Some out of context quotes: "IMO the only thing that will have a positive effect on either the patent situation or the copyright debacle we currently have is [...]" "I have long lobbied for [...]" "And that, IMO, is what it will take to fix the currently badly broken situation."
No offence Gene but to rephrase my original post, The people who have vested interest in the opposite of your stated result have more live congressmen in their pockets than the number of dead presidents in yours.
Ergo, no (positive) IP reform in the forseeable future.
>> I just hope that Gmail will soon develop pop3 support for Thunderbird. > Maybe they will develop an interface that works over Trumpet Winsock too! That would be killer!
The one who moderated it as 'Flaimbait' is either humour-impaired or not aware of the significantadvantages of IMAP over POP.
> People like this are exactly who need to get involved for things to take a positive turn. > Technical folks can bitch and moan all we want, but until the non-techincal start to understand, > no, care about, the implications, things just plain won't change.
Patents mean two things: (a) Organizations with extensive patent portfolios and spare litigation money can lock out competition, and (b) More money for lawyers.
Well, nowadays "big business" can pretty much dictate what laws get passed and the lawyers become judges that interpret these laws.
Therefore, things will never change.
"Intellectual property" is neither about "rewarding the inventor/creator" nor about "enriching the public domain" anymore. It is about "Them that have, get" and has been for quite some time.
> This is not a one way trip. We are not "doomed" or "fucked." We overcame monarchy. We overcame slavery.
Monarchy often meant starvation. Slavery usually meant being worked to death. Both outcomes provide a powerful incentive to "overcome" the system (which is what the GrandParent post tried to say).
Also, do not forget that both triumphs required bloody, violent, armed revolutions.
I've been reading reviews on CDRinfo for quite a while and it looks like every drive has drawbacks.
Some have low CDR/CDRW writing speeds, some have slow DAE, some have high error rates, some cannot deal with popular copy protection schemes, some cannot overburn, some balk at cheaper media...
It almost seems like you need to get several different optical drives for optimal performance.
Seems to me that nowadays you need to compromise. You can have a 6-bit LCD with 12ms response time (like the Samsung 172X (with the LTM170EX panel) or an 8-bit LCD with 16ms response time.
> If someone takes part of my song, and doesn't pay me, I would get a little upset. > It's possible to spend two days of time, just getting a kick drum, and the associated compression, eq etc right. > I shouldn't be paid for that when someone lifts it? > > Come on. How would you like it if your boss just didn't pay you for 2 days of work. > You'd get a little upset, especially if he made a few million dollars from it.
When most people do "2 days of work", they get paid for "2 days of work". Once. Yet some people think that it is their god-given right to be paid again and again for the same "2 days of work".
> I have absolutely no mercy or compassion for music stealers, and that's exactly what they are.
With this attitude, don't be surprised when others will have no mercy or compassion for you.
> In a book "The Illusion of Technique", an anecdote is told about some > Headhunters in a Polynesian island during WWII. GIs would give them one pack > of cigarettes for each Japanese head they brought in.
Whereas today, North American headhunters would get about 3 months worth of salary for each head, which tells you that while the techniques have changed, they still have trouble counting past 3.
>> What USA residents call "Native Americans" are actually "aboriginal Americans". > "Aboriginal" means "predating colonialism", although today, unfortunately, people think it only applies to Australia.
> It is in the United States of America that the DMCA, one of the gravest > threats to individual freedoms, was recently passed into law. Doesn't anyone > find this incredibly disturbing and ironic?
> Games need copy protection so developers can get paid to write them. I'm > no fan of copy protection, but I am a fan of developers earning enough to > feed their family while working on the next big release. I hate disc > protection as much as the next guy, but if it's really such hard work to put > a disc in your CD drive then maybe you need to lose some weight and take some > exercise because you are clearly a lazy bastard.
Nobody is opposed to developers feeding their families but according to the table at the end of this article, the game publishers seem to have pretty large families.
When Yossarian is in the hospital, he meets the "soldier in white"
was encased from head to toe in plaster and gauze. He had two useless legs and two useless arms. Sewn into the bandages over the insides of both elbows were zippered lips through which he was fed clear fluid from a clear jar. A silent zinc pipe rose from the cement on his groin and was coupled to a slim rubber hose that carried waste from his kidneys and dripped it efficiently into a clear, stoppered jar on the floor. When the jar on the floor was full, the jar feeding his elbow was empty and the two were simply switched quickly so that the stuff could drip back into him.
Changing the jars was no trouble to anyone but the men who watched them changed every hour or so and were baffled by the procedure.
"Why can't they hook the two jars up to each other and eliminate the middleman?"
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> Copyright law needs to exist to protect the rights of the artists that produce the content [...]
Originally, the US copyright law was intended to enrich the public domain.
> Any law that turns half the population into a criminal, is a wrong, stupid law.
Such as speeding?
> Did you miss the part about what we already accomplished with our two party system and our "apathetical electorate" (let alone a hostile one)?
That would be the abolition of slavery, right? I did not find other references in you posts (the mention of Monarchy is hardly relevant)
> What's your point? Most CD drives don't actually read must faster then 24-32x anyway...
So I guess that all those 48X and 52X drives are just a figment of my imagination.
> Which is why I'd like to see the 3rd party candidates do well enough this time around to put the fear of god in TPTB.
How many people have you persuaded to vote 3rd party?
How many people have you persuaded to persuade others to vote 3rd party?
A single vote may not matter but an organized effort might.
Some out of context quotes:
"IMO the only thing that will have a positive effect on either the patent situation or the copyright debacle we currently have is [...]"
"I have long lobbied for [...]"
"And that, IMO, is what it will take to fix the currently badly broken situation."
No offence Gene but to rephrase my original post,
The people who have vested interest in the opposite of your stated result have more live congressmen in their pockets than the number of dead presidents in yours.
Ergo, no (positive) IP reform in the forseeable future.
> As long as the most basic mechanisms of democracy work [...]
In a two-party system with an apathetical electorate?
(Wikipedia is a great resource. Please donate, I just did.)
>> I just hope that Gmail will soon develop pop3 support for Thunderbird.
> Maybe they will develop an interface that works over Trumpet Winsock too! That would be killer!
The one who moderated it as 'Flaimbait' is either humour-impaired or not aware of the significant advantages of IMAP over POP.
> People like this are exactly who need to get involved for things to take a positive turn.
> Technical folks can bitch and moan all we want, but until the non-techincal start to understand,
> no, care about, the implications, things just plain won't change.
Patents mean two things:
(a) Organizations with extensive patent portfolios and spare litigation money can lock out competition, and
(b) More money for lawyers.
Well, nowadays "big business" can pretty much dictate what laws get passed and the lawyers become judges that interpret these laws.
Therefore, things will never change.
"Intellectual property" is neither about "rewarding the inventor/creator" nor about "enriching the public domain" anymore. It is about "Them that have, get" and has been for quite some time.
> This is not a one way trip. We are not "doomed" or "fucked." We overcame monarchy. We overcame slavery.
Monarchy often meant starvation.
Slavery usually meant being worked to death.
Both outcomes provide a powerful incentive to "overcome" the system (which is what the GrandParent post tried to say).
Also, do not forget that both triumphs required bloody, violent, armed revolutions.
I've been reading reviews on CDRinfo for quite a while and it looks like every drive has drawbacks.
Some have low CDR/CDRW writing speeds, some have slow DAE, some have high error rates, some cannot deal with popular copy protection schemes, some cannot overburn, some balk at cheaper media...
It almost seems like you need to get several different optical drives for optimal performance.
I hope that Plextor's upcoming model is worth waiting for.
> I refuse to use any drive whose top speed is not a power of 2.
So your CD drives are only 32X?
Seems to me that nowadays you need to compromise.
You can have a 6-bit LCD with 12ms response time (like the Samsung 172X (with the LTM170EX panel) or an 8-bit LCD with 16ms response time.
Fagan Finder
> their demand necessitates a response at their expense
Source, please.
> If someone takes part of my song, and doesn't pay me, I would get a little upset.
> It's possible to spend two days of time, just getting a kick drum, and the associated compression, eq etc right.
> I shouldn't be paid for that when someone lifts it?
>
> Come on. How would you like it if your boss just didn't pay you for 2 days of work.
> You'd get a little upset, especially if he made a few million dollars from it.
When most people do "2 days of work", they get paid for "2 days of work". Once.
Yet some people think that it is their god-given right to be paid again and again for the same "2 days of work".
> I have absolutely no mercy or compassion for music stealers, and that's exactly what they are.
With this attitude, don't be surprised when others will have no mercy or compassion for you.
> or, alternately, I'll buy the $29 combo floppy drive w/ USB media reader
Which one(s) would you recommend?
> But what would the US have done if they had not extradited him? [...]
> Economic sanctions ? Not really.
Why not? It worked with Canada.
> DHCP only has an effect for people that actually, you know - HAVE A FRICKIN NETWORK CABLE PLUGGED INTO THEM!
Perverts!
> In a book "The Illusion of Technique", an anecdote is told about some
> Headhunters in a Polynesian island during WWII. GIs would give them one pack
> of cigarettes for each Japanese head they brought in.
Whereas today, North American headhunters would get about 3 months worth of salary for each head, which tells you that while the techniques have changed, they still have trouble counting past 3.
>> What USA residents call "Native Americans" are actually "aboriginal Americans".
> "Aboriginal" means "predating colonialism", although today, unfortunately, people think it only applies to Australia.
The word "indigenous" also comes to mind.
> It is in the United States of America that the DMCA, one of the gravest
> threats to individual freedoms, was recently passed into law. Doesn't anyone
> find this incredibly disturbing and ironic?
Remind me again who won the cold war?
> Games need copy protection so developers can get paid to write them. I'm
> no fan of copy protection, but I am a fan of developers earning enough to
> feed their family while working on the next big release. I hate disc
> protection as much as the next guy, but if it's really such hard work to put
> a disc in your CD drive then maybe you need to lose some weight and take some
> exercise because you are clearly a lazy bastard.
Nobody is opposed to developers feeding their families but according to the table at the end of this article, the game publishers seem to have pretty large families.
How many mouths can you feed for $2 billion?
> First off, they corrupt copyright so that it no longer does what the founding fathers intended.
Sorry to bust your US-centric bubble but copyright laws had been enacted before your founding fathers were born.
I do agree with your other points though.
For the Heller-challenged:
When Yossarian is in the hospital, he meets the "soldier in white"Changing the jars was no trouble to anyone but the men who watched them changed every hour or so and were baffled by the procedure.