So, your post was based on nothing? As for reading comprehension, your interpretation wasn't clear at all from the post I was responding to, and we don't have confirmation that this is actually what was meant. It was merely your assumption of what the author meant. Perhaps you should have been lecturing him on writing clearly?
Yet millions of people do exactly that for hours at a time when they play The Sims - even forgoing their own meals and toilet breaks to watch their Sims eat and shit.
The problem is that you're letting your potatoes get exposed to air for too long before mashing them. Submerge them in iced water prior to mashing, and add some sour cream to the mash, then your mashup will have a creamy texture and clean white color.
But, dude, it's a mashup. You know that thing where if I take somebody else's work and put it on my TwitterBook, it's not plagiarism, it's an edgy new form of art that shows how brilliant and creative I am?
But ultimatelly other companies betting on more open solution catched up and overtook them.
When did that happen? The only desktop OS with more marketshare than Mac is Windows, and that's hardly an "open solution". Linux is currently way behind in marketshare.
Android has matched the iPhone at each significant milestone, except in app sales. Android has matched it in a recession to borderline depression.
What the hell are you talking about? In what way has Android matched the iPhone's success? It's currently in sixth place, and nowhere near as widely used or sold. And why don't the bad economic conditions not apply to Apple as well? It's not like iPhone sales stopped when the recession hit, in fact a new model was released.
So, if intellectual property makes no moral sense, then you are arguing that it is perfectly moral for someone to take someone else's work and pass it off as their own (i.e plagiarism)? Because for plagiarism to be immoral requires some concept of intellectual property. So, do you really believe that plagiarism is acceptable behavior?
Don't you dare pick up that cellphone if you're a doctor or an EMT on call. Don't you dare pick up that phone and call for directions when you're lost (instead, drive around erractically as you figure out where you are
Have you ever heard of a place called "the side of the road"? When you get a call or need to fiddle with your GPS, use that place to stop.
Further what kind of social damage are we doing by not encouraging people to adapt to new technology?
Since we're talking about mobile phones, I think society would be greatly enhanced by not encouraging people to use this particular piece of technology.
as you say 'Distracted Driving' is the actual 'crime' here. And most states already have laws against it on the books already.
But how often are they enforced? When was the last time somebody got a ticket for using their phone in a dangerous manner while driving? I think this is a call to arms to start enforcing it explicitly. Personally, I think this would be more effectively done as a media/education campaign. A new law may not be necessary, but it also doesn't hurt to have this explicitly defined. That way at least you don't get people claiming they didn't know that cellphone use was not distracting or something (you know somebody's going to say that - "My l33t txting sk1llz r so gud i cn drve prfctly gd wh1l txtng.")
I am curious why this is not also a violation of the first sale doctrine. If I am allowed by law to sell a copyrighted work which I have legally purchased, Autodesk should not be permitted to implement a system which takes this right away.
Because you can still sell the software - the CD, the manual, and the box it came in. It's just that the buyer won't be able to use said software. I don't see how it would be a violation of any law, you'd just end up with one very unhappy customer.
The first step in fixing the education system is to abolish the federal Department of Education and rethink the whole system from a more local point of view.
So, what happens in-between the time you abolish the DOE, and think up your new solution? We just close all the schools for a few years? And what do you do about all the disenfranchised (and now unemployed) teachers and school support staff?
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Yeah, Murdoch's really stupid... like a Fox.
After all, you're buying a service from a company called Microsoft/Danger. What could possibly go wrong?
So, your post was based on nothing? As for reading comprehension, your interpretation wasn't clear at all from the post I was responding to, and we don't have confirmation that this is actually what was meant. It was merely your assumption of what the author meant. Perhaps you should have been lecturing him on writing clearly?
Got any figures on that?
Yet millions of people do exactly that for hours at a time when they play The Sims - even forgoing their own meals and toilet breaks to watch their Sims eat and shit.
I suppose it won't work if you try sketching the Dalai Lama?
What happens is you get pictures of Bill Murray instead...
Aren't mashups already in a gray area?
The problem is that you're letting your potatoes get exposed to air for too long before mashing them. Submerge them in iced water prior to mashing, and add some sour cream to the mash, then your mashup will have a creamy texture and clean white color.
But, dude, it's a mashup. You know that thing where if I take somebody else's work and put it on my TwitterBook, it's not plagiarism, it's an edgy new form of art that shows how brilliant and creative I am?
But ultimatelly other companies betting on more open solution catched up and overtook them.
When did that happen? The only desktop OS with more marketshare than Mac is Windows, and that's hardly an "open solution". Linux is currently way behind in marketshare.
Android has matched the iPhone at each significant milestone, except in app sales. Android has matched it in a recession to borderline depression.
What the hell are you talking about? In what way has Android matched the iPhone's success? It's currently in sixth place, and nowhere near as widely used or sold. And why don't the bad economic conditions not apply to Apple as well? It's not like iPhone sales stopped when the recession hit, in fact a new model was released.
Behold, the face of evil!
It's the village retard given a new shirt and some fresh napkins to clean up the snot and drool.
I thought that was Steve Ballmer.
So, if intellectual property makes no moral sense, then you are arguing that it is perfectly moral for someone to take someone else's work and pass it off as their own (i.e plagiarism)? Because for plagiarism to be immoral requires some concept of intellectual property. So, do you really believe that plagiarism is acceptable behavior?
This type of reporting is, in my opinion, one of the best things that have come out of the communication acceleration we have gone through.
Inaccurate hysteria and FUD is what you like to see in your reporting?
Well, regardless of other content of the bill, aspects of it do relate to copyright, and it certainly isn't just about encrypted works.
Don't you dare pick up that cellphone if you're a doctor or an EMT on call. Don't you dare pick up that phone and call for directions when you're lost (instead, drive around erractically as you figure out where you are
Have you ever heard of a place called "the side of the road"? When you get a call or need to fiddle with your GPS, use that place to stop.
Further what kind of social damage are we doing by not encouraging people to adapt to new technology?
Since we're talking about mobile phones, I think society would be greatly enhanced by not encouraging people to use this particular piece of technology.
Do we really need to establish a new Federal law, complete with its own bureaucracy and enforcement regime to control (another) risky behavior?
They usually don't establish a new police force for every single law. They use the existing one for many laws.
as you say 'Distracted Driving' is the actual 'crime' here. And most states already have laws against it on the books already.
But how often are they enforced? When was the last time somebody got a ticket for using their phone in a dangerous manner while driving? I think this is a call to arms to start enforcing it explicitly. Personally, I think this would be more effectively done as a media/education campaign. A new law may not be necessary, but it also doesn't hurt to have this explicitly defined. That way at least you don't get people claiming they didn't know that cellphone use was not distracting or something (you know somebody's going to say that - "My l33t txting sk1llz r so gud i cn drve prfctly gd wh1l txtng.")
Though I too do not really understand US law I think the DMCA protects encrypted works. Copyright law protects copyrighted works.
No, the DMCA protects digital copyrighted works. It's called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
but the DMCA makes it illegal to break the encryption so that the owner can legally copy it. I may however be mistaken about this.
You don't need to break the encryption on a DVD in order to copy it.
I am curious why this is not also a violation of the first sale doctrine. If I am allowed by law to sell a copyrighted work which I have legally purchased, Autodesk should not be permitted to implement a system which takes this right away.
Because you can still sell the software - the CD, the manual, and the box it came in. It's just that the buyer won't be able to use said software. I don't see how it would be a violation of any law, you'd just end up with one very unhappy customer.
The first step in fixing the education system is to abolish the federal Department of Education and rethink the whole system from a more local point of view.
So, what happens in-between the time you abolish the DOE, and think up your new solution? We just close all the schools for a few years? And what do you do about all the disenfranchised (and now unemployed) teachers and school support staff?
If I were Microsoft I'd throw this on automatic Windows Update and push it out to everyone not already running an anti-virus.
But then you'd draw the ire of literally dozens of slashdotters complaining about how it's not right to "push" new software through software updates!
Files don't have human rights.
Perhaps, but aren't they at least entitled to a nice, sturdy filing cabinet?
That would be pretty weird, seeing as my capital has very few English people. Should we be fearing a sudden influx of the British?