I think you're giving the man too much credit. You're reasoning is that because he knew a technology back in the 80s he should be aware of how technology works 20 years later and in a completely different medium.
It seems to me that this is more of a cause of him not understanding exactly how the internet works. Especially since he calls them "plagiarists" and "content kleptomaniacs*", which implies he thinks that they somehow are copying and keeping his content. Maybe he was just trying to be dramatic to get more attention, but I'm still pretty sure he's not exactly sure what it means when a search engine links to the page of a website without going through it. (This is guessing a lot, but I tend to think he believes that if he goes to paid content using a Google search will bring you to the content by going around the page that asks you to pay for it.)
*Google probably is the definition of a content kleptomaniac. They store all your information on their servers forever and their terms and agreements state that pretty much any content you e-mail, use their hosting service for, or put in any of their other tools becomes theirs. However, them being a search engine is pretty much their only service that they aren't kleptomaniacs about.
I haven't seen SGU yet, but that's not really surprising. I'm actually surprised they even did the show as Syfy has consistently said things along the lines of wanting to do "earth based" television series and generally not wanting to do strictly scifi programming. I don't see why they don't just do make some kick ass science fiction, if it's a budget thing they could cancel 5 or 6 awful Syfy Original Movies that we wouldn't miss anyway.
I can see what you mean, as the PSP Go is sorta like iPods (company uses their own cables and tries their best to lock out anyone else from using the device), but the problem is that the last version was more open. It's tough to give people an ability (pick up a cable anywhere, buy used games, etc.) then take it away in a later version. The iPod has always been like that so Apple is just adding features, while Sony is taking them away.
I don't think the management company will care that much, as they'll probably just let them map the areas that consumers would be using in a mall or office building. Hopefully, the employees don't need to pull up a GPS or find their office or where the storage room is.
I'd imagine this would be more for use in something like a mall or shopping center. Airports have those big signs pointing you to where everything is, a mall may only have a dozen signs that you're not always close to. You'd just take out your phone and search for the GAP or Gamestop and it would tell you how to get there. Though maybe I'm wrong.
I'd like the feature, if you could turn it on or off. If I'm waiting for someone to call or something, I usually listen to music with my headphones on only one ear. So the price for the convenience is limited options in other scenarios which is why I'm not really sure it's convenient at all. I suppose it depends on what options you'd like to have available.
There are two reasons I'd imagine this isn't easier. First, you would only have as many students taking a math test at one time as you have calculators for, which would affect standardized testing when usually the whole grade is scheduled to take the same test at about the same time. So you'd need to have several hundred calculators, at least four times as many batteries (TI-83+)), and to replace any broken ones. Can you imagine the complaints/lawsuits if a student's calculator's battery died or something else went wrong and it wasn't replaced immediately? You'd get all sorts of "My son's calculator's batteries died and it took them several minutes to replace them. All that stress of not being able to work and not knowing if he'd be able to finish the test made it so he couldn't concentrate anymore and so he failed. Clearly, this test shouldn't count for him."
As for market share, pretty much everyone I know at college still has their TI-83 or 89 from high school. And we come from several different states and school districts from within the same states. So I think at this point that's kind of like saying Apple cares about getting a larger market share of MP3 players.
I definitely agree the idea of inalienable rights, and the fact that anyone can say it's their government so it must be right completely amazes me. If it was right because it was their government, then there wouldn't be any protests would there?
But at the same time I have absolutely no intention putting any sort of support behind yet another war (though it's not like I supported the last two either). Even if we knew we could easily win and set up a new government there wouldn't really be a point. The people need to decided to revolt or isn't just strangers telling them how to live. They need to decide what's worth living with and what's worth dying for. But that doesn't mean we can't support their struggle in other ways.
I think you're missing a far larger point. Have you dealt with non-government employees at a large corporation? When is the last time that you got them on the phone right away? And then did it take that one phone call to get stuff sorted out? Or did you have to make other calls? Possibly talk to a supervisor?
The government is inefficient because it's made up of people working at a large institution that can easily pass responsibility to off to someone else. Why bother to make sure that something gets taken care of when no one above you is actually going to check or say, let alone do, anything if you don't get it done. When someone that's supposed to install your new cable line doesn't end up showing up after you wait for several hours and you call and complain, do you think the guy actually gets fired or reprimanded?
This is the first thing I thought. I don't really see a point to start blocking next month when the conversion to a legal download site is taking place this month.
I don't think that this really is a misunderstanding of the issue. The IP cartel wouldn't worry about a decentralized alternative if it paid as well or better than their current alternative. They only do some of the shadier practices you mentioned because they believe it is the option that makes them the most money, if they thought treating their customers better or giving up control would increase profits they'd be changing their business plans at the speed of light.
What the GGF seems to misunderstand is that they'll only give up some control for the same or more money. So I'd have to imagine that companies are going to pull torrents unless they're being paid equally or more than what they would make from a regular sale to a customer. Which seems like it would leave you having to pay a huge membership fee in order for them to cover all the downloads. At some point it's going to have to become about equal to what you'd pay in a store or some Amazon, which at that point seems like you're getting an inferior product for the same price (may not have the manuals, no warranty or return for a file that's corrupted or has some other problem, slow download if there's few seeders).
I almost wonder if it wouldn't be a better step in the right direction to attempt a pay site in which they made deals directly with artists and pay them directly when their songs/albums were downloaded. You wouldn't quite do it with movies or software yet, but it might be a good attempt with music. Probably would end up doing about as well as the current plan, but seems like more of a step in the right direction.
If they're gonna plant the evidence why even put it in the solution in the first place? And I'm pretty sure they'd retest if you claimed the arresting officer screwed around with the breathalizer or that it was a false positive.
It's a little like saying that if someone steals a wallet following orders then they are innocent because the Nuremberg defense is valid as long as you didn't kill hundreds of people.
That's not like saying that at all. Because these officers were enforcing a law, not breaking it. Wasn't the point of the Nuremberg defense that they were following legal government and military orders, not just that they're following orders in general?
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I think you're giving the man too much credit. You're reasoning is that because he knew a technology back in the 80s he should be aware of how technology works 20 years later and in a completely different medium.
It seems to me that this is more of a cause of him not understanding exactly how the internet works. Especially since he calls them "plagiarists" and "content kleptomaniacs*", which implies he thinks that they somehow are copying and keeping his content. Maybe he was just trying to be dramatic to get more attention, but I'm still pretty sure he's not exactly sure what it means when a search engine links to the page of a website without going through it. (This is guessing a lot, but I tend to think he believes that if he goes to paid content using a Google search will bring you to the content by going around the page that asks you to pay for it.)
*Google probably is the definition of a content kleptomaniac. They store all your information on their servers forever and their terms and agreements state that pretty much any content you e-mail, use their hosting service for, or put in any of their other tools becomes theirs. However, them being a search engine is pretty much their only service that they aren't kleptomaniacs about.
You watch too much porn.
I understand the words you use, yet I can't make any sense of what you're saying.
I haven't seen SGU yet, but that's not really surprising. I'm actually surprised they even did the show as Syfy has consistently said things along the lines of wanting to do "earth based" television series and generally not wanting to do strictly scifi programming. I don't see why they don't just do make some kick ass science fiction, if it's a budget thing they could cancel 5 or 6 awful Syfy Original Movies that we wouldn't miss anyway.
I'd also suspect that Fox didn't do much to advertise the show since I hadn't even heard of it until Serenity was coming out.
I can see what you mean, as the PSP Go is sorta like iPods (company uses their own cables and tries their best to lock out anyone else from using the device), but the problem is that the last version was more open. It's tough to give people an ability (pick up a cable anywhere, buy used games, etc.) then take it away in a later version. The iPod has always been like that so Apple is just adding features, while Sony is taking them away.
Google: Ha ha ha, this poor guy thinks he's swallowing it! Seriously though, bend over.
I don't think the management company will care that much, as they'll probably just let them map the areas that consumers would be using in a mall or office building. Hopefully, the employees don't need to pull up a GPS or find their office or where the storage room is.
I'm guessing that if you need a map, not having one in the past isn't what stopped you.
I'd imagine this would be more for use in something like a mall or shopping center. Airports have those big signs pointing you to where everything is, a mall may only have a dozen signs that you're not always close to. You'd just take out your phone and search for the GAP or Gamestop and it would tell you how to get there. Though maybe I'm wrong.
I'd like the feature, if you could turn it on or off. If I'm waiting for someone to call or something, I usually listen to music with my headphones on only one ear. So the price for the convenience is limited options in other scenarios which is why I'm not really sure it's convenient at all. I suppose it depends on what options you'd like to have available.
I have to question your stance that these do anything that would actually make life even slightly more convenient.
There are two reasons I'd imagine this isn't easier. First, you would only have as many students taking a math test at one time as you have calculators for, which would affect standardized testing when usually the whole grade is scheduled to take the same test at about the same time. So you'd need to have several hundred calculators, at least four times as many batteries (TI-83+)), and to replace any broken ones. Can you imagine the complaints/lawsuits if a student's calculator's battery died or something else went wrong and it wasn't replaced immediately? You'd get all sorts of "My son's calculator's batteries died and it took them several minutes to replace them. All that stress of not being able to work and not knowing if he'd be able to finish the test made it so he couldn't concentrate anymore and so he failed. Clearly, this test shouldn't count for him."
As for market share, pretty much everyone I know at college still has their TI-83 or 89 from high school. And we come from several different states and school districts from within the same states. So I think at this point that's kind of like saying Apple cares about getting a larger market share of MP3 players.
Was going to war presented as the only option?
I definitely agree the idea of inalienable rights, and the fact that anyone can say it's their government so it must be right completely amazes me. If it was right because it was their government, then there wouldn't be any protests would there?
But at the same time I have absolutely no intention putting any sort of support behind yet another war (though it's not like I supported the last two either). Even if we knew we could easily win and set up a new government there wouldn't really be a point. The people need to decided to revolt or isn't just strangers telling them how to live. They need to decide what's worth living with and what's worth dying for. But that doesn't mean we can't support their struggle in other ways.
And they can get Kobe to their celebrity spokesman!
Thank you!
I think you're missing a far larger point. Have you dealt with non-government employees at a large corporation? When is the last time that you got them on the phone right away? And then did it take that one phone call to get stuff sorted out? Or did you have to make other calls? Possibly talk to a supervisor?
The government is inefficient because it's made up of people working at a large institution that can easily pass responsibility to off to someone else. Why bother to make sure that something gets taken care of when no one above you is actually going to check or say, let alone do, anything if you don't get it done. When someone that's supposed to install your new cable line doesn't end up showing up after you wait for several hours and you call and complain, do you think the guy actually gets fired or reprimanded?
This is the first thing I thought. I don't really see a point to start blocking next month when the conversion to a legal download site is taking place this month.
I don't think that this really is a misunderstanding of the issue. The IP cartel wouldn't worry about a decentralized alternative if it paid as well or better than their current alternative. They only do some of the shadier practices you mentioned because they believe it is the option that makes them the most money, if they thought treating their customers better or giving up control would increase profits they'd be changing their business plans at the speed of light.
What the GGF seems to misunderstand is that they'll only give up some control for the same or more money. So I'd have to imagine that companies are going to pull torrents unless they're being paid equally or more than what they would make from a regular sale to a customer. Which seems like it would leave you having to pay a huge membership fee in order for them to cover all the downloads. At some point it's going to have to become about equal to what you'd pay in a store or some Amazon, which at that point seems like you're getting an inferior product for the same price (may not have the manuals, no warranty or return for a file that's corrupted or has some other problem, slow download if there's few seeders).
I almost wonder if it wouldn't be a better step in the right direction to attempt a pay site in which they made deals directly with artists and pay them directly when their songs/albums were downloaded. You wouldn't quite do it with movies or software yet, but it might be a good attempt with music. Probably would end up doing about as well as the current plan, but seems like more of a step in the right direction.
Dr. Doom is from Latveria, a fictional country.
If they're gonna plant the evidence why even put it in the solution in the first place? And I'm pretty sure they'd retest if you claimed the arresting officer screwed around with the breathalizer or that it was a false positive.
I suppose that's a better example. And seriously people, his original post makes a point even if he did pick a bad example. No need to mod him troll.
Especially since it would probably seem odd if they took you down to the station later and found that you had absolutely no cocaine in your system.
It's a little like saying that if someone steals a wallet following orders then they are innocent because the Nuremberg defense is valid as long as you didn't kill hundreds of people.
That's not like saying that at all. Because these officers were enforcing a law, not breaking it. Wasn't the point of the Nuremberg defense that they were following legal government and military orders, not just that they're following orders in general?
Can I populate a plane with pregnant women and count each seat as two passengers?
Are you kidding? He's had flying saucers since the mid-90s.