This is a pointless debate. The question of if the other person should be using a computer in this particular situation is neither here nor there. In reality, you're going to be faced with this exact problem many times in the workplace (with laptops - often for legitimate reasons - being brought into meetings, seminars and even one-to-one conferences.) It's not going to be in your power to stop this happening.
Learning to cope with this and being productive is therefore an important life skill. Yes, it might suck. Suck a lot. But many things you have to put up with in life do...
Technically it just "borrowing without asking first" (at least under English and Welsh law.) You'd have to show reasonable intent to permanently deprive someone for it to be theft.
It's always more fun to do this with real people (sort by height, for example). The London Perl Mongers tried this as a drinking game: You get enough people down the pub (or, in one this case, outside a bar in portugal during conference season) and apply booze. Then bubble sort them as a group (lots of shouting Stay! Switch!.) Add drinking penalties when people screw up the algorithm. You get the idea.
There's a video on the internet somewhere. Free pint to the first person to find it.
I saw that excellent security documentary with Steve Martin about the dangers of being listed in the phone book.
That wasn't Steve Martin, that was Arnold Schwarzenegger. If I remember correctly it wasn't just a pain for Linda Hamilton, but her roommate and date had an even worse time of too.
Slashdotters constantly seem to think that a $80K developer in the US is much better the $10K developer in India
I think most slashdotters actually think that that a $80K local developer is much better the $10K developer in place with different time zone outside of the normal management chain and support system.
I personally suspect (though I admit that I have no evidence to back it up) that projects originating in India oprobably are equally good as those originating in the US.
But, it was Sony that initiated the actions that broke the contract.
It's my understanding that in English and Welsh law in this hypothetical situation I don't have a contract with Sony; They haven't received any consideration from me, and I haven't received anything from them. I do have a hypothetical contact with Amazon however.
To explain this in terms of your car analogy, the accelerator is broken and I have two choices: Go to Bill's Discount Cars and demand compensation from them that the car doesn't work properly on the basis of my contract of sale with them (i.e. go to amazon and complain that my PS3 doesn't play the latest games) or I can get Toyota to fix it and accept that they'll break my radio (install the update from Sony and lose the Linux support.) I can't complain to Toyota about the way they'd fix the car because I've got no contract with them and they're under no obligation to do so (they're doing it to stop Bill getting annoyed with them in turn and to protect their image, but not because they legally have to).
This said the above Anonymous Coward has some very good points about advertising which may give me additional redress and totally debunk my main points. Yey for anonymous cowards!
In the UK at least the consumers have no redress against Sony unless Sony sold them the console, which in most cases it didn't - Amazon (or a high street retailer) did. You'd need to sue the retailer (who then, in turn, could sue sony.)
Is this different in the states?
Break this down on a personal level - if someone takes a mallet to my car, I'm going to sue them for the value of the damage to the car, i.e. what it costs to compensate me for the damage they caused. If someone burns down my house, I should be able to sue them for the value of the house. The loss they have caused is not mitigated by the ability they have to pay for it.
Now, if you're going down these lines you need to separate out the punitive damages from the actual damages. The former should be taken in context of the ability for the person to pay (i.e. if you're suing a multinational, you expect punitive damages significant enough for them to sit up and take notice.) The later should probably not be.
There's a small flaw in your logic here. Your getting confused by the percentage that each entity gets from each book and and the absolute money receive. The fallacy is that you sell the same number of books no matter what the price.
Assume that you reduce the cost of the book by 50% and sell twice as much. Now we're talking ebook rather than physical book the printing and wholesaler costs don't cost double when you 'produce' two books (as they're zero in your model.) So now we sell twice as many books at half the price and everyone gets the same money.
The trouble with that is that you're then forcing them to be assessed on the metric you're assessing on them or inadvertently game the system (intentionally or not). I can think of plenty ways to make hospitals more "efficient" if you can compromise patient care...
You can buy a pay as you go phone at the airport or on any London high street. A cheap model shouldn't cost you more than 20 pounds.
This solves the problem of a) your phone not working here because you don't have roaming b) People not being willing to call you back because you've only got a US number when you roam c) Stupidly high roaming charges.
If you RTFA, or hell, read the summary, you'll note that spammers are posting using the addresses of existing members, meaning that new-user moderation is bypassed.
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Learning to cope with this and being productive is therefore an important life skill. Yes, it might suck. Suck a lot. But many things you have to put up with in life do...
Technically it just "borrowing without asking first" (at least under English and Welsh law.) You'd have to show reasonable intent to permanently deprive someone for it to be theft.
I'm curious. If they put up a sign that says they have the right to search your bag, do they actually have that right?
Why would you need to lend someone the first chapter? That's the "sample" chapter, that's normally free anyway....
I think some of the technologies from apple - for example Grand Central Dispatch, chunks of WebKit, etc, are very cool bits of tech.
How cyberpunk.
There's a video on the internet somewhere. Free pint to the first person to find it.
That wasn't Steve Martin, that was Arnold Schwarzenegger. If I remember correctly it wasn't just a pain for Linda Hamilton, but her roommate and date had an even worse time of too.
I think most slashdotters actually think that that a $80K local developer is much better the $10K developer in place with different time zone outside of the normal management chain and support system.
I personally suspect (though I admit that I have no evidence to back it up) that projects originating in India oprobably are equally good as those originating in the US.
She's got a certain flair.
But, it was Sony that initiated the actions that broke the contract.
It's my understanding that in English and Welsh law in this hypothetical situation I don't have a contract with Sony; They haven't received any consideration from me, and I haven't received anything from them. I do have a hypothetical contact with Amazon however.
To explain this in terms of your car analogy, the accelerator is broken and I have two choices: Go to Bill's Discount Cars and demand compensation from them that the car doesn't work properly on the basis of my contract of sale with them (i.e. go to amazon and complain that my PS3 doesn't play the latest games) or I can get Toyota to fix it and accept that they'll break my radio (install the update from Sony and lose the Linux support.) I can't complain to Toyota about the way they'd fix the car because I've got no contract with them and they're under no obligation to do so (they're doing it to stop Bill getting annoyed with them in turn and to protect their image, but not because they legally have to).
This said the above Anonymous Coward has some very good points about advertising which may give me additional redress and totally debunk my main points. Yey for anonymous cowards!
In the UK at least the consumers have no redress against Sony unless Sony sold them the console, which in most cases it didn't - Amazon (or a high street retailer) did. You'd need to sue the retailer (who then, in turn, could sue sony.) Is this different in the states?
But the way most people think is
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Now, if you're going down these lines you need to separate out the punitive damages from the actual damages. The former should be taken in context of the ability for the person to pay (i.e. if you're suing a multinational, you expect punitive damages significant enough for them to sit up and take notice.) The later should probably not be.
There's a small flaw in your logic here. Your getting confused by the percentage that each entity gets from each book and and the absolute money receive. The fallacy is that you sell the same number of books no matter what the price. Assume that you reduce the cost of the book by 50% and sell twice as much. Now we're talking ebook rather than physical book the printing and wholesaler costs don't cost double when you 'produce' two books (as they're zero in your model.) So now we sell twice as many books at half the price and everyone gets the same money.
Honestly? Probably.
You wonder what around the streets?
I suspect that's meant to be read as "Google will be charging $3.99 for *each* of the five films that will be available on launch"
The trouble with that is that you're then forcing them to be assessed on the metric you're assessing on them or inadvertently game the system (intentionally or not). I can think of plenty ways to make hospitals more "efficient" if you can compromise patient care...
Er...in this case BT refers to the communications company British Telecom, not Bittorrent.
You can buy a pay as you go phone at the airport or on any London high street. A cheap model shouldn't cost you more than 20 pounds. This solves the problem of a) your phone not working here because you don't have roaming b) People not being willing to call you back because you've only got a US number when you roam c) Stupidly high roaming charges.
Yes! That's exactly what it is. You say that like this development of new technology is a bad thing. Do you need to hand in your geek card?
If you RTFA, or hell, read the summary, you'll note that spammers are posting using the addresses of existing members, meaning that new-user moderation is bypassed.
(I'm being silly. Of course I'll be contacting my MP about this.)