They will slowly lose more and more to the PPC based systems and better OSes (Linux/MacOS X). The Apple offerings won't make a large dent, the expected IBM systems will.
I would sell any shares in Sun you still have (I left long ago).
Black and White is not how the world operates, no matter how hard you try to shoehorn it into your view.
Copying isn't stealing, it's copying. I don't download warez because I think it's "cool" I do it to evaluate and learn (warez groups are more concise than most marketing and sales brochures I've seen).
I like the fact that you bought J++ to get WinNT 4.0. However, did you read the agreement when you purchased that software? You cannot transfer ownership ever, so you are a pirate in violation of the agreement. BTW I purchased J++, C++, Visual Basic all seperately so I could get WinNT copies for me and my friends. I think each piece of software ran around $100 as you said. So I too violated the agreement (but I'm not in a black and white world).
The point I'm trying to make about warez as opposed to student copies is this. I would have never missed the Adobe products in my job or life. However, since I had a friend give me a copy (of his academic version) and give me pointers over a few years I found a use for it. Without a free copy a trial/academic version was worthless to me.
I guess my perspective is an economic one. Someone else using their own resources to copy a bunch of bits in no way hurts my business (note: I sell several software products). In fact if you run a software company you'll find most clients pay less than 1/2 of retail when they negotiate with the company selling the product. Why is that? Because selling your product at 50% costs no more than selling it at 100%. You have a fixed cost of development regardless if you have 1 customer or 100,000 customers.
Do you really think $400 is fair for MS Office? What if you programmed Office for 1 client, do you think that price would go up?
I just disagree that warez and file sharing really hurts anyone.
Why? The only reason they would suspend trading is if their is a major problem with fraud or something. That is unlikely to happen. However, if it does happen trading will resume eventually and I'll buy at that time. I'll be happy if that happens because it will make it a damn penny stock at that point.
3000 x 17.96 = 53880 (- trade fee) 3000 x 1.00 = 3000 Profit = 50880!
Wrong. A kid in college generally cannot afford the design collection. Hell I couldn't afford college, hence the massive student loans I owe. However, I learned by using it over a couple of years. When I started my own company I purchased everything I use. Adobe had a net gain because I was using their software without license for the time I was in college. Since I have purchased it. 30 Days is not nearly enough to learn photoshop or anything that can be considered a professional tool. AutoCAD is a perfect example. If they offered a 30 day trial to me it would be just as worthless as a brochure (and probably more confusing). I'm considering buying the CS upgrade for my suite right now.
Learning how to use a tool and understanding how to apply a tool are completely different things. The primary difference is how will it benefit your company. I'm not going to waste my time on a 30 day trial if there is a warez version. The only area that I do accept a trial version is video games. Hell I pay for a fileplanet subscription so my brothers can download their patches without waiting.
The problem is the people that would use a keygen wouldn't buy it anyway. With non-material goods there is not any physical loss. That is the difference in taking a car and copying a string of digital bits. It doesn't deprive the owner of the copyright from selling it again and again.
The music industry just needs to release every song at 96kbps bit rate (92 or whatever decent is) and let people listen for free. If they want to buy 192kbs or higher sell it to them. It's not rocket science, it's common sense. However, common sense rarely applies to our societies.
Obviously this wouldn't apply to MATERIAL goods that are single or limited use. But to goods that are available to be used long term (music CDs, cars, etc...) it is very useful.
BTW I guess you don't try on clothes, shoes, or anything else you buy. Simply walk in, pick it up, and leave. Doubtful.
I generally use warez groups to find out about new software or software I didn't know existed. I try it, if it's good I buy it. As a software developer I find it extraordinarily hypocritical that people will steal (illegally copy) software but want others to pay for their offering.
I would have never purchased the Adobe Design Collection if I hadn't been able to learn to use Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat Forms first. I have yet to use Illustrator but Freehand is easier for me, and I'm too busy to pick up that old book I bought.
I have a policy at my company that if you use a piece of software to enhance your productivity and contribute to your job, you will get it. Hell, I've even bought WinRAR, Textpad and VuePrint (which readily have keygen's available).
This is why I think the "stealing music" slant is bullshit. How are you supposed to hear new music when Clear Channel owns 1/2 the radio stations and someone else owns the other 1/2? File Sharing. I buy every CD I have an mp3 for because honestly I make too much money to waste my time trying to decrypt the slang used to name songs. Not to mention my bandwidth, etc. A $11.99 CD is well worth the time savings.
The RIAA, etc need to pull their heads out of their asses and learn that people like to test drive a product before they buy. I cannot imagine buying a car without trying it out. Why should music be any different?
Tax avoidance is easy in my system, buy less. It incentivises saving which our country has no idea how to do.
The federal banking system is there to create money and monitor the monetary supply.
The positive side effect of taxing everything sales based is there is no easy way (outside of black markets) to avoid taxes if you're an illegal alien, drug dealer, waiter, or any other job that is cash based.
The government doesn't have to operate at strict break-even, a surplus is better than a deficit in my opinion. Apparently you don't keep up with consumer confidence (which is the primary driver in our economy). It is correlated with the announcements about jobs, housing, etc. Bad report == bad confidence (which is a self fulfilling prophecy). Which in turn has a positive/negative effect on our economy and the GDP.
Why would government based unemployment benefits be affected by a different tax structure? I don't understand that point.
Remove all property taxes with the exception of purchase/sales based fees (filing costs money, not to mention verifying title, etc).
Tariffs would mirror the country we trade with (visas, work-visas, etc... as well).
Consumption based taxes would have to be given a minimum that people don't pay taxes on. For example the first $200 of food per family + $100 per extra family member (documented). Although the numbers for Food, Electricity, Natural Gas/Heating Oil, etc... would be regionally based. In Oklahoma $60k/year is a wealthy person. In San Fran it's scraping by. Heating Oil is not needed in Houston but is essential in New Jersey. I'd do some type of coupon system for everyone (this would remove the stigma of food stamps).
I'd also change our HMO/PPO/Prescription companies power back to the consumer.
However, I'm a liberal so most people would get their panties in a wad voting for me. Plus, I'm not religious and my name is longer than 6 letters (Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton? (deviant in more ways than one!), Bush, Kerry,...)
Your life is a depreciable asset, kind of like computer equipment. My first portable CD player was $250 by Sony, you can get them for $19.95 now. As you grow older the time you have left is shrinking. So to you it becomes more valuable, but to others you're almost worthless because your time left is approaching zero. I'm for graded sentencing based on the age of the victim. If you kill a 90 year old man, is he really missing much? However if you kill a 5 year old, they are missing a lot (you'd of course need to use the actuarial tables to value a humans life properly).
I use my accountant and TaxCut. I tend to view their returns as more conservative and my TaxCut as a double check mechanism. In the end having an accountant familiar with your business/personal taxes is good in case the audit monsters attack.
Everyone should vote for me as the next president. I'd eliminate the IRS and go to consumption based taxes (sales based) on the federal level.
I specifically didn't take Advanced COBOL in college because I didn't want a dead end job fixing Y2K bugs. I feel sorry for anyone that is working with those old JCL/COBOL based systems.
Although, as more people start to fall from the ranks of "knowing" COBOL the remaining few that can service the large amount of systems out there should do really well financially.
I have an old COBOL compiler for an ancient version of Xenix (2.3.4 I think) on 5.25" Floppies! I may dust it off and take a look for fun at some of the old code I've got laying around.
COBOL programming is like these old guys I worked with that hang their hat on DOS programming in Clipper, sad. What was impressive in 1993, is no longer impressive.
Longhorn has a whole bunch of new shit. Some of it's cool but most of it is pointless drivel.
My favorite new feature of XP is trying to search through.asp text files for a name. Guess what, it doesn't work anymore. You have to setup an extension properly in your registry to search a fucking file for contents. Amazing. I wasted about 15 minutes trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. Unfortunately the answer turned out to be "Using Windows XP". What a POS OS.
Ever wonder why the USA has more people in jail per capita than any other nation in the world?
Everything that is trivial can get you put away "for the safety of all". This is very scary because if you've ever worked with anyone after they've been to prision you know the effect it has on someone. Prision isn't the answer to all things (although Republicans would have you believe it is).
How long before corporations have the ability to arrest?
US of CA should be our new country name, we're no longer "for the people, by the people". We're "for the corporation, by the consumer".
United States of Corporate America, In God our Money Trusts. Fucking pathetic.
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The first thing I thought of when I read your post was: Why would China worry? GWBush couldn't find them on a map.
This is very bad in my opinion but what has this administration done that isn't bad?
They will slowly lose more and more to the PPC based systems and better OSes (Linux/MacOS X). The Apple offerings won't make a large dent, the expected IBM systems will.
I would sell any shares in Sun you still have (I left long ago).
VBScript unless it was in .Net
Oklahoma is the best state for backwards rednecks (they like to be known as republicans).
I'd like to play GWBush in Vietnam. I guess I'd be campaigning for a Republican and periodically picking up a paycheck.
Bush Slogan should be: "Vietnam, only the poor go to war."
I guess the same goes for Iraq as well. The more things change the more they stay the same.
It's not copyright violation for you to download the mp3's to cd's you own. It is a violation by the person distributing the files though.
I've used warez sites to get old floppies I own that have died (Borland C++ 3.0 DOS is a recent example).
Black and White is not how the world operates, no matter how hard you try to shoehorn it into your view.
Copying isn't stealing, it's copying. I don't download warez because I think it's "cool" I do it to evaluate and learn (warez groups are more concise than most marketing and sales brochures I've seen).
I like the fact that you bought J++ to get WinNT 4.0. However, did you read the agreement when you purchased that software? You cannot transfer ownership ever, so you are a pirate in violation of the agreement. BTW I purchased J++, C++, Visual Basic all seperately so I could get WinNT copies for me and my friends. I think each piece of software ran around $100 as you said. So I too violated the agreement (but I'm not in a black and white world).
The point I'm trying to make about warez as opposed to student copies is this. I would have never missed the Adobe products in my job or life. However, since I had a friend give me a copy (of his academic version) and give me pointers over a few years I found a use for it. Without a free copy a trial/academic version was worthless to me.
I guess my perspective is an economic one. Someone else using their own resources to copy a bunch of bits in no way hurts my business (note: I sell several software products). In fact if you run a software company you'll find most clients pay less than 1/2 of retail when they negotiate with the company selling the product. Why is that? Because selling your product at 50% costs no more than selling it at 100%. You have a fixed cost of development regardless if you have 1 customer or 100,000 customers.
Do you really think $400 is fair for MS Office? What if you programmed Office for 1 client, do you think that price would go up?
I just disagree that warez and file sharing really hurts anyone.
Why? The only reason they would suspend trading is if their is a major problem with fraud or something. That is unlikely to happen. However, if it does happen trading will resume eventually and I'll buy at that time. I'll be happy if that happens because it will make it a damn penny stock at that point.
3000 x 17.96 = 53880 (- trade fee)
3000 x 1.00 = 3000
Profit = 50880!
Thanks SCO!
Wrong. A kid in college generally cannot afford the design collection. Hell I couldn't afford college, hence the massive student loans I owe. However, I learned by using it over a couple of years. When I started my own company I purchased everything I use. Adobe had a net gain because I was using their software without license for the time I was in college. Since I have purchased it. 30 Days is not nearly enough to learn photoshop or anything that can be considered a professional tool. AutoCAD is a perfect example. If they offered a 30 day trial to me it would be just as worthless as a brochure (and probably more confusing). I'm considering buying the CS upgrade for my suite right now.
Learning how to use a tool and understanding how to apply a tool are completely different things. The primary difference is how will it benefit your company. I'm not going to waste my time on a 30 day trial if there is a warez version. The only area that I do accept a trial version is video games. Hell I pay for a fileplanet subscription so my brothers can download their patches without waiting.
The problem is the people that would use a keygen wouldn't buy it anyway. With non-material goods there is not any physical loss. That is the difference in taking a car and copying a string of digital bits. It doesn't deprive the owner of the copyright from selling it again and again.
The music industry just needs to release every song at 96kbps bit rate (92 or whatever decent is) and let people listen for free. If they want to buy 192kbs or higher sell it to them. It's not rocket science, it's common sense. However, common sense rarely applies to our societies.
Lol, chewgums?
Obviously this wouldn't apply to MATERIAL goods that are single or limited use. But to goods that are available to be used long term (music CDs, cars, etc...) it is very useful.
BTW I guess you don't try on clothes, shoes, or anything else you buy. Simply walk in, pick it up, and leave. Doubtful.
I generally use warez groups to find out about new software or software I didn't know existed. I try it, if it's good I buy it. As a software developer I find it extraordinarily hypocritical that people will steal (illegally copy) software but want others to pay for their offering.
I would have never purchased the Adobe Design Collection if I hadn't been able to learn to use Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat Forms first. I have yet to use Illustrator but Freehand is easier for me, and I'm too busy to pick up that old book I bought.
I have a policy at my company that if you use a piece of software to enhance your productivity and contribute to your job, you will get it. Hell, I've even bought WinRAR, Textpad and VuePrint (which readily have keygen's available).
This is why I think the "stealing music" slant is bullshit. How are you supposed to hear new music when Clear Channel owns 1/2 the radio stations and someone else owns the other 1/2? File Sharing. I buy every CD I have an mp3 for because honestly I make too much money to waste my time trying to decrypt the slang used to name songs. Not to mention my bandwidth, etc. A $11.99 CD is well worth the time savings.
The RIAA, etc need to pull their heads out of their asses and learn that people like to test drive a product before they buy. I cannot imagine buying a car without trying it out. Why should music be any different?
SCOX
I shorted it at 17.96 in early January. I'm a happy camper if IBM wins this.
Tax avoidance is easy in my system, buy less. It incentivises saving which our country has no idea how to do.
The federal banking system is there to create money and monitor the monetary supply.
The positive side effect of taxing everything sales based is there is no easy way (outside of black markets) to avoid taxes if you're an illegal alien, drug dealer, waiter, or any other job that is cash based.
The government doesn't have to operate at strict break-even, a surplus is better than a deficit in my opinion. Apparently you don't keep up with consumer confidence (which is the primary driver in our economy). It is correlated with the announcements about jobs, housing, etc. Bad report == bad confidence (which is a self fulfilling prophecy). Which in turn has a positive/negative effect on our economy and the GDP.
Why would government based unemployment benefits be affected by a different tax structure? I don't understand that point.
Remove all property taxes with the exception of purchase/sales based fees (filing costs money, not to mention verifying title, etc).
...)
Tariffs would mirror the country we trade with (visas, work-visas, etc... as well).
Consumption based taxes would have to be given a minimum that people don't pay taxes on. For example the first $200 of food per family + $100 per extra family member (documented). Although the numbers for Food, Electricity, Natural Gas/Heating Oil, etc... would be regionally based. In Oklahoma $60k/year is a wealthy person. In San Fran it's scraping by. Heating Oil is not needed in Houston but is essential in New Jersey. I'd do some type of coupon system for everyone (this would remove the stigma of food stamps).
I'd also change our HMO/PPO/Prescription companies power back to the consumer.
However, I'm a liberal so most people would get their panties in a wad voting for me. Plus, I'm not religious and my name is longer than 6 letters (Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton? (deviant in more ways than one!), Bush, Kerry,
Your life is a depreciable asset, kind of like computer equipment. My first portable CD player was $250 by Sony, you can get them for $19.95 now. As you grow older the time you have left is shrinking. So to you it becomes more valuable, but to others you're almost worthless because your time left is approaching zero. I'm for graded sentencing based on the age of the victim. If you kill a 90 year old man, is he really missing much? However if you kill a 5 year old, they are missing a lot (you'd of course need to use the actuarial tables to value a humans life properly).
BTW, I'm kiddin'
I use my accountant and TaxCut. I tend to view their returns as more conservative and my TaxCut as a double check mechanism. In the end having an accountant familiar with your business/personal taxes is good in case the audit monsters attack.
Everyone should vote for me as the next president. I'd eliminate the IRS and go to consumption based taxes (sales based) on the federal level.
I specifically didn't take Advanced COBOL in college because I didn't want a dead end job fixing Y2K bugs. I feel sorry for anyone that is working with those old JCL/COBOL based systems.
Although, as more people start to fall from the ranks of "knowing" COBOL the remaining few that can service the large amount of systems out there should do really well financially.
I have an old COBOL compiler for an ancient version of Xenix (2.3.4 I think) on 5.25" Floppies! I may dust it off and take a look for fun at some of the old code I've got laying around.
COBOL programming is like these old guys I worked with that hang their hat on DOS programming in Clipper, sad. What was impressive in 1993, is no longer impressive.
You're going to need an electrician to verify you can run 50 of those things.
Longhorn has a whole bunch of new shit. Some of it's cool but most of it is pointless drivel.
.asp text files for a name. Guess what, it doesn't work anymore. You have to setup an extension properly in your registry to search a fucking file for contents. Amazing. I wasted about 15 minutes trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. Unfortunately the answer turned out to be "Using Windows XP". What a POS OS.
My favorite new feature of XP is trying to search through
FYI Here's a link on how to fix it:
website demonstrating fix
Navajo, there are others as well.
BTW are you certain that the American Indian population didn't come from elsewhere too? (However, by much less force/slaughter.)
Ever wonder why the USA has more people in jail per capita than any other nation in the world?
Everything that is trivial can get you put away "for the safety of all". This is very scary because if you've ever worked with anyone after they've been to prision you know the effect it has on someone. Prision isn't the answer to all things (although Republicans would have you believe it is).
How long before corporations have the ability to arrest?
US of CA should be our new country name, we're no longer "for the people, by the people". We're "for the corporation, by the consumer".
United States of Corporate America, In God our Money Trusts. Fucking pathetic.
(scottish accent)
Ack! Me retirement grease!
(/scottish accent)
Just FYI
Take 1100 dell'ss at 64 bits and make them into a "super computer" (quotes because the super part is arguable)
Take 1100 apple g5's and make them into a super computer.
Which one will be in the top 5?
Apple, the most powerful, lowest priced 64bit based PC available. That is true.