Presumably you have already been paid by one of the aforementioned British newspapers/sites in exchange for your time and effort in producing these photographs?
Why do you feel you deserve to be paid a second time for the same piece of work, even though you have put in no additional time or effort?
Enforcement isn't necessary as the market will do that for you.
If it is impossible to sell binaries the proprietary software companies will be forced to use the same services/support business model that current OSS software companies do. With everyone using the same business model, those also giving the source away will quickly gain a commercial advantage, thus forcing everyone else to do the same.
Neither is the US a free country, since you aren't free to pick up a machete and go on a killing spree.
Most people accept some restrictions on "free" if they benefit society (and hence benefit you indirectly - I assume you don't have to dodge machete wielding morons when you walk down the street)
Sure, when there is not enough of something to go around and that something is vital for a decent quality of life, then some people are gonna get screwed. No method of truly "fair" allocation has ever existed that has worked for everyone at once, simply because no such system *can* exist.
The correct solution is to make the required resources non-scarce - either by making it so no-one needs it anymore, or by acquiring more of it (with bonus points if you can tap into a theoretically unlimited source of it)
So invest in unlimited renewable energy, terraform Mars, mine the asteroid belt, invent food replicators... in general invest your currently limited resources into making future resources less limited.
Spidey would be better done as a TV Series than a movie. They should do it in a similar style to Smallville. I don't mean the prequel aspect, I just mean it should be a lot more character based, exploring how Pete deals with his new powers and how he deals with integrating his activities as Spidey into his ordinary life. In other words it should be a lot more like the comic books dammit!
Don't worry, these things invariably fail to live up to the hype.
Look back at the "write-once-run-anywhere" Java hoohah. About 10 years ago this was the "next big thing", everyone would be doing it this way, blah blah blah. I even remember evangelising it a bit myself at the time - oh how naive I was back then!
Fast forward to the present and what actually happened? Sure, Java's still there if you want to use it and it's taken over a niche or two - but it completely failed to take the world by storm didn't it?
I strongly suspect we'll see much the same outcome for cloud computing.
I would absolute *love* it if Lessig gets the post.
I can see the faces on the RIAA/MPAA moguls now after they went to all that effort to convince congress to create that post, only to have it backfire on them so badly:-)
So, just to be clear, you agree that, for example, the inventor of the Quicksort algorithm should have patented it? What about the inventor of the Binary chop search algorithm? Or how about line drawing algorithms such as this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham's_line_algorithm
All of these algorithms were arguably non-obvious at the time.
... the only way to legally get it is by buying a (presumably) used copy off of E-Bay of Word 2007. the only way to illegally get it is by buying a (presumably) used copy off of E-Bay of Word 2007.
There fixed that for you!
It's actually illegal to buy and sell Office secondhand, you don't buy "Office" you buy a licence to use Office and it's non-transferable.
There's another problem with the "solar roof" scenario apart from cost; in order to maintain maximum efficiency, you have to have your entire roof cleaned on a regular (maybe weekly) basis.
Which, assuming you don't fancy doing it yourself, is a not insignificant ongoing cost.
Of course some people have some flat roof sections on their house (more common in the US than here in the UK), in which case cleaning the panels yourself might be more feasible.
Alternatively a smaller panel that could be mounted on your wall alongside your upper floor windows sounds a lot more practical to me.
Nevermind behind the couch, have you ever taken the room apart looking for the damn thing, only to find later that it's being sitting "right there" the whole bloody time?
Agreed - you can't say *anything* definitively in science - it's all a work in progress;-) Maybe I should have added "according to current consensus" or something like that!
Actually it really is "Teleportation". AIUI at the quantum level there is conceptually no difference between two particles if they have the same properties. If you could transfer all the properties from one atom to another (still beyond the state of the art at present) the resulting atom would be indistinguishable from the original.
Unlike in the "classical" world, where "indistinguishable" means "it looks the same, but it might still be different underneath", in the quantum realm there is no "underneath", so if it looks the same (has the same properties) it *is* the same.
Maybe if you take a hundred photos and get them all printed at Boots, you aren't really saving any money.
However take a hundred pictures of my kids and see if you get more than half-a-dozen worth printing (both looking the right way and smiling
at the same time etc.)
Besides I just burn my pics to a CD and put in my DVD player under the telly to show family and
friends - that's hundreds of pics for less than 10 pence! Compare that to the big bad of
processed APS cartridges I have in a cupboard somewhere - probably cost me about £300 to get
printed.
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Presumably you have already been paid by one of the aforementioned British newspapers/sites in exchange for your time and effort in producing these photographs?
Why do you feel you deserve to be paid a second time for the same piece of work, even though you have put in no additional time or effort?
Enforcement isn't necessary as the market will do that for you.
If it is impossible to sell binaries the proprietary software companies will be forced to use the same services/support business model that current OSS software companies do. With everyone using the same business model, those also giving the source away will quickly gain a commercial advantage, thus forcing everyone else to do the same.
Neither is the US a free country, since you aren't free to pick up a machete and go on a killing spree.
Most people accept some restrictions on "free" if they benefit society (and hence benefit you indirectly - I assume you don't have to dodge machete wielding morons when you walk down the street)
Sure, when there is not enough of something to go around and that something is vital for a decent quality of life, then some people are gonna get screwed. No method of truly "fair" allocation has ever existed that has worked for everyone at once, simply because no such system *can* exist.
The correct solution is to make the required resources non-scarce - either by making it so no-one needs it anymore, or by acquiring more of it (with bonus points if you can tap into a theoretically unlimited source of it)
So invest in unlimited renewable energy, terraform Mars, mine the asteroid belt, invent food replicators ... in general invest your currently limited resources into making future resources less limited.
Spidey would be better done as a TV Series than a movie. They should do it in a similar style to Smallville. I don't mean the prequel aspect, I just mean it should be a lot more character based, exploring how Pete deals with his new powers and how he deals with integrating his activities as Spidey into his ordinary life. In other words it should be a lot more like the comic books dammit!
Yeah, what they consistently fail to mention is that it's 20 Mbps to the *cabinet*, so it's shared with everyone in your street!
Errm, you do realise some people want to *receive* tweets by SMS don't you?
Don't worry, these things invariably fail to live up to the hype.
Look back at the "write-once-run-anywhere" Java hoohah. About 10 years ago this was the "next big thing", everyone would be doing it this way, blah blah blah. I even remember evangelising it a bit myself at the time - oh how naive I was back then!
Fast forward to the present and what actually happened? Sure, Java's still there if you want to use it and it's taken over a niche or two - but it completely failed to take the world by storm didn't it?
I strongly suspect we'll see much the same outcome for cloud computing.
More to the point - this sounds very similar to QTScript which has been available for more than 18 months (since QT 4.3)
I would absolute *love* it if Lessig gets the post.
:-)
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I can see the faces on the RIAA/MPAA moguls now after they went to all that effort to convince congress to create that post, only to have it backfire on them so badly
Oh, I would laugh so hard
I believe you will find these packages are in Debian's 'non-free' repository :-(
You can if you use the literal meaning of "immeasurable" ;-)
... )
( Sorry, feeling a bit frivolous today
Actually, I'm pretty sure he gets it, he's using something called "Sarcasm". You'll find it quite common in these parts.
So, just to be clear, you agree that, for example, the inventor of the Quicksort algorithm should have patented it? What about the inventor of the Binary chop search algorithm? Or how about line drawing algorithms such as this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham's_line_algorithm
All of these algorithms were arguably non-obvious at the time.
... the only way to legally get it is by buying a (presumably) used copy off of E-Bay of Word 2007. the only way to illegally get it is by buying a (presumably) used copy off of E-Bay of Word 2007.There fixed that for you!
It's actually illegal to buy and sell Office secondhand, you don't buy "Office" you buy a licence to use Office and it's non-transferable.
Well, I'd rather just not get hit by a bus, but that's just a personal preference ;-)
There's another problem with the "solar roof" scenario apart from cost; in order to maintain maximum efficiency, you have to have your entire roof cleaned on a regular (maybe weekly) basis.
Which, assuming you don't fancy doing it yourself, is a not insignificant ongoing cost.
Of course some people have some flat roof sections on their house (more common in the US than here in the UK), in which case cleaning the panels yourself might be more feasible.
Alternatively a smaller panel that could be mounted on your wall alongside your upper floor windows sounds a lot more practical to me.
Great move! Plenty of sunshine, no noisy neighbours. Bet it costs a fair bit for your cable though!
Also if it weren't real, they could've just done another take when Neil fluffed his line!
Maybe you've watched too many wild west movies that glorified that type of thing?
Don't you think we could do it with a little less bloodshed the next time around?
Nevermind behind the couch, have you ever taken the room apart looking for the damn thing, only to find later that it's being sitting "right there" the whole bloody time?
Agreed - you can't say *anything* definitively in science - it's all a work in progress ;-) Maybe I should have added "according to current consensus" or something like that!
Actually it really is "Teleportation". AIUI at the quantum level there is conceptually no difference between two particles if they have the same properties. If you could transfer all the properties from one atom to another (still beyond the state of the art at present) the resulting atom would be indistinguishable from the original.
Unlike in the "classical" world, where "indistinguishable" means "it looks the same, but it might still be different underneath", in the quantum realm there is no "underneath", so if it looks the same (has the same properties) it *is* the same.
s/big bad (of processed APS)/big bag \1/
Maybe if you take a hundred photos and get them all printed at Boots, you aren't really saving any money. However take a hundred pictures of my kids and see if you get more than half-a-dozen worth printing (both looking the right way and smiling at the same time etc.) Besides I just burn my pics to a CD and put in my DVD player under the telly to show family and friends - that's hundreds of pics for less than 10 pence! Compare that to the big bad of processed APS cartridges I have in a cupboard somewhere - probably cost me about £300 to get printed.