'In fact, one study reports that each year, copyright piracy from motion pictures, sound recordings, business and entertainment software, and video games costs the US economy $58 billion in total output, costs American workers 373,375 jobs and $16.3 billion in earnings, and costs federal, state, and local governments $2.6 billion in tax revenue.
I wonder if this number includes the economic benefits gained from people buying extra hard drives, spindles of DVD-Rs, and upgrading their broadband connections to the fastest unlimited connections they can get?
Simply looking at it as an economist, neither condemning nor condoning the action of pirating...
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for modern medicine. I'm actually a Lymphoma survivor, who would have been absolutely, 100% dead at 30 years old if I'd been born 100 years ago. I'm part of the underbrush...
In the end, however, I believe that we are trying to fight forces of nature, and that eventually nature will come up with something that will knock us back into balance. And it will be horrible and scary. But I'm not saying we shouldn't try to prevent it...
For years, and years in the United States we fought forest fires in an absolute manner. When you see a fire, put it out completely, ASAP. And slowly fuel that should have burned built up. Until eventually the fires that did break out were so intense that they couldn't fight them anymore.
Now that the world population is approaching 7 billion, am I the only one who finds this analogy terrifying?
How about this: We modify Grandma's shoes with a Sharpie to say "My home number is 555-1234" (or whatever for the nursing home).
I have a hard time believing that the marker idea isn't better than a shoe that will likely cost hundreds to thousands of dollars ( old people often need custom orthopedics)and a cellular/GPRS/SMS/whatever subscritpion to report the information.
Both solutions assume that the altzheimer's patient will remember to put their shoes on before they go walking...
I'll go further than that. I'm glad they did it. I assume they're going to stop issuing downloadable security updates to the RC in March. As a user of the internet, I feel that there are already far too many unpatched Microsoft OS based Zombies lying in wait to do horrible things to people. It seems that a pre-release OS which could be in the wild for years without updates (by design) is a threat to the rest of us.
Wow! This really takes me back! Who here over the age of 25 never pulled this one at their local 80's retailer (I was always partial to Sears, myself...):
10 PRINT "SEARS SUCKS!"
20 GOTO 10
Looks like I finally have a reason to learn javascript...
Agreed. Perhaps we've merely proven that the port of Flash for Ubuntu is more efficient at using sockets than the port of Flash for Windows.
Plus, we are dealing with a cable modem and the internet. Maybe your neighbor was downloading a lot of porn. Or maybe he's hacked your Windows machine, and is downloading _your_ porn...
Set up a web server on a local network. Let the Windows machine download a 300 Meg file from firefox and time it. Then let the Ubuntu setup do the same thing. That's something I might care about.
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'In fact, one study reports that each year, copyright piracy from motion pictures, sound recordings, business and entertainment software, and video games costs the US economy $58 billion in total output, costs American workers 373,375 jobs and $16.3 billion in earnings, and costs federal, state, and local governments $2.6 billion in tax revenue.
I wonder if this number includes the economic benefits gained from people buying extra hard drives, spindles of DVD-Rs, and upgrading their broadband connections to the fastest unlimited connections they can get? Simply looking at it as an economist, neither condemning nor condoning the action of pirating...
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for modern medicine. I'm actually a Lymphoma survivor, who would have been absolutely, 100% dead at 30 years old if I'd been born 100 years ago. I'm part of the underbrush... In the end, however, I believe that we are trying to fight forces of nature, and that eventually nature will come up with something that will knock us back into balance. And it will be horrible and scary. But I'm not saying we shouldn't try to prevent it...
For years, and years in the United States we fought forest fires in an absolute manner. When you see a fire, put it out completely, ASAP. And slowly fuel that should have burned built up. Until eventually the fires that did break out were so intense that they couldn't fight them anymore. Now that the world population is approaching 7 billion, am I the only one who finds this analogy terrifying?
How about this: We modify Grandma's shoes with a Sharpie to say "My home number is 555-1234" (or whatever for the nursing home). I have a hard time believing that the marker idea isn't better than a shoe that will likely cost hundreds to thousands of dollars ( old people often need custom orthopedics)and a cellular/GPRS/SMS/whatever subscritpion to report the information. Both solutions assume that the altzheimer's patient will remember to put their shoes on before they go walking...
I'll go further than that. I'm glad they did it. I assume they're going to stop issuing downloadable security updates to the RC in March. As a user of the internet, I feel that there are already far too many unpatched Microsoft OS based Zombies lying in wait to do horrible things to people. It seems that a pre-release OS which could be in the wild for years without updates (by design) is a threat to the rest of us.
Just because something is 3d, it doesn't necessarily excite the brain... I'm staring at my desk in 3d right now, and all I feel is bordom...
Wow! This really takes me back! Who here over the age of 25 never pulled this one at their local 80's retailer (I was always partial to Sears, myself...):
10 PRINT "SEARS SUCKS!"
20 GOTO 10
Looks like I finally have a reason to learn javascript...
Agreed. Perhaps we've merely proven that the port of Flash for Ubuntu is more efficient at using sockets than the port of Flash for Windows. Plus, we are dealing with a cable modem and the internet. Maybe your neighbor was downloading a lot of porn. Or maybe he's hacked your Windows machine, and is downloading _your_ porn... Set up a web server on a local network. Let the Windows machine download a 300 Meg file from firefox and time it. Then let the Ubuntu setup do the same thing. That's something I might care about.
At least they never got to portray Vista as a dead, limp corpse...
Wonder how many patents this potentially invalidates?