A process that doesn't work at all, or in fact that even makes it worse, can still fall under the marketing claim 'up to 99%'. Think about it. The only way that claim can be false is if the marketing claim is EXCEEDED.
Clearly the issue is of a legal entity controlling the rights of its owned creation, not what it chooses to do with said ownership. That Pink Floyd might lean towards A, while EMI towards B, while Disney towards C, you can't have an impartial law where Pink Floyd (the good guys per the/. masses) win while EMI and Disney (the dark side per the same masses) get nothing. Pink Floyd winning here gives far more power to EMI and Disney's other interests than to Pink Floyd themselves, and nobody from the 'studios are ebil free downloads must prevail' crowd recognizes that.
Would the masses in here howl out at the evil studio locking down content? For instance, Disney withholds titles from sale. Are they evil, or is it artistic integrity?
My mom was a secretary for the military who worked for years on an IBM electric and was rated at 140. I went through a typing program in college and could comfortably do 90. I have massive palms, and short wide fingers, and 95% of my typed output for the past 2 decades has been code, so my my raw throughput has eroded. My youngest took typing in high school and was rated also at 140, and my eldest who never took a formal course is faster than she is. As is common these days, they were both typing when they were just barely out of diapers.
The biggest detriment to fast typing these days is crap keyboards with small circular buffers and terrible tactility. If you have one of these, you would be far faster with a good keyboard than you ever would be with switching to Dvorak. That's my 2 cents anyway.
The nice thing though is that any freelancer with any history will have built up a framework that he uses to rapidly roll out new software, and the customer has no rights to the framework, which in my case was only ever delivered without comment as a DLL. Nobody ever sacked me to have their nephew support my software, but boy it would have been fun if they tried.
Do the right thing -- as compared to the popular in/. thing -- and replant your grass and then let it die. Problem solved, and only you and the/. crowd not happy in the interest of serving justice and keeping the peace.
The obvious differences between you and me include 1) I realise from experience how living off IP is far more work than living off regular sweat and toil and 2) I'm not rabbling and waving a pitchfork.
A sculpture, even in a public place, has long been protected from being photographed. IANALBIKLBTY. The artist quite rightly took a crack at retaining his rights, and he's completely within his rights in this case. The torrent-sucking copyright-is-evil gallery ought to try to make a living from IP once or twice before going off sounding like pitchfork-waving mindless rabble.
In most areas of Australia, your license gets scanned multiple times, and if you violate the speed laws by 1.8mph (as determined by the time elapsed between two known points), or violate the large commercial vehicle maximum hours of operation in a day, you get a nastigram in your mail the next day.
The good news is that any potentially planet-smashing asteroid will probably take glancing blow off some orbiting engine block and miss our planet completely.
Any intelligent person can debunk another with convincing arguments. Myself, I believe that when in doubt, assume the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Which will hold true until the world goes pear shaped and money becomes meaningless at which point the nutjobs with a cache of AK-47s and a standalone power generator will cackle insanely and dance a miner's jig.
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A process that doesn't work at all, or in fact that even makes it worse, can still fall under the marketing claim 'up to 99%'. Think about it. The only way that claim can be false is if the marketing claim is EXCEEDED.
I'll just keep chugging away with IE6 like I always have.
Not to mention how many men are born with 6 fingers.
Spell-check has failed you young padewan. WERE. WERE.
Clearly the issue is of a legal entity controlling the rights of its owned creation, not what it chooses to do with said ownership. That Pink Floyd might lean towards A, while EMI towards B, while Disney towards C, you can't have an impartial law where Pink Floyd (the good guys per the /. masses) win while EMI and Disney (the dark side per the same masses) get nothing. Pink Floyd winning here gives far more power to EMI and Disney's other interests than to Pink Floyd themselves, and nobody from the 'studios are ebil free downloads must prevail' crowd recognizes that.
This is just the legislative equivalent of clicking on Send before checking your facts.
Would the masses in here howl out at the evil studio locking down content? For instance, Disney withholds titles from sale. Are they evil, or is it artistic integrity?
My mom was a secretary for the military who worked for years on an IBM electric and was rated at 140. I went through a typing program in college and could comfortably do 90. I have massive palms, and short wide fingers, and 95% of my typed output for the past 2 decades has been code, so my my raw throughput has eroded. My youngest took typing in high school and was rated also at 140, and my eldest who never took a formal course is faster than she is. As is common these days, they were both typing when they were just barely out of diapers. The biggest detriment to fast typing these days is crap keyboards with small circular buffers and terrible tactility. If you have one of these, you would be far faster with a good keyboard than you ever would be with switching to Dvorak. That's my 2 cents anyway.
Ah but to see those topless primitives again...
You start the boycott. I'll watch from here.
The nice thing though is that any freelancer with any history will have built up a framework that he uses to rapidly roll out new software, and the customer has no rights to the framework, which in my case was only ever delivered without comment as a DLL. Nobody ever sacked me to have their nephew support my software, but boy it would have been fun if they tried.
Do the right thing -- as compared to the popular in /. thing -- and replant your grass and then let it die. Problem solved, and only you and the /. crowd not happy in the interest of serving justice and keeping the peace.
The obvious differences between you and me include 1) I realise from experience how living off IP is far more work than living off regular sweat and toil and 2) I'm not rabbling and waving a pitchfork.
A sculpture, even in a public place, has long been protected from being photographed. IANALBIKLBTY. The artist quite rightly took a crack at retaining his rights, and he's completely within his rights in this case. The torrent-sucking copyright-is-evil gallery ought to try to make a living from IP once or twice before going off sounding like pitchfork-waving mindless rabble.
In unrelated news, "Queen's Journey, the Saga of Gwendolyn's Adventures and Tribulations", should be ready soon.
In most areas of Australia, your license gets scanned multiple times, and if you violate the speed laws by 1.8mph (as determined by the time elapsed between two known points), or violate the large commercial vehicle maximum hours of operation in a day, you get a nastigram in your mail the next day.
Redundant my bloody ass there wasn't one other post that talked about giving them a consumer class low end computer.
Sounds like they could have my spare dual core desktop and it would be an improvement.
An post? Not the most mellifluous way to start off with a post to the /. crowd n'est ce-pas?
Is that pronounced 'Brahman' by any chance?
'Never' falls within 'up to 93% of the time' n'est ce-pas?
The good news is that any potentially planet-smashing asteroid will probably take glancing blow off some orbiting engine block and miss our planet completely.
That ends with "He had a hat!"
Any intelligent person can debunk another with convincing arguments. Myself, I believe that when in doubt, assume the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Which will hold true until the world goes pear shaped and money becomes meaningless at which point the nutjobs with a cache of AK-47s and a standalone power generator will cackle insanely and dance a miner's jig.