There are re-runs and endless syndication. They're making a hell of a lot more than $77M a year off the show.
Yes, and don't forget license royalties for all the commerical product tie-ins and all the Simpson merchandise (like the "mmm, beer" bottle opener). It's much more than just a show.
I'm not going to go so far as to say that this is immoral, but surely you can concede that morality has nothing to do with capitalism (as your question, does, in effect, relate to morality).
I don't think Capitalism and morality are perpendicular, but instead are loosely coupled. Immoral behavior by Capitalists will hurt Captitalism (witness the Enron and Tyco scandles), and morally based Capitalim will positively effect Capitalism.
I believe Henry Ford paid his workers a living wage because he relized that if he did not, then nobody would be able to buy his cars. If we continue to send labor overseas in the race to the bottom then we will depress our own wages, and who will then buy the products manufactured overseas? Answer: fewer and fewer, which means lower profits. Thus, immoral Capitalism hurts the goal of Capitalism.
I'd really like to see a film where the alien invaders are not pure evil. Maybe they feel morally justified in attacking us because we're "wasting the planet". Maybe they feel like their acting in self-defense.
The parent and the article take issue with violence in games; however, Pitfall Harry being eaten by an alligator in low resolution [snip] an acceptable form of violence?
But, in that scenario, you are trying to save somebody instead of kill them. In many violent games, you are trying to accomplish a good objective. Going along with the theory that violence can be needed as long as the end is justified. In GTA, the violence is wantonly selfish and ultimately for evil. Associating an adrenaline rush with evil acts may in fact be damaging to the psyche. I'm not saying I can prove it, but I am concerned, so I don't play GTA and I don't let my kids play rated M games.
Hopefully, it is not that harmful, but I suspect that gleeful killing of innocents may not be a good thing to practice in a fantasy setting. Can you state unequivically that your mental state is unaffected by it?
Dr. Bull says, "It gives people totally private worlds." While that may be true, it also removes people from social interaction, which is vital for mental health.
I don't know about others, but I use my iPod for portable dance parties all the time. If I am at a party and it gets boring and people want to dance- I just pull out the iPod and start the party playlist on whatever stereo is available. Voila, instant club.
People are amazed and the party is saved! I must have done this dozens of times over the years. If anything, it has enhanced my social life and my friends'.
If it's later demonstrated that you had access to the W2K source and contributed vaguely similar code (even by accident) to a project, it could have severe repercussions for that project.
I seriously doubt that having looked at that crappy code, anyone would want to duplicate it in even a vague way. At best it would provide an example of what not to do
...the ads hardly ever stated what kind of documents they wanted. If they didn't say, I usually sent the stuff as plain text, hoping that it would be legible on their end.
If they don't say, then send Word Docs. When they don't say, that means (sad but true) they think everyone uses Word for everything. If they are smart enough to realize that there are other formats and they want another format, then they will ask for that format. I have never had someone NOT read my resume if I sent it in Word. Sending ASCII will work against you unless they specifically request it (which some actually do).
However, I was a little dissapointed by the price of the new iPod mini. At $250 (just $50 less than the (now) 15Gb iPod) I can't really see how it's worth it.
Definitely, here we thought they were going to make price the factor, and instead they went for size/color/style. Maybe they are right, but I think cheaper would have been more exciting.
Just because it does everything does not make it valuable to consumers
Agreed,
I don't think people want a small video playing device. Listening to music is different than watching video. You can do things while you listen to music. You can shop, or do chores, or workout, etc. But to watch video, you have to stop everything you are doing and concentrate on the video.
It might be ok to once in a while show some video to somebody, but if the device has to be large, then nobody will want to carry it. This seems to be another case of gee-whiz over what people really want.
Yes anything can be abused, but thats not the real problem. It's that *EVERYTHING IS BEING ABUSED.
You know, I'd be a lot more bothered by all this information collecting stuff, if I didn't know how screwed up the information industry was. Seriously, can we really be that afraid when agencies of government can't even use their systems to communicate with each other? Big brother can't get off the ground because of stupidity, ineptitude, and lack of forsight on the part of system designers. I sleep easy at night.
The specific errors in MySQL were dereferencing null pointers, failure to deallocate memory (memory leaks), and use an uninitialized variable. These aren't the only bugs that such an analysis can find; they're the ones that were found in MySQL. And they're definitely errors in logic.
I wonder how they found these errors. If the process is not too difficult or expensive, perhaps it should be made into a process for cleaning up code. Does anyone know if they had some kind of automated means for checking the code, or did they just get a bunch of experts to go over the code line by line?
Girls father objects because of race/religion/caste/money
Boy finally wins over father and gets the girl
Everybody lives happily ever after
There is an awsome Tennants beer commerical in the UK that has this very plot as its basis. The father does not like the boy until he finds out that the boy's family is a Tennants distributor. Hilarious, and backs up your point.
There's no reason why a R1 and and R2 disc can't be released on the same day
I was in the UK a few months ago. While standing outside a Blockbuster I noticed an American couple pointing at and discussing the ad in the window for 28 Days. A movie that had just been released in the US but was already on DVD in the UK. I think the region encoding idea was to prevent movies from being watched on DVD before they were actually in theaters of other countries.
Its still silly in my opinion, but it does point out why the two disks would not be realeased simultaneously.
The worst side effect of this is the punishment of the not guilty.
I tell you what, if they do pass this, what is to prevent the average law abiding person from simply saying, "Well, since I already paid a tax, I guess that means I have the moral right to download all the music I want for free." Seriously, if I have to pay for it already, I shouldn't have to pay for it again.
What's wrong exactly with the expansion of collective human knowledge as a goal in and of itself. If we base all of our policy decisions on whether we can use it to shoot someone or make toast, then we'll wind up with a lot of dead bodies and a lot of fancy toasters.
Hear, hear! Let's accumulate more knowledge. We already have more than enough dead bodies and fancy toasters as it is:-P
Most people here seem to hate that spoof, and it seems just because it's MicroSoft making fun out of Linux.
No, most people hate it because of the dark irony involved in Microsoft making a video about freeing humanity from a computer matrix that imprisons them. The fact that they make Linux a target is just icing on the cake.
Truly, the execs at Microsoft are clueless about what they are and how they are percieved.
And what's up with Orrin Hatch? Why is this jackass always involved with things like this?
I don't understand this. Hatch was originally championing fair use and was on my "good guy" list on these issues. I have seen him go after Hillary Roisen (sp?) like an attack dog. What changed?
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'cause I'm wearing my tinfoil hat!
There are re-runs and endless syndication. They're making a hell of a lot more than $77M a year off the show.
Yes, and don't forget license royalties for all the commerical product tie-ins and all the Simpson merchandise (like the "mmm, beer" bottle opener). It's much more than just a show.
Can we get Paris Hilton to wear one :-)
I'm not going to go so far as to say that this is immoral, but surely you can concede that morality has nothing to do with capitalism (as your question, does, in effect, relate to morality).
I don't think Capitalism and morality are perpendicular, but instead are loosely coupled. Immoral behavior by Capitalists will hurt Captitalism (witness the Enron and Tyco scandles), and morally based Capitalim will positively effect Capitalism.
I believe Henry Ford paid his workers a living wage because he relized that if he did not, then nobody would be able to buy his cars. If we continue to send labor overseas in the race to the bottom then we will depress our own wages, and who will then buy the products manufactured overseas? Answer: fewer and fewer, which means lower profits. Thus, immoral Capitalism hurts the goal of Capitalism.
At least in a casino you can touch the machine that's robbing you
Yeah, but if you gamble online, you won't get a virus from the machine that's robbing you.
I'd really like to see a film where the alien invaders are not pure evil. Maybe they feel morally justified in attacking us because we're "wasting the planet". Maybe they feel like their acting in self-defense.
Already been done by The Day The Earth Stood Still. Maybe they should remake that...
The parent and the article take issue with violence in games; however, Pitfall Harry being eaten by an alligator in low resolution [snip] an acceptable form of violence?
But, in that scenario, you are trying to save somebody instead of kill them. In many violent games, you are trying to accomplish a good objective. Going along with the theory that violence can be needed as long as the end is justified. In GTA, the violence is wantonly selfish and ultimately for evil. Associating an adrenaline rush with evil acts may in fact be damaging to the psyche. I'm not saying I can prove it, but I am concerned, so I don't play GTA and I don't let my kids play rated M games.
Hopefully, it is not that harmful, but I suspect that gleeful killing of innocents may not be a good thing to practice in a fantasy setting. Can you state unequivically that your mental state is unaffected by it?
Dr. Bull says, "It gives people totally private worlds." While that may be true, it also removes people from social interaction, which is vital for mental health.
I don't know about others, but I use my iPod for portable dance parties all the time. If I am at a party and it gets boring and people want to dance- I just pull out the iPod and start the party playlist on whatever stereo is available. Voila, instant club.
People are amazed and the party is saved! I must have done this dozens of times over the years. If anything, it has enhanced my social life and my friends'.
They probably are sitting on more than a few movie scripts that are complete gold, we don't know.
What about The Incredibles?. Still Disney, but we do know about it.
If it's later demonstrated that you had access to the W2K source and contributed vaguely similar code (even by accident) to a project, it could have severe repercussions for that project.
I seriously doubt that having looked at that crappy code, anyone would want to duplicate it in even a vague way. At best it would provide an example of what not to do
If they don't say, then send Word Docs. When they don't say, that means (sad but true) they think everyone uses Word for everything. If they are smart enough to realize that there are other formats and they want another format, then they will ask for that format. I have never had someone NOT read my resume if I sent it in Word. Sending ASCII will work against you unless they specifically request it (which some actually do).
Microsoft pulls stick out of ass... finds it makes for better PR when carrot is tied to it
Hey, do you think I could get an XBox too if Microsoft finds out about the web site I dedicated to my pet bird: MyCrowSoft.com?
However, I was a little dissapointed by the price of the new iPod mini. At $250 (just $50 less than the (now) 15Gb iPod) I can't really see how it's worth it.
Definitely, here we thought they were going to make price the factor, and instead they went for size/color/style. Maybe they are right, but I think cheaper would have been more exciting.
but I can't imagine a businessman taking it on the plane with him
Especially since they already get the same functionality + more out of their laptop.
Just because it does everything does not make it valuable to consumers
Agreed,
I don't think people want a small video playing device. Listening to music is different than watching video. You can do things while you listen to music. You can shop, or do chores, or workout, etc. But to watch video, you have to stop everything you are doing and concentrate on the video.
It might be ok to once in a while show some video to somebody, but if the device has to be large, then nobody will want to carry it. This seems to be another case of gee-whiz over what people really want.
Yes anything can be abused, but thats not the real problem. It's that *EVERYTHING IS BEING ABUSED.
You know, I'd be a lot more bothered by all this information collecting stuff, if I didn't know how screwed up the information industry was. Seriously, can we really be that afraid when agencies of government can't even use their systems to communicate with each other? Big brother can't get off the ground because of stupidity, ineptitude, and lack of forsight on the part of system designers. I sleep easy at night.
I wonder how they found these errors. If the process is not too difficult or expensive, perhaps it should be made into a process for cleaning up code. Does anyone know if they had some kind of automated means for checking the code, or did they just get a bunch of experts to go over the code line by line?
There is an awsome Tennants beer commerical in the UK that has this very plot as its basis. The father does not like the boy until he finds out that the boy's family is a Tennants distributor. Hilarious, and backs up your point.
There's no reason why a R1 and and R2 disc can't be released on the same day
I was in the UK a few months ago. While standing outside a Blockbuster I noticed an American couple pointing at and discussing the ad in the window for 28 Days. A movie that had just been released in the US but was already on DVD in the UK. I think the region encoding idea was to prevent movies from being watched on DVD before they were actually in theaters of other countries.
Its still silly in my opinion, but it does point out why the two disks would not be realeased simultaneously.
Can a termite comprehend that it is eating a thing called a "house"? No. Does that mean God built the house?
No, but something smarter than the Termite built the house, so how is so many people are sure the universe wasn't built by something smarter than us?
The worst side effect of this is the punishment of the not guilty.
I tell you what, if they do pass this, what is to prevent the average law abiding person from simply saying, "Well, since I already paid a tax, I guess that means I have the moral right to download all the music I want for free." Seriously, if I have to pay for it already, I shouldn't have to pay for it again.
What's wrong exactly with the expansion of collective human knowledge as a goal in and of itself. If we base all of our policy decisions on whether we can use it to shoot someone or make toast, then we'll wind up with a lot of dead bodies and a lot of fancy toasters.
Hear, hear! Let's accumulate more knowledge. We already have more than enough dead bodies and fancy toasters as it is :-P
Most people here seem to hate that spoof, and it seems just because it's MicroSoft making fun out of Linux.
No, most people hate it because of the dark irony involved in Microsoft making a video about freeing humanity from a computer matrix that imprisons them. The fact that they make Linux a target is just icing on the cake.
Truly, the execs at Microsoft are clueless about what they are and how they are percieved.
You had me going there...good troll.
Apparently you have never heard of sarcasm before and neither has the person who modded you up.
And what's up with Orrin Hatch? Why is this jackass always involved with things like this?
I don't understand this. Hatch was originally championing fair use and was on my "good guy" list on these issues. I have seen him go after Hillary Roisen (sp?) like an attack dog. What changed?