Copyright is actually the curtailing of the public's inherent rights
Is it?
I've been writing a novel for a few years, and I hope, if it gets published (reviewers have thus far raved, but I'm not ready yet), that I will be able to gain a reasonable return for my work. Ok, I don't care if people download it for nothing as well, I may even negotiate for a free audio version, but all the same, I want to retain the right to control my work.
You might find you feel the same if you produce a work. The choice is of course your own.
I don't think it's likely that any state is going to allow people to just download stuff for free without consequence. The issue here is whether the current methods being employed are illegal, denying defendants their rights through threats and suchlike.
I think it's likely that file sharing as it exists will die a death in the not too distant future. I also think that's its the reason for most of this draconian crap to start with, we are, as it were, all to blame.
Its very easy to point the finger at the RIAA and blame them. You can indeed get angry at them for their methods, but not their aim, which is to shut down illegal file sharing. Even if, and I doubt this bit, it is harming the recording industry, who gives a crap. What I'm thinking about is the billions that could be made, boosting the economy, by providing cheap streaming media content. That's what the RIAA should have been concentrating on. I'm astonished that they had all that money, all those lawyers, and they still donkeyed it from day one.
Personally I long for the day when I can dial up the days entertainment on the net and have it delivered to me as and when I want, in the form I want, via a nice fat pipe to my house. I expect to pay for it too. I can't be alone in this thought.
The news feed you speak of existed entirely within the domain of the game world though. It described your activities in an acceptable way, because you wanted people to know those things, it was, as it were, part of the experience, and a cool one at that.
I don't have a problem with any site or game that advertises my activities on that site or in that game to others. I'd prefer a 'keep this secret' option. Don't want my neighbor to know I'm stockpiling weapons to launch an attack now, do I.
Why buy an entire CD when only one track is worth listening to.
Back when I used to buy LP's I stopped getting single artist albums, and went for the compilations. OK, less 'cool', but usually better value.
I haven't bought an album for years, well, six years, maybe seven. It's no particular thing, just there hasn't been any way to differentiate the worthwhile artists from the never ending stream of, for want of a better word, drivel. There are a few I like, but bands are shuffled through the machine so fast it's hard to get a grip on whether or not I'll like them long term.
It always was unwelcome, and remained so long after the war, being a food of last resort that turns up when you are, almost without fail, not wanting to see it.
Nah, what we want to do is enforce the old 'AngelFire' instant web page as a worldwide standard. all backgrounds must be either animated or florescent, Text must be HUGE, all in caps with again, shocking bright colors only (preferably green on a flashing background).
I'm telling you, enforce this as a standard and the internets will be perfect...
Want to see the actual orbital trajectories of the Voyager probes for yourself in 3d type of thing? Because you can, if you use my nBody modeling software.
And unzip it to save you the bother of having to actually generate your own time series (3d time series model of the solar system), which can take a while. You can then watch both Voyager probes follow their orbits (with 24th august 2006 as their starting date), for 20,000 days of travel time.
This isn't a program with a scrummy easy interface I'm afraid, the viewer is console opengl. But there are instructions here:
And it's not too hard once you get the hang of it.
The orbits do not take termination shock into account, this is pure Newtonian motion. The dataset for the solar system has taken months to put together. It's incomplete, It only has our moon (zoom in for ages with Earth centred and you'll see it), the others have been tricky to get right.
Are you insinuating that people shouldn't protest on a full stomach?
Nope, just that most people who wax lyrical on the subject of the starving masses frequently have never, and will never, go without themselves, yet profess to understand and represent the people who do.
I think we should go ahead with nuclear power stations, and put electricity generating treadmills outside. That way when all the hippy 'love the earth' fools that come in their SUVs to campaign with full stomachs, you can generate power from their marches?
The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the "Library" GPL) has the terms you describe, but the GNU General Public License (without the "Lesser") requires one to release full source if any covered libraries are used.
So when I use GlibC to compile my C program I always have to release the source? Or if my Linux program makes use of a Library avaliable in Linux I have to release full source?
If they have a nigerian patent, even if it's obvious elsewhere, OLPC might be infringing it locally. At least it's a patent on hardware, not a combination of mouseclicks...
Nope, it means all peoples who turned up a few thousand years before the Columbus age are Americans, regardless of origin.
Humans only evolved on one continent, so it all depends on how long you have to be somewhere before you can be called Native. If the Criteria is having evolved there (as is often the case with most species), then Humans are native to a small region of Africa, and exotic everywhere else.
As for the Land Route only thing, is this just another attempt to bury the slight Clovis point problem? That of it appearing only in France and America, and no-where else? Hard to explain if a population is migrating.
I have a bookshel full of this sort of stuff, love it.
All I needed to do to collect it was get a good relationhip with my local antiquarian bookshop (chocies on the holidays, stuff like that). They have a list of the things I like and bid for interesting books at auction because they know I'll buy it.
The contents usually pretty good too. Back in that era you find a lot of scientists elaborating on their idea's of space travel and aliens using a medium that held no risk of peer ridicule. It's surprisingly interesting, a backdoor into the passions of scienits in the fifties and sixties.
There's a fair bit of sexism in some books (E.E Doc Smith, I'm looking at you..), but every now and then you find some real gems.
I se a lot of 'cowboy story translated to space opera' offerings in this era as well. I'm a huge firefly fan, I think the cowboy story translates well to SF, so when I find these I really enjoy them.
Not for nothing did the guy who founded Greenpeace quit the organisation..
Now he endorses Nuclear Power.
(no cites, get your own google, it's not hard, and the stories are interesting)
It's odd really, the thing that Greenpeace and other Humous eating/Sandel wearing/Sunday Warrior types tried so hard to stop has turned out to be the thing that may well turn the tide on Global Warming. I'm wondering how much better our environment would be now if they'd found some other cause to get annoyed about instead of making nuclear power seem a bad thing.
Vista is the only operating system that supports DirectX10 at the moment
Kind of a meaningless statement really. To say Vista is the only OS that supports it is to imply that other OS's are somehow less able, but DirectX is a microsoft only tool, written just for windows, which is the only OS family that needs it in the first place. Linux and the others don't need it.
Anyway, the only reason XP doesn't support it is because Microsoft decided to prevent people still using XP when directX10 takes hold.
For the pedants, yes there is Wine/Cedega, but that's an emulator.
It was a rather expensive one, and yes, I did have extra's. I bought the best that was available, much to the annoyance of my friends. It had a speech synthesis chip for one (not that I could ever get it to work well).
The BASIC ROM didn't have room for any extra text; the only cruft in the whole 16K is the name "Roger" in the last five bytes. The optional disk filing system ROM doesn't have any extra text either (I just checked).
This was a long time ago, I might be wrong about exactly where it was, but it was a standard bbc model b with no software running, and the text was there. You should dig about more.
Wish I still had it, probably wouldn't take me long to find where the text was.
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What alternative to a publishing house is there?
I know of the thing about assigning them copyright, I wouldn't do it, even if it meant cutting my money.
Musicians can sell direct, Authors can't, at least not that I know of.
Copyright is actually the curtailing of the public's inherent rights
Is it?
I've been writing a novel for a few years, and I hope, if it gets published (reviewers have thus far raved, but I'm not ready yet), that I will be able to gain a reasonable return for my work. Ok, I don't care if people download it for nothing as well, I may even negotiate for a free audio version, but all the same, I want to retain the right to control my work.
You might find you feel the same if you produce a work. The choice is of course your own.
I don't think it's likely that any state is going to allow people to just download stuff for free without consequence. The issue here is whether the current methods being employed are illegal, denying defendants their rights through threats and suchlike.
I think it's likely that file sharing as it exists will die a death in the not too distant future. I also think that's its the reason for most of this draconian crap to start with, we are, as it were, all to blame.
Its very easy to point the finger at the RIAA and blame them. You can indeed get angry at them for their methods, but not their aim, which is to shut down illegal file sharing.
Even if, and I doubt this bit, it is harming the recording industry, who gives a crap. What I'm thinking about is the billions that could be made, boosting the economy, by providing cheap streaming media content. That's what the RIAA should have been concentrating on. I'm astonished that they had all that money, all those lawyers, and they still donkeyed it from day one.
Personally I long for the day when I can dial up the days entertainment on the net and have it delivered to me as and when I want, in the form I want, via a nice fat pipe to my house. I expect to pay for it too. I can't be alone in this thought.
I doubt even the majority of /.ers could keep a government hacker out of their systems.
I could. It's called 'unplugging your computer from the internet'.
The news feed you speak of existed entirely within the domain of the game world though. It described your activities in an acceptable way, because you wanted people to know those things, it was, as it were, part of the experience, and a cool one at that.
I don't have a problem with any site or game that advertises my activities on that site or in that game to others. I'd prefer a 'keep this secret' option. Don't want my neighbor to know I'm stockpiling weapons to launch an attack now, do I.
Except that most of the users I know refer to that image as their "screen saver". ...
Help me.
If they also refer to the computer itself as the 'Hard Drive', then it's too late for you.
Oh wait, they say these things to me too.
Nooooooo!!!!!11111one
Why buy an entire CD when only one track is worth listening to.
Back when I used to buy LP's I stopped getting single artist albums, and went for the compilations. OK, less 'cool', but usually better value.
I haven't bought an album for years, well, six years, maybe seven. It's no particular thing, just there hasn't been any way to differentiate the worthwhile artists from the never ending stream of, for want of a better word, drivel. There are a few I like, but bands are shuffled through the machine so fast it's hard to get a grip on whether or not I'll like them long term.
It always was unwelcome, and remained so long after the war, being a food of last resort that turns up when you are, almost without fail, not wanting to see it.
That's the most likely origin.
Nah, what we want to do is enforce the old 'AngelFire' instant web page as a worldwide standard. all backgrounds must be either animated or florescent, Text must be HUGE, all in caps with again, shocking bright colors only (preferably green on a flashing background).
I'm telling you, enforce this as a standard and the internets will be perfect...
Well, this buggers my zombie plan
If I were you I'd be looking forward to the fortune to be made by harnessing the energy generated by all your ancestors spinning in their graves....
This is awesome. Thank you. one of those rare times slashdot satisfies
Your welcome, feel free to add to the project, it's just little old me for now.
Want to see the actual orbital trajectories of the Voyager probes for yourself in 3d type of thing? Because you can, if you use my nBody modeling software.
If you go here:
http://code.google.com/p/nmod/downloads/list
and get the windows installer or linux source for my nbody modeling kit, and then download this:
http://www.politespider.com/nbo/time_series.zip
And unzip it to save you the bother of having to actually generate your own time series (3d time series model of the solar system), which can take a while. You can then watch both Voyager probes follow their orbits (with 24th august 2006 as their starting date), for 20,000 days of travel time.
This isn't a program with a scrummy easy interface I'm afraid, the viewer is console opengl. But there are instructions here:
http://code.google.com/p/nmod/wiki/nbview
And it's not too hard once you get the hang of it.
The orbits do not take termination shock into account, this is pure Newtonian motion. The dataset for the solar system has taken months to put together. It's incomplete, It only has our moon (zoom in for ages with Earth centred and you'll see it), the others have been tricky to get right.
Are you insinuating that people shouldn't protest on a full stomach?
Nope, just that most people who wax lyrical on the subject of the starving masses frequently have never, and will never, go without themselves, yet profess to understand and represent the people who do.
I think we should go ahead with nuclear power stations, and put electricity generating treadmills outside. That way when all the hippy 'love the earth' fools that come in their SUVs to campaign with full stomachs, you can generate power from their marches?
The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the "Library" GPL) has the terms you describe, but the GNU General Public License (without the "Lesser") requires one to release full source if any covered libraries are used.
So when I use GlibC to compile my C program I always have to release the source? Or if my Linux program makes use of a Library avaliable in Linux I have to release full source?
I has a doubt, there is a limit you know.
If they have a nigerian patent, even if it's obvious elsewhere, OLPC might be infringing it locally. At least it's a patent on hardware, not a combination of mouseclicks...
Actually, there's a pretty solid chance the Vikings made it to Canada for a bit. So they beat Chris by almost 500 years.
It's plausible, but is there any actual Archeological evidence of Norsemen getting to the US?
FYI The Word Viking was made up a lot later, They were Norsemen, a Germanic Tribe, and they never *ever* wore horned Helmets.
Nope, it means all peoples who turned up a few thousand years before the Columbus age are Americans, regardless of origin.
Humans only evolved on one continent, so it all depends on how long you have to be somewhere before you can be called Native. If the Criteria is having evolved there (as is often the case with most species), then Humans are native to a small region of Africa, and exotic everywhere else.
As for the Land Route only thing, is this just another attempt to bury the slight Clovis point problem? That of it appearing only in France and America, and no-where else? Hard to explain if a population is migrating.
I have a bookshel full of this sort of stuff, love it.
All I needed to do to collect it was get a good relationhip with my local antiquarian bookshop (chocies on the holidays, stuff like that). They have a list of the things I like and bid for interesting books at auction because they know I'll buy it.
The contents usually pretty good too. Back in that era you find a lot of scientists elaborating on their idea's of space travel and aliens using a medium that held no risk of peer ridicule. It's surprisingly interesting, a backdoor into the passions of scienits in the fifties and sixties.
There's a fair bit of sexism in some books (E.E Doc Smith, I'm looking at you..), but every now and then you find some real gems.
I se a lot of 'cowboy story translated to space opera' offerings in this era as well. I'm a huge firefly fan, I think the cowboy story translates well to SF, so when I find these I really enjoy them.
Not for nothing did the guy who founded Greenpeace quit the organisation..
Now he endorses Nuclear Power.
(no cites, get your own google, it's not hard, and the stories are interesting)
It's odd really, the thing that Greenpeace and other Humous eating/Sandel wearing/Sunday Warrior types tried so hard to stop has turned out to be the thing that may well turn the tide on Global Warming. I'm wondering how much better our environment would be now if they'd found some other cause to get annoyed about instead of making nuclear power seem a bad thing.
Pah, real geeks write their own OS, then orgasm over its floating point math capabilities....
Vista is the only operating system that supports DirectX10 at the moment
Kind of a meaningless statement really. To say Vista is the only OS that supports it is to imply that other OS's are somehow less able, but DirectX is a microsoft only tool, written just for windows, which is the only OS family that needs it in the first place. Linux and the others don't need it.
Anyway, the only reason XP doesn't support it is because Microsoft decided to prevent people still using XP when directX10 takes hold.
For the pedants, yes there is Wine/Cedega, but that's an emulator.
It was a rather expensive one, and yes, I did have extra's. I bought the best that was available, much to the annoyance of my friends. It had a speech synthesis chip for one (not that I could ever get it to work well).
The BASIC ROM didn't have room for any extra text; the only cruft in the whole 16K is the name "Roger" in the last five bytes. The optional disk filing system ROM doesn't have any extra text either (I just checked).
This was a long time ago, I might be wrong about exactly where it was, but it was a standard bbc model b with no software running, and the text was there. You should dig about more.
Wish I still had it, probably wouldn't take me long to find where the text was.