They aren't an established company like GM or Ford, it makes sense for them to start out with high-end customized vehicles, grow large on that, and then slowly descend into the mass market as economies of scale start to kick in. There's no other good business model that does not require eight digits of initial capital.
The GP is not talking about that. He is talking about the (highly debatable) fact that every person whom she uploaded to gets the ability to listen to the song without buying it (presumably at the iTunes price). Therefore (once again this is highly debatable - if you pirate Photoshop that doesn't mean you're willing to shell out 700 bucks for it) the damages is equal to the purchase price * the number of people she uploaded to.
The RIAA keeps their litigation against sympathetic defendants quiet and trumpets their successes against the more unsavory members of society. They have to - it's all a giant PR game.
Secondary uploaders are individually liable for the people who downloaded it from them directly (in theory) and everyone else even further down the chain from them (in RIAA logic). This means that the RIAA can collect fees from Jammie, from the people who downloaded off her and uploaded it, from the people 2 levels down, 3 levels down, and so on, effectively being paid hundreds of times for the same thing.
It's an extremely risky strategy that way and Jammie will now have to sit through even more court sessions. Unfortunately she doesn't strike me as the kind of altruistic person who would do that just to establish a precedent for others.
I've programmed some of my own games (and played them 100+ times over, of course, up to the point where I start thinking the game is really easy, adjust the difficulty way up, then find that no one else can do any of the bosses) and I know how dull it can get. It's important to maintain some kind of variety - if you're a (corporate) boss, have 10 people testing level A from 9 to 12 and level B for the rest of the day, rather than putting 5 people to just test level A and the other 5 to level B.
The crystals of Am'Karoth, left behind by the Ancients 60 million years ago, can offer nearly unlimited power if four are arranged perfectly in a line. Humans begin searching for these crystals and find a large number of them orbiting the planet Jil'butor, but the Shiaz'Guth from the planet Ro'nak have also found these crystals and realize that their plan for galactic domination can only be stopped by these crystals. They also send teams to secure the crystals, and are willing to use violent force if necessary. A war erupts between the two factions and the crystals hold the key to victory - once alignment is attained, it will become possible to direct their energy directly at the enemy base, destroying it, or if the enemy reaches alignment first, the energy will be aimed directly at Earth. The protagonist, Matthew, is in a position where he alone can direct the crystals to fall to the planet due to his knowledge of ancient Egyptian and must prevent the Shiaz'Guth from aligning their crystals before the humans can align theirs.
Traffic laws are intended to prevent 2 ton vehicles from crashing into each other and/or property and causing a lot of damage. Bikes can barely do anything to anyone except for maybe an unlucky hit on a pedestrian. Even then, the pedestrian usually walks away without a trip to the hospital, but pedestrians usually go to the hospital when hit by a car.
OpenGL games tend to be very easy to get working on Wine, unlike Direct3D games, so this will just give us one more way to run what we already can. Direct3D games will continue to be Windows territory.
The only things Chrome don't have that other browsers do are bookmarks, adblock/noscript and flash. And this is on the linux alpha version. None of these are particularly important to normal web browsing, and I would say having the option of starting up with multiple home pages open beats all of those weaknesses.
is a water bottle with the top part cut off and placed on top upside down, with a sweet substance like sugar water or juice inside. When the bugs go in, there's a funnel to direct them into the bottle, but when they go out, there's only the small hole to get out of. Most bugs never find it.
The fact that its beta stability was what you would expect from an alpha, its release stability was what you would expect from beta and its SP1 stability was what you would expect from release. Vista looks fine now of course, now that it's so late in its life cycle.
OSX is not $129. It's the cost of an Apple computer minus the alternatives. You can't put OSX on any computer and have it work without doing stuff that would probably only be legal on Linux.
The buy food from the vendors that have established safety procedures that satisfy you. Just because something's not mandated doesn't mean nobody will do it.
The GP is not saying small companies deserve protection (depending on your views toward antitrust law the viewpoint can be a reasonable one though). We're saying that the government has no business whacking everyone with a hammer so only the large beasts can survive.
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Carry two sets of batteries?
They aren't an established company like GM or Ford, it makes sense for them to start out with high-end customized vehicles, grow large on that, and then slowly descend into the mass market as economies of scale start to kick in. There's no other good business model that does not require eight digits of initial capital.
Good luck beating their interest with that tactic.
The GP is not talking about that. He is talking about the (highly debatable) fact that every person whom she uploaded to gets the ability to listen to the song without buying it (presumably at the iTunes price). Therefore (once again this is highly debatable - if you pirate Photoshop that doesn't mean you're willing to shell out 700 bucks for it) the damages is equal to the purchase price * the number of people she uploaded to.
Madoff - $60 billion, 150 years - $400 million per year Thomas - $2 million / $400 million = 0.005 years = 2 days in prison. It all works out nicely.
The RIAA keeps their litigation against sympathetic defendants quiet and trumpets their successes against the more unsavory members of society. They have to - it's all a giant PR game.
Secondary uploaders are individually liable for the people who downloaded it from them directly (in theory) and everyone else even further down the chain from them (in RIAA logic). This means that the RIAA can collect fees from Jammie, from the people who downloaded off her and uploaded it, from the people 2 levels down, 3 levels down, and so on, effectively being paid hundreds of times for the same thing.
It's an extremely risky strategy that way and Jammie will now have to sit through even more court sessions. Unfortunately she doesn't strike me as the kind of altruistic person who would do that just to establish a precedent for others.
No, you wait for the news to copy from your altered article and use that for citations.
Sure, companies don't reduce all their prices when they implement ads, but that doesn't mean products aren't cheaper than they would otherwise be.
Fortunately, the 3rd amendment came to the rescue when they tried to hide in people's homes.
I've programmed some of my own games (and played them 100+ times over, of course, up to the point where I start thinking the game is really easy, adjust the difficulty way up, then find that no one else can do any of the bosses) and I know how dull it can get. It's important to maintain some kind of variety - if you're a (corporate) boss, have 10 people testing level A from 9 to 12 and level B for the rest of the day, rather than putting 5 people to just test level A and the other 5 to level B.
Connect Four.
The crystals of Am'Karoth, left behind by the Ancients 60 million years ago, can offer nearly unlimited power if four are arranged perfectly in a line. Humans begin searching for these crystals and find a large number of them orbiting the planet Jil'butor, but the Shiaz'Guth from the planet Ro'nak have also found these crystals and realize that their plan for galactic domination can only be stopped by these crystals. They also send teams to secure the crystals, and are willing to use violent force if necessary. A war erupts between the two factions and the crystals hold the key to victory - once alignment is attained, it will become possible to direct their energy directly at the enemy base, destroying it, or if the enemy reaches alignment first, the energy will be aimed directly at Earth. The protagonist, Matthew, is in a position where he alone can direct the crystals to fall to the planet due to his knowledge of ancient Egyptian and must prevent the Shiaz'Guth from aligning their crystals before the humans can align theirs.
Yes, I just made that up on the spot.
Which are essential tools to make about 99% of Web palatable.
Seems like we have different opinions about what is essential.
You are aware that FireFox does that for past 3 or 4 years now? Out-of-box. Without extensions.
Wow. Firefox sure did a good job of hiding that essential feature.
Traffic laws are intended to prevent 2 ton vehicles from crashing into each other and/or property and causing a lot of damage. Bikes can barely do anything to anyone except for maybe an unlucky hit on a pedestrian. Even then, the pedestrian usually walks away without a trip to the hospital, but pedestrians usually go to the hospital when hit by a car.
I don't know, I've seen lots of people complaining about their 1040s.
OpenGL games tend to be very easy to get working on Wine, unlike Direct3D games, so this will just give us one more way to run what we already can. Direct3D games will continue to be Windows territory.
The only things Chrome don't have that other browsers do are bookmarks, adblock/noscript and flash. And this is on the linux alpha version. None of these are particularly important to normal web browsing, and I would say having the option of starting up with multiple home pages open beats all of those weaknesses.
Smoke signals? All I have is grunts. Can you imagine how hard it is to express the simple concept of "" in grunting noises?
If someone injects a drug into your dog that makes him bite everyone in sight then the person who injected the drug is responsible.
is a water bottle with the top part cut off and placed on top upside down, with a sweet substance like sugar water or juice inside. When the bugs go in, there's a funnel to direct them into the bottle, but when they go out, there's only the small hole to get out of. Most bugs never find it.
The fact that its beta stability was what you would expect from an alpha, its release stability was what you would expect from beta and its SP1 stability was what you would expect from release. Vista looks fine now of course, now that it's so late in its life cycle.
OSX is not $129. It's the cost of an Apple computer minus the alternatives. You can't put OSX on any computer and have it work without doing stuff that would probably only be legal on Linux.
The buy food from the vendors that have established safety procedures that satisfy you. Just because something's not mandated doesn't mean nobody will do it.
The GP is not saying small companies deserve protection (depending on your views toward antitrust law the viewpoint can be a reasonable one though). We're saying that the government has no business whacking everyone with a hammer so only the large beasts can survive.