Ted Dziuba is trying to tell people who code in their own time to get a life and do other things like start up relationships, live life, get married, save up for a house or car, etc.
Zoolib at Source Force under the MIT open source license. It has a flat file database format, exists for multiple platforms, has platform-independent thread and mutex classes, graphical user interface toolbox, thread-safe reference counted smart pointers, file access, TCP networking. You can ask the main developers Andy Green or Michael Crawford to port it to a new platform that isn't supported yet, but it supports all of the platforms listed on the source forge page.
The flat file database support is designed in Zoolib so that you can email someone the database file and they can click on it and open it up as an email attachment.
he does not want Google to stop linking to and indexing content on his web sites, he wants Google to pay for linking to and indexing content on his web site. He does that by stating in the DMCA that his articles are copyrighted materials and that web search engines that link to them and index the words of those copyrighted materials are illegal because they didn't license the content.
This is really no different than what the MPAA and RIAA do to people on Youtube and other video sites that use song and movie clips as part of people's own projects and videos. They take them down, or sue them for damages.
I think Mr. Murdoch knows how the Internet and Google works, but the robots.txt advice isn't really helping and just adding noise to the debate. Mr. Murdoch does not want to block Google access to his web site, because he wants Google and other search engines to drive visitors to his web site like any other web site corporate owner would want. But this is where it takes a strange twist, Murdoch wants Google to pay for each link and web cache of every one of his corporation's articles. If that happens and the court rules in his favor, other companies will want Google, et all to pay to index and link to their content and then Google and other search engines will go out of business or change their business model to allow 25 searches a day via IP address and registered user, and then unlimited web searches for paying members for premium web searching access starting at $35 a month and $55 a month without the advertising and pop-ups and then $100 a month to not have bandwidth capped to a slower speed plus the no advertising and pop-ups, etc. Forcing Google out of the free web search service and into a commercial business plan.
back in 1995 I ran a small business that did Linux installs for companies to replace Windows NT Server systems with Linux plus Samba. We used Slackware Linux and then later Red Hat, but it did Windows file and printer sharing for Windows clients and saved those businesses thousands in Windows Server licenses.
But when Active Directory came out, companies switched back to Windows Server, because Linux and Samba lacked that. Exchange can be done via OpenExchange and use MySQL or PostgreSQL instead of SQL Server.
Linux has to match Windows Server feature by feature in order to compete with it, and be used. Linux might never replace Windows on the desktop, but it can replace Windows on the server as Unix and Linux are designed as server operating systems.
All of those API calls that expected 64 bits will break as their 64 bit variables will be overflowed with larger numbers. Software will need to be modified and recompiled or run in yet another XPM XP Virtual Machine.
So far Windows 7 and the XP Virtual Machine uses SP3 and has limited 3D Graphics abilities, so Games will have a hard time playing old games like Warlords IV on it. Warlords IV and other games don't run on Vista or Windows 7, I am guessing because of all of the API changes and addressing changes.
In the 64 bit operating systems the 16 bit MS-DOS and 16 bit Windows software cannot run, you'd need the 32 bit version or use a virtual machine for that. Windows 7 XPM XP Mode only works with certain VT features and won't run on all systems, so some systems won't have a Virtual machine unless they run VMWare, VirtualBox, or something else like QEMU or BOCHS.
I am guessing 128 bit addressing on a 64 bit processor is like doing bank switching on the old 6502 and 8088 processors to access more RAM. It seems with each new release of Windows, more and more RAM is needed to run it faster, and Windows 8 is going to be a big memory hog that needs 128 Bit addressing to access a huge amount of RAM. Am I right?
one time shut off my DSL account. I was downloading a Red Hat Linux ISO file via BitTorrent. I called them up and they claimed they saw virus like activity on my connection and then shut off my Internet access to prevent my computer from infecting others. I told them I would remove the virus and they said they would restore access. I had to set my BitTorrent program to use a lower setting for bandwidth to avoid tripping off their false positive virus detection. I switched to a different DSL ISP after that.
$60 games rarely come down to $5 used after a few months. More like $30 or $40.
You don't know if you like a video game if you have never played it. Buying it used for $30 to $40 and then finding out you don't like it is wasting your money, isn't it? The $5 rental is good enough to figure out if you like the video game or not. You could go through a lot of rentals and weed out the bad video games and only buy the ones you like, or the alternative is to keep buying $30 to $40 used video games without trying them out first and then selling them back for pennies on the dollar as the Game Stores are rigged to buy the games cheap and then sell them for more than that.
You rent 10 games, costing $50 and then you buy 3 of them for $90, it would be cheaper than buying 10 games for $30 each and then discovering that you only like 3 of them but hate 7 of them. $140 spent my way, $300 spent your way. Which one would you rather do again?
Lawyers who are creme of the crop and win a lot of tough cases, cannot figure out simple stuff about computers.
I was once told that my program didn't work because the mouse wouldn't click on a button, only to learn the lawyer was using the right button instead of the left button. I nicely told the lawyer to try the left button and he got upset at me and claimed the fault was with my program, not him. Then after calling me a lot of bad names and saying stuff like "Trained monkeys could do a better job than the entire IT department." he tried the left button and it worked.
I also got help desk requests from lawyers and administrative assistants to add in features to my programs that where already there. They didn't know how to access them, so I wrote an email containing an HOWTO to the Help Desk to forward to them, and they got upset at me and asked me to add in the features anyway. We had a training department that is supposed to teach them the features, we had a user manual about the features, we had the help menu about the features, but still they kept requesting the same features that the software already had, but they didn't know how to access them.
I suppose they are good at their jobs, but not computer literate enough to matter. Then again, I am no lawyer and I wouldn't do well in a court of law representing a client as they obviously would.
It is common sense that if a part of a computer is missing you don't make a claim that "I cannot log in" you make a complaint that "part of my computer equipment is missing and I cannot do my work without it." Even a Patent Lawyer should be able to understand that as logic, reason, and common sense are things they learn or use to earn a law degree and pass a bar exam.
If the engine of his car was missing, do you think he'd complain that the car wouldn't start? No, he'd file a police report that someone stole his engine.
#1 Check out a book, get a 90 day period to read it. #2 After 90 days return it, or renew it for another 90 days. #3 After the check out time expires the PDF DRM locks you out of the book, but you can click renew and renew it if another copy is available, if not wait until a copy is available.
Google Books is a good start, it could easily be turned into an ebook library. Scribd.com has many free eBooks plus eBooks people can publish and other people can buy. It used to be flooded with pirated eBooks, but they cleaned it up I think. It could become an eBook library as well.
I did buy a boxed copy of Windows 7 Pro Upgrade for me, and Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for my son at half price during the upgrade sale before July 11th. I preordered and have to wait until October 22nd.
But it looks like I'll have to wait until I can afford to upgrade the RAM, and my son's TI Wireless card does not have Windows 7 support as far as I know, so I might have to buy him a new wireless card.
There exists alternatives VirtualBox from Sun is free, but you need a legit copy of Windows XP Pro (Home Edition won't do due to Microsoft's EULA license for emulators and virtual machines) to run inside of it. Pricewatch.com sells OEM versions of XP Pro for $99 to $139 IIRC from various vendors. But I would recommend the Windows 2000 Pro version for old legacy software as it doesn't have the annoying WGA nag and activation hassles and requires less money and still runs a majority of 32 bit programs, just not programs that need Windows XP SP2 or SP3, if you need that then get Win XP Pro instead and deal with the hassles.
Because the 32 Bit version works with Windows Legacy Software like 16 bit MS-DOS and 16 bit Windows 3.X programs and 32 bit Winodws 9X, 2000, and XP programs. Whatever Windows 7 32 bit cannot run the XP SP3 Virtual PC mode is supposed to run but only for the Windows 7 Pro and up systems.
But now Microsoft requires that systems be 64 Bit capable before passing the Windows 7 compatible label, because 64 Bit systems usually have better graphics cards and more RAM and bigger hard drives than the old 32 Bit systems like my father uses that can only go to 512M of RAM and run with less than 2.0 Ghz Pentium 4 Processors and only have 64M AGP video cards that won't work with Aero special effects. My father will be running Windows XP until he can afford a newer system. No chance of a Windows 7 upgrade for him. Many 32 bit users (who can't get 64 Bits) will be shut out from the Windows 7 upgrades now because of the hardware requirements.
Windows 7 64 Bit Mode isn't compatible with the older Windows legacy Software as the 32 bit version is apparently. Once everyone goes to a 64 Bit mode Windows they will have to run Windows legacy software via emulators or virtual machines that emulate 32 bit systems.
There is free support for Linux via the newsgroups, forums, Wiki sites, HOWTOs, Man pages, and many other things. But beware of the trolls that like to bite the n00bz and say RTFM. You need to have actually read the Linux manual before asking questions which consists of man pages.
Man ls
For example will display a man page for the "ls" command which functions like the MS-DOS "dir" command and some Linux distros will have a "dir" batch file to help DOS users adapt.
"Once incorporated, the corporation has artificial personhood everywhere it may operate, until such time as the corporation may be dissolved. A corporation that operates in one state while being incorporated in another is a âoeforeign corporation.â This label also applies to corporations incorporated outside of the United States. Foreign corporations must usually register with the secretary of stateâ(TM)s office in each state to lawfully conduct business in that state."
By making a Corporation have personhood it can be sued in a court of law for breaking the law or taxed as a person would be taxed. Take away personhood and the corporation can no longer be sued or taxed, etc. Watering down personhood would only hurt consumers as it limits what a corporation can and cannot do as well as harm our economy that depends on a corporation to have personhood.
Actually federal contractors are not paid that well and usually have minimum benefits, some are 1090 instead of W2 and have to save their own tax money to pay the IRS. The bulk of the money goes to the Federal Contractor company and their board of directors and upper management.
I used to be a federal contractor, but I always followed federal guidelines for disability accessibility, Y2K, network standards, security standards, etc. I wasn't paid much, and they promised me a raise, but I only got a fraction of the actual promised raise because of "budget cuts" even if they were earning millions via a federal contract.
So as a federal contractor, you wouldn't be paid as much as a federal employee or corporate employee. Only management gets the big bucks. Unless you form your own corporation and win the federal bid on contracts.
We don't know where they are getting the floor plans from. This is custom software separate from Google Maps. They might be getting public blue prints from the library for public places, but I doubt they can get them for private houses and places. Unless they use an x-ray device to see the insides of a house and make a map, they have to use blue prints.
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Marketing in a nutshell:
PPPP
Price, Promotion, Place, and Product.
If you want to sell something and market it, these are at least four factors you want to consider.
Price if it is too high you won't sell too many of them, too low and you won't earn a profit, you have to find that sweet spot where supply meets demand at the right price using economic theories.
Promotion is how you promote the product and can include sales and discounts. With the right type of promotion you can sell your product, with the wrong one you won't sell much.
Place, the location of where you sell your product is important. If people cannot get to it you cannot sell hardly any. In the Internet age it is the location of the web site that sells it, be it Amazon.com, yourcompanyname.com, digitalriver.com, etc you have to have a place to sell it. Even a $10 rack at a discount store, or on the shelf next to the $60 items selling for half that price for $30.
Product, the features and abilities of your product help to market it. People won't buy your product if they don't see a need for it. When you make your product be sure to fill needs and add in things people actually want. It should be enjoyable and give the customer good quality for their money.
Yeah I know the answers, $30 games sell more than $60 games. Wal Mart sells at lower prices than their competition but make up for it via volume of sales and cutting costs in other areas. The $10 rack for old video games makes money because the R&D was covered for those games when they sold for $30 to $60, and people who remember those games will buy another copy after losing their last one, and people who pirated the game in the first place would gladly buy it for $10 to play the game legit and without bugs or malware.
The software in question is not DRM protected nor does it need activation. That is because it is old software. There is no circumvention device to remove copy protection or activate the product because the product lacks such features. I could install the software and it would work perfectly. But should I? Am I breaking any laws if I do. I own the software and possession is 9/10ths of the law, the other 1/10 is that I was given the software by friends who bought the storage locker it was abandoned in by its original owners.
One ought to be able to buy used software for the value of thrift to those who ordinarily cannot afford it. This should apply to CDs, DVDs, Video Games, MP3 files, PDF books, etc. If the original owner does not want it anymore they can sell it for a reasonable price to someone else.
Now I can see stopping an eBay sale because it was an illegal copy, but that is hard to prove as the item is not always available for inspection and the CD or DVD case may have gotten lost and replaced with a different one.
There is another way to get used software via auction in bidding on storage lockers. Legally if a person or company does not make payments on a storage locker, the storage locker place has the right to auction off their property to the highest bidder. I have friends who bid on storage lockers. Sometimes they get computer equipment and software. They gave me Visual BASIC 3.0 Pro on floppy disks, Visual BASIC 5.0 upgrade, Lotus Notes (forgot the version), Lotus Smartsuite 97, all old software just for me helping them out with the sorting of the computer stuff. Now do I own that software or is it a DMCA violation because I was not the original owner? The original owner is unknown, there was no name or address on the storage locker, and obviously they stopped payments because the computer equipment and software was very very old and useless to them.
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"Get a Life" by William Shatner.
Ted Dziuba is trying to tell people who code in their own time to get a life and do other things like start up relationships, live life, get married, save up for a house or car, etc.
Zoolib at Source Force under the MIT open source license. It has a flat file database format, exists for multiple platforms, has platform-independent thread and mutex classes, graphical user interface toolbox, thread-safe reference counted smart pointers, file access, TCP networking. You can ask the main developers Andy Green or Michael Crawford to port it to a new platform that isn't supported yet, but it supports all of the platforms listed on the source forge page.
The Zoolib Cookbook can help you get started.
The flat file database support is designed in Zoolib so that you can email someone the database file and they can click on it and open it up as an email attachment.
he does not want Google to stop linking to and indexing content on his web sites, he wants Google to pay for linking to and indexing content on his web site. He does that by stating in the DMCA that his articles are copyrighted materials and that web search engines that link to them and index the words of those copyrighted materials are illegal because they didn't license the content.
This is really no different than what the MPAA and RIAA do to people on Youtube and other video sites that use song and movie clips as part of people's own projects and videos. They take them down, or sue them for damages.
I think Mr. Murdoch knows how the Internet and Google works, but the robots.txt advice isn't really helping and just adding noise to the debate. Mr. Murdoch does not want to block Google access to his web site, because he wants Google and other search engines to drive visitors to his web site like any other web site corporate owner would want. But this is where it takes a strange twist, Murdoch wants Google to pay for each link and web cache of every one of his corporation's articles. If that happens and the court rules in his favor, other companies will want Google, et all to pay to index and link to their content and then Google and other search engines will go out of business or change their business model to allow 25 searches a day via IP address and registered user, and then unlimited web searches for paying members for premium web searching access starting at $35 a month and $55 a month without the advertising and pop-ups and then $100 a month to not have bandwidth capped to a slower speed plus the no advertising and pop-ups, etc. Forcing Google out of the free web search service and into a commercial business plan.
back in 1995 I ran a small business that did Linux installs for companies to replace Windows NT Server systems with Linux plus Samba. We used Slackware Linux and then later Red Hat, but it did Windows file and printer sharing for Windows clients and saved those businesses thousands in Windows Server licenses.
But when Active Directory came out, companies switched back to Windows Server, because Linux and Samba lacked that. Exchange can be done via OpenExchange and use MySQL or PostgreSQL instead of SQL Server.
Linux has to match Windows Server feature by feature in order to compete with it, and be used. Linux might never replace Windows on the desktop, but it can replace Windows on the server as Unix and Linux are designed as server operating systems.
and the chances for the Chicago Cubs to win the world series have increased as well.
All of those API calls that expected 64 bits will break as their 64 bit variables will be overflowed with larger numbers. Software will need to be modified and recompiled or run in yet another XPM XP Virtual Machine.
So far Windows 7 and the XP Virtual Machine uses SP3 and has limited 3D Graphics abilities, so Games will have a hard time playing old games like Warlords IV on it. Warlords IV and other games don't run on Vista or Windows 7, I am guessing because of all of the API changes and addressing changes.
In the 64 bit operating systems the 16 bit MS-DOS and 16 bit Windows software cannot run, you'd need the 32 bit version or use a virtual machine for that. Windows 7 XPM XP Mode only works with certain VT features and won't run on all systems, so some systems won't have a Virtual machine unless they run VMWare, VirtualBox, or something else like QEMU or BOCHS.
I am guessing 128 bit addressing on a 64 bit processor is like doing bank switching on the old 6502 and 8088 processors to access more RAM. It seems with each new release of Windows, more and more RAM is needed to run it faster, and Windows 8 is going to be a big memory hog that needs 128 Bit addressing to access a huge amount of RAM. Am I right?
one time shut off my DSL account. I was downloading a Red Hat Linux ISO file via BitTorrent. I called them up and they claimed they saw virus like activity on my connection and then shut off my Internet access to prevent my computer from infecting others. I told them I would remove the virus and they said they would restore access. I had to set my BitTorrent program to use a lower setting for bandwidth to avoid tripping off their false positive virus detection. I switched to a different DSL ISP after that.
$60 games rarely come down to $5 used after a few months. More like $30 or $40.
You don't know if you like a video game if you have never played it. Buying it used for $30 to $40 and then finding out you don't like it is wasting your money, isn't it? The $5 rental is good enough to figure out if you like the video game or not. You could go through a lot of rentals and weed out the bad video games and only buy the ones you like, or the alternative is to keep buying $30 to $40 used video games without trying them out first and then selling them back for pennies on the dollar as the Game Stores are rigged to buy the games cheap and then sell them for more than that.
You rent 10 games, costing $50 and then you buy 3 of them for $90, it would be cheaper than buying 10 games for $30 each and then discovering that you only like 3 of them but hate 7 of them. $140 spent my way, $300 spent your way. Which one would you rather do again?
I worked for a law firm, that is common place.
Lawyers who are creme of the crop and win a lot of tough cases, cannot figure out simple stuff about computers.
I was once told that my program didn't work because the mouse wouldn't click on a button, only to learn the lawyer was using the right button instead of the left button. I nicely told the lawyer to try the left button and he got upset at me and claimed the fault was with my program, not him. Then after calling me a lot of bad names and saying stuff like "Trained monkeys could do a better job than the entire IT department." he tried the left button and it worked.
I also got help desk requests from lawyers and administrative assistants to add in features to my programs that where already there. They didn't know how to access them, so I wrote an email containing an HOWTO to the Help Desk to forward to them, and they got upset at me and asked me to add in the features anyway. We had a training department that is supposed to teach them the features, we had a user manual about the features, we had the help menu about the features, but still they kept requesting the same features that the software already had, but they didn't know how to access them.
I suppose they are good at their jobs, but not computer literate enough to matter. Then again, I am no lawyer and I wouldn't do well in a court of law representing a client as they obviously would.
It is common sense that if a part of a computer is missing you don't make a claim that "I cannot log in" you make a complaint that "part of my computer equipment is missing and I cannot do my work without it." Even a Patent Lawyer should be able to understand that as logic, reason, and common sense are things they learn or use to earn a law degree and pass a bar exam.
If the engine of his car was missing, do you think he'd complain that the car wouldn't start? No, he'd file a police report that someone stole his engine.
I got a Mac Plus, Mac SE, Mac SE/30, Mac IIcx, and G3 Bondi Blue iMac, older Macs, but I own a few PC systems as well.
I cannot afford the modern Macs and only own older Macs which I hardly even use any more.
I also have an Amiga 500 if that counts.
The report didn't specify how old the Macs are or even if they are still being used. Every Mac I have still works.
much like a public library but over the web.
#1 Check out a book, get a 90 day period to read it.
#2 After 90 days return it, or renew it for another 90 days.
#3 After the check out time expires the PDF DRM locks you out of the book, but you can click renew and renew it if another copy is available, if not wait until a copy is available.
Google Books is a good start, it could easily be turned into an ebook library. Scribd.com has many free eBooks plus eBooks people can publish and other people can buy. It used to be flooded with pirated eBooks, but they cleaned it up I think. It could become an eBook library as well.
I did buy a boxed copy of Windows 7 Pro Upgrade for me, and Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for my son at half price during the upgrade sale before July 11th. I preordered and have to wait until October 22nd.
But it looks like I'll have to wait until I can afford to upgrade the RAM, and my son's TI Wireless card does not have Windows 7 support as far as I know, so I might have to buy him a new wireless card.
If you have the money for a 100+ machines beowulf cluster then you have money to hire a Linux certified consultant to work on it for you.
There exists alternatives VirtualBox from Sun is free, but you need a legit copy of Windows XP Pro (Home Edition won't do due to Microsoft's EULA license for emulators and virtual machines) to run inside of it. Pricewatch.com sells OEM versions of XP Pro for $99 to $139 IIRC from various vendors. But I would recommend the Windows 2000 Pro version for old legacy software as it doesn't have the annoying WGA nag and activation hassles and requires less money and still runs a majority of 32 bit programs, just not programs that need Windows XP SP2 or SP3, if you need that then get Win XP Pro instead and deal with the hassles.
Because the 32 Bit version works with Windows Legacy Software like 16 bit MS-DOS and 16 bit Windows 3.X programs and 32 bit Winodws 9X, 2000, and XP programs. Whatever Windows 7 32 bit cannot run the XP SP3 Virtual PC mode is supposed to run but only for the Windows 7 Pro and up systems.
But now Microsoft requires that systems be 64 Bit capable before passing the Windows 7 compatible label, because 64 Bit systems usually have better graphics cards and more RAM and bigger hard drives than the old 32 Bit systems like my father uses that can only go to 512M of RAM and run with less than 2.0 Ghz Pentium 4 Processors and only have 64M AGP video cards that won't work with Aero special effects. My father will be running Windows XP until he can afford a newer system. No chance of a Windows 7 upgrade for him. Many 32 bit users (who can't get 64 Bits) will be shut out from the Windows 7 upgrades now because of the hardware requirements.
Windows 7 64 Bit Mode isn't compatible with the older Windows legacy Software as the 32 bit version is apparently. Once everyone goes to a 64 Bit mode Windows they will have to run Windows legacy software via emulators or virtual machines that emulate 32 bit systems.
There is free support for Linux via the newsgroups, forums, Wiki sites, HOWTOs, Man pages, and many other things. But beware of the trolls that like to bite the n00bz and say RTFM. You need to have actually read the Linux manual before asking questions which consists of man pages.
Man ls
For example will display a man page for the "ls" command which functions like the MS-DOS "dir" command and some Linux distros will have a "dir" batch file to help DOS users adapt.
Judging from you attitude this sort of thing happened to you.
Wikipedia US Corporations
"Once incorporated, the corporation has artificial personhood everywhere it may operate, until such time as the corporation may be dissolved. A corporation that operates in one state while being incorporated in another is a âoeforeign corporation.â This label also applies to corporations incorporated outside of the United States. Foreign corporations must usually register with the secretary of stateâ(TM)s office in each state to lawfully conduct business in that state."
By making a Corporation have personhood it can be sued in a court of law for breaking the law or taxed as a person would be taxed. Take away personhood and the corporation can no longer be sued or taxed, etc. Watering down personhood would only hurt consumers as it limits what a corporation can and cannot do as well as harm our economy that depends on a corporation to have personhood.
Actually federal contractors are not paid that well and usually have minimum benefits, some are 1090 instead of W2 and have to save their own tax money to pay the IRS. The bulk of the money goes to the Federal Contractor company and their board of directors and upper management.
I used to be a federal contractor, but I always followed federal guidelines for disability accessibility, Y2K, network standards, security standards, etc. I wasn't paid much, and they promised me a raise, but I only got a fraction of the actual promised raise because of "budget cuts" even if they were earning millions via a federal contract.
So as a federal contractor, you wouldn't be paid as much as a federal employee or corporate employee. Only management gets the big bucks. Unless you form your own corporation and win the federal bid on contracts.
Smartronix it looks like their own style of designing their corporate web site is not disability accessible.
They use Flash content pop-up Windows that a blind person cannot see, unlike an image tag that has Alt text or a hyperlink.
Obviously they used their own corporate web site standards than the federal government accessibility standards.
We don't know where they are getting the floor plans from. This is custom software separate from Google Maps. They might be getting public blue prints from the library for public places, but I doubt they can get them for private houses and places. Unless they use an x-ray device to see the insides of a house and make a map, they have to use blue prints.
Marketing in a nutshell:
PPPP
Price, Promotion, Place, and Product.
If you want to sell something and market it, these are at least four factors you want to consider.
Price if it is too high you won't sell too many of them, too low and you won't earn a profit, you have to find that sweet spot where supply meets demand at the right price using economic theories.
Promotion is how you promote the product and can include sales and discounts. With the right type of promotion you can sell your product, with the wrong one you won't sell much.
Place, the location of where you sell your product is important. If people cannot get to it you cannot sell hardly any. In the Internet age it is the location of the web site that sells it, be it Amazon.com, yourcompanyname.com, digitalriver.com, etc you have to have a place to sell it. Even a $10 rack at a discount store, or on the shelf next to the $60 items selling for half that price for $30.
Product, the features and abilities of your product help to market it. People won't buy your product if they don't see a need for it. When you make your product be sure to fill needs and add in things people actually want. It should be enjoyable and give the customer good quality for their money.
Yeah I know the answers, $30 games sell more than $60 games. Wal Mart sells at lower prices than their competition but make up for it via volume of sales and cutting costs in other areas. The $10 rack for old video games makes money because the R&D was covered for those games when they sold for $30 to $60, and people who remember those games will buy another copy after losing their last one, and people who pirated the game in the first place would gladly buy it for $10 to play the game legit and without bugs or malware.
Get a lawyer and sue Microsoft. They made the videos that made you sick. You can file a class action lawsuit with others like this person who had an abortion watching the videos and he's a guy.
The software in question is not DRM protected nor does it need activation. That is because it is old software. There is no circumvention device to remove copy protection or activate the product because the product lacks such features. I could install the software and it would work perfectly. But should I? Am I breaking any laws if I do. I own the software and possession is 9/10ths of the law, the other 1/10 is that I was given the software by friends who bought the storage locker it was abandoned in by its original owners.
One ought to be able to buy used software for the value of thrift to those who ordinarily cannot afford it. This should apply to CDs, DVDs, Video Games, MP3 files, PDF books, etc. If the original owner does not want it anymore they can sell it for a reasonable price to someone else.
Now I can see stopping an eBay sale because it was an illegal copy, but that is hard to prove as the item is not always available for inspection and the CD or DVD case may have gotten lost and replaced with a different one.
There is another way to get used software via auction in bidding on storage lockers. Legally if a person or company does not make payments on a storage locker, the storage locker place has the right to auction off their property to the highest bidder. I have friends who bid on storage lockers. Sometimes they get computer equipment and software. They gave me Visual BASIC 3.0 Pro on floppy disks, Visual BASIC 5.0 upgrade, Lotus Notes (forgot the version), Lotus Smartsuite 97, all old software just for me helping them out with the sorting of the computer stuff. Now do I own that software or is it a DMCA violation because I was not the original owner? The original owner is unknown, there was no name or address on the storage locker, and obviously they stopped payments because the computer equipment and software was very very old and useless to them.