He may have done that if he hadn't already been in the middle of making his point. He wanted her to understand that if you can't afford something, getting it for free isn't right. So if he gave it to her for free, she would be happy and say "oh yes, I see your point! Thank you friendly man!" but really nothing would have been accomplished. If she's going to accept the implications of doing what's right for the sake of doing what's right, she has to accept those implications while feeling all the nasty consequences that come with it.
Of course, he slowly realizes that no matter how reasonable he is with her, she's already dead-set on maintaining her point of view. So he wraps up the conversation with some nice stories to make a point to us - the bystanding readers.
That's an interesting idea. I wonder how effective it would be for developers such as Aaron Ardiri to "violate" copyright but pay the copyright holders royalties for using their intellectual property. That way Sony wouldn't have to spend the money developing the new software and independent developers wouldn't have to worry about new ideas falling flat.
What are the chances Aaron Ardiri would have paid royalties if Sony had asked him to? What are the chances Sony would have accepted royalties as sufficient recompense if Aaron Ardiri had suggested that model?
Child porn? There were no children involved. There were *drawings* that were *supposedly* intended to be children. There are 20-year-olds who look like 12-year-olds. Why can't they just label these pictures "20-year-old-sex! (wink, wink)" Who's to say what the artist intended?
I mean, Australia can still outlaw them, but I don't think anyone else can.
But the carriers will be less happy, since they charge the same for a plan whether or not you buy a phone through them. With the Nexus One, the customer pays for the whole phone, AND pays the full service price.
Carriers need to stop being phone vendors and need to start being service-providers. Customers should be able to see what part of their plan is funding their service, and what part is paying off their phone. That's the only way to create price-competition between phone manufacturers: show the customers what they're really paying for their phone instead of hiding the price in the service plan.
Face research from a while back did decent job studying facial attractiveness. While it might not be as satisfying as a study of the entire body, it does give you the option of creating the most beautiful face ever. http://www.faceresearch.org/
I know that I download plenty of games, but never ones that I haven't bought. I tend to lose or scratch my CD's, making them unusable, so I have to download working versions of my games.
I honestly do not like Facebook, although I have an account that I'll use about once a month. The problem with not having a Facebook account is the same problem with not eating out: Eating out every meal is expensive and, if you're a decent cook, you usually find the food pretty awful. However, if you work in an environment where everyone eats out every meal, you're pretty much forced to eat out as well unless you want to alienate yourself. Get new friends? In a job where you move every 6 months and your coworkers all just graduated college with you, you're pretty much stuck with what fate gave you.
Doubtful. The majority of the Facebook user base cares little about actual privacy, and instead just wants a way to show as many people as possible how sick the party was last night and how stoked they are about Friday, but get this - Wednesday is the new Thursday; how awesome are they for thinking that one up?
Their version of protest is creating a Facebook group titled "OMG stop our Facebook overlords!!! 100,000 members and we can change teh world!!!"
Well, you actually *would* have to RTFA for that bit of information, so I guess we can forgive you.
"The parents were told this was a study looking at child development, and they would get a video game system for participating...Half of the children were randomly chosen to receive the PlayStation right away, and half got it at the end of the four-month study period."
So, they thought the PS2 was a prize for participating, and they could do whatever they wanted with it.
Who said "dumber"? The summary (i know what you're thinking, and no, i didn't) said that video games hinder learning. It's not a far stretch to suppose that less studying and more distractions will result in slower learning.
That's like asking where the next Ford will come from, or the next Boeing. Microsoft, as well as IBM, Apple, Intel, etc, rode the wave of the blossoming computer/software industry. Now the industry is well-developed and saturated. The "next Microsoft" will be the company that gets lucky enough to find itself a part of the next big thing.
As long as the govt didn't enlist the corporation to collect the evidence in the first place, the corporation would not be a govt actor (it would be a vigilantee). Also, if the govt is not on a quest for evidence, the info collected is fair game. Oh, and IANAL but I have had 3 credit hours of law which seems good enough for this thread.
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He may have done that if he hadn't already been in the middle of making his point. He wanted her to understand that if you can't afford something, getting it for free isn't right. So if he gave it to her for free, she would be happy and say "oh yes, I see your point! Thank you friendly man!" but really nothing would have been accomplished. If she's going to accept the implications of doing what's right for the sake of doing what's right, she has to accept those implications while feeling all the nasty consequences that come with it.
Of course, he slowly realizes that no matter how reasonable he is with her, she's already dead-set on maintaining her point of view. So he wraps up the conversation with some nice stories to make a point to us - the bystanding readers.
He is a bit of a jerk.
"why would you want to?"
Because when you're 13 you invent things for their sheer awesomeness.
That's an interesting idea. I wonder how effective it would be for developers such as Aaron Ardiri to "violate" copyright but pay the copyright holders royalties for using their intellectual property. That way Sony wouldn't have to spend the money developing the new software and independent developers wouldn't have to worry about new ideas falling flat.
What are the chances Aaron Ardiri would have paid royalties if Sony had asked him to?
What are the chances Sony would have accepted royalties as sufficient recompense if Aaron Ardiri had suggested that model?
In fifth grade I lived in Italy. We built bridges out of pasta there. (Seriously)
continue to subscribe to our subscription-based service instead of wandering off in boredom.
When it comes to EVE, I have to wonder if there's a difference.
18-year-olds who have sex with a 17-year old? How about 15 year olds who distribute pictures of themselves? We have virgin sex offenders!
Child porn? There were no children involved. There were *drawings* that were *supposedly* intended to be children. There are 20-year-olds who look like 12-year-olds. Why can't they just label these pictures "20-year-old-sex! (wink, wink)" Who's to say what the artist intended?
I mean, Australia can still outlaw them, but I don't think anyone else can.
It's the huge selection of homebrew apps that make WebOS really attractive.
But the carriers will be less happy, since they charge the same for a plan whether or not you buy a phone through them. With the Nexus One, the customer pays for the whole phone, AND pays the full service price.
Carriers need to stop being phone vendors and need to start being service-providers. Customers should be able to see what part of their plan is funding their service, and what part is paying off their phone. That's the only way to create price-competition between phone manufacturers: show the customers what they're really paying for their phone instead of hiding the price in the service plan.
Face research from a while back did decent job studying facial attractiveness. While it might not be as satisfying as a study of the entire body, it does give you the option of creating the most beautiful face ever.
http://www.faceresearch.org/
The Federal government isn't on our side. Anyone with a clue has already realized this.
Funny. Isn't that like some kind of cue for a people to "alter or abolish it?"
"hd-dvd fanbois"
That's got to be a small club.
I know that I download plenty of games, but never ones that I haven't bought. I tend to lose or scratch my CD's, making them unusable, so I have to download working versions of my games.
British driving population:30,000,000
American driving population:193,552,000
0.00833 British deaths per 100 drivers
0.0217 American deaths per 100 drivers
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I honestly do not like Facebook, although I have an account that I'll use about once a month. The problem with not having a Facebook account is the same problem with not eating out: Eating out every meal is expensive and, if you're a decent cook, you usually find the food pretty awful. However, if you work in an environment where everyone eats out every meal, you're pretty much forced to eat out as well unless you want to alienate yourself. Get new friends? In a job where you move every 6 months and your coworkers all just graduated college with you, you're pretty much stuck with what fate gave you.
Doubtful. The majority of the Facebook user base cares little about actual privacy, and instead just wants a way to show as many people as possible how sick the party was last night and how stoked they are about Friday, but get this - Wednesday is the new Thursday; how awesome are they for thinking that one up?
Their version of protest is creating a Facebook group titled "OMG stop our Facebook overlords!!! 100,000 members and we can change teh world!!!"
If Google *really* wanted to rock the boat, it should have redirected Chinese visitors to www.google.com.tw.
only outlaws are anonymous.
Legal immigrants enter the country legally. Illegal immigrants do not.
Legal aliens (vacationers) enter the country legally. Illegal aliens do not.
Well, you actually *would* have to RTFA for that bit of information, so I guess we can forgive you.
"The parents were told this was a study looking at child development, and they would get a video game system for participating...Half of the children were randomly chosen to receive the PlayStation right away, and half got it at the end of the four-month study period."
So, they thought the PS2 was a prize for participating, and they could do whatever they wanted with it.
Who said "dumber"? The summary (i know what you're thinking, and no, i didn't) said that video games hinder learning. It's not a far stretch to suppose that less studying and more distractions will result in slower learning.
That's like asking where the next Ford will come from, or the next Boeing. Microsoft, as well as IBM, Apple, Intel, etc, rode the wave of the blossoming computer/software industry. Now the industry is well-developed and saturated. The "next Microsoft" will be the company that gets lucky enough to find itself a part of the next big thing.
if managing windows is hard, that's not the application's fault, it's the window manager's fault.
If everyone followed that logic, we would never have had tabbed browsing.
As long as the govt didn't enlist the corporation to collect the evidence in the first place, the corporation would not be a govt actor (it would be a vigilantee). Also, if the govt is not on a quest for evidence, the info collected is fair game. Oh, and IANAL but I have had 3 credit hours of law which seems good enough for this thread.