Actually, I'd argue that your analogy is incomplete, because it's not that the mower charged the person who's lawn he just mowed. For one, the sign says "Please mow my lawn for free." And two, it's more a matter of the person who had his lawn mowed turned around and sued the mower for trespassing. Mower then says "Hey, that's not cool; this is how much work we put into mowing your lawn and this is what it should've cost you, but it didn't because we're not charging you, so stop suing!"
The issue I take to all of these "Oh, those stupid geeks, working for free" things is because they're not stupid. They enjoyed a show and pushed it to people they knew, and they got the word out because hey, they enjoyed the movie, why shouldn't other people know about it? I don't hear anyone who pushes linux distros to people they know being called stupid for doing free marketing for said linux distro. And another key point that keeps being missed is the fact that it's not like they're saying "Wait, pay us!" The entire invoice is just a little reminder to Universal, "This is how much your free advertising would have cost you". Is it accurate? Of course not. Could you take it to court to force Universal to pay? Helluva no. But if there's any non-lawyer types with a shred of decency in Universal, it is an eye-opener.
I'd mod you up except I'd like to make the point that, instead of getting modded up as "insightful", they were modded up as "funny". And no matter what stance you have on this issue, in context of the article, the above posts are rather amusing.
Except that, because me and others find this amusing, "wretchedhiveofscumandvillany" will be able to be used to search for articles concerning government corruption (among, I imagine, other things). As for your argument about it gummming up the works, that would be true if each article had a limited number of tags that it could have. But it doesn't. So if you have a tag you like better, stick it on. Don't you just love how the tagging system really works?
Oh, and I wasted my mod points so I could tell you how people with senses of humour work.
The problem here is the fact that the internet is used for a multitude of things. One can say people are using the internet too much, but for a lot of people it's taken the place of reading books/reading the news/watching tv/talking on the phone/playing video games/listening to music/etc. That doesn't mean it's healthy to be sitting in front of a computer for X hours at a time, but no less healthy than sitting at home for those same X hours reading a book/watching tv/...you get the idea.
Except that they're not going to sit and wait for a bunch of fires to spontaneously sprout at the other side of the city, then run into another building with a match. If they really wanted to do that, they would *set* several fires at the other side of the city. And you don't need to track firetrucks to know that that's where they're going to be.
Dude. Jedi Academy, cheats on, go to that sand level with the sand worms and do a killall npcs. Then start spawning things. You'll be amused the first time your mutant rancor tries to eat a sandworm (or vice versa) and locks up your game.:P
Books are one thing. I prefer to get my books in physical form as compared to trying to find ebooks of it, yes. But an IT rag is quite another thing. Even ignoring the advertisement side of things, everything you read about is going to be between a week and a month old. Online, the instant anyone finds out about it is the instant you find out about it (usually via Slashdot or Technocrati or whatever).
It depends on what you consider the "market". If you ignore the fact that every copy of Windows ships with a personal firewall, maybe, but more and more software companies are advertising to home users that "having a firewall makes you safe, because windows doesn't."
Of course, at this point, most people are behind a router anyways, which has a firewall...
So yeah, if you look in terms of "specifically bought as firewalls", then yes, I'm sure the corporate sector wins out. But in general, if you consider that a lot of things come with firewalls built-in with other types of software, then I'd say it's probably pretty close.
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?
So if everyone ignores IP laws, it shouldn't be a law anymore? Just like how everyone's drinking and smoking under the legal age, so we should get rid of that too, etc etc? People are hypocrites when it comes to laws. That's why we have courts. I direct your attention to the RIAA: People download music, and they get in trouble. I don't think that makes Turnitin exempt in any way. In fact, I'd almost say it's worse; Turnitin's profiting off the non-granted IP. If someone started downloading songs off torrents and then started selling them online, someone'd come down on them like a ton of bricks (ring a bell, anyone)?
Disclaimer: Yes, infringing IP is not good. But two wrongs don't make it right.
Pentium 4, 1.5 Ghz if I remember correctly. Stage one install +desktop and server items took 48 hours, and that's including time when it was doing nothing because I had started it emerging stuff when I was out of the house and was still afk when it finished.
The same ones they always did--at the age of 8, I was in the computer lab learning Logo. A year or two ago, while flipping through some Linux distro's preinstalled packages, I found Logo's open-source implementation. It's not that there's a dearth of languages, it's that teachers don't want to bother teaching it anymore. And that's a seperate issue entirely.
I'd like to think a better example is how this painting (NSFW, as far as classical paintings go) is more famously known for the one foot in the bottom-left than any other portion of the painting.
If the light's bending around you, how are you supposed to see? Either the light hits you and you can see, or it doesn't and you're stumbling around blind and invisible...
Probably. Doesn't mean they care. There'll always be a market for overpriced, locked-down game systems in the Myspace generation. They don't pay attention to the technical aspects, they just drool over the new game system. And their technologically-impaired parents, not knowing any better, will buy them the system because they want it. Teh edn.
Of course P2P isn't as popular as it once was. Torrents are the new thing for illegal downloads. Now if you'll excuse me, I have another season of Lost to start downloading.
I prefer Crimson Editor myself, even though the author's gone to ground and the project hasn't been updated in awhile. Syntax highlighting for a bunch of languages, plus customizable color/italic/bold combinations for displaying keywords and whatnot.
I take pride in the fact that my pages are W3C compliant (until I stop using Firefox and start putting in the hacks to get it to work right with IE...) The way I see it is that even though browsers are going to be adding and removing their nonstandard little extra bits, the standards the W3C puts in should at least be partially obeyed by every browser out there. So if I make a compliant page, it'll last hella longer than if I programmed it specifically with IE in mind. Besides, considering the progress made since even a few years ago towards standards compliance...yeah, IE still sucks at it, but 6 is better than 5 was as far as supporting standards go, and if we're lucky, 7'll be even closer. Plus more people are using (more) compliant browsers. I'd say intentionally IE-only pages at this point would be stupid.
Now, instead of all the "Contents may be hot" labels, everyone's going to have to start putting "Warning! Contents may detonate" on their coffee cups to avoid lawsuits.
Same here. Anything on my computer, loaded by the IT department or not, that tries to hide itself or not allow me to uninstall it gets uninstalled, no matter what it is. A program that tries to embed itself just dares me to wipe it.
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Actually, I'd argue that your analogy is incomplete, because it's not that the mower charged the person who's lawn he just mowed. For one, the sign says "Please mow my lawn for free." And two, it's more a matter of the person who had his lawn mowed turned around and sued the mower for trespassing. Mower then says "Hey, that's not cool; this is how much work we put into mowing your lawn and this is what it should've cost you, but it didn't because we're not charging you, so stop suing!"
The issue I take to all of these "Oh, those stupid geeks, working for free" things is because they're not stupid. They enjoyed a show and pushed it to people they knew, and they got the word out because hey, they enjoyed the movie, why shouldn't other people know about it? I don't hear anyone who pushes linux distros to people they know being called stupid for doing free marketing for said linux distro. And another key point that keeps being missed is the fact that it's not like they're saying "Wait, pay us!" The entire invoice is just a little reminder to Universal, "This is how much your free advertising would have cost you". Is it accurate? Of course not. Could you take it to court to force Universal to pay? Helluva no. But if there's any non-lawyer types with a shred of decency in Universal, it is an eye-opener.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Things+that+
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,930,000. Well hey, whaddaya know? It works!
I'd mod you up except I'd like to make the point that, instead of getting modded up as "insightful", they were modded up as "funny". And no matter what stance you have on this issue, in context of the article, the above posts are rather amusing.
No, that's the antifreeze.
Except that, because me and others find this amusing, "wretchedhiveofscumandvillany" will be able to be used to search for articles concerning government corruption (among, I imagine, other things). As for your argument about it gummming up the works, that would be true if each article had a limited number of tags that it could have. But it doesn't. So if you have a tag you like better, stick it on. Don't you just love how the tagging system really works?
Oh, and I wasted my mod points so I could tell you how people with senses of humour work.
The problem here is the fact that the internet is used for a multitude of things. One can say people are using the internet too much, but for a lot of people it's taken the place of reading books/reading the news/watching tv/talking on the phone/playing video games/listening to music/etc. That doesn't mean it's healthy to be sitting in front of a computer for X hours at a time, but no less healthy than sitting at home for those same X hours reading a book/watching tv/...you get the idea.
Except that they're not going to sit and wait for a bunch of fires to spontaneously sprout at the other side of the city, then run into another building with a match. If they really wanted to do that, they would *set* several fires at the other side of the city. And you don't need to track firetrucks to know that that's where they're going to be.
Dude. Jedi Academy, cheats on, go to that sand level with the sand worms and do a killall npcs. Then start spawning things. You'll be amused the first time your mutant rancor tries to eat a sandworm (or vice versa) and locks up your game. :P
How do you have a first fp? That's like having a PIN number or an ATM machine. Doesn't make any sense at all.
Books are one thing. I prefer to get my books in physical form as compared to trying to find ebooks of it, yes. But an IT rag is quite another thing. Even ignoring the advertisement side of things, everything you read about is going to be between a week and a month old. Online, the instant anyone finds out about it is the instant you find out about it (usually via Slashdot or Technocrati or whatever).
It depends on what you consider the "market". If you ignore the fact that every copy of Windows ships with a personal firewall, maybe, but more and more software companies are advertising to home users that "having a firewall makes you safe, because windows doesn't."
Of course, at this point, most people are behind a router anyways, which has a firewall...
So yeah, if you look in terms of "specifically bought as firewalls", then yes, I'm sure the corporate sector wins out. But in general, if you consider that a lot of things come with firewalls built-in with other types of software, then I'd say it's probably pretty close.
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?
So if everyone ignores IP laws, it shouldn't be a law anymore? Just like how everyone's drinking and smoking under the legal age, so we should get rid of that too, etc etc? People are hypocrites when it comes to laws. That's why we have courts. I direct your attention to the RIAA: People download music, and they get in trouble. I don't think that makes Turnitin exempt in any way. In fact, I'd almost say it's worse; Turnitin's profiting off the non-granted IP. If someone started downloading songs off torrents and then started selling them online, someone'd come down on them like a ton of bricks (ring a bell, anyone)?
Disclaimer: Yes, infringing IP is not good. But two wrongs don't make it right.
Or you could do it the easy way and just google it. If 99% came from Wikipedia, .9% came from the first google result that isn't wikipedia.
Pentium 4, 1.5 Ghz if I remember correctly. Stage one install +desktop and server items took 48 hours, and that's including time when it was doing nothing because I had started it emerging stuff when I was out of the house and was still afk when it finished.
All I can say is that if it takes you 10 days to install Gentoo, either your computer sucks or you fail at life.
The same ones they always did--at the age of 8, I was in the computer lab learning Logo. A year or two ago, while flipping through some Linux distro's preinstalled packages, I found Logo's open-source implementation. It's not that there's a dearth of languages, it's that teachers don't want to bother teaching it anymore. And that's a seperate issue entirely.
I'd like to think a better example is how this painting (NSFW, as far as classical paintings go) is more famously known for the one foot in the bottom-left than any other portion of the painting.
If the light's bending around you, how are you supposed to see? Either the light hits you and you can see, or it doesn't and you're stumbling around blind and invisible...
Probably. Doesn't mean they care. There'll always be a market for overpriced, locked-down game systems in the Myspace generation. They don't pay attention to the technical aspects, they just drool over the new game system. And their technologically-impaired parents, not knowing any better, will buy them the system because they want it. Teh edn.
Of course P2P isn't as popular as it once was. Torrents are the new thing for illegal downloads. Now if you'll excuse me, I have another season of Lost to start downloading.
I prefer Crimson Editor myself, even though the author's gone to ground and the project hasn't been updated in awhile. Syntax highlighting for a bunch of languages, plus customizable color/italic/bold combinations for displaying keywords and whatnot.
I take pride in the fact that my pages are W3C compliant (until I stop using Firefox and start putting in the hacks to get it to work right with IE...) The way I see it is that even though browsers are going to be adding and removing their nonstandard little extra bits, the standards the W3C puts in should at least be partially obeyed by every browser out there. So if I make a compliant page, it'll last hella longer than if I programmed it specifically with IE in mind. Besides, considering the progress made since even a few years ago towards standards compliance...yeah, IE still sucks at it, but 6 is better than 5 was as far as supporting standards go, and if we're lucky, 7'll be even closer. Plus more people are using (more) compliant browsers. I'd say intentionally IE-only pages at this point would be stupid.
Ahem. This sort of censorship... sort of implies that he's talking about the censorship, not the forking.
Now, instead of all the "Contents may be hot" labels, everyone's going to have to start putting "Warning! Contents may detonate" on their coffee cups to avoid lawsuits.
Same here. Anything on my computer, loaded by the IT department or not, that tries to hide itself or not allow me to uninstall it gets uninstalled, no matter what it is. A program that tries to embed itself just dares me to wipe it.