Note: given the sheer amount of pollution, you should probably only do the following to prove a point, and little else.
First, buy hundreds, if not thousands of cheap mylar helium balloons. Then, strap a tiny computer, a geek stick full of pirated material, a cheap wifi WAP/w antenna booster, and a battery pack to each bundle of balloons. Release them over the area by the hundreds over the west coast of a continent, doing so from pickup trucks at random locations. The mylar balloons last for well over a week, and (at least somewhat) reflect radar signals so that aircraft could avoid them if need be.
Pros: They're too small to waste A/A or SAM weaponry on, if you knock one down there's hundreds more, and they can be launched with some modicum of stealth.
Cons: Not certain how reliable any given one would be, they could be hijacked (though they could be hardened), and you'll have little control over their flight path. In aggregate, it'll be a bit pricey to do, and you'd have to buy your helium a little at a time to avoid notice.
Basically what sibling said. I believe that the ISP's actions with regard to snooping for copyright violations places them firmly under the "preponderance of evidence" in a civil case for not catching identity thieves, pedophiles, and sundry.
(The old pre-breakup) AT&T was able to establish common carrier because it studiously avoided monitoring calls, and claimed themselves as a dumb pipe. The ISPs up until now were able to do this as well... but the moment they start monitoring and acting on subscriber activities, they start carrying liability.
That said, if someone sues a person for child porn (of their kid), could they not sue the ISP for not stopping it?
After all, the ISPs involved have proven that not only *can* they monitor content and act on it, but that they *do* monitor content - and act on it. In a civil case, this should be sufficient to make the target ISP liable... and companies like Comcast or Verizon have a whole lot more money than Joe Pedo will, making them one hell of a ripe target for any lawyer in such a situation.
* Apple doesn't really care (each copy of OSX/iOS runs on Apple-sold hardware, and Apple is mostly consumer-oriented these days anyway, so...) * What does Dell have software-wise that would get the BSA all hot and bothered? PERC raid card drivers?...now Adobe, Oracle, and those boys? Oh yeah, they'd get hot and bothered about business copying, but how ubiquitous are these apps in the business world? Photoshop is mostly restricted to marketing and graphic arts departments. Oracle is mostly big enterprise-level stuff, where folks use RFP/RFQs to purchase the things. Nearly every other member of the BSA is similarly a niche player.
On the other hand, Microsoft has their fingers in (nearly) the entire business world, and most cases (IIRC) are instigated over Microsoft software. So it stands to reason that the biggest beneficiary (and most likely the biggest backer) is, well, Microsoft.
In the 1970s model, you pay $25000 for $2000 worth of hardware upfront (as a depreciating 2-3 year asset), pay for a support contract for that hardware (maybe $2000/year and if it fails it gets replaced for free, otherwise you pay $25000 to replace it), and you get all your software for free.
Heh - just like buying anything today labeled "NetApp", "EMC", "Cisco"...;)
But yeah, I grok the consumer allergy towards paying for something when it's computer-related. On the other hand, for most of 'em, the solution usually means re-installing the OS (blasting all their data into the ether and either doing without, or reconstructing it from a zillion burned CD's and SD cards), or they just go out and buy a new computer (again, the data thing). They have a whole different set of priorities, and little-to-no sense of what most enterprises worry about: backups, data integrity, hardware longevity, reliability/uptime, etc. Mention an SLA to a typical consumer and they'd stare at you cross-eyed.
The majority want computers that work, but they also don't want to pay for it.
...unless "they" are business and enterprise customers, and then they'll buy it even if they don't really need it. Then again, RHEL licensing does include binary patches.
If you don't believe me, tell your family member to go to Geek Squad to get their computer fixed. They'll balk at the $40/hour charges, and see no reason why you can't spend the 20 hours it takes to fix up their computer.
And if you're trying to do computer support, be prepared to have your clients spend hours dickering over every hour you charge. You billed 10 hours, they'll ding it down to 9 and waste 4 hours of your time doing so.
And no, it doesn't matter what profession the client is - lawyers will dicker just as hard (or harder) over that hour that they charge $200/hr for.
...they can dicker all they want, but professionally, the price remains the same, and in most cases you get exactly what you pay for (and professionally, you'd better already have a solid contract in place for that sort of thing).
Well, until it comes time to decide who "the best young people" are, that is.
Then there's all those forced abortions and sterilizations, and even w/o the question of forced abortions, I'm pretty certain that most people would object to being forcibly sterilized.
Funny, but in most wealthy countries, and even in countries with politically stable and affluent (read: "not worried about starvation") populations, the birth rates are either holding steady or dropping (not counting growth due to immigration).
Now obviously you can't solve the world's population growth via making everyone wealthy, or even by making sure that no one ever starves again. On the other hand, you can try to foster politically stable, peaceful societies as a good first start.
As for the rest, let's start looking beyond Earth as a place to expand our population. Obviously not tomorrow morning, or even a decade hence, but maybe have a target date of 100 years from now.
Otherwise, the only other alternative is a mass die-off... which I suspect few would actually want.
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If someone else has to be snuffed in order for me to receive a transplanted organ, I do not want it - no matter how badly I may need it.
Here is exactly where your theory went 'splat': You're operating under the assumption that the iOS version of Angry Birds is only available as a paid app (hint: your assumption is bad - the numbers presented bear me out on that). There is zero mention of the revenue made in ad revenue from the iOS ad-supported version (if you assume that the purported $1m/mo. is all from Android ad-supported apps - any other alternative doesn't help you either).
The author's theory is that ad-supported makes more money than paid versions, but makes zero distinctions as to whether the Android version of the ad-supported app makes more money than the iOS version of the ad-supported app.
QED: You screwed up in choosing your cite, because it doesn't support your conclusion at all.
You may want to actually read the site that you cite, because it doesn't support your claim, at all.
The author of the article said that the ad-supported version of Angry Birds makes more money for them than the paid version, and is only speculating that based on a predicted $1m in ad revenue per month. There was further speculation that this may be because Android's marketplace is limited in scope and "not too great."
Seriously - that leap you made to your conclusion is over an awfully large gap.
I use CenturyLink out here in the sticks, and my wee 8Mbit line averages 36ms to the nearest test server according to speedtest.net. Picking something known to be slow, such as a former employer's UEN (Utah Education Network) server gives me 77ms. SanFran from here (Oregon) gives me 56ms. Funny thing is, it even feels snappier than my previous Comcast line in Portland, which was an alleged 20Mbit (latencies were dog-slow, 80-100ms at times at level best).
A lot of it depends on the local infrastructure, and your own in-home bits. For example, until I rectified things, my Ubuntu install had some rather horrendous lag. May want to check there too.
Hell, back in the day I averaged 250ms from a 28.8K modem connection in rural Arkansas... (28,800 was the best you could hope for given the local telecom infrastructure, no matter how fast your modem was). An LPB (low-pinged bastard) could average 100ms to many servers, and latency of 50 wasn't unheard of.
...until the network equipment/connection at Acme SmallBiz Inc. goes 'splat', their cloud goes down for more than a few hours due to some stupid bug, the A/P department goofs a payment or two to the cloud provider causing a disconnection, or Joe Overworked at Cloud, Inc. decides that he can make oodles of money selling some of the juicier trade secrets to the black market, or...
Yeah. Not seeing the Cloud (cue choir music) as the big panacea that all the Cloud retailers present it as.
Hell, I'd be happy if they just re-introduced Rhetoric and Logic as required courses. That alone would knock out at least half of the garbage we have to put up with in both media and society...
Well, if the system is based on the same air curtain setup as a hovercraft, liquefaction is a non-issue. Now landslides OTOH may be a bit tougher to contend with...
Depends... housing ain't cheap in Japan, and getting a new one may be hellishly expensive when compared to keeping your old one from coming apart.
Also, what's easier, saving the house (and everything in it), or rebuilding from scratch? It's not just the cost of the house you have to keep in mind, but the cost of all the stuff in it, and the expense + time spent living out of a hotel room (or with relatives) until your house gets rebuilt.
Your sermon doesn't make his point any less correct.
On an objective level men (generally) behaved like gentlemen a century ago, because not doing so ran the risk of injury or death by the offended party and/or that party's spouse. Even as late as 50 years ago? If you mouthed off to someone or screwed them over in some way, they could break your nose with near-impunity, and odds were good that no jury would convict them for doing so - because quite frankly you 'had it coming'.
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Not too hard to do - just need enough money.
Note: given the sheer amount of pollution, you should probably only do the following to prove a point, and little else.
First, buy hundreds, if not thousands of cheap mylar helium balloons. Then, strap a tiny computer, a geek stick full of pirated material, a cheap wifi WAP /w antenna booster, and a battery pack to each bundle of balloons. Release them over the area by the hundreds over the west coast of a continent, doing so from pickup trucks at random locations. The mylar balloons last for well over a week, and (at least somewhat) reflect radar signals so that aircraft could avoid them if need be.
Pros: They're too small to waste A/A or SAM weaponry on, if you knock one down there's hundreds more, and they can be launched with some modicum of stealth.
Cons: Not certain how reliable any given one would be, they could be hijacked (though they could be hardened), and you'll have little control over their flight path. In aggregate, it'll be a bit pricey to do, and you'd have to buy your helium a little at a time to avoid notice.
Basically what sibling said. I believe that the ISP's actions with regard to snooping for copyright violations places them firmly under the "preponderance of evidence" in a civil case for not catching identity thieves, pedophiles, and sundry.
(The old pre-breakup) AT&T was able to establish common carrier because it studiously avoided monitoring calls, and claimed themselves as a dumb pipe. The ISPs up until now were able to do this as well... but the moment they start monitoring and acting on subscriber activities, they start carrying liability.
That said, if someone sues a person for child porn (of their kid), could they not sue the ISP for not stopping it?
After all, the ISPs involved have proven that not only *can* they monitor content and act on it, but that they *do* monitor content - and act on it. In a civil case, this should be sufficient to make the target ISP liable... and companies like Comcast or Verizon have a whole lot more money than Joe Pedo will, making them one hell of a ripe target for any lawyer in such a situation.
"Common carrier", you say? Not anymore.
The answer is simple for many of them:
* Apple doesn't really care (each copy of OSX/iOS runs on Apple-sold hardware, and Apple is mostly consumer-oriented these days anyway, so...) ...now Adobe, Oracle, and those boys? Oh yeah, they'd get hot and bothered about business copying, but how ubiquitous are these apps in the business world? Photoshop is mostly restricted to marketing and graphic arts departments. Oracle is mostly big enterprise-level stuff, where folks use RFP/RFQs to purchase the things. Nearly every other member of the BSA is similarly a niche player.
* What does Dell have software-wise that would get the BSA all hot and bothered? PERC raid card drivers?
On the other hand, Microsoft has their fingers in (nearly) the entire business world, and most cases (IIRC) are instigated over Microsoft software. So it stands to reason that the biggest beneficiary (and most likely the biggest backer) is, well, Microsoft.
In the 1970s model, you pay $25000 for $2000 worth of hardware upfront (as a depreciating 2-3 year asset), pay for a support contract for that hardware (maybe $2000/year and if it fails it gets replaced for free, otherwise you pay $25000 to replace it), and you get all your software for free.
Heh - just like buying anything today labeled "NetApp", "EMC", "Cisco"... ;)
But yeah, I grok the consumer allergy towards paying for something when it's computer-related. On the other hand, for most of 'em, the solution usually means re-installing the OS (blasting all their data into the ether and either doing without, or reconstructing it from a zillion burned CD's and SD cards), or they just go out and buy a new computer (again, the data thing). They have a whole different set of priorities, and little-to-no sense of what most enterprises worry about: backups, data integrity, hardware longevity, reliability/uptime, etc. Mention an SLA to a typical consumer and they'd stare at you cross-eyed.
How better does one answer a subjective and unsubstantiated claim, especially in this context?
The majority want computers that work, but they also don't want to pay for it.
...unless "they" are business and enterprise customers, and then they'll buy it even if they don't really need it. Then again, RHEL licensing does include binary patches.
If you don't believe me, tell your family member to go to Geek Squad to get their computer fixed. They'll balk at the $40/hour charges, and see no reason why you can't spend the 20 hours it takes to fix up their computer.
And if you're trying to do computer support, be prepared to have your clients spend hours dickering over every hour you charge. You billed 10 hours, they'll ding it down to 9 and waste 4 hours of your time doing so.
And no, it doesn't matter what profession the client is - lawyers will dicker just as hard (or harder) over that hour that they charge $200/hr for.
...they can dicker all they want, but professionally, the price remains the same, and in most cases you get exactly what you pay for (and professionally, you'd better already have a solid contract in place for that sort of thing).
Thanks for providing a perfect example of his point. ;)
If you're well and truly dead, cool - I'll be certainly grateful.
I just don't want some jackass calling you dead prematurely just to harvest 'em.
Well, until it comes time to decide who "the best young people" are, that is.
Then there's all those forced abortions and sterilizations, and even w/o the question of forced abortions, I'm pretty certain that most people would object to being forcibly sterilized.
Well, on a purely objective level, mass death would sort of solve the problem too, according to these folks...
Funny, but in most wealthy countries, and even in countries with politically stable and affluent (read: "not worried about starvation") populations, the birth rates are either holding steady or dropping (not counting growth due to immigration).
Now obviously you can't solve the world's population growth via making everyone wealthy, or even by making sure that no one ever starves again. On the other hand, you can try to foster politically stable, peaceful societies as a good first start.
As for the rest, let's start looking beyond Earth as a place to expand our population. Obviously not tomorrow morning, or even a decade hence, but maybe have a target date of 100 years from now.
Otherwise, the only other alternative is a mass die-off... which I suspect few would actually want.
If someone else has to be snuffed in order for me to receive a transplanted organ, I do not want it - no matter how badly I may need it.
Here is exactly where your theory went 'splat': You're operating under the assumption that the iOS version of Angry Birds is only available as a paid app (hint: your assumption is bad - the numbers presented bear me out on that). There is zero mention of the revenue made in ad revenue from the iOS ad-supported version (if you assume that the purported $1m/mo. is all from Android ad-supported apps - any other alternative doesn't help you either).
The author's theory is that ad-supported makes more money than paid versions, but makes zero distinctions as to whether the Android version of the ad-supported app makes more money than the iOS version of the ad-supported app.
QED: You screwed up in choosing your cite, because it doesn't support your conclusion at all.
You may want to actually read the site that you cite, because it doesn't support your claim, at all.
The author of the article said that the ad-supported version of Angry Birds makes more money for them than the paid version, and is only speculating that based on a predicted $1m in ad revenue per month. There was further speculation that this may be because Android's marketplace is limited in scope and "not too great."
Seriously - that leap you made to your conclusion is over an awfully large gap.
Sometimes that isn't possible.
I use CenturyLink out here in the sticks, and my wee 8Mbit line averages 36ms to the nearest test server according to speedtest.net. Picking something known to be slow, such as a former employer's UEN (Utah Education Network) server gives me 77ms. SanFran from here (Oregon) gives me 56ms. Funny thing is, it even feels snappier than my previous Comcast line in Portland, which was an alleged 20Mbit (latencies were dog-slow, 80-100ms at times at level best).
A lot of it depends on the local infrastructure, and your own in-home bits. For example, until I rectified things, my Ubuntu install had some rather horrendous lag. May want to check there too.
No need to be anon to post that... it's true.
Hell, back in the day I averaged 250ms from a 28.8K modem connection in rural Arkansas... (28,800 was the best you could hope for given the local telecom infrastructure, no matter how fast your modem was). An LPB (low-pinged bastard) could average 100ms to many servers, and latency of 50 wasn't unheard of.
Mind you, this was in 1998-1999.
...until the network equipment/connection at Acme SmallBiz Inc. goes 'splat', their cloud goes down for more than a few hours due to some stupid bug, the A/P department goofs a payment or two to the cloud provider causing a disconnection, or Joe Overworked at Cloud, Inc. decides that he can make oodles of money selling some of the juicier trade secrets to the black market, or...
Yeah. Not seeing the Cloud (cue choir music) as the big panacea that all the Cloud retailers present it as.
Hell, I'd be happy if they just re-introduced Rhetoric and Logic as required courses. That alone would knock out at least half of the garbage we have to put up with in both media and society...
I wish they would stop breading......
...so what if they used a Panko crust instead? Would you be okay with that, or are you one of those traditional grill-only types?
Well, if the system is based on the same air curtain setup as a hovercraft, liquefaction is a non-issue. Now landslides OTOH may be a bit tougher to contend with...
Depends... housing ain't cheap in Japan, and getting a new one may be hellishly expensive when compared to keeping your old one from coming apart.
Also, what's easier, saving the house (and everything in it), or rebuilding from scratch? It's not just the cost of the house you have to keep in mind, but the cost of all the stuff in it, and the expense + time spent living out of a hotel room (or with relatives) until your house gets rebuilt.
Your sermon doesn't make his point any less correct.
On an objective level men (generally) behaved like gentlemen a century ago, because not doing so ran the risk of injury or death by the offended party and/or that party's spouse. Even as late as 50 years ago? If you mouthed off to someone or screwed them over in some way, they could break your nose with near-impunity, and odds were good that no jury would convict them for doing so - because quite frankly you 'had it coming'.
Today, things are a whole lot different.
...especially in the corporate world, where the vast majority of Blackberries in use are.
(I suspect Canada has sexual harassment laws, yes? This one's begging to spawn a few.)
How about a real woman's breasts undulating in front of you?
You forgot which website you posted this on again, didn't you?