What application is going to come from research into vibrations, statistics?
Computers, cell phones... space age technology has produced materials that are resitant to wear and tear because the gravitational pull no longer has such deleterious effect on their atomic structure.
When you need nanosecond timing precision it gets very annoying to work with earth built objects.
Blach holes? Intergalactic power sources for travel. If we can travel across oceans why not space? Before posting next time, please try to clamp down on your irrational urges to post idiotic reponses to something according to your loosely abstracted beliefs.
I repeat, go fuck yourself.
None, that's what. That's why I called it pointless research - because it is pointless.
You're certifiable. Now why the fuck would anyone do research if they already knew what something was good for. Integration and devlopment comes after research, fuckhead.
Ok hate is a strong word. More like I'm inconvenienced to the point of insanity. But this one is great. Oh and for those fools whining about modding up/down those you do/don't agree with, show us where to draw the line oh great masters of all that is and isn't.
We should concentrate more on things which have prac
Remember the Marshall Tucker? That car had all the safety gadgets you could imagine. Course nobody thought any of those things were practical. Not until 20 yrs later. So put a sock in it.
this kind of research is simply of no use to us
Don't speak for others who have not invited you to speak for them, asshole.
public utilities, the military and education
There's no way for the education system to improve, if science in itself is not considered important. Everything you use in your daily existence is the result of a technology that was once considered useless. For example, your military expense should not include war planes because they were once considered useless. I forget the quote (sometime in the early 30s).
I'm sorry but ignorant assholes like you are the reason society is stuck in a confused frustrated state. You rant all about the future and education but when it comes time to invent or discover or simply follow a dream (you don't think following dreams is a useful endeavor it seems), you whine about public utilities as if your toilet were more important than progress.
I hate to say this, but/. moderation (good when applied by those who have no trigger finger or have recently cut it off) has failed here. Kind of embarassing to see a simple statement overruled by some guy's ignorant manifesto. So far as I've seen it's the Remedial Economics 097 dropouts who are flaming.
And if you read closely you can hear the letters crying at having been arranged that way.
What scares me about this ruling is the impact it might have against the little guy, it lessens the legal ramifications for the theft of good ideas. If a small company has something great and HUGEcorp has no legal impetus NOT to knock it off and put the little guys out of business, don't think HUGEcorp won't. The big guys would be protected by the ability of their pocketbook to raise a louder fuss. Which is almost what the ruling seems to ask them to do.
Of all the doublethinking, twisted arguments... Man this takes the cake. Hello? Read the news lately? Read the ARTICLE? The judgement is precisely designed to make it harder for assholes to harass people. It's about keeping fuckers like Apple from suing when they have not in fact pushed a design. And they haven't. When they did their Mac is Power ads, no attempt to push the "design" was made. If it's so much authorship, why not?
No it isn't. It is pure integration. And that design is precisely irrelevant to the product. Design is authorship in fashion because that is its purpose. The iMac's purpose is to kick ass on its technical and user interface (not eye candy) related merits.
If you make a perfect tool, there is no way to contain the idea behind that tool.
Nice try. There's a good reason for that. Products fall into four categories: 1. Core 2. Framework 3. Interface 4. Environment
Are you telling me you'd haggle over the smallest brick when your product is many times larger?
Greeks. Deeply sorry to burst that bubbgle? Oh no was it your ego?
Again, wrong. The Constitution is here to protect our rights in case the government is illegally hijacked by psychotic criminals like Bill Clinton.
The fact that you need a 66% majority in many government decisions supports the idea of a toned down democracy. So does the 3-way separation of powers. Read your history again.
You're way off. Patents were never meant to provide sole proprietorship. Patents are NOT a question of rights. They're a question of balancing the need to survive with the right to compete. Competition is about innovation not territorial wars.
I'd be interested to see an example if what you say is realy true.
On planet Example (TM) A = 1,000,000 fans B = 10 Stadiums
Cost of album $15 Cost of performance $30 (on average)
You cannot entertain more people than your fan base. They either don't go or don't buy. And NO ONE buys more than one copy of an album. They put it on my.mp3.com.
Katz, after squeezing the life out of the Columbine tragedy (which America seems to have forgotten due to being deluged with nothing BUT Columbine for a few months),
You're bored aren't you?
completely misrepresenting the connection between the DMCA and the RIAA,
Care to elaborate, or are you too bored? I don't see any counter argument or discussion here. Got any details to back up your views?
harping on the old atoms vs. bits theories that were WIRED's bailiwick for the longest time,
and trying to make yourself the Hero of the Geeks, you have lost ALL credibility. I am now turning on the Slashdot Katz Filter. RIP.
Credibility? what the fuck does anything you just said have to do with credibility? So far you
And, BTW, some of you may remember when you didn't have to filter your/., because it was ALL good... Another excersize for the reader: what happened?
Hello? Fast loading, less distraction, quick access to the stuff I'm interested in. Or do you expect people to be clones of yourself?
Two reasons I'm posting this: I figured I'd post instead of moderating. I've been on the dvd-discuss@eon.law.havrad.edu mailing list for the last month and a half and I can tell you in a few simple words: The DMCA Chapter 17:Section 1201 is evil.
I'm thinking distributions have got to speak up. They're the perfect substitute for unions. They're users who built something they needed and somehow others needed it too. They're the perfect representatives. So far GNU + OSI have done their share. Linus has fought the trademuggers. We need to have businesses that clearly show what's at stake.
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They're paying fees. Is that some sort of donation or does something come from that?
Plus what's wrong if the student would rather pay $150 for the fucking cable given the school refuses to wire rooms.
It wasn't the bandwidth read the article.
How about getting work done?
Hi, I'm dumb and I don't want you to express your opinions! Thanks, I'll go back to molesting children now,
... How about him saying is simply of no use for me (him)? How about you speaking for yourself?
You're sharp...
Yet this is you speaking for other people, telling him not to speak for them.
No. I'm speaking for myself.
Though truly you're right I should have said Do not speak for me asshole.
Thank you.
"I have a right to anythign I want" attitude
all of them? c'mon... that's like calling everyone who owns a tape deck a pirate.
It's just a damned storage method.
Assumptions are the root of evil.
Read your own post.
Your post doesnt refute my arguments, instead
you use condescsion to try to ignore and avoid them.
What arguments? You came out guns blazing. And I've had it with people who impulsively assume mp3 = stealing.
Secondly you did not at all quote any particular poster to show which attitude you were talking about.
Thirdly I hear those same "arguments" every single time I see this type of article.
That's really effective. I think it is clear who the 'troll' is here and who isn't.
And that is?
Stop it hurts :)
Almost NOTHING is made of bricks in this country.
Okay so I guess the entire structure of that simple statement went over your head.
I'm confused I think he just agreed with me.
you mean independent, small companies, and by 'people' you mean Wal-Mart
Apple is an independent small company? Where the fuck... nevermind.
What application is going to come from research into vibrations, statistics?
Computers, cell phones... space age technology has produced materials that are resitant to wear and tear because the gravitational pull no longer has such deleterious effect on their atomic structure.
When you need nanosecond timing precision it gets very annoying to work with earth built objects.
Blach holes? Intergalactic power sources for travel. If we can travel across oceans why not space? Before posting next time, please try to clamp down on your irrational urges to post idiotic reponses to something according to your loosely abstracted beliefs.
I repeat, go fuck yourself.
None, that's what. That's why I called it pointless research - because it is pointless.
You're certifiable. Now why the fuck would anyone do research if they already knew what something was good for. Integration and devlopment comes after research, fuckhead.
Ok hate is a strong word. More like I'm inconvenienced to the point of insanity. But this one is great. Oh and for those fools whining about modding up/down those you do/don't agree with, show us where to draw the line oh great masters of all that is and isn't.
We should concentrate more on things which have prac
Remember the Marshall Tucker? That car had all the safety gadgets you could imagine. Course nobody thought any of those things were practical. Not until 20 yrs later. So put a sock in it.
this kind of research is simply of no use to us
Don't speak for others who have not invited you to speak for them, asshole.
public utilities, the military and education
There's no way for the education system to improve, if science in itself is not considered important. Everything you use in your daily existence is the result of a technology that was once considered useless. For example, your military expense should not include war planes because they were once considered useless. I forget the quote (sometime in the early 30s).
I'm sorry but ignorant assholes like you are the reason society is stuck in a confused frustrated state. You rant all about the future and education but when it comes time to invent or discover or simply follow a dream (you don't think following dreams is a useful endeavor it seems), you whine about public utilities as if your toilet were more important than progress.
Go fuck yourself.
Programs written for one flavor of UNIX typically cannot be ported to another without considerable effort.
1. Where does the "effort" end, and porting begin?
2. Check freshmeat you'll find many counter examples of no hassle porting.
your fake indignation
Now there's a statement.
What do you consider a "profit leader"?
Flamers live in Wonderland where the appearance of a storage technology causes whole universes to collapse.
Now if he were making money using MP3s to teach music like some are looking to do... he'd shut up.
HA! you expect someone to read a post that
/. moderation (good when applied by those who have no trigger finger or have recently cut it off) has failed here. Kind of embarassing to see a simple statement overruled by some guy's ignorant manifesto. So far as I've seen it's the Remedial Economics 097 dropouts who are flaming.
long?
I hate to say this, but
And if you read closely you can hear the letters crying at having been arranged that way.
What scares me about this ruling is the impact it might have against the little guy, it lessens the legal ramifications for the theft of good ideas. If a small company has something great and HUGEcorp has no legal impetus NOT to knock it off and put the little guys out of business, don't think HUGEcorp won't. The big guys would be protected by the ability of their pocketbook to raise a louder fuss. Which is almost what the ruling seems to ask them to do.
Of all the doublethinking, twisted arguments... Man this takes the cake. Hello? Read the news lately? Read the ARTICLE? The judgement is precisely designed to make it harder for assholes to harass people. It's about keeping fuckers like Apple from suing when they have not in fact pushed a design. And they haven't. When they did their Mac is Power ads, no attempt to push the "design" was made. If it's so much authorship, why not?
Sorry I don't buy it. Insert coin to play again.
No it isn't. It is pure integration. And that design is precisely irrelevant to the product. Design is authorship in fashion because that is its purpose. The iMac's purpose is to kick ass on its technical and user interface (not eye candy) related merits.
If you make a perfect tool, there is no way to
contain the idea behind that tool.
Nice try. There's a good reason for that. Products fall into four categories:
1. Core
2. Framework
3. Interface
4. Environment
Are you telling me you'd haggle over the smallest brick when your product is many times larger?
Wrong.
Greeks. Deeply sorry to burst that bubbgle? Oh no was it your ego?
Again, wrong. The Constitution is here to protect our rights in case the government is illegally hijacked by psychotic criminals like Bill Clinton.
The fact that you need a 66% majority in many government decisions supports the idea of a toned down democracy. So does the 3-way separation of powers. Read your history again.
Pay up or fuck off, that's the way I see it.
Like haggling over a bunch of bricks when you're building a mall?
You're way off. Patents were never meant to provide sole proprietorship. Patents are NOT a question of rights. They're a question of balancing the need to survive with the right to compete. Competition is about innovation not territorial wars.
Read the case law sometime.
I'd be interested to see an example if what you say is realy true.
On planet Example (TM)
A = 1,000,000 fans
B = 10 Stadiums
Cost of album $15
Cost of performance $30 (on average)
You cannot entertain more people than your fan base. They either don't go or don't buy. And NO ONE buys more than one copy of an album. They put it on my.mp3.com.
It's called touring.
Katz, after squeezing the life out of the Columbine tragedy (which America seems to have forgotten due to being deluged with nothing BUT Columbine for a few months),
/., because it was ALL good... Another excersize for the reader: what happened?
You're bored aren't you?
completely misrepresenting the connection between the DMCA and the RIAA,
Care to elaborate, or are you too bored? I don't see any counter argument or discussion here. Got any details to back up your views?
harping on the old atoms vs. bits theories that were WIRED's bailiwick for the longest time,
and trying to make yourself the Hero of the Geeks, you have lost ALL credibility. I am now turning on the Slashdot Katz Filter. RIP.
Credibility? what the fuck does anything you just said have to do with credibility? So far you
And, BTW, some of you may remember when you didn't have to filter your
Hello? Fast loading, less distraction, quick access to the stuff I'm interested in. Or do you expect people to be clones of yourself?
Two reasons I'm posting this:
I figured I'd post instead of moderating.
I've been on the dvd-discuss@eon.law.havrad.edu mailing list for the last month and a half and I can tell you in a few simple words: The DMCA Chapter 17:Section 1201 is evil.
Join the list argue against us see openlaw.org.
What makes you so sure this is all so James Bond high tech? Get with the program, computers are easy, people are hard.
I'm thinking distributions have got to speak up. They're the perfect substitute for unions. They're users who built something they needed and somehow others needed it too. They're the perfect representatives. So far GNU + OSI have done their share. Linus has fought the trademuggers. We need to have businesses that clearly show what's at stake.