I find it generally more plausible that management dictates that blocking happen for "productivity reasons". Those in IT that run the blocker might white list a few sites for key management, a few more for themselves, but I don't IT to be nearly as likely as management to impose web site blocking on the rest of the corporation.
I agree with sopssa, it's a game. I think the minimum of what needs to happen to make a legitimate economy is that money has to voluntarily change hands. I don't see a virtual item is necessarily any different than some other worthless trinket. Non productive things such as games, movies and music are the same way, it now costs almost nothing extra to make more copies, but someone did have to make the original work.
There's also a point where you don't need more real things, after you have your needs met and you're living a reasonably comfortable life, you don't need more things above food, water, energy and other maintenance items. Which I think inches closer to some visions of a utopia where we spend our time in a culture of art, albiet it's generally mass produced art these days.
The difference being that the library paid for that book, probably with your tax money, and can only lend one copy of a book at a time. If they only have one copy of a book, only one person can read it at any given moment. With an unlicensed digital copy, you have the potential for thousands of people reading a book at a time, all sourced from one book that might not have been paid for. So, no, it's not exactly the same. The comparison with Gutenberg is interesting, but owning and operating a press was nothing like the ease of piracy now.
That said, Of Mice And Men might be out of copyright, at least it should be by now.
The *real* story is the pirates are the vast minority of people
You mean to say that there are lots and lots of pirates, even if they aren't the majority? Maybe 49% is a vast minority. 10% might be a small minority vast is the opposite of tiny.
While it's always possible it was something else, I think it's by far the most reasonable explanation for the given text. Why else would they write in legalese repeating what looks like what would be the Nintendo party line?
I get what your saying but...c'mon. Artists shouldn't have to ask permission to do their work.
That's a bit on the utopian side. They're making a derivative of someone else's "art". If it's really artistry, then it seems to me that they could have been more original than that.
Losing a handful of fan filmmakers wouldn't make much of a dent in Nintendo's sales. But I doubt that the fan film hurts Nintendo any either. The problem is that the fans put a lot of work into something which they don't have permission to use the trademarks.
[quote]For instance, CBS allows use of Star Trek properties for non-profit use.[/quote]
Paramount (CBS) wasn't always like that, it took them a while to come around. There was one time where they tried to shut down all Star Trek fan sites, at least partly as a way to funnel fans to the official site, which I think was supposed to be a pay site.
I can see both sides of it, it looks to me to be a delicate balancing act.
If it's so much faster, then there must be a reason it's not being so widely used in the place of DRAM. Price is probably the biggest one, I think it requires the use of four or six transistors per cell rather than one or none. I recall that it's a high power consumer.
If it's just a matter of sloppiness, then just having some minimum dress code would be a better way to go about it.
A uniform can be comfortable, but cost saving measures make that an unlikely prospect. Uniform services tend to push a terrible synthetic fabric, having slightly better breathing capability of Saran Wrap. Some services seem to have an expectation that the uniform is worn year-round, so you might be stuck with short sleeves in winter or long sleeves in summer. With terrible fabric.
I can see this working for drives made specifically for RAIDs. Lose ECC on single drive configurations and you're asking for trouble. At least for RAIDS, a controller would need to be aware of this and do the remapping themselves, in the end, I don't know if it's worth doing this at all. If some enterprising RAID controller company could prove it works better to do it this way, then I can see it happening.
All imperialism sucks, regardless of race, it's not necessarily about racism. The same thing has happened in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America, people of any race is capable of and historically done the same kinds of acts, but someone with their racial blinders on might only remember or know of white people doing said thing.
That's just one problem, and I think it's of a different scale in the US. Are there special taxes for each major city? I think the EU has maybe 20-30 tax rates. In the US, cities and counties also charge taxes, and they too are hoping to get in on the deal, last I recall, that's 2000 different tax rates, 2000 different checks you might have to cut. For Amazon, it's not actually a big deal, but it's a problem for smaller shops. And add to that, each jurisdiction might have different definitions of what is taxable, in some places, donuts are taxable while bagels aren't, even if they're relatively similar in nature, and there are a lot of goofy distinctions made by different states.
Also, there is a pesky matter of jurisdiction and law. The current law says that all the states are supposed to harmonize the definition of what is taxable before they're allowed to ask outside retailers to tax their citizens, and so far, they've done a lot more complaining than actually doing anything about that. It's hard for me to sympathize with the states when I haven't even heard anything about the states trying to do the harmonization work.
The suggestion is to get up and walk a bit every few hours, being confined to seats for one hour isn't enough to kill people. Not that I think being confined to seats that long is a good idea. I'm glad I don't need to fly during peak weeks.
I'm pretty sure that more people die of motor vehicle accidents than cancer. At least in the US. I think the numbers would be roughly equal for most other developed countries, as the US has higher vehicular death rates than usual, but not a lot higher.
You're right, I looked it up, I'm surprised at this. I didn't know that being a member of a state's congress doesn't qualify being called a Congressman, only being a member of the US House of Representatives. Seems like a silly stipulation, though English is a language of silly stipulations. Even sillier that a UK sponsored dictionary says this (OED).
It sounds to me that you're more cynical than it is healthy to be.
Yes, it does count as infringement, but we don't know if it's infringement that is perpetrated with the knowledge and consent of anyone in the corporate HQ.
I think Microsoft probably does a lot of immoral things, but I don't think they've done anything like this in quite some time.
If you consider something at "University" a Youth Mistake. Most people are generally at the age of adulthood since then.
Legally, yes, but let's be realistic. Are you going to try telling me that you don't regret *anything* you did in university, or if you didn't attend university, when you were 18 to 22? University students still engage in hazing, binge drinking, OD on drugs, etc. It's reality, you're probably not going to find a lot of people that didn't do anything illegal, dangerous or wildly stupid during that phase of their lives.
People don't really mentally & emotionally mature until around age 25 anyways, and before university, students never really had the kind of freedoms they had when living at home anyway, it takes several years to adjust. It's worse if you have something of a police state at home until 18 and then you're flung into freedom without any gradual adjustment phase.
I think it's not a matter of political correctness, but truth. The US isn't the best at a whole lot of things, a lot of things the US has or does is now ranked 15th to 40th, depending on what it is.
It isn't to say that the US does everything terribly, I just don't like it when people say things on just blind faith. Often times those people hadn't even visited another developed country.
Besides, exactly what available drugs can enhance your ability to operate heavy machinery? I'm pretty sure anything with alcohol is out, and narcotics too. I can't think of anything stronger than what's in an energy drink, even those can be trouble if you're not careful.
Just in case someone has a snit, I'm not saying anything here against the use of recreational drugs, but space is a special circumstance, first, they're probably on the job, second, you're dealing with living an few inches away from the fatal vacuum of space.
I think a libertarian system would result in a hodge-podge in terms of roads. A road system that's a network of privately owned roads would have to have some kind of toll system and knowing how private companies like to have their own proprietary system, I don't even think a nationwide privately owned speedpass system would be efficient, once you reach a new network, you might have to sign up for tag #20 in your car or pay a toll every five miles.
Privately owned fire departments and police departments did exist in the past, but I think that led to problems too, the libertarians that I know seem to conveniently forget or not know the history that hurts their case.
It might depend on where they are employed. I doubt that the working arrangement for firefighters in NYC is the same as for LA, Denver or some small town in middle America.
More or less, yes. Most jobs suck to some degree or other, it comes with the territory of being work. You'll probably have something else to complain about if you had some other kind of job.
I had some trouble locating the video you recommended, but in the states, the video is called "Voyage to the Planets and Beyond". I hope that helps someone.
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I find it generally more plausible that management dictates that blocking happen for "productivity reasons". Those in IT that run the blocker might white list a few sites for key management, a few more for themselves, but I don't IT to be nearly as likely as management to impose web site blocking on the rest of the corporation.
I agree with sopssa, it's a game. I think the minimum of what needs to happen to make a legitimate economy is that money has to voluntarily change hands. I don't see a virtual item is necessarily any different than some other worthless trinket. Non productive things such as games, movies and music are the same way, it now costs almost nothing extra to make more copies, but someone did have to make the original work.
There's also a point where you don't need more real things, after you have your needs met and you're living a reasonably comfortable life, you don't need more things above food, water, energy and other maintenance items. Which I think inches closer to some visions of a utopia where we spend our time in a culture of art, albiet it's generally mass produced art these days.
The difference being that the library paid for that book, probably with your tax money, and can only lend one copy of a book at a time. If they only have one copy of a book, only one person can read it at any given moment. With an unlicensed digital copy, you have the potential for thousands of people reading a book at a time, all sourced from one book that might not have been paid for. So, no, it's not exactly the same. The comparison with Gutenberg is interesting, but owning and operating a press was nothing like the ease of piracy now.
That said, Of Mice And Men might be out of copyright, at least it should be by now.
The *real* story is the pirates are the vast minority of people
You mean to say that there are lots and lots of pirates, even if they aren't the majority? Maybe 49% is a vast minority. 10% might be a small minority vast is the opposite of tiny.
While it's always possible it was something else, I think it's by far the most reasonable explanation for the given text. Why else would they write in legalese repeating what looks like what would be the Nintendo party line?
I get what your saying but...c'mon. Artists shouldn't have to ask permission to do their work.
That's a bit on the utopian side. They're making a derivative of someone else's "art". If it's really artistry, then it seems to me that they could have been more original than that.
Losing a handful of fan filmmakers wouldn't make much of a dent in Nintendo's sales. But I doubt that the fan film hurts Nintendo any either. The problem is that the fans put a lot of work into something which they don't have permission to use the trademarks.
[quote]For instance, CBS allows use of Star Trek properties for non-profit use.[/quote]
Paramount (CBS) wasn't always like that, it took them a while to come around. There was one time where they tried to shut down all Star Trek fan sites, at least partly as a way to funnel fans to the official site, which I think was supposed to be a pay site.
I can see both sides of it, it looks to me to be a delicate balancing act.
If it's so much faster, then there must be a reason it's not being so widely used in the place of DRAM. Price is probably the biggest one, I think it requires the use of four or six transistors per cell rather than one or none. I recall that it's a high power consumer.
If it's just a matter of sloppiness, then just having some minimum dress code would be a better way to go about it.
A uniform can be comfortable, but cost saving measures make that an unlikely prospect. Uniform services tend to push a terrible synthetic fabric, having slightly better breathing capability of Saran Wrap. Some services seem to have an expectation that the uniform is worn year-round, so you might be stuck with short sleeves in winter or long sleeves in summer. With terrible fabric.
I can see this working for drives made specifically for RAIDs. Lose ECC on single drive configurations and you're asking for trouble. At least for RAIDS, a controller would need to be aware of this and do the remapping themselves, in the end, I don't know if it's worth doing this at all. If some enterprising RAID controller company could prove it works better to do it this way, then I can see it happening.
All imperialism sucks, regardless of race, it's not necessarily about racism. The same thing has happened in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America, people of any race is capable of and historically done the same kinds of acts, but someone with their racial blinders on might only remember or know of white people doing said thing.
That's just one problem, and I think it's of a different scale in the US. Are there special taxes for each major city? I think the EU has maybe 20-30 tax rates. In the US, cities and counties also charge taxes, and they too are hoping to get in on the deal, last I recall, that's 2000 different tax rates, 2000 different checks you might have to cut. For Amazon, it's not actually a big deal, but it's a problem for smaller shops. And add to that, each jurisdiction might have different definitions of what is taxable, in some places, donuts are taxable while bagels aren't, even if they're relatively similar in nature, and there are a lot of goofy distinctions made by different states.
Also, there is a pesky matter of jurisdiction and law. The current law says that all the states are supposed to harmonize the definition of what is taxable before they're allowed to ask outside retailers to tax their citizens, and so far, they've done a lot more complaining than actually doing anything about that. It's hard for me to sympathize with the states when I haven't even heard anything about the states trying to do the harmonization work.
The suggestion is to get up and walk a bit every few hours, being confined to seats for one hour isn't enough to kill people. Not that I think being confined to seats that long is a good idea. I'm glad I don't need to fly during peak weeks.
I'm pretty sure that more people die of motor vehicle accidents than cancer. At least in the US. I think the numbers would be roughly equal for most other developed countries, as the US has higher vehicular death rates than usual, but not a lot higher.
You're right, I looked it up, I'm surprised at this. I didn't know that being a member of a state's congress doesn't qualify being called a Congressman, only being a member of the US House of Representatives. Seems like a silly stipulation, though English is a language of silly stipulations. Even sillier that a UK sponsored dictionary says this (OED).
It sounds to me that you're more cynical than it is healthy to be.
Yes, it does count as infringement, but we don't know if it's infringement that is perpetrated with the knowledge and consent of anyone in the corporate HQ.
I think Microsoft probably does a lot of immoral things, but I don't think they've done anything like this in quite some time.
If you consider something at "University" a Youth Mistake. Most people are generally at the age of adulthood since then.
Legally, yes, but let's be realistic. Are you going to try telling me that you don't regret *anything* you did in university, or if you didn't attend university, when you were 18 to 22? University students still engage in hazing, binge drinking, OD on drugs, etc. It's reality, you're probably not going to find a lot of people that didn't do anything illegal, dangerous or wildly stupid during that phase of their lives.
People don't really mentally & emotionally mature until around age 25 anyways, and before university, students never really had the kind of freedoms they had when living at home anyway, it takes several years to adjust. It's worse if you have something of a police state at home until 18 and then you're flung into freedom without any gradual adjustment phase.
I think it's not a matter of political correctness, but truth. The US isn't the best at a whole lot of things, a lot of things the US has or does is now ranked 15th to 40th, depending on what it is.
This illustrates that point:
http://miscellanea.wellingtongrey.net/2008/10/26/were-not-number-one/
It isn't to say that the US does everything terribly, I just don't like it when people say things on just blind faith. Often times those people hadn't even visited another developed country.
Besides, exactly what available drugs can enhance your ability to operate heavy machinery? I'm pretty sure anything with alcohol is out, and narcotics too. I can't think of anything stronger than what's in an energy drink, even those can be trouble if you're not careful.
Just in case someone has a snit, I'm not saying anything here against the use of recreational drugs, but space is a special circumstance, first, they're probably on the job, second, you're dealing with living an few inches away from the fatal vacuum of space.
I know it's off topic, but why did you set your post to a monospaced font?
I think a libertarian system would result in a hodge-podge in terms of roads. A road system that's a network of privately owned roads would have to have some kind of toll system and knowing how private companies like to have their own proprietary system, I don't even think a nationwide privately owned speedpass system would be efficient, once you reach a new network, you might have to sign up for tag #20 in your car or pay a toll every five miles.
Privately owned fire departments and police departments did exist in the past, but I think that led to problems too, the libertarians that I know seem to conveniently forget or not know the history that hurts their case.
It might depend on where they are employed. I doubt that the working arrangement for firefighters in NYC is the same as for LA, Denver or some small town in middle America.
More or less, yes. Most jobs suck to some degree or other, it comes with the territory of being work. You'll probably have something else to complain about if you had some other kind of job.
I had some trouble locating the video you recommended, but in the states, the video is called "Voyage to the Planets and Beyond". I hope that helps someone.