Why don't they get paid an hourly wage (or a monthly salary) for the work that they do from some company (or from themselves) for the time they spend working?
Because their 'salary' is dependant on how many copies they sell...books, music, whatever. And the company who would pay them gets its money from where? Again...book sales. If on an hourly wage, NoNameBand would get just as much money as Pink Floyd. or the Stones. Pay the Stones more hourly? And how do you determine that? Through number of sales.
Books are the same. Should John Grisham or Stephen King get paid the same as Mr NewWriter, because they all took one year to write a book? No. More popular writers get more money, because they sell more books.
Are you saying that all coders are paid the same? How about all doctors? All auto mechanics? Nope. Those that are good at what they do (for the most part) get paid proportionally. John Grisham or Steven King would be able to command a higher wage. How are non-commission wages determined? I don't directly make money for the company that I work for, but I still get paid...
Let's also state there exists a replicator that can take a physical object and duplicate it effortlessly and at negligible cost. I'm going to get paid for the first gear of any ssize/style (and some percentage of the following gears that I duplicate from those people who are honest enough to buy from me).
But in the current Kazaa mindset, you get paid for the first gear, period. No royalities, no percentage. Nada. The replicator merely pumps out perfect copies for whomever wants one, and you get nothing. Meanwhile, many, many people get use of your efforts, with no effort on their part.
This is only partly correct. With the current "Kazaa mindset" you get paid for the the first gear and a percentage of the additional duplications (making no distinction here between authorized and unauthorized duplications). You can bet your house that more than one copy of any album is being sold. File sharing is just a convenient scapegoat for falling sales. Prices for CD's are actually rising. Charge more, sell less. Simple economics.
Change gear or book to Ferrari. The replicator pumps out perfect Testarossa's, and everybody has one. Devalueing the actual, from the factory, Redhead. Ferrari eventually goes out of business. Poof...no more Ferrari's, real or replicated.
Again...we have not 'stolen' a physical object, merely ripped a perfect copy.
How about those people that just have to have the new model before anyone else? You know there would be a number of people who wouldn't bat an eyelash at dropping half a million dollars on a new model Ferrari every year. Ferrari continues to sell to their target demographic: The insanely rich. The common man drives last year's model. Ferrari continues to come out with new designs. That's what they get paid for now.
I'm NOT saying the current RIAA model is correct. Far from it. But obtaining music without compensation to the artist/author is flat out wrong.
And I'm not saying that obtaining music without compensation is right. I'm just saying that it's not the same as stealing, and in my opinion has a much smaller impact.
Of course once that solid matter replicator exists, only new concepts will have value. What need have you for getting paid when anything you could possibly want is just a (free) replicator away?:o)
I don't feel that copyright infringement is equivalent to stealing. Illegal, sure. Wrong, yeah, but not as wrong as stealing physical goods.
I'm an electrician (or a plumber, or a short order cook). It doesn't matter. I get paid for what I do, not what I have done. What makes a writer (or a singer, or an actor or...) different? Why don't they get paid an hourly wage (or a monthly salary) for the work that they do from some company (or from themselves) for the time they spend working?
Here's a better (though fictional) analogy. I'm a machinist. I make gears. I don't get paid for the time that it takes me to make a gear, I get paid for the final result. Let's also state there exists a replicator that can take a physical object and duplicate it effortlessly and at negligible cost. I'm going to get paid for the first gear of any ssize/style (and some percentage of the following gears that I duplicate from those people who are honest enough to buy from me). I would love it if I could make one gear and retire on the royalties, but I can't. I have to continue to make new gears to get paid. Boo-hoo.
Yeah, yeah. We live in a society that has decided certain professions deserve residual payments for the work that they do. I don't agree with it (probably because I don't benefit from it), and I don't feel too bad when I hear about copyright infringement. So you're a starving artist? I'm sorry to hear it. I'm a starving ditch digger (cable technician, telephone support representative, auto mechanic). Nice to meet you.
Actually, GNUcash doesn't run on windows, the third 'platform' listed.
True. Actually, it isn't portable beyond systems that have GNOME 1.4 and a plethora of other libraries installed. It's also GTK-based. The huge number of dependencies in GNUCash are its greatest portability weakness, IMO. I doubt it would ever run on Windows without substantial re-engineering.
About the GTK base. If I remember correctly the GIMP is also GTK based. And it has been ported to Windows. Not to say that this would make porting GNUCash to Windows possible (I have no idea), just that the GTK dependance is not as big a limitation as you seem to imply...
Mind you, I think we're all in acronym hell nowadays anyway - for example ATM != ATM (Automatic Teller Machine != Asynchronous Transfer Mode) as just one example. Guess we'll have to switch to Acronyms Version 6 (Av6) soon because fo the namespace pollution:-)
It's all about the context.:o)
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Who'd have ever thought that I would be defending Windows? *shrug*
Just because the partition is identified as a DOS 5.0 partition doesn't mean that it has to be mounted as a drive letter. Mount that partition under Linux (or BSD or (if possible) VMS), and you won't access it using a drive letter.
The same can be said for Win2K. You can mount a drive as a non-letter volume, and the lower levels of Win2K don't use drive letters. Here's my boot.ini on my work PC (something like lilo.conf):
[boot loader] timeout=3 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0 )partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINN T="Microso ft Windows 2000 Professional"/fastdetect
It doesn't really work, though. Here is one example that has happened to me, although I've change the numbers and names here. Suppose your C:\ drive has 500 MB of free space, but your C:\Games directory is a different partition that has 20 GB of free disk space. Now suppose you buy Doom III, and it needs 2 GB of disk space. When the Doom III installer askes how much space is available on C:\ drive to ensure it has the space it needs to install the game, it will receive the answer that only 500 MB is available and will refuse to install in C:\Games (even though there is plenty of space available in that directory).
I'd have to disagree here. As stated above, my second drive is mounted as "Games". I don't have Doom III installed (obviously), but of the 6 or 7 games I have installed, none had a problem. My main drive only has about 500 MB left...
Your article only shows how to CHANGE the drive letter not how to have a drive WITHOUT a needed letter...
If there is already a drive letter assigned, click Remove. Next, click Add. When the Add New Drive Letter or Path dialog box opens, select the 'Mount in this NTFS folder' radio button and click Browse. Click Drive C to select it and then click New Folder. Name the folder and click OK.
I have never tried putting more than 10 drives in any system (nor have I had the onus of managing an Exchange server/cluster), so I can't verify if it is possible (although I guess I could partition a couple drives wildly. Hmmmm...). But the article does state how to remove the drive letter. Again, I have no empirical evidence that this will allow you to mount more than 26 drives.
While the parent that you responded to is a bit rude, he is (at least partly) correct. I have a Win2K Pro setup at home with two 4.2 GB drives. One of them is mounted as my C: and P: drives (the partition holding the P: drive is my page file), and the other is mounted as a directory under "Program Files" called "Games". It has no drive letter.
I don't know if this was possible in NT, but here is an article on how it's done in 2000 or XP.
The fine particals are the main problem with diesel engines.
I hate to be a stickler, but the problem is not so much with diesel engines, as with the sulfur content of the fuel. Which is the impetus for the Diesel Fuel Sulfur Control Requirements Perhaps you knew, perhaps you didn't.
If you have access to the box, wouldn't running "netstat -lp" be quicker than "nmap"? Unless, of course, the "cracker" has replaced the netstat executable... It would be a place to start though.
Thanks for making the segue into the RIAA. I have a question:
How where these numbers "stolen"? They are just information, just copies. If they where music files on Kazaa, they wouldn't be "stolen", they would be "duplicated without authorization". Sure, Slashdot is made up of lots of people, and some feel that music file sharing is theft, but I did a search at -1, and I didn't see a single post making this connection. Not one. What's the difference here?
Hmmm... Offtopic? Troll? Flamebait? Insightful? Funny? Where's the moderator's dart board when you need it?
That was a great (but tragic) episode. Two ten hour days of work ending in disaster. If only they had left the line (chain? cable?) attached to the Mini taut.
For anyone who missed it, one team built a > 4 story tall trebuchet (the other build a elastic powered ballista) and left the Mini directly under the axis. The trebuchet arm got a fair bit of momentum up before all the slack was taken out of the line connecting the trowing arm to the mini. The Mini did move, but hardly left the ground, and was flung the wrong way. The trebuchet turned back into a pile of rubble.
Where this libertarian argument breaks down is when you consider the healthcare dollars.
This shows that you don't fully understand the libertarian argument.
Healthcare shouldn't be subsidized.
Funding healthcare for everyone, regardless of their unhealthy habits, is astronomically expensive.
If you have unhealthy habits (drug use, promiscuous sex, etc.) YOUR healthcare costs are astronomical. For those who take care of themselves (and are naturally healthy, I do feel for those that suffer from chronic ailments...) costs would be reasonable.
Parts of South America is destroying the enviroment and a much more staggering rate, and whats worse, they have no other option if they want to feed their kids.
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Are you saying that all coders are paid the same? How about all doctors? All auto mechanics? Nope. Those that are good at what they do (for the most part) get paid proportionally. John Grisham or Steven King would be able to command a higher wage. How are non-commission wages determined? I don't directly make money for the company that I work for, but I still get paid...
This is only partly correct. With the current "Kazaa mindset" you get paid for the the first gear and a percentage of the additional duplications (making no distinction here between authorized and unauthorized duplications). You can bet your house that more than one copy of any album is being sold. File sharing is just a convenient scapegoat for falling sales. Prices for CD's are actually rising. Charge more, sell less. Simple economics.
How about those people that just have to have the new model before anyone else? You know there would be a number of people who wouldn't bat an eyelash at dropping half a million dollars on a new model Ferrari every year. Ferrari continues to sell to their target demographic: The insanely rich. The common man drives last year's model. Ferrari continues to come out with new designs. That's what they get paid for now.
And I'm not saying that obtaining music without compensation is right. I'm just saying that it's not the same as stealing, and in my opinion has a much smaller impact.
Of course once that solid matter replicator exists, only new concepts will have value. What need have you for getting paid when anything you could possibly want is just a (free) replicator away?
I don't feel that copyright infringement is equivalent to stealing. Illegal, sure. Wrong, yeah, but not as wrong as stealing physical goods.
I'm an electrician (or a plumber, or a short order cook). It doesn't matter. I get paid for what I do, not what I have done. What makes a writer (or a singer, or an actor or...) different? Why don't they get paid an hourly wage (or a monthly salary) for the work that they do from some company (or from themselves) for the time they spend working?
Here's a better (though fictional) analogy. I'm a machinist. I make gears. I don't get paid for the time that it takes me to make a gear, I get paid for the final result. Let's also state there exists a replicator that can take a physical object and duplicate it effortlessly and at negligible cost. I'm going to get paid for the first gear of any ssize/style (and some percentage of the following gears that I duplicate from those people who are honest enough to buy from me). I would love it if I could make one gear and retire on the royalties, but I can't. I have to continue to make new gears to get paid. Boo-hoo.
Yeah, yeah. We live in a society that has decided certain professions deserve residual payments for the work that they do. I don't agree with it (probably because I don't benefit from it), and I don't feel too bad when I hear about copyright infringement. So you're a starving artist? I'm sorry to hear it. I'm a starving ditch digger (cable technician, telephone support representative, auto mechanic). Nice to meet you.
About the GTK base. If I remember correctly the GIMP is also GTK based. And it has been ported to Windows. Not to say that this would make porting GNUCash to Windows possible (I have no idea), just that the GTK dependance is not as big a limitation as you seem to imply...
Hard to belive that everyone that came in contact with him would share that opinion. How could his reputation be so positive?
Thanks, I liked it enough to save it. I certainly can't claim credit for creating it...
It's all about the context.
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
And besides, where does the money that corporations pay in taxes come from? They certainly don't pull it out of the ether...
Higher corporate taxes mean higher prices for goods and services.
Who'd have ever thought that I would be defending Windows? *shrug*
0 )partition(1)\WINNTN T="Microso ft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
Just because the partition is identified as a DOS 5.0 partition doesn't mean that it has to be mounted as a drive letter. Mount that partition under Linux (or BSD or (if possible) VMS), and you won't access it using a drive letter.
The same can be said for Win2K. You can mount a drive as a non-letter volume, and the lower levels of Win2K don't use drive letters. Here's my boot.ini on my work PC (something like lilo.conf):
[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WIN
Not a drive letter to be seen.
I'd have to disagree here. As stated above, my second drive is mounted as "Games". I don't have Doom III installed (obviously), but of the 6 or 7 games I have installed, none had a problem. My main drive only has about 500 MB left...
If there is already a drive letter assigned, click Remove. Next, click Add. When the Add New Drive Letter or Path dialog box opens, select the 'Mount in this NTFS folder' radio button and click Browse. Click Drive C to select it and then click New Folder. Name the folder and click OK.
I have never tried putting more than 10 drives in any system (nor have I had the onus of managing an Exchange server/cluster), so I can't verify if it is possible (although I guess I could partition a couple drives wildly. Hmmmm...). But the article does state how to remove the drive letter. Again, I have no empirical evidence that this will allow you to mount more than 26 drives.
Sorry it wasn't any more help.
While the parent that you responded to is a bit rude, he is (at least partly) correct. I have a Win2K Pro setup at home with two 4.2 GB drives. One of them is mounted as my C: and P: drives (the partition holding the P: drive is my page file), and the other is mounted as a directory under "Program Files" called "Games". It has no drive letter.
I don't know if this was possible in NT, but here is an article on how it's done in 2000 or XP.
I hate to be a stickler, but the problem is not so much with diesel engines, as with the sulfur content of the fuel. Which is the impetus for the Diesel Fuel Sulfur Control Requirements Perhaps you knew, perhaps you didn't.
It's in the Mac section because the PowerSchool Server only runs on a Mac.
Last I heard, it isn't even a native OS X application. They might have changed that by now.
Yes. It's there to prevent "page widening posts". Imagine this without spaces. You'd be scrolling sideways for ages.
You forgot:
Over Internet2.
Just a quick question...
If you have access to the box, wouldn't running "netstat -lp" be quicker than "nmap"? Unless, of course, the "cracker" has replaced the netstat executable... It would be a place to start though.
Submit the story anyways... Who knows, CmdrTaco might find it interesting...
Thanks for making the segue into the RIAA. I have a question:
How where these numbers "stolen"? They are just information, just copies. If they where music files on Kazaa, they wouldn't be "stolen", they would be "duplicated without authorization". Sure, Slashdot is made up of lots of people, and some feel that music file sharing is theft, but I did a search at -1, and I didn't see a single post making this connection. Not one. What's the difference here?
Hmmm... Offtopic? Troll? Flamebait? Insightful? Funny? Where's the moderator's dart board when you need it?
That was a great (but tragic) episode. Two ten hour days of work ending in disaster. If only they had left the line (chain? cable?) attached to the Mini taut.
For anyone who missed it, one team built a > 4 story tall trebuchet (the other build a elastic powered ballista) and left the Mini directly under the axis. The trebuchet arm got a fair bit of momentum up before all the slack was taken out of the line connecting the trowing arm to the mini. The Mini did move, but hardly left the ground, and was flung the wrong way. The trebuchet turned back into a pile of rubble.
Quite the disappointment.
When was the last time you saw someone actually look over the credit card receipt they signed?
...
How many people do you think even thoroughly scan the paper work when
Signing a car-purchase contract?
Opening a new bank account?
Signing a mortgage?
If software licences require a signature, people will do it just as blindly.
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To clarify, a RHCE gained during the 8.0 Training course will not be valid for RedHat 10.0 and above. If that's what you meant, you were correct.
But I'm not going to worry avout that until He brings charges.
This shows that you don't fully understand the libertarian argument.
Healthcare shouldn't be subsidized.
If you have unhealthy habits (drug use, promiscuous sex, etc.) YOUR healthcare costs are astronomical. For those who take care of themselves (and are naturally healthy, I do feel for those that suffer from chronic ailments...) costs would be reasonable.
But this has gotten WAY off topic.
Make fewer kids.