That's what I thought, you could definitely gather some excellent stats from a root DNS, and that info would be good for determining a website's traffic without having to contact the website themselves.
This may be a stupid question, but what does $435 in 10,000 quantities even mean?
I either get 10,000 of them for $435 (working out to about 4 cents each) or they cost $435 each with a minimum buy of 10,000 (total spend: $4,350,000). These seem incredibly cheap and incredibly expensive respectively. Am I interpreting it wrong?
Easy, someone who knows you searched for you by name or email, or they invited you to join. You may not have seen the invitation (it could have been caught by your spam filter) but they recorded your address anyway.
Do you think the software developers would have to explain when SSL traffic begins to be shaped en mass...
They aren't getting shaped, it's the delay you experience while the ISP is cracking the encyption to make sure you aren't breaking the law.
This seems to be a very common thread in pro-piracy posts:
Most movies these days are crap
When they learn to pay everyone properly, I'll buy each and every one of my movies
And I still think their music was much better than today's crap.
Maybe if they made media that didn't suck...
I will never spend money on Spiderman 3 because it was just a bad movie
Just because you don't think something is worth the retail price does not make it OK to download it for free. How other people run their business is up to them and I personally don't see why that should have any bearing on your decision to buy whatever they're selling and if you don't think that their product/movie/music is worth your money the solution is simple: Don't buy it!
What about media that is grossly overpriced because of $organisation? Do you go down to $store, look for $product, decide that it costs too much and then just steal it? Didn't think so. You have to weigh up the costs vs the value of the product yourself. "Is this movie worth my $xxx? No? Then I'll go without." Being too cheap to pay store prices (either online or brick-and-mortar) doesn't give you a licence to steal.
copying digital media does not deprive the creator Maybe not, but it does make it easier for people to get $media for free, that's how p2p works. This devalues the product simply because supply becomes >= demand.
I don't want to wade in to a discussion about copyright periods being too long or "what about $media that I can't get because of $excuse". Just accept that what you're doing is illegal and that artists who create works are being paid less and less because of it.
If someone isn't going to pay the $3 for downloading a 700 MB ISO for Ubuntu......we go back to the '80s style of paying for crappy software rather then just downloading it.
+5: Implication that Ubuntu is crappy software
Perspective is a very powerful thing. If you know nothing else, it's near impossible to even wonder about how it could be better.
For example, remember when the N64 was new and GoldenEye was the best game ever? I back to GoldenEye every now and then and I wonder how I could ever understand the writing or make out the other players from the background. I've just gotten used to "better" graphics.
Can you imagine a colour that we haven't discovered?
That said, I wouldn't volunteer my children or myself.
As a developer, shouldn't you be trying to make your sites better for us?
Why should we install/use something just to make your job easier? What about people who don't run windows?
Because a lot of the people who pirate, wouldn't have bought the stuff in the first place. This is a flawed argument.
The crack addict who's scampering away with my TV is allowed to take it, that's not theft because he wouldn't have used his money to buy one in the first place.
Statistics in context, please. $44.3B is what percent of overall profit/revenue?
And you're comparing that to the BOTTOM half of all income tax payers? I don't know about the US tax laws, but in Australia they have a "Tax free" bracket (if you earn X per year). Meaning that some of the bottom half of all income tax payers are paying absolutley no tax at all.
I'm not trying to say that the oil companies aren't paying tax, it just doesn't make sence to throw numbers around with no reasonable benchmark.
1. "How would YOU like it if..." (fairness) MyBytes lets you choose whether the songs you create are "free" or "restricted". This has no effect on whether other users can download/remix/use your song. You can then see how many people are paying for (or not) the use of your song.
From http://www.mybytes.com/help.html
All users have the choice to either pay or not pay credits for songs they take, just like in real life. You'll get to see if other users like your tracks, and if they're giving you credit for using your creation. That sounds like "How would YOU like it if..."
There isn't even an option to use the old format we needed, it is simply not there anymore. Try 'save as' and use the '97-2003 Format' option.
They did not improve a single part of it - instead they just moved everything around. This is a half truth, they did move everything around, but there is now massively more functionality. Less emphasis is put on drop down menus (File, Edit, View etc). As for functionality in excel for example, one of the most useful things IMO is conditional formatting (eg: shade green if > 100)
I beleive you can get updates for office 2003 which makes it "forward compatible" with 2007.
Finally, I work in a medium sized business (roughly 50 users), we use Sharepoint and Office 2007. There has been a great deal of learning going on but overall, a vast improvement.
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That's what I thought, you could definitely gather some excellent stats from a root DNS, and that info would be good for determining a website's traffic without having to contact the website themselves.
This may be a stupid question, but what does $435 in 10,000 quantities even mean?
I either get 10,000 of them for $435 (working out to about 4 cents each) or they cost $435 each with a minimum buy of 10,000 (total spend: $4,350,000). These seem incredibly cheap and incredibly expensive respectively. Am I interpreting it wrong?
Easy, someone who knows you searched for you by name or email, or they invited you to join. You may not have seen the invitation (it could have been caught by your spam filter) but they recorded your address anyway.
They aren't getting shaped, it's the delay you experience while the ISP is cracking the encyption to make sure you aren't breaking the law.
Most movies these days are crap When they learn to pay everyone properly, I'll buy each and every one of my movies And I still think their music was much better than today's crap. Maybe if they made media that didn't suck... I will never spend money on Spiderman 3 because it was just a bad movie
Just because you don't think something is worth the retail price does not make it OK to download it for free. How other people run their business is up to them and I personally don't see why that should have any bearing on your decision to buy whatever they're selling and if you don't think that their product/movie/music is worth your money the solution is simple: Don't buy it!
What about media that is grossly overpriced because of $organisation? Do you go down to $store, look for $product, decide that it costs too much and then just steal it? Didn't think so. You have to weigh up the costs vs the value of the product yourself. "Is this movie worth my $xxx? No? Then I'll go without." Being too cheap to pay store prices (either online or brick-and-mortar) doesn't give you a licence to steal.
copying digital media does not deprive the creator Maybe not, but it does make it easier for people to get $media for free, that's how p2p works. This devalues the product simply because supply becomes >= demand.
I don't want to wade in to a discussion about copyright periods being too long or "what about $media that I can't get because of $excuse". Just accept that what you're doing is illegal and that artists who create works are being paid less and less because of it.
You might be forgetting that on a CPU, 5 billion clock "ticks" per second != 5 billion completed instruction per second.
The CPU has a few things to do before it can execute the actual operation.
Airwalls are great!
Unless there's a wireless network...
+5: Implication that Ubuntu is crappy software
I'd mod you up if I had the points.
Perspective is a very powerful thing. If you know nothing else, it's near impossible to even wonder about how it could be better.
For example, remember when the N64 was new and GoldenEye was the best game ever? I back to GoldenEye every now and then and I wonder how I could ever understand the writing or make out the other players from the background. I've just gotten used to "better" graphics.
Can you imagine a colour that we haven't discovered?
That said, I wouldn't volunteer my children or myself.
In firefox: View -> Page Style -> No Style
I don't see why, IMO this looks better than the old system, and it's easier to see threads of comments...
As a developer, shouldn't you be trying to make your sites better for us? Why should we install/use something just to make your job easier? What about people who don't run windows?
If you never play it, what's wrong with it being a worthless hulk?
Clearly, you've never had an idea that you could sell.
The crack addict who's scampering away with my TV is allowed to take it, that's not theft because he wouldn't have used his money to buy one in the first place.
Remind me again how pirating music (or anything for that matter) is a "victimless" crime?
Statistics in context, please. $44.3B is what percent of overall profit/revenue?
And you're comparing that to the BOTTOM half of all income tax payers? I don't know about the US tax laws, but in Australia they have a "Tax free" bracket (if you earn X per year). Meaning that some of the bottom half of all income tax payers are paying absolutley no tax at all.
I'm not trying to say that the oil companies aren't paying tax, it just doesn't make sence to throw numbers around with no reasonable benchmark.
From http://www.mybytes.com/help.html All users have the choice to either pay or not pay credits for songs they take, just like in real life. You'll get to see if other users like your tracks, and if they're giving you credit for using your creation. That sounds like "How would YOU like it if..."
Thanks Denny
They did not improve a single part of it - instead they just moved everything around. This is a half truth, they did move everything around, but there is now massively more functionality. Less emphasis is put on drop down menus (File, Edit, View etc). As for functionality in excel for example, one of the most useful things IMO is conditional formatting (eg: shade green if > 100)
I beleive you can get updates for office 2003 which makes it "forward compatible" with 2007.
Finally, I work in a medium sized business (roughly 50 users), we use Sharepoint and Office 2007. There has been a great deal of learning going on but overall, a vast improvement.
BTW Sorry for sounding like an advertisement!
When I first read the heading, I read it as "Scientists Rediscover Way to Reverse Memory Loss"
Look out Ms Daniels! Those Flocking Flockbots are back!
Or, you may have an incredibly large bucket.