Two ways to look at it. The obvious is replacing payola, where they pay money for radio airplay. But I'll ignore that for now.
One, I have DVDs on my shelf, unwrapped and unopened. I bought them because I downloaded and watched the movies, and felt I wanted to register my support and get original quality versions. Same with CDs, unopened and unused.
Two, the entertainment industry owes me money. If I sent a bill for every movie that I watched based on the trailer and didn't like, or album I bought because of two singles where the rest was just filler, I would get a check for more than I have spent for several years in a row.
Now I ramble a bit.
I stopped going to movie theaters because I get 15 minutes of commercials (20 minutes one time, I was so used to it I actually timed it, and not from the introductory pre-movie stuff, actual commercials), and a movie that I may or may not like. Include teenagers who sneak in and do nothing but talk, phone lights and beeps while people text, and there is no value add.
I stopped buying albums unless I hear every minute of every song. I am still quite pissed off that I got an acoustic version of John Mayer's Neon, and when I got Room For Squares it was some electro poppy crap version of it. I actually previewed the album, thought it good enough to buy, and still got screwed. (Lots of people don't like him based on his singles, and opinions vary, but the stuff that wasn't played as singles is really good IMO, I just wish I had the acoustic version, which was the only version I could find).
I haven't strayed far outside what I already knew for xbox 360 - I bought one last year, and bought the same games my roommate had when it first came out. The few buys I made without fully checking them out, which is kinda hard without modding, I have been disappointed in. Even though I only buy the $20 platnum re-release. As much as I love Fallout 3, there are bugs in that re-release that have been known for *years* before it came out. My third save, all of my stuff in my house at Megaton disappeared, something that's been wrong with the save engine since Oblivion at least. I lost a *lot* of game time having to come up with money when I could have sold a mini-nuke, for example. At $20 for the game, and considering my hourly rate, I could bill them $100 and still be on the generous side.
My friend bought LA Noir and Portal 2 right around release day, full price. I enjoyed LA Noir, but would have been disappointed had i paid. Portal 2 was the only game other than Bioshock I would have paid full price for.
I buy stuff to reward people, and I get pissed off that when I take a chance, I can't un-buy it. So yes, it is free advertising for them, at least for one of their potential customers, someone with diposable income. They don't have to use Payola to get their musicians promoted. If they counted downloads towards the American Music Awards, the industry would probably create seed servers just to make sure downloads were available and tracked.
I have worked at a place which instituted mandatory overtime because they could not find enough people to fill the workforce. They increased base pay and got a few more people, but still required overtime.
It's not always optional due to market conditions.
Sure they could have increased base pay more, and many people grumbled that they should have. But much more of an increase means we would not longer be competitive, and the whole place shuts down because the work goes elsewhere. Now everyone is unemployed, instead of dissatisfied with their pay.
Think that's hypothetical? This building is shutting down in the next year. Most of the jobs are gone already. It actually happened. As always there's more to it, but pay and hiring are not numbers that you just change and everything gets better.
It's just There until everyone is streaming Netflix and Blockbuster and using Facetime, and then suddenly some backbone somewhere is saturated. 10 gb connection, 100gb, whatever it is, it can't hold any more.
"It is oversubscribed" means if everyone tries to use what they paid for, it will not work. Your e-mails will time out, your web pages won't load, it won't be Just There.
It is consumed. Think about it like a hot water heater. It has a set capacity, but normally you don't reach that capacity and the hot water is Just There. But if you invite 10 smelly OWS hippies to take a shower and clean up, some of them will use all the hot water and start accusing you of artificially limiting the hot water supply, manipulating scarcity to increase revenue.
The problem comes when we hit the limit, and I think pay per usage is fine. Because someone somewhere will think, why do I have to pay $200/month for my internet when I only send a few hundred e-mails without attachments? Why jack up my bill so those youtubers can watch each other do stupid things? Network expansion gets expensive, and you can either charge the people who use it more, or make everyone pay more.
Didn't we already go through this with Ted Stevens? The internet is a series of tubes. Most of the time they are not full, but if everyone uses more bandwidth eventually it will get full. You have a 10 gigabit connection, and are sending all 10 gigs all the time, the pipe is full, and can carry no more data.
Network congestion, you are saying, will make companies spend money to increase bandwidth, without asking for more money from subscribers? And then you ask why spend money when you can make money instead?
Time Warner didn't even lay cable on my side of the street. I've had my house for 3 years, and it was the last one built on this side, so they've been sitting on it for a while. I can't get cable TV, but they keep sending me advertisements to get cable internet.
I like to call them up, very exicted to get a lackage deal, only to be told they would send someone out to see if they can do it. I say, why don't you stop mailing me until you can?
Everyone here has dish already, so they may never even try. Sure they are watching their investments, but 15 years ago they would have had this cabled the day my foundation was finished. One of the guys I worked with had a physical cable across his yard, that his neighbor kept cutting while mowing. They wanted to get him on cable before he got something else, but didn't bury the line - that's how badly they wanted customers. Kept replacing the cable every 6 months, 4 times at least.
The last major change like this, I got a raise to make sure I was stil exempt. I think it was due to the overtime lawsuits. Something like $1000 for the year. I'm sure I didn't work that much overtime, we operated on comp time mostly. So I got a raise in the middle of a salary freeze.
Thank your for the word of the day, "yurt". I will incorporate it into future posts, such as "May the tension bands of your yurt give way whilst you are standing beside them, such that you are struck in the face with great and unexpected force" and "May your yurt burn down and consume you as you sleep" and "Yo momma lives in a yurt".
I've already posted, or you'd get as many points as I could give you, even going back through your post history. SiRi, give me something no one has bothered to program, but I would like regardless.
Internalities be damned, because someone has probably figure out how to respond to that query and has it programmed in. But that's no different from using an existing lib, or a function from an MSDN example, or a module from sourceforge, or CPAN.
I want you to handle my query on-demand, and I hope your results will be good enough. If not, I await the next version which surely should have this figured out.
Christ almighty, I remember typing Dim statements in a BASIC program which was supposed to write machine bytes to build a 3D something program on an 8086 (DEC Rainbow). I'm to this day not sure what it was supposed to do, but I spent 3 days typing that, my brother did something, and said "It didn't work. Try again." I checked everything and no typos. Screw that, says younger me.
I then discovered a basic compiler and linker which didn't work, turbo pascal which I didn't understand, and finally after years of trying to make VB5 and 6 faster K&R revised C, which made complete sense and unified gravity and electromagnetism and gave me the ability to create Kelly LeBrock using a CD-ROM laser.
Don't bother to mod me, we're just reminiscing here, young uns.
I watched a coworker have to click 'submit' and then select 'today' 40 times in a row every day because the required data entry tool for attendance tracking comes up with a blank slate, not sensible defaults for the use case.
So I made a daemon app - when you click the submit button, it auto-populates whatever you had there before. Saved 30 minutes every day.
But I didn't calculate how much time it would save. I just knew it would be annoying as piss to do that 40 times a day, and she didn't have the skills to fix it. So I did. On my own time, after hours.
I chose my house via website scraping and automation, and I know far more about various internet related subjects than any reasonable person because I insist on automation. I would rather automate a task that I might use again rather than do it twice manually. Sometimes I don't have the choice.
I don't know WTF hypercard does exactly, but I can guarantee you that anyone who used it has a leg up on their coworker or cohabitant or cohuman.
The more you practice saving time, the better you get at actually saving time. Hypercard, Excel, Powerpoint, whatever it is - there are shortcuts, and we should practice using them. Point is, you have to practice saving time. If you automate something that no one ever uses, you probably learned something. And that means a lot, probably more than whatever you earn per minute times the number of minutes spent.
Most of their "positive utility" is in serving as food for critters higher on the food chain, but in that respect they're pretty fungible with most other insects.
In what respect, Charlie? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first.
Since you're already at +5, I'll just add that you, sir or madam or mixed/indeterminate gender person, have won today's "Critical thinking on the internet" prize.
Nothing has been proven, so we can't say that it is, or is not, being transmitted. clearly undercuts that claim is demonstrably false. From CIQ's own statement:
While we look at many aspects of a deviceâ(TM)s performance, we are counting and summarizing performance, not recording keystrokes or providing tracking tools.
It is entirely plausible that keystrokes are logged, and summarized, and the summary data is sent instead of each keystroke., making CIQ's claims entirely true. This does not eliminate the possibility of malware reading the logs, which presents a super serious privacy problem. But we have not shown that CIQ or anyone else gets individual keystrokes as part of normal operation of the software.
The fact that such a log exists, and can be read by any Android Market app that requests normally innocuous read access makes this software a serious privacy concern, but only with 3rd party applications installed - not inherently.
Mine was among the first posts. Also, I am among the smartest individuals on the planet, and I am one of the only people who can write and compile a C program. In fact, my penis is among the largest, both in length and diameter, while still maintaining a comfortable size. My salary is among the top of any employee, ever, in the history of anything.
In short, I am among the top most amazing, handsome, perfect, richest people that ever walked the earth.
In other words, I'm in the first 100% of every statistical measure. "Among the first" does not give any meaning or context, and I am opposed to its usage without any qualifier.
This is where I started, working tech support for a Fortune 500 company. I got myself into a position where I had to solve problems, and I did it the only way that makes sense - code. I got some things working with SQL, ASP, VBScript, HTML, JavaScript, and some CSS.
Looked for an open job in the same company, had a bit of sample code, and they couldn't turn me down.
I started with desktop PC support, but it doesn't matter what you support. Show that you are capable of more responsibility, solve problems by building useful tools, and either you'll be able to advance or document it in a resume and jump to another company.
The team that hired me was a bunch of help desk people who used programming to solve problems, and eventually became an officially recognized development team with CMMI certification, so I wasn't the only one following the same path.
Watch out for raise ceilings - frequently the only way to get a raise corresponding to the promotion you'll likely get is to leave the company and optionally come back. Companies don't like huge raises, and often have a percentage cap, so you never make what you should until you press the issue.
You have a single counter-example. The point above was that most people had an advantage. Your point was that a few did not. Same argument. No it's not required, but it helped a lot of people get in the door, or decide to take a risk when they otherwise might have had a second thought.
Your own business is all about risk, some people are not prepared to take it. Operating at a loss for a while scares most people, and where I live I see more businesses open and close than is comfortable. Even ones that seem to have a steady supply of customers just close up shop.
Even if all you get is a well-guaranteed loan that you still have to pay back yourself, knowing that you have some cushion makes all the difference.
I read the original story, and kinda forgot about it. But after this, my carrier is getting a call. And if they don't tell me how to turn it off, they're getting another.
And since they know who I'm calling, and can kinda predict these things, I'm going to keep calling. Predict this, cos it's coming. There is no excuse for censorship when it's running on MY GODDAM PHONE. It's mine, and if I don't know what it's doing, it's going straight up your ass. Did you predict that? Hope you brought lube. Unless you prefer a phone up your ass without. Predict it, live it, love it, take it.
What if Microsoft plugs its security holes, and anti-virus is no longer needed?
In other words, the antivirus industry is built on flaws in a product, and should never have existed in the first place. What right do they have to continue existing?
If people want to add AV to their OS, fine, that's after-market parts. But they owe their existence to Microsoft. Can they sue if MS suddenly hires a bunch of black hats to go to town on their OS and find flaws, negating the need for AV for most people?
I'd settle for fact checking. Usually, a story comes from a quote, and the quote gets its own legs. It would be better to report what someone said, and follow it up with"... But we found..." Simple fact checking takes time, which is why they don't do it, they want to be first with the story.
For example, the 53% who pay no* taxes, that was a big quote.
I'd prefer a wiki style, with updated parts clear. White background for the initial story, darker backgrounds for later updates, something visual like that. That way you can read the whole thing new, or just refresh and see what parts are new.
I got lost in the Libya updates, live tweeting the news, essentially. I missed a lot, and some preliminary information was wrong but not corrected. All in one place, with thewe newfangled things called hyperlinks for related stories.
*Federal was left out, with the implication that 47% pay no taxes at all, and that's where the 53% movement came from. Implicitly dishonest, but widely quoted.
This seems to be nearly simultaneous, and gp was talking about the general case, which ggp was asking about. Your data suggests they completed all localization, probably during the year-long delay, and are more likely avoiding other big game launches in the region. For this specific case, which was not even the subject of gp or ggp post.
I've been told, never search because intentional infringement is treble damages. Even if you didn't find what you were looking for, it is easily "proven" in court that you would have been aware of it due to your previous searching.
So even if you have your own similar patent, your product infringes. You now have patent dismissed due to prior patent, plus intentional infringement, plus whatever the patent office punishment is for omitting prior art.
Easily "proven" with a subpeona for your browsing history, and you're done. And by proven, I mean enough to convince a judge or jury.
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And at the same time, "modest performance cost" is probably negligable at this point. Doom 3 was released in 2005 according to wiki, and via Steam in 2007. While the margin of improvement has slowed, systems will be quite a bit beefier by the time it is released. And when open source takes hold of it and makes derivative games (I mean that in a good way) the hardware will be able to compensate.
Remember, this patent is for a speed hack, which is generally useful for about 5 years max in computer land. The speedier algorithm of Phil Katz's pkzip over other libraries largely disappeared due to the i/o bottleneck by the time open versions were widely used. Today, it's faster in most cases to have a file zipped on disk, and unzipped while being read into memory (if async i/o is used of course, and even if not the overhead is still a tiny part of the operation).
That wasn't the value for the music, that was the lost sales due to uploading. Physically stealing something, you have to pay restitution for not buying it. Uploading, you have to pay restitution for everyone else for not buying it.
The original example would probably draw questions such as, how did you acquire $30,000 worth of music legally? If you ripped it from CDs then it's not yours to sell, without supplying the original discs. If you downloaded them individually and paid 0.99 per track, then you spent about $30,000 and I would like the IRS to check where you got that money from.
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Two ways to look at it. The obvious is replacing payola, where they pay money for radio airplay. But I'll ignore that for now.
One, I have DVDs on my shelf, unwrapped and unopened. I bought them because I downloaded and watched the movies, and felt I wanted to register my support and get original quality versions. Same with CDs, unopened and unused.
Two, the entertainment industry owes me money. If I sent a bill for every movie that I watched based on the trailer and didn't like, or album I bought because of two singles where the rest was just filler, I would get a check for more than I have spent for several years in a row.
Now I ramble a bit.
I stopped going to movie theaters because I get 15 minutes of commercials (20 minutes one time, I was so used to it I actually timed it, and not from the introductory pre-movie stuff, actual commercials), and a movie that I may or may not like. Include teenagers who sneak in and do nothing but talk, phone lights and beeps while people text, and there is no value add.
I stopped buying albums unless I hear every minute of every song. I am still quite pissed off that I got an acoustic version of John Mayer's Neon, and when I got Room For Squares it was some electro poppy crap version of it. I actually previewed the album, thought it good enough to buy, and still got screwed. (Lots of people don't like him based on his singles, and opinions vary, but the stuff that wasn't played as singles is really good IMO, I just wish I had the acoustic version, which was the only version I could find).
I haven't strayed far outside what I already knew for xbox 360 - I bought one last year, and bought the same games my roommate had when it first came out. The few buys I made without fully checking them out, which is kinda hard without modding, I have been disappointed in. Even though I only buy the $20 platnum re-release. As much as I love Fallout 3, there are bugs in that re-release that have been known for *years* before it came out. My third save, all of my stuff in my house at Megaton disappeared, something that's been wrong with the save engine since Oblivion at least. I lost a *lot* of game time having to come up with money when I could have sold a mini-nuke, for example. At $20 for the game, and considering my hourly rate, I could bill them $100 and still be on the generous side.
My friend bought LA Noir and Portal 2 right around release day, full price. I enjoyed LA Noir, but would have been disappointed had i paid. Portal 2 was the only game other than Bioshock I would have paid full price for.
I buy stuff to reward people, and I get pissed off that when I take a chance, I can't un-buy it. So yes, it is free advertising for them, at least for one of their potential customers, someone with diposable income. They don't have to use Payola to get their musicians promoted. If they counted downloads towards the American Music Awards, the industry would probably create seed servers just to make sure downloads were available and tracked.
I have worked at a place which instituted mandatory overtime because they could not find enough people to fill the workforce. They increased base pay and got a few more people, but still required overtime.
It's not always optional due to market conditions.
Sure they could have increased base pay more, and many people grumbled that they should have. But much more of an increase means we would not longer be competitive, and the whole place shuts down because the work goes elsewhere. Now everyone is unemployed, instead of dissatisfied with their pay.
Think that's hypothetical? This building is shutting down in the next year. Most of the jobs are gone already. It actually happened. As always there's more to it, but pay and hiring are not numbers that you just change and everything gets better.
It's just There until everyone is streaming Netflix and Blockbuster and using Facetime, and then suddenly some backbone somewhere is saturated. 10 gb connection, 100gb, whatever it is, it can't hold any more.
"It is oversubscribed" means if everyone tries to use what they paid for, it will not work. Your e-mails will time out, your web pages won't load, it won't be Just There.
It is consumed. Think about it like a hot water heater. It has a set capacity, but normally you don't reach that capacity and the hot water is Just There. But if you invite 10 smelly OWS hippies to take a shower and clean up, some of them will use all the hot water and start accusing you of artificially limiting the hot water supply, manipulating scarcity to increase revenue.
The problem comes when we hit the limit, and I think pay per usage is fine. Because someone somewhere will think, why do I have to pay $200/month for my internet when I only send a few hundred e-mails without attachments? Why jack up my bill so those youtubers can watch each other do stupid things? Network expansion gets expensive, and you can either charge the people who use it more, or make everyone pay more.
Didn't we already go through this with Ted Stevens? The internet is a series of tubes. Most of the time they are not full, but if everyone uses more bandwidth eventually it will get full. You have a 10 gigabit connection, and are sending all 10 gigs all the time, the pipe is full, and can carry no more data.
Network congestion, you are saying, will make companies spend money to increase bandwidth, without asking for more money from subscribers? And then you ask why spend money when you can make money instead?
I don't think you really thought this out.
Time Warner didn't even lay cable on my side of the street. I've had my house for 3 years, and it was the last one built on this side, so they've been sitting on it for a while. I can't get cable TV, but they keep sending me advertisements to get cable internet.
I like to call them up, very exicted to get a lackage deal, only to be told they would send someone out to see if they can do it. I say, why don't you stop mailing me until you can?
Everyone here has dish already, so they may never even try. Sure they are watching their investments, but 15 years ago they would have had this cabled the day my foundation was finished. One of the guys I worked with had a physical cable across his yard, that his neighbor kept cutting while mowing. They wanted to get him on cable before he got something else, but didn't bury the line - that's how badly they wanted customers. Kept replacing the cable every 6 months, 4 times at least.
The last major change like this, I got a raise to make sure I was stil exempt. I think it was due to the overtime lawsuits. Something like $1000 for the year. I'm sure I didn't work that much overtime, we operated on comp time mostly. So I got a raise in the middle of a salary freeze.
Thank your for the word of the day, "yurt". I will incorporate it into future posts, such as "May the tension bands of your yurt give way whilst you are standing beside them, such that you are struck in the face with great and unexpected force" and "May your yurt burn down and consume you as you sleep" and "Yo momma lives in a yurt".
I've already posted, or you'd get as many points as I could give you, even going back through your post history. SiRi, give me something no one has bothered to program, but I would like regardless.
Internalities be damned, because someone has probably figure out how to respond to that query and has it programmed in. But that's no different from using an existing lib, or a function from an MSDN example, or a module from sourceforge, or CPAN.
I want you to handle my query on-demand, and I hope your results will be good enough. If not, I await the next version which surely should have this figured out.
Christ almighty, I remember typing Dim statements in a BASIC program which was supposed to write machine bytes to build a 3D something program on an 8086 (DEC Rainbow). I'm to this day not sure what it was supposed to do, but I spent 3 days typing that, my brother did something, and said "It didn't work. Try again." I checked everything and no typos. Screw that, says younger me.
I then discovered a basic compiler and linker which didn't work, turbo pascal which I didn't understand, and finally after years of trying to make VB5 and 6 faster K&R revised C, which made complete sense and unified gravity and electromagnetism and gave me the ability to create Kelly LeBrock using a CD-ROM laser.
Don't bother to mod me, we're just reminiscing here, young uns.
I automate things because I can.
I watched a coworker have to click 'submit' and then select 'today' 40 times in a row every day because the required data entry tool for attendance tracking comes up with a blank slate, not sensible defaults for the use case.
So I made a daemon app - when you click the submit button, it auto-populates whatever you had there before. Saved 30 minutes every day.
But I didn't calculate how much time it would save. I just knew it would be annoying as piss to do that 40 times a day, and she didn't have the skills to fix it. So I did. On my own time, after hours.
I chose my house via website scraping and automation, and I know far more about various internet related subjects than any reasonable person because I insist on automation. I would rather automate a task that I might use again rather than do it twice manually. Sometimes I don't have the choice.
I don't know WTF hypercard does exactly, but I can guarantee you that anyone who used it has a leg up on their coworker or cohabitant or cohuman.
The more you practice saving time, the better you get at actually saving time. Hypercard, Excel, Powerpoint, whatever it is - there are shortcuts, and we should practice using them. Point is, you have to practice saving time. If you automate something that no one ever uses, you probably learned something. And that means a lot, probably more than whatever you earn per minute times the number of minutes spent.
In what respect, Charlie? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first.
Since you're already at +5, I'll just add that you, sir or madam or mixed/indeterminate gender person, have won today's "Critical thinking on the internet" prize.
Nothing has been proven, so we can't say that it is, or is not, being transmitted. clearly undercuts that claim is demonstrably false. From CIQ's own statement:
While we look at many aspects of a deviceâ(TM)s performance, we are counting and summarizing performance, not recording keystrokes or providing tracking tools.
It is entirely plausible that keystrokes are logged, and summarized, and the summary data is sent instead of each keystroke., making CIQ's claims entirely true. This does not eliminate the possibility of malware reading the logs, which presents a super serious privacy problem. But we have not shown that CIQ or anyone else gets individual keystrokes as part of normal operation of the software.
The fact that such a log exists, and can be read by any Android Market app that requests normally innocuous read access makes this software a serious privacy concern, but only with 3rd party applications installed - not inherently.
Mine was among the first posts. Also, I am among the smartest individuals on the planet, and I am one of the only people who can write and compile a C program. In fact, my penis is among the largest, both in length and diameter, while still maintaining a comfortable size. My salary is among the top of any employee, ever, in the history of anything.
In short, I am among the top most amazing, handsome, perfect, richest people that ever walked the earth.
In other words, I'm in the first 100% of every statistical measure. "Among the first" does not give any meaning or context, and I am opposed to its usage without any qualifier.
This is where I started, working tech support for a Fortune 500 company. I got myself into a position where I had to solve problems, and I did it the only way that makes sense - code. I got some things working with SQL, ASP, VBScript, HTML, JavaScript, and some CSS.
Looked for an open job in the same company, had a bit of sample code, and they couldn't turn me down.
I started with desktop PC support, but it doesn't matter what you support. Show that you are capable of more responsibility, solve problems by building useful tools, and either you'll be able to advance or document it in a resume and jump to another company.
The team that hired me was a bunch of help desk people who used programming to solve problems, and eventually became an officially recognized development team with CMMI certification, so I wasn't the only one following the same path.
Watch out for raise ceilings - frequently the only way to get a raise corresponding to the promotion you'll likely get is to leave the company and optionally come back. Companies don't like huge raises, and often have a percentage cap, so you never make what you should until you press the issue.
You have a single counter-example. The point above was that most people had an advantage. Your point was that a few did not. Same argument. No it's not required, but it helped a lot of people get in the door, or decide to take a risk when they otherwise might have had a second thought.
Your own business is all about risk, some people are not prepared to take it. Operating at a loss for a while scares most people, and where I live I see more businesses open and close than is comfortable. Even ones that seem to have a steady supply of customers just close up shop.
Even if all you get is a well-guaranteed loan that you still have to pay back yourself, knowing that you have some cushion makes all the difference.
I read the original story, and kinda forgot about it. But after this, my carrier is getting a call. And if they don't tell me how to turn it off, they're getting another.
And since they know who I'm calling, and can kinda predict these things, I'm going to keep calling. Predict this, cos it's coming. There is no excuse for censorship when it's running on MY GODDAM PHONE. It's mine, and if I don't know what it's doing, it's going straight up your ass. Did you predict that? Hope you brought lube. Unless you prefer a phone up your ass without. Predict it, live it, love it, take it.
What if Microsoft plugs its security holes, and anti-virus is no longer needed?
In other words, the antivirus industry is built on flaws in a product, and should never have existed in the first place. What right do they have to continue existing?
If people want to add AV to their OS, fine, that's after-market parts. But they owe their existence to Microsoft. Can they sue if MS suddenly hires a bunch of black hats to go to town on their OS and find flaws, negating the need for AV for most people?
I'd settle for fact checking. Usually, a story comes from a quote, and the quote gets its own legs. It would be better to report what someone said, and follow it up with"... But we found..." Simple fact checking takes time, which is why they don't do it, they want to be first with the story.
For example, the 53% who pay no* taxes, that was a big quote.
I'd prefer a wiki style, with updated parts clear. White background for the initial story, darker backgrounds for later updates, something visual like that. That way you can read the whole thing new, or just refresh and see what parts are new.
I got lost in the Libya updates, live tweeting the news, essentially. I missed a lot, and some preliminary information was wrong but not corrected. All in one place, with thewe newfangled things called hyperlinks for related stories.
*Federal was left out, with the implication that 47% pay no taxes at all, and that's where the 53% movement came from. Implicitly dishonest, but widely quoted.
This seems to be nearly simultaneous, and gp was talking about the general case, which ggp was asking about. Your data suggests they completed all localization, probably during the year-long delay, and are more likely avoiding other big game launches in the region. For this specific case, which was not even the subject of gp or ggp post.
I've been told, never search because intentional infringement is treble damages. Even if you didn't find what you were looking for, it is easily "proven" in court that you would have been aware of it due to your previous searching.
So even if you have your own similar patent, your product infringes. You now have patent dismissed due to prior patent, plus intentional infringement, plus whatever the patent office punishment is for omitting prior art.
Easily "proven" with a subpeona for your browsing history, and you're done. And by proven, I mean enough to convince a judge or jury.
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Simple to understand, pictures and everything. With Firefox and NoScript, it's not a slideshow, so sorry if it actually is one.
So he can be tried as an adult.
dashdot - it's news for nerds, without the grammer nazi's.
And at the same time, "modest performance cost" is probably negligable at this point. Doom 3 was released in 2005 according to wiki, and via Steam in 2007. While the margin of improvement has slowed, systems will be quite a bit beefier by the time it is released. And when open source takes hold of it and makes derivative games (I mean that in a good way) the hardware will be able to compensate.
Remember, this patent is for a speed hack, which is generally useful for about 5 years max in computer land. The speedier algorithm of Phil Katz's pkzip over other libraries largely disappeared due to the i/o bottleneck by the time open versions were widely used. Today, it's faster in most cases to have a file zipped on disk, and unzipped while being read into memory (if async i/o is used of course, and even if not the overhead is still a tiny part of the operation).
That wasn't the value for the music, that was the lost sales due to uploading. Physically stealing something, you have to pay restitution for not buying it. Uploading, you have to pay restitution for everyone else for not buying it.
The original example would probably draw questions such as, how did you acquire $30,000 worth of music legally? If you ripped it from CDs then it's not yours to sell, without supplying the original discs. If you downloaded them individually and paid 0.99 per track, then you spent about $30,000 and I would like the IRS to check where you got that money from.