Wow. based solely on this logic, I am convinced we should stop using search engines and remove plugin capability from our web browsers (no more flash, ra, java, acrobot or others, please). While while we're at it, we should probably stop reusing and refactoring code, remove pipe and redirect capability from our shells, and stop using those damn ATMS and credit cards. Use cash people, cash!
Depending on other things is a REALLY stupid idea.
I may be wrong, but I dont think it would get picked up unless it was PACkage-MANagement... and a link on it probably wouldn't hurt your case either =P"
I would pay to see/hear someone trying to say "Move the tape measure down" while they were inhaling. Let alone while their mouth was in the shape of an O. *Then* taking a deep breath.
Calamity Ensues.
P.S> If the measurements with the tape measure "down" are.5-1.5" bigger than your neck measurement, you either have a pencil neck or....
When you run a p2p program, you provide the enabler (providing a method to download). In your situation, the person copying the cd provides the enabler (the laptop).
So here are the flaws in your situation: Your situation does not have the cd owner providing the enabler. Your situation does not cover responding to inquiries as to whether you have a particular cd. Your situation does not announce the availability of the cds.
So no, what you said didn't sound so evil, immoral or illegal. But what you said was also not equivalent to sharing music via p2p.
You can swap your cd all you like. I'm sure they wouldn't mind.
What they do mind, is when you give away copies. Because then one copy becomes two. and all of a sudden, somebody hasn't paid for a copy.
Look, I'm not saying that p2p is illegal. I'm just saying that giving away copies of mp3s to people who have not already paid for their own copy IS illegal, and should be.
If you buy blueprints to a house, you can't go make photocopies of it and give them to other people... that would be illegal. If you buy a book, you can't scan the pages and put htem online for people to read... that also would be illegal. So why would you think that you should be able to distribute digital copies of your cds online? That also is illegal.
n.b. These scenarios all disclude the possibility that the person receiving the copy has already paid for their own copy. In that case, it would (or should) be legal, but in the case of p2p, verifying that the really *do* own a copy of their own is not possible, and trusting their "Yes, I own a copy" is really not permissable.
It's more akin to putting a computer with a CD burner on your front porch along with your entire cd collection and hundreds of blank cds, then going and staking signs around the neighborhood about how the computer is there and so are the blank cds, and listing which cds you have, and your phone number in case they would like to ask you if you have cd XYZ song ZYX.
Try to claim you are innocent after doing that... because after all, you didn't explicitly say that they could.
In that situation, you are providing the enabler to steal the content. Just like when you use a p2p app, you have to specify what content to make available, and whether you would like to make it available, and then respond to search queries.
Err... no there aren't. Memphis is a pretty awful place to go on vacation... I should know, I went there on part of my vacation. The area around graceland is god-forsaken... I counted myself lucky that I still had the wheels on my car when driving out. And the only reason I ended up in that end of town is because I was offered a "cheap" hotel room by the "manager". E-gads. FWIW, don't ever trust the manager of "The Shelby Inn"... it's a hooker hotel. Literally.
Make no mistake people, Memphis is *not* a nice place to vacation. Even the nicer parts of it are still pretty shady.
I believe that you are wrong on a very basic level. And as someone who has lived in multiple countries, I am possibly more easily able to point it out.
It's really simple, actually.
Suppose there is a job in LaLaLand that pays $y.
Bread in LaLa costs $0.50 Bread in USA costs $1.00
Therefore to cover the basic cost of living, the job in the USA needs to pay LaLa$y * 2, regardless of what the exchange rate between USA and LaLa is. The problem is, it makes (much) more economic sense for a company to employe people in LaLa when the exchange rate is USD$1 = LaLa$4.
It's not about deserving to be paid more. It's not a persons fault that the cost of living in their country is higher than in another. It's about the desire (I argue need) to live above the poverty line. I think that is the common attitude here in the USA, and I do not find it arrogant in the slightest. YMMV.
The meta-mod rarely ever works. You lose all context, and a sarcastic remark really can seem trollish, and trollish post really can seem insightful. I.e. anything PhysicsGenius posted of yonder can seem insightful when on its own, but in context it is very obviously a troll.
Go ahead and mod me down... It still wont change the system.
It *really* doesn't matter what the Tivo *IS*. It matters what potential consumers *see it as*. And that is a souped up VCR.
You and I can agree all day long that it is so much more than that, but in my very not scientific survey of (semi-tech) people in my office, when asked "what is a Tivo?" 8 out of 10 people said "A new kind of VCR". One actually had a Tivo, and raved about all its features, although they have a tech-aware husband who has tons of money and loves to buy new gadgets. The other one said "You mean TeeVee?".
I realise that this is subjective of my work place, but I believe that it is not too far off the public in general. Most people see it as a souped up VCR. And it is *really* hard for most people to see $200 more value in a souped up VCR, when there is a $50 tape VCR that fulfills all the needs they have from a VCR *now*.
Before you argue, let me clarify. Yes, I know that a Tivo does *SO* much more than a VCR. Easily. And if that person got a Tivo, there are things they just couldn't live without. But they don't know that now, and they usually can't see it until they have it in their home for a month or so. And that is why I make my point:
People see a Tivo as a souped up VCR. They do not see it as worth the $200 more than the $50 VCR they can get at their local WalMart, and will not see it as more until either a) some tech aware friend explains the difference, b) they get one and find out for themselves, or c) Tivo does a whole hell of a lot more educational advertisement.
Joe six-pack is not interested, thankyou very much.
What are you comparing those Mhz to? You can't compare it (Mhz rating) to a Motorola PowerPC chip, or an Intel x86 / IA-64 / ARM chip, or an AMD x86/x86-64 chip.... they're not the same architecture.
Even if it was the same architecture, you'd have to compare IPC instead of Mhz. With different architectures, even that is a dicey comparison...
Apples and Oranges, my friend. You can't compare flavor, only nutritional information.
No, he just read the other part that said credit card transactions would not be handed over without a court order. (And, coincidently, that they recommend getting a court order for *any* information).
You have no excuse to use Photoshop Elements or Paint Shop Pro, because there is a Win32 version out there.
The GIMP is impressive in my opinion solely because of the speed it was developed, and the ground it covered to get to be a somewhat competative application. The GIMP certainly does not have to justify its existence to me, it can and will continue on without me using it. With that said...
I've tried The GIMP out, several times. The linux version and the Win32 version both. I can use CorelDRAW, Paint Shop Pro, and Photoshop with little hassle. However, trying to use GIMP to do anything productive for me was like pulling teeth. Obviously a lot of people like its interface, but I cannot even claim to be one who can even use it, let alone like it.
The day Gimp becomes as featureful and easy to use for me as Paint Shop Pro is the day I will use it. But until the day, keep dreaming... GIMP may compare to PSP or Photoshop, but in my opinion, it certainly does not fare well in that comparison.
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Enter the Citizen Eco-Drive. Solar powered (and you can't tell), accurate (barely loses a second a month), WR 100, supposedly unscratchable face (I do contest this, although it is *really* difficult to do.. I have managed several small scratches in two years), very light, and exceptionally easy to read in the dark.
Add to these the rather stylish models available (at least the one I got was) and you've got yourself a watch that never needs to be replaced that also never has to have a battery replaced.
Blair Witch is not an example of a good movie for under $50,000 at all... it is an example of how to make a *successful* movie for under $50,000 (assuming the 50,000 figure is correct). Although I have an extremely small data sample with regards to the number of people who have seen the movie, I am still yet to meet a person who enjoyed Blair Witch (or the subsequent Book Of Shadows).
You are *so* right... That is exactly why I spent so long detailing in the post exactly how professional this sort of practice is, and how it is expected behavior of programmers at any fortune 500 company.
This is why we have code obfuscators for every language known to man.
One button click and variables are renamed and reused, comments are removed, line breaks (if not needed by the language) are abolished, whitespace is decimated, class names can be changed... I've even seen some that ported the code to another language altogether...
So you have your code for the code review, but if things get bad, you also have the button that ensures teeth gnashing is a common sound after you leave.
While I personally find your statement true, the fact remains:
If the USA was going in there to liberate the Iraqis from the start, then that should be the reason given from the start... not to find and destroy "weapons of mass distruction".
The fruit should have been called a lemon all along, instead of an orange just because it is sweeter... the handling of the affair by the american government is a disgrace and an offence to its citizens and residents.
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Wow. based solely on this logic, I am convinced we should stop using search engines and remove plugin capability from our web browsers (no more flash, ra, java, acrobot or others, please). While while we're at it, we should probably stop reusing and refactoring code, remove pipe and redirect capability from our shells, and stop using those damn ATMS and credit cards. Use cash people, cash!
Depending on other things is a REALLY stupid idea.
Thanks for enlightening me.
I may be wrong, but I dont think it would get picked up unless it was PACkage-MANagement ... and a link on it probably wouldn't hurt your case either =P"
I would pay to see/hear someone trying to say "Move the tape measure down" while they were inhaling. Let alone while their mouth was in the shape of an O. *Then* taking a deep breath.
.5-1.5" bigger than your neck measurement, you either have a pencil neck or ....
Calamity Ensues.
P.S> If the measurements with the tape measure "down" are
When you run a p2p program, you provide the enabler (providing a method to download). In your situation, the person copying the cd provides the enabler (the laptop).
So here are the flaws in your situation: Your situation does not have the cd owner providing the enabler. Your situation does not cover responding to inquiries as to whether you have a particular cd. Your situation does not announce the availability of the cds.
So no, what you said didn't sound so evil, immoral or illegal. But what you said was also not equivalent to sharing music via p2p.
No. when you *swap* a tape, you lose your copy.
You can swap your cd all you like. I'm sure they wouldn't mind.
What they do mind, is when you give away copies. Because then one copy becomes two. and all of a sudden, somebody hasn't paid for a copy.
Look, I'm not saying that p2p is illegal. I'm just saying that giving away copies of mp3s to people who have not already paid for their own copy IS illegal, and should be.
If you buy blueprints to a house, you can't go make photocopies of it and give them to other people... that would be illegal. If you buy a book, you can't scan the pages and put htem online for people to read... that also would be illegal. So why would you think that you should be able to distribute digital copies of your cds online? That also is illegal.
n.b. These scenarios all disclude the possibility that the person receiving the copy has already paid for their own copy. In that case, it would (or should) be legal, but in the case of p2p, verifying that the really *do* own a copy of their own is not possible, and trusting their "Yes, I own a copy" is really not permissable.
It's more akin to putting a computer with a CD burner on your front porch along with your entire cd collection and hundreds of blank cds, then going and staking signs around the neighborhood about how the computer is there and so are the blank cds, and listing which cds you have, and your phone number in case they would like to ask you if you have cd XYZ song ZYX.
Try to claim you are innocent after doing that... because after all, you didn't explicitly say that they could.
In that situation, you are providing the enabler to steal the content. Just like when you use a p2p app, you have to specify what content to make available, and whether you would like to make it available, and then respond to search queries.
Hope this helps clear your mind.
Err... no there aren't. Memphis is a pretty awful place to go on vacation... I should know, I went there on part of my vacation. The area around graceland is god-forsaken... I counted myself lucky that I still had the wheels on my car when driving out. And the only reason I ended up in that end of town is because I was offered a "cheap" hotel room by the "manager". E-gads. FWIW, don't ever trust the manager of "The Shelby Inn" ... it's a hooker hotel. Literally.
Make no mistake people, Memphis is *not* a nice place to vacation. Even the nicer parts of it are still pretty shady.
Proudly AC Free, wearing my patriotism proudly!
So. From across the pacific (sadly away from home right now):
Aussie Aussie Aussie
OI! OI! OI!
I believe that you are wrong on a very basic level. And as someone who has lived in multiple countries, I am possibly more easily able to point it out.
It's really simple, actually.
Suppose there is a job in LaLaLand that pays $y.
Bread in LaLa costs $0.50
Bread in USA costs $1.00
Therefore to cover the basic cost of living, the job in the USA needs to pay LaLa$y * 2, regardless of what the exchange rate between USA and LaLa is. The problem is, it makes (much) more economic sense for a company to employe people in LaLa when the exchange rate is USD$1 = LaLa$4.
It's not about deserving to be paid more. It's not a persons fault that the cost of living in their country is higher than in another. It's about the desire (I argue need) to live above the poverty line. I think that is the common attitude here in the USA, and I do not find it arrogant in the slightest. YMMV.
The meta-mod rarely ever works. You lose all context, and a sarcastic remark really can seem trollish, and trollish post really can seem insightful. I.e. anything PhysicsGenius posted of yonder can seem insightful when on its own, but in context it is very obviously a troll.
Go ahead and mod me down... It still wont change the system.
Follow the link guys. It's a link to a thread on a BSD mailing list complaining about a guy on slashdot posting the usual diatribe about BSD dying.
it's s-a-r-c-a-s-m folks! And a little bit of irony mixed in...
Blu-Ray Schlu-Ray.
I've been hearing about how blue laser drives are about to come out and supercede red laser drives for 8 years now.
I'll believe it when I see it mass marketed (which is probably in about two more years, if the usual 10 years to production timeline holds true).
Surely this is a mistake. It must be ... It has to be, becaise we all know: BSD Is Dying
Did someone forget to give this guy the memo?
The problem with that argument is this:
It *really* doesn't matter what the Tivo *IS*. It matters what potential consumers *see it as*. And that is a souped up VCR.
You and I can agree all day long that it is so much more than that, but in my very not scientific survey of (semi-tech) people in my office, when asked "what is a Tivo?" 8 out of 10 people said "A new kind of VCR". One actually had a Tivo, and raved about all its features, although they have a tech-aware husband who has tons of money and loves to buy new gadgets. The other one said "You mean TeeVee?".
I realise that this is subjective of my work place, but I believe that it is not too far off the public in general. Most people see it as a souped up VCR. And it is *really* hard for most people to see $200 more value in a souped up VCR, when there is a $50 tape VCR that fulfills all the needs they have from a VCR *now*.
Before you argue, let me clarify. Yes, I know that a Tivo does *SO* much more than a VCR. Easily. And if that person got a Tivo, there are things they just couldn't live without. But they don't know that now, and they usually can't see it until they have it in their home for a month or so. And that is why I make my point:
People see a Tivo as a souped up VCR. They do not see it as worth the $200 more than the $50 VCR they can get at their local WalMart, and will not see it as more until either a) some tech aware friend explains the difference, b) they get one and find out for themselves, or c) Tivo does a whole hell of a lot more educational advertisement.
Joe six-pack is not interested, thankyou very much.
Lotus Notes Client WILL Cause You To:
Claw out your eyeballs
Throw your mouse across the room
Beat your head against the monitor
Push your monitor off your desk(when above fails)
Never use email again. Ever.
Please do not underestimate the power of the daft side.
n.b. I haven't used lotus notes since early 99, YMMV, it may have gotten worse.
What are you comparing those Mhz to?
You can't compare it (Mhz rating) to a Motorola PowerPC chip, or an Intel x86 / IA-64 / ARM chip, or an AMD x86/x86-64 chip.... they're not the same architecture.
Even if it was the same architecture, you'd have to compare IPC instead of Mhz. With different architectures, even that is a dicey comparison...
Apples and Oranges, my friend. You can't compare flavor, only nutritional information.
No, he just read the other part that said credit card transactions would not be handed over without a court order. (And, coincidently, that they recommend getting a court order for *any* information).
Hope that clears things up for you.
He could have, however, given every person in the USA $200 and still had a billion left to spare. This in its self is not exactly trivial!
You have no excuse to use Photoshop Elements or Paint Shop Pro, because there is a Win32 version out there.
The GIMP is impressive in my opinion solely because of the speed it was developed, and the ground it covered to get to be a somewhat competative application. The GIMP certainly does not have to justify its existence to me, it can and will continue on without me using it. With that said...
I've tried The GIMP out, several times. The linux version and the Win32 version both. I can use CorelDRAW, Paint Shop Pro, and Photoshop with little hassle. However, trying to use GIMP to do anything productive for me was like pulling teeth. Obviously a lot of people like its interface, but I cannot even claim to be one who can even use it, let alone like it.
The day Gimp becomes as featureful and easy to use for me as Paint Shop Pro is the day I will use it. But until the day, keep dreaming... GIMP may compare to PSP or Photoshop, but in my opinion, it certainly does not fare well in that comparison.
Enter the Citizen Eco-Drive. Solar powered (and you can't tell), accurate (barely loses a second a month), WR 100, supposedly unscratchable face (I do contest this, although it is *really* difficult to do.. I have managed several small scratches in two years), very light, and exceptionally easy to read in the dark.
Add to these the rather stylish models available (at least the one I got was) and you've got yourself a watch that never needs to be replaced that also never has to have a battery replaced.
AMD would have a heart attack if they saw you post that (MHz/minute).
One small gotcha...
Blair Witch is not an example of a good movie for under $50,000 at all... it is an example of how to make a *successful* movie for under $50,000 (assuming the 50,000 figure is correct). Although I have an extremely small data sample with regards to the number of people who have seen the movie, I am still yet to meet a person who enjoyed Blair Witch (or the subsequent Book Of Shadows).
You are *so* right... That is exactly why I spent so long detailing in the post exactly how professional this sort of practice is, and how it is expected behavior of programmers at any fortune 500 company.
Sheesh.
This is why we have code obfuscators for every language known to man.
One button click and variables are renamed and reused, comments are removed, line breaks (if not needed by the language) are abolished, whitespace is decimated, class names can be changed... I've even seen some that ported the code to another language altogether...
So you have your code for the code review, but if things get bad, you also have the button that ensures teeth gnashing is a common sound after you leave.
While I personally find your statement true, the fact remains:
If the USA was going in there to liberate the Iraqis from the start, then that should be the reason given from the start... not to find and destroy "weapons of mass distruction".
The fruit should have been called a lemon all along, instead of an orange just because it is sweeter... the handling of the affair by the american government is a disgrace and an offence to its citizens and residents.