What? You're kidding, right? No way are we gonna let the terrorists think we're "soft" or "weak" or "educated" by not running out any foreigner stupid enough to show their dirty little face on our turf.
Realize we're being mean and nasty to people from other countries for no good reason... hah, what a crock.
Oh, wait, you have money? And industry? And a culture we can steal in order to fill our own void in that area? Why hello there friendly neighbor, what a lovely day to be a part of this kindly international community. What's that? Invasion forces? Oh no, they're just... um... on a training mission. Yes, that's it, a training mission; don't mind them one bit, they're completely harmless...
Yes, but with a monitor you run into issues of distance again. I sincerely doubt that you view your monitor from nearly the same distance as your TV, most people sit within 36" of their monitors, very few sit less than 48" from the TV, and even less do so with largish HD sets.
"Accountant predicts Yankees will dominate based on salary spending."
"Sports historian predicts Yankees will dominate based on past seasons."
"Incoherent drunk predicts Yankees will dominate based on voices in his head telling him so."
"Everyone who's even remotely familiar with MLB dies of a massive simultaneous aneurysm trying to comprehend why anyone predicting the Yankees will be one of the top teams in the league for any reason at all qualifies as "news" rather than statement of the obvious."
Seriously, I'm from Massachusetts and detest the Yankees, and I still have to acknowledge that even if the Yankees are "having a bad season", they're still one of the best teams in the league.
Well, at least then they'll have excuse to be playing with themselves with driving. Shit, if I'm gonna get sideswiped by some jackass in an SUV then he'd damn well better be handling his member because claiming that you can't drive while talking is like claiming you can't drink AND ogle women at the same time.
Dell isn't 31337 enough to get extra MHz, you'd have to slap at least an Alienware badge on.
Also, computers with both "Intel Core 2 Duo Inside" and "Powered By Athlon64" can get up to a 150MHz boost. For best results, use with a 32 bit Athlon or Pentium; Just don't do it with a Celeron, only posers do shit like that.
Contrary to popular belief, there are portions of the developed world that hope to do almost exactly that. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts was one of the first places to join up with OLPC (granted, the fact that it's based out of MIT is a huge part of that), and as a proud Massachusan I assure you that we aren't exactly living in the third world here (disregard the New Yorkers who think otherwise... I think it's fair to say that if you haven't left your borough in a decade that you aren't qualified to talk about other places as if you have a clue).
There's a lot of FUD about the OLPC project, and I'm not sure what's worse: the ill-conceived notion that improving educational technology benefits less people than improving food and water distribution (most people in the world have a steady supply of food and water, but lack the educational opportunities to really participate in the global economy or reap the economic benefits of doing so, obviously some do not, but they aren't the focus of this particular project), or the outright lie that OLPC is only available to or intended for goat farmers from Botswana.
Ok, I have mod points, but I really wanted to reply to this and the whole article's moderated to hell anyway... I don't do AC.
The problem with your first point is that the mega-publisher has no incentive at all to do that. They'd probably have to pay Rowling a shit-ton of money if they wanted to publish her next book, and all they had to do the first time is pay $20 for a retail copy. Do you really think they'll ever give up a deal that sweet for, literally, no reason? The Grateful Dead may have done a huge number of free concerts, but you're kidding yourself if you think even a majority of them were, they were just nice enough to allow paying concert goers to record and legally distribute (for free) the recordings if they so chose, though they charged extra for that privilege. They most certainly did not give away their studio recordings for free. You're crazy if you think The Dead didn't profit greatly from copyrighting their work, though it should be noted they did so without selling out or being draconian about it.
Your second point is just wrong. Copyright was never intended to keep one party from fraudulently claiming that another created something. That's what trademark is for, as well as libel. If I take a copy of the new Harry Potter book and publish a thousand copies without getting permission and paying her (and her publisher, and anyone else I'd need to pay), I'm in violation of copyright; if I cross J.K. Rowling's name out, write mine in, and publish a thousand copies without paying her (etc), i am both in violation of copyright and flagrantly plagiarizing her; if I write up a thousand pages of TimeCube style ranting and publish them so that they appear to be a copy of the new Harry Potter book, then I am in violation of trademark , and Rowling et al would probably have a very strong libel and defamation case against me... I would also, most likely, by committed to a mental health facility pending psychological evaluation.
The problem is not with copyright (or patent) itself, because we really do need that in order to protect content creators (or inventors) from predatory publishers. The problem is with our current implementation. Part of the problem is also that many content creators are completely unwilling to accept that there are other ways to profit: like providing paid support for free software (a la all the major Linux players), live performance (I think Shakespeare is the single best example of this: he wrote all of his plays so that his theater troupe could perform them for paying audience members and wrote his non-dramatic works as a way of advertising his talents to the upper classes in hopes they'd sponsor the company), or various other techniques, but they aren't always practical or applicable (a painter, sculptor, or novelist can't really touch up the work after the fact, or expect people to pay to watch them work, they really just have to sell their work, and in the case of the novelist they can't even rely on others not to be able to copy it exactly or customers to be able to recognize such copies or care if they do).
While you're in school that is often the case, but most business and law graduate programs have an ethicectomy requirement in order to achieve your degree. They save it till the end of the curriculum, so as to impact the students academic life as little as possible.
As a matter of fact, no, I'd have to say he didn't. Taking a written work and converting it to film DOES take imagination because, obviously enough, there isn't any visual to use ahead of time. If Ridley Scott had made a full length feature of "1984" instead of just an ad for Macintosh, it STILL wouldn't have been ripping off Orwell, it would just be a film adaptation... and one would hope a damned good one.
The simple truth is that the vast majority of movies are adaptations from books, and even the ones that aren't are only very rarely written by the director. Figure that 9/10 of everything that is written is inspired by or based on something else, and it's incredible how little of what we consider to be groundbreaking is completely "new".
The difference with this version is that it doesn't give us any new visual, it isn't a synthesis of any sort, just a quick edit. We've already seen the ad, and there's nothing new; even the message is virtually identical, the sole exception being the target of the ad which, to some extent, actually IS trivial. The creativity required begins and ends with having the idea to change the face from the creepy guy to Hilary, which, while I didn't think of it, still isn't nearly so creative as what went into the original.
But they can't "buck" it in any other way. Most schools get one look at those threatening letters and just fork the students over no questions asked. The school has decided to play chicken with the RIAA instead.
It also helps to put the students into a more defensible place down the road if the RIAA decides against doing millions of dollars worth of research and figuring out individual students, because a decent legal team will have a much easier time overthrowing a drag net style subpoena that never should have been granted than it would the school following written policy to which the students had explicitly agreed.
And yes, when being coerced by the RIAA, following the law IS rebellious in much the same way as calling the FBI if the Mafia shows up in your business and starts offering their modestly priced "protection". They are willing and able to make it hurt, and in their sphere they ARE the law.
In dollar count, no. In post-inflation value, yes.
Further, most of the "increased" spending has been on things like standardized testing... which in no way actually contributes to learning (when was the last time a test was the first time you learned a principle?), but do cost an enormous amount of money... virtually all of which goes directly to the private sector.
No, it's only for things that are designed to break. You can't call something "defective by design" simply because it lacks a feature you would like, regardless of who made it.
"That doesn't seem like a very vigilant attitude to me... whereas Windows users tend to gain at least a basic appreciation for proper security practices."
While the first part is true, Windows users (myself included), by definition, are ignoring one fundamental security practice... they aren't using a secure system in the first place. It's like making sure your front door is bolted shut and you've got bars over all your windows, but your house only has three walls (and it's not triangular).
Like what, might I ask? They've reduced funding to public education, environmental programs, (non-military) research, social welfare, public works, medicine, and many other core "socialist" measures. The only things have been expanded are military and police funding, but even there, the emphasis has been invariably on expanding operations and increasing numbers, and pay and benefits for soldiers and police have generally been cut. Some socialism, huh?
Indeed, I would imagine that if a case damaging to spiders, thus caches and search engines, is threatening to set a bad precedent that Google would be all over it. One of the largest, wealthiest, most recognizable, and most universally beloved companies on the planet throwing its full weight against some anti-CPS kook from Colorado... that doesn't even remotely resemble a fair fight.
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What? You're kidding, right? No way are we gonna let the terrorists think we're "soft" or "weak" or "educated" by not running out any foreigner stupid enough to show their dirty little face on our turf.
Realize we're being mean and nasty to people from other countries for no good reason... hah, what a crock.
Oh, wait, you have money? And industry? And a culture we can steal in order to fill our own void in that area? Why hello there friendly neighbor, what a lovely day to be a part of this kindly international community. What's that? Invasion forces? Oh no, they're just... um... on a training mission. Yes, that's it, a training mission; don't mind them one bit, they're completely harmless...
Yes, but with a monitor you run into issues of distance again. I sincerely doubt that you view your monitor from nearly the same distance as your TV, most people sit within 36" of their monitors, very few sit less than 48" from the TV, and even less do so with largish HD sets.
"Accountant predicts Yankees will dominate based on salary spending."
"Sports historian predicts Yankees will dominate based on past seasons."
"Incoherent drunk predicts Yankees will dominate based on voices in his head telling him so."
"Everyone who's even remotely familiar with MLB dies of a massive simultaneous aneurysm trying to comprehend why anyone predicting the Yankees will be one of the top teams in the league for any reason at all qualifies as "news" rather than statement of the obvious."
Seriously, I'm from Massachusetts and detest the Yankees, and I still have to acknowledge that even if the Yankees are "having a bad season", they're still one of the best teams in the league.
"last year's Donnie Darko one which, while it looked great, tried to burn my house to the ground."
Before or after you carved it?
Well, at least then they'll have excuse to be playing with themselves with driving. Shit, if I'm gonna get sideswiped by some jackass in an SUV then he'd damn well better be handling his member because claiming that you can't drive while talking is like claiming you can't drink AND ogle women at the same time.
Dell isn't 31337 enough to get extra MHz, you'd have to slap at least an Alienware badge on.
Also, computers with both "Intel Core 2 Duo Inside" and "Powered By Athlon64" can get up to a 150MHz boost. For best results, use with a 32 bit Athlon or Pentium; Just don't do it with a Celeron, only posers do shit like that.
Not sure, but apparently they're into flaming.
Nope, I use AdBlock plus.
Contrary to popular belief, there are portions of the developed world that hope to do almost exactly that. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts was one of the first places to join up with OLPC (granted, the fact that it's based out of MIT is a huge part of that), and as a proud Massachusan I assure you that we aren't exactly living in the third world here (disregard the New Yorkers who think otherwise... I think it's fair to say that if you haven't left your borough in a decade that you aren't qualified to talk about other places as if you have a clue).
There's a lot of FUD about the OLPC project, and I'm not sure what's worse: the ill-conceived notion that improving educational technology benefits less people than improving food and water distribution (most people in the world have a steady supply of food and water, but lack the educational opportunities to really participate in the global economy or reap the economic benefits of doing so, obviously some do not, but they aren't the focus of this particular project), or the outright lie that OLPC is only available to or intended for goat farmers from Botswana.
Ok, I have mod points, but I really wanted to reply to this and the whole article's moderated to hell anyway... I don't do AC.
The problem with your first point is that the mega-publisher has no incentive at all to do that. They'd probably have to pay Rowling a shit-ton of money if they wanted to publish her next book, and all they had to do the first time is pay $20 for a retail copy. Do you really think they'll ever give up a deal that sweet for, literally, no reason? The Grateful Dead may have done a huge number of free concerts, but you're kidding yourself if you think even a majority of them were, they were just nice enough to allow paying concert goers to record and legally distribute (for free) the recordings if they so chose, though they charged extra for that privilege. They most certainly did not give away their studio recordings for free. You're crazy if you think The Dead didn't profit greatly from copyrighting their work, though it should be noted they did so without selling out or being draconian about it.
Your second point is just wrong. Copyright was never intended to keep one party from fraudulently claiming that another created something. That's what trademark is for, as well as libel. If I take a copy of the new Harry Potter book and publish a thousand copies without getting permission and paying her (and her publisher, and anyone else I'd need to pay), I'm in violation of copyright; if I cross J.K. Rowling's name out, write mine in, and publish a thousand copies without paying her (etc), i am both in violation of copyright and flagrantly plagiarizing her; if I write up a thousand pages of TimeCube style ranting and publish them so that they appear to be a copy of the new Harry Potter book, then I am in violation of trademark , and Rowling et al would probably have a very strong libel and defamation case against me... I would also, most likely, by committed to a mental health facility pending psychological evaluation.
The problem is not with copyright (or patent) itself, because we really do need that in order to protect content creators (or inventors) from predatory publishers. The problem is with our current implementation. Part of the problem is also that many content creators are completely unwilling to accept that there are other ways to profit: like providing paid support for free software (a la all the major Linux players), live performance (I think Shakespeare is the single best example of this: he wrote all of his plays so that his theater troupe could perform them for paying audience members and wrote his non-dramatic works as a way of advertising his talents to the upper classes in hopes they'd sponsor the company), or various other techniques, but they aren't always practical or applicable (a painter, sculptor, or novelist can't really touch up the work after the fact, or expect people to pay to watch them work, they really just have to sell their work, and in the case of the novelist they can't even rely on others not to be able to copy it exactly or customers to be able to recognize such copies or care if they do).
"Combine that technology with the doubleclick server and viola..."
I don't see what a mid-ranged string instrument has to do with anything...
You mean hydrogen... helium is incredibly stable and does not combust at any temperature we would consider to be "normal" outside of a dying star.
FUCK YOU
While you're in school that is often the case, but most business and law graduate programs have an ethicectomy requirement in order to achieve your degree. They save it till the end of the curriculum, so as to impact the students academic life as little as possible.
Most bloggers I know are just blue in the balls...
As a matter of fact, no, I'd have to say he didn't. Taking a written work and converting it to film DOES take imagination because, obviously enough, there isn't any visual to use ahead of time. If Ridley Scott had made a full length feature of "1984" instead of just an ad for Macintosh, it STILL wouldn't have been ripping off Orwell, it would just be a film adaptation... and one would hope a damned good one.
The simple truth is that the vast majority of movies are adaptations from books, and even the ones that aren't are only very rarely written by the director. Figure that 9/10 of everything that is written is inspired by or based on something else, and it's incredible how little of what we consider to be groundbreaking is completely "new".
The difference with this version is that it doesn't give us any new visual, it isn't a synthesis of any sort, just a quick edit. We've already seen the ad, and there's nothing new; even the message is virtually identical, the sole exception being the target of the ad which, to some extent, actually IS trivial. The creativity required begins and ends with having the idea to change the face from the creepy guy to Hilary, which, while I didn't think of it, still isn't nearly so creative as what went into the original.
Don't worry, the government and various lobby groups are working very hard to take that one off the books.
Remember, you wouldn't have been charged in the first place unless you were guilty.
;rolleyes:
There really isn't anything "Insightful" about pointing out a grammar error. Making personal insults isn't either.
C'mon mods, this is just embarrassing.
But they can't "buck" it in any other way. Most schools get one look at those threatening letters and just fork the students over no questions asked. The school has decided to play chicken with the RIAA instead.
It also helps to put the students into a more defensible place down the road if the RIAA decides against doing millions of dollars worth of research and figuring out individual students, because a decent legal team will have a much easier time overthrowing a drag net style subpoena that never should have been granted than it would the school following written policy to which the students had explicitly agreed.
And yes, when being coerced by the RIAA, following the law IS rebellious in much the same way as calling the FBI if the Mafia shows up in your business and starts offering their modestly priced "protection". They are willing and able to make it hurt, and in their sphere they ARE the law.
In dollar count, no. In post-inflation value, yes.
Further, most of the "increased" spending has been on things like standardized testing... which in no way actually contributes to learning (when was the last time a test was the first time you learned a principle?), but do cost an enormous amount of money... virtually all of which goes directly to the private sector.
No, it's only for things that are designed to break. You can't call something "defective by design" simply because it lacks a feature you would like, regardless of who made it.
"That doesn't seem like a very vigilant attitude to me... whereas Windows users tend to gain at least a basic appreciation for proper security practices."
While the first part is true, Windows users (myself included), by definition, are ignoring one fundamental security practice... they aren't using a secure system in the first place. It's like making sure your front door is bolted shut and you've got bars over all your windows, but your house only has three walls (and it's not triangular).
Like what, might I ask? They've reduced funding to public education, environmental programs, (non-military) research, social welfare, public works, medicine, and many other core "socialist" measures. The only things have been expanded are military and police funding, but even there, the emphasis has been invariably on expanding operations and increasing numbers, and pay and benefits for soldiers and police have generally been cut. Some socialism, huh?
Drink bleach.
Yes, I know, I just fed the troll.
Indeed, I would imagine that if a case damaging to spiders, thus caches and search engines, is threatening to set a bad precedent that Google would be all over it. One of the largest, wealthiest, most recognizable, and most universally beloved companies on the planet throwing its full weight against some anti-CPS kook from Colorado... that doesn't even remotely resemble a fair fight.
Put me down as "completely unconcerned".