Lou Dobbs has been hammering on this. I don't have the figures here, but Lou has been showing that the little job growth that IS going on is in the public sector. Private employment continues to decrease while public employment is increasing in drips and drabs thanks to all the new government that continues to be added for defense or anti-terrorist or whatevers sake.
Has anyone looked into what outside contractors stand to benifit from a trip to Mars?
Does Halliburton have a space division? (Maybe they will charge 20x more than usual for each packet of Tang and freeze-dried iced cream!)
I mentioned this yesterday but it was too late to get much notice...
There is an important parallel with what is happening here and what happened to the Hollywood studio system in the 30s and 40s. Hollywood studios owned most of the theaters at that time outright but there were some independents that were trying to stay in the game. The studios would work with these indeprendents, but in order to get a good A movie they would force the theaters to take 4 or 5 crappy B movies as well. This was found to be an illegal practice in the vertical integration lawsuits that concluded after WWII.
This is almost the exact same situation... but now it's actually legal. It was made legal by Ronald Reagan who explicitly made vertical integration legal again (as part of his deregulation program) early in his presidentcy.
It's an anti-cometitive practice and it hasn't always been allowed. There is a good reason bundling was made illegal in the trustbuster days and it should be illegal again... and the practices of both the cable companies and providers like viacom are a great example. Not all regulation are "undue hinderances."
Why do idiots^m^m I mean "industry analysts" like the writer of this article always quote insiders at Microsoft but never talk to ANYONE within the open source movement... not even someone like Linus Torvalds or the CEO or red hat? Why do they get ALL their information from the corprate world and NEVER even THINK about getting information from inside the open source world?
I am not going to take any of these types of reports seriously unless they can get outside of their little corporate biosphere at least once in a while and understand that there is a world outside. I am tired of seeing reports on TV and on bignamed media sites act like anything that is outside of corporate-think is odd, alien, and totally not worthy of mention.
The platform the the PS2 is now releasing their online games on (it escapes me now) is pretty damn good... and like Xbox live it doesn't require companies to have their own huge server farms for their online games which was the huge problem that caused the PS2's lack of multiple good online titles. I think the PS2 is catching up quickly, and if the PS3 takes more cues from Xbox Live they could outpace it quickly... oh, and online gaming is free with the PS, which doesn't hurt things either.
When is the PS3 supposed to be released, anyway? Last I heard it was supposed to be ready for X-mas 2004, but I have heard about other things since then.
Anyway... I don't understand why these type of predictions make news. Remember a couple of years ago when they said the US would have a budget surplus of billions by now? The media doesn't... but I sure do. Anything can happen in that period of time... direct interpolation of the numbers doesn't mean anything. If Sony botches the PS3 they could lose everything... of course based on the direction the Xbox2 is going, they could be out of existance just as easily.
Microsoft might be gone by then... really! Who knows.
I can play classic arcades games on my laptop, my X-Box, my Playstation... even in some cases my Palm. Even if you have mame you can legally buy huge collections for every platform you can imagine.
Sorry... this is almost as impressive as a story that says "Wow! My refridgerator makes ice!" or "CD Players now in cars". Come on... you can go better than this story.
Snoopy's Sopwith Camel doesn't look like it is set up well enough to survive re-entry.
Congrats... you are the first to admit to understanding the reference.
No... seriously... there are girls that find gifted guys a REAL TURN on. The best girls are able to look beyond such things... at least for a little while.
She'll say at first that she wouldn't want to change a thing... but she'll either change his ways (taste in clothes, hair, etc...) or he'll want to do it himself.
Try it out... it'll work!!
It's also morally wrong to use your "Intellectual Property" as a sword and not a shield... and it's also morally wrong to use your "I.P." to fleese every nickel out of someone for a product that has already legally paid for. If YOU are in favor of the GPL you will already know that the reason it even exists.
The GPL has neither one of these problem, thank you. I have paid for windows, and, for your information, I have a legal association with a university with an extended site license so EVERY copy I have is legal and I can run it where I want... LEGALLY.
there's that DAMN TERM again... pirate.
I am pretty sure the only true "pirates" out there are the people in china making thousands of copies and selling them. Why don't we ever go after them?????!?!?!
What do you mean by "pirate"?
Is this the Microsoft definition that says that since I don't have a license for each and every CPU that I am "casually pirating" their software?
That's just dumb. I have bought Windoze many times in many different ways ranging from the Microsoft tax to computer shows to computer software stores... if I use windows on 4 machines and I have 3 licenses why should I be given this highly inflamatory label as a pirate? Once it gets through my door I should be able to use it as I please just as any other form of "Intelectual Property."
Wow.. fair use really must be dead as the corp guys said...
BUT... like it or not Ebay is a good way to get items that are hard to buy locally or through retailers, and being so large and well known does mean they have to behave to some extent (remember when they had the server problems a couple of years back???) The problem is that there are so many people on there that REQUIRE paypal. Something needs to be done about this. Should they require at least 2 method of payments for any auction? Then need to do something...
Well..... they certainly are growing up as a corp, aren't they... Making sure that they keep their users in the dark, starting to NOT publicly reply to persons on their forums, giving people the runaround, keeping all information propritary.... it's a technique worthy of any fortune 500 company...
My big problem with paypal... forced upgrades.
I have a big problem with the fact that after using paypal to pay some set dollar amount that the account is suspended until I give them a checking account number. I don't want to give them this information... I just want to use the service to pay for something. I don't want to use it for a checking account or anything like that. And you can't use a credit card for more than account... so basically if you don't want to send them information that credit card becomes useless. If I was a regular user with just one e-mail address, there would be no way around this at all, even with other credit cards.
Their practices leave a hell of a lot be desired... give us your info or we'll make you jump through hoops or just not service you at all. Gee.. I wonder if they sell or use that info in questionable ways.. ya think?
Well.. this is a good point... these industries never totally die... hell, even the Scribe business as mentioned above still has a niche. Candles retooled to become a niche business and I am sure that encyclopedias will too. In America it always seems that people think that businesses have to be big to be good (or like GWB to benifit the economy), but there are plenty of people working and making a living at small businesses at service small numbers of people... and there is nothing wrong with that, it benifits those individuals (and the economy).
Candle sales down... candlemakers blame the electric light bulb.
the candlemaker lobby are asking for sanctions to keep the vital candle market afloat.
This is all about Viacom forcing cable/sat companies to take packages of programs. Am I remembering history correctly, but wasn't this what the hollywood anti-trust trials in the 30s and 40s all about... studios so big that they would require independent theatres to take 5 crappy B movies for every good A movie they put out? That was found majorly illegal....
but, having said that, one of the first thing Ronald Reagan did was to explicitly make it legal again in law. Looks like that little change that Gipper made for his buddies is making these problems crop up again (and again.. and again...). Thanks, government.... goes to prove once again that some regulation is actually good and necessary.
porn!
porn!
porn!
huh? I thought just mentioning porn should get me a +4, Funny!
Because that would be smart. Governments have trouble doing anything smart.
Opening formats, all formats, would be a great solution for all these Monopoly problems. Not only would stuff like OpenOffice and media players interoperate perfectly, the public wouldn't get in an uproar because they will not see it as some stupid "hinderance to capitalism." I mean is the public sofisticated enough to see how important these formats are? No... CNN still makes incipid comments like "the source code is the recipe for the programs" and stuff like that. If the opened the formats and doggedly forced the ENTIRE api to be published then a huge amount of this problem might go away.
What about Hobbits: The Battle for Endor?
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