I don't personally like people stealing my work and claiming ownership over it. And yes, I do mean steal in this context taking it from me and claiming ownership is theft. Without copyright laws there would be no way of coping with that as it wouldn't be illegal.
There's a lot of libertarians and anarchists around here that can't accept that copyright is necessary for the development of culture. Just because it's been abused and greatly increased in duration doesn't mean that it's suddenly worthless.
I take it you weren't actually using the internet back in the day. MS was every bit as guilty of those shenanigans as Netscape was. The main difference is that because MS was illegally bundling its browser in the dominant OS that it had the staying power to keep ruining the web for many years.
That's not true, they themselves were very clear about the fact that the money isn't going to licensing costs and they're going to be losing Starz programming next month.
The people who wrote Linux and BSD don't necessarily get paid, that's the point. Some people do get paid to contribute patches or features, but there's no guarantee that any particular developer will see any money at all for services rendered.
The main difference is that much of that code gets contributed for the common good to be shared by all and code that's for profit has a payment of fixed size regardless of how many people actually benefit. That's presumably not the case with CP/M programs that were being commercially distributed. It was just damn near impossible to find it without having a way of searching the computers.
IP abolition isn't necessarily any better than what we have now, what we need is real meaningful reform to the system. Throwing it out completely is both more work and less likely to happen. Take the terms back to an automatic 28 years with extensions as long as the author cares to file them. And cap that at 56 years for corporations and that would solve a lot of the trouble with copyright right there.
Copyrights themselves aren't the problem, copyrights that extend for decades without the creator having to extend them and without regard to the creator's interests that are the problem. The reality is that there's a bunch of content that's been abandoned by the owners that would have been public domain after 28 years previously, but now thanks to the super long automatic copyright terms isn't available to anybody.
That's not a feature of copyright, that's a feature of what happens when politicians give corporations what they want without concern for the consequences.
Selection and that fact that you're supporting douches by paying for Netflix. They had good service, but they opted to increase rates by ~60% and use the money to build up service in other countries whilst making elitist comments about our pay checks.
I supported them big time, but when all is said and done they're just as arrogant as the next corporation, it's harder and harder to justify paying when there are free alternatives that are completely legit.
Yeah, that's really fair, you do realize that North Korea summarily executes people, right? Of course they're going to have a low incarceration rate the entire country is effectively a prison and 10% of the population has starved to death over the reign of Kim Jong IL.
Iran is very much the same way, they don't tend to keep people in prison very long, they execute people fairly regularly for things like witchcraft and sodomy.
As for your bit about non-violent crimes, doesn't matter whether they're non-violent or not, they're still crimes and civil disobedience is really only appropriate in cases where there isn't a working democracy in action.
You'd probably be better off fashioning a generator out of a washing machine motor and a few small components than hoping to have enough sun when you need it to power the phone.
$100k if it works isn't that big of a deal, most of the cost of tests of that sort isn't the medical equipment, it's having somebody with relevant training to interpret the results. $100k for a device like this would be a bargain, you amortize the cost over a number of years and really the number of times it's used and you're probably not talking about more than a few dollars each time it's used.
We're not moving to Apartheid any more than we're moving to Naziism in the US. Sure things are bad, but let's try to keep a little bit of perspective. I don't see any calls for rounding up massive numbers of people to throw in camps nor is there anybody presently in prison solely for speaking out against abuses of power by the government either.
I don't think the GP was implying that the folks behind the Dalkon Shield were murders, but there have been many like them over the years that have resulted in fatalities because the device didn't work as advertised or was resulted in an unnecessary fatality.
There used to be matinees where you'd pay somewhat less money to see the movie, but around here at least those have been phased out over the years. Back when I was a kid typically any screening before 4 or so would be discounted. These days there's at most one matinee screening and the discount is pretty puny.
Personally, I'd go out to more films if the prices weren't so ridiculous. Even without buying popcorn you're still looking at like $10 to see the movie.
Not really, if you're willing to pay enough for qualified people to apply, the certificate is basically just a screening criteria. When you're doing the interview and checking references you should be determining if the person knows what they're talking about.
Ultimately, degrees, certificates and diplomas as requirements rarely have anything to do with the job these days and are all about restricting the number of applications that the HR drones have to look through. As if they have anything else that they ought to be doing.
lol, my point there was that while you are correct that commenting isn't a substitute for clear, concise code, the point of commenting on code isn't so people know what you did, it's so that they'll understand why you did it, and that's not really something you addressed at all in your post.
As for hiring, I was joking, I don't do hiring for anybody, perhaps an emoticon would have helped.
Students won't, but employers will. Having a degree from a respected institution of higher learning is one way in which employers can screen applicants. Which is a shame because going to Harvard or Yale doesn't really mean much in the grand scheme of things.
It is annoying, and the correct solution to that is basically to have more seminars as a core part of the class. It's something that we had when I was in college and IIRC they also do them at Harvard as well. The basic idea is that it's structured time during which you can discuss the subject matter and often times you get to use the information you've been studying to see sort of how it works.
Obviously that's inferior to actually using it in the real world, but it's significantly more useful than sitting through a lecture about it and provides for more opportunities to ask questions.
The trick there is to specialize and only get the certificate that applies to what you're wanting to do. I got my TESL last summer and spent much of the time since working part time, but starting next month I'll have a good job for at least the next year. After that I should have few problems getting more work as I'm willing to relocate pretty much anywhere in the world. And some of those jobs pay really well. $50k for a job in Afghanistan and virtually no taxes is quite a huge chunk of change.
Which is obviously better than removing the regulatory authority completely and hoping that things will work out. You're right that there's an undo influence on the regulatory bodies, but at the end of the day there's more pull than just one company or another.
I probably could have been more clear, I have Linux installed on that computer next to XP, but until support for games gets more consistent on Linux there's no particular reason to uninstall XP.
You do realize that MS was selling new licenses for most of that time, right? Additionally, MS doesn't give support for free, most of the time you have to either go through the OEM or pay MS to provide it. The cost of them providing patches to all the XP users isn't significantly higher than providing them only to people that have bought in the last X months. Developing the patches is the cost there.
More or less, I'll probably keep my copies for in a VM, but in general I won't be using them anywhere that's exposed to the internet or my private information.
Well, what do you expect would happen after law enforcement, regulatory agencies and the military are dissolved?
Yes that's a bit extreme and I doubt very much that most libertarians genuinely believe that to be desirable, but it is the logical conclusion to anti-government rhetoric.
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I don't personally like people stealing my work and claiming ownership over it. And yes, I do mean steal in this context taking it from me and claiming ownership is theft. Without copyright laws there would be no way of coping with that as it wouldn't be illegal.
There's a lot of libertarians and anarchists around here that can't accept that copyright is necessary for the development of culture. Just because it's been abused and greatly increased in duration doesn't mean that it's suddenly worthless.
I take it you weren't actually using the internet back in the day. MS was every bit as guilty of those shenanigans as Netscape was. The main difference is that because MS was illegally bundling its browser in the dominant OS that it had the staying power to keep ruining the web for many years.
That's not true, they themselves were very clear about the fact that the money isn't going to licensing costs and they're going to be losing Starz programming next month.
The people who wrote Linux and BSD don't necessarily get paid, that's the point. Some people do get paid to contribute patches or features, but there's no guarantee that any particular developer will see any money at all for services rendered.
The main difference is that much of that code gets contributed for the common good to be shared by all and code that's for profit has a payment of fixed size regardless of how many people actually benefit. That's presumably not the case with CP/M programs that were being commercially distributed. It was just damn near impossible to find it without having a way of searching the computers.
IP abolition isn't necessarily any better than what we have now, what we need is real meaningful reform to the system. Throwing it out completely is both more work and less likely to happen. Take the terms back to an automatic 28 years with extensions as long as the author cares to file them. And cap that at 56 years for corporations and that would solve a lot of the trouble with copyright right there.
Copyrights themselves aren't the problem, copyrights that extend for decades without the creator having to extend them and without regard to the creator's interests that are the problem. The reality is that there's a bunch of content that's been abandoned by the owners that would have been public domain after 28 years previously, but now thanks to the super long automatic copyright terms isn't available to anybody.
That's not a feature of copyright, that's a feature of what happens when politicians give corporations what they want without concern for the consequences.
Selection and that fact that you're supporting douches by paying for Netflix. They had good service, but they opted to increase rates by ~60% and use the money to build up service in other countries whilst making elitist comments about our pay checks.
I supported them big time, but when all is said and done they're just as arrogant as the next corporation, it's harder and harder to justify paying when there are free alternatives that are completely legit.
Yeah, that's really fair, you do realize that North Korea summarily executes people, right? Of course they're going to have a low incarceration rate the entire country is effectively a prison and 10% of the population has starved to death over the reign of Kim Jong IL.
Iran is very much the same way, they don't tend to keep people in prison very long, they execute people fairly regularly for things like witchcraft and sodomy.
As for your bit about non-violent crimes, doesn't matter whether they're non-violent or not, they're still crimes and civil disobedience is really only appropriate in cases where there isn't a working democracy in action.
I realize that you're a troll, but look at the images, that last one in particularly is like 10 times as large as the phone it's charging.
You'd probably be better off fashioning a generator out of a washing machine motor and a few small components than hoping to have enough sun when you need it to power the phone.
$100k if it works isn't that big of a deal, most of the cost of tests of that sort isn't the medical equipment, it's having somebody with relevant training to interpret the results. $100k for a device like this would be a bargain, you amortize the cost over a number of years and really the number of times it's used and you're probably not talking about more than a few dollars each time it's used.
We're not moving to Apartheid any more than we're moving to Naziism in the US. Sure things are bad, but let's try to keep a little bit of perspective. I don't see any calls for rounding up massive numbers of people to throw in camps nor is there anybody presently in prison solely for speaking out against abuses of power by the government either.
I don't think the GP was implying that the folks behind the Dalkon Shield were murders, but there have been many like them over the years that have resulted in fatalities because the device didn't work as advertised or was resulted in an unnecessary fatality.
There used to be matinees where you'd pay somewhat less money to see the movie, but around here at least those have been phased out over the years. Back when I was a kid typically any screening before 4 or so would be discounted. These days there's at most one matinee screening and the discount is pretty puny.
Personally, I'd go out to more films if the prices weren't so ridiculous. Even without buying popcorn you're still looking at like $10 to see the movie.
Not really, if you're willing to pay enough for qualified people to apply, the certificate is basically just a screening criteria. When you're doing the interview and checking references you should be determining if the person knows what they're talking about.
Ultimately, degrees, certificates and diplomas as requirements rarely have anything to do with the job these days and are all about restricting the number of applications that the HR drones have to look through. As if they have anything else that they ought to be doing.
lol, my point there was that while you are correct that commenting isn't a substitute for clear, concise code, the point of commenting on code isn't so people know what you did, it's so that they'll understand why you did it, and that's not really something you addressed at all in your post.
As for hiring, I was joking, I don't do hiring for anybody, perhaps an emoticon would have helped.
Students won't, but employers will. Having a degree from a respected institution of higher learning is one way in which employers can screen applicants. Which is a shame because going to Harvard or Yale doesn't really mean much in the grand scheme of things.
It is annoying, and the correct solution to that is basically to have more seminars as a core part of the class. It's something that we had when I was in college and IIRC they also do them at Harvard as well. The basic idea is that it's structured time during which you can discuss the subject matter and often times you get to use the information you've been studying to see sort of how it works.
Obviously that's inferior to actually using it in the real world, but it's significantly more useful than sitting through a lecture about it and provides for more opportunities to ask questions.
The trick there is to specialize and only get the certificate that applies to what you're wanting to do. I got my TESL last summer and spent much of the time since working part time, but starting next month I'll have a good job for at least the next year. After that I should have few problems getting more work as I'm willing to relocate pretty much anywhere in the world. And some of those jobs pay really well. $50k for a job in Afghanistan and virtually no taxes is quite a huge chunk of change.
Which is obviously better than removing the regulatory authority completely and hoping that things will work out. You're right that there's an undo influence on the regulatory bodies, but at the end of the day there's more pull than just one company or another.
And yet I regularly see self described libertarians suggesting that we do just what I said.
Now, you can argue that they aren't true libertarians, but then you're dealing with the no real scotsman problem.
I probably could have been more clear, I have Linux installed on that computer next to XP, but until support for games gets more consistent on Linux there's no particular reason to uninstall XP.
You do realize that MS was selling new licenses for most of that time, right? Additionally, MS doesn't give support for free, most of the time you have to either go through the OEM or pay MS to provide it. The cost of them providing patches to all the XP users isn't significantly higher than providing them only to people that have bought in the last X months. Developing the patches is the cost there.
More or less, I'll probably keep my copies for in a VM, but in general I won't be using them anywhere that's exposed to the internet or my private information.
Well, what do you expect would happen after law enforcement, regulatory agencies and the military are dissolved?
Yes that's a bit extreme and I doubt very much that most libertarians genuinely believe that to be desirable, but it is the logical conclusion to anti-government rhetoric.