The loss of money is not due to not buying the said product in the first place. It is because the perceived value of the product is lowered.
The term 'steal' does not have to refer to a physical product. It's not only physical products that have value. Stealing is the act of devaluing something. Physical products can be devalued by removing them from their owner, digital products can be devalued by copying them and not paying the price.
You obviously are not aware of what the value of a product represents. Each product, abstract or not, has a perceived value, and it is that perceived value that defines its price. That is why certain products are sold in a very high price, and other products are not. For example, items of prestige, like an old painting, are sold for a big price because of their perceived value. By copying a digital product, its perceived value is lowered, causing financial harm to the creator.
From whom would a creator ask for 2 million dollars, as you say? you are making an illogical proposal.
Finally, you are wrong in saying that something one creates belongs to all humanity. It does not. It belongs to the author, who made the hard effort to create it.
It's not going to cost more then 4 trillion dollars. Getting materials to orbit, and building a shipyard there, will become progressively cheaper as the project goes on, due to economies of scale.
Having 5 single trip missions to planetary bodies will be more expensive, in the long term, than building a spaceship like the one I describe, because those 5 missions will be custom-built for the task at hand.
It's like building 5 separate computers for 5 tasks, which are all the same. Each computer will cost tens of thousands of dollars. If you build a general purpose computer instead, it will come out very cheap in the end.
Reaching, let's say, 50% of light speed is not out of question. It's a matter of slowly accelerating to the appropriate speed.
Copyright works perfectly. The aim of copyright is to prevent an individual or company from profiting from the works of others, in order to allow the creator to enjoy the profits of their works.
Piracy is theft because piracy deevaluates the value of the digital product being pirated.
The whole attempt to abolish copyright is just big huge hypocricy. People claim copyright no longer works because they simply want to enjoy movies, songs, books and video games for free.
Politicians are attempting to ride this anti-copyright wave in order to get more publicity and more votes.
DRM-free media would never work for companies, because they would be copied all over the globe the instant they would be released, bringing profits down to almost zero.
Before the internet, before p2p networks and before bittorrent, there were almost no complaints about copyright, because piracy was untraceable: you physically copied the tapes or cds, no one could trace that. Nowadays that the goods are within a click's reach, but downloads can be traced, there is suddenly a movement against copyright!
And please, do not tell me it is for the artists. The artists are being royally screwed for as long as there is copyright, but no one gave a damn until media could be downloaded so easily.
Doing five super expensive missions to the outer planets is extremely stupid when, with the same money, you can build a big spaceship that has artificial gravity, hydroponics, science labs and a huge nuclear reactor to power it for eons. You can then travel to any planet, or even the nearest stars, assuming you can get to relativistic speeds.
It can also have smaller spaceships inside it so as that people land on planets.
Occupy Flash indeed, but HTML has a BIG issue.
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The problem with HTML is that HTML is instructions to a browser, not a program itself that the browser runs. If HTML was a program, then any progress in HTML would come from libraries and not from browsers, and it would come much faster.
To explain it differently: HTML tags are not functions of a programming language; they are hardcoded instructions that each browser must interpret. HTML is the assembly of web, and the browser is the CPU which executes the instructions. That's extremely bad, because it does not allow the extension of HTML by programming new functions or modifying the current ones in HTML itself; one has to modify the browser to achieve these changes.
Now that we know that a web browser should really be a display server, HTML should be abandoned for a truly programmable approach, where the markup language is actually a program that creates the visual output itself.
...is cool! it's like C64 games got an extra dimension!
Remakes of classics like the Mario games, Space Invaders, Galaxians, Galaga, Pacman, Jet Set Willy etc would be extremely nice looking with such a graphics representation as Voxatron.
It will only help make the Zetas a legitimate business on the outside, whereas from the inside they will continue to control the market with dirty practices.
Whoever will attempt to create a competitive business, will get their business burned down by the Zetas, and be found dead in the bottom of the closest river.
Individuals will be threatened not to develop their own crops in their backyard, and if they do, they will have to suffer nasty consequences.
It is quite a lot a fun to do it, after years of working with existing languages. You will open a blog, participate in forums, and do many things that will challenge your beliefs and bring back the passion.
In one end, we have the CLI: powerful, but difficult and awkward to use.
In the other end, we have the GUI: easy to use, but not as powerful.
There can be a mix, you know: a GUI that helps the user built CLI commands using the mouse. The GUI will offer all the possible phrases on a pop up menu, and when the user touches the menu, new options relating the menu item can popup near it; for example, command line options.
The result of executing the command can be composed of objects that can manipulated graphically, using a combination of commands applied to them.
For example, suppose I am trying to list all text files in a directory: I place the mouse on top of the 'ls' menu item, and a bunch of command options appear. I select the necessary options, and then select one of the possible file extensions in the directory or known to the computer from previous attempts. Then I click on the applied command and a new window with text files appear.
Now, I can click on those text files and manipulate them with the mouse.
Come on, Microsoft. Is it sooo difficult to make a simple usable tablet? You should not run Windows on it, but a new O/S, partially based on Windows code, that has a different UI and your brandname apps recoded for this new UI.
Every average Joe with two bits of common sense can understand that, why can't you understand that Microsoft?
It's not black and white. There is also gray. I.e. sociodemocracy, as applied in North Europe, which the countries of are top in most categories of standards of living.
You described exactly the triumph of capitalism over communism: people no longer think as "we, the people", but as "me, myself and I".
The average Joe no longer cares about what happens to other Joes like him, he only cares about his affairs. The rest of society might as well go hung themselves, as long as mr Joe enjoys a nice and easy living.
It is a huge triumph for capitalism. People, by not caring about social matters, leave the field open for capitalists to run amok, as they have been doing after the fall of Communism.
Social issues is the hottest thing to discuss nowadays. If the class war is won by the elite, you can kiss goodbye to new and interesting technology, let alone open technology to discuss in this site...
You are overlooking the fact that 99% of the profits go to 1% of people. If the %1 accepted less profits, then the 99% would be much richer and therefore afford the $250 jeans and the $2000 iPhone.
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The loss of money is not due to not buying the said product in the first place. It is because the perceived value of the product is lowered.
The term 'steal' does not have to refer to a physical product. It's not only physical products that have value. Stealing is the act of devaluing something. Physical products can be devalued by removing them from their owner, digital products can be devalued by copying them and not paying the price.
You obviously are not aware of what the value of a product represents. Each product, abstract or not, has a perceived value, and it is that perceived value that defines its price. That is why certain products are sold in a very high price, and other products are not. For example, items of prestige, like an old painting, are sold for a big price because of their perceived value. By copying a digital product, its perceived value is lowered, causing financial harm to the creator.
From whom would a creator ask for 2 million dollars, as you say? you are making an illogical proposal.
Finally, you are wrong in saying that something one creates belongs to all humanity. It does not. It belongs to the author, who made the hard effort to create it.
I don't see why the descendants of Disney cannot enjoy the profit of their ancestor works. Since there is demand, why shouldn't there be a price?
It's not going to cost more then 4 trillion dollars. Getting materials to orbit, and building a shipyard there, will become progressively cheaper as the project goes on, due to economies of scale.
Having 5 single trip missions to planetary bodies will be more expensive, in the long term, than building a spaceship like the one I describe, because those 5 missions will be custom-built for the task at hand.
It's like building 5 separate computers for 5 tasks, which are all the same. Each computer will cost tens of thousands of dollars. If you build a general purpose computer instead, it will come out very cheap in the end.
Reaching, let's say, 50% of light speed is not out of question. It's a matter of slowly accelerating to the appropriate speed.
Copyright works perfectly. The aim of copyright is to prevent an individual or company from profiting from the works of others, in order to allow the creator to enjoy the profits of their works.
Piracy is theft because piracy deevaluates the value of the digital product being pirated.
The whole attempt to abolish copyright is just big huge hypocricy. People claim copyright no longer works because they simply want to enjoy movies, songs, books and video games for free.
Politicians are attempting to ride this anti-copyright wave in order to get more publicity and more votes.
DRM-free media would never work for companies, because they would be copied all over the globe the instant they would be released, bringing profits down to almost zero.
Before the internet, before p2p networks and before bittorrent, there were almost no complaints about copyright, because piracy was untraceable: you physically copied the tapes or cds, no one could trace that. Nowadays that the goods are within a click's reach, but downloads can be traced, there is suddenly a movement against copyright!
And please, do not tell me it is for the artists. The artists are being royally screwed for as long as there is copyright, but no one gave a damn until media could be downloaded so easily.
Doing five super expensive missions to the outer planets is extremely stupid when, with the same money, you can build a big spaceship that has artificial gravity, hydroponics, science labs and a huge nuclear reactor to power it for eons. You can then travel to any planet, or even the nearest stars, assuming you can get to relativistic speeds.
It can also have smaller spaceships inside it so as that people land on planets.
The problem with HTML is that HTML is instructions to a browser, not a program itself that the browser runs. If HTML was a program, then any progress in HTML would come from libraries and not from browsers, and it would come much faster.
To explain it differently: HTML tags are not functions of a programming language; they are hardcoded instructions that each browser must interpret. HTML is the assembly of web, and the browser is the CPU which executes the instructions. That's extremely bad, because it does not allow the extension of HTML by programming new functions or modifying the current ones in HTML itself; one has to modify the browser to achieve these changes.
Now that we know that a web browser should really be a display server, HTML should be abandoned for a truly programmable approach, where the markup language is actually a program that creates the visual output itself.
...is cool! it's like C64 games got an extra dimension!
Remakes of classics like the Mario games, Space Invaders, Galaxians, Galaga, Pacman, Jet Set Willy etc would be extremely nice looking with such a graphics representation as Voxatron.
It is simple: they will use dirty ways to get rid of the competition.
You failed to account for the fact that the Mexicans are 100 meaner than the thugs of the 1930s
You also failed to account that the Zetas have no competition, unlike the 1930's USA that had many competitive families.
Finally, you also failed to account for the corruption. Much of the Mexican government are directly or indirectly involved with the zetas.
It will only help make the Zetas a legitimate business on the outside, whereas from the inside they will continue to control the market with dirty practices.
Whoever will attempt to create a competitive business, will get their business burned down by the Zetas, and be found dead in the bottom of the closest river.
Individuals will be threatened not to develop their own crops in their backyard, and if they do, they will have to suffer nasty consequences.
The price of a product is defined mostly by its perceived value, not by its production costs.
That is why diamonds are so expensive.
That is why paintings cost so much.
That is why luxury cars can only be afforded by so few people.
That is why certain areas like Beverly Hills is so expensive.
And that is why digitial products have a price far above zero.
Therefore, piracy is theft.
Most major games are not released for Linux.
LibreOffice is runs on Windows.
Visual Studio is the best IDE for me.
Window's 7 UI is more aesthetically pleasing than any Linux UI.
Most open source programs run on Windows too.
And then code in it.
It is quite a lot a fun to do it, after years of working with existing languages. You will open a blog, participate in forums, and do many things that will challenge your beliefs and bring back the passion.
UIs need to be more object-oriented.
You want to change the background image? right click on desktop, select 'set background', and voila.
You want to change a window's caption font? right click on window, select font, select to apply for all windows, and voila.
You want to change your IP address? right click on the network icon, select adaptor, select 'change IP', select IP and voila.
You want to change keyboard settings? right click on computer, select keyboard, select settings, and apply.
Some of the options in a GUI are actually object oriented, but not all. Windows is better than Linux in this.
In one end, we have the CLI: powerful, but difficult and awkward to use.
In the other end, we have the GUI: easy to use, but not as powerful.
There can be a mix, you know: a GUI that helps the user built CLI commands using the mouse. The GUI will offer all the possible phrases on a pop up menu, and when the user touches the menu, new options relating the menu item can popup near it; for example, command line options.
The result of executing the command can be composed of objects that can manipulated graphically, using a combination of commands applied to them.
For example, suppose I am trying to list all text files in a directory: I place the mouse on top of the 'ls' menu item, and a bunch of command options appear. I select the necessary options, and then select one of the possible file extensions in the directory or known to the computer from previous attempts. Then I click on the applied command and a new window with text files appear.
Now, I can click on those text files and manipulate them with the mouse.
Success in a Casino is about luck.
Making a successful application is about ability.
Make a good and fun game, and you will profit from it.
Make an exceptional game over an original idea, and win a fortune.
Make a mediocre ripoff of an idea already implemented a thousand times, have a loss.
It is nothing like a Casino.
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Success in a Casino is about lack.
Making a successful application is about ability.
Make a good and fun game, and you will profit from it.
Make an exceptional game over an original idea, and win a fortune.
Make a mediocre ripoff of an idea already implemented a thousand times, have a loss.
It is nothing like a Casino.
Come on, Microsoft. Is it sooo difficult to make a simple usable tablet? You should not run Windows on it, but a new O/S, partially based on Windows code, that has a different UI and your brandname apps recoded for this new UI.
Every average Joe with two bits of common sense can understand that, why can't you understand that Microsoft?
It's not black and white. There is also gray. I.e. sociodemocracy, as applied in North Europe, which the countries of are top in most categories of standards of living.
A file is an outdated concept. We should have objects, with attributes and relations (pointers) to other objects.
We should have an object-oriented database system, not files.
You described exactly the triumph of capitalism over communism: people no longer think as "we, the people", but as "me, myself and I".
The average Joe no longer cares about what happens to other Joes like him, he only cares about his affairs. The rest of society might as well go hung themselves, as long as mr Joe enjoys a nice and easy living.
It is a huge triumph for capitalism. People, by not caring about social matters, leave the field open for capitalists to run amok, as they have been doing after the fall of Communism.
So, like normal C then.
Social issues is the hottest thing to discuss nowadays. If the class war is won by the elite, you can kiss goodbye to new and interesting technology, let alone open technology to discuss in this site...
It's impressive how many people from the 99% support the 1% people.
Americans view themselves not as poor people trying to get rich, but as rich people that are currently poor. That explains a lot.
You are overlooking the fact that 99% of the profits go to 1% of people. If the %1 accepted less profits, then the 99% would be much richer and therefore afford the $250 jeans and the $2000 iPhone.