You know law has been tried before where it was strictly analytical, and it doesn't work very well at all because it's overly harsh and doesn't allow for different circumstances. The best example of that is probably the Code of Hammurabi.
The fact of the matter is law is left intentionally vague so that the Judge's can use their discretion. Without that, people would be punished either much to harshly, or not harshly enough. Over time the judicial system develops tests to apply to particular cases. For example, in defamation cases the plaintiff must prove an additional element, "actual malice" (the person making the statement had to know the statement was false, or made the statement with reckless disregard for the truth), if the defendant is a public figure. This additional element was established by the Supreme Court in 1964 to balance the First Amendment rights of the plaintiff, with the rights of the defendant. It's not perfect, but it's better than the other way.
It's this mentality of urban fear that shows how screwed up US cities really are.
Perhaps they just aren't as naive as you. Here's a neat map showing crime reported in Baltimore over the last 11 days. You'll notice all the fists and cross hair icons. Those are assaults and shootings. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean that cities aren't overrun with dangerous thugs. The ghetto is a dangerous place.
Bush won the mandatory Florida recount as well. The Supreme Court disallowed the hand recount because Florida wouldn't have it completed by the deadline.
"There are plenty of companies and people that pirate software in the United States, and massive numbers in places like China"
Except we aren't talking about china, we are talking about the united states alone.
Yes, microsoft made 62 Billion in revnue, however that is world wide not america alone. Big surprise the worlds economy is bigger than Americas.
The title of the article is "Senator Applauds Pirate Bay Trial, Chides Canada". You do realize that Canada and Sweden aren't part of the United States, right? The senator is quoted as saying "ensure that all copyrighted works, both here and abroad, are protected from online theft and traditional physical piracy". Abroad is also generally not recognized as part of the United States, but China is.
Furthermore, 1 download or 1 chinese bootleg does not mean 1 lost sell.
That statement is impossible to prove or disprove. If piracy weren't an option, companies would either have to pony up the cash for the product, or do without. Some would certainly start writing checks.
And for the record, I've NEVER seen a company with the resources to purchase SAP pirate it.
The company wouldn't but the IT people might. Especially in the case where there are two solutions to a problem, a more expensive package that you can't afford, and a less expensive package. Instead of settling for the package you can afford, you steal the more expensive one. That definitely deprives one of the companies a sale.
That's the really pathetic thing about people like you. You actually believe that the only way to get ahead is through dumb luck. That's also why you won't be rich.
Take Bill Clinton, Larry Ellison, or Andrew Carnegie (the 2nd wealthiest historical figure) for example. All three started poor or close to it, and achieved great heights. Don't feel too sorry for yourself, or fall into the trap of blaming your shortcomings on others advantages. There's a reason people that inherit there money are often referred to as "the rich man's idiot son". The wealthiest person I ever met quit school in 7th grade to get a job on a farm because his parents were very poor. He once told me that he isn't a really smart guy, but the secret to his success was working from 6AM to 6PM 6 days a week for sixty years.
You really think business software is less than entertainment. Get a grip on reality. Your calculated revenue total was $33 Billion. Let's compare that to the 2008 annual revenue of some software companies (I used Wolfram Alpha for this, and it rocked).
Here is a listing of what Alpha thinks the top 158 software companies are, with some pretty nifty charts too. Here is another website that lists the top 100 software companies by software revenue, which ranges from $48B to $228M. Even if you multiply the lowest by 100, you end up with $22.8B. Do you still think the entertainment business is bigger than the software business?
Gartner says more than a billion PCs are in use globally, and about 180 million PCs would be replaced in 2008. There are plenty of companies and people that pirate software in the United States, and massive numbers in places like China. The bottom line is, their numbers add up. I wouldn't be too surprised if there numbers are actually a little low.
I've been using 7 for a couple of weeks, and I've gotta say I'm impressed. It's like Vista done right, without all the annoyances. I think people will switch in droves when it's released.
It's not just entertainment media stupid. Software and hardware design are also copyright-based industries. We have to protect the creation of intellectual property, as we already opened our borders to let the manufacture of physical property occur elsewhere without excessive tariffs.
You're absolutely right, I'd go one step further though. The default for Wii Fit should be to not have a menu at all. It should fire up, the trainer should weigh you, then start right into a program that the software lays out. You should be working out in under a minute, and there should be no delay between exercises. It's borderline useless the way it is now.
Were we talking about Iran, for example, I'd agree with you - although their leaders hold a vastly different ideology to many of our own, writing them off with simplistic statements is totally unfair. Their country works in its own way and while legitimate criticism could be levelled at them for failing to represent the wishes of their people, that would not negate the fact that the decisions they do make often work to achieve the desired outcome.
I'd say the ideology is a bit different. Here is a video of them chanting "Death to America" at a political rally before a speech by their president promising to continue developing nuclear technologies. You might consider rethinking giving these people nuclear weapons.
...Only because FB doesn't seem closed. The moment that FB starts actively enforcing some sort of closed policy, is the day that you see a mass migration to a new networking site.
Facebook was significantly better when it was closed.
But the ESA is grossly underfunded. The NASA budget alone is larger than the budget of every other space agency on earth combined, and it's the smaller of the two US space agencies.
the Europeans had the Concorde and Japan has their high-speed rail
And we landed a man on the moon, sent rovers to Mars, built a global positioning satellite system, built a canal across Panama, and constructed ARPANET, which became the Internet. Undertaking large complex projects that make no financial sense for the sake of nationalism is ill-advised, just like the Concorde was.
Errm, what? How long didn't you update Quicktime? Heck, version 7.2 comes with 10.5 - didn't you claim you used that?
The version of Quicktime that ships with OS X 10.5 does allow full screen playback, but the version that came with 10.4 did not. I wasn't aware of that until I just fired it up to take a screenshot. In any case, I count 27 different PRO only menu options which are disabled in the version that ships with OS X 10.5.
$117.49 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116515) for XP Pro SP3 is less than the $129 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC094) for the Leopard upgrade. Blind adoration won't get you anywhere.
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You know law has been tried before where it was strictly analytical, and it doesn't work very well at all because it's overly harsh and doesn't allow for different circumstances. The best example of that is probably the Code of Hammurabi.
The fact of the matter is law is left intentionally vague so that the Judge's can use their discretion. Without that, people would be punished either much to harshly, or not harshly enough. Over time the judicial system develops tests to apply to particular cases. For example, in defamation cases the plaintiff must prove an additional element, "actual malice" (the person making the statement had to know the statement was false, or made the statement with reckless disregard for the truth), if the defendant is a public figure. This additional element was established by the Supreme Court in 1964 to balance the First Amendment rights of the plaintiff, with the rights of the defendant. It's not perfect, but it's better than the other way.
The default view is for the past 2 months, not 11 days.
The default view is for the last 300 records, which only covers the last 11 days.
It's this mentality of urban fear that shows how screwed up US cities really are.
Perhaps they just aren't as naive as you. Here's a neat map showing crime reported in Baltimore over the last 11 days. You'll notice all the fists and cross hair icons. Those are assaults and shootings. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean that cities aren't overrun with dangerous thugs. The ghetto is a dangerous place.
Bush won the mandatory Florida recount as well. The Supreme Court disallowed the hand recount because Florida wouldn't have it completed by the deadline.
Let's be nice about it.
Who gets to sit on their ass while everyone else works? The raw materials needed to manufacture goods don't come from nowhere.
There is more than one way to approach a problem. Those guys will probably be your boss, since they're more efficient than you.
EC2 instances don't contain instance data. The GP is correct. State data is generally stored on S3, on shared storage, or using their db interface.
"There are plenty of companies and people that pirate software in the United States, and massive numbers in places like China"
Except we aren't talking about china, we are talking about the united states alone.
Yes, microsoft made 62 Billion in revnue, however that is world wide not america alone. Big surprise the worlds economy is bigger than Americas.
The title of the article is "Senator Applauds Pirate Bay Trial, Chides Canada". You do realize that Canada and Sweden aren't part of the United States, right? The senator is quoted as saying "ensure that all copyrighted works, both here and abroad, are protected from online theft and traditional physical piracy". Abroad is also generally not recognized as part of the United States, but China is.
Furthermore, 1 download or 1 chinese bootleg does not mean 1 lost sell.
That statement is impossible to prove or disprove. If piracy weren't an option, companies would either have to pony up the cash for the product, or do without. Some would certainly start writing checks.
And for the record, I've NEVER seen a company with the resources to purchase SAP pirate it.
The company wouldn't but the IT people might. Especially in the case where there are two solutions to a problem, a more expensive package that you can't afford, and a less expensive package. Instead of settling for the package you can afford, you steal the more expensive one. That definitely deprives one of the companies a sale.
That's the really pathetic thing about people like you. You actually believe that the only way to get ahead is through dumb luck. That's also why you won't be rich.
Take Bill Clinton, Larry Ellison, or Andrew Carnegie (the 2nd wealthiest historical figure) for example. All three started poor or close to it, and achieved great heights. Don't feel too sorry for yourself, or fall into the trap of blaming your shortcomings on others advantages. There's a reason people that inherit there money are often referred to as "the rich man's idiot son". The wealthiest person I ever met quit school in 7th grade to get a job on a farm because his parents were very poor. He once told me that he isn't a really smart guy, but the secret to his success was working from 6AM to 6PM 6 days a week for sixty years.
You really think business software is less than entertainment. Get a grip on reality. Your calculated revenue total was $33 Billion. Let's compare that to the 2008 annual revenue of some software companies (I used Wolfram Alpha for this, and it rocked).
Microsoft: $61.98B
EMC: $14.88B
Computer Sciences Corporation: $17.11B
Oracle: $23.53B
Accenture: $25.68B
SAP: $16.31B
Adobe: $3.6B
Intuit: $3.1B
Symantec: $6.22B
Here is a listing of what Alpha thinks the top 158 software companies are, with some pretty nifty charts too. Here is another website that lists the top 100 software companies by software revenue, which ranges from $48B to $228M. Even if you multiply the lowest by 100, you end up with $22.8B. Do you still think the entertainment business is bigger than the software business?
Gartner says more than a billion PCs are in use globally, and about 180 million PCs would be replaced in 2008. There are plenty of companies and people that pirate software in the United States, and massive numbers in places like China. The bottom line is, their numbers add up. I wouldn't be too surprised if there numbers are actually a little low.
TV isn't a right.
I've been using 7 for a couple of weeks, and I've gotta say I'm impressed. It's like Vista done right, without all the annoyances. I think people will switch in droves when it's released.
You understand that copyright covers more than just entertainment?
It's not just entertainment media stupid. Software and hardware design are also copyright-based industries. We have to protect the creation of intellectual property, as we already opened our borders to let the manufacture of physical property occur elsewhere without excessive tariffs.
You're absolutely right, I'd go one step further though. The default for Wii Fit should be to not have a menu at all. It should fire up, the trainer should weigh you, then start right into a program that the software lays out. You should be working out in under a minute, and there should be no delay between exercises. It's borderline useless the way it is now.
The tinfoil is cutting off the circulation to your brain.
The people planning missions for NASA shouldn't be spending even a single second making sure the astronauts can watch DVDs.
Were we talking about Iran, for example, I'd agree with you - although their leaders hold a vastly different ideology to many of our own, writing them off with simplistic statements is totally unfair. Their country works in its own way and while legitimate criticism could be levelled at them for failing to represent the wishes of their people, that would not negate the fact that the decisions they do make often work to achieve the desired outcome.
I'd say the ideology is a bit different. Here is a video of them chanting "Death to America" at a political rally before a speech by their president promising to continue developing nuclear technologies. You might consider rethinking giving these people nuclear weapons.
...Only because FB doesn't seem closed. The moment that FB starts actively enforcing some sort of closed policy, is the day that you see a mass migration to a new networking site.
Facebook was significantly better when it was closed.
Blasphemer is more apt for what you're preaching. Denier just doesn't have the same ring.
But the ESA is grossly underfunded. The NASA budget alone is larger than the budget of every other space agency on earth combined, and it's the smaller of the two US space agencies.
the Europeans had the Concorde and Japan has their high-speed rail
And we landed a man on the moon, sent rovers to Mars, built a global positioning satellite system, built a canal across Panama, and constructed ARPANET, which became the Internet. Undertaking large complex projects that make no financial sense for the sake of nationalism is ill-advised, just like the Concorde was.
Errm, what? How long didn't you update Quicktime? Heck, version 7.2 comes with 10.5 - didn't you claim you used that?
The version of Quicktime that ships with OS X 10.5 does allow full screen playback, but the version that came with 10.4 did not. I wasn't aware of that until I just fired it up to take a screenshot. In any case, I count 27 different PRO only menu options which are disabled in the version that ships with OS X 10.5.
$117.49 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116515) for XP Pro SP3 is less than the $129 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC094) for the Leopard upgrade. Blind adoration won't get you anywhere.