What's the difference to you? Even if the glory jerk disappears, the money jerk is still going to want more money. And they seem to keep finding new ways to be bigger jerks to make more money. So frankly, I'm glad that at we have the glory jerk on the consumers side.
The government itself may not come out ahead on a deal like that, but I'd imagine there's a very good chance that King himself or one of his good friends would.
I actually know a bunch of the guys who used to work at Jasc. I loved PSP back in the day (though I only paid for it once, always got free employee copies after that) and at some point I think they broke the formula of an easy to use raster editor. Then once Adobe started selling cut down versions of Photoshop it was basically over. Jasc got bought by Corel a while back.
I've since moved on to WinRAR (which I'm happy to have paid for) but I remember hearing about Katz' death. Sad story, his work has to be up there as one of the most used pieces of software ever.
I don't know, some of them were quite untrusting of banks and the like. They probably wouldn't be all that surprised to find out that we had gotten fat and lazy and let banks take things over.
The department store and supermarket handle inventory, display, advertising, etc. High speed traders are simply someone standing in between the customer and the checkout counter, taking a tiny portion from each item you purchase. Does it greatly affect your single transaction? Probably not. But they make a killing doing essentially nothing.
So the only options are 1 picosecond from now or next Thursday? There's no middle ground?
Let's be honest, the only reason picosecond trading is needed is so that as many manufactured trades can happen as possible between two legitimate trades in order to skim money off the only real transaction. Would you tolerate a line of 50 people standing at the grocery store checkout lane whose only function was to hand your loaf of bread along, taking a penny as a fee? It wouldn't bother you that you could have bought the loaf of bread for $0.50 less without them?
And just think how well the US economy would have done without those evil pirates! Why, if we could eliminate piracy our GDP would double if the **AA numbers are to be believed.
Depends on how far in the past you're looking. Once phones were being switched automatically there was slightly more privacy than when Gladys was connecting Bob to Mary across town, and Gladys just happened to mention it to Bob's wife one day when she ran into her at the market. But only slightly.
Also, assuming that Food Industry = McDonalds is just being willfully obtuse. Agriculture is big business in the US. Just ask Monsanto, ADM and Cargill. Cargill's yearly revenue is several times that of McDonald's.
I have not read the book yet myself (it's on my rather lengthy list of books to get to) but I'll refer you to Food Politics by Marion Nestle, a professor at NYU.
I give them my instructions every couple of years. Unfortunately there are a lot of assholes who live here and tell them to keep spending like drunken sailors.
Ah well, the day of reckoning is coming. This country is living on borrowed time (time is money) at this point.
That's not as far from the truth as you jokingly suggest. The original "Food Pyramid" promoted by the US government was based more on industry wants than sound nutritional science.
How about just not giving them so much money to begin with? The US government is a child who spends who entire allowance, and rather than figuring how to spend it more wisely just takes more money from his parents wallets.
Agree 100%. If a copyright holder chooses to make something intentionally unavailable, they should lose the copyright. Copyright, as it's ardent defenders love to remind us, is necessary to "promote the progress" of these works. If the work isn't being promoted, then why let the person maintain copyright?
I'm of the same mindset. The shiny new phones are tempting at times, but then I remind myself that paying $1000 or more every year for a phone instead of the $100 or so I spend now on a TMobile PAYG dumphone is insane. Sure there are times when a smartphone would be useful, but not $1000/yr useful.
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What's the difference to you? Even if the glory jerk disappears, the money jerk is still going to want more money. And they seem to keep finding new ways to be bigger jerks to make more money. So frankly, I'm glad that at we have the glory jerk on the consumers side.
Not at the moment. Seems Obama wants to change that.
Uhhhhh, the prison system is already quite privatized.
It's also strange that many leftists seem to adore copyright, even though it's a system designed around a monopoly on thought and removal of freedom.
Greed makes for strange bedfellows, I guess.
Sure you can. There are plenty of ad networks other than Adsense.
Yep, but at least you can avoid Google services if you choose.
The government itself may not come out ahead on a deal like that, but I'd imagine there's a very good chance that King himself or one of his good friends would.
I actually know a bunch of the guys who used to work at Jasc. I loved PSP back in the day (though I only paid for it once, always got free employee copies after that) and at some point I think they broke the formula of an easy to use raster editor. Then once Adobe started selling cut down versions of Photoshop it was basically over. Jasc got bought by Corel a while back.
I've since moved on to WinRAR (which I'm happy to have paid for) but I remember hearing about Katz' death. Sad story, his work has to be up there as one of the most used pieces of software ever.
I don't know, some of them were quite untrusting of banks and the like. They probably wouldn't be all that surprised to find out that we had gotten fat and lazy and let banks take things over.
The department store and supermarket handle inventory, display, advertising, etc. High speed traders are simply someone standing in between the customer and the checkout counter, taking a tiny portion from each item you purchase. Does it greatly affect your single transaction? Probably not. But they make a killing doing essentially nothing.
So the only options are 1 picosecond from now or next Thursday? There's no middle ground?
Let's be honest, the only reason picosecond trading is needed is so that as many manufactured trades can happen as possible between two legitimate trades in order to skim money off the only real transaction. Would you tolerate a line of 50 people standing at the grocery store checkout lane whose only function was to hand your loaf of bread along, taking a penny as a fee? It wouldn't bother you that you could have bought the loaf of bread for $0.50 less without them?
This could have been done very cheaply. Just leave their cages sitting in a room with the movie Sideways playing on auto-repeat.
And just think how well the US economy would have done without those evil pirates! Why, if we could eliminate piracy our GDP would double if the **AA numbers are to be believed.
In related news, 13 countries have named the US when asked which country's IP laws they don't give a shit about.
So it's not actually doing away with anything, and actually requires a full fledged PC to do those things? Sounds like a non-story.
Depends on how far in the past you're looking. Once phones were being switched automatically there was slightly more privacy than when Gladys was connecting Bob to Mary across town, and Gladys just happened to mention it to Bob's wife one day when she ran into her at the market. But only slightly.
Also, assuming that Food Industry = McDonalds is just being willfully obtuse. Agriculture is big business in the US. Just ask Monsanto, ADM and Cargill. Cargill's yearly revenue is several times that of McDonald's.
I have not read the book yet myself (it's on my rather lengthy list of books to get to) but I'll refer you to Food Politics by Marion Nestle, a professor at NYU.
I give them my instructions every couple of years. Unfortunately there are a lot of assholes who live here and tell them to keep spending like drunken sailors.
Ah well, the day of reckoning is coming. This country is living on borrowed time (time is money) at this point.
That's not as far from the truth as you jokingly suggest. The original "Food Pyramid" promoted by the US government was based more on industry wants than sound nutritional science.
How about just not giving them so much money to begin with? The US government is a child who spends who entire allowance, and rather than figuring how to spend it more wisely just takes more money from his parents wallets.
"Apple's delivery system is not the only one available. "
Apple is doing everything possible to rectify that situation.
Agree 100%. If a copyright holder chooses to make something intentionally unavailable, they should lose the copyright. Copyright, as it's ardent defenders love to remind us, is necessary to "promote the progress" of these works. If the work isn't being promoted, then why let the person maintain copyright?
I'm of the same mindset. The shiny new phones are tempting at times, but then I remind myself that paying $1000 or more every year for a phone instead of the $100 or so I spend now on a TMobile PAYG dumphone is insane. Sure there are times when a smartphone would be useful, but not $1000/yr useful.