There is nothing preventing you (or project Gutenberg) from competing directly with Dover.
Which, I think, misses the point. That, in the extreme, if all IP (books, music, whatever) is owned by individuals or corporations, there can be no Dover Books or Project Gutenberg. Which seems to be the direction we're headed. Nothing published since, what, 1932(?) has passed into the public domain except at the specific request of the author.
I don't believe that was the intent of the Founders of this country.
Isn't this about another group of people that thinks it needs to make a profit?
The quote is a bad example. Dover Books (as deserving as they are) doesn't have any more of a Constitutional Right to make money than Disney has.
The point should be made instead that we are richer as a culture when songs, books, and other IP pass into the public domain. That is, our culture would be a poorer place if the works of Shakespeare, Bach, Beethoven, and countless others were not in the public domain but instead controlled by individuals and corporations.
IMO, copyright law should be balanced to encourage companies like Disney to create new IP, while allowing companies like Dover and free libraries like Eric's to disseminate older IP that has fallen into public domain and is not "profitable enough" for a corporation to publish. IMO, this was the intent of the Founders when they wrote the Constitution.
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The Constitution may not be perfect, but it's better than what we have now.
There's really no need to build your own GPS network. It's easy enough (for a foreign country) to get the accuracy they need by using differential GPS.
It wouldn't surprise me if the US military could turn-off the GPS over selected parts of the globe. I recall hearing rumors of the signal from the GPS satellites disappearing in some parts of the country a few years ago, perhaps they were testing their ability to selectively disable GPS satellite transmissions.
The only thing that surprises me is that it's taken the rest of the world this long to start developing a replacement system (except for the Russian GLOSAT(?) system of course). Think about it, every airline in the world (for example) is dependent on a navagation system run by the US military. Nothing against them, they seem to be running it on the up-and-up, but is it a good strategy to depend on a navagation system run by a potential enemy or even a competitor?
Anyone notice this year that X-box is being launched three days before another state of another brand spanking new console.
Did you notice that Gamecube was originally suppose to be released Nov 5? 3 days before the Xbox that was originally suppose to be released Nov 8? And that the Gamecube release date was announced 2 hours after the Xbox release date was announced?:-)
Of course that was before the Gamecube was pushed back to Nov 18 (and after the president of Nintendo said it was absolutely going to be released Nov 5, lol). And then the Xbox was pushed back to Nov 15. Ya gotta love it.
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You don't explain why you think Firewire is bad for storage....
If I can put words into NoMoreNicksLeft mouth... He isn't saying that Firewire is bad for storage, rather that it is, at the moment, overkill for this application and that USB is good enough, cheaper, and better supported under Linux. In the original question, aozilla specifically says that speed is not an issue, which is the only advantage I can see Firewire has over USB in this application.
So does the mighty USA Army, but we don't complain about that!
I'm sorry, that's such a poor analogy I don't know where to begin. The US Army, or any army, is not expected to be economical or profitable. To compare it with United or Delta Airlines is so silly that... ah, words fail me.
Since they are cheaper than their competition, and more environmentally friendly.
Because of their design, you still need some sort of conventional engine to power the plane up to the speed where the scramjet can even begin to operate. Which, at least for the forseeable future, means two propulsion systems per plane. Definitely not cheaper than their competition.
In the meantime, the Europeans seem to be about to revive the Concorde. Its a bit annoying that we don't have anything to beat that.
Concorde is impressive as hell, but even at exorbitant ticket prices, it still needs a government subsidy to operate.
Dreamcast does not have a built-in OS. The OS comes on the CD with the game (or whatever).
That means the developer has a choice of using Sega's native OS or Windows CE. Sega's OS gives the developer better access to the hardware for (potentially) better graphics and using CE makes it (potentially) easier to port Windows games. At least, that's the theory.
By your definition. Maybe that's why web appliances never caught on.
Besides, just NFS mount your drives.
Which means you still need a hard drive somewhere, and a connection between them.
Sure, for just web browsing, you don't need a hard drive. But it would be nice to store MP3s and playlists locally without having to burn a CD every time. Save email locally and edit new emails without having to connect to the 'net.
But I'd settle for a USB adapter for my Dreamcast.
can someone tell me why they're not interested in using balloons at all for reusable launch vehicles?
The real reason is because the purpose behind XCOR is not (just) getting into space. The primary purpose behind XCOR is to build better rocket engines, getting into space is just a desirable side-effect. Until they have the capital and experience to build a real space ship, they are happy to build rocket-powered replica airplanes such as the NeX-1 and Me163 Komet II. In theory this gives them a revenue stream while building the technology and experience to tackle "the final frontier" (insert dramatic music here).
In other words, they've taken a big problem (getting into space) and have just bitten off a piece of it (building a better rocket engine). Whether this approach is better or worse than attacking the entire problem at once is to be determined.
The list goes on and on. I love NASA, don't get me wrong, but the only serious stories worth looking at are the ones that start with NASA Receives Budgetary Committment From Congress For [insert project here]. That's the point where any serious planning really starts.
As long as we're dreaming, I'd like to see, NASA Fires Bloated Middle-Management, Turns Into Lean, Mean Engineering Machine.
It seems that a major concern of the GPL is that if you just USE a program, you do not have to accept the terms of the GPL.
In my opinion, simplified a bit, there are two parts to the GPL. One part applies if you only use a GPL'd program, in which case there is the usual disclaimer of liability and you are free to copy and use it for any purpose whatsoever. The other part applies if you modifiy the source code of a GPL'd program, in which case, only if you distribute the modified program, you are obligated to distribute the changes to the source code.
So the short answer is, yes, in my opinion, even if you just use a GPL'd program, you are still implicitly accepting the terms of the GPL and thereby agreeing to the disclaimer of liability. Of course this has not been tested in court.
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And, does anyone else find it just a little too convenient that the terrorists left behind flight instruction manuals IN ARABIC?
They were on a suicide mission. I doubt they really cared.
The PGP guys were getting around export restrictions by printing the code on paper, which they distributed at a crypto group meeting, with the old nudge nudge wink wink type of intention (somebody sent it overseas? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you).
My understanding (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) is that, at the time, crypto laws prevented PGP source code being exported on a floppy disk, but printed out in a book, it was protected by the first amendment. So you had the strange situation that carrying a floppy disk of the PGP source code out of the country was illegal, but carrying a book out of the country containing the source was perfectly legal. So there was no "nudge nudge wink wink" about it. Go figure.
The United States as a country values property rights VERY highly.
There is a problem with that argument. There is a fundamental difference between physical and intellectual property. If someone steals my car, my car is gone. If someone copies my music CD, I still have my CD.
The founding fathers of the US recognized this distinction, and indeed argued both sides. In the end they gave Congress the power to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;". Clearly they did not intend to give authors and inventors unlimited control over their writings and discoveries in perpetuity, but merely some control for a limited time. I think a reasonable man could argue that the life of the author plus 90 years is not a "limited time".
Let's say Ford invents a new device that allows cars to drive on auto-pilot. Should GM be allowed to reverse engineer the thing and use it as their own?? Of course not.
Why? If Ford patents their device, then they do have some Constitutional protection for their invention. But if they don't patent it and GM reverse engineers it, why can't GM use it? There's no Constitutional protection for trade secrets.
The United States is the country of business and will rightly or wrongly do anything to defend corporations.
I would differ. I would point out the first seven words of the Constitution, "We the People of the United States,...". Not business, not corporations, not the government, but the People. And that is the true danger of the DMCA and FTAA, it places the rights of the corporations above those of the People.
As for 'Ogg Vorbis', I hadn't really meant the 'Vorbis' part to get tacked on. The name of the format is Ogg. Just Ogg. Vorbis happens to be the first codec.
That would be a more convincing argument if the URL of the official website weren't http://www.vorbis.com.;-)
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Both are reverse-engineered implementations of a proprietary server protocol.
Which, I think, misses the point. That, in the extreme, if all IP (books, music, whatever) is owned by individuals or corporations, there can be no Dover Books or Project Gutenberg. Which seems to be the direction we're headed. Nothing published since, what, 1932(?) has passed into the public domain except at the specific request of the author.
I don't believe that was the intent of the Founders of this country.
The quote is a bad example. Dover Books (as deserving as they are) doesn't have any more of a Constitutional Right to make money than Disney has.
The point should be made instead that we are richer as a culture when songs, books, and other IP pass into the public domain. That is, our culture would be a poorer place if the works of Shakespeare, Bach, Beethoven, and countless others were not in the public domain but instead controlled by individuals and corporations.
IMO, copyright law should be balanced to encourage companies like Disney to create new IP, while allowing companies like Dover and free libraries like Eric's to disseminate older IP that has fallen into public domain and is not "profitable enough" for a corporation to publish. IMO, this was the intent of the Founders when they wrote the Constitution.
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Open a bank and credit card account just for paypal transactions and keep your operating capital in your main business account.
It wouldn't surprise me if the US military could turn-off the GPS over selected parts of the globe. I recall hearing rumors of the signal from the GPS satellites disappearing in some parts of the country a few years ago, perhaps they were testing their ability to selectively disable GPS satellite transmissions.
The only thing that surprises me is that it's taken the rest of the world this long to start developing a replacement system (except for the Russian GLOSAT(?) system of course). Think about it, every airline in the world (for example) is dependent on a navagation system run by the US military. Nothing against them, they seem to be running it on the up-and-up, but is it a good strategy to depend on a navagation system run by a potential enemy or even a competitor?
Did you notice that Gamecube was originally suppose to be released Nov 5? 3 days before the Xbox that was originally suppose to be released Nov 8? And that the Gamecube release date was announced 2 hours after the Xbox release date was announced? :-)
Of course that was before the Gamecube was pushed back to Nov 18 (and after the president of Nintendo said it was absolutely going to be released Nov 5, lol). And then the Xbox was pushed back to Nov 15. Ya gotta love it.
If I can put words into NoMoreNicksLeft mouth... He isn't saying that Firewire is bad for storage, rather that it is, at the moment, overkill for this application and that USB is good enough, cheaper, and better supported under Linux. In the original question, aozilla specifically says that speed is not an issue, which is the only advantage I can see Firewire has over USB in this application.
I'm sorry, that's such a poor analogy I don't know where to begin. The US Army, or any army, is not expected to be economical or profitable. To compare it with United or Delta Airlines is so silly that... ah, words fail me.
Because of their design, you still need some sort of conventional engine to power the plane up to the speed where the scramjet can even begin to operate. Which, at least for the forseeable future, means two propulsion systems per plane. Definitely not cheaper than their competition.
In the meantime, the Europeans seem to be about to revive the Concorde. Its a bit annoying that we don't have anything to beat that.
Concorde is impressive as hell, but even at exorbitant ticket prices, it still needs a government subsidy to operate.
It would be interesting to port SDL to Dreamcast, though probably useless at this point.
Dreamcast does not have a built-in OS. The OS comes on the CD with the game (or whatever).
That means the developer has a choice of using Sega's native OS or Windows CE. Sega's OS gives the developer better access to the hardware for (potentially) better graphics and using CE makes it (potentially) easier to port Windows games. At least, that's the theory.
By your definition. Maybe that's why web appliances never caught on.
Besides, just NFS mount your drives.
Which means you still need a hard drive somewhere, and a connection between them.
Sure, for just web browsing, you don't need a hard drive. But it would be nice to store MP3s and playlists locally without having to burn a CD every time. Save email locally and edit new emails without having to connect to the 'net.
But I'd settle for a USB adapter for my Dreamcast.
Doesn't have a hard drive... :-(
The real reason is because the purpose behind XCOR is not (just) getting into space. The primary purpose behind XCOR is to build better rocket engines, getting into space is just a desirable side-effect. Until they have the capital and experience to build a real space ship, they are happy to build rocket-powered replica airplanes such as the NeX-1 and Me163 Komet II. In theory this gives them a revenue stream while building the technology and experience to tackle "the final frontier" (insert dramatic music here).
In other words, they've taken a big problem (getting into space) and have just bitten off a piece of it (building a better rocket engine). Whether this approach is better or worse than attacking the entire problem at once is to be determined.
As long as we're dreaming, I'd like to see, NASA Fires Bloated Middle-Management, Turns Into Lean, Mean Engineering Machine.
To press Ctrl-Alt-Del of course.
In my opinion, simplified a bit, there are two parts to the GPL. One part applies if you only use a GPL'd program, in which case there is the usual disclaimer of liability and you are free to copy and use it for any purpose whatsoever. The other part applies if you modifiy the source code of a GPL'd program, in which case, only if you distribute the modified program, you are obligated to distribute the changes to the source code.
So the short answer is, yes, in my opinion, even if you just use a GPL'd program, you are still implicitly accepting the terms of the GPL and thereby agreeing to the disclaimer of liability. Of course this has not been tested in court.
And, does anyone else find it just a little too convenient that the terrorists left behind flight instruction manuals IN ARABIC?
They were on a suicide mission. I doubt they really cared.
There's a rumor that Sony will cut the price of the PS2 by $50 to $100 sometime before the X-box release. I wouldn't be surprised.
My understanding (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) is that, at the time, crypto laws prevented PGP source code being exported on a floppy disk, but printed out in a book, it was protected by the first amendment. So you had the strange situation that carrying a floppy disk of the PGP source code out of the country was illegal, but carrying a book out of the country containing the source was perfectly legal. So there was no "nudge nudge wink wink" about it. Go figure.
There is a problem with that argument. There is a fundamental difference between physical and intellectual property. If someone steals my car, my car is gone. If someone copies my music CD, I still have my CD.
The founding fathers of the US recognized this distinction, and indeed argued both sides. In the end they gave Congress the power to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;". Clearly they did not intend to give authors and inventors unlimited control over their writings and discoveries in perpetuity, but merely some control for a limited time. I think a reasonable man could argue that the life of the author plus 90 years is not a "limited time".
Let's say Ford invents a new device that allows cars to drive on auto-pilot. Should GM be allowed to reverse engineer the thing and use it as their own?? Of course not.
Why? If Ford patents their device, then they do have some Constitutional protection for their invention. But if they don't patent it and GM reverse engineers it, why can't GM use it? There's no Constitutional protection for trade secrets.
The United States is the country of business and will rightly or wrongly do anything to defend corporations.
I would differ. I would point out the first seven words of the Constitution, "We the People of the United States, ...". Not business, not corporations, not the government, but the People. And that is the true danger of the DMCA and FTAA, it places the rights of the corporations above those of the People.
That would be a more convincing argument if the URL of the official website weren't http://www.vorbis.com. ;-)
Obligatory plug for the Baen Free Library".
Alternatively, for example, the KDE and Gnome projects seem to spur each other to develop faster.
He's talking about books, not software.