Nope, I only speak from my personal perspective, I have no problems with people making their own decisions. If he felt it was worth it, more power to him. Just for me personally, it's isn't worth it. If I had $7500 or whatever to fight a battle like this, I'd rather donate it to charity, and I do.
No, I completely understand him fighting to clear his name from the unlawful arrest. I just suggested, at least for me personally, the refusing to show receipt concept is a battle not worth fighting for.
Personally I would find it to be more socially beneficial to buy a product made from a local company or a company with a good history of taking care of it's employees.
I would find it funny and ironic if he went through all of this to make a statement, only to find out the item he bought was manufacturered in China by some kid working for $0.50. Guess it's just a balance of which fights are worth fighting.
It might not be "required by law" but it's part of doing business. I understand if I go somewhere I may have to show my receipt when I leave. If this helps them catch thieves and keep prices low then wonderful. I don't mind using up 30 seconds of my life if I can buy gadget X at 10% competitors price.
While my initial post was marked as troll, I still stand by my initial meaning. Great that he stood up about the license issue if he feels that is worth it. But it was almost like he was comparing "showing papers" to the police with the USSR and having to show papers to drive to another region, or going from West to East germany.
You have to look at it from a different perspective. I'm all for fighting for you rights, but for me personally this wasn't one worth fighting for. He took a simple task, made a statement and then things just stacked on top of each other.
Just don't see how people can compare an African-American sitting in the front of a bus making a statement, to some guy who doesnt want to show his receipt before exiting a place of business. Both might have similiar concepts, but are greatly different in their total value of civil disobedience.
Ok, I can understand wanting to fight for your rights, but come on. This whole thing could have been avoided had he just showed his receipt. He must have a lot of time on his hands if he can pick small fights like this just to make a statement.
To each their own I guess, but sounds like a waste of time to me and snobbish.
Not necessarily. The beauty of the license allows for forking. Just like you have the OS X variation. So OO will probably never die, but it might be
forked and morphed under a different name eventually.
Computing power will continue grow in direct relation to finite amount of knowledge we have regarding physics. For each advancement in our knowledge of particle physics the more apt we are to apply it toward electronics in general.
I agree. My point was if you made the toaster, at least you and only you should have the right to make and sell those toasters. But once someone buys the toaster it is their property, if they want to take it apart, hit it with a hammer, or use it for spare parts then it's their option as a consumer.
As long as I've been following these stories, it all comes down to people not really selling you anything anymore but a very restrictive right to rent something.
Thought the copyright office was to serve the people not an individual? Granted an author should get special treatment on something he has created, but at DMCA is about limiting fair use on "the people". So no, it's not effective imho.
Perhaps I read this wrong, but IBM wrote some code using Microsoft technology (IP) then plan to fuse it with the OO source tree?
Does this ring a bell for anyone? Isn't this what MS has been complaining about? Not trying to troll, but this sounds odd. Maybe IBM wrote the underlying code that was later used by MS in their product, in that case this is a wonderful donation. Though the way it's worded doesnt sound right.
Sounds promising that this can absorb radiation, but where does it end up? Say we *are* able to mine or synthesize tons of this stuff and clean up radioactive sites. Then we're still stuck with this material. Can this material once radioactive be refined for use in reactors for electricty?
Never understood the pricing of Cd's. Why is it, that a movie that took 100m to make can sell the DVD for $15-20, and the soundtrack cost the same? Heck the budget on just 1 blockbuster movie could make a couple completely tricked out recording studio's and after that it's the cost of CD duplication which is relatively inexpensive.
When you buy a big name CD I don't think your paying for the CD/music, you're reimbursing the studio for all the money it spent on marketing so you could hear it on the radio, MTV, etc.
A lot of people complain and say they listen to indy artist, and while I can appreciate a good song. How do you find these artist? Everyone know's Gwen Stephanie, and whoever is on the top billboards, and they are there more or less because of the amount of money that was dumped into marketing.
I can understand if you upload your video's to video.google.com they are going to assume some kind of ownership or rights as a distributor. But does this apply to gmail?! I would surely hope the wouldn't mind your data then offer a "pay us $10 to see what joe@gmail.com has been talking about".
Not sure how this service works. Know when I was very little back in the 80's you could call a number (thought bank) and it would have an automated time/weather. Seems like every city in the area had their own version of that. Is this the same thing? Or is there a centralized number for everone in the US to use in each timezone?
Wouldn't MS actually be using and distributing software using GPL'd code in order to be bound to it? If this is the case I hope the FSF goes after them, but if MS isn't using any code and says "we dont like it we wont use it" then I dont see the point of the case.
The reasons MS made DX10 Vista only is to force people into upgrading just so they can play Starcraft 2008. The developers are luckily breaking MS's grip but telling them, we're the content providers, the reason people buy your system now do what we need or we won't follow.
There are really two worlds. You have Dell which is selling Desktops, and I respect their guts for doing it. Then you have the embedded market. I think it would be orders of magnitude easier to be a linux OEM in the embedded world. Do you think people care if your Tivo runs linux or windows? Not if it works. Do people care if they can't get online and check their email? Yup. Two completely different domains. More power to Dell hope their Ubuntu system and investment works out for them.
As for the embedded world, they've had it made since the early days of SBC's running Linux in rom, Linksys WRT54G, and now Tivo's.
that's why some people are moving to linux and OS X. No matter what your believe on open vs closed source code. Linux is more "free" as in "freedom" than Windows, you don't hear people complaining about putting in a CD/DVD/USB key and having their system owned by some root-kit or DRM system that was installed w/o intervention. The freedom to own and do what I want with my hardware makes Linux a necessity. I agree with you. Running windows anymore is like running a kiosk. You pay for the hardware, and the software companies dictate what you do with that hardware. With linux, I dictate what I do with my hardware. It's that simple.
What happened to Sony? Growing up they always seemed like a great tech company, pumping out quality products that most people liked. When did politics and this kinda crap really start. It's sad.
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Nope, I only speak from my personal perspective, I have no problems with people making their own decisions. If he felt it was worth it, more power to him. Just for me personally, it's isn't worth it. If I had $7500 or whatever to fight a battle like this, I'd rather donate it to charity, and I do.
Personally I would find it to be more socially beneficial to buy a product made from a local company or a company with a good history of taking care of it's employees.
I would find it funny and ironic if he went through all of this to make a statement, only to find out the item he bought was manufacturered in China by some kid working for $0.50. Guess it's just a balance of which fights are worth fighting.
It might not be "required by law" but it's part of doing business. I understand if I go somewhere I may have to show my receipt when I leave. If this helps them catch thieves and keep prices low then wonderful. I don't mind using up 30 seconds of my life if I can buy gadget X at 10% competitors price. While my initial post was marked as troll, I still stand by my initial meaning. Great that he stood up about the license issue if he feels that is worth it. But it was almost like he was comparing "showing papers" to the police with the USSR and having to show papers to drive to another region, or going from West to East germany. You have to look at it from a different perspective. I'm all for fighting for you rights, but for me personally this wasn't one worth fighting for. He took a simple task, made a statement and then things just stacked on top of each other. Just don't see how people can compare an African-American sitting in the front of a bus making a statement, to some guy who doesnt want to show his receipt before exiting a place of business. Both might have similiar concepts, but are greatly different in their total value of civil disobedience.
To each their own I guess, but sounds like a waste of time to me and snobbish.
This looks promising for people who are blind. IF they can increase the resolution of it would be wonderful.
Not necessarily. The beauty of the license allows for forking. Just like you have the OS X variation. So OO will probably never die, but it might be forked and morphed under a different name eventually.
Computing power will continue grow in direct relation to finite amount of knowledge we have regarding physics. For each advancement in our knowledge of particle physics the more apt we are to apply it toward electronics in general.
As long as I've been following these stories, it all comes down to people not really selling you anything anymore but a very restrictive right to rent something.
Thought the copyright office was to serve the people not an individual? Granted an author should get special treatment on something he has created, but at DMCA is about limiting fair use on "the people". So no, it's not effective imho.
Perhaps I read this wrong, but IBM wrote some code using Microsoft technology (IP) then plan to fuse it with the OO source tree? Does this ring a bell for anyone? Isn't this what MS has been complaining about? Not trying to troll, but this sounds odd. Maybe IBM wrote the underlying code that was later used by MS in their product, in that case this is a wonderful donation. Though the way it's worded doesnt sound right.
personally I think a better example would be http://www.collegehumor.com/
Lots of questions still need to be asked.
Holy crap! 50megs for an installer that downloads something from the net? Couldn't you just use curl and call it a day and less than a meg. :)
SP3? Apparently it does or will exist. http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/08/09/windows-xp -sp3-leaked/
Movie Music
box office takings Store sells
rentals Radio (movies get money by selling to blockbuster, music pays to be put on the air)
TV rights Movies, Radio, anytime a song is played in another medium they get royalties.
So pretty much the same thing.
When you buy a big name CD I don't think your paying for the CD/music, you're reimbursing the studio for all the money it spent on marketing so you could hear it on the radio, MTV, etc.
A lot of people complain and say they listen to indy artist, and while I can appreciate a good song. How do you find these artist? Everyone know's Gwen Stephanie, and whoever is on the top billboards, and they are there more or less because of the amount of money that was dumped into marketing.
I can understand if you upload your video's to video.google.com they are going to assume some kind of ownership or rights as a distributor. But does this apply to gmail?! I would surely hope the wouldn't mind your data then offer a "pay us $10 to see what joe@gmail.com has been talking about".
Not sure how this service works. Know when I was very little back in the 80's you could call a number (thought bank) and it would have an automated time/weather. Seems like every city in the area had their own version of that. Is this the same thing? Or is there a centralized number for everone in the US to use in each timezone?
Wouldn't MS actually be using and distributing software using GPL'd code in order to be bound to it? If this is the case I hope the FSF goes after them, but if MS isn't using any code and says "we dont like it we wont use it" then I dont see the point of the case.
I do this often and rsync is wonderful for such a task.
The reasons MS made DX10 Vista only is to force people into upgrading just so they can play Starcraft 2008. The developers are luckily breaking MS's grip but telling them, we're the content providers, the reason people buy your system now do what we need or we won't follow.
As for the embedded world, they've had it made since the early days of SBC's running Linux in rom, Linksys WRT54G, and now Tivo's.
Know you were joking, but that is the case. In NY and a lot of other places, the government is banning trans fats.
that's why some people are moving to linux and OS X. No matter what your believe on open vs closed source code. Linux is more "free" as in "freedom" than Windows, you don't hear people complaining about putting in a CD/DVD/USB key and having their system owned by some root-kit or DRM system that was installed w/o intervention. The freedom to own and do what I want with my hardware makes Linux a necessity. I agree with you. Running windows anymore is like running a kiosk. You pay for the hardware, and the software companies dictate what you do with that hardware. With linux, I dictate what I do with my hardware. It's that simple.
What happened to Sony? Growing up they always seemed like a great tech company, pumping out quality products that most people liked. When did politics and this kinda crap really start. It's sad.