Has this guy even tried to figure out how many perfectly leagal post one needs to type to have the same bandwidth impact as 1 CD download. Sjeesh... Talk about flawed conclusions.
"Without copyright, then anyone could take the code, including large corporations, and modify it for their own interest, and sell it without releasing the source code"
So? We've got the original source code right? So what's the problem? The company can earn money on enhancements until someone else figures out how to do the same by creating his own code. Where is the problem.
What you are saying, is that Open souce needs copyrights because otherwise large cooperations would steal the copyright. Only... They couldn't because it wouldn't exist. Aha!
So copyright is only important to OpenSource because it exists.
I agree,
In fact it couldn't be that hard to store only fragments of a file on any given PC. Thereby forcing the download to come from multiple and more importantly, contantly changing peers.
What's more, noone could be convicted of hosting any working copy of any software/movie/mp3.
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Or did I just conspire to commit fraud... Hmm, I guess it's back undergound for me...
Software titles that legitimately sell for thousands of dollars
Nahuh... Software isn't sold, it's licensed! Or was that not the point.
For instance: If you download MS SQL enterprise server. It will cost anywhere between $10.000 till $30.000, depending on the use, to buy a license to use it. You do NOT pay for the software.
So if you download MS SQL from my server you can't put a value to it unless you use it. AND WHEN YOU DO... You are breaking the law. Not ME. (You and me used argumentatively not referring to actual you and me)
So not only where they not P2P, the number $25.000 is probably not all that concrete either.
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P.S. If I'm not right it's always the world that's wrong.
CSA is of little importance here. The ISP should have the right to expell the SPAMMER on grounds of "End User Agreement" violation, as spamming violates his reasonable use clause.
I think this whole idea of it being illegal to even try to crack copy-protection is inherently flawed.
In fact, it takes away completely the importance of actually creating copy protection of any level of quality.
It's like locking your bike with a 1 digit combination lock that only goes up to 9 and then ranting about the fact that it gets stolen. I think this whole idea of it beeing illegal to even try to crack copy-protection is inherently flawed.
In fact, it takes away completely the importance of actually creating copy protection of any level of quality.
It's like locking you bike with a 1 digit combination lock that only goes up to 9 and then ranting about the fact that it gets stolen.
Apparently one only has to say the work is copy-protected. No actual protection seem to be required.
Where is the obligation of the owner to actually protect his property?
We have it for physical property. In many countries it is illegal to keep expensive items in plain sight in you car for instance. Its just to tempting. Hell even adam and eve couldn't help themselves when it came to forbidden fruit. While I don't necesarily agree with the idea that keeping a laptop on the front seet of your car is asking for it, I do object to it beeing illegal to crack copy protection by pressing the shift button. (talking about the extreemly lame copy protection used on some audio-CDs)
In fact it's not cracking at all.
You can't charge someone for breaking and entering if you left the door open, right?
You can't shoot your neighbour for tresspassing if you didn't put up a fence either.
So where are the definitions of what actuallt IS a copy-protection?You don't even have to create copy protection, you just have to say its copy protected.
"What can I say, you make a bad product, people don't buy it and people don't care about it."
Well I guess common sense prevailed this time. However, this is not always the case. Usually if someone has a crappy product they stick a phone in it.
Or if that crappy product happens to BE a phone, well, sticking a camera in it or in this case a gaming console usually does the jedi-mind-trick on at least part of the population.
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How bout these two scenarios.
1. Jobs tells crew to make a $500 iMac.
2. Apple personnel set out to design and produce a cheap iMac with that goal in mind
3. Rumor leaks to press
4. Everyone gets excited
5. Apple sues a website for publishing the rumour.
6. Everyone gets pissed.
7. Court rules in favour of Apple
8. Everyone gets scared to post bleeding edge material.
9. Only strong and financially viable media have the finacial backing to be able to risk reporting news that is not sanctioned by large cooperations. (Seeing as there is now a good chance you'll get sued)
10. Everyone loses
I prefer this one:
1. Jobs tells crew to make a $500 iMac.
2. Apple personnel set out to design and produce a cheap iMac with that goal in mind
3. Rumor leaks to press
4. Everyone gets excited
5. Apple goes on the record to confirm or deny the rumours depending on the validity of the rumour and the way they want the market and public to react. Thereby either calming market tensions or elevating public intrest.
6. Everyone gets correct info.
7. Everyone is wins.
It's just what Linux needs to really push into the business desktop.
Businesses need light and soft development environments where non-proIT people can create a small DB and a couple of forms and reports.
Sure, it's not going to spawn any revolutionary programming, but it will help businesses achieve their goals.
RAD is very important to businesses. And VB is pretty good in that respect. Now a smart company would say:"Any VB program that has a longer life or higher business impact that expected or defined must be reviewed and corrected by IT professionals." or something like that to curb the wildfire of bad programming.
But they can't cut out my brain! Which is why I don't buy all the biometrics/smart card crap. Except maybe as an added layer in comination with passwords.
Is it really so hard to remember 10 or 12 passwords. Sheesh...
15 years ago people were used to remembering more phone numbers than that.
If it has a speaker saying "where's the toilet" and "how can I get back to the hotel" then that in itself is a nice feature.
I think it's a great idea. Put in a couple of 100 standard sentences. "Can we have some more water", "check please" etc... etc... Stuff it with some maps of the area, maybee a gps locator. It's got to be a helpful tool right?
And now the single logon in NT domains should follow suite.
Single logons make users to lazy to remember passwords. It's like a cell phone that miraculously makes you forget phone numbers you've know for decades.
Its like a GPS navigation system that makes you forget how to get home.
People should get used to using different logons and passwords for different systems. It's just more secure. And it avoid people asking the stupidest questions like:"why is my NT password locked out, while my mail password isn't."
I'm not Dutch. But Belgian. (maar het zou 'aso' zijn om in het nederlands verder te gaan:-))
Just look at the TV. The amount of misleading advertisments is astonishing. As far as legality is concerned, I have no specific info, but I suppose that the true but misleading statement (according to the ruling) that AMD's system "helps in the protection agains virusses" is about the same as a dreft (a dishwashing detergent) promissing to clean your pots without scrubbing and not doing so. Or versatel promissing you free phone calls but putting the fine print so small and fast, no normal person kan read it on a TV screen. As far as I remember, in the states the fine print actually needs to be read out-loud during a commercial. (?or am I mistaken?)
And in radio the fine print is just left out all together. Now if the courts would have said:"clarify the fact that is is not an anti-virus system" then I would have understood.
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Has this guy even tried to figure out how many perfectly leagal post one needs to type to have the same bandwidth impact as 1 CD download. Sjeesh... Talk about flawed conclusions.
"Without copyright, then anyone could take the code, including large corporations, and modify it for their own interest, and sell it without releasing the source code"
So? We've got the original source code right? So what's the problem? The company can earn money on enhancements until someone else figures out how to do the same by creating his own code. Where is the problem.
What you are saying, is that Open souce needs copyrights because otherwise large cooperations would steal the copyright. Only... They couldn't because it wouldn't exist. Aha!
So copyright is only important to OpenSource because it exists.
If not you'd be in a Catch 22 or maybe Catch 11.
I agree,
In fact it couldn't be that hard to store only fragments of a file on any given PC. Thereby forcing the download to come from multiple and more importantly, contantly changing peers.
What's more, noone could be convicted of hosting any working copy of any software/movie/mp3.
--
Or did I just conspire to commit fraud... Hmm, I guess it's back undergound for me...
Software titles that legitimately sell for thousands of dollars
Nahuh... Software isn't sold, it's licensed! Or was that not the point.
For instance: If you download MS SQL enterprise server. It will cost anywhere between $10.000 till $30.000, depending on the use, to buy a license to use it. You do NOT pay for the software.
So if you download MS SQL from my server you can't put a value to it unless you use it. AND WHEN YOU DO... You are breaking the law. Not ME. (You and me used argumentatively not referring to actual you and me)
So not only where they not P2P, the number $25.000 is probably not all that concrete either.
--
P.S. If I'm not right it's always the world that's wrong.
If I were a cunt I'd be offended at the comparison.....
CSA is of little importance here. The ISP should have the right to expell the SPAMMER on grounds of "End User Agreement" violation, as spamming violates his reasonable use clause.
1)Install it.
2)Sit back.
3)Take notes.
And dare I suggest... Post it so we can take a peek...
I repeated the first paragraph in previous post.
Any chance you guys could find it in your heart to ignore that?
I think this whole idea of it being illegal to even try to crack copy-protection is inherently flawed.
In fact, it takes away completely the importance of actually creating copy protection of any level of quality.
It's like locking your bike with a 1 digit combination lock that only goes up to 9 and then ranting about the fact that it gets stolen. I think this whole idea of it beeing illegal to even try to crack copy-protection is inherently flawed.
In fact, it takes away completely the importance of actually creating copy protection of any level of quality.
It's like locking you bike with a 1 digit combination lock that only goes up to 9 and then ranting about the fact that it gets stolen.
Apparently one only has to say the work is copy-protected. No actual protection seem to be required.
Where is the obligation of the owner to actually protect his property?
We have it for physical property. In many countries it is illegal to keep expensive items in plain sight in you car for instance. Its just to tempting. Hell even adam and eve couldn't help themselves when it came to forbidden fruit. While I don't necesarily agree with the idea that keeping a laptop on the front seet of your car is asking for it, I do object to it beeing illegal to crack copy protection by pressing the shift button. (talking about the extreemly lame copy protection used on some audio-CDs)
In fact it's not cracking at all.
You can't charge someone for breaking and entering if you left the door open, right?
You can't shoot your neighbour for tresspassing if you didn't put up a fence either.
So where are the definitions of what actuallt IS a copy-protection?You don't even have to create copy protection, you just have to say its copy protected.
is can install any linux distros on this sucker....
Anyone and ideas?
Maybe not, but a husler getting hustled does present some form of poetic justice from time to time.
"What can I say, you make a bad product, people don't buy it and people don't care about it."
Well I guess common sense prevailed this time. However, this is not always the case. Usually if someone has a crappy product they stick a phone in it.
Or if that crappy product happens to BE a phone, well, sticking a camera in it or in this case a gaming console usually does the jedi-mind-trick on at least part of the population.
I guess karma can only be stretched so far.
I'll have to check, but I think I still have the program that converted JPG adn BMP to FIF.
First problem however was that no other program had the filters to open FIF.
Second problem was that it took ages to encode a file. I'm talking minutes. Most times even tens of minutes. Way to long to wait for saving a file.
However, I was running a 486DX2-66 at the time. Maybe I should try to find the program an try again.
No you are missing the point...
There is no objective true or false.
There is only opinion and truth in numbers.
How bout these two scenarios.
1. Jobs tells crew to make a $500 iMac.
2. Apple personnel set out to design and produce a cheap iMac with that goal in mind
3. Rumor leaks to press
4. Everyone gets excited
5. Apple sues a website for publishing the rumour.
6. Everyone gets pissed.
7. Court rules in favour of Apple
8. Everyone gets scared to post bleeding edge material.
9. Only strong and financially viable media have the finacial backing to be able to risk reporting news that is not sanctioned by large cooperations. (Seeing as there is now a good chance you'll get sued)
10. Everyone loses
I prefer this one:
1. Jobs tells crew to make a $500 iMac.
2. Apple personnel set out to design and produce a cheap iMac with that goal in mind
3. Rumor leaks to press
4. Everyone gets excited
5. Apple goes on the record to confirm or deny the rumours depending on the validity of the rumour and the way they want the market and public to react. Thereby either calming market tensions or elevating public intrest.
6. Everyone gets correct info.
7. Everyone is wins.
While putting up a fence, I used a rotating laser to mark the strait line to guide me.
The laser was happily rotating 360 at several 100 RPM s a plane flies over my house as they do about 10 times a day.
Should I be worried about a 25 year prison term for that?
Look I'm just saying that 25 years is a lot for throwing a pencil from across the room.
Especially if there was no intent to kill.
I hope I'm not the only one who sees the difference between shining a laser dot on a jet and "trying to blind a pilot".
Come on!
That's like saying, throwing a pencil at someone's head is the same as attempted murder.
Ever tried pointing a laser at someones eyes from sereral 1000 feet. Not to mention the fact that you are standing UNDER the plane.
The was no intent.
For what it's worth YES.
It's just what Linux needs to really push into the business desktop.
Businesses need light and soft development environments where non-proIT people can create a small DB and a couple of forms and reports.
Sure, it's not going to spawn any revolutionary programming, but it will help businesses achieve their goals.
RAD is very important to businesses. And VB is pretty good in that respect. Now a smart company would say:"Any VB program that has a longer life or higher business impact that expected or defined must be reviewed and corrected by IT professionals." or something like that to curb the wildfire of bad programming.
But they can't cut out my brain! Which is why I don't buy all the biometrics/smart card crap. Except maybe as an added layer in comination with passwords.
Is it really so hard to remember 10 or 12 passwords. Sheesh...
15 years ago people were used to remembering more phone numbers than that.
He who gets something for free usually gets what he pays for...
"no chance of a username/password being taken by someone else and used to log in" You say... Hmmm....
I wonder what would happen if someone would steal your wallet... hmmm... (eyes opened widely and wildly)
If it has a speaker saying "where's the toilet" and "how can I get back to the hotel" then that in itself is a nice feature.
I think it's a great idea. Put in a couple of 100 standard sentences. "Can we have some more water", "check please" etc... etc... Stuff it with some maps of the area, maybee a gps locator. It's got to be a helpful tool right?
And now the single logon in NT domains should follow suite.
Single logons make users to lazy to remember passwords. It's like a cell phone that miraculously makes you forget phone numbers you've know for decades.
Its like a GPS navigation system that makes you forget how to get home.
People should get used to using different logons and passwords for different systems. It's just more secure. And it avoid people asking the stupidest questions like:"why is my NT password locked out, while my mail password isn't."
I'm not Dutch. But Belgian. (maar het zou 'aso' zijn om in het nederlands verder te gaan :-))
Just look at the TV. The amount of misleading advertisments is astonishing. As far as legality is concerned, I have no specific info, but I suppose that the true but misleading statement (according to the ruling) that AMD's system "helps in the protection agains virusses" is about the same as a dreft (a dishwashing detergent) promissing to clean your pots without scrubbing and not doing so. Or versatel promissing you free phone calls but putting the fine print so small and fast, no normal person kan read it on a TV screen. As far as I remember, in the states the fine print actually needs to be read out-loud during a commercial. (?or am I mistaken?)
And in radio the fine print is just left out all together. Now if the courts would have said:"clarify the fact that is is not an anti-virus system" then I would have understood.