Of course, you have exhaustive data to support your observations about the different usage patterns of internet users, right?
Remember, even with Yahoo News, just "looking at web pages" includes streaming video. A lot - a *lot* - of people like streaming audio. P2P is pretty ubiquitous - what if your cell is the one that a dorm room is near? Etc. etc.
The reductio ad absurdum I usually make is the other way around - if I have a dream in which Wolverine is a character, do I not have the copyright to my own dream? Has copyright trumped our own subconscious?
I'm not going to compare the apples of civil rights with the oranges of IP laws, but at the root of it, I do think there's something more important than just the right to download a song -
It's the question of the ownership of the imagination, of the stuff that, by my own experiences with the rest of the world, have become part of my psyche, part of my cultural environment, even part of my subconscious. The widening control over copyrights - and especially the tightening noose around fair use - affects my ability to describe the contents of my own imagination insofar as they've been formed by images and ideas from without.
What do I mean? The other night, I had a dream that, for some reason, took place on the bridge of the Enterprise and had a couple Disney characters in it. Those cultural franchises has taken root in my subconscious. Can I make a movie depiction of my dream now? Can I publish a story about it? Do the rights of the creators of those characters and such have a right that is greater than my own ownership over the contents my imagination? Does their property right preempt some of the most essential rights of expression I might have?
Again, in the creation of intellectual "property." my belief is that you are responsible for making sure you're going to get paid *before you actually do the work.* Once the work is out there, I believe the moral priority goes to those who are going to do with what have then become the elements of their cultural environment as they will, rather than to your belated attempt to get paid for it.
There are advantages that acrue to a community when they bring services to people who may not be able to afford it. It may lower costs elsewhere - it may improve health and educational standards - it may reduce strain on transportation infrastructure.
Public health is another domain like this. By subsidizing the vaccination of people who can't afford it, everyone benefits. A literate society is another benefit of this nature.
I don't think K-Meleon has been updated in a long time - it's being built on Mozilla 9.5, and a new version hasn't been released since October of last year.
Um, "choice" is all fine and well, but the purpose of office productivity software is almost always communication and shared file use. As you noted, the entire legal *profession* still uses WordPerfect - which means if you are in a law firm, you *don't* have that much choice. The entire firm does, sure - but they too are constrained by the context they're in.
Besides, when evaluating another product, "choice" isn't a feature. It's a "meta-feature": because you already have choices, you are evaluating the product. If what you are saying is that it is Not Microsoft, well, I have a dust bunny under my bed that is Not Microsoft - you want that I should ship it to you?
Funny, the people I know who are using Windows effectively to download email, use digital photography and the like don't feel like their going over a cliff. I'd say that some of them wish their environment were a little more stable to work in, but let's keep a perspective check here.
Incidentally, I *do* use Linux as a primary OS. But I'd love to go through your personal consumer habits, and find out how in the toaster, car, breakfast cereal, music, and other aspects of your life you're as much as a "lemming" as the people you seem to be so contemptuous of.
People are lazy (yes, there's stupid ones too). They don't want to LEARN anything new.
How arrogant. Many - most - people don't want to learn all that much about a computer. My Mom, for example.
My Mom, who, at retirement age, is beginning a 3rd career as a landscape designer, who takes dance lessons, who got 2 Master's degrees in her forties, who travels regularly to Europe and Latin America, who studies botany, history, and languages. She doesn't want to learn vi to get email, but don't dare say she doesn't want to learn anything. That you think of the computer as the horizon of knowledge is really very, very sad.
It sooooo doesn't work that way in any real scale. You keep on trying to find market solutions to an essentially political problem, and it will fail. Yes, markets are, on paper, nicer and more rational and more adaptive than political processes, but it just won't work that way for this sort of thing (IP) - the music industry has a recording and distribution infrastructure that makes it the 800 pound gorilla that it is, and music "product" isn't a commodity, in that if the music I want to listen to is caught up in the industry mechanisms, I can't go next door to "the competitor."
Just what is "the competitor" for any given type of music, anyway? I probably listen to music in the context of friends and acquaintances who share knowledge and appreciation of it.
My girlfriend and I started doing the same thing - "my hunger bar is turning red," "just let me finish maxing my fun bar, then I'll work on the social bar." The most frightening Sims moment is when she stood behind my chair waiting to talk to me while I was playing Sims, in which the Sims character was playing a computer game while his partner waited to talk to him.
Unfotunately, as far as I know, none of the expansion kits works in Wine yet. So you can buy the Mandrake distro + The Sims for Linux (which isn't available without the distro) and play the basic version which has already been out for a couple years - no Hot Date, no Livin' Large, no Vacation, and pay another $60+ for the privilege of doing so. This was true at least as of a month and half ago, when I signed up for Transgaming and was deeply disappointed by that and other aspects of the effort.
No. The fact is that most of the factory workers were motivated by religious compunctions about the misuse of children. There was never a danger of a labor shortage such that it would have provided savings to refrain from employing labor - other, non-economic considerations applied. You may want to begin here for some background.
Incidentally, I was incorrect to specify "Victorian" England as the epoch at hand - the child labor movement began in the early 19th century.
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Then FotR fails as a movie (which it doesn't.) And shouldn't have even been nominated until the 2nd to films came out. (Which I don't agree with.) As far as the Academy - and people in film who are smarter than they are, for that matter - is concerned, films stand or fall on their own merits, end of story.
In terms of your central claim, I think you're wrong. Although Godfather 2 completely revises your understanding of the characters in Godfather, Godfather stands well on its own.
I don't think the lack of a strong central character has anything to do with why LotR lost, btw. I think it was always a close race; I would have like to see LotR win, but frankly genre pictures always have a disadvantage going into it. I, too, doubt that Two Towers has a crack (of Doom!) at the Oscars next year, but Return of the Je^H^HKing might.
I really doubt it has anything to do with child labor at all. It has a lot more to do with the ability to sign the contracts. Like you said, if Apple chose to pursue it, his parents could sign.
If being a hobbyist developer is child employment, then little league players are professional child athletes.
The first laws against child labor - restricting the number of hours and defining the conditions under which children could do factory work - were drafted in Victorian England. They were not drafted at the behest of the straw-man liberal democrats, but rather at the behest of the factory owners - or a subset of them - who were horrified at the prospect of a generation of children whose educations were cut short by the work they were performing.
Why did the factory owners advocate for these laws, even though it meant increasing their own labor costs? Why didn't they unilaterally decided not to hire them? Because they were competing against manufacturers who were using them and could not unilaterally stop the practice. This is also why many plantation owners kept slaves against their own moral inclinations - because competition made it impossible for them not to.
The point of child labor laws is largely to ensure that children get a well-round basic education, so that they can get work even if the widget factory that employed them at age 14 closes. And to make sure that no one gets a competitive advantage based on keeping those kids from getting and education.
Does anyone know whether the new phones will give AT&T customers easy portability through Europe and Asia? Would I be able to take my phone with me, or at least the card? The new phones are GSM after all, right?
"If you have better things to do with your time than fix your hardware problems, you're probably not running Linux, either." Or as JWZ said, "Linux is only free if your time is worthless."
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Um, Novak has no attorney. He's representing himself. RTFA.
Remember, even with Yahoo News, just "looking at web pages" includes streaming video. A lot - a *lot* - of people like streaming audio. P2P is pretty ubiquitous - what if your cell is the one that a dorm room is near? Etc. etc.
The reductio ad absurdum I usually make is the other way around - if I have a dream in which Wolverine is a character, do I not have the copyright to my own dream? Has copyright trumped our own subconscious?
Ah, so it's being released on the LGPL-compatible GYS (GotYaSucka) license.
I'm not going to compare the apples of civil rights with the oranges of IP laws, but at the root of it, I do think there's something more important than just the right to download a song -
It's the question of the ownership of the imagination, of the stuff that, by my own experiences with the rest of the world, have become part of my psyche, part of my cultural environment, even part of my subconscious. The widening control over copyrights - and especially the tightening noose around fair use - affects my ability to describe the contents of my own imagination insofar as they've been formed by images and ideas from without.
What do I mean? The other night, I had a dream that, for some reason, took place on the bridge of the Enterprise and had a couple Disney characters in it. Those cultural franchises has taken root in my subconscious. Can I make a movie depiction of my dream now? Can I publish a story about it? Do the rights of the creators of those characters and such have a right that is greater than my own ownership over the contents my imagination? Does their property right preempt some of the most essential rights of expression I might have?
Again, in the creation of intellectual "property." my belief is that you are responsible for making sure you're going to get paid *before you actually do the work.* Once the work is out there, I believe the moral priority goes to those who are going to do with what have then become the elements of their cultural environment as they will, rather than to your belated attempt to get paid for it.
I don't know where there RPM's are, but the debs are here.
A huge sector is small to medium sized businesses with minimal IT staff. Microsoft would be quite happy to grab more of that market.
I see plenty of Sun ads. Where are you looking, Sports Illustrated?
Public health is another domain like this. By subsidizing the vaccination of people who can't afford it, everyone benefits. A literate society is another benefit of this nature.
I don't think K-Meleon has been updated in a long time - it's being built on Mozilla 9.5, and a new version hasn't been released since October of last year.
Ah, the tragedy of the commons. With pop-ups.
Besides, when evaluating another product, "choice" isn't a feature. It's a "meta-feature": because you already have choices, you are evaluating the product. If what you are saying is that it is Not Microsoft, well, I have a dust bunny under my bed that is Not Microsoft - you want that I should ship it to you?
Incidentally, I *do* use Linux as a primary OS. But I'd love to go through your personal consumer habits, and find out how in the toaster, car, breakfast cereal, music, and other aspects of your life you're as much as a "lemming" as the people you seem to be so contemptuous of.
My Mom, who, at retirement age, is beginning a 3rd career as a landscape designer, who takes dance lessons, who got 2 Master's degrees in her forties, who travels regularly to Europe and Latin America, who studies botany, history, and languages. She doesn't want to learn vi to get email, but don't dare say she doesn't want to learn anything. That you think of the computer as the horizon of knowledge is really very, very sad.
Just what is "the competitor" for any given type of music, anyway? I probably listen to music in the context of friends and acquaintances who share knowledge and appreciation of it.
My girlfriend and I started doing the same thing - "my hunger bar is turning red," "just let me finish maxing my fun bar, then I'll work on the social bar." The most frightening Sims moment is when she stood behind my chair waiting to talk to me while I was playing Sims, in which the Sims character was playing a computer game while his partner waited to talk to him.
Unfotunately, as far as I know, none of the expansion kits works in Wine yet. So you can buy the Mandrake distro + The Sims for Linux (which isn't available without the distro) and play the basic version which has already been out for a couple years - no Hot Date, no Livin' Large, no Vacation, and pay another $60+ for the privilege of doing so. This was true at least as of a month and half ago, when I signed up for Transgaming and was deeply disappointed by that and other aspects of the effort.
Incidentally, I was incorrect to specify "Victorian" England as the epoch at hand - the child labor movement began in the early 19th century.
In terms of your central claim, I think you're wrong. Although Godfather 2 completely revises your understanding of the characters in Godfather, Godfather stands well on its own.
I don't think the lack of a strong central character has anything to do with why LotR lost, btw. I think it was always a close race; I would have like to see LotR win, but frankly genre pictures always have a disadvantage going into it. I, too, doubt that Two Towers has a crack (of Doom!) at the Oscars next year, but Return of the Je^H^HKing might.
If being a hobbyist developer is child employment, then little league players are professional child athletes.
Why did the factory owners advocate for these laws, even though it meant increasing their own labor costs? Why didn't they unilaterally decided not to hire them? Because they were competing against manufacturers who were using them and could not unilaterally stop the practice. This is also why many plantation owners kept slaves against their own moral inclinations - because competition made it impossible for them not to.
The point of child labor laws is largely to ensure that children get a well-round basic education, so that they can get work even if the widget factory that employed them at age 14 closes. And to make sure that no one gets a competitive advantage based on keeping those kids from getting and education.
Oh, yes. Things are much better for children where there's no regulation against child labor.
Does anyone know whether the new phones will give AT&T customers easy portability through Europe and Asia? Would I be able to take my phone with me, or at least the card? The new phones are GSM after all, right?
An anticapitalist rant isn't offensive to me. Nationalist ones are.
"If you have better things to do with your time than fix your hardware problems, you're probably not running Linux, either." Or as JWZ said, "Linux is only free if your time is worthless."