The lawyer makes it sound as if New Line was some kind of magnanimous benefactor, "giving" Jackson money because he was a great filmmaker and an all-around good guy.
I wonder if we can not freely start copying and sharing our LoTR DVDs, since we have already "given" New Line enough money to rebuild Baghdah, New York, London, Paris, Moscow and Tokyo (by this lawyer's math - if 300 or 400 million are enough to rebuilt Baghdad, imagine what 4 billion can't do).
"To complete your installation you MUST now choose a media player from the list bellow.... Important release note: due to Windows Media Player being an integral part of the OS, choosing other media player may make your computer instable or unusable."
That sorriest excuse for an operating system ever to emerge from the pits of Redmond wouldn't even run alone with every resource it wanted at its disposal...
Please, I was just making a quick joke - no predictions, nothing so serious. I love Google dearly (I have even installed the Accelerator for a day or two until it bothered me with that "23 minutes saved" message) and I think it is popular because of its merits and the hard work of its people, not because they got lucky or something. But even great companies can eventually disappear for one reason or another.
I have bought DVDs of every single non-shite film I ever downloaded via Bittorrent
You see, you put the finger right on their bleeding wound. What about all those shite movies they make every year? Who's gonna pay to see all those terrible movies if everybody can download them, watch the first three minutes and delete the file? Who's gonna feed the families of the thousands of bad directors, screenwriters, actors and producers out there if everybody can judge their work before paying for the ticket?
When I heard about this BitTorrent program delivering non-released movies, new top-40 albums and great warez software I (being cheap and lazy) immediatelly downloaded, installed and opened it. Then I waited for the goods to start pouring into my disk. So far nothing has happened. Does anyone knows what I am doing wrong?
I was thinking about it the same way one would think about pressurising a tire - or, more colorfully, about putting a hose in inside his mouth, closing all other body orifices and keep pumping air into him...:)
I would think "pressurise" means "increase the pression". A body with an internal pressure greater than the outside medium tend to grow larger and eventually explode (when the containing material elastic threshold is surpassed). If they are pressurising him, I understand his internal pressure is growing.
The other case, depressurizing, would make his pressure smaller than the outside medium, eventually leading to a crush, not to an explosion.
As they kept pressurising him, he realized he would soon explode if he didn't agree to resign. Spanish Universities may have inherited the Spanish Inquisition taste for exquisite ways of dealing with malcontents...
Let us tone down the 500,000 number to 257 persons. Each person holds a different 8 bits byte. The 257th person has lists with the names of the other 256. Those lists vary in length and each person's name is repeated many times.
When the list-holder calls a person name, that person shouts his/her byte.
Who's showing a book that can be represented, in a particular code, by say 1,000,000 8 bits bytes? Each person has only one byte. The list holder has only a list of persons.
Matters get more complicated if you add more byte holders, repeating the bytes and alternating the names on the lists.
And when, exactly, was the last time the GPL commandos visited your office to check that you were using GPL? Because, from the way you speak, it looks like the license is mandatory.
I think the article's author means a right as in right for education or right for health, not as in free speech. He has a point because at a certain moment in the near future, if you lack the necessary connectivity it will mean you/you son/you city will be unable to compete in equal terms with those who have.
You are still showing your ignorance: "A doctrine which establishes that someone has a right to the property or work of another is unworkable and immoral". Ok, except this is not Communism and never was. Not even in Stalinist Soviet Union this was spelled or worked out this way. It is hopeless to discuss what Communism was or should be with you Americans after you spent almost a century being brain-washed about its real and specially its fabricated evils. Maybe in a hundred years, after your teocracy comes and goes you will be able to look back in History and at least try to understand this issues without ignorant pre-conceptions that were never real. Don't get me wrong, I don't like Communism and would not like to live in a Communist country. But you just don't know what it is...
One assumes Slashdot will publish at least one Google story every day, because Google is "the coolest application out there". If there is no story to be published a dupe will do.
I think by now Google has surpassed Linux in the hacker's minds as "The real thing". Not that it isn't cool, but it is quite amazing to see how a good product can gain a quasi-sainthood status among educated audiences when coupled with the right marketing strategies.
First, you're an idiot. The sentence "That is Communism, and not only does it not work practically, it's ethically and morally unjustifiable as well." tailing your comment as if anything you saud before it justified such conclusion must be one of the most pathetic idioticies i've read this week in Slashdot.
Now, before I am modded down to hell as Flamebait, let us get to business: NOBODY is saying anyone has the divine right to broadband. On the contrary, legislation is being passed to FORBID communities to install their own infra-structure. Legislators bought and paid by interested corporations are legislating against the will of their own voters. The "right" involved is right for communities to decide their own fate, to decide what they think is a public service and how it should be implemented. Broadband is incidental, corporate greed and malice is not.
I, for one, think this security guys are too paranoid. Next they will say the innocent attachments strangers keep sending me in my email messages will harm my computer. What about having some faith in people's good intentions?
It would be a poetic mental picture if we're not talking about fat, overworked, graveyard-shift sysadmins trying to finish their nighties and go home...
"Your average S American", believe it or not, can do arithmetic well enough, thank you for asking. "Pay $10 for great feature 1 and another $10 for great feature 2" will not do them any good since gf1 and gf2 will soon be available for the price of the media.
A bit more, a bit less depending on the current foreign exchange rates. That's the present price for a cracked XP copy and that's will the price for BOTH versions in Brazilian streets one week after the "Starter" crippleware hits the OEM vendors.
I'd rather disgorge all our software to the the world than have my government digorging large sums of money from my taxes to pay Microsoft, IBM, Sun etc.
It is rather clear that most developing nations won't ever even the field in terms of production capacity - we will never have as many programmmers as well-trainned as the US, for instance. So Free Software makes all sense, as it allows us to divide the efforts among all interested parties. For poor nations the situation is even more dramatic, as they neither have the manpower nor the money to pay for the software.
It all depends on what you are optimizing for - you can optimize for size, for instance (smaller but slower applications). You can optimize for portability and end up with code that is both slower and larger (but more portable). You can optimize for almost anything you need. Speed is one factor only.
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It is for Devs, as you say. If you don't know what it is, we don't know you, you don't belong...
The lawyer makes it sound as if New Line was some kind of magnanimous benefactor, "giving" Jackson money because he was a great filmmaker and an all-around good guy.
I wonder if we can not freely start copying and sharing our LoTR DVDs, since we have already "given" New Line enough money to rebuild Baghdah, New York, London, Paris, Moscow and Tokyo (by this lawyer's math - if 300 or 400 million are enough to rebuilt Baghdad, imagine what 4 billion can't do).
"To complete your installation you MUST now choose a media player from the list bellow. ...
Important release note: due to Windows Media Player being an integral part of the OS, choosing other media player may make your computer instable or unusable."
That sorriest excuse for an operating system ever to emerge from the pits of Redmond wouldn't even run alone with every resource it wanted at its disposal...
Please, I was just making a quick joke - no predictions, nothing so serious. I love Google dearly (I have even installed the Accelerator for a day or two until it bothered me with that "23 minutes saved" message) and I think it is popular because of its merits and the hard work of its people, not because they got lucky or something. But even great companies can eventually disappear for one reason or another.
[To ELP's "Lucky Man"]
They had white pages
And hits by the score
All the people's queries
Waiting by the door
Ooooh, what a search engine it was
Ooooh, what a search engine it was
Many geeks and hackers
They made up its core
Everybody's dearest
A daily stop for more
Ooooh, what a search engine it was
Ooooh, what a search engine it was
It went to the market
Of the engines it was king
Of his honor and his glory
Slashdot would sing
Ooooh, what a search engine it was
Ooooh, what a search engine it was
A burst had found it
Its money dried as it sank
No praise could save it
So it vanished and it died
Ooooh, what a search engine it was
Ooooh, what a search engine it was
I have bought DVDs of every single non-shite film I ever downloaded via Bittorrent
You see, you put the finger right on their bleeding wound. What about all those shite movies they make every year? Who's gonna pay to see all those terrible movies if everybody can download them, watch the first three minutes and delete the file? Who's gonna feed the families of the thousands of bad directors, screenwriters, actors and producers out there if everybody can judge their work before paying for the ticket?
you have to find and open the .irony_detector file
When I heard about this BitTorrent program delivering non-released movies, new top-40 albums and great warez software I (being cheap and lazy) immediatelly downloaded, installed and opened it. Then I waited for the goods to start pouring into my disk. So far nothing has happened. Does anyone knows what I am doing wrong?
I was thinking about it the same way one would think about pressurising a tire - or, more colorfully, about putting a hose in inside his mouth, closing all other body orifices and keep pumping air into him... :)
I would think "pressurise" means "increase the pression". A body with an internal pressure greater than the outside medium tend to grow larger and eventually explode (when the containing material elastic threshold is surpassed). If they are pressurising him, I understand his internal pressure is growing.
The other case, depressurizing, would make his pressure smaller than the outside medium, eventually leading to a crush, not to an explosion.
I think this will spread the story much quicker than his lecture 150 attendants.
As they kept pressurising him, he realized he would soon explode if he didn't agree to resign. Spanish Universities may have inherited the Spanish Inquisition taste for exquisite ways of dealing with malcontents...
Let us tone down the 500,000 number to 257 persons. Each person holds a different 8 bits byte. The 257th person has lists with the names of the other 256. Those lists vary in length and each person's name is repeated many times.
When the list-holder calls a person name, that person shouts his/her byte.
Who's showing a book that can be represented, in a particular code, by say 1,000,000 8 bits bytes? Each person has only one byte. The list holder has only a list of persons.
Matters get more complicated if you add more byte holders, repeating the bytes and alternating the names on the lists.
And when, exactly, was the last time the GPL commandos visited your office to check that you were using GPL? Because, from the way you speak, it looks like the license is mandatory.
I think the article's author means a right as in right for education or right for health, not as in free speech. He has a point because at a certain moment in the near future, if you lack the necessary connectivity it will mean you/you son/you city will be unable to compete in equal terms with those who have.
You are still showing your ignorance: "A doctrine which establishes that someone has a right to the property or work of another is unworkable and immoral". Ok, except this is not Communism and never was. Not even in Stalinist Soviet Union this was spelled or worked out this way. It is hopeless to discuss what Communism was or should be with you Americans after you spent almost a century being brain-washed about its real and specially its fabricated evils. Maybe in a hundred years, after your teocracy comes and goes you will be able to look back in History and at least try to understand this issues without ignorant pre-conceptions that were never real. Don't get me wrong, I don't like Communism and would not like to live in a Communist country. But you just don't know what it is...
One assumes Slashdot will publish at least one Google story every day, because Google is "the coolest application out there". If there is no story to be published a dupe will do.
I think by now Google has surpassed Linux in the hacker's minds as "The real thing". Not that it isn't cool, but it is quite amazing to see how a good product can gain a quasi-sainthood status among educated audiences when coupled with the right marketing strategies.
First, you're an idiot. The sentence "That is Communism, and not only does it not work practically, it's ethically and morally unjustifiable as well." tailing your comment as if anything you saud before it justified such conclusion must be one of the most pathetic idioticies i've read this week in Slashdot.
Now, before I am modded down to hell as Flamebait, let us get to business: NOBODY is saying anyone has the divine right to broadband. On the contrary, legislation is being passed to FORBID communities to install their own infra-structure. Legislators bought and paid by interested corporations are legislating against the will of their own voters. The "right" involved is right for communities to decide their own fate, to decide what they think is a public service and how it should be implemented. Broadband is incidental, corporate greed and malice is not.
As soon as the accountants and investment people see this, this wierd situation will be solved by their golden goose killing habits.
Their first thought will be "Let's raise the online subscription to $356, so our online profit will almost 100 times the paper profit!!".
Their second thought will be "This online thing was a passing fad anyway".
I, for one, think this security guys are too paranoid. Next they will say the innocent attachments strangers keep sending me in my email messages will harm my computer. What about having some faith in people's good intentions?
It would be a poetic mental picture if we're not talking about fat, overworked, graveyard-shift sysadmins trying to finish their nighties and go home...
"Your average S American", believe it or not, can do arithmetic well enough, thank you for asking. "Pay $10 for great feature 1 and another $10 for great feature 2" will not do them any good since gf1 and gf2 will soon be available for the price of the media.
A bit more, a bit less depending on the current foreign exchange rates. That's the present price for a cracked XP copy and that's will the price for BOTH versions in Brazilian streets one week after the "Starter" crippleware hits the OEM vendors.
I'd rather disgorge all our software to the the world than have my government digorging large sums of money from my taxes to pay Microsoft, IBM, Sun etc.
It is rather clear that most developing nations won't ever even the field in terms of production capacity - we will never have as many programmmers as well-trainned as the US, for instance. So Free Software makes all sense, as it allows us to divide the efforts among all interested parties. For poor nations the situation is even more dramatic, as they neither have the manpower nor the money to pay for the software.
It all depends on what you are optimizing for - you can optimize for size, for instance (smaller but slower applications). You can optimize for portability and end up with code that is both slower and larger (but more portable). You can optimize for almost anything you need. Speed is one factor only.
Anyway, in this particular case you may be right.