That's just what you think that people think. You are wrong, and are probably incapable of understanding that you are wrong, and impervious to reasoning that you are wrong. The good news is that progress moves ahead one funeral at a time.
Content owners just don't get it, either because they are too set in their ways, or else because they are too stupid. Piracy's motivation is not, for the most part, a desire to get people to save a few dollars. Its motivation is to empower people to access the material promptly, conveniently, at all times, everywhere. I am willing to venture that most people do not resort to the Pirate Bay and others because it is free. They do so because it is convenient. Official offerings seem to be keen on making it as difficult and inconvenient as possible to access the material, with constraints on where, when, and in what devices you are allowed to play the material. The Pirate Bay and others make it easy and convenient, while at the same time removing those artificial constraints. Also, nobody will sneakily remove any material that you have obtained from such sites.
Content owners can of course do whatever they want with the material that they own. But things won't change much in piracy front for as long as they remain stubbornly anchored in their obsolete business model. Unless, of course, they want to bring about police state-like controls, that is. The realistic choices for them are either to make less money out of their content than before, or to make no money at all.
Extremists are binary people: everything is either black or white - there are no shades. For the left it is their obnoxious political correctness ("person" is a sexist word, better use "perchild") for the right it is their prejudiced judgmentalism (if you are poor it must be because you deserve it). The world would be a far better place without such assholes.
Are you really so stupid and ignorant to believe that ALL members of the older generations have the wherewithal and desire to do as you claim? Can't you really understand that the vast majority of people in those generations are as much at the mercy of the powers-that-be as you, me or almost anybody else? Are you going to start using your brain, so you can stop uttering nonsense?
The one thing I envy about the American education system is its insistence for pupils to speak in public from an early age, starting with the Show-and-Tell sessions in pre-school. As a result, the vast majority of educated Americans, shy or otherwise, can stand up in front of crowd and do an at least passable job of presenting some material - certainly much better than people who were brought up in an education system where such a thing was not cultivated. What that kid is proposing is stupid and self-destructive - he/she might just as well be proposing to stop teaching mathematics to kids who have "math anxiety".
What's that? A phone exclusively for NBA players? For just about everybody else will look like a jerk with one of those to one's ear. I forgot - one uses these devices for anything other than phone calls.
The AI bubble seems to be starting to deflate. It may not pop, but it will likely carry on shrinking. Most people already know that Alex and co. are little more than gimmicks, good for party games, grins and giggles, and little more. The AI community seems to be making the same mistakes they made in the late 60s and 70s. The second AI winter is nigh.
That's what you get with a woman CEO. Lies, exaggerations, getting fat and not doing it after you commit, losing half your income...
Because male CEOs have, throughout history, NEVER, EVER done such a thing. As, for example, the late Kenneth Lay and the ex-con Jeffrey Skilling prove.
Facebook is great for logging in to comment in lots of sites, without having to bother with registration chores. Even better, all the garbage resulting from that action will go to the Facebook account. I care as much about what is in my Facebook account as about what is in my garbage bin. That's what Facebook is really good for.
That conference calls exist, to a large extent, in order to justify some jobs that would otherwise be unjustifiable. That's also true of many positions in the managerial world, whose goal seems to be to artificially generate work alone to justify the existence of such positions.
Agile is the current fad. As usual, it is critique-proof - if it doesn't work for you, you are not doing it right. Give it a few more years and it will essentially disappear, like all other fads that preceded it.
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I wonder whether they are sly references to the excessive prices of these trinkets?
Back to the gutter? You obviously ignore that Michael Atiyah is one of top mathematicians of the 20th century.
I mean, people keep getting Windows despite all the abuse they are subjected to.
Google is rapidly becoming the new Microsoft. No wonder they ditched the "Don't Be Evil" motto.
Many claim that cryptocurrency and blockchain aer here to stay. I am beginning to wonder...
That's just what you think that people think. You are wrong, and are probably incapable of understanding that you are wrong, and impervious to reasoning that you are wrong. The good news is that progress moves ahead one funeral at a time.
Content owners just don't get it, either because they are too set in their ways, or else because they are too stupid. Piracy's motivation is not, for the most part, a desire to get people to save a few dollars. Its motivation is to empower people to access the material promptly, conveniently, at all times, everywhere. I am willing to venture that most people do not resort to the Pirate Bay and others because it is free. They do so because it is convenient. Official offerings seem to be keen on making it as difficult and inconvenient as possible to access the material, with constraints on where, when, and in what devices you are allowed to play the material. The Pirate Bay and others make it easy and convenient, while at the same time removing those artificial constraints. Also, nobody will sneakily remove any material that you have obtained from such sites.
Content owners can of course do whatever they want with the material that they own. But things won't change much in piracy front for as long as they remain stubbornly anchored in their obsolete business model. Unless, of course, they want to bring about police state-like controls, that is. The realistic choices for them are either to make less money out of their content than before, or to make no money at all.
Extremists are binary people: everything is either black or white - there are no shades. For the left it is their obnoxious political correctness ("person" is a sexist word, better use "perchild") for the right it is their prejudiced judgmentalism (if you are poor it must be because you deserve it). The world would be a far better place without such assholes.
Are you really so stupid and ignorant to believe that ALL members of the older generations have the wherewithal and desire to do as you claim? Can't you really understand that the vast majority of people in those generations are as much at the mercy of the powers-that-be as you, me or almost anybody else? Are you going to start using your brain, so you can stop uttering nonsense?
Every time I visit the Google homepage with something other than Chrome I get a big prompt with a button to go and install a "more secure browser".
How do you manage that? I have just tried with Opera, Vivaldi and Firefox, and I just get the homepage - no prompts.
Not in vain are they made by companies on fire.
The UK is slow but steadily taking more and more steps toward a police state.
The one thing I envy about the American education system is its insistence for pupils to speak in public from an early age, starting with the Show-and-Tell sessions in pre-school. As a result, the vast majority of educated Americans, shy or otherwise, can stand up in front of crowd and do an at least passable job of presenting some material - certainly much better than people who were brought up in an education system where such a thing was not cultivated. What that kid is proposing is stupid and self-destructive - he/she might just as well be proposing to stop teaching mathematics to kids who have "math anxiety".
What's that? A phone exclusively for NBA players? For just about everybody else will look like a jerk with one of those to one's ear. I forgot - one uses these devices for anything other than phone calls.
I had never heard of it until today.
This is Microsoft we are talking about - the epitome of despicable when it comes to for-profit organizations.
Of course - here. In this forum. Like scores of times. So far, with the same outcome every single time.
Only 44,000?
The AI bubble seems to be starting to deflate. It may not pop, but it will likely carry on shrinking. Most people already know that Alex and co. are little more than gimmicks, good for party games, grins and giggles, and little more. The AI community seems to be making the same mistakes they made in the late 60s and 70s. The second AI winter is nigh.
That's what you get with a woman CEO. Lies, exaggerations, getting fat and not doing it after you commit, losing half your income...
Because male CEOs have, throughout history, NEVER, EVER done such a thing. As, for example, the late Kenneth Lay and the ex-con Jeffrey Skilling prove.
Facebook is great for logging in to comment in lots of sites, without having to bother with registration chores. Even better, all the garbage resulting from that action will go to the Facebook account. I care as much about what is in my Facebook account as about what is in my garbage bin. That's what Facebook is really good for.
That conference calls exist, to a large extent, in order to justify some jobs that would otherwise be unjustifiable. That's also true of many positions in the managerial world, whose goal seems to be to artificially generate work alone to justify the existence of such positions.
The issue is, how accurately? Not very, in my case. This system, we do not know yet.
...Sounds good on paper, disastrous in practice.
I don't agree - it doesn't sound good on paper. It does sound like a lot of hand-waving, with very little in the way of fact and substance.
Agile is the current fad. As usual, it is critique-proof - if it doesn't work for you, you are not doing it right. Give it a few more years and it will essentially disappear, like all other fads that preceded it.