At a locale book store, I was flipping through a book and read a very interesting point of electricity. If the price to make a phone call were to rise to $500 a minute tomorrow, most people would stop making phone calls. If bagels were to rise to $500 each, most people could give up bagels. If electricity were to rise to $500 a watt, could most people stop using electricity?
The problem with electricity is just like water, most people can't just give it up. Until there is an affordable way to generate your own electricity, we are at the mercy of the power company.
Now, shave off the backend by cutting the case study to half the length: the front end costs become a much more significant portion of the TCO.
I wasn't aware Microsoft allowed companies to go five years with out upgrading. How long does their latest license permit you to use they same system before encouraging upgrading?
Exactly, you go through the whole process of filing a patient only to be sued back to the Stone Age. You may want to consider the Poor Man's Patient where you basically document everything. It wont stop someone else from using your idea but when someone sues you for violating their patient, you will have the documentation proving your idea predates their patient.
We are a republic not, a democracy as most people believe. In a true democracy, political power is executed directly by the people while in a republic, the people elect representatives who execute political power.
If I remember my history correctly, Roman with also a republic which fell in part because of government corruption, so yes, corruption is the Achille's heel of a republic. Corruption, however, should be less of an issue in a true democracy since it would harder, requiring more resources to pride several million people than only a couple hundred.
An even better analgy would be Billy Boy's lemonade always tastes a bit watered down and there glass springs leaks after several hours.
While Tux is surrounded by several small lemonade stands which have already squeezed lemons from a few of the trees, water, and pre-extracted sugar for $2.50.
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The common opinion seems to be (at least here at slashdot) is most of Europe enjoys more rights then we do.
I can help but think that the lack of war within our boards as institutionalized us. Far too many of American society has never seen war, has never lost someone to war, and never seen the hospitals filled with people dying from an incurable disease. The result seems to be that most American to life for granted, never having to live everyday known today could be your last. Sure, there is cancer, car crashes, murders, etc. but that not the same thing. It is an unfortunate fact that for most people, for something to be real, the event must impact them directly. In order to drive safely, they must first be involved in an accident, or loss someone because of an accident. It far easier to ignore problems on the other side of the planet then the own in your own back yard. 9/11 changed all that, the problem is no longer someone else problem, all of a sudden, you can die at any moment, and there is no place to hide. 9/11 chatter many people's narrow vision of the world, now there staring death if the face instead pushing it aside because only old people die and other people die in car accidents. American must now deal with reality of life and dearth, like the rest of the world, and can not hide from it. They are scared, most scared people do not make wise choices.
I conquer that open and closed source start out equal buggy. However, open source may have more advantage then just the number of eyeballs. In particular, there no need for a "rush to market".
Since most open source projects are given away for free or little cost, there less need to work long hours, less temptation to cut back on testing.
Open Source usually doesn't have a marking team and/or managers who make unrealistic deadlines forcing the development team to spend long hours and when they still can not make the deadline, releasing an unfinished products while there advertising "the most stable version ever".
Open Source can afford to take more time, recommending people stay with the older version instead of answering every support question with "you have to upgrade to the new version".
The legitimate publications only publish reviews based on press releases and earlier version with out actually using the finished product but at least we know who wrote it.
Most user have no idea how insecure email and don't see the point encrypting it. Until someone is caught stealing credit card numbers by reading email, most people aren't going to give it any thought.
More people are considering with credit card numbers been stolen from a web site, not from being sent. After all, I have yet to here the media any cases of credit cards number been stolen from emails. Has anyone else?
If copying overseas is the main problem then why are these companies hitting their most profitable and loyal home based customers?
Maybe they are trying to setup a pay-per view system. It would not be very difficult with the changes they are purposing. Think about it, if they charge $5 per view (which is cheaper then the local movie theater even at the economy rates) then they would about double their profits after playing the movie 4 of 5 times.
If one day they just announced all electronics would be equipped with devices that would charges $5 in order to play the movie you just purchased, a large number of people would be upset. But, if they claim the devices are there to prevent piracy and slowly introduce a pay-per view system afterwards, they just might get away with it.
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At a locale book store, I was flipping through a book and read a very interesting point of electricity. If the price to make a phone call were to rise to $500 a minute tomorrow, most people would stop making phone calls. If bagels were to rise to $500 each, most people could give up bagels. If electricity were to rise to $500 a watt, could most people stop using electricity?
The problem with electricity is just like water, most people can't just give it up. Until there is an affordable way to generate your own electricity, we are at the mercy of the power company.
Now, shave off the backend by cutting the case study to half the length: the front end costs become a much more significant portion of the TCO.
I wasn't aware Microsoft allowed companies to go five years with out upgrading. How long does their latest license permit you to use they same system before encouraging upgrading?
Exactly, you go through the whole process of filing a patient only to be sued back to the Stone Age. You may want to consider the Poor Man's Patient where you basically document everything. It wont stop someone else from using your idea but when someone sues you for violating their patient, you will have the documentation proving your idea predates their patient.
We are a republic not, a democracy as most people believe. In a true democracy, political power is executed directly by the people while in a republic, the people elect representatives who execute political power.
If I remember my history correctly, Roman with also a republic which fell in part because of government corruption, so yes, corruption is the Achille's heel of a republic. Corruption, however, should be less of an issue in a true democracy since it would harder, requiring more resources to pride several million people than only a couple hundred.
An even better analgy would be Billy Boy's lemonade always tastes a bit watered down and there glass springs leaks after several hours.
While Tux is surrounded by several small lemonade stands which have already squeezed lemons from a few of the trees, water, and pre-extracted sugar for $2.50.
The common opinion seems to be (at least here at slashdot) is most of Europe enjoys more rights then we do.
I can help but think that the lack of war within our boards as institutionalized us. Far too many of American society has never seen war, has never lost someone to war, and never seen the hospitals filled with people dying from an incurable disease. The result seems to be that most American to life for granted, never having to live everyday known today could be your last. Sure, there is cancer, car crashes, murders, etc. but that not the same thing. It is an unfortunate fact that for most people, for something to be real, the event must impact them directly. In order to drive safely, they must first be involved in an accident, or loss someone because of an accident. It far easier to ignore problems on the other side of the planet then the own in your own back yard. 9/11 changed all that, the problem is no longer someone else problem, all of a sudden, you can die at any moment, and there is no place to hide. 9/11 chatter many people's narrow vision of the world, now there staring death if the face instead pushing it aside because only old people die and other people die in car accidents. American must now deal with reality of life and dearth, like the rest of the world, and can not hide from it. They are scared, most scared people do not make wise choices.
I conquer that open and closed source start out equal buggy. However, open source may have more advantage then just the number of eyeballs. In particular, there no need for a "rush to market".
Since most open source projects are given away for free or little cost, there less need to work long hours, less temptation to cut back on testing.
Open Source usually doesn't have a marking team and/or managers who make unrealistic deadlines forcing the development team to spend long hours and when they still can not make the deadline, releasing an unfinished products while there advertising "the most stable version ever".
Open Source can afford to take more time, recommending people stay with the older version instead of answering every support question with "you have to upgrade to the new version".
The legitimate publications only publish reviews based on press releases and earlier version with out actually using the finished product but at least we know who wrote it.
Most user have no idea how insecure email and don't see the point encrypting it. Until someone is caught stealing credit card numbers by reading email, most people aren't going to give it any thought.
More people are considering with credit card numbers been stolen from a web site, not from being sent. After all, I have yet to here the media any cases of credit cards number been stolen from emails. Has anyone else?
Considering the amount child neglect and abuse, maybe the parents should be the ones with the beacon.
If copying overseas is the main problem then why are these companies hitting their most profitable and loyal home based customers?
Maybe they are trying to setup a pay-per view system. It would not be very difficult with the changes they are purposing. Think about it, if they charge $5 per view (which is cheaper then the local movie theater even at the economy rates) then they would about double their profits after playing the movie 4 of 5 times.
If one day they just announced all electronics would be equipped with devices that would charges $5 in order to play the movie you just purchased, a large number of people would be upset. But, if they claim the devices are there to prevent piracy and slowly introduce a pay-per view system afterwards, they just might get away with it.
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