Except piracy deprives the copyright owners of money.
It does?
Explain how a 12 year old (assuming the minimum legal age for labour in the country is 14, and their allowance is $5 per week, starting when they were 7 years old, and that they spend $4.50 already on candy/lunch per week) pirating Photoshop deprives the author of money. I don't think you'll be successful without getting the 12 year old some kind of loan...
Same thing with college students, and, to a certain degree, home users of expensive business/professional software (MS Office Professional, Photoshop, etc).
In fact, the piracy is a benefit to the company in these cases. Now the pirate likes and knows the product they are much more likely to ask to use it at work, which will pay for it to avoid another illegal BSA search 'n siezure.
Heavily protected games get cracked faster. Something about the thrill of the challenge, I guess. Or maybe its because if you crack it first (as a warez group) and it was difficult, you get bragging rights.
For verification, ask anyone with a C64. Don't forget to ask how many -ve day releases they had, depite cool anti-piracy "features" like 1/2 tracks, laser burned discs (I'm waiting for this on CD-ROM!), and 1541 misalignments.
I stay away from all that stuff, though. I've seen/heard of what happens to people "in the scene" that I prefer to just sit idly by and observe.:-)
The difference between a linux user and a linux sysadmin is that one can only work with one distribution and complains when it's changed, whereas the other is happy to work using any distribution, assuming it has the basic tools.
Just my 2 cents.
And yes, a good sysadmin _can_ still have a preference.
>It turns out that someone with the same last name as my family in the same city was an illicit drug trafficker and we kept getting calls in the middle of the night asking for the guy.
Bummer, and quite interesting. If it wasn't for the fact most drug trafficking is mob related, it could have been fun to mess with the guy, Crank Yankers style.;-)
I have my own free delisting (although it isn't standard). Bug the hell out of the people at the Bell store telling them your new line will have a fax machine on it (a modem usually counts). Tell them that you need it listed with the word "FAX" before it so people don't call it instead of your voice number (yes, this is only going to work for a second line). They were nice enough to tell me they could just delist it for free since they couldn't put "FAX" beside the number in the phone book.
No free unpublishing, though... And in the end a little pointless considering the line does only have a modem on it and I don't even have a ringer on that line.
>I've got an unlisted ph#, and it hasn't stopped them.
Yes, but is it unpublished?
An unlisted number is just not listed in the standard phone book. It is listed on those special expensive CDs/special phone books the Telemarketers buy from the phone company.
An unpublished number is just that, not published to anyone.
Where I am (Ont., Canada) it's $5/month to be unlisted, and another $3-5/month to be unpublished. Ho-hum. Fortunately I live near a relatively underserviced exchange so I don't get many telemarketing calls (gives me lots of time to make up new material for the few that do call, though!).
>I've talked to former telemarketers and they prefer my method. It waists no time.
And that's the problem. If you _do_ waste the telemarketer's time, they get less commission, since they make fewer sales. The company gets less ROI on telemarketing, and the system breaks down because the telemarketers aren't getting paid enough to take the abuse, so they quit, and the company doesn't make the cash necessary to run the operation. No more telemarketing! (YAY! I got no phone spam!)
Your best bet is to keep them on the phone for as long as possible (the old "Oh, I need to turn off the stove/check the kids, just a minute" trick is a good one). After that ask them all sorts of details about their product/company, maybe even saying you might be interested in a few dozen of the product for your company. And then, just before they are ready to give up, tell them to put you on their do not call list.
The best I've done was 45 minutes (while I watched TV CC, of course!)... But that was an outgoing call to a spam with an 800 number in it. >:-D I usually average up to 10 minutes with the (luckily, very few, about 2 a month) telemarketers that call my place.
Or maybe he has calculated how much less business he would receive over the next 10 years without an easy to access domain, the cost of reprinting all his preprinted materials (letterhead, business cards, signs, etc, etc), the cost of disposing those old materials, and the cost of re-advertising to all of his customers where his new domain is, the cost of business lost to lazy people who won't want to type a huge domain, and the cost of business lost to people who don't find out what his new domain is, and noticed that including his time it easily reached the 250k mark?
So maybe he tacked on another 50k to make it fair. It's a business, and it has to make profits, and, second most importantly, he was there first, and very most importantly, he is making legitimate use of his domain.
I think anyone who legitimately uses a domain should feel free to charge the hell out of a company who wants to buy it, unlike actual squatters who buy a domain and just stick a bunch of ads on it.
If that makes Nissan mad, though. There's always.biz,.us,.info,.co.jp, or whatever...
Oh, and now the battery clip is broken too, along with the handset piece (although, fortunately, the jack is still working). I give up on that piece of shat. Anyone want a hot deal on that phone? I might be willing to trade for something that doesn't suck...
When you get to college, your pol. sci. teacher will explain to you these things:
- Explaining to someone that they shouldn't talk proves you aren't right.
- If you hide behind the shield of anonymity, don't expect people to take you seriously.
>Your pomposity has earned you a spot on the worst sigs on Slashdot list [bitey.net]. Mamma must be proud.
Sweet. Too bad the guy never bothered to read my journal...
>Just because a lot of people do it doesn't make it right and doesn't excuse anyone from getting a fine.
'Tis true, but fortunately a lack of enforcement, coupled with Cops that know which country lanes are safe for far faster driving than the speed limit shows, usually makes this less of a problem. I have a friend who was caught doing over 150 km/h on an 80 km/h road (the fastest any non-fully-recognized highway can be in this country for some reason). The cop knew that 150, while fast, isn't totally unreasonable. IIRC, he busted it down to 100 km/h, just 20 km/h over the limit, which is reasonable (130 km/h would be fine for that road).
I guess I'm just sore because of the lack of foresight of whoever put the speed limits on the country roads in our country...:-)
I never realized just how much easier and simpler it makes college life (and, by extension, school life). It helps keep you on-time for assignments, on-time for tests, serves as a calculator you aren't going to lose, becomes a graphing calculator when you need it, or a scientific calculator at other times. It helps keep your expenses in line. And, most importantly, it reminds you when you have those all important TV shows to watch! I don't think I'd ever know all the professors' phone extensions without this thing...;-) And when you lose the TV remote, no big deal. Just point the palm at the TV!
Now I have one, I'm really happy I do. I think my life would be a whole lot more complicated without it.
>I think people who travel 140kph in a 100kph area and get a $400 fine because of a speed camera have only themselves to blame.
I see you've never travelled outside the city before.
Try some of those perfectly straight, open, country paths that are limited at 80 km/h and see what happens.
I think you'll find _you're_ the dangerous driver at 80 km/h because the drivers doing 140 km/h (and there's a LOT of them) have to pass you on the gravel to the right...
That's how you can tell the bad/good drivers in the country. The more "bulletholes" in the windshield from being passed on the soft shoulder, the worse the driver.:-)
And no, I don't pass on the soft-shoulder for people doing 80 km/h. I reserve that for the idiot sunday drivers doing 40 km/h. But I slow down enough not to ruin their windshields (what a nice guy).
>Have it your way, but when you get run over by some guy with a few outstanding tickets don't come crying to me.
Exactly. Because when you're caught by a radar/camera combo, it takes weeks to get the ticket. During that time you have outstanding tickets and haven't even been informed you drive like an idiot.
What a pathetic way of policing people. Next thing you know they'll give robbers two-weeks advance notice before they try to capture them.
You can die by water poisoning (many litres), sugar poisoning (3 quarts), salt poisoning (1 quart), and all sorts of normally nice stuff for your body.
If you take too much of anything it can be dangerous, so the Nurse's credo is "The Dose Makes the Poison".
>believe it or not you pay a flat fee for local calls.
Not in Canada (and probably some US states). Bell Canada (ie: Ontario and Quebec) makes you pay a minimum fee ($20 CDN) + up to about $7 special charges for living in an awkward place. You cannot pay less than the minimum fee by law (well, I suppose if Bell felt generous they could give you free service, but normally they charge the maximum mandated by the government). And the minimum fee includes local service. Therefore if there is a flat fee for local calls, no one sees it. And, like the tree falling in the woods, if there's a flat fee on your bill that you can't see or remove, does it really exist?:-)
I think you have too much money if you think throwing about $300 isn't a big deal. That's 4 days of an average Joe's salary -- and that's sticking by numbers in the book (the average salary of an American is $29,900 US).
>Obviously shepd is a college student.
True.
>Ergo, he has no important or confidential data.
I run a small business and have up to four clients a week. Ergo, I do have important data.
And the cradle that came with the Palm IIIx lets me save my information. If/when the Palm is destroyed, I'm really not going to sweat it out (except to find another hot deal on a Palm Pilot).
But, if you aren't backing up your PDA, well, I guess you would worry about it. That's why I'm not interested in those $40 Royal organizers -- they just don't have the backup functionality that makes them a worthwhile investment (that and many other problems -- but they do have a built in keyboard).
It always seems PDA makers are moving towards more expensive items... $300 is still very expensive (at least to me).
I swore I would never buy a stylus-based input PDA because I know $200-$400 should get me a nice one with a thumboard (which I like).
Guess what. I gave in when I got a refurbed Palm IIIx for $39 CDN. At $39 I don't worry about it being broken, lost, stolen, whatever. And it has all the features I see me needing, because a thumboard is just a want.
I wish there were some people making handhelds with the kinds of features old Palms had in the $50-$100 price range. But that's just me... And probably quite a few more consumers.
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Except piracy deprives the copyright owners of money.
It does?
Explain how a 12 year old (assuming the minimum legal age for labour in the country is 14, and their allowance is $5 per week, starting when they were 7 years old, and that they spend $4.50 already on candy/lunch per week) pirating Photoshop deprives the author of money. I don't think you'll be successful without getting the 12 year old some kind of loan...
Same thing with college students, and, to a certain degree, home users of expensive business/professional software (MS Office Professional, Photoshop, etc).
In fact, the piracy is a benefit to the company in these cases. Now the pirate likes and knows the product they are much more likely to ask to use it at work, which will pay for it to avoid another illegal BSA search 'n siezure.
The cycle of piracy continues...
Certainly would be interesting to see what the officer writes on the ticket if you leave your gas tank open by accident...
Driving with an open liquor bottle. That's a paddlin'.
PS2 and XBox being hacked, I know about.
But the Game Cube? What sort of DVDs are these that fit on that tiny spindle?
Heavily protected games get cracked faster. Something about the thrill of the challenge, I guess. Or maybe its because if you crack it first (as a warez group) and it was difficult, you get bragging rights.
:-)
For verification, ask anyone with a C64. Don't forget to ask how many -ve day releases they had, depite cool anti-piracy "features" like 1/2 tracks, laser burned discs (I'm waiting for this on CD-ROM!), and 1541 misalignments.
I stay away from all that stuff, though. I've seen/heard of what happens to people "in the scene" that I prefer to just sit idly by and observe.
The difference between a linux user and a linux sysadmin is that one can only work with one distribution and complains when it's changed, whereas the other is happy to work using any distribution, assuming it has the basic tools.
Just my 2 cents.
And yes, a good sysadmin _can_ still have a preference.
Sounds like the results of a failed uberman sleep schedule to me...
:-)
I plan to try it one day, but I hear it could be dangerous to your health. Hmmm... Hard choice.
>It turns out that someone with the same last name as my family in the same city was an illicit drug trafficker and we kept getting calls in the middle of the night asking for the guy.
;-)
Bummer, and quite interesting. If it wasn't for the fact most drug trafficking is mob related, it could have been fun to mess with the guy, Crank Yankers style.
I have my own free delisting (although it isn't standard). Bug the hell out of the people at the Bell store telling them your new line will have a fax machine on it (a modem usually counts). Tell them that you need it listed with the word "FAX" before it so people don't call it instead of your voice number (yes, this is only going to work for a second line). They were nice enough to tell me they could just delist it for free since they couldn't put "FAX" beside the number in the phone book.
No free unpublishing, though... And in the end a little pointless considering the line does only have a modem on it and I don't even have a ringer on that line.
>I've got an unlisted ph#, and it hasn't stopped them.
Yes, but is it unpublished?
An unlisted number is just not listed in the standard phone book. It is listed on those special expensive CDs/special phone books the Telemarketers buy from the phone company.
An unpublished number is just that, not published to anyone.
Where I am (Ont., Canada) it's $5/month to be unlisted, and another $3-5/month to be unpublished. Ho-hum. Fortunately I live near a relatively underserviced exchange so I don't get many telemarketing calls (gives me lots of time to make up new material for the few that do call, though!).
>I've talked to former telemarketers and they prefer my method. It waists no time.
And that's the problem. If you _do_ waste the telemarketer's time, they get less commission, since they make fewer sales. The company gets less ROI on telemarketing, and the system breaks down because the telemarketers aren't getting paid enough to take the abuse, so they quit, and the company doesn't make the cash necessary to run the operation. No more telemarketing! (YAY! I got no phone spam!)
Your best bet is to keep them on the phone for as long as possible (the old "Oh, I need to turn off the stove/check the kids, just a minute" trick is a good one). After that ask them all sorts of details about their product/company, maybe even saying you might be interested in a few dozen of the product for your company. And then, just before they are ready to give up, tell them to put you on their do not call list.
The best I've done was 45 minutes (while I watched TV CC, of course!)... But that was an outgoing call to a spam with an 800 number in it. >:-D I usually average up to 10 minutes with the (luckily, very few, about 2 a month) telemarketers that call my place.
Or maybe he has calculated how much less business he would receive over the next 10 years without an easy to access domain, the cost of reprinting all his preprinted materials (letterhead, business cards, signs, etc, etc), the cost of disposing those old materials, and the cost of re-advertising to all of his customers where his new domain is, the cost of business lost to lazy people who won't want to type a huge domain, and the cost of business lost to people who don't find out what his new domain is, and noticed that including his time it easily reached the 250k mark?
.biz, .us, .info, .co.jp, or whatever...
So maybe he tacked on another 50k to make it fair. It's a business, and it has to make profits, and, second most importantly, he was there first, and very most importantly, he is making legitimate use of his domain.
I think anyone who legitimately uses a domain should feel free to charge the hell out of a company who wants to buy it, unlike actual squatters who buy a domain and just stick a bunch of ads on it.
If that makes Nissan mad, though. There's always
>No vendor in the commercial software markets will support products once they have reached "end of life" status.
Well, if its so useless, why not give it away then? Or at least open the source code up...
>I was making a joke...
With me at the butt of it, it would seem.
No worries, though. It seems my disarming of it earned me a mod point, for whatever reason that may be.
HAND!
We wouldn't have this problem.
Oh, and now the battery clip is broken too, along with the handset piece (although, fortunately, the jack is still working). I give up on that piece of shat. Anyone want a hot deal on that phone? I might be willing to trade for something that doesn't suck...
When you get to college, your pol. sci. teacher will explain to you these things:
- Explaining to someone that they shouldn't talk proves you aren't right.
- If you hide behind the shield of anonymity, don't expect people to take you seriously.
>Your pomposity has earned you a spot on the worst sigs on Slashdot list [bitey.net]. Mamma must be proud.
Sweet. Too bad the guy never bothered to read my journal...
Maybe I'll email him and ask him if he did.
>That's the problem... since it's a vertical market, no warez are available to pirate.
Warez is far more insidious than you would think (search for signgo).
Not that I would ever know where to get that sort of stuff, I just stumbled across it with this link.
>Just because a lot of people do it doesn't make it right and doesn't excuse anyone from getting a fine.
:-)
'Tis true, but fortunately a lack of enforcement, coupled with Cops that know which country lanes are safe for far faster driving than the speed limit shows, usually makes this less of a problem. I have a friend who was caught doing over 150 km/h on an 80 km/h road (the fastest any non-fully-recognized highway can be in this country for some reason). The cop knew that 150, while fast, isn't totally unreasonable. IIRC, he busted it down to 100 km/h, just 20 km/h over the limit, which is reasonable (130 km/h would be fine for that road).
I guess I'm just sore because of the lack of foresight of whoever put the speed limits on the country roads in our country...
I thought like you too. Until I got a Palm.
;-) And when you lose the TV remote, no big deal. Just point the palm at the TV!
I never realized just how much easier and simpler it makes college life (and, by extension, school life). It helps keep you on-time for assignments, on-time for tests, serves as a calculator you aren't going to lose, becomes a graphing calculator when you need it, or a scientific calculator at other times. It helps keep your expenses in line. And, most importantly, it reminds you when you have those all important TV shows to watch! I don't think I'd ever know all the professors' phone extensions without this thing...
Now I have one, I'm really happy I do. I think my life would be a whole lot more complicated without it.
>I think people who travel 140kph in a 100kph area and get a $400 fine because of a speed camera have only themselves to blame.
:-)
I see you've never travelled outside the city before.
Try some of those perfectly straight, open, country paths that are limited at 80 km/h and see what happens.
I think you'll find _you're_ the dangerous driver at 80 km/h because the drivers doing 140 km/h (and there's a LOT of them) have to pass you on the gravel to the right...
That's how you can tell the bad/good drivers in the country. The more "bulletholes" in the windshield from being passed on the soft shoulder, the worse the driver.
And no, I don't pass on the soft-shoulder for people doing 80 km/h. I reserve that for the idiot sunday drivers doing 40 km/h. But I slow down enough not to ruin their windshields (what a nice guy).
>Have it your way, but when you get run over by some guy with a few outstanding tickets don't come crying to me.
Exactly. Because when you're caught by a radar/camera combo, it takes weeks to get the ticket. During that time you have outstanding tickets and haven't even been informed you drive like an idiot.
What a pathetic way of policing people. Next thing you know they'll give robbers two-weeks advance notice before they try to capture them.
>One's personal appearance is not a recognised work.
What if one has a full body tattoo that they designed themselves?
>so do you have any links on this or any other refrences you can give us?
Here's one.
You can die by water poisoning (many litres), sugar poisoning (3 quarts), salt poisoning (1 quart), and all sorts of normally nice stuff for your body.
If you take too much of anything it can be dangerous, so the Nurse's credo is "The Dose Makes the Poison".
>I'm sure someone would try and have me prosecuted.
And that would be one of the reasons why America separated from you.
Sorry, but it's true. America values its freedom far more than the hurt someone would receive from reading offensive text.
>believe it or not you pay a flat fee for local calls.
:-)
Not in Canada (and probably some US states). Bell Canada (ie: Ontario and Quebec) makes you pay a minimum fee ($20 CDN) + up to about $7 special charges for living in an awkward place. You cannot pay less than the minimum fee by law (well, I suppose if Bell felt generous they could give you free service, but normally they charge the maximum mandated by the government). And the minimum fee includes local service. Therefore if there is a flat fee for local calls, no one sees it. And, like the tree falling in the woods, if there's a flat fee on your bill that you can't see or remove, does it really exist?
>He thinks $300 is a lot of money
I think you have too much money if you think throwing about $300 isn't a big deal. That's 4 days of an average Joe's salary -- and that's sticking by numbers in the book (the average salary of an American is $29,900 US).
>Obviously shepd is a college student.
True.
>Ergo, he has no important or confidential data.
I run a small business and have up to four clients a week. Ergo, I do have important data.
And the cradle that came with the Palm IIIx lets me save my information. If/when the Palm is destroyed, I'm really not going to sweat it out (except to find another hot deal on a Palm Pilot).
But, if you aren't backing up your PDA, well, I guess you would worry about it. That's why I'm not interested in those $40 Royal organizers -- they just don't have the backup functionality that makes them a worthwhile investment (that and many other problems -- but they do have a built in keyboard).
It always seems PDA makers are moving towards more expensive items... $300 is still very expensive (at least to me).
I swore I would never buy a stylus-based input PDA because I know $200-$400 should get me a nice one with a thumboard (which I like).
Guess what. I gave in when I got a refurbed Palm IIIx for $39 CDN. At $39 I don't worry about it being broken, lost, stolen, whatever. And it has all the features I see me needing, because a thumboard is just a want.
I wish there were some people making handhelds with the kinds of features old Palms had in the $50-$100 price range. But that's just me... And probably quite a few more consumers.