Socrates was sentenced to death because he was a humongous asshole to everyone in Athens and they finally got fed up with him.
Socrates would literally challenge people in the streets to debates and then destroy them with logic, which might be ok for the random Joe Athens fella but not to the high ranking military and political figures he liked to pick on. Eventually enough people with power got sick of being made to look foolish and had him put on trial, which he took as a total farce and continued to make fun of everyone during the trial. The whole "corrupting the youth" part of the accusations against him where just there as a reason to have the trial.
He was found guilty by jury and then during his sentencing arguments he managed to piss even more people off such that MORE JURORS VOTED TO KILL HIM THAN VOTED TO CONVICT.
So in summation, Socrates was not killed because people found something external to blame their kids behavior on. He was killed because he didn't know when to stop being a massive dick to people in power.
I've had this problem for years - a prison building contractor in Africa uses my gmail address for many of his accounts payable. I get invoices all the time for toilets, timecard machines, tons of concrete, lumber, copper tubing, etc. It's actually quite interesting, and while he's gotten a few second/third notices on payments, it always seems to be get resolved.
I tried to fix the problem years ago but no one would respond, so I finally gave up trying.
They could off just asked me if it was legal
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...because I spent 1.5 years of my life @ MP3.com running reports and collecting data as discovery for the lawsuits of record companies, publishers, individual artists, and whomever owned any percentage of any playback rights in any country (and yes this means people who owned less that 1% of a song's rights in Turkmenistan).
While I would agree with the OP that a lot of these projects target the needs of large, FB-like companies, Reactjs and Flux (Flux is a pseudo-framework for React) are really nice alternatives to heavier options like Angular and Backbone. If you're building with JS on the front end then definitely take a look; the speed advantage over Angular is ridiculous.
2 clarifications for the summary, since I was the 10th engineer at MP3.com and worked there from 1999-2003:
- We lost to the record labels/publishers not because we gave people access to their music, but because we compiled the music library and streamed it without paying the labels/publishers any royalties. Our strategy was to buy a copy of the CD ourselves, rip it, then claim fair use doctrine when we streamed it to someone else who also owned it. This was a supposed grey area in the law that got cleared up REAL FAST in a media-friendly district court. Services that you see now are paying royalties on what they stream. MP3.com later sued its lawyers that gave the advice on the so-called "grey area" it tried to go through.
- We where not a Silicon Valley company, we where in San Diego. Perhaps if we where SV we would of gotten better legal advice:p
NFL2k did look amazingly awesome at the time. I remember standing in a mall watching the computer play itself, Eagles vs Rams. The Rams threw for a touchdown and the guy standing next to me turns and with a straight face says, "I didn't think the Rams would pull that out". To this day I don't know if the guy thought he was watching a real game or not.
This is a very easy program to follow. So easy in fact, I organized a 100 pushup challenge at my work and got 32 out of 40 people of all starting levels to participate.
Your logic is wrong. This is the business logic the Viacom lawyers used:
if(size of settlement(infringment violations * max penalty) - cost of(web design + site maintenance + bandwidth + bad press)) > cash google has) {
sue google; } else {
work with google; }
Since their costs are low compared to the potential payoff, the risk is worth the reward. FYI this is the exact same logic was applied by the record labels when they sued MP3.com.
The precedent is already set, man. Its called Napster, LimeWire, BearShare, MP3.com - want me to go on? The courts have already laid down the law - you cannot build your company off content you do not own. Anyone with wishful thinking that YouTube is going to stick around because they have a system for letting copyright infringments be taken down after much work by the copyright owner is utterly and totally deluding themselves. There are sooooo many copyright violations it'll either be death by blunt mace (ie the big media corporations) or death by a million pin pricks (the small guys).
Get this through your head, slashdoties - YouTube's business has already been found to be illegal in many, many, many court cases. The only reason YouTube still exists today is because is because the big and small sharks circling it are waiting for the fat man in the inner tube to jump in as well.
No one will buy YouTube because the company that buys them will be the instant winner of hundreds or possibly thousands of copyright lawsuits. Right now there is basically no incentive to sue YouTube because you can't extract much cash from them. But what if Google/Ebay/Yahoo owned YouTube? Well, now you have a nearly bottomless well of cash to go after, and since the offenses would be so trivial to prove, its free money.
Any company with the cash to buy YouTube is going to decide in the long run it isn't worth it.
E3 has been going downhill for a while
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E3 has been going downhill for a while. Back in 1999 I found 2 days worth of stuff to do. In 2005 I found about 2 hours. Booths are now packed with demo reels instead of hands on play, booth babes have been outlawed, no one gives a shit about you unless you are press, and waiting 2 hours to get into an exclusive area to spend 5 minutes watching a trailer or looking at some new molded plastic isn't my idea of fun. I didn't go this year even though one of my ex girlfriends is head of press relations for E3 and has printed me up any badge I wanted.
E3 has gotten so boring that most of my friends in the industry don't care to go anymore - its viewed now as a chore.
I know the analyst quoted, Geoff Johnston, from when I worked at MP3.com. I went to lunch with him a few times because WebSideStory was down the street and Geoff was an artist on our site with the band Noisepie. He's the guy in the center. He's a pretty cool guy who seemed pretty knowledgeable.
If Apple buys Disney, do you think they will digitally revamp Snow White so that the witch gives her a poisoned melon instead of a poisoned apple? Maybe they can bring Lucas on board for that, he's good at making your favorite classic movies better through technology.
I saw him playing people at this year's E3. He was ok, but I was bored watching him. It was clear some of the people he was playing had no talent with the games and he'd just annhilate them like 31-0 in a 2 minutes match. It would of been more fun if he was handicapped in some way, like 50% health or only a few weapons. Blowing the bejesus out of n00bs playing on unfamiliar hardware was hardly awe-inspiring.
Of course maybe that's fun for some people to watch. I never got into 1v1 very much, I always thought teamwork execution was so much more exciting and took much more skill than running around a small map killing someone repeatedly before they could grab a weapon.
She also contributed to Gore's campaign in 92 instead of Bush Sr.'s. I guess that was just a crafty way of covering her tracks during that time, eh?
Many Southern Democrats share the "D" when their party caters to their needs over the super leftist platforms of their Northeastern counterparts. Bill Clinton realized this, and he won twice.
"What I don't understand is how they can fail to make money at $1 a track. Everyone bangs on about how little the artist cough pretty face cough gets paid. so that must therefore mean a large portion, lets say 90c (and I think that 10c to the artist is generous), of that $1 is being spent on other things."
Because you are forgetting (or don't know about) the fact that publishing companies, which are seperate from the record companies, also get their share of the revenue. Each publishing company gets to negotiate their own rate structure for the use of their songs.
Then, depending on the artist/track, there can be multiple other parties (other than the record company/publishing company) with percentage total ownership of a track who also need to be paid.
The whole music industry is one big clusterfuck of entangling relationships.
What an awesome blanket statement! I better go tell my dad, who is a well-respected orthodontist, that his prices are high cause he's a monopolist, and in no way are pushed up by the fact he pays more in malpractice insurance yearly than my salary as a programmer.
Actually, Larry Ellison has already created himself an altered reality - he fancies himself an ancient Shinto warrior. Among other things, he decorates his houses like he is a shogun and he shaves off his eyebrows.
Don't believe me? Do a google image search for Larry and look at his eyebrows.
"The Christian faith (who's political wing is the Republican party) for some reason believe that sex is bad and that pornography is somehow immoral."
but the article CLEARLY states
"Senator Tom Carper (D-Del) is calling for a 25% tax on all internet pornograpy"
Notice that D-Del? That means he's a Democrat. This isn't an attempt by the "Christian faith" (I like how you grouped them all into one category for your stereotype) to deal with online pornography. This is a pretty clear attempt to grab headlines and attack something very few people will come rush to defend in order to get airtime for political gain.
Slashdot Mirror
Socrates was sentenced to death because he was a humongous asshole to everyone in Athens and they finally got fed up with him.
Socrates would literally challenge people in the streets to debates and then destroy them with logic, which might be ok for the random Joe Athens fella but not to the high ranking military and political figures he liked to pick on. Eventually enough people with power got sick of being made to look foolish and had him put on trial, which he took as a total farce and continued to make fun of everyone during the trial. The whole "corrupting the youth" part of the accusations against him where just there as a reason to have the trial.
He was found guilty by jury and then during his sentencing arguments he managed to piss even more people off such that MORE JURORS VOTED TO KILL HIM THAN VOTED TO CONVICT.
So in summation, Socrates was not killed because people found something external to blame their kids behavior on. He was killed because he didn't know when to stop being a massive dick to people in power.
I've had this problem for years - a prison building contractor in Africa uses my gmail address for many of his accounts payable. I get invoices all the time for toilets, timecard machines, tons of concrete, lumber, copper tubing, etc. It's actually quite interesting, and while he's gotten a few second/third notices on payments, it always seems to be get resolved.
I tried to fix the problem years ago but no one would respond, so I finally gave up trying.
...because I spent 1.5 years of my life @ MP3.com running reports and collecting data as discovery for the lawsuits of record companies, publishers, individual artists, and whomever owned any percentage of any playback rights in any country (and yes this means people who owned less that 1% of a song's rights in Turkmenistan).
Clearing the system cache significantly sped up my Nexus 7
http://9to5google.com/2014/11/19/2012-edition-nexus-7-running-slow-after-installing-lollipop-this-might-help/
While I would agree with the OP that a lot of these projects target the needs of large, FB-like companies, Reactjs and Flux (Flux is a pseudo-framework for React) are really nice alternatives to heavier options like Angular and Backbone. If you're building with JS on the front end then definitely take a look; the speed advantage over Angular is ridiculous.
2 clarifications for the summary, since I was the 10th engineer at MP3.com and worked there from 1999-2003:
- We lost to the record labels/publishers not because we gave people access to their music, but because we compiled the music library and streamed it without paying the labels/publishers any royalties. Our strategy was to buy a copy of the CD ourselves, rip it, then claim fair use doctrine when we streamed it to someone else who also owned it. This was a supposed grey area in the law that got cleared up REAL FAST in a media-friendly district court. Services that you see now are paying royalties on what they stream. MP3.com later sued its lawyers that gave the advice on the so-called "grey area" it tried to go through.
- We where not a Silicon Valley company, we where in San Diego. Perhaps if we where SV we would of gotten better legal advice :p
NFL2k did look amazingly awesome at the time. I remember standing in a mall watching the computer play itself, Eagles vs Rams. The Rams threw for a touchdown and the guy standing next to me turns and with a straight face says, "I didn't think the Rams would pull that out". To this day I don't know if the guy thought he was watching a real game or not.
do one hundred pushups
This is a very easy program to follow. So easy in fact, I organized a 100 pushup challenge at my work and got 32 out of 40 people of all starting levels to participate.
Your logic is wrong. This is the business logic the Viacom lawyers used:
if(size of settlement(infringment violations * max penalty) - cost of(web design + site maintenance + bandwidth + bad press)) > cash google has) {
sue google;
} else {
work with google;
}
Since their costs are low compared to the potential payoff, the risk is worth the reward. FYI this is the exact same logic was applied by the record labels when they sued MP3.com.
DAOC has let you swim underwater for years now. In fact, underwater pvp battles are quite fun.
Extensive documentaries of GI Joe vs Cobra battles during the early 80's show laser weapons have a complete inability to hit anything of value.
.agrippa.
Uhhhhh
The precedent is already set, man. Its called Napster, LimeWire, BearShare, MP3.com - want me to go on? The courts have already laid down the law - you cannot build your company off content you do not own. Anyone with wishful thinking that YouTube is going to stick around because they have a system for letting copyright infringments be taken down after much work by the copyright owner is utterly and totally deluding themselves. There are sooooo many copyright violations it'll either be death by blunt mace (ie the big media corporations) or death by a million pin pricks (the small guys).
Get this through your head, slashdoties - YouTube's business has already been found to be illegal in many, many, many court cases. The only reason YouTube still exists today is because is because the big and small sharks circling it are waiting for the fat man in the inner tube to jump in as well.
No one will buy YouTube because the company that buys them will be the instant winner of hundreds or possibly thousands of copyright lawsuits. Right now there is basically no incentive to sue YouTube because you can't extract much cash from them. But what if Google/Ebay/Yahoo owned YouTube? Well, now you have a nearly bottomless well of cash to go after, and since the offenses would be so trivial to prove, its free money.
Any company with the cash to buy YouTube is going to decide in the long run it isn't worth it.
E3 has been going downhill for a while. Back in 1999 I found 2 days worth of stuff to do. In 2005 I found about 2 hours. Booths are now packed with demo reels instead of hands on play, booth babes have been outlawed, no one gives a shit about you unless you are press, and waiting 2 hours to get into an exclusive area to spend 5 minutes watching a trailer or looking at some new molded plastic isn't my idea of fun. I didn't go this year even though one of my ex girlfriends is head of press relations for E3 and has printed me up any badge I wanted.
E3 has gotten so boring that most of my friends in the industry don't care to go anymore - its viewed now as a chore.
I know the analyst quoted, Geoff Johnston, from when I worked at MP3.com. I went to lunch with him a few times because WebSideStory was down the street and Geoff was an artist on our site with the band Noisepie. He's the guy in the center. He's a pretty cool guy who seemed pretty knowledgeable.
.agrippa.
If Apple buys Disney, do you think they will digitally revamp Snow White so that the witch gives her a poisoned melon instead of a poisoned apple? Maybe they can bring Lucas on board for that, he's good at making your favorite classic movies better through technology.
.agrippa.
Don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
.agrippa.
I saw him playing people at this year's E3. He was ok, but I was bored watching him. It was clear some of the people he was playing had no talent with the games and he'd just annhilate them like 31-0 in a 2 minutes match. It would of been more fun if he was handicapped in some way, like 50% health or only a few weapons. Blowing the bejesus out of n00bs playing on unfamiliar hardware was hardly awe-inspiring.
.agrippa.
Of course maybe that's fun for some people to watch. I never got into 1v1 very much, I always thought teamwork execution was so much more exciting and took much more skill than running around a small map killing someone repeatedly before they could grab a weapon.
According to this article you could post a picture of that to Usenet and probably satisfy somebody's sexual food fetish.
.agrippa.
They also funded MP3.com with 12 million in early 99 and cashed out hansomely way, way, way before the bubble burst.
.agrippa.
She also contributed to Gore's campaign in 92 instead of Bush Sr.'s. I guess that was just a crafty way of covering her tracks during that time, eh?
.agrippa.
Many Southern Democrats share the "D" when their party caters to their needs over the super leftist platforms of their Northeastern counterparts. Bill Clinton realized this, and he won twice.
"What I don't understand is how they can fail to make money at $1 a track. Everyone bangs on about how little the artist cough pretty face cough gets paid. so that must therefore mean a large portion, lets say 90c (and I think that 10c to the artist is generous), of that $1 is being spent on other things."
.agrippa.
Because you are forgetting (or don't know about) the fact that publishing companies, which are seperate from the record companies, also get their share of the revenue. Each publishing company gets to negotiate their own rate structure for the use of their songs.
Then, depending on the artist/track, there can be multiple other parties (other than the record company/publishing company) with percentage total ownership of a track who also need to be paid.
The whole music industry is one big clusterfuck of entangling relationships.
What an awesome blanket statement! I better go tell my dad, who is a well-respected orthodontist, that his prices are high cause he's a monopolist, and in no way are pushed up by the fact he pays more in malpractice insurance yearly than my salary as a programmer.
.agrippa.
Actually, Larry Ellison has already created himself an altered reality - he fancies himself an ancient Shinto warrior. Among other things, he decorates his houses like he is a shogun and he shaves off his eyebrows.
.agrippa.
Don't believe me? Do a google image search for Larry and look at his eyebrows.
"The Christian faith (who's political wing is the Republican party) for some reason believe that sex is bad and that pornography is somehow immoral."
.agrippa.
but the article CLEARLY states
"Senator Tom Carper (D-Del) is calling for a 25% tax on all internet pornograpy"
Notice that D-Del? That means he's a Democrat. This isn't an attempt by the "Christian faith" (I like how you grouped them all into one category for your stereotype) to deal with online pornography. This is a pretty clear attempt to grab headlines and attack something very few people will come rush to defend in order to get airtime for political gain.