"Why the fuck do countries have laws that allow them to prosecute people who are did their criminal activity in another jurisdiction?" For trade reasons. Almost like its a global economy or something.
"The price of software has very little to do with the costs of producing it. The price depends on how much value it brings to the buyer."
That's incredible stupid. Of course the cost to produce impacts the price. If you can't sell it for more then you produce it, then you go out of business. If that price doesn't have consumers that value it, then they don't buy it.
Not stealing. Coping. Specifically copyright infringement(not the copier, but the distributor) and likely EULA violation, again the owner not the copier), until they install it, depending on the wording in the agreement.
This type of software is a lot different then widely distributed software. Volume and horizontal distribution factors change the game. You are talking about a product that also accompanies machinery worth millions.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with their market strategy, only pointing out why you example is horrible out of place.
Plus their are people who would like to get any service or product for free, does that mean all services and product should be free?
It needs to be accurate to less then minute, and it needs to take every time situation in the globe, AND it can't rely on the users computer. And then it needs to got through the normal release cycles. It is NOT a no brainer. Since it require a brain, that means you can't have the webmaster do it. Ba-Zinga.
"Please Slashdot, if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, STFU!"
It has to be the 'correct time', not the computers time which may be incorrect. It has to account for DST, it has to account for country oddities, and you shoudl probably realize that people paying the tax may be in a different country when they want to watch. It's not a clock, it's a clock that needs to be accurate for everyone in the world.
And then it has to go through the release cycle. And it ahs to be put into the development process with all the other changes they are making.
All that is just a piece of why it take 100 STAFF DAYS.
You are the type of programmer that is holding the industry back from becomes a solid engineering discipline. Ignorant, vapid and egotistical.
A) you aren't taking into account the entire release process. B) You code is useless as it doesn't take in all the possible times throughout the world C) I would have words with you about that code if you were implementing t in a ggobal system, it's i'll thought out.
are you even familiar with mktime at all, or did you just copy some code from your 'learn html for Dummies' book?
I can open a car in under 5 seconds. faster then most people can with a key. And it isn't obtrusive. I can also get OTHER people to break into a car for me.
The issue at hand can be fixed with authentication.
Imagine celll phones. Now no one in the middle would even know that information had been sent. Sure, you can watch the person with the phone and use a camera to see the text. But with glovbal communication, thats not the largest problem.
Becasue the informtion is in it's own bubble of time. Also, time doesn't seem to work they way we precieve it. So anything dealing with time intuitivly feels wrong.
It could be that the effect is no good becasue there is no way to retrieve it. If not, well. All kinds of wierd things become possible.
In my very limited example the person who wrote the info ont he paper, and the person who read it would still remember the information.
You can creata situation where all information stay in a bubble, when ther bubble collapse it's as if the informatiomnn had never exsited.
So if normal destruciton of information was like burning a paper, even the informatiojn is still there, in the ash. Hard to get, but still it is there.
This would be like being able to create a paper, use it, and then have it never have exisited.
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"Why the fuck do countries have laws that allow them to prosecute people who are did their criminal activity in another jurisdiction?"
For trade reasons. Almost like its a global economy or something.
"The price of software has very little to do with the costs of producing it.
The price depends on how much value it brings to the buyer."
That's incredible stupid. Of course the cost to produce impacts the price. If you can't sell it for more then you produce it, then you go out of business.
If that price doesn't have consumers that value it, then they don't buy it.
It's software the sells fro 100s of thousands of dollars. Typical for vertical machinery software.
yes, it is out of proportion. I generally don't like prison for most crimes. It'sa punishment that makes society worse off over all.
Why don't you just go to a copier place and use it their? or a library? or a friends house? sounds to me like you just making excuses.
Not stealing. Coping. Specifically copyright infringement(not the copier, but the distributor) and likely EULA violation, again the owner not the copier), until they install it, depending on the wording in the agreement.
This type of software is a lot different then widely distributed software. Volume and horizontal distribution factors change the game.
You are talking about a product that also accompanies machinery worth millions.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with their market strategy, only pointing out why you example is horrible out of place.
Plus their are people who would like to get any service or product for free, does that mean all services and product should be free?
No, not Bollocks. It depends on the trade agreement and/or treaties.
wrong
If you're country has a treaty or trade agreement with the US then the US copyright will apply to your country.
Piracy is correct. The term goes back 400 years regarding copyright violation. Know the history of what you speak before bitching about it.
To be clear: In this matter, you are wrong.
what copyright law is supposed to do.
You can not stop the onslaught of recording devices.
Spend you energy protecting the rights and usage of said recording devices.
And if the users system time is off?
you keep posting solution to a problem you clearly don't understand.
That won't work. But you go ahead and spout off your crap.
Ignorant fool.
It needs to be accurate to less then minute, and it needs to take every time situation in the globe, AND it can't rely on the users computer.
And then it needs to got through the normal release cycles. It is NOT a no brainer. Since it require a brain, that means you can't have the webmaster do it. Ba-Zinga.
"Please Slashdot, if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, STFU!"
Take you own advice.
How about you actually read the specs?
It has to be the 'correct time', not the computers time which may be incorrect. It has to account for DST, it has to account for country oddities, and you shoudl probably realize that people paying the tax may be in a different country when they want to watch.
It's not a clock, it's a clock that needs to be accurate for everyone in the world.
And then it has to go through the release cycle.
And it ahs to be put into the development process with all the other changes they are making.
All that is just a piece of why it take 100 STAFF DAYS.
You are the type of programmer that is holding the industry back from becomes a solid engineering discipline.
Ignorant, vapid and egotistical.
You disgust me.
A) you aren't taking into account the entire release process.
B) You code is useless as it doesn't take in all the possible times throughout the world
C) I would have words with you about that code if you were implementing t in a ggobal system, it's i'll thought out.
are you even familiar with mktime at all, or did you just copy some code from your 'learn html for Dummies' book?
I can open a car in under 5 seconds. faster then most people can with a key. And it isn't obtrusive.
I can also get OTHER people to break into a car for me.
The issue at hand can be fixed with authentication.
Imagine celll phones. Now no one in the middle would even know that information had been sent.
Sure, you can watch the person with the phone and use a camera to see the text. But with glovbal communication, thats not the largest problem.
Are you sayng Henery Phillips created the Phillips screw, but couldn't figure out how to use it?
Personally I perfer the Fearson to the Phillips.
What is alive and well is people who don't understand things so they use an logical fallacy to dismiss it. Yes, I am looking at you.
Becasue the informtion is in it's own bubble of time.
Also, time doesn't seem to work they way we precieve it. So anything dealing with time intuitivly feels wrong.
It could be that the effect is no good becasue there is no way to retrieve it. If not, well. All kinds of wierd things become possible.
In my very limited example the person who wrote the info ont he paper, and the person who read it would still remember the information.
Read the article. It will blow your mind.
You can creata situation where all information stay in a bubble, when ther bubble collapse it's as if the informatiomnn had never exsited.
So if normal destruciton of information was like burning a paper, even the informatiojn is still there, in the ash. Hard to get, but still it is there.
This would be like being able to create a paper, use it, and then have it never have exisited.
Then why duidn't they? they are just now getting a sales tax. By your 'logic' they would have been doing this a dozen years ago.
Does Amazon have a delevery company? Everythuing I order is deleived by USPS,UPS, or Fed Ex. and one itme by a Samoan wearing a tu-tu.
"Live free and let the tax payers pay for you idiocy" is more like it.