something that's obviously making someone a bucket load of cash.
I believe that is the point... Have they ever turned a profit? Do they have any company strategy whatsoever to actually generate revenue, or are they simply relying on "investors" as their profit model ?
Investor A is paid by Investor B who is paid by Investor C... where have I seen that before?
Well, the recent cuts in education caused rioting in the streets for days in London. They tripled the cost of a university education, and it is still well below what average students in the US pay. Their absolute maximum is now just a little bit over what students at a "state school" would pay here in the US.
London is also considering cutting housing welfare, by capping how much rent the govt will pay towards housing of the poor. They want to put the cap at ~$32,000 a year. In the US on the other hand the max usually tops off at about half of that.
It's pretty easy to look at the numbers and see that the USA's social benefits are far below most of Europe.
Are you really comparing murdering children to making a webpage slow? Disrupting business is terrorism now?
The US govt was hiding all sorts of nefarious deeds behind the clock of 'diplomacy'. This included things like murdering innocent people, selling children to warlord sex parties in Afghanistan, & kidnapping innocent foreigners. Do you really think slowing down a website is worse than those things?
As much as I hate to admit it, the OKC bombers did change the government, just not the way they wanted. Do you really think the families could have banded together and changed the federal law in any way without the bombing?
How many citizen action groups with no money or corporate backing, have ever gotten the laws changed? Can you name even a single one?
Why? Half the band is still alive. Who should be profiting from their work if not the members of the band and their families?
Except McCartney was outbid to have publishing rights to the music he wrote by Michael Jackson. Since McCartney wrote many of the songs he gets royalties from writing the music.
Since Ringo only performed the music, he gets nothing.
The majority of profits generated by their music goes to a faceless corporation. And while they aren't preventing anyone from writing more music, consider it this way: Do they have incentive to gamble on new bands and new talent in the industry when they can keep selling the same album over and over?
A)What business reasons do they have to promote a wide variety of music?
B)What business reasons do they have to promote the Beatles, a band which has done nothing new for 40 years?
Our copyright system is setup in a way that it helps established artists, but suppresses new talent.
The most likely scenario is that somebody inside their enrichment team sold information to a foreign power, which used said information to craft a highly specific worm. The possibility that someone is a nuclear engineer AND a world-class hacker seems very low. The possibility that one person on their team could be under the thumb of a foreign country, seems incredibly high considering the amount of motivation foreign countries have in tracking and disrupting this process.
every single large is lead by a bunch of douche bags
Do you think the Roman empire grew to its size by being nice? Every group in history that gains considerable power is led by power-hungry people. Luckily for our species, most people are content with being in love, raising a family, and enjoying life with friends and loved ones.
A few individuals are cursed with a "vision", and have an overwhelming desire to force other people to play along. I'd wager they are extremely dissatisfied with life, despite their massive wealth and power.
So a Desktop Oriented linux won't run a specialized tool?
Isn't that the traditional argument for what makes linux great? You can find a specific distro for your specific needs. Should ubuntu really try to be all things to all people, or should it work on making the desktop experience the absolute best it can be?
There are several other factors at play... First, convicted felons cannot serve on juries. This group is primarily below average intelligence individuals.
Next, jury duty is tied to voter registration. Only around 75% of adults are registered voters, and I'd wager that people who have no interest in voting skew towards the bottom half of intelligence.
Plus, jury duty is incredibly easy to dodge, it does not take above average intelligence. You can make up any reasonable excuse and get out of it. Since it is so easy to dodge, you trend toward a more civic minded juror, which again points to above average intelligence.
I have been on juries before, and in my experience, there are a lot more white collar workers / middle class types, since they have an easier time getting off work, getting people to take care of kids, and so forth.
Many "reasonable" people can understand and agree with an argument that copyright infringement is theft. That's the easy part.
At that point, the lawyers can simply argue that a fine is derived in a courtroom through complicated math. Multiply the songs price by X, multiply the potential distribution and cost damage by Y, and then multiply it all by 3 for good measure. If the lawyer can demonstrate a long history of courts using this same math system, it gives people something to latch onto and use. A person might feel capricious and arbitrary just pulling a number out of thin air to punish the woman. However, if you have some easy cherry picked examples to use and follow, a juror doesn't have to feel as guilty for the end result. After all, they are just following precedent.
That said, GP is right in college students being a major force in long haul drives. Some want to see their parents, some want to see their friends back home, some want to visit their friends who went to some other college in some other city, some just want to go on road trips.
Point is, not everyone misses their mommy. In college, a lot of kids experience several things for the first time.
A) Their friends and family are far away
B) They have the independence needed to go anywhere they want.
C) They don't have jobs and family tying them down to one place every weekend.
P.S. I'm sorry you don't get along with your family.
Sorry, but you are very wrong about this.
ALL 3D movies at the theaters are shot on digital recorders, stored on hard drives, shipped digitally to theaters, and displayed using a digital projector. Current 3D movies use no film whatsoever, for any part of the process.
There is a polarization filter directly in front of the projector, that requires power to sync with the image from the projector. I know this because I've installed them. The other piece of the puzzle for theaters is a special reflecting screen. Any old white wall won't work, and traditional movie theater screens won't work either.
Only 20% of 16-18 year olds are employed, and the numbers drop off very quickly under that.
A teenagers allowance is derived entirely from an adults disposable income, and generally not "substantial".
You get what you pay for.
IE 4 was released in 1997.
IE 5 was released in 1999.
IE 6 was released in 2001.
In 2002, if you are a project manager, and have dealt with all of the compatibility issues between those three browsers alone, you must surely be concerned that in 2003, a new browser could make your project obsolete.
I've been coding web pages since Mosiac in 93. After seeing the browser wars, it was WELL ESTABLISHED by 2002, that cross-browser compatibility was an important feature.
Anyone coding for IE6 would be familiar with the pain of making it work in IE4 and 5. How much brain does it take to realize that IE7/8/9/10 will someday come out?
Statistcally speaking, poor people have no savings, and thus pay 20% on all income.
Rich people can save, say half of their income or invest it. Thus they pay 10% of their income on taxes, and make profits on the other 10% that poor people have to pay, rather than make a profit on.
Please for the love of god read ~5 pages from any basic book of economic theory. This is extremely basic stuff here.
On point 1, I agree that many developers don't put usability as their top priority. But that doesn't apply to Gnome and KDE teams, which have had usability at the top for a long time.
For points 2 and 3, you need to take a long look at Fedora before you point the finger at linux as a whole. Seriously, these things don't happen on my ubuntu desktop.
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something that's obviously making someone a bucket load of cash.
I believe that is the point... Have they ever turned a profit? Do they have any company strategy whatsoever to actually generate revenue, or are they simply relying on "investors" as their profit model ?
Investor A is paid by Investor B who is paid by Investor C... where have I seen that before?
Well, the recent cuts in education caused rioting in the streets for days in London. They tripled the cost of a university education, and it is still well below what average students in the US pay. Their absolute maximum is now just a little bit over what students at a "state school" would pay here in the US.
London is also considering cutting housing welfare, by capping how much rent the govt will pay towards housing of the poor. They want to put the cap at ~$32,000 a year. In the US on the other hand the max usually tops off at about half of that.
It's pretty easy to look at the numbers and see that the USA's social benefits are far below most of Europe.
Are you really comparing murdering children to making a webpage slow? Disrupting business is terrorism now?
The US govt was hiding all sorts of nefarious deeds behind the clock of 'diplomacy'. This included things like murdering innocent people, selling children to warlord sex parties in Afghanistan, & kidnapping innocent foreigners. Do you really think slowing down a website is worse than those things?
As much as I hate to admit it, the OKC bombers did change the government, just not the way they wanted. Do you really think the families could have banded together and changed the federal law in any way without the bombing?
How many citizen action groups with no money or corporate backing, have ever gotten the laws changed? Can you name even a single one?
Why? Half the band is still alive. Who should be profiting from their work if not the members of the band and their families?
Except McCartney was outbid to have publishing rights to the music he wrote by Michael Jackson. Since McCartney wrote many of the songs he gets royalties from writing the music.
Since Ringo only performed the music, he gets nothing.
The majority of profits generated by their music goes to a faceless corporation. And while they aren't preventing anyone from writing more music, consider it this way: Do they have incentive to gamble on new bands and new talent in the industry when they can keep selling the same album over and over?
A)What business reasons do they have to promote a wide variety of music?
B)What business reasons do they have to promote the Beatles, a band which has done nothing new for 40 years?
Our copyright system is setup in a way that it helps established artists, but suppresses new talent.
Partially an inside job.
The most likely scenario is that somebody inside their enrichment team sold information to a foreign power, which used said information to craft a highly specific worm. The possibility that someone is a nuclear engineer AND a world-class hacker seems very low. The possibility that one person on their team could be under the thumb of a foreign country, seems incredibly high considering the amount of motivation foreign countries have in tracking and disrupting this process.
I'm guessing you fit into their corporate culture pretty well...
every single large is lead by a bunch of douche bags
Do you think the Roman empire grew to its size by being nice? Every group in history that gains considerable power is led by power-hungry people. Luckily for our species, most people are content with being in love, raising a family, and enjoying life with friends and loved ones.
A few individuals are cursed with a "vision", and have an overwhelming desire to force other people to play along. I'd wager they are extremely dissatisfied with life, despite their massive wealth and power.
So a Desktop Oriented linux won't run a specialized tool?
Isn't that the traditional argument for what makes linux great? You can find a specific distro for your specific needs. Should ubuntu really try to be all things to all people, or should it work on making the desktop experience the absolute best it can be?
There are several other factors at play... First, convicted felons cannot serve on juries. This group is primarily below average intelligence individuals.
Next, jury duty is tied to voter registration. Only around 75% of adults are registered voters, and I'd wager that people who have no interest in voting skew towards the bottom half of intelligence.
Plus, jury duty is incredibly easy to dodge, it does not take above average intelligence. You can make up any reasonable excuse and get out of it. Since it is so easy to dodge, you trend toward a more civic minded juror, which again points to above average intelligence.
I have been on juries before, and in my experience, there are a lot more white collar workers / middle class types, since they have an easier time getting off work, getting people to take care of kids, and so forth.
Many "reasonable" people can understand and agree with an argument that copyright infringement is theft. That's the easy part.
At that point, the lawyers can simply argue that a fine is derived in a courtroom through complicated math. Multiply the songs price by X, multiply the potential distribution and cost damage by Y, and then multiply it all by 3 for good measure. If the lawyer can demonstrate a long history of courts using this same math system, it gives people something to latch onto and use. A person might feel capricious and arbitrary just pulling a number out of thin air to punish the woman. However, if you have some easy cherry picked examples to use and follow, a juror doesn't have to feel as guilty for the end result. After all, they are just following precedent.
Still mad at your old roomate...?
That said, GP is right in college students being a major force in long haul drives. Some want to see their parents, some want to see their friends back home, some want to visit their friends who went to some other college in some other city, some just want to go on road trips.
Point is, not everyone misses their mommy. In college, a lot of kids experience several things for the first time.
A) Their friends and family are far away
B) They have the independence needed to go anywhere they want.
C) They don't have jobs and family tying them down to one place every weekend.
P.S. I'm sorry you don't get along with your family.
Sorry, but you are very wrong about this. ALL 3D movies at the theaters are shot on digital recorders, stored on hard drives, shipped digitally to theaters, and displayed using a digital projector. Current 3D movies use no film whatsoever, for any part of the process. There is a polarization filter directly in front of the projector, that requires power to sync with the image from the projector. I know this because I've installed them. The other piece of the puzzle for theaters is a special reflecting screen. Any old white wall won't work, and traditional movie theater screens won't work either.
Only 20% of 16-18 year olds are employed, and the numbers drop off very quickly under that. A teenagers allowance is derived entirely from an adults disposable income, and generally not "substantial".
You get what you pay for. IE 4 was released in 1997. IE 5 was released in 1999. IE 6 was released in 2001. In 2002, if you are a project manager, and have dealt with all of the compatibility issues between those three browsers alone, you must surely be concerned that in 2003, a new browser could make your project obsolete.
I've been coding web pages since Mosiac in 93. After seeing the browser wars, it was WELL ESTABLISHED by 2002, that cross-browser compatibility was an important feature. Anyone coding for IE6 would be familiar with the pain of making it work in IE4 and 5. How much brain does it take to realize that IE7/8/9/10 will someday come out?
So is the money saved for ever?
Yes! It is saved forever. Or until they die. Or gets put into stocks / other investments.
The point is, their is a fixed amount of "stuff" that people need, even if it is expensive "stuff".
Poor people spend a higher percentage of their income on "stuff" than rich people. It is a simple, extremely well established fact.
Statistcally speaking, poor people have no savings, and thus pay 20% on all income. Rich people can save, say half of their income or invest it. Thus they pay 10% of their income on taxes, and make profits on the other 10% that poor people have to pay, rather than make a profit on. Please for the love of god read ~5 pages from any basic book of economic theory. This is extremely basic stuff here.
On point 1, I agree that many developers don't put usability as their top priority. But that doesn't apply to Gnome and KDE teams, which have had usability at the top for a long time.
For points 2 and 3, you need to take a long look at Fedora before you point the finger at linux as a whole. Seriously, these things don't happen on my ubuntu desktop.