The only way I see to cut down on the piracy effectively is for the industry to lower the prices of their cds. If people can by a copy for $3 that works just as well as the offical version that costs 5 times as much they will.
If it was ranting and bitching about the company? probably around that 1% mark. If it actually went into the manner in which he was treated, for good or bad, then probably much higher. I think it truely depends on the content. If I recieved actual information or a first-hand story of how my company was dealing with its employees I know I'd be interested.
I don't agree with sending out massive amounts of e-mail about a company that just laid you off to them. I want to say that from the start. But...
I don't know if this should qualify as normal spam. The information was targeted at a specific audience(people that worked for the company) and dealt with that topic. It wasn't sent to people repeatedly, one shot deal, a single delete and no worries about that mail again whereas most spam i get comes on many many occasions. And it may have not been a simple rant. If it was just ranting garbage, then it shouldn't have been. If there was actual information in it about how the company treated him when being laid off(such as if they escorted him out, rushed him, or were even nice about it) then i could see it being justified.
As for your specific remarks. I've had flyers basically forced on me entering places and oftentimes go to my car to find a flyer(not a ticket) under the wiper blade. The evil doers responsible for this have yet to be nabbed. I see no evidence of some of these people trying to stay anonomous, and the ones that were were doing it because they thought(rightly apparently) the company might come after them.
It seem to me that most people aren't to upset about just being filmed. The convenience store has security cameras, but it doesn't really come into use much unless a crime is actually commited. When you add in a database and a system that tags the wrong people, anyone could get grabbed by police for questioning because of a glitch.
As for k-mart. i really don't think i'd care to much for them tracking my face for personalized ads. but then i don't like it when companies keep track of that much information on me in general.
Where was the mention of Christ? Perhaps you may be reading a bit more into this than was being said. Perhaps you need to look at your own judgemental tendencies a bit?
I'm not sure what all they'd want to use the microdrive for. Might want it for data backup if they can't transmit everything? or maybe for instructions and/or schematics for when they're working on something outside of the station. streaming and transmitting might not always be possible i guess. The use of a laptop hdd might also not be usable since they're having to make this as small as possible so that they don't have to do much to the suits and theres not much room left in them.
As for it being from the Matrix, eh, I didn't agree with it then, I don't now. To have limited ourselves at this point would make us further from the animals. Most animal populations continue to grow until they can't. Very rare is a species that stops itself from reaching its maximum size. Being the "big mean" animal, we can push the others around, which is what we have been doing, which is what animals often do when crowded. Those that are best equiped for survival take over. The only real difference is that we use technology to "cheat." I don't think what we do is right alot of times, but nothing we have done moves us farther away from being animals. Our continued growth and disregard of other species makes us all the more like them.
I think this logic is a little bit off. While all species do level off at a certain point, they expand as far as they can and support themselves until they are leveled off by nature. It isn't that they stop breeding, they just overpopulate until a high enough percentage dies off due to competition/starvation/what have you. As a species we have developed means of further expanding our environments and better using our food resources(agriculture). In these ways we do fit as animals, where the strong species will push another out of its territory. We need to take a good strong look at where we fit and how we should treat the world since we do have a destructive ability well beyond that of any other animal on the planet, but just because we are destructive on a larger scale doesn't mean we aren't animals.
they have it. i've heard one. it was going off for a good while apparently before i even got into the area. people looked, saw it was a car, and walked off. all it did was annoy people more than a normal alarm because they thought something might actually be happening.
A bunch of people brought up the point of "what are they going to do once its cracked?" well, couldn't it be that the company is EXPECTING it to get cracked? i mean, i(and alot of you it sounds) wouldn't pay $10 a month for music i couldn't transport around. once its cracked it will become $10 a month for whatever music you want and their ability to stay up without getting sued might be better than p2p because after all, everythings safe right? sounds like it could be an interesting stategy to me. go with the riaa rules knowing that your service is going to be usefull, as soon as someone breaks it.
Perhaps we could have seperate competitions, I'm for a normal/genetic mod/cyborg style competition were each group competes only against others with the same advantages and disadvantages. We'd still need to find a way to keep people from joining the wrong groups though.
I don't think its necessarily the most popular just because they've sold the most. They seem to be selling more off the start than the PS2 and XBox because of saturation. When PS2 came out, there were none on the shelves. If you weren't incredibly lucky, you didn't get one. The XBox has seemed to be the same most places where I live. Gamecube is seeming doing better because they shipped more units at their start so that stores aren't running out as fast.
I think that this might depend on whether you're upgrading by buying the full new version, or buy buying an upgrade. If Crapsoft 4.0 would run by itself and not require you to install over a previous version then i think you can sell 3.1 legally. If 4.0 requires an earlier version i think it would be considered to be closer to being a patch and you would need to stop using 4.0 if you sold 3.1.
if its just used on a few individuals, then i don't have that big of a problem with it. if its just sent all over the place then it should be illegal. they can probably find a way around his, and thats one of the things i disagree with.
If they showed up with a warrant? I'd expect them to be let in. Probly wouldn't want it, but i'd expect it. If they showed up WITHOUT a warrant, i'd want my guards to throw em right out though.
I agree that many people wouldn't care to much about the bars being shut down, I know I wouldn't be particularly moved by it. But I think the censorship aspects would cause quite a bit of stir. People would fear, and rightly so, that the banning of sites in certain places could be a step towards mass censoring of the internet.
If this happened in America all hell would break loose, but in China, most people probably don't care, if they even notice. Only 27 million of their 1.3 billion citizens access the internet. Thats about 2 percent. Of those 2 percent, only 4.5 million rely on the internet bars. So even if all of them were effected by the lose of these bars(which not all are) only.3 percent of the population that was effected. Unfortunately not enough to throw a coup or have a very effect revolt against an armed government willing to use force.
Neither of your points seem correct to me. The first one especially. You say that every car you see on the side of the road that ran out of gas would be a plan falling, why? How often to planes currently fall out of the sky because they don't have any gas? You alway say each accident would be like a plan falling from the sky. Again, why? There wouldn't be the same number of planes to cause congestion. And although there would be more than there are current airlines, they're not being flown by whoever feels like going out and buying one. Its a comuter service. They would be being kept in condition by a company that would have to be showing quality control to prevent things such as bad breaks and engines. If the idea gets put into use it could be really useful and I don't see that there would be many of the problems seen on the highways simply because they wouldn't be being driving by John Q. Public.
umm..... a company is deemed a monopoly when taken in front of the courts and the courts and found to be. microsoft was taken in front of them, they said microsoft was a monopoly. it isn't just a bunch of slashdotters going off about microsoft being a monopoly like they/we have for a long time. now its official.
Thats not the point. These computers and software would be helpful to the schools, very helpful, but they in no way act as punishment for microsoft, which is what the company is trying to pass it off as. It would be great it microsoft, out of the kindness in its heart, donated these computers. They however are trying to use the children to get out of paying their dues, and the children shouldn't be used that way.
You're right that giving the children windows isn't going to hurt them. It will actually help the kids. And if microsoft wants to give them 1.1 billion dollars in equipment and software, I would be very happy with microsoft for doing so. The school can't afford the computers so they couldn't go download opensource if they wanted to anyway. Anythings better than nothing right? The problem lies in that Microsoft is trying to use this as part of their punishment, and this isn't a punishment for them.
When he said text was 2d, I belive he was referring to it that was because it is only symbolic in 2d. You can make it 3d and give it depth yeah, but take your now 3d letter, turn it 90 degrees, what is it?
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The only way I see to cut down on the piracy effectively is for the industry to lower the prices of their cds. If people can by a copy for $3 that works just as well as the offical version that costs 5 times as much they will.
If it was ranting and bitching about the company? probably around that 1% mark. If it actually went into the manner in which he was treated, for good or bad, then probably much higher. I think it truely depends on the content. If I recieved actual information or a first-hand story of how my company was dealing with its employees I know I'd be interested.
I don't agree with sending out massive amounts of e-mail about a company that just laid you off to them. I want to say that from the start. But...
I don't know if this should qualify as normal spam. The information was targeted at a specific audience(people that worked for the company) and dealt with that topic. It wasn't sent to people repeatedly, one shot deal, a single delete and no worries about that mail again whereas most spam i get comes on many many occasions. And it may have not been a simple rant. If it was just ranting garbage, then it shouldn't have been. If there was actual information in it about how the company treated him when being laid off(such as if they escorted him out, rushed him, or were even nice about it) then i could see it being justified.
As for your specific remarks. I've had flyers basically forced on me entering places and oftentimes go to my car to find a flyer(not a ticket) under the wiper blade. The evil doers responsible for this have yet to be nabbed. I see no evidence of some of these people trying to stay anonomous, and the ones that were were doing it because they thought(rightly apparently) the company might come after them.
It seem to me that most people aren't to upset about just being filmed. The convenience store has security cameras, but it doesn't really come into use much unless a crime is actually commited. When you add in a database and a system that tags the wrong people, anyone could get grabbed by police for questioning because of a glitch.
As for k-mart. i really don't think i'd care to much for them tracking my face for personalized ads. but then i don't like it when companies keep track of that much information on me in general.
Where was the mention of Christ? Perhaps you may be reading a bit more into this than was being said. Perhaps you need to look at your own judgemental tendencies a bit?
I'm not sure what all they'd want to use the microdrive for. Might want it for data backup if they can't transmit everything? or maybe for instructions and/or schematics for when they're working on something outside of the station. streaming and transmitting might not always be possible i guess. The use of a laptop hdd might also not be usable since they're having to make this as small as possible so that they don't have to do much to the suits and theres not much room left in them.
wow, one of the first on-topic first posts i've ever seen. good job.
add tax... that $99 is three figures.
As for it being from the Matrix, eh, I didn't agree with it then, I don't now. To have limited ourselves at this point would make us further from the animals. Most animal populations continue to grow until they can't. Very rare is a species that stops itself from reaching its maximum size. Being the "big mean" animal, we can push the others around, which is what we have been doing, which is what animals often do when crowded. Those that are best equiped for survival take over. The only real difference is that we use technology to "cheat." I don't think what we do is right alot of times, but nothing we have done moves us farther away from being animals. Our continued growth and disregard of other species makes us all the more like them.
I think this logic is a little bit off. While all species do level off at a certain point, they expand as far as they can and support themselves until they are leveled off by nature. It isn't that they stop breeding, they just overpopulate until a high enough percentage dies off due to competition/starvation/what have you. As a species we have developed means of further expanding our environments and better using our food resources(agriculture). In these ways we do fit as animals, where the strong species will push another out of its territory. We need to take a good strong look at where we fit and how we should treat the world since we do have a destructive ability well beyond that of any other animal on the planet, but just because we are destructive on a larger scale doesn't mean we aren't animals.
they have it. i've heard one. it was going off for a good while apparently before i even got into the area. people looked, saw it was a car, and walked off. all it did was annoy people more than a normal alarm because they thought something might actually be happening.
umm... to make the comparision more meaningful trying comparing the lowest in epiphone to the squier.
A bunch of people brought up the point of "what are they going to do once its cracked?" well, couldn't it be that the company is EXPECTING it to get cracked? i mean, i(and alot of you it sounds) wouldn't pay $10 a month for music i couldn't transport around. once its cracked it will become $10 a month for whatever music you want and their ability to stay up without getting sued might be better than p2p because after all, everythings safe right? sounds like it could be an interesting stategy to me. go with the riaa rules knowing that your service is going to be usefull, as soon as someone breaks it.
Perhaps we could have seperate competitions, I'm for a normal/genetic mod/cyborg style competition were each group competes only against others with the same advantages and disadvantages. We'd still need to find a way to keep people from joining the wrong groups though.
I don't think its necessarily the most popular just because they've sold the most. They seem to be selling more off the start than the PS2 and XBox because of saturation. When PS2 came out, there were none on the shelves. If you weren't incredibly lucky, you didn't get one. The XBox has seemed to be the same most places where I live. Gamecube is seeming doing better because they shipped more units at their start so that stores aren't running out as fast.
I think that this might depend on whether you're upgrading by buying the full new version, or buy buying an upgrade. If Crapsoft 4.0 would run by itself and not require you to install over a previous version then i think you can sell 3.1 legally. If 4.0 requires an earlier version i think it would be considered to be closer to being a patch and you would need to stop using 4.0 if you sold 3.1.
if its just used on a few individuals, then i don't have that big of a problem with it. if its just sent all over the place then it should be illegal. they can probably find a way around his, and thats one of the things i disagree with.
If they showed up with a warrant? I'd expect them to be let in. Probly wouldn't want it, but i'd expect it. If they showed up WITHOUT a warrant, i'd want my guards to throw em right out though.
Heh, a Boston coffee party perhaps?
I agree that many people wouldn't care to much about the bars being shut down, I know I wouldn't be particularly moved by it. But I think the censorship aspects would cause quite a bit of stir. People would fear, and rightly so, that the banning of sites in certain places could be a step towards mass censoring of the internet.
If this happened in America all hell would break loose, but in China, most people probably don't care, if they even notice. Only 27 million of their 1.3 billion citizens access the internet. Thats about 2 percent. Of those 2 percent, only 4.5 million rely on the internet bars. So even if all of them were effected by the lose of these bars(which not all are) only .3 percent of the population that was effected. Unfortunately not enough to throw a coup or have a very effect revolt against an armed government willing to use force.
Neither of your points seem correct to me. The first one especially. You say that every car you see on the side of the road that ran out of gas would be a plan falling, why? How often to planes currently fall out of the sky because they don't have any gas? You alway say each accident would be like a plan falling from the sky. Again, why? There wouldn't be the same number of planes to cause congestion. And although there would be more than there are current airlines, they're not being flown by whoever feels like going out and buying one. Its a comuter service. They would be being kept in condition by a company that would have to be showing quality control to prevent things such as bad breaks and engines. If the idea gets put into use it could be really useful and I don't see that there would be many of the problems seen on the highways simply because they wouldn't be being driving by John Q. Public.
umm..... a company is deemed a monopoly when taken in front of the courts and the courts and found to be. microsoft was taken in front of them, they said microsoft was a monopoly. it isn't just a bunch of slashdotters going off about microsoft being a monopoly like they/we have for a long time. now its official.
Thats not the point. These computers and software would be helpful to the schools, very helpful, but they in no way act as punishment for microsoft, which is what the company is trying to pass it off as. It would be great it microsoft, out of the kindness in its heart, donated these computers. They however are trying to use the children to get out of paying their dues, and the children shouldn't be used that way.
You're right that giving the children windows isn't going to hurt them. It will actually help the kids. And if microsoft wants to give them 1.1 billion dollars in equipment and software, I would be very happy with microsoft for doing so. The school can't afford the computers so they couldn't go download opensource if they wanted to anyway. Anythings better than nothing right? The problem lies in that Microsoft is trying to use this as part of their punishment, and this isn't a punishment for them.
When he said text was 2d, I belive he was referring to it that was because it is only symbolic in 2d. You can make it 3d and give it depth yeah, but take your now 3d letter, turn it 90 degrees, what is it?