Copyright infringement is in a class by itself as the singular most unjust law in the Unites States.
While I agree with this sentiment, I am hesitant to agree with this statement.
I think we should make a list of crimes and their punishments in a big long list, and then reconcile them.
I really don't think that copying four million or so bytes of digital data, such as an average MP3, or even sharing it with others freely is nearly as severe a crime as some violent crimes that currently carry lesser punishments than that of copyright infringement.
I would say that a microscopic hole that is transparent for a few femtoseconds to a small slice of the magnetic spectrum is more of a proof of potential possibility than a proof of concept of what the phrase "transparent aluminum" brings to mind.
I'm not sure I've ever even played an Ubisoft game. They seem to make nothing but things I don't care about playing.
That and I have enough things to do, what with a pair of EVE accounts, movies to watch, an iPhone to play with, books to read, and a girlfriend.
Maybe instead of piracy they should blame the fact that people have other things to do with their time, or that their games aren't any fun. Also, the economy is in the toilet.
this article hints at that as developers have discovered to sell a product they need, of all things, advertising!
In a broader sense, yes, most of the time. But not so much in this case.
The market for the apps is tiny, and very nearly 100% of the market can find your app and acquire it in seconds.
With that kind of market, with that kind of convenience, all you really need is word of mouth. And not much of it.
The best way to make an app popular is not to advertise it, but to make it so good that iPh?o(ne|d) users will recommend it to their iPh?o(ne|d) user friends.
I have about 30 apps on my new iPhone. The very first ones I added can be attributed directly to friends' recommendations. So can about half or more of total installed apps. And a quarter of the rest? Apps recommended by other good apps, or tie-ins with apps that I personally like. But the vast majority of the apps I installed were based on personal recommendations from personal friends.
If your app really stands out as being good, people will find it without spending a dime on advertising. If you have to advertise it, I'm already skeptical about how good it is that you had to advertise to get me to hear about it.
If they fined the individuals responsible for the decisions, then they might actually stop doing shit this reprehensible.
A corporation doesn't really exist. It's comprised of individual decision makers who should be held accountable for their decisions just as non-corporate citizens.
And I mean both, those in charge and those responsible for the actual actions. If you put the repercussions on both then shit like this would occur a lot less frequently, don't you think?
I'm sick and tired in this day and age of everybody shirking as much personal responsibility as possible. It is as disgusting and as immoral as lying.
he genre's usability kings, EVE Online and World of Warcraft
You've got to be shitting me. Surely you mean World of Warcraft and Warhammer Online, instead.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a bigger fan of EVE than World of Warcraft. But the EVE GUI has been shit since inception. And Customer UI suggestions go completely ignored for literally years, and that's just one thread that was alive for years with no sign of improvement.
EVE is wonderfully good at many things (nowhere else will you hear the term "pvp shakes"), and I've been in battles of over 1000 players with the game completely playable, but the UI?! That's their biggest failing.
They make things hard on users, but are useless against phishing and keyloggers.
Forcing users to change passwords does nothing against keyloggers either. But it definitely makes it easier to tell when a user has changed their password.
They'll type the current known password, then tab or click, then type some new cryptic garbage, then tab or click, then the same cryptic garbage.
But the worst possible password constraint I can think of is limiting the maximum number of allowed characters. I can think of absolutely no good reason for this restriction, yet large companies, such as Cedar Point's online reservation system posses this restriction.
They should compete on quality. Get the users getting their news from you because you're trumping Joe Messengerbag's blog for quality of journalism, but your site must be as easily accessible as Joe Messengerbag's because convenience is a stronger motive than most people realize. If his content is crap, but easier to get to, then users will go their instead. This means no paywalls and no compulsory registration. Once you get some viewership you can worry about monetization.
And in my experience you can often discern the quality of a writer/speaker by how parrot-like their usage of hot new buzzwords they do not understand. This includes, but is not limited to, calling a buzzword a meme. Your usages for example, seem to illustrate a pretty good grasp of the real meaning behind the buzzwords. But I often see CNN/Fox News parroting phrases things which they have only an abstract anecdotal understanding of.
For the record, here are your buzzwords: "monetize" "crowdsourced" "blogopshere"
Make sure that your software is the user's bitch, not the other way around.
To elaborate, here are some tips:
Use zero modal dialogs. They force the user to act at the software's behest to continue doing what they want. Making the user your software's bitch.
Make any reasonable action from one state as convenient as possible from that state to the most likely states.
Observe how your users use your software and modify it to make everything the do in it as easy and as fast as possible.
Just because it has a lot of functionality doesn't mean shit if it's too hard for them to figure out how to use it. Make it as intuitive, as logical, and as predictable as you can.
How about they leave the system as is, and let users too careless to change their passwords suffer the consequences instead of making everyone pay for their shortcomings?
People like you are why we have stupid laws prohibiting things that most of us can handle responsibly blocked or prohibited for the sake of the retarded few.
Did it bother no one else that a judge has taken it upon himself to rule something as true that is a provable fact?
What would we have done if he ruled that it does personally identify a person?
Why was a ruling even needed when this is utterly provable?
Is a judge next going to rule that gravity pulls thing towards earth? I'll admit that one seems a bit absurd, but is actually harder to prove than the fact that an IP address does not reliably identify a person. So why does the more easily proven fact get a ruling?
This is the same principle as charging the owner of an internet account for nefarious deeds done using an IP address that was assigned to him.
Woah, woah, woah! Slow down a minute here. A license plate is a tangible thing issued to you, usually in person, or mailed specifically to you. And you're required by law to have it affixed to your tangible vehicle. A vehicle that you presumably own and are thus rather responsible for. And there are laws against stealing another person's plate, hiding, obscuring, or removing your own. You'll be actively reprimanded for any violations regarding your license plate. An IP address on the other hand, is often handed out willy nilly by a completely automated machine, and you need never know it exists to use your computer, or even the internet. And there are no laws I'm aware of regarding its use, or restrictions regarding its assignment to you. The similarities between the two are entirely superficial.
You know there are people who messed with a lot of things at home, and then got a four year degree, right?
And you gave them, what two weeks?
I'll admit it's shameful that they sat there for two weeks and accomplished nothing, a few Google searches should have turned up a clue at least, but often a four year degree teaches you some of the fundamentals that practical learning alone never covers. You'll often see the difference only when it's far too late. Whereas the practical day to day stuff can be taught in a day.
Not just because I'm greedy either. Lower prices due to not having to maintain a brick and mortar store are the only things that allow online stores to compete against local stores. Because if you buy it locally you get the product instantly. And they have to be sufficiently lower including shipping costs to beat out brick and mortar stores. If you take away a huge portion of their tax advantage, they start to become tremendously less profitable, and thus less viable. Without this advantage brick and mortar stores don't have much competition, and thus start charging more because they can. And you lose.
Or drop BMI entirely, it is worth than worthless. It's misleading.
BMI is nothing more than a height to weight ratio, completely ignoring the fact that muscle weighs more than fat.
Most body builders you'll see in competition are classified as obese based on the BMI scale, despite the fact that they often carry less than 4% body fat.
BMI is only popular because it is a simple number with a simple scale that can be easily calculated and interpreted by simple people.
I mean if you think about it, old age is a disease.
No, it isn't. It's because nature is largely done with you once your past your reproductive age. There's never been much of a strong reason for people to live beyond that age - speaking in natural selection terms. So we never really evolved a strong need to live longer. Sure, we can help raise our children and grand children beyond our reproductive age a while, but that doesn't have nearly so strong an impact as actually producing more offspring yourself, which gets harder and harder as you get older.
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AT&T's early termination fee is prorated.
While I agree with this sentiment, I am hesitant to agree with this statement.
I think we should make a list of crimes and their punishments in a big long list, and then reconcile them.
I really don't think that copying four million or so bytes of digital data, such as an average MP3, or even sharing it with others freely is nearly as severe a crime as some violent crimes that currently carry lesser punishments than that of copyright infringement.
I would say that a microscopic hole that is transparent for a few femtoseconds to a small slice of the magnetic spectrum is more of a proof of potential possibility than a proof of concept of what the phrase "transparent aluminum" brings to mind.
I'm not sure I've ever even played an Ubisoft game. They seem to make nothing but things I don't care about playing.
That and I have enough things to do, what with a pair of EVE accounts, movies to watch, an iPhone to play with, books to read, and a girlfriend.
Maybe instead of piracy they should blame the fact that people have other things to do with their time, or that their games aren't any fun. Also, the economy is in the toilet.
Maybe they're somehow harvesting tidal forces too!
And uhh, maybe...wind! Yeah, Wind!
And do you know they haven't got some sort of hot, biotechy geothermal harvesting mechanism going?
Out of all of those, I think this one is legitimate. Why should 25% of my resources be already utilized when I'm not yet doing anything?
Don't make me bust out a car analogy.
So the reason the current system don't work is only 7% of the population is paying income tax, and there is lots of corruption.
So the solution is a massive new government initiative to work around the cause of the current problems.
Yep, sounds like bureaucracy to me.
In a broader sense, yes, most of the time. But not so much in this case.
The market for the apps is tiny, and very nearly 100% of the market can find your app and acquire it in seconds.
With that kind of market, with that kind of convenience, all you really need is word of mouth. And not much of it.
The best way to make an app popular is not to advertise it, but to make it so good that iPh?o(ne|d) users will recommend it to their iPh?o(ne|d) user friends.
I have about 30 apps on my new iPhone. The very first ones I added can be attributed directly to friends' recommendations. So can about half or more of total installed apps. And a quarter of the rest? Apps recommended by other good apps, or tie-ins with apps that I personally like. But the vast majority of the apps I installed were based on personal recommendations from personal friends.
If your app really stands out as being good, people will find it without spending a dime on advertising. If you have to advertise it, I'm already skeptical about how good it is that you had to advertise to get me to hear about it.
Why?
If they fined the individuals responsible for the decisions, then they might actually stop doing shit this reprehensible.
A corporation doesn't really exist. It's comprised of individual decision makers who should be held accountable for their decisions just as non-corporate citizens.
And I mean both, those in charge and those responsible for the actual actions. If you put the repercussions on both then shit like this would occur a lot less frequently, don't you think?
I'm sick and tired in this day and age of everybody shirking as much personal responsibility as possible. It is as disgusting and as immoral as lying.
You've got to be shitting me. Surely you mean World of Warcraft and Warhammer Online, instead.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a bigger fan of EVE than World of Warcraft. But the EVE GUI has been shit since inception. And Customer UI suggestions go completely ignored for literally years , and that's just one thread that was alive for years with no sign of improvement.
EVE is wonderfully good at many things (nowhere else will you hear the term "pvp shakes"), and I've been in battles of over 1000 players with the game completely playable, but the UI?! That's their biggest failing.
Try eight.
Forcing users to change passwords does nothing against keyloggers either. But it definitely makes it easier to tell when a user has changed their password.
They'll type the current known password, then tab or click, then type some new cryptic garbage, then tab or click, then the same cryptic garbage.
But the worst possible password constraint I can think of is limiting the maximum number of allowed characters. I can think of absolutely no good reason for this restriction, yet large companies, such as Cedar Point's online reservation system posses this restriction.
They should compete on quality. Get the users getting their news from you because you're trumping Joe Messengerbag's blog for quality of journalism, but your site must be as easily accessible as Joe Messengerbag's because convenience is a stronger motive than most people realize. If his content is crap, but easier to get to, then users will go their instead. This means no paywalls and no compulsory registration. Once you get some viewership you can worry about monetization.
And in my experience you can often discern the quality of a writer/speaker by how parrot-like their usage of hot new buzzwords they do not understand. This includes, but is not limited to, calling a buzzword a meme. Your usages for example, seem to illustrate a pretty good grasp of the real meaning behind the buzzwords. But I often see CNN/Fox News parroting phrases things which they have only an abstract anecdotal understanding of.
For the record, here are your buzzwords:
"monetize"
"crowdsourced"
"blogopshere"
Can you find mine?
Spend time on the UI.
Make sure that your software is the user's bitch, not the other way around.
To elaborate, here are some tips:
That would be annoying as hell.
How about they leave the system as is, and let users too careless to change their passwords suffer the consequences instead of making everyone pay for their shortcomings?
People like you are why we have stupid laws prohibiting things that most of us can handle responsibly blocked or prohibited for the sake of the retarded few.
The headline should read:
"Comcast Colludes With Yahoo! to Redirect Miss-typed URL Traffic for their own Profit"
Did it bother no one else that a judge has taken it upon himself to rule something as true that is a provable fact?
What would we have done if he ruled that it does personally identify a person?
Why was a ruling even needed when this is utterly provable?
Is a judge next going to rule that gravity pulls thing towards earth? I'll admit that one seems a bit absurd, but is actually harder to prove than the fact that an IP address does not reliably identify a person. So why does the more easily proven fact get a ruling?
Woah, woah, woah! Slow down a minute here. A license plate is a tangible thing issued to you, usually in person, or mailed specifically to you. And you're required by law to have it affixed to your tangible vehicle. A vehicle that you presumably own and are thus rather responsible for. And there are laws against stealing another person's plate, hiding, obscuring, or removing your own. You'll be actively reprimanded for any violations regarding your license plate. An IP address on the other hand, is often handed out willy nilly by a completely automated machine, and you need never know it exists to use your computer, or even the internet. And there are no laws I'm aware of regarding its use, or restrictions regarding its assignment to you. The similarities between the two are entirely superficial.
No vehicle on the planet can outrun radio waves.
It's why it rarely makes sense to try and run from the cops.
You know there are people who messed with a lot of things at home, and then got a four year degree, right?
And you gave them, what two weeks?
I'll admit it's shameful that they sat there for two weeks and accomplished nothing, a few Google searches should have turned up a clue at least, but often a four year degree teaches you some of the fundamentals that practical learning alone never covers. You'll often see the difference only when it's far too late. Whereas the practical day to day stuff can be taught in a day.
Why is that a bad habit?
The applications should change to suit the user, not the other way around. After all, they have no other purpose than to be used.
And that tax rate should be 0.00%.
Not just because I'm greedy either. Lower prices due to not having to maintain a brick and mortar store are the only things that allow online stores to compete against local stores. Because if you buy it locally you get the product instantly. And they have to be sufficiently lower including shipping costs to beat out brick and mortar stores. If you take away a huge portion of their tax advantage, they start to become tremendously less profitable, and thus less viable. Without this advantage brick and mortar stores don't have much competition, and thus start charging more because they can. And you lose.
Or drop BMI entirely, it is worth than worthless. It's misleading.
BMI is nothing more than a height to weight ratio, completely ignoring the fact that muscle weighs more than fat.
Most body builders you'll see in competition are classified as obese based on the BMI scale, despite the fact that they often carry less than 4% body fat.
BMI is only popular because it is a simple number with a simple scale that can be easily calculated and interpreted by simple people.
0.0.0.0 may provide even faster routing as your machine won't try to connect to a server hosted at itself.
In short, a null route is faster even than localhost on some systems.
No, it isn't. It's because nature is largely done with you once your past your reproductive age. There's never been much of a strong reason for people to live beyond that age - speaking in natural selection terms. So we never really evolved a strong need to live longer. Sure, we can help raise our children and grand children beyond our reproductive age a while, but that doesn't have nearly so strong an impact as actually producing more offspring yourself, which gets harder and harder as you get older.