I'm glad they decided to stand up for their students.
so instead of a "head's up" from the school the students get a notice of pending legal action and less time to negotiate a settlement or prepare a defense.
a good parent tries to discipline their kids before handing them over to the legal system for pirating a few bucks worth of thoughtless major label tunes.
this argument doesn't fly with a judge or a jury when your playlist looks stronger than the Clear Channel outlets in New York, Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth.
p2p implies uploading files to ten thousand or so of your closest friends on the net - it is the unlimited, unlicensed, re-distribution of copyrighted content that will kill you in court.
There'll be a dozen shopfront computer stores advertising pre-built computer systems. They build them in their backrooms and sell them to local families and businesse
It may be different in Australia...
The storefront builders are as defunct as the dodo here.
They are not to be found in the phone book. They are not advertising in the metro news or the local shopping papers. They have long since disappeared from the bulletin boards at the neighborhood mini-marts.
The shift to the laptop may have been the finish.
But the market for PCs in the states has always been strongest at mid-line and not at the bottom - and at the bottom you are competing with Vista at WalMart's OEM price, and at mid-line with HP and Dell.
I don't believe Manhunt 2 is considered pornography in the common interpretation of what pr0n is.
Pornograhy
Main Entry: pornography
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek pornographos, adjective, writing about prostitutes, from pornE prostitute + graphein to write; akin to Greek pernanai to sell, poros journey -- more at FARE, CARVE
1 : the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement
2 : material (as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement
3 : the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction [the pornography of violence]
Since Microsoft allows piracy, can the company lose its copyright?
The copyright owner can distribute his work under whatever terms he damn well pleases. It is constitutionally derived property right. It is not a trade or service mark that has to be defended against all comers.
For years, local computer stores carried to office suite alternatives
And for at least the past decade MS has offered a home office suite priced at around $100. Cureently MS Home and Student 2007, retail boxed, three seat license, is $122 at Amazon.com.
Word Perfect faded even as it began appearing as the free - default - OEM office suite.
In a lengthy editorial, BusinessWeek advocates allowing users in China and India to pirate Microsoft software so that it can obtain the same level of market share there as it has in the US and Europe.
Microsoft owns the Chinese market.
Today Gates openly concedes that tolerating piracy turned out to be Microsoft's best long-term strategy. That's why Windows is used on an estimated 90% of China's 120 million PCs. "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," Gates says. "Are you kidding? You can get the real thing, and you get the same price." Indeed, in China's back alleys, Linux often costs more than Windows because it requires more disks. And Microsoft's own prices have dropped so low it now sells a $3 package of Windows and Office to students.
Microsoft's China strategy is clearly paying off. More than 24 million PCs will be sold this year, adding to the 120 million already in place. Although the company's China revenues average no more than $7 for every PC in use (compared with $100 to $200 in developed countries), Gates says those figures will eventually converge. "What we have here is not about me, and it's not about where President Hu went to dinner. It's a relationship, where we've really found a way of doing things together that will generate a substantial part of Microsoft's growth in the next decade. I don't know any company in the IT industry where things have worked out as well as they have for Microsoft."
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Mr. Bill Gates! Mr. Bill Gates!" a young woman shrieks as the black car pulls up. A pallid student in a nylon windbreaker pushes his way through the security line and hands the world's richest man a small envelope with a floral design. "It's very important," he pants.
Another day in China, another round of adulation. Today the Microsoft chairman is being named an honorary trustee of Peking University. Yesterday it was an honorary doctorate from Beijing's Tsinghua University - the 13th in the school's 82-year history. Gates, wearing the same lopsided grin he has had on his face for the past few days, takes the envelope from the young man. For him this is a triumphant visit to China, a victory lap of sorts, on which I've been invited to tag along. The country is his.
No other Fortune 500 CEO gets quite the same treatment in China. While most would count themselves lucky to talk with one of China's top leaders, Gates will meet with four members of the Politburo on this four-day April trip. As one government leader put it while introducing Gates at a business conference, the Microsoft chairman is "bigger in China than any movie star." Last spring President Hu Jintao toured the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., and was feted at a dinner at Gates' home. "You are a friend to the Chinese people, and I am a friend of Microsoft," Hu told his host. "Every morning I go to my office and use your software.
Tipper and Hillary don't really know what a PC is so games for the PC go unnoticed.
The stateside market for AO games on the PC is insignificant. The number of PC games released stateside under an AO rating is insignificant. List of AO-rated products
...and realize there is a huge market out there for a console that will allow AO games? Why does the entire industry push forward this notion that video games are played primarily by children?
Pornography in all its forms is fundamentally an adolescent obsession. Nintendo has proven that you don't need buckets of blood to draw adults - of all ages - into video gaming.
Blogger goes to jail. Country remains strangled in the death grip of Islam and Monarchy.
Blow some shit up and kill some government types. Monarchy over thrown. Reference: American Revolution.
There were Loyalists who were maltreated, Loyalists who lost property and the privileges of office. Loyalists driven into exile. But no Terror as the French came to know it.
The monarchy was 3500 miles distant.
In 150 years of settlement at least 1/3 of the population was descended from exiles - not all of them willing = but none of them with any great attachment to the existing social order - religious dissidents, criminals, bonded servants.
Currently about $700 million USD or 1.5% of global sales.
Today Gates openly concedes that tolerating piracy turned out to be Microsoft's best long-term strategy. That's why Windows is used on an estimated 90% of China's 120 million PCs. "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," Gates says. "Are you kidding? You can get the real thing, and you get the same price." Indeed, in China's back alleys, Linux often costs more than Windows because it requires more disks. And Microsoft's own prices have dropped so low it now sells a $3 package of Windows and Office to students.
Microsoft's China strategy is clearly paying off. More than 24 million PCs will be sold this year, adding to the 120 million already in place. Although the company's China revenues average no more than $7 for every PC in use (compared with $100 to $200 in developed countries), Gates says those figures will eventually converge. "What we have here is not about me, and it's not about where President Hu went to dinner. It's a relationship, where we've really found a way of doing things together that will generate a substantial part of Microsoft's growth in the next decade. I don't know any company in the IT industry where things have worked out as well as they have for Microsoft."
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As Mencius wrote, in a world without walls or fences, who needs windows or gates?
China.
Mr. Bill Gates! Mr. Bill Gates!" a young woman shrieks as the black car pulls up. A pallid student in a nylon windbreaker pushes his way through the security line and hands the world's richest man a small envelope with a floral design. "It's very important," he pants.
Another day in China, another round of adulation. Today the Microsoft chairman is being named an honorary trustee of Peking University. Yesterday it was an honorary doctorate from Beijing's Tsinghua University - the 13th in the school's 82-year history. Gates, wearing the same lopsided grin he has had on his face for the past few days, takes the envelope from the young man. For him this is a triumphant visit to China, a victory lap of sorts, on which I've been invited to tag along. The country is his.
No other Fortune 500 CEO gets quite the same treatment in China. While most would count themselves lucky to talk with one of China's top leaders, Gates will meet with four members of the Politburo on this four-day April trip. As one government leader put it while introducing Gates at a business conference, the Microsoft chairman is "bigger in China than any movie star." Last spring President Hu Jintao toured the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., and was feted at a dinner at Gates' home. "You are a friend to the Chinese people, and I am a friend of Microsoft," Hu told his host. "Every morning I go to my office and use your software.
But that is the fallacy of such an argument. They say that the software traded has a value of $500 million, but the truth is that this is the value placed on it at western RRP prices. The true value of the software is much closer to the actual revenues that the pirates derive.
So when my house is stripped and my car is stolen, I am only entitled to a recovery at the thieves' market price?
And it's not a problem of performance; It's a question of politics. We have to convince enough software vendors to start coding in a cross-platform language/way.
The commercial developer isn't interested in politics. He is interested in sales.
Windows is 95% of the desktop market.
OSX running Boot Camp and Linux running WINE skims the cream of what remains - at no added cost.
Been using it as a desktop since 96, and have several friends who've been using it as a desktop for more than 5 years. Even my girlfriend uses it as a desktop now, and had only 1 day to "convert" to the usage, and she's not that computer savvy.
I've seen estimates of Windows on the desktop that begin at 300 million. Three generations in my family have been running MSDOS and Windows exclusively for twenty-seven years.
"Linux on the Desktop" means mass-market adoption, if it means anything at all.
FYI, Britanicca is not a collection of popular culture or slang terms. It is an encyclopedia.
I have made something of a hobby of collecting old sets of the Britannica and the Britannica Book of the Year, in print since 1938.
The Britannica can be very revealing about pop culture.
The strength of the Britannica has always been that it tends to go with primary sources - if the subject is Relativity, the author will be Albert Einstein.
The cartoonist Al Capp contributed an early essay on the decline of humor in the comic strip with the rise of the darker hued serial adventures like Dick Tracy - and how he came to fuse broad comedy with serial story-telling in L'll Abner.
It is this kind of "front line" cultural reporting that you are probably not going to get from the Wikipedia.
For example I love old newspaper strips from the turn of the century to the Great Depression. They're endlessly fascinating, ofen very well written and draw you into a world that is very similar yet completely different than our own. They're also incredibly difficult to find, even some of the ones that were enormously popular (like Buster Brown or Mutt and Jeff), and there is almost nil written about them.
An astonishing number of classic comic strips have been or are being reprinted in full: Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Popeye, Terry and the Pirates; a good place to begin searching is Bud Plant Comic Art
Of course Vista's market share is rising; it just came out and people are forced to upgrade when they buy new machines.
Users aren't being "forced" to upgrade. They go into the market eyes-wide-open shopping for the best new bundle of hardware and software at OEM prices.
DX 10 Video. The dual or quad core CPU. The 500 GB hybrid hard drive.
Seriously, ALMOST beating OS X's 6% market share when you are a predatory monopolist who has been cramming Vista down vendor's throats for six+ months now isn't something to be proud of.
You can't cram anything down Walmart's throat.
When entry-level Vista Basic displaces OEM Linux at Walmart it is because Windows sells and Linus tanks and for no other reason.
Apple - no longer Apple Computer - has an unmatched hype machine and a fanatically loyal base. But its twenty-seven year run against Microsoft has ended in Boot Camp and a 4% market share.
You also have lots of folks buying a new Windows box when their old one "becomes slow" because of malware.
To me this has the flavor of an urban legend. The only PCs I've seen at curbside in this upper middle-class suburb have been the Packard Bells of the mid-90s.
Vista will grow in share as there are bazillions of consumers that are running older versions of Windows and have a compulsion to "upgrade". Mac OSX doesnt.
which perfectly explains why Apple releases a pricey and profitable upgrade to OSX every eighteen months or so.
Assuming that the average person buys a new PC every 4 years (actual stats suggest the refresh rates are faster than this) and gets Vista with a new PC, Vista penetration should be at about 11% right now
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Vista entered the [consumer] market January 31st. You were expecting an 11% share in less than six months?
To put this in perspective:
Vista 3.0% in June Up From 0.0% in January 2007
Linux 3.4% in June Up From 2.7% in January 2004 OS Platform Stats
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The Vista system sold in January was a warmed-over XP box. Not a "new" PC at all.
"Destined-For Vista" systems like HP's Vista Premium TouchSmart PC and the Vista Ultimate DX10 Pavilion Laptop with HD-DVD and 340 GB HDD began reaching the market only late this spring.
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Vista missed the prime Back-to-School and Christmas shopping seasons in 2006. This year OEM Vista will be on the shelves with Windows Home Server which went gold {RTM] about a week or so back.
The lawyers I've known have been careful about the language they use - the language they quote. The polemic you link to strikes me as singularly adolescent and inflammatory. It will fire up the crowd. Of that much I am sure. But it doesn't tell me what I need to know.
Rowling caught the wave of popular opinion and surfed it to fame and riches; her books do not represent anything out of the ordinary for the genre (fantasy) or the audience (middle-grade). They're entertaining works, but they only live in the house that Tolkien (and some of his contemporaries) built.
The female is all but non-existent in Tolkien's world.
There is a kind of abhorrence that a woman might be compelled to directly engage the evil which surrounds her.
Tolkien ideal is the structured pre-industrial - pre-war - society of rural England.
Rowling's world is as ramshackle, crowded and intensely vital as Dicken's London - or more properly the England that would emerge from the Blitz.
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so instead of a "head's up" from the school the students get a notice of pending legal action and less time to negotiate a settlement or prepare a defense.
a good parent tries to discipline their kids before handing them over to the legal system for pirating a few bucks worth of thoughtless major label tunes.
this argument doesn't fly with a judge or a jury when your playlist looks stronger than the Clear Channel outlets in New York, Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth.
p2p implies uploading files to ten thousand or so of your closest friends on the net - it is the unlimited, unlicensed, re-distribution of copyrighted content that will kill you in court.
It may be different in Australia...
The storefront builders are as defunct as the dodo here.
They are not to be found in the phone book. They are not advertising in the metro news or the local shopping papers. They have long since disappeared from the bulletin boards at the neighborhood mini-marts.
The shift to the laptop may have been the finish.
But the market for PCs in the states has always been strongest at mid-line and not at the bottom - and at the bottom you are competing with Vista at WalMart's OEM price, and at mid-line with HP and Dell.
Pornograhy
Main Entry: pornography
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek pornographos, adjective, writing about prostitutes, from pornE prostitute + graphein to write; akin to Greek pernanai to sell, poros journey -- more at FARE, CARVE
1 : the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement
2 : material (as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement
3 : the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction [the pornography of violence]
Merriam-Webster
The copyright owner can distribute his work under whatever terms he damn well pleases. It is constitutionally derived property right. It is not a trade or service mark that has to be defended against all comers.
For years, local computer stores carried to office suite alternatives
And for at least the past decade MS has offered a home office suite priced at around $100. Cureently MS Home and Student 2007, retail boxed, three seat license, is $122 at Amazon.com.
Word Perfect faded even as it began appearing as the free - default - OEM office suite.
Microsoft owns the Chinese market.
Today Gates openly concedes that tolerating piracy turned out to be Microsoft's best long-term strategy. That's why Windows is used on an estimated 90% of China's 120 million PCs. "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," Gates says. "Are you kidding? You can get the real thing, and you get the same price." Indeed, in China's back alleys, Linux often costs more than Windows because it requires more disks. And Microsoft's own prices have dropped so low it now sells a $3 package of Windows and Office to students.
Microsoft's China strategy is clearly paying off. More than 24 million PCs will be sold this year, adding to the 120 million already in place. Although the company's China revenues average no more than $7 for every PC in use (compared with $100 to $200 in developed countries), Gates says those figures will eventually converge. "What we have here is not about me, and it's not about where President Hu went to dinner. It's a relationship, where we've really found a way of doing things together that will generate a substantial part of Microsoft's growth in the next decade. I don't know any company in the IT industry where things have worked out as well as they have for Microsoft."
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Mr. Bill Gates! Mr. Bill Gates!" a young woman shrieks as the black car pulls up. A pallid student in a nylon windbreaker pushes his way through the security line and hands the world's richest man a small envelope with a floral design. "It's very important," he pants.
Another day in China, another round of adulation. Today the Microsoft chairman is being named an honorary trustee of Peking University. Yesterday it was an honorary doctorate from Beijing's Tsinghua University - the 13th in the school's 82-year history. Gates, wearing the same lopsided grin he has had on his face for the past few days, takes the envelope from the young man. For him this is a triumphant visit to China, a victory lap of sorts, on which I've been invited to tag along. The country is his.
No other Fortune 500 CEO gets quite the same treatment in China. While most would count themselves lucky to talk with one of China's top leaders, Gates will meet with four members of the Politburo on this four-day April trip. As one government leader put it while introducing Gates at a business conference, the Microsoft chairman is "bigger in China than any movie star." Last spring President Hu Jintao toured the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., and was feted at a dinner at Gates' home. "You are a friend to the Chinese people, and I am a friend of Microsoft," Hu told his host. "Every morning I go to my office and use your software.
How Microsoft conquered China [July 17, 2007]
The stateside market for AO games on the PC is insignificant. The number of PC games released stateside under an AO rating is insignificant. List of AO-rated products
The chains are free to decide what they want to sell. Don't like it. Build your own.
Why does the entire industry push forward this notion that video games are played primarily by children?
Pornography in all its forms is fundamentally an adolescent obsession. Nintendo has proven that you don't need buckets of blood to draw adults - of all ages - into video gaming.
Maybe the retailers have grown balls and decided they don't want to service a torture porn market in video gaming.
Maybe it is time you grew up and began asking what real adults want to see in gaming. You might just discover that disembowelment isn't the answer.
Ford sold their tractor division to Fiat Agri in 1993. History of Ford Farm Tractors
It makes you a blasphemer, for which the traditional punishment under Islamic law is death.
There were Loyalists who were maltreated, Loyalists who lost property and the privileges of office. Loyalists driven into exile. But no Terror as the French came to know it.
The monarchy was 3500 miles distant.
In 150 years of settlement at least 1/3 of the population was descended from exiles - not all of them willing = but none of them with any great attachment to the existing social order - religious dissidents, criminals, bonded servants.
Currently about $700 million USD or 1.5% of global sales.
Today Gates openly concedes that tolerating piracy turned out to be Microsoft's best long-term strategy. That's why Windows is used on an estimated 90% of China's 120 million PCs. "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," Gates says. "Are you kidding? You can get the real thing, and you get the same price." Indeed, in China's back alleys, Linux often costs more than Windows because it requires more disks. And Microsoft's own prices have dropped so low it now sells a $3 package of Windows and Office to students.
Microsoft's China strategy is clearly paying off. More than 24 million PCs will be sold this year, adding to the 120 million already in place. Although the company's China revenues average no more than $7 for every PC in use (compared with $100 to $200 in developed countries), Gates says those figures will eventually converge. "What we have here is not about me, and it's not about where President Hu went to dinner. It's a relationship, where we've really found a way of doing things together that will generate a substantial part of Microsoft's growth in the next decade. I don't know any company in the IT industry where things have worked out as well as they have for Microsoft."
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As Mencius wrote, in a world without walls or fences, who needs windows or gates?
China.
Mr. Bill Gates! Mr. Bill Gates!" a young woman shrieks as the black car pulls up. A pallid student in a nylon windbreaker pushes his way through the security line and hands the world's richest man a small envelope with a floral design. "It's very important," he pants.
Another day in China, another round of adulation. Today the Microsoft chairman is being named an honorary trustee of Peking University. Yesterday it was an honorary doctorate from Beijing's Tsinghua University - the 13th in the school's 82-year history. Gates, wearing the same lopsided grin he has had on his face for the past few days, takes the envelope from the young man. For him this is a triumphant visit to China, a victory lap of sorts, on which I've been invited to tag along. The country is his.
No other Fortune 500 CEO gets quite the same treatment in China. While most would count themselves lucky to talk with one of China's top leaders, Gates will meet with four members of the Politburo on this four-day April trip. As one government leader put it while introducing Gates at a business conference, the Microsoft chairman is "bigger in China than any movie star." Last spring President Hu Jintao toured the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., and was feted at a dinner at Gates' home. "You are a friend to the Chinese people, and I am a friend of Microsoft," Hu told his host. "Every morning I go to my office and use your software.
How Microsoft conquered China [July 17, 2007]
So when my house is stripped and my car is stolen, I am only entitled to a recovery at the thieves' market price?
The five-fingered discount.
You have a promising career in claims adjustment.
The commercial developer isn't interested in politics. He is interested in sales.
Windows is 95% of the desktop market.
OSX running Boot Camp and Linux running WINE skims the cream of what remains - at no added cost.
I've seen estimates of Windows on the desktop that begin at 300 million. Three generations in my family have been running MSDOS and Windows exclusively for twenty-seven years.
"Linux on the Desktop" means mass-market adoption, if it means anything at all.
I have made something of a hobby of collecting old sets of the Britannica and the Britannica Book of the Year, in print since 1938.
The Britannica can be very revealing about pop culture.
The strength of the Britannica has always been that it tends to go with primary sources - if the subject is Relativity, the author will be Albert Einstein.
The cartoonist Al Capp contributed an early essay on the decline of humor in the comic strip with the rise of the darker hued serial adventures like Dick Tracy - and how he came to fuse broad comedy with serial story-telling in L'll Abner.
It is this kind of "front line" cultural reporting that you are probably not going to get from the Wikipedia.
The Early Years of MUTT & JEFF (Forever Nuts: Classic Screwball Strips)
Walt and Skeezix: Book Three
Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip
An astonishing number of classic comic strips have been or are being reprinted in full: Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Popeye, Terry and the Pirates; a good place to begin searching is Bud Plant Comic Art
Don't overlook the remainder stock at Edward R. Hamilton.
Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips Vol. 1: "Into the Wild Blue Wonder" $20
Users aren't being "forced" to upgrade. They go into the market eyes-wide-open shopping for the best new bundle of hardware and software at OEM prices.
DX 10 Video. The dual or quad core CPU. The 500 GB hybrid hard drive.
You can't cram anything down Walmart's throat.
When entry-level Vista Basic displaces OEM Linux at Walmart it is because Windows sells and Linus tanks and for no other reason.
Apple - no longer Apple Computer - has an unmatched hype machine and a fanatically loyal base. But its twenty-seven year run against Microsoft has ended in Boot Camp and a 4% market share.
To me this has the flavor of an urban legend. The only PCs I've seen at curbside in this upper middle-class suburb have been the Packard Bells of the mid-90s.
which perfectly explains why Apple releases a pricey and profitable upgrade to OSX every eighteen months or so.
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Vista entered the [consumer] market January 31st.
You were expecting an 11% share in less than six months?
To put this in perspective:
Vista 3.0% in June Up From 0.0% in January 2007
Linux 3.4% in June Up From 2.7% in January 2004 OS Platform Stats
2
The Vista system sold in January was a warmed-over XP box. Not a "new" PC at all.
"Destined-For Vista" systems like HP's Vista Premium TouchSmart PC and the Vista Ultimate DX10 Pavilion Laptop with HD-DVD and 340 GB HDD began reaching the market only late this spring.
3
Vista missed the prime Back-to-School and Christmas shopping seasons in 2006. This year OEM Vista will be on the shelves with Windows Home Server which went gold {RTM] about a week or so back.
The lawyers I've known have been careful about the language they use - the language they quote. The polemic you link to strikes me as singularly adolescent and inflammatory. It will fire up the crowd. Of that much I am sure. But it doesn't tell me what I need to know.
The female is all but non-existent in Tolkien's world.
There is a kind of abhorrence that a woman might be compelled to directly engage the evil which surrounds her.
Tolkien ideal is the structured pre-industrial - pre-war - society of rural England.
Rowling's world is as ramshackle, crowded and intensely vital as Dicken's London - or more properly the England that would emerge from the Blitz.