From some time now some guys decided that intellectual property is the new wealth. You do not accumulate anymore material goods such as gold, wood, grains: You now accumulate patents and extorts anyone who try to do something material using - even partially - some of these patents.
And patents is something perfect from the standpoint of the investor: The cost to generate one can almost get to zero but the profits can reach low Earth orbit (using the calculations of the RIAA)
(P.S: Damn you, Google translator. Brazilian->English translation sucks)
Makes no sense to you, for me, and probably for any form of intelligent life. But this is not the case with the CEOs of the film industry and record companies.
Porn is simple, pretty obvious. And therefore easy to identify. Now copyright infringement is much more difficult, because how do you know where the video infringe copyright? What part of the video? You would have to know all existing commercial videos to be able to tell if a new video is a copy of any of them.
And that does not even consider cases where the label falsely says that the video infringes a copyrigth.
Take it easy. I assume if the researcher openly say exactly what chip and where exactly is the backdoor, then the military would be REALLY in trouble. So it may still be FUD, but caution never killed anyone.
You do not choose to be shy, "genius". And if your hypothetical company prefers a sociopath than a good professional because the former is more sociable than the second, good luck. You will need...
Be careful with that... A sociopath is much better at playing the "social game" than a good professional whose only fault is being shy or reserved. And I believe you do not want to hire the sociopath.
Is the "new capitalism": Maximum profit in any situation, zero risk.
You and I know that capitalism does not work that way, but these assholes are living in an alternate reality where there is no logic or reason, only just blind greed.
I agree with you. The "system" is designed to fail. Just a distraction to make people believe they live in a democracy, when in fact they live in a plutocracy.
But just go to the streets is not enough to change that. It is necessary to kill the plutocrats as the French did a few years ago in a certain French Revolution.
"...CEO Meg Whitman reportedly wants to use that money instead for new products and for bolstering the sales force."
I bought a HP netbook, believing that I would have something of quality. Big mistake. I think is not going to help increase the number of sellers, if you only have crappy products for sale.
I see something similar in other communities. When you cry "Wolf!" for every sheep that you see, sometimes you ends up really hitting where sheep are wolves disguised.
Works, but the error rate tends to be... little greater than 95%. And still have the problem of discovering when the subject correctly pointed out that the sheep was a wolf
Add the fact that it is harder to make a good GUI application on Linux than on Windows. You can of course make a good GUI in Linux, but you spend more time and resources than to do the same thing in Windows.
Fashion. Someone just decided that now everyone must have an "app marketplace" to be "cool", as absurd as that may be on most platforms. And the shareholders liked the idea because they think they just need to create one too to earn "billions" as Apple. I think is the same hype as "The Cloud".
Well, the reasons for that are pretty simple. It's much harder to program a complex, performance critical GUI application in Linux than in Windows, as recent example I can cite the issue of hardware acceleration. In Windows you can use DirectX or OpenGL and always works (only cause problems if your driver is really broken), while on Linux you need to deal with a hell of different standards and implementations, most of then inconsistent and incomplete.
Well, with time, funds and a new project, why not using free software? But for the actual running - and yes, maybe old - software, the most used (and a good rule) rule is "If it is not broke, do not fix it". Yep, is not a very good idea depend on MS office but the cost in most cases has been paid a long time ago and works correctly, then there is no reason to change something that is working.
You only need to change an old software when it stops working, and when that happens I agree that there may be a problem to migrate to a new system. But it depends on how good the old system is in avoiding breaking itself:-)
Whoa... If you have to manage 90,000 desktops, why not make your own "google docs enterprise" within the servers in your company? It would still be a serious point of failure (as a problem would stop all desktops), but it would be better than having your documents in a third party server.
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From some time now some guys decided that intellectual property is the new wealth. You do not accumulate anymore material goods such as gold, wood, grains: You now accumulate patents and extorts anyone who try to do something material using - even partially - some of these patents.
And patents is something perfect from the standpoint of the investor: The cost to generate one can almost get to zero but the profits can reach low Earth orbit (using the calculations of the RIAA)
(P.S: Damn you, Google translator. Brazilian->English translation sucks)
Everyone totally remembers all the problems with mainframes, right?
Yep, I work with one and I have to to make an PHP application interact with it.
Makes no sense to you, for me, and probably for any form of intelligent life. But this is not the case with the CEOs of the film industry and record companies.
Someone moderated your comment as "funny", but the record company executives think exactly that way.
Porn is simple, pretty obvious. And therefore easy to identify. Now copyright infringement is much more difficult, because how do you know where the video infringe copyright? What part of the video? You would have to know all existing commercial videos to be able to tell if a new video is a copy of any of them.
And that does not even consider cases where the label falsely says that the video infringes a copyrigth.
Google only need to send the bill to the RIAA. And only do the job if the RIAA pay.
Say this to the CEOs :-)
Take it easy. I assume if the researcher openly say exactly what chip and where exactly is the backdoor, then the military would be REALLY in trouble. So it may still be FUD, but caution never killed anyone.
Really, really true.
You do not choose to be shy, "genius". And if your hypothetical company prefers a sociopath than a good professional because the former is more sociable than the second, good luck. You will need ...
will fit into our group
... A sociopath is much better at playing the "social game" than a good professional whose only fault is being shy or reserved. And I believe you do not want to hire the sociopath.
Be careful with that
"Here in the USA we do NOT want geniuses, we want good factory and office workers. Mediocre will not challenge authority."
Exactly. And I tell you, is the same thing here in Brazil.
Is the "new capitalism": Maximum profit in any situation, zero risk.
You and I know that capitalism does not work that way, but these assholes are living in an alternate reality where there is no logic or reason, only just blind greed.
I agree. If I were an investor in stock market, SpaceX would be an investment much more interesting (and perhaps even profitable!) than Facebook.
I still remember the time when stock exchanges served for you to become a partner in companies that you found interesting, not the current casino.
I agree with you. The "system" is designed to fail. Just a distraction to make people believe they live in a democracy, when in fact they live in a plutocracy.
But just go to the streets is not enough to change that. It is necessary to kill the plutocrats as the French did a few years ago in a certain French Revolution.
I also noticed this terrible behavior of Firefox when using the disc... He causes a LOT of fragmentation on Windows too.
Executives are bratty little rich kids. Sociopaths at best.
"...CEO Meg Whitman reportedly wants to use that money instead for new products and for bolstering the sales force."
I bought a HP netbook, believing that I would have something of quality. Big mistake. I think is not going to help increase the number of sellers, if you only have crappy products for sale.
I see something similar in other communities. When you cry "Wolf!" for every sheep that you see, sometimes you ends up really hitting where sheep are wolves disguised.
Works, but the error rate tends to be... little greater than 95%. And still have the problem of discovering when the subject correctly pointed out that the sheep was a wolf
Add the fact that it is harder to make a good GUI application on Linux than on Windows. You can of course make a good GUI in Linux, but you spend more time and resources than to do the same thing in Windows.
Fashion. Someone just decided that now everyone must have an "app marketplace" to be "cool", as absurd as that may be on most platforms. And the shareholders liked the idea because they think they just need to create one too to earn "billions" as Apple. I think is the same hype as "The Cloud".
Well, the reasons for that are pretty simple. It's much harder to program a complex, performance critical GUI application in Linux than in Windows, as recent example I can cite the issue of hardware acceleration. In Windows you can use DirectX or OpenGL and always works (only cause problems if your driver is really broken), while on Linux you need to deal with a hell of different standards and implementations, most of then inconsistent and incomplete.
Well, with time, funds and a new project, why not using free software? But for the actual running - and yes, maybe old - software, the most used (and a good rule) rule is "If it is not broke, do not fix it". Yep, is not a very good idea depend on MS office but the cost in most cases has been paid a long time ago and works correctly, then there is no reason to change something that is working.
:-)
You only need to change an old software when it stops working, and when that happens I agree that there may be a problem to migrate to a new system. But it depends on how good the old system is in avoiding breaking itself
"...And even if you have a T1 connection, there is no guarantee that it will be available 24/7. "
Protip: Read the entire comment before you answer it... Even enterprise-level connections can fail.
Whoa... If you have to manage 90,000 desktops, why not make your own "google docs enterprise" within the servers in your company? It would still be a serious point of failure (as a problem would stop all desktops), but it would be better than having your documents in a third party server.