Google does have a tendency to skew results towards shopping, though. Just because Microsoft says it's so doesn't mean that it's untrue. A lot of the time when I'm trying to find out information about something, I find zillions of links to where I can buy it, but very little actual information about the thing in question. It's really annoying.
My logs are copyrighted, and if the RIAA wants to see them, they have to agree to an EULA stating that they won't sue me or anyone named in the logs, and on top of that they must also pay $25 for a copy of the log on CD, which they are not allowed to copy, distribute, or share.
Want to pay $10,000/month for an apartment the size of your closet? Try downtown Tokyo.
Some things are cheaper some places, more expensive in others. All in all though, I think the US telecommunications service industry is pretty screwed up, and it's causing us to fall behind. But moving to Japan isn't going to save anyone any money.
Just send a couple of bounty hunters after anyone who auctions off their gear, and track down the person who bought it. The black market should exist, thrive even, but it should have its risks.
But is Congress informed enough to know this? I think not.
Another interesting question is what proportion of the Macintosh userbase are conservatives? Judging by the style of Apple's marketing, it's tempting to guess "very little".
Whereas Windows users are business-oriented and therefore tend to be more conservative in their voting, this Congress does hereby resolve to only allow e-votes from Windows PCs.
Mac users will have to register for relocation to Reeducation Camps for the Differently Thinking, while Linux hackers will be detained for trial for their Crimes against Intellectual Property, and summarily shot.
No; multiple trucks is like breaking up the data into multiple TCP/IP packets. Having multiple *routes* for the trucks to travel on is like bonding multiple IP channels together.
Electromagnetic fields can penetrate solid objects. You might not get a breeze through the mesh, but the air molecules on the other side of the barrier will repulse just as nicely as if the barrier wasn't there.
Those other guys who ship straight from the U.S to the U.K must be getting suckered all the time! Oh wait, CC fraud is about the same in the U.K as it is in the U.S.
The rate of fraud might be about the same, but have you tried looking at the legal burden of arresting someone overseas in a foreign sovereign nation vs. arresting someone a few states away? We might have extradition treaties with the UK, but to invoke it for a few hundred or even a few thousand dollars worth of fraud, every time such a crime is committed, would completely overrun law enforcement offices, making it impossible for them to deal with more serious matters.
Last time I checked I was using the WORLD Wide Web, and there seems little point wasting bandwidth to post your website to the world when only those living in the USA can buy and/or use the product.
First, the US is a pretty, um, big market. If you only intend to sell toward this market, the internet is still more than viable as a means to this end.
Second, international shipping rates are pretty high. This makes it difficult to compete with businesses which may have a local presence in your country.
Third, there's all kinds of import and export regulations that make selling outside of your country a non-casual proposition. There's tariffs, fees, etc., all which take a nice big bite out of your profits. This pretty much rules out all but the bigger players in the market.
Fourth, international fraud is difficult to fight. Unless the company has a presence in the country where the perpetrator of a fraud is located, that country's local government is probably not going to be very cooperative. They've got enough things to worry about policing their own. If you're lucky, and the country you're doing business with has extradition treaties set up with the US, you might be able to get someone extradited, but for petty crimes it's highly unlikely. Extradition is a fairly serious matter, and usually reserved for serious crimes.
So, really, there's plenty of reasons for not doing business with the rest of the world. Most of them are legal, and thus in some sense artificial and of our own collective doing, but all of them are pragmatic.
Only if you were somehow able to encase the entire thing in flesh, as cyberDyne Systems have proven, you can't send inorganic material back in time without encasing it in living tissue.
I really don't wanna think about what that would look like.
But, it'd still be interesting to see the benchmarks of both platforms running with all the tweaks and optimizations that you can apply running on them, since that's how speed-freaks are going to do with the machines in real life anyway. In both cases, the question is not "How fast does this set of instructions run?" but "How fast can I push this piece of hardware to run if I set up everything just so?"
The idea that people buy fast hardware because the hardware's fast, with no concern whatsoever about the speed of the software that's going to be running on the box is a pretty weird one.
If they used P2P to deliver the C&D letters, it would be very cheap indeed... it's only the most efficient way to distribute information, which is why anyone uses it. Get with the program, RIAA. Buy a clue.
The only thing is that no one would want to share content like that voluntarily.
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How do you deal with being sweaty all day long at work?
Google does have a tendency to skew results towards shopping, though. Just because Microsoft says it's so doesn't mean that it's untrue. A lot of the time when I'm trying to find out information about something, I find zillions of links to where I can buy it, but very little actual information about the thing in question. It's really annoying.
Funny, Linus doesnt look black...
The cumberbund fighter, with a formidible-looking escort of cufflink fighters. The top hat fighter! Oh, the possibilities!
My logs are copyrighted, and if the RIAA wants to see them, they have to agree to an EULA stating that they won't sue me or anyone named in the logs, and on top of that they must also pay $25 for a copy of the log on CD, which they are not allowed to copy, distribute, or share.
Want to pay $10,000/month for an apartment the size of your closet? Try downtown Tokyo.
Some things are cheaper some places, more expensive in others. All in all though, I think the US telecommunications service industry is pretty screwed up, and it's causing us to fall behind. But moving to Japan isn't going to save anyone any money.
Just send a couple of bounty hunters after anyone who auctions off their gear, and track down the person who bought it. The black market should exist, thrive even, but it should have its risks.
An "extra" that detracts... that's some newfangled mathematics you got there!
But is Congress informed enough to know this? I think not.
Another interesting question is what proportion of the Macintosh userbase are conservatives? Judging by the style of Apple's marketing, it's tempting to guess "very little".
Whereas Windows users are business-oriented and therefore tend to be more conservative in their voting, this Congress does hereby resolve to only allow e-votes from Windows PCs.
Mac users will have to register for relocation to Reeducation Camps for the Differently Thinking, while Linux hackers will be detained for trial for their Crimes against Intellectual Property, and summarily shot.
I can go to my library and read the NYT without registering. What's the big deal?
It's a good thing, too, since in post-USA-PATRIOT Act America, what you read can and will be used against you in a secret military tribunal.
This is exactly what I thought. Great, they patented it, now it's practically guaranteed that it'll never happen.
It's funny. Patenting ethics, when applying for a patent is itself usually not ethical.
The future looks bleak indeed. We can expect to start seeing such gems as:
"You are being good. This infringes upon patent No. 234097928347918723987. Pay up, or start doing evil."
No; multiple trucks is like breaking up the data into multiple TCP/IP packets. Having multiple *routes* for the trucks to travel on is like bonding multiple IP channels together.
Electromagnetic fields can penetrate solid objects. You might not get a breeze through the mesh, but the air molecules on the other side of the barrier will repulse just as nicely as if the barrier wasn't there.
The rate of fraud might be about the same, but have you tried looking at the legal burden of arresting someone overseas in a foreign sovereign nation vs. arresting someone a few states away? We might have extradition treaties with the UK, but to invoke it for a few hundred or even a few thousand dollars worth of fraud, every time such a crime is committed, would completely overrun law enforcement offices, making it impossible for them to deal with more serious matters.
First, the US is a pretty, um, big market. If you only intend to sell toward this market, the internet is still more than viable as a means to this end.
Second, international shipping rates are pretty high. This makes it difficult to compete with businesses which may have a local presence in your country.
Third, there's all kinds of import and export regulations that make selling outside of your country a non-casual proposition. There's tariffs, fees, etc., all which take a nice big bite out of your profits. This pretty much rules out all but the bigger players in the market.
Fourth, international fraud is difficult to fight. Unless the company has a presence in the country where the perpetrator of a fraud is located, that country's local government is probably not going to be very cooperative. They've got enough things to worry about policing their own. If you're lucky, and the country you're doing business with has extradition treaties set up with the US, you might be able to get someone extradited, but for petty crimes it's highly unlikely. Extradition is a fairly serious matter, and usually reserved for serious crimes.
So, really, there's plenty of reasons for not doing business with the rest of the world. Most of them are legal, and thus in some sense artificial and of our own collective doing, but all of them are pragmatic.
I want a shirt design that incorporates Natalie Portman, Beowulf Clusters, the Goatse Guy, and All Your Base in Soviet Russia.
Maybe we can just send a missle back in time...
Only if you were somehow able to encase the entire thing in flesh, as cyberDyne Systems have proven, you can't send inorganic material back in time without encasing it in living tissue.
I really don't wanna think about what that would look like.
But, it'd still be interesting to see the benchmarks of both platforms running with all the tweaks and optimizations that you can apply running on them, since that's how speed-freaks are going to do with the machines in real life anyway. In both cases, the question is not "How fast does this set of instructions run?" but "How fast can I push this piece of hardware to run if I set up everything just so?"
The idea that people buy fast hardware because the hardware's fast, with no concern whatsoever about the speed of the software that's going to be running on the box is a pretty weird one.
Worst. Patent. Ever.
Who the hell is the USPTO hiring these days?
Blame Motorola for the lagging performance through last year, not Apple. Apple's move to the IBM PPC 970 totally changes everything.
So... buy a G5 tomorrow, and upgrade the proc a year from now. If only there were a low-end dual-proc G5 in the offering, I'd totally do that.
So, the government is going to tell everyone to stop doing this, and then everyone's going to stop. Is that how this is going to work?
I give them high marks for concept (snicker), now let's see them implement it.
That's hardly surprising, nor coincidental, though, as the photographers are usually human beings, and often male.
If they used P2P to deliver the C&D letters, it would be very cheap indeed... it's only the most efficient way to distribute information, which is why anyone uses it. Get with the program, RIAA. Buy a clue.
The only thing is that no one would want to share content like that voluntarily.