You must be talking about the ads with Smilin' Bob for some 'natural male enhancement' product that airs just about every 15 minutes locally on a specific channel. Funny thing is, I can remember the horrid music and the rediculous, stupid face, but I can't remember the name of the product.
I believe you are absolutely right. Seriously right. All one has to do is remember - just how many students have we lost to unexpected school fires over the years? This isn't a problem. Period. They're *inventing* a problem that has never existed in order to justify their insanity.
I'm agreeing with you- not directly, but in pointing out that "because you are using something else" has nothing to do with MySQL in and of itself. I share your sentiment that the article is rather lacking in many respects.
I don't know that Hitler was a "devout" Christian, but I do seem to remember that he used "God's will," at least at some level, to justify his actions against the Jews. This is one of the inherent dangers of religion - it can be (and has been) used to justify anything, no matter how heinous.
Kids love to think differently (or love to *think* they think differently) from their parents, and Linux would be a great way to "rebel" against the established guard. Unfortunately, many kids use PCs for gaming, and that's a hard nut to crack, since the whole gaming thing offers a means of separation all its own.
Software itself violates the free market. For an item to have value, it must have utility and scarcity.
Those economic models were developed before the advent of many of the more recent technological advances. They refer to consumable goods. Software is not a consumable good, but that does not mean that is is not without value. That value comes in when you consider how it enables a user to accomplish something he/she could not accomplish without it. I think it's very misleading to suggest that just because software doesn't share the scarcity of a consumable resource, that it doesn't have value.
Absolutely - they think every keypad (including a keyboard) is a substitute for their cell phone, and that everyone reading it is just as clueless as they are. Kids who can write sentences that are grammatically correct and are spelled correctly are by far the exception these days.
It never occurred to me, but when I played Lineage II (and I'm sure even WoW to an extent), they have trades or skills you can learn - one is typically chemist or alchemist. What he's doing here isn't necessarily anything new, it's just that the names of the elements have been changed from various roots, body parts, herbs, metals, and magic, to those directly related to the periodic table. Just the same, re-packaging the idea for education in real-life chemistry is an interesting twist.
No, in this game, the big boss kills you - through all the soul-leaching, mindless, bureaucratic, pointless nonsense that comes rolling down from the top. Once you've submitted (or have been properly assimilated) you can move to the next level.
This is funny - I've been asked for ID several times, and some of those for whom I chose not to provide it, would not allow the purchase. I believe Best Buy was one of them. Next time will be fun...
Theft requires you to actually take something from someone
No it doesn't. Theft can (and is) defined in various ways - it basically gets down to depriving a rightful owner of something that is due. Ever heard of theft of service? This can happen when you dump your truckload of garbage into someone else's dumpster, tap into a cable feed without paying for it, or any of several other means of gaining undue benefit.
I am not a fan the MAFIAA (by even the furthest stretch of the imagination) - but I do think people need to realize that as long as this process continues, they *will* have a case for seeking all kinds of remedy through new and increasingly restrictive laws.
By raising the cost (i.e. the hassle, the legil peril, the hardware requirements, the software expertise, etc.) of copying, and of receiving copies, above the price of retail media, they'll solve the problem enough.
That's will be an ongoing challenge, since at the same time they're trying to increase the cost of copying, they also have to overcome the tremendous wave of crap they've managed to continue dumping into the market. I envision one of those two-headed Escher-esque snakes.
I would certainly agree with the notion of prior art. Much of the foundation of what we work with on the OS level (at least for the better OSs) was well in place by the time Bill Gates started hacking DOS.
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You must be talking about the ads with Smilin' Bob for some 'natural male enhancement' product that airs just about every 15 minutes locally on a specific channel. Funny thing is, I can remember the horrid music and the rediculous, stupid face, but I can't remember the name of the product.
I hate Java.
Why? Seriously.
That must mean that Bill Gates the biggest genius of all time.
I believe you are absolutely right. Seriously right. All one has to do is remember - just how many students have we lost to unexpected school fires over the years? This isn't a problem. Period. They're *inventing* a problem that has never existed in order to justify their insanity.
I'm agreeing with you- not directly, but in pointing out that "because you are using something else" has nothing to do with MySQL in and of itself. I share your sentiment that the article is rather lacking in many respects.
If you read a little further you'll discover that a reason not to use MYSQL is because you're already using something else. um, DUH?
It was the stuff that great myths are made of, and they share a quality of timelessness.
...that they knew what horse piss tasted like.
Try physically impossible. You can't list what isn't there.
I don't know that Hitler was a "devout" Christian, but I do seem to remember that he used "God's will," at least at some level, to justify his actions against the Jews. This is one of the inherent dangers of religion - it can be (and has been) used to justify anything, no matter how heinous.
Kids love to think differently (or love to *think* they think differently) from their parents, and Linux would be a great way to "rebel" against the established guard. Unfortunately, many kids use PCs for gaming, and that's a hard nut to crack, since the whole gaming thing offers a means of separation all its own.
....a slight name change: MicroSCOft.
Software itself violates the free market. For an item to have value, it must have utility and scarcity.
Those economic models were developed before the advent of many of the more recent technological advances. They refer to consumable goods. Software is not a consumable good, but that does not mean that is is not without value. That value comes in when you consider how it enables a user to accomplish something he/she could not accomplish without it. I think it's very misleading to suggest that just because software doesn't share the scarcity of a consumable resource, that it doesn't have value.
Absolutely - they think every keypad (including a keyboard) is a substitute for their cell phone, and that everyone reading it is just as clueless as they are. Kids who can write sentences that are grammatically correct and are spelled correctly are by far the exception these days.
It never occurred to me, but when I played Lineage II (and I'm sure even WoW to an extent), they have trades or skills you can learn - one is typically chemist or alchemist. What he's doing here isn't necessarily anything new, it's just that the names of the elements have been changed from various roots, body parts, herbs, metals, and magic, to those directly related to the periodic table. Just the same, re-packaging the idea for education in real-life chemistry is an interesting twist.
No, in this game, the big boss kills you - through all the soul-leaching, mindless, bureaucratic, pointless nonsense that comes rolling down from the top. Once you've submitted (or have been properly assimilated) you can move to the next level.
Put rather succinctly...
Microsoft to Google: "My pee pee is bigger than your pee pee."
Actually, it's a great reason to continue using Microsoft word.
This is funny - I've been asked for ID several times, and some of those for whom I chose not to provide it, would not allow the purchase. I believe Best Buy was one of them. Next time will be fun...
Theft requires you to actually take something from someone
No it doesn't. Theft can (and is) defined in various ways - it basically gets down to depriving a rightful owner of something that is due. Ever heard of theft of service? This can happen when you dump your truckload of garbage into someone else's dumpster, tap into a cable feed without paying for it, or any of several other means of gaining undue benefit.
I am not a fan the MAFIAA (by even the furthest stretch of the imagination) - but I do think people need to realize that as long as this process continues, they *will* have a case for seeking all kinds of remedy through new and increasingly restrictive laws.
How do you roast? A roaster? A popcorn popper? Stove-top?
Don't you need a vent for smoke produced by the roasting?
By raising the cost (i.e. the hassle, the legil peril, the hardware requirements, the software expertise, etc.) of copying, and of receiving copies, above the price of retail media, they'll solve the problem enough.
That's will be an ongoing challenge, since at the same time they're trying to increase the cost of copying, they also have to overcome the tremendous wave of crap they've managed to continue dumping into the market. I envision one of those two-headed Escher-esque snakes.
...they're patented?
I would certainly agree with the notion of prior art. Much of the foundation of what we work with on the OS level (at least for the better OSs) was well in place by the time Bill Gates started hacking DOS.