So the game publishers should first get rid of DRM and secure more sales. They can't force me to buy, but they can make me want to buy. How? That's what marketing departments are for.
It's all about information distribution channels. Read about the outcry of book publishers and some authors about public libraries in the beginning of the 20th century -- same arguments as today. Should a writer publish a book which anyone can read for free? Where is the profit in this? Well, the profit is, of course, that people in districts with public libraries buy more books. You cannot print and sell a book that you have no right to distribute but it is OK to lend it thus distributing the knowledge. To give a friend a copy the book is also OK in my book (pun intended) because of three reasons (all of them apply to music as well): -- I'd most likely give or take the whole book for some time instead of buying a new copy if it is not possible to copy it. -- If a person likes the copy it will more likely buy a new book from the same author. -- No author or publisher can strongarm me to buy their book -- they have to convince me, make me want to buy it. Called marketing it is. I am much less likely to purchase a book if the publisher is copyright-crazy or plain greedy.
Same applies to modern media -- the author is the only person who should decide how to sell his work but good luck forbidding sharing. You'll shot yourself in the foot anyway. If you create a product that can easily be copied than it will be copied. You can try and fight it, you can try and profit from it. Your call. Don't like the distribution media? Make live concerts only. Couldn't care less.
To make it clear -- I am strongly opposed of the people that illegally make profits from other's hard work. Only the author has the right to decide who sells his works and (e.g. with software) on what conditions a copy should be used to earn money. But sharing involves no financial gain for anyone and therefore the author doesn't actually lose anything -- in fact you get free publicity and expose which will more than cover any theoretical loss you might have suffered from sharing.
According to Wikipedia article you have submitted the cockpit was accessible. One of crew members has even tried to take control over the plane. Didn't help. Kind of a weak case to show "non-reinforced doors could've prevented this".
There is one and only way to deal with plane hi-jacking: enforced cockpit doors and strict instructions to the pilot: fly to your destination no matter what happens with passengers. In fact, after 9/11 major flight companies have adopted such rules. Actually, they have adopted rules that were in effect in USSR for decades (US was the loudest to cry about immorality of such rules back then, by the way).
Well, Dell sells some models with Ubuntu preinstalled. For some time there'd been a link to Dell's offerings on ubuntu homepage. But yes, more computers with Ubuntu preinstalled (and approved by Canonical) would be nice.
Well, strong motor and chassis, good tires, suspension, tough bumper let you drive over one of the two problems. But then again, there are also roads on the way.
Fish rot from the head down. A government goes to war over nonexistent WMD's and gets away with it, soldiers lie about weapons to get permission to kill a group of people and then those who tries to help the wounded.
Well, I thik, rossdee meant that smart people are more aware of dangers of smoking and therefore less likely to start smoking at all. And if you don't pick up smoking, you'll never get addicted.
Well, if that's Central Texas you have to drive around the block to find a neighbour who is incapable of enabling encryprion on his/her wi-fi router and do it from them.
Right now, the solution is to change the wheelbase under the wagons on the borders of Belarus and Ukraine, but it takes an hour at best (rail carts are no formula one bolids). But if you bild a whole new railway, you can standartize on track width or build a Dual gauge in the first place.
What's with plausible deniability in that case? Like: "I got that as a change from the cafeteria (or other place), no idea whose it is." If a data on the stick is encrypted with TrueCrypt, does that give you a Double Plausible Deniability bonus?
Even if it does look weird under an X-ray (which I doubt), the coin in question is more likely shielded by other coins in the purse. Besides, airport securities tend to look at a e.g. jacket as a whole, for knifes, guns and such -- bigger objects; who will ever look for a weird coin in a purse in a jacket?
Any distro will do, provided you are familiar with it and it works with the hardware. My now 60-years-old parents were using gentoo once, completely oblivious of the complexity of that system. You may even tell them that this is a new version of Windows (my favorite one, I show and explain newbies all the killer features of a linux distro (packet management, middle-click-paste etc. and tell them in a week or so, that this was linux all the time).
From TFA: "To regain control of their PCs, users were told to boot from their Windows XP installation disc, launch the Recovery Console and enter a series of commands."
For governmental use open-source is preferable even if it initially costs more -- you end up paying to your local software support and programmers, creating more jobs, supporting local IT industry and, most important, contributing to own GDP. Money payed for foreign company is money lost for your country, while money payed to local developers stays and works.
So, the US government has terrorist intelligence in its power, demands access to European bank data and threatens to cut off the cooperation on terrorist intelligence (which may result in death of many people*) if its demands are not meat. This is a well-known tactics used by several smaller organizations and groups around the globe. Can't recall the name of a prominent one though... Al-Qsomething...
* I don't believe that US' intelligence is useful (e.g. WMD), nor do I believe in terrorism fear-mongering, nor do I want to give up my rights for this -- free society has a price which I am ready to accept.
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Without sharing most of these half million people would be unaware of the piece at all including those who would buy it.
So the game publishers should first get rid of DRM and secure more sales.
They can't force me to buy, but they can make me want to buy. How? That's what marketing departments are for.
It's all about information distribution channels. Read about the outcry of book publishers and some authors about public libraries in the beginning of the 20th century -- same arguments as today. Should a writer publish a book which anyone can read for free? Where is the profit in this?
Well, the profit is, of course, that people in districts with public libraries buy more books. You cannot print and sell a book that you have no right to distribute but it is OK to lend it thus distributing the knowledge. To give a friend a copy the book is also OK in my book (pun intended) because of three reasons (all of them apply to music as well):
-- I'd most likely give or take the whole book for some time instead of buying a new copy if it is not possible to copy it.
-- If a person likes the copy it will more likely buy a new book from the same author.
-- No author or publisher can strongarm me to buy their book -- they have to convince me, make me want to buy it. Called marketing it is. I am much less likely to purchase a book if the publisher is copyright-crazy or plain greedy.
Same applies to modern media -- the author is the only person who should decide how to sell his work but good luck forbidding sharing. You'll shot yourself in the foot anyway.
If you create a product that can easily be copied than it will be copied. You can try and fight it, you can try and profit from it. Your call. Don't like the distribution media? Make live concerts only. Couldn't care less.
To make it clear -- I am strongly opposed of the people that illegally make profits from other's hard work. Only the author has the right to decide who sells his works and (e.g. with software) on what conditions a copy should be used to earn money. But sharing involves no financial gain for anyone and therefore the author doesn't actually lose anything -- in fact you get free publicity and expose which will more than cover any theoretical loss you might have suffered from sharing.
According to Wikipedia article you have submitted the cockpit was accessible. One of crew members has even tried to take control over the plane. Didn't help. Kind of a weak case to show "non-reinforced doors could've prevented this".
There is one and only way to deal with plane hi-jacking: enforced cockpit doors and strict instructions to the pilot: fly to your destination no matter what happens with passengers.
In fact, after 9/11 major flight companies have adopted such rules. Actually, they have adopted rules that were in effect in USSR for decades (US was the loudest to cry about immorality of such rules back then, by the way).
Second that. Sound surprisingly reasonable. Hope that more states and countries follow.
Well, Dell sells some models with Ubuntu preinstalled. For some time there'd been a link to Dell's offerings on ubuntu homepage. But yes, more computers with Ubuntu preinstalled (and approved by Canonical) would be nice.
DWB... FWN... WTF?
Well, strong motor and chassis, good tires, suspension, tough bumper let you drive over one of the two problems. But then again, there are also roads on the way.
Land of the free and home of the brave!..
Who says they're on?
Fish rot from the head down. A government goes to war over nonexistent WMD's and gets away with it, soldiers lie about weapons to get permission to kill a group of people and then those who tries to help the wounded.
Well, I thik, rossdee meant that smart people are more aware of dangers of smoking and therefore less likely to start smoking at all. And if you don't pick up smoking, you'll never get addicted.
What book? Sounds like an interesting read...
Well, if that's Central Texas you have to drive around the block to find a neighbour who is incapable of enabling encryprion on his/her wi-fi router and do it from them.
Right now, the solution is to change the wheelbase under the wagons on the borders of Belarus and Ukraine, but it takes an hour at best (rail carts are no formula one bolids).
But if you bild a whole new railway, you can standartize on track width or build a Dual gauge in the first place.
What's with plausible deniability in that case? Like: "I got that as a change from the cafeteria (or other place), no idea whose it is." If a data on the stick is encrypted with TrueCrypt, does that give you a Double Plausible Deniability bonus?
Even if it does look weird under an X-ray (which I doubt), the coin in question is more likely shielded by other coins in the purse. Besides, airport securities tend to look at a e.g. jacket as a whole, for knifes, guns and such -- bigger objects; who will ever look for a weird coin in a purse in a jacket?
on a related note, I can see Dalai Lama in links2. The picture is not scaled though.
Any distro will do, provided you are familiar with it and it works with the hardware. My now 60-years-old parents were using gentoo once, completely oblivious of the complexity of that system. You may even tell them that this is a new version of Windows (my favorite one, I show and explain newbies all the killer features of a linux distro (packet management, middle-click-paste etc. and tell them in a week or so, that this was linux all the time).
From TFA: "To regain control of their PCs, users were told to boot from their Windows XP installation disc, launch the Recovery Console and enter a series of commands."
STOP COPYING LINUX ALREADY!
Good idea, besides, it's not like such thing hasn't been done by others before.
For governmental use open-source is preferable even if it initially costs more -- you end up paying to your local software support and programmers, creating more jobs, supporting local IT industry and, most important, contributing to own GDP. Money payed for foreign company is money lost for your country, while money payed to local developers stays and works.
sudo make me a sandwich
So, the US government has terrorist intelligence in its power, demands access to European bank data and threatens to cut off the cooperation on terrorist intelligence (which may result in death of many people*) if its demands are not meat.
This is a well-known tactics used by several smaller organizations and groups around the globe. Can't recall the name of a prominent one though... Al-Qsomething...
* I don't believe that US' intelligence is useful (e.g. WMD), nor do I believe in terrorism fear-mongering, nor do I want to give up my rights for this -- free society has a price which I am ready to accept.