Secondly, if I were an MSFT shareholder, I'd be wondering why Microsoft is purchasing a company that duplicates their own services with MS Live.
They acquire a completely different search ecosystem.
Not only do they get to pick-and-choose the best Y! technologies for integration into MSN, having two different portals allows for experimentation. Wondering if a new feature will be a dud or a hit? Implement it on Y!. If it falters, kill it. If it becomes the Next Big Thing, duplicate on MSN. But make your MSN implementation better. For example: offer 1 gig online drive space to Y! users... if it does well offer >1 gig on MSN (and you have more time to work out the kinks and bugs).
It'd be the scraps left over from what people bother to do when they got time off, snd only from the people in it for the love of it, many people involved in the technical sides of someone else's creative work definately aren't.
If you want to save money, energy and the environment then I would suggest a vacuum solar hot water system any day of the week. Much cheaper, much more efficient and still does some dam useful work.
How well does it do with lots of ambient heat but less direct sunlight? Companies won't install panels on my house because it faces north/south rather than east/west. The roof is not at an ideal angle for PV, but it is warm/hot during the equinoxes and scalding in the summer.
For the sake of capitalism, I truly hope your statement has boundaries. There is no media that can't be ripped and distributed for LESS than the folks that produce it, or ever will be
That is the quintessential form of capitalism.
If I am producing software, and 1 person buys it, copies it, then distributes it for 1/100 (arbitrary number for "best value") of the cost, what incentive do I have to continue producing software?
You don't. At least not for money. You would continue writing software for the same reasons musicians will still sing and play instruments, artists will still paint and sculpt, and authors will still write books: because you want to.
Or maybe some company hires you to work on something they need, much like medieval artists were hired by rich patrons to produce works of art for them. See: Linux
The world needs more lawyers like you, successfully fighting on behalf of 'the common man' against the big corporations, getting word out to the masses, and just being an all around 'fine chap'.
OK, NYCL: He's been properly brainwashed. You may commence taking over the world now.
It may be helpful to give subscribers the ability to post a minute or so before normal users. But I am biased.
What about preventing anonymous posts for a minute or two?
the tragedy, in this case, is that improvements become "somebody else's problem"
The "scratch an itch" method has worked out well so far. Do you pine for a feature that nobody else cares about? Do it yourself. If you aren't willing to do that, you don't need it bad enough.
That said, it is credible that unauthorized copying can lead to a net gain by IP owners, with extra sales from viral spread of a work offsetting piracy losses. Certainly authors who make their books available online don't seem to suffer for it.
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Flash? When HTML 5 is done they can use the tag.
Making the Moon into a planet would be something of an upgrade.
Plus they need no fuel, no maintenance, and are impervious to physical damage.
Excuse me?
Fuel
They don't put solar panels or RTGs on these things for the fun of it.
Maintenance
Spirit and Opportunity are doing well, but both have had various mechanical failures that are impedances.
Impervious to physical damage
No, just less fragile than humans in space.
Impossible. Minimum latency from the moon is ~2 seconds. No way someone could get FP with that much lag.
Secondly, if I were an MSFT shareholder, I'd be wondering why Microsoft is purchasing a company that duplicates their own services with MS Live.
They acquire a completely different search ecosystem.
Not only do they get to pick-and-choose the best Y! technologies for integration into MSN, having two different portals allows for experimentation. Wondering if a new feature will be a dud or a hit? Implement it on Y!. If it falters, kill it. If it becomes the Next Big Thing, duplicate on MSN. But make your MSN implementation better. For example: offer 1 gig online drive space to Y! users... if it does well offer >1 gig on MSN (and you have more time to work out the kinks and bugs).
Yahoo Spent $79 Million To Fend Off Microsoft
Yahoo basically paid out $179,000,000...
Either inflation is really bad this year, or you are using Excel.
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This comment is worded exactly as intended. Any application of lame "Fixed that for you" jokes will be "fixed for you".
Fixed that for you.
It'd be the scraps left over from what people bother to do when they got time off, snd only from the people in it for the love of it, many people involved in the technical sides of someone else's creative work definately aren't.
Yes. Your point?
If you want to save money, energy and the environment then I would suggest a vacuum solar hot water system any day of the week. Much cheaper, much more efficient and still does some dam useful work.
How well does it do with lots of ambient heat but less direct sunlight? Companies won't install panels on my house because it faces north/south rather than east/west. The roof is not at an ideal angle for PV, but it is warm/hot during the equinoxes and scalding in the summer.
For the sake of capitalism, I truly hope your statement has boundaries. There is no media that can't be ripped and distributed for LESS than the folks that produce it, or ever will be
That is the quintessential form of capitalism.
If I am producing software, and 1 person buys it, copies it, then distributes it for 1/100 (arbitrary number for "best value") of the cost, what incentive do I have to continue producing software?
You don't. At least not for money. You would continue writing software for the same reasons musicians will still sing and play instruments, artists will still paint and sculpt, and authors will still write books: because you want to.
Or maybe some company hires you to work on something they need, much like medieval artists were hired by rich patrons to produce works of art for them. See: Linux
The world needs more lawyers like you, successfully fighting on behalf of 'the common man' against the big corporations, getting word out to the masses, and just being an all around 'fine chap'.
OK, NYCL: He's been properly brainwashed. You may commence taking over the world now.
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Why do people make posts like this one to undo their mod? Why not instead make a useful post anywhere else in the thread?
It may be helpful to give subscribers the ability to post a minute or so before normal users. But I am biased.
What about preventing anonymous posts for a minute or two?
the tragedy, in this case, is that improvements become "somebody else's problem"
The "scratch an itch" method has worked out well so far. Do you pine for a feature that nobody else cares about? Do it yourself. If you aren't willing to do that, you don't need it bad enough.
How did you get in my house?
The joke's on you.
That said, it is credible that unauthorized copying can lead to a net gain by IP owners, with extra sales from viral spread of a work offsetting piracy losses. Certainly authors who make their books available online don't seem to suffer for it.
Link?
Very well.
Exactly NONE of Vista's file-copy/network-copy problems had anything to do with DRM.
So it just sucks on it's own? Say it ain't so!
That was 4 to 1.
Murdering others because you believe they are murderers themselves just makes you another murderer.
I do not question this.
My point was that they aren't getting this worked up over a procedure as benign as removing tonsils.
NoScript et al. is (are?) the scalpel. Those "Enable Javascript" and "Enable Java" tick boxen in the Preferences (under "Content") are the chainsaws.