When was the last time you've seen a copyright expire? Hold your breath until you see another copyright expire and then get back to me.
So? If you don't like that the author/publisher has a perpetual copyright (I believe they expire after 80 years) then do not buy and do not utilize their works. You are not entitled to their works - and guess what - if you don't read their works you won't die, your life won't have an empty void, you will not go crazy. We have lots of people out there who create works and put them in the public domain - go enjoy their titles for free.
What you fail to see is this is slashdot and if the answer doesn't mean "unlimitted, free and unrestricted access" then it is the wrong one.
People here don't care about the business sense, or the time money an author, and publisher spent - they just want the work up and available for all. There is a sense of entitlement which is prevelant on this forum - that for some reason people are entitled to everything anyone ever thought or put on "paper". It is irrelevant if the person/company spent time or money.
I agree with you - companies should not be forced to sell in markets they do not want to sell in or cannot sell in. They should also not be forced/required to make them available for free in those markets nor should they be demonized. If the consumer really wants the product then let them travel to a place where they can legally purchase it. If it's not that important to them...well it's not that important to them. Reading the next SF novel isn't going to save someones life.
year later some middle-management suck-up suggested the same thing to the CEO over a golf game
That's politics, and while stuff like that happens it doesn't mean you should stop coming up with great ideas. Maybe the CEO won't remember, but maybe your boss will remember, that you suggested this previously.
With regards to "how come you didnt...." - I'd assume your idea was bounced around with people...via e-mail? I assume you e-mailed the idea to your boss for his review? I assume all of this because it is a VERY common practice in this day and age to e-mail people... Then you had a meeting. The meeting had an agenda. When your CEO asked the question why didn't you respond with a copy of the agenda "we did, we were told it was a bad idea, but we saved the plan and with a few minor tweaks we can begin implementation in less then a month"
Also, maybe you should learn to play golf, play with a bunch of people in the office. Get a good rep for being a fun-to-have golf player and you never know...your CEO might ask you some day. Then you can influence policy on the green.
Something has to be missing from your reason. While people are dumb, why would someone have a need to advertise to their own employees at night when there isn't any employees? During the day the PCs would be running and the screen saver could advertise - but at 3 AM when pretty much nobody is around (or maybe a skeleton crew)? This just doesn't jive - and in all honesty as head of a department you should have presented common sense facts to the person in marketing or their boss.
I disagree with your point that it is not IT's fault. It is their fault. As the owners/managers of their department they should think of ways to help save the company money. They would know better then a CEO what the best computer practices are. Will powering down PCs each night hamper computer updates? What about people who want to remote in? These are decisions IT managers should make - and they should take the bull by the horns and make a smart decision before their boss makes a dumb one.
Think proactively not reactively and you will find yourself better situated in life. Go to your boss and say "hey I found out a way to save us 5% on our electricity bill, we can power off peoples desk computers" as opposed to your boss saying "hey how come i read an article about saving money on electricity simply by powering off our computers while you did not? OK now power off EVERYTHING at night"....which as you know is pretty DUMB.
22 percent of IT admins surveyed said that savings from PC power management 'flow to another department's budget.
I am sure there are some shops like this, but overall a business does not manage the power of PCs for an IT budget. They pay the power bill. Now the server rooms needs to account for power but that is because they need enough juice to run their machines - but that is different then PCs. Servers typically need to be up 24/7
Yea that pricing model won't fly. First a penalty of $1/GB/month? Who would get more then the most basic plan then? The regular cost (you proposed) is $2-$3/gb/month.
More like $10-$15/GB/month, and you get charged $25-$35/GB/month overage. Being under won't do you any good and you get no credit. In addition to the per GB cost they will charge you a maintenance fee ($20/month), a cable modem rental fee ($5/month), a required maintenance fee ($20/month), etc. Before you know it your basic fees = $40-60$/month and that does NOT include your GB/month usage.
Gavino Ramos, Time Warner's Vice President of Communications told the San Antonio Express News, "What happened as we're continuing to listen was we worked in some of the comments and ideas that got sent to us. We came to the realization, let's do this in October."
Their idea of listening is to change the implementation date of a bad idea to a few months into the future. Hope people forget or get tired of it (as we are prone to doing) and then continue.
Trials in Rochester, New York and Greensboro, North Carolina will continue as planned,
Generator facility can store more power and they can charge you for said energy. Considering how much money they are spending on infrastructure this is not unreasonable. Generator at your house does not give that luxary - though they will probably build it so you can sell excess energy to the electric company.
A disadvantage of having solar panels at your house - if they break you are responsible for fixing them. At a generator site they are responsible.
With regards to the failure - unless we are talking about massive, catastrophic failure I would think the engineers would build in multiple redundencies in case something happens.
is calling you. Don't worry about the underground base, and whatever yuo do...don't look behind you. They'll even provide you with an umbrella for a rainy day.
If time spent culling real e-mails from a spam pile = waste enegy does that mean I am burning more calories? So is McAfee now saying that reading e-mail is like going to the gym? AWESOME! Fat computer geeks rejoice! You can work out just by reading e-mail!!!! I say subscribe to all those spam sending companies to burn MORE calories - then you too can marry a billionaire nigerian princess who wants to be your eternal love!
What the article did not mention is that they are state-of-the art CARBON filters. The article is promoting water filtration devices for your sink. Just click the link on their site and you will receive 30% discount.
He continues, 'Imagine if every inbox were protected by a state-of-the-art spam filter. We could save about 75% of the spam energy used today
For every security system made there is someone who is able to break through it. Besides, this guy is just trying to promote his shitware. Hate mcaffee.
This spam issue will be solved when gov'ts actively seek/prosecute spammers and the people they are advertising for (you think Viagra will pay spammers once they get slammed with fines from the gov't?)
Yup I remember the stories my dad would tell me about the Six Day war. He was involved in it. Israel attacked by muslim countries. So how does that relate to my comment that Russia is not friendly to israel?
They just gained level 4 and picked up the "incredible awesomeness feat". Really it should have been a paragon feat but the playtesters didn't analyze this one correctly.
As opposed to making a deal for Solar Power From Subterranea? Or as opposed to making a deal for Solar Power From Outer Space? Hey/. editors/submittors - I think we can all safely assume that Solar Power comes from space....unless we invented a Dyson Sphere?
If Israel hacked the US grid they are most likely getting paid by the US to show the US where the weak-points are. This is not unheard of. Israel is very good with technology and network security. But Israel really doesn't work with Russia, Russia hates Israel - largely due to the fact Israel supported the US during the cold-war against Russia.
The proof is in it. Whoever is making claims that Chinese/Russian gov't is involved should show it to us, otherwise this is FUD. They don't have to name names of spies, etc but they need to give us more then "we know it's china/russia".
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When was the last time you've seen a copyright expire? Hold your breath until you see another copyright expire and then get back to me.
So? If you don't like that the author/publisher has a perpetual copyright (I believe they expire after 80 years) then do not buy and do not utilize their works. You are not entitled to their works - and guess what - if you don't read their works you won't die, your life won't have an empty void, you will not go crazy. We have lots of people out there who create works and put them in the public domain - go enjoy their titles for free.
What you fail to see is this is slashdot and if the answer doesn't mean "unlimitted, free and unrestricted access" then it is the wrong one.
People here don't care about the business sense, or the time money an author, and publisher spent - they just want the work up and available for all. There is a sense of entitlement which is prevelant on this forum - that for some reason people are entitled to everything anyone ever thought or put on "paper". It is irrelevant if the person/company spent time or money.
I agree with you - companies should not be forced to sell in markets they do not want to sell in or cannot sell in. They should also not be forced/required to make them available for free in those markets nor should they be demonized. If the consumer really wants the product then let them travel to a place where they can legally purchase it. If it's not that important to them...well it's not that important to them. Reading the next SF novel isn't going to save someones life.
year later some middle-management suck-up suggested the same thing to the CEO over a golf game
That's politics, and while stuff like that happens it doesn't mean you should stop coming up with great ideas. Maybe the CEO won't remember, but maybe your boss will remember, that you suggested this previously.
With regards to "how come you didnt...." - I'd assume your idea was bounced around with people...via e-mail? I assume you e-mailed the idea to your boss for his review? I assume all of this because it is a VERY common practice in this day and age to e-mail people... Then you had a meeting. The meeting had an agenda. When your CEO asked the question why didn't you respond with a copy of the agenda "we did, we were told it was a bad idea, but we saved the plan and with a few minor tweaks we can begin implementation in less then a month"
Also, maybe you should learn to play golf, play with a bunch of people in the office. Get a good rep for being a fun-to-have golf player and you never know...your CEO might ask you some day. Then you can influence policy on the green.
Something has to be missing from your reason. While people are dumb, why would someone have a need to advertise to their own employees at night when there isn't any employees? During the day the PCs would be running and the screen saver could advertise - but at 3 AM when pretty much nobody is around (or maybe a skeleton crew)? This just doesn't jive - and in all honesty as head of a department you should have presented common sense facts to the person in marketing or their boss.
I disagree with your point that it is not IT's fault. It is their fault. As the owners/managers of their department they should think of ways to help save the company money. They would know better then a CEO what the best computer practices are. Will powering down PCs each night hamper computer updates? What about people who want to remote in? These are decisions IT managers should make - and they should take the bull by the horns and make a smart decision before their boss makes a dumb one.
Think proactively not reactively and you will find yourself better situated in life. Go to your boss and say "hey I found out a way to save us 5% on our electricity bill, we can power off peoples desk computers" as opposed to your boss saying "hey how come i read an article about saving money on electricity simply by powering off our computers while you did not? OK now power off EVERYTHING at night"....which as you know is pretty DUMB.
22 percent of IT admins surveyed said that savings from PC power management 'flow to another department's budget.
I am sure there are some shops like this, but overall a business does not manage the power of PCs for an IT budget. They pay the power bill. Now the server rooms needs to account for power but that is because they need enough juice to run their machines - but that is different then PCs. Servers typically need to be up 24/7
Yea that pricing model won't fly. First a penalty of $1/GB/month? Who would get more then the most basic plan then? The regular cost (you proposed) is $2-$3/gb/month.
More like $10-$15/GB/month, and you get charged $25-$35/GB/month overage. Being under won't do you any good and you get no credit. In addition to the per GB cost they will charge you a maintenance fee ($20/month), a cable modem rental fee ($5/month), a required maintenance fee ($20/month), etc. Before you know it your basic fees = $40-60$/month and that does NOT include your GB/month usage.
Gavino Ramos, Time Warner's Vice President of Communications told the San Antonio Express News, "What happened as we're continuing to listen was we worked in some of the comments and ideas that got sent to us. We came to the realization, let's do this in October ."
Their idea of listening is to change the implementation date of a bad idea to a few months into the future. Hope people forget or get tired of it (as we are prone to doing) and then continue.
Trials in Rochester, New York and Greensboro, North Carolina will continue as planned,
If cheap broadband is what really matters to you, moreso than any other factor, move to Japan or South Korea.
So anytime someone doesn't like something instead of trying to change it they should move? Yea you're a winner.
Yes it does. Just like my typo counts as poor grammar.
Generator facility can store more power and they can charge you for said energy. Considering how much money they are spending on infrastructure this is not unreasonable. Generator at your house does not give that luxary - though they will probably build it so you can sell excess energy to the electric company.
A disadvantage of having solar panels at your house - if they break you are responsible for fixing them. At a generator site they are responsible.
With regards to the failure - unless we are talking about massive, catastrophic failure I would think the engineers would build in multiple redundencies in case something happens.
Pro's and cons to everything.
is calling you. Don't worry about the underground base, and whatever yuo do...don't look behind you. They'll even provide you with an umbrella for a rainy day.
But his one sure beats all of them
Except when part of the bill requires everyone to purchase anti-spam filters (approved ones only - duh).
If time spent culling real e-mails from a spam pile = waste enegy does that mean I am burning more calories? So is McAfee now saying that reading e-mail is like going to the gym? AWESOME! Fat computer geeks rejoice! You can work out just by reading e-mail!!!! I say subscribe to all those spam sending companies to burn MORE calories - then you too can marry a billionaire nigerian princess who wants to be your eternal love!
What the article did not mention is that they are state-of-the art CARBON filters. The article is promoting water filtration devices for your sink. Just click the link on their site and you will receive 30% discount.
But where else am I going to buy c|@1|$? It's certainly not advertised at the pharmacy!
He continues, 'Imagine if every inbox were protected by a state-of-the-art spam filter. We could save about 75% of the spam energy used today
For every security system made there is someone who is able to break through it. Besides, this guy is just trying to promote his shitware. Hate mcaffee.
This spam issue will be solved when gov'ts actively seek/prosecute spammers and the people they are advertising for (you think Viagra will pay spammers once they get slammed with fines from the gov't?)
Yup I remember the stories my dad would tell me about the Six Day war. He was involved in it. Israel attacked by muslim countries. So how does that relate to my comment that Russia is not friendly to israel?
stuck in some dictatorships' soil
I know we like to make fun of McCain, but I think Arizona would be quite upset as being called "dictators".
And "some startup" is planning a feat like that?
They just gained level 4 and picked up the "incredible awesomeness feat". Really it should have been a paragon feat but the playtesters didn't analyze this one correctly.
Free tans for everyone?
PG&E Makes Deal For Solar Power From Space
As opposed to making a deal for Solar Power From Subterranea? Or as opposed to making a deal for Solar Power From Outer Space? Hey /. editors/submittors - I think we can all safely assume that Solar Power comes from space....unless we invented a Dyson Sphere?
If Israel hacked the US grid they are most likely getting paid by the US to show the US where the weak-points are. This is not unheard of. Israel is very good with technology and network security. But Israel really doesn't work with Russia, Russia hates Israel - largely due to the fact Israel supported the US during the cold-war against Russia.
The proof is in it. Whoever is making claims that Chinese/Russian gov't is involved should show it to us, otherwise this is FUD. They don't have to name names of spies, etc but they need to give us more then "we know it's china/russia".