Mp3.com did NOT rent out what they had "copied". You had to have proved you had the CD in your own little ocmputer, or had bought the CD from one of their partners, before you could listen to mp3.com's CD.
Let me repeat that: You had to have your own copy of teh CD before you could listen to mp3.com's copy.
I mean, you really think the patent office is doing something useful?
Especially being in Washington DC, we could kill not only two birds with one explosion, but the nest and breeding ground of the entire big ass bureaucracy!
The 100kg initial blast would almost certainly not be enough to sink the Kursk.
The actual weight of explosive is immaterial here.
I think it reasonable to assume that a torpedo striking a sub from outside would sink it; that's what they are designed to do. An outside explosion has lots to interfere with its mission: water pressure slowing down the explosion, gases dispersing in the ocean, cylindrical hull shape tending to resist the explosion.
Now imagine that same explosion inside the ship. Nice closed container (for a while:-), inside of a cylinder not resisting as well as the outside, no water to slow down the gases.
Copyright is supposedly a limitation on freedom of the press for a limited time in exchange for encouraging more works to be created.
Copyright has been hijacked by the big corps at public expense; it is no longer for a meaningful limited time, and fair use, resale, loaning, viewing platform of choice, any number of traditional uses are history, according to the corps. Now here comes a new govt enforced violation of the spirit of copyright.
How can you call this libertarian? It's govt enforcement at public expense against the public good for private gain.
I took his remark to mean that if there are lots and lots of R2-D2s around, instead of direct long distance links, you would reroute thru closer neighbors.
Sort of like if long distance phone calls are out, you call Aunt Martha who calls cousin Bob and so on, each being a bit closer, until the final local call goes thru.
I did something similar once, when home to work was not a local flat rate call. A friend in between, who was a local call to each place, installed an extra phone and set it up to call forward.
25 years ago, the carrier I was on had a big honking radar. We used to hear scuttlebutt that the techs would get seagulls off the mast by mircowaving them. We figured it explained mystery meat and scab steak.
Remember that Canadian outfit that netcast tv shows and got sued to death? Remember those framing lawsuits, claiming that putting someone else's content inside a frame with your own ads in other frames was copyright infringment?
How long before a stadium advertiser sues the network for eliminating their ad? After all, the big audience for that stadium ad is not the in-person crowd, but the tv audience. Suddenly they are paying rates for millions of eyeballs and getting just thousands.
Right now I imagine it takes a fair amount of cpu power to do this, so only networks can afford it. However, in 5 years or so, it will probably be within reach of ordinary folk -- like you!
I imagine junkbuster will be much different then, zapping out product placement ads, replacing bilboards with your email summaries, and so on. I haven't thought about this much yet.
I will guess that this instant artificial product placement, like the network show mentioned, will be common place within a year or two, and annoy the heck out of consumers. However, it may reduce the number of distinct commercials as product placement becomes more common and as Tivo and Replay make it easier to ignore separate commericals. In 5 years, it will be the ordinary way to do things. Then -- Gnoview! It will start out primitive and for geeks, get better, then proprietary programs will jump in, and it will be a war between the new junkbuster trying to find ads to zap, and the producers trying to get ever more tricky with placement to make the ads harder for a program to spot.
Americans love to OWN cars because the population density is so small compared to Europe and Japan, and thus cars are much more a necessity here; buses, trains, subways, etc simply need more population density than most American cities provide. If you're going to use a car for shopping and commuting, you may as well own the dang thing so you can keep your stuff in it. Furthermore, cars are too expensive to have a small one for commuting, a big one for the whole family, and a pickup for hauling. So families have one hauler and one smaller, and someone has to use the big hauler for commuting.
Infatuation my ass. Individual on-demand transportation is a necessaity for most of the population here, and will be for quite some time.
Namely, that you think it's up to someone outside the developers to decide how many projects is enough. "Do we really need..." implies a basic thought flaw. If someone wants to work on a project, or start a new competing project, it's nobody's business but their own. You may as well comment that your neighbor has bought a new stuffed toy for their kid.
They didn't do the test because MySQL doesn't support the SQL standard. Is there something wrong with a benchmark biased against non-conformant programs?
Most people who know much about MySQL know it doesn't have transactions and is best used as a read mostly write some database. It's fine for that. It is not fine for big systems.
We had corner pieces of which I "found" an "extra" one, and attached it like any other corner piece, except as high as possible (our cubicles were probably 5 foot, but maybe 6; been a while). It dimmed things very nicely. Was also nice storage on top for my Archie McPhee collection. And the 2 foot stuffed duck made for a good landmark.
Regardless of how bogus their argument is, this IS part of their argument, that promotion costs money. Promotion isn't just advertising on MTV or magazines or TV, it includes advertising, whether directly or in cosponsored stuff like this.
This is the result of an FTC action, and those alone take forever. The RIAA practice started in Feb 1995. The FTC settled in May 2000. This has nothing to do with attention brought by Napster.
we tried to stay much closer to C++ in our design. C# borrows most of its operators, keywords, and statements directly from C++. We have also kept a number of language features that Java dropped.
Then about a third of the way thru...
with C# we were able to start with a clean sheet of paper, so to speak. We did not have any backward compatibility requirements
Previously the interview had been at least interesting, but from here on he lost all credibility with me. I think he has been absorbed into the borg and has lost the power of independent thought.
Early adaptors have a vested interest in their status quo, so someone else adopts the next cycle, then they are the ones stuck with an existing tech when the 3rd generation comes out, and so on. Capitalism vs socialism my ass. If Europe is more predisposed to standards, then why did so many standards originate in the US?
Politics has nothing to do with it, it's just absolutely ordinary everyday everycentury phenomena.
Just as some movies are filmed with more than one ending, not only to fool the previewers but to see which ending gets the best reaction, I wonder if they filmed several different endings. I would offhand guess it unlikely, but by no means impossible.
I will probably be misunderstood:-( so I will amplify a bit.
I don't mean it's ok to download the mp3 instead of buying the CD, and I don't mean it;s ok to install AutoCAD in lieu of paying. For instance, if someone installs AutoCAD because they want the "best", instead of buying a cheaper competitor, then there is a real loss, although not to AutoCAD. If someone buys a harddisk and fills it with mp3 instead of buying the CDs, there is a real loss, and to the artist.
My point is that most of what the RIAA calls theft is no such thing because there is no monetary loss, or any loss whatsoever, because the hundreds of mp3s downloaded by starving college students are not in lieu of buying a CD. I doubt the actual monetary loss is more than 1%. I bet it is compensated for by people like me who use mp3s to find interesting music and buy the CD. I doubt the RIAA wants to bring either of these factors into the equation.
If the Mercedes could be produced for free, and your theft didn't prevent anyone else from buying one, I would have very little problem with your theft. But there is a very real physical cost. Just as there is a physical cost to an actual CD -- I would never condone stealing a CD from a store.
But bits? No cost there, other a few seconds of server time.
I see no theft in copying bits which you would never buy anyway. If you copy AutoCAd and play with it, but could never afford to buy your own copy, AutoCAD hasn't lost a cent. Where is the loss?
It used to be common for office workers to install Microsoft Office at home so they could work at home nights and weekends. No doubt they also wrote letters and recipies and resumes. Is there theft in any of this?
Here are counter examples. Suppose you are handing out coupons on a street corner. Suppose someone grabs one before you have a chance to give it out? Suppose someone takes two? Is either of those theft?
Suppose a store sale says "2 per customer" -- is it theft to go back several times and buy two each time?
How about contests "No purchase necessary" -- what if you enter a dozen times?
How about radio contests -- "12th caller wins!" -- is it theft to use a fast redial button? Is it theft to have your computer redial even faster?
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Mp3.com did NOT rent out what they had "copied". You had to have proved you had the CD in your own little ocmputer, or had bought the CD from one of their partners, before you could listen to mp3.com's CD.
Let me repeat that: You had to have your own copy of teh CD before you could listen to mp3.com's copy.
So where's the rental? Where's the theft?
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I mean, you really think the patent office is doing something useful?
Especially being in Washington DC, we could kill not only two birds with one explosion, but the nest and breeding ground of the entire big ass bureaucracy!
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"It seems that their marketing behavior has come back to bite them," Mr. McKenzie said in an interview.
By George I think he's got it!
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You say first
:-), inside of a cylinder not resisting as well as the outside, no water to slow down the gases.
Torpedoes have 100-150kg warheads.
Then
The 100kg initial blast would almost certainly not be enough to sink the Kursk.
The actual weight of explosive is immaterial here.
I think it reasonable to assume that a torpedo striking a sub from outside would sink it; that's what they are designed to do. An outside explosion has lots to interfere with its mission: water pressure slowing down the explosion, gases dispersing in the ocean, cylindrical hull shape tending to resist the explosion.
Now imagine that same explosion inside the ship. Nice closed container (for a while
I think you are full of it.
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Copyright is supposedly a limitation on freedom of the press for a limited time in exchange for encouraging more works to be created.
Copyright has been hijacked by the big corps at public expense; it is no longer for a meaningful limited time, and fair use, resale, loaning, viewing platform of choice, any number of traditional uses are history, according to the corps. Now here comes a new govt enforced violation of the spirit of copyright.
How can you call this libertarian? It's govt enforcement at public expense against the public good for private gain.
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I think not! I bet instead it was Lucas calling up Gates and saying "Hans off!"
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I took his remark to mean that if there are lots and lots of R2-D2s around, instead of direct long distance links, you would reroute thru closer neighbors.
Sort of like if long distance phone calls are out, you call Aunt Martha who calls cousin Bob and so on, each being a bit closer, until the final local call goes thru.
I did something similar once, when home to work was not a local flat rate call. A friend in between, who was a local call to each place, installed an extra phone and set it up to call forward.
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25 years ago, the carrier I was on had a big honking radar. We used to hear scuttlebutt that the techs would get seagulls off the mast by mircowaving them. We figured it explained mystery meat and scab steak.
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Remember that Canadian outfit that netcast tv shows and got sued to death? Remember those framing lawsuits, claiming that putting someone else's content inside a frame with your own ads in other frames was copyright infringment?
How long before a stadium advertiser sues the network for eliminating their ad? After all, the big audience for that stadium ad is not the in-person crowd, but the tv audience. Suddenly they are paying rates for millions of eyeballs and getting just thousands.
I smell lawyer fodder!
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Right now I imagine it takes a fair amount of cpu power to do this, so only networks can afford it. However, in 5 years or so, it will probably be within reach of ordinary folk -- like you!
I imagine junkbuster will be much different then, zapping out product placement ads, replacing bilboards with your email summaries, and so on. I haven't thought about this much yet.
I will guess that this instant artificial product placement, like the network show mentioned, will be common place within a year or two, and annoy the heck out of consumers. However, it may reduce the number of distinct commercials as product placement becomes more common and as Tivo and Replay make it easier to ignore separate commericals. In 5 years, it will be the ordinary way to do things. Then -- Gnoview! It will start out primitive and for geeks, get better, then proprietary programs will jump in, and it will be a war between the new junkbuster trying to find ads to zap, and the producers trying to get ever more tricky with placement to make the ads harder for a program to spot.
This sounds like a lot of fun!
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Americans love to OWN cars because the population density is so small compared to Europe and Japan, and thus cars are much more a necessity here; buses, trains, subways, etc simply need more population density than most American cities provide. If you're going to use a car for shopping and commuting, you may as well own the dang thing so you can keep your stuff in it. Furthermore, cars are too expensive to have a small one for commuting, a big one for the whole family, and a pickup for hauling. So families have one hauler and one smaller, and someone has to use the big hauler for commuting.
Infatuation my ass. Individual on-demand transportation is a necessaity for most of the population here, and will be for quite some time.
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Namely, that you think it's up to someone outside the developers to decide how many projects is enough. "Do we really need..." implies a basic thought flaw. If someone wants to work on a project, or start a new competing project, it's nobody's business but their own. You may as well comment that your neighbor has bought a new stuffed toy for their kid.
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Postgres doesn't support transaction loggin, replication, and other goodies that the big databases support. That could be partially responsible.
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They didn't do the test because MySQL doesn't support the SQL standard. Is there something wrong with a benchmark biased against non-conformant programs?
Most people who know much about MySQL know it doesn't have transactions and is best used as a read mostly write some database. It's fine for that. It is not fine for big systems.
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We had corner pieces of which I "found" an "extra" one, and attached it like any other corner piece, except as high as possible (our cubicles were probably 5 foot, but maybe 6; been a while). It dimmed things very nicely. Was also nice storage on top for my Archie McPhee collection. And the 2 foot stuffed duck made for a good landmark.
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Do you really think Wal_Mart and everybody was upset that the RIAA "forced" them to charge more money? How much arm twisting did it really take?
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Regardless of how bogus their argument is, this IS part of their argument, that promotion costs money. Promotion isn't just advertising on MTV or magazines or TV, it includes advertising, whether directly or in cosponsored stuff like this.
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This is the result of an FTC action, and those alone take forever. The RIAA practice started in Feb 1995. The FTC settled in May 2000. This has nothing to do with attention brought by Napster.
:-)
Still serves 'em right
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http://lwn.net/daily/linuxwatch_pen.php3
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Near the beginning:
we tried to stay much closer to C++ in our design. C# borrows most of its operators, keywords, and statements directly from C++. We have also kept a number of language features that Java dropped.
Then about a third of the way thru...
with C# we were able to start with a clean sheet of paper, so to speak. We did not have any backward compatibility requirements
Previously the interview had been at least interesting, but from here on he lost all credibility with me. I think he has been absorbed into the borg and has lost the power of independent thought.
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Early adaptors have a vested interest in their status quo, so someone else adopts the next cycle, then they are the ones stuck with an existing tech when the 3rd generation comes out, and so on. Capitalism vs socialism my ass. If Europe is more predisposed to standards, then why did so many standards originate in the US?
Politics has nothing to do with it, it's just absolutely ordinary everyday everycentury phenomena.
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Just as some movies are filmed with more than one ending, not only to fool the previewers but to see which ending gets the best reaction, I wonder if they filmed several different endings. I would offhand guess it unlikely, but by no means impossible.
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I will probably be misunderstood :-( so I will amplify a bit.
I don't mean it's ok to download the mp3 instead of buying the CD, and I don't mean it;s ok to install AutoCAD in lieu of paying. For instance, if someone installs AutoCAD because they want the "best", instead of buying a cheaper competitor, then there is a real loss, although not to AutoCAD. If someone buys a harddisk and fills it with mp3 instead of buying the CDs, there is a real loss, and to the artist.
My point is that most of what the RIAA calls theft is no such thing because there is no monetary loss, or any loss whatsoever, because the hundreds of mp3s downloaded by starving college students are not in lieu of buying a CD. I doubt the actual monetary loss is more than 1%. I bet it is compensated for by people like me who use mp3s to find interesting music and buy the CD. I doubt the RIAA wants to bring either of these factors into the equation.
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If the Mercedes could be produced for free, and your theft didn't prevent anyone else from buying one, I would have very little problem with your theft. But there is a very real physical cost. Just as there is a physical cost to an actual CD -- I would never condone stealing a CD from a store.
But bits? No cost there, other a few seconds of server time.
I see no theft in copying bits which you would never buy anyway. If you copy AutoCAd and play with it, but could never afford to buy your own copy, AutoCAD hasn't lost a cent. Where is the loss?
It used to be common for office workers to install Microsoft Office at home so they could work at home nights and weekends. No doubt they also wrote letters and recipies and resumes. Is there theft in any of this?
Here are counter examples. Suppose you are handing out coupons on a street corner. Suppose someone grabs one before you have a chance to give it out? Suppose someone takes two? Is either of those theft?
Suppose a store sale says "2 per customer" -- is it theft to go back several times and buy two each time?
How about contests "No purchase necessary" -- what if you enter a dozen times?
How about radio contests -- "12th caller wins!" -- is it theft to use a fast redial button? Is it theft to have your computer redial even faster?
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