I don't see how big, ugly, flat colored boxes look good to anyone who is using a large monitor.
Then why did Microsoft add them to the Xbox 360 dashboard in the Metro update (December 2011)? Xbox 360 monitors are usually even bigger than PC monitors.
daily Defender signature update brings the machine to its knees [...] Microsoft claimed that every Vista-capable PC could run Windows 10, and that appears to be false.
Does the daily Microsoft Security Essentials signature update on Windows Vista likewise monopolize I/O?
If they created a "Windows ready" desktop that is modular (looking at you Mac Pro)
The Mac Pro is plenty modular. Just plug in Thunderbolt modules.
If the Mac Pro didn't have it's flaw, was equipped with "Windows Ready" driver and costed 20%-30% less than the same PC with equivalent specs I would have took one hands down.
I am surprised that Weird Al hasn't been so suppressed.
He has. How many parodies of songs by Prince are included on "Weird Al" Yankovic's albums? None. The closest he comes are a single line at the end of the first verse of "Amish Paradise" and a line in the second chorus of "Word Crimes".
Google, etc. should take the requester to court to get an order prohibiting the requester from sending any future request without an affidavit declaring that they have done "due diligence."
Each notice of claimed infringement under OCILLA is supposed to already include such an affidavit. Universal's former parent company has already been in trouble for this.
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
-- M. T. Cicero, On the Ends of Good and Evil, section 1.10.32, translated by Harris Rackham
But how would it play out? Would it become a drama with characters who act in ways that represent Epicureanism and Stoicism and then show where those philosophies fail?
Protecting people's intellectual property doesn't really count as censorship.
There is a border between the two, and copyright owners often disagree with reusers where that border is. For example, under what circumstances does using excerpts of a work in reviews of that work become infringement? If this is not considered carefully, copyright ends up giving a work's copyright owner power to censor negative reviews.
all the disparate laws with so many differences you deceptively lump together as "intellectual property " do have one thing in common : they all have limitations that make them temporary.
Patents expire after twenty years, exclusive rights in "mask works" (integrated circuit layouts) after ten. As for the rest, where did you get that information? Trademark registrations are indefinitely renewable as long as the mark remains in use, and the U.S. copyright term is routinely extended for 20 years at a time (Copyright Act of 1976; Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998; ruled constitutional by SCOTUS in Eldred v. Ashcroft, 2003).
Without Xfinity, which shares a corporate parent with Universal Pictures, how will Google reach much of the United States market?
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My point is that dedicated amateurs can turn binaries into what the GPL calls "source code". You're correct that if there were no copyright, there could be no copyleft as we know it. But the objective of copyleft, namely ensuring users' continued ability to improve free software, would be met through these commented disassemblies.
This is why a free operating system for a mobile phone would need to be collected into a "distribution" just as one for a PC. In a world without locked bootloaders and undocumented chipsets, there would be a few distributions of Replicant OS that one could install on any given phone to replace the pack-in operating system.
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if copyright law went away entirely [...] GPL licensing would collapse to completely permissive licensing.
If copyright law went away entirely, it would also become lawful to produce and distribute commented disassemblies of any proprietary program. A "commented disassembly" is created when a person takes executable code, figures out how it works, and transforms it into a preferred form for making modifications. This already happens underground: look for "SMBDis" on RomHacking.net.
Do you know of ANY hardware manufacturer who SELLS their drivers to people???
I remember reading horror stories somewhere about Creative Labs distributing only patches through the Internet. The full driver was available only on the original disc, and replacements cost money. In addition, third-party drivers for well-known input devices may cost money, such as drivers to use the Wii Remote and Dual Shock 3 controller with an Android device.
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No, we found one bull. Just as there are proponents of/etc/hosts as a component of layered security other than APK, I don't think sexconker is the only bull here.
I have asked about video games a few times, and the most common reply has been to make the engine free and the assets proprietary. Assets include anything that is not legally a "computer program", such as textures, meshes, maps, and audio. Several first-person shooters from Id Software have gone to this model a few years after release.
Pro-copyright != pro-current-copyright
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When you say you're "pro-copyleft" you're implicitly saying you're pro-copyright
Being "pro-copyright" doesn't necessarily mean supporting the status quo of present copyright law, including inability to follow ownership throughout the entire copyright term and anti-circumvention provisions that make interoperability legally risky.
Well, other than the idiotic "invite only" policy?
Google's field trial lasted three months, after which it opened to the public. When Facebook started, only college students were eligible, and this lasted ten times as long as Google's field trial.
Google +'s number one problem is that it required a gmail address.
Since when? Somehow I ended up with two Google accounts, one with Gmail and one with a different email address. And it was the non-Gmail one, which I had been using with YouTube, that got a Google+ profile attached to it.
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Were 1995 cars hackable?
I don't see how big, ugly, flat colored boxes look good to anyone who is using a large monitor.
Then why did Microsoft add them to the Xbox 360 dashboard in the Metro update (December 2011)? Xbox 360 monitors are usually even bigger than PC monitors.
daily Defender signature update brings the machine to its knees [...] Microsoft claimed that every Vista-capable PC could run Windows 10, and that appears to be false.
Does the daily Microsoft Security Essentials signature update on Windows Vista likewise monopolize I/O?
Was Windows Vista really that bad after Service Pack 1 "Mojave"?
If they created a "Windows ready" desktop that is modular (looking at you Mac Pro)
The Mac Pro is plenty modular. Just plug in Thunderbolt modules.
If the Mac Pro didn't have it's flaw, was equipped with "Windows Ready" driver and costed 20%-30% less than the same PC with equivalent specs I would have took one hands down.
Then take one. A December 2013 story breaks down what it'd cost to build an equivalent Windows PC. Add the price of labor and support, and it might actually be 30 percent more than a comparable Mac Pro.
I am surprised that Weird Al hasn't been so suppressed.
He has. How many parodies of songs by Prince are included on "Weird Al" Yankovic's albums? None. The closest he comes are a single line at the end of the first verse of "Amish Paradise" and a line in the second chorus of "Word Crimes".
Google, etc. should take the requester to court to get an order prohibiting the requester from sending any future request without an affidavit declaring that they have done "due diligence."
Each notice of claimed infringement under OCILLA is supposed to already include such an affidavit. Universal's former parent company has already been in trouble for this.
Maybe they learn how to write a spider/crawler next time.
Sony and Marvel might have a problem with that.
All I got was something called Lorem Ipsum.
I imagine type geeks might be interested in a film adaptation of M. T. Cicero's On the Ends of Good and Evil .
But how would it play out? Would it become a drama with characters who act in ways that represent Epicureanism and Stoicism and then show where those philosophies fail?
Protecting people's intellectual property doesn't really count as censorship.
There is a border between the two, and copyright owners often disagree with reusers where that border is. For example, under what circumstances does using excerpts of a work in reviews of that work become infringement? If this is not considered carefully, copyright ends up giving a work's copyright owner power to censor negative reviews.
all the disparate laws with so many differences you deceptively lump together as "intellectual property " do have one thing in common : they all have limitations that make them temporary.
Patents expire after twenty years, exclusive rights in "mask works" (integrated circuit layouts) after ten. As for the rest, where did you get that information? Trademark registrations are indefinitely renewable as long as the mark remains in use, and the U.S. copyright term is routinely extended for 20 years at a time (Copyright Act of 1976; Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998; ruled constitutional by SCOTUS in Eldred v. Ashcroft, 2003).
Yet, their automated tools say I'm infringing, I guess on myself?
Did the automated tools specify an artist and title, or did they just say "contains music"?
Without Xfinity, which shares a corporate parent with Universal Pictures, how will Google reach much of the United States market?
My point is that dedicated amateurs can turn binaries into what the GPL calls "source code". You're correct that if there were no copyright, there could be no copyleft as we know it. But the objective of copyleft, namely ensuring users' continued ability to improve free software, would be met through these commented disassemblies.
This is why a free operating system for a mobile phone would need to be collected into a "distribution" just as one for a PC. In a world without locked bootloaders and undocumented chipsets, there would be a few distributions of Replicant OS that one could install on any given phone to replace the pack-in operating system.
The FSF and RMS in particular never advocated for freedom for hardware.
Other than the "Respects Your Freedom" certification program, which lets computer hardware makers designate their products as compatible with free software.
if copyright law went away entirely [...] GPL licensing would collapse to completely permissive licensing.
If copyright law went away entirely, it would also become lawful to produce and distribute commented disassemblies of any proprietary program. A "commented disassembly" is created when a person takes executable code, figures out how it works, and transforms it into a preferred form for making modifications. This already happens underground: look for "SMBDis" on RomHacking.net.
So why hasn't GnuTLS gained more traction? Do developers of applications that use TLS see something wrong with the LGPL?
But GPL means,"If you use my stuff, you can't charge for your stuff
I could explain everything that's false about that statement, but I'll let the FSF explain in the essay titled "Selling Free Software".
Do you know of ANY hardware manufacturer who SELLS their drivers to people???
I remember reading horror stories somewhere about Creative Labs distributing only patches through the Internet. The full driver was available only on the original disc, and replacements cost money. In addition, third-party drivers for well-known input devices may cost money, such as drivers to use the Wii Remote and Dual Shock 3 controller with an Android device.
No, we found one bull. Just as there are proponents of /etc/hosts as a component of layered security other than APK, I don't think sexconker is the only bull here.
I have asked about video games a few times, and the most common reply has been to make the engine free and the assets proprietary. Assets include anything that is not legally a "computer program", such as textures, meshes, maps, and audio. Several first-person shooters from Id Software have gone to this model a few years after release.
When you say you're "pro-copyleft" you're implicitly saying you're pro-copyright
Being "pro-copyright" doesn't necessarily mean supporting the status quo of present copyright law, including inability to follow ownership throughout the entire copyright term and anti-circumvention provisions that make interoperability legally risky.
Well, other than the idiotic "invite only" policy?
Google's field trial lasted three months, after which it opened to the public. When Facebook started, only college students were eligible, and this lasted ten times as long as Google's field trial.
Google +'s number one problem is that it required a gmail address.
Since when? Somehow I ended up with two Google accounts, one with Gmail and one with a different email address. And it was the non-Gmail one, which I had been using with YouTube, that got a Google+ profile attached to it.