Do you really think they will pay royalties or pass it on to the customer who is looking up an old article.
The web is quickly going pay as you go and it's not BIG MEDIA that's the problem. It's the freelancers and script writers.
Freelance writers will want to get paid each time their work is viewed. Hollywood script writers, actors and others also want royalties every time a commercial airs or a DVD gets sold.
Every year we seem to think we know every thing there is to know about physics, biology and any other science. We are convinced that our current theories are laws of nature.
And every year some discovery shatters that belief in a given discipline.
I can see the day when I'll be getting check in the mail to read other people's magazines and books and listen to music. That day is getting further and further away as I type this. Oops, it just disappeared out of view.
Everybody and their brother are trying to charge users a subscription fee for info and services.
I thought we took a lot of stuff to the field in mech, but when I was in the South European Task Force, we must have taken twice as much as mech. Made me wish to the good old days of sleeping in Bradleys.
I did plenty of 12 mile marches in the Army. After a while you get used to it and you don't feel tired afterward. My personal record was a little more than 2 and a half hours carrying about 50 pounds of weight. I knew someone who could run the entire 12 miles carrying the same weight in under 2 hours. A bunch of other people I knew used to do it in a little over 2 hours.
The case you're talking about involved "looking" inside a house. Crops are planted for the whole world to see. Unless a farmer builds a greenhouse that covers several hundred acres, he better not be breaking any laws.
People are saying driving and talking on a cell phone is dangerous. How about driving and having the morning paper or a sales report being beamed onto your eye?
Why do you say that. The business model of free software and selling support is flawed. Nobody can make money selling support for an OS that is administered by experienced people.
I think John Dvorak's prediction that Linux will be successful in the embedded arena is a good one. Tivo, caching servers, terminals.
www.drudgereport.com always has some good stories. The monkeyman attacks in India were a good read. Then there was a python eating a newborn just as he popped out his mother's womb.
Why innovate when somebody did it for you? Why spend time and money writing your own TCP/IP stacks when someone did it for you?
The question remains, how much of unix is in NT/2000? I personally think a lot. All the pretty GUI's and wizards are just pre-made scripts for you instead of you having to know the commands yourself.
I heard that www.homestore.com has something like 90% of all Internet real estate listings. The DoJ may even be investigating. I forgot the details though.
As far as buying online, you should always visit the house before purchase. Hire an engineer to check it out. Make sure it will be standing after you close the deal. Drive around the area. Check out the local schools to see if they meet your standards. Check on private schools. If moving to another state find out what the property taxes will be. In NYC it's not unusual for people to pay $200 PER MONTH for property taxes.
Sooner or later tech will be flooded with people. I plan on getting an MBA to jump into a CIO/CTO position or be a Wall Street analyst. There is a bond analyst, forgot his name who is an engineer and used to design CPU's. Now he sees through all the crap that investor relations, press, marketing and management tout about their companies and products.
The whole point of the insurance business is to collect premiums and minimize your chances of paying anything out.
Does your friend own a company where the employees are required to operate any heavy machinery or perform any other work that may result in accidental injury to others?
Stealth aircraft were never meant to be invisible. They just reflect less energy, or scatter it away from the radar. The idea of stealth being invisible is one created by the media.
What I want to know is which generations it detects. The F-117 is about 15 years old. What about the F-22? Or how about some next-gen designs that are being testes out at Groom Lake?
So what is the big deal about PGP? They either have enough computer power or enough math PHd's to crack it. And if they can't crack it today then they will in a few years. So all those posters below me who think by using encryption the NSA won't build profiles on them are wrong.
approximately 100 million americans on the internet. Millions more internationally. And you really think the NSA which spies on more important people than you has you targeted and is reading all of your email. Now where did those black helicopters fly of to?
The network companies went thru the railroad companies to get the rights to lay the fiber. It's not like they did it at night trying not to get caught. My guess is these agreements between the landowners and the railroads are decades old and a lawyer decided it was a chance to get rich. I doubt if the network companies knew that the land really didn't belong to the railroads.
Everytime society goes thru a change someone always cries wolf.
Two hundred years ago the industrial revolution began. Suddenly the price of many goods dropped and they became affordable to people. A century ago women started entering the workforce. People said it signal the end of civilization. In the 1920's people started listening to jazz and it signaled the end of life as we knew it. Ditto for the rock and roll era. Kids sold their soul to Satan. Things change.
Since he hates corporations and their goods maybe he would like to custom build his own car. I don't hear anybody decrying Henry Ford here. What's wrong with going to a mom and pop to get a custom built car? I bet with their supply chain a small compact won't cost you a penny over $80K. And how about computers? What if every mom and pop built custom computers with custom versions of Windows or Linux kernels for their differnet CPU's. Good luck finding compatible software or ISP's.
Do you want to know why they thought you were growing pot? NY Times magazine had a story on this some years back. Turns out a lot of people in the cities are growing their own marijuana in mini-greenhouses. And they are breeding the plants for higher levels of THC. The number given was 11%-14% THC compared to 2% in the 60's. The article said that some were selling it, but others were doing it as a hobby.
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Do you really think they will pay royalties or pass it on to the customer who is looking up an old article. The web is quickly going pay as you go and it's not BIG MEDIA that's the problem. It's the freelancers and script writers. Freelance writers will want to get paid each time their work is viewed. Hollywood script writers, actors and others also want royalties every time a commercial airs or a DVD gets sold.
Every year we seem to think we know every thing there is to know about physics, biology and any other science. We are convinced that our current theories are laws of nature. And every year some discovery shatters that belief in a given discipline.
He who fails to learn from history is doomed to repeat it.
I can see the day when I'll be getting check in the mail to read other people's magazines and books and listen to music. That day is getting further and further away as I type this. Oops, it just disappeared out of view. Everybody and their brother are trying to charge users a subscription fee for info and services.
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I did plenty of 12 mile marches in the Army. After a while you get used to it and you don't feel tired afterward. My personal record was a little more than 2 and a half hours carrying about 50 pounds of weight. I knew someone who could run the entire 12 miles carrying the same weight in under 2 hours. A bunch of other people I knew used to do it in a little over 2 hours.
The case you're talking about involved "looking" inside a house. Crops are planted for the whole world to see. Unless a farmer builds a greenhouse that covers several hundred acres, he better not be breaking any laws.
People are saying driving and talking on a cell phone is dangerous. How about driving and having the morning paper or a sales report being beamed onto your eye?
Why do you say that. The business model of free software and selling support is flawed. Nobody can make money selling support for an OS that is administered by experienced people. I think John Dvorak's prediction that Linux will be successful in the embedded arena is a good one. Tivo, caching servers, terminals.
www.drudgereport.com always has some good stories. The monkeyman attacks in India were a good read. Then there was a python eating a newborn just as he popped out his mother's womb.
Why innovate when somebody did it for you? Why spend time and money writing your own TCP/IP stacks when someone did it for you? The question remains, how much of unix is in NT/2000? I personally think a lot. All the pretty GUI's and wizards are just pre-made scripts for you instead of you having to know the commands yourself.
UCITA means customers can't sue their suppliers which means no fees for the lawyers. Like David Boise really defended Napster out of his belief in it.
To compare, I was looking in Ft. Collins Colorado where my brother is. A 200K house was quoted for $382 a year in property taxes.
I heard that www.homestore.com has something like 90% of all Internet real estate listings. The DoJ may even be investigating. I forgot the details though.
As far as buying online, you should always visit the house before purchase. Hire an engineer to check it out. Make sure it will be standing after you close the deal. Drive around the area. Check out the local schools to see if they meet your standards. Check on private schools. If moving to another state find out what the property taxes will be. In NYC it's not unusual for people to pay $200 PER MONTH for property taxes.
Sooner or later tech will be flooded with people. I plan on getting an MBA to jump into a CIO/CTO position or be a Wall Street analyst. There is a bond analyst, forgot his name who is an engineer and used to design CPU's. Now he sees through all the crap that investor relations, press, marketing and management tout about their companies and products.
The whole point of the insurance business is to collect premiums and minimize your chances of paying anything out. Does your friend own a company where the employees are required to operate any heavy machinery or perform any other work that may result in accidental injury to others?
Ok, but what happens when an ASP goes Chap 11? You can sue all you want, but you'll have to get in line with the rest of the creditors.
I hope you do realize that these people were breaking the law. I'm all for controlled legalization, but the law is the law.
Stealth aircraft were never meant to be invisible. They just reflect less energy, or scatter it away from the radar. The idea of stealth being invisible is one created by the media. What I want to know is which generations it detects. The F-117 is about 15 years old. What about the F-22? Or how about some next-gen designs that are being testes out at Groom Lake?
I thought I saw some Earthlink commercials on CNN or one of their channels. Could be wrong. Anybody know the law on this?
So what is the big deal about PGP? They either have enough computer power or enough math PHd's to crack it. And if they can't crack it today then they will in a few years. So all those posters below me who think by using encryption the NSA won't build profiles on them are wrong.
approximately 100 million americans on the internet. Millions more internationally. And you really think the NSA which spies on more important people than you has you targeted and is reading all of your email. Now where did those black helicopters fly of to?
The network companies went thru the railroad companies to get the rights to lay the fiber. It's not like they did it at night trying not to get caught. My guess is these agreements between the landowners and the railroads are decades old and a lawyer decided it was a chance to get rich. I doubt if the network companies knew that the land really didn't belong to the railroads.
Everytime society goes thru a change someone always cries wolf. Two hundred years ago the industrial revolution began. Suddenly the price of many goods dropped and they became affordable to people. A century ago women started entering the workforce. People said it signal the end of civilization. In the 1920's people started listening to jazz and it signaled the end of life as we knew it. Ditto for the rock and roll era. Kids sold their soul to Satan. Things change. Since he hates corporations and their goods maybe he would like to custom build his own car. I don't hear anybody decrying Henry Ford here. What's wrong with going to a mom and pop to get a custom built car? I bet with their supply chain a small compact won't cost you a penny over $80K. And how about computers? What if every mom and pop built custom computers with custom versions of Windows or Linux kernels for their differnet CPU's. Good luck finding compatible software or ISP's.
Do you want to know why they thought you were growing pot? NY Times magazine had a story on this some years back. Turns out a lot of people in the cities are growing their own marijuana in mini-greenhouses. And they are breeding the plants for higher levels of THC. The number given was 11%-14% THC compared to 2% in the 60's. The article said that some were selling it, but others were doing it as a hobby.