Here (Tha'ts Costa Rica) I thought for a long time there were no or few copyright laws... as most rental DVDs seem to be copies, and all the video-game stores in the malls sell pirated games and chipped consoles. It's great as a consumer... but I wondered why. It's not a lawless country, after all.
The real issue appears to be that the authorities simply don't have time to go chasing copyright laws.
If you, as a copyright holder, want to come down here and file some court papers.... you can take peopel to court, and win... but you can't just expect the public authorities to crack down on this for you, unless you come here personally and make a big stink about it.
In other words, if you don't care enough to come here and complain, they really don't care enough to chase people down.
In your case they only have the same name if you ignore the wonderful "version" that VMS provides... which is more or less part of the filename anyway for practical purposes.
The problem is generally the way the medium is used.. not the medium itself.
Really god vinyl on really good equipment is superb. Really good CDs on really good equipment is also superb.
Yes... Vinyl uses compression.. but it's well defined and used for a good reason. CD's are often mastered with far less dynamic range than the medium is capable of.
Vinyl will stay.. because people love it, and because the quality is percieved as good (whether accurate or not)
CDs may vanish - as it's digital, and we can get similar quality out of things the size of a fingernail nowadays...
The regular rules go out the window when it comes to monopolies.
Last I checked, there were an unbelievable number of mobile phone & comping products out there, from dozens of copmanies competing healthily in a global market.
If this were a little ISP with a totally privately-owned infrastructure, I'd agree with you.
It's not, its' a huge one, with monopoly-like size and operating on concessions and right-of-ways granted by the people in order to let them to operate their business for the benefit of all.
They aren't just blocking, or censoring.. they are actively forging traffic to appear as if it is something it is not in order to trick software into not functioning as the end users expect it to.
If you don't want your customers running bittorrent, put it in the contract and ban it. If you don't want them using over X bandwidht, put it in the contract. That's fair play (maybe)
What's definitely NOT fair play is lying about it to your customers, then sneakily killing connections and then lying about it.
For the same reason, your phone company cannot refuse to send your calls to another phone just because it doesn't approve of the content.
No, i'ts not time. We don't care, and the resource utilization is too hard to manage and marginal.
Our main problem isn't computing resources, it's configuration management. Servers are cheap.. but we have a lot of servers sitting around 98% idle because we don't want to mix applications on the same server. We get held up launching a new application because we don't really want to keep buying new dedicated hardware for each project.
VM tech lets us cleanly separate resource allocation from configuration management, and further, with a bit of foresight, makes our developers develop for scaleability off the bat.
Everyone likes to knock the business world for provding proprietary solutions.
Guess what.. hiring more staff costs more, and more importantly, takes far more time than purchasing VMWare, the commercial Xen thing, or any other commercial virtualization and management platforms.
And you know what? it's not about the core virt tech... that's free. It's about the management tools.
You are probably thinking, sure, why pay them to run a few real boxes with a few dozen virtual boxes. and right you are. But what about when I'm scaling to hundreds of real cpus, tons of network attached storage, and I need to manage it all, keep it all redundant, and deal with resource allocation? Give me a tool that does it.
When OSS gives me a tool that does this well, I'll gladly use it.. until then, there is a niche for proprietary solutions.
Yes, it's offshore... it's not as regulated.. but anyone with an established name operating for a long time can only succeed by good service and good customer relations, as competition is heavy.
1) They don't need to cheat. Gambling is profitable in and of itself. 2) An employee (even a partial owner) abusing his position to cheat at poker is a little different than a company blatantly cheating or lying about rules. It's one person going against the rules, nto the entire poker room being rigged.
Hey..it's not like real meatspace gambling operations never catch employees cheating.... that NEVER happens.
The normal response of many people, when they find out money doesn't really represent something simple and limited, and instead is part of a complex system, that at it's root seems to be a "federal reserve" that lends money out of thin air and expects interest, is to feel that this process is evil.
The reason they feel this is because they had no idea what money really was, and how it worked, before this. It is NOT because the system is inherently a scam. There certainly are alternative ways to run a monetary system, and there are probably many ways to improve it, or not, but it's not fundamentally evil. I'm not speaking for or against how the fed is run... only pointing out it's not so simple.
Not would be useful - IS useful... but no more useful or rare than many other elements.
hes' not saying gold is worthless.. only that, as a medium of exchnage, it's value is based on perception, just as with a modern fiat currency. To pretend a gold standard was somehow "more real" is absurd. It was different... it favored nations who had the resources to caputre or mine gold... but tha'ts it.
I get it.. you are one of THOSE users, who thinks he knows more than we do about how computers work, and how corporate IT should be run.
You do realize that 99% of the time, these stupid policies and bizarre decisions are NOT ours to make in the first place? We get it, man.. we aren't some morons who don't know how to use computers. Odds are we know better than you... and we hate the policies that are in place MORE than you do for the same reason.
We don't go to management and tell them we don't want anyone to have minesweeper or solitaire... frankly we don't give a shit. Some higher up executive, though, decided to bring it up at a high level management meeting and upper management decided IT had to spend their time locking down stupid default video games rather than doing real work. That meeting spawned more meetings about security.. and eventually the entire corporate PC policy was designed by committee.
Feel free to blame IT though; we're used to it.
As for the backup policy... we agree with you completely.. but unfortunately the insane mob that represents the majority of users and management felt their workstations should have full backup, and management made that a priority. Now that the budget has been blown on ridiculous amounts of backup hardware, you see, we can't afford to grow the file servers. So please, cooperate with us, and just keep all your stuff on your PC.
That's all fine and dandy, except in the modern west, there is the first-sale doctrine. Once you sell it to me, it's mine to do what I want with, including re-selling it.
Now.. that said.. a salon trying to get out of their contractual obligations by selling on e-bay, fine, go after them, it's breach of contract... but you made your money when you sold the item the first time.. what happens after that isn't your problem.
You can say it's 4 minutes into the future, and what you see, is 4 minutes into the past.. but for our reality (or any other observer) what matters is the here and now.
On one hand, you can think that what you saw "happened 4 minutes ago".. but as far as our objective reality goes, it happens when we see it. Absolutely nothing that happens there can affect us prior to this on any level, therefore, for us, it hasn't happened yet.
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Here (Tha'ts Costa Rica) I thought for a long time there were no or few copyright laws... as most rental DVDs seem to be copies, and all the video-game stores in the malls sell pirated games and chipped consoles. It's great as a consumer... but I wondered why. It's not a lawless country, after all.
The real issue appears to be that the authorities simply don't have time to go chasing copyright laws.
If you, as a copyright holder, want to come down here and file some court papers.... you can take peopel to court, and win... but you can't just expect the public authorities to crack down on this for you, unless you come here personally and make a big stink about it.
In other words, if you don't care enough to come here and complain, they really don't care enough to chase people down.
In your case they only have the same name if you ignore the wonderful "version" that VMS provides... which is more or less part of the filename anyway for practical purposes.
The problem is generally the way the medium is used.. not the medium itself.
Really god vinyl on really good equipment is superb.
Really good CDs on really good equipment is also superb.
Yes... Vinyl uses compression.. but it's well defined and used for a good reason.
CD's are often mastered with far less dynamic range than the medium is capable of.
Vinyl will stay.. because people love it, and because the quality is percieved as good (whether accurate or not)
CDs may vanish - as it's digital, and we can get similar quality out of things the size of a fingernail nowadays...
Yes, it's legal, and it would likely be legal in the UK to, as with most everywhere in the world.
Businesses are free to conduct sales in any way they see fit.
The regular rules go out the window when it comes to monopolies.
Last I checked, there were an unbelievable number of mobile phone & comping products out there, from dozens of copmanies competing healthily in a global market.
If this were a little ISP with a totally privately-owned infrastructure, I'd agree with you.
It's not, its' a huge one, with monopoly-like size and operating on concessions and right-of-ways granted by the people in order to let them to operate their business for the benefit of all.
They aren't just blocking, or censoring.. they are actively forging traffic to appear as if it is something it is not in order to trick software into not functioning as the end users expect it to.
If you don't want your customers running bittorrent, put it in the contract and ban it. If you don't want them using over X bandwidht, put it in the contract. That's fair play (maybe)
What's definitely NOT fair play is lying about it to your customers, then sneakily killing connections and then lying about it.
For the same reason, your phone company cannot refuse to send your calls to another phone just because it doesn't approve of the content.
It's an interesting concept.. but...
No, i'ts not time. We don't care, and the resource utilization is too hard to manage and marginal.
Our main problem isn't computing resources, it's configuration management. Servers are cheap.. but we have a lot of servers sitting around 98% idle because we don't want to mix applications on the same server. We get held up launching a new application because we don't really want to keep buying new dedicated hardware for each project.
VM tech lets us cleanly separate resource allocation from configuration management, and further, with a bit of foresight, makes our developers develop for scaleability off the bat.
Everyone likes to knock the business world for provding proprietary solutions.
Guess what.. hiring more staff costs more, and more importantly, takes far more time than purchasing VMWare, the commercial Xen thing, or any other commercial virtualization and management platforms.
And you know what? it's not about the core virt tech... that's free. It's about the management tools.
You are probably thinking, sure, why pay them to run a few real boxes with a few dozen virtual boxes. and right you are.
But what about when I'm scaling to hundreds of real cpus, tons of network attached storage, and I need to manage it all, keep it all redundant, and deal with resource allocation? Give me a tool that does it.
When OSS gives me a tool that does this well, I'll gladly use it.. until then, there is a niche for proprietary solutions.
Exactly.
.it's not like real meatspace gambling operations never catch employees cheating.... that NEVER happens.
Yes, it's offshore... it's not as regulated.. but anyone with an established name operating for a long time can only succeed by good service and good customer relations, as competition is heavy.
1) They don't need to cheat. Gambling is profitable in and of itself.
2) An employee (even a partial owner) abusing his position to cheat at poker is a little different than a company blatantly cheating or lying about rules. It's one person going against the rules, nto the entire poker room being rigged.
Hey.
The normal response of many people, when they find out money doesn't really represent something simple and limited, and instead is part of a complex system, that at it's root seems to be a "federal reserve" that lends money out of thin air and expects interest, is to feel that this process is evil.
The reason they feel this is because they had no idea what money really was, and how it worked, before this. It is NOT because the system is inherently a scam. There certainly are alternative ways to run a monetary system, and there are probably many ways to improve it, or not, but it's not fundamentally evil.
I'm not speaking for or against how the fed is run... only pointing out it's not so simple.
Not would be useful - IS useful... but no more useful or rare than many other elements.
hes' not saying gold is worthless.. only that, as a medium of exchnage, it's value is based on perception, just as with a modern fiat currency.
To pretend a gold standard was somehow "more real" is absurd. It was different... it favored nations who had the resources to caputre or mine gold... but tha'ts it.
I get it.. you are one of THOSE users, who thinks he knows more than we do about how computers work, and how corporate IT should be run.
You do realize that 99% of the time, these stupid policies and bizarre decisions are NOT ours to make in the first place? We get it, man.. we aren't some morons who don't know how to use computers. Odds are we know better than you... and we hate the policies that are in place MORE than you do for the same reason.
We don't go to management and tell them we don't want anyone to have minesweeper or solitaire... frankly we don't give a shit. Some higher up executive, though, decided to bring it up at a high level management meeting and upper management decided IT had to spend their time locking down stupid default video games rather than doing real work. That meeting spawned more meetings about security.. and eventually the entire corporate PC policy was designed by committee.
Feel free to blame IT though; we're used to it.
As for the backup policy... we agree with you completely.. but unfortunately the insane mob that represents the majority of users and management felt their workstations should have full backup, and management made that a priority. Now that the budget has been blown on ridiculous amounts of backup hardware, you see, we can't afford to grow the file servers. So please, cooperate with us, and just keep all your stuff on your PC.
That's all fine and dandy, except in the modern west, there is the first-sale doctrine. Once you sell it to me, it's mine to do what I want with, including re-selling it.
Now.. that said.. a salon trying to get out of their contractual obligations by selling on e-bay, fine, go after them, it's breach of contract... but you made your money when you sold the item the first time.. what happens after that isn't your problem.
Memory says 101.325kpa
Short selling carries unlimited risk and is generally only useful short-term. Puts have managed risk, and don't require margin.
"The potential loss for put options is the cost of buying the shares now plus the cost of the option."
I think the potential loss for put options is the cost of buying the options only.
And it gets even weirder.
You can say it's 4 minutes into the future, and what you see, is 4 minutes into the past.. but for our reality (or any other observer) what matters is the here and now.
On one hand, you can think that what you saw "happened 4 minutes ago".. but as far as our objective reality goes, it happens when we see it. Absolutely nothing that happens there can affect us prior to this on any level, therefore, for us, it hasn't happened yet.
Primer is an absolute must-see.
Then, after you watch it... go read up on who made it, how they made it, and how much it cost.
Semi-pro photographers should pony up for a SmugMug account. Easier to use than flickr, faster than flickr, completely unlimited, with photo ordering & revenue sharing under the uploaders control, and absolutely no claims of ownership to your data.
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"That said it includes L/unix and family and Windows et all"
Please clarify...
The speed of sound in a gas varies with temperature... not density.
The force would move through the object at the speed of sound in that object, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, atoms have to push on each other until it gets to the end.
What do you mean about checking in with the embassy?
Are Americans required to check in at their embassys when they travel or something?
Although tha'ts 100% true, you may be surprised how many people believe this.
Yes, and if you look deeper, many OSS projects require copyright assignment. This is a sleeping giant that's been around for a long time I think.
It's not that the license requires it.. but if you me to put your patches in the version of my project I distribute... I want the copyright.
You are free to distribute your own version with your own code of course.