I don't know. Within the framework of this analogy, do I also have a firearm identification card or permit to carry such that I may legally own the weapon?
I guess it depends on whether the student from the article may legally own the copyrighted material.
The problem as I see it is that this is no reason to quash an investigatory subpoena for fact finding. A person has placed copyrighted materials on an electronic system and made those materials available to the public for duplication. Was there illegal copyright infringement? No one will know until after the necessary fact finding for discovery. It seems to me - as a layperson - that requesting documentation from the University to determine if criminal activity and civil liability is perfectly reasonable.
Say I know that you own a gun. Did you use it to kill someone? No one will know until the necessary fact finding for discovery. Does it mean it's reasonable to have you spied upon to determine if you have any criminal activity or civil liability?
Then he should have locked the directory with a password so only he had access to it.
While that argument does make sense, it's the exact same argument that's being used when somebody uses a neighbour's internet connection through an unprotected wireless router, and those cases have been shown that "password protection" is not required for personal access.
Almost as interested as what is covered is what is not yet covered. Does anyone know how long they expect this to take to fully implement?
If by "fully implement" you mean "make it accessible to every Joe Somebody like the Internet 1 is", then I hope never. The original internet was intended for science and education, then AOL arrived and now it's filled with Viagra and Paris Hilton videos. Let's hope we learned from our mistakes and leave this Internet2 alone, out of commercial reach.
How about a third option where time is flowing in one way only, and therefore, time travel can also only go one way. You can travel into the future but not into the past, making it a one-way trip.
Still, nobody could come back to tell us about it, and it'd take a while to actually prove it worked, but still possible.
Jack Thompson? I have utterly no clue who you are talking about. Is this some type of cultural isomorphism local to the US or to commercial television content? I am not current with either, I'm afraid.
I am not sure if you are being serious or not, but then, if you're not that much into gaming and tech news, it could be possible that you never heard of him yet.
But from the context of this thread, please don't enlighten me.
I've never quite grasped why anyone could think that Linux is not ready for the desktop. In my opinion, it has been for years.
The main problem I'm still having with Linux today is the not-yet-flawless USB support. When I plug my USB drive in my computer, I want it to mount, every time. Under my current hardware, with Fedora 6, it mounts about 75% of the time. A 25% failure rate for something as common as plugging in a USB drive is fine by me, but is a total showstopper for most people, especially when it can't be blamed on the hardware (same USB drive on same machine with Windows works everytime) or the device manufacturer (do USB drives use proprietary drivers?).
I love Linux, and I use it on a daily basis, but I still belive it has some shortcomings.
Because it works! There's a saying, 'The squeaky wheel gets the grease.'
I played way too much Baldur's Gate in the past... I've read that and thought "that doesn't sound right..." I just can't imagine that saying to be anything other than 'The squeaky wheel gets the kick'. (As well as 'The bigger they are, the harder I hit').
Likewise Linux is a lot cheaper per unit to licence the software, but tends to incur higher support costs because decent Linux sysadmins don't come off the shelf like MCSAs.
Decent MCSAs don't come off the shelf all that much either. MCSAs do, but decent MCSAs don't. Employers usually don't bother seperating the wheat from the chaff, which is why they think there are a lot more MCSAs available.
So if I store stuff on the card can I play it, or do I need to juggle it back and forth between the card and internal memory?
i.e. if it's not in "Channels" can I still play it?
You need to juggle it back and forth between the card and the internal memory. I don't think it's as bad as it sounds for the moment, for I only have downloaded about 8 games for the virtual console, plus saved games for 7 games, and still have about half of the internal memory left. However, as the Virtual Console offering gets bigger and bigger, I might download more and more of them, and will end up with less memory available.
The SD is currently for backup only, and it's fine that way until you buy too many games.
While I think having more space would be great, I'd hate to lose the Wii's small form factor in my entertainment cabinet. Maybe it'll be somewhat modular rather than an external box attached via USB or some other wire?
What I'd actually like instead of a hard drive is the ability for the Wii to read directly from the SD card, instead of forcing me to copy the data from the SD card to the Wii's internal memory before using it. Would make managing backups much easier, and even at 300MB, a NeoGeo game can easily fit on a 1GB SD card, which I can then copy to my computer's hard drive for backup when I need more space on the SD card.
Could that be done with a simple firmware update instead of a hardware upgrade?
Never mind the hair splitting over "efficiency." How about the absurdity of using the word "renewable?"
Wow, you woke up in a pedantic mood this morning...
Solar energy isn't renewable... it's continually available from the sun. [...] Wind isn't renewable - it's just generally, mostly available...
We call "renewable" energy a form of energy that we're not exhausting by using up. Harvesting solar energy today won't make less sun energy available tomorrow. The sun will not expire faster if we use its energy to produce electricity. Hydro is the same. Water will flow from the top of the mountain to the bottom whether we build a dam or not, so while we are harvesting the water's potential energy, we are not the cause of its exhaustion (gravity is, damn you gravity!).
When you do something "from scratch", do you start by creating a whole universe from a Big Bang instead of using what's already there (thus, not starting really from scratch)? People do stuff from scratch without creating universes, and the sun provides renewable energy.
Taking the meaning away from words dumbs all communication down, and erodes our culture's ability to do intellectually challenging things.
Words have accepted meanings, and that is how we communicate. Agreed upon meanings are usually recorded in big books we call dictionaries. You should get one, they're really good.
May I recommend The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, which defines renewable as :
Relating to or being a commodity or resource, such as solar energy or firewood, that is inexhaustible or replaceable by new growth.
capable of being renewed; replaceable; "renewable energy such as solar energy is theoretically inexhaustible"
Here's a last one from The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Relating to a natural resource, such as solar energy, water, or wood, that is never used up or that can be replaced by new growth. Resources that are dependent on regrowth can sometimes be depleted beyond the point of renewability, as when the deforestation of land leads to desertification or when a commercially valuable species is harvested to extinction. Pollution can also make a renewable resource such as water unusable in a particular location.
I suppose it's a matter of time before we get DRM enabled cars.
Don't we already have those? Most cars that I see parked on the street require some sort of secret key in order to operate properly, and it seems to be a crime to try and start the engine by circumventing the need for a key...
Make the FAT32 partition contain an autorun which installs, without prompting, Windows IFS drivers for the EXT3 partition.
It would probably require a reboot, I'd guess, but that's typical of anything Windows.
Don't forget the swarm of UAC warnings that this will trigger... While people argue that UAC triggers anytime you sneeze, installing a device driver from autorun is a legitimate cause for UAC firing up all its alarms and scaring the shit out of grandma.
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Ok. If I go out and release a professional quality piece of software. Now this arbitrary "consumer clause" would allow commercial manufacturers to rip off my software, place it on tivoized closed hardware and sell it. My software was meant to professional use all along, even though I wanted it to be Free Software.
FTA: GPLv3 tolerates tivoization only for products that are almost exclusively meant for businesses and organizations.
"Professional quality" doesn't mean "meant for businesses and organizations". Many "consumers" use professional tools all the time. Photoshop/GIMP is a software of professional quality which isn't meant exclusively for businesses.
What the exec meant to say, "Future versions of Windows to be fundamentally stolen." It only begs the question, which o/s will MS be ripping off for this 'new' design.
There is nothing wrong with using a proven design from another product in a new product. OpenOffice.org has stolen from MS-Office, Firefox has stolen from Opera, Thunderbird has stolen from Outlook Express, Linux has stolen from UNIX, the GIMP has stolen from Photoshop, Evolution has stolen from Outlook, and so on, and so forth...
Not every single piece of software needs to be 100% unique and original. Taking an old design and improving it is a very valid method of designing something new. <obligatory_car_analogy>Heck, every single car today is a total rippoff of the Ford Model T</obligatory_car_analogy>
Neither offer any advantage over the other since changing either will only affect the program after its been recompiled, its just that slight disadvantage for a distinct data type.
Using const int instead of define can save you a whole lot of time when it comes to debugging. When something has gone wrong and you need to step into your code with a debugger, const int will have created a symbol that your debugger can use and inform you of, while define will make the debugger tell you the value of the constant, but not where it comes from or what it's called.
I'm using a Mac you insensitive clod! It's in the top left corner!
And I'm gonna bet that the top-left corner button won't even shut the application down, just hide the window while leaving the app to eat resources and still notify you...
Why is this a bogus patent?
It's for a physical substance, that was developed by someone, which performs better/differently than anotehr compound used for the same purpose.
Isn't this what patent protection should be for?
Nowhere in the article or in the summary is there a reference to a bogus patent. Why the hell did *you* jump to the conclusion that this was bogus?
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I guess it depends on whether the student from the article may legally own the copyrighted material.
Say I know that you own a gun. Did you use it to kill someone? No one will know until the necessary fact finding for discovery. Does it mean it's reasonable to have you spied upon to determine if you have any criminal activity or civil liability?
While that argument does make sense, it's the exact same argument that's being used when somebody uses a neighbour's internet connection through an unprotected wireless router, and those cases have been shown that "password protection" is not required for personal access.
If by "fully implement" you mean "make it accessible to every Joe Somebody like the Internet 1 is", then I hope never. The original internet was intended for science and education, then AOL arrived and now it's filled with Viagra and Paris Hilton videos. Let's hope we learned from our mistakes and leave this Internet2 alone, out of commercial reach.
Still, nobody could come back to tell us about it, and it'd take a while to actually prove it worked, but still possible.
I am not sure if you are being serious or not, but then, if you're not that much into gaming and tech news, it could be possible that you never heard of him yet.
In that case, don't follow this link.
The main problem I'm still having with Linux today is the not-yet-flawless USB support. When I plug my USB drive in my computer, I want it to mount, every time. Under my current hardware, with Fedora 6, it mounts about 75% of the time. A 25% failure rate for something as common as plugging in a USB drive is fine by me, but is a total showstopper for most people, especially when it can't be blamed on the hardware (same USB drive on same machine with Windows works everytime) or the device manufacturer (do USB drives use proprietary drivers?).
I love Linux, and I use it on a daily basis, but I still belive it has some shortcomings.
I played way too much Baldur's Gate in the past... I've read that and thought "that doesn't sound right..." I just can't imagine that saying to be anything other than 'The squeaky wheel gets the kick'. (As well as 'The bigger they are, the harder I hit').
Decent MCSAs don't come off the shelf all that much either. MCSAs do, but decent MCSAs don't. Employers usually don't bother seperating the wheat from the chaff, which is why they think there are a lot more MCSAs available.
You need to juggle it back and forth between the card and the internal memory. I don't think it's as bad as it sounds for the moment, for I only have downloaded about 8 games for the virtual console, plus saved games for 7 games, and still have about half of the internal memory left. However, as the Virtual Console offering gets bigger and bigger, I might download more and more of them, and will end up with less memory available.
The SD is currently for backup only, and it's fine that way until you buy too many games.
What I'd actually like instead of a hard drive is the ability for the Wii to read directly from the SD card, instead of forcing me to copy the data from the SD card to the Wii's internal memory before using it. Would make managing backups much easier, and even at 300MB, a NeoGeo game can easily fit on a 1GB SD card, which I can then copy to my computer's hard drive for backup when I need more space on the SD card.
Could that be done with a simple firmware update instead of a hardware upgrade?
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Right... so instead of having a light fan noise coming from my box, I should put amounts to be a whistle on the CPU... that'll help!
Wow, you woke up in a pedantic mood this morning...
We call "renewable" energy a form of energy that we're not exhausting by using up. Harvesting solar energy today won't make less sun energy available tomorrow. The sun will not expire faster if we use its energy to produce electricity. Hydro is the same. Water will flow from the top of the mountain to the bottom whether we build a dam or not, so while we are harvesting the water's potential energy, we are not the cause of its exhaustion (gravity is, damn you gravity!).
When you do something "from scratch", do you start by creating a whole universe from a Big Bang instead of using what's already there (thus, not starting really from scratch)? People do stuff from scratch without creating universes, and the sun provides renewable energy.
Words have accepted meanings, and that is how we communicate. Agreed upon meanings are usually recorded in big books we call dictionaries. You should get one, they're really good.
May I recommend The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, which defines renewable as :
Or maybe you would prefer WordNet® 3.0© 2006 Princeton University
Here's a last one from The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Don't we already have those? Most cars that I see parked on the street require some sort of secret key in order to operate properly, and it seems to be a crime to try and start the engine by circumventing the need for a key...
Don't forget the swarm of UAC warnings that this will trigger... While people argue that UAC triggers anytime you sneeze, installing a device driver from autorun is a legitimate cause for UAC firing up all its alarms and scaring the shit out of grandma.
FTA: GPLv3 tolerates tivoization only for products that are almost exclusively meant for businesses and organizations.
"Professional quality" doesn't mean "meant for businesses and organizations". Many "consumers" use professional tools all the time. Photoshop/GIMP is a software of professional quality which isn't meant exclusively for businesses.
There is nothing wrong with using a proven design from another product in a new product. OpenOffice.org has stolen from MS-Office, Firefox has stolen from Opera, Thunderbird has stolen from Outlook Express, Linux has stolen from UNIX, the GIMP has stolen from Photoshop, Evolution has stolen from Outlook, and so on, and so forth...
Not every single piece of software needs to be 100% unique and original. Taking an old design and improving it is a very valid method of designing something new. <obligatory_car_analogy>Heck, every single car today is a total rippoff of the Ford Model T</obligatory_car_analogy>
Using const int instead of define can save you a whole lot of time when it comes to debugging. When something has gone wrong and you need to step into your code with a debugger, const int will have created a symbol that your debugger can use and inform you of, while define will make the debugger tell you the value of the constant, but not where it comes from or what it's called.
And I'm gonna bet that the top-left corner button won't even shut the application down, just hide the window while leaving the app to eat resources and still notify you...
Every now and then, when I answer the phone, I get a recorded message, so yes, devices have called me in the past.
Do people still use those? I thought most email clients defaulted to "do not send receipt" by now to protect against spam.
However, every now and then, we get stuck in some sort of paradox, like when Jack Thompson and Microsoft are facing each other, and we have to take sides...
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Nowhere in the article or in the summary is there a reference to a bogus patent. Why the hell did *you* jump to the conclusion that this was bogus?