99 cents is the UPPER cap for for what I'd pay for a song online. Anything more, including additional tax, and I'm not buying.
When I buy a CD I pay about 99 cents per song. I get the actual CD that I can archive or take where ever I need to go, I get the cover art and 9 times out of 10 I get the lyrics to the songs.
Because I have the CD I can rip it anyway I want. FLAC for my in-house audio system, MP3 or OGG for my flash player I take to the gym or just stuff a mix copy into my car's CD player. Now compare that to an online offering.
And sorry but the argument that you only get 1 or 2 good songs on an album and the rest are crap doesn't wash with me. Haven't heard a Garbage song I didn't like. Didn't regret any of the tracks for the Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon soundtrack or Queen of the Damned either. Lots of good Godsmack tracks and there's no junk on my CSN discs.
And now they want to raise the price to nearly $2.50 for one song? For that price I had better get Brittney doing Hentai for some bonus material. Now that would be toxic.
Reparse my post! I was not talking about a veto in that sentence I was talking about having one vote among many. And go up and read the post that started my comments. All your "lesson" provides is more facts to back up the point I was making.
And for what it's worth, the veto power of the Big Five is only with the security council. A good discussion about it is at the BBC. It's interesting to note that the word veto isn't used in the UN Charter. Something I wasn't aware of previously.
Even in that case how has UN organizations like UNICEF and WHO been adversely affected because the US has one vote? The UN does a lot more than peace-keeping duties. And anyway, I interpret the following from bofkentucky's post:
The American people have yet to figure out that ~120 dicatatorships/juntas/theocracies (1 on the sec council forever) versus ~40 countries that are willing to stand up to a bully is a fight that democracy and capitalism can not win when one nation, one vote are the rules.
to refer to issues that fall under the auspices of the Security Council. bofkentucky is also wrong in asserting that Libya is on the Security Council forever.
Also worthy of note is that the US left its UN back dues unpaid until we finally needed some backing for the latest war against Iraq. So the US remains on the Security Council for eternity (which quite honestly I'm not complaining about), has veto power and doesn't get booted even though it is behind hundreds of millions of dollars to the UN. I don't get what bofkentucky is complaining about at all.
Meanwhile, the cost of collecting $1 of revenue--45 cents in 2002, the last year for which statistics are available--has not appreciably declined in two decades.
I apologize in advance for the pain, suffering and rage I just inflicted on any in the community.
Note the references to unclear goals and communication issues, lack of buy-in from internal staff, the assumption that the IRS team could have a thin team to work with CSC.... It doesn't seem the IRS learned from their past failures either. The article reads like a list of project management don'ts.
You have just provided a probably irate and now possibly malicious user continued access to your software development process. This is just a poor security practice imnsho. Under the circumstances it would be best to have a clean break with the employee and have the additional cost and time of getting the offshoring personnel up to speed already penned in on your project plan.
If anybody bothers to RTFA you'll notice that "fact" isn't in there. Only one person interviewed expressed the opinion that she felt she might be fired without severence. Something, if you look at the current political landscape, I find difficult to believe. If it did happen and the company didn't have the proverbial 2" binder with complaints about her performance I see lawsuit.
All right, because imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
McBride: Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a lawsuit out of my hat.
Rocky: AGAIN? But that trick never works!
McBride: Nuthin' in my brain... Presto!
*McBride pulls Nazgul head out of hat. We hear ear-piercing scream of Nazgul's mount. Wide-eyed Mcbride turns to camera trying to push Nazgul back into hat.*
McBride: Guess I need a better hat.
PAN TO ROCKY: Now here's something we hope you really like!
Off-camera we hear McBride screaming. Counter-claims? Motion to remand? DECLARATORY JUDGMENT!!!! Noooooooooo!
So instead I get to buy a vastly watered down machine (at $240 I get a greyscale display, no audio, no accelerometer - which is the only feature that makes the Amida interesting to begin with -, no smartcard reader, 16/32MB of memory and limited software features) but I get to avoid the MS tax?
Guess the tax got usurped by the cost of the Linux Hype feature.
The cache is extremely out of date and not even applicable to the discussion at hand. Models and pricing are available here and once you get a real appreciation for the current offerings you are right. It isn't that great of a deal. To get a color screen you have to buy the ~Rs. 20K model ($480US.) The processor remains the same no matter what model you choose from and I can't see a reason why anyone would buy the 1200 (the Rs. 9950) model due to it being so vastly lacking in features. I can pretty much guarantee that every action shot they have up on their website would be completely inapplicable if the model was using the 1200.
By the time you get to considering purchasing the Amida 4200 it behooves you to start looking into an iPAQ or some other handheld.
A driver is responsible for the upkeep of his car but there is an assumption that the car is safe to drive to begin with when I buy it from the dealership. If it's the case that the car isn't safe there is usually a recall where I can take it in to the dealer for free and get the problem fixed. If there isn't a recall and the car isn't safe and I do have an accident then I can sue the manufacturer for selling me a defective product.
When cars begin to become unsafe there are a variety of noticable warning signs that I need to maintain my vehicle. The oil light will go on, the brakes will grind, sundry odors emit from the hood, the tires begin to look flat... It doesn't even have to get that far. Some dealerships will send you mail reminding you that you might need an oil change. Of course there reason for doing this is to make some cash but it is a reminder to maintain your car and once at the garage things like rotating tires or what-not can also come up.
To make this short [too late], there are a variety of mechanisms in place to let the driver know he needs to maintain his vehicle that simply isn't present or currently applicable when compared to a PC owner. From where I'm sitting there seems to be a great deal of wiggle room when applying the standards you propose.
We all aren't choosing random definations and connotations when it comes to the word hacker. Even in it's negative connotation it still retains an assumption that the person is skilled as opposed to a script-kiddie. It isn't like I go to Indiana and hacker means computer geek and I head off to California and suddenly it means serial killer who dismembers victims. And if one is participating in the conversation it isn't difficult to determine the connotation of the term.
I also think your assertation in how rapidly the language would evolve is little more than rhetoric. You forget the influence of national broadcasts, the fact that people travel all over the US, telephony, etc. as forces to keep American English uniform.
If you absolutely must have a "pure" English you are always free to lobby for some mechanism like the French have and the government can determine exactly what words mean what in official correspondance every five years. Good luck. From my understanding it doesn't stem the flow of informal speech or changing connotation of words either.
Can't help what was done in the past and Mozilla is healthy even with currently being licensed under the MPL. Like Netscape was going to put the original Moziila project under the BSD license.:P Oh, can I now rip on Qt because it is GPL and proprietary? What about Ghostscript? Hey how about Perl?
At least the Mozilla team is working on getting Firefox onto a better license instead of a worse one.
I am looking at the big picture and I don't see what the problem is. As a matter of fact I see this as a plus for the entire OSS movement. XFree pulled somethig nobody wanted and quite simply the community in general packed up all the toys and went to play someplace else. Now the choice is clear. Either XFree can change their ways or the community can expend resources to make up for the lost work and move on.
This is a strength, not a weakness. If a project's licensing becomes a problem moving on from the last good version is a plus. I don't have to completely reinvent the wheel. I just have to get enough developers interested in the fork which in this case seems to not be an issue. I can't do that with a proprietary product. If MS becomes too odious to use and I decide to move to a Mac I now have to buy a new hardare platform and learn a new OS and have no guarantee that I will be able to move all my apps and games over to the Mac.
The licensing debate isn't the greatest thing to have happened but it is no way the showstopper you are portraying it out to be.
I'd like to how you got to that interpretation. He gets cell phone notification from office servers at home is how I parsed that paragraph. He also notes that he doesn't want those alerts to come over his personal cell phone which reinforces my belief that these are work related alerts coming over a company purchased cell phone. Seems like a kosher reason to have the company provide him with a cell imho.
It's in those companies best interest to get hardware support since they are solution providers. The more hardware linux can use the more solutions they can provide and sell.
Since I can't program device drivers and am not willing to take the time to learn I can most certainly advocate my desire for a driver to these companies. If enough of us do it then getting that driver written becomes a business need and IBM, Novell or somebody can then proceed to either request a driver or hire someone to make it. Wow. My civil whining could get some out of work programmer hired or maybe toss some more money into the global economy.
You need to broaden your vision considerably. The trick is getting the driver open-sourced.
Nah. Automating all of that is a service for which a vendor could charge money. Base it on the number of CDs the customer wants and you don't do the actual processing until you get a payment. That way someone can't put in all their requests and then copy the printout when you tell them exactly what they're getting. If the customer doesn't like it then recommend they build their own.
Hey, you brought up SCO and didn't elaborate on their license. Basically they say, any modifications you make are owned by you but due to the licensing agreement you may only incorporate that code into our products unless you get permission from SCO first.
SCO's interpretation is truly viral in every sense of the word. It takes your code, effectively kills it and makes it into SCO code. The GPL doesn't do anything near as bad as that. If you GPL your code you still have copyright on it and can relicense it however you want. Look at TripWire and GhostScript.
You know the more I think about it, the more the GPL seems like a wildflower. The seeds get cast out, blown about, some take root, some don't and occassionally you get these blooms that people can't agree on whether it's a flower or a weed. Yeah, that's it. Linux, the dandelion of the operating system universe. Let the wine jokes begin.
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When I buy a CD I pay about 99 cents per song. I get the actual CD that I can archive or take where ever I need to go, I get the cover art and 9 times out of 10 I get the lyrics to the songs.
Because I have the CD I can rip it anyway I want. FLAC for my in-house audio system, MP3 or OGG for my flash player I take to the gym or just stuff a mix copy into my car's CD player. Now compare that to an online offering.
And sorry but the argument that you only get 1 or 2 good songs on an album and the rest are crap doesn't wash with me. Haven't heard a Garbage song I didn't like. Didn't regret any of the tracks for the Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon soundtrack or Queen of the Damned either. Lots of good Godsmack tracks and there's no junk on my CSN discs.
And now they want to raise the price to nearly $2.50 for one song? For that price I had better get Brittney doing Hentai for some bonus material. Now that would be toxic.
Just one more use to drop in a sea of others. Determining why a vulnerability scan is causing a server to stop functioning.
That Kids in the Hall skit always makes me smile.
And for what it's worth, the veto power of the Big Five is only with the security council. A good discussion about it is at the BBC. It's interesting to note that the word veto isn't used in the UN Charter. Something I wasn't aware of previously.
to refer to issues that fall under the auspices of the Security Council. bofkentucky is also wrong in asserting that Libya is on the Security Council forever.
Also worthy of note is that the US left its UN back dues unpaid until we finally needed some backing for the latest war against Iraq. So the US remains on the Security Council for eternity (which quite honestly I'm not complaining about), has veto power and doesn't get booted even though it is behind hundreds of millions of dollars to the UN. I don't get what bofkentucky is complaining about at all.
I apologize in advance for the pain, suffering and rage I just inflicted on any in the community.
Please setup a paypal account so I can toss in a quarter for a well needed civics lesson.
Note the references to unclear goals and communication issues, lack of buy-in from internal staff, the assumption that the IRS team could have a thin team to work with CSC.... It doesn't seem the IRS learned from their past failures either. The article reads like a list of project management don'ts.
The problem isn't just with linux distributions as can be seen here.
You have just provided a probably irate and now possibly malicious user continued access to your software development process. This is just a poor security practice imnsho. Under the circumstances it would be best to have a clean break with the employee and have the additional cost and time of getting the offshoring personnel up to speed already penned in on your project plan.
If anybody bothers to RTFA you'll notice that "fact" isn't in there. Only one person interviewed expressed the opinion that she felt she might be fired without severence. Something, if you look at the current political landscape, I find difficult to believe. If it did happen and the company didn't have the proverbial 2" binder with complaints about her performance I see lawsuit.
McBride: Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a lawsuit out of my hat.
Rocky: AGAIN? But that trick never works!
McBride: Nuthin' in my brain... Presto!
*McBride pulls Nazgul head out of hat. We hear ear-piercing scream of Nazgul's mount. Wide-eyed Mcbride turns to camera trying to push Nazgul back into hat.*
McBride: Guess I need a better hat.
PAN TO ROCKY: Now here's something we hope you really like!
Off-camera we hear McBride screaming. Counter-claims? Motion to remand? DECLARATORY JUDGMENT!!!! Noooooooooo!
So instead I get to buy a vastly watered down machine (at $240 I get a greyscale display, no audio, no accelerometer - which is the only feature that makes the Amida interesting to begin with -, no smartcard reader, 16/32MB of memory and limited software features) but I get to avoid the MS tax?
Guess the tax got usurped by the cost of the Linux Hype feature.
By the time you get to considering purchasing the Amida 4200 it behooves you to start looking into an iPAQ or some other handheld.
When cars begin to become unsafe there are a variety of noticable warning signs that I need to maintain my vehicle. The oil light will go on, the brakes will grind, sundry odors emit from the hood, the tires begin to look flat... It doesn't even have to get that far. Some dealerships will send you mail reminding you that you might need an oil change. Of course there reason for doing this is to make some cash but it is a reminder to maintain your car and once at the garage things like rotating tires or what-not can also come up.
To make this short [too late], there are a variety of mechanisms in place to let the driver know he needs to maintain his vehicle that simply isn't present or currently applicable when compared to a PC owner. From where I'm sitting there seems to be a great deal of wiggle room when applying the standards you propose.
I also think your assertation in how rapidly the language would evolve is little more than rhetoric. You forget the influence of national broadcasts, the fact that people travel all over the US, telephony, etc. as forces to keep American English uniform.
If you absolutely must have a "pure" English you are always free to lobby for some mechanism like the French have and the government can determine exactly what words mean what in official correspondance every five years. Good luck. From my understanding it doesn't stem the flow of informal speech or changing connotation of words either.
Language isn't static. It evolves because, heaven forbid, we humans happen to be social animals. You need to get over it.
At least the Mozilla team is working on getting Firefox onto a better license instead of a worse one.
They appear to be working on it.
This is a strength, not a weakness. If a project's licensing becomes a problem moving on from the last good version is a plus. I don't have to completely reinvent the wheel. I just have to get enough developers interested in the fork which in this case seems to not be an issue. I can't do that with a proprietary product. If MS becomes too odious to use and I decide to move to a Mac I now have to buy a new hardare platform and learn a new OS and have no guarantee that I will be able to move all my apps and games over to the Mac.
The licensing debate isn't the greatest thing to have happened but it is no way the showstopper you are portraying it out to be.
I'd like to how you got to that interpretation. He gets cell phone notification from office servers at home is how I parsed that paragraph. He also notes that he doesn't want those alerts to come over his personal cell phone which reinforces my belief that these are work related alerts coming over a company purchased cell phone. Seems like a kosher reason to have the company provide him with a cell imho.
Since I can't program device drivers and am not willing to take the time to learn I can most certainly advocate my desire for a driver to these companies. If enough of us do it then getting that driver written becomes a business need and IBM, Novell or somebody can then proceed to either request a driver or hire someone to make it. Wow. My civil whining could get some out of work programmer hired or maybe toss some more money into the global economy.
You need to broaden your vision considerably. The trick is getting the driver open-sourced.
Nah. Automating all of that is a service for which a vendor could charge money. Base it on the number of CDs the customer wants and you don't do the actual processing until you get a payment. That way someone can't put in all their requests and then copy the printout when you tell them exactly what they're getting. If the customer doesn't like it then recommend they build their own.
That's going to make it much easier to suspend disbelief.
SCO's interpretation is truly viral in every sense of the word. It takes your code, effectively kills it and makes it into SCO code. The GPL doesn't do anything near as bad as that. If you GPL your code you still have copyright on it and can relicense it however you want. Look at TripWire and GhostScript.
You know the more I think about it, the more the GPL seems like a wildflower. The seeds get cast out, blown about, some take root, some don't and occassionally you get these blooms that people can't agree on whether it's a flower or a weed. Yeah, that's it. Linux, the dandelion of the operating system universe. Let the wine jokes begin.