from tfa The problem is that ordinary citizens don't know what a real terrorist threat looks like. They can't tell the difference between a bomb and a tape dispenser, electronic name badge, CD player, bat detector, or a trash sculpture; or Meatwad Shake and Frylock
On September 3, in this interview, Darl states clearly that he could do some "licensing deals" and sell their mobile business to raise cash. Where are the media comments on this? Are there no companies that want to own "shout postcard" and "hip check" or "Scamp"?
From the website Useful for recording video game footage, making training apps, recording streaming video and some other tasks.
Why would I want to copy a screenshot of a streaming video to a quicktime movie? Most content providers who stream video over the net would give you a way to save it to you hard drive if they wanted you to do that. This product is actively being advertised as a way to capture video that the providers don't want captured. This product is advertised as a way to "steal" video. Is there any surprise that a lot of your users are "stealing" your software.
FTFA: by accepting its ads, consumers get popular software applications free of charge that otherwise can cost up to $30 apiece. Wow, I can save $30 by making my $500 PC unusable.
Slashdotted: our site crashed after we were slashdotted.
Come on, "Mouse Potato" made it, but not slashdotted? Who has ever used the words "mouse potato"?
Her brain damage was caused by oxygen deprivation, not a physical trauma. While it's very rare for someone to come back from a brain injury like Mr. Wallis' after being in a coma for more than a few years, it has never happened for someone like Ms. Schiavo.
Is it possible that if craigslist didn't offer most ads for free, they wouldn't be where they are today, and they couldn't have cashed in? Was linus turning away millions by not charging $50 a copy for linux? Charging money for all ads on craigslist would be killing the proverbial gold-egg laying goose because it's not producing fast enough.
Why do people try to do physical things to "destroy" magnetic media. You would think that Best Buy would have some software to erase the data (writing random 0/1's repeatedly). I suppose if they were replacing the hard drive Best Buy might have figured it wouldn't work, but at least they should have used a strong magnetic field.
Even their name's a dime store joke. It's got the first four letters of the work Forgery in it's name. Seriously, what's the follow-up to the to the "Rembrandt found in the attic" analogy.
Their "majority of the claims upheald" comment sounds just like Darl's "we are pleased with the numbers comments after each successively worse quarter.
Or in Europe, we would still be spraying DDT all over the place. How did we get rid of malaria in the U.S. (and settle Florida)? If your kid was dying of malaria, you wouldn't think twice about a few soft eggshells.
This is exactly right. Patents are biased against the do-ers and towards the thinkers. You can't infringe unless you are being productive. The do-ers thought that they could protect themselves against frivoulous patent lawsuits by getting some frivoulous patents themselves. Patents won't you protect you against an entity that make anything but patent lawsuits. Part of me would like to see the Blackberrys shut down for a few days to wake some people up to what is going on.
..is too much CNN. It's nothing but stories of runaway brides, missing teenagers, and the dangers of foreigners. Let me tell you a little secret. Most of the outsourcing isn't to save money, it's too get better quality. There are good developers coming out of IIT that will do a better job than the average developer you would hire off the street in the US. That the person will work for a lot less is a bonus and helps compensate for the time difference. During 2000, you could get a $70k job just by spelling C++ correctly. I'll tell you another secret, as hardware gets better and better, the number of uses for computers will increase so fast that that every competent developer in any reasonably free country with a reasonable infrastructure will be able to get a job. That means it's actually quite bad news that CS enrollment is down in this country. That simply means more of the good jobs will go overseas unless we really fix the whole immigration thing (oh yeah, that's something else CNN has totally wrong and spends an inordinate amount of time on).
I was wondering, are there astrologers that take into account obscure comets when they are writing horoscopes? I thought they focused on stars and planets.
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story on npr says that the credit card companies can actually wind up making money when a fraudulent charge is made. Does this create an incentive for them to keep things safe?
Yes, but they are protecting themselves only against people who actually make something. If you don't make anything (ie, you just try to exploit patents), you can't be sued for patent infringement. The only thing good about this is that perhaps some lawmakers will see how harmful the whole concept of software patents is and reign it in.
Aren't there some other things the school could do with the money you would send to MSFT? Why not focus on that? Of course, you could just refer them to this story which states that you are better off not giving the students anything.
Maybe because you are running windoze. I am running Suse 9.2 (and just installed Opera w/o seeing the windoze download). Actually, I can say that this seems like the best browser for linux. If the CEO actually does the swim, I promise I'll buy a copy.
- David
There is a "software co-op" called Avalanch that allows companies to share software. For the reasons you describe above, I'm not sure if it has much of a chance of success. It's sort of a open source, but open only to members.
Why not "open source" the voyager. Maybe the Indian space agency would like to take it over. Maybe even some amateur astronomers would do it. I wonder how much equipment is required to receive signals from the voyager?
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According to their FAQ, there's no ogg, nothing lossless, just mp3. A home system like this should have better formats as an option. When you export your music to a portable device, at that time, you should convert it to the necessary format. In a few years, when hard disks are 5 times as large, or when another lossy format is standard, you won't be able to decompress your mp3's back to cd-quality, or change to the new format.
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from tfa The problem is that ordinary citizens don't know what a real terrorist threat looks like. They can't tell the difference between a bomb and a tape dispenser, electronic name badge, CD player, bat detector, or a trash sculpture;
or Meatwad Shake and Frylock
On September 3, in this interview, Darl states clearly that he could do some "licensing deals" and sell their mobile business to raise cash. Where are the media comments on this? Are there no companies that want to own "shout postcard" and "hip check" or "Scamp"?
From the website
Useful for recording video game footage, making training apps, recording streaming video and some other tasks.
Why would I want to copy a screenshot of a streaming video to a quicktime movie? Most content providers who stream video over the net would give you a way to save it to you hard drive if they wanted you to do that. This product is actively being advertised as a way to capture video that the providers don't want captured. This product is advertised as a way to "steal" video. Is there any surprise that a lot of your users are "stealing" your software.
FTFA: by accepting its ads, consumers get popular software applications free of charge that otherwise can cost up to $30 apiece.
Wow, I can save $30 by making my $500 PC unusable.
While you are at it, break their legs so they can't get up and go for a beer during a commercial?
Slashdotted: our site crashed after we were slashdotted. Come on, "Mouse Potato" made it, but not slashdotted? Who has ever used the words "mouse potato"?
Her brain damage was caused by oxygen deprivation, not a physical trauma. While it's very rare for someone to come back from a brain injury like Mr. Wallis' after being in a coma for more than a few years, it has never happened for someone like Ms. Schiavo.
Is it possible that if craigslist didn't offer most ads for free, they wouldn't be where they are today, and they couldn't have cashed in? Was linus turning away millions by not charging $50 a copy for linux? Charging money for all ads on craigslist would be killing the proverbial gold-egg laying goose because it's not producing fast enough.
Why do people try to do physical things to "destroy" magnetic media. You would think that Best Buy would have some software to erase the data (writing random 0/1's repeatedly). I suppose if they were replacing the hard drive Best Buy might have figured it wouldn't work, but at least they should have used a strong magnetic field.
Even their name's a dime store joke. It's got the first four letters of the work Forgery in it's name. Seriously, what's the follow-up to the to the "Rembrandt found in the attic" analogy. Their "majority of the claims upheald" comment sounds just like Darl's "we are pleased with the numbers comments after each successively worse quarter.
Or in Europe, we would still be spraying DDT all over the place. How did we get rid of malaria in the U.S. (and settle Florida)? If your kid was dying of malaria, you wouldn't think twice about a few soft eggshells.
The Atari 2600 has 128 bytes ~0.1k. How many of us could write anything with access to just 128 bytes of ram, Well, maybe you could write Pong.
This is exactly right. Patents are biased against the do-ers and towards the thinkers. You can't infringe unless you are being productive. The do-ers thought that they could protect themselves against frivoulous patent lawsuits by getting some frivoulous patents themselves. Patents won't you protect you against an entity that make anything but patent lawsuits. Part of me would like to see the Blackberrys shut down for a few days to wake some people up to what is going on.
..is too much CNN. It's nothing but stories of runaway brides, missing teenagers, and the dangers of foreigners. Let me tell you a little secret. Most of the outsourcing isn't to save money, it's too get better quality. There are good developers coming out of IIT that will do a better job than the average developer you would hire off the street in the US. That the person will work for a lot less is a bonus and helps compensate for the time difference. During 2000, you could get a $70k job just by spelling C++ correctly. I'll tell you another secret, as hardware gets better and better, the number of uses for computers will increase so fast that that every competent developer in any reasonably free country with a reasonable infrastructure will be able to get a job. That means it's actually quite bad news that CS enrollment is down in this country. That simply means more of the good jobs will go overseas unless we really fix the whole immigration thing (oh yeah, that's something else CNN has totally wrong and spends an inordinate amount of time on).
Of the original breakup anyway? The baby bells are buying each other and Ma bell.
I was wondering, are there astrologers that take into account obscure comets when they are writing horoscopes? I thought they focused on stars and planets.
This story on npr says that the credit card companies can actually wind up making money when a fraudulent charge is made. Does this create an incentive for them to keep things safe?
Yes, but they are protecting themselves only against people who actually make something. If you don't make anything (ie, you just try to exploit patents), you can't be sued for patent infringement. The only thing good about this is that perhaps some lawmakers will see how harmful the whole concept of software patents is and reign it in.
The radio show Marketplace has a http://members.aol.com/adnascar/thepark.html> story about the same machine. Not much details in the story. It doesn't mention linux, but says "it doesn't do windows".
Aren't there some other things the school could do with the money you would send to MSFT? Why not focus on that? Of course, you could just refer them to this story which states that you are better off not giving the students anything.
Maybe because you are running windoze. I am running Suse 9.2 (and just installed Opera w/o seeing the windoze download). Actually, I can say that this seems like the best browser for linux. If the CEO actually does the swim, I promise I'll buy a copy. - David
There is a "software co-op" called Avalanch that allows companies to share software. For the reasons you describe above, I'm not sure if it has much of a chance of success. It's sort of a open source, but open only to members.
Why not "open source" the voyager. Maybe the Indian space agency would like to take it over. Maybe even some amateur astronomers would do it. I wonder how much equipment is required to receive signals from the voyager?
According to their FAQ, there's no ogg, nothing lossless, just mp3. A home system like this should have better formats as an option. When you export your music to a portable device, at that time, you should convert it to the necessary format. In a few years, when hard disks are 5 times as large, or when another lossy format is standard, you won't be able to decompress your mp3's back to cd-quality, or change to the new format.