Indeed. Nor does it really need to be printed, perhaps made available upon request, but this doesn't seem clandestine at all. After all the CIA also needs pencils do we really care what pencil manufacturer sells them their pencils, as long as everything was done properly and fairly?
With a distro like Ubuntu do those 99% need to deal with config files, CLI, and compiling from source?
Seriously, using Ubuntu on this machine I rarely if ever have to go to any of those above. Almost anything I could want (except high-end games) is up on Apt/Synaptic with a decent summary, push button installation/un-installation/updates. Configuration is much the same way, with far more options available through nice gui menus than are ever available to the Windows user.
Even those games that I have for linux such as Second Life and Eve Online have been push button to install. Sure with SL I did have to make my own menu button for it but that was filling in a gui form menu and was not strictly necessary.
Having both "Bob's" and "John's" successful car shops does not mean that they each make less money. In fact it may mean that they each make more money as having both may make their products more appealing to the consumer.
For instance imagine if there were only a single gasoline station in your city, would you drive a gas car? What about if there were only a single Japanese grocery in a city? Greater availability and variety of product can and often does make that product more desirable. And that isn't even getting into the dynamics of competition.
Many businessmen and women have lost business opportunities and not lost their business. If your business goes bankrupt you are not strapped into the electric chair.
Business is NOT win or die, it isn't even win or lose. Yes there is some competition in business, quite a bit of it actually, but being second best in business does NOT mean that you are going to go under or lose your shirt.
Ethics matters in terms of gaining and keeping a reputation with customers and employees.
It isn't a race, it isn't a game, there is no one winner and the end is the same for everyone.
Ok this is easy. Police clothes lockers often have goodies other than clothes, such as mace, handguns, handcuffs and other lovely things. Secondly they are in a police station which often houses not only police but also known and suspected criminals.
"Really a difficult situation. Boycotts, just like strikes, are always unjust as they mostly hit the wrong guys. I do, however, hope that western athletes will use the olympics as a forum discussing this, e.g. publicly asking why there are no teams representing Tibet and Taiwan."
The response of any Chinese official, and possibly many Chinese people in general, would simply be that there is a team that represents them, the Chinese team.
"Or hospitals being in favor of mandatory medical insurance."
It isn't the hospitals that are really in favor of, though many are, that is abusive it is the Insurance Companies to whom this would be self serving. Hospitals charge for services rendered and most doctors DON'T want people to get hurt just so they have work.
The insurance model when used as a "nessasary" protective measure is at its core flawed.
The basic idea is that the buyer is paying the insurance company so that the insurance company will pay for the buyer's health care services. Of course basic economics means that the insurance company has to take in more money than they pay out for health care services in order to pay their employees and for the company's own overhead costs. In order to do that the insurance company has to nessasarly offer most of their clients a losing deal where most of the customers are paying for other customers' healthcare.
The basic service really being rendered by Health Insurance Companies is a banking service, storing money in case of an emergency. Except unlike a bank account you lose far more money than you save and you the buyer have to have each withdraw justified.
Now not all insurance is bad. Car Insurance for example is not for the buyer of the insurance but rather for the guarantee of funds in the case that the buyer is culpable for damages to another person.
Also Health Insurance can be worth the price IF it is being bought for the management services it is rendering and not the "protection" it is supposedly giving. Health Insurance is only really worth it in the long run for most people if it is used to improve health, such as mandatory checkups, testing, organizing gyms and other healthy living initiatives.
Do they assume that all P2P software is used for music? What if I use P2P to get something like say a game that contains music, would that fall under the system requiring payment?
Also assuming that this does legalize P2P what rights would I get by paying it? Would I have the right to listen and burn the music to my own cds, SD cards, or other media? What about playing publicly? Do I get the same rights as buying the CD?
In walmart terms selling out probably means the store going out of stock, considering how fast the supply chain works for Walmart that probably means fairly brisk or at least better than expected sales.
The good thing about revolutions is that they can break down bad systems. The bad thing about revolutions is that they tend to break down systems of government regardless to whether they are good or bad, working or not.
Like it or not in this day and age all-out revolt really isn't an option. There are essential services running that keep a large part of the population alive and healthy, such as electricity, water, air and general maintainense.
What has to be changed is the culture and power balances, but they have to be changed not destroyed and rebuilt, something far more delicate than the revolutionary sledge hammer.
Yes but the major problem still is time and effort required to do a single tracking operation.
GPS is designed from the ground up to do position triangulation, cell towers are designed to relay data. Sometimes it is cheaper to have a system do what it was not designed to do, and sometimes if you do it right that system does very well, but not always.
The question isn't "Can they?" but "Can they do it well enough?"
While I don't agree with this attempt at filtering or the idea of "fighting pornography." I also don't see the idea of a.xxx domain name to be a good idea.
Would pornographic sites be forced to move to the domain? Would non-pornographic sites be forced to not use the domain?
If you want to implement a flag by which sites are able to label themselves as innapropriate for minors or some viewers then that is all well and good but xxx has too strong and specific a connotation to really be workable.
They mean the same thing to a complex mind when the formats in question are both proprietary and do about the same thing.
In this case there was competition between the formats not only in which format was "better" in terms of storage quality (not to mention archival, access speed and other properties) but also even if one format was clearly superior which was better in terms of price and availability.
I don't think having both formats around was hurting anything as both are still in early adoption phases, most users don't have Blu-Ray or HD DVD yet and a large portion perhaps even a majority don't have the capabilities to use such formats (at least in the new abilities they provide) yet over the older standard.
I still see this as a bad thing and perhaps the "wars" are not over at all as Hard Drives, Flash drives and other storage options are coming down in price and are able to offer similar amounts of storage. The real contender in these "wars" as I see it could be download bandwidth rather than delivery of a physical piece of media.
In the end these media wars are good for the consumer. Take CDs for example, a format that won with relatively little competition. The way things are sold to consumers is that the new format is more expensive at first but as it takes hold and becomes dominant is prices drop to match the old cost with a margin determined by the cost of production. Music CDs are still fairly expensive and have not come down (as I believe) to a price comparable to that of Cassettes even though the older format has been more-or-less out of the market for several years now.
For Formats it is difficult to raise prices on consumers as there is an expectation that the prices will fall over time and consumers will need a reason to pay more with the information on the format primarily being a luxury good. However that expectation works both ways as consumers expect that two items of the same format will cost about the same on average.
No. I think what they are basically saying is that: "We at M$ will never admit openly that Vista was a vast failure and are still hoping that our market share will eventually force users to adopt the new system and pay us 300 bucks."
Yeah. The corp will re-invest and everything will be okay.
That theory really doesn't work out. Add in CEO and upper-management pay, and the corp sending facilities over seas the idea that a corporation "saving" money on taxes leads to that same re-investing locally and the taxes getting paid through other sources is dubious at best.
When put into practice it is toxic to the economy and welfare of our nation.
It is a loophole, and while I don't think MS is breaking any laws I do think the laws need to be changed to close the loophole and the money be collected.
Until the trusted computer platform is mainstream?
Bull. That will only stop those who will not put forth the effort to go around. If the data can be seen/heard/read etc. It can be copied. Of course it might make it harder, but for pdfs and basic business documents trusted computing will not make a bit of difference to anyone willing to put some effort into it. Take a screen shot then ocr. Record what comes out of the speakers etc. Trusted computing is a way for MS and others to get more money and lock consumers into their systems, nothing more.
Don't forget that many google searches lead to a book.
What needs to be taught is good research skills. Google is a good first step in well-researching something, and dependent upon someone's needs it may be the only step required.
In some ways google makes things harder to teach good research skills because google really is that good. Thus a teacher wanting to make a student do hard research must give that student a more difficult assignment to make them go off of google.
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Indeed. Nor does it really need to be printed, perhaps made available upon request, but this doesn't seem clandestine at all. After all the CIA also needs pencils do we really care what pencil manufacturer sells them their pencils, as long as everything was done properly and fairly?
Hey, Tux is a gentlepenguin, he always waits till the mood is right.
With a distro like Ubuntu do those 99% need to deal with config files, CLI, and compiling from source?
Seriously, using Ubuntu on this machine I rarely if ever have to go to any of those above. Almost anything I could want (except high-end games) is up on Apt/Synaptic with a decent summary, push button installation/un-installation/updates. Configuration is much the same way, with far more options available through nice gui menus than are ever available to the Windows user.
Even those games that I have for linux such as Second Life and Eve Online have been push button to install. Sure with SL I did have to make my own menu button for it but that was filling in a gui form menu and was not strictly necessary.
"Proprietary closed-source operating systems had these functions FIRST before Linux was a twinkle in Linus Torvalds's shorts."
Do not mock the shorts of Torvalds, for they are mighty indeed!
Actually you are wrong on one point.
Having both "Bob's" and "John's" successful car shops does not mean that they each make less money. In fact it may mean that they each make more money as having both may make their products more appealing to the consumer.
For instance imagine if there were only a single gasoline station in your city, would you drive a gas car? What about if there were only a single Japanese grocery in a city? Greater availability and variety of product can and often does make that product more desirable. And that isn't even getting into the dynamics of competition.
Win or die?
I call upon the excrement of the male bovine!
Many businessmen and women have lost business opportunities and not lost their business. If your business goes bankrupt you are not strapped into the electric chair.
Business is NOT win or die, it isn't even win or lose. Yes there is some competition in business, quite a bit of it actually, but being second best in business does NOT mean that you are going to go under or lose your shirt.
Ethics matters in terms of gaining and keeping a reputation with customers and employees.
It isn't a race, it isn't a game, there is no one winner and the end is the same for everyone.
Ok this is easy. Police clothes lockers often have goodies other than clothes, such as mace, handguns, handcuffs and other lovely things. Secondly they are in a police station which often houses not only police but also known and suspected criminals.
"Really a difficult situation. Boycotts, just like strikes, are always unjust as they mostly hit the wrong guys. I do, however, hope that western athletes will use the olympics as a forum discussing this, e.g. publicly asking why there are no teams representing Tibet and Taiwan."
The response of any Chinese official, and possibly many Chinese people in general, would simply be that there is a team that represents them, the Chinese team.
If the Recording Industry is any indication the planet is on its own.
"Or hospitals being in favor of mandatory medical insurance."
It isn't the hospitals that are really in favor of, though many are, that is abusive it is the Insurance Companies to whom this would be self serving. Hospitals charge for services rendered and most doctors DON'T want people to get hurt just so they have work.
The insurance model when used as a "nessasary" protective measure is at its core flawed.
The basic idea is that the buyer is paying the insurance company so that the insurance company will pay for the buyer's health care services. Of course basic economics means that the insurance company has to take in more money than they pay out for health care services in order to pay their employees and for the company's own overhead costs. In order to do that the insurance company has to nessasarly offer most of their clients a losing deal where most of the customers are paying for other customers' healthcare.
The basic service really being rendered by Health Insurance Companies is a banking service, storing money in case of an emergency. Except unlike a bank account you lose far more money than you save and you the buyer have to have each withdraw justified.
Now not all insurance is bad. Car Insurance for example is not for the buyer of the insurance but rather for the guarantee of funds in the case that the buyer is culpable for damages to another person.
Also Health Insurance can be worth the price IF it is being bought for the management services it is rendering and not the "protection" it is supposedly giving. Health Insurance is only really worth it in the long run for most people if it is used to improve health, such as mandatory checkups, testing, organizing gyms and other healthy living initiatives.
What if you don't pay?
Do they assume that all P2P software is used for music? What if I use P2P to get something like say a game that contains music, would that fall under the system requiring payment?
Also assuming that this does legalize P2P what rights would I get by paying it? Would I have the right to listen and burn the music to my own cds, SD cards, or other media? What about playing publicly? Do I get the same rights as buying the CD?
Try YouTube.
In walmart terms selling out probably means the store going out of stock, considering how fast the supply chain works for Walmart that probably means fairly brisk or at least better than expected sales.
Revolution huh?
The good thing about revolutions is that they can break down bad systems. The bad thing about revolutions is that they tend to break down systems of government regardless to whether they are good or bad, working or not.
Like it or not in this day and age all-out revolt really isn't an option. There are essential services running that keep a large part of the population alive and healthy, such as electricity, water, air and general maintainense.
What has to be changed is the culture and power balances, but they have to be changed not destroyed and rebuilt, something far more delicate than the revolutionary sledge hammer.
The problem is that the University also runs dorms and as such is a home isp for the students that live in those dorms.
Same reason the first steamships had masts.
Yes but the major problem still is time and effort required to do a single tracking operation.
GPS is designed from the ground up to do position triangulation, cell towers are designed to relay data. Sometimes it is cheaper to have a system do what it was not designed to do, and sometimes if you do it right that system does very well, but not always.
The question isn't "Can they?" but "Can they do it well enough?"
While I don't agree with this attempt at filtering or the idea of "fighting pornography." I also don't see the idea of a .xxx domain name to be a good idea.
Would pornographic sites be forced to move to the domain?
Would non-pornographic sites be forced to not use the domain?
If you want to implement a flag by which sites are able to label themselves as innapropriate for minors or some viewers then that is all well and good but xxx has too strong and specific a connotation to really be workable.
Also the time it takes to do such an operation.
I don't know but 911 is often a time-limited affair.
I'll believe it when I see it.
They mean the same thing to a complex mind when the formats in question are both proprietary and do about the same thing.
In this case there was competition between the formats not only in which format was "better" in terms of storage quality (not to mention archival, access speed and other properties) but also even if one format was clearly superior which was better in terms of price and availability.
I don't think having both formats around was hurting anything as both are still in early adoption phases, most users don't have Blu-Ray or HD DVD yet and a large portion perhaps even a majority don't have the capabilities to use such formats (at least in the new abilities they provide) yet over the older standard.
I still see this as a bad thing and perhaps the "wars" are not over at all as Hard Drives, Flash drives and other storage options are coming down in price and are able to offer similar amounts of storage. The real contender in these "wars" as I see it could be download bandwidth rather than delivery of a physical piece of media.
In the end these media wars are good for the consumer. Take CDs for example, a format that won with relatively little competition. The way things are sold to consumers is that the new format is more expensive at first but as it takes hold and becomes dominant is prices drop to match the old cost with a margin determined by the cost of production. Music CDs are still fairly expensive and have not come down (as I believe) to a price comparable to that of Cassettes even though the older format has been more-or-less out of the market for several years now.
For Formats it is difficult to raise prices on consumers as there is an expectation that the prices will fall over time and consumers will need a reason to pay more with the information on the format primarily being a luxury good. However that expectation works both ways as consumers expect that two items of the same format will cost about the same on average.
No. I think what they are basically saying is that:
"We at M$ will never admit openly that Vista was a vast failure and are still hoping that our market share will eventually force users to adopt the new system and pay us 300 bucks."
Yeah. The corp will re-invest and everything will be okay.
That theory really doesn't work out. Add in CEO and upper-management pay, and the corp sending facilities over seas the idea that a corporation "saving" money on taxes leads to that same re-investing locally and the taxes getting paid through other sources is dubious at best.
When put into practice it is toxic to the economy and welfare of our nation.
It is a loophole, and while I don't think MS is breaking any laws I do think the laws need to be changed to close the loophole and the money be collected.
Until the trusted computer platform is mainstream?
Bull. That will only stop those who will not put forth the effort to go around. If the data can be seen/heard/read etc. It can be copied. Of course it might make it harder, but for pdfs and basic business documents trusted computing will not make a bit of difference to anyone willing to put some effort into it. Take a screen shot then ocr. Record what comes out of the speakers etc. Trusted computing is a way for MS and others to get more money and lock consumers into their systems, nothing more.
Don't forget that many google searches lead to a book.
What needs to be taught is good research skills. Google is a good first step in well-researching something, and dependent upon someone's needs it may be the only step required.
In some ways google makes things harder to teach good research skills because google really is that good. Thus a teacher wanting to make a student do hard research must give that student a more difficult assignment to make them go off of google.