They are surely not too worried about being sued, so long as the amount is less than the benefit (more viewership == more dollars). If the benefit to them is greater than expected legal costs then they will run it.
a documentary is about capturing the "truth" the documentarian sees more likely a domcumenary is about stacking up "evidence" to support the documentarian's point of view.
Geeks, you have your head too far up your geeky arses. There is a world outside the internet. Maybe a world that does not count to you, but it is real.
Likely way less than 1% of the world's population have ever contributed to wikipedia, and less than 10% have ever read it. It only represents a very narrow cross section of information, culture, whatever compared to what is available in written form or in artefact form.
You can hold salt in your hand and lick it, so surely it should then be safe to do the same with sodium and chlorine since they are just parts of salt?
OK there have been some great services and sites that have come into being in the last ten years. However, it is very hard to see that 100 million sites == a whole lot of value. There are probably way less than 1 million sites that have content worth checking out. The rest is just Goobage.
Every crap site added makes for more jusk that makes it harder to find anything worthwhile.
You get the **kernel source**. That's not much in a micro-kernel OS. You probably won't be getting all the source to device drivers, device driver manager, gwes,...
You get to see it, but you most likely are not allowed to ship modified versions of it.
The Windows Mobile licesnce is very likely more restrictive than the WinCE6 license. That is, while you might get WinCE 6 source, don't expect to get as much source for Windows Mobile. Also, don't expect to ba allowed to ship modified source in a WM device either.
Yah goota be number one or you're nothing? This leads to competition focus rather than customer focus which is ultimately a short-term strategy.
Sure, being number one goes back to primeval days. However, various research has shown that while the alpha male chimpanzees slug it out, the next guy down is getting more sex.....
Perhaps Google are just not stupid enough to be pouring their energy into alpha-male business tactics.
Sure it might be goverall cheaper to deal with global warming now than try to fix it later, but the problem is this: The people that would have to pay for it now, are not the people that would have to pay for it later. I can save five bucks now, why should I care about saving five hundred bucks for someone later? That is the mindset you're up against with anything like this. Greed is part of human nature (well at least the consumer driven parts of the human race).
The only way to correct for something like this is through taxation etc, where the law can be applied and force better behaviour.
First he paints a doomsday scenario if we don't cut our greenhouse emmissions, now he's encouraging fouling the air with lots of space launches. On a per-event basis, perhaps nothing fouls up the air (especially upper atmosphere) as fast as a space launch. The only mitigating factor is that there are so few. If there were a hundred times as many launches as we have today we'd probably see significant environmental impact.
There is not much stopping private space flight. Perhaps the whole reason that there is so little happening is because nobody has found a way to make it into a useful endevor.
What exactly does a profit-driven private company get out of sending a probe/whatever to Jupiter/wherever to determine whether the air is purple/whatever?
For all the flaws in military/governement expenditure, it is not limited by profitability.
Pirating is different than drug/human trafficking.
The argument that recording industries etc make against piracy is that every sales of a pirated item is lost revenue for a legal sale.
The same does not hold true for drugs, humans and other illegal items. You cannot argue that if someone had not bought illegal drugs then they'd have bought the same value of legal drugs from somewhere else. A lot of the street price of grass is due to it being illegal. If it was legal, then you'd have freeer flow and the price would come down. Also, the governments could tax it.
Yup. Like parent, I detect MS putting a PR spin on this. They've done this often enough in the past - telling people that the old stuff was crap to get people to but the new.
Given that Joe Public no longer believes MS has control over security, they need to build some new mental images to sell. 64-bit black boxes sound pretty solid.
Just because it is "yours" (debatable point in the case of software), does that mean you should be allowed to modify it? Depending on where you live, you probably are not allowed to do tweaks/mods on various things that you own - including the wiring in your house.
A common FUD spread by authorised distributors is that buying from the grey market (legal, but through unauthorised channels), means you're buying substandard or fake products. Not so. Obviously, buying from the grey market does reduce your ability to get a refund etc if the product breaks or is a fake. Authorised sales channels clearly want to pump up the FUD to keep their margins up.
Fake products are getting more sophisticated all the time. I've even seen fake ICs. They looked fine, worked OK (most of the time), but if you xrayed the device you'd see that the actual silicon was different.
The traditional competitive business model goes something along the lines of: Kick competitors in the balls...., gouge customers as hard as you can..., make as much profit as you can and screw the consequences (social, environmental,...)
As well as the micro-credit Muhammad Yunus scored his Nobel for, he is also proposing that some businesses might restructure around goals other than profit. Yes, if you've been a corporation watcher, it is a hard concept to get your head around.
Interesting interview on BBC a few days back, can probably found on the Beeb's website.
Sure, you can say that Bush did not get the majority of the votes, but he got well over 40%. So while you might not individually be responsible for the government there are enough people in the US that are.
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They can sell carbon credits to the USA, etc.
a documentary is about capturing the "truth" the documentarian sees more likely a domcumenary is about stacking up "evidence" to support the documentarian's point of view.
Uncle Bill, we know you'd come through!
Likely way less than 1% of the world's population have ever contributed to wikipedia, and less than 10% have ever read it. It only represents a very narrow cross section of information, culture, whatever compared to what is available in written form or in artefact form.
You can hold salt in your hand and lick it, so surely it should then be safe to do the same with sodium and chlorine since they are just parts of salt?
Powerful, yet still easy to use?
Every crap site added makes for more jusk that makes it harder to find anything worthwhile.
You get to see it, but you most likely are not allowed to ship modified versions of it.
The Windows Mobile licesnce is very likely more restrictive than the WinCE6 license. That is, while you might get WinCE 6 source, don't expect to get as much source for Windows Mobile. Also, don't expect to ba allowed to ship modified source in a WM device either.
Sure, being number one goes back to primeval days. However, various research has shown that while the alpha male chimpanzees slug it out, the next guy down is getting more sex.....
Perhaps Google are just not stupid enough to be pouring their energy into alpha-male business tactics.
Benefon have been making GPS phones with "you are here" comms for many years now.
otherwise it would have been called innovation instead.
The only way to correct for something like this is through taxation etc, where the law can be applied and force better behaviour.
I've searched Google already.
First he paints a doomsday scenario if we don't cut our greenhouse emmissions, now he's encouraging fouling the air with lots of space launches. On a per-event basis, perhaps nothing fouls up the air (especially upper atmosphere) as fast as a space launch. The only mitigating factor is that there are so few. If there were a hundred times as many launches as we have today we'd probably see significant environmental impact.
What exactly does a profit-driven private company get out of sending a probe/whatever to Jupiter/wherever to determine whether the air is purple/whatever?
For all the flaws in military/governement expenditure, it is not limited by profitability.
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What I don't like is how they keep obsoleting the blades etc so fast. Two years and you can't find the blades to fit any more.
Cost per square inch is reasonably constant across processes. If you can pack in more devices per area you save cost.
You'd hope they'd at least be using surround sound by now.
The argument that recording industries etc make against piracy is that every sales of a pirated item is lost revenue for a legal sale.
The same does not hold true for drugs, humans and other illegal items. You cannot argue that if someone had not bought illegal drugs then they'd have bought the same value of legal drugs from somewhere else. A lot of the street price of grass is due to it being illegal. If it was legal, then you'd have freeer flow and the price would come down. Also, the governments could tax it.
Given that Joe Public no longer believes MS has control over security, they need to build some new mental images to sell. 64-bit black boxes sound pretty solid.
Besides, in this "terrorist age", you're instantly guilty if you're hiding something.
Fake products are getting more sophisticated all the time. I've even seen fake ICs. They looked fine, worked OK (most of the time), but if you xrayed the device you'd see that the actual silicon was different.
As well as the micro-credit Muhammad Yunus scored his Nobel for, he is also proposing that some businesses might restructure around goals other than profit. Yes, if you've been a corporation watcher, it is a hard concept to get your head around.
Interesting interview on BBC a few days back, can probably found on the Beeb's website.
Sure, you can say that Bush did not get the majority of the votes, but he got well over 40%. So while you might not individually be responsible for the government there are enough people in the US that are.