That's not human arrogance. Human arrogance is that we can create a universal drug.
It's Divine Arrogance which states that God/Nature/The Universe would have cured it if it was possible and that science has no business messing around with The Way Things Are (tm)
Dear JPL. While we are thrilled about your discovery, Mars isn't going anywhere. We are trying to save the economy and lesten the impact of this economic down turn so that we can spend even more money on you guys in the future. Spending 10 billion on machinists creates more jobs than spending 10 billion on rocket scientists. Hope you understand.
Funding Agency.
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Wait... so you're afraid to post your resume online?
Who cares what your name is and where you work? The Yellow Pages are more invasive. They give your home address and name.
When you meet someone at an informal function do you keep you name and place of employment secret as well? Just what exactly are you afraid someone would do with this information?
When you send out a resume do you just list "'Company A', 'Company B', and 'Company C'" on your empoyment history? Or do you write it out and then black it all out with a marker like a top secret intelligence report?
Stop waffling and start getting noticed online. I've gotten numerous job interviews that I didn't even apply for because people were reading forums and thought I sounded competant and knowledgable. In fact so far I've never needed to even apply for a job.
If the only people who know about you work in your server room that's as far as your reputation extends. If they google your name which would you rather them find: Nothing or an insightful blog on proper network security procedures and a list of glowing praise from your superiors and coworkers?
You are your name. That's your brand. Sell it! Make it famous!
You really care if someone collects anonymous data on how often you run their application?
Lots of applications have this as an opt-in program. Even Windows itself has this information.
And generally it's used to improve the customer experience, like a running beta. I wouldn't call it 'Spyware'. That implies that it's actually gathering information about YOU not You in the metaphysical mass survey sense.
Then at the end of the year I get a couple thousand dollars all in one big lump.
If I get $150 a month extra in wages I'll probably just buy a few extra movies or a candybar.
If I get a big $1800 tax rebate at the end of the year I don't feel obligated to put it toward savings or sensible things... it feels like a present. Free money! So I run out and buy a new computer, ski or a bike. This has always informed my view on tax rebates in general. If you want people to spend money give them a rebate not a tax break. I assume my brain works similarly to other people in that a big check showing up in the mail (or you bank account) is psychologically categorized differently from a larger paycheck which is supposed to be used sensibly. It's the 'gift card' effect. I hate getting cash for christmas because I feel obligated to spend it wisely. If I get a $100 gift card for Best Buy I'm going to go buy a couple of games!
What's the price difference? Well an $1800 split is only going to get about $40-$90 at best in interest. The windfall effect for me is psychologically worth it.
Yes because we all know that a privately run fire department would be a much better use of tax payer's dollars. Or a privatized police force is the best use of a community's resources.
Also city streets should be an amalgam of competing enterprises trying to win your daily commuting nickles.
Needless to say I disagree with your assertion that EVERY enterprise performs better when exposed to competitive pressure.
Wait a second. I thought the collision was at like 300mi altitude. Now they'r saying this causes problems at Geosynchronous orbit? I thought GEO was at like 30,000 miles above the earth. Also... I didn't think the shuttle planned on traveling that high anyway.
Just a thought... but wouldn't it be relatively easy to prosecute the offending twerp? If they aren't using a botnet then finding their own IP address should be pretty trivial.
If my internet went out for 2 days and I could attribute it to a DDOS attack and I could determine the IP address I would happily sue the little asshat's parents into grounding his sorry ass for a few years.
That can't possibly be true. If one booster fails, you aren't getting to orbit. If one one windshield fails I suspect you're in a world of hurt as well.:D
If I can wear glasses and sit on my couch that overlay a 4k image with a larger picture than the theater and better sound in 5 years from a torrent why would I go to the theater?
The "Small Screen" aka the home is becoming more and more competitive with the theater. How many years before we have entire walls of our home as OLEDs?
Art in the 1700s was only accessible to the wealthy patrons who had personal artists. The working class was not invited to enjoy the arts. Art was also a status symbol. So Artists were payed a great deal of money by their patron monarch or affluent businessman as an ornamental prize.
Phonographs and CDs and all the other evil implements of copyright and profit from reproduction is indeed a recent shift... one which has largely democratized art and brought it to the masses while simultaneously increasing exponentially the amount of art supported and created.
I would say copyright law and democratized playback devices has allowed art to flourish.
Big budget feature films often are huge drivers of innovation. The wealth in the film industry has driven huge leaps in technology.
Video games have been huge drivers in technological innovation on the home computer front.
I take it you've never negotiated a usage license before with an artist.
The artist gets to set whatever price they want.
So if I go in there and say. "I want to use your song to feed orphans." The artist is free to set the price at $0. If I go in and say "I want to use your song to sell viagra." The artist is free to set the price at $100,000,000,000,000.
If the artist doesn't want you to use their work then you won't be using their work. Copyright law does a fantastic job of protecting usage.
Some day there will be a means for artists to make money.
But take a popular film such as Iron Man. That's going to cost $100 million dollars to make. Or LOTR. That's going to take $200 million to make. There isn't really any way around that.
Where are you going to find someone willing to front $200 million dollars except for a very large organization which can afford to LOSE $200 million dollars.
You may hear about films being made for only a couple million. Or the Half Life 2 TV show which "only cost $500". Sure... but I've worked on those kinds of projects before. They don't count all of the free labor and tools donated out of pocket. Let's take the HL2 TV Show.
Camera at least $500. Software to do the compositing at least $400. Any 3D Software employed at least $500. Crew of 5 working for 80 hours... that's $10,000. Post production? At least another 40 hours. Another $5-10k. I'm sure they also were able to avoid health care and taxes etc since nobody was actually payed.
If you added up the actual costs of even a 'no budget' fan film you're still looking at real costs on the order of at least $10,000. That doesn't work when the scope of your project grows beyond a few guys and some improvised dialog very well. Where is the business model for the 'Patron Supported' 10million dollar feature?
I don't believe piracy is a net negative impact on the industry. But I do know that the Pirate Bay is not the solution. The real solution is the impulse purchase. I know how I think. If I can get it conveniently for free I'll probably find an excuse not to pay it. If I really want something and it's more convenient and cheap (ala netflix on demand or Zune Pass) I'll go for that.
But I don't see any business model that can front the cash to shoot a $300 million dollar feature except for a gigantic corporation.
Protecting the gigantic corporation and protecting consumer rights are not mutually exclusive goals. (See imposed gas mileage laws vs Auto Industry.)
I also remember not more than a day ago the OUTRAGE!! that Facebook would withold the rights to use your photos however they wish. How is that anything other than zealous protection of our own copyrights? I like the idea that anything I create can't be used without my permission.
Seriously people. The media companies may have gotten out of hand. But let's be honest, the pirate bay IS assisting in copyright infringement. They may be legally in the clear. But it's really a technicality. I use bittorrent. I want fair copyright reform. I want rational penalties for breaking the law to fit the crime. Like the $20 parking ticket I get for failing to pay at a meter. But I also want the media companies to be protected.
Piracy may be grossly exagerated, but also is a real problem. The media companies may be stupid and behind the times but their concern is valid. Their product is becoming worthless before their eyes. The position of the government SHOULD BE to protect the property of its citizens. Without strong copyright law the GPL would be meaningless. What if someone contracted you to write code for them on a GPL project and then decides not to pay? How is that any different from taking code and using it without permission? Would you expect the government to protect your property?
Everyone says musicians should be making their money from concerts. Ok. Well what if people jump the gate and sneak into concerts? It's 'free' to the artists your presence isn't taking anything from them. Should the government not be on the side of the artist in that case?
The media companies have screwed up HUGE. They've violated laws. They've abused their influence to futily attempt to stop the inevitable tide of free but they're also attempting to defend something which SHOULD be defended.
They've gained too many rights. They've overstepped what they should be allowed. But that doesn't mean their rights should be thrown out either.
The media industry is one of our largest exports. It's an industry that does employ a great number of people whose work does deserve to be protected. The punishment no longer fits the crime but let's not raise piracy onto some elevated pedestal of justice.
"Ohhh but pirate bay can provide legal software as well." Yes. It can... but does it? I've never gone there to aquire somethign legally. It's called the PIRATE bay. They aren't about 'freedom' or 'justice'. They're about profiting through ad sales from providing copyrighted works. They aren't guilty of any crime but that doesn't make their service any more upstanding or deserving of respect.
They're just as low as the media companies sueing them in my opinion. I hardly think that the US protecting one of its largest exports is a bad position for the US government to take.
Sigh... I was going to post a quick rant about using the term "Hacker" when obviously "Cracker" or "Black Hat Hacker" would be better....but ohhhh what the hell... I give up. I've been doing computer stuff ("hacking") since the mid-1970s and consider myself a "Hacker"...but not in the bad way. maybe I should turn to the dark side and just get it over with.
And I was going to post a rant on the History Channel about when "Barbarian" used to be an offensive racial slur against the good people of northern Europe.
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Furthermore why would you spend $300 on Windows?
If you already own Windows it's between $60-140 to upgrade to Vista.
If you don't:
OEM Vista Ultimate costs $170.
OEM Vista Home Premium is $99.
If you want to use almost exclusively "free" software on top of a 'minimalistic OS' you can even get Vista Basic OEM for $89.
English won't die out because it's so fluid.
Unlike French which is defended religiously English has no problem assimilating foreign languages.
If Chinese starts becoming popular we'll just start assimilating chinese words.
That's not human arrogance. Human arrogance is that we can create a universal drug.
It's Divine Arrogance which states that God/Nature/The Universe would have cured it if it was possible and that science has no business messing around with The Way Things Are (tm)
For the rest of us with people names, we're generally more concerned about the White Pages.
When I say "Yellow Pages" I'm refering to "Yellow Pages (r)" The company which puts out a directory including both yellow and white pages.
Much like when I say "Xerox" I am often not limiting my advice or direction to a single corporation's product.
Dear JPL. While we are thrilled about your discovery, Mars isn't going anywhere. We are trying to save the economy and lesten the impact of this economic down turn so that we can spend even more money on you guys in the future. Spending 10 billion on machinists creates more jobs than spending 10 billion on rocket scientists. Hope you understand.
Funding Agency.
Wait... so you're afraid to post your resume online?
Who cares what your name is and where you work? The Yellow Pages are more invasive. They give your home address and name.
When you meet someone at an informal function do you keep you name and place of employment secret as well? Just what exactly are you afraid someone would do with this information?
When you send out a resume do you just list "'Company A', 'Company B', and 'Company C'" on your empoyment history? Or do you write it out and then black it all out with a marker like a top secret intelligence report?
Stop waffling and start getting noticed online. I've gotten numerous job interviews that I didn't even apply for because people were reading forums and thought I sounded competant and knowledgable. In fact so far I've never needed to even apply for a job.
If the only people who know about you work in your server room that's as far as your reputation extends. If they google your name which would you rather them find: Nothing or an insightful blog on proper network security procedures and a list of glowing praise from your superiors and coworkers?
You are your name. That's your brand. Sell it! Make it famous!
You really care if someone collects anonymous data on how often you run their application?
Lots of applications have this as an opt-in program. Even Windows itself has this information.
And generally it's used to improve the customer experience, like a running beta. I wouldn't call it 'Spyware'. That implies that it's actually gathering information about YOU not You in the metaphysical mass survey sense.
Are you suggesting that Apple customers have a short--OOoo! Shiny!
Ah! I misread the summary as "Poses threat to spacecraft IN GEO.
I see now it very clearly is only talking about the launches themselves.
Epic Brain Fail.
Here's my view. I claim 0 deductions.
Then at the end of the year I get a couple thousand dollars all in one big lump.
If I get $150 a month extra in wages I'll probably just buy a few extra movies or a candybar.
If I get a big $1800 tax rebate at the end of the year I don't feel obligated to put it toward savings or sensible things... it feels like a present. Free money! So I run out and buy a new computer, ski or a bike. This has always informed my view on tax rebates in general. If you want people to spend money give them a rebate not a tax break. I assume my brain works similarly to other people in that a big check showing up in the mail (or you bank account) is psychologically categorized differently from a larger paycheck which is supposed to be used sensibly. It's the 'gift card' effect. I hate getting cash for christmas because I feel obligated to spend it wisely. If I get a $100 gift card for Best Buy I'm going to go buy a couple of games!
What's the price difference? Well an $1800 split is only going to get about $40-$90 at best in interest. The windfall effect for me is psychologically worth it.
Yes because we all know that a privately run fire department would be a much better use of tax payer's dollars. Or a privatized police force is the best use of a community's resources.
Also city streets should be an amalgam of competing enterprises trying to win your daily commuting nickles.
Needless to say I disagree with your assertion that EVERY enterprise performs better when exposed to competitive pressure.
Wait a second. I thought the collision was at like 300mi altitude. Now they'r saying this causes problems at Geosynchronous orbit? I thought GEO was at like 30,000 miles above the earth. Also... I didn't think the shuttle planned on traveling that high anyway.
What am I missing?
Just a thought... but wouldn't it be relatively easy to prosecute the offending twerp? If they aren't using a botnet then finding their own IP address should be pretty trivial.
If my internet went out for 2 days and I could attribute it to a DDOS attack and I could determine the IP address I would happily sue the little asshat's parents into grounding his sorry ass for a few years.
IRL makes more sense to me.
My definitions have always split:
IRL == Something that takes place in meatspace.
AFK == I'm grabbing lunch. I'll talk to you later.
AFK for me has always been synonymous with "away" and IRL refers to an event taking place while AFK.
"What happened to bob? He's AFK taking care of some chores IRL."
I'm with the prosecution on this one. (Hehe the only time I'll probably say that about this case.)
Option 5:
Pay the 4cents to keep your local government solvent.
I don't use Windows. Could someone phrase this for a Debian user?
That can't possibly be true. If one booster fails, you aren't getting to orbit. If one one windshield fails I suspect you're in a world of hurt as well. :D
What's sacrosanct about the theater?
If I can wear glasses and sit on my couch that overlay a 4k image with a larger picture than the theater and better sound in 5 years from a torrent why would I go to the theater?
The "Small Screen" aka the home is becoming more and more competitive with the theater. How many years before we have entire walls of our home as OLEDs?
Art in the 1700s was only accessible to the wealthy patrons who had personal artists. The working class was not invited to enjoy the arts. Art was also a status symbol. So Artists were payed a great deal of money by their patron monarch or affluent businessman as an ornamental prize.
Phonographs and CDs and all the other evil implements of copyright and profit from reproduction is indeed a recent shift... one which has largely democratized art and brought it to the masses while simultaneously increasing exponentially the amount of art supported and created.
I would say copyright law and democratized playback devices has allowed art to flourish.
Big budget feature films often are huge drivers of innovation. The wealth in the film industry has driven huge leaps in technology.
Video games have been huge drivers in technological innovation on the home computer front.
no one except the wealthy can legally fill even a small IPOD
True. But I have 5,000 songs legally on my Zune and it only costs me $15 a month.
I take it you've never negotiated a usage license before with an artist.
The artist gets to set whatever price they want.
So if I go in there and say. "I want to use your song to feed orphans." The artist is free to set the price at $0.
If I go in and say "I want to use your song to sell viagra." The artist is free to set the price at $100,000,000,000,000.
If the artist doesn't want you to use their work then you won't be using their work. Copyright law does a fantastic job of protecting usage.
Some day there will be a means for artists to make money.
But take a popular film such as Iron Man. That's going to cost $100 million dollars to make. Or LOTR. That's going to take $200 million to make. There isn't really any way around that.
Where are you going to find someone willing to front $200 million dollars except for a very large organization which can afford to LOSE $200 million dollars.
You may hear about films being made for only a couple million. Or the Half Life 2 TV show which "only cost $500". Sure... but I've worked on those kinds of projects before. They don't count all of the free labor and tools donated out of pocket. Let's take the HL2 TV Show.
Camera at least $500. Software to do the compositing at least $400. Any 3D Software employed at least $500. Crew of 5 working for 80 hours... that's $10,000. Post production? At least another 40 hours. Another $5-10k. I'm sure they also were able to avoid health care and taxes etc since nobody was actually payed.
If you added up the actual costs of even a 'no budget' fan film you're still looking at real costs on the order of at least $10,000. That doesn't work when the scope of your project grows beyond a few guys and some improvised dialog very well. Where is the business model for the 'Patron Supported' 10million dollar feature?
I don't believe piracy is a net negative impact on the industry. But I do know that the Pirate Bay is not the solution. The real solution is the impulse purchase. I know how I think. If I can get it conveniently for free I'll probably find an excuse not to pay it. If I really want something and it's more convenient and cheap (ala netflix on demand or Zune Pass) I'll go for that.
But I don't see any business model that can front the cash to shoot a $300 million dollar feature except for a gigantic corporation.
Protecting the gigantic corporation and protecting consumer rights are not mutually exclusive goals. (See imposed gas mileage laws vs Auto Industry.)
I also remember not more than a day ago the OUTRAGE!! that Facebook would withold the rights to use your photos however they wish. How is that anything other than zealous protection of our own copyrights? I like the idea that anything I create can't be used without my permission.
Yeah the entertainment industry. Who wants that?
Seriously people. The media companies may have gotten out of hand. But let's be honest, the pirate bay IS assisting in copyright infringement. They may be legally in the clear. But it's really a technicality. I use bittorrent. I want fair copyright reform. I want rational penalties for breaking the law to fit the crime. Like the $20 parking ticket I get for failing to pay at a meter. But I also want the media companies to be protected.
Piracy may be grossly exagerated, but also is a real problem. The media companies may be stupid and behind the times but their concern is valid. Their product is becoming worthless before their eyes. The position of the government SHOULD BE to protect the property of its citizens. Without strong copyright law the GPL would be meaningless. What if someone contracted you to write code for them on a GPL project and then decides not to pay? How is that any different from taking code and using it without permission? Would you expect the government to protect your property?
Everyone says musicians should be making their money from concerts. Ok. Well what if people jump the gate and sneak into concerts? It's 'free' to the artists your presence isn't taking anything from them. Should the government not be on the side of the artist in that case?
The media companies have screwed up HUGE. They've violated laws. They've abused their influence to futily attempt to stop the inevitable tide of free but they're also attempting to defend something which SHOULD be defended.
They've gained too many rights. They've overstepped what they should be allowed. But that doesn't mean their rights should be thrown out either.
The media industry is one of our largest exports. It's an industry that does employ a great number of people whose work does deserve to be protected. The punishment no longer fits the crime but let's not raise piracy onto some elevated pedestal of justice.
"Ohhh but pirate bay can provide legal software as well." Yes. It can... but does it? I've never gone there to aquire somethign legally. It's called the PIRATE bay. They aren't about 'freedom' or 'justice'. They're about profiting through ad sales from providing copyrighted works. They aren't guilty of any crime but that doesn't make their service any more upstanding or deserving of respect.
They're just as low as the media companies sueing them in my opinion. I hardly think that the US protecting one of its largest exports is a bad position for the US government to take.
Sigh... I was going to post a quick rant about using the term "Hacker" when obviously "Cracker" or "Black Hat Hacker" would be better....but ohhhh what the hell... I give up.
I've been doing computer stuff ("hacking") since the mid-1970s and consider myself a "Hacker"...but not in the bad way.
maybe I should turn to the dark side and just get it over with.
And I was going to post a rant on the History Channel about when "Barbarian" used to be an offensive racial slur against the good people of northern Europe.
Wouldn't turning over your recording fall under "self incrimination" aka the 5th amendment?