You're missing his point. He's saying that two heterosexual guys living together could never adopt a child together, so to homosexual guys have no right to either. You don't deserve any special rights just because you have a different sexual behavior than me.
The point is, we're talking about Intellectual "Property" on the Internet, not physical property. The single most common misconception is that either of the two have anything in common.
Consider this: I invent a perpetual motion machine. I sell it in a black box. Then somebody "reverse engineers" it. The information
is now free, and demand drops considerably (as people build their own.) Now... is that disrespecting my life, as my income and
quality of life drops? Is it disrespecting my liberty to sell however I please?
Then it would be your own stupid fault for not patenting it. This example is totally irrelevant to an IP debate.
I would just use that old upgrade version of windows 98 and those win3.1 floppies to to do
the reinstall. If the floppies were corrupt, I would even consider pirating a copy, not because I think pirating is right, but because
since I am the legal owner of 1 copy of windows 98 (as well as windows 3.1 and windows 1.0).
That's not actually piracy. Microsoft's business model depends on selling licenses, not discs. So even if you're installing off of burned media, as long as you have that piece of paper that says you licensed, you're legit. Of course, this is not how Microsoft behaves. But that's how it works legally.
Nobody seems to want to watch a subtitled film, even though they are a hundered times more watcheable than a dubbed one.
In order to dub a show into english, one would have to hire english voice actors.
Voice acting is the bottom of the pool in America. The only stable job for voice actors is cartoons.
Thanks to Disney, nobody here even accepts the concept of animation for adults. Not for a moment.
Anime has almost always been beyond kids, almost to the point of being NC-17 (or worse!)
In my specific example, Rurouni Kenshin is "not for kids" for a variety of reasons, but sex is not one of them. RK is a very deep show; it deals with situations that any kid's show wouldn't dare touch. Most of this would go completely over a child's head. Secondly, the OVA is extrememly violent, although the violence in in no way inappropriate. It's violent in the same way Saving Private Ryan in violent. It takes place during a revolutionary war in 1860s Japan that lead to the overthrow of the Tokugawa dynasty, and the main character is the head assassin for the group of patriots called the Ishinshishi. But that is the other great thing about RK; instead of glorifying violence, it is instead used to show why violence is bad. (I wasn't just kidding earlier, if you really do appreciate good animation I urge you to check this show out. It's worth your time!)
I guess my point is, screw American animation. There are some noteable examples (hopefully FF will be one of them--I don't care if pop culture likes it, I'll see it anyway:), but I think it is obvious that we cannot make good animated movies, or television shows for that matter. When the Japanese kicked our asses in making cars, and then electronics, we didn't just ignore them and go on buying crappy cars and bad electronic components!
I don't think it's a prepreference for American animation, I think it's just a general apathy towards animation in general. You can blame Disney for that.
But most animation buffs agree that is was better than any animated work this decade.
Hmm... you're using just American animated movies as a criteria, right? I dare you to watch the
Rurouni Kenshin OVA series and then tell me "The Iron Giant" was even a top five contender:) (The second part to this will be released in
November) This is the best storyline I have seen in an animated movie ever (well, it's not exactly a movie but it's not a tv show either... it's sorta inbetween). It's certainly not for kids, though--this much will be apparent two minutes into the first part:) I don't think we take animation serious enough to do it right.
Actually that does make sense. After they get rid of napster, the RIAA and the media alike will be so busy touting the end of p2p filesharing and patting themselves on the back that they won't notice the mp3 sharing hasn't gone away like they think. It will simply migrate back to the underground places at has always been, IRC, ratio FTPs, etc. The dyke may be plugged again, but the ocean is still there.
Only in Canada. In the US, regular CDRs are not taxed, while the music-specific ones are. I don't know what dumbass came up with musicCDRs, but only an idiot would pay for one when the regular CDRs are cheaper by as much as dollars per disc.
Since the price of the bandwidth it would take to distribute music over the net is negligable to the RIAA and its various members, and the cost of creating copies is exactly zero, $1 is a very unfair price for one song. The cost of an entire cd would be dramatically cheaper, since they are overinflated as it is, and is doesn't cost anything to copy a digital file.
he screams piracy whenever someone brings up fair use and interopability. Apparently, redirecting a DeCSS
stream to XMovie, or sending it to your (large) hard drive to be played by an MPEG-2 player later is hacking, evil, and should be
punished by jail time or massive fines, because a Legit DVD Software Player is coming Real Soon Now
But this isn't that slightest bit relevant. Whether or not a licensed player is available for Linux shouldn't be relevant at all, since this is a matter of making fair and personal use of DVDs. Even when LinDVD is released, I will still support DeCSS every bit as much because LinDVD will still prevent any type of fair use just like any other player.
I may be a bit behind the times. But everything I've ever heard about audio mastering software seems to indicate Macintosh is the platform of choice for this. If that's not true anymore, fine. No need to get hostile about it.
Hey, I've been using Windows 3.1 up to February of this year, & I never paid a dime to Billy G since it came installed on my computer.
Um... you obviously do not understand how these things work. How do you think Windows got installed on that computer, as a gift from your OEM? No. Part of the cost of that computer went to Microsoft for the Windows license.
If you do electronic music, it doesn't make much sense to me you're not using Macintosh... I head audio software for MacOS is better that both Windows and Linux.
But then again, I don't know a damn thing about audio software.
Who is going to take the call when granny needs to install gaim on her new computer and needs root access?
Who is going to take the call when granny's machine has ate itself and bluescreened? Or perhaps when the registry has bitrotted? In your example, someone could telnet in and install GAIM for her. In mine, it would most likely require her to take the machine in for maintainance if it wasn't something trivial.
Windows is EXCELLENT for newbies and that is why it is sold
with almost all computers today.
Oh God, no. Windows is not good for newbies at all. I have worked as a technician at a couple of OEMs, and I can say with experience that there are a lot of people who have made an art out of fscking up Windows. If user-friendliness was the only reason for Windows' dominance, BeOS would be dominant now--or hell, even MacOS. Those two are OS's I would put my mom on.
Yes, Linux and FreeBSD (my platform of choice) have all these features. But they are not for the average luser.
No, but neither is Linux;)
The point is, Symantec is in the business of supplying these types of useful services to an operating system that doesn't have the capability. Linux does, and while its implementations may be harder to use, all it takes is a good frontend not a whole different app. And frontends for various services in Linux are a dime a dozen, just check freshmeat.
But why the need for these programs at all? It annoys me when people measure Linux's potential for desktop success by pointing out all their favorite Windows apps havn't been ported. So what? Who says we can't have our own apps that are just as good?
Do we really need Microsoft Word? I say no, and AbiWord has the potential to be a good replacement (eventually...), and I find Word far to annoying to use anyway. The GIMP is a world-class application; and while it's no Photoshop it's a damn good PSPro et al replacement. Why wait for Excel to be ported when you can use Gnumeric? Unless you're an accountant or something, Gnucash is a pretty decent financial program. And why the hell did he mention Symantec? They don't have a single product to my knowledge that would benefit Linux in any meaningful way. Evolution will be a really great email program and Nautilus is the only Linux GUI app I've seen that is inarguably 100 times cooler than the Windows counterpart. No, they aren't ready for desktop use now, but neither is Linux, now is it?
It's really not the quality of their products which is the biggest problem. Anybody's free to sell shitty products, it's their business practices that are my, and many others', biggest gripe. They have built their business by stealing other people's ideas and making money off of them. In fact, the idea of selling software as a product was the single, and only, innovative thing they have ever done as a company. Everything else was originally someone else's idea, and was taken by Microsoft--willingly or not--and marketed.
BASIC was originally created at Dartmouth College. QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) was purchased for $50,000. Windows was basically kludged from stolen Macintosh code. Microsoft Word was predated by Wordperfect and probably a few others. The NT kernel is a VMS varient. Active Directory is an obvious ripoff of NDS, which is far better and proven to work with large databases. Internet Explorer was purchased (by Spyglass, I think). Windows Media Player is the same thing as RealPlayer, only not as good. And, finally,.NET is nothing more than the same network computing idea that has been pushed since around '94 or 95, with the addition of SAP, which was an idea kicked around by Netscape years earlier. And yet, they still have the audacity to call themselves "innovators." They should at least have the honesty to call themselves "marketers," for that is all they really are. But they are a very dishonest company, and the way they have stranged their competition with their market dominence is horrible. That is why I do not like MS. And yes, I happen to think their software is so bad that I was eventually driven to Linux, but YMMV.
(Moderators: don't bother moderating this up just because I'm voicing an anti-Microsoft sentiment. I'm merely stating the blatently obvious.)
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You're missing his point. He's saying that two heterosexual guys living together could never adopt a child together, so to homosexual guys have no right to either. You don't deserve any special rights just because you have a different sexual behavior than me.
The point is, we're talking about Intellectual "Property" on the Internet, not physical property. The single most common misconception is that either of the two have anything in common.
Then it would be your own stupid fault for not patenting it. This example is totally irrelevant to an IP debate.
That's not actually piracy. Microsoft's business model depends on selling licenses, not discs. So even if you're installing off of burned media, as long as you have that piece of paper that says you licensed, you're legit. Of course, this is not how Microsoft behaves. But that's how it works legally.
The Professional version does, the Personal version still uses ext2.
"Commerical quality" means rushed, buggy and over marketed. We shouldn't hold ourselves to such low standards. What's wrong with just "quality"?
Anime has almost always been beyond kids, almost to the point of being NC-17 (or worse!)
In my specific example, Rurouni Kenshin is "not for kids" for a variety of reasons, but sex is not one of them. RK is a very deep show; it deals with situations that any kid's show wouldn't dare touch. Most of this would go completely over a child's head. Secondly, the OVA is extrememly violent, although the violence in in no way inappropriate. It's violent in the same way Saving Private Ryan in violent. It takes place during a revolutionary war in 1860s Japan that lead to the overthrow of the Tokugawa dynasty, and the main character is the head assassin for the group of patriots called the Ishinshishi. But that is the other great thing about RK; instead of glorifying violence, it is instead used to show why violence is bad. (I wasn't just kidding earlier, if you really do appreciate good animation I urge you to check this show out. It's worth your time!)
I guess my point is, screw American animation. There are some noteable examples (hopefully FF will be one of them--I don't care if pop culture likes it, I'll see it anyway :), but I think it is obvious that we cannot make good animated movies, or television shows for that matter. When the Japanese kicked our asses in making cars, and then electronics, we didn't just ignore them and go on buying crappy cars and bad electronic components!
I don't think it's a prepreference for American animation, I think it's just a general apathy towards animation in general. You can blame Disney for that.
Hmm... you're using just American animated movies as a criteria, right? I dare you to watch the Rurouni Kenshin OVA series and then tell me "The Iron Giant" was even a top five contender :) (The second part to this will be released in
November) This is the best storyline I have seen in an animated movie ever (well, it's not exactly a movie but it's not a tv show either... it's sorta inbetween). It's certainly not for kids, though--this much will be apparent two minutes into the first part :) I don't think we take animation serious enough to do it right.
Actually that does make sense. After they get rid of napster, the RIAA and the media alike will be so busy touting the end of p2p filesharing and patting themselves on the back that they won't notice the mp3 sharing hasn't gone away like they think. It will simply migrate back to the underground places at has always been, IRC, ratio FTPs, etc. The dyke may be plugged again, but the ocean is still there.
Only in Canada. In the US, regular CDRs are not taxed, while the music-specific ones are. I don't know what dumbass came up with musicCDRs, but only an idiot would pay for one when the regular CDRs are cheaper by as much as dollars per disc.
Since the price of the bandwidth it would take to distribute music over the net is negligable to the RIAA and its various members, and the cost of creating copies is exactly zero, $1 is a very unfair price for one song. The cost of an entire cd would be dramatically cheaper, since they are overinflated as it is, and is doesn't cost anything to copy a digital file.
I was thinking Ernest Borgnine.
I wish they at least had the sense to let you download the archived video. Not everyone is sitting on a T1 connection...
The problem is, the people who have enough of a clue to understand the basis of these arguments understand why they're wrong! :)
But this isn't that slightest bit relevant. Whether or not a licensed player is available for Linux shouldn't be relevant at all, since this is a matter of making fair and personal use of DVDs. Even when LinDVD is released, I will still support DeCSS every bit as much because LinDVD will still prevent any type of fair use just like any other player.
I may be a bit behind the times. But everything I've ever heard about audio mastering software seems to indicate Macintosh is the platform of choice for this. If that's not true anymore, fine. No need to get hostile about it.
Erm, yeah I realized this after taking a second look at your post. That "since" you put in there was kinda ambiguous. My mistake.
Um... you obviously do not understand how these things work. How do you think Windows got installed on that computer, as a gift from your OEM? No. Part of the cost of that computer went to Microsoft for the Windows license.
But then again, I don't know a damn thing about audio software.
Who is going to take the call when granny's machine has ate itself and bluescreened? Or perhaps when the registry has bitrotted? In your example, someone could telnet in and install GAIM for her. In mine, it would most likely require her to take the machine in for maintainance if it wasn't something trivial.
Windows is EXCELLENT for newbies and that is why it is sold with almost all computers today.
Oh God, no. Windows is not good for newbies at all. I have worked as a technician at a couple of OEMs, and I can say with experience that there are a lot of people who have made an art out of fscking up Windows. If user-friendliness was the only reason for Windows' dominance, BeOS would be dominant now--or hell, even MacOS. Those two are OS's I would put my mom on.
You may want to keep an eye on this project, although he hasn't released anything yet.
No, but neither is Linux ;)
The point is, Symantec is in the business of supplying these types of useful services to an operating system that doesn't have the capability. Linux does, and while its implementations may be harder to use, all it takes is a good frontend not a whole different app. And frontends for various services in Linux are a dime a dozen, just check freshmeat.
Do we really need Microsoft Word? I say no, and AbiWord has the potential to be a good replacement (eventually...), and I find Word far to annoying to use anyway. The GIMP is a world-class application; and while it's no Photoshop it's a damn good PSPro et al replacement. Why wait for Excel to be ported when you can use Gnumeric? Unless you're an accountant or something, Gnucash is a pretty decent financial program. And why the hell did he mention Symantec? They don't have a single product to my knowledge that would benefit Linux in any meaningful way. Evolution will be a really great email program and Nautilus is the only Linux GUI app I've seen that is inarguably 100 times cooler than the Windows counterpart. No, they aren't ready for desktop use now, but neither is Linux, now is it?
That wasn't an opinion, it was a 100% content-free post that did nothing but insult Katz's article with no reasons why. In other words, a flame.
BASIC was originally created at Dartmouth College. QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) was purchased for $50,000. Windows was basically kludged from stolen Macintosh code. Microsoft Word was predated by Wordperfect and probably a few others. The NT kernel is a VMS varient. Active Directory is an obvious ripoff of NDS, which is far better and proven to work with large databases. Internet Explorer was purchased (by Spyglass, I think). Windows Media Player is the same thing as RealPlayer, only not as good. And, finally, .NET is nothing more than the same network computing idea that has been pushed since around '94 or 95, with the addition of SAP, which was an idea kicked around by Netscape years earlier. And yet, they still have the audacity to call themselves "innovators." They should at least have the honesty to call themselves "marketers," for that is all they really are. But they are a very dishonest company, and the way they have stranged their competition with their market dominence is horrible. That is why I do not like MS. And yes, I happen to think their software is so bad that I was eventually driven to Linux, but YMMV.
(Moderators: don't bother moderating this up just because I'm voicing an anti-Microsoft sentiment. I'm merely stating the blatently obvious.)