The only reason for this is that taxes in the US are split between various level of government and that health insurance is not included in taxes as it is in most countries. When you compare oranges with oranges the tax rates are quite similar. It is for example only a few percentage point lower than Canada even through Canada has tax funded universal health coverage.
I thing there is large space for improvement. And also I thoroughly dislike the tea party they have a point.
It is a bit more complex that this. The more info you give Google or any other search engine the more focused the result will be. This can be good in a sense but it also hide from you any dissenting view that you may have discovered by accident.
Let say you are a liberal and very quickly Google is only going to present you with liberal sites which will fit with your way of thinking. Good? not too much as it will hide from you any other opinion and push you in a polarized society.
Obviously this is Slashdot and every one is talking about this they don't understand.
The reason he is not sick is because of herd immunity i.e. the rest of the population is vaccinated so there is few reservoirs of viruses. The reason people die is because of people that could be vaccinated and are not.
For the record (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity): Herd immunity (or community immunity) describes a form of immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a significant portion of a population (or herd) provides a measure of protection for individuals who have not developed immunity.
You probably need to modulate the length depending on what the object being copyrighted is. I find it reasonable that Mickey is copyrighted as long as Disney company actively use the character and that can be for a very long time. The same should be true of any work being actively exploited (i.e. being in print or software being distributed). I think we should have a very short expiry time for out of print, probably 10 years out of print for a book should make it fall in the public domain, 3 years for out of distribution software should be reasonable.
Have you talked to commercial developers of Android and IOS applications? I know quite a few and while they make profit from their IOS apps, Android does not bring much revenues. This model just does not pay the bills.
There is just not enough user on Android ready to pay for applicationsâ¦
And what is wrong with that. I could really do with the politician doing even LESS. I like this minority government because it does NOTHING. The economy is doing very well, there is no real pressing problems and all is good. Keep doing nothing the last thing I want is an activist government. The difficulty is getting the right balance to achieve a minority government but we Canadian are getting good at it.
Actually the chain of trust is the issue, there is no way to insure that chain if you let the user install any software on the unit. Just talk to all those people trying to enforce DRM... If you jailbreak a unit then there is no way you can guarantee the chain of trust, or at least it become so murky that for all non security experts it becomes very difficult to judge what is the valid chain of trust and what is the compromised one.
This is a lie from Adobe. Translation it does not work the same way on Linux and MacOS than on Windows and we cannot be bothered to write the code for it. If you don't make the effort why should Apple do it for you?
I really like that term technical violation of the law. So if I am over the speed limit I am in technical violation of the speed limit and I should not get a ticket , just a mention in the newspaper. Try that defense next time...
Why do you say that a jailbroken phone is illegal? The device is yours you bought it. As far as I know Apple only says that it voids the warranty not that their users are criminals...
Jailbreaking is not breaking copy restriction, at least not directly. Some people may use it for that purpose but most of them don't. In my experience iPhones are jailbroken to be unlocked. All of the jailbroken iPhone that I know of only run UltraSn0w and are not vulnerable. All of those people buy software at teh App store because it is more convenient and their iPhone is as stable as any other iPhone. After all what do you do with a second hand iPhone?
And why is the sacrifice good? Except for some extreme religious folks, most people would rather enjoy life. Presenting environment consciousness as a sacrifice may be a good way to start the environment religion but I would be surprised if this message ever gain mainstream acceptance. Finding sustainable solution that enables us to maintain our way of life is probably a better message.From everything I have read there maintaining a good and easy life while keeping the planet cool are not incompatible goals. I don't see what the "sacrifice" has to do with good engineering.
Actually we should even encourage this by giving a tax discount on the first 15 liters of fuel you pump. If you are driving a Hummer this would make very little difference you will not go anywhere with 15 liters but if you are running a Smart that is 1 week worth of travel...
This would really encourage light weight fuel efficient vehicle.
I find that discussion very entertaining but very unscientific. What is the margin of error of the various measurements? How are the categories defined and what are the margin of error in that definition and the classification of the individuals? With the number presented there is nothing to disprove the statement that "All people informed about nuclear technologies are in favor of its use". You just have to measure the error and find that it is 10% which would not be uncommon in that type of general measurement.
I have 4 sim cards in my wallet (ATT, Fido, Vodafone(AU) and SFR) and I change them whenever I need to. No reboot, No iTunes. Just switch wait a few seconds for the network discovery and off you go. It even reconfigures the phone features on the fly, letting you send MMS in Canada but not in the US.
Except at the border.US custom officer have the right to search you, your luggage and your hard drive without cause. They also have the right to demand that you decrypt your information.
You are missing the point. Developers wants their cake and eat it. they want both a cheap way of distributing their apps with low level of piracy and complete freedom to publish whatever they want whenever they want. This is just not compatible.
The truth is that the App Store is a success for the developers and the users because of the abundance of relatively inexpensive applications, typically they are less than half their price on PCs. The main reason is that piracy is very low, but that also mean that someone has to administer the system. Yes the approval process can be improved but it will not disappear as Apple has to take responsibility for the distribution and integrity of the platform. That may be a break for rapid turn around but it is the condition for a functioning market. If you like a comparison the stock exchange can only operate successfully because of the SEC. It may be that in the long term there will be a separation of the approval / regulation process and the retail operation but we are not there yet.
Actually you can achieve a similar result form the consumer angle without the tie in. Why not separate the lease of the equipment from the service. you could have a 2 year lease and a service agreement with no ties. If you take the iphone you pay $200 up front and probably $25 per month for 2 years out of the $70 a month contract. If you are careful about your equipment it will last way more than 2 years but you never get the discount. We should prohibit "natural monopolies" from extending their monopolies by using their market position oh wait this is already prohibited why are we not prosecuting?
Actually this is going to be interesting Virgin-Media is a European company even if the English sometimes conveniently forget it, and the European Parliament is pushing to have Internet access recognized as an essential service like the phone.
I did not actually say that there was no lost sale, I am just saying that this is not science, it has not been proven. The RIAA argument is coincidental my revenues fell at the same time people started exchanging copyrighted materials on the Internet. There is no study that I know of that can prove that causality and there are study that prove that people sharing music are larger consumer of music than non sharer and that they buy more legal music. I am just asking for some sort of proof or at least some really strong indication there is a link from cause to effect. If I had to do a reasonable i.e. based on proven facts deduction I would have to conclude that music swapping increase sales, which defies my common sense so I am not ready to go that far but I would like those crying wolf to offer some proofs that there is a wolf. I would like the RIAA to take all the fact and explain rationally how they reach that conclusion and mere coincidence does not cut it.
I do like you argument anyway. Whether there is a loss of sales or not this no reason to sue your customers anyway.
As for copyright I would suggest a few minor tweak to begin with: something that is out of print or unpublished for more that 1 year falls in the public commons. This would free up a lot of valuable material that is currently unaccessible because it is uneconomical to publish it but the owner sits on it just in case. I would probably like to see the same for patent, if a patent is not used it should expire. That would kill the misuse of patent where a shell company collects as many patent in portfolio for the sole purpose of suing. Those changes should not impact legitimate business while pruning abuses.
I am really tired of this kind of math. The premise is bogus, copyright infringement does not cost anyone anything. It is a loss of potential gain. In order to estimate the damage from piracy to the economy you need to estimate the amount of lost sales. This is difficult to estimate and most likely one or two order of magnitude smaller than the headline figure announced by the industry. It is not even proven that this "lost sale" exist as it has been proven that the most prolific downloader also buy more "legal" music than others. It may very well be that there is no lost sales but an increase.
Declining revenue in the recording industry is an entirely different matter and no one has proven the cause and effect.
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Smallest tax rate???? Really????
The only reason for this is that taxes in the US are split between various level of government and that health insurance is not included in taxes as it is in most countries. When you compare oranges with oranges the tax rates are quite similar. It is for example only a few percentage point lower than Canada even through Canada has tax funded universal health coverage.
I thing there is large space for improvement. And also I thoroughly dislike the tea party they have a point.
It is a bit more complex that this. The more info you give Google or any other search engine the more focused the result will be. This can be good in a sense but it also hide from you any dissenting view that you may have discovered by accident.
Let say you are a liberal and very quickly Google is only going to present you with liberal sites which will fit with your way of thinking. Good? not too much as it will hide from you any other opinion and push you in a polarized society.
Obviously this is Slashdot and every one is talking about this they don't understand.
The reason he is not sick is because of herd immunity i.e. the rest of the population is vaccinated so there is few reservoirs of viruses. The reason people die is because of people that could be vaccinated and are not.
For the record (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity): Herd immunity (or community immunity) describes a form of immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a significant portion of a population (or herd) provides a measure of protection for individuals who have not developed immunity.
You probably need to modulate the length depending on what the object being copyrighted is. I find it reasonable that Mickey is copyrighted as long as Disney company actively use the character and that can be for a very long time. The same should be true of any work being actively exploited (i.e. being in print or software being distributed). I think we should have a very short expiry time for out of print, probably 10 years out of print for a book should make it fall in the public domain, 3 years for out of distribution software should be reasonable.
Have you talked to commercial developers of Android and IOS applications? I know quite a few and while they make profit from their IOS apps, Android does not bring much revenues. This model just does not pay the bills.
There is just not enough user on Android ready to pay for applicationsâ¦
And what is wrong with that. I could really do with the politician doing even LESS. I like this minority government because it does NOTHING. The economy is doing very well, there is no real pressing problems and all is good. Keep doing nothing the last thing I want is an activist government. The difficulty is getting the right balance to achieve a minority government but we Canadian are getting good at it.
Actually the chain of trust is the issue, there is no way to insure that chain if you let the user install any software on the unit. Just talk to all those people trying to enforce DRM... If you jailbreak a unit then there is no way you can guarantee the chain of trust, or at least it become so murky that for all non security experts it becomes very difficult to judge what is the valid chain of trust and what is the compromised one.
There is a value in a well trusted device.
This is a lie from Adobe. Translation it does not work the same way on Linux and MacOS than on Windows and we cannot be bothered to write the code for it. If you don't make the effort why should Apple do it for you?
I really like that term technical violation of the law. So if I am over the speed limit I am in technical violation of the speed limit and I should not get a ticket , just a mention in the newspaper. Try that defense next time...
You should look harder: http://www.apple.com/appletv/
Why do you say that a jailbroken phone is illegal? The device is yours you bought it. As far as I know Apple only says that it voids the warranty not that their users are criminals...
Jailbreaking is not breaking copy restriction, at least not directly. Some people may use it for that purpose but most of them don't. In my experience iPhones are jailbroken to be unlocked. All of the jailbroken iPhone that I know of only run UltraSn0w and are not vulnerable. All of those people buy software at teh App store because it is more convenient and their iPhone is as stable as any other iPhone. After all what do you do with a second hand iPhone?
And why is the sacrifice good? Except for some extreme religious folks, most people would rather enjoy life. Presenting environment consciousness as a sacrifice may be a good way to start the environment religion but I would be surprised if this message ever gain mainstream acceptance. Finding sustainable solution that enables us to maintain our way of life is probably a better message.From everything I have read there maintaining a good and easy life while keeping the planet cool are not incompatible goals. I don't see what the "sacrifice" has to do with good engineering.
Actually we should even encourage this by giving a tax discount on the first 15 liters of fuel you pump. If you are driving a Hummer this would make very little difference you will not go anywhere with 15 liters but if you are running a Smart that is 1 week worth of travel...
This would really encourage light weight fuel efficient vehicle.
What is your point there? That Apple does a few things very well and Microsoft a lot poorly? Since when has bloat been a valid excuse for poor design?
I find that discussion very entertaining but very unscientific. What is the margin of error of the various measurements? How are the categories defined and what are the margin of error in that definition and the classification of the individuals? With the number presented there is nothing to disprove the statement that "All people informed about nuclear technologies are in favor of its use". You just have to measure the error and find that it is 10% which would not be uncommon in that type of general measurement.
I have 4 sim cards in my wallet (ATT, Fido, Vodafone(AU) and SFR) and I change them whenever I need to. No reboot, No iTunes. Just switch wait a few seconds for the network discovery and off you go. It even reconfigures the phone features on the fly, letting you send MMS in Canada but not in the US.
Except at the border.US custom officer have the right to search you, your luggage and your hard drive without cause. They also have the right to demand that you decrypt your information.
You are missing the point. Developers wants their cake and eat it. they want both a cheap way of distributing their apps with low level of piracy and complete freedom to publish whatever they want whenever they want. This is just not compatible.
The truth is that the App Store is a success for the developers and the users because of the abundance of relatively inexpensive applications, typically they are less than half their price on PCs. The main reason is that piracy is very low, but that also mean that someone has to administer the system. Yes the approval process can be improved but it will not disappear as Apple has to take responsibility for the distribution and integrity of the platform. That may be a break for rapid turn around but it is the condition for a functioning market. If you like a comparison the stock exchange can only operate successfully because of the SEC. It may be that in the long term there will be a separation of the approval / regulation process and the retail operation but we are not there yet.
Actually you can achieve a similar result form the consumer angle without the tie in. Why not separate the lease of the equipment from the service. you could have a 2 year lease and a service agreement with no ties. If you take the iphone you pay $200 up front and probably $25 per month for 2 years out of the $70 a month contract. If you are careful about your equipment it will last way more than 2 years but you never get the discount. We should prohibit "natural monopolies" from extending their monopolies by using their market position oh wait this is already prohibited why are we not prosecuting?
Actually this is going to be interesting Virgin-Media is a European company even if the English sometimes conveniently forget it, and the European Parliament is pushing to have Internet access recognized as an essential service like the phone.
I can see a law suit coming.
I thought Microsoft was in Washington state.
You may want to keep up with the stats IE is fast becoming irrelevant for some segment of the Web and is down to 67% globally.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0
Cheap and fast also mean lots of boxes using lots of power and creating lost of pollution. I though Google mantra was: do no evil.
I did not actually say that there was no lost sale, I am just saying that this is not science, it has not been proven. The RIAA argument is coincidental my revenues fell at the same time people started exchanging copyrighted materials on the Internet. There is no study that I know of that can prove that causality and there are study that prove that people sharing music are larger consumer of music than non sharer and that they buy more legal music. I am just asking for some sort of proof or at least some really strong indication there is a link from cause to effect. If I had to do a reasonable i.e. based on proven facts deduction I would have to conclude that music swapping increase sales, which defies my common sense so I am not ready to go that far but I would like those crying wolf to offer some proofs that there is a wolf. I would like the RIAA to take all the fact and explain rationally how they reach that conclusion and mere coincidence does not cut it.
I do like you argument anyway. Whether there is a loss of sales or not this no reason to sue your customers anyway.
As for copyright I would suggest a few minor tweak to begin with: something that is out of print or unpublished for more that 1 year falls in the public commons. This would free up a lot of valuable material that is currently unaccessible because it is uneconomical to publish it but the owner sits on it just in case. I would probably like to see the same for patent, if a patent is not used it should expire. That would kill the misuse of patent where a shell company collects as many patent in portfolio for the sole purpose of suing. Those changes should not impact legitimate business while pruning abuses.
I am really tired of this kind of math. The premise is bogus, copyright infringement does not cost anyone anything. It is a loss of potential gain. In order to estimate the damage from piracy to the economy you need to estimate the amount of lost sales. This is difficult to estimate and most likely one or two order of magnitude smaller than the headline figure announced by the industry. It is not even proven that this "lost sale" exist as it has been proven that the most prolific downloader also buy more "legal" music than others. It may very well be that there is no lost sales but an increase.
Declining revenue in the recording industry is an entirely different matter and no one has proven the cause and effect.