The germ of this argument is: distribution on media = right of first sale; distribution via servers = license bound by right of company to say it is non-transferable: if the company puts a restriction on the car washes: that you cannot transfer this "bonus" to another person.
The fix is the same as for Cell-phones: legislate it to be portable or stop whining. Give it the same protections as cell phone numbers, portability required.
Agreed. I will pirate rare and classic B-sides of bands only available on a single, why not rare content from a game I really enjoy? The band I pirate have modernized with the internet and have released an LP only album to fan clubs and ordered them to make it available online through good quality transfers (their contract forbid digital releases). They have since released all their non-commercial songs, b-sides, and demos on their website, moved to an EP format great for i-tunes: less time between releases, less crap, and I have gone to their concerts, bought the work of people even remotely connected to the band, and even bought some of the harder to find stuff all because of this open policy. Here's your sound-bite: If you aren't an ass about it, they will buy.
They are not really being defrauded unless they choose to sell at precisely the wrong time at an undervalued price
This was his point: liquidity goes down => perceived weakness => overall loss of investor confidence => REAL drop in price. Also,given that the company then has nowhere to go but the credit market for money, they are stuck between a rock and a hard place by an illegal, immoral, and utterly comptable practice.
Sorry, obtuse un-cited reference to post which started this whole shebang. Thanks for enlightening me, but you realize that correcting me makes you no better than the Grammar Police, don't you?
Back in the Wild Wild West of Web 1.0, the LDS Church (Mormon church) had a hodgepodge of 3rd party sites built by savvy members who were given that responsibility, and it acted purely as a supplement to the newsletter handed out on Sunday.
As more people got used to looking at a site than getting the newsletter, they had a problem with not every unit having a page, multiple pages and out of date pages for a unit, blatant image copyright violation, links to copyright violations that were in direct violation of the precedent they set: linking to copyright violations is a violation of the copyright itself, etc (sorry for the laundry list).
To combat this, they built a template that would provide the protection from copyright violation for the main organization, while allowing even unskilled church members to make a site. It was hosted on the church's servers, and was extended as needs presented themselves.
I would think a simple solution such as this would be a way to simplify the interaction between congressmen and their constituents (analagous to the franking regulations above: standard set of contents, scheduling etc to foster transparency). It might also force them to consider open source and maybe provide enough bandwidth to avoid getting slashdotted over every outrageous bill they tried to pass: "I'm sorry, but I just don't get that much criticism. I get a flood of comments and then nothing for about an hour, then a flood, then nothing."
So what you are saying is that since most "real numbers" are uncountable in the first place, math provides an out for Intelligent Design. You Deductive reasoners always were a tricksy lot...
And they say Off Topic posts aren't constructive
Take Freakonomics' analysis of Abortion = Lower Crime as an example. For economic benefit: Abortion => greater comfort and emotional health for mother => mother better equipped to raise child she chooses to keep it => less likelihood child will "go astray"
Clearly, there is great economic benefit to the mother to abort if ill-prepared and devoid of any emotional consequences of the abortion (Abort => Emotional backlash from self and others around you => Possibly worse off than when you started). Personally, I would prefer it if people would then include the preceding part of that chain: Choose to have sex => Decide to shoulder the emotional consequences of abortion => Abortion.
I meant Z is closed under addition, subtraction and multiplication. R is closed under division. C is closed under fractional exponents. In other words, "Yes they are:P"
Agreed. Its a DS, not a data center. If you REALLY want home-brew, support Android and move us down the road to TRUE convergence. Until then, stop complaining when a company doesn't cater to.01% of its market at the expense of trying to protect itself from Hong Kong pirates (like New York sidewalks, but 1000x worse).
Look into Warhammer Online. Everyone is brought up to the same level when a quest is started. You might not have the cool new spells of your higher level compatriots, but you will be able to compete.
If the american people really were whole-heartedly against the war as the left claims (lack of support does not imply being against), they SHOULD have been able to muster the 2/3s needed.
As is, they've failed to stop the war and they've failed to sew up the presidency after 2 years of solid campaigning. Please stop complaining and start convincing more friends. The silent minority who support the principles, but not the practice of conservatism and the war are sick of listening to it.
This is not EXACTLY like a new trial. The judge significantly shifted the burden of proof from a very light thing (a screen shot of available files) to proof that the files were actually distributed.
Software companies ARE using the above model. "For models produced in OUR factory, we spent $4,000,000 in development and expect 1,000 total sales over its life, therefore, the program must cost $4,000+." Do you REALLY think CS4, Maya, Solidworks, etc would cost a months salary if everyone who used them bought them?
The most visible leader here has been Microsoft and their "Ultimate Steal" deal (sold only to students). "For models NOT produced in our factory, we'll charge X to get legit if hooking them now guarantees future sales."
The long-term effect is the average price comes down as enforcement is no longer the focus. It becomes a marketing arms race to seek out the loose change in the couch cushions of the internet.
The GOVERNMENT proscribes drugs. They even tend to proscribe the WRONG drugs. Doctors tend to proscribe drugs in the case of interactions, which would imply an understanding of interactions.
Lets face it, we all stand on the shoulders of giants, whether we do anything productive so people can stand on top of us or not is another question. I personally use the modern wonder known as the computer to write snarky comments about 12 year old geniuses, the functional equivalent of standing on Turing's shoulders and laying a huge turd.
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Exactly. Outlawing the "non-transferable" portion of digital licenses is a great way out of this.
The germ of this argument is: distribution on media = right of first sale; distribution via servers = license bound by right of company to say it is non-transferable: if the company puts a restriction on the car washes: that you cannot transfer this "bonus" to another person.
The fix is the same as for Cell-phones: legislate it to be portable or stop whining. Give it the same protections as cell phone numbers, portability required.
Agreed. I will pirate rare and classic B-sides of bands only available on a single, why not rare content from a game I really enjoy?
The band I pirate have modernized with the internet and have released an LP only album to fan clubs and ordered them to make it available online through good quality transfers (their contract forbid digital releases). They have since released all their non-commercial songs, b-sides, and demos on their website, moved to an EP format great for i-tunes: less time between releases, less crap, and I have gone to their concerts, bought the work of people even remotely connected to the band, and even bought some of the harder to find stuff all because of this open policy.
Here's your sound-bite: If you aren't an ass about it, they will buy.
Quantum loop gravity, the REPUTABLE string theory
They are not really being defrauded unless they choose to sell at precisely the wrong time at an undervalued price
This was his point: liquidity goes down => perceived weakness => overall loss of investor confidence => REAL drop in price. Also,given that the company then has nowhere to go but the credit market for money, they are stuck between a rock and a hard place by an illegal, immoral, and utterly comptable practice.
Unfortunately, we are least upper bounded by Star Trek Background Police. HEYO!!!!
Sorry, obtuse un-cited reference to post which started this whole shebang. Thanks for enlightening me, but you realize that correcting me makes you no better than the Grammar Police, don't you?
Back in the Wild Wild West of Web 1.0, the LDS Church (Mormon church) had a hodgepodge of 3rd party sites built by savvy members who were given that responsibility, and it acted purely as a supplement to the newsletter handed out on Sunday.
As more people got used to looking at a site than getting the newsletter, they had a problem with not every unit having a page, multiple pages and out of date pages for a unit, blatant image copyright violation, links to copyright violations that were in direct violation of the precedent they set: linking to copyright violations is a violation of the copyright itself, etc (sorry for the laundry list).
To combat this, they built a template that would provide the protection from copyright violation for the main organization, while allowing even unskilled church members to make a site. It was hosted on the church's servers, and was extended as needs presented themselves.
I would think a simple solution such as this would be a way to simplify the interaction between congressmen and their constituents (analagous to the franking regulations above: standard set of contents, scheduling etc to foster transparency). It might also force them to consider open source and maybe provide enough bandwidth to avoid getting slashdotted over every outrageous bill they tried to pass: "I'm sorry, but I just don't get that much criticism. I get a flood of comments and then nothing for about an hour, then a flood, then nothing."
So what you are saying is that since most "real numbers" are uncountable in the first place, math provides an out for Intelligent Design. You Deductive reasoners always were a tricksy lot... And they say Off Topic posts aren't constructive
Take Freakonomics' analysis of Abortion = Lower Crime as an example. For economic benefit:
Abortion => greater comfort and emotional health for mother => mother better equipped to raise child she chooses to keep it => less likelihood child will "go astray"
Clearly, there is great economic benefit to the mother to abort if ill-prepared and devoid of any emotional consequences of the abortion (Abort => Emotional backlash from self and others around you => Possibly worse off than when you started). Personally, I would prefer it if people would then include the preceding part of that chain: Choose to have sex => Decide to shoulder the emotional consequences of abortion => Abortion.
I meant Z is closed under addition, subtraction and multiplication. R is closed under division. C is closed under fractional exponents. In other words, "Yes they are :P"
Actually, most real numbers are derived from the introduction of division and root operators over the set of the integers.
Agreed. Its a DS, not a data center. If you REALLY want home-brew, support Android and move us down the road to TRUE convergence. Until then, stop complaining when a company doesn't cater to .01% of its market at the expense of trying to protect itself from Hong Kong pirates (like New York sidewalks, but 1000x worse).
My refractory period is at least 15 minutes. Which unsolicited e-mail did YOU respond to?
Look into Warhammer Online. Everyone is brought up to the same level when a quest is started. You might not have the cool new spells of your higher level compatriots, but you will be able to compete.
Its better on your fingers (and another organ) than what you COULD have been doing for those 32 days...
As is, they've failed to stop the war and they've failed to sew up the presidency after 2 years of solid campaigning. Please stop complaining and start convincing more friends. The silent minority who support the principles, but not the practice of conservatism and the war are sick of listening to it.
This is not EXACTLY like a new trial. The judge significantly shifted the burden of proof from a very light thing (a screen shot of available files) to proof that the files were actually distributed.
Software companies ARE using the above model. "For models produced in OUR factory, we spent $4,000,000 in development and expect 1,000 total sales over its life, therefore, the program must cost $4,000+." Do you REALLY think CS4, Maya, Solidworks, etc would cost a months salary if everyone who used them bought them?
The most visible leader here has been Microsoft and their "Ultimate Steal" deal (sold only to students). "For models NOT produced in our factory, we'll charge X to get legit if hooking them now guarantees future sales."
The long-term effect is the average price comes down as enforcement is no longer the focus. It becomes a marketing arms race to seek out the loose change in the couch cushions of the internet.
The GOVERNMENT proscribes drugs. They even tend to proscribe the WRONG drugs. Doctors tend to proscribe drugs in the case of interactions, which would imply an understanding of interactions.
Yes, I am a jerk.
If you don't want to take harder basic classes to become a programmer, go to ITT Tech, you freakin' script kiddie!
If an idiot REALLY wants to be a doctor, he will become a doctor. A more stringent oversight system would be more useful.
Or they go to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College or Chiropractic school. The best oversight is to be educated YOURSELF to tell the bad from the good.
Lets face it, we all stand on the shoulders of giants, whether we do anything productive so people can stand on top of us or not is another question.
I personally use the modern wonder known as the computer to write snarky comments about 12 year old geniuses, the functional equivalent of standing on Turing's shoulders and laying a huge turd.
Finally, my calling in life!
Wow, your sig and comment are diametrically opposed to one another. Have you been taking your meds?