The part that bothers me is that for instance, a plumber, or janitor, gets paid $X for Y interval of time of work *once*. Most programmers are the same way AFAIK.
Why would a musician deserve or expect to get paid $X for Y interval of time of work Z times, where Z is an arbitrary number based on people buying something or experiancing something.
Why are musicians "special"? They aren't doing any more work than anyone else. It's just that their work can be reproduced multiple times for x approching the limit of free. But each copy is not more work by the musician. Especially P2P, where the only people doing work are the people sharing the music and their purchased machines.
I agree, that's why I also support the patronage model. I've posted this before, but I don't really feel like looking up my previous post.
The thing that bugs me about IP/copyright law is that for some reason Authors/Artisits/Musicians etc are considered better than the rest of us for some reason.
All these "you should be able to protect your work" or whatever arguments come down in my mind to me going back to my Job where I worked last year and threatening to sue cause they haven't paid me for those weeks *again*!
I mean, I spend hundereds of hours working to collect money owed for said company. Why are my hours only worth being paid for once, but if I spent those hundreds of hours writing a book, I should be paid for those *forever* (well till well after my death anyway)?
It doesn't follow for me. It still comes down to people claiming that copyright is to encourage people to produce more creative works. HOW does it do that? It seem to me that it encourages each person creating *one* work, and trying to re-sell that work in perpetuity.
And then you get into Michael Jackson getting paid for certain Beatles albums. WTF? What work did he do there? It just doesn't make sense. Get paid *once* for your work, like everyone else!
Yes, this will change the entertainment industry. Maybe for better, maybe for worse. But as others have said: right or wrong, 60million people break copyright law in the USA alone. That's about how many people vote for president.
And like prohibition, if a law is ignored by ~40% of the population, you've got some hard choices to make. One, throw a huge portion of your population in Jail(good luck with that one, not practical at all. We can barely afford having the huge ~2% we currently have in Jail). Two, change the law(This is what I think ought to happen). Three, ignore the law(well, I think that is sort of what is happening today. I don't see any Cops going out of their way to find infringers, the RIAA et al have to point them out).
Slashdot also works properly on Opera and I believe Konqurer, hence presto and KHTML. Gecko is the one with the bug, which is/will be fixed depending on how you figure.
Wow. I'm sorry I don't spend the amount of time on slashdot posts that I spend on papers. I didn't realise they were expected to be of any great quality, much less the great American novel!
I recently went to some at Cornell to do research (I don't go to school there - I wish!) and everything was directed back to the computers. Now, granted they had those journal searches, but they were also available online to anyone who had a college account, which most colleges do have. And those programs searching ability was like a blast to the past of 1996 and Altavista! Man I longed for google's ability to find stuff relevant to the terms I typed in.
I also recently went to my college's library, and found that for recent information, it's much easier to use the web than go through the stacks, such as they are. All books are about 2 years old minimum once you get through purchasing etc... And those books are usually written about stuff that happened 2 years before being published. So you will at best get stuff from 2001 here in the library.
So if you want material about newer stuff, you go online. So, journals are all electronic now adays, and web accessible. Books are old. And I've found that with some preserverance you can get as good information off of google as you can from any book.
IDK, I've learned in college that good reports should be about 40% quotes/cited stuff. Basically, if a little less than half of your report isn't someone else's work (properly cited, of course), then you are not writing good research papers...
Funny how that changed from when I was in highschool where if you had more than ~3 sentences cited per page you were likely to get dinged on "cut and paste" report writing - even when cited.
OT: I have to ask where the heck the educators come up with these topics - and better yet, what they hope to get out of it? What do they expect the students to get out of it?
I'm not sure how you can "explore" much of anything in an essay. I always thought of exploring as walking through an area I'd never been in before...
I mean, why not something interesting -
Like: -This topic! -Discuss how foreign policy affects you today. -Discuss the belief that the overall mass media has a bias. Is it true? Why does this belief persist? -Discuss the social factors that cause the current divide in the US. -Is "I think, therefore I am" a compelling argument? Why or why not? -Discuss the merits of Machiavelli's theories in "The Prince". Why does current society seem to reject them?
Although, after further thought, the given topic seems interesting, but I think it would be better worded as:
-How does your culture affect you as an individual? Discuss the relationship you have with that culture, and the influence you might have on it. Compare and contrast your local school culture with the media projected "National Culture" as well as with the "Traditional Culture" of your parents or ethnicity. Do these conflict? Why?
By "writing" do you mean handwriting or quality of prose?
Because I can say I've almost forgotten how to write cursive, and printing is getting difficult. I think I hand write things about 10 times a year, basically when there is an essay on a test, or I have to take a note somewhere.
Everywhere else I type, either on my laptop, use grafitti on my visor, or type on my desktop. I can type much faster, with much less stress on my hands (my hand now cramps up in about 10 seconds doing handwriting).
On the other hand, I have compared my essays that are handwritten vs ones that are typed, and my typed essays are far better. Some of that has to do with not being timed, sure. But it also has to do with being able to easily do corrections with typed papers. I can rearrange paragraphs, sentances and the like to see how it flows best. I can come back a day later, and easily change a word that I've overused with a synonym, or maybe rewrite that entire sentance as it is currently redundant.
I can't do any of that with a handwritten essay. Each change listed above basically requires me to rewrite the entire paper, so I am far less likely to do that.
I'll just touch on the benefits of spell check and the ease of passing around a paper for review when it's on the PC. I'm in buffalo, I regularily have my sister in Ithaca, my cousin in Philadelphia and my friends a dorm over do a proofread of my paper. I can't realistically do that with a handwritten paper.
You know, I tried to read it once, but like many old books, the first few tries died in the extremely boring begat first section, and then some later ones got bogged down in the non modern english. I haven't gotten around to trying again, as The Illian + the Oddessy is on my list before it.
Well, IDK about that, as Dreamweaver and GoLive both use presto (Opera engine) as their built in preview renderer. So my guess is that they'd try and generate code that won't look like shit in the built in preview.
You might not, but Imagine if the rest of the world decided that the latin alphabet ought to be banned on the web because of some (hypothetical)phishing attack, so you had to learn to type URLs in crillic or Chinese... It's rather ethnocentric, and untenable for a world wide service
As an evangalist who thinks that using lynx is better than IE, have you tried the Seamonky suite or Opera? I think that would be a better idea than using IE again.
mmm, It's a big deal to me. It's faster to open a new tab vs a new window, at least a new IE window. Also, I can middle click a link to open it in the background. Very handy, and much better than right clicking and going down a menu!
mmm, Have you tried any of the other browsers? I for one leave Opera up all the time for days. Porn sites are one of the category of sites I WILL NOT use IE on.
But, also, why would a bank's java applet even need more prividledges than the default sandbox? There ought to never even be a dialog with a properly written applet.
Actually Opera has had SSR (Small Screen Rendering) for some time now, hit shift + F11 in 7.54u2 for instance. The betas extend the idea to ERA (extended rendering archetecture) which is supposed to scale the content to any size screen, be it small, medium or big (1600x1200) so you get the best use out of your monitor. I don't think it currently is working at making stuff "bigger" yet though.
Yea, but so what if 2 is old? It does everything I could possibly imagine wanting in a media player. (well, except one thing - changing brightness/contrast on video's)
I don't know about that. More and more (in the past 6 months) web sites I've used have re-designed their interfaces to work in Opera.
Streamload.com, Buffalostate.edu and maps.google.com being noticable examples (and not necessarily ones I would expect).
OTOH, Ameritrade.com just designed their new site to be IE only, and GMail is still a pita so what do I know (I'm trying to figure out how to actually close my account there, I may have to call them).
Oh, I don't know. I could change two words up there and make a similar "common sense" statement that we all know is wrong:
Basing your business model on selling water is not going to make it.
Opera does all right. It's a niche market, but so what? Last I heard Aston Marton does ok also.
And Opera 8 has many people salivating, even non fanboi's.
Other people have pointed this out, but haven't really taken this too far. Opera is pretty big on Mobiles. Mobiles are overtaking desktops for internet accessing devices. Having a huge presence on Mobiles can have a network effect. How many people want Word at home because that's what they use at work? Well, there is a chance that some people might want what they got used to on their cell on their desktop. Especially with younger people.
You know, 3 I get, but I'd be damned if I would let 1 or 2 drive me from my browser. I mean, look - they are competitors in a wide open market of web mail providers which don't work with my browser of choice. I personally find it much easier to type in a different URL in the address bar compared to getting a whole new browser set up and working the way I want (assuming that is possible).
Of course, as I've stated before on/. I strongly believe that e-mail ought to have nothing to do with a webpage.
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The part that bothers me is that for instance, a plumber, or janitor, gets paid $X for Y interval of time of work *once*. Most programmers are the same way AFAIK.
Why would a musician deserve or expect to get paid $X for Y interval of time of work Z times, where Z is an arbitrary number based on people buying something or experiancing something.
Why are musicians "special"? They aren't doing any more work than anyone else. It's just that their work can be reproduced multiple times for x approching the limit of free. But each copy is not more work by the musician. Especially P2P, where the only people doing work are the people sharing the music and their purchased machines.
I agree, that's why I also support the patronage model. I've posted this before, but I don't really feel like looking up my previous post.
The thing that bugs me about IP/copyright law is that for some reason Authors/Artisits/Musicians etc are considered better than the rest of us for some reason.
All these "you should be able to protect your work" or whatever arguments come down in my mind to me going back to my Job where I worked last year and threatening to sue cause they haven't paid me for those weeks *again*!
I mean, I spend hundereds of hours working to collect money owed for said company. Why are my hours only worth being paid for once, but if I spent those hundreds of hours writing a book, I should be paid for those *forever* (well till well after my death anyway)?
It doesn't follow for me. It still comes down to people claiming that copyright is to encourage people to produce more creative works. HOW does it do that? It seem to me that it encourages each person creating *one* work, and trying to re-sell that work in perpetuity.
And then you get into Michael Jackson getting paid for certain Beatles albums. WTF? What work did he do there? It just doesn't make sense. Get paid *once* for your work, like everyone else!
Yes, this will change the entertainment industry. Maybe for better, maybe for worse. But as others have said: right or wrong, 60million people break copyright law in the USA alone. That's about how many people vote for president.
And like prohibition, if a law is ignored by ~40% of the population, you've got some hard choices to make. One, throw a huge portion of your population in Jail(good luck with that one, not practical at all. We can barely afford having the huge ~2% we currently have in Jail). Two, change the law(This is what I think ought to happen). Three, ignore the law(well, I think that is sort of what is happening today. I don't see any Cops going out of their way to find infringers, the RIAA et al have to point them out).
Slashdot also works properly on Opera and I believe Konqurer, hence presto and KHTML. Gecko is the one with the bug, which is/will be fixed depending on how you figure.
Wow. I'm sorry I don't spend the amount of time on slashdot posts that I spend on papers. I didn't realise they were expected to be of any great quality, much less the great American novel!
You haven't been to libraries lately, have you?
I recently went to some at Cornell to do research (I don't go to school there - I wish!) and everything was directed back to the computers. Now, granted they had those journal searches, but they were also available online to anyone who had a college account, which most colleges do have. And those programs searching ability was like a blast to the past of 1996 and Altavista! Man I longed for google's ability to find stuff relevant to the terms I typed in.
I also recently went to my college's library, and found that for recent information, it's much easier to use the web than go through the stacks, such as they are. All books are about 2 years old minimum once you get through purchasing etc... And those books are usually written about stuff that happened 2 years before being published. So you will at best get stuff from 2001 here in the library.
So if you want material about newer stuff, you go online. So, journals are all electronic now adays, and web accessible. Books are old. And I've found that with some preserverance you can get as good information off of google as you can from any book.
IDK, I've learned in college that good reports should be about 40% quotes/cited stuff. Basically, if a little less than half of your report isn't someone else's work (properly cited, of course), then you are not writing good research papers...
Funny how that changed from when I was in highschool where if you had more than ~3 sentences cited per page you were likely to get dinged on "cut and paste" report writing - even when cited.
OT: I have to ask where the heck the educators come up with these topics - and better yet, what they hope to get out of it? What do they expect the students to get out of it?
...
I'm not sure how you can "explore" much of anything in an essay. I always thought of exploring as walking through an area I'd never been in before
I mean, why not something interesting -
Like:
-This topic!
-Discuss how foreign policy affects you today.
-Discuss the belief that the overall mass media has a bias. Is it true? Why does this belief persist?
-Discuss the social factors that cause the current divide in the US.
-Is "I think, therefore I am" a compelling argument? Why or why not?
-Discuss the merits of Machiavelli's theories in "The Prince". Why does current society seem to reject them?
Although, after further thought, the given topic seems interesting, but I think it would be better worded as:
-How does your culture affect you as an individual? Discuss the relationship you have with that culture, and the influence you might have on it. Compare and contrast your local school culture with the media projected "National Culture" as well as with the "Traditional Culture" of your parents or ethnicity. Do these conflict? Why?
Mmmm.
By "writing" do you mean handwriting or quality of prose?
Because I can say I've almost forgotten how to write cursive, and printing is getting difficult. I think I hand write things about 10 times a year, basically when there is an essay on a test, or I have to take a note somewhere.
Everywhere else I type, either on my laptop, use grafitti on my visor, or type on my desktop. I can type much faster, with much less stress on my hands (my hand now cramps up in about 10 seconds doing handwriting).
On the other hand, I have compared my essays that are handwritten vs ones that are typed, and my typed essays are far better. Some of that has to do with not being timed, sure. But it also has to do with being able to easily do corrections with typed papers. I can rearrange paragraphs, sentances and the like to see how it flows best. I can come back a day later, and easily change a word that I've overused with a synonym, or maybe rewrite that entire sentance as it is currently redundant.
I can't do any of that with a handwritten essay. Each change listed above basically requires me to rewrite the entire paper, so I am far less likely to do that.
I'll just touch on the benefits of spell check and the ease of passing around a paper for review when it's on the PC. I'm in buffalo, I regularily have my sister in Ithaca, my cousin in Philadelphia and my friends a dorm over do a proofread of my paper. I can't realistically do that with a handwritten paper.
You know, I tried to read it once, but like many old books, the first few tries died in the extremely boring begat first section, and then some later ones got bogged down in the non modern english. I haven't gotten around to trying again, as The Illian + the Oddessy is on my list before it.
I'm not trolling, but I have to admit I don't get RSS. What exactly DOES it do? Why would I want it?
Sounds like yet another client/module that I would have to have running and learn how to use.
Well, IDK about that, as Dreamweaver and GoLive both use presto (Opera engine) as their built in preview renderer. So my guess is that they'd try and generate code that won't look like shit in the built in preview.
You might not, but Imagine if the rest of the world decided that the latin alphabet ought to be banned on the web because of some (hypothetical)phishing attack, so you had to learn to type URLs in crillic or Chinese... It's rather ethnocentric, and untenable for a world wide service
As an evangalist who thinks that using lynx is better than IE, have you tried the Seamonky suite or Opera? I think that would be a better idea than using IE again.
mmm, It's a big deal to me. It's faster to open a new tab vs a new window, at least a new IE window. Also, I can middle click a link to open it in the background. Very handy, and much better than right clicking and going down a menu!
mmm, Have you tried any of the other browsers? I for one leave Opera up all the time for days. Porn sites are one of the category of sites I WILL NOT use IE on.
This is one major reason I use Opera.
But, also, why would a bank's java applet even need more prividledges than the default sandbox? There ought to never even be a dialog with a properly written applet.
What about things like Neverwinter Nights? That have both as possible?
Actually Opera has had SSR (Small Screen Rendering) for some time now, hit shift + F11 in 7.54u2 for instance. The betas extend the idea to ERA (extended rendering archetecture) which is supposed to scale the content to any size screen, be it small, medium or big (1600x1200) so you get the best use out of your monitor. I don't think it currently is working at making stuff "bigger" yet though.
Yea, but so what if 2 is old? It does everything I could possibly imagine wanting in a media player. (well, except one thing - changing brightness/contrast on video's)
I still don't get why you can't just use a Java applet. Or moreso, why you want web apps in the first place.
I don't know about that. More and more (in the past 6 months) web sites I've used have re-designed their interfaces to work in Opera.
Streamload.com, Buffalostate.edu and maps.google.com being noticable examples (and not necessarily ones I would expect).
OTOH, Ameritrade.com just designed their new site to be IE only, and GMail is still a pita so what do I know (I'm trying to figure out how to actually close my account there, I may have to call them).
Oh, I don't know. I could change two words up there and make a similar "common sense" statement that we all know is wrong:
Basing your business model on selling water is not going to make it.
Opera does all right. It's a niche market, but so what? Last I heard Aston Marton does ok also.
And Opera 8 has many people salivating, even non fanboi's.
Other people have pointed this out, but haven't really taken this too far. Opera is pretty big on Mobiles. Mobiles are overtaking desktops for internet accessing devices. Having a huge presence on Mobiles can have a network effect. How many people want Word at home because that's what they use at work? Well, there is a chance that some people might want what they got used to on their cell on their desktop. Especially with younger people.
You know, 3 I get, but I'd be damned if I would let 1 or 2 drive me from my browser. I mean, look - they are competitors in a wide open market of web mail providers which don't work with my browser of choice. I personally find it much easier to type in a different URL in the address bar compared to getting a whole new browser set up and working the way I want (assuming that is possible).
/. I strongly believe that e-mail ought to have nothing to do with a webpage.
Of course, as I've stated before on
Wait, so it's going to be like a puzzle game? I don't want to have to beat some game to login to my PC damnit!