are you saying that If I make a piece of software, and it takes me $20k in development man hours, then I should be able to charge once, for $25k and make a profit, but after that I only get to charge $1 for duplication costs?
If that's the case, there would be a lot less software out there.
what sort of Liberal entitlement BS is this... I don't care WHAT the prices are for an MP3, software, video, porn, whatever. Be it $.50 or $50000. If I make something, it's MY right to set a price for how it sells. If I want to set a low price and go for volume, my decision. If I want to set a high price and go that way, still, my decision. The point is, I GET TO SET THE PRICE FOR WHAT I MAKE.
If I made bird houses and charged $20,000 for each one, but you decided that's too high and you stole one... Guess what. YOU FREAKIN STOLE IT. I don't care what country you came from, and what the poverty level is there.
And, so fucking what if the cost of good sold is a perceived $0 because it's a virtual item. Yay me for finding something with a very small COGS.
So in my humble option, Piracy is neither a result of market failure, or legal failure, but a failure in ethics.
I've seen web development companies that use macs for development exclusively. I've had a client that is a CLEC who's software is all web based. 300+ employees, all mac workstations. We all know there's plenty of print/video/audio, media houses that love their macs.
To make any statement saying a mac just sucks because you couldn't get it to be a direct clone is just stupid. Mac !== Windows !==linux !== BSD !== solaris, etc....
Agreed, I'm not a hardcore programmer, but I develop mysql/php apps using a windows machine, for running on a linux box. With DREAMWEAVER NO LESS.
But I'm smart enough not to expect to run WAMP on my box and it behave like LAMP. email is different, file paths are different, time management is different. So what do I do? everything is mapped to execute on a linux development box that's A NEARLY EXACT REPLICA of the production servers. Guess what. No complaints. He could do the same with his mac, and probably better. I'd trade my win7 dell in for a Powermac any day.
Funny timing, I've been playing lord of the rings online for the last hour (free to play if you like) and just finally discovered Durin's Bane... the Balrog.
It's dead on the side of the misty mountains. Not sure how it got there after Gandalf killed it, guess they just threw it out like trash.
Ok, so people have 'noticed' that these NEW computers are faster, quieter, smaller and just magically better than the old system.
This is obviously not very scientific, I'd venture to say if they replaced the entire old system with a new AC system, it would still be faster, quieter, smaller, etc...
Yes, DC may be great, but these observations can be said about any new vs old setup.
You can put 100's of websites on 1 IP address to virtual host... Kinda one of those evil things like NAT. Cheezy way to save IP addresses, but done very often.
The moment you turn on SSL you're locked to one IP = one website. Much less efficient.
As far as the old SSL = LOAD issues... the first thing I do in PHP on the sites I control is do a header forward to HTTPS.... Computers now can handle a lot more load.
And add to that the issue of many videos embedded from youtube are spooled without being viewed. And the people who are emailed "Hey check this funny video on youtube LINK" and when the link doesn't work, they don't give it a second thought.
I think less bandwidth is used for 100 searches and an ultimately unsuccessful result, than in one single video.
Add to that, a large percentage of videos are direct link to the content, and the viewer doesn't really care that much about seeing it. How many times have you loaded up a page and it had a youtube video embedded that just starts spooling up, but you never watched it? They're not trying to censor videos here, they're just going after the low hanging fruit, and this is a VERY effective way to do it.
Especially since typically when you say throttle the low priority traffic, it's often done by protocol, or even port. So, your ISP would be blocking your bittorrent protocol, and maybe news for your porn. All of the services mentioned are http:80 or similar, so they'd be blocking a lot of what they DO need access to. Yes, just adding the most popular destinations is a much simpler solution. KISS
Not because they are found innocent of manipulating senators.
But because It's a freakin' joke and anyone with half a brain is going to laugh the prosecutors out of the court room for trying to convict someone of "using their magical brain power to control other people"
Maybe someone should go to jail for wasting our fucking money and time on stupid operations.
No, that won't happen either because the psyops guys will use their magical brain power to control the jury and the judge!!! It's a catch 22.
The only way they will go to jail is if they do NOT have special abilities, but the lawyer can convince someone that they do!
What's the point in marking every little airport on the map? What does this have to do at ALL with airports. Let me show you ow rediculous this is. 1 mile from my house, there's a grass landing strip. The wealthy owner of a local company wanted his spoiled grown kid to learn how to fly. He was too rich to bother driving the 10 miles to the local airport, so he got the field behind his house designated as a landing strip for small aircraft. They came out and put the orange balls on the high tension power lines. After the brat (25ish) got about 20 hours in, he quit. This was 20 years ago. AND RICHARDSON FIELD IS ON THIS MAP? WTF? For shits and giggles did they import every site the FAA ever had since the beginning of time?
Still shows airport as operational. Apparently no one checks this crap. Last time I drove by the pine trees had grown up to about 12 feet in 'richardson field airport' Geeze
You expect it to be perfect for $200 million? They passed up the perfect option, it was $200 billion. They would have gone for that option but the company was run by replicans and the dems just couldn't bring themselves to pay them.
Hey, at least you got a map. it's/.ed for me. Actually, it finally DID work. It shows I have broadband, however it is NOT available to me. I was talking to someone working with this on the state level, and they said the initiative says that if ONE person in a zipcode has access to broadband, they mark that entire zip code as 'yes'
That's BS. I'm.25 from someone with a 20MB connection to mediacom. They want $25k to put a 'tap' on my street.
What a waste of our money. How many people could this have fed?
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are you saying that If I make a piece of software, and it takes me $20k in development man hours, then I should be able to charge once, for $25k and make a profit, but after that I only get to charge $1 for duplication costs?
If that's the case, there would be a lot less software out there.
what sort of Liberal entitlement BS is this... I don't care WHAT the prices are for an MP3, software, video, porn, whatever. Be it $.50 or $50000. If I make something, it's MY right to set a price for how it sells. If I want to set a low price and go for volume, my decision. If I want to set a high price and go that way, still, my decision. The point is, I GET TO SET THE PRICE FOR WHAT I MAKE.
If I made bird houses and charged $20,000 for each one, but you decided that's too high and you stole one... Guess what. YOU FREAKIN STOLE IT. I don't care what country you came from, and what the poverty level is there.
And, so fucking what if the cost of good sold is a perceived $0 because it's a virtual item. Yay me for finding something with a very small COGS.
So in my humble option, Piracy is neither a result of market failure, or legal failure, but a failure in ethics.
I've seen web development companies that use macs for development exclusively.
I've had a client that is a CLEC who's software is all web based. 300+ employees, all mac workstations.
We all know there's plenty of print/video/audio, media houses that love their macs.
To make any statement saying a mac just sucks because you couldn't get it to be a direct clone is just stupid. Mac !== Windows !==linux !== BSD !== solaris, etc....
Agreed, I'm not a hardcore programmer, but I develop mysql/php apps using a windows machine, for running on a linux box. With DREAMWEAVER NO LESS.
But I'm smart enough not to expect to run WAMP on my box and it behave like LAMP. email is different, file paths are different, time management is different. So what do I do? everything is mapped to execute on a linux development box that's A NEARLY EXACT REPLICA of the production servers. Guess what. No complaints. He could do the same with his mac, and probably better. I'd trade my win7 dell in for a Powermac any day.
I have one of these too. They also have the added convenience of free birth control.
Funny timing, I've been playing lord of the rings online for the last hour (free to play if you like) and just finally discovered Durin's Bane... the Balrog.
It's dead on the side of the misty mountains. Not sure how it got there after Gandalf killed it, guess they just threw it out like trash.
Ok, so people have 'noticed' that these NEW computers are faster, quieter, smaller and just magically better than the old system.
This is obviously not very scientific, I'd venture to say if they replaced the entire old system with a new AC system, it would still be faster, quieter, smaller, etc...
Yes, DC may be great, but these observations can be said about any new vs old setup.
You can put 100's of websites on 1 IP address to virtual host... Kinda one of those evil things like NAT. Cheezy way to save IP addresses, but done very often.
The moment you turn on SSL you're locked to one IP = one website. Much less efficient.
As far as the old SSL = LOAD issues... the first thing I do in PHP on the sites I control is do a header forward to HTTPS.... Computers now can handle a lot more load.
Wow, thanks for the math.
And add to that the issue of many videos embedded from youtube are spooled without being viewed.
And the people who are emailed "Hey check this funny video on youtube LINK" and when the link doesn't work, they don't give it a second thought.
I think less bandwidth is used for 100 searches and an ultimately unsuccessful result, than in one single video.
Add to that, a large percentage of videos are direct link to the content, and the viewer doesn't really care that much about seeing it. How many times have you loaded up a page and it had a youtube video embedded that just starts spooling up, but you never watched it? They're not trying to censor videos here, they're just going after the low hanging fruit, and this is a VERY effective way to do it.
Especially since typically when you say throttle the low priority traffic, it's often done by protocol, or even port. So, your ISP would be blocking your bittorrent protocol, and maybe news for your porn. All of the services mentioned are http:80 or similar, so they'd be blocking a lot of what they DO need access to. Yes, just adding the most popular destinations is a much simpler solution. KISS
Ok, so you have a container that you think is air tight. But something escapes it, so obviously your container needs to be tighter than air tight.
Now, if you can put this stuff in a seamless glass sphere, and it still leaks out, I'll be impressed.
You're right, no one will do time.
Not because they are found innocent of manipulating senators.
But because It's a freakin' joke and anyone with half a brain is going to laugh the prosecutors out of the court room for trying to convict someone of "using their magical brain power to control other people"
Maybe someone should go to jail for wasting our fucking money and time on stupid operations.
No, that won't happen either because the psyops guys will use their magical brain power to control the jury and the judge!!! It's a catch 22.
The only way they will go to jail is if they do NOT have special abilities, but the lawyer can convince someone that they do!
nevermind, I got a sufficiently descriptive answer at yahoo answers. ugh
can someone describe tubgirl with as little detail, and certainly no link please.
No need to describe goatse...
How Ironic though, since having a child is generally viewed as the second biggest destroyer of freedom, (after marriage.)
(Just Kidding honey, don't really mean it!)
What's the point in marking every little airport on the map? What does this have to do at ALL with airports. Let me show you ow rediculous this is. 1 mile from my house, there's a grass landing strip. The wealthy owner of a local company wanted his spoiled grown kid to learn how to fly. He was too rich to bother driving the 10 miles to the local airport, so he got the field behind his house designated as a landing strip for small aircraft. They came out and put the orange balls on the high tension power lines. After the brat (25ish) got about 20 hours in, he quit. This was 20 years ago. AND RICHARDSON FIELD IS ON THIS MAP? WTF? For shits and giggles did they import every site the FAA ever had since the beginning of time?
To back up my story a bit...
http://www.airport-data.com/airport/26AL/
Still shows airport as operational. Apparently no one checks this crap. Last time I drove by the pine trees had grown up to about 12 feet in 'richardson field airport' Geeze
You expect it to be perfect for $200 million? They passed up the perfect option, it was $200 billion. They would have gone for that option but the company was run by replicans and the dems just couldn't bring themselves to pay them.
Hey, at least you got a map. it's /.ed for me. Actually, it finally DID work. It shows I have broadband, however it is NOT available to me. I was talking to someone working with this on the state level, and they said the initiative says that if ONE person in a zipcode has access to broadband, they mark that entire zip code as 'yes'
That's BS. I'm .25 from someone with a 20MB connection to mediacom. They want $25k to put a 'tap' on my street.
What a waste of our money. How many people could this have fed?
There should be mod points for "that's what I was going go to say"
Add van jones and barney frank, one's just evil, the other lives in his own reality.
Yeah, the UID's started going pretty fast since there was a lot of people that were already posting on the site before there even WERE any accounts.
Wish there was a way to tell exactly when we registered, I've wondered from time to time. Got any idea when you did yours?
Basing it on where I working at the time, I'm going to guess somewhere in 97, maybe 98. Ya think?
Those with low UID are more likely to do that from time to time.
More importantly, space turtles!
Unless you get out there and start pointing this thing all over the place, it'll melt a nice straight line somewhere.
And, you said 100k, but this is 50k. Was there a 100k model somewhere?
Now if there was an oscillating version!
Against defending against Egyptians?
Just to be clear, I hope there is no war. Egypt needs to get their stuff together and settle down.
Thank goodness they're not a nuclear weapons holding country.