We're not talking about oracular prescience here. There were three factors involved: firstly, music became digitized, in the mid seventies with various magnetic tape formats, and then in 1982 with the introduction of the Compact Disc. Back then, CDs contained a vast amount of information, far beyond the capacity of any home computer to store. Which brings us to our second point, that computer storage has been growing steadily for many decades and shows no signs of stopping. It should have been an obvious conclusion that at some point computers would be able to store one or more CDs worth of data, and transferring digital data from one medium to another is nearly always trivial.
The real warning sign was of course the invention and popularization of the Internet. There's really no excuse for the Recording Industry to not have capitalized on this distribution channel. Napster should have been bought, not sued. It would have been a much better use of funds than getting the DMCA passed.
The RIAA is a case study in how not to run an industry. Or they would be, if we didn't have the Auto makers to compare them with.
2) There is no optimal strategy for job hunting, and it is almost certainly not the case that time and effort are directly proportional to success.
3) A significant factor in finding a new job is what is known as social networking. It is unlikely that your social circles (and job qualifications) overlap to any great degree.
4) It is most likely that your personality, skills, qualifications, and contacts will be the determining factor in gaining employment, not the presence or absence of a competitor.
I don't get that impression. You two have had different experiences, but there's nothing saying you can't both be right. Clearly it cannot always be the case that cops are reasonable people who respond well to polite behaviour. That has been the case for most of the places that I have lived, but I am sure that it is not true in all cases.
And nowhere in my post nor the one I replied to was Microsoft mentioned. I'm not aware of any Xbox live title that has guilds. Your comment may have been accurate, but...well, how about a car analogy?
The post I replied to was talking about the aerodynamics of spoilers, especially Honda spoilers. I made a general point about aerodynamics. You came in and started talking about Ford's engines. Yes, that's what TFA was about, but it wasn't the subject under discussion.
Speaking as someone who is bisexual, I have no problem with your proposal, and suggest that you have missed the point. The issue isn't whether people are allowed to be small-minded, it's whether those people are allowed to force their worldview on others.
I find your attitudes at least as offensive as you apparently find mine--probably more so. Welcome to the Internet. In this most public of fora, tolerance is an absolute necessity. It's a very simple concept. If we do not have equality, we have unfair discrimination--by definition. We suffer a loss of freedom, the extent of which is determined by some arbitrary and subjective censor. Your views may be an affront to me, but censorship is an affront to the freedoms of all men.
If someone wants to start a child molester's WoW guild, or an islamic terrorist's guild, or any such thing, as long as they confine themselves to methods of expression that do not cause demonstrable harm to others, they should be allowed the same liberties as any other man.
No, actually, they're selling Vista licenses. Vista Business and Ultimate both include downgrade rights to XP.
Microsoft isn't making any money on the downgrade because it's not an additional license. M$ makes money selling licenses to OEMs, for the most part. If the OEM charges for a downgrade, M$ receives nothing---why should they?
I don't see anything wrong with OEMs charging for the downgrade, either. If they were selling new XP licenses, that would be a whole different story, but as long as they're slapping a Vista label on the machine, and providing Vista recovery media, the XP downgrade represents an additional cost for them.
I liked XP for the most part, I really did. But it's an eight year old OS: it's time for it to go. This really shouldn't even be an issue at this point.
The effect of oil running out won't be a loss of those interesting, special-purpose plastics. Where plastics are truly indispensable or irreplaceable, they will continue to be used, although they may be somewhat more expensive.
Where plastics are used unnecessarily, they will be discarded in favor of something else.
"The lignin itself was misunderstood completely by [leaders in the field] and the majority of people," says Simo Sarkanen, an environmental science professor at the University of Minnesota.
Does that sound like a mad scientist to anyone else? "My research has been completely misunderstood, but I will change the world! And then they'll see! They'll pay for their ignorance! MUAHAHAHAHA!"
Additionally, you should refer to the discussions of slavery in the drafting and adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The United States was founded upon the principle of equality, yes, but it was quite clear to all concerned that this did not extend to slaves. If that document had been otherwise drafted, it would not have been adopted.
The marginal cost to produce another copy of XP is next to nothing. You may want to look up the definition of the term. Go ahead, I'll wait.
The costs of support are also negligible compared to the cost of development, and for a company like Microsoft, it's a pittance. They could easily ditch the phone support and just keep the KB articles. You know, like they've done with every other recent OS.
Furthermore, in your colossal display of ignorance, you have overlooked the fact that OEM licenses (the subject under discussion, since system builder discs are still widely available) are not entitled to support from Microsoft anyway. Microsoft only offers support for retail copies; it's safe to say those won't be available again any time soon.
So, marginal cost of one more xp license: near zero. Cost of continuing support: negligible. The question becomes, why doesn't Microsoft continue to sell XP?
I didn't do much of an analysis. The phrase "OEMs have to buy licenses from Microsoft" was intended to convey that OEMs have no other source for Windows licenses. Other OSs are of course available to some extent.
OEMs cannot sell any more XP licenses. That happened last year, around April, I think. The only way to get an XP license these days is to get a System Builder disc. The only way to get a preinstalled copy of XP is through a Vista downgrade license. OEMs have to buy licenses from Microsoft, Microsoft dictates the above terms. Your "strongly encouraged (financially)" is what's known as a contract.
Netbooks are the exception to the above licensing terms.
Are we clear on that now?
There are several good analogies and explanations on here as to how exactly this can be illegal. I might suggest you read them. Hopefully afterwards you would have something worthwhile to say.
You want an antique, you pay antique prices. You want obsolete technology on the other hand, you pay next to nothing. In this case, the marginal cost to produce a copy of XP is next to nothing. Microsoft has little to lose from continuing to offer a popular product.
Your offer to sell someone an illegal copy of XP is not a wonderful solution to the person described in TFA; it would seem she wants a *legal* copy.
Except that TPB doesn't advertise itself as being the 'illegal' anything. Their position is and continues to be that their site is legal. Facilitating copyright infringement is not a crime, unless you are (e.g.) distributing a program to circumvent technological measures intended to prevent copying.
You could easily have quoted Gandhi or King on the matter.
However, they played the game a little differently. Their civil disobedience was public---advertised, and coordinated. They relied upon a sound moral principle, and a sympathetic media.
Piracy on the other hand is generally immoral, though possibly you could make a case for it being the lesser of two evils. The media cannot stand for it, since it tends to represent the abolition of copyright. Perhaps most damagingly, piracy is extremely private due to the nature of the internet. You can't have five hundred people all sit down in a public place and pirate a DVD; there's no way to effectively protest it.
On the other hand, these massive, high-speed data networks make copyright laws seem obsolete, even silly. I think it takes no oracle to see that this fight will continue for the indefinite future, regardless of whether this case is won or lost.
It's fine on my Eee. But seriously, why wouldn't you install those plugins?
Also, have you tried any other browser? I've played with a few others, and I keep going back to FF. Lynx, Konqueror, Midori, Opera...my net connection may be a bottleneck, but no alternatives are appreciably faster, and all are less usable.
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The RIAA should have anticipated filesharing.
We're not talking about oracular prescience here. There were three factors involved: firstly, music became digitized, in the mid seventies with various magnetic tape formats, and then in 1982 with the introduction of the Compact Disc. Back then, CDs contained a vast amount of information, far beyond the capacity of any home computer to store. Which brings us to our second point, that computer storage has been growing steadily for many decades and shows no signs of stopping. It should have been an obvious conclusion that at some point computers would be able to store one or more CDs worth of data, and transferring digital data from one medium to another is nearly always trivial.
The real warning sign was of course the invention and popularization of the Internet. There's really no excuse for the Recording Industry to not have capitalized on this distribution channel. Napster should have been bought, not sued. It would have been a much better use of funds than getting the DMCA passed.
The RIAA is a case study in how not to run an industry. Or they would be, if we didn't have the Auto makers to compare them with.
Command prompt is probably used to specifically describe cmd.exe
Terminal could mean many things, probably either a remote terminal interface of some sort, or a replacement CLI.
Good for you. A few points.
1) You're an asshole.
2) There is no optimal strategy for job hunting, and it is almost certainly not the case that time and effort are directly proportional to success.
3) A significant factor in finding a new job is what is known as social networking. It is unlikely that your social circles (and job qualifications) overlap to any great degree.
4) It is most likely that your personality, skills, qualifications, and contacts will be the determining factor in gaining employment, not the presence or absence of a competitor.
That's not really how it works in the US. If you're imprisoned for contempt of court, you're there until you start cooperating.
I don't get that impression. You two have had different experiences, but there's nothing saying you can't both be right. Clearly it cannot always be the case that cops are reasonable people who respond well to polite behaviour. That has been the case for most of the places that I have lived, but I am sure that it is not true in all cases.
And nowhere in my post nor the one I replied to was Microsoft mentioned. I'm not aware of any Xbox live title that has guilds. Your comment may have been accurate, but...well, how about a car analogy?
The post I replied to was talking about the aerodynamics of spoilers, especially Honda spoilers. I made a general point about aerodynamics. You came in and started talking about Ford's engines. Yes, that's what TFA was about, but it wasn't the subject under discussion.
What the hell does that have to do with anything I said?
Speaking as someone who is bisexual, I have no problem with your proposal, and suggest that you have missed the point. The issue isn't whether people are allowed to be small-minded, it's whether those people are allowed to force their worldview on others.
I find your attitudes at least as offensive as you apparently find mine--probably more so. Welcome to the Internet. In this most public of fora, tolerance is an absolute necessity. It's a very simple concept. If we do not have equality, we have unfair discrimination--by definition. We suffer a loss of freedom, the extent of which is determined by some arbitrary and subjective censor. Your views may be an affront to me, but censorship is an affront to the freedoms of all men.
If someone wants to start a child molester's WoW guild, or an islamic terrorist's guild, or any such thing, as long as they confine themselves to methods of expression that do not cause demonstrable harm to others, they should be allowed the same liberties as any other man.
Farsi, Hindi, whatever.
On behalf of the rest of the world, fuck you.
That is not true.
See the following:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/2/3/d23b9533-169d-4996-b198-7b9d3fe15611/downgrade_chart.doc
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/8/6/2860872a-35dc-4a10-8617-3927aacd189a/downgradeOEMversion-020707.pdf
For OEM and End User licenses, Vista Business and Ultimate alone have downgrade rights, and the list of what they may be downgraded to is short.
Incorrect. Vendors offer only Windows Vista licenses, with the exception of certain netbooks.
Some Vista licenses include downgrade rights to XP.
They're not selling an XP license, they're selling a Vista license (specifically, Vista Business or Vista Ultimate) with downgrade rights to XP.
Why is this so hard to understand?
No, actually, they're selling Vista licenses. Vista Business and Ultimate both include downgrade rights to XP.
Microsoft isn't making any money on the downgrade because it's not an additional license. M$ makes money selling licenses to OEMs, for the most part. If the OEM charges for a downgrade, M$ receives nothing---why should they?
I don't see anything wrong with OEMs charging for the downgrade, either. If they were selling new XP licenses, that would be a whole different story, but as long as they're slapping a Vista label on the machine, and providing Vista recovery media, the XP downgrade represents an additional cost for them.
I liked XP for the most part, I really did. But it's an eight year old OS: it's time for it to go. This really shouldn't even be an issue at this point.
The effect of oil running out won't be a loss of those interesting, special-purpose plastics. Where plastics are truly indispensable or irreplaceable, they will continue to be used, although they may be somewhat more expensive.
Where plastics are used unnecessarily, they will be discarded in favor of something else.
"The lignin itself was misunderstood completely by [leaders in the field] and the majority of people," says Simo Sarkanen, an environmental science professor at the University of Minnesota.
Does that sound like a mad scientist to anyone else? "My research has been completely misunderstood, but I will change the world! And then they'll see! They'll pay for their ignorance! MUAHAHAHAHA!"
If you were intending to imply that slavery is in some way contradicted by the US Constitution, you may want to reexamine that belief.
Additionally, you should refer to the discussions of slavery in the drafting and adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The United States was founded upon the principle of equality, yes, but it was quite clear to all concerned that this did not extend to slaves. If that document had been otherwise drafted, it would not have been adopted.
The marginal cost to produce another copy of XP is next to nothing. You may want to look up the definition of the term. Go ahead, I'll wait.
The costs of support are also negligible compared to the cost of development, and for a company like Microsoft, it's a pittance. They could easily ditch the phone support and just keep the KB articles. You know, like they've done with every other recent OS.
Furthermore, in your colossal display of ignorance, you have overlooked the fact that OEM licenses (the subject under discussion, since system builder discs are still widely available) are not entitled to support from Microsoft anyway. Microsoft only offers support for retail copies; it's safe to say those won't be available again any time soon.
So, marginal cost of one more xp license: near zero. Cost of continuing support: negligible. The question becomes, why doesn't Microsoft continue to sell XP?
I didn't do much of an analysis. The phrase "OEMs have to buy licenses from Microsoft" was intended to convey that OEMs have no other source for Windows licenses. Other OSs are of course available to some extent.
Rule of Slacking #32:
Everything looks more productive if you're doing it in the shell. :)
OEMs cannot sell any more XP licenses. That happened last year, around April, I think. The only way to get an XP license these days is to get a System Builder disc. The only way to get a preinstalled copy of XP is through a Vista downgrade license. OEMs have to buy licenses from Microsoft, Microsoft dictates the above terms. Your "strongly encouraged (financially)" is what's known as a contract.
Netbooks are the exception to the above licensing terms.
Are we clear on that now?
There are several good analogies and explanations on here as to how exactly this can be illegal. I might suggest you read them. Hopefully afterwards you would have something worthwhile to say.
You want an antique, you pay antique prices. You want obsolete technology on the other hand, you pay next to nothing. In this case, the marginal cost to produce a copy of XP is next to nothing. Microsoft has little to lose from continuing to offer a popular product.
Your offer to sell someone an illegal copy of XP is not a wonderful solution to the person described in TFA; it would seem she wants a *legal* copy.
Except that TPB doesn't advertise itself as being the 'illegal' anything. Their position is and continues to be that their site is legal. Facilitating copyright infringement is not a crime, unless you are (e.g.) distributing a program to circumvent technological measures intended to prevent copying.
You could easily have quoted Gandhi or King on the matter.
However, they played the game a little differently. Their civil disobedience was public---advertised, and coordinated. They relied upon a sound moral principle, and a sympathetic media.
Piracy on the other hand is generally immoral, though possibly you could make a case for it being the lesser of two evils. The media cannot stand for it, since it tends to represent the abolition of copyright. Perhaps most damagingly, piracy is extremely private due to the nature of the internet. You can't have five hundred people all sit down in a public place and pirate a DVD; there's no way to effectively protest it.
On the other hand, these massive, high-speed data networks make copyright laws seem obsolete, even silly. I think it takes no oracle to see that this fight will continue for the indefinite future, regardless of whether this case is won or lost.
I'd say you have other problems; my Eee has no such issues, even when it clocks down.
It's fine on my Eee. But seriously, why wouldn't you install those plugins?
Also, have you tried any other browser? I've played with a few others, and I keep going back to FF. Lynx, Konqueror, Midori, Opera...my net connection may be a bottleneck, but no alternatives are appreciably faster, and all are less usable.