Another advantage is that with robotic pickers you can have greenhouses with far higher levels of (plant-boosting) CO2 than would be advisable for a human picker. So, a yield advantage as well.
In both Russia and China they took feudalism and wrote "communism" across it. You have an upper class (the party cadre - remember only 5% of Chinese are members of the party), a middle class of state-capitalist business men and administrators, and then you have the workers who, despite the promises of socialist and communist theory, have no power.
Cuba is only slightly different: There, a neo-feudal society based on large corporations and a brutal dictator (United Fruit and Batista) was overthrown, and society remade into something closer to "real" communism, but sadly they also erected a "revolution religion" with Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a worshipped saint. Also, there was a certain lack of the technology required for abundance. (Oh and then there was the U.S. boycot cutting off the largest market and subsidised sugar in Europe cutting off that market too.)
So: Successful communist societies: one, fictional: the Federation of Planets of the Star Trek movies. Just check Captain Picard's explanation in First Contact.
We want to keep some people down so that we may be kept up.
In an economy based on commerce, wages need to be different simply so that people who earn more can afford the goods produced by people who earn less since their wages form part of the price of the purchase.
So someone will be at the bottom of the heap.
(An aside: Communism "solves" this by putting a wedge between your needs (supplied by the collective) and your contributions (per your skills). However, humans being utterly fallible, these societies genrally fail because someone will inevitably exploit the system. Thus the best examples of communist society is found in fiction, like the money-less Federation of Planets in Star Trek.)
My RealPlayer for Mac installed a H.263 plugin to play it (but failed to install another plugin for 3GPP). So, not the same thing as the iPhone's H.264 streams then.
... is also "Adults Only" but stores still sell it. Go figure.
I think the retailers and society at large hasn't realized yet that the average gamer is 24 years old. They are still stuck in a Nintendo-induced "games are for kids" fantasy world. Even after Nintendo consoles got stuff like Conker's Bad Fur Day, the whole Biohazard/Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, that sword-fighter for the Wii etc.
Then again I guess you cannot find movies like Salo or Cannibal Holocaust at Blockbuster either...
It's a reskinned AC2 (engine) with various WoW features added like mail and tons of quests (WoW quest limit = 25, LOTRO = 40 - and you can reach that by picking up quests in 2-3 areas). But other than monster play there is no PvP, for instance, so if you liked that aspect of AC1 then - sorry.
The point is that someone is making money off playing these records on the radio, from the advertising revenue, and they certainly aren't involved producing the vital ingredient; the singing the song or playing the piano. That was done by the original musicians.
The house holding my aparment was also built by someone. If I sell it at a profit, I am not supposed to pay those workers anything from those profits.
Copyright is a state-implemented limited monopoly set up in order to let an artist make money off his works for a short time before it reverts to public culture so that the artist has an incentive to create more. If you can make one hit and live off revenues from that for the rest of your life, you're just a lottery winner.
As I recall, it was readable to anyone using 1) an older version of Acrobat Reader without the feature, 2) Adobe Acrobat (where you could remove them), or 3) other PDF-viewers without the Adobe-specific feature, like Ghostscript/-view. Or using "strings" or the like in Unix I guess.
Security through application and version requirement.
While I understand your plight as a software writer, I really can't see a good reason for enacting 3rd strike rules and such for piracy.
Easy: It means more income for the prison industry, which exists to produce mad carreer criminals (aka. repeat customers) by way of saving money by locking people up in solitary confinement for 23 hours per day. They are released on parole when they start muttering "other people are insignificant insects".
Counterpoint: Licensed software revocation. Forgot to pay the yearly license cost in time? Remote halting of the software will be creeping in more and more. No-frills pirated version: No such threat.
No, they haven't yet managed to make it mandatory to spend your disposable income on entertainment industry products.
Why, only yesterday I saw someone walk into a music store, browse a little then leaving WITHOUT BUYING A CD! That's a loss to the industry that they should be PUNISHED for causing. People are passing by cinemas IN DROVES without filling the seats as they are supposed to. Remember, every empty isle in a theater means one less cocaine dose for our pampered stars!
Yeah, a simple destinationElement.innerHTML = "Loading..." before the call would do wonders. Some sites are nice enough to do that when employing AJAX. (BGG uses "Updating...")
That said, the biggest problem with AJAX is the same as with frames: They screw up the idea of bookmarking a page.
This is a suit doing the same eupheismology as when the negatively laden "downsizing" (which was still better than "decimating" I guess) was turned into "rightsizing". These days the negatively laden "offshoring" has also been substituted by "rightshoring".
So they need to come up with a term that starts with "right". "Rightlocking" sounds about right since you're locked to the industry's restrictions.
So: "Rightlocking". Remember, you read it first on/.
No, AIDS is not even remotely contagious enough to do the job. Influenza, typhoid fever ("Black Death" of Europe) etc. have killed far more over the centuries.
they have seriously jeopardized the incentive of pharmaceutical companies to produce useful drugs over the long term.
Yeah, because these sales would make or break the Merck company - NOT! You see, it is ALSO a drop in the bucket for Merck. They had sales of $22 billion in 2005, R&D was $3.85 billion out of $14.65 billion expenses (or 26%). Their drugs keep selling so I doubt they have been in the red since then.
The real issue here is whether a country has the right to define its own laws independent of pressure from corporations. And lo and behold, it has. It is also a question of market knowledge: Brazil are saying "you offered this lower price to Thailand, why not also to us? They have a higher GDP per capita and a lower percentage of people under the poverty line than us" and Merck didn't agree so Brazil shopped elsewhere. That's called free market.
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Another advantage is that with robotic pickers you can have greenhouses with far higher levels of (plant-boosting) CO2 than would be advisable for a human picker. So, a yield advantage as well.
In both Russia and China they took feudalism and wrote "communism" across it. You have an upper class (the party cadre - remember only 5% of Chinese are members of the party), a middle class of state-capitalist business men and administrators, and then you have the workers who, despite the promises of socialist and communist theory, have no power.
Cuba is only slightly different: There, a neo-feudal society based on large corporations and a brutal dictator (United Fruit and Batista) was overthrown, and society remade into something closer to "real" communism, but sadly they also erected a "revolution religion" with Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a worshipped saint. Also, there was a certain lack of the technology required for abundance. (Oh and then there was the U.S. boycot cutting off the largest market and subsidised sugar in Europe cutting off that market too.)
So: Successful communist societies: one, fictional: the Federation of Planets of the Star Trek movies. Just check Captain Picard's explanation in First Contact.
We want to keep some people down so that we may be kept up.
In an economy based on commerce, wages need to be different simply so that people who earn more can afford the goods produced by people who earn less since their wages form part of the price of the purchase.
So someone will be at the bottom of the heap.
(An aside: Communism "solves" this by putting a wedge between your needs (supplied by the collective) and your contributions (per your skills). However, humans being utterly fallible, these societies genrally fail because someone will inevitably exploit the system. Thus the best examples of communist society is found in fiction, like the money-less Federation of Planets in Star Trek.)
No problems expected unless they connect the fruit-picking robots to Skynet. "I am not a fruit! Aaargh!"
Because H.264 is better than H.263.
My RealPlayer for Mac installed a H.263 plugin to play it (but failed to install another plugin for 3GPP). So, not the same thing as the iPhone's H.264 streams then.
What? Will the iPhone turn cars into tree-huggers? Jobs' hippie past is still going strong it seems.
... is also "Adults Only" but stores still sell it. Go figure.
I think the retailers and society at large hasn't realized yet that the average gamer is 24 years old. They are still stuck in a Nintendo-induced "games are for kids" fantasy world. Even after Nintendo consoles got stuff like Conker's Bad Fur Day, the whole Biohazard/Resident Evil series, Eternal Darkness, that sword-fighter for the Wii etc.
Then again I guess you cannot find movies like Salo or Cannibal Holocaust at Blockbuster either...
You are 200 years off - try the 1500s not the 1300s.
It's a reskinned AC2 (engine) with various WoW features added like mail and tons of quests (WoW quest limit = 25, LOTRO = 40 - and you can reach that by picking up quests in 2-3 areas). But other than monster play there is no PvP, for instance, so if you liked that aspect of AC1 then - sorry.
You have Eclipse - so you could also try using the Improv C# plugin / E# plugin.
I am confused. Isn't Sweden the capital of Oslo and therefore a city?
Reminds me of the American difficulties with Austria and Australia.
The point is that someone is making money off playing these records on the radio, from the advertising revenue, and they certainly aren't involved producing the vital ingredient; the singing the song or playing the piano. That was done by the original musicians.
The house holding my aparment was also built by someone. If I sell it at a profit, I am not supposed to pay those workers anything from those profits.
Copyright is a state-implemented limited monopoly set up in order to let an artist make money off his works for a short time before it reverts to public culture so that the artist has an incentive to create more. If you can make one hit and live off revenues from that for the rest of your life, you're just a lottery winner.
As I recall, it was readable to anyone using 1) an older version of Acrobat Reader without the feature, 2) Adobe Acrobat (where you could remove them), or 3) other PDF-viewers without the Adobe-specific feature, like Ghostscript/-view. Or using "strings" or the like in Unix I guess.
Security through application and version requirement.
Yes - they used voiceboxes, obviously an entertainment industry device...
While I understand your plight as a software writer, I really can't see a good reason for enacting 3rd strike rules and such for piracy.
Easy: It means more income for the prison industry, which exists to produce mad carreer criminals (aka. repeat customers) by way of saving money by locking people up in solitary confinement for 23 hours per day. They are released on parole when they start muttering "other people are insignificant insects".
Counterpoint: Licensed software revocation. Forgot to pay the yearly license cost in time? Remote halting of the software will be creeping in more and more. No-frills pirated version: No such threat.
"Does this go too far?"
No, they haven't yet managed to make it mandatory to spend your disposable income on entertainment industry products.
Why, only yesterday I saw someone walk into a music store, browse a little then leaving WITHOUT BUYING A CD! That's a loss to the industry that they should be PUNISHED for causing. People are passing by cinemas IN DROVES without filling the seats as they are supposed to. Remember, every empty isle in a theater means one less cocaine dose for our pampered stars!
GPL manufacturers should be safe, unless they advertised that they help make stupid drivers smarter.
Is that a Slashdot variant of the Freudian slip?
GPS, man. GPL is something quite different.
Yeah, a simple destinationElement.innerHTML = "Loading..." before the call would do wonders. Some sites are nice enough to do that when employing AJAX. (BGG uses "Updating...")
That said, the biggest problem with AJAX is the same as with frames: They screw up the idea of bookmarking a page.
I thought the horse armor thing was downloadable content for the XBox 360 version of Oblivion and not the PC version?
This is a suit doing the same eupheismology as when the negatively laden "downsizing" (which was still better than "decimating" I guess) was turned into "rightsizing". These days the negatively laden "offshoring" has also been substituted by "rightshoring".
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So they need to come up with a term that starts with "right". "Rightlocking" sounds about right since you're locked to the industry's restrictions.
So: "Rightlocking". Remember, you read it first on
Yo! Did you read the comment to which you attached your reply post?
Yes, the one from an AC that had all the stuff I quoted? The one that wasn't written by you?
Just open my comment again, then click "parent". See?
Browse at -1 and stop getting confused, I say.
No, AIDS is not even remotely contagious enough to do the job. Influenza, typhoid fever ("Black Death" of Europe) etc. have killed far more over the centuries.
they have seriously jeopardized the incentive of pharmaceutical companies to produce useful drugs over the long term.
Yeah, because these sales would make or break the Merck company - NOT! You see, it is ALSO a drop in the bucket for Merck. They had sales of $22 billion in 2005, R&D was $3.85 billion out of $14.65 billion expenses (or 26%). Their drugs keep selling so I doubt they have been in the red since then.
The real issue here is whether a country has the right to define its own laws independent of pressure from corporations. And lo and behold, it has. It is also a question of market knowledge: Brazil are saying "you offered this lower price to Thailand, why not also to us? They have a higher GDP per capita and a lower percentage of people under the poverty line than us" and Merck didn't agree so Brazil shopped elsewhere. That's called free market.