Can people find these same songs for free? Probably. But they're paying for how much more convenient the paid service is to them than the free version.
How about people paying to not have to illegally download music? (or maybe they don't know how/where to look?)
I'm sure nobody would be paying anything for music if it was legally available online from the artist's website (click a link and download, etc.)
While music is hard to compare (you pay for the singer - so even if someone else sings a similar song, it's not the same). With most text based web-content, you can substitute things. I don't have to read NYTimes if I want to read about a particular story. I don't have to read slashdot for geeky news; there are always alternatives.
Yes, some things are worth paying for, but a vast majority of users can live without a vast majority of the content - and can find free alternatives to the parts they really do want to read.
Unless you're serving something herendously huge (video/audio files), the cost of 'bandwidth' is minimal. Many webhosts don't even give you a limit (netmegs.com).
At roughly 50-100k per page (graphics + html), you'd need a *lot* of hits to even approach the limit on even the cheapest providers.
I got it off the official site (during the 'rush'), and I got it fairly quickly. Just do:
wget -c http://whateverurl
It will restart it a few times, quit, and all you have to do is start it up again (up-arrow then enter)... that's it. I think it took me 4 times to start it up again, and that's about it.
Well, I teach in a private school that has cameras, and nobody seems to care that it's even there. In fact, most people think they 'don't work' (but they do work - since I've seen the room that has all the little monitors).
The point is that *nobody* cares, and a vast majority would sign away their privacy and freedoms for a free peanut.
I doubt you realize how much engineering effort Solaris represents. It's internals are actually *thought out* fairly well. The kernel is much more robust in terms of high load and availability than the Linux one (try it, see for yourself).
Dumping it would be 'bad' by any measure. The best thing that I'd personally like to see happen is them merging Solaris and Linux.
Linux has a lot of quick & dirty hacks, it supports a ton of consumer hardware, etc., solaris is more of a stable-well-thought-out OS, that lacks some of that 'agility' that Linux has.
A huge amount (10-20%?) of this extra money we pay is for extra paperwork.
I'd guess a bit more. We're paying for the existance of the insurance company, that has to make profits, etc. We're paying for EVERY person they employ. We're paying for everyone who screws with them, and for every lawyer they ever hire.
Yes, the system can be simplified, and automated, but who'd wanna do that? Insurance companies make enough as they do now (no point to streamline), and everyone involved with medicine makes a killing compared with other professions (while $100k is on the 'high end' for developers, $300k and up is on the 'low' end for most doctors [most docs I've worked for were making a few grand per day!]).
Nobody cares to change the system because everyone who's involved in it makes a ton. (excluding low level nurses, secretaries, staff, and of course patients)
Actually, that's exactly the sort of argument I bring up to those who think we'll have a "theory of everything" one day. The point is that since we're inside the system, we can NEVER be sure how things *really* work (heck, for all we know we're all hoocked up to the Matrix)
Actually, this is precicely what they'd want you to do - "a large company going through a period of unpopularity" is usually a bargain stock wise. If everyone sells (and you buy) and assuming the company survives, a few years down the road you could've made a hefty profit (you bought really low - when everyone was selling).
Many companies view tech support as an expense (not an investment), so yes, most don't really care much for it.
(they already made their money on the purchase, tech support is just something that they're sorta obligated to do, but don't really want it to cut into their profits).
IN CLASS: Stapled blank pieces of paper (about 20) + pen.
NOT IN CLASS: Laptop (in between classes, papers, projects, etc.) A desktop (a MUST) at home for backups, and for long projects (laptops aren't that great at typing at all night).
Although I haven't had/used one, I hear that thumb drives (those USB keychain drives) are useful. I used floppies, but always wished I had more room...
They're actually quite open about it. I took a websphere class with'em, and the consultant made many funny remarks about microsoft, c#, and even sun. (their eclipse does that do the sun???)
Well... I live in NYC, and I'm sure that if cars were totally abolished, a vast majority of the population could easily adapt (except for cab drivers though).
Subways are great + for non-subway/bus accessible areas, bikes are perfect.
I'd seriously consider riding a bike on an everyday basis if I didn't have to worry about being run over by a car. AND, for most trips, riding a bike would actually be faster!
(anyone who rode a bike through 5 boroughs knows that this whole place just isn't that big... I mean, the marathon folks can run through the whole thing in just about 2 something hours - imagine what you can do on a bike!)
As a start, EVERY road (and highway) should have a separate bike dedicated lane.
And ALL roads should have speed bumps to physically enforce the speed limit (35 mph means 35mph, not 65!). A speed bump could ensure a very uncomfortable ride at anything above 40mph, while would be hardly noticeable under 30.
Heck, my SIX YEAR OLD nephew has a PlayStation and a GameBoy Advance. I would estimate he plays games at least two hours a day. That's time he probably would've spent watching TV anyway. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? All I know is, kids these days are getting exposed to videogames very early on in life.
This may be unrelated, but I just wanna comment that while kids are learning games (and gaining that instinctive reflex action to press the controller buttons), they're not learning something else. 2 hours a day of gaming means 2 hours taken away from something else (maybe like interacting with people).
It may not be obvious now, but after a few years of "2 hours a day" gaming (on a young child's mind!), the kids today may grow up to be totally different adults than we are (I mean as in "viewing the world" differently).
No Saturday morning cartoons (and crappy cartoons all over)... Well, kids have to find entertainment somewhere, and it sure isn't school they're looking into.
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Can people find these same songs for free? Probably. But they're paying for how much more convenient the paid service is to them than the free version.
How about people paying to not have to illegally download music? (or maybe they don't know how/where to look?)
I'm sure nobody would be paying anything for music if it was legally available online from the artist's website (click a link and download, etc.)
While music is hard to compare (you pay for the singer - so even if someone else sings a similar song, it's not the same). With most text based web-content, you can substitute things. I don't have to read NYTimes if I want to read about a particular story. I don't have to read slashdot for geeky news; there are always alternatives.
Yes, some things are worth paying for, but a vast majority of users can live without a vast majority of the content - and can find free alternatives to the parts they really do want to read.
At roughly 50-100k per page (graphics + html), you'd need a *lot* of hits to even approach the limit on even the cheapest providers.
Netcraft: The site www.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Linux.
You're probably joking, but "how" can people really own anything? We're only borrowing things for a maximum term of our lifetime.
Lets say you buy a house, spend half your life paying it off, and then you die. Do you own the house? Do you really care?
So when someone steals anything - they're merely borrowing something from someone who in turn borrowed it from someone else.
It works the same with shops - you borrow stuff from the store, while at the same time, they borrow money from you.
I think I like this line of thought...
I got it off the official site (during the 'rush'), and I got it fairly quickly. Just do:
wget -c http://whateverurl
It will restart it a few times, quit, and all you have to do is start it up again (up-arrow then enter)... that's it. I think it took me 4 times to start it up again, and that's about it.
Oh, and it wasn't a slow connection.
The answer is 42; no need to look for it.
Disgusting yes... (disturbing even), but who knows if it's 'better' or 'worse'...
:-)
remember, humans have been making 'better' animals by cross breading for centuries... (just look at dogs or mules, etc.)
so how is it 'ok' for them to breed dogs but not humans?
at least now we know how buggs bunny can walk upright and talk...
Well, I teach in a private school that has cameras, and nobody seems to care that it's even there. In fact, most people think they 'don't work' (but they do work - since I've seen the room that has all the little monitors).
The point is that *nobody* cares, and a vast majority would sign away their privacy and freedoms for a free peanut.
I doubt you realize how much engineering effort Solaris represents. It's internals are actually *thought out* fairly well. The kernel is much more robust in terms of high load and availability than the Linux one (try it, see for yourself).
Dumping it would be 'bad' by any measure. The best thing that I'd personally like to see happen is them merging Solaris and Linux.
Linux has a lot of quick & dirty hacks, it supports a ton of consumer hardware, etc., solaris is more of a stable-well-thought-out OS, that lacks some of that 'agility' that Linux has.
A huge amount (10-20%?) of this extra money we pay is for extra paperwork.
I'd guess a bit more. We're paying for the existance of the insurance company, that has to make profits, etc. We're paying for EVERY person they employ. We're paying for everyone who screws with them, and for every lawyer they ever hire.
Yes, the system can be simplified, and automated, but who'd wanna do that? Insurance companies make enough as they do now (no point to streamline), and everyone involved with medicine makes a killing compared with other professions (while $100k is on the 'high end' for developers, $300k and up is on the 'low' end for most doctors [most docs I've worked for were making a few grand per day!]).
Nobody cares to change the system because everyone who's involved in it makes a ton. (excluding low level nurses, secretaries, staff, and of course patients)
/me thinks of starting a 'concrete lined power supply business' :-)
Actually, that's exactly the sort of argument I bring up to those who think we'll have a "theory of everything" one day. The point is that since we're inside the system, we can NEVER be sure how things *really* work (heck, for all we know we're all hoocked up to the Matrix)
- Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so.
It's similar to new programmers "needing" the latest & fastest computers to write code.
If someone has to wade thought that crap! Please pity them
Hey, if it's a paying job, why not?
Actually, this is precicely what they'd want you to do - "a large company going through a period of unpopularity" is usually a bargain stock wise. If everyone sells (and you buy) and assuming the company survives, a few years down the road you could've made a hefty profit (you bought really low - when everyone was selling).
Or so me thinks...
Many companies view tech support as an expense (not an investment), so yes, most don't really care much for it.
(they already made their money on the purchase, tech support is just something that they're sorta obligated to do, but don't really want it to cut into their profits).
I think he means "Pointy Hair Boss" from Dilbert - shoulda been rated as funny, but many didn't catch the joke.
For me (PhD program), works best:
IN CLASS: Stapled blank pieces of paper (about 20) + pen.
NOT IN CLASS: Laptop (in between classes, papers, projects, etc.) A desktop (a MUST) at home for backups, and for long projects (laptops aren't that great at typing at all night).
Although I haven't had/used one, I hear that thumb drives (those USB keychain drives) are useful. I used floppies, but always wished I had more room...
Yeah. Make a few pennies on the ticket, make $20 on pop-corn and drink.
They're actually quite open about it. I took a websphere class with'em, and the consultant made many funny remarks about microsoft, c#, and even sun. (their eclipse does that do the sun???)
Ahh... so SSH CRC-32 bug remains unpatched for 200 some odd years!!!
Wow. Even the systematic machines are stupid at administering themselves.
Well... I live in NYC, and I'm sure that if cars were totally abolished, a vast majority of the population could easily adapt (except for cab drivers though).
Subways are great + for non-subway/bus accessible areas, bikes are perfect.
I'd seriously consider riding a bike on an everyday basis if I didn't have to worry about being run over by a car. AND, for most trips, riding a bike would actually be faster!
(anyone who rode a bike through 5 boroughs knows that this whole place just isn't that big... I mean, the marathon folks can run through the whole thing in just about 2 something hours - imagine what you can do on a bike!)
As a start, EVERY road (and highway) should have a separate bike dedicated lane.
And ALL roads should have speed bumps to physically enforce the speed limit (35 mph means 35mph, not 65!). A speed bump could ensure a very uncomfortable ride at anything above 40mph, while would be hardly noticeable under 30.
Heck, my SIX YEAR OLD nephew has a PlayStation and a GameBoy Advance. I would estimate he plays games at least two hours a day. That's time he probably would've spent watching TV anyway. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? All I know is, kids these days are getting exposed to videogames very early on in life.
This may be unrelated, but I just wanna comment that while kids are learning games (and gaining that instinctive reflex action to press the controller buttons), they're not learning something else. 2 hours a day of gaming means 2 hours taken away from something else (maybe like interacting with people).
It may not be obvious now, but after a few years of "2 hours a day" gaming (on a young child's mind!), the kids today may grow up to be totally different adults than we are (I mean as in "viewing the world" differently).
No Saturday morning cartoons (and crappy cartoons all over)... Well, kids have to find entertainment somewhere, and it sure isn't school they're looking into.
My advice is not to take the SAT at all.
I never took it, and went though college, grad school, and now working on the PhD...
Standardized exams are stupid.
But now I am in American. And a kindergarder teacher. And cop. Oh fuck.
You're forgetting a spy who sells computers, and does some mr.freeze on the side...