Well, fortunately, the MPAA can't actually train the dogs to recognise the scent of pirated DVDs without first posessing pirated DVDs. And if they had any pirated DVDs, they'd have to sue themselves for six billion dollars. Logically, these dogs can only recognise legitimate DVDs, so the MPAA just has to search every parcel that the dogs don't identify.
It seems to me that releasing the stable branch of debian more frequently is a bad idea. Although woody was kind of outdated when it was replaced, there were still people running it. It's nice to know that once the software is running it will keep running without major maintenance for several years.
Thus, no matter how bug-free the software is, it will still be losing some "stability" if people are forced to upgrade on an 18-month cycle. I understand that there's some pressure to compete with fedora and ubuntu, but there still is debian testing and unstable, which do offer the cutting-edge software. However, there should also be pressure to compete with red hat, which does provide 3 years of support for their server OS. And if debian can't compete with that, then it's no longer "the universal OS".
Disclaimer: I'm assuming that they plan to drop support for sarge upon the release of etch. If they do plan to continue supporting sarge for a full 3 years, then any grievances listed here are null and void.
Well, despite the moderation, I intended for the post to be humorous. My suggestion on how they could minimize losses is meant to point out two things: the absurdity of claiming that a pirated copy equates a lost sale, and the fact that despite supposedly losing 6 billion dollars, the movie industry is doing fine.
Is not the legislative branch of the US government the body that is supposed to be responsible for passing laws to protect our freedom and liberty?
No, the legislative branch is supposed to pass laws that restrict our freedom. The judicial branch exists to ensure our freedom by protecting us from the legislative branch. At least that's how its worded in the constitution.
The internet is everywhere. Changing physical locations won't stop internet piracy.
Yes, but if they refuse to sell movies in the US, then any movies downloaded in that region can't possibly be considered a lost sale, thus they won't be losing a billion dollars are year to the pirates. It makes perfect sense if you think about it.
That may be the only way to pay them after they withdraw from the american market. After all, they're apparently losing 1.3 billion dollars a year by selling movies here.
This is why stuff should compile *without warnings*. It drives me nuts to compile something and see hundreds of warnings spit out.
It drives me nuts too. That's why i use the -fsyntax-only option whenever I compile anything. It gets rid of the warnings so you know your code is safe!
There are two main causes of java slowness. The most well-known is swing, the java graphics api which has one too many layers of indirection to be useful. The other main problem is Checked Exceptions, which force a programmer to write "try{" before the body of every method and "} catch (Exception e) {}" after the body. Although relatively useless (if not harmful), these checked exceptions lead to a minimum of 122 extra CPU cycles per method invocation.
Luckily, you there are workarounds, such as using Eclipse instead of swing and adifferentlanguage to avoid checked exceptions.
I think the parent was suggesting that RIM should screw the US for making it damn near impossible to produce and market useful technologies without getting sued.
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Why bribe everyone in the electoral college when you can just the two candidates instead?
Wouldn't that make it more like Microsoft?
Well, fortunately, the MPAA can't actually train the dogs to recognise the scent of pirated DVDs without first posessing pirated DVDs. And if they had any pirated DVDs, they'd have to sue themselves for six billion dollars. Logically, these dogs can only recognise legitimate DVDs, so the MPAA just has to search every parcel that the dogs don't identify.
It's also unlikely that we'll see a copy of inferno shipping with java either. Although, Infernal Coffee comes pretty close.
Screw Joe User! Bob Sysadmin is lazy too!
Thus, no matter how bug-free the software is, it will still be losing some "stability" if people are forced to upgrade on an 18-month cycle. I understand that there's some pressure to compete with fedora and ubuntu, but there still is debian testing and unstable, which do offer the cutting-edge software. However, there should also be pressure to compete with red hat, which does provide 3 years of support for their server OS. And if debian can't compete with that, then it's no longer "the universal OS".
Disclaimer: I'm assuming that they plan to drop support for sarge upon the release of etch. If they do plan to continue supporting sarge for a full 3 years, then any grievances listed here are null and void.
Either you're some sort of glutton, or you overpaid for those packing peanuts.
With 1.3 billion dollars, the MPAA could afford...
Well, despite the moderation, I intended for the post to be humorous. My suggestion on how they could minimize losses is meant to point out two things: the absurdity of claiming that a pirated copy equates a lost sale, and the fact that despite supposedly losing 6 billion dollars, the movie industry is doing fine.
No, the legislative branch is supposed to pass laws that restrict our freedom. The judicial branch exists to ensure our freedom by protecting us from the legislative branch. At least that's how its worded in the constitution.
Yes, but if they refuse to sell movies in the US, then any movies downloaded in that region can't possibly be considered a lost sale, thus they won't be losing a billion dollars are year to the pirates. It makes perfect sense if you think about it.
That may be the only way to pay them after they withdraw from the american market. After all, they're apparently losing 1.3 billion dollars a year by selling movies here.
Or better yet, a sketch about a guy trying to return his shares of napster...
"This company is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker!"
It drives me nuts too. That's why i use the -fsyntax-only option whenever I compile anything. It gets rid of the warnings so you know your code is safe!
Time to go walk around in the dark until i'm eaten by a grue.
Yeah. It would appear that adding excessive hyperlinks to a comment is enough to make it "Informative".
Luckily, you there are workarounds, such as using Eclipse instead of swing and a different language to avoid checked exceptions.
It'll be a cold day in hell before Sun releases the source code to any software that people actually use.
technically, if you listen to the cd with your girlfriend, it's considered piracy.
so, does apple use the same key for every copy of a song? It seems like that could be easily circumvented.
I think the parent was suggesting that RIM should screw the US for making it damn near impossible to produce and market useful technologies without getting sued.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't bittorrent be much less efficient for sending an encryped file to someone?
Yes, because the government exists for the sole purpose of prosecuting those who annoy us.
Gee, and to think we're "winning" the war!