I had discrimination take an interesting turn... I was treated like a god until I turned 21, and then they all started going, "oh you're an idiot" basically because I didn't have a degree. Once the child prodigy is no longer a child, I was no longer an asset to them. Now, at 22, I can do nearly anything with a computer, but I make less money then ever and I am being forced to return to school until I have a master's, just to prove that I am as capable as I am. A very sad state of affairs...
What is that percentage of? I would vouch that M$ and other companies are losing a substantial amount of money on older versions... software that's not really new so people figure it's OK to copy and distribute. How can you stop them, if the company no longer supports the product? People won't keep upgrading forever; at some point the software (i.e. Office 97, SQL 6.5) will be good "enough" and they'll stop buying and pirate to infinity.
Sir_haxalot
Artists are happy playing music, not selling it. That's why you don't see artists (like myself) pitching a holy fit that the RIAA is losing its foot hold. Gee, why do all bands suck now? Is it 'cause all the talent isn't on labels anymore? And why would that be?
Hmmm.
sir_haxalot
How on earth do you run out of a (presumably) auto-incrementing license number? So you sell 10... give the next guy #11!! It's not that difficult. Heck, you could even do it with... MICROSOFT ACCESS! Wow! But does Microsoft know how to use its own software? Of course they do. So this can't be a software issue... it must be spin of some kind. I went to a popular electronics store, and they seemed to have a whole lot of Microsoft XP's sitting around... right next to the x-box'es. Go Nintendo!
I am finally at an IT job that is friendly enough to do this... the other IT jobs I have had were so slave-ship, so depressing, so not-what-I-got-into-computers-for, that friendship came in a distant last to survival.
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I had discrimination take an interesting turn... I was treated like a god until I turned 21, and then they all started going, "oh you're an idiot" basically because I didn't have a degree. Once the child prodigy is no longer a child, I was no longer an asset to them. Now, at 22, I can do nearly anything with a computer, but I make less money then ever and I am being forced to return to school until I have a master's, just to prove that I am as capable as I am. A very sad state of affairs...
What is that percentage of? I would vouch that M$ and other companies are losing a substantial amount of money on older versions... software that's not really new so people figure it's OK to copy and distribute. How can you stop them, if the company no longer supports the product? People won't keep upgrading forever; at some point the software (i.e. Office 97, SQL 6.5) will be good "enough" and they'll stop buying and pirate to infinity.
Sir_haxalot
Artists are happy playing music, not selling it. That's why you don't see artists (like myself) pitching a holy fit that the RIAA is losing its foot hold. Gee, why do all bands suck now? Is it 'cause all the talent isn't on labels anymore? And why would that be?
Hmmm.
sir_haxalot
How on earth do you run out of a (presumably) auto-incrementing license number? So you sell 10... give the next guy #11!! It's not that difficult. Heck, you could even do it with... MICROSOFT ACCESS! Wow! But does Microsoft know how to use its own software? Of course they do. So this can't be a software issue... it must be spin of some kind. I went to a popular electronics store, and they seemed to have a whole lot of Microsoft XP's sitting around... right next to the x-box'es. Go Nintendo!
I am finally at an IT job that is friendly enough to do this... the other IT jobs I have had were so slave-ship, so depressing, so not-what-I-got-into-computers-for, that friendship came in a distant last to survival.