The fact of the matter is that people are willing to pay for content, whether or not copyright law exists.
Fact? Can you tell me how, barring technical issues (ie., limited accessibility of printing presses, etc.) or the very rare charitable tip-jar, you can declare that there exists a factual underpinning to your statement?
Are you asserting that Bill Gates was a do nothing/know nothing kid?
He did actually have a technical background. Recall that he was instrumental in a lot of the early MS-BASIC development, and while not revered as a programmer, was spoken very well of for his ability to bum code down to fit into highly constrained memory.
Or did you just see this as an opportunity to press sour grapes and rant stupidly about the fact that you didn't make millions in the late 90s?
When you tag people as "the lucky ones" you give up all responsibility for your own failure, and you will never succeed except by luck. Way to give up.
I know you're just trolling, but don't assume that your lack of knowledge regarding economics is an indicator of the absence of economic theory and/or fact.
Almost everything has a value that can be expressed as a monetary price. Sometimes it's very near $0, because no one is willing to pay for it in the markets to which the seller has access (want to buy my runny poop? What about my runny poop mixed with the fermented poop of a million people?). Sometimes it's effectively infinite, like, say, the casket holding your dear, departed mother.
There are several bodies of theory regarding calculating prices for things with no objective value. These aren't limited just to "whatever the market will bear".
Linux has the advantage that you can calculate the economic impact in a pretty straightforward fashion without a lot of the cost-of-emotion math.
How much time has been spent on building Linux? How many people have obtained funds for selling Linux distributions? How much time has been spent/saved with Linux-based solutions? How much would it cost to reimplement Linux independently?
There are reasons people have invented R/H/MOLAP systems, OR bridges, and the like -- it's unwieldy and often grossly inefficient to use SQL92 variants and normal RDBMS to solve some problems.
And no, it's not faster, cheaper, or more stable to do most useful OLAP or OR problems in RDBMS/SQL without an additional tool.
Your argument is pretty naive, so I'm guessing you also think any Turing language is as useful as the next.
To clarify your statement, are you saying that, because you can bodge your RDBMS into returning hierarchically-structured information, there is no reason to look for a more domain-specific abstraction?
Why use one line of code when you can use 20, that kind of thing?
Just checking.
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You're obviously not hiring enough consultants. Dynamo works better the more consultants you throw at it.
I wouldn't generalise your iBook experience to apply to all Apple notebooks. I have the 15.2" 1.25Ghz PB and getting three hours of battery life is something rare and surprising enough to make me wet my pants in excitement. That's with aggressive screen brightness management (just one little box on the meter), aggressive CPU and HD power management, and appropriate offerings to the demonds of battery power drainage.
The new 15.2" PBs came with a smaller battery than previous models, which gives me about 2h if I don't make significant alterations to the way I use the computer between plugged and unplugged usage. (mainly screen brightness)
Regardless, the PB's battery life is an embarrassment on long airplane flights, especially if I'm seated next to someone with a T41 with the extended battery.:-)
Since he mentioned my plasma, I had some additional thoughts on the matter.
The consumer Panasonic comes with tuners (that model only comes with NTSC, not ATSC), HDMI input, two component inputs, speakers, stand, and an ugly grey bezel that the commercial version lacks. In addition, the consumer version has in-home service as part of the warranty -- the commercial warranty requires that you deliver the set to a Panasonic service center.
Some of these are of nominal value (speakers...:-)) but others may be important.
Right, but this is a boundary case for two reasons.
1) The vast majority of authors publish one title. 2) The vast majority of titles published do not generate lucrative sales.
Sure, Stephen King has the leverage to make this kind of ex post facto change to his contract, but Joe Schmoe definitely doesn't. As with the recording industry, the publisher holds most of the cards.
The concern isn't so much copyright (which a moron poster wittily quipped was "full of shit") but contract provisions. I.e., if you are an author with one of the standard contracts of a few years ago, and your work goes out of print for a given period of time, the publishing rights will revert to you. You can then find another publisher who may take a more active role in its distribution. However, if P-O-D makes it feasible to keep a work from going out of print by printing a limited number of copies per year, a publisher can maintain that control.
Or, you spend the money on a one-time insurance policy, or an addition to your existing insurance policy, to turn that unpredictable massive expense into a planned recurring smaller expense.
One issue is your #1, the NPV. I.e., $20 in six months is worth less than $20 today. The retailer gets the $20 today, and you get the $20 in six months, when you redeem the gc.
The other is what is called "breakage" -- you either fail to redeem the gc or don't redeem it in its entirety.
In #2 is the additional margin created by the S&H, often used to make up some of the loss associated with small orders. (i.e., in this example of $20)
In re "2.4ghz (cordless phones, 802.11b/g) is in the natural resonance frequency of water (think microwave ovens)". This is a common and oft-repeated idiocy. From http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/microwave_ovens. html, because I'm too lazy to write this myself:
November 2, 1999
My science book said that a microwave oven uses a laser resonating at the natural frequency of water. Does such a laser exist or was that a major typo?
It's a common misconception that the microwaves in a microwave oven excite a natural resonance in water. The frequency of a microwave oven is well below any natural resonance in an isolated water molecule, and in liquid water those resonances are so smeared out that they're barely noticeable anyway. It's kind of like playing a violin under water--the strings won't emit well-defined tones in water because the water impedes their vibrations. Similarly, water molecules don't emit (or absorb) well-defined tones in liquid water because their clinging neighbors impede their vibrations.
Instead of trying to interact through a natural resonance in water, a microwave oven just exposes the water molecules to the intense electromagnetic fields in strong, non-resonant microwaves. The frequency used in microwave ovens (2,450,000,000 cycles per second or 2.45 GHz) is a sensible but not unique choice. Waves of that frequency penetrate well into foods of reasonable size so that the heating is relatively uniform throughout the foods. Since leakage from these ovens makes the radio spectrum near 2.45 GHz unusable for communications, the frequency was chosen in part because it would not interfere with existing communication systems.
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Fact? Can you tell me how, barring technical issues (ie., limited accessibility of printing presses, etc.) or the very rare charitable tip-jar, you can declare that there exists a factual underpinning to your statement?
Almost as bad as a hardware guy with a compiler! :-)
Are you asserting that Bill Gates was a do nothing/know nothing kid?
He did actually have a technical background. Recall that he was instrumental in a lot of the early MS-BASIC development, and while not revered as a programmer, was spoken very well of for his ability to bum code down to fit into highly constrained memory.
Or did you just see this as an opportunity to press sour grapes and rant stupidly about the fact that you didn't make millions in the late 90s?
When you tag people as "the lucky ones" you give up all responsibility for your own failure, and you will never succeed except by luck. Way to give up.
Who will hear your question from the depths of a Spelling Nazi prison?
Out of curiosity, have you looked at something like Coral?
His point was that he was not critiquing "actual journalists".
Nice try, though.
JON STEWART IS A COMIC.
COMIC.
His job is to MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH. Anything else is a side effect.
He is the first one to mention that his show is a "fake news show" and that he follows a show where "puppets make prank phone calls."
I know you're just trolling, but don't assume that your lack of knowledge regarding economics is an indicator of the absence of economic theory and/or fact.
Almost everything has a value that can be expressed as a monetary price. Sometimes it's very near $0, because no one is willing to pay for it in the markets to which the seller has access (want to buy my runny poop? What about my runny poop mixed with the fermented poop of a million people?). Sometimes it's effectively infinite, like, say, the casket holding your dear, departed mother.
There are several bodies of theory regarding calculating prices for things with no objective value. These aren't limited just to "whatever the market will bear".
Linux has the advantage that you can calculate the economic impact in a pretty straightforward fashion without a lot of the cost-of-emotion math.
How much time has been spent on building Linux? How many people have obtained funds for selling Linux distributions? How much time has been spent/saved with Linux-based solutions? How much would it cost to reimplement Linux independently?
Yes, but what's the payback time with fossil fuels? 300 million years!
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There are reasons people have invented R/H/MOLAP systems, OR bridges, and the like -- it's unwieldy and often grossly inefficient to use SQL92 variants and normal RDBMS to solve some problems.
And no, it's not faster, cheaper, or more stable to do most useful OLAP or OR problems in RDBMS/SQL without an additional tool.
Your argument is pretty naive, so I'm guessing you also think any Turing language is as useful as the next.
To clarify your statement, are you saying that, because you can bodge your RDBMS into returning hierarchically-structured information, there is no reason to look for a more domain-specific abstraction?
Why use one line of code when you can use 20, that kind of thing?
Just checking.
You're obviously not hiring enough consultants. Dynamo works better the more consultants you throw at it.
I wouldn't generalise your iBook experience to apply to all Apple notebooks. I have the 15.2" 1.25Ghz PB and getting three hours of battery life is something rare and surprising enough to make me wet my pants in excitement. That's with aggressive screen brightness management (just one little box on the meter), aggressive CPU and HD power management, and appropriate offerings to the demonds of battery power drainage.
:-)
The new 15.2" PBs came with a smaller battery than previous models, which gives me about 2h if I don't make significant alterations to the way I use the computer between plugged and unplugged usage. (mainly screen brightness)
Regardless, the PB's battery life is an embarrassment on long airplane flights, especially if I'm seated next to someone with a T41 with the extended battery.
Bah, PC versions of games are just a five-year beta test for the Mac versions.
Since he mentioned my plasma, I had some additional thoughts on the matter.
:-)) but others may be important.
The consumer Panasonic comes with tuners (that model only comes with NTSC, not ATSC), HDMI input, two component inputs, speakers, stand, and an ugly grey bezel that the commercial version lacks. In addition, the consumer version has in-home service as part of the warranty -- the commercial warranty requires that you deliver the set to a Panasonic service center.
Some of these are of nominal value (speakers...
Right, but this is a boundary case for two reasons.
1) The vast majority of authors publish one title.
2) The vast majority of titles published do not generate lucrative sales.
Sure, Stephen King has the leverage to make this kind of ex post facto change to his contract, but Joe Schmoe definitely doesn't. As with the recording industry, the publisher holds most of the cards.
The concern isn't so much copyright (which a moron poster wittily quipped was "full of shit") but contract provisions. I.e., if you are an author with one of the standard contracts of a few years ago, and your work goes out of print for a given period of time, the publishing rights will revert to you. You can then find another publisher who may take a more active role in its distribution. However, if P-O-D makes it feasible to keep a work from going out of print by printing a limited number of copies per year, a publisher can maintain that control.
http://www.sa2.info/CONTRACTS/outofprint.html has a fairly easily understood explanation.
Sorry, I guess I forgot to tag my post with [smartass]...[/smartass]. In return, you forgot to mark yours with [dumbass].
Or, you spend the money on a one-time insurance policy, or an addition to your existing insurance policy, to turn that unpredictable massive expense into a planned recurring smaller expense.
Let the insurance company do the math on your 5%.
Sure, they pre-announce products all the time.
"Hey, look at this great iPod mini that you can place orders for now, but we won't actually ship for four months."
"Hey, look at this great new PowerBook you can order today, and we'll start shipping in six weeks!"
One issue is your #1, the NPV. I.e., $20 in six months is worth less than $20 today. The retailer gets the $20 today, and you get the $20 in six months, when you redeem the gc.
The other is what is called "breakage" -- you either fail to redeem the gc or don't redeem it in its entirety.
In #2 is the additional margin created by the S&H, often used to make up some of the loss associated with small orders. (i.e., in this example of $20)
Take a look at Dylan.
In re "2.4ghz (cordless phones, 802.11b/g) is in the natural resonance frequency of water (think microwave ovens)". This is a common and oft-repeated idiocy. From http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/microwave_ovens
Yet another data point supporting the theory that 90% of all Saturn automobiles are driven by nerds.
Anyone want to start a pool on when RIAA tries to shut down "Hamster", the Internet-based music swapping system?