What he doesn't have (after the copyright expires) is the right to deny somebody else copying it.
What he no longer has is the (exclusive) ability to make money from the creation by denying others the right to copy it. In my opinion, this is the point that the anti-copyright people miss.
Intellectual property is one of those issues where it's important to balance the ability of artists to get paid against society's interest in distributing their works. Some reasonable balance would be best--right now the pendulum seems to be on the side of the copyright holders. But the slashdot zealotry on both sides ("music wants to be free" vs. "artists are starving") isn't helpful
This is a Government Thing, like the noun, descriptor naming conventions
When I was in the Army, I had a really, really green 2nd Lt. tell me that he wanted a drawing of the company arms room (armory) that showed where everything was located. I tried to talk him out of it, as it was a 15x30 room with open racks that were all visible from anywhere in the room and a single set of locked cabinets. He insisted.
So I painstakingly drew up a "map" of the room using all the correct terminology: rack, weapons, upright rifle holding, M-16/M203; rack, weapons, upright pistol holding, M-9; desk, field portable
When the captain came by and asked me what I was working on, I showed him and got my revenge.:-)
I think there are still a lot of people out there who have one of those "real lives" with "real friends" that don't require them to post lots of useless crap about themselves (though there is certainly no shortage of egoistic loons posting their every "deep thought") or to read random crap written by people they barely know.
I've been on FaceBook a total of maybe an hour since I signed up (at the urging of an old high-school friend) and I just don't see any value. I don't really care that some guy whose cousin once dated the sister of a girl I knew in grade school is watching American Idol. And I'm not interested in "befriending" some third-rate "actor" because we once lived in the same town.
Whether the "something better" is another site, or just an actual real life, I'm betting that FaceBook isn't the be-all, end-all of socialization.
The counter point to "...blinding themselves to new information due to its source..." is: "Those who refuse to learn from history (or in this case, past experience) are doomed to repeat it (or get screwed again)."
Or more succinctly: fool me once, shame on MicroSoft. Fool me twice, shame on me.
What's even better is that in L.A. county they have to post a notice in a "conspicuous place" that has the rating. When they first implemented it, I was amazed at what motivation the little placard with an "A" on it (as opposed to a "B" or "C") provided--several seedy joints were surprisingly cleaner.
I'd point out that your defense of rails is just as silly as the parent's attack. "Tons of successful rails deployments" adds exactly zero datapoints to the argument.
And I'm not going to accept the statement of the Twitter folks that they would use rails again as some kind of argument in favor: a) they've failed, so their decision-making record isn't stellar and b) obviously they're going to defend their decision, since saying "Oh, we screwed up" is practically unheard of these days.
This isn't a troll (really!) I'm just pointing out that I think you and the parent are not really having a productive discussion of the merits/demerits of rails. (Though what do I expect, this is/. after all):-)
I think the point is that users who are planning on downgrading to XP have to cough up more money for the "Super Mondo Ultimate Mega" version of Vista. If they're not using Vista anyway, why can't they downgrade from the "Plain Vanilla Generic" Vista license?
MS profits from selling the pricier version of Vista and the OEM profits from the downgrade fee. What's not to love?
It is easier to figure out that the President is in White House or at public rallies (or "town meetings") than which car he's in in the motorcade, but those stationary locations are also easier to secure. It's pretty hard to sneak a weapon into those places and an attack against them with anything less than an airliner isn't going to be terribly effective.
On the other hand, if you can hit him with an IED and a couple AT4s while he's in the Presidential Limo, you've got a better chance of actually doing him harm.
However, I agree that this is an unlikely scenario. Most presidential would-be assassins of recent years have been mentally unbalanced. It doesn't strike me as likely that Hinkley or Moore would have been smart enough to come up with or pull off a plan involving explosives.
I have bad news for you if you're planning on coming back: SJO has used those stairways ever since I can remember--it has nothing to do with the construction. When I moved up here in 1999 they pushed one of those up to the plane when we got off and I was pretty surprised.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes it is!
Me too! (Or myself as well to get by the lameness filter)
I was with you right up to
What he no longer has is the (exclusive) ability to make money from the creation by denying others the right to copy it. In my opinion, this is the point that the anti-copyright people miss.
Intellectual property is one of those issues where it's important to balance the ability of artists to get paid against society's interest in distributing their works. Some reasonable balance would be best--right now the pendulum seems to be on the side of the copyright holders. But the slashdot zealotry on both sides ("music wants to be free" vs. "artists are starving") isn't helpful
Or snacks.
The officer holds out a bag of munchies and if you can't resist, you're in the pokey.
So Colorado's OIT hired Ozymandias?
This is a Government Thing, like the noun, descriptor naming conventions
When I was in the Army, I had a really, really green 2nd Lt. tell me that he wanted a drawing of the company arms room (armory) that showed where everything was located. I tried to talk him out of it, as it was a 15x30 room with open racks that were all visible from anywhere in the room and a single set of locked cabinets. He insisted.
So I painstakingly drew up a "map" of the room using all the correct terminology: rack, weapons, upright rifle holding, M-16/M203; rack, weapons, upright pistol holding, M-9; desk, field portable
When the captain came by and asked me what I was working on, I showed him and got my revenge. :-)
Mod parent "-1 Too much information"
Something better?
I think there are still a lot of people out there who have one of those "real lives" with "real friends" that don't require them to post lots of useless crap about themselves (though there is certainly no shortage of egoistic loons posting their every "deep thought") or to read random crap written by people they barely know.
I've been on FaceBook a total of maybe an hour since I signed up (at the urging of an old high-school friend) and I just don't see any value. I don't really care that some guy whose cousin once dated the sister of a girl I knew in grade school is watching American Idol. And I'm not interested in "befriending" some third-rate "actor" because we once lived in the same town.
Whether the "something better" is another site, or just an actual real life, I'm betting that FaceBook isn't the be-all, end-all of socialization.
Your personal underpants gnomes?
Duke Nukem Forever, here we come!
How do you get radar to fit under dogs, and how can a Linux company fit under the radar that's under the dog? :-)
The counter point to "...blinding themselves to new information due to its source..." is: "Those who refuse to learn from history (or in this case, past experience) are doomed to repeat it (or get screwed again)."
Or more succinctly: fool me once, shame on MicroSoft. Fool me twice, shame on me.
What's even better is that in L.A. county they have to post a notice in a "conspicuous place" that has the rating. When they first implemented it, I was amazed at what motivation the little placard with an "A" on it (as opposed to a "B" or "C") provided--several seedy joints were surprisingly cleaner.
I'd point out that your defense of rails is just as silly as the parent's attack. "Tons of successful rails deployments" adds exactly zero datapoints to the argument.
And I'm not going to accept the statement of the Twitter folks that they would use rails again as some kind of argument in favor: a) they've failed, so their decision-making record isn't stellar and b) obviously they're going to defend their decision, since saying "Oh, we screwed up" is practically unheard of these days.
This isn't a troll (really!) I'm just pointing out that I think you and the parent are not really having a productive discussion of the merits/demerits of rails. (Though what do I expect, this is /. after all) :-)
I think that says it all, right there.
They're almost certainly cloning disks, not running the installer from a CD. How is it more difficult to clone an XP CD than a Vista CD?
I think the point is that users who are planning on downgrading to XP have to cough up more money for the "Super Mondo Ultimate Mega" version of Vista. If they're not using Vista anyway, why can't they downgrade from the "Plain Vanilla Generic" Vista license?
MS profits from selling the pricier version of Vista and the OEM profits from the downgrade fee. What's not to love?
Shampoo invented this idea a long time ago
Yogurt, is that you?
It would be BAD
Correlation is not causation.
It is easier to figure out that the President is in White House or at public rallies (or "town meetings") than which car he's in in the motorcade, but those stationary locations are also easier to secure. It's pretty hard to sneak a weapon into those places and an attack against them with anything less than an airliner isn't going to be terribly effective.
On the other hand, if you can hit him with an IED and a couple AT4s while he's in the Presidential Limo, you've got a better chance of actually doing him harm.
However, I agree that this is an unlikely scenario. Most presidential would-be assassins of recent years have been mentally unbalanced. It doesn't strike me as likely that Hinkley or Moore would have been smart enough to come up with or pull off a plan involving explosives.
I was thinking more like malaria. Every time you think you're "better" it's just gone into a quiescent phase--it always comes back.
I have bad news for you if you're planning on coming back: SJO has used those stairways ever since I can remember--it has nothing to do with the construction. When I moved up here in 1999 they pushed one of those up to the plane when we got off and I was pretty surprised.
Wait--do you want more or fewer ISR jokes?
Because in Soviet Russia awful threads joke about you!