2. Outraged parents discover that X was playing/reading/watching something called Y
3. Whore politician decides that one parents disgust at what 'kids are doing these days' could be used for political gain.
4. Attempted banning of Y
Actually thats how it works in most countries including the US, UK etc. the issue is with having two dicks involved in the process - the parent and the politician, mixing two dicks in politics is what causes laws to be strict.
Exactly its classic supply and demand, you push the price too high and you'll make a bigger profit from each sale but won't get enough sales, too low and you won't make enough profit even with the increased sales, theres a sweet spot and the RIAA currently thinks they have it and are not about to loose it, but i think the sweet spot could be even sweeter for them if they moved it down a bit. It could be sweeter still if musicians fired about 80% of the middle-man record industry and took the money themselves.
Erm the CD is a facsimile of the song and its already been through quite a bit of compromising processing, true lossless is nice to have but i think its too late. Online shops are not going to want the extra bandwidth and most people are not going to complain, even at 128kbps or lower! But yeah multiple pricing would be a great thing, 5 cents for 128, 10 for 256 etc upto CD (at around 1.5mbps)
Id be more worried about recruits who have been directly affected by suicide attacks because it just fuels the circle of violence and ends up with them sniping kids or running people over in bulldozers. no way do i trust an 18 year old (or most other people for that matter) with a gun and raging hormones who has seen his best friend, girl friend or parents blown up, to act responsibly and professionally and without bias and in the situation that Israel and Palestine are in one soldier can do way too much damage, same goes for the other side but hey.
Not trying to thread-jack, just think they need to get their priorities straight.
Would it not be simpler to drop all these specialised processors and just produce add-on CPU cards and a good standard way (like OpenGL/DirectX is to graphics etc) of games supporting these devices? Generic CPUs are cheaper and if the whole thing could be sorted out well enough then people would be able to use their old processors and even old GPUs, it just fits in with the whole idea of PC's being general purpose?
Are you joking? do you know how much profit phone companies make from MMS!? for them this is malware heaven "whats that sir? you say your phone has a virus and now your phone bill has gone through the roof? oh dear, we can send you the anti-virus patch over the network.. for a one time fee, but we can't cancel the charge from messages the virus sent.. company policy"
was 'shock and awe' terrorism? what about abu ghraib or the guantanamo bay abuses/tortures, or the NYC cops who arrested RNC protectors for way over 24 hours without lawyers in appalling conditions so they wouldn't protest again? were they to terrorists? i agree, anyone who uses violence or the threat of violence to scare people for political gain is a terrorist.
I can sympathise, the loss of pride probably feels like it did for us with the whole concorde thing. Just don't sell them for one dollar to some virgin guy, and don't start charging millionares to ride in them.. erm nm.
Microsoft is geared around job creation (bless them) - if they made APIs that made sense then you would need less programmers and less hours to complete a task, anyone with 101 business can see that this means less jobs and somehow in a round about economic sense this means less money for microsoft. You see, in business, when a cost is significantly cut (eg by firing workers and replacing them with looms) a excess amount of money is 'freed', companies don't like excess money because it upsets accountants so someone needs to take it, that someone is the loom technician who is invested in to keep making more looms, everyone is happy.
This is the crappiest thing I've heard in a long while! What's next, stopping citizens from seeing official documents because it creates unnecessary expenses and only whiners ask to see them anyway? Or removing the right to vote for all citizens of the EU, because recurring elections could hamper the ability of EU politicians to make long-term plans?
I can just see some EU and US politicians reading this and thinking "huh? is this parody, i don't get the joke"
wait, isn't everything microsoft does just a wrapper to the win api? like MFC, or is he saying dot net is a wrapper to some old wrappers? at the end of the day, a platform/language is only worth the number of installs it has and at the moment java is probably in the lead (which is really all dot net is) with javascript and flash following behind, if you realistically want to write a 'web service' or whatever the fuck microsofts advertising department wants to call it, your going to use one of those 3 things.
whats it going to do? play beethovens 9th in 5.1 surround while demoing unreal tourney 2006 as you wait for your card to clear? if they're going to update cash machines id rather they come up with better designs to stop people fitting false fronts, increased privacy from shoulder surfing, gave more detailed receipts and statement printouts, let me cancel cheques and direct debits, and sped the whole thing up so people could use them faster, oh or maybe they could use the hardware cost saving to double the number of machines?
no, but when the bank/atm manufactures sue the hell out of the hacker and each-other, you can rest assured that the savings won't be passed on to you, the customer.
This makes no sense, ATMs are already all 'on a network' - what more do they want? why would a 'Windows infrastructure' be better for updating them? why do you even need windows (lowercase) in an ATM - a device with only one program and one thing on screen at a time?
i think they argued that because people sung some of it in unison the number of people would multiply the word count, at the end of the day these people were idiots and it really doesn't matter if you swear 8000 or 200 times its just as bad or ok depending what side your on, in fact channel 4 broke the record a few weeks later with the help of kelly osbourne. I really would be happy if all the christian nut-jobs went to the US and swapped places with some sane people.
yes and they have nothing to do with that so its not an expense to them, also the call travels across other parts of the network, different countries etc.
Ok this doesn't make any sense, why would the FCC do something nice unless someone was paying them off? conventional carriers need to secure infrastructures by either building them or renting bandwidth which of-course costs money, VoIP providers would seem to get allot of that bandwidth for free, of course the real end will occur when VoIP providers are not needed because everyone justs connects directly.
At the moment you just pay one cover-all license for all TV's or tuners (ie TV-cards etc) in your home, not one each. Ah people think its gay but really its less than just about any cable/satellite package and it funds the entire BBC including radio, TV and internet, they also have great training facilities and R&D and export tons of programming around the world. The BBC is more than just a TV station. Computers already have a tax its called the Microsoft tax maybe the government could just charge MS and threaten to boycott them if they dont pay;)?
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No it means high clearance people have a _choice_ of going into a special team or a desk job, while low clearance people have less choice.
So France is just coming into line with the US then?
no, they mean low clearance as in a front-line grunt, high-clearence means more important work in a nice building.
I think this is generally how internet/computer legislation works in Australia:
1. Something happens (suicide, rape, shooting etc)
2. Outraged parents discover that X was playing/reading/watching something called Y
3. Whore politician decides that one parents disgust at what 'kids are doing these days' could be used for political gain.
4. Attempted banning of Y
Actually thats how it works in most countries including the US, UK etc. the issue is with having two dicks involved in the process - the parent and the politician, mixing two dicks in politics is what causes laws to be strict.
Exactly its classic supply and demand, you push the price too high and you'll make a bigger profit from each sale but won't get enough sales, too low and you won't make enough profit even with the increased sales, theres a sweet spot and the RIAA currently thinks they have it and are not about to loose it, but i think the sweet spot could be even sweeter for them if they moved it down a bit. It could be sweeter still if musicians fired about 80% of the middle-man record industry and took the money themselves.
Erm the CD is a facsimile of the song and its already been through quite a bit of compromising processing, true lossless is nice to have but i think its too late. Online shops are not going to want the extra bandwidth and most people are not going to complain, even at 128kbps or lower! But yeah multiple pricing would be a great thing, 5 cents for 128, 10 for 256 etc upto CD (at around 1.5mbps)
Id be more worried about recruits who have been directly affected by suicide attacks because it just fuels the circle of violence and ends up with them sniping kids or running people over in bulldozers. no way do i trust an 18 year old (or most other people for that matter) with a gun and raging hormones who has seen his best friend, girl friend or parents blown up, to act responsibly and professionally and without bias and in the situation that Israel and Palestine are in one soldier can do way too much damage, same goes for the other side but hey.
Not trying to thread-jack, just think they need to get their priorities straight.
Would it not be simpler to drop all these specialised processors and just produce add-on CPU cards and a good standard way (like OpenGL/DirectX is to graphics etc) of games supporting these devices? Generic CPUs are cheaper and if the whole thing could be sorted out well enough then people would be able to use their old processors and even old GPUs, it just fits in with the whole idea of PC's being general purpose?
I dont understand why anyone would pick Linux over OS X besides the fact it's free.
well the fact that its free.. and open.. and by OS X i think you really mean just the GUI, linux isn't about the GUI.
Shut up and stop questioning the fairness of the capitalist system or i will report you to the FBI for communism.
Are you joking? do you know how much profit phone companies make from MMS!? for them this is malware heaven "whats that sir? you say your phone has a virus and now your phone bill has gone through the roof? oh dear, we can send you the anti-virus patch over the network.. for a one time fee, but we can't cancel the charge from messages the virus sent.. company policy"
was 'shock and awe' terrorism? what about abu ghraib or the guantanamo bay abuses/tortures, or the NYC cops who arrested RNC protectors for way over 24 hours without lawyers in appalling conditions so they wouldn't protest again? were they to terrorists? i agree, anyone who uses violence or the threat of violence to scare people for political gain is a terrorist.
I can sympathise, the loss of pride probably feels like it did for us with the whole concorde thing. Just don't sell them for one dollar to some virgin guy, and don't start charging millionares to ride in them.. erm nm.
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Microsoft is geared around job creation (bless them) - if they made APIs that made sense then you would need less programmers and less hours to complete a task, anyone with 101 business can see that this means less jobs and somehow in a round about economic sense this means less money for microsoft. You see, in business, when a cost is significantly cut (eg by firing workers and replacing them with looms) a excess amount of money is 'freed', companies don't like excess money because it upsets accountants so someone needs to take it, that someone is the loom technician who is invested in to keep making more looms, everyone is happy.
This is the crappiest thing I've heard in a long while! What's next, stopping citizens from seeing official documents because it creates unnecessary expenses and only whiners ask to see them anyway? Or removing the right to vote for all citizens of the EU, because recurring elections could hamper the ability of EU politicians to make long-term plans?
I can just see some EU and US politicians reading this and thinking "huh? is this parody, i don't get the joke"
wait, isn't everything microsoft does just a wrapper to the win api? like MFC, or is he saying dot net is a wrapper to some old wrappers? at the end of the day, a platform/language is only worth the number of installs it has and at the moment java is probably in the lead (which is really all dot net is) with javascript and flash following behind, if you realistically want to write a 'web service' or whatever the fuck microsofts advertising department wants to call it, your going to use one of those 3 things.
flash runs on linux
whats it going to do? play beethovens 9th in 5.1 surround while demoing unreal tourney 2006 as you wait for your card to clear? if they're going to update cash machines id rather they come up with better designs to stop people fitting false fronts, increased privacy from shoulder surfing, gave more detailed receipts and statement printouts, let me cancel cheques and direct debits, and sped the whole thing up so people could use them faster, oh or maybe they could use the hardware cost saving to double the number of machines?
no, but when the bank/atm manufactures sue the hell out of the hacker and each-other, you can rest assured that the savings won't be passed on to you, the customer.
This makes no sense, ATMs are already all 'on a network' - what more do they want? why would a 'Windows infrastructure' be better for updating them? why do you even need windows (lowercase) in an ATM - a device with only one program and one thing on screen at a time?
i think they argued that because people sung some of it in unison the number of people would multiply the word count, at the end of the day these people were idiots and it really doesn't matter if you swear 8000 or 200 times its just as bad or ok depending what side your on, in fact channel 4 broke the record a few weeks later with the help of kelly osbourne. I really would be happy if all the christian nut-jobs went to the US and swapped places with some sane people.
yes and they have nothing to do with that so its not an expense to them, also the call travels across other parts of the network, different countries etc.
Ok this doesn't make any sense, why would the FCC do something nice unless someone was paying them off? conventional carriers need to secure infrastructures by either building them or renting bandwidth which of-course costs money, VoIP providers would seem to get allot of that bandwidth for free, of course the real end will occur when VoIP providers are not needed because everyone justs connects directly.
At the moment you just pay one cover-all license for all TV's or tuners (ie TV-cards etc) in your home, not one each. Ah people think its gay but really its less than just about any cable/satellite package and it funds the entire BBC including radio, TV and internet, they also have great training facilities and R&D and export tons of programming around the world. The BBC is more than just a TV station. Computers already have a tax its called the Microsoft tax maybe the government could just charge MS and threaten to boycott them if they dont pay ;)?