Well, TPB will give you leeching statistics for software. I'm sure it's not entirely representative of overall pirating rates but I'd imagine it's a good approximation
It's hard to say though, some years ago I just stopped looking out for new music - free or paid. I think the principal issue is that I'd rather kill a few minutes playing a brainless app than listening to some new music.
I agree with your critique but there's plenty of ways of addressing it. To pick one, everybody gets to vote on any issue or grant their vote to a proxy. That would lead to popular proxies getting many votes and so effectively create a different sort of politician.
I'm not saying my suggestion is perfect - for instance knowing your support can vanish in a flash is likely to lead to extremely cautious decision making (fear of rocking the boat). I just wanted to point out that the direct democracy strawman has slightly more legs than you've implied.
I don't think the analogy is quite right, though it's close.
It's like Ford instructing its sales team - if you're using company money to buy a car for going to sales meetings then you may only buy a Ford. If you're buying for yourself then you can do what you like, though of course we'd prefer you buy Ford. And if you're in crash research and needing to compare how other cars handle things then you can keep buying them too.
Had MS done anything else I would have found it strange
Well, you can, just not legally. It sounds like a reasonable compromise to me and if it works well then I'd like to think people will come complacent and one day talk about removing those antiquated laws.
New Zealand has this. It doesn't work especially well because the payouts have been reduced by successive governments to the point that they do not adequately protect you from most things and the law which set it up also prohibits lawsuits for anything it covers. Still, it's not too bad.
But I can't help wondering if there is something wrong with the code that it struggled with different GPUs or crashes on new devices without special patches. Most code seems pretty robust to such things.
There is a third side to the coin though - Apathy.
I'm sure there are people who take voting seriously and carefully consider their choices. But they're such a minority that elections are won or list by how well you appeal to people making snap decisions and following prejudice. Presumably internet voting will greatly raise the percentage of the population voting because it significantly lowers the barrier to entry - you don't have to give up a couple hours. Will that increased turnout be people who have paid even less attention and so result in even more plastic politicians, or will it result in reduced impact of lobby groups because they now make up a lower percentage of voters.
Last election my wife and I didn't vote. We had intended to but the kids were a bit sick and acting up. The hassle of going to do our civil duty with a couple grumpy kids was more than the civil obligation I felt - especially since it was quite clear that my vote wasn't going to affect the outcome.
Given that patent lawyers almost universally support patents and inventors almost universally do not, surely if DARPA wants invention then it should do the opposite and encourage everyone towards being an inventor instead of a patent lawyer.
1) Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean no patients understand it. It means the medical system has to assume someone knowledgeable will be reading the records, and so they need to be accurate. Having more accurate records is useful for you.
2) If you take it home, then you can give it to other places. It means you can get second opinions far more cheaply. You can also decide after say the testing that you'll get the treatment elsewhere - it kills lock-in.
3) I would expect services to pop up that help interpreting this information - it's no longer a choice between your own knowledge and going to a doctor.
Someone else has already mentioned dev accounts, but it's also possible to run an enterprise app store. Perhaps not worth it for just one iPad but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the way they go since it will be seen as the proper approach.
I use 1Password. It has a feature of providing an interface with all your passwords, the sites they are for and the last time you changed that password. I have never done so but it would be fairly painless to sort by last modified date and update all of your old passwords.
I don't know Keepass but a quick google search shows this information is stored, so you could always export the data and process it that way if there is no GUI feature.
To be fair it should be at least $80 versus $5.25, and that's using your numbers. I don't know many movies which are available for $1.25 and I think a good portion of the movie experience is the flavoring on the popcorn and straw in the drink - both of which will push your price up slightly. Plus you're not accounting for tidying up afterwards, and does your video store have that much better parking than your theatre such that you don't have to count the walk there?
Not that I disagree with you, I just think you're overstating it slightly:)
Zurich Insurance has a gross profit of 3 billion dollars - this fine was just over 0.1% of their annual profit. HSBC has a gross profit of 13 billion dollars - this fine was considerably less than 0.1% of their annual profit.
It's a bit harder to work out for Nationwide as British building societies are not required to lodge SEC filings but I see their total assets are £360 billion, so if you assume a conservative 2% profit then that puts the fine in line with the others.
I think the person that commented about not getting clients because of lax security is closer to the money - to have just a few high profile cases fined and to have the fines only a fraction of a single year's operating profit - that just isn't a disincentive.
Yes, I've have that too. Mentally I don't really lump them in the same category and since you raised it I've been trying to work out why.
A good chunk of it is that they very clearly fit into the category of 'worth it', you can't go around turning down clients because they place security demands or you'll very quickly find yourself with very little work. But the other part is that sort of thing just doesn't seem to get in the way of day to day work. I can still have my own smartphone with secured-for-client, pen-tested servers and PCI compliance is a bit of a pain but not too much. Perhaps it's because at my work the stuff happens on servers and I sit at a desktop, so the servers being locked down as tightly as possible causes me only very occasional and minor problems. Do your clients require secure desktops/phone as well?
Well yes, but I think you're implicitly overestimating the typical cost of "resulting in regulatory fines or competitive disadvantage". When was the last time you heard of a company getting fined or giving data to a competitor as a result of a data leak from a lost piece of computer equipment? When was the last time you heard a salesman say they lose time to IT policies.
I personally have had two clients because it's easier for them to outsource the work than it is to get their IT enabling that work to be carried out internally. As you say it's all about compromises, but in my experience the way those compromises fall depends much more on the political clout of IT than on any intelligent assessment of the risk and benefit.
Windows does not score very well in usability tests - generally worse than Linux. Last I heard 7 scores better than Gnome 3, but I don't follow these things closely.
However you alluded to an important point "my home/personal machines have always been running Windows". People find it much easier to use something they're familiar with, and anybody who uses Windows fairly regularly at home or work will almost certainly find that easier than Linux.
Because it is often advantageous to a country's strategically to not have more people living in rural communities than the free market would naturally select. A country needs a certain number of people to make infrastructure economic and if it does not effectively subsidise people living there then you get critical supporting infrastructure deciding it is uneconomic to support the farmers, and so you lose the ability to farm there.
The thing is that DM is way more expensive than eDM. Say you get lift over control of oh, I don't know, 1% with eDM and 5% with DM. That means 4% extra sales with DM but you've had to spend roughly 100 times as much on delivery. Plug in some typical numbers for profit margins and well, DM still has a place but more often than not eDM has a much better ROI.
In practice it's more complicated than that - DM tends to cut through to a different group than eDM cuts through to, and in some contexts that matters. Also both have creative costs so for small targeted mailouts the delivery cost is unsubstantial which puts DM in the lead, and then there's printhouse costs.
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Well, TPB will give you leeching statistics for software. I'm sure it's not entirely representative of overall pirating rates but I'd imagine it's a good approximation
I dunno, I'd say I'm up slightly.
It's hard to say though, some years ago I just stopped looking out for new music - free or paid. I think the principal issue is that I'd rather kill a few minutes playing a brainless app than listening to some new music.
I agree with your critique but there's plenty of ways of addressing it. To pick one, everybody gets to vote on any issue or grant their vote to a proxy. That would lead to popular proxies getting many votes and so effectively create a different sort of politician.
I'm not saying my suggestion is perfect - for instance knowing your support can vanish in a flash is likely to lead to extremely cautious decision making (fear of rocking the boat). I just wanted to point out that the direct democracy strawman has slightly more legs than you've implied.
In many ways, that works out well.
Tesla can go far enough on a single charge that they can afford to require owners to charge at home or carry the charger with them.
However at least here almost every electric car is Japanese and so I don't see this standard as especially important.
I don't think the analogy is quite right, though it's close.
It's like Ford instructing its sales team - if you're using company money to buy a car for going to sales meetings then you may only buy a Ford. If you're buying for yourself then you can do what you like, though of course we'd prefer you buy Ford. And if you're in crash research and needing to compare how other cars handle things then you can keep buying them too.
Had MS done anything else I would have found it strange
Well, you can, just not legally. It sounds like a reasonable compromise to me and if it works well then I'd like to think people will come complacent and one day talk about removing those antiquated laws.
New Zealand has this. It doesn't work especially well because the payouts have been reduced by successive governments to the point that they do not adequately protect you from most things and the law which set it up also prohibits lawsuits for anything it covers. Still, it's not too bad.
But I can't help wondering if there is something wrong with the code that it struggled with different GPUs or crashes on new devices without special patches. Most code seems pretty robust to such things.
There is a third side to the coin though - Apathy.
I'm sure there are people who take voting seriously and carefully consider their choices. But they're such a minority that elections are won or list by how well you appeal to people making snap decisions and following prejudice. Presumably internet voting will greatly raise the percentage of the population voting because it significantly lowers the barrier to entry - you don't have to give up a couple hours. Will that increased turnout be people who have paid even less attention and so result in even more plastic politicians, or will it result in reduced impact of lobby groups because they now make up a lower percentage of voters.
Last election my wife and I didn't vote. We had intended to but the kids were a bit sick and acting up. The hassle of going to do our civil duty with a couple grumpy kids was more than the civil obligation I felt - especially since it was quite clear that my vote wasn't going to affect the outcome.
Of course, this is why the Mac App Store is shifting to using jails instead of providing installers / disk images...
Maybe you're in their spam filter's control group?
Given that patent lawyers almost universally support patents and inventors almost universally do not, surely if DARPA wants invention then it should do the opposite and encourage everyone towards being an inventor instead of a patent lawyer.
Off the top of my head:
1) Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean no patients understand it. It means the medical system has to assume someone knowledgeable will be reading the records, and so they need to be accurate. Having more accurate records is useful for you.
2) If you take it home, then you can give it to other places. It means you can get second opinions far more cheaply. You can also decide after say the testing that you'll get the treatment elsewhere - it kills lock-in.
3) I would expect services to pop up that help interpreting this information - it's no longer a choice between your own knowledge and going to a doctor.
It works, though it stands out like a sore-thumb.
Someone else has already mentioned dev accounts, but it's also possible to run an enterprise app store. Perhaps not worth it for just one iPad but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the way they go since it will be seen as the proper approach.
I use 1Password. It has a feature of providing an interface with all your passwords, the sites they are for and the last time you changed that password. I have never done so but it would be fairly painless to sort by last modified date and update all of your old passwords.
I don't know Keepass but a quick google search shows this information is stored, so you could always export the data and process it that way if there is no GUI feature.
To be fair it should be at least $80 versus $5.25, and that's using your numbers. I don't know many movies which are available for $1.25 and I think a good portion of the movie experience is the flavoring on the popcorn and straw in the drink - both of which will push your price up slightly. Plus you're not accounting for tidying up afterwards, and does your video store have that much better parking than your theatre such that you don't have to count the walk there?
Not that I disagree with you, I just think you're overstating it slightly :)
Sure.
Zurich Insurance has a gross profit of 3 billion dollars - this fine was just over 0.1% of their annual profit.
HSBC has a gross profit of 13 billion dollars - this fine was considerably less than 0.1% of their annual profit.
It's a bit harder to work out for Nationwide as British building societies are not required to lodge SEC filings but I see their total assets are £360 billion, so if you assume a conservative 2% profit then that puts the fine in line with the others.
I think the person that commented about not getting clients because of lax security is closer to the money - to have just a few high profile cases fined and to have the fines only a fraction of a single year's operating profit - that just isn't a disincentive.
Not off the top of my head but google found: http://www.relevantive.de/linux_usability_report_en.pdf :)
Hopefully that's enough, otherwise we might need to get someone from the Usability project to answer rather than me
Yes, I've have that too. Mentally I don't really lump them in the same category and since you raised it I've been trying to work out why.
A good chunk of it is that they very clearly fit into the category of 'worth it', you can't go around turning down clients because they place security demands or you'll very quickly find yourself with very little work. But the other part is that sort of thing just doesn't seem to get in the way of day to day work. I can still have my own smartphone with secured-for-client, pen-tested servers and PCI compliance is a bit of a pain but not too much. Perhaps it's because at my work the stuff happens on servers and I sit at a desktop, so the servers being locked down as tightly as possible causes me only very occasional and minor problems. Do your clients require secure desktops/phone as well?
Well yes, but I think you're implicitly overestimating the typical cost of "resulting in regulatory fines or competitive disadvantage". When was the last time you heard of a company getting fined or giving data to a competitor as a result of a data leak from a lost piece of computer equipment? When was the last time you heard a salesman say they lose time to IT policies.
I personally have had two clients because it's easier for them to outsource the work than it is to get their IT enabling that work to be carried out internally. As you say it's all about compromises, but in my experience the way those compromises fall depends much more on the political clout of IT than on any intelligent assessment of the risk and benefit.
Windows does not score very well in usability tests - generally worse than Linux. Last I heard 7 scores better than Gnome 3, but I don't follow these things closely.
However you alluded to an important point "my home/personal machines have always been running Windows". People find it much easier to use something they're familiar with, and anybody who uses Windows fairly regularly at home or work will almost certainly find that easier than Linux.
Because it is often advantageous to a country's strategically to not have more people living in rural communities than the free market would naturally select. A country needs a certain number of people to make infrastructure economic and if it does not effectively subsidise people living there then you get critical supporting infrastructure deciding it is uneconomic to support the farmers, and so you lose the ability to farm there.
The thing is that DM is way more expensive than eDM. Say you get lift over control of oh, I don't know, 1% with eDM and 5% with DM. That means 4% extra sales with DM but you've had to spend roughly 100 times as much on delivery. Plug in some typical numbers for profit margins and well, DM still has a place but more often than not eDM has a much better ROI.
In practice it's more complicated than that - DM tends to cut through to a different group than eDM cuts through to, and in some contexts that matters. Also both have creative costs so for small targeted mailouts the delivery cost is unsubstantial which puts DM in the lead, and then there's printhouse costs.
Public service and all that... So that the folks in Alaska are not disadvantaged and there isn't another big reason not to live there.