When you surf the web, you're relying on HTTP servers you don't control. When you send email, you rely on SMTP servers you don't control. And consider that there's simply no way you can make a phone call without using somebody else's software.
I was thinking the same thing. Even if you go down to lower layers, IP routing, packet tranmissions etc. you end up relying on remote servers with non-"free" code executing to handle your requests.
If I want to search an online dictionary how, according to RMS, should I morally perform that operation? Replicating the dictionary and search executables to every individual node wishing to perform a search would be a (bad) options. But what about when the dataset is way too large? (maps data for example).
Those are certainly areas that are painful given how today's media is distributed.
I guess the real point that I was hoping to make was that comments like being willing to "gladly pay significant sums of money" is normally some manner of rationalization at best (as I thought was the case with the post I was replying to).
What wretched idealistic bull... Is "righteous entitlement" nihilistic speak for "paying fair money for a product?"
I wouldn't have described my post as idealistic nor would I have classified it as nihilistic. My intentions were to point out the (IMO flawed) idealism of the post I was replying to.
Some people don't value their money? Remaining within the legal boundaries?
Not everybody is a drug running hitman? Must be exciting!
I'm unsure how you were able to make the connection that I was suggesting that people should defy the law. Also, I'm pretty surprised that you would suggest I was implying that drug runners could somehow find the time in their busy schedules to also collect on contracts.
Some people like to have a high horse to ride in on so as to make them appear better in line with their "outspoken enthusiast" ideologies.
Sometimes it is a Prius, sometimes it is a certain wardrobe or vinyl collection. In your case it appears to be Netflix's streaming service.
Simply because you found it to be a good plank in your soap box platform doesn't change the fact that the original post was spot on with regards to folks rationalization regarding their reasons for pirating content.
The fact that there is a nonzero number of users for Netflix's streaming service proves that's not true.
All that proves is that some people don't value their money as much as others or rather maybe they feel that the righteous entitlement that they are purchasing by remaining within the legal boundaries is worth the money.
For comparison,... I can tell you that Korean is significantly more difficult in this regard.... None of them will pronounce them the same, and then they'll start arguing over what the correct pronunciation is.
This isn't a good example.
Modern standard Korean isn't tonal. Yes, there are regional variations in the language just like any language, but difficulties in agreeing on the pronunciation of a word aren't because the language has nothing but tonal differences to tell words apart.
Without reading the entire article in depth, seems very similar as an idea to the legion distributed computing grid done in silverlight without the bells and whistles:
In a low-level language like C or assembly, anyway? The only workable alternative I ever saw was to store the length in (or with) the string, which can be very wasteful of memory.
How is storing the length wasteful of memory? 99% of the time I'd guess as much space would be used in storing a null character as would be consumed storing the length of the string itself.
Minor nit for those not familiar with BSTRs: In a BSTR the length technically comes before the start of the string (pBSTR[0] actually points to the first character in the array).
Technically having a BSTR be null terminated wouldn't be required if it wasn't for the fact that the whole purpose of a BSTR was to allow these strings to be passed around to existing functions which only expected simple null terminated WCHAR* strings).
Whatever, did Armgeddon have the ultimate badass!? State of the badass art!? Someone you do NOT wanna fuck with!? Check it out! Did they have a squad of ultimate badasses to protect you!? Check it out! What about independently targeting particle beam phalanx? Vwap! Fry half a city with that puppy. Did they have tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, sonic electronic ball breakers!? Nukes, knives, sharp sticks?!?!?!?
Please, get out of here with your Armageddon crap.
I can't search for plumbers, drug dealers or assassins in a phone book.
I can find prostitutes in my local newspaper ("escort services") pretty easily. I'm sure there is more than one listing in the classifieds that is stolen property too.
What fucking bank do you do business at? Contrary to what you learned playing Monopoly there is no such thing as a "bank error in your favor".
Year ago or so there was a fradulent paypal charge put through on my account which resulted in $4,500 being removed from my account. My bank floated me $45,000 (instead of the correct $4,500 amount) while the fraud was being investigated.
While the error was corrected, it was still a "bank error in my favor".
... wealth generated was pretending to correspond to something real, but in actuality was just numbers... that can be incremented and decremented out of thin air.
Slashdot Mirror
'it could spread all the way to Michigan.'
But frankly it will probably stop at the Michigan border. Even this weed has its limits...
Better see a therapist, too.
If I may take off my pants and pull my analrapist stocking over my head...
Yes, it has happened before. I don't know if it is all that common though.
they insist on ALSO breaking a lot of UI conventions and inventing their own
Can you give some examples?
I generally use chrome when I'm able and haven't noticed broken UI conventions that cause me much pain.
When you surf the web, you're relying on HTTP servers you don't control. When you send email, you rely on SMTP servers you don't control. And consider that there's simply no way you can make a phone call without using somebody else's software.
I was thinking the same thing. Even if you go down to lower layers, IP routing, packet tranmissions etc. you end up relying on remote servers with non-"free" code executing to handle your requests.
If I want to search an online dictionary how, according to RMS, should I morally perform that operation? Replicating the dictionary and search executables to every individual node wishing to perform a search would be a (bad) options. But what about when the dataset is way too large? (maps data for example).
Those are certainly areas that are painful given how today's media is distributed.
I guess the real point that I was hoping to make was that comments like being willing to "gladly pay significant sums of money" is normally some manner of rationalization at best (as I thought was the case with the post I was replying to).
What wretched idealistic bull... Is "righteous entitlement" nihilistic speak for "paying fair money for a product?"
I wouldn't have described my post as idealistic nor would I have classified it as nihilistic. My intentions were to point out the (IMO flawed) idealism of the post I was replying to.
Some people don't value their money? Remaining within the legal boundaries?
Not everybody is a drug running hitman? Must be exciting!
I'm unsure how you were able to make the connection that I was suggesting that people should defy the law. Also, I'm pretty surprised that you would suggest I was implying that drug runners could somehow find the time in their busy schedules to also collect on contracts.
I would gladly pay significant sums of money for good content offered the way I want to view it.
And specifically what was your unique and interesting method of viewing which was impossible to achieve even with significant sums of money?
Some people like to have a high horse to ride in on so as to make them appear better in line with their "outspoken enthusiast" ideologies.
Sometimes it is a Prius, sometimes it is a certain wardrobe or vinyl collection. In your case it appears to be Netflix's streaming service.
Simply because you found it to be a good plank in your soap box platform doesn't change the fact that the original post was spot on with regards to folks rationalization regarding their reasons for pirating content.
The fact that there is a nonzero number of users for Netflix's streaming service proves that's not true.
All that proves is that some people don't value their money as much as others or rather maybe they feel that the righteous entitlement that they are purchasing by remaining within the legal boundaries is worth the money.
Why run? I just cured them of what ailed them...right? ;-)
For comparison, ... I can tell you that Korean is significantly more difficult in this regard. ... None of them will pronounce them the same, and then they'll start arguing over what the correct pronunciation is.
This isn't a good example.
Modern standard Korean isn't tonal. Yes, there are regional variations in the language just like any language, but difficulties in agreeing on the pronunciation of a word aren't because the language has nothing but tonal differences to tell words apart.
Satan is wildly more plausible though.
Without reading the entire article in depth, seems very similar as an idea to the legion distributed computing grid done in silverlight without the bells and whistles:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/GridComputing.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JonKatz
A past editor/contributor on /. who was basically a blowhard doofus who happened to, well, blow ... hard.
In a low-level language like C or assembly, anyway? The only workable alternative I ever saw was to store the length in (or with) the string, which can be very wasteful of memory.
How is storing the length wasteful of memory? 99% of the time I'd guess as much space would be used in storing a null character as would be consumed storing the length of the string itself.
Minor nit for those not familiar with BSTRs: In a BSTR the length technically comes before the start of the string (pBSTR[0] actually points to the first character in the array).
Technically having a BSTR be null terminated wouldn't be required if it wasn't for the fact that the whole purpose of a BSTR was to allow these strings to be passed around to existing functions which only expected simple null terminated WCHAR* strings).
Whatever, did Armgeddon have the ultimate badass!? State of the badass art!? Someone you do NOT wanna fuck with!? Check it out! Did they have a squad of ultimate badasses to protect you!? Check it out! What about independently targeting particle beam phalanx? Vwap! Fry half a city with that puppy. Did they have tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, sonic electronic ball breakers!? Nukes, knives, sharp sticks?!?!?!?
Please, get out of here with your Armageddon crap.
767 flying over your head sounds like ...
I can't search for plumbers, drug dealers or assassins in a phone book.
I can find prostitutes in my local newspaper ("escort services") pretty easily. I'm sure there is more than one listing in the classifieds that is stolen property too.
Shall we go after our local newspapers now?
Maybe I could have kept giving my kid shots she was allergic to right?
I know you wrote that meaning to be flippant, but doing just that very thing can reduce or eliminate allergic reactions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyposensitization
Colostrum?
What fucking bank do you do business at? Contrary to what you learned playing Monopoly there is no such thing as a "bank error in your favor".
Year ago or so there was a fradulent paypal charge put through on my account which resulted in $4,500 being removed from my account. My bank floated me $45,000 (instead of the correct $4,500 amount) while the fraud was being investigated.
While the error was corrected, it was still a "bank error in my favor".
... wealth generated was pretending to correspond to something real, but in actuality was just numbers ... that can be incremented and decremented out of thin air.
Good point.
Nothing at all like the securities market. :)
I'd love to see some case law involving EULAs. Does anyone know of someone that has be sued because of breaching terms in a EULA?
The Blizz/Glider lawsuit might be an example? I don't know how legally Terms of Service are different than EULAs though...
http://new-pc-games.blogspot.com/2008/07/blizzard-wins-wow-botting-lawsuit.html
Being wrong never felt so right, eh?