They chose the illegal option because it was what they can afford. Thus it is not lost revenue to the companies since these people would never have paid full price.
This is flawed logic to a corporation. Afterall, what of the tons of people downloading music who can't afford to buy the CDs and probably never would have bought the CD in the first place? The RIAA isn't truly losing money to them since they never would have bought the CD anyways. Same applys to people who download expensive commercial applications (Photoshop, Maya, 3DS Max, etc), they never would have bought the software but the companies will still consider that a 'loss'.
It's unfortunate, but it's the truth. Companies see 'loss' in a very different light than common sense would dictate. A company will just see 'You are using our product/service without paying for it therefore we have lost money'. End of story. No further/alternate explination necessary. Black and White. What the company should see is 'People are downloading our software for free which must mean we have a good product (otherwise they wouldn't bother trying to obtain our product) so when those people get a job and are used to our product they will tell their managers that they will be more productive with our product and we will get more sales that way'. But I don't think any corporations will see things in that light for quite some time.
I'm just a little bitter thats all. I had the scoop on this almost a week ago, sigh.
But on the on-topic side, I plan on participating and doing my entry in PHP, just for kicks:). If there are any other PHP programmers that would like to be on my team feel free to respond here or e-mail me, the rules don't say what the max number of people we can have on a team is.
A google search for "redmond india" only turned up two results one with a sentance ending in redmond with the next sentance beginning with india and one with a guys last name of redmond reporting from india.
Sorry, but if it's not on google it doesn't exist, so you may rest assured there is no Redmond India yet.
Mr. Sketch, what is your opinion? DO you think the Broadband/PC/Electronics industry will be bigger, or will the Media/Music/Content industry be bigger?
In my opinion, the media/music/content industry will always be bigger mainly because since it's entertainment, people will pay a premium for it. As such, the media industry can increase prices and people will pay or just keep prices the same while the costs go down. However, the electronics industry is practically becoming required in daily life thus since people will have to buy those electronic items and they will choose the one that is the lowest price thus forcing prices down reducing the margins for the companies. This of course gives the media industries large profits to work with while the electronics companies are scraping to get buy.
The media industry is also pretty much under unified control (RIAA+MPAA) while the electronics industry is more fragmented with lots of smaller companies competing with one another. This creates a few large entities in the media industry with a unified goal and direction while lots of smaller electronics companies squabble amongsts themselves.
While we could do without the media industry (or at least the large individual companies such as the MPAA and RIAA and just let the individual labels fight it out like the electronics companies), they (the MPAA+RIAA) have more compiled resources and can bend the laws to their liking, can fight on a more unified front and thus will be a lot harder to stop.
This is not the way I would like things to be, however, it's how they are.
IT environments are so complex today, why would anyone think only 10 of anything is "the biggest"?
The submitter never claimed that their cluster was the biggest, but while they were building a good sized cluster, they were just curious what the biggest one ever built was.
That link is great! I'm getting 150kps. Well, not anymore because I'm not submitting this until my download finishes:)... oh well, 50% in 4 minutes isn't too bad so I'll go ahead and submit... Note a clickable link is here.
If you this this will be a cash cow for California, just wait until they pass a bill charging you $0.01 for every e-mail you send and receive.
$34.5 million people * 50 e-mails/day/person * 365 days/year * $0.01 = $6.3 billion/year for e-mails received Now for e-mails sent: ~100 spammers in California * ~100 million spams/day * 365 days/year * $0.01 = $36.5 billion
So $36.5 billion + $6.3 billion = $42.8 billion per year which should be more than enough to cover their $35 billion deficit.
If you're looking for a good simulation type game that's very immersive, try Uplink. You can order it from their website for USD$25 or pick it up at a local GameSpot for about USD$30. You play a freelance computer hacker on the internet of 2010 and hack into companies and steel/delete/decrypt data, sabotage computer systems, alter/create/delete identities for people, all sorts of stuff.
It's a lot of fun and runs on Windows and Linux and should run on older hardware that doesn't have the latest and greatest video cards, mainly because it values 'fun' more than 'flashy graphics'.
If you're looking for a fun game that's a break from the standard mainstream genres (FPS, RTS, MMORPG, etc), this is definitely the game for you.
we only need to upgrade a few dozen large hydrogen-generation plants, instead of 50 million separate automobile engines
Actually for only about $1500 you can turn your car into a hydrogen fueled car. I found the link on google not too long ago, but I can't found it now, the best I can find is here.
What about using one of the external PCMCIA hard drives? Sure it wouldn't be as elegant, but put in one card that hooks up to a 50Gig 2.5" hard drive and you would be all set.
Location: Boulder, CO Age: 24 Gender: Male Occupation: Software engineer Married no kids
I pull in $4600/mo and my wife pulls in about $600/mo for $5200/mo (post-tax) PreTax: $200 401k $100 health/dental/vision insurance $$$$$ taxes
PostTax: $1050 rent $1000 savings (aka an emergency fund, working on building an 8month emergency fund since I'm in the tech market) $500 car payment $175 car:$150 + renters:$15 insurance $100 gas $100 phone(landline + cell + long distance) $100 electricity $100 pets(food+litter+vet) $100 household expenses(soap, shampoo, tp, etc) $30 basic cable $50 DSL $400 food (groceries:$250 + eatout:$150) $200 karate(me + wife) $200 entertainment(movies, etc + electronic toys) $250 vacations $150 wifes tuition(she's going for her PhD)
You may note that there is no 'credit card' line, because most of this goes on the credit card (airline miles:) ), but we don't run a balance so I saw no point in mentioning it.
The rest just goes to other things that come up in the month and varies so I don't really have a category for it. My wife and I actually just calculated this out last night in the book called The Motley Fools Money Guide and our percentages are either right on or below what they recommend.
Slashdot Mirror
Some more great resources for JSP programmers looking to improve their skillset are available here.
Who needs conspiracy theories when we have conspiracy facts!
That link you provided doesn't seem to work, here is the correct link.
[wipes tears from eyes]
OMG, that was the funnest thing I've read in quite some time.
Oh, whew, that was just great. I'll have to commit that to memory to recite later. A true stroke of genius.
Wow, I'm going to have to save this.
[continues to wipe tears from eyes and will probably chuckle for the rest of the day about it]
They chose the illegal option because it was what they can afford. Thus it is not lost revenue to the companies since these people would never have paid full price.
This is flawed logic to a corporation. Afterall, what of the tons of people downloading music who can't afford to buy the CDs and probably never would have bought the CD in the first place? The RIAA isn't truly losing money to them since they never would have bought the CD anyways. Same applys to people who download expensive commercial applications (Photoshop, Maya, 3DS Max, etc), they never would have bought the software but the companies will still consider that a 'loss'.
It's unfortunate, but it's the truth. Companies see 'loss' in a very different light than common sense would dictate. A company will just see 'You are using our product/service without paying for it therefore we have lost money'. End of story. No further/alternate explination necessary. Black and White. What the company should see is 'People are downloading our software for free which must mean we have a good product (otherwise they wouldn't bother trying to obtain our product) so when those people get a job and are used to our product they will tell their managers that they will be more productive with our product and we will get more sales that way'. But I don't think any corporations will see things in that light for quite some time.
2003-06-19 18:37:54 ICFP2003 Programming Contest (developers,programming) (rejected)
:). If there are any other PHP programmers that would like to be on my team feel free to respond here or e-mail me, the rules don't say what the max number of people we can have on a team is.
I'm just a little bitter thats all. I had the scoop on this almost a week ago, sigh.
But on the on-topic side, I plan on participating and doing my entry in PHP, just for kicks
I've recently heard that there is a redmond,india
A google search for "redmond india" only turned up two results one with a sentance ending in redmond with the next sentance beginning with india and one with a guys last name of redmond reporting from india.
Sorry, but if it's not on google it doesn't exist, so you may rest assured there is no Redmond India yet.
Probably not, but if you pass it some more RAM chips or a new processors, I'm sure it will consider it :)
Mr. Sketch, what is your opinion? DO you think the Broadband/PC/Electronics industry will be bigger, or will the Media/Music/Content industry be bigger?
In my opinion, the media/music/content industry will always be bigger mainly because since it's entertainment, people will pay a premium for it. As such, the media industry can increase prices and people will pay or just keep prices the same while the costs go down. However, the electronics industry is practically becoming required in daily life thus since people will have to buy those electronic items and they will choose the one that is the lowest price thus forcing prices down reducing the margins for the companies. This of course gives the media industries large profits to work with while the electronics companies are scraping to get buy.
The media industry is also pretty much under unified control (RIAA+MPAA) while the electronics industry is more fragmented with lots of smaller companies competing with one another. This creates a few large entities in the media industry with a unified goal and direction while lots of smaller electronics companies squabble amongsts themselves.
While we could do without the media industry (or at least the large individual companies such as the MPAA and RIAA and just let the individual labels fight it out like the electronics companies), they (the MPAA+RIAA) have more compiled resources and can bend the laws to their liking, can fight on a more unified front and thus will be a lot harder to stop.
This is not the way I would like things to be, however, it's how they are.
No I didn't, SCO is based in Utah, so it would make sense for him to support his home state.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
Oh, I see why now. Perhaps he received some donations from other upset copyright holders.
Why the ??? for step 2? We all know that the only reason for moving that close to make a profit would be to provide high bandwith pr0n for the masses.
SCO sues Open Group for illegal suing over the Unix trademark.
Followed by:
SCO sues Mr. Sketch for using the term 'Unix' in a public discussion forum without their prior permissions.
IT environments are so complex today, why would anyone think only 10 of anything is "the biggest"?
The submitter never claimed that their cluster was the biggest, but while they were building a good sized cluster, they were just curious what the biggest one ever built was.
You forgot one more important spec:
No CD-ROM or floppy drive.
However, they will be selling a 'high-end' version with CD-ROM for ~$600.
That link is great! I'm getting 150kps. Well, not anymore because I'm not submitting this until my download finishes :)...
oh well, 50% in 4 minutes isn't too bad so I'll go ahead and submit...
Note a clickable link is here.
Can they Bend it like Beckham? Very good movie, by the way.
If you this this will be a cash cow for California, just wait until they pass a bill charging you $0.01 for every e-mail you send and receive.
$34.5 million people * 50 e-mails/day/person * 365 days/year * $0.01 = $6.3 billion/year for e-mails received
Now for e-mails sent: ~100 spammers in California * ~100 million spams/day * 365 days/year * $0.01 = $36.5 billion
So $36.5 billion + $6.3 billion = $42.8 billion per year which should be more than enough to cover their $35 billion deficit.
Judging from this screenshot from gamespot, I would assume that you can have four player competitive races.
If you're looking for a good simulation type game that's very immersive, try Uplink. You can order it from their website for USD$25 or pick it up at a local GameSpot for about USD$30. You play a freelance computer hacker on the internet of 2010 and hack into companies and steel/delete/decrypt data, sabotage computer systems, alter/create/delete identities for people, all sorts of stuff.
It's a lot of fun and runs on Windows and Linux and should run on older hardware that doesn't have the latest and greatest video cards, mainly because it values 'fun' more than 'flashy graphics'.
If you're looking for a fun game that's a break from the standard mainstream genres (FPS, RTS, MMORPG, etc), this is definitely the game for you.
and somehow, my wife managed to shatter the light bulb all over the bed
It may just be me, but I would probably take that as a hint... Maybe spend less time reading and more time with her? Just a thought.
we only need to upgrade a few dozen large hydrogen-generation plants, instead of 50 million separate automobile engines
Actually for only about $1500 you can turn your car into a hydrogen fueled car. I found the link on google not too long ago, but I can't found it now, the best I can find is here.
What about using one of the external PCMCIA hard drives? Sure it wouldn't be as elegant, but put in one card that hooks up to a 50Gig 2.5" hard drive and you would be all set.
I am using a script that displays the recent referrers and it is currently half full of spam.
Hmm, now it seems to be half full of slashdot.org referrers.
Location: Boulder, CO
:) ), but we don't run a balance so I saw no point in mentioning it.
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Occupation: Software engineer
Married no kids
I pull in $4600/mo and my wife pulls in about $600/mo for $5200/mo (post-tax)
PreTax:
$200 401k
$100 health/dental/vision insurance
$$$$$ taxes
PostTax:
$1050 rent
$1000 savings (aka an emergency fund, working on building an 8month emergency fund since I'm in the tech market)
$500 car payment
$175 car:$150 + renters:$15 insurance
$100 gas
$100 phone(landline + cell + long distance)
$100 electricity
$100 pets(food+litter+vet)
$100 household expenses(soap, shampoo, tp, etc)
$30 basic cable
$50 DSL
$400 food (groceries:$250 + eatout:$150)
$200 karate(me + wife)
$200 entertainment(movies, etc + electronic toys)
$250 vacations
$150 wifes tuition(she's going for her PhD)
You may note that there is no 'credit card' line, because most of this goes on the credit card (airline miles
The rest just goes to other things that come up in the month and varies so I don't really have a category for it. My wife and I actually just calculated this out last night in the book called The Motley Fools Money Guide and our percentages are either right on or below what they recommend.