Oh no, they'll still continue playing both sides of the street.
When a new movie or song comes out and they want to generate interest, "some unscrupulous employee" will still "leak" an early version. Of course they'll never prosecute "unscrupulous employee" because it was an "accident" and if pushed they'll simply argue that they were completely within with their right to leak it on the torrents as it was their's to leak, but not your's to download. When pushed that the whole thing is a honeypot, they will drop the claim and we'll mysteriously never hear of it again. Amazing how that happens while the content industry manages to not be a cartel. I guess they are really just smart, honest, really, really good people.
I can't help but think I'm more frightened by the opposite happening. Imagine getting your designer baby on the cheap. It is bad enough that we get a generation of kids with names like Brittany.
I'd suggest nixing the wireless keyboard and mouse and just use laptops with VNC. These days, just about everyone has at least a cheap netbook or an iPod touch, so everyone can have their own "remote". Now if I could just use the laptop for all of my TV's other functions I'd be pretty happy.
The accountants don't explain it, shareholders don't ask about it, most business leaders don't understand it.
Amazingly though almost nobody outside of the IP community...
Ask people who know anything and they'd say that if IV breathes in your direction, take a license.
Emperror's clothes are awesome aren't they?
What is believed though is that this number puts them in the Premier league (up there with IBM, Nokia, Qualcomm and others) in terms of IP influence.
The same way Enron was at the top of their game?
Some say they have 30,000 patent families, but it is impossible to know exactly how many.
Bet you can't.
But they don't want to see seen to be litigators...that's bad for reputation so they outsource that part to others who aren't so bothered about what the outside world thinks of them.
You mean like the guy from Buffalo who keeps calling, threatening to sue me for an old debt? The same guy who for the sake of his own life can't tell me what the dept was for, who bought it, whose behalf he is suing me on or why he isn't instead suing the guy who had my phone number 8 years ago and incurred the actual debt, but dammit, he is going to find truth and justice just as soon as I write him a check for whatever sum he can squeeze out of me? Yeah, I wouldn't want that guy's reputation either.
Still, I'll give him credit, he filled out a page without resorting to righteous indignation.
I'm sure they are already on top of that. I'd imagine a jumper cable would make a great charge pump. Now we just need to convince them that it only works in a flooded room while wearing metal shoes; then I'd say the circuit is complete.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free."
The new version says: "Give me your huddled masses yearning for political asylum; granting your hardliners easily earned political points against their enemies."
I titter when I hear that because incandescent bulbs warm your house it means you don't need as much heating so you are saving energy and helping the environment! This argument is so weak all I'll say is heating in summer?
Modify that and apply it to well houses and you have a valid argument for keeping incandescent bulbs (in a very low, limited production albeit). All in all I'd say that is the one thing I'd miss if they were completely banned. They are great for keeping tiny, small spaces warm with the added benefit of providing light. Everywhere else I'm fine with CFLs. Though I don't imagine them being around too much longer as LED technology gets better; soon they will crawl (and in some ways already have) into the realm of "socially unacceptable".
While I get the sarcasm in this, I seem to hear a lot of similar comments when the topic comes up. The truth of it is that the people who resent the idea of Billy-Joe-Bob getting broadband are completely ignoring the fact that giving it to him will drive other costs down and in the end save them money. Say Billy-Joe-Bob Shitkicker buys himself a new fishing rod. Before he would have driven to Wal-Mart and about 9 other stores to compare price (before going back to Wal-Mart). Now multiple Billy-Joe-Bob by several thousand. Imagine the savings on road wear alone if he just ordered it off on Amazon. Also Billy-Joe-Bob want to get a psychology degree. He drives 40 miles twice every day for years on end. Now multiply that by several thousand. Just imagine the savings in child care, auto insurance/repairs and road repair.
Cosmopolitans love to go on about how their way of life is better. About how they only walk down the street for their coffee and bread and they take the train to work and their entertainment has a greater breadth than wasteful Billy-Joe-Bob Shitkicker's muliplex dive, but they are the first ones to complain about a solution brings his way of life closer to theirs.
That really depends on the brand of communism one adheres to. Say Lenin's brand of communism; that had to spread or the entire thing was pointless. Stalin's and Kim Jong-il's one state variety can sit right where they were/are as long as the personality cult keeps going.
China's seems to be something very different. There are so many people going in so many directions that making it work as a cult is impossible. As far as spreading, this capitalism thing seems to be working pretty well for them at the moment. So for the time the government will keep going with mantras of the importance of self-sacrifice and yadda-ya about how the nation is the people (and somehow also the government) until either the volk ignore it because of the noise and glitter of prosperity or prosperity halts and well, I don't like to imagine that scenario.
Depends on whether or not the prosperous feel like they are a part of the system. Prosperous, middle-class kids with plenty of free time and a stinging sense that they don't have control over their lives have driven revolutions for as long as we have known that word.
Good Lord, why should be it cheaper? There is equipment to be paid for and technicians to make sure the equipment is operational; probably some extra coverage for "e-Malpractice". Of course you won't actually get to see a doctor, just another over-worked nurse practitioner; only now they'll have to sit in a cube for 9 hours a day.
Turn-over will begin to go up in that area as the whole thing turns into "medical help desk". I couldn't imagine the horror of getting pestered for 9 hours a day by octogenarians and hypochondriacs about every pimple and scratch on their body. Not that it matters, the practice bills by both the call and the minute, there are 40 people in que and your sup is complaining about your response times. You pray each day that your practice will get bought out by one of the big boy managed health organizations, because they actually put into your 401k, unlike these organ grinders.
It has nothing to do with the language crippling your mind (though some days I do wonder about VB), but because the language has been taught in High School/Middle School Computer/Typing classes where teachers are more than happy to pass anyone who can print text to a screen and type 30 words a minute. It was (, no idea if it is still taught in public school) just a random elective that pretty much anyone could take and pass. Some people pass it, don't enjoy it, exclaim that they can program and for the rest of their lives feel that programmers are overpaid, entitled nerds who would serve the world better if they were ditch diggers.
Easy, it is the fear of new forms of prosecution that is the problem.
I can recall getting fined about 10 years ago by a cop for not having a drivers license while walking at night (I still wonder about the legality, but apparently it is a city ordinance for dealing with kids and curfews). Imagine that mindset on a federal level with federal prosecution behind it; say under the guise of making sure that teens are not working after-hours on their part time job. The money you could rake in would be ridiculous, both local, state and federal for a single instance.
I'm guessing you have never watched house cats before. Every so many litters you get a Tom who doesn't quite understand the whole mating thing. You can lock him away with a group of females and another male and the first one he goes for is the male. Now this certainly isn't hard, conclusive evidence, but I'm sure he didn't get the idea from gay recruiters in an airport men's room.
That is the trick though. A jury and a justice system can (or at least should) only be able to punish you once. Granted we try to circumvent this by making one offense 12 different crimes (possession of drugs, possession of drugs with intent to distribute, distribution of drugs, distribution of drugs near a school, drugs near a church, near a child, owning a gun while possessing drugs, owning a gun while distributing drugs, possessing drugs without a state sanctioned drug distribution stamp, possessing drugs without a state sanctioned illegal drug distribution stamp, failure to pay taxes on distributed drugs, etc.) and we do everything thing under the sun to make sure that someone still receives some kind of punishment for the rest of their natural lives (just ask someone who served their time how easy it was getting a job), but at least there is supposed to be some kind of end to it.
The difference being the Chinese are motivated by a sense of moral justice (at least on the surface) instead of a nihilistic quest for lulz.
So the Church of the Subgenius really is the enlightened path?
I could be completely wrong, but in spite of the fact that channers go after folks for everything from being of the wrong religion (if you can call Scientology a religion) to wearing an animal suit during sex or yes, even killing kittens, I can't remember hearing about them going after someone for being unpatriotic. Then again, this is probably just me being a hypocritical, undeserving westerner.
I dunno, but this is a field that desperately needs some kind of leadership. How many technologies have we had in this field over the years. Countless markup formats, plug-ins and APIs and we haven't gotten too far in all this time.
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Oh no, they'll still continue playing both sides of the street.
When a new movie or song comes out and they want to generate interest, "some unscrupulous employee" will still "leak" an early version. Of course they'll never prosecute "unscrupulous employee" because it was an "accident" and if pushed they'll simply argue that they were completely within with their right to leak it on the torrents as it was their's to leak, but not your's to download. When pushed that the whole thing is a honeypot, they will drop the claim and we'll mysteriously never hear of it again. Amazing how that happens while the content industry manages to not be a cartel. I guess they are really just smart, honest, really, really good people.
Easy answer: Drunken sales people.
I can't help but think I'm more frightened by the opposite happening. Imagine getting your designer baby on the cheap. It is bad enough that we get a generation of kids with names like Brittany.
I'd suggest nixing the wireless keyboard and mouse and just use laptops with VNC. These days, just about everyone has at least a cheap netbook or an iPod touch, so everyone can have their own "remote". Now if I could just use the laptop for all of my TV's other functions I'd be pretty happy.
The accountants don't explain it, shareholders don't ask about it, most business leaders don't understand it.
Amazingly though almost nobody outside of the IP community...
Ask people who know anything and they'd say that if IV breathes in your direction, take a license.
Emperror's clothes are awesome aren't they?
What is believed though is that this number puts them in the Premier league (up there with IBM, Nokia, Qualcomm and others) in terms of IP influence.
The same way Enron was at the top of their game?
Some say they have 30,000 patent families, but it is impossible to know exactly how many.
Bet you can't.
But they don't want to see seen to be litigators...that's bad for reputation so they outsource that part to others who aren't so bothered about what the outside world thinks of them.
You mean like the guy from Buffalo who keeps calling, threatening to sue me for an old debt? The same guy who for the sake of his own life can't tell me what the dept was for, who bought it, whose behalf he is suing me on or why he isn't instead suing the guy who had my phone number 8 years ago and incurred the actual debt, but dammit, he is going to find truth and justice just as soon as I write him a check for whatever sum he can squeeze out of me? Yeah, I wouldn't want that guy's reputation either.
Still, I'll give him credit, he filled out a page without resorting to righteous indignation.
I'm sure they are already on top of that. I'd imagine a jumper cable would make a great charge pump. Now we just need to convince them that it only works in a flooded room while wearing metal shoes; then I'd say the circuit is complete.
Why? We don't have electronics sniffing dogs ...yet.
"And there's no reason a design expert should be forced to explain those reasons to a layman. That's asking too much."
Job security?
If I had the points, you get them.
Hollywood has been putting out Olifactory Releases for years.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free."
The new version says: "Give me your huddled masses yearning for political asylum; granting your hardliners easily earned political points against their enemies."
I titter when I hear that because incandescent bulbs warm your house it means you don't need as much heating so you are saving energy and helping the environment! This argument is so weak all I'll say is heating in summer?
Modify that and apply it to well houses and you have a valid argument for keeping incandescent bulbs (in a very low, limited production albeit). All in all I'd say that is the one thing I'd miss if they were completely banned. They are great for keeping tiny, small spaces warm with the added benefit of providing light. Everywhere else I'm fine with CFLs. Though I don't imagine them being around too much longer as LED technology gets better; soon they will crawl (and in some ways already have) into the realm of "socially unacceptable".
While I get the sarcasm in this, I seem to hear a lot of similar comments when the topic comes up. The truth of it is that the people who resent the idea of Billy-Joe-Bob getting broadband are completely ignoring the fact that giving it to him will drive other costs down and in the end save them money. Say Billy-Joe-Bob Shitkicker buys himself a new fishing rod. Before he would have driven to Wal-Mart and about 9 other stores to compare price (before going back to Wal-Mart). Now multiple Billy-Joe-Bob by several thousand. Imagine the savings on road wear alone if he just ordered it off on Amazon. Also Billy-Joe-Bob want to get a psychology degree. He drives 40 miles twice every day for years on end. Now multiply that by several thousand. Just imagine the savings in child care, auto insurance/repairs and road repair.
Cosmopolitans love to go on about how their way of life is better. About how they only walk down the street for their coffee and bread and they take the train to work and their entertainment has a greater breadth than wasteful Billy-Joe-Bob Shitkicker's muliplex dive, but they are the first ones to complain about a solution brings his way of life closer to theirs.
That really depends on the brand of communism one adheres to. Say Lenin's brand of communism; that had to spread or the entire thing was pointless. Stalin's and Kim Jong-il's one state variety can sit right where they were/are as long as the personality cult keeps going.
China's seems to be something very different. There are so many people going in so many directions that making it work as a cult is impossible. As far as spreading, this capitalism thing seems to be working pretty well for them at the moment. So for the time the government will keep going with mantras of the importance of self-sacrifice and yadda-ya about how the nation is the people (and somehow also the government) until either the volk ignore it because of the noise and glitter of prosperity or prosperity halts and well, I don't like to imagine that scenario.
Depends on whether or not the prosperous feel like they are a part of the system. Prosperous, middle-class kids with plenty of free time and a stinging sense that they don't have control over their lives have driven revolutions for as long as we have known that word.
Yes, because everything begins and ends with America.
Good Lord, why should be it cheaper? There is equipment to be paid for and technicians to make sure the equipment is operational; probably some extra coverage for "e-Malpractice". Of course you won't actually get to see a doctor, just another over-worked nurse practitioner; only now they'll have to sit in a cube for 9 hours a day.
Turn-over will begin to go up in that area as the whole thing turns into "medical help desk". I couldn't imagine the horror of getting pestered for 9 hours a day by octogenarians and hypochondriacs about every pimple and scratch on their body. Not that it matters, the practice bills by both the call and the minute, there are 40 people in que and your sup is complaining about your response times. You pray each day that your practice will get bought out by one of the big boy managed health organizations, because they actually put into your 401k, unlike these organ grinders.
It has nothing to do with the language crippling your mind (though some days I do wonder about VB), but because the language has been taught in High School/Middle School Computer/Typing classes where teachers are more than happy to pass anyone who can print text to a screen and type 30 words a minute. It was (, no idea if it is still taught in public school) just a random elective that pretty much anyone could take and pass. Some people pass it, don't enjoy it, exclaim that they can program and for the rest of their lives feel that programmers are overpaid, entitled nerds who would serve the world better if they were ditch diggers.
Easy, it is the fear of new forms of prosecution that is the problem.
I can recall getting fined about 10 years ago by a cop for not having a drivers license while walking at night (I still wonder about the legality, but apparently it is a city ordinance for dealing with kids and curfews). Imagine that mindset on a federal level with federal prosecution behind it; say under the guise of making sure that teens are not working after-hours on their part time job. The money you could rake in would be ridiculous, both local, state and federal for a single instance.
"But the real issue is lack of customers. I just don't see that many Linux users that don't dual boot into Windows for gaming."
Currently isn't the same applicable to Mac? They've been dual booting ever since Boot Camp and before that they just had another system for games.
I wouldn't say learning is the problem, not wanting to buy or pirate Adobe products is the issue.
I'm guessing you have never watched house cats before. Every so many litters you get a Tom who doesn't quite understand the whole mating thing. You can lock him away with a group of females and another male and the first one he goes for is the male. Now this certainly isn't hard, conclusive evidence, but I'm sure he didn't get the idea from gay recruiters in an airport men's room.
That is the trick though. A jury and a justice system can (or at least should) only be able to punish you once. Granted we try to circumvent this by making one offense 12 different crimes (possession of drugs, possession of drugs with intent to distribute, distribution of drugs, distribution of drugs near a school, drugs near a church, near a child, owning a gun while possessing drugs, owning a gun while distributing drugs, possessing drugs without a state sanctioned drug distribution stamp, possessing drugs without a state sanctioned illegal drug distribution stamp, failure to pay taxes on distributed drugs, etc.) and we do everything thing under the sun to make sure that someone still receives some kind of punishment for the rest of their natural lives (just ask someone who served their time how easy it was getting a job), but at least there is supposed to be some kind of end to it.
The difference being the Chinese are motivated by a sense of moral justice (at least on the surface) instead of a nihilistic quest for lulz.
So the Church of the Subgenius really is the enlightened path?
I could be completely wrong, but in spite of the fact that channers go after folks for everything from being of the wrong religion (if you can call Scientology a religion) to wearing an animal suit during sex or yes, even killing kittens, I can't remember hearing about them going after someone for being unpatriotic. Then again, this is probably just me being a hypocritical, undeserving westerner.
I dunno, but this is a field that desperately needs some kind of leadership. How many technologies have we had in this field over the years. Countless markup formats, plug-ins and APIs and we haven't gotten too far in all this time.