IE is still installed on nearly every computer sold over the world. And yet it's losing ground. Your entire argument has been disproved day after day in the past five years. Don't you look around?
So you have no idea what you're talking about. Why bother posting at all?
IE4 was the first DOM-based browser, which marked the new era of modern browsers. Navigator 4.08 was a monumental piece of crap that crashed every hour and couldn't do any thing dynamic at all. I think you're confusing IE4 and IE3. Or you just don't know anything about browsers at that time.
People have been saying IE is awesome and much better and fixed all the problems of last version, since the the second release. They've been wrong the entire time of course. At this point, why bother with it?
To be really fair to microsoft, IE4 was the best browser of its time, by such a wide margin it just annihilated the competition for about 5 years. IE3 was also about equivalent to Netscape 3 if a little inferior.
Since then, it's been downhill, and then catch up. Still not there yet, but thing actually do improve.
Let's say we build a network over these frequencies. You can then watch AT&T, Comcast and all the others complain to the congress for "unfair competition". Your frequencies will all belong to them very quickly, rest assured of that fact.
That is, unless you can lobby congress more than they can. No? I thought so.
I'm sure everyone agrees that there are more details in the articles than in the summaries. The OP claims that there could be some information in the summaries. I'm sure we all agree there as well.
if people stop paying for content then people will stop investing in producing content.
Hmm. Interesting. Care to enlighten us on what exactly you can find that is pointing to that assumption?
Well it should be pretty obvious, the incentive to produce such content is monetary, if people stop paying for the content that incentive goes away. If you believe such content will continue to be produced then what do you think the incentive will be? (bearing in mind the huge amount of work that goes into some productions)
There are plenty of models where people don't pay and money still flows in. Money doesn't have to come from the users.
But all that is preposterous. What shred of evidence is there to suggest that people don't want to pay anyways?
I find it perfectly reasonable that if they refuse my money I'll just steal the stuff instead. After all, it's their choice that it is so.
Rest assured, you didn't steal anything, you didn't deprive anyone of anything. There was nothing you would have done to get it from them, so they cannot claim you deprived them of anything.
if people stop paying for content then people will stop investing in producing content.
Hmm. Interesting. Care to enlighten us on what exactly you can find that is pointing to that assumption?
It's just out of curiosity of course, as this is only the tip of the iceberg. The real point is: can anyone prevent piracy without getting free speech out in the drain along with it. And the answer is, of course, no.
I backup all my pictures through a dropbox, that I don't use for storage but for moving bytes around. ~20GB so far without a hiccup. Upload a picture on your laptop, it gets to dropbox, it gets to my home computer, there it gets picked up by a script and moved in the proper place, freeing space in my Dropbox.
Which sounds great until you come home and your house burns to the ground, destroying your camera, memory cards, and the "backed up" copies of your photos.
I'm not the OP, but I use the same strategy: a Dropbox at home and a script that move files off of the Dropbox as they arrive in a certain directory every 5 minutes.
And even if my house burns, my data is safe. Because once it's home, it goes through the process of my regular backup: One in the attic, one at a friend's home and one in some hosted server in another country.
And if my house burns *in the middle* of my trip, I'll notice because my Dropbox will keep filling itself up and I can take whataver steps are necessary in that case.
Dropbox is the perfect solution IMO because of the robustness of its clients. Use it with encFS if you must have security.
No the only way I see FB going down is if they decide they need to "monetize the users more" and basically crap all over the network but I haven't seen any signs so far they are THAT stupid.
Watch the stock go below $15 and they'll become that stupid. It's a matter of days.
I thought you would be proud to live in the EU, not to leave the EU.
That said, I am ready to welcome Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Mexico in the EU, but I'm a bit surprised it didn't pop up in the news. Information is not what it used to be;-)
No, but they do make endless excuses as to why it's wrong, but it's OK for them to pirate anyhow. So, the end result is the same as if they were claiming the pirates are in the right, because they won't admit the pirates are wrong. This has resulted in endless posts like the original and your reply where those whose legal rights are being trampled on are made out to be at fault.
The problem is who is right and who is wrong. Piracy can be summed up to one thing: exchange of information. Because any work of art concerned here is just that: information. There is an artificial construct on top of it - copyright - but all in all, it's just bytes.
Now, the solution proposed by the majors is that one: give them the right to prevent people from communicating.
Do you see the issue? The issue is double: A) giving the right to a private party to censor communication is utterly insane. B) without information control, there is no copyright enforcement anymore.
Pirates claim A, majors claim B. Pirates are happy the way it is, because they know nobody can control communication. As long as encryption and steganography lives, nobody will prevent piracy, ever. That is, never. On the other hand, the majors want total control of all communication channels allowing to transmit copyrighted content. This has already started to some degree.
Now, this is an endless game, because as long as people are able to communicate through the internet, they'll be able to share whatever data they want, copyrighted or not with no one able to snoop in.
So the majors fight against piracy will only end up with less liberty, but the same amount of piracy. In other words, it's a lose / lose situation.
The music industry has given up on DRM and other types of enforcement. You can legally purchase plain MP3s, which is the universal format working everywhere. Are they dead yet?
The movie and TV industries need to learn from this and stop litigating grandmas. Because IT IS POINTLESS. IT WILL NOT REDUCE PIRACY. And they should start distributing their content to their customers. It's the only way to get the bulk of the pirates back in the pay loop.
Regardless, if we had movements like this in all EU member countries it could make a difference. But no... They'll take their free vacation courtesy of the RIAA and they'll screw you with the same smile.
I have something for you: Every time there is a robbery, let's calculate where the robbers could be (100mph * time from robbery) and then let's detonate a bomb that wipes this exact radius at the place of the robbery.
That way, robbers will think twice about doing robbery again. Guaranteed 100% efficiency.
See? The robbers are wrong, but the stupid cop detonating the bomb will be even more wrong because he'll kill thousands of innocent people in order to get the robbers. In other words: the reaction will be far worse than the offense.
That's what is happening here. Nobody claims the pirates are in the right. If you want to have this debate though, I'm all ears, I'll let you shoot first;-)
You forgot the most important point: All the shit they're moving doesn't bring them a dime in return, at the contrary! All that publicity for TPB make them more and more popular.
But then again, right from the app that gets you the location of said phone, there is a button to make the stolen property ring, and ring loud. Do you think it's so unlikely that they'll find the perpetrator with no mistake in that situation?
Also, if the perpetrator is unaware of the police tracking him down, there is little chance he'll "hide" in a group of people. following the GPS signal for 5 minutes should be enough to identify the thief very precisely.
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IE is still installed on nearly every computer sold over the world. And yet it's losing ground. Your entire argument has been disproved day after day in the past five years. Don't you look around?
So you have no idea what you're talking about. Why bother posting at all?
IE4 was the first DOM-based browser, which marked the new era of modern browsers. Navigator 4.08 was a monumental piece of crap that crashed every hour and couldn't do any thing dynamic at all. I think you're confusing IE4 and IE3. Or you just don't know anything about browsers at that time.
People have been saying IE is awesome and much better and fixed all the problems of last version, since the the second release. They've been wrong the entire time of course. At this point, why bother with it?
To be really fair to microsoft, IE4 was the best browser of its time, by such a wide margin it just annihilated the competition for about 5 years. IE3 was also about equivalent to Netscape 3 if a little inferior.
Since then, it's been downhill, and then catch up. Still not there yet, but thing actually do improve.
What makes you think Comcast would sanitize anything that's not in the request?
I agree with you though. It's easy to confuse Comcast with a regular business from time to time.
I'd still rather masturbate with a fistful of broken glass than voluntarily use their services.
You clearly don't know how much *that* hurts !
APRS is here for years and not banned.
Let's say we build a network over these frequencies. You can then watch AT&T, Comcast and all the others complain to the congress for "unfair competition". Your frequencies will all belong to them very quickly, rest assured of that fact.
That is, unless you can lobby congress more than they can. No? I thought so.
users inherently seem to trust app stores.
My app store has been curated by Steve Jobs (R) himself. It is surely safe !
I'm sure everyone agrees that there are more details in the articles than in the summaries. The OP claims that there could be some information in the summaries. I'm sure we all agree there as well.
This one is beyond pathetic.
if people stop paying for content then people will stop investing in producing content.
Hmm. Interesting. Care to enlighten us on what exactly you can find that is pointing to that assumption?
Well it should be pretty obvious, the incentive to produce such content is monetary, if people stop paying for the content that incentive goes away. If you believe such content will continue to be produced then what do you think the incentive will be? (bearing in mind the huge amount of work that goes into some productions)
There are plenty of models where people don't pay and money still flows in. Money doesn't have to come from the users.
But all that is preposterous. What shred of evidence is there to suggest that people don't want to pay anyways?
I find it perfectly reasonable that if they refuse my money I'll just steal the stuff instead. After all, it's their choice that it is so.
Rest assured, you didn't steal anything, you didn't deprive anyone of anything. There was nothing you would have done to get it from them, so they cannot claim you deprived them of anything.
Wait...
if people stop paying for content then people will stop investing in producing content.
Hmm. Interesting. Care to enlighten us on what exactly you can find that is pointing to that assumption?
It's just out of curiosity of course, as this is only the tip of the iceberg. The real point is: can anyone prevent piracy without getting free speech out in the drain along with it. And the answer is, of course, no.
I backup all my pictures through a dropbox, that I don't use for storage but for moving bytes around. ~20GB so far without a hiccup. Upload a picture on your laptop, it gets to dropbox, it gets to my home computer, there it gets picked up by a script and moved in the proper place, freeing space in my Dropbox.
Which sounds great until you come home and your house burns to the ground, destroying your camera, memory cards, and the "backed up" copies of your photos.
I'm not the OP, but I use the same strategy: a Dropbox at home and a script that move files off of the Dropbox as they arrive in a certain directory every 5 minutes.
And even if my house burns, my data is safe. Because once it's home, it goes through the process of my regular backup: One in the attic, one at a friend's home and one in some hosted server in another country.
And if my house burns *in the middle* of my trip, I'll notice because my Dropbox will keep filling itself up and I can take whataver steps are necessary in that case.
Dropbox is the perfect solution IMO because of the robustness of its clients. Use it with encFS if you must have security.
No the only way I see FB going down is if they decide they need to "monetize the users more" and basically crap all over the network but I haven't seen any signs so far they are THAT stupid.
Watch the stock go below $15 and they'll become that stupid. It's a matter of days.
Well, the company owners could be stopping them from buying, by just not selling.
Not many people are just going to flatly refuse a $1 billion check. Really not many.
So you'd rather have judges that are completely clueless about whatever they're judging? How can you even claim that?
I thought you would be proud to live in the EU, not to leave the EU.
That said, I am ready to welcome Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Mexico in the EU, but I'm a bit surprised it didn't pop up in the news. Information is not what it used to be ;-)
No, but they do make endless excuses as to why it's wrong, but it's OK for them to pirate anyhow. So, the end result is the same as if they were claiming the pirates are in the right, because they won't admit the pirates are wrong. This has resulted in endless posts like the original and your reply where those whose legal rights are being trampled on are made out to be at fault.
The problem is who is right and who is wrong. Piracy can be summed up to one thing: exchange of information. Because any work of art concerned here is just that: information. There is an artificial construct on top of it - copyright - but all in all, it's just bytes.
Now, the solution proposed by the majors is that one: give them the right to prevent people from communicating.
Do you see the issue? The issue is double:
A) giving the right to a private party to censor communication is utterly insane.
B) without information control, there is no copyright enforcement anymore.
Pirates claim A, majors claim B. Pirates are happy the way it is, because they know nobody can control communication. As long as encryption and steganography lives, nobody will prevent piracy, ever. That is, never. On the other hand, the majors want total control of all communication channels allowing to transmit copyrighted content. This has already started to some degree.
Now, this is an endless game, because as long as people are able to communicate through the internet, they'll be able to share whatever data they want, copyrighted or not with no one able to snoop in.
So the majors fight against piracy will only end up with less liberty, but the same amount of piracy. In other words, it's a lose / lose situation.
The music industry has given up on DRM and other types of enforcement. You can legally purchase plain MP3s, which is the universal format working everywhere. Are they dead yet?
The movie and TV industries need to learn from this and stop litigating grandmas. Because IT IS POINTLESS. IT WILL NOT REDUCE PIRACY. And they should start distributing their content to their customers. It's the only way to get the bulk of the pirates back in the pay loop.
Regardless, if we had movements like this in all EU member countries it could make a difference. But no... They'll take their free vacation courtesy of the RIAA and they'll screw you with the same smile.
Although true, Star Wars MOVIES sucks.
There ya go. Fixed that for you. :-p
I have something for you: Every time there is a robbery, let's calculate where the robbers could be (100mph * time from robbery) and then let's detonate a bomb that wipes this exact radius at the place of the robbery.
That way, robbers will think twice about doing robbery again. Guaranteed 100% efficiency.
See? The robbers are wrong, but the stupid cop detonating the bomb will be even more wrong because he'll kill thousands of innocent people in order to get the robbers. In other words: the reaction will be far worse than the offense.
That's what is happening here. Nobody claims the pirates are in the right. If you want to have this debate though, I'm all ears, I'll let you shoot first ;-)
You forgot the most important point: All the shit they're moving doesn't bring them a dime in return, at the contrary! All that publicity for TPB make them more and more popular.
The truth is that is you get IE out of the game, anything working in a browser either works in others of degrades gracefully.
It you get IE in the game, you have to test and develop whole chunks of your website twice.
You've already seen a double side CD?
i bought the south movie years ago on dvd and it was double-sided
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So your answer to "You've already seen a double side CD?" is "Yes I've seen a double sided DVD!" ?
Reading comprehension issue? Sudden inflammatory urge? Anything else?
But then again, right from the app that gets you the location of said phone, there is a button to make the stolen property ring, and ring loud. Do you think it's so unlikely that they'll find the perpetrator with no mistake in that situation?
Also, if the perpetrator is unaware of the police tracking him down, there is little chance he'll "hide" in a group of people. following the GPS signal for 5 minutes should be enough to identify the thief very precisely.