thank you, slashdot, for reviving some old comment of mine and attaching to this article. for the record, this comment was originally to some other article where summary indeed didn't make sense (this one actually does).\
it was a bit of a surprise, though. started reading the comment. thoughts go like this : "hey, what's this guy (there are no girls on/.) having a problem understanding, this was a pretty clear summary... hmm, i think i have seen this somewhere before... OMGWTF"
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was going to plug ufo:ai, even though i don't have the time to popularise it much lately. it uses id engine for 3d environments (although quite modified by now), and is of a fairly good quality and fun level.
it's such a silly attitude. you'll get taxes on empty cd-rs, on music players, on hard disks, on any portable - or non-portable - devices with any storage. oops, those are already in place in many locations. awesome how parasites have managed to sneak all this in.
just a quick hint - your two choices look pretty much the same to the rest of the world (yep, we're still there). whether you can break free of communist party, er, i mean, those two almost-the-same-parties... we'll see.
oh, yes, possible. if you check the history of the first issue, multiple people couldn't reproduce the problem, but then some could. one thing which might affect this - i have "ignore selection" marked in klipper
i'm using 4.6. i still regularly see tasks overlapping in the taskbar, kmix ends up with some binary crap in xml and then decides to stop working & eat 100% cpu, upon startup it does "something" for good 10 to 15 seconds before i can launch any apps, notes plasmoid right now has part of the text invisible, network statistic plamsoids/widgets/whatever are still way worse than knetstats was for kde3...
kde4 is usable, and some features are nice. but damn, 3.5.10 was rock solid. kde4 still has way, way too many bugs. i will try 4.7 (in this new opensuse release, btw:) ) soon, hoping that at least some of the issues have been fixed, but given how they are still there in 4.6, i'm not having much hope.
oh, and there's one long lasting bug even since kde3 - ctrl+shift+c to copy from konsole doesn't put the value in klipper:)
I know the answer. They want you to buy the service, but not actually use it. It's worked really well for gym memberships for decades.
that seems to be the case. if i was considering such a connection, i would be worried about a few things :
a) download/upload limits; b) protocol/connectivity limitations
what does fast connection give you if you exhaust some stupid limit in 5 minutes ? or if they limit this thing, that thing and in the end it's the same as cheaper option...
if they would come with no connectivity limits (no arbitrary throttling of some protocols, no closed ports ever), and if the company would have some promise that matters to never have download/upload limits (can't trust them - not having such limits now is not good enough), then the uptake might actually be bigger.
actually, they somehow seem not to like when people call them. i usually look up some number, cal it. i start with "hi, do you receive spam ?" - "um... yes" (who doesn't ?) - "do you like it ?" - "...no" (some get suspicious here, some don't) - "then why do you send spam ?"
and here i take some time to rant about spam. sometimes they are very like "sorry" and such, then i just rant for a while. sometimes they are aggressive and go like "what's your problem, just delete it" - then i become slightly more rude, suggest spamming/adding to spamlists them or stuffing their mailboxes with paper spam.
also, once i became really annoyed at my phone company for sending me some sms advertisement (i had complained to their hotline about that before, and they sort of claimed they have no technical means of excluding some numbers from spam - uhuh). i didn't receive messages for a while after that, so i hoped they actually had me blacklisted, then i got 2 in one week. i called their hotline and just read back the sms. the girl on the other end was surprised at first, but was trying not to laugh by the end of it. i think i got one more spam sms after that still. will have to see whether i get more & read them back again...
i would think his management would object to somebody classifying his job as supporting random devices people buy. and no, he's not a free tech support for any crap product you decide to bring in.
hi there, nokia shareholders, pr personnel and others. please, tell elop to gallop the fuck off nokia. n9 is the thing that should not be killed by incredibly reluctant willingness to even sell it, not to mention furthering development.
oooh. people who object to others wearing socks should be forced to obey any whims anybody on the planet might have. the desire to inflict upon others the annoying feeling of sweaty feet just requires some pushback:>
just wondering how this compares to range/distance camera systems, somewhat popular in several european countries. they basically grab your plates upon entering some distance and upon exiting (often on highways/autobahns). if you appear at the exit faster than possible by going at the speed limit + some minimal excess amount, you got mail. kinda nasty, can't slow down for the picture only:)
If we as a society value the contributions these creators make to our society, we have to have a model of rewarding them monitarily for their efforts. That is, at its core, the basis for the legal recognition of intellectual property.
the point of depriving somebody of some potential income in the future was already responded to. as for this. no, we don't need a model to reward then financially. the purpose of copyright is to stimulate creations for the public good. one way of that is to create possibilities for financial gain. note the "possibilities" part here, it's important.
the copyright is not an entitlement to a reward. no author is entitled to money because they created something.
to get back to the public good part - all works after copyright expires are supposed to enter public domain. that's the public good part. not the "zomg, we created something and locked it in safe". i recall reading that we lost lots of initial films because of such attitude...
and for the public to benefit, works have to enter public domain after a reasonable amount of time. current terms are way, way too long and is a total perversion of the copyright's intent. initial term was 14 years (and that was when duplication was very, very hard compared to today), which has been extended (even for existing works !). this has made copyright have an image of an unfair, ridiculous limitation that isn't something many in the younger generations feel is fair to the public.
short summary - copyright is not entitlement to money, it has been perversed by extending the period, making copyright period closer to the original one would make people more likely to actually obey it.
would stealing a copyrighted work be the same as killing a policeman and shitting in his helmet ?
we can't (yet) easily copy a car without depriving it's owner from the said object. so stop propagating bullshit and making the two sound the same, thanks
(think of it as promotion, we'll be more likely to go see live concerts and buy merchandise - honest!)
i've bought band t-shirts and other merchandise of bands that i found out about from downloaded material. next monday i'm seeing a gig of two bands that i discovered the same way. i even bought a cd from one of them in the last concert - not because i couldn't get it otherwise, that would be trivial - but because they're kinda cool (i didn't even like that one as much as the older ones, but i already had those:) )
is the total amount huge ? oh, surely not. but, no offence, piss off:) we like music, we go to concerts, we buy t-shirts. but when we listen to music at our homes, we don't feel a huge urge to pass off some money for that. and yes, the parasites who get levy on blank media should actually be shot.
Not to mention the fact that cellphone cameras are an everyday reality now, and bothering anyone who uses them in a store makes for horrible PR and customer service in a very precarious sales economy.
that. whenever i'm on a "NO PHOTO !!!K!J@" tour somewhere, usually ~ half of the people do take photos sneakily. you can take photos nearly with any object today:)
and i'm waiting for the day when those devices that record everything around you will be much cheaper (for now mostly used in research regading memory problems, i believe). not only there will be people who will have a medical need to wear them, general population soon will have easy access to small enough cameras (available, but expensive) so that taking photos won't be even visible...
no offence, but fuck off:) i don't take many photos nowadays (i did much more when i got my hands on the first digital camera...), but i don't want to be assaulted by some idiot when i do. and no, i don't upload them facebook (i don't even have an account there) or anywhere else. absolute majority of them are for private use/sharing with friends
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thank you, slashdot, for reviving some old comment of mine and attaching to this article. for the record, this comment was originally to some other article where summary indeed didn't make sense (this one actually does).\
it was a bit of a surprise, though. started reading the comment. thoughts go like this : /.) having a problem understanding, this was a pretty clear summary... hmm, i think i have seen this somewhere before... OMGWTF"
"hey, what's this guy (there are no girls on
was going to plug ufo:ai, even though i don't have the time to popularise it much lately. it uses id engine for 3d environments (although quite modified by now), and is of a fairly good quality and fun level.
ok. usually i can understand /. summary immediately. sometimes i have to read the article. sometimes i have to do some extra research.
but this summary just does it - it makes so much "no sense" that i have no fucking idea what is it about and i'm just going to skip the topic.
it's such a silly attitude. you'll get taxes on empty cd-rs, on music players, on hard disks, on any portable - or non-portable - devices with any storage.
oops, those are already in place in many locations. awesome how parasites have managed to sneak all this in.
just a quick hint - your two choices look pretty much the same to the rest of the world (yep, we're still there). whether you can break free of communist party, er, i mean, those two almost-the-same-parties... we'll see.
oh, yes, possible. if you check the history of the first issue, multiple people couldn't reproduce the problem, but then some could.
one thing which might affect this - i have "ignore selection" marked in klipper
it does not. i have 11.4 with kde 4.6, and it does not work :)
see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126221, which maybe, maybe is finally fixed in 4.7 as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240912
i'm using 4.6. i still regularly see tasks overlapping in the taskbar, kmix ends up with some binary crap in xml and then decides to stop working & eat 100% cpu, upon startup it does "something" for good 10 to 15 seconds before i can launch any apps, notes plasmoid right now has part of the text invisible, network statistic plamsoids/widgets/whatever are still way worse than knetstats was for kde3...
kde4 is usable, and some features are nice. but damn, 3.5.10 was rock solid. kde4 still has way, way too many bugs. i will try 4.7 (in this new opensuse release, btw :) ) soon, hoping that at least some of the issues have been fixed, but given how they are still there in 4.6, i'm not having much hope.
oh, and there's one long lasting bug even since kde3 - ctrl+shift+c to copy from konsole doesn't put the value in klipper :)
I know the answer. They want you to buy the service, but not actually use it. It's worked really well for gym memberships for decades.
that seems to be the case. if i was considering such a connection, i would be worried about a few things :
a) download/upload limits;
b) protocol/connectivity limitations
what does fast connection give you if you exhaust some stupid limit in 5 minutes ? or if they limit this thing, that thing and in the end it's the same as cheaper option...
if they would come with no connectivity limits (no arbitrary throttling of some protocols, no closed ports ever), and if the company would have some promise that matters to never have download/upload limits (can't trust them - not having such limits now is not good enough), then the uptake might actually be bigger.
From what I understand, Silverlight... same things that WTF...
sorry, you probably wanted to provide useful and insightful information. but i got this :)
actually, they somehow seem not to like when people call them. i usually look up some number, cal it. i start with "hi, do you receive spam ?" - "um... yes" (who doesn't ?) - "do you like it ?" - "...no" (some get suspicious here, some don't) - "then why do you send spam ?"
and here i take some time to rant about spam. sometimes they are very like "sorry" and such, then i just rant for a while. sometimes they are aggressive and go like "what's your problem, just delete it" - then i become slightly more rude, suggest spamming/adding to spamlists them or stuffing their mailboxes with paper spam.
also, once i became really annoyed at my phone company for sending me some sms advertisement (i had complained to their hotline about that before, and they sort of claimed they have no technical means of excluding some numbers from spam - uhuh). i didn't receive messages for a while after that, so i hoped they actually had me blacklisted, then i got 2 in one week. i called their hotline and just read back the sms. the girl on the other end was surprised at first, but was trying not to laugh by the end of it. i think i got one more spam sms after that still. will have to see whether i get more & read them back again...
a "woosh" sound is made by a stake as it tries to find a heart in a lawyer...
i would think his management would object to somebody classifying his job as supporting random devices people buy. and no, he's not a free tech support for any crap product you decide to bring in.
i'd buy a beer for the person who coined it. if you happen to read this - awesome job :)
shit. you said "n9".
hi there, nokia shareholders, pr personnel and others. please, tell elop to gallop the fuck off nokia. n9 is the thing that should not be killed by incredibly reluctant willingness to even sell it, not to mention furthering development.
as an added benefit, you get all source data, in vectors. render your own style, route... whatever you wish. yay :)
oooh. people who object to others wearing socks should be forced to obey any whims anybody on the planet might have. the desire to inflict upon others the annoying feeling of sweaty feet just requires some pushback :>
just wondering how this compares to range/distance camera systems, somewhat popular in several european countries. they basically grab your plates upon entering some distance and upon exiting (often on highways/autobahns). if you appear at the exit faster than possible by going at the speed limit + some minimal excess amount, you got mail. kinda nasty, can't slow down for the picture only :)
If we as a society value the contributions these creators make to our society, we have to have a model of rewarding them monitarily for their efforts. That is, at its core, the basis for the legal recognition of intellectual property.
the point of depriving somebody of some potential income in the future was already responded to. as for this. no, we don't need a model to reward then financially. the purpose of copyright is to stimulate creations for the public good. one way of that is to create possibilities for financial gain. note the "possibilities" part here, it's important.
the copyright is not an entitlement to a reward. no author is entitled to money because they created something.
to get back to the public good part - all works after copyright expires are supposed to enter public domain. that's the public good part. not the "zomg, we created something and locked it in safe". i recall reading that we lost lots of initial films because of such attitude...
and for the public to benefit, works have to enter public domain after a reasonable amount of time. current terms are way, way too long and is a total perversion of the copyright's intent. initial term was 14 years (and that was when duplication was very, very hard compared to today), which has been extended (even for existing works !). this has made copyright have an image of an unfair, ridiculous limitation that isn't something many in the younger generations feel is fair to the public.
short summary - copyright is not entitlement to money, it has been perversed by extending the period, making copyright period closer to the original one would make people more likely to actually obey it.
who claimed every band in existence is entitled to no work just because they are a band ?
would stealing a copyrighted work be the same as killing a policeman and shitting in his helmet ?
we can't (yet) easily copy a car without depriving it's owner from the said object. so stop propagating bullshit and making the two sound the same, thanks
(think of it as promotion, we'll be more likely to go see live concerts and buy merchandise - honest!)
i've bought band t-shirts and other merchandise of bands that i found out about from downloaded material. next monday i'm seeing a gig of two bands that i discovered the same way. i even bought a cd from one of them in the last concert - not because i couldn't get it otherwise, that would be trivial - but because they're kinda cool (i didn't even like that one as much as the older ones, but i already had those :) )
is the total amount huge ? oh, surely not. but, no offence, piss off :)
we like music, we go to concerts, we buy t-shirts. but when we listen to music at our homes, we don't feel a huge urge to pass off some money for that. and yes, the parasites who get levy on blank media should actually be shot.
i don't know, seemed like a pretty appropriate adaptation to illustrate the point to me. it's not copyrighted, is it ?!?!?!111
Not to mention the fact that cellphone cameras are an everyday reality now, and bothering anyone who uses them in a store makes for horrible PR and customer service in a very precarious sales economy.
that. whenever i'm on a "NO PHOTO !!!K!J@" tour somewhere, usually ~ half of the people do take photos sneakily. you can take photos nearly with any object today :)
and i'm waiting for the day when those devices that record everything around you will be much cheaper (for now mostly used in research regading memory problems, i believe). not only there will be people who will have a medical need to wear them, general population soon will have easy access to small enough cameras (available, but expensive) so that taking photos won't be even visible...
no offence, but fuck off :)
i don't take many photos nowadays (i did much more when i got my hands on the first digital camera...), but i don't want to be assaulted by some idiot when i do. and no, i don't upload them facebook (i don't even have an account there) or anywhere else. absolute majority of them are for private use/sharing with friends