Disney wants to extend their own control over these admittedly derivative works forever if they can. That is simply unfair and untenable.
Disney isn't taking away anybody else's right to the original work. They are claiming the rights to their own work, however. It's hard to understand what is wrong with this. If you want a free version of 'Sleeping Beauty' either read the original or create one of your own.
You seem to have forgotten that the grandparent said 'converter.' As in- converts to a regular signal that generic TV sets can display. Which means the user can plug in all the current tricks and what-not to record said programming.
Not at the 'new' super-duper-high-rez whatever bullshit. But same as the usual legacy stuff. Which is enough for lots of us.
You've run through the entire checklist, indicating your only contact with anybody 'conservative' is the parodies that are depicted in comics like 'This Modern World' or 'The Daily Show.'
It's a pity that you live such a channeled, narrow life, that you can only depict those you oppose based on parodies.
I thought the mantra was that 'Mac OS X is a UNIX so you always get all the good UNIX tools on it.'
And here we are, waiting for a proprietary GUI version of OpenOffice to be made, which will probably be a major code fork from the main OOorg codebase.
Mac is and has been and always will be 'different for the sake of difference.'
Well, my mouse is connected by a buss to the motherboard, which has a microprocessor in the keyboard interface. My video card has a processor or two, and my hard drives have microprocessors in them, too. It's all tied together and all those processors are often working on the same ultimate task.
And yes, I know that the S stands for symmetric. No two chips are exactly the same. Even two Pentium III processors off the same die from Intel have different serial numbers. So it's always a matter of degree of similarity. Symmetric along what axis is the question. And anyway, sometimes one reads somebody's comment 'badly' all in fun.
What if your wages were higher than they are now even after you had to pay union dues?
No matter HOW much more I then make, I object to a slice of my earnings going to a particular 'wing' of politics that I might not agree with.
It's a moot point though. The AFL/CIO now knows what the outcome was of fucking around with electoral politics instead of sticking to workers' issues. Hopefully the split-off unions will now focus more on what matters to their dues paying membership.
Just don't expect me to buy into this "we're victims" mentality.
The whole American economy is a victim of this shakedown bullshit. Thankfully the recent Delphi bankruptcy is going to break the back of the Auto Workers Union and bring some sense into the world. The AFL/CIO splitoff earlier this year was also a good development.
Not because it is anti-Union (the AFL/CIO controversey was actually pro-worker since the thrust of it was that the International was fucking around with electoral politics instead of working on the workers' behalf so some of the member unions broke off to focus on real labor concerns) but because there need to be 'corrections' from time to time that pitch 'top down operators' off their high horse.
In fact with Interix you have a very robust POSIX subsystem, including a port of the whole GNU toolchain, for example. Cygwin doesn't count at ALL, because it's just a layer that rides on top of the Win32 api. IOW- with Cygwin you communicate to the kernel through Win32 DLLs. With Interix, you're interacting with an API that runs in a subsystem in parallel with Win32 and communicates directly with the NT kernel.
And in a letter to registered Interix users, the CEO of Softway asked if the product should be open sourced. The silent non-response was deafening.
I posted my observations about direct before- and after-Microsoft experience with Interix. Yes, I bought 'Microsoft Interix' after the Microsoft purchase thinking it MIGHT be the same thing as Softway's Product.
It wasn't. With Softway Interix it was easy to install various services that made it trivial to install services to telnet into NT and run a command prompt, with programs like vi and other common Unix shell-based tools. The vi editor mysteriously disappeared in Microsoft Interix, becoming an awkward binary you could at considerable effort locate, download, and install. With Pre-Microsoft Interix you basically had a complete and fairly robust POSIX shell to log into on your NT box.
Stating at the end of your comment what Microsoft re-purposed Interix to be for is a distraction from what Interix was before the Microsoft acquistion. Be honest and admit Microsoft's strategy was to castrate the product.
I still have a pair of 64K 30 pin SIMMs. Out of an insanely old AST Bravo '286 machine. They were in the machine in order, it seems, to insure that the machine only had 640K of RAM... (those SIMMs and a pair of 256s)
Any tool that allows a Linux filesystem to be penetrated by the sea of binaries Microsoft releases as an OS is a big security risk to the Linux system that created said filesystem.
Tools like that render dual-boot systems vulnerable to malevolent Windows stuff that is run on the machine.
Actually, as a registered owner of two copies of Softway System's Interix, and one copy of the crippled subset of it that Microsoft released after purchasing it, and further an observer of the further crippled version they now call Services for Unix, I call bullshit on you.
Microsoft bought Softway Systems to keep it a limited phenomenon, and to make sure it shrunk in power, didn't grow. They probably had Softway Systems by the balls in the first place, of course, because in order to get access to the trade secrets to integrate a powerful POSIX api with the NT kernel, they probably signed mega-NDA contracts.
I do remember that there was a period before Microsoft purchased Softway Systems when Softway was sending out appeals to the Open Source Community asking if Interix should be 'open sourced.' Not sure if that was a sham appeal or not.
But 'Services For Unix' is not _For_ Unix. It's for defending against Unix.
I have a 'hard drive enclosure' here that you connect to simply by plugging in an ethernet jack. It has provisions for 12 hotswap SCSI drives and can be configured for hardware RAID.
It's called an IBM PC Server 704, and it also has 4 pentium pro processors and some other stuff. The 'firmware' in it that provides access to it's storage to the machine 'expanded' by plugging into it is NetBSD.
It's also the size of a conventional two-drawer file cabinet. You could install it on a platform with casters and call it portable. I suppose.
It's all hype. Google is a hustle operation now. They provide a 'free' search service, still, but the ad revenue is where it's at. So Schmidt has to come up with PHB bullet points on a regular basis.
Oh, come on. You're talking about a company that is mostly an advertising enterprise now. Who is Google hiring? Admen and their ilk. It's sometimes depressing how enamored the 'community' had become in a company whose main purpose is leveraging eyeballs to look at their ads.
(how DARE I say anything bad about Google. Mod this down IMMEDIATELY.)
Local school auctions. I paid $6 each for three PII machines (that upgraded to PIII by plugging in the new processor) and $5 apiece for three PIII machines at the most recent auction. The PIII machines had pulled hard drives and the PII machines had wiped but still installed hard drives. Each of the six machines had a single 128M SDRAM installed (and two open slots.) These were in the minitower configuration, which is the best one if you want to install lotsa drives.
I'm spoiled. I don't need screaming fast, I need multiple boxes all doing work with various OSes. I don't think I'll ever buy a new machine again.
Actually, it's an imported 'alien' species from another continent, and it appears to be thriving by killing and eating the native 'rare and magnificent animals.'
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Disney wants to extend their own control over these admittedly derivative works forever if they can. That is simply unfair and untenable.
Disney isn't taking away anybody else's right to the original work. They are claiming the rights to their own work, however. It's hard to understand what is wrong with this. If you want a free version of 'Sleeping Beauty' either read the original or create one of your own.
There is, in fact, tons of paid advertising for books.
The fact that you appear to not be exposed to any of it is a reflection on you, nothing more.
They may simply not be comfortable handing over the keys
And they could also be dickheads.
And they have the right to be either. That's the problem with freedom. People use it to do things that you don't agree with.
The $3B should go to pay the big Defense Contractors who make stuff for NASA?
You seem to have forgotten that the grandparent said 'converter.' As in- converts to a regular signal that generic TV sets can display. Which means the user can plug in all the current tricks and what-not to record said programming.
Not at the 'new' super-duper-high-rez whatever bullshit. But same as the usual legacy stuff. Which is enough for lots of us.
You've run through the entire checklist, indicating your only contact with anybody 'conservative' is the parodies that are depicted in comics like 'This Modern World' or 'The Daily Show.'
It's a pity that you live such a channeled, narrow life, that you can only depict those you oppose based on parodies.
Oh, here's your cookie, chump.
That means you're harvesting your asparagus WAY WAY TOO LATE, dude.
I thought the mantra was that 'Mac OS X is a UNIX so you always get all the good UNIX tools on it.'
And here we are, waiting for a proprietary GUI version of OpenOffice to be made, which will probably be a major code fork from the main OOorg codebase.
Mac is and has been and always will be 'different for the sake of difference.'
Aren't there Trade Secrets?
Haven't people been prosecuted for revealing Trade Secrets without said Trade Secrets being further revealed in the legal proceedings?
And one could also get a credible computer scientist, under an NDA from the hardware or software vendor, to explain it and/or audit the code.
Which blows away the whole notion that this trend will force all code, everywhere, to become Open Source (tm).
Well, my mouse is connected by a buss to the motherboard, which has a microprocessor in the keyboard interface. My video card has a processor or two, and my hard drives have microprocessors in them, too. It's all tied together and all those processors are often working on the same ultimate task.
And yes, I know that the S stands for symmetric. No two chips are exactly the same. Even two Pentium III processors off the same die from Intel have different serial numbers. So it's always a matter of degree of similarity. Symmetric along what axis is the question. And anyway, sometimes one reads somebody's comment 'badly' all in fun.
Yeah. That's the ticket.
Mix-n-match SMP.
Whooo. eh?
What if your wages were higher than they are now even after you had to pay union dues?
No matter HOW much more I then make, I object to a slice of my earnings going to a particular 'wing' of politics that I might not agree with.
It's a moot point though. The AFL/CIO now knows what the outcome was of fucking around with electoral politics instead of sticking to workers' issues. Hopefully the split-off unions will now focus more on what matters to their dues paying membership.
Just don't expect me to buy into this "we're victims" mentality.
The whole American economy is a victim of this shakedown bullshit. Thankfully the recent Delphi bankruptcy is going to break the back of the Auto Workers Union and bring some sense into the world. The AFL/CIO splitoff earlier this year was also a good development.
Not because it is anti-Union (the AFL/CIO controversey was actually pro-worker since the thrust of it was that the International was fucking around with electoral politics instead of working on the workers' behalf so some of the member unions broke off to focus on real labor concerns) but because there need to be 'corrections' from time to time that pitch 'top down operators' off their high horse.
Most everybody I know has at least one oscilloscope at home. Well, not 'everybody' but anybody whose opinion matters on things electronic.
Anyhow...
In fact with Interix you have a very robust POSIX subsystem, including a port of the whole GNU toolchain, for example. Cygwin doesn't count at ALL, because it's just a layer that rides on top of the Win32 api. IOW- with Cygwin you communicate to the kernel through Win32 DLLs. With Interix, you're interacting with an API that runs in a subsystem in parallel with Win32 and communicates directly with the NT kernel.
And in a letter to registered Interix users, the CEO of Softway asked if the product should be open sourced. The silent non-response was deafening.
I posted my observations about direct before- and after-Microsoft experience with Interix. Yes, I bought 'Microsoft Interix' after the Microsoft purchase thinking it MIGHT be the same thing as Softway's Product.
It wasn't. With Softway Interix it was easy to install various services that made it trivial to install services to telnet into NT and run a command prompt, with programs like vi and other common Unix shell-based tools. The vi editor mysteriously disappeared in Microsoft Interix, becoming an awkward binary you could at considerable effort locate, download, and install. With Pre-Microsoft Interix you basically had a complete and fairly robust POSIX shell to log into on your NT box.
Stating at the end of your comment what Microsoft re-purposed Interix to be for is a distraction from what Interix was before the Microsoft acquistion. Be honest and admit Microsoft's strategy was to castrate the product.
I still have a pair of 64K 30 pin SIMMs. Out of an insanely old AST Bravo '286 machine. They were in the machine in order, it seems, to insure that the machine only had 640K of RAM... (those SIMMs and a pair of 256s)
That sounds like scary stuff.
Any tool that allows a Linux filesystem to be penetrated by the sea of binaries Microsoft releases as an OS is a big security risk to the Linux system that created said filesystem.
Tools like that render dual-boot systems vulnerable to malevolent Windows stuff that is run on the machine.
Actually, as a registered owner of two copies of Softway System's Interix, and one copy of the crippled subset of it that Microsoft released after purchasing it, and further an observer of the further crippled version they now call Services for Unix, I call bullshit on you.
Microsoft bought Softway Systems to keep it a limited phenomenon, and to make sure it shrunk in power, didn't grow. They probably had Softway Systems by the balls in the first place, of course, because in order to get access to the trade secrets to integrate a powerful POSIX api with the NT kernel, they probably signed mega-NDA contracts.
I do remember that there was a period before Microsoft purchased Softway Systems when Softway was sending out appeals to the Open Source Community asking if Interix should be 'open sourced.' Not sure if that was a sham appeal or not.
But 'Services For Unix' is not _For_ Unix. It's for defending against Unix.
I have a 'hard drive enclosure' here that you connect to simply by plugging in an ethernet jack. It has provisions for 12 hotswap SCSI drives and can be configured for hardware RAID.
It's called an IBM PC Server 704, and it also has 4 pentium pro processors and some other stuff. The 'firmware' in it that provides access to it's storage to the machine 'expanded' by plugging into it is NetBSD.
It's also the size of a conventional two-drawer file cabinet. You could install it on a platform with casters and call it portable. I suppose.
It's all hype. Google is a hustle operation now. They provide a 'free' search service, still, but the ad revenue is where it's at. So Schmidt has to come up with PHB bullet points on a regular basis.
And the fawning masses lap it up.
Oh, come on. You're talking about a company that is mostly an advertising enterprise now. Who is Google hiring? Admen and their ilk. It's sometimes depressing how enamored the 'community' had become in a company whose main purpose is leveraging eyeballs to look at their ads.
(how DARE I say anything bad about Google. Mod this down IMMEDIATELY.)
Local school auctions. I paid $6 each for three PII machines (that upgraded to PIII by plugging in the new processor) and $5 apiece for three PIII machines at the most recent auction. The PIII machines had pulled hard drives and the PII machines had wiped but still installed hard drives. Each of the six machines had a single 128M SDRAM installed (and two open slots.) These were in the minitower configuration, which is the best one if you want to install lotsa drives.
I'm spoiled. I don't need screaming fast, I need multiple boxes all doing work with various OSes. I don't think I'll ever buy a new machine again.
Actually, it's an imported 'alien' species from another continent, and it appears to be thriving by killing and eating the native 'rare and magnificent animals.'
Australia has a big problem with that.