i go to the gym 3 times a week for about an hour. if you claim that you can't, you're a liar.
if you won't go to the gym, then you only have one real option: eat less. the average male will consume about 2500 calories. in a sedentary state, plan on consuming about 2200. every day. count them. for many people, the change can be accomplished by drinking nothing but water and unsweetened coffee.
If you will go to the gym, then you basically have a choice: weights or aerobic fitness. i would suggest aerobic fitness. if you can run for 40 minutes on a treadmill at at least 6.5mph 3 times a week, you'll look and feel better. no whining about treadmills--just do it for 2 weeks and you'll recognize the difference.
if you do weights, it won't make you lose weight per se, but it may well get you into a mode where you're doing more physical stuff. plus, you'll burn more calories.
if you intend on staying in the office: eat less. eat less. eat less. count calories. it really works. have a salad for lunch instead of crap with fries. don't snack.
Do they really have a motivation for strong reviews to outweigh weak ones?
amazon carries virtually every book that you might want to buy. what do they care whether you buy calculus book GOOD vs calculus book BAD? yes, this might mean that they have some extra stock, but i think the long term value of having happy, trusting customers means more to them.
Fish, meet Bait..
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Two companies known for slick marketing along the general lines of "geeky cool" get together through some sort of marketing agreement. Slashdot publishes it, and a bunch of MBAs make some money.
Oh, I know, maybe you thought they were giving away the ipods.
For a group that does a lot of whining about generic music a la britney spears every time the music debates come up, slashdot sure has a nice way of playing the marionette whenever some new pseudo-kitsch gadget or anime box set comes out..
Before we start talking about olympics, sponsorships, or other dumbass MBA ideas (disclaimer: I have an MBA), how about, oh, I dunno, actually getting a private venture into space?
the hoopla around the x-prize is starting to look like the dot-com era. this space stuff is expensive. people are going to die. it is WAY off the curve for profitability, even if you factor in the x-prize money. yes, i'd love to go too (disclaimer #2: i am an MBA, but I am also the test pilot for a small aerobatic aircraft manufacturer), but please people.. this will take time.
Your naively conspiratorial worldview is junior-high quality. MS will not be tasked with "saving us from spam" bcause the solution that the lawmakers adopt will not be a technical one, but rather a legal one.
Please fax me my $10 at the end of the summer by which time hopefully we will have an anti-spam law in place with no mention of microsoft.
In case you missed it, the call center market is past its prime. there is excess capacity from ireland to india to irkutsk.
As a result, call centers are forced to compete on price. Linux desktops help this? Maybe, maybe not. Yes for the largest call center (2000+ppl) places where software licence compliance will actually be checked. Less likely for smaller places where the cost of software is effectively moot.
While a few manufacturers of desktop "suite" applications for call centers exist, many places just cobble stuff together on their own. this is doable in linux or on windows or whatever. For that reason, call centers are a good place for linux/desktops - the primary application more or less exists in a vaccuum. but call centers are hardly indicative of wider linux desktop use. Home/general business use is far diferent.
NYtimes charges no monetary fee for access to the article. All that they ask is that you read some relatiely non-instusive advertisements and provide them with a fake name. In return, they supply plenty of bandwidth and writing by paid authors which, if not always agreed with, is conceded to be of generally high enough quality so that people actually want to read the articles.
There is no reason to break copyright law and repost this article. This is an example of irresponsible internet behavior at its worst - there is no justification for such action - this is not 'fair use'--it's just lazyness.
You seem to have missed the whole point of the article in some vain attempt to assert some perceived chinese superiority.
You have taken the very best case of chinese non-business connectivity - the tiny percentage of showcase schools, probably in Shanghai, Guangzhou, or the like, that are linked with fast fiber, and have hinted that this is representative of the whole country. It is not.
Of course in the US and Europe we have similar networks - between our universities, for example. And every location running linux in the world installs software over the internet more than it does from physical media. But, there are places without good connectivity still and also there are times you need to send a lot of data where shipping is still worthwhile.
You mentioned 1000s of hard discs: I challenge you this: what is faster: uploading 1 hard disc (40gb) or shipping it overnight?
Please sing this song to the tune of "camptown races"
Intellectual Property
Is-not, is-not
Physical Property
So analogies suck
(chorus)
Mod parent down..
Mod parent down!
That kind of crap isn't "insightful"
Mod Parent down.
(i didnt say it would be a _good_ song). for thos attempting to be "funny" after this comment: "camptown races" is in the public domain
Unfortunately, China's blatant disregard for intellectual property law means that fewer and fewer companies are willing to enter that potential huge market. the 'couple of billion more' for rowing or the publishers you posit will likely never materialize in china even though they WILL (or have) published there. rather, the vast bulk of chinese profits will go to organized criminals.
While disregard for IPR is widespread in much of the world, china is a particularly notorious case. This is not because of the sheer volume of violation (though it is enormous). Rather, it is because it carries a distinct xenophobic current. It's OK to pirate western works and sell them at near the marginal cost of duplicaton - but similar piracy of indigenous works is more often frowned upon! WHile this observation is hardly absolute, I saw this consistently enough in my two years in china to say that it's fairly accurate. (and disgusting).
Fair Use is not a hard ("bright line") set of rules that define what is or what is not fair use. Instead, it is an idea of just that - "fair use" - that has been interpreted at times with various quantity guidelines. This idea is missed completely by those such as you who would simply play silly games to create some theoretically legal means to appropriate IP: intent and scope matters.
You will legally be no better off in a thin conspiracy as you suggest than if you tried to convince a police officer that the 10,000 individual dime bags of marijuana you had were all for personal use because they were individually wrapped. It just fails the "smell" test and general claims of reasonableness.
Incidentally, putting useless public domain files on your favorite p2p site likewise would probably fail the smell test and would be seen as a thin attempt to artificially create an argument for "significant noninfringing uses."
Slashdot has always endorsed tolerance, if not tacit support for intellectual property law violators. For the dozens if not hundreds of articles with little editorial innuendos such as "I guess we'll just all have to move to freenet" to the repeated duplicity of imporing "blame the users, not the technology" and then raising hell when infringing users are gone after, slashdot (editors, and then the lap-dogs of the forums) have shown an ethic that should be denounced. With this article--this blatant advertisement for illegal activity (or activity with clear illegal intent - if you disagree, you fool nobody)--slashdot shows its extremism.
pre-rebuttal: the case of the network wide 'search engine' and the college students was hardly the only such one that/. has complained about, and that one was quickly withdrawn after it proved to be untenable. additionally, that they sued for a enormous amount of money has no bearing on what they might have actually won.
Today (saturday!) i got a phone call from [Megabank]. [Megabank] runs a service through which it is possible to send money to overseas accounts using a credit card.
I used [Megabank]'s services to pay my tuition bills at [esteemed UK university]. Today, I was called by [megabank] and was told that if I didn't tell them where the funds were coming from that I used to pay my tuition came from, that my accounts would be closed and my case referred to the federal government. While "my personal savings" was a good enough answer for them, good god, what shite.
In defense of [Megabank], they didn't seem to happy to have to make these phone calls, but told me that they were required to by the patriot act. in fact, the woman even spoke frankly that the company saw this as a waste of time and money too.
I've scanned through the replies and see the usual slashdot excuses and irrelevancies:
the magazines are too expensive
porn-related and other lame jokes
it's not "stealing" it's "infringement"
and so on..
(I'm surprised i haven't seen anybody screaming about corporations have abused 'fair use' yet).
Now, this is slashdot, so I shouldn't be surprised, but I was hoping against hope that for one/. would actually live up to its own tripe and condemn the violators while not blaming the technology. In fact, I was hoping against all hope that somebody might actually suggest a credible scheme or two to curb such behavior. "Japaneses publishers should lower their prices" is not a credible scheme.
Do we have anybody with any credible schemes to prevent this, short of shrink-wrapping magazines, which sounds like sort of a cop-out?
The Irony of America is that they think that they way they do everything is the "right" way. Kinda like you bitching that some "idiots" measure stuff in Metric.
Except that I'm not an American. Still, your gratuitous anti-american comment fits in well in slashdot, the land of gratuitous slander.
What percentage of the world do you think still uses the comma separator? I estimate that is less than 15%. Asia does not. North America does not. Much of europe does not. Even my german research colleagues don't use it in their academic work any more (though they are an international group and may be a bit of an exception).
An irony of "standardization" is that that some of the pro-open standards crowd insists on using the comma-to-indicate-decimals notation that has is used essentially only in northern europe. it's time for that convention to die.
Am I the only one a bit shocked by how expensive these variou linux distros are? from what I could gather from the article, the SuSe liences (with support, but nevertheless) were about $100/ea. I've seen that RH goes for up to several thousand dollars.
perhaps somebody can clue me in here: is it possible to get what SuSe or RH are charging $$$$ for for free (of course support not included?). If not, why not - do they include proporietary (closed source / otherwise copy-restricted components?).
I know that if I were an OSS developer I'd be pissed off if some distribution companies were essentially using my code in a proprietary fashion through clever 'bundling' strategies.
yes, because they have an active concert 'culture', just like their previous equivalent, the grateful dead, who used to be routinely wheeled out as some sort of examplars by the pro-piracy crowd.
the myth is, of course, that such examples scale. they don't. i wouldn't ever want to see half the artists i listen to in person and many of the others make it impractible because they're half a world away. phish and the gd are clearly exceptional in that they attract a large number of people to their concerts, often for reasons not directly related to the music per se.
so what you're saying is that OSS developers should try to infringe on others IP, and you've offered them a helpful way to lessen their chances of getting caught.
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if you won't go to the gym, then you only have one real option: eat less. the average male will consume about 2500 calories. in a sedentary state, plan on consuming about 2200. every day. count them. for many people, the change can be accomplished by drinking nothing but water and unsweetened coffee.
If you will go to the gym, then you basically have a choice: weights or aerobic fitness. i would suggest aerobic fitness. if you can run for 40 minutes on a treadmill at at least 6.5mph 3 times a week, you'll look and feel better. no whining about treadmills--just do it for 2 weeks and you'll recognize the difference.
if you do weights, it won't make you lose weight per se, but it may well get you into a mode where you're doing more physical stuff. plus, you'll burn more calories.
if you intend on staying in the office: eat less. eat less. eat less. count calories. it really works. have a salad for lunch instead of crap with fries. don't snack.
amazon carries virtually every book that you might want to buy. what do they care whether you buy calculus book GOOD vs calculus book BAD? yes, this might mean that they have some extra stock, but i think the long term value of having happy, trusting customers means more to them.
Oh, I know, maybe you thought they were giving away the ipods.
For a group that does a lot of whining about generic music a la britney spears every time the music debates come up, slashdot sure has a nice way of playing the marionette whenever some new pseudo-kitsch gadget or anime box set comes out..
talk to your LOCAL Representative.. not the president. and stop with the chicken little bullshit.
the hoopla around the x-prize is starting to look like the dot-com era. this space stuff is expensive. people are going to die. it is WAY off the curve for profitability, even if you factor in the x-prize money. yes, i'd love to go too (disclaimer #2: i am an MBA, but I am also the test pilot for a small aerobatic aircraft manufacturer), but please people.. this will take time.
Your naively conspiratorial worldview is junior-high quality. MS will not be tasked with "saving us from spam" bcause the solution that the lawmakers adopt will not be a technical one, but rather a legal one.
Please fax me my $10 at the end of the summer by which time hopefully we will have an anti-spam law in place with no mention of microsoft.
There is no reason to break copyright law and repost this article. This is an example of irresponsible internet behavior at its worst - there is no justification for such action - this is not 'fair use'--it's just lazyness.
You have taken the very best case of chinese non-business connectivity - the tiny percentage of showcase schools, probably in Shanghai, Guangzhou, or the like, that are linked with fast fiber, and have hinted that this is representative of the whole country. It is not.
Of course in the US and Europe we have similar networks - between our universities, for example. And every location running linux in the world installs software over the internet more than it does from physical media. But, there are places without good connectivity still and also there are times you need to send a lot of data where shipping is still worthwhile.
You mentioned 1000s of hard discs: I challenge you this: what is faster: uploading 1 hard disc (40gb) or shipping it overnight?
Please sing this song to the tune of "camptown races" Intellectual Property Is-not, is-not Physical Property So analogies suck (chorus) Mod parent down.. Mod parent down! That kind of crap isn't "insightful" Mod Parent down. (i didnt say it would be a _good_ song). for thos attempting to be "funny" after this comment: "camptown races" is in the public domain
My claim was on the first, but not the second.
Thanks for trying, though!
as it were, please do educate me: is it better for slashdot to be acting illegally rather than immorrally? what, exactly, was your point?
While disregard for IPR is widespread in much of the world, china is a particularly notorious case. This is not because of the sheer volume of violation (though it is enormous). Rather, it is because it carries a distinct xenophobic current. It's OK to pirate western works and sell them at near the marginal cost of duplicaton - but similar piracy of indigenous works is more often frowned upon! WHile this observation is hardly absolute, I saw this consistently enough in my two years in china to say that it's fairly accurate. (and disgusting).
If they sue the a few translators, they "save" perhaps thousands of others who would not have bought the book legally.
Duh.
You will legally be no better off in a thin conspiracy as you suggest than if you tried to convince a police officer that the 10,000 individual dime bags of marijuana you had were all for personal use because they were individually wrapped. It just fails the "smell" test and general claims of reasonableness.
Incidentally, putting useless public domain files on your favorite p2p site likewise would probably fail the smell test and would be seen as a thin attempt to artificially create an argument for "significant noninfringing uses."
pre-rebuttal: the case of the network wide 'search engine' and the college students was hardly the only such one that /. has complained about, and that one was quickly withdrawn after it proved to be untenable. additionally, that they sued for a enormous amount of money has no bearing on what they might have actually won.
make up your mind, people.
I used [Megabank]'s services to pay my tuition bills at [esteemed UK university]. Today, I was called by [megabank] and was told that if I didn't tell them where the funds were coming from that I used to pay my tuition came from, that my accounts would be closed and my case referred to the federal government. While "my personal savings" was a good enough answer for them, good god, what shite.
In defense of [Megabank], they didn't seem to happy to have to make these phone calls, but told me that they were required to by the patriot act. in fact, the woman even spoke frankly that the company saw this as a waste of time and money too.
- the magazines are too expensive
- porn-related and other lame jokes
- it's not "stealing" it's "infringement"
- and so on..
(I'm surprised i haven't seen anybody screaming about corporations have abused 'fair use' yet).Now, this is slashdot, so I shouldn't be surprised, but I was hoping against hope that for one /. would actually live up to its own tripe and condemn the violators while not blaming the technology. In fact, I was hoping against all hope that somebody might actually suggest a credible scheme or two to curb such behavior. "Japaneses publishers should lower their prices" is not a credible scheme.
Do we have anybody with any credible schemes to prevent this, short of shrink-wrapping magazines, which sounds like sort of a cop-out?
Technological solutions to social problems deny the full possibility of technology.
Except that I'm not an American. Still, your gratuitous anti-american comment fits in well in slashdot, the land of gratuitous slander.
What percentage of the world do you think still uses the comma separator? I estimate that is less than 15%. Asia does not. North America does not. Much of europe does not. Even my german research colleagues don't use it in their academic work any more (though they are an international group and may be a bit of an exception).
By equivalent logic, white collar criminals who are caught should be punished by only having to repay what they stole.
does the idea of DISINCENTIVE TO COMMIT ILLEGAL ACTS have any meaning to you whatsoever? Ridiculous precedent my ass. $500/mo sounds LIGHT.
Slashdot: Don't be hypocrites. Embrace the technology but DENOUNCE the lawbreakers.
An irony of "standardization" is that that some of the pro-open standards crowd insists on using the comma-to-indicate-decimals notation that has is used essentially only in northern europe. it's time for that convention to die.
perhaps somebody can clue me in here: is it possible to get what SuSe or RH are charging $$$$ for for free (of course support not included?). If not, why not - do they include proporietary (closed source / otherwise copy-restricted components?).
I know that if I were an OSS developer I'd be pissed off if some distribution companies were essentially using my code in a proprietary fashion through clever 'bundling' strategies.
the myth is, of course, that such examples scale. they don't. i wouldn't ever want to see half the artists i listen to in person and many of the others make it impractible because they're half a world away. phish and the gd are clearly exceptional in that they attract a large number of people to their concerts, often for reasons not directly related to the music per se.
more slashdot duplicity at work.