Angsty teen makes good after everyone believes in him? Yea, awesome plot. Barnes & Noble has a "New Teen Paranomral Romance" section that you might be interested in.
Listen, if you're going to reply at least read what was said. GP had a typo and you're replying to the someone pointing that out. Since it slipped by you I'll point it out: Defiantly != definitely.
Considering I make about 5 grand a day on a good day, this is going to really hurt me.
Let me see if I understand your situation correctly. Approx. 360 days @ 5 grand on the top end and you're sweating a few days? So what happens when you have a sick day or take a weekend off!? What if servers go down or your site gets taken offline because of a raid at the datacenter? 15 grand "potential" dollars down the tube? Yet you can still get money and you're livid! News flash: you're not entitled to a paycheck. However you're rightly upset.
You very obviously don't run an online business.
I do. You obviously haven't run one for very long if you're not used to cash swings. Saving money, what a concept for the unexpected.
For once, I'm just thinking about heading to 4chan's servers, and risking the jail time smashing every fucking machine there is right now.
What company do you own? I want to make sure I can associate this comment with its CEO. If this ever happens to you or your company I wish I could be there and hear you whine about your loss and drink the sweet nectar of your tears.
You're missing my point. I've grubbed up business out of the dirt and it's far better to focus on solutions than problems. From your attitude I hope you enjoy working for someone else.
I don't think there's any detection going on. These are intentionally damaged copies and they released them anonymously. They just have to upload their damaged version to popular sites and watch them get spread
So the anonymously released copies that the pirates obtain have been made available and by the rights holders, the ones legitimately able to distribute? Wouldn't that make them authorized copies?
The same people have no respect for works except their own which was faithfully recreated step by step from a tutorial. Upon completion they show friends and proudly exclaim "they did it!". Achievement unlocked?
I think you're confusing "printing" with the narrow definition of printer, I am referring to publishing. You can take the bus instead of owning a car but buses don't nearly provide the same level of accessibility or convenience of a car.
Everyone.
Obviously.
I'm not an interior decorator.
Some people are and in many professions precision matters. Contracts are an excellent example of this. It appears you're unfamiliar with corporate branding requirements or trademark usage requirements. Everyone is not you. It's not about making you happy - it's about using the right tool for the job. HTML is not the right tool for publishing documents and expecting them to look the same in different environments.
PDF doesn't provide this, so PDF is no good
HTML doesn't provide a method for ensuring consistant display on multiple computers. HTML is not good. See how that sounds? Thank god we have different tools! If the internet was built by people like yourself we wouldn't have any options regardless of technical merit.
There isn't one good reason in the entire world to make sure a document "looks the same everywhere."
Printing.
What we need is that the document is (1) readable, (2) orderly, and (3) conforms to the reader's needs.
Define we. What my clients need is a file to look exactly like they sent. Like it or hate it in the real world PDF solves this quite well.
PDF is unfriendly and the very idea that the author has to set the absolute look of the document reeks of elitism, misplaced "artistic" intent at the expense of readability and usability.
Elitism!? "How dare you print something for me that doesn't look right!" It doesn't need to be friendly, it needs to perform.
And then there is editing -- a document you can't edit and/or annotate is crippled -- and PDF encourages this unfriendly behavior.
Not every tool is ideal for every task. I liken WMV to PDF, ideal for final presentation, which is why they are sending it to me.
The ideal solution at this point in time is, has been, and is likely to remain, HTML, which resolves every one of those critical problems
If neither of them, then what do you think about software copyrights? Take the Linux kernel that's under development since 1991 - when do you think the copyright on it should expire?
If I'm understanding your question correctly each new work is covered by copyright. As time passes the older versions would become public domain after the copyright period expires.
And what would be the period for the software copyright expiration. If 20 years or shorter, an example of what I fear here.
Something more sane, why not observe the Berne Convention, 50 years? I have to say I feel the same way. Although I feel that nobody should be able to successfully claim that multiple different works which were released at seperate times to be identical.
Apparently the new logic is that kids are to be cut loose, that you're not supposed to leave anything for them, but rather give 'em the boot, and anything you've saved or produced should not benefit them at all.
How dare you talk about the Baby Boomers in such a way!
If neither of them, then what do you think about software copyrights? Take the Linux kernel that's under development since 1991 - when do you think the copyright on it should expire?
If I'm understanding your question correctly each new work is covered by copyright. As time passes the older versions would become public domain after the copyright period expires.
The Irish aren't special in this regard. Immigrants are viewed with fear and suspicion by portions of the populous!? It's not a thing of the past either see the Turks of Germany, Mexicans (mainly in the US south west), or someone from the middle east. You make it sound like only the Irish have had problems. The new guy "always" gets it. Yay for humanity!
Sound cards used to be sold because their ability to decode sound was done on the card rather than having the CPU doing it, which would slow down the gaming performance (somewhat).
Ahhh, marketing at its finest hour. You need to buy a $500 3d card AND a $100 audio card to play this $49 game!
Yeah, pretty crazy! You need to buy a PS3 [$599 for the high end when they came out] and a flat screen TV [$799!] just to enjoy a $59.99 game.
Well there is that whole issue of Kaspersky having ties to the Russian mob and him being an ex-KGB. It's also curious that their a/v signatures occasionally get updated for virus's that haven't hit the streets yet. Trust me, there is a reason that this particular software is specifically banned for use within the DOD.
The same DOD involved with a bunch of leaked documents that were snuck out on burned CD-Rs by one of their own? Who can you trust these days...
It's almost like the current generation of web devs haven't even heard the term and to think that graceful degradation was once the cardinal rule in web design.
So it must've been all the coddling that ruined the next generation!
When you use Google services you opt in. It's not some big conspiracy (granted it may be interpreted that way if you don't read what you're agreeing to). Some food for thought: Google's Privacy Policy and TOS. Google is pretty responsible but bugs still creep up.
I WISH for better reading comprehension. Why isn't this marked redundant? How is quoting a parent and agreeing with what he said interesting?
Grandparent:
(automated data collection, mining, and reporting, OTOH, is neat... hence Google kinda focuses on those things and sort of runs GDocs as a sideshow.
You:
but what makes you think automated data collection, mining and reporting isn't what Google Docs is all about?
What else could he mean by running it as a side show? Why would they run any programs that they don't get anything out of (besides charity)? Since we're pointing out obvious things: Google may be doing the same thing with their email! Maybe that's why they don't charge for it!
which makes working with the documents in an actual publishing setting a fucking nightmare
Using Word.doc files in publishing? Ugh. A few years ago I remember one of the designers having to fiddle with the company sign up form in Word. The process involved several hours. Preserving form field spacing reminded me of untangling knotted christmas lights. I believe this was the case of using the wrong tool for the job.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Remind me how that worked for the Blacks and Natives?
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Angsty teen makes good after everyone believes in him? Yea, awesome plot.
Barnes & Noble has a "New Teen Paranomral Romance" section that you might be interested in.
Listen, if you're going to reply at least read what was said. GP had a typo and you're replying to the someone pointing that out. Since it slipped by you I'll point it out: Defiantly != definitely.
Considering I make about 5 grand a day on a good day, this is going to really hurt me.
Let me see if I understand your situation correctly. Approx. 360 days @ 5 grand on the top end and you're sweating a few days? So what happens when you have a sick day or take a weekend off!? What if servers go down or your site gets taken offline because of a raid at the datacenter? 15 grand "potential" dollars down the tube? Yet you can still get money and you're livid! News flash: you're not entitled to a paycheck. However you're rightly upset.
You very obviously don't run an online business.
I do. You obviously haven't run one for very long if you're not used to cash swings. Saving money, what a concept for the unexpected.
For once, I'm just thinking about heading to 4chan's servers, and risking the jail time smashing every fucking machine there is right now.
What company do you own? I want to make sure I can associate this comment with its CEO. If this ever happens to you or your company I wish I could be there and hear you whine about your loss and drink the sweet nectar of your tears.
You're missing my point. I've grubbed up business out of the dirt and it's far better to focus on solutions than problems. From your attitude I hope you enjoy working for someone else.
I see, thanks for the clarification.
I don't think there's any detection going on. These are intentionally damaged copies and they released them anonymously. They just have to upload their damaged version to popular sites and watch them get spread
So the anonymously released copies that the pirates obtain have been made available and by the rights holders, the ones legitimately able to distribute? Wouldn't that make them authorized copies?
Unfortunately they've stacked the system to raise some huge barriers to entry. They control the distribution channels
You mean the distribution networks they made? It takes money to make money. You have the internet. How many people are on that again?
they control the all-important advertising and promotion channels. If you could break their hold on that, then we might be getting somewhere.
Get creative, a lot of companies are... why break their hold? Do your own thing. If people like your business and it's solid more will come.
Let me guess you're the type of person who wouldn't make a search engine since one already exists...
The same people have no respect for works except their own which was faithfully recreated step by step from a tutorial. Upon completion they show friends and proudly exclaim "they did it!". Achievement unlocked?
HTML documents are printable. Fail.
I think you're confusing "printing" with the narrow definition of printer, I am referring to publishing. You can take the bus instead of owning a car but buses don't nearly provide the same level of accessibility or convenience of a car.
Everyone.
Obviously.
I'm not an interior decorator.
Some people are and in many professions precision matters. Contracts are an excellent example of this. It appears you're unfamiliar with corporate branding requirements or trademark usage requirements. Everyone is not you. It's not about making you happy - it's about using the right tool for the job. HTML is not the right tool for publishing documents and expecting them to look the same in different environments.
PDF doesn't provide this, so PDF is no good
HTML doesn't provide a method for ensuring consistant display on multiple computers. HTML is not good. See how that sounds? Thank god we have different tools! If the internet was built by people like yourself we wouldn't have any options regardless of technical merit.
There isn't one good reason in the entire world to make sure a document "looks the same everywhere."
Printing.
What we need is that the document is (1) readable, (2) orderly, and (3) conforms to the reader's needs.
Define we. What my clients need is a file to look exactly like they sent. Like it or hate it in the real world PDF solves this quite well.
PDF is unfriendly and the very idea that the author has to set the absolute look of the document reeks of elitism, misplaced "artistic" intent at the expense of readability and usability.
Elitism!? "How dare you print something for me that doesn't look right!" It doesn't need to be friendly, it needs to perform.
And then there is editing -- a document you can't edit and/or annotate is crippled -- and PDF encourages this unfriendly behavior.
Not every tool is ideal for every task. I liken WMV to PDF, ideal for final presentation, which is why they are sending it to me.
The ideal solution at this point in time is, has been, and is likely to remain, HTML, which resolves every one of those critical problems
Indeed. Enjoy your random note looking documents!
If neither of them, then what do you think about software copyrights? Take the Linux kernel that's under development since 1991 - when do you think the copyright on it should expire?
If I'm understanding your question correctly each new work is covered by copyright. As time passes the older versions would become public domain after the copyright period expires.
And what would be the period for the software copyright expiration. If 20 years or shorter, an example of what I fear here.
Something more sane, why not observe the Berne Convention, 50 years? I have to say I feel the same way. Although I feel that nobody should be able to successfully claim that multiple different works which were released at seperate times to be identical.
Ah I see, so if you made a million bucks, you wouldn't try to take care of your kids?
Absolutely, with a portion of that million.
Apparently the new logic is that kids are to be cut loose, that you're not supposed to leave anything for them, but rather give 'em the boot, and anything you've saved or produced should not benefit them at all.
How dare you talk about the Baby Boomers in such a way!
If neither of them, then what do you think about software copyrights? Take the Linux kernel that's under development since 1991 - when do you think the copyright on it should expire?
If I'm understanding your question correctly each new work is covered by copyright. As time passes the older versions would become public domain after the copyright period expires.
How dare they provide a free service, that doesn't do exactly what I want!
The Irish aren't special in this regard. Immigrants are viewed with fear and suspicion by portions of the populous!? It's not a thing of the past either see the Turks of Germany, Mexicans (mainly in the US south west), or someone from the middle east. You make it sound like only the Irish have had problems. The new guy "always" gets it. Yay for humanity!
I have no issue with the trademark-laws, and copyright might work out when we have something like GPL
The GPL exists because of copyright. Care to elaborate more?
Sound cards used to be sold because their ability to decode sound was done on the card rather than having the CPU doing it, which would slow down the gaming performance (somewhat).
Ahhh, marketing at its finest hour. You need to buy a $500 3d card AND a $100 audio card to play this $49 game!
Yeah, pretty crazy! You need to buy a PS3 [$599 for the high end when they came out] and a flat screen TV [$799!] just to enjoy a $59.99 game.
Well there is that whole issue of Kaspersky having ties to the Russian mob and him being an ex-KGB. It's also curious that their a/v signatures occasionally get updated for virus's that haven't hit the streets yet. Trust me, there is a reason that this particular software is specifically banned for use within the DOD.
The same DOD involved with a bunch of leaked documents that were snuck out on burned CD-Rs by one of their own? Who can you trust these days...
It's almost like the current generation of web devs haven't even heard the term and to think that graceful degradation was once the cardinal rule in web design.
So it must've been all the coddling that ruined the next generation!
When you use Google services you opt in. It's not some big conspiracy (granted it may be interpreted that way if you don't read what you're agreeing to). Some food for thought: Google's Privacy Policy and TOS. Google is pretty responsible but bugs still creep up.
Grandparent:
(automated data collection, mining, and reporting, OTOH, is neat... hence Google kinda focuses on those things and sort of runs GDocs as a sideshow.
You:
but what makes you think automated data collection, mining and reporting isn't what Google Docs is all about?
What else could he mean by running it as a side show? Why would they run any programs that they don't get anything out of (besides charity)? Since we're pointing out obvious things: Google may be doing the same thing with their email! Maybe that's why they don't charge for it!
Duh, so you don't have to CD swap! *ducks*
which makes working with the documents in an actual publishing setting a fucking nightmare
Using Word .doc files in publishing? Ugh. A few years ago I remember one of the designers having to fiddle with the company sign up form in Word. The process involved several hours. Preserving form field spacing reminded me of untangling knotted christmas lights. I believe this was the case of using the wrong tool for the job.
Do you ever listen to music?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Remind me how that worked for the Blacks and Natives?