The Voice over IP (if it really works) will be the killer app for the XBox. You'll see people paying $19.95 a month to log in to Everquest or whatever Microsoft's equivalent will be to talk to mom in Bangalore or their online Japanese girlfriend. Expect the voice scrambling to go quickly.
I remember downloading Metacity from Havoc Pennington's homepage awhile ago when I wanted to learn how XLib works. I emailed him with a couple idiot questions and to my suprise, almost immediately got friendly, helpful replies. I remember he mentioned that it was really just a learning project for him at the time and possibly not the best thing for someone like me to learn from.
I would have stopped it now, since you made a dipshit of yourself much easier than I could do, but just to laugh at your complete ignorance of history, and to show you that you aren't tough enough to command me to STOP it now. I'm posting a reply.
1) Only political statements make the front page of any major mainstream publication. News, Ads, and everything else takes a back seat.
2) Do you think when the Pope dies that it will make the front page on Slashdot? There are a whole heap more catholics than evolutionists in the world. Probably even on Slashdot.
3) The Kazaa worm affects alot of people, and actually is relevant to the FUTURE. To top it all off, it's even "tech" or "computer" news, which is what slashdot is mostly about.
4) Obituaries don't belong on the front page. See #1.
I didn't know about Albrecht Durer being the original, but by failing to preview my own post, i erased a word where my statement should have been:
"Copyright didn't exist in any [realistic|practicible|codified|whatever] form, really, until it got put in the American constitiution"
I don't know what the right word should be so it got left out. Of course copyright existed. But certainly not in practical use.
Its even more ridiculous to say America was pirating European books than to say America invented copyright. As far as I know there weren't any international copyright treaties 200 years ago. A copyright was only good in 1 country until late in the last century (the 1900s.) It was up to customs to prevent the importation of books not licensed under copyright for that country. American publishers did print foreign books without licensing copyright from the publisher. But so did every other country. If you've ever seen a copyright contract, they still specific domestic/foreign rights.
The Dutch printing industry, in particular, thrived on printing censored British books, especially political and religious texts, but it was libel laws, not copyright, that was the censoring force in Britain, a country notorious for *not* enforcing copyrights, but the government/church/etc. were very draconian in shutting down any publishing house that printed anything that was unfavorable to them.
Don't confuse copyright with royalties. The system of royalty payment is only one form of contract under which copyright is sold. It is not an essential part of copyright.
If the French revolution had anything to do with copyright, it was after the American constitution anyways.
Reread the last paragraph of Alan's first response. It's exactly how you mobilize a constituency. You make a reasonable claim that appeals to them and use their loyalty to that cause to support your other causes. Do you really think most union workers or minority voters actually care about the environmentalist or pro-choice or some other liberal political agenda? Of course not, but that's the vast majority of their constiency, who because of loyalty earned for some other cause, support the party unilaterally.
It's called compromise. It happens in politics all the time. Only the politicians aren't the ones doing it, its their supporters, who will compromise on one or more issues to in order to obtain representation for themselves. And that's what Alan was afraid of. People with reasonable goals giving their allegiance to those who may support their aims, but also have other agendas, including racism.
Alan Cox clearly doesn't understand copyright -- what is that baloney about it being invented by oppressive regimes for censor? Copyright was something an author sold a publisher, and didn't exist in any form, really, until it got put in the American constitiution. The problem then was the publishers were ripping off the writers, and it was made to protect a writer's (and the publishers he contracted with) rights. The pirates, from the start, were publishers.
He's right about the political machinations though. When the only alternatives are some fruitcake space cadet with a bunch of platitudes or a racists with a promise to make the trains run, people are going to say, hell with it -- if we can't have a decent government, at least we can have reliable transportation.
Your post was pretty long but, hey, aren't you the same dipshit who talked about dismissing something from a shite source and then spouting its shite verbatum 10 minutes later.
Yes there was a substantial and effective resistance movement, and without their help, it would have taken another day to secure the liberation of Paris. Good thing they were willing to help us find our way through the suburbs.
Actually, 99% of the anti-arabism is America is because of the claptrap of pro-arab lies that so much of the media is spouting. It's just a reaction. Just listen to something like the Michael Savage radio show.
I know I've lost you now, but I was going to say:
Things like the Michael Savage demographic represents to typical Joe-sixpack half-ignorant American who senses instinctively that the cat shit they see on other media sources is so biased and blatantly anti-American propaganda that they gravitate toward the other extreme.
You've got assholes strapping bombs to their nephews and sending them out to kill jews for Saudi telethon money, and Arafat importing $100 million dollars worth of illegal weapons bought with American aid money, and then his troops killing Israeli cops and throwing them into brainwashed crowds of Arabs to tear their bodies to shreads, and then you see on the evening news how the Jews are really the Nazis but anything Arab or Moslem is holy and Arafat is Jesus Christ because he mockingly pretending to donate blood after 9-11.
You'd almost think they were deliberately using reverse psychology to stir up hatred and intolerance. A little good old fashioned hollywood Arab bashing would probably balance out perspective a bit.
Hey, imagine that! They are all using the same towers. Half the time they are even using the same signals. The main hurdle wireless companies in the US face is sorting out who gets what percentage of each call. In some areas (even major cities) Verizon owns all the bandwidth, in some its AT&T, etc. They lease from each other.
Hey, Lake Tahoe isn't in the Bay Area. I know you may be used to 4 hour waits for BART to get you across the Bay, but that same amount of Time takes you a long ways up I80 -- past Sacramento even.
If you want someone to fawn over your every word on the phone who don't give a shit and can't actually solve your problems, you can get that for $3.99 a min.
you forgot about the camera crew, the director, the m&m sorter for the actor (at least the Sprint guy isn't picky about his wardrobe), the ad agency, the cost of tv commercials, paying CNN for their endorsmnet, etc.
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People didn't want their entire computer network dependent on a spreadsheet file format.
People don't want the homogenized music that the recording industry feeds them these days.
Sometimes you don't get what you want. And sometimes you get what you don't want.
Representative Hollings would like to help you do you.
We like to see Enron fail because its competitors (and the TV networks they own) want you to want it to be destroyed.
I don't have anything against XBox, but you do know that it is, in fact, a PC running Windows on commodity hardware with a custom BIOS, right?
The Voice over IP (if it really works) will be the killer app for the XBox. You'll see people paying $19.95 a month to log in to Everquest or whatever Microsoft's equivalent will be to talk to mom in Bangalore or their online Japanese girlfriend. Expect the voice scrambling to go quickly.
I remember downloading Metacity from Havoc Pennington's homepage awhile ago when I wanted to learn how XLib works. I emailed him with a couple idiot questions and to my suprise, almost immediately got friendly, helpful replies. I remember he mentioned that it was really just a learning project for him at the time and possibly not the best thing for someone like me to learn from.
I would have stopped it now, since you made a dipshit of yourself much easier than I could do, but just to laugh at your complete ignorance of history, and to show you that you aren't tough enough to command me to STOP it now. I'm posting a reply.
1) Only political statements make the front page of any major mainstream publication. News, Ads, and everything else takes a back seat.
2) Do you think when the Pope dies that it will make the front page on Slashdot? There are a whole heap more catholics than evolutionists in the world. Probably even on Slashdot.
3) The Kazaa worm affects alot of people, and actually is relevant to the FUTURE. To top it all off, it's even "tech" or "computer" news, which is what slashdot is mostly about.
4) Obituaries don't belong on the front page. See #1.
Any of those blonde girls could get a job in IT no problem, grades, certs, or degrees notwithstanding.
Of course, they could get jobs in any other field they wanted too.
Of course they could find a sugar daddy and not work at all.
I didn't know about Albrecht Durer being the original, but by failing to preview my own post, i erased a word where my statement should have been:
"Copyright didn't exist in any [realistic|practicible|codified|whatever] form, really, until it got put in the American constitiution"
I don't know what the right word should be so it got left out. Of course copyright existed. But certainly not in practical use.
Its even more ridiculous to say America was pirating European books than to say America invented copyright. As far as I know there weren't any international copyright treaties 200 years ago. A copyright was only good in 1 country until late in the last century (the 1900s.) It was up to customs to prevent the importation of books not licensed under copyright for that country. American publishers did print foreign books without licensing copyright from the publisher. But so did every other country. If you've ever seen a copyright contract, they still specific domestic/foreign rights.
The Dutch printing industry, in particular, thrived on printing censored British books, especially political and religious texts, but it was libel laws, not copyright, that was the censoring force in Britain, a country notorious for *not* enforcing copyrights, but the government/church/etc. were very draconian in shutting down any publishing house that printed anything that was unfavorable to them.
Don't confuse copyright with royalties. The system of royalty payment is only one form of contract under which copyright is sold. It is not an essential part of copyright.
If the French revolution had anything to do with copyright, it was after the American constitution anyways.
Reread the last paragraph of Alan's first response. It's exactly how you mobilize a constituency. You make a reasonable claim that appeals to them and use their loyalty to that cause to support your other causes. Do you really think most union workers or minority voters actually care about the environmentalist or pro-choice or some other liberal political agenda? Of course not, but that's the vast majority of their constiency, who because of loyalty earned for some other cause, support the party unilaterally.
It's called compromise. It happens in politics all the time. Only the politicians aren't the ones doing it, its their supporters, who will compromise on one or more issues to in order to obtain representation for themselves. And that's what Alan was afraid of. People with reasonable goals giving their allegiance to those who may support their aims, but also have other agendas, including racism.
I will sell you a Pioneer DVD Burner for $400 right now. Let me know.
Actually, there have only been a few dozen "trial" e-books and Dmitry didn't hurt their sales. At all. That is, they didn't sell. At all.
Alan Cox clearly doesn't understand copyright -- what is that baloney about it being invented by oppressive regimes for censor? Copyright was something an author sold a publisher, and didn't exist in any form, really, until it got put in the American constitiution. The problem then was the publishers were ripping off the writers, and it was made to protect a writer's (and the publishers he contracted with) rights. The pirates, from the start, were publishers.
He's right about the political machinations though. When the only alternatives are some fruitcake space cadet with a bunch of platitudes or a racists with a promise to make the trains run, people are going to say, hell with it -- if we can't have a decent government, at least we can have reliable transportation.
Your post was pretty long but, hey, aren't you the same dipshit who talked about dismissing something from a shite source and then spouting its shite verbatum 10 minutes later.
Yes there was a substantial and effective resistance movement, and without their help, it would have taken another day to secure the liberation of Paris. Good thing they were willing to help us find our way through the suburbs.
Actually, 99% of the anti-arabism is America is because of the claptrap of pro-arab lies that so much of the media is spouting. It's just a reaction. Just listen to something like the Michael Savage radio show.
I know I've lost you now, but I was going to say:
Things like the Michael Savage demographic represents to typical Joe-sixpack half-ignorant American who senses instinctively that the cat shit they see on other media sources is so biased and blatantly anti-American propaganda that they gravitate toward the other extreme.
You've got assholes strapping bombs to their nephews and sending them out to kill jews for Saudi telethon money, and Arafat importing $100 million dollars worth of illegal weapons bought with American aid money, and then his troops killing Israeli cops and throwing them into brainwashed crowds of Arabs to tear their bodies to shreads, and then you see on the evening news how the Jews are really the Nazis but anything Arab or Moslem is holy and Arafat is Jesus Christ because he mockingly pretending to donate blood after 9-11.
You'd almost think they were deliberately using reverse psychology to stir up hatred and intolerance. A little good old fashioned hollywood Arab bashing would probably balance out perspective a bit.
Hey, imagine that! They are all using the same towers. Half the time they are even using the same signals. The main hurdle wireless companies in the US face is sorting out who gets what percentage of each call. In some areas (even major cities) Verizon owns all the bandwidth, in some its AT&T, etc. They lease from each other.
Hey, Lake Tahoe isn't in the Bay Area. I know you may be used to 4 hour waits for BART to get you across the Bay, but that same amount of Time takes you a long ways up I80 -- past Sacramento even.
Did they actually come out and fix your problems?
If you want someone to fawn over your every word on the phone who don't give a shit and can't actually solve your problems, you can get that for $3.99 a min.
70k/s for 768? That's rediculous! You should get close to 80 in ideal conditions.
you forgot about the camera crew, the director, the m&m sorter for the actor (at least the Sprint guy isn't picky about his wardrobe), the ad agency, the cost of tv commercials, paying CNN for their endorsmnet, etc.
um... you know that's just a commercial, right?
an omnipotent being doesn't expend energy. He's *omnipotent*.
Why is it that no historian knew about this plant until after Roe v. Wade?