Paying for a performance more than once, and essentially, every time you experience it does not make sense. The artist does not make an effort every time someone hears their song.
I pay a car mechanic to fix my car and then stop. I don't continue paying them for the rest of my life despite the fact that I continue to enjoy their effort.
This is actually a good comparison. But only applies to concerts and public performances. But performance is defined much more than only public. A recording in a studio is exactly that, a performance.
You do understand that, if the medical researchers had the same restrictions as a nazi doctors in the concentration camps, we would have incredibly fast drug introductions and research times would go down drastically.
There is always the problem of balance between R&D and human lives. We, in Europe, have decided that general availability is much better, than pace of R&D. And I am all for it. Why? Because I know that I would have had been bankrupted if I were living in US already, and I am only 24. I live in Lithuania, a small, rather poor country. And still I had a reasonable medical treatment.
Main difference between Europe and the US, is that most European countries are geared towards keeping the most number of people in healthy condition, so that they contribute as much as possible to the economy.
If you take a shot at our socialist system, then you should understand that the medicine is not the thong we actually have issues with. If you look at it, we mostly have issues with social security contributions and payouts. Soclial medicine is the last thing that is being abused.
I don't smoke. Never did smoke. Not even tobacco. And I don't drink over 100 ml of alcohol per a night out.
Yet, I have had issues with a lot of those points you presented. I have seen more people incarcerated in a psychiatric facility on account of alcohol induced psychosis, than of marijuana induced psychosis.
Everything is harmful when used without moderation. And job loss argument is definitely redundant.
Remember! Moderation, moderation and once more moderation!
On a absurd note: We should probably ban all kinds of food! Since overconsumption of it leads to obesity and a lot of health problems, like diabetes, heart diseases, hypertension etc... the list is probably much longer than the one of marijuana's.
Socialism is not communism, but for a lot of brainwashed americans these two somehow got mixed up.
LEt alone, you have little understanding of definition of capitalism. Arguably, USA currently is very close to socialism, ironically. Much more than Sweden. How much $$$ do you guys have in 401k's and pension funds? Do you know how many of those are invested in your own workplace? That's taking about "collective ownership of production means".
Now, I'm not arguing that there's anything wrong with what this city is doing. But I wonder how many people who are criticizing Time Warner over this really understand what they're arguing in favor of. They're arguing in favor of an economic system that is designed to be anti-competitive...
WTF? Socialism can be a competition based economic system. Capitalism is definitely not all about competition. Competition is a part of free market ideology. Free market is not the same as capitalism. Monopolies are 100% anti competitive, but occur in capitalistic economic system.
That fact, that you personally, perceive, socialism as anti-competitive is the result of your misunderstanding or maybe the brainwashing by US corporate media overlords.
FYI: Even in an aspiring to be a communist country, like USSR, there was competition. Though on a higher level.
If you want a really fast free database that supports fulltext indexing, and you don't need transactions, MyISAM in the engine to use.
That is a load of bullshit. There are a number of cases where MyISAM will be actually slower. It depends not on the engine, but on the usage patterns of the database and database structure. And, interestingly, it varies from application to application.
To be fair, the market did not expand a lot. If you take into account that he was talking about, basically, supercomputers. And the market for those is still quite small.
Yeah, well, in the days of the Pentium II which topped out at 450MHz, that would have been "hardcore".
So clearly the needs of even the most modest computer users have gone up substantially.
But still, it has stayed at a constant level for quite a while now. I can use my 7 year old computer for most tasks today, without any issues.
In fact, when I buy a new machine, I go for the UNDERPOWERED machine, rather then the normal power machine. And that suits me! Add to that, that I am a professional Java developer, and you should understand that my resource consumption is higher than that of any normal email/web/photo/video/casual gaming/documents user.
The last machine I bought is Intel Atom based desktop machine, the one before that one of the EE series of Athlon X2.
The only thing that I update constantly is the storage capacity, nothing else.
How do I disable that wretched shutdown beep with a GUI?
That is the PC Speaker volume control in the GUI. Works well on a multitude of systems.
When I hooked up a second display and clicked "detect displays", it did nothing.
Unfortunately that one depends on the video card you have. Intel and nVidia drivers work perfectly well for me personally. You might not be using the proprietary nVidia drivers, if you have an nVidia card. Enabling those drivers is jusr 3 mouse cliks away in Ubuntu.
Since I don't want to compare your thinking processes and your writing skills to anyone, I therefore conclude that you are not doing it well and should stop doing both, since you don't do any of those as good as the best of kind.
Maybe do like I, Oracle, IBM and a lot of others do - provide excellent support for your clients and consultancy services. You will not stop people that want to use you software. If you write software for home users, tough luck. You are in the wrong sector. Home users don't care for your software most of the time.
WTF!
Being a book author myself, I can tell you that NOONE PAYS until the book is finished.
Next, the idea of copyright was to make sure that ONLY the copyright owner would profit form the work. And my statement here is exclusive, that is copyright was targeted at nothing else other then publishing books without the author being payed for it.
FYI: Artistic skills are currently over-privileged over any technical skills. Do you really think that Elijah Wood worked more on LOTR than most of us geeks? I bet most of us geeks spend more time on our work than any of the obscenely rich stars. For centuries art was a thing that was subsidized by patrons and sponsors. And only with the mass permanent media being available, did we get these artists that are incredibly rich. Next, do you really think that most of aspiring "I want to be a rock star" people want to be "rock stars" because they want to be in art? That's a ton of bullshit. They are in it for "the bitches and the money". So much for your idealistic representation of artists. The ones that are really in it for the art, are mostly just below wealthy. As an example take most of the people in the classical music or opera. There are some quite wealthy people there, but no-one is obscenely rich like the below the belt talent we call pop culture.
FYI: Sovereignty is NOT same as independence. They declared sovereignty. Let alone, their constitution states that they are a part of Russian Federation. And their status may change only with an agreement from both Russia and Tatarstan.
Yeah... Right....
Tatars are so much integrated with Russia, that their independence is basically impossible. I consider myself Russian, although genetically I am tatar 50% and Russian 12.5%.
Java programmers are not immune to this, and often optimise based on old versions of the JVM. One favourite is to add finally everywhere, making the code very rigid, believing this makes it faster. In a modern JVM, finally is completely ignored; the VM already knows if a class is not subclassed and will do the same optimisations whether it is declared finally or not.
First of all, it's not finally, the keyword is final.
Next, final keyword is used by programmers to give hints to the compiler what has to be writable and what can be changed. This kills a lot of bugs early on. Just like the @Override annotation. You clearly don't know what you are talking about.
What The Fuck is Quicken!?!?!?!?
I would not know what is Visio and Visual Studio, unless I was in IT.
An literally, got to know what Visio meant only 2 years ago. I am in IT for 10 years!!!
Same story with Visual Studio. I learned of it's existence only by searching for a C++ compiler!
So really, this is utter nonsense that: "everyone already knows what they are. "
at least developing better replication and clustering
There are more burning issues with PostgreSQL then the lack of replication and clustering. Replication and clustering exists, not the best thing, but exists. Where, in-place upgrade is mostly in pre-beta state and works only on 8.0 to 8.1.
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This is actually a good comparison. But only applies to concerts and public performances. But performance is defined much more than only public. A recording in a studio is exactly that, a performance.
Actually, markets have been on an 18 year cycle since the industrial revolution. With exceptions for the 2 world wars.
You do understand that, if the medical researchers had the same restrictions as a nazi doctors in the concentration camps, we would have incredibly fast drug introductions and research times would go down drastically.
There is always the problem of balance between R&D and human lives. We, in Europe, have decided that general availability is much better, than pace of R&D. And I am all for it.
Why? Because I know that I would have had been bankrupted if I were living in US already, and I am only 24. I live in Lithuania, a small, rather poor country. And still I had a reasonable medical treatment.
Main difference between Europe and the US, is that most European countries are geared towards keeping the most number of people in healthy condition, so that they contribute as much as possible to the economy.
If you take a shot at our socialist system, then you should understand that the medicine is not the thong we actually have issues with. If you look at it, we mostly have issues with social security contributions and payouts. Soclial medicine is the last thing that is being abused.
I don't smoke. Never did smoke. Not even tobacco. And I don't drink over 100 ml of alcohol per a night out.
Yet, I have had issues with a lot of those points you presented. I have seen more people incarcerated in a psychiatric facility on account of alcohol induced psychosis, than of marijuana induced psychosis.
Everything is harmful when used without moderation. And job loss argument is definitely redundant.
Remember! Moderation, moderation and once more moderation!
On a absurd note: We should probably ban all kinds of food! Since overconsumption of it leads to obesity and a lot of health problems, like diabetes, heart diseases, hypertension etc... the list is probably much longer than the one of marijuana's.
Are you joking? These corporations enable these politicians to win. Wakeup and smell the bullshit, you are misreading for roses.
Socialism is not communism, but for a lot of brainwashed americans these two somehow got mixed up.
LEt alone, you have little understanding of definition of capitalism. Arguably, USA currently is very close to socialism, ironically. Much more than Sweden. How much $$$ do you guys have in 401k's and pension funds? Do you know how many of those are invested in your own workplace? That's taking about "collective ownership of production means".
It would take that much to transfer data, not to download. Since in that data transfer, there is quite some infrastructure data going back and forth.
WTF? Socialism can be a competition based economic system. Capitalism is definitely not all about competition. Competition is a part of free market ideology. Free market is not the same as capitalism. Monopolies are 100% anti competitive, but occur in capitalistic economic system.
That fact, that you personally, perceive, socialism as anti-competitive is the result of your misunderstanding or maybe the brainwashing by US corporate media overlords.
FYI: Even in an aspiring to be a communist country, like USSR, there was competition. Though on a higher level.
That is a load of bullshit. There are a number of cases where MyISAM will be actually slower. It depends not on the engine, but on the usage patterns of the database and database structure. And, interestingly, it varies from application to application.
Ahh.... You clearly have not heard of www.tia.dk :)
Maybe they are sharing the books that are rare? Have you thought about that? Not every library can be the LoC.
To be fair, the market did not expand a lot. If you take into account that he was talking about, basically, supercomputers. And the market for those is still quite small.
But still, it has stayed at a constant level for quite a while now. I can use my 7 year old computer for most tasks today, without any issues.
In fact, when I buy a new machine, I go for the UNDERPOWERED machine, rather then the normal power machine. And that suits me! Add to that, that I am a professional Java developer, and you should understand that my resource consumption is higher than that of any normal email/web/photo/video/casual gaming/documents user.
The last machine I bought is Intel Atom based desktop machine, the one before that one of the EE series of Athlon X2.
The only thing that I update constantly is the storage capacity, nothing else.
That is the PC Speaker volume control in the GUI. Works well on a multitude of systems.
Unfortunately that one depends on the video card you have. Intel and nVidia drivers work perfectly well for me personally.
You might not be using the proprietary nVidia drivers, if you have an nVidia card. Enabling those drivers is jusr 3 mouse cliks away in Ubuntu.
Hm... Apache HTTPd vs lighttpd vs nginx - This one is still going strong.
Since I don't want to compare your thinking processes and your writing skills to anyone, I therefore conclude that you are not doing it well and should stop doing both, since you don't do any of those as good as the best of kind.
Maybe do like I, Oracle, IBM and a lot of others do - provide excellent support for your clients and consultancy services. You will not stop people that want to use you software. If you write software for home users, tough luck. You are in the wrong sector. Home users don't care for your software most of the time.
WTF!
Being a book author myself, I can tell you that NOONE PAYS until the book is finished.
Next, the idea of copyright was to make sure that ONLY the copyright owner would profit form the work. And my statement here is exclusive, that is copyright was targeted at nothing else other then publishing books without the author being payed for it.
FYI: Artistic skills are currently over-privileged over any technical skills. Do you really think that Elijah Wood worked more on LOTR than most of us geeks? I bet most of us geeks spend more time on our work than any of the obscenely rich stars. For centuries art was a thing that was subsidized by patrons and sponsors. And only with the mass permanent media being available, did we get these artists that are incredibly rich. Next, do you really think that most of aspiring "I want to be a rock star" people want to be "rock stars" because they want to be in art? That's a ton of bullshit. They are in it for "the bitches and the money". So much for your idealistic representation of artists. The ones that are really in it for the art, are mostly just below wealthy. As an example take most of the people in the classical music or opera. There are some quite wealthy people there, but no-one is obscenely rich like the below the belt talent we call pop culture.
I used to do what you still do. And let me tell you - that is NOT a game, it's a job. Admittedly, some stock brokers call their job a game.
FYI: Sovereignty is NOT same as independence. They declared sovereignty. Let alone, their constitution states that they are a part of Russian Federation. And their status may change only with an agreement from both Russia and Tatarstan.
Yeah... Right....
Tatars are so much integrated with Russia, that their independence is basically impossible. I consider myself Russian, although genetically I am tatar 50% and Russian 12.5%.
First of all, it's not finally, the keyword is final.
Next, final keyword is used by programmers to give hints to the compiler what has to be writable and what can be changed. This kills a lot of bugs early on. Just like the @Override annotation. You clearly don't know what you are talking about.
What The Fuck is Quicken!?!?!?!?
I would not know what is Visio and Visual Studio, unless I was in IT.
An literally, got to know what Visio meant only 2 years ago. I am in IT for 10 years!!!
Same story with Visual Studio. I learned of it's existence only by searching for a C++ compiler!
So really, this is utter nonsense that: "everyone already knows what they are. "
There are more burning issues with PostgreSQL then the lack of replication and clustering. Replication and clustering exists, not the best thing, but exists. Where, in-place upgrade is mostly in pre-beta state and works only on 8.0 to 8.1.