The power of copyright does not include forcing an obligation onto governments or common carriers to search or police the content. The power of copyright gives the owner a right to take down specific infringing works.
Every scribble, photo, sculpted shape or soundbite you create is copyrighted as soon as you create it. This goes for everybody within the copyright-abiding hemisphere, which obviously means that the number of copyrighted works outnumbers the population by a very large factor. Clearly, not all rights-holders are trying to enforce those rights against every transgression, thankfully. Grouse all you want, but if you own a copyright, you are the only party who should be obligated to do anything about it.
Some carriers might impose a licensing check before submissions can be completed, or they might impose occasional purges like this even without the copyright owners having to complain, but the vast majority of carriers do not (and should not) impose any such hurdle to allowing their users to publish. This is the central promise of public broadcasting and collaboration by network.
If every sheet of paper needed permission before it could hold an idea in ink, we would still be scratching words in the dirt and looking over our shoulders.
In all the MMORPGs I have been involved with, the "bright line" seemed to be that it was okay to allow gambling with the fake currency (e.g., Linden dollars, shells, clams, gamebucks) as long as there was no direct way to convert fake currency back into real money. However, this is precisely what Second Life supposedly allows, so it does seem a bit like an IRS Audit disaster waiting to happen.
Okay, I finally checked out the Second Life client yesterday, and flew around looking for something to *do*. There were about two billboards per active person in the world. It seemed like a third of the buildings I flew past were little businesses to personalize your avatar or house or sell real estate, a third of the buildings were nightmarish personal constructions that looked like those paintings done by elephants in the zoo, and a third of the space was blocked off by barbed wire ("not on the access list, cannot enter").
It seems like the only way someone would think it interesting is if they are playing with people they already know, 100% of the time. There was no call to action. There was nothing drawing my attention as an activity. I mean, I have actually WORKED in the MMORPG industry, have played several games and have thought about online social spaces for years. I still couldn't get a handle on what Lindon expects people to *do* in Second Life, except of course to pay Lindon some actual money.
What am I missing?
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They should know that they won't really have a "complete stack" until they're implementing their own hardware base, so they can provide truly turnkey datacenter solutions. And where did that NC thin client concept go? And here comes Sun with their datacenter-in-a-truck solution.
If you don't own any stock, keep your frickin' stockholder revolt hyperbole to yourself. It's bad enough that actual shareholders are as shortsighted as looking at this-quarter rather than big-picture, and profit-over-progress, but to add random idiot outsiders to this heap is just way too much.
By allowing some of the big rich companies to invest in huge numbers of solar panels, it drives the technology development and simultaneously drives the price down for today's technology. Maybe in 2010, solar panels will be even more cost-effective and capable, but only if some rich "early adopter" types seriously turn their warchests into plowshares now.
If nobody buys solar, then nobody will develop solar, and in 2010, you'll still be facing Enron-like market games. OPEC will still be giggling with every cut-production announcement.
I read the title and the first thing I thought was shovelware. Even if it's just one big title like a huge Final Fantasy Epic, it still smacks of "we have to add 1.2 GB more stuff, I don't care if it's pencil-sketched drug-induced paranoia-invoking laser light shows, just fill the frickin' disc."
(To reply to my own post, yes, I am aware that GEGL represents many of the aforementioned limitations. The span of years that it took to shoehorn GEGL into place even to this unusable but promising stage is the real problem. I hope GEGL development is finally off the chocks and can start rolling thanks to this announcement.)
GEGL was first proposed in 1999, but the GIMP's existing code base has remained in place over several revision cycles since then. As recently as summer 2005, GEGL appeared for all practical purposes dead in the water.
I see this as a confirmation of the stagnant GIMP developer pool, led by a few who are not interested in growing that community at all.
If the GIMP team would foster new blood, help new hackers learn the large and intimidatingly complex codebase, give any other reply besides a gruff "you want it, you code it" response to any artist who dreams of a good core feature, give specific progress feedback about modern image demands like 32bits-per-channel, CMYK, or fully functional ICC, then maybe we'd see a real alternative to Photoshop in the OSS world, not a Photoshop 1993 clone.
The only other path is "fork it," but with any complex project, it's very tough to fork away from the few experts.
It's clear the GIMP captains still see GIMP as a pet project, just as some major tech news sites see themselves as a pet blog, and refuse to take on the responsibility of being a leader or even trying to become a leader.
Around the renaissance, before the impressionist movement, realism was a highly prized aspect of painting. Most of the "commercial art" was oil paintings done on commission, and it was either "my niece, my soldier, or my serving dishes." Many painters roughed out the composition in a cost-effective way with camera obscura techniques or simple lentography, with the subject in a lit room and the canvas in a darkened room, and a pinhole or lens in a curtain between them.
Those who had a job to do embraced technology; those who bemoaned the lack of spirit worked harder but probably enjoyed their fruits more. How history has rewarded each painter probably had little to do with their methods, and more to do with their prominence in mindshare in social circles.
Older slashdotters will have no trouble recalling the phrase, 'two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun'(tm).
When my MBP is on my desk, it is sitting on one of those small cheap USB-powered "lap coolers." If the fans in that thing break, I just go get another one.
I have noticed that most "smart" devices power down when the MBP goes to sleep, but the dumb lap coolers seem to keep spinning. I haven't tried all possible combinations of battery, AC, sleep, or whatever, to chase it down.
Many email clients offer the chance to view only the plaintext representation, but if you forward the email to other parties, the html block continues to propagate. That means web bugs will still track most of the journey, as long as a number of people don't disable html or remote-image-fetching features.
How many people (besides c|net reporters today) are paranoid enough to view-as-text, cut and paste only the text, and then forward a sanitized version of the message? At this point, it's easier to just draft a new message and paraphrase, "Bob, did you see an email from Alice commenting about the Widget lately?"
I was skewering the producers' stated logic that prices were becoming so inflated because they had to cover the costs of piracy. Sorry if you didn't grasp the sarcasm.
I think the "We saw it coming" quote was not in reference to the actual crime, but in the downwardly spiralling finances the group knew about. I hadn't even seen anything about this story until the LAST slashdot article, and someone linked some public emails that showed that the group was quite aware that doom was approaching.
Okay, I didn't RTFA. What's different about this effort from the old Bluecurve approach which Red Hat Linux tried? I recall there was a general feeling that Bluecurve removed all the GNOMEy-ness from GNOME, and all the KDEy-ness from KDE, making a meatloaf of unified goodness or badness, depending on how much of a fanboy you talk to. Will this just repeat that cycle of fanboy and fanned flames?
No, it is undefined. Some compilers might do the post-increment at the end of the RHS before the assignment, and some compilers might do the post-increment at the end of the whole expression, after the assignment. An assignment as a whole is an expression, but some compilers may choose not to see it that way in the typical case for one reason or another.
I think you mean Magritte's "The Treason of Images" which has a label reading "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" under a picture of a tobacco pipe. Not sure where the apple came from...
It's helpful to understand that there are two very different modes of speech recognition.
Continuous speech to text is useful for flat-out dictation, where the speaker should be allowed to speak in a clear voice at a normal or almost normal speed, saying whatever the speaker wants to say, and the result should be a sequence of recognized words.
Prompted speech to text is useful if your program is trying to exchange a dialogue with a human, such as a voice prompt or simply a set of useful user-voice commands. In this mode, the listening routine has a set of "expected" responses and should try only to recognize one of those responses.
The latter form usually requires a lot less training from an individual human, and is more robust in noisy environments, since the range of recognized expression is very tightly controlled to a few possibilities. The former mode, continuous speech, is much harder to accurately recognize without personal training for each human speaker, or significant statistical work in background processing.
Yeah, mod me how you feel instead of responding, I like that.
I would have to say that XFree86 and Apache, as well as components listed under Perl Artistic and BSD licenses, have as much to do with the usability and adoption of Linux as a platform. Why is GNU singled out for more attention than the other amazing personal contributions of self-motivated non-commercialized developers? Just because RMS' ego outscales his last decade of coding efforts doesn't mean that he should automatically be ignored, but neither does it mean his face should be on the proverbial wheaties box at the exclusion of the rest of the team.
Oblig: YouTube is not like a truck you can just dump a bunch of video on.
How do you figure that the demand on one boring nerdy video at 8:35am EST Monday is going to somehow be more than the demand for five thousand videos of a pair of mock-slutty half-drunk teen girls singing Britney songs in their kitchen, viewed at 8:35pm PST Thursday evening?
This is funny if only for the screenshot of a browser window with like 80% of the screen covered with toolbars.
Wasn't that the complaint with Word's "ribbon bar"? It's also my beef with a lot of GUIs that are attempted on small devices with 320x240 resolution or worse.
Do you think that Google's 'sneak peak' search access increases sales or violates copyrights on intellectual property?
It's probably both. But the way US copyright law works, you don't really get a definitive answer anywhere but the courts, and they can pull that "definitive" answer out of their robes.
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The power of copyright does not include forcing an obligation onto governments or common carriers to search or police the content. The power of copyright gives the owner a right to take down specific infringing works.
Every scribble, photo, sculpted shape or soundbite you create is copyrighted as soon as you create it. This goes for everybody within the copyright-abiding hemisphere, which obviously means that the number of copyrighted works outnumbers the population by a very large factor. Clearly, not all rights-holders are trying to enforce those rights against every transgression, thankfully. Grouse all you want, but if you own a copyright, you are the only party who should be obligated to do anything about it.
Some carriers might impose a licensing check before submissions can be completed, or they might impose occasional purges like this even without the copyright owners having to complain, but the vast majority of carriers do not (and should not) impose any such hurdle to allowing their users to publish. This is the central promise of public broadcasting and collaboration by network.
If every sheet of paper needed permission before it could hold an idea in ink, we would still be scratching words in the dirt and looking over our shoulders.
Plus, old icons give kdawson something to play with when he's bored!
In all the MMORPGs I have been involved with, the "bright line" seemed to be that it was okay to allow gambling with the fake currency (e.g., Linden dollars, shells, clams, gamebucks) as long as there was no direct way to convert fake currency back into real money. However, this is precisely what Second Life supposedly allows, so it does seem a bit like an IRS Audit disaster waiting to happen.
Okay, I finally checked out the Second Life client yesterday, and flew around looking for something to *do*. There were about two billboards per active person in the world. It seemed like a third of the buildings I flew past were little businesses to personalize your avatar or house or sell real estate, a third of the buildings were nightmarish personal constructions that looked like those paintings done by elephants in the zoo, and a third of the space was blocked off by barbed wire ("not on the access list, cannot enter").
It seems like the only way someone would think it interesting is if they are playing with people they already know, 100% of the time. There was no call to action. There was nothing drawing my attention as an activity. I mean, I have actually WORKED in the MMORPG industry, have played several games and have thought about online social spaces for years. I still couldn't get a handle on what Lindon expects people to *do* in Second Life, except of course to pay Lindon some actual money.
What am I missing?
They should know that they won't really have a "complete stack" until they're implementing their own hardware base, so they can provide truly turnkey datacenter solutions. And where did that NC thin client concept go? And here comes Sun with their datacenter-in-a-truck solution.
If you don't own any stock, keep your frickin' stockholder revolt hyperbole to yourself. It's bad enough that actual shareholders are as shortsighted as looking at this-quarter rather than big-picture, and profit-over-progress, but to add random idiot outsiders to this heap is just way too much.
By allowing some of the big rich companies to invest in huge numbers of solar panels, it drives the technology development and simultaneously drives the price down for today's technology. Maybe in 2010, solar panels will be even more cost-effective and capable, but only if some rich "early adopter" types seriously turn their warchests into plowshares now.
If nobody buys solar, then nobody will develop solar, and in 2010, you'll still be facing Enron-like market games. OPEC will still be giggling with every cut-production announcement.
I read the title and the first thing I thought was shovelware. Even if it's just one big title like a huge Final Fantasy Epic, it still smacks of "we have to add 1.2 GB more stuff, I don't care if it's pencil-sketched drug-induced paranoia-invoking laser light shows, just fill the frickin' disc."
(To reply to my own post, yes, I am aware that GEGL represents many of the aforementioned limitations. The span of years that it took to shoehorn GEGL into place even to this unusable but promising stage is the real problem. I hope GEGL development is finally off the chocks and can start rolling thanks to this announcement.)
I see this as a confirmation of the stagnant GIMP developer pool, led by a few who are not interested in growing that community at all.
If the GIMP team would foster new blood, help new hackers learn the large and intimidatingly complex codebase, give any other reply besides a gruff "you want it, you code it" response to any artist who dreams of a good core feature, give specific progress feedback about modern image demands like 32bits-per-channel, CMYK, or fully functional ICC, then maybe we'd see a real alternative to Photoshop in the OSS world, not a Photoshop 1993 clone.
The only other path is "fork it," but with any complex project, it's very tough to fork away from the few experts.
It's clear the GIMP captains still see GIMP as a pet project, just as some major tech news sites see themselves as a pet blog, and refuse to take on the responsibility of being a leader or even trying to become a leader.
Around the renaissance, before the impressionist movement, realism was a highly prized aspect of painting. Most of the "commercial art" was oil paintings done on commission, and it was either "my niece, my soldier, or my serving dishes." Many painters roughed out the composition in a cost-effective way with camera obscura techniques or simple lentography, with the subject in a lit room and the canvas in a darkened room, and a pinhole or lens in a curtain between them.
Those who had a job to do embraced technology; those who bemoaned the lack of spirit worked harder but probably enjoyed their fruits more. How history has rewarded each painter probably had little to do with their methods, and more to do with their prominence in mindshare in social circles.
Just a beginner in kanji, but maybe it was a mistake involving cross-language slang 'okay' vs the Japanese word 'oke'.
Older slashdotters will have no trouble recalling the phrase, 'two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun'(tm).
I have noticed that most "smart" devices power down when the MBP goes to sleep, but the dumb lap coolers seem to keep spinning. I haven't tried all possible combinations of battery, AC, sleep, or whatever, to chase it down.
Many email clients offer the chance to view only the plaintext representation, but if you forward the email to other parties, the html block continues to propagate. That means web bugs will still track most of the journey, as long as a number of people don't disable html or remote-image-fetching features.
How many people (besides c|net reporters today) are paranoid enough to view-as-text, cut and paste only the text, and then forward a sanitized version of the message? At this point, it's easier to just draft a new message and paraphrase, "Bob, did you see an email from Alice commenting about the Widget lately?"
I was skewering the producers' stated logic that prices were becoming so inflated because they had to cover the costs of piracy. Sorry if you didn't grasp the sarcasm.
If the thing is locked down via so much digital restriction management, why is the price going up?
I think the "We saw it coming" quote was not in reference to the actual crime, but in the downwardly spiralling finances the group knew about. I hadn't even seen anything about this story until the LAST slashdot article, and someone linked some public emails that showed that the group was quite aware that doom was approaching.
Okay, I didn't RTFA. What's different about this effort from the old Bluecurve approach which Red Hat Linux tried? I recall there was a general feeling that Bluecurve removed all the GNOMEy-ness from GNOME, and all the KDEy-ness from KDE, making a meatloaf of unified goodness or badness, depending on how much of a fanboy you talk to. Will this just repeat that cycle of fanboy and fanned flames?
No, it is undefined. Some compilers might do the post-increment at the end of the RHS before the assignment, and some compilers might do the post-increment at the end of the whole expression, after the assignment. An assignment as a whole is an expression, but some compilers may choose not to see it that way in the typical case for one reason or another.
I think you mean Magritte's "The Treason of Images" which has a label reading "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" under a picture of a tobacco pipe. Not sure where the apple came from...
It's helpful to understand that there are two very different modes of speech recognition.
Continuous speech to text is useful for flat-out dictation, where the speaker should be allowed to speak in a clear voice at a normal or almost normal speed, saying whatever the speaker wants to say, and the result should be a sequence of recognized words.
Prompted speech to text is useful if your program is trying to exchange a dialogue with a human, such as a voice prompt or simply a set of useful user-voice commands. In this mode, the listening routine has a set of "expected" responses and should try only to recognize one of those responses.
The latter form usually requires a lot less training from an individual human, and is more robust in noisy environments, since the range of recognized expression is very tightly controlled to a few possibilities. The former mode, continuous speech, is much harder to accurately recognize without personal training for each human speaker, or significant statistical work in background processing.
Yeah, mod me how you feel instead of responding, I like that.
I would have to say that XFree86 and Apache, as well as components listed under Perl Artistic and BSD licenses, have as much to do with the usability and adoption of Linux as a platform. Why is GNU singled out for more attention than the other amazing personal contributions of self-motivated non-commercialized developers? Just because RMS' ego outscales his last decade of coding efforts doesn't mean that he should automatically be ignored, but neither does it mean his face should be on the proverbial wheaties box at the exclusion of the rest of the team.
Oblig: YouTube is not like a truck you can just dump a bunch of video on.
How do you figure that the demand on one boring nerdy video at 8:35am EST Monday is going to somehow be more than the demand for five thousand videos of a pair of mock-slutty half-drunk teen girls singing Britney songs in their kitchen, viewed at 8:35pm PST Thursday evening?
It's probably both. But the way US copyright law works, you don't really get a definitive answer anywhere but the courts, and they can pull that "definitive" answer out of their robes.