What exactly makes it a "buzz word"? People trying to sound important by using it to mean anything they think belongs to them (ISBN numbers), or anything they want shareholders to believe belongs to them. SCO about Linux, Ballmer about Linux... Ballmer about SCO about Linux.;^)
I don't see how [the term "Intellectual Property"] creates FUD any more than the term "significant other" is FUD. The terms "silly comparison" and "faulty parallelism" don't cause any FUD, either.
I agree with RMS on the topic of the term "Intellectual Property".
It's a FUD term that opportunistic lawyers and unscrupulous corporations (the embarrassingly pathetic SCO) use to justify empty threats and pump-and-dump litigation.
Patents, copyrights, and trademarks mean something. "Intellectual Property" is the high-ranking corporate imbecile's buzz word of the year.
The book store has as little "ownership" of the ISBN as they do of the title of the book itself.
All the "space rendezvous" videos and images have been faked by the same company that faked the moon landing. They are good with Blender and the GIMP. Damned good.
It appears that the "vast majority of computer users" are the same ones who are so incompetent that they have surpassed viruses themselves as a source of affliction.
The "vast majority of computer users" need to learn how to use these complicated machines.
The fact that there is a Windows-based viral supercomputer is the biggest proof of Microsoft's ineptitude that I have seen. So I thought I'd extend the silly "you'd be a viral supercomputer too if you were a big player" argument.
But I must have angered all the basement-dwelling, bald-Nathalie-Portman fans.:o)
Microsoft Windows machines that have been compromised by the virulent Storm worm, which has pounded the Internet non-stop for the past three months.
Right, I don't want to hear a word from the venomous cake-holes of you loathsome, spotty, basement-dwelling I-own-a-binary-clock, where's-my-Vorbis-support and I-love-you-bald-Nathalie-Portman Linux fanboys who claim this is an example of Windows vulnerability. Because you know damned well that if Linux and OS X were as popular as Windows, they would have there ~own~ virulent super-computing worms to pound the Internet with!
Peter Sellers was cast in four roles, but experienced problems when trying to develop a Texas accent for Maj. T.J. "King" Kong. After Sellers broke his ankle, Stanley Kubrick was forced to find another actor. Convinced that nobody could have acted the part as well as Sellers, Kubrick decided to cast someone who naturally fit the role. The producers first approached John Wayne, who did not even bother to respond, and "Bonanza" (1959) star Dan Blocker, who declined the role because of the script's progressive political content. Remembering his work on the western One-Eyed Jacks (1961), Kubrick cast Slim Pickens as Kong, the gung-ho hick pilot determined to drop his bombs at any cost. Pickens was never shown the script nor told it was a black comedy; ordered by Kubrick to play it straight, he played the role as if it were a serious drama - with amusing results.
Guard: Where are you from? Australian Mimicking A Canadian: We're the Canadian delegation. Where's the hockey rink? Guard: We don't have a hockey rink here, Sir. [Addressing AMAC bin Laden.] Are you from the Middle East, Sir? AMAC-BL: Yes, from Montreal. Guard: Who is Margaret Atwood? AMAC-BL: [pause] She's the wife of Wayne Gretzky. Guard: Step out of the car, Sir.
Thanks for correcting me. You should not have been moderated Off Topic.
You'd think we could at least lower CD prices for the 47 million Americans who have no health care. There are many artists whose songs are just as effective as a strong anesthesia.
This is one of the few times I wish the US could be more like Canada.
Yeah, I would never want to change the poverty and disastrous education system, the lack of health insurance for most people, the broken two-party political system, the prison system with highest rate of incarceration in the world, military profiteering and the $34 TRILLION debt load...
But it sure would be great if CDs cost less in the USA.
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1. Lose job.
2. In despair, write a Windows worm.
3. PROFIT.
4. Get caught, go to jail.
5. ???
6. PROFIT.
There's no question that Microsoft is responsible for some of the most powerful computing initiatives in the world today.
Redmond's other bots will want to set the record straight.
This is interesting, but the origin of a term doesn't always correspond to fad usage or to a particular fad.
Such as the FUD fad evinced in recent years by certain litigious corporations.
This usage is sloppy and false but it isn't random.
"Austria" is a friendly OPEC member.
I agree with RMS on the topic of the term "Intellectual Property".
It's a FUD term that opportunistic lawyers and unscrupulous corporations (the embarrassingly pathetic SCO) use to justify empty threats and pump-and-dump litigation.
Patents, copyrights, and trademarks mean something. "Intellectual Property" is the high-ranking corporate imbecile's buzz word of the year.
The book store has as little "ownership" of the ISBN as they do of the title of the book itself.
All the "space rendezvous" videos and images have been faked by the same company that faked the moon landing. They are good with Blender and the GIMP. Damned good.
The truth is out there!
Amusing. See the subsequent Slashdot article, http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/17/1543208.
It appears that the "vast majority of computer users" are the same ones who are so incompetent that they have surpassed viruses themselves as a source of affliction.
The "vast majority of computer users" need to learn how to use these complicated machines.
Because he started developing the Linux kernel in a... MADRASSA!
Right, to hell with the philosophies and who codes more, let's make this /. discussion one that we can all understand.
Who is getting more, Torvalds or Stallman? Let the amount of action that these luminaries get be the deciding factor!
It's the wrong country, alright!
We're talking about AUSTRIA, the OPEC member.
Fork the OO code NOW!
The fact that there is a Windows-based viral supercomputer is the biggest proof of Microsoft's ineptitude that I have seen. So I thought I'd extend the silly "you'd be a viral supercomputer too if you were a big player" argument.
:o)
But I must have angered all the basement-dwelling, bald-Nathalie-Portman fans.
I see from your signature that you're a Python fan. In fact, I was trying to do a Cleesian rant. I'm obviously not as funny as Cleese. :o)
Right, I don't want to hear a word from the venomous cake-holes of you loathsome, spotty, basement-dwelling I-own-a-binary-clock, where's-my-Vorbis-support and I-love-you-bald-Nathalie-Portman Linux fanboys who claim this is an example of Windows vulnerability. Because you know damned well that if Linux and OS X were as popular as Windows, they would have there ~own~ virulent super-computing worms to pound the Internet with!
From http://www.scifimoviepage.com/drstrang.html :
Peter Sellers was cast in four roles, but experienced problems when trying to develop a Texas accent for Maj. T.J. "King" Kong. After Sellers broke his ankle, Stanley Kubrick was forced to find another actor. Convinced that nobody could have acted the part as well as Sellers, Kubrick decided to cast someone who naturally fit the role. The producers first approached John Wayne, who did not even bother to respond, and "Bonanza" (1959) star Dan Blocker, who declined the role because of the script's progressive political content. Remembering his work on the western One-Eyed Jacks (1961), Kubrick cast Slim Pickens as Kong, the gung-ho hick pilot determined to drop his bombs at any cost. Pickens was never shown the script nor told it was a black comedy; ordered by Kubrick to play it straight, he played the role as if it were a serious drama - with amusing results.
Guard: Where are you from?
Australian Mimicking A Canadian: We're the Canadian delegation. Where's the hockey rink?
Guard: We don't have a hockey rink here, Sir. [Addressing AMAC bin Laden.] Are you from the Middle East, Sir?
AMAC-BL: Yes, from Montreal.
Guard: Who is Margaret Atwood?
AMAC-BL: [pause] She's the wife of Wayne Gretzky.
Guard: Step out of the car, Sir.
Sir, while my peers were watching the Simpsons, I was doing homework.
;o)
Now I depend on Slashdot and Wikipedia for all my facts.
Alanis Morissette is your soul-mate. (Buy ear plugs.)
I'm no fan of politicians but if the citizens of a democratic nation don't stand up for anything, they are more despicable than the politicians.
Minor Correction:
"Rather than informing everyone that Microsoft is corporate herpes...
Thanks for correcting me. You should not have been moderated Off Topic.
You'd think we could at least lower CD prices for the 47 million Americans who have no health care. There are many artists whose songs are just as effective as a strong anesthesia.
Yeah, I would never want to change the poverty and disastrous education system, the lack of health insurance for most people, the broken two-party political system, the prison system with highest rate of incarceration in the world, military profiteering and the $34 TRILLION debt load...
But it sure would be great if CDs cost less in the USA.