many countries unlike the USA, it is explicitly spelled out as legal the downloading of copyrighted music or movies for _private_ _non-comercial_ use. In the Netherlands it is like this
How much of this content is being domestically produced?
Because we can!
Nevermind if it's fair use or illegal. We can enrich the lives of all mankind with a press of a button. Welcome to the 21:st century.
There is no solidly anchored tradition of public funding for the arts in the U.S.
The foundation grant usually goes to projects that are - in the Puritan tradition - worthy and educational but not explicitly "entertaining."
Pixar is profit-driven. No deposit, no return. If you don't buy their product, they simply disappear.
Proctor & Gamble's soap opera "The Guiding Light" will end production in its 72nd year on radio and TV. To put this in perspective, Guiding Light still draws about the same numbers as Battlestar Galactica did in its prime.
Five days a week.
P&G is selling household staples in a recession.
It invented daytime drama.
So who do you think is going to underwrite the next epic prime time sci-fi serial?
Expensive. Risky. Technically demanding.
Knowing that the geek will flood the net with commercial free copies? That there is no hope of recovering your costs now or ever?
We're paying prices which have been the same for ages
Which means that - adjusted for inflation - prices are dramatically lower while production values are dramatically higher.
there were fewer copies of games created (which by the magic of supply and demand means they were probably more expensive to make)
No it doesn't.
Your production budget has to be be based on a realistic projection of future sales. If you want to remain in business.
I remember Atari 2600 games costing about $10-20
You remember wrong.
But even though the cost of making games has increased, the cost of distributing them has dropped drastically. Stamping out DVDs costs pennies and electronic distribution costs even less.
Distribution costs also include marketing costs - advertising. You need cable video. You may even need print.
The retail box has a broader reach than broadband.
We know that MS is getting a new federally funded bridge
Redmond is getting a new bridge and Microsoft is paying half.
Redmond has a population of around 46,000.
Microsoft employs about 30,000 full time workers and owns or leases around 8,000,000 square feet of - presumably taxable - office space in or near the city.
Although FAT is common, if everyone could agree an open alternative, and then encourage hardware manufacturers to provide the necessary drivers to Windows users, then we could finally move forward.
FAT is more than common.
When the talk turns to pocketable media, it is all but universal - and close on to thirty years old.
The HP on your desktop has a 15 in 1 card reader.
2 cartridge slots for HP's USB media drives. 4-6 USB ports "out back" and maybe a Firewire port or two.
So much for getting the hardware manufactures to agree on anything. But what is your compelling argument to move away from FAT?
FAT is a file system for the temporary storage of a keychain drive, digital camera or camcorder.
It needs to be compatible with the PC and the Mac - 99% of your potential market.
But it doesn't have to be particularly sophisticated or robust.
Licensing is capped at $250K - and the patent will, in time, expire.
First, there is no free speech presumption in the UK as there is, for example, in the US.
I don't know that a "free speech presumption" exists in the states.
The constitution frames the argument in terms of actions by the government against the people or the press - originally in the context of a desire for open and unrestrained political debate.
But there has never been a free ride for the irresponsible, the reckless and the malign.
That doesn't help you if your coastal plains had only a small aboriginal population in 1600 - and not the tens or hundreds of millions of people they do now.
NOT ONCE in their SIX THOUSAND YEARS OF RECORDED HISTORY did the ancient Egyptians ever mention all getting drowned in a global flood...
The flood myth can take many forms.
But there are strange echoes of the Biblical tale even here.
The Egyptian flood myth begins with the sun god Ra, who feared that people were going to overthrow him. He sent the goddess Hathor, who was his eye, to punish the people. But she killed so many that their blood, flowing into the Nile River and the ocean, caused a flood. Hathor greedily drank the bloody water. Feeling that things had gone too far, Ra ordered slaves to make a lake of beer, dyed red to look like blood. Hathor drank the beer, became very drunk, and failed to finish the task of wiping out humanity. The survivors of her bloodbath started the human race anew.Floods
The more commercial and expansive the operation becomes the greater the risk for the Swedes. This is not a particularly good time to be alienating your major trading partners.
So ecplain to me why the sterotypically tin-foiled - paranoid - geek - is looking at a VPN service that will be obviously under the gun from the day it launches.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that the only purpose for offering/using a VPN is to engage in copyright infringement.P?
When the service is being offered by Pirate Bay certain assumptions are both reasonable - and inevitable.
Yes, it won't be huge profit, but come on, for such violent and anti-mainstream experiment they got nice cash back. It is 165m (costed 120m), and it is only third week.
165 million gross isn't a 165 million return to the studio.
The problem that I am running into is that most of the software I am finding on the network and on people's computers isn't owned by the company. The person before me would just get it from 'somewhere' and install it on the computers as needed.
You don't know what is out there - how badly your network, systems and files may have been compromised.
You and your employer have to agree that if there is going to be an "IT Guy," there has to be an IT policy.
Slashdot Mirror
How much of this content is being domestically produced?
Nevermind if it's fair use or illegal. We can enrich the lives of all mankind with a press of a button. Welcome to the 21:st century.
There is no solidly anchored tradition of public funding for the arts in the U.S.
The foundation grant usually goes to projects that are - in the Puritan tradition - worthy and educational but not explicitly "entertaining."
Pixar is profit-driven.
No deposit, no return. If you don't buy their product, they simply disappear.
Proctor & Gamble's soap opera "The Guiding Light" will end production in its 72nd year on radio and TV. To put this in perspective, Guiding Light still draws about the same numbers as Battlestar Galactica did in its prime.
Five days a week.
P&G is selling household staples in a recession.
It invented daytime drama.
So who do you think is going to underwrite the next epic prime time sci-fi serial?
Expensive. Risky. Technically demanding.
Knowing that the geek will flood the net with commercial free copies? That there is no hope of recovering your costs now or ever?
We're paying prices which have been the same for ages
Which means that - adjusted for inflation - prices are dramatically lower while production values are dramatically higher.
there were fewer copies of games created (which by the magic of supply and demand means they were probably more expensive to make)
No it doesn't.
Your production budget has to be be based on a realistic projection of future sales. If you want to remain in business.
I remember Atari 2600 games costing about $10-20
You remember wrong.
But even though the cost of making games has increased, the cost of distributing them has dropped drastically. Stamping out DVDs costs pennies and electronic distribution costs even less.
Distribution costs also include marketing costs - advertising. You need cable video. You may even need print.
The retail box has a broader reach than broadband.
Initially modded up to +2, Informative.
Free is worth 1% of the desktop as viewed from the web. Operating System Market Share
Free wins two HP "Mobile Internet" netbooks a ride on the Walmart.com Linux merry-go-round.
Here today, gone tomorrow. Not available in stores.
Pricing is a wash.
$20 more or $20 less than the bog standard Windows netbook with a gig of RAM and a 160 GB HDD.
Not a clue to what distro is installed, what software is available, what peripherals are supported.
Don't forget to write.
This is symptomatic of a failure to listen to the user, to understand his needs and values.
Apple and Microsoft have been in this game for over thirty years and it shows.
They know that "free" doesn't convey a sense of value.
They know that the geek isn't their market.
The decision-makers in business, government, and the military are their market. Small business. The home.
It is their itches and pains that matter. Not yours.
Redmond is getting a new bridge and Microsoft is paying half.
Redmond has a population of around 46,000.
Microsoft employs about 30,000 full time workers and owns or leases around 8,000,000 square feet of - presumably taxable - office space in or near the city.
But are there millions of programmers who do not speak English?
Is it even sensible to claim that there are millions of programmers at all?
The geek lives within a world that is in some ways as self-contained and self-absorbed as the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church.
I think I can safely say that Slashdot will be running on empty for at least the next twenty-four hours.
The license for FAT was capped at $250K in 2003.
FAT is more than common.
When the talk turns to pocketable media, it is all but universal - and close on to thirty years old.
The HP on your desktop has a 15 in 1 card reader.
2 cartridge slots for HP's USB media drives. 4-6 USB ports "out back" and maybe a Firewire port or two.
So much for getting the hardware manufactures to agree on anything. But what is your compelling argument to move away from FAT?
FAT is a file system for the temporary storage of a keychain drive, digital camera or camcorder.
It needs to be compatible with the PC and the Mac - 99% of your potential market.
But it doesn't have to be particularly sophisticated or robust.
Licensing is capped at $250K - and the patent will, in time, expire.
There are no show-stoppers.
First, there is no free speech presumption in the UK as there is, for example, in the US.
I don't know that a "free speech presumption" exists in the states.
The constitution frames the argument in terms of actions by the government against the people or the press - originally in the context of a desire for open and unrestrained political debate.
But there has never been a free ride for the irresponsible, the reckless and the malign.
This rounds things off nicely:
Friends do assist M$ addicted friends in committing suicide.
That doesn't help you if your coastal plains had only a small aboriginal population in 1600 - and not the tens or hundreds of millions of people they do now.
The HP TouchSmart Computer has been around for quite some time now.
I mean, letting everyone think it was a touch screen, when in reality it uses several cameras down below the glass to track motion
The glass can be a sheet of plastic cut into any size or shape you want. The surface can probably be textured or molded - three dimensional.
It can be scratched, burnt or stained - and a DIY replacement purchased from Home Depot.
The cameras and rear projection optics are off-the-shelf.
Dump the 300 hr lamp and color wheels for LED or laser projection and you good to go for the next five to ten years.
These are things you want if you want to use touch surfaces architecturally or in extreme environments.
The camera can read bar codes.
The camera doesn't really need you to "touch" anything.
You're handing out some of the letters, more or less randomly - just in a framework that they can all be put together in.
The same could be said of be said of any form of communication across the Internet.
The framework exists,
The pieces of the puzzle will come together.
The geek knows this perfectly well.
He is - after all - the guy who designs the systems and software that makes it happen.
So don't try peddling this bull shit to a judge.
The flood myth can take many forms.
But there are strange echoes of the Biblical tale even here.
The Egyptian flood myth begins with the sun god Ra, who feared that people were going to overthrow him. He sent the goddess Hathor, who was his eye, to punish the people. But she killed so many that their blood, flowing into the Nile River and the ocean, caused a flood. Hathor greedily drank the bloody water. Feeling that things had gone too far, Ra ordered slaves to make a lake of beer, dyed red to look like blood. Hathor drank the beer, became very drunk, and failed to finish the task of wiping out humanity. The survivors of her bloodbath started the human race anew. Floods
Let's cut through the crap here.
There is a reason they call it Pirate Bay.
The more commercial and expansive the operation becomes the greater the risk for the Swedes. This is not a particularly good time to be alienating your major trading partners.
So ecplain to me why the sterotypically tin-foiled - paranoid - geek - is looking at a VPN service that will be obviously under the gun from the day it launches.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that the only purpose for offering/using a VPN is to engage in copyright infringement.P? When the service is being offered by Pirate Bay certain assumptions are both reasonable - and inevitable.
I'd say that would depend on how many hummers there are out there.
The deer hunter on the abandoned logging road isn't the problem. 40,000 BMWs on the commute into L.A. is the problem.
Adolescent and irresponsible. 500 pounds of ammonium nitrate. What were they thinking?
165 million gross isn't a 165 million return to the studio.
Red Hat has credibility - and relevance - in the business world precisely because it thinks in terms of profit and loss.
Is storage space really that "precious" anymore?
Genuine question.
The decoder is first generation.
I'd like the option of spinning off an occasional low-fi copy.
But as I grow older, I've find myself less willing to accept the second-rate.
I find that my time has become precious. That I am no longer willing to invest it in nursing P2P downloads that are not worth saving.
Replace it all with OSS.
It's just one guy.
Back Office. Help Desk.
Everything outside. Everything in between.
Three-quarters of your clerical staff are temps trained in MS Office. Fully 100% of the local labor pool is trained and experienced in MS Office.
Today is Tuesday.
Production reports and forecasts are due by the close of business on Thursday.
You do the math.
You don't know what is out there - how badly your network, systems and files may have been compromised.
You and your employer have to agree that if there is going to be an "IT Guy," there has to be an IT policy.
Installations must be approved.
Budgeted. Documented. Licensed. Maintained.