Because then you'd have a sat connected mobile computing device, which would (a) really piss off the cell vendors and (b) spoil Apple's chance to offer a satellite PDA/VOIP phone at a stratospheric price.
Yes, of course they should.
I mean really, why would any informed linux user want to take on all the security concerns of the windows
APIs?
Shoot, I regret that I require OO.org for all those stupid wurd and pp docs everyone uses.
I'm *certainly* not running WINE or any other reimplementation.
I want my secure non MS boxen to stay that way.
Thanks for posting that, it's a fascinating account.
If you write a history book I will buy it.
However I must take exception to attributing the horrors and abuses of the Soviet government to socialism or communism. The USSR was about as true an example of "socialism" as the US is of "democracy".
Socialism didn't cause the problems, just as democracy didn't cause the oil war. The bastards who succeed at politics always promote an ideology, but they do not follow it. Whether it's socialism or capitalism, it's always the same kind of crooks doing the exact same things.
Some of the Scandinavian countries are doing very well blending socialism and capitalism, BTW. Something we are sadly still too brainwashed to do here in the US.:(
The problem is that copyright penalties are usually monetary "damages". Its kind of
hard to prove in court that you've suffered "damages", when the original work is not earning you money
due to it being given away for free.
That strikes me as a bit narrow -- what about damage to the greater community and the fact that money was made dishonestly?
One obvious resolution (IMO) would be to give all the profits from such an infringing endeavor to the FSF.
You do not understand the social implications of Darwinism.
It isn't just about breeding either, it's very much about
the nature of social class as well.
People who get arrested tend to inhabit lower social classes,
and while they do breed disproportionately they are not the
people who get to wield power or have much authority.
it's also the height of obviousness to everybody but the public facing film industry
that people videotaping movies for profit is a myth from a Seinfeld episode , the reality is that
the illegal/unlicensed Movie Copies are coming from industry members copying screener discs and
distributing them from profit.
Not true -- in my neighborhood in San Francisco there are indeed street vendors with DVDs for $5
that have legit looking packaging, but if you open one it has a DVD with no label or a minimal
low-budget label. Now of course I would never buy such a product, but one of my neighbors did and
he showed me the movie. It was a blatant (and very amateurish) camcorder copy made in a theater.
What was done was not a crime, according to fair use.
Forgive me if I am not swayed by your interpretation of the law.
AFAIK it is if not illegal, certainly against the rules of the theater to use a camcorder inside.
Darwinism has nothing to do with any of this, as no one is getting killed.
Darwinism isn't solely about the life/death binary, it is about natural selection of genes, which is a
very long-term thing to study. Perhaps you should read more about it.
Taking a camcorder to a movie theater is just not very
bright, is it? Time for "jhannet" and the submitter to wake
up and smell the fascism -- this ain't your Dad's United
States of America, after all. I mean what are you going to do
next, joke about having a bomb in a government office and
then submit a/. sob sory about going to prison?
I'm sorry, but IMO if this person gets punished it's just
Darwinism in action.
That's the way I do install it, but (and now we're getting way off-topic, but what the hell, I've already been modded troll over not being awake before posting) it's not that I feel Debian is full of unavoidable bloat -- it isn't. It's just all the resources that have been spent on useless things like the GUI installer have spread the project too thin and it really shows in that there are so many broken packages now, more than ever before I believe. Or maybe they're just the ones I was accutomed to using. Anyway, I still find use for it on some machines but it is no longer my desktop OS because of that.
Mod me troll if you must, but it just seems to me that Ian Murdock messed up Debian by moving the focus from functionality and stability to lots of "user-friendly" GUI crap -- it makes me nervous that he's at Sun now.
So call it 'Tech Support' day or whatever instead of
limiting the name of the day to a subset of the job!
That does seem appropriate, I vote for "geek apprciation day".
Shoot, we all deserve it -- now if you'll excuse me, I have to go
clean up some luser's mess. Funny how it feels like just another day...
You DO know the activity you describe is most likely
illegal and is bound to get you jailed for up to ten years (+$500,000
fine)? Repeat after me: I do not have the right to steal media content.
Oh, please. I have never heard of *anyone* getting prison time for
downloading protected content. Do try to keep up old boy-- it's a
well-known fact nowadays that downloading copies of files is not
"stealing", nor is it "piracy". No-one is deprived of
anything natural by the act of copying files off the network.
The business models which profit only off exploiting "IP" are now
obsolete, and the **IA tactics are just the death rattles of that model.
Lately I have been seeing more Macs semitransparent Black
Screen of death then Windows Blue Screens of death (Although to be fair
it is often because I am using Parallels to boot windows on my Mac).
Interesting. I've never seen one of those on my Mac, which is running 24/7/365.
Of course it's an older powerpc Mac, but it's running Tiger...
Sure they are, under the duress of it being the default available system. Obviously the point is that you are trying to minimize MS' only-too-obvoius folly. But you have failed to understand that we don't do that here, this is/.!
No is isn't people are just too stupid to read properly,
the article is about microsoft changing their predictions about XP sales
for next year from 15% up to 22% and vista from 85% down to 78%.
Well, I won't call you "too stupid to read properly", but what about this
(FTFA):"Windows XP sales will, in other words, be nearly 50 percent higher
in the next 12 months than Microsoft had estimated earlier."
Hmmm, "50% higher" sales for XP looks fairly significant to me...
I suppose this sounds trollish, but frankly to me the very phrase
just screams SLASHVERTISEMENT!, because no-one who knows what they're
talking about uses language like that -- it's strictly a marketing term.
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Because then you'd have a sat connected mobile computing device, which would (a) really piss off the cell vendors and (b) spoil Apple's chance to offer a satellite PDA/VOIP phone at a stratospheric price.
Yes, of course they should.
I mean really, why would any informed linux user want to take on all the security concerns of the windows APIs? Shoot, I regret that I require OO.org for all those stupid wurd and pp docs everyone uses. I'm *certainly* not running WINE or any other reimplementation. I want my secure non MS boxen to stay that way.
O Rly?
I would've sworn it was the US government keeping the media in check nowadays...
Thanks for posting that, it's a fascinating account. If you write a history book I will buy it. :(
However I must take exception to attributing the horrors and abuses of the Soviet government to socialism or communism. The USSR was about as true an example of "socialism" as the US is of "democracy".
Socialism didn't cause the problems, just as democracy didn't cause the oil war. The bastards who succeed at politics always promote an ideology, but they do not follow it. Whether it's socialism or capitalism, it's always the same kind of crooks doing the exact same things.
Some of the Scandinavian countries are doing very well blending socialism and capitalism, BTW. Something we are sadly still too brainwashed to do here in the US.
Definition of damages can be revisited on court, and likely will be sooner or later.
That strikes me as a bit narrow -- what about damage to the greater community and the fact that money was made dishonestly? One obvious resolution (IMO) would be to give all the profits from such an infringing endeavor to the FSF.
Shut up and take the money, stupid!
You do not understand the social implications of Darwinism. It isn't just about breeding either, it's very much about the nature of social class as well. People who get arrested tend to inhabit lower social classes, and while they do breed disproportionately they are not the people who get to wield power or have much authority.
Forgive me if I am not swayed by your interpretation of the law. AFAIK it is if not illegal, certainly against the rules of the theater to use a camcorder inside.
Darwinism isn't solely about the life/death binary, it is about natural selection of genes, which is a very long-term thing to study. Perhaps you should read more about it.
Taking a camcorder to a movie theater is just not very bright, is it? Time for "jhannet" and the submitter to wake up and smell the fascism -- this ain't your Dad's United States of America, after all. I mean what are you going to do next, joke about having a bomb in a government office and then submit a /. sob sory about going to prison?
I'm sorry, but IMO if this person gets punished it's just Darwinism in action.
...but does it run Expose?
That's the way I do install it, but (and now we're getting way off-topic, but what the hell, I've already been modded troll over not being awake before posting) it's not that I feel Debian is full of unavoidable bloat -- it isn't. It's just all the resources that have been spent on useless things like the GUI installer have spread the project too thin and it really shows in that there are so many broken packages now, more than ever before I believe. Or maybe they're just the ones I was accutomed to using. Anyway, I still find use for it on some machines but it is no longer my desktop OS because of that.
D'oh! I guess I was inadvertantly talking out my ass, but it's a sleepy Sunday morning here and I was confused Perens with Murdock.
Mod me troll if you must, but it just seems to me that Ian Murdock messed up Debian by moving the focus from functionality and stability to lots of "user-friendly" GUI crap -- it makes me nervous that he's at Sun now.
Well, we can't all be geniuses... :)
That does seem appropriate, I vote for "geek apprciation day". Shoot, we all deserve it -- now if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up some luser's mess. Funny how it feels like just another day...
You made me laugh, but alas I have no more mod points.
Interesting. I've never seen one of those on my Mac, which is running 24/7/365. Of course it's an older powerpc Mac, but it's running Tiger...
Ha ha -- you're delusional!
Sure they are, under the duress of it being the default available system. Obviously the point is that you are trying to minimize MS' only-too-obvoius folly. But you have failed to understand that we don't do that here, this is /.!
Well, I won't call you "too stupid to read properly", but what about this (FTFA):"Windows XP sales will, in other words, be nearly 50 percent higher in the next 12 months than Microsoft had estimated earlier."
Hmmm, "50% higher" sales for XP looks fairly significant to me...
Actually the phrase you seek is "software suite", not "OS".
I suppose this sounds trollish, but frankly to me the very phrase just screams SLASHVERTISEMENT!, because no-one who knows what they're talking about uses language like that -- it's strictly a marketing term.