Its not good business to bribe more that it would cost you to lose. You don't stay a megarich megacorporation by throwing away money in the interests of just wining...
So the question is how much are these copyrights really worth.
A shitty Linux admin is just as bad as a shitty Windows admin.
I'll raise you one. I would say it is worse. Unix is far more configurable and assumes that the admin knows what they are doing a lot more than windows does. Its much easier to stuff up.
They never got close to recouping R&D cost on the Concorde. Not even slightly. The French and British governments footed that bill.
Flying was becoming "common" in the 60s, but it wasn't till the late 60s that the "common" man was flying anywhere over a decent stretch of water. It was still expensive. In the 80s my Father flew often to LA from NZ. It cost about 2000NZD. Today you can get the same flight for about the same price. Considering inflation, its *much* cheaper to fly these days. And thats the market. I haven't seen a 1st class section in a long haul flight for a while now. I have even been on 1 or 2 flights that didn't have a business section.
Some of us do have a real job. We write code that a company owns the copyright too and then sells. So I get a salary. No Copyright, no company salary...
In a way it is. We, joe public, want cheap airfares and only cheap airfares. So expensive planes like the Concorde were no long a good long term investment (supersonic flight is always going to cost more fuel than subsonic). The development is that almost anyone, and almost everyone in the western world now travels all over the world. Its no long just the rich jet setters... *Thats progress*!
The shuttle costs ~500M per flight... Thats one expensive first class ticket.... Getting back to normal people is what we want... I think.. And that mean no room for a flying elephant.
What about Uptime, Peak bandwidth and Service level agreements? These things don't come with a 99 pound a month deals. I have looked. And if you don't get a service level agreement that says what happens when you don't get the bandwidth etc, then you won't get it. Then what? There is a reason a lot of even quite big sites get/. ed. They use these type of accounts......
We have tried these things, it does not work with these cheap accounts. I have friends in the ISP industry as well. I am not out of the loop.
Then you have a slightly flawed price analysis. If you are getting 2.5TB of downloads you are not going to use an account with a 2.5TB cap. You will want plenty of margin, also on peak bandwidth/burst rate allowance. This can add to the effective download price quite substantially. And if i only get 100 sales in the first month? While with pressed DVDs the original price is fixed and things like postage only occur if and only if the product is sold. Furthermore postage is not usually part of the product price (ie the customer pays it). Servers are a fix cost per month, that often have a minimum contract length.
I don't agree. I think you are forgetting just how stupidly cheap it is to press a few 1000 DVDs per unit, let alone several million. Even for a little indie game I want to distribute, DVD via post is far cheaper than an online store. The internet is *not* free. The servers are *not* free and the bandwidth is *not* free. Even worse, you need to pay for the peak load on the servers, not the average...
Books are not that different. A run of 10k books is very cheap per book. On the order of dollars or less. Even when storage and distribution is factored in, it would still be cheaper, at least currently, for high volume items.
Don't know why this is modded troll. Its correct. You can't make money with donations. Its all about PR in this case. Or perhaps they really just wanted to do something nice...
Trees used for paper has been sustainable (ie renewable and operated that way) for a long time. It can be quite low quality wood and fast growing pines are fine. You get a *lot* of paper out of single tree. Even better you can use trimmings and other bits that are not useful in the construction industry. The environmental impact is in production, in particular how to get the paper white.... And in most of the western world this is heavily regulated to have none. Paper is also pretty harmless as a waste.
Perhaps you already know this, but anyway. Dropbears is in the book the Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett. Have no idea where he gets the idea however...
I think a prosecutor job is quite different from the defense. Even if you know someone is guilty they still deserve a defense. However the opposite is *not* true. If the prosecutor knows that the accused is innocent, they must drop the charges. Justice is not about wining in court or nailing some guy for some crime. But about catching the guilty.
Unfortunately my experience with police officers has not been all positive. They definitely just wanted to pin the crime on *someone*, regardless of who. In one case I was a witness, as in some dude try to break into my house with me still inside. The officers really really wanted to pick a particular guy out of line up. But the dude that climb through my window was not there... The police officers were quite angry with me for not fingering a guy.
I have little faith that the prosecution will drop charges against someone even if they know they are innocent if political or popular feeling is otherwise.
As someone writing software to do this. Its a long way from trivial. However it is quite a mature field so there are lots of papers on the right way and wrong way to do it.
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The expression "$WHATEVER Nazi" is in fact used here (Austria) and I have heard it often enough from Germans as well.
The difference is that you have to be *really* pedantic to earn the title...
Its not good business to bribe more that it would cost you to lose. You don't stay a megarich megacorporation by throwing away money in the interests of just wining...
So the question is how much are these copyrights really worth.
I pretty sure there is suppose to be some logical step involving the weight of a duck in there somewhere...
A shitty Linux admin is just as bad as a shitty Windows admin.
I'll raise you one. I would say it is worse. Unix is far more configurable and assumes that the admin knows what they are doing a lot more than windows does. Its much easier to stuff up.
Shakespeare's works are meant to be seen and heard in the theater..
What, even the Sonnets and Poems?
Who's the philistine! I use a chisel and stone tablets.
Oh, and you should check your lawn, I think someone is walking on your grass.
They never got close to recouping R&D cost on the Concorde. Not even slightly. The French and British governments footed that bill.
Flying was becoming "common" in the 60s, but it wasn't till the late 60s that the "common" man was flying anywhere over a decent stretch of water. It was still expensive. In the 80s my Father flew often to LA from NZ. It cost about 2000NZD. Today you can get the same flight for about the same price. Considering inflation, its *much* cheaper to fly these days. And thats the market. I haven't seen a 1st class section in a long haul flight for a while now. I have even been on 1 or 2 flights that didn't have a business section.
Some of us do have a real job. We write code that a company owns the copyright too and then sells. So I get a salary. No Copyright, no company salary...
After giving my wife the link, she quickly determined that the book was first. Anyway heres some more info.
The majority of people who buy sports cars use these cars to speed. All sports car capable of speeding should be banded.
Of course you can still speed in a normal car....
And you can download illegal music and movies with any web browser (Rapid share and co).
In a way it is. We, joe public, want cheap airfares and only cheap airfares. So expensive planes like the Concorde were no long a good long term investment (supersonic flight is always going to cost more fuel than subsonic). The development is that almost anyone, and almost everyone in the western world now travels all over the world. Its no long just the rich jet setters... *Thats progress*!
The shuttle costs ~500M per flight... Thats one expensive first class ticket.... Getting back to normal people is what we want... I think.. And that mean no room for a flying elephant.
What about Uptime, Peak bandwidth and Service level agreements? These things don't come with a 99 pound a month deals. I have looked. And if you don't get a service level agreement that says what happens when you don't get the bandwidth etc, then you won't get it. Then what? There is a reason a lot of even quite big sites get /. ed. They use these type of accounts......
We have tried these things, it does not work with these cheap accounts. I have friends in the ISP industry as well. I am not out of the loop.
Then you have a slightly flawed price analysis. If you are getting 2.5TB of downloads you are not going to use an account with a 2.5TB cap. You will want plenty of margin, also on peak bandwidth/burst rate allowance. This can add to the effective download price quite substantially. And if i only get 100 sales in the first month? While with pressed DVDs the original price is fixed and things like postage only occur if and only if the product is sold. Furthermore postage is not usually part of the product price (ie the customer pays it). Servers are a fix cost per month, that often have a minimum contract length.
However it is getting cheaper.
I don't agree. I think you are forgetting just how stupidly cheap it is to press a few 1000 DVDs per unit, let alone several million. Even for a little indie game I want to distribute, DVD via post is far cheaper than an online store. The internet is *not* free. The servers are *not* free and the bandwidth is *not* free. Even worse, you need to pay for the peak load on the servers, not the average...
Books are not that different. A run of 10k books is very cheap per book. On the order of dollars or less. Even when storage and distribution is factored in, it would still be cheaper, at least currently, for high volume items.
Don't know why this is modded troll. Its correct. You can't make money with donations. Its all about PR in this case. Or perhaps they really just wanted to do something nice...
Couldn't agree more. We have had books for over 2000 years. We will have them for another 2000. I would put money on it.
Trees used for paper has been sustainable (ie renewable and operated that way) for a long time. It can be quite low quality wood and fast growing pines are fine. You get a *lot* of paper out of single tree. Even better you can use trimmings and other bits that are not useful in the construction industry. The environmental impact is in production, in particular how to get the paper white.... And in most of the western world this is heavily regulated to have none. Paper is also pretty harmless as a waste.
How did you get your arse shiny? Pink i understand......
Perhaps you already know this, but anyway. Dropbears is in the book the Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett. Have no idea where he gets the idea however...
I don't think they block the torrent version of the game ;)
Significant Data to a flame war is like water to a fire.
Now insignificant data is another story completely.
But anyway. KDE is better and both EMACS and vi sux lemons.
Slackware has used KDE as the default for ages. What? Its not a large "enterprise" distro? Says who! ;)
Well I have used it in some pretty high end enterprise servers... Of course these were all headless so KDE wasn't all that useful....
Its also my choice for my home PC for me and the rest of the family.
I think a prosecutor job is quite different from the defense. Even if you know someone is guilty they still deserve a defense. However the opposite is *not* true. If the prosecutor knows that the accused is innocent, they must drop the charges. Justice is not about wining in court or nailing some guy for some crime. But about catching the guilty.
Unfortunately my experience with police officers has not been all positive. They definitely just wanted to pin the crime on *someone*, regardless of who. In one case I was a witness, as in some dude try to break into my house with me still inside. The officers really really wanted to pick a particular guy out of line up. But the dude that climb through my window was not there... The police officers were quite angry with me for not fingering a guy.
I have little faith that the prosecution will drop charges against someone even if they know they are innocent if political or popular feeling is otherwise.
As someone writing software to do this. Its a long way from trivial. However it is quite a mature field so there are lots of papers on the right way and wrong way to do it.
For the scabies bit. The 10% that fail is usually from reinfection from the house and clothing.
Yea there is this bark from a tree that has some very interesting properties. Still quite popular, or so I hear. Its called aspirin.