Property can be inherited. Intellectual property can be inherited as well.
You seem to be making two arguments. The first assumes an exact equivalance between 'ideas' and 'material items'. In your example she's inheriting physical things - money, buldings, equipment. In the intellectual property example there is no 'thing'. The inheritance is government restriction on the use of an idea. I don't see this equivalence as given.
The second, or lease example, just begs the question. I agree that if an inheritor has a contract with the government in the form of copyright protection that stipulates the lease is inheritable, it should be upheld. However, the question is whether the government should be signing these contracts (passing extended copyright laws) at all. I don't see this as given either.
Almost any other commercial venture would have buckled under pressure - internal or external - to remove material obviously offensive to such a major client. Of the legion of things Slashdot does wrong (a moderation system open to astroturfing, poor editing, repetitious stories ending in trite tag lines, etc.) this is one thing they do impressively right.
Think of all that could be done with kde/gnome - but instead they became win98 clones until just recently.Most of the time people here complain that the *nix desktops are too innovative and not enough like Win.whatever. The desktop I'm looking at right now has a tabbed browser in a tabbed windowmanager bordered on the right by Gkrellm displaying the weather, a local webcam and system resources. I'd be hard pressed to say my 2k box at work is as innovative.
The framers living in a land without "well-defined borders" when they launched the revolution and during the western expansion. They had plenty of experience with that particular situation. They knew what they were talking about when devising the Constitution.
These are indivduals doing something they enjoy who share the results of their labour for free and owe you or me nothing. To suggest they do it to 'for a negative charge', as if the intent is to cause damage, is in the poorest possible taste. If I were an OSS developer sentiments such as yours would make me consider taking up another hobby.
Sorry, completely untrue and perversely ironic. Rabid audiophiles are precisely the people who position speakers to minimize standing waves, critically measure the their positions, heights, and angles, won't allow a coffee table between the listening seat and speakers, buy acoustic treatment or make use of natural dampers such as bookcases, etc., in search of better sound. It's the audio engineers I know - and that's very, very many of them - who don't give a shit and usually buy the speakers with the biggest woofers and sit them on the floor. Finally, Home Theater isn't a hi-end mag. Not even close.
So? In contrast, from an xterm in Gentoo I typed 'emerge pure-ftpd' and had a stock ftp server up in five minutes with no other intervention. Your experience is an example of failure of one implementation of a third party app in one distribution using one type of package manager. It's a RedHat failure, not a Linux failure. My Windows TV card software won't play full screen, something XAWTV does handily in Linux. Is this a Windows failure?
Incidentally, it sounds like wu-ftp installed twice and your start script/command is still pointed to the old version. Running rpm with the query switch will tell you where the new version was installed.
I would suggest that neither statement is accurate, the public doesn't own IP and neither does the originator. Ideas aren't property. It's more accurate, and makes for a more coherent argument, to say copyright protects the use of an idea for the duration of its term. It better illustrates the artificial nature of copyright and its original intent.
Good post (sorry, no mod points.) The LSB, or Universal/Galactic/Pan-Galactic linux, might be the ground prep necessary for stimulating the development of such tools.
It never occurred to me until reading the last sentence of your post, doesn't this in essence give Microsoft (and others) the power to create law? By standing behind EULAs it could be argued that governments give corporations a blank cheque to create legislation. "Put it in your EULA and we'll enforce it." (My EULA: IANAL)
If you want a binary distro, use a binary distro. There are dozens around. Gentoo isn't for you and that's not a failing on the distro's part. I've always found a mirror first try and they've almost always been DSL-saturating fast. You need 4000 available packages and instantaneous perfect security? And don't find that contradictory?
The Bad: Compiling from source means installation isn't a boot-a-CD/walk-away operation, a down side for general desktop use. You really pay up front when installing Gentoo.
The Good: If you got through the install, you've payed up front. Maintaining your system afterwards is a breeze for experienced linux users. Much easier than my experiences with Mandrake or edHat. Gentoo really is about package management so don't expect custom GUI management utilities a la YAST, etc., but dependancies are handled invisibly. Nor do I have to compile everything with KDE, Gnome or Alsa support, three things I never use.
The Best: 98% of everything I install works, including DVD, OpenGL games, WINE, all the things that were much harder or impossible for me in other distros, including Suse, RedHat, Mandrake and Caldera. If a package is broken it's usually updated relatively soon and the next 'emerge' works fine. Gentoo has, other than the occasional MOHAA, caused my W2K partition to gather dust.
Mod this up. Normal radio station practice is to record all music to hard drive in (usually) MP2 format and then multi-band compress the hell out of it before broadcast. Most music you'll hear on IBOC will be double-encoded MPG with extreme processing accentuating the noise and distortion coding generates. It will not sound pretty. It also been my experience that codecs don't respond well to highly processed audio, my guess being because of the increased L-R it generates.
In Canada we can run 192 to 224 kbps and still have a dim hope of preserving a semblance of quality.
This isn't meant as a slight on cr@ckwhore, but an 'Informative' mod? I don't know of any applications in X that don't adhere to left-click-highlite/middle-click-paste. It's as universal a behaviour as any in Linuxland and has been for years. It also works between X apps and windowed consoles.
I agree the original post is just another editorial troll, but there's no reason to assume that judges aren't as stupid or biased as anyone with equivalent education. They just know more about the letter of the law. The argument from authority is usually a bad one.
Not even decent as a troll, and your concept of proof-of-fact won't get you to the Nobel podium anytime soon. In seven years of using and supporting MS software, I rarely meet anyone outside of businesses who purchased Windows or the Office suites. Games - yes, core - no. Most 'borrow' from work or friends. Windows users are no less inclined to part with cash than Linux users, it's just the latter come by their software honestly.
That has to be about the most depressing thing I've read all year, giving an authentic victim of a tragedy, sick of people who weren't there leeching personal gratification from the event, shit for asking them to let it go. You know perfectly well the original post referred to "grievers" who lost no one on September 11 and are using the event as an opportunity to draw attention. "We're victims too! Pity us!" Nauseating.
The desktop is no place for the ignorant and its no place to try to re-invent the wheel because users don't fuckin' want it, okay?
I do, which is why I use Fluxbox. Don't tell me what I want.
Apple spent sixty million bucks developping the GUI.
Apple spent millions, as did Microsoft on a different desktop. If $$$ are the only criterion, which desktop is right? The one which cost the most?
If you think you are going to come up with some thing so overwhelmigly better that it will blow the old order away, then you are an arrogant ass-hole.
Then what does it mean when the company that spent millions makes wholesale changes to the desktop, as Mac did in the transition between 9 and OS X? Does that make them their own arrogant assholes? This argument from the authority of cash never washed and never will. Ironically, Apple's solution looks like the XFCE, FVWM or Afterstep dock with a finder, each themselves a spin-off of Job's NextStep desktop, developed without the benefit of millions of research dollars.
Do the Apple GUI guidelines contain valuable information? Undoubtedly. Does it mean the Mac desktop is the world's best? Only for the Mac Faithful.
The goal of all transmission media is to replicate the input as closely as possible. Anything that intentionally alters the audio will sound better on some samples and worse on others, better to some people and worse to others. No change is the only safe bet.
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You seem to be making two arguments. The first assumes an exact equivalance between 'ideas' and 'material items'. In your example she's inheriting physical things - money, buldings, equipment. In the intellectual property example there is no 'thing'. The inheritance is government restriction on the use of an idea. I don't see this equivalence as given.
The second, or lease example, just begs the question. I agree that if an inheritor has a contract with the government in the form of copyright protection that stipulates the lease is inheritable, it should be upheld. However, the question is whether the government should be signing these contracts (passing extended copyright laws) at all. I don't see this as given either.
Almost any other commercial venture would have buckled under pressure - internal or external - to remove material obviously offensive to such a major client. Of the legion of things Slashdot does wrong (a moderation system open to astroturfing, poor editing, repetitious stories ending in trite tag lines, etc.) this is one thing they do impressively right.
Think of all that could be done with kde/gnome - but instead they became win98 clones until just recently.Most of the time people here complain that the *nix desktops are too innovative and not enough like Win.whatever. The desktop I'm looking at right now has a tabbed browser in a tabbed windowmanager bordered on the right by Gkrellm displaying the weather, a local webcam and system resources. I'd be hard pressed to say my 2k box at work is as innovative.
The framers living in a land without "well-defined borders" when they launched the revolution and during the western expansion. They had plenty of experience with that particular situation. They knew what they were talking about when devising the Constitution.
These are indivduals doing something they enjoy who share the results of their labour for free and owe you or me nothing. To suggest they do it to 'for a negative charge', as if the intent is to cause damage, is in the poorest possible taste. If I were an OSS developer sentiments such as yours would make me consider taking up another hobby.
Not if we're talking about terrestrial physics, though there may be some mystic plane where what you say is true.
Sorry, completely untrue and perversely ironic. Rabid audiophiles are precisely the people who position speakers to minimize standing waves, critically measure the their positions, heights, and angles, won't allow a coffee table between the listening seat and speakers, buy acoustic treatment or make use of natural dampers such as bookcases, etc., in search of better sound. It's the audio engineers I know - and that's very, very many of them - who don't give a shit and usually buy the speakers with the biggest woofers and sit them on the floor. Finally, Home Theater isn't a hi-end mag. Not even close.
Incidentally, it sounds like wu-ftp installed twice and your start script/command is still pointed to the old version. Running rpm with the query switch will tell you where the new version was installed.
I would suggest that neither statement is accurate, the public doesn't own IP and neither does the originator. Ideas aren't property. It's more accurate, and makes for a more coherent argument, to say copyright protects the use of an idea for the duration of its term. It better illustrates the artificial nature of copyright and its original intent.
Good post (sorry, no mod points.) The LSB, or Universal/Galactic/Pan-Galactic linux, might be the ground prep necessary for stimulating the development of such tools.
It never occurred to me until reading the last sentence of your post, doesn't this in essence give Microsoft (and others) the power to create law? By standing behind EULAs it could be argued that governments give corporations a blank cheque to create legislation. "Put it in your EULA and we'll enforce it." (My EULA: IANAL)
Are you sure? My /usr/portage/distfiles directory contains plenty of diff (.patch) files.
If you want a binary distro, use a binary distro. There are dozens around. Gentoo isn't for you and that's not a failing on the distro's part. I've always found a mirror first try and they've almost always been DSL-saturating fast. You need 4000 available packages and instantaneous perfect security? And don't find that contradictory?
The Bad: Compiling from source means installation isn't a boot-a-CD/walk-away operation, a down side for general desktop use. You really pay up front when installing Gentoo.
The Good: If you got through the install, you've payed up front. Maintaining your system afterwards is a breeze for experienced linux users. Much easier than my experiences with Mandrake or edHat. Gentoo really is about package management so don't expect custom GUI management utilities a la YAST, etc., but dependancies are handled invisibly. Nor do I have to compile everything with KDE, Gnome or Alsa support, three things I never use.
The Best: 98% of everything I install works, including DVD, OpenGL games, WINE, all the things that were much harder or impossible for me in other distros, including Suse, RedHat, Mandrake and Caldera. If a package is broken it's usually updated relatively soon and the next 'emerge' works fine. Gentoo has, other than the occasional MOHAA, caused my W2K partition to gather dust.
Sure, like Jacky Chan or Jet Li. Two extreme examples of Q3-type steroid boys.
In Canada we can run 192 to 224 kbps and still have a dim hope of preserving a semblance of quality.
It will be CD quality in the same sense that MP3s are CD quality. In other words, in a marketing sense only.
If) Linux Today is not to Linux as Microsoft is to Windows.
and) Linux Today quoted the study, they didn't author it.
and) The study included maintanence costs, not just capital outlay.
Therefore) Quit self-moderating.
This isn't meant as a slight on cr@ckwhore, but an 'Informative' mod? I don't know of any applications in X that don't adhere to left-click-highlite/middle-click-paste. It's as universal a behaviour as any in Linuxland and has been for years. It also works between X apps and windowed consoles.
I agree the original post is just another editorial troll, but there's no reason to assume that judges aren't as stupid or biased as anyone with equivalent education. They just know more about the letter of the law. The argument from authority is usually a bad one.
Not even decent as a troll, and your concept of proof-of-fact won't get you to the Nobel podium anytime soon. In seven years of using and supporting MS software, I rarely meet anyone outside of businesses who purchased Windows or the Office suites. Games - yes, core - no. Most 'borrow' from work or friends. Windows users are no less inclined to part with cash than Linux users, it's just the latter come by their software honestly.
"Privacy, Speech, Association, Expression, Religion" are all components and results of Liberty. Sorry, can't have the last without the rest.
That has to be about the most depressing thing I've read all year, giving an authentic victim of a tragedy, sick of people who weren't there leeching personal gratification from the event, shit for asking them to let it go. You know perfectly well the original post referred to "grievers" who lost no one on September 11 and are using the event as an opportunity to draw attention. "We're victims too! Pity us!" Nauseating.
I do, which is why I use Fluxbox. Don't tell me what I want.
Apple spent sixty million bucks developping the GUI.
Apple spent millions, as did Microsoft on a different desktop. If $$$ are the only criterion, which desktop is right? The one which cost the most?
If you think you are going to come up with some thing so overwhelmigly better that it will blow the old order away, then you are an arrogant ass-hole.
Then what does it mean when the company that spent millions makes wholesale changes to the desktop, as Mac did in the transition between 9 and OS X? Does that make them their own arrogant assholes? This argument from the authority of cash never washed and never will. Ironically, Apple's solution looks like the XFCE, FVWM or Afterstep dock with a finder, each themselves a spin-off of Job's NextStep desktop, developed without the benefit of millions of research dollars.
Do the Apple GUI guidelines contain valuable information? Undoubtedly. Does it mean the Mac desktop is the world's best? Only for the Mac Faithful.
The goal of all transmission media is to replicate the input as closely as possible. Anything that intentionally alters the audio will sound better on some samples and worse on others, better to some people and worse to others. No change is the only safe bet.