I think that Star Wrek: In the Pirkinning does that on both fronts (at least compared to other Star Trek movies lol), though the acting is painful. But if 6 people can spend $20k or so at home and do THAT, then you ought to be able to do a decent movie for $15 Million no problem - spend 99% of the money on decent actors and you're good to go.
Advertise it to the people that don't know which end of a computer is up, as something they can't possibly make a mistake on (and "low power" and "all the software you'll ever need, built-in"), and you'd have a good-sized market, almost instantly.
Haven't they done this multiple times before - say like the iOpener or WebTV? Why has it never taken off?
Laptops can connect to outlets too, but unlike desktops, they have their own battery in case no external power supplies are available, and that's an advantage, because no matter how bad a laptop's battery is, desktops don't even have one to compete.
That's interesting, my desktop does - it's called a UPS. Still cost less than a comparable laptop for power and storage.
Laptops can connect to desktop keyboards and mice too, but unlike desktops, they have their own input devices in case nothing better is available, and that's an advantage, because no matter how bad the builtin laptop's keyboard or touchpad is, desktops don't have them to compete.
I don't know about you, but most people consider a desktop the package that it comes in - which in all but fringe cases includes a monitor and keyboard and mouse. It may also include a printer (which no laptop I've see has) and speakers (which are usually better than the tiny ones laptops come in).
This argument is all semantics - who in their right mind would consider a headless machine a desktop?
Portable hard drives are the solution for your storage problem, and unlike desktop hard drives, they are portable. And again usually cost from 30-40% more than the comparable internal drive, and are slower. Oh, and many low level programs don't work on them, so you can't eaisly diagnose them or run recovery software. And moving multiple external drives pretty much isn't convienient, so it might be practical to carry around ONE with a laptop - but then you need a plug in power source. Mmmm. Or an even more expensive, smaller USB powered drive. I only need One plug to my "desktop" (if you only consider the case) yet I have 5 HDs. I'd need at least 5 plugs for my laptop, and then I wouldn't have any USB ports open, and the file access would be slower.
Laptops can connect to DSL, Cable, ISDN, and Dial-Up too, but unlike desktops, they also have the ability to connect to the Internet from anywhere as long as wireless services are available. and this is an advantage, because it doesn't matter how bad their connectivity outdoors is, desktops have nothing to compete.
You know, oddly enough, I have a desktop that does have wireless. I've seen several desktops that have wireless. And I can add it eaisly to any desktop I want for a small fee.
I'm sorry, but there are certainly people who have no reason to buy a laptop - or people like me who get the best of both worlds by doing 2 things. Putting money into a nice desktop system, with a VPN and VNC.
And get a cheapo laptop, with the VPN and VNC. One laptop that can carry along with me, play movies on, do word processing and access the net with. And a near instant connection to my desktop with VNC for the heavy lifting.
I'm pretty sure this whole thing has absolutely nothing to od with pedophiles or child porn. The study in question is trying to figure out how many childern view porn online - of any kind, but I'm guessing mostly the normal 18+ variety.
Though how google searches are going to help them with this, I'm not really sure. Google doesn't ask you your age prior to letting you run a search.
And I also want to say, for instance http://www.fanfiction.net/ - how much bigger would this be if it wasn't mostly grey/illegial? Why do people put so much effort into it (spend some time there, there are some works that are both novel length, and good) for no possibility of reward?
And for many projects, I don't see why the model that's been working for freenet for instance wouldn't work - that is show a monthly amount needed to continue working on a project and ask for donations.
Plus, there will always be a market for physical incarnations of content. See various books by shakespeare or such. People still buy them. Of course, just providing a disc won't be enough unless you want to bill like the linux burning sites do ($2 a disk, including S&H). But cover art and official lyrics, and other cool stuff - boxed sets might do it.
And to people who say that that all is fine for books, but won't work for movies - see various fan star trek productions like the parody Star Wrek, or even the New Voyages covered on/. before. I mean, Star Wrek offers a DVD, but also offers a high quality torrent of it. They are making money, but can't be totally motivated by money, or wouldn't provide the torrent.
And I still think that piracy helps (as advertising) far more than any of the **AA's want to admit. I keep coming back to the bands (some major) who wanted to release some/all tracks of an album online before release (Offspring IIRC, did Arctic Monkeys do this also?).
Now, all of this is anectadotal of course, but I wish more artists/authors (not industry reps, as we really can't believe them) would release some information - especially the non label artists/authors.
Currently - not so much. But it's getting bigger - Opera is moving to torrent distribution, and of course there's World of Warcraft patches. Not to mention many small sites that use torrents to distribute their content - say AutoPatcher (I think that's legal).
For legal, authorized content, it seems like it might be a no brainer. I mean, they can't ever get worse performance then they would have with HTTP, and often will get better (assuming they maintain a seed on their "big pipe").
OTOH, if ISPs continue to throttle torrents, then it may kill it for legal content too.
www.ajb.org/ny looks the same as the main site for me... Just limits to NY results. I wasn't aware of how the zipcode search worked exactly - putting in my zip seems to give me stuff that's in the 3 big cities around where I live.
What confuses me is why the netscape plugin API didn't (IIRC) have all the problems of ActiveX? I mean, I can run flash in Opera just fine, it certainly isn't ActiveX.
Plus, there's always java applets for OS interaction, which work across all the browsers on windows, and can also (depending on your goal of course) work on other OSs. Not to say it's more secure per se, they both at this point pop up a dialog to grant more permissions, but it certainly would standardize things more in not needing 2 versions of every os thingy for devs (unless they are going to stay IE only, which looks more and more precarious every day).
Nope. I really don't care if source is open or closed. I just care how well, or not, the product works. As I'll have to have IE7 eventually, I'll likely take a look at it. However, it has a lot of hurdles to pass to convince me it's better than my current browser.
It will have to be skinable and customizable - I really will want to get rid of the stupid half a tab thingy, and add a proper New button in the main bar for new tabs. I'd also like to edit keyboard shortcuts so ctrl-n gives me a new blank tab, and ctrl-alt-n gives me a duplicate of the current page in the background.
America's Job Bank seems to be pretty good, specifically their subsidiary state sites. Postal Code is the generic international term for what we call a zip code.
This is the first I've ever heard of looking up a recruiter as an employee rather than an employer. How does one do this, and does it cost money? Any good links for reading?
This makes me wonder, have companies started applying any of the data analysis tools we have to sift through the resumes they get? Or are they just grabbing the first 100 they get and doing what they used to do in the 70's?
How do they deal with actually getting, if not the best applicant, at least one in the upper 50% of resumes they recieve?
Which to me speaks to a design flaw in windows so far - I lay it at the registry. No other OS that I'm aware of gets progressivly slower and less stable based on the number of programs you install, only the amount that is running at a given time.
Now, I don't exactly know what virtual folders were supposed to be, bt I'm pretty sure you can get them as collections in Directory Opus. What's sad is that if MS included them in the file system, and allowed them to work like hardlinks, it could be very useful.
FYI, you're basically proposing a 1+1+1... system, rather than the 14+14 you mentioned earlier. I like granularity too, but I think that 2-5 years is probably a good number.
Yeah, I wasn't particularily clear. I meant I could live with 14+14, but would much prefer something like what was described below. I just don't think anyone would ever go for the suggested ideal system, as it's much more public domain biased than anything else I've seen suggested. The quick increase of fees is pretty harsh.
That would still be unconstitutional. The term has to have an end date, even with renewals. It can't potentially go on forever.
Well - eventually - somewhere at year 15 or so, the renewal fee would be more than the converted currencies existing in the world. So, based on the 1998 interpretation, it does have an implied limit, if not a set ending one (ie, copyright could extend to forever-1 and be constitutional, well, this is pretty much guaranteed to have a top end limit of 14 years or so). Though, again, to make it letter of the law, I don't see any reason it can't be set at a maximum of 14 years or some top end date.
Realistically, I want a couple general frameworks
* Copyright is practically limited - something created during my lifetime has a reasonable chance to pass into the public domain durning my lifetime.
* Copyright must require active steps by the copyrighter, and some authoritative record of who has copyright on something, and when it expires. No more imposible to license products cause you can't find the copyright holders. Items without notice when published are not copyrighted.
* A system that encourages companies (and individuals) to relinquish copyright on non economically valuable properties.
* A system that charges sufficient fees to pay for its mandate, but not ones so high to impose a barrier to entry.
Again, some tweaking of my ideal system could probably bring it closer to mainstream, but IP businesses would never let it pass.
Personally, I think shorter copyright terms would be great - stop making creative works a lottery, and make them a job like any thing else. No other profession gets paid over and over again for one unit of work - why should creative professionals?
I've said this before, but I think we need to shorten copyrights to no more than 14 years + 14 years (and that seems really long to me, but possible), require registration and markings to get copyright protection.
Another method that seems workable to me to both encourage shorter copyrights while allowing longer ones if economically viable is a system of short term copyrights with extensions possible indefinately for an increasing fee.
To protect somewhat from the problems the shorter dates might cause, implement a system like the patent system offers - that is you can get a "pre-copyright" protection on works for a nominal fee of say $100, that lasts till the date of publish. Of course, to get this, you must send in electronic copies of your work as it progresses, say once every six months. If you stop working on it, then the protection expires - you must actively be working towards publishing your work to get protection.
Say, For the first year from publish date, you can get copyright for just noting (c) on the work somewhere and registering with a non DRMed copy dropped off at the library of congress. For the second year, all you have to do is fill out a short online or paper form and pay $1 $10 for the second renewal for year 3 $100 for the third renewal for year 4 $1,000 for the fourth renewal for year 5 $10,000 for the fifth renewal for year 6 $100,000 for the sixth renewal for year 7 $1,000,000 for the seventh renewal for year 8 and so on.
Because works have to be registered with a central database, it would be trivial to create a system to know for sure (without many legal fees and years of looking) if a work was copyrighted, and to who. This would both allow an easy way to know if it's public domain, and allow quick contact if copyrighted for setting up a license.
Plus, the copyright fees would likely pay for the system, as I'd bet many of the big companies would go out to 8 or 9 years, and not have a problem paying those fees for the amount they made on the big products. Even moreso, you'd probably end up with additional revenue to spend either in the general fund, or maybe towards artistic grants or enforcing the new system.
The best part is that for the first 2-3 years when works sell the most, it's pretty trivial to pay to protect them. For properties that are seriously worth the money, companies can pay to keep control. But eventually, within a lifetime, rather than out in the indefinite future, everything will go to public domain. Even Mickey Mouse would have to pass after 12 or so years, cause the fee becomes too much.
And in our modern media world of mixing for new content - things like 8bit theater, or even just old fan fiction would be better served (and things like the grey album) by having shorter copyright. Our current laws, and now the DRM being proposed to enforce them is just stifiling our economy and our culture.
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I think that Star Wrek: In the Pirkinning does that on both fronts (at least compared to other Star Trek movies lol), though the acting is painful. But if 6 people can spend $20k or so at home and do THAT, then you ought to be able to do a decent movie for $15 Million no problem - spend 99% of the money on decent actors and you're good to go.
Advertise it to the people that don't know which end of a computer is up, as something they can't possibly make a mistake on (and "low power" and "all the software you'll ever need, built-in"), and you'd have a good-sized market, almost instantly.
Haven't they done this multiple times before - say like the iOpener or WebTV? Why has it never taken off?
Laptops can connect to outlets too, but unlike desktops, they have their own battery in case no external power supplies are available, and that's an advantage, because no matter how bad a laptop's battery is, desktops don't even have one to compete.
That's interesting, my desktop does - it's called a UPS. Still cost less than a comparable laptop for power and storage.
Laptops can connect to desktop keyboards and mice too, but unlike desktops, they have their own input devices in case nothing better is available, and that's an advantage, because no matter how bad the builtin laptop's keyboard or touchpad is, desktops don't have them to compete.
I don't know about you, but most people consider a desktop the package that it comes in - which in all but fringe cases includes a monitor and keyboard and mouse. It may also include a printer (which no laptop I've see has) and speakers (which are usually better than the tiny ones laptops come in).
This argument is all semantics - who in their right mind would consider a headless machine a desktop?
Portable hard drives are the solution for your storage problem, and unlike desktop hard drives, they are portable.
And again usually cost from 30-40% more than the comparable internal drive, and are slower. Oh, and many low level programs don't work on them, so you can't eaisly diagnose them or run recovery software. And moving multiple external drives pretty much isn't convienient, so it might be practical to carry around ONE with a laptop - but then you need a plug in power source. Mmmm. Or an even more expensive, smaller USB powered drive. I only need One plug to my "desktop" (if you only consider the case) yet I have 5 HDs. I'd need at least 5 plugs for my laptop, and then I wouldn't have any USB ports open, and the file access would be slower.
Laptops can connect to DSL, Cable, ISDN, and Dial-Up too, but unlike desktops, they also have the ability to connect to the Internet from anywhere as long as wireless services are available. and this is an advantage, because it doesn't matter how bad their connectivity outdoors is, desktops have nothing to compete.
You know, oddly enough, I have a desktop that does have wireless. I've seen several desktops that have wireless. And I can add it eaisly to any desktop I want for a small fee.
I'm sorry, but there are certainly people who have no reason to buy a laptop - or people like me who get the best of both worlds by doing 2 things. Putting money into a nice desktop system, with a VPN and VNC.
And get a cheapo laptop, with the VPN and VNC. One laptop that can carry along with me, play movies on, do word processing and access the net with. And a near instant connection to my desktop with VNC for the heavy lifting.
I'm pretty sure this whole thing has absolutely nothing to od with pedophiles or child porn. The study in question is trying to figure out how many childern view porn online - of any kind, but I'm guessing mostly the normal 18+ variety.
Though how google searches are going to help them with this, I'm not really sure. Google doesn't ask you your age prior to letting you run a search.
Isn't this the same argument about not pirating music? If you're in it for money, you're in it for the wrong reasons.
Although, it seems somewhat depressing that you should not ever expect to be able to make money doing what you love.
I don't really get the mathematics - why is this more anonymous than, say, Freenet? Because it uses more data?
What I meant is I think as long as you keep it within the house/family/company - you can use the GPLed code any way you want - no restrictions at all.
Yeah, if it actually existed publically yet. Get back to me when there is a download link.
And I also want to say, for instance http://www.fanfiction.net/ - how much bigger would this be if it wasn't mostly grey/illegial? Why do people put so much effort into it (spend some time there, there are some works that are both novel length, and good) for no possibility of reward?
/. before. I mean, Star Wrek offers a DVD, but also offers a high quality torrent of it. They are making money, but can't be totally motivated by money, or wouldn't provide the torrent.
And for many projects, I don't see why the model that's been working for freenet for instance wouldn't work - that is show a monthly amount needed to continue working on a project and ask for donations.
Plus, there will always be a market for physical incarnations of content. See various books by shakespeare or such. People still buy them. Of course, just providing a disc won't be enough unless you want to bill like the linux burning sites do ($2 a disk, including S&H). But cover art and official lyrics, and other cool stuff - boxed sets might do it.
And to people who say that that all is fine for books, but won't work for movies - see various fan star trek productions like the parody Star Wrek, or even the New Voyages covered on
And I still think that piracy helps (as advertising) far more than any of the **AA's want to admit. I keep coming back to the bands (some major) who wanted to release some/all tracks of an album online before release (Offspring IIRC, did Arctic Monkeys do this also?).
I also keep remembering this post: http://www.baen.com/library/palaver6.htm
Now, all of this is anectadotal of course, but I wish more artists/authors (not industry reps, as we really can't believe them) would release some information - especially the non label artists/authors.
What's even more amusing is that's also within the bulk range for blank DVDs.
Currently - not so much. But it's getting bigger - Opera is moving to torrent distribution, and of course there's World of Warcraft patches. Not to mention many small sites that use torrents to distribute their content - say AutoPatcher (I think that's legal).
For legal, authorized content, it seems like it might be a no brainer. I mean, they can't ever get worse performance then they would have with HTTP, and often will get better (assuming they maintain a seed on their "big pipe").
OTOH, if ISPs continue to throttle torrents, then it may kill it for legal content too.
I'm pretty sure the GPL doesn't prevent personal copying/redistribution of altered source code.
www.ajb.org/ny looks the same as the main site for me... Just limits to NY results. I wasn't aware of how the zipcode search worked exactly - putting in my zip seems to give me stuff that's in the 3 big cities around where I live.
What confuses me is why the netscape plugin API didn't (IIRC) have all the problems of ActiveX? I mean, I can run flash in Opera just fine, it certainly isn't ActiveX.
Plus, there's always java applets for OS interaction, which work across all the browsers on windows, and can also (depending on your goal of course) work on other OSs. Not to say it's more secure per se, they both at this point pop up a dialog to grant more permissions, but it certainly would standardize things more in not needing 2 versions of every os thingy for devs (unless they are going to stay IE only, which looks more and more precarious every day).
Nope. I really don't care if source is open or closed. I just care how well, or not, the product works. As I'll have to have IE7 eventually, I'll likely take a look at it. However, it has a lot of hurdles to pass to convince me it's better than my current browser.
It will have to be skinable and customizable - I really will want to get rid of the stupid half a tab thingy, and add a proper New button in the main bar for new tabs. I'd also like to edit keyboard shortcuts so ctrl-n gives me a new blank tab, and ctrl-alt-n gives me a duplicate of the current page in the background.
America's Job Bank seems to be pretty good, specifically their subsidiary state sites. Postal Code is the generic international term for what we call a zip code.
This is the first I've ever heard of looking up a recruiter as an employee rather than an employer. How does one do this, and does it cost money? Any good links for reading?
This makes me wonder, have companies started applying any of the data analysis tools we have to sift through the resumes they get? Or are they just grabbing the first 100 they get and doing what they used to do in the 70's?
How do they deal with actually getting, if not the best applicant, at least one in the upper 50% of resumes they recieve?
Which to me speaks to a design flaw in windows so far - I lay it at the registry. No other OS that I'm aware of gets progressivly slower and less stable based on the number of programs you install, only the amount that is running at a given time.
Now, I don't exactly know what virtual folders were supposed to be, bt I'm pretty sure you can get them as collections in Directory Opus. What's sad is that if MS included them in the file system, and allowed them to work like hardlinks, it could be very useful.
I2P might fit in here as it encourages P2P. Who knows where Freenet is going with v0.7 too, sounds more like I2P.
FYI, you're basically proposing a 1+1+1... system, rather than the 14+14 you mentioned earlier. I like granularity too, but I think that 2-5 years is probably a good number.
Yeah, I wasn't particularily clear. I meant I could live with 14+14, but would much prefer something like what was described below. I just don't think anyone would ever go for the suggested ideal system, as it's much more public domain biased than anything else I've seen suggested. The quick increase of fees is pretty harsh.
That would still be unconstitutional. The term has to have an end date, even with renewals. It can't potentially go on forever.
Well - eventually - somewhere at year 15 or so, the renewal fee would be more than the converted currencies existing in the world. So, based on the 1998 interpretation, it does have an implied limit, if not a set ending one (ie, copyright could extend to forever-1 and be constitutional, well, this is pretty much guaranteed to have a top end limit of 14 years or so). Though, again, to make it letter of the law, I don't see any reason it can't be set at a maximum of 14 years or some top end date.
Realistically, I want a couple general frameworks
* Copyright is practically limited - something created during my lifetime has a reasonable chance to pass into the public domain durning my lifetime.
* Copyright must require active steps by the copyrighter, and some authoritative record of who has copyright on something, and when it expires. No more imposible to license products cause you can't find the copyright holders. Items without notice when published are not copyrighted.
* A system that encourages companies (and individuals) to relinquish copyright on non economically valuable properties.
* A system that charges sufficient fees to pay for its mandate, but not ones so high to impose a barrier to entry.
Again, some tweaking of my ideal system could probably bring it closer to mainstream, but IP businesses would never let it pass.
But you could open up a whole market selling digital copies of literary "day old bread"...
Personally, I think shorter copyright terms would be great - stop making creative works a lottery, and make them a job like any thing else. No other profession gets paid over and over again for one unit of work - why should creative professionals?
I've said this before, but I think we need to shorten copyrights to no more than 14 years + 14 years (and that seems really long to me, but possible), require registration and markings to get copyright protection.
Another method that seems workable to me to both encourage shorter copyrights while allowing longer ones if economically viable is a system of short term copyrights with extensions possible indefinately for an increasing fee.
To protect somewhat from the problems the shorter dates might cause, implement a system like the patent system offers - that is you can get a "pre-copyright" protection on works for a nominal fee of say $100, that lasts till the date of publish. Of course, to get this, you must send in electronic copies of your work as it progresses, say once every six months. If you stop working on it, then the protection expires - you must actively be working towards publishing your work to get protection.
Say, For the first year from publish date, you can get copyright for just noting (c) on the work somewhere and registering with a non DRMed copy dropped off at the library of congress.
For the second year, all you have to do is fill out a short online or paper form and pay $1
$10 for the second renewal for year 3
$100 for the third renewal for year 4
$1,000 for the fourth renewal for year 5
$10,000 for the fifth renewal for year 6
$100,000 for the sixth renewal for year 7
$1,000,000 for the seventh renewal for year 8
and so on.
Because works have to be registered with a central database, it would be trivial to create a system to know for sure (without many legal fees and years of looking) if a work was copyrighted, and to who. This would both allow an easy way to know if it's public domain, and allow quick contact if copyrighted for setting up a license.
Plus, the copyright fees would likely pay for the system, as I'd bet many of the big companies would go out to 8 or 9 years, and not have a problem paying those fees for the amount they made on the big products. Even moreso, you'd probably end up with additional revenue to spend either in the general fund, or maybe towards artistic grants or enforcing the new system.
The best part is that for the first 2-3 years when works sell the most, it's pretty trivial to pay to protect them. For properties that are seriously worth the money, companies can pay to keep control. But eventually, within a lifetime, rather than out in the indefinite future, everything will go to public domain. Even Mickey Mouse would have to pass after 12 or so years, cause the fee becomes too much.
And in our modern media world of mixing for new content - things like 8bit theater, or even just old fan fiction would be better served (and things like the grey album) by having shorter copyright. Our current laws, and now the DRM being proposed to enforce them is just stifiling our economy and our culture.