Most reputable companies don't use thier plumbing to move around large volumes of sensitive/urgent/otherwise critical data. Poor plumbing is an inconvenience - poor IT can break a business.
It's like superheroing in reverse - with great responsiility we want great(er) power (Does that make IT supervillians?)
Who's going to bother to try and remove a watermark that doesn't stop you from sharing the file, especially if you don't know it's there?
It makes it a reasonable assumption then that if the pirate copies popping up are lacking the watermark, they must have been sourced by ripping cd's or removing/curcumventing the DRM.
I would quote Sherlock Holmes, but I've never read it.
Then when the frustrating external event occurs that would have caused a normal person to blow a valve and die, you're emotionally prepared to roll your eyes, throw the instigator across the room and go back to your Sudoku
In other news, owners of local race tracks have called on car manufacturers to stop making affordable family cars, stating that these cars are simply too slow to make full use of the exitement offered by thier unique and challenging courses.
Eh? How does making use of bog standard free market principles constitute fraud?
Netflix have set out exactly what product they want and the price they are willing to pay. If there are people out there willing and able to supply them with the product at that price, why shouldn't they?
And government employees doing research in thier own time is not costing you a dime.
Netflix benefits through a better product offering, thier customers benefit through a better product, and a fair number of contestants benefit (through exposure and experience if nothing else).
The summary is referring to the defendants (you know, the guys - or gals - being sued) as being poor or middle class. Not sure where you get this as referring to the lawyers (or more accurately, lawyers in training, who also qualify as 'poor' seeing as many of them will be up to thier eyeballs in debt).
Billing 2 hours for 10 minutes? Pfft. My last piece of 10 minute code cost our client 3.5 days. Then again, I don't do the billing, so I couldn't care less.
Spawn camping also refers to the act of hiding in your own starting area, hoping that the enemy will come looking for you (or that you'll miss the action completely). I'd imagine it's even less acceptable in real life than it is in games.
Actually, if the numbers went down and there was no corresponding increase in sales, all the MAFIAA will be proving is that piracy does not, in fact, affect thier sales. Sounds like a win-win to me.
By the last few volumes, I was skim reading through most of the book, only really paying attention when the story concerned Rand (Being the main character and all) and Matt (Being the only interesting character left in the story). So I "read" about 1/10th of the last few books.
Goodkind, however, has (had?) Jordan firmly beaten in the 'I can write more boring filler than you' category. After his fourth book or so, it started to feel like I was reading a religious text with all the constant morality tales and preaching. I think I actually read a grand total of 50 pages (out of 700) the last time I ventured into his realm, simply by skipping the recaps and preaching, and without losing the plot.
When I read the word 'loose', I had a vision of a crazy eyed laptop running around handing out (other) people's information...
Personally I'd like to see institutions that feel the need to keep private data require a licence to do so, with appropriate penalties. That way, if you're licenced, you're expected to know how to keep the data reasonably secure, and if you're not, you shouldn't be storing the data to start with.
Having to phone around and find someone who has what you want, having to arrange a time to meet, and then having to physically get your HDD there to copy it
vs.
30 seconds to find and download what you want, whenever you want.
Living in a country where anti-piracy laws are both weak, and weakly enforced might make me a bit biased, but I find that convenience trumps safety in this case.
Pay the scalpers $50 profit, or spend your valuable time and money chasing down a ticket. You may prefer the latter, but the former works for those who simply don't have the time or effort it can take to track down tickets in person.
Well if you really want to be pedantic, the answer would be/= 96.5%. Since the summary only mentions priority number 3, priorities 1 and 2 would also fall within 'the remainder'
I'm confused at how Linux can work 'with' Windows. How do two OS'es work with each other...
I can only assume that they are actually refering to the fact that this is a Linux distribution being backed by MS, as opposed to 'working with Windows'.
My Beetle also works with my Porshe, as long as I don't try and drive both at the same time.
I'd rather pay 99c for a track I like than pay $15 for a track I like, and a dozen I don't (or $5 for 4 versions of the same song).
To assume that wanting stuff for free is the only motivation for piracy is incorrect and misleading. Availability, convenience and value for money are also motivations for piracy, and these services do a fair job of negating those (as long as you live in the US or feel like bypassing the territorial restrictions).
Am I the only person that's ever been offered a substantial raise, and told my manager it's not necessary, but it is appreciated?
I still got the raise (about 17.5%), but it's approaching the point where they will be paying me more than what I earn for them. It's not deliberate, but they are slowly but surely paying me out of my job. I like the company I work for, I like my job (free pub, no dress code, no unpaid or mandatory overtime, decent if clueless coworkers) - but everytime the give me a raise I can't help but feel that they are trying to get me to increase my workload (which is admittedly low), which I'm not particularly interested in. I don't want more work, so I get uncomfortable when they offer me more money.
Unfortunately, all of this makes it very hard to convince friends who honestly believe my job consists of browsing Slashdot and watching TV (although I guess that makes up for at least half of my average work day).
Beer served in a saucer has a greater surface area than beer served in a mug. Do you automatically assume that the saucer contains more beer? If so, I have a beer to sell you...
One could take the entirety of the Artic ice cap and dump it whole on the Antartic ice cap - you'd end up with a thicker ice cap with no increase in surface area. Surface area on its own is meaningless as a measurement of volume, making it useless as an argument that there is a nett loss of ice. If the ice in the antartic is thicker, it is quite possible that there is even a nett increase in world ice...
Unfortunately, determining the depth (and thereby volume) of ice in the polar ice caps is somewhat trickier than simply looking at a satelite image.
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Most reputable companies don't use thier plumbing to move around large volumes of sensitive/urgent/otherwise critical data. Poor plumbing is an inconvenience - poor IT can break a business.
It's like superheroing in reverse - with great responsiility we want great(er) power (Does that make IT supervillians?)
Who's going to bother to try and remove a watermark that doesn't stop you from sharing the file, especially if you don't know it's there?
It makes it a reasonable assumption then that if the pirate copies popping up are lacking the watermark, they must have been sourced by ripping cd's or removing/curcumventing the DRM.
I would quote Sherlock Holmes, but I've never read it.
Then when the frustrating external event occurs that would have caused a normal person to blow a valve and die, you're emotionally prepared to roll your eyes, throw the instigator across the room and go back to your Sudoku
You've met my mother?
In other news, owners of local race tracks have called on car manufacturers to stop making affordable family cars, stating that these cars are simply too slow to make full use of the exitement offered by thier unique and challenging courses.
Eh? How does making use of bog standard free market principles constitute fraud?
Netflix have set out exactly what product they want and the price they are willing to pay. If there are people out there willing and able to supply them with the product at that price, why shouldn't they?
And government employees doing research in thier own time is not costing you a dime.
Netflix benefits through a better product offering, thier customers benefit through a better product, and a fair number of contestants benefit (through exposure and experience if nothing else).
The summary is referring to the defendants (you know, the guys - or gals - being sued) as being poor or middle class. Not sure where you get this as referring to the lawyers (or more accurately, lawyers in training, who also qualify as 'poor' seeing as many of them will be up to thier eyeballs in debt).
Billing 2 hours for 10 minutes? Pfft. My last piece of 10 minute code cost our client 3.5 days. Then again, I don't do the billing, so I couldn't care less.
... to convince a judge that you put your mp3 collection up for educational or scientific purposes?
For some reason most people seem to be missing this little tidbit when reading even the summary.
...they'll be asking road users to give way to trucks and business executives on the roads.
Thier concern over how this could impact thier commerce is understandable, but this is not the answer.
RPG = Rocket Propelled Grenade, assuming you're not just trying to be funny.
I'm curious, but how much pressure would light exert on a 18 square mile surface? Wouldn't this mess up the orbit after a while?
Spawn camping also refers to the act of hiding in your own starting area, hoping that the enemy will come looking for you (or that you'll miss the action completely). I'd imagine it's even less acceptable in real life than it is in games.
... and by writing crappy code and assuming all other code is crappy, I can avoid both Pride and Envy. Two deadly sins down, 5 to go.
Actually, if the numbers went down and there was no corresponding increase in sales, all the MAFIAA will be proving is that piracy does not, in fact, affect thier sales. Sounds like a win-win to me.
By the last few volumes, I was skim reading through most of the book, only really paying attention when the story concerned Rand (Being the main character and all) and Matt (Being the only interesting character left in the story). So I "read" about 1/10th of the last few books.
Goodkind, however, has (had?) Jordan firmly beaten in the 'I can write more boring filler than you' category. After his fourth book or so, it started to feel like I was reading a religious text with all the constant morality tales and preaching. I think I actually read a grand total of 50 pages (out of 700) the last time I ventured into his realm, simply by skipping the recaps and preaching, and without losing the plot.
When I read the word 'loose', I had a vision of a crazy eyed laptop running around handing out (other) people's information...
Personally I'd like to see institutions that feel the need to keep private data require a licence to do so, with appropriate penalties. That way, if you're licenced, you're expected to know how to keep the data reasonably secure, and if you're not, you shouldn't be storing the data to start with.
Having to phone around and find someone who has what you want, having to arrange a time to meet, and then having to physically get your HDD there to copy it
vs.
30 seconds to find and download what you want, whenever you want.
Living in a country where anti-piracy laws are both weak, and weakly enforced might make me a bit biased, but I find that convenience trumps safety in this case.
Pay the scalpers $50 profit, or spend your valuable time and money chasing down a ticket. You may prefer the latter, but the former works for those who simply don't have the time or effort it can take to track down tickets in person.
What's wrong with COBOL? It pays my bills...
Agreed on the other points.
Gives a whole new meaning to the term 'Water Torture'...
Well if you really want to be pedantic, the answer would be /= 96.5%. Since the summary only mentions priority number 3, priorities 1 and 2 would also fall within 'the remainder'
I'm confused at how Linux can work 'with' Windows. How do two OS'es work with each other...
I can only assume that they are actually refering to the fact that this is a Linux distribution being backed by MS, as opposed to 'working with Windows'.
My Beetle also works with my Porshe, as long as I don't try and drive both at the same time.
I'd rather pay 99c for a track I like than pay $15 for a track I like, and a dozen I don't (or $5 for 4 versions of the same song).
To assume that wanting stuff for free is the only motivation for piracy is incorrect and misleading. Availability, convenience and value for money are also motivations for piracy, and these services do a fair job of negating those (as long as you live in the US or feel like bypassing the territorial restrictions).
Am I the only person that's ever been offered a substantial raise, and told my manager it's not necessary, but it is appreciated?
I still got the raise (about 17.5%), but it's approaching the point where they will be paying me more than what I earn for them. It's not deliberate, but they are slowly but surely paying me out of my job. I like the company I work for, I like my job (free pub, no dress code, no unpaid or mandatory overtime, decent if clueless coworkers) - but everytime the give me a raise I can't help but feel that they are trying to get me to increase my workload (which is admittedly low), which I'm not particularly interested in. I don't want more work, so I get uncomfortable when they offer me more money.
Unfortunately, all of this makes it very hard to convince friends who honestly believe my job consists of browsing Slashdot and watching TV (although I guess that makes up for at least half of my average work day).
Beer served in a saucer has a greater surface area than beer served in a mug. Do you automatically assume that the saucer contains more beer? If so, I have a beer to sell you...
One could take the entirety of the Artic ice cap and dump it whole on the Antartic ice cap - you'd end up with a thicker ice cap with no increase in surface area. Surface area on its own is meaningless as a measurement of volume, making it useless as an argument that there is a nett loss of ice. If the ice in the antartic is thicker, it is quite possible that there is even a nett increase in world ice...
Unfortunately, determining the depth (and thereby volume) of ice in the polar ice caps is somewhat trickier than simply looking at a satelite image.