Shouldn't that be insightful++ ? I mean, ++insightful would be moderating before you read the comment - something akin to commenting before you read the arti.... oh wait, nevermind.
1.) Statutory rape is just that - A rapist who has committed "statutory rape" is considered only to have done so only because there's a law that says so, no matter how much the activities differed from what rape really is.
2.) Linus' post on the Minix newsgroup announcing the project was on 25 August 1991, which is not quite yet 18 years ago. Technically, Linux is still underage enough to be statutorily raped.;P
Regarding point 2. It could be argued that the "location" of Linux is primarily based on country of origin. What with Linus being Finnish, that puts the age of consent at 16. So linux only has another few months of being screwed over illegally. Q4 marks the time that Linux comes of age! This *is* the year of linux on the desktop, after all!
Just once I'd like somebody to seriously explain what's so much better about the Original Trilogy over the Prequels, keeping in mind all the issues people had with the OT when it first came out.
No the real bummer is that so many people like you think that they are not criminals. Last time I checked, its illegal to take something that is not yours and you didn't pay for.
You make a copy. You don't take something.
Just because you're making a copy, doesn't mean that you're not taking something that is not yours. Copyright == the right to copy. Something that according to the law you do not have unless expressly permitted.
And it has been that way for thousands of years.
No, it isn't. You could copy the Mona Lisa until you're green in the face, no problem.
Well - you can do that today. What you can't do is pass it off as the original, neither can you copy somebody else's comparatively recent interpretation of the Mona Lisa without permission.
You fully well know what they are trying to accomplish with their site. Don't pretend like its something its not.
They are providing torrent files. Plain text files. On which no copyright lies, or at least nobody minds that they copy those.
And herein lies what should be the crux of the legal dispute. Separating their intent from their actions. Their intentions should be immaterial in the guilty / not guilty verdict. However, the severity of the sentence *is* determined, at least in part, by their intentions.
It is for encouraging piracy plain and simple.
Piracy happens in the coastal waters of Somalia. What you mean is called "copyright infringement".
Agreed. Additionally I disagree that TPB was for "encouraging piracy plain and simple". It did also serve to highlight the discussion of usefulness of current copyright law in the digital age.
I was going to mod you informative, but as I've just dropped 400 bucks on a Dev Phone 1, I'd rather be selfish and ask for more info on this "Google bonus phone firmware" of which you speak. So much for altruism;-)
Having been kicking around the industry for more years than I care to remember (approaching my third decade in it, in fact), the thing that really concerns me is not the drop in retail sales. We've seen that game sales *are* fairly buoyant in economic downturns. They fall off, sure, but not compared to other so-called luxury goods.
Nope - the thing that concerns me is that with games costing more and more to produce, the perceived value of a developer and/or publisher by the stock market can basically fall through the floor if a release makes anything less than stellar sales.
The markets will bankrupt this industry, or any other industry for that matter. Just think Trading Places on a global scale....that's what makes me lose sleep at night.
Hmmm....broken preview submit. Big delay waiting for preview (potentially a firewall issue). Cancelled then started to retype. Then preview popped up - looked ok so hit submit. Then came out broken.
Let's try that again.....
Cum with me if you want to live
Live with me if you want to cum.
Damn! It never seems so funny the second time. Ah well - my karma joins (g)p.
Brian May is an extremely skilled songwriter. The reason he isn't mentioned in the same breath as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Yngwie Malmsteen, Satriani, Vai, etc... is that he simply does not have the technical skills to stand next to them.
Was this an attempt at irony? If not, maybe you need to go back to rock school and resit your history classes.
Yngwie Malmsteen: When I do listen to rock, it would be Queen, Deep Purple, and the old stuff.
Guitar.com: What is your opinion of the new Queen collaboration with Paul Rodgers as the group's vocalist?
Yngwie Malmsteen: I haven't heard it yet. But I think Paul Rodgers is a great singers, and Brian May is one of my favorite guys, and he's a good friend, too, as well as an amazing player and songwriter. It should be interesting to hear.
Sadly, no Stevie Ray Vaughan collaboration, for untimely reasons.
There's a number of plugins out there for Sketchup that allow you to export in alternate formats. You can get.x and.fbx out quite easily - I believe the fbx is a native export (but don't have sketchup on this machine and am too lazy to check). But under all circumstances Sketchup is extensible via ruby, so it should be fairly straightforward to roll your own exporter for whatever format you need. That's assuming an open standard format somewhere in the equation.
Typical Slashdotter, going for a cheap knockoff rather than enjoy the real thing. But then again, I shouldn't expect any different.;-)
If I went and got the real thing, that would be kidnapping. This does not deprive her husband of use of the original Monica Bellucci, I'm just committing a copyright violation. That's far more socially acceptable.
Let me get this straight.....I can fuse a human with a shark, but I can't pop down to Game (even if I *am* watched on CCTV every step of the way) and pick up a copy of Manhunt 2?
Boy, am I glad I fled that crazy, crazy country for a saner place to live.
It's a shame that parent was modded Troll (I presume on account of the first inflammatory paragraph, coupled with posting AC), as the second paragraph actually has something to say. Hopefully Dell will be throwing resources at fixing up some of the shortcomings in the current playing field. To have an open source desktop and os with the polish of OS X will be undeniably bliss.
The way I see it the roadblocks to widespread adoption of a free open desktop are ease-of-purchase (not an oxymoron), ease-of-use, and availability of high quality applications on the platform.
Dell are making great strides here with the ease-of-purchase. No more struggling to get linux installed on your hardware (and before you flame about these being a thing of the past, installing Feisty Fawn for me failed on 3 out of 4 machines with system lock-ups at random points for no apparent reason). Systems that "just work" will be heavenly. Then couple this with added incentive for hardware manufacturers to take linux support seriously - if there's half a million Dells out there all with the same graphics chipset in them, then driver support is going to be that much better.
Ease of use. Again, things are becoming better and better here. Dependancy issues are practically a thing of the past. And if Dell are making a concerted effort in this direction, then having all the right repositories pre-configured at point of sale, rather than having to deal with these arcane strings will make it easier for Joe Noob to download and install the software they need to do what they want. The issue to deal with now is how to make sense of how all those godawful c0d3rhum0r punny names actually correspond to functionality so that people can find out exactly WTF the software is called that will do what they want.
High quality applications. This is where the commercial adoption on the desktop runs the risk of falling flat on it's face. We *need* something as seamless as MS Office and equivalent Exchange Server integration (shared calenders and so on). Until you work in an office environment with this, you have no idea how indispensable this is. And what people use at work, they (by and large) use at home. OOo is making great strides in a really useable productivity suite, but until the Outlook equivalent is *integrated* into the suite, I can't see it replacing Office in the workplace.
The other thing we need (and when I say need - I mean really really need) is the creative tools to be dragged into usability. GIMP sucks! Sorry, but it had to be said (again, and again). I know there are people that are going to say that they can do anything in GIMP that can be done in Photoshop, but I, and millions of creative professionals out there, *really* do not care! I also *do not care* that GIMP is free and I should be grateful for that. I've tried it, found it sucked, and returned to Photoshop. That, more than *anything* keeps me chained to a closed-source desktop. You want 20xx to be "the year of the linux desktop"? Fine - fix GIMP, or better yet, give us something designed from the ground up that works the way graphics artists work, rather than the way that coders do. Then give me Illustrator, and maybe Dreamweaver (for those that don't code their HTML/CSS by hand). Finally give me Flash.
If you don't want 20xx to be "the year of the linux desktop", then don't flame me for speaking to those who do.
So - "Linux becoming a commercial product - thank God"? I'll second that!
Slashdot Mirror
++Insightful
Shouldn't that be insightful++ ? I mean, ++insightful would be moderating before you read the comment - something akin to commenting before you read the arti.... oh wait, nevermind.
"Statutory rape," you say?
1.) Statutory rape is just that - A rapist who has committed "statutory rape" is considered only to have done so only because there's a law that says so, no matter how much the activities differed from what rape really is.
2.) Linus' post on the Minix newsgroup announcing the project was on 25 August 1991, which is not quite yet 18 years ago. Technically, Linux is still underage enough to be statutorily raped. ;P
Regarding point 2. It could be argued that the "location" of Linux is primarily based on country of origin. What with Linus being Finnish, that puts the age of consent at 16. So linux only has another few months of being screwed over illegally. Q4 marks the time that Linux comes of age! This *is* the year of linux on the desktop, after all!
Just once I'd like somebody to seriously explain what's so much better about the Original Trilogy over the Prequels, keeping in mind all the issues people had with the OT when it first came out.
Alec Guinness.
Mod points, mod points, my kingdom for some mod points!
The beauty of wine is that it's all different. Year, to year, country to country, region to region, vinyard to vinyard. Hell, even bottle to bottle.
There's all too little art in the world...can't you people leave the art of fermentation alone?
(Darn kids...get off my terroir)
No the real bummer is that so many people like you think that they are not criminals. Last time I checked, its illegal to take something that is not yours and you didn't pay for.
You make a copy. You don't take something.
Just because you're making a copy, doesn't mean that you're not taking something that is not yours. Copyright == the right to copy. Something that according to the law you do not have unless expressly permitted.
And it has been that way for thousands of years.
No, it isn't. You could copy the Mona Lisa until you're green in the face, no problem.
Well - you can do that today. What you can't do is pass it off as the original, neither can you copy somebody else's comparatively recent interpretation of the Mona Lisa without permission.
You fully well know what they are trying to accomplish with their site. Don't pretend like its something its not.
They are providing torrent files. Plain text files. On which no copyright lies, or at least nobody minds that they copy those.
And herein lies what should be the crux of the legal dispute. Separating their intent from their actions. Their intentions should be immaterial in the guilty / not guilty verdict. However, the severity of the sentence *is* determined, at least in part, by their intentions.
It is for encouraging piracy plain and simple.
Piracy happens in the coastal waters of Somalia. What you mean is called "copyright infringement".
Agreed. Additionally I disagree that TPB was for "encouraging piracy plain and simple". It did also serve to highlight the discussion of usefulness of current copyright law in the digital age.
I thought they were residing in the "where are they now file".
I was going to mod you informative, but as I've just dropped 400 bucks on a Dev Phone 1, I'd rather be selfish and ask for more info on this "Google bonus phone firmware" of which you speak. So much for altruism ;-)
You thought it was odd that there was a spelling mistake in a Slashdot article? You must be new here.
Having been kicking around the industry for more years than I care to remember (approaching my third decade in it, in fact), the thing that really concerns me is not the drop in retail sales. We've seen that game sales *are* fairly buoyant in economic downturns. They fall off, sure, but not compared to other so-called luxury goods.
Nope - the thing that concerns me is that with games costing more and more to produce, the perceived value of a developer and/or publisher by the stock market can basically fall through the floor if a release makes anything less than stellar sales.
The markets will bankrupt this industry, or any other industry for that matter. Just think Trading Places on a global scale....that's what makes me lose sleep at night.
Would that be Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian??
Cum with me if you want to live
Live with me if yo
Hmmm....broken preview submit. Big delay waiting for preview (potentially a firewall issue). Cancelled then started to retype. Then preview popped up - looked ok so hit submit. Then came out broken.
Let's try that again.....
Cum with me if you want to live
Live with me if you want to cum.
Damn! It never seems so funny the second time.
Ah well - my karma joins (g)p.
Cum with me if you want to live
Live with me if yo
Was this an attempt at irony? If not, maybe you need to go back to rock school and resit your history classes.
Expo 92 Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GanhKHEQSxQ
(From Guitar.com)
Sadly, no Stevie Ray Vaughan collaboration, for untimely reasons.
There's a number of plugins out there for Sketchup that allow you to export in alternate formats. You can get .x and .fbx out quite easily - I believe the fbx is a native export (but don't have sketchup on this machine and am too lazy to check). But under all circumstances Sketchup is extensible via ruby, so it should be fairly straightforward to roll your own exporter for whatever format you need. That's assuming an open standard format somewhere in the equation.
Typical Slashdotter, going for a cheap knockoff rather than enjoy the real thing. But then again, I shouldn't expect any different. ;-)
If I went and got the real thing, that would be kidnapping. This does not deprive her husband of use of the original Monica Bellucci, I'm just committing a copyright violation. That's far more socially acceptable.
Not if you ask the RIAA/MPAA
Additionally the hobby has been dying by inches for a long time.
At what scale though?
Umm...imperial?
Hence the WoW branding.
Cos they can't handle their beer!
*j/k*
Let me get this straight.....I can fuse a human with a shark, but I can't pop down to Game (even if I *am* watched on CCTV every step of the way) and pick up a copy of Manhunt 2?
Boy, am I glad I fled that crazy, crazy country for a saner place to live.
Steve - is that you?
I agree - and maybe if he'd been the manager at your game store, you'd have paid more attention in English classes.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/strait
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/straight
It's a shame that parent was modded Troll (I presume on account of the first inflammatory paragraph, coupled with posting AC), as the second paragraph actually has something to say. Hopefully Dell will be throwing resources at fixing up some of the shortcomings in the current playing field. To have an open source desktop and os with the polish of OS X will be undeniably bliss.
The way I see it the roadblocks to widespread adoption of a free open desktop are ease-of-purchase (not an oxymoron), ease-of-use, and availability of high quality applications on the platform.
Dell are making great strides here with the ease-of-purchase. No more struggling to get linux installed on your hardware (and before you flame about these being a thing of the past, installing Feisty Fawn for me failed on 3 out of 4 machines with system lock-ups at random points for no apparent reason). Systems that "just work" will be heavenly. Then couple this with added incentive for hardware manufacturers to take linux support seriously - if there's half a million Dells out there all with the same graphics chipset in them, then driver support is going to be that much better.
Ease of use. Again, things are becoming better and better here. Dependancy issues are practically a thing of the past. And if Dell are making a concerted effort in this direction, then having all the right repositories pre-configured at point of sale, rather than having to deal with these arcane strings will make it easier for Joe Noob to download and install the software they need to do what they want. The issue to deal with now is how to make sense of how all those godawful c0d3rhum0r punny names actually correspond to functionality so that people can find out exactly WTF the software is called that will do what they want.
High quality applications. This is where the commercial adoption on the desktop runs the risk of falling flat on it's face. We *need* something as seamless as MS Office and equivalent Exchange Server integration (shared calenders and so on). Until you work in an office environment with this, you have no idea how indispensable this is. And what people use at work, they (by and large) use at home. OOo is making great strides in a really useable productivity suite, but until the Outlook equivalent is *integrated* into the suite, I can't see it replacing Office in the workplace.
The other thing we need (and when I say need - I mean really really need) is the creative tools to be dragged into usability. GIMP sucks! Sorry, but it had to be said (again, and again). I know there are people that are going to say that they can do anything in GIMP that can be done in Photoshop, but I, and millions of creative professionals out there, *really* do not care! I also *do not care* that GIMP is free and I should be grateful for that. I've tried it, found it sucked, and returned to Photoshop. That, more than *anything* keeps me chained to a closed-source desktop. You want 20xx to be "the year of the linux desktop"? Fine - fix GIMP, or better yet, give us something designed from the ground up that works the way graphics artists work, rather than the way that coders do. Then give me Illustrator, and maybe Dreamweaver (for those that don't code their HTML/CSS by hand). Finally give me Flash.
If you don't want 20xx to be "the year of the linux desktop", then don't flame me for speaking to those who do.
So - "Linux becoming a commercial product - thank God"? I'll second that!