Indies are not part of the agreement. Thus they may still send out DVDs. This should give them more attention than in the past, since they will be the only ones sending out the screener DVDs.
The major piece of my job responsibility is software development, however we have just been doing the build out for our new office and building things in the real world is hard too.
I have been impressed by the many similarities and the amount of effort that goes in to building physical things well.
I don't think your real concern is resale value, or how to get a good value, but in case you (or others) decide to go the way of the diamond here is some info on getting good value and thus good resale value.
Good diamonds: Clean (vvsi2 or better), well cut (with in 1% of ideal), very little color (F/G or better)
Cost much more than others and resell very well. The way diamond prices are measure is by the Rap sheet (The Rappaport Diamond Report). These prices claim to be the average cash selling of _well cut_ diamonds in NYC during the previous week. This report is a subscription service for Jewelers only The list by weight color and clarity. Well cut is assumed.
You should seek to pay NO MORE 18% LESS THAN the Rap price online or in a jewelery district. If you can get 23% off Rap you are doing well.
Wholesale diamond prices are generally 20-30% off Rap.
In order to know that rap really applies your diamond MUST have a GIA or AGL cert. Lots of nice (smaller) stones don't because it costs about $200 to get a cert. These are fine to buy, but NEVER trust a jewelers evaluation of a stone without a certificate.
Tips for buying:
- Set your budget. - Only buy a loose stone then get it set. - Buy only a well cut diamond. - Insist on a GIA certified stone. - Go to a jewelery district (not a mall) - Buy just below the unit. (.74,.98, 1.23 or 1.49 carats) these sell at a non trivial discount to the stones at the 3/4, 1 etc mark, because "she" wants a 1 Carat. YOU CAN NOT TELL WITHOUT A SCALE. Tell her (or let her tell her friends) it is 1 Carat. - Find something you like, that you can afford if sold at 18% off rap, don't worry about what they are asking. Tell them you are looking to pay %23 off rap, settle between there and 18%.
The problem with the real weasel at least the non PCI one that I bought was getting many computers to use it as the primary video card if there was built in VGA.
Once the box is up you can switch it, but to watch the boot happen you better have a box with no onboard video or the MDA video will not get used.
It is a neat product, bu we could not make it work in production.
We use Connected Backup on several laptops. It works over the network and copies only user data (not all the apps). It works well, it is easy to use for both automatic backups and retrivals.
All the data is encrypted locally before upload (but this is transparent to the user).
It very could at minimizing that data upload diffs + intellegent dup identification, but again this is all invisible to the user.
You can restore a file or everything to a specific date (with in the last 90 days I think) or get the newest version.
It is $15/month per computer.
I am not affiliated with them, I am just a satified customer.
You are 100% right that there is a real out of pocket cost to give away old code for all the reasons that you mention, but perhaps there is a way to align the interests of business and the FS community.
One solution is for those that feel this is a worthy (FSF???) cause to set up a not-for-profit to buy the rights to specific programs (either those that they believe would be very popular or have particularly good code or that people were willing to contribute to buying or whatever the criteria may be) and then package, GPL and distribute them. I would imagine that one could purchase a lot of this kind of software for very modest prices.
Suddenly, you have aligned corporate interests (monetizing what was previously worthless) with free software interests.
As for the copyright limit, that is not only a very tough fight(of IMHO questionable merit) but it doesn't yeild the results you want anyway. Even if you did away with all software copyrights you could only reverse engineer the programs, you wouldn't have the original source code.
Sirius Radio has an exclusive relationship with NPR
Sirius Radio?s commercial-free music service can be yours for just $3 more each month than what XM Radio charges.
How about NPR with out pledge drives. WBUR in Boston already offers a "Sustainer" program where they bill your credit card monthly. If you join you should get to hear NPR without pledge drives, now that would be technology solving a problem!
Not only does this take place outside the US it was common in europe long before the US. When I lived in europe in 1990 virtually every station already logoed their programs.
As networks have faced increasing competition from the growing number of channels on cable and satelitte they have been even more pressed to build brand.
I expect that it will get worse not better.
You can still use perl5 or perl4
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Perl6 for Mortals
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Don't like change? Don't like perl 6 (or perl 5)? Perl 4 is still available, still free, still open source.
How much does it cost to buy a tax credit or change a law to protect your company, or subsidize your industry?
For example the New England Dairy compact just failed to be renewed in the wake of 9/11 ending farm subsidies for NE dairy farmers. As a practical matter if you want to buy special interest legislation how many people do you need to hire, for how long, at how much each.
I don't mean to be cynical, we all know it happens I am just curious what it costs...
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Indies are not part of the agreement. Thus they may still send out DVDs. This should give them more attention than in the past, since they will be the only ones sending out the screener DVDs.
It is a lesson to think big. We take GNU and Linux for granted today. 20 years ago the did not exist.
Think big and see what you can do with your life!
A dozen cool shirts, but image a beowulf cluster of these...
I'm sorry I couldn't help myself.
The major piece of my job responsibility is software development, however we have just been doing the build out for our new office and building things in the real world is hard too.
I have been impressed by the many similarities and the amount of effort that goes in to building physical things well.
The story from slashdot about yucca is here.
Why not just put the chinese robot on a Segway?
It was nice of the slashdot editors to include 4'33" as background music to this page. - Reload to start the piece from the beginning.
I don't think your real concern is resale value, or how to get a good value, but in case you (or others) decide to go the way of the diamond here is some info on getting good value and thus good resale value.
.98, 1.23 or 1.49 carats) these sell at a non trivial discount to the stones at the 3/4, 1 etc mark, because "she" wants a 1 Carat. YOU CAN NOT TELL WITHOUT A SCALE. Tell her (or let her tell her friends) it is 1 Carat.
Good diamonds:
Clean (vvsi2 or better),
well cut (with in 1% of ideal),
very little color (F/G or better)
Cost much more than others and resell very well.
The way diamond prices are measure is by the Rap sheet (The Rappaport Diamond Report). These prices claim to be the average cash selling of _well cut_ diamonds in NYC during the previous week. This report is a subscription service for Jewelers only The list by weight color and clarity. Well cut is assumed.
You should seek to pay NO MORE 18% LESS THAN the Rap price online or in a jewelery district. If you can get 23% off Rap you are doing well.
Wholesale diamond prices are generally 20-30% off Rap.
In order to know that rap really applies your diamond MUST have a GIA or AGL cert. Lots of nice (smaller) stones don't because it costs about $200 to get a cert. These are fine to buy, but NEVER trust a jewelers evaluation of a stone without a certificate.
Tips for buying:
- Set your budget.
- Only buy a loose stone then get it set.
- Buy only a well cut diamond.
- Insist on a GIA certified stone.
- Go to a jewelery district (not a mall)
- Buy just below the unit. (.74,
- Find something you like, that you can afford if sold at 18% off rap, don't worry about what they are asking. Tell them you are looking to pay %23 off rap, settle between there and 18%.
Good luck.
The problem with the real weasel at least the non PCI one that I bought was getting many computers to use it as the primary video card if there was built in VGA.
Once the box is up you can switch it, but to watch the boot happen you better have a box with no onboard video or the MDA video will not get used.
It is a neat product, bu we could not make it work in production.
The complete spec from the Kyocera web site.
I am not affiliated with them, I am just a satified customer.
One solution is for those that feel this is a worthy (FSF???) cause to set up a not-for-profit to buy the rights to specific programs (either those that they believe would be very popular or have particularly good code or that people were willing to contribute to buying or whatever the criteria may be) and then package, GPL and distribute them. I would imagine that one could purchase a lot of this kind of software for very modest prices.
Suddenly, you have aligned corporate interests (monetizing what was previously worthless) with free software interests.
As for the copyright limit, that is not only a very tough fight(of IMHO questionable merit) but it doesn't yeild the results you want anyway. Even if you did away with all software copyrights you could only reverse engineer the programs, you wouldn't have the original source code.
How about NPR with out pledge drives. WBUR in Boston already offers a "Sustainer" program where they bill your credit card monthly. If you join you should get to hear NPR without pledge drives, now that would be technology solving a problem!
As networks have faced increasing competition from the growing number of channels on cable and satelitte they have been even more pressed to build brand.
I expect that it will get worse not better.
http://www.cpan.org/src/unsupported/4.036/
How much does it cost to buy a tax credit or change a law to protect your company, or subsidize your industry?
For example the New England Dairy compact just failed to be renewed in the wake of 9/11 ending farm subsidies for NE dairy farmers. As a practical matter if you want to buy special interest legislation how many people do you need to hire, for how long, at how much each.
I don't mean to be cynical, we all know it happens I am just curious what it costs...