the article's analogy of a car's pedal's changing function is faulty. the driver would have been tested and licensed to use those pedals by a driving instructor. computer use requires no license but that doesn't make it easy.
if you want to use a computer and use this software, then you have to learn how! \ that is what is necessary to be a user that doesn't have to call IT every 5 minutes. You must familiarize yourself with the tools you're being paid to use. How would you feel if your plumber asked you how your toilet worked? How would you feel if your lawn guy asked how to use the lawn mower?
you wouldn't blame the manufacturer of a band saw for making the controls different from another manufacturer. you also wouldn't use a band saw without learning how first.
though, a computer can't take off your fingers, your refusal to think and learn what the IT guy already has annoys him.
not that users read/. but if they did, I'd tell them, ask your IT guy where you can learn more about to software or fuction you're using so you don't have to call him every 5 minutes. I guarantee you he'll help.
when they say that these households have at least one digital video file 10MB or larger, they aren't telling you what that is. that could be a viral video they got off youtube or the like it could be a porn clip off a website. they aren't telling you the truth. from a p2p service for free, then it's most likely a viral video or a porn clip. I've never seen a 10MB movie or tv episode. 60% was porn clips. but they lying liars say "adult-film content" implying they pirated porn movies. this is the lie. that means 15% was viral videos and the like. they didn't tell you how much was music videos.
so what they're saying is, 4.8% of households used p2p services to download porn video clips. of those, how many were from websites that offer video clip downloads? and how many were actual (uhh when do you get a chance to say this) professionally produced adult films?
only 300 thousand households had downloaded mainstream movie content.
that's what the liars are concerned with. look how many companies offer digital downloads of mainstream movie content? 4 at best? this is the damn lie. that's fucking why. offer up the non-crippled content at reasonable prices. iTunes is doing it.
one last question, how does NPD know what these 6 million households have on their computers? are they just going on what's shared on p2p?
bottom line is, the MPAA paid for a study to show that porn is popular.
if you get a deadly ailment that requires one of these designer drugs, you will end up paying $70 per pill because the company has patented the formula. Without patents, a generic can be made at probably $2 per pill. While that is still expensive, it's manageable for an impoverished family of someone who has a deadly ailment curable by the designer drug.
pharmaceutical companies are businesses who have publicly owned stock. They are spending more on advertising than on research.
Merck, Phizer, EJ Lily and other ticks could be curing fucking plagues with that money. but then they wouldn't be in business.
cholera could be inert. malaria could be inert. smallpox could be inert. rubella could be inert. horrible diseases like cancer and leukemia could one day not be life threatening.
HIV could be inert. HPV could be inert.
To say, we found this life-saving formula and you have to pay us exorbitantly to save your life, is a crime against humanity.
These pharmaco's research is mostly based on tribal wisdom. Patents prevent those tribes and shamans from benefiting from their discoveries.
the first safe general anathesia is made with D-tubocurarine from an adapted curare serum. curare is a mixture that tribal cultures in the amazon basin use to tip their arrows and darts with so they can hunt effectively. They discovered the formula.
patents can be a good thing for certain industries. They protect inventors and the like. but they are misused as a free pass for exploitation today.
of course the slackers aren't going to produce more. They will simply be fired for not being productive. that's the beauty of a results-based system.
This has been my philosophy for years. I once worked for a company where I did more real work in 6 hours than every other employee did in 2 days. The owner of the company still felt that I was cheating him if I wasn't at work for the whole 8 hours despite my results and productivity. There was never a situation that required me to be there when I wasn't And I had remote access. The owner of the company's response to my productivity was to pile on more work and force me to punch a clock.
I have since had several other similar experiences. the bottom line is, I'm paid to do a job. what does it matter what hours I keep as long as I'm productive and available? Corporations are locked into this 9-5 mentality. That has bred the clockwatcher. Clockwatchers generally keep their jobs because the do the bare minimum.
It's always the productive employees who get shit on. Moving to a results-based system means the clockwatchers will have to do more or get fired. This is a win-win situation. The early-birds get to come in at the butt-crack of dawn and get a jump on things. while the productive people can walk in at the crack of 10 or 11 and do all their work in 5 or 6 hours and go home. Some employees might even opt to work later if their work isn't critical to business hours.
Now, I'm lucky enough to have my own business. My customers see me on my schedule. It's great.
what costs more? hiring all the NFL superstars to do MOCAP for the next EA sports 2007 title? or investing in some great animators and hiring talented MOCAP actors for innovative games? EA, we stopped buying your franchises a long time ago. You are wasting your money on them. If you produce just 5 great innovative and fresh new titles a year and skip all the franchise crap, you'll see your profits increase. game sequels should be spaced out so far as to include dramatic technical and visual enhancements.
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first, it's not a black market.
second, it's not a market.
piracy used to be those people in asia and russia and south america who sold counterfeit movies and music on the street.
the industry doesn't protect its content from itself.
downloading isn't a crime. uploading is. though it wasn't before the MPAA bought their laws.
content is stolen somewhere between production and the consumer most of the time.
you share culture and go to jail now.
the what if machine says it's a horrible idea.
the geeks are right.
/. but if they did, I'd tell them, ask your IT guy where you can learn more about to software or fuction you're using so you don't have to call him every 5 minutes. I guarantee you he'll help.
the article's analogy of a car's pedal's changing function is faulty.
the driver would have been tested and licensed to use those pedals by a driving instructor.
computer use requires no license but that doesn't make it easy.
if you want to use a computer and use this software, then you have to learn how! \
that is what is necessary to be a user that doesn't have to call IT every 5 minutes.
You must familiarize yourself with the tools you're being paid to use.
How would you feel if your plumber asked you how your toilet worked?
How would you feel if your lawn guy asked how to use the lawn mower?
you wouldn't blame the manufacturer of a band saw for making the controls different from another manufacturer.
you also wouldn't use a band saw without learning how first.
though, a computer can't take off your fingers, your refusal to think and learn what the IT guy already has annoys him.
not that users read
It is poor management, uneducated users, and unrealistic expectations which damages IT.
When will managers understand how to work with knowledge workers?
When will users learn the basics of how to operate their tools?
if you teach metric to all of the children from kindergarten on up, this will help adoption.
I guess being flattered is one way of looking at it.
however, if it was my music that was being "sampled" by such a wealthy producer, I would sue.
Timbaland has no rights to use the music without attribution.
being flattered is great, but being paid is better.
the highest form of flattery for a musician is to be paid.
the new enterprise vmware server runs on hardware.
it's great for deployment servers.
top notch.
of course bosses lie. that's how they get to be bosses and stay bosses.
they went to the UCYA the University of Cover Your Ass.
they lie because it suits them.
always do business as if the other guy is trying to fuck you. because he is.
the 40% of bosses that lie is in line with the 45% of MBA students that say they cheat because they think that's what you do in business.
honesty and integrity don't matter in business anymore. He who beheads, gets ahead.
I don't care one bit about those of you that can't understand the complex plot lines.
I love BSG and all of its stories. It's a great show and should be picked up for another season.
scifi is trying to kill it by holding it off the air.
everyone has heard the "if microsoft made cars" joke.
will these cars have to drive on special microsoft roads and such.
I just want to know if the windshields will be that pretty blue color most of us are so familiar with.
9 million different things could cause a cpu to heat up.
first of which is poor circulation.
bad software, a network attack, a defrag, a virus scan
and since when is TOR a bad thing? since when is anonymizing your computer a crime?
why isn't your industry bound by market forces?
when they say that these households have at least one digital video file 10MB or larger, they aren't telling you what that is.
that could be a viral video they got off youtube or the like
it could be a porn clip off a website.
they aren't telling you the truth.
from a p2p service for free, then it's most likely a viral video or a porn clip.
I've never seen a 10MB movie or tv episode.
60% was porn clips. but they lying liars say "adult-film content" implying they pirated porn movies. this is the lie.
that means 15% was viral videos and the like.
they didn't tell you how much was music videos.
so what they're saying is, 4.8% of households used p2p services to download porn video clips.
of those, how many were from websites that offer video clip downloads? and how many were actual (uhh when do you get a chance to say this) professionally produced adult films?
only 300 thousand households had downloaded mainstream movie content.
that's what the liars are concerned with.
look how many companies offer digital downloads of mainstream movie content? 4 at best? this is the damn lie.
that's fucking why.
offer up the non-crippled content at reasonable prices. iTunes is doing it.
one last question, how does NPD know what these 6 million households have on their computers?
are they just going on what's shared on p2p?
bottom line is, the MPAA paid for a study to show that porn is popular.
yes actually there is.
when you attempt to add non-drm'd media to the media library for vista media center, it ignores that content.
that's my experience.
it comes with installation by the connectedlife.home group.
if you actually read the headline and byline, you'd know that.
you are a colossal moron.
if you get a deadly ailment that requires one of these designer drugs, you will end up paying $70 per pill because the company has patented the formula. Without patents, a generic can be made at probably $2 per pill. While that is still expensive, it's manageable for an impoverished family of someone who has a deadly ailment curable by the designer drug.
pharmaceutical companies are businesses who have publicly owned stock. They are spending more on advertising than on research.
Merck, Phizer, EJ Lily and other ticks could be curing fucking plagues with that money. but then they wouldn't be in business.
cholera could be inert. malaria could be inert. smallpox could be inert. rubella could be inert. horrible diseases like cancer and leukemia could one day not be life threatening.
HIV could be inert. HPV could be inert.
To say, we found this life-saving formula and you have to pay us exorbitantly to save your life, is a crime against humanity.
These pharmaco's research is mostly based on tribal wisdom. Patents prevent those tribes and shamans from benefiting from their discoveries.
the first safe general anathesia is made with D-tubocurarine from an adapted curare serum. curare is a mixture that tribal cultures in the amazon basin use to tip their arrows and darts with so they can hunt effectively. They discovered the formula.
patents can be a good thing for certain industries. They protect inventors and the like. but they are misused as a free pass for exploitation today.
you're so dumb
Drug patents prevent inexpensive generic copies.
why not make the real stuff inexpensive?
If I were president, I would seize the pharmaceutical companies and regulate them out the wazoo.
and regulate them from closing up shop. and regulate them from beauracracy
Microsoft wants game publishers to pay a windows logo fee. and license their product for use on windows vista.
This is nothing more than a scam; an ill-fated attempt to force publishers out of the pc business and into the xbox360 business.
PC game publishers (I hope) will have the courage to tell MS to stick it up their ass.
activision, ubisoft, atari, vivendi, ea, take2, square, eidos. unite and tell MS to STUFF it.
I'm sure with the collective power you weild, you could create your own operating system specifically for the games you make.
or you could all just switch to linux
make the games into a linux live DVD and download device drivers on the fly. and the live DVD boots up and plays your game.
we wouldn't need windows any more. or a ginormous hard drive either.
we could save on flash memory.
if you unite, (which normally I wouldn't advocate for) you have more power than MS.
is that a confession to grand theft panty?
as someone who has been playing instruments for over 20 years, and been into MIDI and electronic music for over 12 years, this is not new.
it's incredibly creative. and well put together.
though it gives the impression that the kid has no musical knowledge or talent. this is not true. he has done digital music before.
that being said, creative does not make it good. A wise man once told me, there are only two types of music: good and bad.
I'd say this is somewhere in the middle.
Though this is pretty much representative of the fruity loops generation.
What you have is a bunch of novices copy and pasting sounds together in a repetetive mimicry of good music.
The fathers of digital music, herbie hancock and joe zawinul were musicians who experimented with technology.
The technology enhanced their music.
of course the slackers aren't going to produce more. They will simply be fired for not being productive. that's the beauty of a results-based system.
This has been my philosophy for years. I once worked for a company where I did more real work in 6 hours than every other employee did in 2 days. The owner of the company still felt that I was cheating him if I wasn't at work for the whole 8 hours despite my results and productivity. There was never a situation that required me to be there when I wasn't And I had remote access. The owner of the company's response to my productivity was to pile on more work and force me to punch a clock.
I have since had several other similar experiences.
the bottom line is, I'm paid to do a job. what does it matter what hours I keep as long as I'm productive and available?
Corporations are locked into this 9-5 mentality. That has bred the clockwatcher.
Clockwatchers generally keep their jobs because the do the bare minimum.
It's always the productive employees who get shit on. Moving to a results-based system means the clockwatchers will have to do more or get fired. This is a win-win situation.
The early-birds get to come in at the butt-crack of dawn and get a jump on things. while the productive people can walk in at the crack of 10 or 11 and do all their work in 5 or 6 hours and go home. Some employees might even opt to work later if their work isn't critical to business hours.
Now, I'm lucky enough to have my own business. My customers see me on my schedule. It's great.
I like the 'verse. I was hoping they'd do this. though someone forgot to tell them I do not pay to play.
Buying a game and leasing a game are two different things.
what costs more? hiring all the NFL superstars to do MOCAP for the next EA sports 2007 title?
or investing in some great animators and hiring talented MOCAP actors for innovative games?
EA, we stopped buying your franchises a long time ago. You are wasting your money on them.
If you produce just 5 great innovative and fresh new titles a year and skip all the franchise crap, you'll see your profits increase.
game sequels should be spaced out so far as to include dramatic technical and visual enhancements.
think of the repo men
think of the bill collectors?
how will they reclaim what is theirs if they can't lie?