Maybe, at the time, you couldn't record a CD to another CD, but there sure was a lot of ways to record a CD to a cassette. Everybody I know had one of those direct-dub CD/Cassette players, made precisely for this purpose.
The big reasons that companies like having applications done on web browser are:
a) You don't have to write the networking/communication protocols yourself, it's already done. You don't have to worry about whether your networked application will be allowed through most firewalls.
b) On the off-chance there is a bug, it can be fixed instantly buy changing the code, and uploaded to your web server. Bugs don't happen often, but when it does, it's nice to be able to seed the fix to all your clients instantly.
c) You don't have to worry about what platform your clients are using, or how old their computers are. A properly done web application will work on almost all the computers you will find out there on most desktops, regardless of operating system or system architecture.
That's usually stupidly expensive, I think most of the money probably goes to the property owners anyway.
That really depends on the bands you like to see. I often go to concerts for $10 to $20. I've also seen some pretty popular artists for quite cheap. You just have to be smart about what bands you see. In my eyes, no band is worth the $80 arena ticket so you can see them from 500 ft. away. However, many bands that i may not like so much, are really fun to go and see when you can be within 50 ft. (10 ft. sometimes) of the band, and only pay $15.
The question is, what can you do with the sheet music? Naturally you can learn how to play those songs. But can you put on a performance of those songs legally. Are they going to go after cover bands next, claiming they aren't allowed to play the songs because they are taking revenue from the real band? What's the point of buying the sheet music if you aren't allowed to perform it?
12 year olds have been having sex for quite a long time in human history. We just used to let them get married at that age too. This 18 year old marriage law is quite a new fangled thing in human history.
Also worth noting is the 560 feature. There's a number at each stop. You dial 560-1000, type in the number of your bus stop, and it tells you how long until the next 3 busses come. This is great when it's cold outside, and you don't want to be waiting at the stop for 20 minutes waiting for the less frequent buses to come.
Kids were accessing porn way before the internet came along. Whether it was stealing magazines from their parents bedside drawer, or renting foreign films from the local corner shop, kids have had access to porn. There's also 12 year olds having sex, so naturally they are seeing naked people. Shutting it out from the internet isn't going to have any effect on whether or not kids actually get to see "porn".
Amarok has a great built in feature that lets you see the lyrics to the songs you are listening to. It is also able to import album covers. I wonder if they will go after Amarok next. It's a great program I use it for listening to all my music. Rip my CDs to flac, and listen to them on the PC, so I don't have to shell out of a multidisc cd player.
Most people say that downloading music files isn't theft. It's breach of copyright, but it isn't theft. Theft has certain legal meanings. People don't want it being called theft, because it isn't. It is copyright infringement though, and most people can't make up a reasonable argument that it is not. The real question is, is whether or not this copyright infringement is moral.
The problem is that in many cases you can't even fully uninstall these programs. There's no reason why you should be forced to have applications with tons of holes in them (wmp, ie) just to use their operating system. I think it would be advantageous to everyone if you could swap out all the components of windows, and replace the ones you wanted to. That way, you could have a windows machine, without having the terrible browser which is IE, installed on your system.
I think they'll be happy when they can get windows as separate components. Like the kernel, the window manager, the web server, the media player, the web browser, the IM client. Then they can pick and choose the pieces they want to use. Does anybody else find it weird that you still can't run a windows web/DB server without a GUI. Sure GUIs are nice sometimes, but just having it loaded takes up a good chunk of RAM. It would be nice if you could unload the GUI for the 99.9% of the time that you aren't using it. Kind of like you can do with linux/unix.
This is partly why I think humans will start to de-evolve at some point. It's becoming easier and easier as society progresses to survive, without any survival skills. Also, the people who have less desirable traits end up having more children than those with more desirable traits. I think at some point, humans will reach a high point, at which point, things will start going down hill, because anybody survive and reproduce, regardless of how useful they are to the species.
Tell that to the people who live in Ottawa. I've seen tons of people with dogs in apartments. Even great danes. It's amazing how bad people will treat their pets. Dogs are not meant to be kept inside apartments all day. Especailly the big ones. Yet some people have no problem leaving their dogs inside a 400 sq. foot apartment all day. People think it's fashionable to have a dog or something, so they get one. Without thinking about whether its the best thing for the dog.
There's a lot more cost in buying an iPod than in using a satellite radio server. If you buy 1 cd a month, then that covers the cost of the subscription. If you have an ipod, you have to buy music, either on CD or iTunes, or download it for free on the internet. With satellite radio, you pay $15? I think a great think would be an Ipod that you could put your own music on, or switch over to satellite radio when you got bored of your own music. Kind of like the old tape player walkmans with build in radios.
The other thing about movies, is that most people don't want to watch them on computer, and most people don't have the hardware or the know-how to output the computer to the TV. Most people know how to download music, and burn it to a CD, or load it on their MP3 player. What would really kill movies is making an affordable DVD/CD player that can play all those formats downloaded off the internet. Maybe even something where you can pop in a CD, and have it load on code for interpreting new formats. Ah Well, probably will never happen.
If you're just starting out programming, you probably shouldn't even be using anything as complex as Visual Studio, any edition. At most you should be using something that has code highlighting, and maybe some code completion. A full fledged IDE is not a good tool for teaching programming. Mind you, eventually people should learn how to use and IDE, but only after they actually know how to program. I find that this is where a lot of courses lack. They either get you using the IDE from the start, and you don't learn anything, or they never teach you about the IDE, and therefore you don't know how to use really useful features such as the debugger.
I saw a young girl getting a speaking to by a local transit cop about her fake transit pass. Apparently that can be counted as forgery too. He just fined her under local bylaws, which ends up being a pretty hefty fine, way more than hte bus pass. Anyway, not sure if he was just trying to scare her, or whether he was telling the truth, But I think forgery of almost anything can be counted as forgery. Anyway, it probably wasn't worth their time to go through a whole trial and all. She looked plenty scared enough just getting the fine.
How are you supposed to improve your hiring practices in order to preven employees from stealing. paying minimum wage doens't help you get the best selection of employees. Anyway. They ask all these questions on standard job applications. Stuff like: would you steal? if you saw someone stealing, what would you do? if you were a manager and you saw an employeed steal something, would you fire them? There's really not a lot you can do in an interview to weed out people who might end up stealing. Everyone knows the right answers to the questions they are asking. Maybe they could look into seeing what makes people most honest and less likely to steal. Although, sometimes it's better to hire people who are dishonest, since they might be better at selling stuff anyway. If the dishonest one steals $300 worth of merch a year, and end up selling $10,000 more in merch a year, then it's probably better to hire the dishonest one.
You can't use human stupidity as an argument. Just because a lot people think that's how you spell orangutan, doesn't mean that's how you spell it. It's like saying you have proof that go exists, just because people believe him.
Also, a lot would depend on what environment you're running your apache server on. If you're running on Linux, it only takes ~700,000 cycles to spawn a new process. On Windows, it takes ~5,000,000. I'm not sure what the respective cycle counts are for starting threads, but I imagine you'd get a lot more performance running the threaded model under windows.
This can be both a blessing and a curse. There's a lot of people who will just email everybody about everything. Stuff like, "i'm not going to be in tomorrow", to everyone in the department, even if they don't even know who you are. I think that keeping email addresses on a need to know basis helps limit the amount of email you get, as well as the number of people a virus gets forwarded to, on the chance that one does infect your computer.
But this brings up the question. Why does everything have to go all the way to the top just to make simple decisions. There's no reason why you couldn't give the people closer to the action the ability to make decisions. These large companies must not have much faith in their employees if they can't trust them to make decisions.
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Maybe, at the time, you couldn't record a CD to another CD, but there sure was a lot of ways to record a CD to a cassette. Everybody I know had one of those direct-dub CD/Cassette players, made precisely for this purpose.
The big reasons that companies like having applications done on web browser are:
a) You don't have to write the networking/communication protocols yourself, it's already done. You don't have to worry about whether your networked application will be allowed through most firewalls.
b) On the off-chance there is a bug, it can be fixed instantly buy changing the code, and uploaded to your web server. Bugs don't happen often, but when it does, it's nice to be able to seed the fix to all your clients instantly.
c) You don't have to worry about what platform your clients are using, or how old their computers are. A properly done web application will work on almost all the computers you will find out there on most desktops, regardless of operating system or system architecture.
That's usually stupidly expensive, I think most of the money probably goes to the property owners anyway.
That really depends on the bands you like to see. I often go to concerts for $10 to $20. I've also seen some pretty popular artists for quite cheap. You just have to be smart about what bands you see. In my eyes, no band is worth the $80 arena ticket so you can see them from 500 ft. away. However, many bands that i may not like so much, are really fun to go and see when you can be within 50 ft. (10 ft. sometimes) of the band, and only pay $15.
The question is, what can you do with the sheet music? Naturally you can learn how to play those songs. But can you put on a performance of those songs legally. Are they going to go after cover bands next, claiming they aren't allowed to play the songs because they are taking revenue from the real band? What's the point of buying the sheet music if you aren't allowed to perform it?
12 year olds have been having sex for quite a long time in human history. We just used to let them get married at that age too. This 18 year old marriage law is quite a new fangled thing in human history.
Also worth noting is the 560 feature. There's a number at each stop. You dial 560-1000, type in the number of your bus stop, and it tells you how long until the next 3 busses come. This is great when it's cold outside, and you don't want to be waiting at the stop for 20 minutes waiting for the less frequent buses to come.
Kids were accessing porn way before the internet came along. Whether it was stealing magazines from their parents bedside drawer, or renting foreign films from the local corner shop, kids have had access to porn. There's also 12 year olds having sex, so naturally they are seeing naked people. Shutting it out from the internet isn't going to have any effect on whether or not kids actually get to see "porn".
Amarok has a great built in feature that lets you see the lyrics to the songs you are listening to. It is also able to import album covers. I wonder if they will go after Amarok next. It's a great program I use it for listening to all my music. Rip my CDs to flac, and listen to them on the PC, so I don't have to shell out of a multidisc cd player.
But that's the trick. Finding a good way to index the data.
All you have to do is index it properly, and lots of data can be searched really fast.
Most people say that downloading music files isn't theft. It's breach of copyright, but it isn't theft. Theft has certain legal meanings. People don't want it being called theft, because it isn't. It is copyright infringement though, and most people can't make up a reasonable argument that it is not. The real question is, is whether or not this copyright infringement is moral.
The problem is that in many cases you can't even fully uninstall these programs. There's no reason why you should be forced to have applications with tons of holes in them (wmp, ie) just to use their operating system. I think it would be advantageous to everyone if you could swap out all the components of windows, and replace the ones you wanted to. That way, you could have a windows machine, without having the terrible browser which is IE, installed on your system.
I think they'll be happy when they can get windows as separate components. Like the kernel, the window manager, the web server, the media player, the web browser, the IM client. Then they can pick and choose the pieces they want to use. Does anybody else find it weird that you still can't run a windows web/DB server without a GUI. Sure GUIs are nice sometimes, but just having it loaded takes up a good chunk of RAM. It would be nice if you could unload the GUI for the 99.9% of the time that you aren't using it. Kind of like you can do with linux/unix.
This is partly why I think humans will start to de-evolve at some point. It's becoming easier and easier as society progresses to survive, without any survival skills. Also, the people who have less desirable traits end up having more children than those with more desirable traits. I think at some point, humans will reach a high point, at which point, things will start going down hill, because anybody survive and reproduce, regardless of how useful they are to the species.
Tell that to the people who live in Ottawa. I've seen tons of people with dogs in apartments. Even great danes. It's amazing how bad people will treat their pets. Dogs are not meant to be kept inside apartments all day. Especailly the big ones. Yet some people have no problem leaving their dogs inside a 400 sq. foot apartment all day. People think it's fashionable to have a dog or something, so they get one. Without thinking about whether its the best thing for the dog.
There's a lot more cost in buying an iPod than in using a satellite radio server. If you buy 1 cd a month, then that covers the cost of the subscription. If you have an ipod, you have to buy music, either on CD or iTunes, or download it for free on the internet. With satellite radio, you pay $15? I think a great think would be an Ipod that you could put your own music on, or switch over to satellite radio when you got bored of your own music. Kind of like the old tape player walkmans with build in radios.
The other thing about movies, is that most people don't want to watch them on computer, and most people don't have the hardware or the know-how to output the computer to the TV. Most people know how to download music, and burn it to a CD, or load it on their MP3 player. What would really kill movies is making an affordable DVD/CD player that can play all those formats downloaded off the internet. Maybe even something where you can pop in a CD, and have it load on code for interpreting new formats. Ah Well, probably will never happen.
If you're just starting out programming, you probably shouldn't even be using anything as complex as Visual Studio, any edition. At most you should be using something that has code highlighting, and maybe some code completion. A full fledged IDE is not a good tool for teaching programming. Mind you, eventually people should learn how to use and IDE, but only after they actually know how to program. I find that this is where a lot of courses lack. They either get you using the IDE from the start, and you don't learn anything, or they never teach you about the IDE, and therefore you don't know how to use really useful features such as the debugger.
I saw a young girl getting a speaking to by a local transit cop about her fake transit pass. Apparently that can be counted as forgery too. He just fined her under local bylaws, which ends up being a pretty hefty fine, way more than hte bus pass. Anyway, not sure if he was just trying to scare her, or whether he was telling the truth, But I think forgery of almost anything can be counted as forgery. Anyway, it probably wasn't worth their time to go through a whole trial and all. She looked plenty scared enough just getting the fine.
How are you supposed to improve your hiring practices in order to preven employees from stealing. paying minimum wage doens't help you get the best selection of employees. Anyway. They ask all these questions on standard job applications. Stuff like: would you steal? if you saw someone stealing, what would you do? if you were a manager and you saw an employeed steal something, would you fire them? There's really not a lot you can do in an interview to weed out people who might end up stealing. Everyone knows the right answers to the questions they are asking. Maybe they could look into seeing what makes people most honest and less likely to steal. Although, sometimes it's better to hire people who are dishonest, since they might be better at selling stuff anyway. If the dishonest one steals $300 worth of merch a year, and end up selling $10,000 more in merch a year, then it's probably better to hire the dishonest one.
You can't use human stupidity as an argument. Just because a lot people think that's how you spell orangutan, doesn't mean that's how you spell it. It's like saying you have proof that go exists, just because people believe him.
Nobody seems to realize. How do we decide what is porn and what isn't. Sometimes it's hard to tell if a site is art, or port, or porn posing as art.
Also, a lot would depend on what environment you're running your apache server on. If you're running on Linux, it only takes ~700,000 cycles to spawn a new process. On Windows, it takes ~5,000,000. I'm not sure what the respective cycle counts are for starting threads, but I imagine you'd get a lot more performance running the threaded model under windows.
This can be both a blessing and a curse. There's a lot of people who will just email everybody about everything. Stuff like, "i'm not going to be in tomorrow", to everyone in the department, even if they don't even know who you are. I think that keeping email addresses on a need to know basis helps limit the amount of email you get, as well as the number of people a virus gets forwarded to, on the chance that one does infect your computer.
But this brings up the question. Why does everything have to go all the way to the top just to make simple decisions. There's no reason why you couldn't give the people closer to the action the ability to make decisions. These large companies must not have much faith in their employees if they can't trust them to make decisions.