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Externally caused damage will be the least our problems in the future when these things start rotting on their own... in about 20 years, if we're lucky. The materials that they use are not very stable, especially on the recordable medium. If you want to keep the kids' movies for a long time, look for an 8mm movie camera...on eBay if you must.
Re:I'm sticking with 5 1/4 inch floppies
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...but I don't treat them very well either.
You shouldn't have to. Part of the hype behind CD's and DVD's was that they could take the abuse and would last longer than any other present day media. I guess it's our fault for not holding their feet to the fire on than one. If you ever start recording family home videos on DVD, you'd better transfer it to film for long term archiving.
We need a way to make these officials answerable more directly to the people once elected...
I think it would be called voting them out. Something we all the have the power to do. If the public is being manipulated, it's because that is what they choose. They choose it because it's easy and convenient. We have access to all those tools also. We're just not taking advantage. If you want your gov't to open up, you simply have to elect people that will do it. Failure to do that is not the government's fault. The blame falls straight onto the laps of you and your neighbors.
the Austrailians are as careless in their voting habits as the Americans. Your legislators won't listen to you? Well them, you should take the problem up with your neighbors. I do believe you can vote out the regulars over there also, right? If they refuse to give up their seat, then I could say the problem is a bit more serious. Election time is a good way to see if you really live in a democracy(representative republic?). Try to actually use your power to see if it really exists. Then we can talk about "evil" corporations and governments.
It's not a point against it, it's a point in its favor that OS X is so advanced you only need one button to use it and accomplish the same thing that takes Windows two buttons and Linux three.
The advantage Windows/Linux has over the Mac is that you can operate without using the mouse at all. Virtually everything that's clickable has a keyboard equivalent. I still don't know how to shut down a Mac with the keyboard. I almost always use the arrow keys to navigate the menus in Windows. With windows or Linux I can use the mouse OR the keyboard. The options in the Mac sometimes require both.
Re:Golly, I WONDER where they got that idea!
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*coughcoughMAC MINIcoughcough*
*coughcoughMAC PLUScoughcough* So quiet you can hear the capacitors venting(smoking). Or, as was once said: "So quiet you could hear a mouse peeing on a cotton ball"
...s a developer I've found no Fortune 500 companies that don't require you sign one of these agreements as a condition of employment...
Sure, because everybody applying is signing those agreements. If nobody would sign them, it would be a different story, no? Apparently the money was too good to resist. That's why the word "whore". Maybe you can nullify it by saying that you signed it under duress(I was starving and needed the job). I repeat: Don't sign bad contracts! It just makes it more difficult to get a good one. If you, as an individual, can't put a stop to it, then learn how to cooperate and organize!
Dunb! AND lazy! There are just too many jobs out there to put yourself in to that kind of position. On top of that, you just make it harder for others to resist. To everyone else: Don't be such whores. Don't sign these kinds of agreements. Don't take a piss test(unless you're operating dangerous equipment). Don't do any of that. Get a spine and stand up for your rights. It's people looking for easy money that got us into this mess. This company's practices are despicable, but I have to sympathize with them because they probably have to completely re-write the program to get rid of the GPL code now. That, and they should fire your ass for causing what could be bank buster of potential lawsuits, etc. You signed this stupid contract, and yet you accepted a verbal ok to insert your code?? Wanna buy a bridge? Or some nice Florida "grassland"? A hand shake is all that's needed, and it's yours. It would've been nice if you asked this question before you took the job. Could've saved a boatload of trouble.
How many of you are giving out real information?? It would be pretty silly to do so. Are you giving out bank account or credit card info? Or your address? Hell, how many people log in as "Bill_Gates_*? Why is this an issue? If you send out plain text over the net, you may as well broadcast it on the radio. That's my assumptions when I send out email. I have no expectations of any kind of privacy when I'm using "company"(hotmail, ISP, job, etc.) equipment. I will never expect any as long I need to use somebody else's wire. You shouldn't either.
I guess a recording artist is expected to spend three months renting out a studio and equipment, just to have the music blasted onto Bittorrent where he won't get paid for his work.
Still at it are we? So I guess performing live, in front of a paying audience is out of the question? How 'bout getting a contract to produce somthing before renting the studio? Nah..couldn't possibly work. Could it? Much better to demand payment for 75 years for that three months of studio rental.
That's precisely how you can get paid. No special, government granted privileges are needed. If you want a better contract, you need to organize with your peers. That's how I negociate my contracts. I can't understand why your line of work should be treated differently. Besides, the consumer should have more say. He's the guy spending the money. Either way the contract is between buyer and seller. It shouldn't effect anybody else. No outside influences are necessary. What you won't get(nor deserve) is exclusivity.
Problem is if I as a content/whatever creator have no rights regarding my work why should I distribute it at all?
Because you like to? When you do things you like, while it's nice to get paid, it shouldn't be a requirement. Otherwise you wouldn't like doing it so much. If you feel better to suppress your creativity because it doesn't pay out what you expect, then, by all means feel free to wait for someone else to do it. For now, just make the deal, do the work, get paid, forget about it, and repeat. Stop with this death grip of control. That benefits noone.
Creative Commons licensing you are getting something for nothing...
I think this is what goads people the most. They just can't stand the fact that somebody out there might get something for nothing. Or that they might enjoy your work, and they didn't pay YOU(editorial), even though you may have gotten paid by the contractor. Yet that what copyright holders want when they demand that you pay "rent" for their product for 75 years. They're demanding continuous profit for something they did once. They're demanding payment for every second of joy I might derive from their already paid for work.
That's like telling me where I can take my car, or what kind of tires I have to use. It's like needing the arquitect's(sp) permission the paint my house. The closest thing you have to natural rights on a work is to have your name attached. Everything else is fair game. The "artistic integrity" is in your eyes only. Your rights to property are determined by the society you live in. They are NOT absolute or inherent.
Absolutely. Most reasonable people understand that this is the real reason that our "masters" are trying to stamp it out. As long as they can divert our attention with "piracy" and "kiddie porn", they might get away with it.
Which is already the trend - so let's get behind it.
Hear, hear...but not only that, let's act on it. Considering the re-election rate, it's effect appears to be limited at this time. Let's hope that the future tells a different story. I'm very interested in how the gov't will react if people actually start voting out the party regulars. Maybe then we will find out if we have a representative gov't, or if the whole thing was just a dirty trick to get us to follow along.
While many of us know that this is just another case of the fox watching the henhouse, blaming the corporations while we continue to buy their products, and blaming the gov't while we continue to re-elect the incumbents will get us nowhere fast. The only thing that could possibly change this is how you spend your money and how you vote. Their power comes from us, nowhere else. It depends on our consent. So far, they still seem to have it. Nobody is going to come to rescue us, so it's up to us to cooperate and fix the problem ourselves.
I am of the opinion that people will eventually become sick of this...
They might for a moment...then as soon as someone mentions a tax cut, flag burning, same sex marriage, Janet's titties, "we're under attack", etc...all those emotional hot buttons, all will be forgotten, and they realize they must "stay the course". Most everybody stopped talking about the stolen election after 9/11. Until then, the gov't was having a serious credibility problem on various fronts. All that disappeared after the attack. A lot of people are already sick of it. They're still the minority. The political party they may belong to is irrelevent. Most people simply try to vote themselves an advantage over their neighbor. They don't care about rights and such. They have credit card payments on their mind. As long as the majority feels reasonably comfortable, there will be no change. And I still won't blame the gov't for our own laziness and complacency.
There's no inalienable right to ANY exclusivity of ANY kind. There's no inalienable right to the copyright services that the public has so generously given out. To put it simply: Copyright is NOT a right.
So, don't buy another CD, don't see another film...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ok. Just wait until after the next Star Wars flick. OK? While you're at it, make sure not to buy any household products, prepackaged foods, gas, cable, electricity, or anything else for that matter, because that it what it will take to have any effect at all on these companies that have so much action in each other.
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Externally caused damage will be the least our problems in the future when these things start rotting on their own... in about 20 years, if we're lucky. The materials that they use are not very stable, especially on the recordable medium. If you want to keep the kids' movies for a long time, look for an 8mm movie camera...on eBay if you must.
...but I don't treat them very well either.
You shouldn't have to. Part of the hype behind CD's and DVD's was that they could take the abuse and would last longer than any other present day media. I guess it's our fault for not holding their feet to the fire on than one. If you ever start recording family home videos on DVD, you'd better transfer it to film for long term archiving.
Why not? As long as they don't put her behind the wheel...
So is Paul
We need a way to make these officials answerable more directly to the people once elected...
I think it would be called voting them out. Something we all the have the power to do. If the public is being manipulated, it's because that is what they choose. They choose it because it's easy and convenient. We have access to all those tools also. We're just not taking advantage. If you want your gov't to open up, you simply have to elect people that will do it. Failure to do that is not the government's fault. The blame falls straight onto the laps of you and your neighbors.
But you don't seriously expect them to make the right decision, do you? Action for the sake of action has gotten us where we are today.
the Austrailians are as careless in their voting habits as the Americans. Your legislators won't listen to you? Well them, you should take the problem up with your neighbors. I do believe you can vote out the regulars over there also, right? If they refuse to give up their seat, then I could say the problem is a bit more serious. Election time is a good way to see if you really live in a democracy(representative republic?). Try to actually use your power to see if it really exists. Then we can talk about "evil" corporations and governments.
"Funny how? I mean, whats funny about it?..."
It's not a point against it, it's a point in its favor that OS X is so advanced you only need one button to use it and accomplish the same thing that takes Windows two buttons and Linux three.
The advantage Windows/Linux has over the Mac is that you can operate without using the mouse at all. Virtually everything that's clickable has a keyboard equivalent. I still don't know how to shut down a Mac with the keyboard. I almost always use the arrow keys to navigate the menus in Windows. With windows or Linux I can use the mouse OR the keyboard. The options in the Mac sometimes require both.
*coughcoughMAC MINIcoughcough*
*coughcoughMAC PLUScoughcough* So quiet you can hear the capacitors venting(smoking). Or, as was once said: "So quiet you could hear a mouse peeing on a cotton ball"
...s a developer I've found no Fortune 500 companies that don't require you sign one of these agreements as a condition of employment...
Sure, because everybody applying is signing those agreements. If nobody would sign them, it would be a different story, no? Apparently the money was too good to resist. That's why the word "whore". Maybe you can nullify it by saying that you signed it under duress(I was starving and needed the job). I repeat: Don't sign bad contracts! It just makes it more difficult to get a good one. If you, as an individual, can't put a stop to it, then learn how to cooperate and organize!
In about three hours we'll have a story about KDE 3.4 being released.
Dunb! AND lazy! There are just too many jobs out there to put yourself in to that kind of position. On top of that, you just make it harder for others to resist. To everyone else: Don't be such whores. Don't sign these kinds of agreements. Don't take a piss test(unless you're operating dangerous equipment). Don't do any of that. Get a spine and stand up for your rights. It's people looking for easy money that got us into this mess. This company's practices are despicable, but I have to sympathize with them because they probably have to completely re-write the program to get rid of the GPL code now. That, and they should fire your ass for causing what could be bank buster of potential lawsuits, etc. You signed this stupid contract, and yet you accepted a verbal ok to insert your code?? Wanna buy a bridge? Or some nice Florida "grassland"? A hand shake is all that's needed, and it's yours. It would've been nice if you asked this question before you took the job. Could've saved a boatload of trouble.
SCO might be interested also, even if it doesn't contain any of their code.
Bob, What... is your name?...
Aw, that's a tough one
Starts with a B, Bob...
Ends with a B, Bob...
Bob
Bob! that's it!
-Cheech and Chong Big Bambu
How many of you are giving out real information?? It would be pretty silly to do so. Are you giving out bank account or credit card info? Or your address? Hell, how many people log in as "Bill_Gates_*? Why is this an issue? If you send out plain text over the net, you may as well broadcast it on the radio. That's my assumptions when I send out email. I have no expectations of any kind of privacy when I'm using "company"(hotmail, ISP, job, etc.) equipment. I will never expect any as long I need to use somebody else's wire. You shouldn't either.
How much do you reckon the instant building would cost if it was manufactured in China?
Check your local Walmart.
I guess a recording artist is expected to spend three months renting out a studio and equipment, just to have the music blasted onto Bittorrent where he won't get paid for his work.
Still at it are we? So I guess performing live, in front of a paying audience is out of the question? How 'bout getting a contract to produce somthing before renting the studio? Nah..couldn't possibly work. Could it? Much better to demand payment for 75 years for that three months of studio rental.
...there is contract law at work there as well...
That's precisely how you can get paid. No special, government granted privileges are needed. If you want a better contract, you need to organize with your peers. That's how I negociate my contracts. I can't understand why your line of work should be treated differently. Besides, the consumer should have more say. He's the guy spending the money. Either way the contract is between buyer and seller. It shouldn't effect anybody else. No outside influences are necessary. What you won't get(nor deserve) is exclusivity.
Problem is if I as a content/whatever creator have no rights regarding my work why should I distribute it at all?
Because you like to? When you do things you like, while it's nice to get paid, it shouldn't be a requirement. Otherwise you wouldn't like doing it so much. If you feel better to suppress your creativity because it doesn't pay out what you expect, then, by all means feel free to wait for someone else to do it. For now, just make the deal, do the work, get paid, forget about it, and repeat. Stop with this death grip of control. That benefits noone.
Creative Commons licensing you are getting something for nothing...
I think this is what goads people the most. They just can't stand the fact that somebody out there might get something for nothing. Or that they might enjoy your work, and they didn't pay YOU(editorial), even though you may have gotten paid by the contractor. Yet that what copyright holders want when they demand that you pay "rent" for their product for 75 years. They're demanding continuous profit for something they did once. They're demanding payment for every second of joy I might derive from their already paid for work.
I believe I have the right to say how it's used.
That's like telling me where I can take my car, or what kind of tires I have to use. It's like needing the arquitect's(sp) permission the paint my house. The closest thing you have to natural rights on a work is to have your name attached. Everything else is fair game. The "artistic integrity" is in your eyes only. Your rights to property are determined by the society you live in. They are NOT absolute or inherent.
The best way out is through P2P media.
Absolutely. Most reasonable people understand that this is the real reason that our "masters" are trying to stamp it out. As long as they can divert our attention with "piracy" and "kiddie porn", they might get away with it.
Which is already the trend - so let's get behind it.
Hear, hear...but not only that, let's act on it. Considering the re-election rate, it's effect appears to be limited at this time. Let's hope that the future tells a different story. I'm very interested in how the gov't will react if people actually start voting out the party regulars. Maybe then we will find out if we have a representative gov't, or if the whole thing was just a dirty trick to get us to follow along.
While many of us know that this is just another case of the fox watching the henhouse, blaming the corporations while we continue to buy their products, and blaming the gov't while we continue to re-elect the incumbents will get us nowhere fast. The only thing that could possibly change this is how you spend your money and how you vote. Their power comes from us, nowhere else. It depends on our consent. So far, they still seem to have it. Nobody is going to come to rescue us, so it's up to us to cooperate and fix the problem ourselves.
I am of the opinion that people will eventually become sick of this...
They might for a moment...then as soon as someone mentions a tax cut, flag burning, same sex marriage, Janet's titties, "we're under attack", etc...all those emotional hot buttons, all will be forgotten, and they realize they must "stay the course". Most everybody stopped talking about the stolen election after 9/11. Until then, the gov't was having a serious credibility problem on various fronts. All that disappeared after the attack. A lot of people are already sick of it. They're still the minority. The political party they may belong to is irrelevent. Most people simply try to vote themselves an advantage over their neighbor. They don't care about rights and such. They have credit card payments on their mind. As long as the majority feels reasonably comfortable, there will be no change. And I still won't blame the gov't for our own laziness and complacency.
There's no inalienable right to ANY exclusivity of ANY kind. There's no inalienable right to the copyright services that the public has so generously given out. To put it simply: Copyright is NOT a right.
So, don't buy another CD, don't see another film...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ok. Just wait until after the next Star Wars flick. OK? While you're at it, make sure not to buy any household products, prepackaged foods, gas, cable, electricity, or anything else for that matter, because that it what it will take to have any effect at all on these companies that have so much action in each other.