Good point. I guess Red Hat, Novell, Magnatune and other such companies would go under without copyright!
In all seriousness, copyright was never intended to help anyone make money, so I hope you'll forgive me if I say this, but fuck the authors! It is not the government's place to protect anyone's business model. They understood that in 1776. People have lost sight of that today. It's intention was rather to encourage development. All one needs to do is look at the internet to know that copyright is no longer needed to do so, and in fact is arguably impeding creativity on almost every level.
"The guy who invented the windshield wiper delay circuit (a patent) had it stolen from him and 3 years after his 17 year patent expired he finally won his case."
I will admit I do not know what situation you are speaking of, so I will go purely by what you stated, which is probably not that accurate in the first place. To start, in a non-copyright-obsessed world, the guy may have been given a job after an invention - or maybe plain old funding - to develop more such devices. Instead he choose to sue, and presumably wasted a number of years entrenched in that pointless (as you point out) effort. I fail to see how that supports Imaginary Property. Are you saying patents should last more than 20 years because one guy apparently spent that long suing someone? Or did I just miss your cleverly hidden point?
How much money is wasted in the government on a daily basis to fund lawyers, lawmakers, congresspeople and judges to uphold copyright and patents, which could have gone to supporting arts and sciences directly? Surely, that could do a lot more to encourage true art than the system we have now.
But that's the problem. You, among many others, think that copyright is here to help Joe millionaire (or if you really are deluded, Joe the-near-unknown-musician) make money. That is why we have perpetual copyright, business model and software patents, and million-dollar-an-hour lawyers that fight over it. That is why our pop-culture has become about the newest special-effects laden movie that is a rehash of last year's with the same name plus a number, why musicians with no talent to speak of make millions, and why the REAL Joe the-near-unknown-musician struggles to make a buck in the marketing driving business that we now wrongly call "art".
"The US Constitution guarantees the exclusive rights to authors and inventors for a limited period. Unless the Constitution is amended (Section 8, Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries) there will always be a right to exclusive control over the works of an author."
And it would probably be the most productive amendment, at least to art, since the 13th. But it will never happen, because our politicians have become incompetent and disconnected, while their pockets are stuffed with "the author's" bucks.
3D benchmarking. But that will only heat it to max normal temp, which you are probably already getting to while playing any kind of 3d game. And if you aren't playing games with it, you'll probably not heat it up enough to die sooner than average in the first place.
I do not think nvidia cards store that they have been overclocked anywhere in the hardware - and it's more unlikely that such would be stored in a laptop version. Thus, if you wiped the hard drive afterwards (assuming the morons at the company could tell if it were overclocked or not), there will be no way to tell you messed with the speeds, as long as you do it via drivers-only. You shouldn't bet on my assumption, but it would be worth asking someone more video-card knowledgeable (see 'not taking the word of random people on slashdot'), since such is your best bet.
Should probably be posted anonymous, but I'm feeling lucky tonight. Excuse me, someone is knocking on the door...
Am I the only one who sees the double-standard here on slashdot? If they did something like this to Microsoft, I can bet you 10$ that everyone on slashdot would be applauding them. But because they dare to do it to the infallible apple, they are instead attacked; called "freetards" and "assholes".
All the cries of "leave Apple alone!" I hope will fall on deaf ears at the FSF. Why? Because they SHOULD NOT. For some reason, Apple is viewed as rebellious; some kind of group of hipster nerds living in a top secret location turning out the world's best computers and software. They are viewed as being "just as free" as true open source, for reasons I can't begin to understand. I think that targeting them by any reasonable means is JUST what they should be doing.
Everyone already knows Microsoft is the 'evil spawn of Satan'... so why not focus on the people who's only defense is "we're the real rebels, we dare to negotiate our surrender to the RIAA, rather than just roll over!" Personally, I'd rather a group that really had some morals. No company does; if they appear to, it's just a marketing gimmick. Apple is no different.
*Prepares to be modded down into oblivion by rabid Mac users*
Actually, no statement was made. The inclusion of Palestine was a glitch, and Israel was not included due to fraud originating from the country. I know this is slashdot, but would it kill maybe 3 or 4 people to actually RTFA before going off on rants? Doing that makes us all look bad. Thank you.
Only moving faster than c in local space is comparable to time travel. You can still make wormholes, go to other dimensions, and bend space, all allowing for FTL without ever actually going faster than local c.
The Alcubierre drive is probably the most feasible, since it nether requires the existance of other, smaller universes that 'line up' with ours, nor the ability to generate a wormhole. It's not EASY, but nether was flight or going into outer space.
We need to stop Doctor GPL! he wants to allow everyone to see everyone else's privates, and give them a way to directly modify them! His perversion of source code everywhere must be stopped, but who...
Well, they could, in theory, leach but not download (much, at least) and never upload. They would still be able to get peer IPs, but wouldn't have to contribute data (nor even have it).
This is different than when the RIAA does it, as they actually upload it to unknowing downloaders to get lawsuit fuel.
If CCP only wants to ban downloaders, they don't need any legal evidence to do so, at least as long as indiscriminate bans are covered in their TOS. Therefore, they don't need to go the RIAA road.
Of course. Physical theft hurts businesses, especially small ones. On the other hand, piracy threatens the control of the media giants. Who do you think has more lobbying power?
Try a distro from this century. Installation is far easier than Windows, unless you are using something like Gentoo (in that case, it shouldn't be a surprise). Many distros offer live CDs for install, even allowing you to use the computer while it installs.
I have not used an OLPC first hand, but someone I know did. From what I heard it has irritations not directly related to Linux, but rather design decisions. If you're going by it, it's not modern Linux. Nor is it the Linux attempt to simulate a Mac.
Quite a few non-technical people I know have switched to Linux, some with assistance some without. I think you are putting Mac users in the place of PC users.
The UK and US like to copy each other's big bother laws. Australia is somewhat the black sheep in both directions, but don't think certain groups won't use "but Australia is doing it!" to justify their positions.
It's also a lot less likely that someone is going to break into an aircraft carrier to steal their reactor, and also more unlikely that Ensign Crackerjack will flatten the neighborhood because he sat his coffee cup on the thing than my stupid neighbor who almost hits the garage door every time she parks the car.
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You insensitive clod! I live in linear-non is time where universe a!
Good point. I guess Red Hat, Novell, Magnatune and other such companies would go under without copyright!
In all seriousness, copyright was never intended to help anyone make money, so I hope you'll forgive me if I say this, but fuck the authors! It is not the government's place to protect anyone's business model. They understood that in 1776. People have lost sight of that today. It's intention was rather to encourage development. All one needs to do is look at the internet to know that copyright is no longer needed to do so, and in fact is arguably impeding creativity on almost every level.
I will admit I do not know what situation you are speaking of, so I will go purely by what you stated, which is probably not that accurate in the first place. To start, in a non-copyright-obsessed world, the guy may have been given a job after an invention - or maybe plain old funding - to develop more such devices. Instead he choose to sue, and presumably wasted a number of years entrenched in that pointless (as you point out) effort. I fail to see how that supports Imaginary Property. Are you saying patents should last more than 20 years because one guy apparently spent that long suing someone? Or did I just miss your cleverly hidden point?
How much money is wasted in the government on a daily basis to fund lawyers, lawmakers, congresspeople and judges to uphold copyright and patents, which could have gone to supporting arts and sciences directly? Surely, that could do a lot more to encourage true art than the system we have now.
But that's the problem. You, among many others, think that copyright is here to help Joe millionaire (or if you really are deluded, Joe the-near-unknown-musician) make money. That is why we have perpetual copyright, business model and software patents, and million-dollar-an-hour lawyers that fight over it. That is why our pop-culture has become about the newest special-effects laden movie that is a rehash of last year's with the same name plus a number, why musicians with no talent to speak of make millions, and why the REAL Joe the-near-unknown-musician struggles to make a buck in the marketing driving business that we now wrongly call "art".
And it would probably be the most productive amendment, at least to art, since the 13th. But it will never happen, because our politicians have become incompetent and disconnected, while their pockets are stuffed with "the author's" bucks.
3D benchmarking. But that will only heat it to max normal temp, which you are probably already getting to while playing any kind of 3d game. And if you aren't playing games with it, you'll probably not heat it up enough to die sooner than average in the first place.
I do not think nvidia cards store that they have been overclocked anywhere in the hardware - and it's more unlikely that such would be stored in a laptop version. Thus, if you wiped the hard drive afterwards (assuming the morons at the company could tell if it were overclocked or not), there will be no way to tell you messed with the speeds, as long as you do it via drivers-only. You shouldn't bet on my assumption, but it would be worth asking someone more video-card knowledgeable (see 'not taking the word of random people on slashdot'), since such is your best bet.
Should probably be posted anonymous, but I'm feeling lucky tonight. Excuse me, someone is knocking on the door...
All the cries of "leave Apple alone!" I hope will fall on deaf ears at the FSF. Why? Because they SHOULD NOT. For some reason, Apple is viewed as rebellious; some kind of group of hipster nerds living in a top secret location turning out the world's best computers and software. They are viewed as being "just as free" as true open source, for reasons I can't begin to understand. I think that targeting them by any reasonable means is JUST what they should be doing.
Everyone already knows Microsoft is the 'evil spawn of Satan'... so why not focus on the people who's only defense is "we're the real rebels, we dare to negotiate our surrender to the RIAA, rather than just roll over!" Personally, I'd rather a group that really had some morals. No company does; if they appear to, it's just a marketing gimmick. Apple is no different.
*Prepares to be modded down into oblivion by rabid Mac users*
So in other words, they learned how to handle networks from Comcast. Just great, now they have RSTs and nukes!
It's because you keep posting links to goatse, Anonymous!
Actually, no statement was made. The inclusion of Palestine was a glitch, and Israel was not included due to fraud originating from the country. I know this is slashdot, but would it kill maybe 3 or 4 people to actually RTFA before going off on rants? Doing that makes us all look bad. Thank you.
Since when do women matter? Now, browsers on the other hand...
Not sure about sound, but have you tried enabling Vertical Sync? Having that off can cause tearing on accelerated displays (most games and video).
Then the car runs on that catalyst, that you can bet isn't going to be cheap nor safe. The water simply becomes part of the cycle.
Only moving faster than c in local space is comparable to time travel. You can still make wormholes, go to other dimensions, and bend space, all allowing for FTL without ever actually going faster than local c.
The Alcubierre drive is probably the most feasible, since it nether requires the existance of other, smaller universes that 'line up' with ours, nor the ability to generate a wormhole. It's not EASY, but nether was flight or going into outer space.
Spoken as someone who doesn't know how to operate it, I think.
Personally, I wish I could use it as a word processor. I already use it for flowcharts.
We need to stop Doctor GPL! he wants to allow everyone to see everyone else's privates, and give them a way to directly modify them! His perversion of source code everywhere must be stopped, but who...
On bittorrent, there's effectively no difference. At least, not if you plan on ever getting the whole file you are downloading.
Well, they could, in theory, leach but not download (much, at least) and never upload. They would still be able to get peer IPs, but wouldn't have to contribute data (nor even have it).
This is different than when the RIAA does it, as they actually upload it to unknowing downloaders to get lawsuit fuel.
If CCP only wants to ban downloaders, they don't need any legal evidence to do so, at least as long as indiscriminate bans are covered in their TOS. Therefore, they don't need to go the RIAA road.
Close, but you forgot about priming the phase dampener with the hyperspanner matrix. If you don't do that first, the thing will go critical!
Except most of those religions now just say "go to hell!". Scientology actually helps you get there if you decide you want to leave...
I tried to join your wiki, but there doesn't seem to be a way to create an account. Is this a bug, or is it only me?
What do you think ion drives run on? Electric (and gas).
Well, it did bomb.
Of course. Physical theft hurts businesses, especially small ones. On the other hand, piracy threatens the control of the media giants. Who do you think has more lobbying power?
Try a distro from this century. Installation is far easier than Windows, unless you are using something like Gentoo (in that case, it shouldn't be a surprise). Many distros offer live CDs for install, even allowing you to use the computer while it installs.
I have not used an OLPC first hand, but someone I know did. From what I heard it has irritations not directly related to Linux, but rather design decisions. If you're going by it, it's not modern Linux. Nor is it the Linux attempt to simulate a Mac.
Quite a few non-technical people I know have switched to Linux, some with assistance some without. I think you are putting Mac users in the place of PC users.
And in hundreds of billions of years, the universe gets sucked into black holes (if it hasn't suffered energy death by then). Game over.
All good things must come to an end.
The UK and US like to copy each other's big bother laws. Australia is somewhat the black sheep in both directions, but don't think certain groups won't use "but Australia is doing it!" to justify their positions.
It's also a lot less likely that someone is going to break into an aircraft carrier to steal their reactor, and also more unlikely that Ensign Crackerjack will flatten the neighborhood because he sat his coffee cup on the thing than my stupid neighbor who almost hits the garage door every time she parks the car.