That means you should only be under suspicion if you are sharing music that is not yet released (Eminem was a recent one that I heard of being out there well in advance). That's it. Otherwise who knows maybe some insane freak does buy every song on the top 100 list. There is no probable cause, no reason to sue.
Buying the music doesn't give you the right to share it. So the insane freak still could get into trouble.
Different sizes/colors help immensely when handling US coins. Can you imagine what a PitA it would be if all of our coins were the same size, shape and color, with just the values printed on them?
Differentiating the paper bills will help in the same way.
What I can't understand in all this is that I'm sharing these from other gnutella users. Sure, they are injected through malice (or avarice), but what is wrong in the heads of users that they don't understand that this is our network, and our responsibility to clean up the file naming? Nobody is going to step in and do it for us. It's only going to get worse over time, and I'd rather download three different but accurately named versions of the same file than one misnamed version that turns out to be another badly encoded asian lipstick lesbian popup spawning commercial.
I think the problem is that people are pretty lazy and with big fat hard drives now pretty standard, what's the use of bothering to clean stuff up (other than keeping your porn downloads from others using your computer)? It's easier just to queue up a bunch of downloads and forget about the crap ones when you are done then it is to clean up the file names of the good ones and get rid of the bogus ones.
Maybe once it gets difficult to get even a few good downloads, people will start becoming more responsible with their sharing, but I doubt it. They will just give up and say it just doesn't work anymore.
But the article was about why businesses are becoming pro-open source. For businesses, money is pretty much everything. So an economic analysis of the reasons behind large corporations supporting open source does make sense.
"Companys will pay you as little as possible to get as much work from you as possible."
I always keep that in mind, as well as the corallary:
"I will do as little work as possible for the most pay as I can get."
My yearly performance review is coming up, and I've heard that raises range between 2% and 3%, depending on your performance. Not very much incentive there to be a top percentile performer, eh? So I will take my inadequate raise and supplement it with non-work, running out the doors on the stroke of 5:00 or a bit sooner if I can.
Others pointed out that current hybrids aren't plugged in to get their power, but even if they were, it would probably be cleaner. If the power is generated at a fossil fuel burning plant, the pollution is coming from a single point source -- much easier to clean/filter/whatever than when it comes out the tail pipes of cars spread all over the landscape.
Anyone else remember the Bill Nye episode where he explained this?
CD101 was the one thing I missed when I moved from Columbus to Cleveland. Cleveland radio, with the exeption of a few hi-or-miss college stations (most notably WRUW 91.1FM out to Case Western Reserve University), is a mess of corporate top 40 garbage. It's a good thing my car has a CD player.
Every once in a while I fire up the CD101 webcast to see what I'm missing.
"It is blatantly absurd that they attempt to hold the radio industry accountable for the creation or execution of business practices that they control," [Clear Channel spokesperson] Taylor said. "The money comes from them."
The recording industry is complaining that the recording industry is paying to have certain songs played on the radio. They why don't they just stop paying?
Of course, all the labels will have to agree to do this, since if all but one stops, and this payola really works, that one label will have tons of airplay.
The point is to build your city and then get bored and wipe it out with disasters. Just check out the screenshots on the Simcity 4 site. I think all but one of them showed some sort of disaster occuring.:)
But unfortunately, owning the OReilly books doesn't entitle you to be able to access them online. You'd have to pay a subscription to access them.
That being said, the $9.99/month (or so) would probably be worth it, considering all the work tearing apart and OCRing all the books would take, just to get somewhat inaccurate digital versions.
"I'm not an extremist," said Robert Regular, vice president of sales and marketing at New York-based digital advertising firm Cydoor. "But all this talk of spyware is the equivalent of elevating one bad seed, and it's having negative consequences on the good software. The public doesn't have time to investigate if it's negative software; they'll just stop downloading...I would hate to think we could reach a point that, whenever a dialog box comes up and says, 'Do you want to do this,' bells go off and people become worried."
So we're supposed to trust them. These spyware folks are just a few bad apples among the wonderful adware crowd. Damn you, Brilliant, you're keeping me from all this good adware software.
The article goes into how those with the most links get more power in the market. That's essentially how Google works: the more sites that link to your site, the higher you are in the search rankings. Maybe the popularity of Google is partially responsible for this situation.
The rise in popularity of Google was at least in part due to the actual great product they have produced. It is beyond a doubt better than most, if not all of the search engines out there, especially the old-school ones that were its first competition. The article describes that it can be hard to get into an online market, not that it is impossible. Google did what it needed to be done (create something innovative) to get into and dominate its market.
Just wondering: If everyone in my area who shares my cable modem bandwith gets one of these things, along them already downloading the latest Britney Spears albums and whatnot, is anyone actually going to be able to make any calls at reasonable hours? Or am I going to have to wake up at 3:00 am to call my mother? She won't really like that.
While there are some practical uses for Flash, these are few and far between, far outnumbered by the idiotic uses. This is why there's no opensource flash tools.
Practical use for Flash: Getting the sales and marketing people to buy into your web site.
Yeah, but a good number (most?) of the people who would have paid for Napster were using it to get things without paying for them. Why would they suddenly start paying then?
While Rosen contends that digital piracy caused a 10 percent decline in record sales during 2001, the Yankee Group's Jones said he believes other factors could at least partially account for that figure.
"Certainly, digital media has hurt the record industry, there's no doubt about that. But who knows whether it was the economy, the fact that they weren't putting out hit records, or whether it really was digital downloads," Jones said.
Sounds like the RIAA is trying to use the same type of login the pro-Napster folks were using (when Napster was up and running, record sales were up, so Napster was good for the industry). Neither arguments are very good, since so many factors influence the way people buy music. Correlation != Causation.
It's not really that great of an advertisement. It's more like "Get an article pointing out many flaws and bugs about your product on Slashdot, and get your sight slashdotted in the process." Not really that great of a situation.
Though, it is considerably cheaper than Microsoft Office. If they can work out the bugs and slight incompatability problems, it would be a good thing. Especially the problems with printing. What company can get by without being able to properly print out their documents?
(4) Calendar linked autoresponse. NO NEED! Why would I want to send an email and get 30 replies all stating that they're in a meeting? If I'd wanted instant replies I'd have phoned, or met in person. By mailing I'm batching the job - unless the person is gone for weeks I don't care. Often even urgent work emails don't get replied to for 2-3 days. But that's fine for email. If people are away for days they can choose to set autoreply anyway.
Maybe what would be better would be an automatic autoresponse linked to the calendar with the built in Instant Messaging feature. Seems like it would be much more useful. Email, even though it usually seems like it, is not guaranteed to be an instant delivery. It could take hours for email to be delivered, and autoresponding because of a two hour meeting just doesn't make sense.
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That means you should only be under suspicion if you are sharing music that is not yet released (Eminem was a recent one that I heard of being out there well in advance). That's it. Otherwise who knows maybe some insane freak does buy every song on the top 100 list. There is no probable cause, no reason to sue.
Buying the music doesn't give you the right to share it. So the insane freak still could get into trouble.
Different sizes/colors help immensely when handling US coins. Can you imagine what a PitA it would be if all of our coins were the same size, shape and color, with just the values printed on them?
Differentiating the paper bills will help in the same way.
What I can't understand in all this is that I'm sharing these from other gnutella users. Sure, they are injected through malice (or avarice), but what is wrong in the heads of users that they don't understand that this is our network, and our responsibility to clean up the file naming? Nobody is going to step in and do it for us. It's only going to get worse over time, and I'd rather download three different but accurately named versions of the same file than one misnamed version that turns out to be another badly encoded asian lipstick lesbian popup spawning commercial.
I think the problem is that people are pretty lazy and with big fat hard drives now pretty standard, what's the use of bothering to clean stuff up (other than keeping your porn downloads from others using your computer)? It's easier just to queue up a bunch of downloads and forget about the crap ones when you are done then it is to clean up the file names of the good ones and get rid of the bogus ones.
Maybe once it gets difficult to get even a few good downloads, people will start becoming more responsible with their sharing, but I doubt it. They will just give up and say it just doesn't work anymore.
But the article was about why businesses are becoming pro-open source. For businesses, money is pretty much everything. So an economic analysis of the reasons behind large corporations supporting open source does make sense.
"Companys will pay you as little as possible to get as much work from you as possible."
I always keep that in mind, as well as the corallary:
"I will do as little work as possible for the most pay as I can get."
My yearly performance review is coming up, and I've heard that raises range between 2% and 3%, depending on your performance. Not very much incentive there to be a top percentile performer, eh? So I will take my inadequate raise and supplement it with non-work, running out the doors on the stroke of 5:00 or a bit sooner if I can.
Others pointed out that current hybrids aren't plugged in to get their power, but even if they were, it would probably be cleaner. If the power is generated at a fossil fuel burning plant, the pollution is coming from a single point source -- much easier to clean/filter/whatever than when it comes out the tail pipes of cars spread all over the landscape.
Anyone else remember the Bill Nye episode where he explained this?
Or use this function at the top of your script:
void set_time_limit ( int seconds)
as described on php.net
CD101 was the one thing I missed when I moved from Columbus to Cleveland. Cleveland radio, with the exeption of a few hi-or-miss college stations (most notably WRUW 91.1FM out to Case Western Reserve University), is a mess of corporate top 40 garbage. It's a good thing my car has a CD player.
Every once in a while I fire up the CD101 webcast to see what I'm missing.
"It is blatantly absurd that they attempt to hold the radio industry accountable for the creation or execution of business practices that they control," [Clear Channel spokesperson] Taylor said. "The money comes from them."
The recording industry is complaining that the recording industry is paying to have certain songs played on the radio. They why don't they just stop paying?
Of course, all the labels will have to agree to do this, since if all but one stops, and this payola really works, that one label will have tons of airplay.
The point is to build your city and then get bored and wipe it out with disasters. Just check out the screenshots on the Simcity 4 site. I think all but one of them showed some sort of disaster occuring. :)
Don't forget the standard 0.02% of comments predicting what everyone else will post. :)
But unfortunately, owning the OReilly books doesn't entitle you to be able to access them online. You'd have to pay a subscription to access them.
That being said, the $9.99/month (or so) would probably be worth it, considering all the work tearing apart and OCRing all the books would take, just to get somewhat inaccurate digital versions.
"I'm not an extremist," said Robert Regular, vice president of sales and marketing at New York-based digital advertising firm Cydoor. "But all this talk of spyware is the equivalent of elevating one bad seed, and it's having negative consequences on the good software. The public doesn't have time to investigate if it's negative software; they'll just stop downloading...I would hate to think we could reach a point that, whenever a dialog box comes up and says, 'Do you want to do this,' bells go off and people become worried."
So we're supposed to trust them. These spyware folks are just a few bad apples among the wonderful adware crowd. Damn you, Brilliant, you're keeping me from all this good adware software.
The article goes into how those with the most links get more power in the market. That's essentially how Google works: the more sites that link to your site, the higher you are in the search rankings. Maybe the popularity of Google is partially responsible for this situation.
The rise in popularity of Google was at least in part due to the actual great product they have produced. It is beyond a doubt better than most, if not all of the search engines out there, especially the old-school ones that were its first competition. The article describes that it can be hard to get into an online market, not that it is impossible. Google did what it needed to be done (create something innovative) to get into and dominate its market.
Just wondering: If everyone in my area who shares my cable modem bandwith gets one of these things, along them already downloading the latest Britney Spears albums and whatnot, is anyone actually going to be able to make any calls at reasonable hours? Or am I going to have to wake up at 3:00 am to call my mother? She won't really like that.
While there are some practical uses for Flash, these are few and far between, far outnumbered by the idiotic uses. This is why there's no opensource flash tools.
Practical use for Flash: Getting the sales and marketing people to buy into your web site.
"Oooh, Shiney!" == "We'll pay for it!".
That quote can be found here, for all those interested. Forgot to include it it in my previous post.
Here's an interesting quote from Planetside's FAQ, another game by Verant, the creaters of Everquest:
What is the goal of the game?
To be more addictive than any substance known to man.
Probably said with tongue in cheek, but still, they recognize what their cames can become to some people.
Nah, he probably just fires up the old Tandy 1000 and pops in F-15 Strike Eagle.
Yeah, but a good number (most?) of the people who would have paid for Napster were using it to get things without paying for them. Why would they suddenly start paying then?
While Rosen contends that digital piracy caused a 10 percent decline in record sales during 2001, the Yankee Group's Jones said he believes other factors could at least partially account for that figure.
"Certainly, digital media has hurt the record industry, there's no doubt about that. But who knows whether it was the economy, the fact that they weren't putting out hit records, or whether it really was digital downloads," Jones said.
Sounds like the RIAA is trying to use the same type of login the pro-Napster folks were using (when Napster was up and running, record sales were up, so Napster was good for the industry). Neither arguments are very good, since so many factors influence the way people buy music. Correlation != Causation.
It's not really that great of an advertisement. It's more like "Get an article pointing out many flaws and bugs about your product on Slashdot, and get your sight slashdotted in the process." Not really that great of a situation.
Though, it is considerably cheaper than Microsoft Office. If they can work out the bugs and slight incompatability problems, it would be a good thing. Especially the problems with printing. What company can get by without being able to properly print out their documents?
(4) Calendar linked autoresponse.
NO NEED! Why would I want to send an email and get 30 replies all stating that they're in a meeting?
If I'd wanted instant replies I'd have phoned, or met in person. By mailing I'm batching the job - unless the person is gone for weeks I don't care.
Often even urgent work emails don't get replied to for 2-3 days. But that's fine for email. If people are away for days they can choose to set autoreply anyway.
Maybe what would be better would be an automatic autoresponse linked to the calendar with the built in Instant Messaging feature. Seems like it would be much more useful. Email, even though it usually seems like it, is not guaranteed to be an instant delivery. It could take hours for email to be delivered, and autoresponding because of a two hour meeting just doesn't make sense.