Possibly because some races are over-represented in the lower economic stratas, are unable to afford tertiary educations at top-tier institutions and thus, even though they may be competitively intelligent, aren't able to make the most of it.
Micheas, so isn't that saying that a certain race of people are better at moving the company in a different direction than another race of people? That is racist.
Not all crimes are equal in the eyes of your employer. If you got put away for dangerous driving occasioning death, for instance, you're likely to find it easier to get a job when you get out that if you were put away for ripping off your last employer.
Well, based on the wikipedia entry on Third Position, one if its adherents in Germany tried to use it as a platform to undermine Hitler's Nazi party. Doesn't sound particularly pro-Nazi. Looking through the policies on their website, I can't see anything that looks especially neo-Nazi. At a guess, I'd say you can't tell the difference between nationalism and white supremacy.
And the fact that you need to SSH in with your own credentials mean that if you were stupid enough to do something of the sort, they'd haul your ass over the coals.
If you're dealing with people in positions of trust, logging is often the right balance between security and trust. It doesn't stop them from doing the things they need to, but the knowledge that their fingerprints will give them away will (generally) stop them from doing anything to violate that trust.
Or you could buy non-DRM encumbered books. Despite what some industries seem to think, just because something doesn't have DRM doesn't mean it's pirated.
It sort of sounds familiar before auto-save become a standard feature on pretty much all word-processors. Failing (relatively) gracefully and notifying the user is better than continuing along with corrupt data - even in transaction processing systems. Of course, by the time something gets to production, it (ideally) shouldn't even encounter it's error states.
If you are a pedo and want to bang a little child, check the box that says "yes", otherwise check "no".
Actually, it's more like saying that, with a footnote: Pedo to be defined as any person who has ever had a thought that could be described as sexual in nature involving any individual under the age of consent, not excluding the thinker, and regardless of the age of the thinker at the time the thought occurred.
Read their definition of subversive. It includes advocating, advising and teaching. So yes, saying you think the government sucks and needs to be taken down would put you afoul of this law, technically. It would seem that quoting certain of the founding fathers now requires registration in SC.
"every corporation, society, association, camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or organization, composed of two or more persons, which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States [or] of this State."
If you advocate the propriety of the people to control their government in a democratic country, you fall under this law. It definitely covers more than planning to take actual action - it also covers advocating, advising or teaching.
(Displaying an error and terminating the program is almost always the wrong answer.)
It might not be the best answer, but it's better than ignoring the error without fixing the cause, or trying to handle the error transparently, and failing. If in doubt, terminate with a meaningul error. That way if the error condition is ever triggered (hopefully in testing), it's easy to find and diagnose.
Nothing wrong with searching by file to find which process is locking it. Parent says nothing about forcibly freeing the handlers. I used it all the time - it generally said explorer.exe was holding the handle, so I killed explorer, deleted the file from commandline, and restarted explorer. Killing the process that holds the process is fine - as long as you don't mind losing that process.
Meh, it's what you make of it. I hate all those stupid app updates too, so I filter them out. My feed mostly consists of status updates, notes, photos and relationship changes - that is, things that I'm actually interested in. I only friend people that I want to keep track of. I don't join a hundred stupid groups. My Facebook feed is useful and not any more intellect-destroying than a blog-feed.
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There is no proverbial ghost out of the bottle. Perhaps you meant genie?
At a guess, it's a comment on the relative impact of terrorism and road fatalities, especially in view of the legislative changes rammed through on the back of the former.
Yeah, maybe we should give young people longer sentences, so that they're behind bars for a like proportion of their lifetime as when we jail a 40 year-old. After all, it's not fair that an octogenerian con gets a life sentance, when a 20 year-old committing the same crime loses only 2% of their expected future lifetime is it?
With the advent of "simultaneous releases" (i.e. the product being released on the same day all over the world), Australia is generally among the first to get the goods (New Zealand being about an hour earlier), as they are "ahead" of the rest of the world in terms of GMT offsets.
It appears this was supposed to be one of those simultaneous releases.
So, buy the cheap parts. Selling identical, unbranded hardware isn't a crime (patent issues aside). The Cisco ones come bundled with Cisco support and all that jazz. The problem is when people sell those cheap parts, but claim they are Cisco. People buy them at a higher price because they think they're getting Cisco, and hence, Cisco support. It's that fraud which is the crime.
Because that's how much the conterfeiter could have sold it for. Same reason drug busts are measured by "street value", not by the actual cost to procure the drugs.
Not only are there fewer sales due to piracy but even more so there are fewer taxes paid.
Except the numbers don't seem to bear that out. They grew, even during a period of economic downturn in the US. Note that for movies, the total tickets sold increased, so it's not just a result of twiddling ticket prices.
2009
Total Box Office Gross: $10,800,428,340
Tickets sold: 1,440,057,129
Music: $1,545 million
2008
Total Box Office Gross: $9,945,355,274
Tickets sold: 1,385,146,979
I'm sure HarperCollins does. But the market the OP was talking about was fiction (indicated by his talk of Hardcover/Paperback releases), and I think it's probably the market people Slashdotters complain about when they talk about eBooks. People seem to recognize that technical/textbooks cost more, and sell fewer copies (even successful ones), than mass-market fiction, and the price point is going to be higher.
What people (myself included) are annoyed at, is when we see the original paperback selling for $15, and the eBook sitting there for the same $15 (or frequently higher), especially eBooks with DRM that then restrict you even more than the physical edition would. With your figures, the ebook should sell for about $11, which isn't too bad. I've bought quite a few books from Baen books, and that's around their price point.
The other thing that should be recognized is that with eBooks, nothing ever needs to go out of print. With traditional publishing, if there's not enough demand for a run, it's not worthwhile printing unless you charge high prices for POD. With eBooks, you can get those last little gleanings. Probably not enough to offset the cost, but a nice little trimming. Personally, I'd be expecting publishers to be running their OOP stuff up into eBooks, and putting them up for sale. Cost is minimal, and it may even spark interest in the rest of their catalogue.
It sounds like your business isn't really what's being discussed. It sounds like you're in the non-fiction/textbook market, whereas most people are discussing paperback fiction. Stuff like illustration and research are likely to be much lower (or non-existant) in fiction.
Almost as common are books that bleed money and end up in a bulk recycler by the thousands
Part of the advantage of ebooks is that you avoid the wastage problem. Ebooks are always "on demand" - you never have to do a 10,000 run "on spec", only to sell 200 and ditch the rest.
Even so, I'd consider 25% off the physical pretty good - and better than you generally see when comparing eBooks to paperbacks, implying that profit margins on eBooks are higher than on their physical equivelant.
Huh? Amazon can't delete my ebooks any more than they can reach into my computer and delete all my word documents. Just don't use DRMed formats. That goes for anything: ebooks, music, video, documents. Your argument is against DRM, not against ebooks.
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Possibly because some races are over-represented in the lower economic stratas, are unable to afford tertiary educations at top-tier institutions and thus, even though they may be competitively intelligent, aren't able to make the most of it.
Micheas, so isn't that saying that a certain race of people are better at moving the company in a different direction than another race of people? That is racist.
Yes. Yes it is. It's also true. Your point?
Not all crimes are equal in the eyes of your employer. If you got put away for dangerous driving occasioning death, for instance, you're likely to find it easier to get a job when you get out that if you were put away for ripping off your last employer.
Well, based on the wikipedia entry on Third Position, one if its adherents in Germany tried to use it as a platform to undermine Hitler's Nazi party. Doesn't sound particularly pro-Nazi. Looking through the policies on their website, I can't see anything that looks especially neo-Nazi. At a guess, I'd say you can't tell the difference between nationalism and white supremacy.
And the fact that you need to SSH in with your own credentials mean that if you were stupid enough to do something of the sort, they'd haul your ass over the coals.
If you're dealing with people in positions of trust, logging is often the right balance between security and trust. It doesn't stop them from doing the things they need to, but the knowledge that their fingerprints will give them away will (generally) stop them from doing anything to violate that trust.
Or you could buy non-DRM encumbered books. Despite what some industries seem to think, just because something doesn't have DRM doesn't mean it's pirated.
It sort of sounds familiar before auto-save become a standard feature on pretty much all word-processors. Failing (relatively) gracefully and notifying the user is better than continuing along with corrupt data - even in transaction processing systems. Of course, by the time something gets to production, it (ideally) shouldn't even encounter it's error states.
If you are a pedo and want to bang a little child, check the box that says "yes", otherwise check "no".
Actually, it's more like saying that, with a footnote: Pedo to be defined as any person who has ever had a thought that could be described as sexual in nature involving any individual under the age of consent, not excluding the thinker, and regardless of the age of the thinker at the time the thought occurred.
Read their definition of subversive. It includes advocating, advising and teaching. So yes, saying you think the government sucks and needs to be taken down would put you afoul of this law, technically. It would seem that quoting certain of the founding fathers now requires registration in SC.
"every corporation, society, association, camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or organization, composed of two or more persons, which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States [or] of this State."
If you advocate the propriety of the people to control their government in a democratic country, you fall under this law. It definitely covers more than planning to take actual action - it also covers advocating, advising or teaching.
(Displaying an error and terminating the program is almost always the wrong answer.)
It might not be the best answer, but it's better than ignoring the error without fixing the cause, or trying to handle the error transparently, and failing. If in doubt, terminate with a meaningul error. That way if the error condition is ever triggered (hopefully in testing), it's easy to find and diagnose.
Nothing wrong with searching by file to find which process is locking it. Parent says nothing about forcibly freeing the handlers. I used it all the time - it generally said explorer.exe was holding the handle, so I killed explorer, deleted the file from commandline, and restarted explorer. Killing the process that holds the process is fine - as long as you don't mind losing that process.
Meh, it's what you make of it. I hate all those stupid app updates too, so I filter them out. My feed mostly consists of status updates, notes, photos and relationship changes - that is, things that I'm actually interested in. I only friend people that I want to keep track of. I don't join a hundred stupid groups. My Facebook feed is useful and not any more intellect-destroying than a blog-feed.
There is no proverbial ghost out of the bottle. Perhaps you meant genie?
At a guess, it's a comment on the relative impact of terrorism and road fatalities, especially in view of the legislative changes rammed through on the back of the former.
Yeah, maybe we should give young people longer sentences, so that they're behind bars for a like proportion of their lifetime as when we jail a 40 year-old. After all, it's not fair that an octogenerian con gets a life sentance, when a 20 year-old committing the same crime loses only 2% of their expected future lifetime is it?
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, right?
With the advent of "simultaneous releases" (i.e. the product being released on the same day all over the world), Australia is generally among the first to get the goods (New Zealand being about an hour earlier), as they are "ahead" of the rest of the world in terms of GMT offsets.
It appears this was supposed to be one of those simultaneous releases.
They weren't looking for more exposure. They were looking to get people to associate Google with warm fuzzies.
So, buy the cheap parts. Selling identical, unbranded hardware isn't a crime (patent issues aside). The Cisco ones come bundled with Cisco support and all that jazz. The problem is when people sell those cheap parts, but claim they are Cisco. People buy them at a higher price because they think they're getting Cisco, and hence, Cisco support. It's that fraud which is the crime.
Because that's how much the conterfeiter could have sold it for. Same reason drug busts are measured by "street value", not by the actual cost to procure the drugs.
Not only are there fewer sales due to piracy but even more so there are fewer taxes paid.
Except the numbers don't seem to bear that out. They grew, even during a period of economic downturn in the US. Note that for movies, the total tickets sold increased, so it's not just a result of twiddling ticket prices.
2009
Total Box Office Gross: $10,800,428,340
Tickets sold: 1,440,057,129
Music: $1,545 million
2008
Total Box Office Gross: $9,945,355,274
Tickets sold: 1,385,146,979
Music: $1,513 million
Sources: The Numbers, Rolling Stone
Yeah. And it was also really warm. I wonder if there could possibly be a link...
It was obviously all those coal-based electrical plants the dinos used.
I'm sure HarperCollins does. But the market the OP was talking about was fiction (indicated by his talk of Hardcover/Paperback releases), and I think it's probably the market people Slashdotters complain about when they talk about eBooks. People seem to recognize that technical/textbooks cost more, and sell fewer copies (even successful ones), than mass-market fiction, and the price point is going to be higher.
What people (myself included) are annoyed at, is when we see the original paperback selling for $15, and the eBook sitting there for the same $15 (or frequently higher), especially eBooks with DRM that then restrict you even more than the physical edition would. With your figures, the ebook should sell for about $11, which isn't too bad. I've bought quite a few books from Baen books, and that's around their price point.
The other thing that should be recognized is that with eBooks, nothing ever needs to go out of print. With traditional publishing, if there's not enough demand for a run, it's not worthwhile printing unless you charge high prices for POD. With eBooks, you can get those last little gleanings. Probably not enough to offset the cost, but a nice little trimming. Personally, I'd be expecting publishers to be running their OOP stuff up into eBooks, and putting them up for sale. Cost is minimal, and it may even spark interest in the rest of their catalogue.
Almost as common are books that bleed money and end up in a bulk recycler by the thousands
Part of the advantage of ebooks is that you avoid the wastage problem. Ebooks are always "on demand" - you never have to do a 10,000 run "on spec", only to sell 200 and ditch the rest.
Even so, I'd consider 25% off the physical pretty good - and better than you generally see when comparing eBooks to paperbacks, implying that profit margins on eBooks are higher than on their physical equivelant.
Huh? Amazon can't delete my ebooks any more than they can reach into my computer and delete all my word documents. Just don't use DRMed formats. That goes for anything: ebooks, music, video, documents. Your argument is against DRM, not against ebooks.