The fact is that most students at Yale are very familiar with breaking copyright law, because they are not willing to give up learning about music just because they can't afford the $15 cost of each CD.
Don't you know your history. We don't find out about the really good stuff (tech and otherwise) until 10-20 years later. Look at WWII. We broke Engima, Purple, and JN25 early on in the war -- but the public didn't find out until decades after (1979 for Engima, IIRC). The atom bomb is probably the only exception, and that is a special case -- remember, we had none left when Japan surrendered
My dad has taught at a Catholic school for about 3 decades now. He's always jokingly said he should write a book on what he's seen over the years. He told me that the principal many years ago was this stoddgy old priest. One day he gave a sermon -- "Love is like a cancer - it grows and grows"
IF I could mod you to "+10, absolutely right", I would. You have hit the nail on the head. Most people realize (intuitively) that downloading music/movies/software is (at the very least) a victimless crime in that 99.99% of the stuff that is downloaded and not later bought would never have been bought anyway. I think the remainder is more than made up for by the increased sales due to increased exposure.
Seriously, Why can't Nasa subcontract out the space-freight part of their job (like all the communications companies do), and focus exclusviely on the science part of it? Also, bear in mind that generally, the private sector is a lot better about effeciency than the gov't.
The shuttle program (and the ISS) use up a disproportionaly large % of Nasas budget for the return. Look at hubble and Chandra and Cassini and Galileo -- they're giving us a boatload of useful data for a fraction of what the shuttle costs and gives us. I'm not saying that Nasa shouldn't put stuff into space, but it's gotten to the point where people think that's all they do (ala, referring to the shuttle as a freighter)
If a defect were discovered, they could park the shuttle at the ISS and do repairs there. Now, 3 to 6 crew on the ISS + 7 from the shuttle = 10 to 13 on the space station. According to this article, they could evacuate 6 in the emergency soyuz capsule. That would leave 1 extra crewman on the ISS, which I don't think would be a big deal (considering it was designed for a max crew of 6, according to the article)
The space shuttle is the only heavy freighter and the only means of putting a new ISS component in space."
I mean no insult to the story's submitter, but that kind of thinking is the heart of the problem. NASA is not a freight service - they're a space program, dammit. Their job is not hauling stuff into orbit, but doing real, hard science.
If they wanted, they could give Xbox-live subscriptions away for free. They have the funding to do it, and I seriously doubt anyone would pay for it without two of the biggest developers out there. So make it free (at least for a while) to encourage them to buy an X-box
It kinda sucks being distrusted and loathed by every other company in the market, doesn't it? They ruthlessly crushed everyone in the PC world, and now they wonder why no one wants to help them do the same in the console world.
I was just debating with a friend of mine yesterday (a hardcore advocate of Slackware, if that tell you something about him) about our computer engineering department. I'm the secretary for our IEEE chapter and I admin the IEEE lounge computers (soon to be 3). They run windows. The rest of the department, however, runs *nix (Mostly Debian, with some Solaris). Anyway, most of the Computer/Electrical undgrads *HATE* the lab, because we're expected to do most of our projects in there after about 15 minutes of a Linux how-to. So we're not talking about your average Joe-user, these are some very, very smart, soon-to-be engineers, and they don't really like the system
Anyway, my point is (and my friend agreed with me on this), if someone has to use the compuer systems, you can't force something unfamiliar and inherently unfriendly on them. And trying to do so will definetely foster anger.
Slashdot Mirror
Till they beam it straight into my mind?
The fact is that most students at Yale are very familiar with breaking copyright law, because they are not willing to give up learning about music just because they can't afford the $15 cost of each CD.
Does anyone else find that laughable?
"I am a teenager with no siblings and a a good number of little cousins."
Did anyone else read that and immediately wonder if this was spam or not?
In Soviet Russia, donut break you!!
(flame-retardent suit on)
This is certainly not something I would have expected from those freedom loving Germans (/flamesuit)
Metaman - The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism. It'll definetely change your views
You read my mind...
I can't live without seeing my daily share of tentacle rape! Whatever will I do?
A good punch to the spleen might finish him off
Do you save them to mod him up or down? ;-)
Don't you know your history. We don't find out about the really good stuff (tech and otherwise) until 10-20 years later. Look at WWII. We broke Engima, Purple, and JN25 early on in the war -- but the public didn't find out until decades after (1979 for Engima, IIRC). The atom bomb is probably the only exception, and that is a special case -- remember, we had none left when Japan surrendered
"Oh, the Jedis are going to feel this one."
My dad has taught at a Catholic school for about 3 decades now. He's always jokingly said he should write a book on what he's seen over the years. He told me that the principal many years ago was this stoddgy old priest. One day he gave a sermon -- "Love is like a cancer - it grows and grows"
IF I could mod you to "+10, absolutely right", I would. You have hit the nail on the head. Most people realize (intuitively) that downloading music/movies/software is (at the very least) a victimless crime in that 99.99% of the stuff that is downloaded and not later bought would never have been bought anyway. I think the remainder is more than made up for by the increased sales due to increased exposure.
Seriously, Why can't Nasa subcontract out the space-freight part of their job (like all the communications companies do), and focus exclusviely on the science part of it? Also, bear in mind that generally, the private sector is a lot better about effeciency than the gov't.
The shuttle program (and the ISS) use up a disproportionaly large % of Nasas budget for the return. Look at hubble and Chandra and Cassini and Galileo -- they're giving us a boatload of useful data for a fraction of what the shuttle costs and gives us. I'm not saying that Nasa shouldn't put stuff into space, but it's gotten to the point where people think that's all they do (ala, referring to the shuttle as a freighter)
If a defect were discovered, they could park the shuttle at the ISS and do repairs there. Now, 3 to 6 crew on the ISS + 7 from the shuttle = 10 to 13 on the space station. According to this article, they could evacuate 6 in the emergency soyuz capsule. That would leave 1 extra crewman on the ISS, which I don't think would be a big deal (considering it was designed for a max crew of 6, according to the article)
The space shuttle is the only heavy freighter and the only means of putting a new ISS component in space."
I mean no insult to the story's submitter, but that kind of thinking is the heart of the problem. NASA is not a freight service - they're a space program, dammit. Their job is not hauling stuff into orbit, but doing real, hard science.
Which is ironic, really, considering the FUDee.
Who would that be? The game buying public?
If they wanted, they could give Xbox-live subscriptions away for free. They have the funding to do it, and I seriously doubt anyone would pay for it without two of the biggest developers out there. So make it free (at least for a while) to encourage them to buy an X-box
It kinda sucks being distrusted and loathed by every other company in the market, doesn't it? They ruthlessly crushed everyone in the PC world, and now they wonder why no one wants to help them do the same in the console world.
Unlimited funding (or nearly so) does have a way of keeping unsuccessful buisness ventures alive.
I was just debating with a friend of mine yesterday (a hardcore advocate of Slackware, if that tell you something about him) about our computer engineering department. I'm the secretary for our IEEE chapter and I admin the IEEE lounge computers (soon to be 3). They run windows. The rest of the department, however, runs *nix (Mostly Debian, with some Solaris). Anyway, most of the Computer/Electrical undgrads *HATE* the lab, because we're expected to do most of our projects in there after about 15 minutes of a Linux how-to. So we're not talking about your average Joe-user, these are some very, very smart, soon-to-be engineers, and they don't really like the system
Anyway, my point is (and my friend agreed with me on this), if someone has to use the compuer systems, you can't force something unfamiliar and inherently unfriendly on them. And trying to do so will definetely foster anger.
(comic book guy voice)
How does a comic book sound?
No, I did mean the comic book guy. That cave you live in, it must run really deep, huh?
Because of my relexive dislike for anything french, I am almost inclined to support MS this time