I had an R2D2 shaped vaccuum cleaner long before they made the Roomba. Well, it wouldn't sweep by itself but it made funny little R2D2 noises when you pulled it along the floor if you didn't oil the castors.
It wouldn't show movies, either. Ok, I guess that pretty much sucked. Never mnd.
1) want to drastically change copyright from being a form of property to something undefined
If you are from some country besides the US you are probably right, but in the US, the Constitution specifically states what copyright is - "a limited time monopoly". NOT property. The concept of a copyrighted work being "property" is a very new concept in the US. The first US copyrights only lasted 14 years, as the link you yourself posted says. If you do a word search on your link, you will see that the word "property" does not appear a single time.
And the monopoly granted on these works were to ultimately produce works so they may enter the public domain.
would like to do away with all other types of property?
No, why would I? As I said, a novel isn't property. A book is. Do you think Pixar's technology and business talent comes cheap?
Pixar's talent should hold copyrights to the portions of the work they perfoemed.
I'm all in favor of my favorite band having full control over artistic aspects of their work
Then lobby Congress to change the section of copyright law that says that phonorecords are "works for hire".
Oh, and Blizzard both licenses ("sells"?) software and licenses ("rents"?) access to their game servers. I'm with you on using the software as you please: drill as many extra holes as you want in your own bowling ball, but you can't roll in my lanes with it just because you paid for a few games
But Blizzard requires you to use their bowling ball in Blizzard lanes only.
But if OOo really wants to eat MSO's lunch, it needs to cover at least the same bases
That's true, but as OO is Sun's baby they can worry about stealing candy from Steve Ballmer. I'm a user, I'd like to see some true interoperability between Microsoft and the rest of the computing world.
You do make valid points when it comes to "market".
I said people who design and make DRM _know_ its going to be cracked
And the DMCA says that any crack not produced by the company holding copyright to the cracked game is a felony. In order to use your crack I have to commit a crime.
A truly truly succesful disc based DRM will take a month to crack
So what's the point, again, aside from making your legitimate customers break the law to use the software they lawfully purched with their own hard owned money the way they want? A fucking MONTH isn't a very long window. I think the only game I ever bought on the day of its release was DOOM3. I doubt I ever bought any other game within a month of its release.
What does DRM have to do with game hardware?
The post wasn't about DRM, it was about fucktarded stupidity, of which DRM is a sublcass.
Milk has a shelf life. A movie or game's "shelf life" is completely arbitrary and artificial.
Books go out of print
Yet I can still buy a copy of Huckleberry Finn. Why is "quality" a difficult concept?
Blade Runner is a bad example since there have been 45 different versions
OK, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Star Wars.
go find Rollerball or something like that
You illustrate my point succinctly. People will buy quality indefinately, but they'll only buy crap until they find out it's crap. Nobody except the very rich and the very stupid shell out good money for crap.
Z80? That's the CPU my Timex-Sinclair 1000 used. I didn't know the Amstrads still used it in 1987! 1987 was the year I bought the (used, of course) IBM-XT and started hacking its hardware.
I learned Z-80 assembly and hand-assembled machine code for the TS-1000 (around 1982), because I wanted a battle tanks game and the chip only ran at 1.5 mz (iirc) and it basically controled every system on the machine.
My tanks game was awesome! Two people could play it at the same time, playing each other, both using the keyboard which had no actual keys. I'm still proud of that a quarter century later!
Of course, the Z80 was a whole lot simpler than an x86. But then again I'm a whole lot simpler than later model people are.
Ah, memory lane. Such sweet memories... oh shit I was still married then, WTF am I thinking? Good old days, my ass!
Yes, and on its lowest size was pretty unplayable. On mine I'd sacrifice frame rate for a size, using maybe half the screen and having jerky pictures. Even still it was the most awesome game there was, even better than its daddy Wolfenstien.
I usually prefer the Dead Kennedys version of that song to The Crickets version, but not in this case. YAY GPL!
Drinkin' beer in the hot sun, I fought the law and I won I needed sex and I got mine, I fought the law and I won The law don't mean shit if you've got the right friends That's how the country's run Twinkies are the best friend I've ever had I fought the law And I won I blew George & Harvey's brains out with my six-gun I fought the law and I won Gonna write my book and make a million I fought the law and I won I'm the new folk hero of the Ku Klux Klan My cop friends think that's fine You can get away with murder if you've got a badge I fought the law And I won I am the law So I won
What is it with people. If Linux is better than MS window then surely you won't mind paying more to get it?
Because Linux is free and Windows isn't. Rainwater is better than tap water, you pay for tap water, surely you won't mind paying more for rainwater?
I bet they had to hire an entire Engineering staff
If gambling was legal here Id take you to the cleaners on that bet. BTW, which division of Microsoft do you work for? Me, I work for the marketing division of GNU.
Go ahead and mod me down for responding to this offtopic troll. I deserve it for biting. In fact I'm modding myself down with the "no karma bonus" box.
If you live in the ghetto and there's a lot of crime and you're poor, just keep having sex without birth control!
I live very near the ghetto and there's a lot of crime, but I'm middle class, you elitist piece of shit.
That's right, if you thought birth control was expensive, just wait until you pop out 3-5 kids that you know damned well you can't afford!
I was married ten years before I realized that there's no such thing as being able to afford kids. I now wish I'd had them when I was 25 instead of 35.
But that's okay, you can always go on welfare
No you can't; not in the US anyway. In case you've been asleep for over a decade, in 1996 Congress passed and Clinton signed welfare reform into law. Ir abolished the entitlemen AFDC, welfare with the goal of subsidising families and replaced it with TANF, which has the goal of getting poor people into the workforce and has a two year limit on benefits, five years lifetime. There is no longer welfare in America, Bubba. Tell your lord and savior Rush Limbaugh, would you?
And if most people who do this happen to be black, don't you dare point this out
Actually, most people who were on AFDC were as white as me, and I have hazel eyes, you stupid racist dumbass.
Go troll a non-tech forum with your stupidity. Judging from the troll you used, I suggest this one. Hiint: I've never been to that site.
Slashdot Mirror
Lucky you, sucks to be me
Your sig is decidedly on-topic today.
Anti-EULA day: The day everyone buys a piece of software, opens it and returns it saying they don't agree.
Now we need to pick a day.
.... that this site has already succumbed to the dark side!
Yes, it has.
Don't click that link. For the love of technology don't click that link. Damn it I warned you...
I see you've managed to somehow avoid my slashdot journals.
I had an R2D2 shaped vaccuum cleaner long before they made the Roomba. Well, it wouldn't sweep by itself but it made funny little R2D2 noises when you pulled it along the floor if you didn't oil the castors.
It wouldn't show movies, either. Ok, I guess that pretty much sucked. Never mnd.
"Theorizing a Big Apple Push Into Gaming"
Phew, I thought New York was going to get into gaming. Had me worried for a new york minute there.
I remember having that game... but I don't think I ever played it sober.
They already know about it
1) want to drastically change copyright from being a form of property to something undefined
If you are from some country besides the US you are probably right, but in the US, the Constitution specifically states what copyright is - "a limited time monopoly". NOT property. The concept of a copyrighted work being "property" is a very new concept in the US. The first US copyrights only lasted 14 years, as the link you yourself posted says. If you do a word search on your link, you will see that the word "property" does not appear a single time.
And the monopoly granted on these works were to ultimately produce works so they may enter the public domain.
would like to do away with all other types of property?
No, why would I? As I said, a novel isn't property. A book is.
Do you think Pixar's technology and business talent comes cheap?
Pixar's talent should hold copyrights to the portions of the work they perfoemed.
I'm all in favor of my favorite band having full control over artistic aspects of their work
Then lobby Congress to change the section of copyright law that says that phonorecords are "works for hire".
Oh, and Blizzard both licenses ("sells"?) software and licenses ("rents"?) access to their game servers. I'm with you on using the software as you please: drill as many extra holes as you want in your own bowling ball, but you can't roll in my lanes with it just because you paid for a few games
But Blizzard requires you to use their bowling ball in Blizzard lanes only.
But if OOo really wants to eat MSO's lunch, it needs to cover at least the same bases
That's true, but as OO is Sun's baby they can worry about stealing candy from Steve Ballmer. I'm a user, I'd like to see some true interoperability between Microsoft and the rest of the computing world.
You do make valid points when it comes to "market".
Thank you for that kind post.
;)
The Chinese have an old curse: "May you live in interesting times". Alas, I'm cursed!
That was Super! With a capital S!
That was gay. With a lower case g.
I said people who design and make DRM _know_ its going to be cracked
And the DMCA says that any crack not produced by the company holding copyright to the cracked game is a felony. In order to use your crack I have to commit a crime.
A truly truly succesful disc based DRM will take a month to crack
So what's the point, again, aside from making your legitimate customers break the law to use the software they lawfully purched with their own hard owned money the way they want? A fucking MONTH isn't a very long window. I think the only game I ever bought on the day of its release was DOOM3. I doubt I ever bought any other game within a month of its release.
What does DRM have to do with game hardware?
The post wasn't about DRM, it was about fucktarded stupidity, of which DRM is a sublcass.
Milk has a shelf life. A movie or game's "shelf life" is completely arbitrary and artificial.
Books go out of print
Yet I can still buy a copy of Huckleberry Finn. Why is "quality" a difficult concept?
Blade Runner is a bad example since there have been 45 different versions
OK, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Star Wars.
go find Rollerball or something like that
You illustrate my point succinctly. People will buy quality indefinately, but they'll only buy crap until they find out it's crap. Nobody except the very rich and the very stupid shell out good money for crap.
nope.
here's a photo of a botnet. Ok, it's a small botnet but if the botnet was a semi you wouldn't see the computers, now would you?
Z80? That's the CPU my Timex-Sinclair 1000 used. I didn't know the Amstrads still used it in 1987! 1987 was the year I bought the (used, of course) IBM-XT and started hacking its hardware.
I learned Z-80 assembly and hand-assembled machine code for the TS-1000 (around 1982), because I wanted a battle tanks game and the chip only ran at 1.5 mz (iirc) and it basically controled every system on the machine.
My tanks game was awesome! Two people could play it at the same time, playing each other, both using the keyboard which had no actual keys. I'm still proud of that a quarter century later!
Of course, the Z80 was a whole lot simpler than an x86. But then again I'm a whole lot simpler than later model people are.
Ah, memory lane. Such sweet memories... oh shit I was still married then, WTF am I thinking? Good old days, my ass!
You're a programmer,
Uh, didn't he say they were written in BASIC?
(=I kid. Really. Uh huh.=)
Yes, and on its lowest size was pretty unplayable. On mine I'd sacrifice frame rate for a size, using maybe half the screen and having jerky pictures. Even still it was the most awesome game there was, even better than its daddy Wolfenstien.
That was the most pathetic attempt at trolling I've seen here all week. Aren't you supposed to be in school?
But it is part of the UK. The statement therfore maintains validity.
I stand corrected.
Anti-trust regulations govern companies. The GPL is not a company. I have no idea how skype thinks this will fly.
Red herring. This isn't about us, it's about Microsoft buying market share
If a straw man is trolling for red herring, what bait does he use?
What is it with people. If Linux is better than MS window then surely you won't mind paying more to get it?
Because Linux is free and Windows isn't. Rainwater is better than tap water, you pay for tap water, surely you won't mind paying more for rainwater?
I bet they had to hire an entire Engineering staff
If gambling was legal here Id take you to the cleaners on that bet. BTW, which division of Microsoft do you work for? Me, I work for the marketing division of GNU.
Go ahead and mod me down for responding to this offtopic troll. I deserve it for biting. In fact I'm modding myself down with the "no karma bonus" box.
If you live in the ghetto and there's a lot of crime and you're poor, just keep having sex without birth control!
I live very near the ghetto and there's a lot of crime, but I'm middle class, you elitist piece of shit.
That's right, if you thought birth control was expensive, just wait until you pop out 3-5 kids that you know damned well you can't afford!
I was married ten years before I realized that there's no such thing as being able to afford kids. I now wish I'd had them when I was 25 instead of 35.
But that's okay, you can always go on welfare
No you can't; not in the US anyway. In case you've been asleep for over a decade, in 1996 Congress passed and Clinton signed welfare reform into law. Ir abolished the entitlemen AFDC, welfare with the goal of subsidising families and replaced it with TANF, which has the goal of getting poor people into the workforce and has a two year limit on benefits, five years lifetime. There is no longer welfare in America, Bubba. Tell your lord and savior Rush Limbaugh, would you?
And if most people who do this happen to be black, don't you dare point this out
Actually, most people who were on AFDC were as white as me, and I have hazel eyes, you stupid racist dumbass.
Go troll a non-tech forum with your stupidity. Judging from the troll you used, I suggest this one. Hiint: I've never been to that site.
-mcgrew
ps: FOAD.