While version 1.0 does have a stigmata 5.0, 7.0 or 13.0 also have stigmas of their own.
Market research has shown that software with lots of numbers tend to scare off customers also. Most customers will shy away from them because they feel you'll be coming out with a new version soon, and drop support for the one they want to buy. This is why several company's have dropped revamped their numbering system (eg Adobe photoshop CS instead of 9.0).
I suggest not advertising the version number of your software which is fairly common, and will make to look like less of a fool if your potential buyers actually research before they buy.
Social connections are vital for getting a job unless you have some other remarkable skill that's going to land you a job, or you happen to stumble upon a company during a hiring phase.
Most of these connections should of been made in college, or in QA over the past couple years.
Since you haven't made any of these connections I'm guessing you're an introverted type that tends to go unnoticed. I would suggest doing more to be sociable, and make a likable impression on people. Don't be clingy, and don't be judgmental these two things ruin social interactions. Eventually you'll find yourself moving in the right circles if you have the ability to actually become a good programmer.
Has anybody thought about trying diplomacy? I mean we really don't know what an asteroid would want, and the reason for their hostility. I think we should try more peaceful means first.
By 2010 virgin galactic will have several flights, and a decent track record offering flights at a much cheaper rate(Virgin flights are only $200,000), and better suited for civilians (3 days training). It wouldn't make much sense to try to compete against them, and we all know how the Russians love business competition.
Personally I'm not going to be too excited until we start getting flights to the moon, and really there's a ton of way cooler places on Earth you can go for a lot cheaper.
The music industry is moved by a few major labels, and those labels hate variety which is exactly what p2p provides (and for free). If people are given a free run of the artist they can listen to their choices will expand a lot, and to be competitive major labels would need to sign a wider variety of acts thus cutting in on the corporate profit. Not to mention all the other problems with how reimbursement is going to work with this system.
Personally I think artist will give up trying to sell the music, and focus more on property rights, merchandise, and concerts.
Well worthless for a couple more years until GTAV is released, or Bioshock 2. If you look at the company's history their projects have a tendency to run fairly long which give the company financial droughts from year to year. Right now take-two's profits are looking pretty good with bioshock, manhunt, and GTA, but they really don't have any money makers on the horizon until 2009 (if bioshock 2 releases in 09). It's tough to see what EA wants from Take-Two since GTA, and Bioshock are hardly worth 2 billion it doesn't seem likely they plan on stripping these franchises and closing down everything else, and there's not too much else profitable at 2k.
Unless wikipedia gets some sort of government grant I really don't see any other option than to go towards advertisement. Really it's the only site I even know of that doesn't have advertisement, and it's not necessarily a bad thing to advertise. I've never really thought Slashdot's advertising has ever effected the stories it posts as it goes for any other new site so why would advertising change a research/information website?
Wow I was really surprised the author didn't notice the obvious here. MS already owns about as much of the software industry as they legally can. For them buying another software company is just plain stupid. Not only do they risk more monopoly accusations and a potential company split, but it ties them in even closer to the software market when they need to diversify. As a business MS knows it needs to diversify itself to ensure it can survive in a market where things change quick. Five years ago if the software industry would of fallen out then so would of MS, but 5 years from now you won't be able to say the same thing. MS is investing into several diverse up and coming markets just like any smart company would. This is why we see the xbox, and the zune which are two of MS's major "non-software" products.
As far as the web MS has repeatedly failed to catch up to google mostly because google spends it's funds a bit wiser than MS. I say this because google buys companies that are going to make it big (ie youtube.com), while MS has focused on web companies that are already pretty huge (yahoo, hotmail, and facebook). I think if MS wants to make a splash on the web it's going to have to take a few risks on some companies that haven't quite made it yet. My recommendation would be Pandora.com which is a pretty successful "net radio" site that creates custom channels according to your musical tastes. This little website is amazing for those that listen to music at work, or are too cheap/lazy to get a decent music collection. Of course this is just 1 of 100's of potential web sites that will be the next yahoo, google, myspace, facebook, and youtube.
While piracy is an issue for major labels what is really killing them is the information age itself. I talk w/ quite a few people on the indie/diy/punk scene and most of them seem to agree that their labels have gotten much larger along w/ the scene over the past 7 years. Not only in the US but internationally too. It seems the internet itself has given music lovers a chance to branch out on their music instead of just listening to the top40 which pretty much ruled any area w/out a major music scene for ages.
Most major media companies don't want variety, and don't build their business model on having a wide variety, but tend to focus on major blockbusters, and superstars. Today consumers are striving for variety, and if the major record labels don't adapt they're going to find themselves in a world of financial hurt.
Well it does seem logical that those who earn more from spam would do longer times, but I'd rather have it based on the volume of spam, than the earnings.
but the con-artist don't say "hey I bought this product here, and it just had a brick in the box". They tend to try to pass the item off as never been opened (which tends to be the easiest no questions asked refund).
When you manage retail you have to understand that there are several people wanting to rip you off, and it's impossible to catch everybody. Most of the time it's better to let somebody con you than to risk accusing an innocent customer.
With this guy I think it's obvious that he wasn't running a scam, because if he was he wouldn't of done something so off the wall. Con-artist like to keep a low profile, and returning a box full of tiles isn't it. They should of accepted the exchange at the store, and marked their expensive hardware (marking hardware w/ store stickers is the best way to counter a shrink-wrap scam).
I don't see why apple has to limit buyers on their phone. It seems to me that they could just require a two year contract w/ each phone purchase. I'm not sure if that's actually legal or not, but I wouldn't think Apple cares about the legal system, and there's probably a loop-hole anyway. That actually might be good for consumers also since it would stop from people buying iPhones just to resell.
Ok I graduated from school about 7 years ago and even then I was e-mailing homework, and doing group work with a few teachers, and students. I imagine this is even more common today being that it seems "everybody" has internet access, and a PC. Basically back then we'd also run into some compatibility problems, but since we we're "techies" we'd know how to open the file anyway (legal or not).
Unlike back then every teacher and student today is using the technology and some of them aren't smart enough to find a way to open certain files. It's better for the school district to just say we recommend software X, instead of students going "I don't have office so I'm going to turn this in late".
Also I don't have Office 07, but can you open office 07 files in previous versions of Office, or do you have to have 07?
If you were surprised at this your obviously haven't been around IT very long. Every IT department does this (assuming they aren't "too busy"), and if you think any are don't you're being pretty foolish. At least these guys were just getting porn for their personal use, and not trying blackmail, stealing account info, or selling personal information on the black market (that would of perked my interests). Nerds (I refuse to use the popularized term "geek" since it's pathetically wrong) being voyeuristic isn't news.
Anybody notice the article goes from stating "pictures" (as in more than one) to only mentioning the pirate picture. There could of been an overall "party" type theme to her myspace that would make the argument stronger. Of course I still don't see that as being enough to change her degree or even stop her from teaching. Everybody has skeletons in there closet but that shouldn't stop people from being able to have a certain career (just look at our last two presidents).
I like sites like this, but they seem to have a major weakness. That's the ease of user created content. If those complaining about the site were serious/smart/motivated they could easily kill the site's credibility within a week or 2. Hell I was able to add ratings without even signing up for the site (don't worry I put testing as my response, and my rating is pending). Had I been a teacher I would probably easily written 18-20 reviews praising myself, even if I had been a terrible teacher. The highest rated teacher at the highest rated school only had 36 responses.
For the most part I saw nothing on the site that fit into the US Law definition of libel (aussies might have a different law), but many of the reviews may of changed due to the press (that would also explain the lack of reviews).
First and formost I've pretty much hated every piece of sony gaming equiptment. The PS1/2/3 have all been junk in my eyes, and I was pretty skeptical about the psp at first also.
Despite all my hate, the PSP has shown some potential, but first I'm going to rip on it. The game lineup is filled with wannabe console games with outdated graphics instead of pick-up/put-down, lo-fi artwork like what should be on handhelds. Also who's briliant idea was it that load times were acceptable with handhelds????? A short battery life makes it a pain taking it anywhere, and for 250 how the hell did they get by w/ not including a hard drive??? Not to mention reformatting my media collection would be a giant pain in the ass. For most accounts it fails as a media machine and fails as a handheld gaming device.
On the upside it's selling pretty well (30 million worldwide), and is the only handheld to put a dent into nintendo's iron grip of the industry durring there strongest generation since tetris was released. Also I can't really blame sony for the failure of UMD's. That trainwreck is 100% hollywoods fault. They were the ones behind charging almost 2x the dvd cost while at the same time releasing movies that were completely out of the PSPs market on UMD. I'm thinking sony wanted to push digital, but at that time movie studios were parinoid of the idea. Also the psp has pretty good homebrew. I mean from what I understand you can pretty much get anything you want to run on there.
I may pick one up now that the price has dropped but mostly because I want a media player that will easily play fansubbed anime on the go. I'm worried that most traditional media players are too small to read the subtitles.
I have very little doubt in my mind that video games and media can affect behavoir in certain ways. Most of the time the affect is countered by the mind of the viewer even when that viewer isn't mentally stable. This is mostly done through fear of punishment in real life, which doesn't really happen in places like the internet or video games.
Anyway to get back on track I don't see why violent games are even an issue. It's not like there's been a giant upswing in violent crime, or that we're raising a generation of violent kids. Personally if you ask me kids today are wusses compared to other generations.
The only time the games (or media) and violence even comes up is when some psychopath goes on a rampage. Those situations are pretty much unpredictable and there's really no direct cause. Sometimes it's GTA, sometimes, it's Taxi Driver, sometimes it's Catcher in the Rye, and sometimes it's the neighbors freaking dog. I suggest you stop finding the scapegoat accept the situation as an tragic accidenct, and go on with your lives the best you can.
If money is you're main motivation for finding a cure for AIDs than you aren't going to find a cure. Genius isn't motivated by money, or greed none of the greatest minds ever had that as a very high priority. Money may be good motivation for 9 to 5 office work, but for those that do great things with their lives it's passion that drives them not money.
If anything pharmacudical companies are there own worst enemies. Instead of sharing research and working towards a common goal they hoard it under lock and key, more interested in become first than actually finding a cure. I wouldn't be surprised if reality was even more sinister with companies sabotaging each others work, but that could just be my imagination getting ahead of me.
Does anybody feel like this is the begining of the fall of the RIAA? They seem to be getting more and more desperate to justify their actions, which are progressivly getting crazier and crazier. Pretty soon they'll be linking internet radio to terrorism, and claiming the internet news media (ie slashdot) is conspiring against them.
It's not like I have any pity for them. It's faily obvious they shot themselves in the foot at this point. They didn't see P2P as pandora's box and figured if they shut down Napster it would all go away. Of course something easier to use came along (Kazaa), and when they finally crippled kazaa to the point of it being useless bittorrent became popular. Now instead of a service where downloading an album is quite the tast we now have a service where downloading an entire discography is as easy as getting a single song.
I also doubt the RIAAs claim that piracy has crippled the music industry. It seems that with the internet and P2P "sharing" more people are starting to listen to more diverse music including independant lables, and artists. Ask any small/inderpendant lable if they've been suffering any over the last 5 years and most will tell you that their doing better than ever. It seems that the music industry as a whole isn't doing bad at all, but much of the focus has shifted away from a few popular artists and moved towards a wide variety of independant artists which music industry fat cats hate due to the fact they need to keep more artists on their lable instead of feeding off of 3 or 4 popular bands.
First off I'll say I believe in evolution, but I've also had years of advanced education. Some specifically geared towards evolution theories, genetics, geology and even some geared towards trying to actually understand what goes on durring 50-million years.
Back to my point evolution is not an easy concept to grasp and I'd say 90% of those that believe in evolution have no grasp on how it actually works. For me I feel like I'm trying to explain to somebody how a microwave works to somebody who's never seen/heard of a microwave. They aren't going to believe it until you can actually show them a microwave (and then they hang you for witchcraft).
Even the scientest themselves tend to get into alot of arguments on how evolution works because we can't exactly test it very well. I feel like trying to come up with a great theory of evolution is like trying to put together a million piece jigsaw puzzle with 500 pieces.
First get a lawyer to get all the legal stuff down.
Second create some 1/2 assed association and some media to make it legit.
Third find active IP addresses on torrents.
Fourth have the lawyer send settlement letters to the owners of the IP addresses theatening to sue if the don't settle for $1000.
Fifth rake in easy money.
(also you can replace lawyer with nigerian email scammer).
I've tried to get into linux two times now (once w/ Ubuntu) and each time I can't even get past the installation. The worse part is I've had to reformat my C: drive because of these installation errors. Now I wouldn't normally call myself a neophyte when it comes to technology either I've been using PCs since my childhood and the C64, and I'm one of the very few people I know who doesn't have any problems with windows XP, and only needs to reformat or call tech support about once every 18 months cause I get some stupid idea like "I think I'll try linux again". Learning linux to me feels like learning to milk a cow, sure it's free milk but is it worth the trouble when I can just run to the store for a gallon.
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While version 1.0 does have a stigmata 5.0, 7.0 or 13.0 also have stigmas of their own. Market research has shown that software with lots of numbers tend to scare off customers also. Most customers will shy away from them because they feel you'll be coming out with a new version soon, and drop support for the one they want to buy. This is why several company's have dropped revamped their numbering system (eg Adobe photoshop CS instead of 9.0). I suggest not advertising the version number of your software which is fairly common, and will make to look like less of a fool if your potential buyers actually research before they buy.
Social connections are vital for getting a job unless you have some other remarkable skill that's going to land you a job, or you happen to stumble upon a company during a hiring phase. Most of these connections should of been made in college, or in QA over the past couple years. Since you haven't made any of these connections I'm guessing you're an introverted type that tends to go unnoticed. I would suggest doing more to be sociable, and make a likable impression on people. Don't be clingy, and don't be judgmental these two things ruin social interactions. Eventually you'll find yourself moving in the right circles if you have the ability to actually become a good programmer.
Has anybody thought about trying diplomacy? I mean we really don't know what an asteroid would want, and the reason for their hostility. I think we should try more peaceful means first.
By 2010 virgin galactic will have several flights, and a decent track record offering flights at a much cheaper rate(Virgin flights are only $200,000), and better suited for civilians (3 days training). It wouldn't make much sense to try to compete against them, and we all know how the Russians love business competition. Personally I'm not going to be too excited until we start getting flights to the moon, and really there's a ton of way cooler places on Earth you can go for a lot cheaper.
Just watch in a year or two the newspapers will be reading "Senator Joe Biden (D-Del) has been arrested for trafficking illegal files."
The music industry is moved by a few major labels, and those labels hate variety which is exactly what p2p provides (and for free). If people are given a free run of the artist they can listen to their choices will expand a lot, and to be competitive major labels would need to sign a wider variety of acts thus cutting in on the corporate profit. Not to mention all the other problems with how reimbursement is going to work with this system. Personally I think artist will give up trying to sell the music, and focus more on property rights, merchandise, and concerts.
Well worthless for a couple more years until GTAV is released, or Bioshock 2. If you look at the company's history their projects have a tendency to run fairly long which give the company financial droughts from year to year. Right now take-two's profits are looking pretty good with bioshock, manhunt, and GTA, but they really don't have any money makers on the horizon until 2009 (if bioshock 2 releases in 09). It's tough to see what EA wants from Take-Two since GTA, and Bioshock are hardly worth 2 billion it doesn't seem likely they plan on stripping these franchises and closing down everything else, and there's not too much else profitable at 2k.
Unless wikipedia gets some sort of government grant I really don't see any other option than to go towards advertisement. Really it's the only site I even know of that doesn't have advertisement, and it's not necessarily a bad thing to advertise. I've never really thought Slashdot's advertising has ever effected the stories it posts as it goes for any other new site so why would advertising change a research/information website?
Wow I was really surprised the author didn't notice the obvious here. MS already owns about as much of the software industry as they legally can. For them buying another software company is just plain stupid. Not only do they risk more monopoly accusations and a potential company split, but it ties them in even closer to the software market when they need to diversify. As a business MS knows it needs to diversify itself to ensure it can survive in a market where things change quick. Five years ago if the software industry would of fallen out then so would of MS, but 5 years from now you won't be able to say the same thing. MS is investing into several diverse up and coming markets just like any smart company would. This is why we see the xbox, and the zune which are two of MS's major "non-software" products. As far as the web MS has repeatedly failed to catch up to google mostly because google spends it's funds a bit wiser than MS. I say this because google buys companies that are going to make it big (ie youtube.com), while MS has focused on web companies that are already pretty huge (yahoo, hotmail, and facebook). I think if MS wants to make a splash on the web it's going to have to take a few risks on some companies that haven't quite made it yet. My recommendation would be Pandora.com which is a pretty successful "net radio" site that creates custom channels according to your musical tastes. This little website is amazing for those that listen to music at work, or are too cheap/lazy to get a decent music collection. Of course this is just 1 of 100's of potential web sites that will be the next yahoo, google, myspace, facebook, and youtube.
While piracy is an issue for major labels what is really killing them is the information age itself. I talk w/ quite a few people on the indie/diy/punk scene and most of them seem to agree that their labels have gotten much larger along w/ the scene over the past 7 years. Not only in the US but internationally too. It seems the internet itself has given music lovers a chance to branch out on their music instead of just listening to the top40 which pretty much ruled any area w/out a major music scene for ages.
Most major media companies don't want variety, and don't build their business model on having a wide variety, but tend to focus on major blockbusters, and superstars. Today consumers are striving for variety, and if the major record labels don't adapt they're going to find themselves in a world of financial hurt.
Well it does seem logical that those who earn more from spam would do longer times, but I'd rather have it based on the volume of spam, than the earnings.
but the con-artist don't say "hey I bought this product here, and it just had a brick in the box". They tend to try to pass the item off as never been opened (which tends to be the easiest no questions asked refund).
When you manage retail you have to understand that there are several people wanting to rip you off, and it's impossible to catch everybody. Most of the time it's better to let somebody con you than to risk accusing an innocent customer. With this guy I think it's obvious that he wasn't running a scam, because if he was he wouldn't of done something so off the wall. Con-artist like to keep a low profile, and returning a box full of tiles isn't it. They should of accepted the exchange at the store, and marked their expensive hardware (marking hardware w/ store stickers is the best way to counter a shrink-wrap scam).
I don't see why apple has to limit buyers on their phone. It seems to me that they could just require a two year contract w/ each phone purchase. I'm not sure if that's actually legal or not, but I wouldn't think Apple cares about the legal system, and there's probably a loop-hole anyway. That actually might be good for consumers also since it would stop from people buying iPhones just to resell.
Ok I graduated from school about 7 years ago and even then I was e-mailing homework, and doing group work with a few teachers, and students. I imagine this is even more common today being that it seems "everybody" has internet access, and a PC. Basically back then we'd also run into some compatibility problems, but since we we're "techies" we'd know how to open the file anyway (legal or not). Unlike back then every teacher and student today is using the technology and some of them aren't smart enough to find a way to open certain files. It's better for the school district to just say we recommend software X, instead of students going "I don't have office so I'm going to turn this in late". Also I don't have Office 07, but can you open office 07 files in previous versions of Office, or do you have to have 07?
If you were surprised at this your obviously haven't been around IT very long. Every IT department does this (assuming they aren't "too busy"), and if you think any are don't you're being pretty foolish. At least these guys were just getting porn for their personal use, and not trying blackmail, stealing account info, or selling personal information on the black market (that would of perked my interests). Nerds (I refuse to use the popularized term "geek" since it's pathetically wrong) being voyeuristic isn't news.
Anybody notice the article goes from stating "pictures" (as in more than one) to only mentioning the pirate picture. There could of been an overall "party" type theme to her myspace that would make the argument stronger. Of course I still don't see that as being enough to change her degree or even stop her from teaching. Everybody has skeletons in there closet but that shouldn't stop people from being able to have a certain career (just look at our last two presidents).
I like sites like this, but they seem to have a major weakness. That's the ease of user created content. If those complaining about the site were serious/smart/motivated they could easily kill the site's credibility within a week or 2. Hell I was able to add ratings without even signing up for the site (don't worry I put testing as my response, and my rating is pending). Had I been a teacher I would probably easily written 18-20 reviews praising myself, even if I had been a terrible teacher. The highest rated teacher at the highest rated school only had 36 responses. For the most part I saw nothing on the site that fit into the US Law definition of libel (aussies might have a different law), but many of the reviews may of changed due to the press (that would also explain the lack of reviews).
First and formost I've pretty much hated every piece of sony gaming equiptment. The PS1/2/3 have all been junk in my eyes, and I was pretty skeptical about the psp at first also. Despite all my hate, the PSP has shown some potential, but first I'm going to rip on it. The game lineup is filled with wannabe console games with outdated graphics instead of pick-up/put-down, lo-fi artwork like what should be on handhelds. Also who's briliant idea was it that load times were acceptable with handhelds????? A short battery life makes it a pain taking it anywhere, and for 250 how the hell did they get by w/ not including a hard drive??? Not to mention reformatting my media collection would be a giant pain in the ass. For most accounts it fails as a media machine and fails as a handheld gaming device. On the upside it's selling pretty well (30 million worldwide), and is the only handheld to put a dent into nintendo's iron grip of the industry durring there strongest generation since tetris was released. Also I can't really blame sony for the failure of UMD's. That trainwreck is 100% hollywoods fault. They were the ones behind charging almost 2x the dvd cost while at the same time releasing movies that were completely out of the PSPs market on UMD. I'm thinking sony wanted to push digital, but at that time movie studios were parinoid of the idea. Also the psp has pretty good homebrew. I mean from what I understand you can pretty much get anything you want to run on there. I may pick one up now that the price has dropped but mostly because I want a media player that will easily play fansubbed anime on the go. I'm worried that most traditional media players are too small to read the subtitles.
I have very little doubt in my mind that video games and media can affect behavoir in certain ways. Most of the time the affect is countered by the mind of the viewer even when that viewer isn't mentally stable. This is mostly done through fear of punishment in real life, which doesn't really happen in places like the internet or video games. Anyway to get back on track I don't see why violent games are even an issue. It's not like there's been a giant upswing in violent crime, or that we're raising a generation of violent kids. Personally if you ask me kids today are wusses compared to other generations. The only time the games (or media) and violence even comes up is when some psychopath goes on a rampage. Those situations are pretty much unpredictable and there's really no direct cause. Sometimes it's GTA, sometimes, it's Taxi Driver, sometimes it's Catcher in the Rye, and sometimes it's the neighbors freaking dog. I suggest you stop finding the scapegoat accept the situation as an tragic accidenct, and go on with your lives the best you can.
If money is you're main motivation for finding a cure for AIDs than you aren't going to find a cure. Genius isn't motivated by money, or greed none of the greatest minds ever had that as a very high priority. Money may be good motivation for 9 to 5 office work, but for those that do great things with their lives it's passion that drives them not money. If anything pharmacudical companies are there own worst enemies. Instead of sharing research and working towards a common goal they hoard it under lock and key, more interested in become first than actually finding a cure. I wouldn't be surprised if reality was even more sinister with companies sabotaging each others work, but that could just be my imagination getting ahead of me.
Does anybody feel like this is the begining of the fall of the RIAA? They seem to be getting more and more desperate to justify their actions, which are progressivly getting crazier and crazier. Pretty soon they'll be linking internet radio to terrorism, and claiming the internet news media (ie slashdot) is conspiring against them. It's not like I have any pity for them. It's faily obvious they shot themselves in the foot at this point. They didn't see P2P as pandora's box and figured if they shut down Napster it would all go away. Of course something easier to use came along (Kazaa), and when they finally crippled kazaa to the point of it being useless bittorrent became popular. Now instead of a service where downloading an album is quite the tast we now have a service where downloading an entire discography is as easy as getting a single song. I also doubt the RIAAs claim that piracy has crippled the music industry. It seems that with the internet and P2P "sharing" more people are starting to listen to more diverse music including independant lables, and artists. Ask any small/inderpendant lable if they've been suffering any over the last 5 years and most will tell you that their doing better than ever. It seems that the music industry as a whole isn't doing bad at all, but much of the focus has shifted away from a few popular artists and moved towards a wide variety of independant artists which music industry fat cats hate due to the fact they need to keep more artists on their lable instead of feeding off of 3 or 4 popular bands.
First off I'll say I believe in evolution, but I've also had years of advanced education. Some specifically geared towards evolution theories, genetics, geology and even some geared towards trying to actually understand what goes on durring 50-million years. Back to my point evolution is not an easy concept to grasp and I'd say 90% of those that believe in evolution have no grasp on how it actually works. For me I feel like I'm trying to explain to somebody how a microwave works to somebody who's never seen/heard of a microwave. They aren't going to believe it until you can actually show them a microwave (and then they hang you for witchcraft). Even the scientest themselves tend to get into alot of arguments on how evolution works because we can't exactly test it very well. I feel like trying to come up with a great theory of evolution is like trying to put together a million piece jigsaw puzzle with 500 pieces.
First get a lawyer to get all the legal stuff down. Second create some 1/2 assed association and some media to make it legit. Third find active IP addresses on torrents. Fourth have the lawyer send settlement letters to the owners of the IP addresses theatening to sue if the don't settle for $1000. Fifth rake in easy money. (also you can replace lawyer with nigerian email scammer).
I've tried to get into linux two times now (once w/ Ubuntu) and each time I can't even get past the installation. The worse part is I've had to reformat my C: drive because of these installation errors. Now I wouldn't normally call myself a neophyte when it comes to technology either I've been using PCs since my childhood and the C64, and I'm one of the very few people I know who doesn't have any problems with windows XP, and only needs to reformat or call tech support about once every 18 months cause I get some stupid idea like "I think I'll try linux again". Learning linux to me feels like learning to milk a cow, sure it's free milk but is it worth the trouble when I can just run to the store for a gallon.