When I see someone saying "the choice is gone", I see it as a cop-out. The choice is certainly made more difficult, but any way you cut it, it is still there, and the addict is the only one who can choose to change the outcome.
As someone who has quit smoking, I am reminded (sometimes daily) how hard it is to overcome the addiction as I still feel the pull. But no one can quit smoking for me just as no one can quit playing a game for a game addict.
You can even argue that, for some, even removing one addiction by force will just result in development of another. However, once an addiction is overcome by the individual, I think it more likely they can see how an alternate addiction could bring them back to the same low as the previous as they would have learned from their experience.
Right, because law is word so well that there is no ambiguity or variation and there is absolutely no interpretation done. Heck we might as well hire monkeys who can type into a computer to pull up the exact law that decides each case every time. No need for anyone with any experience or anything.
Not only that, but how many papers and other news outlets have more content just picked up from AP then they provide to AP? Something like that means that some outlets are being carried more by others and the few good researchers/reporters are getting screwed.
Does society really need to be burdened with the cost of having 30-50 people at a press release when only a small handful will actually ask any questions and the rest are going to just release the same story with a couple of opinions added?
The choice is always yours. In most addiction counseling, the person is the one who makes the choice to change. No once can force that change on you even if they want. All they can do is support you making good choices.
usually I let people continue to misunderstand.
Second Life, poorly worded product as it is, is more akin to a web hosting service with a built in 3D interface.
Some people make/play games, some socialize, and some conduct real business (just like they do via webpages, email, skype, webex...).
So, what do people do, just mull around on the internet, and spend real money to do it?
There fixed that for ya.
And yes, lots of people spend lots of money on websites, consulting, webpage making and such, which all takes place within a browser (or skype, whatever). Why would an extension of internet into a 3D space be any different?
I think, though that it is more about helping improve the software. If the company doesn't contribute at all to the project, then I would agree with your point, but the dual licensed code that I usually see, the company makes the significant investment initially in creating and starting the project and generally contributes the most on a regular basis.
In that case, as a contributor, your payment is actually paid upfront in being able to view source and use the code (sometimes at no cost). Those who don't contribute at that point are freeloading on the project, which is fine as long as the community behind the project is OK with it.
I don't see anywhere that says upgrading to Windows 7 is going to require a clean install. The only thing that came close was the article last week where Microsoft said they wanted people to clean install the RC instead of trying to upgrade to the RC from the Windows 7 beta.
Also, don't most people want to do a clean install of a major OS version?
While this is obviously april fools, something like this could introduce some useful feedback to page creators. Confusion, anger and frustration could help them fix those stories broken across 6 pages with a million ads.
"Sure, he was whipsmart and could churn out code that saved the company millions"
is likely negated by the risk produced by:
wears T-shirts with offensive slogans, insults female co-workers
What good is saving the company millions if its likely to be taken away or spent on lawsuits.
It is likely even greater risk because they are allowing it to happen, so they might lose many multiple of what they could save with this guy's supposed 'irreplaceable genius'.
also children either don't have money or have no method of transfering it via the internet (no credit card unless their parents let them use it).
citation please?
according to this, kids don't seem to have any trouble spending online. Also, my wife plays some of those games on myspace/facebook and she's 30, so I don't think that's the issue. She only plays the free versions though, because we have other things we'd rather spend the money on. There are always going to be people who bitch about the price, they'll even sign petitions to make things free because it doesn't cost them anything to try (at least in the short run). But, if the value received is reasonable, there will be those that will pay, and you will just have to determine if there are enough to support your business. If not, then you need to come up with a new business model. Sometimes, something as simple as switching from a renewing monthly subscription to a non-renewing annual fee is enough to sway a market one way or another.
Not that I'm for this or anything, but the guy does mention the 2 checks in the system:
The ISP would then contact its user and warn them that they were breaking the law, advise them not to do it again
I agree with the proposition that users should be able to flag to an independent adjudicator anything they regard as mistaken evidence
also, he mentions that it is the 'right holder' that identifies IP addresses through the filesharing system, not the governement or anything so I'm not sure how its "Big Brother".
Having said that, I don't think its the appropriate way to handle copyright infringement.
There is so much wrong with this. You have the legal right to a court appointed lawyer so the government can't convict you of a crime without at least some chance of defending yourself. But not in civil suits, so any company with considerable money can sue you in to oblivion without a chance of defending yourself. So basically it just boils down to who has enough cash to last longest.
Wouldn't something like this be required because the EU has laws against tracking IP and content.
Also, you wouldn't want someone to try and inject alternative data in the shared file.
If you install a P2P program of course you have to let them use your bandwidth, and according to the article, it stops sharing shortly after you stop watching.
I'm all for making sure companies aren't taking advantage of people, but isn't P2P for video a good thing?
Your assuming they aren't working those 3 months. There is a lot of training, curriculum planning and other stuff going on. It may not be as intense as the 9 month school year, but they also work a lot more 40 hour weeks during those 9 months
Add to that a quote from that same study makes your argument a little weak:
The need to sustain the gains made in 2006-07 becomes even clearer when teacher pay is compared with that list of 23 comparable professional occupations. Although this gap improved slightly in 2006-07, teachers still were earning only 70 cents for every dollar earned by these other professionals.
What about international calls to and from Americans *in* America?
I believe the 4th Amendment still applies to them.
If no warrant is needed, who knows who they listening to, and whether they have the right to listen. Even if it isn't being used against Citizens now, who would know if they started doing it later?
Sure, but then why is CS special compared to other engineering fields which the article explicitly points out.
What's particularly puzzling is that the explanations for under-representation of women that were assembled back in 1991 applied to all technical fields. Yet women have achieved broad parity with men in almost every other technical pursuit. When all science and engineering fields are considered, the percentage of bachelor's degree recipients who are women has improved to 51 percent in 2004-5 from 39 percent in 1984-85, according to National Science Foundation surveys.
What's particularly puzzling is that the explanations for under-representation of women that were assembled back in 1991 applied to all technical fields. Yet women have achieved broad parity with men in almost every other technical pursuit. When all science and engineering fields are considered, the percentage of bachelor's degree recipients who are women has improved to 51 percent in 2004-5 from 39 percent in 1984-85, according to National Science Foundation surveys.
Sure seems that women are interested in Engineering, but something specific about CS is either not enticing or is repelling.
Women prefer good pay and healthy lifestyles more where men prefer interesting work more. Thus...
Really? Tell me how this explains how a majority of Elementary educators are female. And don't say that its the money...
My wife is a teacher and she has to work long hours (grading papers or meeting with parents after working hours, participating in mandatory unpaid training sessions), and while teaching requires a significant time on her feet there isn't an enormous amount of exercise involved.
Thus... I think your argument lacks significant evidence.
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When I see someone saying "the choice is gone", I see it as a cop-out. The choice is certainly made more difficult, but any way you cut it, it is still there, and the addict is the only one who can choose to change the outcome.
As someone who has quit smoking, I am reminded (sometimes daily) how hard it is to overcome the addiction as I still feel the pull. But no one can quit smoking for me just as no one can quit playing a game for a game addict.
You can even argue that, for some, even removing one addiction by force will just result in development of another. However, once an addiction is overcome by the individual, I think it more likely they can see how an alternate addiction could bring them back to the same low as the previous as they would have learned from their experience.
Right, because law is word so well that there is no ambiguity or variation and there is absolutely no interpretation done. Heck we might as well hire monkeys who can type into a computer to pull up the exact law that decides each case every time. No need for anyone with any experience or anything.
At least read the surrounding text where the quote was taken. If then you still feel she's biased beyond credibility so be it, but don't take the media's word for it. Of course they wouldn't blow it up to sell papers or ads... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15judge.text.html?_r=2&pagewanted=print
Not only that, but how many papers and other news outlets have more content just picked up from AP then they provide to AP? Something like that means that some outlets are being carried more by others and the few good researchers/reporters are getting screwed.
Does society really need to be burdened with the cost of having 30-50 people at a press release when only a small handful will actually ask any questions and the rest are going to just release the same story with a couple of opinions added?
With addiction, the choice is gone.
The choice is always yours. In most addiction counseling, the person is the one who makes the choice to change. No once can force that change on you even if they want. All they can do is support you making good choices.
it's a game ... it's barely a game.
usually I let people continue to misunderstand.
Second Life, poorly worded product as it is, is more akin to a web hosting service with a built in 3D interface.
Some people make/play games, some socialize, and some conduct real business (just like they do via webpages, email, skype, webex...).
So, what do people do, just mull around on the internet, and spend real money to do it?
There fixed that for ya.
And yes, lots of people spend lots of money on websites, consulting, webpage making and such, which all takes place within a browser (or skype, whatever). Why would an extension of internet into a 3D space be any different?
I think, though that it is more about helping improve the software. If the company doesn't contribute at all to the project, then I would agree with your point, but the dual licensed code that I usually see, the company makes the significant investment initially in creating and starting the project and generally contributes the most on a regular basis. In that case, as a contributor, your payment is actually paid upfront in being able to view source and use the code (sometimes at no cost). Those who don't contribute at that point are freeloading on the project, which is fine as long as the community behind the project is OK with it.
I don't see anywhere that says upgrading to Windows 7 is going to require a clean install. The only thing that came close was the article last week where Microsoft said they wanted people to clean install the RC instead of trying to upgrade to the RC from the Windows 7 beta .
Also, don't most people want to do a clean install of a major OS version?
That's because most cows only have a 1 byte counter in them.
You have to get the ones that were abducted (but not eaten) by aliens which have been upgraded.
While this is obviously april fools, something like this could introduce some useful feedback to page creators. Confusion, anger and frustration could help them fix those stories broken across 6 pages with a million ads.
It might be easier if you ask them who paid BEFORE they are swinging from the rope. Unless you plan on hanging them by their ankles.
is likely negated by the risk produced by:
What good is saving the company millions if its likely to be taken away or spent on lawsuits.
It is likely even greater risk because they are allowing it to happen, so they might lose many multiple of what they could save with this guy's supposed 'irreplaceable genius'.
also children either don't have money or have no method of transfering it via the internet (no credit card unless their parents let them use it).
citation please?
according to this, kids don't seem to have any trouble spending online. Also, my wife plays some of those games on myspace/facebook and she's 30, so I don't think that's the issue. She only plays the free versions though, because we have other things we'd rather spend the money on.
There are always going to be people who bitch about the price, they'll even sign petitions to make things free because it doesn't cost them anything to try (at least in the short run). But, if the value received is reasonable, there will be those that will pay, and you will just have to determine if there are enough to support your business.
If not, then you need to come up with a new business model. Sometimes, something as simple as switching from a renewing monthly subscription to a non-renewing annual fee is enough to sway a market one way or another.
The ISP would then contact its user and warn them that they were breaking the law, advise them not to do it again
I agree with the proposition that users should be able to flag to an independent adjudicator anything they regard as mistaken evidence
also, he mentions that it is the 'right holder' that identifies IP addresses through the filesharing system, not the governement or anything so I'm not sure how its "Big Brother".
Having said that, I don't think its the appropriate way to handle copyright infringement.
But can you afford to litigate to find out?
There is so much wrong with this.
You have the legal right to a court appointed lawyer so the government can't convict you of a crime without at least some chance of defending yourself.
But not in civil suits, so any company with considerable money can sue you in to oblivion without a chance of defending yourself.
So basically it just boils down to who has enough cash to last longest.
There's gotta be a better way.
I'm sure most are safe, given the number of people that RTFA (which at worst is 10 pages with 1 paragraph each).
Wouldn't something like this be required because the EU has laws against tracking IP and content. Also, you wouldn't want someone to try and inject alternative data in the shared file. If you install a P2P program of course you have to let them use your bandwidth, and according to the article, it stops sharing shortly after you stop watching. I'm all for making sure companies aren't taking advantage of people, but isn't P2P for video a good thing?
Add to that a quote from that same study makes your argument a little weak:
The need to sustain the gains made in 2006-07 becomes even clearer when teacher pay is compared with that list of 23 comparable professional occupations. Although this gap improved slightly in 2006-07, teachers still were earning only 70 cents for every dollar earned by these other professionals.
What about international calls to and from Americans *in* America?
I believe the 4th Amendment still applies to them.
If no warrant is needed, who knows who they listening to, and whether they have the right to listen. Even if it isn't being used against Citizens now, who would know if they started doing it later?
What's particularly puzzling is that the explanations for under-representation of women that were assembled back in 1991 applied to all technical fields. Yet women have achieved broad parity with men in almost every other technical pursuit. When all science and engineering fields are considered, the percentage of bachelor's degree recipients who are women has improved to 51 percent in 2004-5 from 39 percent in 1984-85, according to National Science Foundation surveys.
What's particularly puzzling is that the explanations for under-representation of women that were assembled back in 1991 applied to all technical fields. Yet women have achieved broad parity with men in almost every other technical pursuit. When all science and engineering fields are considered, the percentage of bachelor's degree recipients who are women has improved to 51 percent in 2004-5 from 39 percent in 1984-85, according to National Science Foundation surveys.
Sure seems that women are interested in Engineering, but something specific about CS is either not enticing or is repelling.
Women prefer good pay and healthy lifestyles more where men prefer interesting work more. Thus...
Really? Tell me how this explains how a majority of Elementary educators are female. And don't say that its the money... My wife is a teacher and she has to work long hours (grading papers or meeting with parents after working hours, participating in mandatory unpaid training sessions), and while teaching requires a significant time on her feet there isn't an enormous amount of exercise involved. Thus... I think your argument lacks significant evidence.
if you follow the link, that is precisely what the guy did. Then after the cop showed up, he refused to show his license and then got arrested.
3. Wetware
they are not hazardous and you can even buy them today.
The Wikipedia article seems to disagree due to rotor explosion. Anything rotating at 60 - 200 kRPM sounds at least potentially hazardous.
Whether its more hazardous then an UltraCap rapid discharge or battery explosion, well I'll leave that to others to test.