oh and don't even get me started on crap like "Defying gravity".. Let's recreate a typical american highschool drama, with jocks and cheerleaders but in space. Oh and stuff a lot of god/spirituality in it while ye at it, as not to alienate all the stupid people who think its just as valid as science.
I thought SGU failed because of all the crying and thoughtful country music sequences that apparently all scifi must have after the BSG remake.
Felicity in space. Because geeks just love shows about who's into who and all that crap.
doesn't this essentially mean that fair use is in the eye of the beholder? (and thus a game of lawyer vs lawyer). I mean if you brought a fair use case before 10 different courts are you sure that 7-10 of them would come out the same way?
As they are directly benefiting from the Unions so even if they try to teach both sides it makes it seem that Unions will benefit the Underclass at a slight expense to the upperclass, Created such advancements such as Minimum Wage, Weekends and Holidays.
uhm didn't they?. I acknowledge that unions come with their own set of problems regarding corruption etc but here in the EU at least we have the unions to thank for minimum wage and weekends (back in the day people only got sunday off because they had to go to church). Why are americans so afraid of unions? I mean big business have their own organisations looking out for their interests, why not the workers? Do you really think you would be better off, if workers never organized and made demands of their employer?
There is evidence of creation all around us and there is much evidence that can be plausibly linked to an intelligent creator. [citation needed]
On another note, how can you be seemingly intelligent and believe in that ID crap? I accept that intelligent people can believe in god, but ID and young earth creationism? Puuhleeze
is it the act of hating someone due to their racial background or sexual orientation which is illegal? or just running your mouth about it?.
if its the former its thought crime and if its the latter its censorship.
I don't believe in hate crime, not because I am a racist or a homofob its just that laws like that tend to be abused.
Besides I like living in a free society where the government doesn't get to decide what I can legally think.
Gibson winces at the term "information superhighway" ("a nasty piece of buzzword engineering"), but has good things to say about the Internet: "I'm not a user, but I'm a big fan. I like the idea that it's extra-national, and no one particularly owns it. My concern now is whether it can be dismantled by corporate interests who want something more structured so they can sell us stuff - or whether there's some innate urge toward freedom inherent in the technology that will keep it evolving."
Seems a bit like the current "quest for control and censorship" we hear about every week here, as well as the net neutrality controversy.
Once again America is trying to make the world a better place. It hasn't always worked out all that well for you. One one hand: communication should be a basic human right, so what could probably go wrong?. On the other hand the Iraqis didn't much like Saddam, but many of them sure as hell didn't like it either when our tanks started patrolling their streets. I'm comparing apples to oranges here and im only considering recent history. Just remember the world isn't black and white, but shades of grey. Sure the Iranians seems pissed about the election fraud, but that doesn't guarantee they are ready for the "western world makeover" either (like the one you gave the Japanese). Perhaps they really do prefer living in a barbaric society with laws based on religion, made up by some batshit insane clergy. Perhaps they just want their vote to count. Personally I think helping them out with communication sounds like a great idea (not considering whether its technically possible or not). Just a word of warning from a smug european;)
Why are we even discussing this? no of course you can't copyright 140 characters in a specific sequence and of course I can write the same line everywhere I please, without giving a crap about what the original author thinks or having to pay him.
Why you ask? because its frakkin' common sense. Slashdotters usually agree on not wanting to end up living in a police state, brought forth by the endless new IP legislation. By discussing and thus taken seriously that 140 chars, what amounts to a sentence, you're not doing yourself or the rest of us a favour. Its ridiculous and the courts should dismiss such claims outright.
WoW-Knee
L4D-shoulder
NWN-elbow (due to bad camera control)
BF-headache (using a substandard headset way to many hours)
Heard about:
Counterhand (swelling on the hand due to excessive counterstrike playing)
Everquest-acne (sitting at home playing an mmo and eating way to much junkfood all the times does that to most people)
IT-eye
I think intellectual property (or at least the current laws governing it) will be responsible for the death of the internet as we know it today. We will still have something called the internet, but it will be some proprietary closed crap. Unlike today everyone and their dog won't be able to just put up a page in a days work.
Unfortunately after watching my sister refreshing her inbox and online list on facebook for weeks and interacting with other fb users, I really don't think that demographic gives a rats ass about the whole proprietary vs open debate.
We care about that, but is there anything worthwhile for us to do on facebook? (other than finding all the hot girls we used to know:). Social networking is kindda boring to me, probably it is the total lack of topic or direction, or the superficialness (if thats a word) of it all.
Not to put you down or anything, perhaps I should try your site, see if it is more geekcompatible:).
I was reminded of that particular South Park episode (Faith+1) after reading the summary (no of course I didn't RTFA, this IS slashdot afterall;) about how they want to educate college students about the dangers of piracy.
The reason I posted that transcript is because I think it is rather bizarre that educational institutions must educate their (presumably piss poor) students about piracy, inorder to save some already ultra rich assholes obsolete business model.
I agree that corporate parasites are the ones making the most money of album sales, so im not buying into anything, but thanks for pointing it out:).
Detective: This is the home of Lars Ulrich, the drummer for Metallica. [they approach a bush] Look. There's Lars now, sitting by his pool. [he's seen sitting on the edge of a chaise longue, his face in his hands, softly sobbing]
Kyle: What's the matter with him?
Detective: This month he was hoping to have a gold-plated shark tank bar installed right next to the pool, but thanks to people downloading his music for free, he must now wait a few months before he can afford it. [a close-up of Lars sobbing]
Come. There's more. [leads them away. Next seen is a small airport at night] Here's Britney Spears' private jet. Notice anything? [a shot of Britney boarding a plane, then stopping to look at it before entering]
Britney used to have a Gulfstream IV. Now she's had to sell it and get a Gulfstream III because people like you chose to download her music for free. [Britney gives a heavy sigh and goes inside.] The Gulfstream III doesn't even have a remote control for its surround-sound DVD system. Still think downloading music for free is no big deal?
Kyle: We... didn't realize what we were doing, eh...
Detective: That is the folly of man. Now look in this window. [they are at another mansion, and they look inside a picture window] Here you see the loving family of Master P. [He's shown tossing a basketball to his wife while his kid tries to catch it] Next week is his son's birthday and, all he's ever wanted was an island in French Polynesia. [his mom lowers the ball and gives it to the boy, who smiles, picks it up and drops it. It rolls away and he goes after it]
Kyle: So, he's gonna get it, right?
Detective: I see an island without an owner. If things keep going the way they are, the child will not get his tropical paradise.
Stan: [apologetically] We're sorry! We'll, we'll never download music for free again!
Detective: [somberly, dramatically] Man must learn to think of these horrible outcomes before he acts selfishly or else... I fear... recording artists will be forever doomed to a life of only semi-luxury.
Patents like this are outright ridiculous and a symptom of much greater problems (with law and society). Stop searching for prior art, doesn't matter who came up with the idea first when its so obvious and simple as this. Just say no.
Never attribute to Alice what can be explained by Bob... Yeah well people are not that stupid and in this case I think Alice knew exactly what she was doing.
please tell me, why would anyone want to run each application instance in its own VM?. I mean talk about overhead, especially since its perfectly possible to implement a sandbox without having to virtualize the whole machine. If its about security, perhaps if really IS that critical, otherwise programmers just need to do their job better (I am one btw). There is no way in hell I wan't to run 15 complete virtualizations of the same hardware/OS if it isn't strictly necessary (eg. because they're not compatible). It is not that I am buying into google's webapps everywhere philosophy either.
Actually I don't understand why java webstart apps haven't become popular. They solve most of the problems and Java have been delivering solid performance for most application types since 1.4 (at least a lot better performance than AJAX).
I think SUN should copy.NET's language independence (compile other languages to bytecode). Then we would have a platform AND language independent platform, where starting an application is a simple as clicking on the webstart link.
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oh and don't even get me started on crap like "Defying gravity".. Let's recreate a typical american highschool drama, with jocks and cheerleaders but in space. Oh and stuff a lot of god/spirituality in it while ye at it, as not to alienate all the stupid people who think its just as valid as science.
I thought SGU failed because of all the crying and thoughtful country music sequences that apparently all scifi must have after the BSG remake. Felicity in space. Because geeks just love shows about who's into who and all that crap.
doesn't this essentially mean that fair use is in the eye of the beholder? (and thus a game of lawyer vs lawyer). I mean if you brought a fair use case before 10 different courts are you sure that 7-10 of them would come out the same way?
As they are directly benefiting from the Unions so even if they try to teach both sides it makes it seem that Unions will benefit the Underclass at a slight expense to the upperclass, Created such advancements such as Minimum Wage, Weekends and Holidays.
uhm didn't they?. I acknowledge that unions come with their own set of problems regarding corruption etc but here in the EU at least we have the unions to thank for minimum wage and weekends (back in the day people only got sunday off because they had to go to church). Why are americans so afraid of unions? I mean big business have their own organisations looking out for their interests, why not the workers? Do you really think you would be better off, if workers never organized and made demands of their employer?
Nelfs from Goldshire wanna have sex with you!
There is evidence of creation all around us and there is much evidence that can be plausibly linked to an intelligent creator. [citation needed]
On another note, how can you be seemingly intelligent and believe in that ID crap? I accept that intelligent people can believe in god, but ID and young earth creationism? Puuhleeze
is it the act of hating someone due to their racial background or sexual orientation which is illegal? or just running your mouth about it?. if its the former its thought crime and if its the latter its censorship. I don't believe in hate crime, not because I am a racist or a homofob its just that laws like that tend to be abused. Besides I like living in a free society where the government doesn't get to decide what I can legally think.
Gibson winces at the term "information superhighway" ("a nasty piece of buzzword engineering"), but has good things to say about the Internet: "I'm not a user, but I'm a big fan. I like the idea that it's extra-national, and no one particularly owns it. My concern now is whether it can be dismantled by corporate interests who want something more structured so they can sell us stuff - or whether there's some innate urge toward freedom inherent in the technology that will keep it evolving."
Seems a bit like the current "quest for control and censorship" we hear about every week here, as well as the net neutrality controversy.
Reading this thread I somehow got reminded of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZdJRDpLHbw
Once again America is trying to make the world a better place. It hasn't always worked out all that well for you. ;)
One one hand: communication should be a basic human right, so what could probably go wrong?. On the other hand the Iraqis didn't much like Saddam, but many of them sure as hell didn't like it either when our tanks started patrolling their streets.
I'm comparing apples to oranges here and im only considering recent history. Just remember the world isn't black and white, but shades of grey.
Sure the Iranians seems pissed about the election fraud, but that doesn't guarantee they are ready for the "western world makeover" either (like the one you gave the Japanese).
Perhaps they really do prefer living in a barbaric society with laws based on religion, made up by some batshit insane clergy. Perhaps they just want their vote to count.
Personally I think helping them out with communication sounds like a great idea (not considering whether its technically possible or not). Just a word of warning from a smug european
Why are we even discussing this? no of course you can't copyright 140 characters in a specific sequence and of course I can write the same line everywhere I please, without giving a crap about what the original author thinks or having to pay him. Why you ask? because its frakkin' common sense. Slashdotters usually agree on not wanting to end up living in a police state, brought forth by the endless new IP legislation. By discussing and thus taken seriously that 140 chars, what amounts to a sentence, you're not doing yourself or the rest of us a favour. Its ridiculous and the courts should dismiss such claims outright.
Personally I've suffered from:
WoW-Knee
L4D-shoulder
NWN-elbow (due to bad camera control)
BF-headache (using a substandard headset way to many hours)
Heard about:
Counterhand (swelling on the hand due to excessive counterstrike playing)
Everquest-acne (sitting at home playing an mmo and eating way to much junkfood all the times does that to most people)
IT-eye
ICANNhazdomainznamezzplz *insert picture of retarted looking cat getting beat up with a model m keyboard*
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4158237/Doctor_Who_2008_S04E04_The_Sontaran_Stratagem_%5BBBC_One%5D_%5BXvid%5D.a.4158237.TPB.torrent Thats currently the easiest and best way outside of the UK far as I know.
there's a NEO in LEO!!!
I think intellectual property (or at least the current laws governing it) will be responsible for the death of the internet as we know it today.
We will still have something called the internet, but it will be some proprietary closed crap. Unlike today everyone and their dog won't be able to just put up a page in a days work.
I would love to be wrong though.
besides by doing that you would violate the temporal prime directive ;)
Sorry dude, even ran it trough google :(
Unfortunately after watching my sister refreshing her inbox and online list on facebook for weeks
:). Social networking is kindda boring to me, probably it is the total
:).
and interacting with other fb users, I really don't think that demographic gives a rats ass about
the whole proprietary vs open debate.
We care about that, but is there anything worthwhile for us to do on facebook? (other than finding all
the hot girls we used to know
lack of topic or direction, or the superficialness (if thats a word) of it all.
Not to put you down or anything, perhaps I should try your site, see if it is more geekcompatible
going trough the trash outside my block.. mumbled something about having seen tank ships on fire off the shoulder of orion or something..
I was reminded of that particular South Park episode (Faith+1) after reading the summary (no of course I didn't RTFA, this IS slashdot afterall ;) about how they want to educate college students about the dangers of piracy.
The reason I posted that transcript is because I think it is rather bizarre that educational institutions must educate their (presumably piss poor) students about piracy, inorder to save some already ultra rich assholes obsolete business model.
I agree that corporate parasites are the ones making the most money of album sales, so im not buying into anything, but thanks for pointing it out :).
Detective: This is the home of Lars Ulrich, the drummer for Metallica. [they approach a bush] Look. There's Lars now, sitting by his pool. [he's seen sitting on the edge of a chaise longue, his face in his hands, softly sobbing]
Kyle: What's the matter with him?
Detective: This month he was hoping to have a gold-plated shark tank bar installed right next to the pool, but thanks to people downloading his music for free, he must now wait a few months before he can afford it. [a close-up of Lars sobbing] Come. There's more. [leads them away. Next seen is a small airport at night] Here's Britney Spears' private jet. Notice anything? [a shot of Britney boarding a plane, then stopping to look at it before entering] Britney used to have a Gulfstream IV. Now she's had to sell it and get a Gulfstream III because people like you chose to download her music for free. [Britney gives a heavy sigh and goes inside.] The Gulfstream III doesn't even have a remote control for its surround-sound DVD system. Still think downloading music for free is no big deal?
Kyle: We... didn't realize what we were doing, eh...
Detective: That is the folly of man. Now look in this window. [they are at another mansion, and they look inside a picture window] Here you see the loving family of Master P. [He's shown tossing a basketball to his wife while his kid tries to catch it] Next week is his son's birthday and, all he's ever wanted was an island in French Polynesia. [his mom lowers the ball and gives it to the boy, who smiles, picks it up and drops it. It rolls away and he goes after it]
Kyle: So, he's gonna get it, right?
Detective: I see an island without an owner. If things keep going the way they are, the child will not get his tropical paradise.
Stan: [apologetically] We're sorry! We'll, we'll never download music for free again!
Detective: [somberly, dramatically] Man must learn to think of these horrible outcomes before he acts selfishly or else... I fear... recording artists will be forever doomed to a life of only semi-luxury.
Patents like this are outright ridiculous and a symptom of much greater problems (with law and society).
Stop searching for prior art, doesn't matter who came up with the idea first when its so obvious and simple as this.
Just say no.
Something half pig, half manbear must come out of this.
Better call Al Gore.
please tell me, why would anyone want to run each application instance in its own VM?. I mean talk about overhead, especially since its perfectly possible to implement a sandbox without having to virtualize the whole machine. If its about security, perhaps if really IS that critical, otherwise programmers just need to do their job better (I am one btw). There is no way in hell I wan't to run 15 complete virtualizations of the same hardware/OS if it isn't strictly necessary (eg. because they're not compatible).
.NET's language independence (compile other languages to bytecode). Then we would have a platform AND language independent platform, where starting an application is a simple as clicking on the webstart link.
It is not that I am buying into google's webapps everywhere philosophy either.
Actually I don't understand why java webstart apps haven't become popular. They solve most of the problems and Java have been delivering solid performance for most application types since 1.4 (at least a lot better performance than AJAX).
I think SUN should copy