Dunno about you, SpaceNeeded, but for anyone else who wants to cut their support calls, just give them SpaceNeeded's email address, 'cause he seems to take on support even for systems he didn't supply.
a) If they're paying you for support: Bump up the price. b) If they're not paying you for support: See (a) c) If they keep asking for support at the new price: Hire someone decent and take a cut!
So your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to revise your upper boundary of the number of thieves in the set, based on the age of the concept of signatures, the speed of signals around the brain, etc.
Infinity? Infinity is a limit, but even if it were a number, how long do you suppose it would take for a sig to be transmitted between an infinite number of people?!
Apple doesn't allow people to convert iTunes music to any other formats or codecs, and doing so is probably against the law in most countries because it would be considered "circumventing copy protection".
Don't let the facts stand in your way. What planet do you live on? On mine (Planet Earth), you can burn CDs from DRMed AACs in iTunes.
Alternatively, I would argue that the existence of the death penalty demeans the society, as, collectively, those people are saying that a human life is subject to the whims of a jury.
Whereas many thousands of human lives are subject to the whims of just a single individual, simply because they happen to live on top of a rapidly-diminishing pool of oil.
sites like Slashdot and Digg for people who want real IT news
Slashdot hasn't had real news for a while now -- linking to the blogs of clueless idiots (or tech journal articles for that matter) is much more profitable.
It's akin to proving that lotteries aren't random, because some numbers come up more frequently than others. Or that a coin flip isn't random because 100 flips doesn't result in exactly 50 "heads".
The proper study of probability provides for the debunking of such nonsense. Bad statistics is bad statistics, whether applied to coin tossing or data mining.
Are you going to count the costs of toilet paper in the corporate bathroom?
Of course, and if you're not, you obviously don't have the first clue about costing.
You don't get a reliable music download service by putting a whole load of computers in a room and then leaving them to their own devices (pun intended).
One is Gonzalo Frasca's "September 12," in which players shoot missiles at terrorists in a small village. The fun quickly turns political, however, as villagers mourning friends and relatives accidentally killed by the missiles morph into terrorists themselves. The message, clearly, is to think about consequences.
Maybe it would be better to realize that this "message" is totally and completely racist, bigoted and prejudiced.
Quite. And why don't I hear anyone making the argument "But BMW are just acting to maximise the profits of their shareholders, as they are required to do by law" that I have heard so often recently in Google's favour?
Ethics will fall by the wayside, and might will be right; keep your eye on Google.
As it turned out, I found prior art for every single patent idea that the group turned out, so I did a very good job.
You did a good job for yourself, but maybe not for your employer.
There's nothing new under the sun, but companies use patent portfolios on the principle of mutually assured destruction -- don't go after us for these, or we'll go after you for those. If you have a large volume of patents, it would cost the other guy too much to try to determine the soundness of them all -- easier to just leave you alone and go after someone else.
What we need is patent non-proliferation treaties!
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Dunno about you, SpaceNeeded, but for anyone else who wants to cut their support calls, just give them SpaceNeeded's email address, 'cause he seems to take on support even for systems he didn't supply.
a) If they're paying you for support: Bump up the price.
b) If they're not paying you for support: See (a)
c) If they keep asking for support at the new price: Hire someone decent and take a cut!
So your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to revise your upper boundary of the number of thieves in the set, based on the age of the concept of signatures, the speed of signals around the brain, etc.
Infinity? Infinity is a limit, but even if it were a number, how long do you suppose it would take for a sig to be transmitted between an infinite number of people?!
Don't let the facts stand in your way. What planet do you live on? On mine (Planet Earth), you can burn CDs from DRMed AACs in iTunes.
In other news, the real definition of "Trolled" is "something that You Have just Been".
No, no, you've made a mistake. What you're describing is "Shock and Awe". Nothing to do with terrorism. No Siree Bob.
Whereas many thousands of human lives are subject to the whims of just a single individual, simply because they happen to live on top of a rapidly-diminishing pool of oil.
How do you sue an OSS project? Surely you have to sue a particular author.
Ever-growing force! Of course! Why didn't I think of that?! Next time I play whack-a-mole, I'll top the high score table for sure.
You don't get a reliable music download service by putting a whole load of computers in a room and then leaving them to their own devices (pun intended).
Wow... in fewer than 20 words you have achieved: bitterness, stupidity, virginity (by your own logic), stupidity, oh, and did I mention stupidity?
Is that 85% by volume, and does it include burgers?
</joke>Seriously, that seems an extremely high number. Got any references?
Best... MORPG... Ever.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
It's not exactly massively multiplayer, but it's beautifully written.
...and if after watching the fine video you still don't get it... shoot yourself.
Also: in the interface, a rating of zero means "no rating". Should songs with a rating of 1 really be played more often than unrated songs?
Who mentioned race? Healer, heal thyself!
Quite. And why don't I hear anyone making the argument "But BMW are just acting to maximise the profits of their shareholders, as they are required to do by law" that I have heard so often recently in Google's favour?
Ethics will fall by the wayside, and might will be right; keep your eye on Google.
Of course the future does not exist. It will exist though, just like the past existed.
You did a good job for yourself, but maybe not for your employer.
There's nothing new under the sun, but companies use patent portfolios on the principle of mutually assured destruction -- don't go after us for these, or we'll go after you for those. If you have a large volume of patents, it would cost the other guy too much to try to determine the soundness of them all -- easier to just leave you alone and go after someone else.
What we need is patent non-proliferation treaties!