But you do end up profiting when you receive said copy without paying for it.
You get use and enjoyment, without remuneration or recompense to anyone. Especially the creator.
Little laptop with a swivel screen? OK! (think car PC)
Reasonable quality digital camcorder? kewl!
Trying to stabilise the camera with the added, needless weight of a laptop? No thanks.
A camera that has to be upgraded when the laptop is passe'? No thanks
Sending my laptop back when the camera dies? No thanks
Or sending the camera back when my laptop HD dies? No thanks.
Then Ford can prevent anyone else from making radiators for their cars.
No, but why should they have to clean up the mess when the 3rd party part (which may or may not have been designed correctly) craps out and eats the motor?
It should be between the user and the 3rd party builder if anything dies.
Not merely purple, but the exact shade of purple (mixed with black) which burns the retinas, causes blindness in lab rats, epileptic fits in otherwise normal/.ers (is there such a thing?), and provokes the general fight or flight response.
A little color research next time? Or did you mean to cause this?
the non-standard radiator is designed for that car, then they have to honour the warranty.
Designed by whom? If I put out a radiator, "Designed for the Ford F-150!" and you put it on your truck, and it kills your truck...why the hell should Ford pay?
The radiator (or heatsink) maker can say whatever they like. The OEM (Ford or AMD) does not have to honor anything related to it.
Why don't they get paid an hourly wage (or a monthly salary) for the work that they do from some company (or from themselves) for the time they spend working?
Because their 'salary' is dependant on how many copies they sell...books, music, whatever. And the company who would pay them gets its money from where? Again...book sales. If on an hourly wage, NoNameBand would get just as much money as Pink Floyd. or the Stones. Pay the Stones more hourly? And how do you determine that? Through number of sales.
Books are the same. Should John Grisham or Stephen King get paid the same as Mr NewWriter, because they all took one year to write a book? No. More popular writers get more money, because they sell more books.
Let's also state there exists a replicator that can take a physical object and duplicate it effortlessly and at negligible cost. I'm going to get paid for the first gear of any ssize/style (and some percentage of the following gears that I duplicate from those people who are honest enough to buy from me).
But in the current Kazaa mindset, you get paid for the first gear, period. No royalities, no percentage. Nada. The replicator merely pumps out perfect copies for whomever wants one, and you get nothing. Meanwhile, many, many people get use of your efforts, with no effort on their part.
Change gear or book to Ferrari. The replicator pumps out perfect Testarossa's, and everybody has one. Devalueing the actual, from the factory, Redhead. Ferrari eventually goes out of business. Poof...no more Ferrari's, real or replicated. Again...we have not 'stolen' a physical object, merely ripped a perfect copy.
I'm NOT saying the current RIAA model is correct. Far from it. But obtaining music without compensation to the artist/author is flat out wrong.
You miss the definition of "luxury". i.e. something that which if you did not have, you could still survive. Music is a luxury item on most peoples budgets. Something that comes after food, shelter, healthcare, etc.
If you are too poor to afford food, and you steal some to survive, ok...you might get off in a court of law.
Music, OTOH, is not necessary to the essence of life. If you cannot afford to purchase it, then don't. But why do you think obtaining it without payment is OK?
Postulate this..you've finally graduated from school, and started a career as a writer. You get ALL of your icome from selling books.
I go down to the library, check out one of your fine writings, and proceed to make 100,000 copies of it. I then distribute these copies, for free, far and wide. Put up a website, letting any and all get a copy, either electronically, or an actual hardcopy. I , according to your thought processes, have not 'stolen' anything, because you, the writer, still have it.
You, of course, get no proceeds from my efforts. Your actual book sales go waaaaay down, and your personal income suffers greatly. Eventually, you have to give up writing as a profession, because you get nothing back from it. You have to go get a regular job, and have no more time for writing.
What would you do? Say "Ah well...who needs to eat? I'll write anyway, and let my readers have it for free."
Actually, it's not even a case of "AOL owns CompuServe", but rather AOL bought Compuserve, and now they are one and the same. Even down to calling the same modem pool, (yes, the AOL and CS phone numbers for a particular locality are the same,
and sharing the same individual account information. If a user has both an AOL acct and a CS acct, he cannot use both at the same time, even from different PC's and different sub screennames.
All that is different is a somewhat different GUI. CS has basically ceased to exist as a unique product.
Who here is going to obey this law if it ever gets passed?
Unless yor computer is jacked directly into the backbone, you might not have a choice. Whoever supplies your connection will obey, or be forced/fined/jailed out of businesss.
Or, if they had known about the situation earlier (inspection via telescope) they could have come up with something.
How much do you not know about optics? That argument is a fairly bad joke, in my view.
Not to dredge up an old post, but apparently someone on the CAIB thinks we can and should do it.
"Recommendation Two: Prior to return to flight, NASA should modify its Memorandum of Agreement with National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) to make on-orbit imaging for each Shuttle flight a standard requirement.
This recommendation was issued because of the board's finding that the full capabilities of the United States Government to image the Shuttle on orbit were not utilized."
You have to trust your kids, but you also have to have a sense of what is going on. If online grades are available, that is but one method to find out. No different than report cards, calling the teachers, etc.
Good parents DO know what is happening in their kids school lives.
Or, if they had known about the situation earlier (inspection via telescope) they could have come up with something.
It was a 10 day flight. Knowing about the problem a couple of days into it would have given MUCH better options, rather than just winging it on the reentry.
Stretch the rations/air for a few more days. "hey...there's a Progress resupply going to the ISS next week. Can we divert that and give them another week or so?"
Who knows? But I do know that having 2 weeks to figure something out is preferable to having 30 seconds.
Yeah, but it looks from the article as if you have to be a "real" company to get it, even if you don't get charged, so the chances of me getting hold of the source seem unlikely.
err...no. I am d/ling it as we speak. Microsoft Windows CE.NET 4.1 Emulation Edition. 410mb.
Took about 5 mins to find and start the d/l.
To quote from the the article "When times are bad, Microsoft can lay off hundreds of contingent workers without a word to the analysts or to shareholders. It's a common practice that most contractors know and fear.".
There you have it, this is the corporate culture at Microsoft.
Every single day i find a new reason to dislike that company.
To quote from the the article "When times are bad, any corporation can lay off hundreds of contingent workers without a word to the analysts or to shareholders. It's a common practice that most contractors know and fear.".
There you have it, this is the corporate culture at any corporation.
Every single day i find a new reason to dislike uncaring corporations.
It's going to be great fun watching the marketing guys build their PowerPoint presentations on their cell phones.
A corporate saleswoman I know has done almost that.
Her team has given up toting laptops to do presentations. A desktop in the office to build them on, and a handheld out in the field, plugged directly into the projector, to do the presentations and manage client data.
Even minor updates done on the handheld. Need a different presentation? Log into central files back home and download/modify it.
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One well-placed North Korean nuke and South Korea's broadband capacity won't look quite as attractive to business.
And North Korea won't look attractive to anyone but cockroaches.
Oh, wait...
is not done by the French. Usually, it is done by another country (recently, the Germans).
The French are good at warsurrendering, though.
But you do end up profiting when you receive said copy without paying for it.
You get use and enjoyment, without remuneration or recompense to anyone. Especially the creator.
The perfect "something for nothing".
At least with Linux you don't have to reboot the machine every time you apply a patch like you need to do after patching Windows.
Not always. Depends on the particular patch being applied.
Random FUD and misinformation does no one any good.
Little laptop with a swivel screen? OK! (think car PC)
Reasonable quality digital camcorder? kewl!
Trying to stabilise the camera with the added, needless weight of a laptop? No thanks.
A camera that has to be upgraded when the laptop is passe'? No thanks
Sending my laptop back when the camera dies? No thanks
Or sending the camera back when my laptop HD dies? No thanks.
I use emusic ALL the time. The only problem I have with it is the somewhat limited music list. They'll get better, though.
BUT....the whole experience is FAR, FAR better than trying to d/l something off a p2p network.
Reliable, fast, qood quality, properly labeled songs and albums. One click for an entire, in sequence, album is hard to beat.
Then Ford can prevent anyone else from making radiators for their cars.
No, but why should they have to clean up the mess when the 3rd party part (which may or may not have been designed correctly) craps out and eats the motor?
It should be between the user and the 3rd party builder if anything dies.
Not merely purple, but the exact shade of purple (mixed with black) which burns the retinas, causes blindness in lab rats, epileptic fits in otherwise normal /.ers (is there such a thing?), and provokes the general fight or flight response.
A little color research next time? Or did you mean to cause this?
the non-standard radiator is designed for that car, then they have to honour the warranty.
Designed by whom? If I put out a radiator, "Designed for the Ford F-150!" and you put it on your truck, and it kills your truck...why the hell should Ford pay?
The radiator (or heatsink) maker can say whatever they like. The OEM (Ford or AMD) does not have to honor anything related to it.
Why don't they get paid an hourly wage (or a monthly salary) for the work that they do from some company (or from themselves) for the time they spend working?
Because their 'salary' is dependant on how many copies they sell...books, music, whatever. And the company who would pay them gets its money from where? Again...book sales. If on an hourly wage, NoNameBand would get just as much money as Pink Floyd. or the Stones. Pay the Stones more hourly? And how do you determine that? Through number of sales.
Books are the same. Should John Grisham or Stephen King get paid the same as Mr NewWriter, because they all took one year to write a book? No. More popular writers get more money, because they sell more books.
Let's also state there exists a replicator that can take a physical object and duplicate it effortlessly and at negligible cost. I'm going to get paid for the first gear of any ssize/style (and some percentage of the following gears that I duplicate from those people who are honest enough to buy from me).
But in the current Kazaa mindset, you get paid for the first gear, period. No royalities, no percentage. Nada. The replicator merely pumps out perfect copies for whomever wants one, and you get nothing. Meanwhile, many, many people get use of your efforts, with no effort on their part.
Change gear or book to Ferrari. The replicator pumps out perfect Testarossa's, and everybody has one. Devalueing the actual, from the factory, Redhead. Ferrari eventually goes out of business. Poof...no more Ferrari's, real or replicated.
Again...we have not 'stolen' a physical object, merely ripped a perfect copy.
I'm NOT saying the current RIAA model is correct. Far from it. But obtaining music without compensation to the artist/author is flat out wrong.
You miss the definition of "luxury". i.e. something that which if you did not have, you could still survive. Music is a luxury item on most peoples budgets. Something that comes after food, shelter, healthcare, etc.
If you are too poor to afford food, and you steal some to survive, ok...you might get off in a court of law.
Music, OTOH, is not necessary to the essence of life. If you cannot afford to purchase it, then don't. But why do you think obtaining it without payment is OK?
Postulate this..you've finally graduated from school, and started a career as a writer. You get ALL of your icome from selling books.
I go down to the library, check out one of your fine writings, and proceed to make 100,000 copies of it. I then distribute these copies, for free, far and wide. Put up a website, letting any and all get a copy, either electronically, or an actual hardcopy.
I , according to your thought processes, have not 'stolen' anything, because you, the writer, still have it.
You, of course, get no proceeds from my efforts. Your actual book sales go waaaaay down, and your personal income suffers greatly. Eventually, you have to give up writing as a profession, because you get nothing back from it. You have to go get a regular job, and have no more time for writing.
What would you do? Say "Ah well...who needs to eat? I'll write anyway, and let my readers have it for free."
Yeah, right.
Actually, it's not even a case of "AOL owns CompuServe", but rather AOL bought Compuserve, and now they are one and the same. Even down to calling the same modem pool, (yes, the AOL and CS phone numbers for a particular locality are the same, and sharing the same individual account information. If a user has both an AOL acct and a CS acct, he cannot use both at the same time, even from different PC's and different sub screennames.
All that is different is a somewhat different GUI. CS has basically ceased to exist as a unique product.
Who here is going to obey this law if it ever gets passed?
Unless yor computer is jacked directly into the backbone, you might not have a choice. Whoever supplies your connection will obey, or be forced/fined/jailed out of businesss.
Sean Kennedy's Tales From the Afternow might not be so far 'after now'. Check it out.
Download
Listen
Understand
Distribute
Or, if they had known about the situation earlier (inspection via telescope) they could have come up with something.
How much do you not know about optics? That argument is a fairly bad joke, in my view.
Not to dredge up an old post, but apparently someone on the CAIB thinks we can and should do it.
"Recommendation Two: Prior to return to flight, NASA should modify its Memorandum of Agreement with National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) to make on-orbit imaging for each Shuttle flight a standard requirement.
This recommendation was issued because of the board's finding that the full capabilities of the United States Government to image the Shuttle on orbit were not utilized."
Notice I made no statement about the number of packages in any particular linux distro, or the viability thereof.
Only refuting the orig posters mistaken rant about what is or isn't included with a win install.
When you install windows, you get, well, windows. And internet explorer, and freecell. That's about it.
Really?
The standard Win2k or XP install includes:
browser
all purpose MediaPlayer
Freecell, Minesweeper, solitaire, Pinball, etc
System utilities (defrag, compress, etc)
NotePad/WordPad
email/newsgroup client (Lookout Express)
Imaging program
Networking protocols
File manager
auto (or manual) update utility
audio text reader (Narrator)
skinnable 'window manager'
MovieMaker
Remote networking
etc, etc, etc
You have to trust your kids, but you also have to have a sense of what is going on. If online grades are available, that is but one method to find out. No different than report cards, calling the teachers, etc.
Good parents DO know what is happening in their kids school lives.
But you do have to use that power wisely.
Or, if they had known about the situation earlier (inspection via telescope) they could have come up with something.
It was a 10 day flight. Knowing about the problem a couple of days into it would have given MUCH better options, rather than just winging it on the reentry.
Stretch the rations/air for a few more days. "hey...there's a Progress resupply going to the ISS next week. Can we divert that and give them another week or so?"
Who knows? But I do know that having 2 weeks to figure something out is preferable to having 30 seconds.
Whatever happened to Failure is not an option.
Yeah, but it looks from the article as if you have to be a "real" company to get it, even if you don't get charged, so the chances of me getting hold of the source seem unlikely.
.NET 4.1 Emulation Edition. 410mb.
err...no. I am d/ling it as we speak. Microsoft Windows CE
Took about 5 mins to find and start the d/l.
WinCe Shared Source Licensing Program
You're too locked into the standard /. groupthink.
To quote from the the article "When times are bad, Microsoft can lay off hundreds of contingent workers without a word to the analysts or to shareholders. It's a common practice that most contractors know and fear.".
There you have it, this is the corporate culture at Microsoft. Every single day i find a new reason to dislike that company.
To quote from the the article "When times are bad, any corporation can lay off hundreds of contingent workers without a word to the analysts or to shareholders. It's a common practice that most contractors know and fear.".
There you have it, this is the corporate culture at any corporation. Every single day i find a new reason to dislike uncaring corporations.
As has been demonstrated by various countries, Communism cannot work properly.
Once you put humans into the equation, they screw it all up.
It's going to be great fun watching the marketing guys build their PowerPoint presentations on their cell phones.
A corporate saleswoman I know has done almost that.
Her team has given up toting laptops to do presentations. A desktop in the office to build them on, and a handheld out in the field, plugged directly into the projector, to do the presentations and manage client data.
Even minor updates done on the handheld. Need a different presentation? Log into central files back home and download/modify it.
It's nice to have ideals, but when you're watching a movie, you care more about how the movie looks / sounds than whether you have win32 dll loaded.
So what you're saying is, that it's ok to cuddle up to software from the EvilOne(tm) as long as naked chicks look ok on your screen, ideals be damned.