Say if you downloaded 300 songs from piratebay, and have a share-ratio of 2, and they calculated this means 600 people illegally got a song from you, at $0.99 a song, that's a loss of $600 -- so they convict you guilty and demand you pay $1000.
1 download != 1 lost sale. If you're selling a calculator program for $100000 and I put it up on the internet, and 100 people downloaded it, I have not caused $10 million in damages - nobody would have bought your overpriced program anyway. It's not that extreme at $0.99 per song but a 100% reduction in price still tends to increase demand quite a bit.
For headings, some GNU software manuals have created a solution - Use a row of asterisks as an underline, as in:
Chapter 1 ********* Text here, notice how the chapter heading is clearly visible. You can put as much text as you want and the text will still be easy to navigate.
Quite a few people do, and I'm sure there are lots of people on the car enthusiast front fighting modern locked-down cars. We're a Linux/copyright/Apple/Google site so we don't exactly hear much from them.
It's not in the interest of your life to get money? With that argument, all work seems pretty useless. A lot of careers make you dependent on others, and you don't encourage others to violate your rights - the whole point of crime (of the plebeian variety, not of the banking variety) is that if you don't get caught nobody knows you did it, so the effect on you particularly is insignificant.
So yes, theft can be a consequence of rational self-interest. That's why it's been one of the few industries to be around for over ten thousand years.
It doesn't matter who says what is being said. Ideas live and die on their own merits, regardless of who supports the ideas. Saying otherwise is an ad hominem fallacy.
Perfect example. I gave up on Huckleberry Finn at page 50. The second time, when I had to read it because it was assigned in school, I retained approximately nothing.
What about all the people who could use them but can't afford them?
Most day jobs are of the type where you're sold out - if you make 800 products, 800 people will buy at $50 and 800 people will buy at $0. It's just that their $40000 is going to you, so there's no net harm done.
Their website can't even handle a slashdotting. This is probably a hobbyist rocket type project, not a giant commercial enterprise. The only way they can afford professionally designed software is by pirating it.
This project is, success or failure, going to be operating on a $1 million budget, probably even less. Commercial software prices for these applications are intended for billion dollar enterprises. Given that, open source tools probably are the best tools for the job.
Nobody is worried about the future of distributing content. There will always be crackers, and the effort of one is enough to liberate some piece of content for everyone. What we're worried about is that the *AA will destroy the internet trying.
Ease of use is a VERY important consideration in security. Security does not operate in a theoretical environment with an all-knowing IT chief and robots who follow all of his commands. Security operates in the real world, where users are human beings. If security is not easy to use, in the real world it might as well not be there at all, since people will not bother to use it or circumvent it if it's not easy to use.
It's not corporate welfare. It's the government allowing the companies to benefit from the relatively (compared to the status quo) positive impact electric cars have on the environment. Without these subsidies and without similar taxes on gasoline cars, gasoline cars will have an unfair advantage since some of the cost of the cars (pollution) is offloaded onto all of society.
Because a nuclear plant has high initial costs. You need an investment of billions of dollars and then you need to wait years for construction before the thing can power itself on and start generating energy. That doesn't mean that nuclear is nonviable - it's very cheap once the plant is built - but it does provide a very high barrier to entry that, without loans, only the rich oil companies (who really don't care for competition) are capable of crossing.
Once the climate crisis and the food unsustainability crisis (and the peak oil crisis) reach full tilt, hundreds of thousands of people with enough money will be begging to move to Mars.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned sage yet? It is quite bloated for a calculator (it's intended to rival Mathematica, not MS Calc), but it does plain old arithmetic, calculus, equation solving, factoring and plotting (2d, 3d, 2d/3d implicit, complex, complex implicit) quite well.
Have you tried running it in a boot-camp dual boot configuration with OSX? It should work just fine, but it's nice to know exactly what the limitations are.
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Say if you downloaded 300 songs from piratebay, and have a share-ratio of 2, and they calculated this means 600 people illegally got a song from you, at $0.99 a song, that's a loss of $600 -- so they convict you guilty and demand you pay $1000.
1 download != 1 lost sale. If you're selling a calculator program for $100000 and I put it up on the internet, and 100 people downloaded it, I have not caused $10 million in damages - nobody would have bought your overpriced program anyway. It's not that extreme at $0.99 per song but a 100% reduction in price still tends to increase demand quite a bit.
For headings, some GNU software manuals have created a solution - Use a row of asterisks as an underline, as in:
Chapter 1
*********
Text here, notice how the
chapter heading is clearly
visible. You can put as
much text as you want and
the text will still be
easy to navigate.
Chapter 2
*********
Well, at least this makes up for Lord Mandelson.
Oh great, now you're going to get Slashdot taken down.
Quite a few people do, and I'm sure there are lots of people on the car enthusiast front fighting modern locked-down cars. We're a Linux/copyright/Apple/Google site so we don't exactly hear much from them.
It's not in the interest of your life to get money? With that argument, all work seems pretty useless. A lot of careers make you dependent on others, and you don't encourage others to violate your rights - the whole point of crime (of the plebeian variety, not of the banking variety) is that if you don't get caught nobody knows you did it, so the effect on you particularly is insignificant.
So yes, theft can be a consequence of rational self-interest. That's why it's been one of the few industries to be around for over ten thousand years.
It doesn't matter who says what is being said. Ideas live and die on their own merits, regardless of who supports the ideas. Saying otherwise is an ad hominem fallacy.
No surprise, no complaint. I just like feeling smug that I don't have to put up with any of this proprietary BS.
Please remove your post immediately or I'll send a letter telling you to do the same, under the threat of receiving a DMCA takedown letter.
THAT's notifying.
Perfect example. I gave up on Huckleberry Finn at page 50. The second time, when I had to read it because it was assigned in school, I retained approximately nothing.
What about all the people who could use them but can't afford them?
Most day jobs are of the type where you're sold out - if you make 800 products, 800 people will buy at $50 and 800 people will buy at $0. It's just that their $40000 is going to you, so there's no net harm done.
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Their website can't even handle a slashdotting. This is probably a hobbyist rocket type project, not a giant commercial enterprise. The only way they can afford professionally designed software is by pirating it.
This project is, success or failure, going to be operating on a $1 million budget, probably even less. Commercial software prices for these applications are intended for billion dollar enterprises. Given that, open source tools probably are the best tools for the job.
Nobody is worried about the future of distributing content. There will always be crackers, and the effort of one is enough to liberate some piece of content for everyone. What we're worried about is that the *AA will destroy the internet trying.
Ease of use is a VERY important consideration in security. Security does not operate in a theoretical environment with an all-knowing IT chief and robots who follow all of his commands. Security operates in the real world, where users are human beings. If security is not easy to use, in the real world it might as well not be there at all, since people will not bother to use it or circumvent it if it's not easy to use.
Have anything to back that up? All the sources I see make wind more expensive than nuclear. And nuclear power is only going to get better.
It's not corporate welfare. It's the government allowing the companies to benefit from the relatively (compared to the status quo) positive impact electric cars have on the environment. Without these subsidies and without similar taxes on gasoline cars, gasoline cars will have an unfair advantage since some of the cost of the cars (pollution) is offloaded onto all of society.
My point is that nuclear is cheap in the long run. It's still fairly cheap in the long run if you add the costs of the plant. I'll cite a source. It's environmentally friendly too (scroll down to the External Costs section).
Because a nuclear plant has high initial costs. You need an investment of billions of dollars and then you need to wait years for construction before the thing can power itself on and start generating energy. That doesn't mean that nuclear is nonviable - it's very cheap once the plant is built - but it does provide a very high barrier to entry that, without loans, only the rich oil companies (who really don't care for competition) are capable of crossing.
Jmol is pretty good.
Once the climate crisis and the food unsustainability crisis (and the peak oil crisis) reach full tilt, hundreds of thousands of people with enough money will be begging to move to Mars.
IE doesn't have Noscript. That's a pretty big one in terms of security.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned sage yet? It is quite bloated for a calculator (it's intended to rival Mathematica, not MS Calc), but it does plain old arithmetic, calculus, equation solving, factoring and plotting (2d, 3d, 2d/3d implicit, complex, complex implicit) quite well.
Have you tried running it in a boot-camp dual boot configuration with OSX? It should work just fine, but it's nice to know exactly what the limitations are.