He's submitted sworn reports... around 200 of them.
Didn't he say he does not get paid for this? That's a lot of work. (well, at least 45 minutes x 200;-)
On the other hand, if he is getting paid it's got to be a pretty nice revenue stream for him.
Personally, I think the lawyer questioning the doc looked like an ass.
I took it to be part of the technique of cross-examination. Up until that point the witness had been answering in a smug and confident manner. This sort of questioning can shake up a witness and make his answers more forthcoming. The best cross-examiners are remarkably skilled at controlling the flow of the testimony.
Straying completely off-topic here, but the most amazing thing about that ridiculous Head-On commercial is that they never actually make any claim as to what the product does! It's a bullet-proof scam.
So I am going to walk into Best Buy, walk up to a kiosk, pick the movie I want to watch, wait 5-10 minutes for it to download and burn on this special DVD, pay for it, and walk out? As opposed to me just grabbing the movie off the shelf and skipping the burning-downloading part?
Obviously if you're looking for some popular movie it will be available "Pre-burned." But with this system you can order anything you like. If you're at a mall you could continue shopping and pick it up at the end. And presumably it wouldn't be long before you could order it from home and have it waiting for you when you arrive.
But the biggest bonus will be that because the producers don't have to produce and deliver so much inventory, which is just a back-breaking cost in retail, that the final cost to the consumer will be significantly less than current DVDs. Hahaha ignore that last part. Sometimes I just crack myself up.
Ray sounded like an egotistical dickhead for cutting the guy up for not knowing the meaning of the words "inculpated" and "exculpated"
Out of all of the questioning carefully designed to herd him into a corner, that's what you focus on? Did you notice how in the beginning the witness was seemingly "enjoying" being clever and jousting in his answers, but by the end he was pretty much a whipped puppy and answered directly? That's all part of the technique of cross examination.
Do you also blame the victims of murders and accuse judges and DAs of destroying lives?
So then you're suggesting that there's no chance that his recklessness and imprecise methods could incorrectly identify someone as a violator of copyright? If a judge or DA used similar methods to convict people of murder, then yes, I would blame them.
You simply forget for every whore story there are 100 or more people that had no issue, the people that speak up are the ones that had issues with the software.
No big deal, unless you're one of the 1% (yeah right) that had issues. I prefer the zero per hundred issues of software that doesn't require activation.
And by the way, it's "horror story," not whore story, unless you were tying to imply something else.
If jobs truly felt this way, why did he wait so long to say so?
Because he's a better negotiator than you. It takes well-timed and careful execution. He's like the guy slowly turning up the heat on the frog. If he just cranks it up all at once the frog hops away. If he's patient he gets a nicely cooked les cuisses de grenouilles.
I believe I had a good 10 or 20 minute trek before I got to the point that I had even a crowbar. While I did wish I had a gun, I fully understood why I didn't have one
You didn't find a gun in a suitcase at the train station?
Based on what? Pixel count? All cell phone cameras suck. The pixel count is not nearly as important as the lens and the size of the receptors. And in cell phones they are crappy and small. In fact it'd be easier to get a good picture from a 2MP receptor than a 4 if they were the same overall size.
Sixth, the headline "10X faster" is incorrect, as they differ asymptotically,
And seventh, (and admittedly I'm really reaching here) the proper grammar for comparisons is "as fast," not "faster."
"Faster" is not logically correct, as can be seen more easily when the two approach equality. If, for instance, 10 seconds is ten times faster than 100, then to be consistent 100 must be one times faster than 100, which is just plain silly.
Is eBay required to report my sales to the Chinese government, or just the American one?
This is a possible change to US reporting requirements. How in the world would the require ebay to report to China? And it hasn't happened yet in any case.
The problem is that I'm really not feeling any sympathy for the people that openly admit to copyright infringement to get a $20 program. Also, the software is free to try.
Personally I wouldn't be comfortable just knowing that the code was in there, waiting to execute. What if he made a mistake and there were some other path to reach it? Even if I'd paid I'd still delete it.
Well, yeah. Obviously the time machines. I mean, the time machines go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the time machine--
It has a full-fledged browser that runs javascript. There are all sorts of things I can write and put on my website for me to use. They don't have to be "traditional" web apps. They can be what I need them to be.
It's pretty clear that reducing the sentences for such crimes are hardly going to encourage people to obey the law
That depends on what your goal is. If the guy does a small amount of time and then gets out, the chances of him being a contributing member of society are still pretty good. If the guy does 20 years, when he gets out chances are he won't be able to make a good contribution to society. So if your goal is to rehabilitate, less time is better. If you goal is to stop the total number of crimes, then by all means, lock him up forever.
$1.5 billion is a lot of money, even for Microsoft
Yup. Based on last year's gross profit they're going to have to save up for almost 15 days to pay that off. That's gotta hurt. That's like a whole paycheck right down the drain.
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Didn't he say he does not get paid for this? That's a lot of work. (well, at least 45 minutes x 200 ;-)
On the other hand, if he is getting paid it's got to be a pretty nice revenue stream for him.
I took it to be part of the technique of cross-examination. Up until that point the witness had been answering in a smug and confident manner. This sort of questioning can shake up a witness and make his answers more forthcoming. The best cross-examiners are remarkably skilled at controlling the flow of the testimony.
Straying completely off-topic here, but the most amazing thing about that ridiculous Head-On commercial is that they never actually make any claim as to what the product does! It's a bullet-proof scam.
Obviously if you're looking for some popular movie it will be available "Pre-burned." But with this system you can order anything you like. If you're at a mall you could continue shopping and pick it up at the end. And presumably it wouldn't be long before you could order it from home and have it waiting for you when you arrive.
But the biggest bonus will be that because the producers don't have to produce and deliver so much inventory, which is just a back-breaking cost in retail, that the final cost to the consumer will be significantly less than current DVDs. Hahaha ignore that last part. Sometimes I just crack myself up.
Out of all of the questioning carefully designed to herd him into a corner, that's what you focus on? Did you notice how in the beginning the witness was seemingly "enjoying" being clever and jousting in his answers, but by the end he was pretty much a whipped puppy and answered directly? That's all part of the technique of cross examination.
So then you're suggesting that there's no chance that his recklessness and imprecise methods could incorrectly identify someone as a violator of copyright? If a judge or DA used similar methods to convict people of murder, then yes, I would blame them.
No big deal, unless you're one of the 1% (yeah right) that had issues. I prefer the zero per hundred issues of software that doesn't require activation.
And by the way, it's "horror story," not whore story, unless you were tying to imply something else.
I agree, but why did you type all those extra words after "funny?"
Because he's a better negotiator than you. It takes well-timed and careful execution. He's like the guy slowly turning up the heat on the frog. If he just cranks it up all at once the frog hops away. If he's patient he gets a nicely cooked les cuisses de grenouilles.
So then you've taken pictures using an Apple phone?
You didn't find a gun in a suitcase at the train station?
No, but three lefts do.
Jeez how old is that joke?
Based on what? Pixel count? All cell phone cameras suck. The pixel count is not nearly as important as the lens and the size of the receptors. And in cell phones they are crappy and small. In fact it'd be easier to get a good picture from a 2MP receptor than a 4 if they were the same overall size.
And seventh, (and admittedly I'm really reaching here) the proper grammar for comparisons is "as fast," not "faster."
"Faster" is not logically correct, as can be seen more easily when the two approach equality. If, for instance, 10 seconds is ten times faster than 100, then to be consistent 100 must be one times faster than 100, which is just plain silly.
That's pretty clever. What's it from?
This is a possible change to US reporting requirements. How in the world would the require ebay to report to China? And it hasn't happened yet in any case.
Personally I wouldn't be comfortable just knowing that the code was in there, waiting to execute. What if he made a mistake and there were some other path to reach it? Even if I'd paid I'd still delete it.
Well, yeah. Obviously the time machines. I mean, the time machines go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the time machine--
How did you get from "can't write software for it" to "Can't write every possible app ever written?"
It has a full-fledged browser that runs javascript. There are all sorts of things I can write and put on my website for me to use. They don't have to be "traditional" web apps. They can be what I need them to be.
That depends on what your goal is. If the guy does a small amount of time and then gets out, the chances of him being a contributing member of society are still pretty good. If the guy does 20 years, when he gets out chances are he won't be able to make a good contribution to society. So if your goal is to rehabilitate, less time is better. If you goal is to stop the total number of crimes, then by all means, lock him up forever.
What if you could have made a copy of your computer for him to use? That's the only way the comparison is at all apt.
Yup. Based on last year's gross profit they're going to have to save up for almost 15 days to pay that off. That's gotta hurt. That's like a whole paycheck right down the drain.
So then in a population of 2, 3, and 4, I take it you disagree that more than half the numbers are three or less?
A fine counter-argument. I'm surprised it isn't used more often.
"Come on, Your Honor, it's not like I'm the first to EVER commit this crime!"