If my Post Office didn't have to pay someone $20/hr, plus full benefits and a month of vacation, to sort mail the postage rates would be a lot lower; you could get a high school kid to do this for minimum wage.
Postage rates are really low as it is. Is there any other way to send a letter to anywhere in the country for less than $0.40? Not even close.
Minimum wage is a fucking joke. The only people willing to work for that are high school students because they don't have to pay the rent. Nobody can actually live off of minimum wage.
I would take the totally opposite approach to your argument:
MP3's: the purpose of a song is to provide entertainment to an individual, and the market price is within the range of individuals . . . therefore piracy for personal entertainment is stealing the value of the song (however THAT's calculated)
High end software: the purpose is to do some kind of specialized design for businesses to use in the generation of profits, and the market price is accordingly high . . . therefore piracy for personal entertainment is more defensible, since it's something that individual would never buy anyway.
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So the computer's defense would be weak . . . but what about the offense? Imagine the machine passing the ball up the rows, and finishing with a perfect pull shot before the human even has time to switch rods.
Not to mention the random variation the machine could put into its shots, with no visual cues, combined with virtually limitless speed. It could be unstoppable.
Learn this now: the purpose of a database is to store data in a mathematically sound, incorruptible fashion, not to match the flavor-of-the-day in application programming techniques. That's what interfaces are for.
Ted Codd's only been dead a month and he's already rolling over in his grave.
What SGI needs to do is invest in research for the next business cycle and NOT FIRE EMPLOYEES. Doing so will hamper its chances for survival in the future.
And not doing so will hamper its chances for survival in the present.
Hell, with push technology, they could just create pirates on the fly as needed.
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no, W.U. has all three options:
don't do shit
download but don't install
download and install.
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...imagine having your Gentoo packages already pre-fetched for you, whenever there's an update? Emerge and it just starts compiling w/out the download step.
Audiences were treated to some made-up logos or beer cans covered in white paper. Now that, my friend, looked cheesy. Nothing pulled an audience out of immersion faster, screaming 'fake,' than a shot of of some dummied-up consumables.
I have the opposite reaction . . . whenever I see a brand logo in a movie, my first thought is "I wonder how much the script had to be altered to include this placement". The immersion is blown.
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Congratulations, this is officially the lamest gun-nut argument I've ever heard.
Trade it in for HDTV, of course. I'm sure that's part of the secret plan between the corporations and the FCC.
My God, they're even nerdier than I ever imagined!
MP3's: the purpose of a song is to provide entertainment to an individual, and the market price is within the range of individuals . . . therefore piracy for personal entertainment is stealing the value of the song (however THAT's calculated)
High end software: the purpose is to do some kind of specialized design for businesses to use in the generation of profits, and the market price is accordingly high . . . therefore piracy for personal entertainment is more defensible, since it's something that individual would never buy anyway.
Of course not, just download the man pages and print them ou-- oh, right.
Hmmm, a technical question on Slashdot. What an interesting challenge . . . I'll get on answering that right aw...DELETED!!
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Not to mention the random variation the machine could put into its shots, with no visual cues, combined with virtually limitless speed. It could be unstoppable.
Please replace "are too lazy" with "have no reason".
Brilliant.
Ted Codd's only been dead a month and he's already rolling over in his grave.
And learn how to freakin' spell.
Best of luck to you when the federal government is building the "character" portion of their terrorism/communism/whateverism case against you.
And not doing so will hamper its chances for survival in the present.
Except that by "human" you mean "invisible human", and by "shotgun" you mean "broken SuperSoaker".
Better yet, see if they'll hire you to manage the storage of thousands of your own resumes.
Hell, with push technology, they could just create pirates on the fly as needed.
Hmmm, sounds exactly like Windows Update.
That's complete bullshit. It's $9.99 because that "sounds less" than $10. Either way the sales tax pushes it to a non-integer value in most states.
I have the opposite reaction . . . whenever I see a brand logo in a movie, my first thought is "I wonder how much the script had to be altered to include this placement". The immersion is blown.
Then what's the point of putting it in a light bulb in the first place?!
The same reason people choose to live in places where the economy has been on the verge of collapse for decades.
Driving a car that only gets 13 mpg: you get what you deserve.
Besides, I'd value the wasted 1 hour+ above any of these other things.
Off to the guillotine with you then.
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