I find Wal-Mart ads insulting. They show prices being rolled back but they don't associate those prices with any product and our 'educated' populace doesn't notice. Total bullshit. But then there is an old marketing adage that says: have a message, say it well, say it often.
It works. Bush used that method effectively by mentioning WMD 17 times during his state of the union address and Wal-Mart continues to bang their vacuous message into our collective heads daily.
China gets things done because the ratio of workers to lawyers is exceptionally high, in contrast to the United States. Maybe this ratio should be used as a marker of how 'developed' a country is.
It would appear that as societies become 'fat and happy' with success, a class develops to create problems to enrich themselves and slow growth. What was the worker/lawyer ratio of the Roman empire at the fall of Constantine? Business decisions are no longer based on right or wrong but how much the legal fees will be. That's the starting point of the discussion.
When a class of society is built solely to find (ostensibly to resolve) problems but create zero value, then I can't help but think we're self taxing ourselves out of the competition. And survival, micro or macro, is nothing but a grand competition.
More germane is when Microsoft claims the use of four bases as an integral part of Windows and decides that our carbon based life form is now infringing on their intellectual property. But of course, that may be a moot point if Jeff Bezos can patent the 'single dick' model of reproduction.
True. This is how the 'great and prolific' inventor Lemulson (now dead but his legal spectre lives on) made his money. It's the patent office equivalent of chasing ambulances.
What's new about this? Hasn't Cheney been wearing the invisibility device for the past 6 months? You see him a little more these days so maybe Rumsfeld took the cloaker back to put it on Powell. Colin is uttering intelligent thoughts so it's time for him to disappear.
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Copy protection...I'd like to propose a new verb: Gatesed. As in, to be Gatesed, or, bent over.
We own our shoes. We own our cars. We even own our ever aging organs but we don't own software. We license it. In the parlance of intellectual property, that simply means that we rent it at the rentors discretion.
Rather than just click through a MS EULA the other day, I read it. Every word, every limitation, every restriction, every whining reason why MS doesn't have to stand behind their product. Check one out. Consider the outcry from our tech savy members of Congress if the auto industry felt they too should tie on the software feedbag.
I can sell my car within an hour but transferring a MS program to another computer (I use 3 but MS only allows 2 installs per license boning) is an odyssey. I went to their site to find out how, typed in transfer, license, license transfer, etc. and got nothing but XP sales crap.
I'm not trying to produce copies for sale at a flea market, I'm just a user, not a programmer or hacker. The more EULAS I read and copy schemes I hear about, the more I want to make like Snoop Doggy Dog and find some nice crack.
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I find Wal-Mart ads insulting. They show prices being rolled back but they don't associate those prices with any product and our 'educated' populace doesn't notice. Total bullshit. But then there is an old marketing adage that says: have a message, say it well, say it often. It works. Bush used that method effectively by mentioning WMD 17 times during his state of the union address and Wal-Mart continues to bang their vacuous message into our collective heads daily.
Me. As I get older, my hardware gets slower and my hard drive has less capacity but both still respond to an attractive GUI.
$12,500. That's what the court gave the defendent, how much did the attorneys give him as a 'sales commission'?
China gets things done because the ratio of workers to lawyers is exceptionally high, in contrast to the United States. Maybe this ratio should be used as a marker of how 'developed' a country is.
It would appear that as societies become 'fat and happy' with success, a class develops to create problems to enrich themselves and slow growth. What was the worker/lawyer ratio of the Roman empire at the fall of Constantine? Business decisions are no longer based on right or wrong but how much the legal fees will be. That's the starting point of the discussion.
When a class of society is built solely to find (ostensibly to resolve) problems but create zero value, then I can't help but think we're self taxing ourselves out of the competition. And survival, micro or macro, is nothing but a grand competition.
More germane is when Microsoft claims the use of four bases as an integral part of Windows and decides that our carbon based life form is now infringing on their intellectual property. But of course, that may be a moot point if Jeff Bezos can patent the 'single dick' model of reproduction.
True. This is how the 'great and prolific' inventor Lemulson (now dead but his legal spectre lives on) made his money. It's the patent office equivalent of chasing ambulances.
What's new about this? Hasn't Cheney been wearing the invisibility device for the past 6 months? You see him a little more these days so maybe Rumsfeld took the cloaker back to put it on Powell. Colin is uttering intelligent thoughts so it's time for him to disappear.
Copy protection...I'd like to propose a new verb: Gatesed. As in, to be Gatesed, or, bent over.
We own our shoes. We own our cars. We even own our ever aging organs but we don't own software. We license it. In the parlance of intellectual property, that simply means that we rent it at the rentors discretion.
Rather than just click through a MS EULA the other day, I read it. Every word, every limitation, every restriction, every whining reason why MS doesn't have to stand behind their product. Check one out. Consider the outcry from our tech savy members of Congress if the auto industry felt they too should tie on the software feedbag.
I can sell my car within an hour but transferring a MS program to another computer (I use 3 but MS only allows 2 installs per license boning) is an odyssey. I went to their site to find out how, typed in transfer, license, license transfer, etc. and got nothing but XP sales crap.
I'm not trying to produce copies for sale at a flea market, I'm just a user, not a programmer or hacker. The more EULAS I read and copy schemes I hear about, the more I want to make like Snoop Doggy Dog and find some nice crack.
Where is all that nice crack?