Personally I think next time I cop hears some little punk ass kid tell him they are going to spray pesticide in his face that the cop just shoots him on the spot. Save a lot of tax money and clean up some of the twits in the gene pool.
Cops are not judges. It is not their job to administer punishment.
If you don't understand why the cops did what they did in that video, you're an idiot.
What this idiot doesn't understand is why the cops did not confiscate the "poison." Don't they want the evidence so they this punk criminal can be put behind bars where he belongs?
I just figure it's a moral issue. The only reason Copyright is mentioned in the Constitution of the United States is because without it there would have been less of a chance for the newly founded country to build its own culture.
You might want to think again. For the first century or so, copyright in the US only applied to works by US authors. Thus copying works from other countries, or in the words of some zealots, stealing from other countries was highly encouraged by the original system.
I cannot for a moment imagine -- and would be embarrassed to admit to -- living in a country where I had to import my *culture* from overseas.
You are without clue. Only a handful of nations are able to produce domestic content that outsells Hollywood at the box office - South Korea, India and sometimes France. Maybe China too, but they do it by limiting the number western films "approved" for display to 25 or less each year.
Lolz. You sure do live up to your nic. "Everybody" is not just "the millions of idiots trying to avoid getting caught breaking the law" it is EVERYBODY. I would have though you could do better than that seeing as how it was YOU who brought them all into the fold when you wrote that "Everyone loses." That was the entire point of your original post wasn't it? To show that it wasn't just "the millions of idiots trying to avoid getting caught breaking the law" who were going to suffer as a result, right?
Then everyone loses. Not just you guys who want to get your music and movies for free.
That's the point. Once the MAFIAA's tactics become so burdensome that they kill the net for everybody then they will have made an enemy of everybody and that is an unsustainable situation. My bet is on everybody, from the sound of it, your bet is on the MAFIAA.
Charlie Demerjian has been making wild accusations against nVidia regularly for years. He got it right once with the overheating issue - and even in that case I believe it did not turn out to be as extensive as he "predicted" (hoped, more accurately).
I'm pretty sure it turned out to be even larger than he first reported - spreading from laptops to desktop cards. iirc, Nvidia had to take a $30M writedown on their quarterly earnings to cover the costs.
AT THE INQ, we were sure April Fool's Day jokes were limited to April 1st. So imagine our surprise when, this morning, April 2nd, we discovered Nvidia's âmythical' GTX275 card - paper launched today - was actually being made physically available by Palit./quote
Surprisingly, you left out the rest of the article that tends to support what Charlie wrote - namely that as far as anyone can tell, the only reason Palit has stock is because they significantly cut QC corners, skipping an entire QC turnaround cycle and that customers buying cards from this first batch are likely to get burned.
That you left out that extremely important qualification is interesting. It would suggest that you are even more guilty of doing exactly what you claim charlie does. Seems par for the course given all the criticism I've read of his writing, it is extremely rare that someone can critique charlie of being anything more than a harsh critic without resorting to deception.
It has been extremely well established that if your copyrighted (sign, building, whatever) is viewable from a public place, then an image taken from that public place does not infringe. Period.
Just because the man is right 1 time out of 10 doesn't make him great. Just remember he's wrong the other 9 times.
Please cite 2 cases where he was wrong.
When I said that he makes mountains out of molehills, I meant that he inveighs against anything they do regardless of whether it is really something bad/wrong or just the way things go. But it is easy to tell the difference between him bitching about something like arbitrary branding decisions and him reporting significant fuckups like the overheating chips, or before that the lack of price/performance competitiveness against ATI's products with their latest respective generations.
My impression of charlie's nvidia coverage is that he "sweats the small stuff," "makes mountains out of molehills," etc. But on the big stuff, he's pretty accurate. For example, he had the scoop on the overheating nvidia chips months before it came out anywhere else. That screw-up cost nvidia (and partners like HP) double and maybe triple digit millions of dollars of losses. I would consider the claims in that article to be "big stuff" - sending high-end cards to reviewers and low-end (and mostly unavailable at that) cards to customers is big stuff.
We'll all know for sure in a month or two, but for now, he's got the benefit of my doubt on this claim.
That most of this culture is available to anybody with $300 to spare is not an indictment of Obama's stinginess, nor of America's, but a celebration of our egalitarianism.
And probably a result of the large number of former entertainment industry lawyers now in various positions within his administration.
I agree that the obamaisms on the about.com link aren't of the same magnitude as the bushisms and I only got a chuckle out of a handful. But, Bush had 8 years to build up a repertoire. So I wouldn't count Obama out yet.
She should simply stop. Get a buttload of dirt cheap CDs in the bargain basement bin for $0.99 each, or better yet, get a lot more stuff off a site such as Magnatune or an Internet radio station, and let the PRS rot in hell in total irrelevance.
The issue is not radio versus personally owned copy. The PRS appears to be claiming that this is a public performance (see that PRS stands for Performing Rights Society). In which case it doesn't matter how the music is acquired, only that the way she is playing it in a way that she is not licensed for.
No it couldn't be ext2/3/4 because of the GPL. It just couldn't so give that idea up.
Just what does the GPL do to restrict data formats?
The answer, of course, is it doesn't do anything. The GPL is about distributing copies of code, not data structures.
There would be absolutely nothing stopping a company from coming up with an alternate implementation of ext2fs code and giving it a proprietary license, or even just an LGPL license, suitable for use by any closed-source implementation.
Hell, didn't Tso fund part of his work by selling ext2fs code to one of those proprietary partition resizers like 10 years ago?
And my point was that your point was moot. This thread is discussing software that people use for jobs that small form factors devices are, by definition, incapable of doing VM or no VM.
Lol. Just because I put a name to your rudeness doesn't excuse your original rudeness. You should be ashamed of trying to play the "my book dick is bigger than your book dick" card. Apparently you are, but just aren't willing to own up to it.
At least you can read my history. Or burn my karma to hell. But what does a AC have to lose?
No, you can't read YOUR history. You can read the history of an id. That means little more than nothing because people can run multiple ids for things like sockpuppets as well as to set up arbitrary personalities, any of which they might decide to break at any point. As for burning karma, big deal, it doesn't really hurt and you can always make more with a new id.
As for the high ID i change accounts quite often. About once a year.
Clearly the irony of that statement eludes you. Who knows if "TheTurtleMoves" won't be abandoned tomorrow. After all, by your own words, you've done it regularly for around a decade now.
but it's the short term consequences that are the current problem.
So.... the "devastation in the past thirty years" is short term, eh?
It took less than 30 years for the US to become that country that "made everything" to begin with.
Even if you're right, don't forget that China is grabbing an exponentially-increasing share of global resources, and worse yet, is going to be competing with the remaining industrialized nations for what's left.
Yeah so? That's their right as a nation. If their manufacturing and quality of life standards are brought up to a level equal as us, then we've got no right to complain. It isn't like global economics is a zero sum game either.
Regardless, we have some serious near-term consequences to deal with... like surviving long enough for China to become the kind of civilized high-technology Utopia that you seem to think they want to be. Personally, I think you're giving them way too much credit, but whatever.
Right, the end of the USA is here, seems like we've got about 3.7 more years until the economic timebomb blows.
I believe that China is like any other enormous group of people, some bad, some good and most interested in just doing better for themselves. Nothing utopian about it. Personally, I think you want to demonize them so as to justify policies that ignore the basic humanity of the citizens there, but whatever, it wouldn't be the first the USA has done that and it always works out great for us in the end.
This isn't raising tariffs. Tariffs are a tax. This is inspecting goods imported to be certain that they meet our standards.
Isitnow?
Note that it's not labor costs that make up most of the difference, but rather pollution countermeasures. For example, China dumps water untreated back into rivers. Here it needs to be filtered and cleaned. That costs a lot more money than whatever the labor difference is.
The Earth has been much warmer in the past and had much higher CO2 levels prior to industrialization, which is exactly why dinosaurs were so enormous, they needed enormous air cavities to extract sufficient oxygen.
Wait.. What?!!?
So you are claiming that the atmosphere during the dino's time was much harder to breath, so we humans, who did not exist back in that environment are going to be just fine?
Seems to me that just because the CO2 was free a long time ago doesn't mean that: (a) we don't have anything to do with freeing it up again or (b) we shouldn't be taking action to reduce the total amount being freed up.
The solution is not to raise tariffs because that has all kinds of long term problems for us. The solution is to raise the standard of living in china because that has all kinds of long term benefits for us.
"I agree; student laptops are useful for generic computer usage, but not that great for assuming a particular set of software, unless you're going to go the extra step and mandate that students buy a particular computer with a particular OS and software environment. If you aren't going to do that, you're stuck with some of your students running Windows, some OS X, a handful Linux, and very little you can assume about what they can install and run."
They could probably get away with distributing fully loaded and licensed virtual machines. Hand out usb fobs with the VM at a few central areas and maybe set them up to auto-expire after a year or 6 months or something so you can be sure that students will always have the current standard configuration.
Might take another year or two before the tech stragglers will have systems fast enough to run VMs without any pain, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least 95% of current students were suitably equipped today.
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Do you mean, would I collect all the evidence to make sure the criminal punk doesn't walk on a technicality?
Yes, yes I would.
Personally I think next time I cop hears some little punk ass kid tell him they are going to spray pesticide in his face that the cop just shoots him on the spot. Save a lot of tax money and clean up some of the twits in the gene pool.
Cops are not judges. It is not their job to administer punishment.
If you don't understand why the cops did what they did in that video, you're an idiot.
What this idiot doesn't understand is why the cops did not confiscate the "poison." Don't they want the evidence so they this punk criminal can be put behind bars where he belongs?
Clothesline are very ecologically friendly.
What a wonderful excuse for any wrong doing. Can I have your car towed away and crushed because driving is ecologically un-friendly?
Yeah, that's proportional to stringing a clothesline across your own back yard.
I just figure it's a moral issue. The only reason Copyright is mentioned in the Constitution of the United States is because without it there would have been less of a chance for the newly founded country to build its own culture.
You might want to think again. For the first century or so, copyright in the US only applied to works by US authors. Thus copying works from other countries, or in the words of some zealots, stealing from other countries was highly encouraged by the original system.
I cannot for a moment imagine -- and would be embarrassed to admit to -- living in a country where I had to import my *culture* from overseas.
You are without clue. Only a handful of nations are able to produce domestic content that outsells Hollywood at the box office - South Korea, India and sometimes France. Maybe China too, but they do it by limiting the number western films "approved" for display to 25 or less each year.
Lolz. You sure do live up to your nic.
"Everybody" is not just "the millions of idiots trying to avoid getting caught breaking the law" it is EVERYBODY.
I would have though you could do better than that seeing as how it was YOU who brought them all into the fold when you wrote that "Everyone loses." That was the entire point of your original post wasn't it? To show that it wasn't just "the millions of idiots trying to avoid getting caught breaking the law" who were going to suffer as a result, right?
Then everyone loses. Not just you guys who want to get your music and movies for free.
That's the point. Once the MAFIAA's tactics become so burdensome that they kill the net for everybody then they will have made an enemy of everybody and that is an unsustainable situation. My bet is on everybody, from the sound of it, your bet is on the MAFIAA.
Charlie Demerjian has been making wild accusations against nVidia regularly for years. He got it right once with the overheating issue - and even in that case I believe it did not turn out to be as extensive as he "predicted" (hoped, more accurately).
I'm pretty sure it turned out to be even larger than he first reported - spreading from laptops to desktop cards. iirc, Nvidia had to take a $30M writedown on their quarterly earnings to cover the costs.
AT THE INQ, we were sure April Fool's Day jokes were limited to April 1st. So imagine our surprise when, this morning, April 2nd, we discovered Nvidia's âmythical' GTX275 card - paper launched today - was actually being made physically available by Palit./quote
Surprisingly, you left out the rest of the article that tends to support what Charlie wrote - namely that as far as anyone can tell, the only reason Palit has stock is because they significantly cut QC corners, skipping an entire QC turnaround cycle and that customers buying cards from this first batch are likely to get burned.
That you left out that extremely important qualification is interesting. It would suggest that you are even more guilty of doing exactly what you claim charlie does. Seems par for the course given all the criticism I've read of his writing, it is extremely rare that someone can critique charlie of being anything more than a harsh critic without resorting to deception.
It has been extremely well established that if your copyrighted (sign, building, whatever) is viewable from a public place, then an image taken from that public place does not infringe. Period.
Maybe so, maybe not. Especially see the part about trademark.
Just because the man is right 1 time out of 10 doesn't make him great. Just remember he's wrong the other 9 times.
Please cite 2 cases where he was wrong.
When I said that he makes mountains out of molehills, I meant that he inveighs against anything they do regardless of whether it is really something bad/wrong or just the way things go. But it is easy to tell the difference between him bitching about something like arbitrary branding decisions and him reporting significant fuckups like the overheating chips, or before that the lack of price/performance competitiveness against ATI's products with their latest respective generations.
My impression of charlie's nvidia coverage is that he "sweats the small stuff," "makes mountains out of molehills," etc. But on the big stuff, he's pretty accurate. For example, he had the scoop on the overheating nvidia chips months before it came out anywhere else. That screw-up cost nvidia (and partners like HP) double and maybe triple digit millions of dollars of losses. I would consider the claims in that article to be "big stuff" - sending high-end cards to reviewers and low-end (and mostly unavailable at that) cards to customers is big stuff.
We'll all know for sure in a month or two, but for now, he's got the benefit of my doubt on this claim.
That most of this culture is available to anybody with $300 to spare is not an indictment of Obama's stinginess, nor of America's, but a celebration of our egalitarianism.
And probably a result of the large number of former entertainment industry lawyers now in various positions within his administration.
I agree that the obamaisms on the about.com link aren't of the same magnitude as the bushisms and I only got a chuckle out of a handful.
But, Bush had 8 years to build up a repertoire. So I wouldn't count Obama out yet.
She should simply stop. Get a buttload of dirt cheap CDs in the bargain basement bin for $0.99 each, or better yet, get a lot more stuff off a site such as Magnatune or an Internet radio station, and let the PRS rot in hell in total irrelevance.
The issue is not radio versus personally owned copy. The PRS appears to be claiming that this is a public performance (see that PRS stands for Performing Rights Society). In which case it doesn't matter how the music is acquired, only that the way she is playing it in a way that she is not licensed for.
No it couldn't be ext2/3/4 because of the GPL. It just couldn't so give that idea up.
Just what does the GPL do to restrict data formats?
The answer, of course, is it doesn't do anything.
The GPL is about distributing copies of code, not data structures.
There would be absolutely nothing stopping a company from coming up with an alternate implementation of ext2fs code and giving it a proprietary license, or even just an LGPL license, suitable for use by any closed-source implementation.
Hell, didn't Tso fund part of his work by selling ext2fs code to one of those proprietary partition resizers like 10 years ago?
And my point was that your point was moot. This thread is discussing software that people use for jobs that small form factors devices are, by definition, incapable of doing VM or no VM.
Lol. Just because I put a name to your rudeness doesn't excuse your original rudeness.
You should be ashamed of trying to play the "my book dick is bigger than your book dick" card.
Apparently you are, but just aren't willing to own up to it.
You are a freak and clearly not a student. Nobody takes class notes, nor writes essays or programs on their phone.
At least you can read my history. Or burn my karma to hell. But what does a AC have to lose?
No, you can't read YOUR history. You can read the history of an id. That means little more than nothing because people can run multiple ids for things like sockpuppets as well as to set up arbitrary personalities, any of which they might decide to break at any point. As for burning karma, big deal, it doesn't really hurt and you can always make more with a new id.
As for the high ID i change accounts quite often. About once a year.
Clearly the irony of that statement eludes you. Who knows if "TheTurtleMoves" won't be abandoned tomorrow. After all, by your own words, you've done it regularly for around a decade now.
but it's the short term consequences that are the current problem.
So.... the "devastation in the past thirty years" is short term, eh?
It took less than 30 years for the US to become that country that "made everything" to begin with.
Even if you're right, don't forget that China is grabbing an exponentially-increasing share of global resources, and worse yet, is going to be competing with the remaining industrialized nations for what's left.
Yeah so? That's their right as a nation. If their manufacturing and quality of life standards are brought up to a level equal as us, then we've got no right to complain. It isn't like global economics is a zero sum game either.
Regardless, we have some serious near-term consequences to deal with ... like surviving long enough for China to become the kind of civilized high-technology Utopia that you seem to think they want to be. Personally, I think you're giving them way too much credit, but whatever.
Right, the end of the USA is here, seems like we've got about 3.7 more years until the economic timebomb blows.
I believe that China is like any other enormous group of people, some bad, some good and most interested in just doing better for themselves. Nothing utopian about it. Personally, I think you want to demonize them so as to justify policies that ignore the basic humanity of the citizens there, but whatever, it wouldn't be the first the USA has done that and it always works out great for us in the end.
This isn't raising tariffs. Tariffs are a tax. This is inspecting goods imported to be certain that they meet our standards.
Isitnow?
Note that it's not labor costs that make up most of the difference, but rather pollution countermeasures. For example, China dumps water untreated back into rivers. Here it needs to be filtered and cleaned. That costs a lot more money than whatever the labor difference is.
The ACs today. Grow a pair and put you name with your ideology.
As if "TheTurtleMoves," with a very high UID at that, is any less anonymous.
The Earth has been much warmer in the past and had much higher CO2 levels prior to industrialization, which is exactly why dinosaurs were so enormous, they needed enormous air cavities to extract sufficient oxygen.
Wait.. What?!!?
So you are claiming that the atmosphere during the dino's time was much harder to breath, so we humans, who did not exist back in that environment are going to be just fine?
Seems to me that just because the CO2 was free a long time ago doesn't mean that:
(a) we don't have anything to do with freeing it up again or
(b) we shouldn't be taking action to reduce the total amount being freed up.
You won't see any buggy whips either.
The solution is not to raise tariffs because that has all kinds of long term problems for us.
The solution is to raise the standard of living in china because that has all kinds of long term benefits for us.
"I agree; student laptops are useful for generic computer usage, but not that great for assuming a particular set of software, unless you're going to go the extra step and mandate that students buy a particular computer with a particular OS and software environment. If you aren't going to do that, you're stuck with some of your students running Windows, some OS X, a handful Linux, and very little you can assume about what they can install and run."
They could probably get away with distributing fully loaded and licensed virtual machines. Hand out usb fobs with the VM at a few central areas and maybe set them up to auto-expire after a year or 6 months or something so you can be sure that students will always have the current standard configuration.
Might take another year or two before the tech stragglers will have systems fast enough to run VMs without any pain, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least 95% of current students were suitably equipped today.