I don't know how old you are, but I currently have less freedom of speech and other rights than I did 30 years ago. And that's mostly on account of people born to William Lashua's generation and their misuse of the US military.
This has been common knowledge since at least the 1500s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier. The Up series does a wonderful job exploring practical examples of this.
WiFi at these places is a privilege, not a right. You don't get to just buy a $2 drink, take over a table and hog it for hours during the busier part of the day. These cafes should have made it clear that if you want to stay during the busier time, that's fine and welcome, but you WILL be buying food and/or a steady supply of coffee.
I'm assuming your policy should apply to business lunches, dates, book-reading, or any other activity that would normally consume table-space without continuous purchases? So you're all for chasing out every customer who doesn't come into your shop and consume, consume, consume? For your own sake, please, stay out of the food service industry.
It'd be painful in the short term because they'd have to tell some of these entitled hoity-toities that it is a privilege, not an entitlement and if they want to complain they can just GTFO.
If you've ever owned a business, you know that serving your customers is the real privilege. They're entitled to take their business wherever they want. FTFA: "I turn off the Wi-Fi and in 10 minutes all the computers are gone." And with those computers go your customers. If you've ever owned an eating establishment, you know the last thing you ever want to see is an empty business. Doesn't matter if those people are consuming or not: most people will instinctively pass up an empty restaurant for a busier one because the assumption is the service/coffee/food is better. What you're describing is a recipe for a failed business.
They learn what they need to know , and this they can use better and faster than anyone before them.
Unfortunately, that's not true. They learn enough to make it work and then go no further I'm an oldish fart who's been in technology for ages. Because of that I bring with me an expectation of what an application should be able to do. Most applications fulfill those expectations, but if you were never curious enough to explore the possibilities to begin with, you'd never use the applications to their fullest extent. Whereas I know that I can usually "peek behind the curtain" and make something run better, faster, more efficiently, kids today go only far enough to get it working. I realize this is a broad generalization, but I see it quite often.
America may be civilized in the broadest sense of the term, but it is anything but civil. When you have a "civilization" where keeping people imprisoned is a $40 billion a year industry, and prison wardens allowing criminal activity inside their institutions as a cost-effective means of self-policing, you're going to have people getting raped and your going to have people coming out of prison much worse off than when they went in.
Good luck finding one for a widescreen monitor (and good luck finding a computer or notebook that doesn't come with a widescreen monitor). And the poster was asking about laptops. This is not a reasonable solution for a laptop unless it's one you don't plan on taking with you. And the prices are OUTRAGEOUS. The screens for monitors are more expensive than the monitors themselves, and for laptops it's 10% - 25% of the original cost of the laptop or netbook.
Digital downloads of music will never outpace CD's, because once CD's leave the hands of the vendor they also leave the control of the vendor.
Wait, that happened.
Your bad analogy went bad. A CD is simply a medium to transport the same product that a digital download provides. A book is a physical product that would have to undergo a complete transmogrification to be converted into a digital equivalent. Unless of course, you're buying books whose pages physically contain the digitally encoded data you're reading. Comparing an eBook to a paperback is like comparing a CD to a vinyl album.
Yes. Damnit. I knew I wasn't right but after a good 10 minutes of solid thinking I couldn't come up with the actual name.
10 minutes of thinking when the original post was only 6 minutes old? I'd think your ability to see into the future would come with a higher level of accuracy.
I haven't bought a new CD in years... and care less and less about ripping any movie/song that I like.
I feel that I don't get anything from the media conglomerates.
You seem to get enough that you're willing to steal their music and movies. Trying to salve your guilt by saying you pay only people who you have deemed worthy of getting paid is like saying Robin Hood wasn't a criminal because he only stole from the rich.
Not to burst your carefully crafted bubble, but consulting is a job. I'm pretty sure consultants fit right in with the rest of employment statistics. Then again, I've worked with enough consultants to question why...
Very simple solution then: buy the DVD then download the torrent. There is nothing inherently wrong, immoral or illegal about filesharing. There is a great deal wrong, immoral, and illegal about downloading something that someone deserves to be paid for and not paying them.
And really? Amphetamine is better than caffeine? I mean, I'm all for legalization of marijuana, but if you're going to try and defend crystal meth as a safe alternative to coffee, please take your support some place else.
Your so-called "so-called piracy" is what other people call theft. For an honest person, the solution to not wanting to pay for something would be to not buy it. For a thief, the solution to not paying for something is to steal it. These are people who either believe they are buying something legitimately or guilty thieves who assuage their guilt by paying a pittance.
Most, including myself, consider the death penalty to be justice.
Justice is when the offended party is made whole. You steal $100 from me, you give back my $100, possibly with interest. You can not make whole a person who is dead. You can't make the victim's family whole by killing the murderer. The death penalty is about revenge. It's about hoping the murderer experiences the same suffering and fear that the victim or victims purportedly felt, and that sentiment is reflected in nearly every statement I've ever read by a death penalty supporter. If you're going to support state-sponsored killing, at least be honest about what you're supporting. Revenge killing doesn't have the same antiseptic ring to it as the death penalty but at least it's truthful.
Successful or not, anyone who has to put the word friends in quotes is not someone to be admired or emulated. You sound like someone who's heading to the gym in 26 minutes.
Seriously? An anonymous coward posts with no indication of his national origin and your response is a generalized, stereotyping lambast against an entire country? Obviously your understanding of science is broken beyond repair if these are the kinds of conclusions you draw from a single unsubstantiated data point.
I think it's the same with wireless networks. YOU have chosen to blast your MAC address into the ether for anyone within a certain radius to record, so why should you be surprised when someone does?
You have also chosen to blast sound waves throughout your house every time you talk, causing the panes of glass in your window to vibrate in such a way that with the proper laser audio surveillance equipment I can record everything you say. You've also chosen to emit an infrared signature so that with the properly calibrated equipment I can video tape you right through your walls.
Where would you suggest that a boundary has been crossed?
Wow. With teachers like you out there, I'm surprised anyone ever learns anything. You denigrate an entire generation of students as well as programmers of 2 languages, then justify it by boasting that it took you YEARS to learn something most of us picked up in a semester or two?
I'm not saying someone couldn't learn from someone like you, but the odds are definitely stacked against them.
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I don't know how old you are, but I currently have less freedom of speech and other rights than I did 30 years ago. And that's mostly on account of people born to William Lashua's generation and their misuse of the US military.
Putin, from where I sit, would like nothing more than to re-establish the old Soviet Empire.
You know who else can see Putin from where she sits?
This has been common knowledge since at least the 1500s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier. The Up series does a wonderful job exploring practical examples of this.
WiFi at these places is a privilege, not a right. You don't get to just buy a $2 drink, take over a table and hog it for hours during the busier part of the day. These cafes should have made it clear that if you want to stay during the busier time, that's fine and welcome, but you WILL be buying food and/or a steady supply of coffee.
I'm assuming your policy should apply to business lunches, dates, book-reading, or any other activity that would normally consume table-space without continuous purchases? So you're all for chasing out every customer who doesn't come into your shop and consume, consume, consume? For your own sake, please, stay out of the food service industry.
It'd be painful in the short term because they'd have to tell some of these entitled hoity-toities that it is a privilege, not an entitlement and if they want to complain they can just GTFO.
If you've ever owned a business, you know that serving your customers is the real privilege. They're entitled to take their business wherever they want. FTFA: "I turn off the Wi-Fi and in 10 minutes all the computers are gone." And with those computers go your customers. If you've ever owned an eating establishment, you know the last thing you ever want to see is an empty business. Doesn't matter if those people are consuming or not: most people will instinctively pass up an empty restaurant for a busier one because the assumption is the service/coffee/food is better. What you're describing is a recipe for a failed business.
They learn what they need to know , and this they can use better and faster than anyone before them.
Unfortunately, that's not true. They learn enough to make it work and then go no further I'm an oldish fart who's been in technology for ages. Because of that I bring with me an expectation of what an application should be able to do. Most applications fulfill those expectations, but if you were never curious enough to explore the possibilities to begin with, you'd never use the applications to their fullest extent. Whereas I know that I can usually "peek behind the curtain" and make something run better, faster, more efficiently, kids today go only far enough to get it working. I realize this is a broad generalization, but I see it quite often.
America may be civilized in the broadest sense of the term, but it is anything but civil. When you have a "civilization" where keeping people imprisoned is a $40 billion a year industry, and prison wardens allowing criminal activity inside their institutions as a cost-effective means of self-policing, you're going to have people getting raped and your going to have people coming out of prison much worse off than when they went in.
"Turned Out" is an interesting and disturbing documentary about the dynamic of prison sex and rape http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4_uvvcaDqw
Looks like they've got their work cut out for them. http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGGL_en___US368&biw=1334&bih=837&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=%22fbi+seal%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
For all intents and purposes, you've shot your credibility to determine what's a valid word and what's not right in the ass.
You have a sad and very small little life. And this from a Linux guy who actually lives in a basement. (sure, it's my own, but still...)
I'm obviously Sanskrit illiterate.
Sak (of) Shat? Seriously?
Good luck finding one for a widescreen monitor (and good luck finding a computer or notebook that doesn't come with a widescreen monitor). And the poster was asking about laptops. This is not a reasonable solution for a laptop unless it's one you don't plan on taking with you. And the prices are OUTRAGEOUS. The screens for monitors are more expensive than the monitors themselves, and for laptops it's 10% - 25% of the original cost of the laptop or netbook.
Digital downloads of music will never outpace CD's, because once CD's leave the hands of the vendor they also leave the control of the vendor. Wait, that happened.
Your bad analogy went bad. A CD is simply a medium to transport the same product that a digital download provides. A book is a physical product that would have to undergo a complete transmogrification to be converted into a digital equivalent. Unless of course, you're buying books whose pages physically contain the digitally encoded data you're reading. Comparing an eBook to a paperback is like comparing a CD to a vinyl album.
Or, maybe your comments, like this one, just deserve to get modded down.
Yes. Damnit. I knew I wasn't right but after a good 10 minutes of solid thinking I couldn't come up with the actual name.
10 minutes of thinking when the original post was only 6 minutes old? I'd think your ability to see into the future would come with a higher level of accuracy.
I haven't bought a new CD in years ... and care less and less about ripping any movie/song that I like.
I feel that I don't get anything from the media conglomerates.
You seem to get enough that you're willing to steal their music and movies. Trying to salve your guilt by saying you pay only people who you have deemed worthy of getting paid is like saying Robin Hood wasn't a criminal because he only stole from the rich.
You're a thief, plain and simple.
Not to burst your carefully crafted bubble, but consulting is a job. I'm pretty sure consultants fit right in with the rest of employment statistics. Then again, I've worked with enough consultants to question why...
Very simple solution then: buy the DVD then download the torrent. There is nothing inherently wrong, immoral or illegal about filesharing. There is a great deal wrong, immoral, and illegal about downloading something that someone deserves to be paid for and not paying them.
And really? Amphetamine is better than caffeine? I mean, I'm all for legalization of marijuana, but if you're going to try and defend crystal meth as a safe alternative to coffee, please take your support some place else.
Your so-called "so-called piracy" is what other people call theft. For an honest person, the solution to not wanting to pay for something would be to not buy it. For a thief, the solution to not paying for something is to steal it. These are people who either believe they are buying something legitimately or guilty thieves who assuage their guilt by paying a pittance.
Most, including myself, consider the death penalty to be justice.
Justice is when the offended party is made whole. You steal $100 from me, you give back my $100, possibly with interest. You can not make whole a person who is dead. You can't make the victim's family whole by killing the murderer. The death penalty is about revenge. It's about hoping the murderer experiences the same suffering and fear that the victim or victims purportedly felt, and that sentiment is reflected in nearly every statement I've ever read by a death penalty supporter. If you're going to support state-sponsored killing, at least be honest about what you're supporting. Revenge killing doesn't have the same antiseptic ring to it as the death penalty but at least it's truthful.
As an IT Security professional, I need to be acutely aware of the risks the company can expose itself to.
"Those who specialize in security issues feel that it's a valid part of IT's job."
And, we're done here.
Successful or not, anyone who has to put the word friends in quotes is not someone to be admired or emulated. You sound like someone who's heading to the gym in 26 minutes.
Seriously? An anonymous coward posts with no indication of his national origin and your response is a generalized, stereotyping lambast against an entire country? Obviously your understanding of science is broken beyond repair if these are the kinds of conclusions you draw from a single unsubstantiated data point.
I think it's the same with wireless networks. YOU have chosen to blast your MAC address into the ether for anyone within a certain radius to record, so why should you be surprised when someone does?
You have also chosen to blast sound waves throughout your house every time you talk, causing the panes of glass in your window to vibrate in such a way that with the proper laser audio surveillance equipment I can record everything you say. You've also chosen to emit an infrared signature so that with the properly calibrated equipment I can video tape you right through your walls.
Where would you suggest that a boundary has been crossed?
Wow. With teachers like you out there, I'm surprised anyone ever learns anything. You denigrate an entire generation of students as well as programmers of 2 languages, then justify it by boasting that it took you YEARS to learn something most of us picked up in a semester or two?
I'm not saying someone couldn't learn from someone like you, but the odds are definitely stacked against them.