These devices are not computers, they are phones that work within a network. Allowing unfettered access and uncontrolled distribution of applications for this system would be stupid from a business POV.
"These devices are not computers..." ARRRRGGGHHHHHH!
Pardon my being blunt, but you are just plain wrong (and full of crap). These devices ARE SMALL TABLET COMPUTERS WITH A RADIO MODEM. ANY attempt to delude yourself or others about this fact is a pathetic act of misdirection or wanton ignorance.
"Allowing unfettered access..." GRRRRRRRRrrrrrr.
The cell networks today are in exacly the same position that the copper phone networks were 20 years ago when the explosion of fax machines and PCs with dial-up modems placed additional demand upon their infrastructures. The providers adapted and expanded. Everyone was happy and made money.
The first time I saw the "Imaginary Property" variant of IP, I immediately understood it to be pejorative with a ridiculing connotation.
I just wish I possessed the linguistic talent to distill "A largely problematic and burdensome group of laws that allows and encourages adults to behave like overly territorial children in respect to ideas and expressions." down to a few well chosen words.
I started my own personal sports media blackout...
...several years ago.
I woke one day and realized that it was all very un-entertaining entertainment overloaded with advertising and lowest common denominator puffery, and there were much, much more interesting things to do with my leisure time.
Now if I could just come up with a way to block them completely out of all my news spaces, I'd be uber happy.
I am constantly amazed by the VAST number of people who just don't understand WHY the iPhone has zoomed to....well, iconic stature. And why ANY manufacturer would continue to build phones with tiny little button keys.
It's not so much how good the phone part of the iPhone software is, its HOW INFURATINGLY AWFUL the TouchTone(TM) keypad of the 60s is to use, when shrunk to MATCHBOOK size as it is on most cell phones and here on the Centro too. The genius of the iPhone is that I virtually NEVER find myself dialing a number digit by annoying digit, but when I do, the 5/8" by 3/8" square virtual buttons are a pleasure to dial because they are SO LARGE and responsive and give instant audio dual tone feedback.
In short, I no longer fumble, fidget, mis-key or basically HATE the experience of making a cell call on the iPhone like I did on a LONG string of previous cell phones.
People who think they can convince market share loads of consumers to trade a lower price point for a constant, annoying and frustrating experience are just plain fooling themselves.
You are assuming the status quo is the ONLY model under which you can employ a writer. It does not matter what the labor is, in work-for-hire employment situations, the employer provides the equipment and the work product is the property of the employer. This is how much of the world's software is written (not that it make it any better). This is how all the world's toilets are repaired. It is the old corrupt GUILD system that keeps this imaginary property rights nonsense in place using various forms of coercion to prop it up.
You are defending the status quo. With technology comes change. South Park is a great example of how technology is democratizatizing media production, and this rate of change will only speed up.
Imagine having to pay each plumber who ever worked on your pipes or toilet each time you flushed.. and all the paperwork nightmares and auditing headaches and zero value added effort expended to manage this overhead.
Why is a Writer's labor more special than a Plumber's?
The only thing proping up this antique business "Guild" is the left of center politics of most studio personnel. But sooner or later, "Work-For-Hire" contracts will sweep this away because of two forces:
I'll repeat Enrico Suarve's excellent point here..
Copyright is a limited term monopoly, not a pension system.
STOP trying to morph copyright into something it is not. If you keep this crap up, you will very likely find that the citizens of this great nation will become fed up enough with you and the issue that they will leap PAST Copyright Reform and seek Copyright Abolishment!
Looks like I hit a nerve. And that's a good sign actually. That means you have a working nervous system and might be capable of independant thought.
Copyright has been twisted and manipulated since Mark Twain's time by corporate and commercial interests in this nation into something that the framers of the Constitution would not recognize.
Copyright law needs to be reformed and reshaped into something workable for the 21st century.
It needs to recognize that turning your average teen age girl into a criminal because she turns on a video camera and records herself singing along to the latest pop tune is just plain wrong and a fundamental mis-extension of imaginary propery rights.
It needs to have very short, limited and realistic copyright terms to allow derivative works to be created WITHIN THE SPAN OF A SINGLE HUMAN LIFETIME.
It needs to recognize that short, limited copyright terms encourage artists to create more, thereby enriching our whole culture.
It needs to restore the fundamental balance that was originally intended for copyright, with the majority benefit going to the PEOPLE and not to the ARTIST.
Employees of the RIAA are part of a corruption of the intent and spirit of copyright. Today's copyright law is twisted and wrong, and if RIAA employess were truly good and honest citizens, they would see what they are doing is fundamentally immoral and would stop the lawsuits and would instead use their budgets to lobby for realistic, workable and honorable copyright reform. At a very minimum, they would tender their resignations and no longer work for such a wrong thinking employer.
What must that be like?? How long could you do that knowing that 9 out of 10 people fundamentally disrespect and even dislike you because of your choice of employers?
How do you look yourself in the mirror each morning knowing that you have to lie to yourself and the rest of the world for a living.
It can't pay nearly enough to compensate for the erosion of your self-respect, can it?
Does you Mother know you work for the RIAA?
Have you told your kids about where you work and how they make you lie everyday to the whole world?
But if IP is privatized, shouldn't the arbitration process be privatized as well?
No.
Copyright is a limited term monopoly grantd by the People to encourage the arts. The People need to bear the costs of Copyright outside of court costs so they can debate the merits of its continuance or modification on an ongoing basis.
And once again, I would only privatize the registration "Service Bureau" front end aspect of copyright. But honestly, I would not expect this to be boomtown business because the limited terms and fees I propose here are intended to discourage usage of Copyright.
Sole redress would be in Civil Court but with a twist...the loser pays court costs. Marshall Texas style venue shopping would be discouraged by granting Defendants in cases being filed by non-individual legal entity (corporations) the right to choose the venue except in cases where the defendant is also a non-individual legal entity.
I would eliminate existing criminal penalty provisions entirely.
I would limit privatization to the registration process, where the registration business gets to keep X% of the registration fee. This percentage would be set every 5 years by the US Copyright office and the Librarian of Congress. The fee structure would also be adjusted to inflation every 5 years as well. The US Copyright office would be responsible for creating and issuing Copyright Serial numbers and maintaining the central registration database and the public Copyrighted Works Expiry Lookup Service.
Right off the bat, I would see to the abolishment of the automatic copyright provisions nonsense enacted with the Copyright Act of 1976. Copyright needs to have a higher bar for entry and needs to be weighted in FAVOR of quickly returning works to the public domain and making Copyright markings clearly state the exact date of term expiry. Term extension gameplaying by authors creating trivial derivative works off of thier existing work would be discouraged by a 60% new content rule.
I would tier Copyright terms and application fees as following:
Still Images, static and dynamic 2D and 3D artwork:
12 Years / $100 Fee
Audio Recordings:
8 Years / $200 Fee
Printed or Digital literary works with or without 2D static images embedded in the work:
14 Years / $300 Fee
Multimedia Audio/Video/Text combination 30 minutes or less:
17 Years / $500 Fee
Multimedia Audio/Video/Text combination 30 minutes or more:
17 Years / $2000 Fee
Elect me "King of the World" and I'll get right on this.
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Re: iPhone SDK
"These devices are not computers..." ARRRRGGGHHHHHH!
Pardon my being blunt, but you are just plain wrong (and full of crap). These devices ARE SMALL TABLET COMPUTERS WITH A RADIO MODEM. ANY attempt to delude yourself or others about this fact is a pathetic act of misdirection or wanton ignorance.
"Allowing unfettered access..." GRRRRRRRRrrrrrr.
The cell networks today are in exacly the same position that the copper phone networks were 20 years ago when the explosion of fax machines and PCs with dial-up modems placed additional demand upon their infrastructures. The providers adapted and expanded. Everyone was happy and made money.
On the post: If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?
Mike, I agree with KD.
I just wish I possessed the linguistic talent to distill "A largely problematic and burdensome group of laws that allows and encourages adults to behave like overly territorial children in respect to ideas and expressions." down to a few well chosen words.
Please keep writing on this topic, Mike.
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I started my own personal sports media blackout...
I woke one day and realized that it was all very un-entertaining entertainment overloaded with advertising and lowest common denominator puffery, and there were much, much more interesting things to do with my leisure time.
Now if I could just come up with a way to block them completely out of all my news spaces, I'd be uber happy.
On the post: Palm Centro Hits Market Sweet Spot; Making Smartphones Affordable
Yawn...blink, blink...scratch...yawn again.
It's not so much how good the phone part of the iPhone software is, its HOW INFURATINGLY AWFUL the TouchTone(TM) keypad of the 60s is to use, when shrunk to MATCHBOOK size as it is on most cell phones and here on the Centro too. The genius of the iPhone is that I virtually NEVER find myself dialing a number digit by annoying digit, but when I do, the 5/8" by 3/8" square virtual buttons are a pleasure to dial because they are SO LARGE and responsive and give instant audio dual tone feedback.
In short, I no longer fumble, fidget, mis-key or basically HATE the experience of making a cell call on the iPhone like I did on a LONG string of previous cell phones.
People who think they can convince market share loads of consumers to trade a lower price point for a constant, annoying and frustrating experience are just plain fooling themselves.
On the post: Does Alan Greenspan Deserve Credit For The Dot Com Bubble Too?
He may have contributed to its start...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_exuberance
On the post: Does Alan Greenspan Deserve Credit For The Dot Com Bubble Too?
He may have contributed to its start...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_exuberance
On the post: Does Alan Greenspan Deserve Credit For The Dot Com Bubble Too?
He may have contributed to its start...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_exuberance
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Imagine having to pay each plumber who ever worked on your pipes or toilet each time you flushed.. and all the paperwork nightmares and auditing headaches and zero value added effort expended to manage this overhead.
Why is a Writer's labor more special than a Plumber's?
The only thing proping up this antique business "Guild" is the left of center politics of most studio personnel. But sooner or later, "Work-For-Hire" contracts will sweep this away because of two forces:
1) Democratization of production.
2) Foreign competition.
On the post: Congress Wants To Separate Church And NFL From Copyright Laws
I'd rather see....
Common, Congress, MAN UP and start taking on bigger issues. Who give a doodie about the BlooperBowl. Stand up to Scientology you wimps!
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Re: Re: Does Microsoft not have a VP of Obvious Jo
Well...duuhhh. This IS Seattle. They don't turn the sun back on until May!
On the post: Microsoft Buys Another Desperate Company: Danger Goes To Redmond
Does Microsoft not have a VP of Obvious Joke Contr
Microsoft + Danger = Exploding Cellphone in your pants.
Helllooooo, Is this thing on? Tap Tap Tap.
On the post: RIAA Says Copyright Filters Could Be Put In Anti-Virus Software
I'll repeat Enrico Suarve's excellent point here..
STOP trying to morph copyright into something it is not. If you keep this crap up, you will very likely find that the citizens of this great nation will become fed up enough with you and the issue that they will leap PAST Copyright Reform and seek Copyright Abolishment!
On the post: RIAA Says Copyright Filters Could Be Put In Anti-Virus Software
Re: Cold day in hell.
I promise to only copy and use and spread your idea, and not the expression of your idea....mmmmm-kay?
My brain hurts.
On the post: RIAA Says Copyright Filters Could Be Put In Anti-Virus Software
Poor Anonymous (RIAA TROLL) Coward...
Copyright has been twisted and manipulated since Mark Twain's time by corporate and commercial interests in this nation into something that the framers of the Constitution would not recognize.
Copyright law needs to be reformed and reshaped into something workable for the 21st century.
It needs to recognize that turning your average teen age girl into a criminal because she turns on a video camera and records herself singing along to the latest pop tune is just plain wrong and a fundamental mis-extension of imaginary propery rights.
It needs to have very short, limited and realistic copyright terms to allow derivative works to be created WITHIN THE SPAN OF A SINGLE HUMAN LIFETIME.
It needs to recognize that short, limited copyright terms encourage artists to create more, thereby enriching our whole culture.
It needs to restore the fundamental balance that was originally intended for copyright, with the majority benefit going to the PEOPLE and not to the ARTIST.
Employees of the RIAA are part of a corruption of the intent and spirit of copyright. Today's copyright law is twisted and wrong, and if RIAA employess were truly good and honest citizens, they would see what they are doing is fundamentally immoral and would stop the lawsuits and would instead use their budgets to lobby for realistic, workable and honorable copyright reform. At a very minimum, they would tender their resignations and no longer work for such a wrong thinking employer.
On the post: RIAA Says Copyright Filters Could Be Put In Anti-Virus Software
Working for the RIAA...
How do you look yourself in the mirror each morning knowing that you have to lie to yourself and the rest of the world for a living.
It can't pay nearly enough to compensate for the erosion of your self-respect, can it?
Does you Mother know you work for the RIAA?
Have you told your kids about where you work and how they make you lie everyday to the whole world?
Sad, actually. Very sad indeed.
On the post: Should We Privatize Copryight Registrations?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Copyright Reform GeneralEmergency
No.
Copyright is a limited term monopoly grantd by the People to encourage the arts. The People need to bear the costs of Copyright outside of court costs so they can debate the merits of its continuance or modification on an ongoing basis.
And once again, I would only privatize the registration "Service Bureau" front end aspect of copyright. But honestly, I would not expect this to be boomtown business because the limited terms and fees I propose here are intended to discourage usage of Copyright.
On the post: Should We Privatize Copryight Registrations?
Re: Re: Copyright Reform GeneralEmergency Style...
I would eliminate existing criminal penalty provisions entirely.
I would limit privatization to the registration process, where the registration business gets to keep X% of the registration fee. This percentage would be set every 5 years by the US Copyright office and the Librarian of Congress. The fee structure would also be adjusted to inflation every 5 years as well. The US Copyright office would be responsible for creating and issuing Copyright Serial numbers and maintaining the central registration database and the public Copyrighted Works Expiry Lookup Service.
On the post: Should We Privatize Copryight Registrations?
Copyright Reform GeneralEmergency Style...
I would tier Copyright terms and application fees as following:
Still Images, static and dynamic 2D and 3D artwork:
12 Years / $100 Fee
Audio Recordings:
8 Years / $200 Fee
Printed or Digital literary works with or without 2D static images embedded in the work:
14 Years / $300 Fee
Multimedia Audio/Video/Text combination 30 minutes or less:
17 Years / $500 Fee
Multimedia Audio/Video/Text combination 30 minutes or more:
17 Years / $2000 Fee
Elect me "King of the World" and I'll get right on this.
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