It would be too hard to prove in a court that the damages were caused by a specific piece of software given software complexity and clueless courts.
And of course a small firm/individual will still have no chance to win against M$. Forgot the rule of court? The one with most money wins Period.
The real solution would be IMHO to regulate software prices and to force software sellers to always provide the source code with permission to modify it for personal/enterprise use.
It seems to me they set up a system *designed* to encourage punishment,
Really they made a system where a punishment is possible
Each player in the game they designed has an incentive to maximise the amount invested by everyone else
...and so they end up maximizing amount invested by everyone
If they wanted to prove that people will 'pay to punish', they should have setup the system where the cost of punishing someone was so high that overall profits decreased - and seen how long people kept on punishing.
That's not new - we have such a system right now. In theory I can punish Micro$oft for their bad products which constantly crashing ets. by winning in a court but in practice I need too much resources (read: money) to do this. What they did is lowered the price of punishing and received good (read: gainful for their model society) results.
The correct application of this work (although not to the letter) would be to 'punish' those who spam us with lawsuits such as is allowed in Washington State. Although it is a personal cost to call ISPs, file suits and such, if everyone were to make such small pains, we would all benefit greatly.
Won't work because it's not you who makes the decision to punish. Yes, you can file a suit but it's not you who decides who wins the case.
Contrary, in the described game the player could punish whoever he wanted and the punishment proceeded no matter what! It was a self regulating system. No one even wanted to punish a good contributor! The rule of the game - be nice to others. In today world the nasties wins:-(
It's because freeloading is profitable. All exploitators in all times was freeloaders taking goods by force from those who do the work. Slave-holders, feudals and capitalists are basically freeloaders. And of course they won't allow to build a fair society with no exploitation.
Think of M$ - making billions just because they once written a not-so-good program! Isn't it freeloading.
Disclaimer: sorry for m$ reference, just couldn't resist:-)
I wonder what impact will that Magic Lantern thing have on the USA international relations? Good or bad, your FBI may do what it pleases at home but I don't want any foreign spyware on my computer here!!!
Also, even if such use is authorized by the US government, does FBI has the right to spy on foreigners outside the USA? I thought CIA exists for that purpose:-)
You see, this is the free market which you americans like so much turning on them. People don't want to pay and so they don't pay. Simple. The free market. Why pay if I can get the same for free? And that 'stealing' copyrighted material concept is just a perverted idea made up by greedy people who don't want to work. Oh yes, it's so simple - to do something once and get money for that forever. But it doesn't work. What you have in the USA now is just simple extortion.
AFAIK, space may belong to nobody and it starts from 50 km heights IIRC. So nobody can claim property and collect taxes for anything that flys obove 50 km off the ground.
Want to know what I think about backdoors?
They are just useless and in general bad.
Imagine, that I am a good programmer writing encription software. And there is a good user who uses it. Well, then there is a person from some secret service who wants to read that user's mail. If the user is really innocent he should allow the government to read it, right?
It's like real doors in my house - nobody is permitted to enter (I mean police etc) without a search warrant, and that's right. So nobody should be allowed to read my personal mail without myself at least knowing they read. If we install backdoors, then any bored government official will be able to read any email, and of course those backdoors will fall into dirty hands of Evil Corporations.
Very stupid cartoons. Crying Uncle Sams, eagles and flags... No insight no creativity just propaganda. Some exceptions exists though. I liked uncle Sam with a tattoo like crooks have and Saddam with Arafat celebrating.
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In the United States, Congress has the right "To Promote the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts, by Securing for limited Times
to Authors and Inventors the Exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Sec 1, Art 8, Cl 8.
Why keep people re-implement the wheel all over again and again and... ? Why not use a existing Widget Lib and _extend_ it? Look at QT, look at GNOME!
Well... That's not that simple question. In short: we get a old thing and improve it (in your words 'extend') when we need it, and we 'reimplement the wheel' to have fun That's one side of free speech and Open Source.
Evas proposes "canvases" as core objects that store information about the state of a graphical object - so that when redrawing needs to be done, the graphics displayed by a window may be easily and quickly redrawn without the client application worrying about it.
As far as I can remember, similar concept of canvases was used in Sun OpenLook widget set. And their canvases was a little bit cooler because they included scrolled canvases and multiple views (i.e. in multiple windows) of same canvas.
Look, the problem with Linux, and I've said this time and again, is that we don't need a variety of desktop environments. If we did, GEM (for those of you old enough to remember what it was) and OS/2 would be competing with Windows. They're not, they're dead.
Wrong. They are dead 'cause they ran different applications. On the other hand, some people try to make Windoze appearance a bit different. Take WindowsBlinds or LiteStep for example. Anyway, single GUI is boring and tend to come to stagnation. I myself change my window manager once in a while just to feel different.
Also I think idea behind KDE and GNOME is corrupt by definition. They just try to clone Windows and that's quite sad. As to your point I think certain distributions will do the trick.
I think you should have read the original article.
It says that the force is proportional to the mass of the target, which means that your explanation about 'trace amounts of iron' doesn't work.
Maybe it has something to do with magnetism though but this 'something' isn't just plain magnet attraction/repulsion. Anyways I think something new has been discovered.
In the case of communism, change the natural scarcity of means of production into an artificial abundance.
And here we have a little mistake which ruins the whole beautiful conception:-)
Means of production are scarse indeed but communism doesn't make abudance of any sort, artifical or natural. It just divides what we already have into, say, "shares" for all people to use instead of one person.
Oh yes, and we know what happens after you make such so called uncensored services. State breakdowns that is. You know what happened with the happy USSR? It is now a bunch of poor hungry countries. And you want to do the same with China. Shame on you. I think the chinese know what to do with their own country better than you.
Yeah, that's what you get when feel too strong and secure. I mean USA have become too f@#king strong and too f#$king stupid too. They will arrest/bomb/"democratize" and so on as long as they are the strongest country in the world. I hope the new Evil Empire will crash soon.
Well, as I read most of comments I see one main idea: "Yes-yes, sir, I know I must pay, but <insert your own excuse here>"
So funny to watch. Well, I am not surprised anymore when I see fresh water ads on TV, but there must be some limit! Some things JUST DON'T COST MONEY! Air for example. Web contents is the second example.
How much would you pay for a bird chirping outside of your window? Or for morning breeze at the sea shore?
No matter that the price is small like seven cents dot how-much. It's all about the greedy bastards who want to make money out of everything. They already got banner ads everywhere and now I must pay for content. No thank you. It's like making me pay for listening to radio or for watching TV. And then they will make me pay for every spam message received. And of course as some people already said here I have to pay blind for something I can't evaluate before buying.
"Good morning Knut, you have 5 new mails today." "Ok, read them please" "Mail #1: from your girlfriend, she wonders why you didn't show up last night" "Mail back: Sorry babe, I have two other girlfrinds to attend, got to dump ya'"
"The third mail has a gif file attached" "ARRGH! I don't have a damn monitor to see it! Thrown away a while ago as well as my keyboard...
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And of course a small firm/individual will still have no chance to win against M$. Forgot the rule of court? The one with most money wins Period.
The real solution would be IMHO to regulate software prices and to force software sellers to always provide the source code with permission to modify it for personal/enterprise use.
Really they made a system where a punishment is possible
Each player in the game they designed has an incentive to maximise the amount invested by everyone else
...and so they end up maximizing amount invested by everyone
If they wanted to prove that people will 'pay to punish', they should have setup the system where the cost of punishing someone was so high that overall profits decreased - and seen how long people kept on punishing.
That's not new - we have such a system right now. In theory I can punish Micro$oft for their bad products which constantly crashing ets. by winning in a court but in practice I need too much resources (read: money) to do this. What they did is lowered the price of punishing and received good (read: gainful for their model society) results.
Hey, we are not playing games of punishment we are trying to create a fair society without exploitation! Why punish anyone if everything is good?
Won't work because it's not you who makes the decision to punish. Yes, you can file a suit but it's not you who decides who wins the case.
Contrary, in the described game the player could punish whoever he wanted and the punishment proceeded no matter what! It was a self regulating system. No one even wanted to punish a good contributor! The rule of the game - be nice to others. In today world the nasties wins
Think of M$ - making billions just because they once written a not-so-good program! Isn't it freeloading.
Disclaimer: sorry for m$ reference, just couldn't resist :-)
Here is my reasons
So judging from what I just said, it could be a Hydrozoa family jellyfish or considering the 'wings' a Ctenophora family jellyfish.
That's it. Maybe I'm wrong but those are the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the photo.
Disclaimerthe above is just an assumption based on high school zoology course I took about ten years ago and of course may be incorrect
I wonder what impact will that Magic Lantern thing have on the USA international relations? Good or bad, your FBI may do what it pleases at home but I don't want any foreign spyware on my computer here!!!
Also, even if such use is authorized by the US government, does FBI has the right to spy on foreigners outside the USA? I thought CIA exists for that purpose :-)
You see, this is the free market which you americans like so much turning on them. People don't want to pay and so they don't pay. Simple. The free market. Why pay if I can get the same for free? And that 'stealing' copyrighted material concept is just a perverted idea made up by greedy people who don't want to work. Oh yes, it's so simple - to do something once and get money for that forever. But it doesn't work. What you have in the USA now is just simple extortion.
I was laughing a few minutes thinking it was a joke before I actually clicked on the link.
Kinda funny law names, aren't they?
AFAIK, space may belong to nobody and it starts from 50 km heights IIRC. So nobody can claim property and collect taxes for anything that flys obove 50 km off the ground.
Imagine, that I am a good programmer writing encription software. And there is a good user who uses it. Well, then there is a person from some secret service who wants to read that user's mail. If the user is really innocent he should allow the government to read it, right?
It's like real doors in my house - nobody is permitted to enter (I mean police etc) without a search warrant, and that's right. So nobody should be allowed to read my personal mail without myself at least knowing they read. If we install backdoors, then any bored government official will be able to read any email, and of course those backdoors will fall into dirty hands of Evil Corporations.
Very stupid cartoons. Crying Uncle Sams, eagles and flags... No insight no creativity just propaganda. Some exceptions exists though. I liked uncle Sam with a tattoo like crooks have and Saddam with Arafat celebrating.
Man, it's a right not obligation :-)
Well... That's not that simple question. In short: we get a old thing and improve it (in your words 'extend') when we need it, and we 'reimplement the wheel' to have fun That's one side of free speech and Open Source.
As far as I can remember, similar concept of canvases was used in Sun OpenLook widget set. And their canvases was a little bit cooler because they included scrolled canvases and multiple views (i.e. in multiple windows) of same canvas.
Wrong. They are dead 'cause they ran different applications. On the other hand, some people try to make Windoze appearance a bit different. Take WindowsBlinds or LiteStep for example. Anyway, single GUI is boring and tend to come to stagnation. I myself change my window manager once in a while just to feel different.
Also I think idea behind KDE and GNOME is corrupt by definition. They just try to clone Windows and that's quite sad. As to your point I think certain distributions will do the trick.
Right while you take non-magnetic stuff, but what happens if you take a solid iron block?
Maybe it has something to do with magnetism though but this 'something' isn't just plain magnet attraction/repulsion. Anyways I think something new has been discovered.
And here we have a little mistake which ruins the whole beautiful conception :-)
Means of production are scarse indeed but communism doesn't make abudance of any sort, artifical or natural. It just divides what we already have into, say, "shares" for all people to use instead of one person.
And still, yes, IP makes ideas more scarse.
So IP is bad no matter what! ;-)
Oh yes, and we know what happens after you make such so called uncensored services. State breakdowns that is. You know what happened with the happy USSR? It is now a bunch of poor hungry countries. And you want to do the same with China. Shame on you. I think the chinese know what to do with their own country better than you.
Yeah, that's what you get when feel too strong and secure. I mean USA have become too f@#king strong and too f#$king stupid too. They will arrest/bomb/"democratize" and so on as long as they are the strongest country in the world. I hope the new Evil Empire will crash soon.
So funny to watch. Well, I am not surprised anymore when I see fresh water ads on TV, but there must be some limit! Some things JUST DON'T COST MONEY! Air for example. Web contents is the second example.
How much would you pay for a bird chirping outside of your window? Or for morning breeze at the sea shore?
No matter that the price is small like seven cents dot how-much. It's all about the greedy bastards who want to make money out of everything. They already got banner ads everywhere and now I must pay for content. No thank you. It's like making me pay for listening to radio or for watching TV. And then they will make me pay for every spam message received. And of course as some people already said here I have to pay blind for something I can't evaluate before buying.
-Run arbitrary macros
-Access your hardware
-Access the Internet
-Download and upload data
-Set and send cookies
"Good morning Knut, you have 5 new mails today."
"Ok, read them please"
"Mail #1: from your girlfriend, she wonders why you didn't show up last night"
"Mail back: Sorry babe, I have two other girlfrinds to attend, got to dump ya'"
"The third mail has a gif file attached"
"ARRGH! I don't have a damn monitor to see it!
Thrown away a while ago as well as my keyboard...