damn, when spelled out as 100 CDs (yeah, I was tired and am slow) it is a fairly reasonabole collection.
It would be interesting to know how many different CDs these tracks came from and the average number of tracks from a given CD.
If all the songs on there are singles that get raidio play I really don't believe anyone has been harmed. If they are total albums that she doesn't own there is a problem.
I don't think it is nearly as reprehensible as if you made counterfit tickets, and sold them to people.
I don't really know what the punishment should be for downloading and sharing 1100 songs. But I believe that 3500 is at the high ends of reasonable, maybe at the low ends of too high.
The amount they are potentially suing for should be reserved for the people manufacturing the bootlegs you can buy iun the street.
Even without the sharing she I soubt she baught all that many of the CDs.
Clearly some punishment is fair in this case.
3500 dollors may be steep (or not), but the legel alternative would have the price at 1100 dollors,
I would hope that it merits at least some sanction, 15 year old or not.
I firmly believe that punishing these people as distributers is wrong though. Even if they are distributing clearly the intent of these services is consumtion and not distribution. And noone is profiting from other peoples work.
We will soon see if this is really the case. It should be obvious if the games were developed with high lag in mind as soon as a lot of people start playing them.
<i> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) opera 7.0 [en] </i>
So if a site wishes to check the user agent I would assume they would look at the opera 7.0 part. The same way that MSIE does not get mistaken for Mozilla
with the user agent that follows: <i>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)</i>
The fake user agent that Opera uses does not trick sites that want to include opera, only those that want to block non IE. MSIE does the same thing (adding Mozilla) this was so that it could still access Netscape 4.0 content, and yet if someone made special allowences for IE it could still be detected.
So where Joe Schmoe statistics page may be sloppy, I would have faith in google to do it correctly. Also I would imagine that google is a fairly accurate crossection of web use, wth maybe a slight geek lean to it (us geeks hand lots of adds like Yahoo).
I was actually originally going to add something along the lines of everyone is a lsignifigant portion of the middle and upper classes. And I did mean Western Europe. I was also going to compare it to a statement about people going to college or some such. The high school I went to had 2/3 of the graduating class going to college. A generalization from the people I came into contact with would be, geez, everybody is going to really good colleges/universities (not me though).
Of course most people don't speak english in the world. Most people don't even get much of an education. I would imagine that even in a Western European country most people don't speak much if any english. The ones that I have met that do have not learned it in school, but from watching American movies subtitles to their own language. Scholls don't seem to teach a language that particularly well in my observation. Practically everyone I know has taken a few years in one language or another and cannot speak it at all.
I will still maintain that many people who "don't speak english" but can fake there way through it will try to do so if you fake your way through their language.
I would not expect a wiater in even western europe to know the phrase "how much does this cost" unless they were somewhere where a lot of english/americans go. Even so I often find myself figuring out my own check and offering up the money.
And yes, americans are characterised by arrogance because we are generally more arrogant then other countries. Sol if I have american arrogance I am not suprised:)
I find that if you struggle the native language in a country politly they will come clean on knowing english. A lot of people don't want to deal with foregners (in America too) and use language as an excuse not o.
Also it is not like everyone in these countries knows another language, it is just far more prodominent in the middle class then it is in America.
When the grandparent tried speaking German it probably broke the same barrier that speaking a native language does. You are no longer the arrogant American knowing nothing but English. The french think as poorly of as as we do of them <generalization>
And what about photographers. Is a photograph not copyrightable? or a painting of something. Both paintings (still lifes) and photographs are copies of something out there, not truly original in the same sense as a newly created songs. Yet if a photographer brings their own perspective (or luck) to a scene and gets the perfect shot that has to be worth something, I I doubt anyone would argue that anything more then the most trivial painting has alittle bit of the painter in it.
Just as a painert adds something to a scene, a cover musician can add something to a song that was never there (Tori Amous's "Strange Little Girls" is a good example) though I pity anyone who has to listen to the whole thing.
I'm guessing you arn't adding much to the piracy problem then. 40 dollors will buy almost any game over a couple months old (PC anyway). If I am going to get a game for free, the value add must be worth the whole price of the game to compel me to buy it.
No, IE was re-written at some point (3 or 4) and was a totally better browser.
Yes, it was distributed in a way that gave it an advantage,. And that was down by abusing an existing monopoly. But it was also the better product at a better price.
Your saying everybody payed for it, want it or not, is the same as my saying it was supplemented by other proffit.
I think saying it was given away and supplemented is more accurate, because IE for Unix was also free as far as I know. And they weren't forcing Solaris users to buy it. This whole paragraph could be wrong.
IE had an unfair advantage over Netscape, but it was also a better product in the generation that it actually won the war. Saying that MS's monopoly abuse is the only way they won is false. Less buggy faster web browser is better. I also think they created password memmorization and form completion, but aI my be wronf there.
I believe the grandparent said put in "an" impossible question.
That would be like a really really hard one, in a good mixture. Not just one really really hard one. If people cheat on a single problem in an otherwise reasonable test and justify it, they still suck and should be punished.
For the impossible problem scenario to work it does not even need to have any points associated with it. It is just a test to see who copies the answer when they can't do it on their own.
IE was built at a time that there were no good web standards.
And it's proprietary implamentation was much better then Netscape's
Netscape 4.x was far worse then IE 4.0.
So at a time when you had to invent standards to make a good web browser meant making your own standards. And IE was the best web browser at the time.
The problem with IE is not that an inferior product got a foothold in the market. The problem is that a product was given away for free under false pretenses (part of the OS) and destroyed a market. This allowed microsoft to destroy Netscape (that had no other revenue) as it used its huge market share to give IE to everyone (except people they didn't wan to have it).
Plus if they have an up to 1.2 million dollor jackpot that goes up about 100,000 a month that is a huge cash flow surpluss that allows for some serious investing to be gained. They can pay it all out, but they still make the money, especially in a good market.
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damn, when spelled out as 100 CDs (yeah, I was tired and am slow) it is a fairly reasonabole collection.
It would be interesting to know how many different CDs these tracks came from and the average number of tracks from a given CD.
If all the songs on there are singles that get raidio play I really don't believe anyone has been harmed. If they are total albums that she doesn't own there is a problem.
I agree.
I don't think it is nearly as reprehensible as if you made counterfit tickets, and sold them to people.
I don't really know what the punishment should be for downloading and sharing 1100 songs. But I believe that 3500 is at the high ends of reasonable, maybe at the low ends of too high.
The amount they are potentially suing for should be reserved for the people manufacturing the bootlegs you can buy iun the street.
sentament.
as in sentamental.
I spelled it wrong, but sedamint (also spelled wrong) is the stuff at the bottum of the creek.
I tend to agree to a point.
Even without the sharing she I soubt she baught all that many of the CDs.
Clearly some punishment is fair in this case.
3500 dollors may be steep (or not), but the legel alternative would have the price at 1100 dollors,
I would hope that it merits at least some sanction, 15 year old or not.
I firmly believe that punishing these people as distributers is wrong though. Even if they are distributing clearly the intent of these services is consumtion and not distribution. And noone is profiting from other peoples work.
Actually in the mode that runs 64 bit code it cannot run any legacy Real Mode code.
They stopped the backward compatability at that point.
You can still boot it in a such a way the it cannot run 64bit code and still use real mode apps.
I think the real problem was with pop-ups, pop-unders, and then screen taker overs.
Banners are quite unabtrusive with todays massive screens take up very little space.
Ad blocking became popular with the onset of massivly annoying adds.
Definatly the back, look at the strap hole.
We will soon see if this is really the case. It should be obvious if the games were developed with high lag in mind as soon as a lot of people start playing them.
Doesn't that come back to free stuff biasing the review?
the deafult user agent for Opera 7 is:
<i>
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) opera 7.0 [en] </i>
So if a site wishes to check the user agent I would assume they would look at the opera 7.0 part. The same way that MSIE does not get mistaken for Mozilla
with the user agent that follows:
<i>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)</i>
The fake user agent that Opera uses does not trick sites that want to include opera, only those that want to block non IE.
MSIE does the same thing (adding Mozilla) this was so that it could still access Netscape 4.0 content, and yet if someone made special allowences for IE it could still be detected.
So where Joe Schmoe statistics page may be sloppy, I would have faith in google to do it correctly. Also I would imagine that google is a fairly accurate crossection of web use, wth maybe a slight geek lean to it (us geeks hand lots of adds like Yahoo).
If Linux could right NTFS it would once again be a great windows repair tool.
As things are the number of computers I can bott with knoppix and work on is quickly dwindling.
If knoppix could throw swap and home directory on an NTFS partition it would be a great way to use Linux at work without anyone throwing a hissy fit.
I was actually originally going to add something along the lines of everyone is a lsignifigant portion of the middle and upper classes. And I did mean Western Europe. I was also going to compare it to a statement about people going to college or some such. The high school I went to had 2/3 of the graduating class going to college. A generalization from the people I came into contact with would be, geez, everybody is going to really good colleges/universities (not me though).
:)
Of course most people don't speak english in the world. Most people don't even get much of an education. I would imagine that even in a Western European country most people don't speak much if any english. The ones that I have met that do have not learned it in school, but from watching American movies subtitles to their own language. Scholls don't seem to teach a language that particularly well in my observation. Practically everyone I know has taken a few years in one language or another and cannot speak it at all.
I will still maintain that many people who "don't speak english" but can fake there way through it will try to do so if you fake your way through their language.
I would not expect a wiater in even western europe to know the phrase "how much does this cost" unless they were somewhere where a lot of english/americans go. Even so I often find myself figuring out my own check and offering up the money.
And yes, americans are characterised by arrogance because we are generally more arrogant then other countries. Sol if I have american arrogance I am not suprised
I find that if you struggle the native language in a country politly they will come clean on knowing english. A lot of people don't want to deal with foregners (in America too) and use language as an excuse not o.
Also it is not like everyone in these countries knows another language, it is just far more prodominent in the middle class then it is in America.
When the grandparent tried speaking German it probably broke the same barrier that speaking a native language does. You are no longer the arrogant American knowing nothing but English. The french think as poorly of as as we do of them <generalization>
I guess you want to destroy cover bands.
And what about photographers. Is a photograph not copyrightable?
or a painting of something.
Both paintings (still lifes) and photographs are copies of something out there, not truly original in the same sense as a newly created songs. Yet if a photographer brings their own perspective (or luck) to a scene and gets the perfect shot that has to be worth something, I I doubt anyone would argue that anything more then the most trivial painting has alittle bit of the painter in it.
Just as a painert adds something to a scene, a cover musician can add something to a song that was never there (Tori Amous's "Strange Little Girls" is a good example) though I pity anyone who has to listen to the whole thing.
I'm guessing you arn't adding much to the piracy problem then. 40 dollors will buy almost any game over a couple months old (PC anyway). If I am going to get a game for free, the value add must be worth the whole price of the game to compel me to buy it.
Unless the value add is worth as much as the game it won't do much to detur piracy.
umm, 1400 miles away.
I don't need ssh.
Either you have really long ams, and good eyesight. Or you better keep ssh up to date. Even if you are more confident of 2.2.x
No, IE was re-written at some point (3 or 4) and was a totally better browser.
Yes, it was distributed in a way that gave it an advantage,. And that was down by abusing an existing monopoly. But it was also the better product at a better price.
Your saying everybody payed for it, want it or not, is the same as my saying it was supplemented by other proffit.
I think saying it was given away and supplemented is more accurate, because IE for Unix was also free as far as I know. And they weren't forcing Solaris users to buy it. This whole paragraph could be wrong.
IE had an unfair advantage over Netscape, but it was also a better product in the generation that it actually won the war. Saying that MS's monopoly abuse is the only way they won is false. Less buggy faster web browser is better. I also think they created password memmorization and form completion, but aI my be wronf there.
I believe the grandparent said put in "an" impossible question.
That would be like a really really hard one, in a good mixture. Not just one really really hard one. If people cheat on a single problem in an otherwise reasonable test and justify it, they still suck and should be punished.
For the impossible problem scenario to work it does not even need to have any points associated with it. It is just a test to see who copies the answer when they can't do it on their own.
IE was built at a time that there were no good web standards.
And it's proprietary implamentation was much better then Netscape's
Netscape 4.x was far worse then IE 4.0.
So at a time when you had to invent standards to make a good web browser meant making your own standards. And IE was the best web browser at the time.
The problem with IE is not that an inferior product got a foothold in the market. The problem is that a product was given away for free under false pretenses (part of the OS) and destroyed a market. This allowed microsoft to destroy Netscape (that had no other revenue) as it used its huge market share to give IE to everyone (except people they didn't wan to have it).
Yes it is useful.
People like it and it entertains/makes them happy.
It takes some time/effort to make. A persona must be created someone needs to write the crap and someone needs to package it.
People who put money into creating something should be able to try and recoup that money.
Hopefully people will keep buying the shit music and it will continu to support the other acts that don't make as much money.
That was supposed to mention that it is one about once a year.
Plus if they have an up to 1.2 million dollor jackpot that goes up about 100,000 a month that is a huge cash flow surpluss that allows for some serious investing to be gained. They can pay it all out, but they still make the money, especially in a good market.
Is this about demos or released games?
The discription of a buggy product turnign people off just seams like most actual packaged releases to me.
OK, replace at first with at second.
Was treatment with AZT shifting from prodominently gay to prodominently black?
Was the use of nitrates fallowing that shift?