The idea of "You get what you pay" has been a deciding factor for myself in choosing contractors. I have been burned by the lowest bidder not doing great work and although I rarely chose to go with the highest bidder someone that came in 10k under would leave me with alot of questions.
It should maybe be noted that I'm not hiring software developers, but network contractors and maybe it's easier to just there knowledge as I usually could do what I'm hiring them for if I had the time and a good book to tell me how to do it.
I think most of us have know this for ages. I regularly give my users crap for using crappy passwords. My favorite was when I came into the job of Sys admin the old admins password was his username followed by the number one. To this day I still hear well so and so said that would be a good way to remeber my password.
Trivial: to confirm your identity, all the police have to do is look at you.
But one assumes that if you look remotely like the picture the compute has provided them. Finger prints would work, only if they had finger prints of the person they are looking for or your finger prints on file. I for one wouldn't want to hand my finger prints over just so they could confirm my identity if there software screws up.
I can just see it. Walking down the street and some cops cell phone mistakes me for a murderer and then next thing I know I'm in jail. The odds are that the software is going to make a mistake, and how do you convince the police that it's not you.
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... with drives getting so large we really don't need 10:1 compression anymore, what we need is >5:1 compression of cd quailty.
For the most part it's not a matter of storage space, it's a matter of bandwidth... MP3s didn't become popular because people could put there whole cd library on there hard drive, it happened because they could download all the songs they wanted from napster and the likes... Portable stuff is the next best reason, but it comes down to free music.
What good is it if you just you just have to come up with some combination of moves that I can actually do to simulate a move the computer charator can.
As I understood, they won't allow such a possibility, and for me pay around $5 for viewing single article seems too much. Therefore, their decision prevents users like me accessing Brinannica on line, which is not so good for both users and Britannica itself, because I think, that such users are majority of Britannica users.
So maybe a per article payment would be better. A buck an article isn't unreasonable in my opinion. Your other option is go to the library.... MG
If I were a villager, I wouldn't want to confront a U.S. soldier whose only negotiation skills were garnered from an FPS game back home.
This is a good point... Because we all know what video games do to the minds of our young people. Imagine what it would do to these impressionable young men and women who join the army. And we give them the guns too....
What copyright is, is the guarantee that if someone does pay for the work, they'll be paying you, and not someone else. (unless you've done something to legally involve another of course) Again that is - if anyone cares to pay.
Well I'm going to assume that you know more about copyright than I do. And yes I understand that copyright doesn't guarantee the payment. However, if people are still willing to pay for the work then I would think that the artist or his family should benift from it.
Example. My brother has recently published a book. He has no intention of supporting his family with this writing. But on the other hand if he was to die tomorow I would hope that the profits made by the sale of his book and the use of his work would be reimbursed. Yes the copy right should expire. No I don't know how long that should be. Personaly I think that is something that is hard to decide. I for one am not willing to say that people should no longer have to pay for your years of work after X number of years. But thats just me.
You should help provide for your family with life insurance, with an actual estate, with pensions and saved funds that can go to them
So if you were to die today would you expect your family to recieve you last paycheck? The work was done therefore there should be some replayment. I do agree that the lenght of time on a copyright need not be so long. I think that 10 - 20 years is more than ample.
(4) Death of the author == instant relinquishment
I would have to disagree with this part. If I publish a book and then die the next day, my family should benifit from the work I did...
What would be better would be to be able to copy mpeg2 from a computer to a tivo so you could watch movies stored on a server or copy shows to anoughter tivo.
Pretty much it wasn't some big long winded rant about how they were in the legal right. It was simple and to the point. It's unlikely that a lawyer wrote it because they tend to go into long winded explinations. And in my experiences with lawyers(not many, but enough) when ever something hits paper, it's rarely under three pages.
Then will the Slashdot community remove or apologize for all the flaming that will follow this? I doubt it.
Why should we apologize? If they take measure to correct there error then we should give them kudos for that, but people being upset is a good what to get there attention.
The same reason any bussiness goes under... It's not easy to get a company going... Just because you've got smart people and venture capital doesn't mean you can make it... Companiess go bust all the time. We (geeks and the likes) only pay attention to the tech ones.
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It has a bit of style. Not something I would have to hide when I'm out.
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It should maybe be noted that I'm not hiring software developers, but network contractors and maybe it's easier to just there knowledge as I usually could do what I'm hiring them for if I had the time and a good book to tell me how to do it.
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I enjoy golf, but creating a mouse the size and shape of a driver head doesn't strike me as being very comfortable to use
Target market is not golfers/computer users, but people who have to buy them gifts.
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But one assumes that if you look remotely like the picture the compute has provided them. Finger prints would work, only if they had finger prints of the person they are looking for or your finger prints on file. I for one wouldn't want to hand my finger prints over just so they could confirm my identity if there software screws up.
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I can just see it. Walking down the street and some cops cell phone mistakes me for a murderer and then next thing I know I'm in jail. The odds are that the software is going to make a mistake, and how do you convince the police that it's not you.
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>The concept of hiding the body comes from the moral ineptness of some idiotic religious nuts during the dark ages
But now it works to hide the ugly people from sight.
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For the most part it's not a matter of storage space, it's a matter of bandwidth... MP3s didn't become popular because people could put there whole cd library on there hard drive, it happened because they could download all the songs they wanted from napster and the likes... Portable stuff is the next best reason, but it comes down to free music.
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So maybe a per article payment would be better. A buck an article isn't unreasonable in my opinion. Your other option is go to the library....
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This is a good point... Because we all know what video games do to the minds of our young people. Imagine what it would do to these impressionable young men and women who join the army. And we give them the guns too....
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Well I'm going to assume that you know more about copyright than I do. And yes I understand that copyright doesn't guarantee the payment. However, if people are still willing to pay for the work then I would think that the artist or his family should benift from it.
Example. My brother has recently published a book. He has no intention of supporting his family with this writing. But on the other hand if he was to die tomorow I would hope that the profits made by the sale of his book and the use of his work would be reimbursed. Yes the copy right should expire. No I don't know how long that should be. Personaly I think that is something that is hard to decide. I for one am not willing to say that people should no longer have to pay for your years of work after X number of years. But thats just me.
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So if you were to die today would you expect your family to recieve you last paycheck? The work was done therefore there should be some replayment.
I do agree that the lenght of time on a copyright need not be so long. I think that 10 - 20 years is more than ample.
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I would have to disagree with this part. If I publish a book and then die the next day, my family should benifit from the work I did...
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Why should we apologize? If they take measure to correct there error then we should give them kudos for that, but people being upset is a good what to get there attention.
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