Well, the islamic system is quite fair in this sense. You steal, they chop off your hand. Only way for this to be unfair is not to have hands, but I guess that would make stealing a bit difficult...
As a side note you might be interested to know that I have witnessed previously mentioned rich brat^H^H^H respectable gentleman doing way over the allowed speed limit in his BMW convertible a week or two ago so it's not like he learned anything more than Bill did from the "incredibly high fine" he got.
That would be us Finns. Most fines are based on your yearly income. This still gets circulated and I don't think it's still quite right. Think about it: Bill Gates losing, say, ten days worth of income would flinch. Maybe. If even that. Someone who earns $1500 a month before taxes would not like to lose $500 in fines. To Bill it's a matter of the newspapers writing about record fines. To Joe Cubicle it's a matter of eating porridge and tuna & rice for a month. Nobody writing articles about that.
I think at least Norway has a somewhat similar system to ours at least on some fines. There are other countries I'm sure.
Like this $800000 fine with Bill, most laws like that still amount to a slap on the wrist even if the slap is a bit bigger than using the same fine for everyone.
Erm... I don't know about other cars but at least when buying an Alfa Romeo you get tires rated somewhere to the 2xx KPH speeds. Now, the argument for stock tires must be that since it's illegal to drive faster than 120 KPH anywhere in this country you probably won't be needing tires rated over that. Logical, huh?
This situation may - or, indeed, may not - be different in Germany, where you are allowed to drive as fast as you like on them big roads (Highways? Motorways? something like that anyway)
Someone mentioned insurances. Must be hell on the insurance company. Then again, they'd probably just rip the price of both car and boat insurance as it's likely anyone who has the $$$ to buy one of these won't complain.
Now if they only made a flying car and I won the lottery...
you'll have to buy those infernal memory sticks instead if you wanna buy the recording?
I think CD or DVD are my preferred concert recording medias. I can compress them any which way I like afterwards. The last concert I saw was such that I would have liked to apply the physical kind of compression directly on the artist, though. R. Williams if you must know and yes, because the missus wanted to and yes, I was the dolt paying for it, thank you very much. Took 6 hours of AC/DC at high volumes and innumerable beers to recover.
You have a valid point there. But that exact same problem surely applies to smartphones equally. It's not like Nokia can miraculously do something that PalmOne and Sony can't.
Battery life would be extended much more by disabling the smartphone/PDA functionality. The screen and the processor are the biggest power users afaik. I might be wrong, though, so better find someone else to quote on this.
They don't? Why are they selling bluetooth SDIO cards, then? Have a look here
It just is cheaper to buy a PDA with bluespoon built in than to pay through your nose for the SDIO card, unless you happen to have a used to be high end PDA that you absolutely want to have connected to something.
Other options are available as extras as well, such as cameras, WiFi-cards here and lotsa other stuff.
7 models is too many? Why, then, is Sony making so many different models of Clie? Why are cars sold in so many different models and configurations? Have you noticed how many different types of laptops you can buy these days? Nokia and competitors are offering way over 7 different models of cellphones all the time. Variety has a definite plus side: you can buy the one that suits your needs best. I would welcome a new cellphone that doesn't have games, calculators, multitudes of ringtones, background images and all that. I don't see why I need a color display to make a phone call or to receive one.
I think Palm is finally getting to the point where they are trying to give people what they want, meaning a choise. If you want a PDA with a camera inbuilt, you can get it but if you don't and all that.
I think PDA:s will never reach the main-stream and may very well have seen their peak as consumer products.
Why would you say that? You might as easily say PDAs will eventually replace cellphones. They're already making PalmOs cellphones (the Treo 600 to mention one, have a look) and to me it makes more sense to have a PDA/cellphone than, say, a Nokia Communicator. I like the Palm way of doing things and have had a Palm for years so I guess I am biased.
To think they couldn't keep up with Nokia et al may be justified. That remains to be seen. I sure hope they will, because for most my needs Palm has been the right answer and Nokia most certainly has not.
I know PDAs are not selling as much as cellphones. But they ARE selling better than smartphones at the moment I think. To me that says people want a phone that is not too smart and prefer to use a PDA for stuff like that.
I don't get it. Nuclear energy: bad, because it can be misused. Cameras that help police fight crime: bad, because of potential big brother issues. Freedom to carry a gun everywhere: ???
If you want to go down the road of "can be misused" would you mind telling me why people are allowed to own cars anymore? Cars pollute. Cars kill!
Almost everything can be misused. Would you people really rather have no cameras and the knowledge the person next to you could very well be on a getaway trip from a bank robbery with a stolen car and that he has a badass shotgun inside his jacket? (ok, this was Florida, inside his shorts, then) Could you guys try to see that this might, in fact, be beneficial as well and not an automatic doomsday vision of 1984
Wouldn't it be much easier to get a bunch of false or stolen license plates instead? No way you get ID'd if the plate says it's a red 1982 Pinto belonging to a Utah salesman... unless you are, indeed, one. Brilliant, eh? Think I should patent this novel idea?
I don't know why parent is modded funny. Probably because there is no "sad but true"-modifier. Even in Europe DRM has gained foothold all the time. There is no way Media Companies with yearly budgets as big as a small country's will give up on their income even if it means twisting the arms and greasing the palms of a few politicians.
It would take some doing, but what would be the ideal solution (in my opinion) is to stop buying stuff from them. Get independent books, independent records etc that have no such restrictions. If the milk bottle you grab in the grocery store tries to restrict the ways you can use the milk, you don't buy the milk (ok, so you ignore the label and buy it anyway, which is what happens with CDs and DVDs, too)
What this has to do with Turbolinux is that if you feel the decisions done with it are wrong, don't buy it. I won't.
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It's $12.5 billion going in, $200 million going out. Which means they've wasted more than 59/60th of the value.
What value is that, exactly? I just checked, and the price for www.lyyyycos.com would be $200 for 10 years (pricecheck done here, there are lots of others) so the way I see it, they haven't wasted value. They have started with a hugely inflated value which is now gradually nearing the boundaries of the real world (if there, indeed, is such a thing)
"No, honestly, it's just a very, very long email encrypted with the, umm, new rar-encrypter that just coincidentally opens into executables with this other program that also happens to be called rar"
Then again, O.J. Simpson was declared innocent and Georgey-boy is still president after not really having a justification to attack Iraq so stranger things have happened.
To get back to the topic of big email for free, though, I guess you can calculate it like this: Most people won't use even close to the max quota allowed. (Assesment based on scientific Stetson-Harrison method. Or possibly not even that)
Let's assume 100M of quota used per user. This would mean your average 100 Gig SCSI-disk is enough for about 1000 users. Let's assume some sort of waste due to RAID so it'll be like 700 users per disk. Let's further assume about a $500 price tag per disk.That'd mean a final price of under $1 per user (plus of course bandwidth, which I guess would raise it to about $1 per user, using the same aforementioned Stetson-Harrison method)
Now, I have no idea how to calculate ad prices and Google was not a big help (or then I was lazy again) but I would assume that the auctions in Spymac bring in some revenue and the bigger your user base, the bigger your revenue (very surprising, eh?) To me it doesn't sound unreasonable to assume that your average user creates $1 worth of profit in a year's time. Then again, the Stetson-Harrison method is not quite scientific enough for me to start a business based on this model but what else is new?
Why would you want a device with 20GB storage in it if you only have a battery life of 13 hours? Using the scientific and incredibly complex formula 1Mb equals 1min you come to roughly 60Mb per hour or 13 * 60 = 780Mb per charge. Ok, it's nice to have some choise but to me that means you get to play roughly 5% of your disk before you run out of juice.
I got me a Palm with AeroPlayer and my 256M SD is just about right for the TT battery. I would believe that for 13 hours of charge a 1G flash chip would be ideal. I guess everyone has their opinion on this and recording sure is a plus. That 100mbit ethernet and webserver sure sound nice. Hmm... Now that I think of it, maybe it's a neat gizmo after all. Now where to cough up the doe for it? =)
Ever looked inside a hard drive? The stuff inside is not that hard to damage, either. This is why it's meant to be kept inside. I would imagine the same principle applies to paper drives.
That SOOO reminds me of "Beavis & Butt-Head discover a new species of butterfly... and pull it's wings off"
to answer your question, though, it's simple. No-one will take a FPS game seriously unless it's got lots of metal, dark foreboding and a plot that begins with "xyzzy has taken over the world..." or something very similar. Try selling a FPS with a plot like "lovely butterflies are flittering about peacefully and you with your butterfly collection kit must collect as many different samples as you can without disturbing the ecosystem seriously"
Seriously, though, I seem to recall something mentioned in the books about the smallness of the puppeteer ears, something about evolution making sure they wouldn't get stuck anywhere or something. I could be wrong, it's not a bible to me or anything. Wouldn't be the first time they completely ignored the original book and just went on ahead anyway.
Ah yes, so in order to be contacted in case there's a problem with your code you will give out an address you don't primarily use? I think this is what Micro$oft troubleshooting team has done. But this is already way off topic so I'll stop now.
Haven't you ever heard of price fixing? This should be something along the same lines;)
From the beginning of CD times, the price to manufacture a CD record has gone down all the time. Yet I haven't witnessed a single price drop in CD prices. Somehow the laws of supply and demand don't work in the record industry and I fail to see how this is not a monopoly/cartel. Think about it: Same companies all over the world. About the same price levels everywhere, regardless of record company or country.
Yes, I do believe politicians are indeed "fixing" things for the record industry. What else is new? Recording industry is just too powerful. The real question is what to do about it. My ignorant answer is that bands should become independent entreprenours and forget about the record companies altogether. 100% is a lot more than 5% or 10% even if you lower your prices a bit. I don't know what the current percentage of profits for the bands is but I do believe some the OSS principles could be applied to the music industry and the rest would be pretty simple to work out with common sense. Or then I'm puffing on the wrong ciggie again.
Now they will take advantage of other weaknesses, like the ones the parent post mentions (mexican border, etc).
The upside of this is you can't fly the mexican border smack into the side of a big building;)
Getting back to the topic, though: Most people don't have to realize how terrorist attacks are done and they don't really need to. It would be enough if the FBI did realize it and acted on that knowledge pre-emptively. My personal opinion is that fingerprints and mugshots isn't quite the answer.
Oh, and to stay on topic. Yes, I do believe that one day MicroSofts flouting of anti-trust laws will actually get them in trouble. But, it took Janklow almost 30 years to get in trouble driving, so it might be a while.
I doubt mr. Janklow had quite as large funds or even the number of dirty political connections Micro$oft do, either. I'll believe the end for Micro$oft is near right about the same time SCO goes bankrupt
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Well, the islamic system is quite fair in this sense. You steal, they chop off your hand. Only way for this to be unfair is not to have hands, but I guess that would make stealing a bit difficult...
As a side note you might be interested to know that I have witnessed previously mentioned rich brat^H^H^H respectable gentleman doing way over the allowed speed limit in his BMW convertible a week or two ago so it's not like he learned anything more than Bill did from the "incredibly high fine" he got.
That would be us Finns. Most fines are based on your yearly income. This still gets circulated and I don't think it's still quite right. Think about it: Bill Gates losing, say, ten days worth of income would flinch. Maybe. If even that. Someone who earns $1500 a month before taxes would not like to lose $500 in fines. To Bill it's a matter of the newspapers writing about record fines. To Joe Cubicle it's a matter of eating porridge and tuna & rice for a month. Nobody writing articles about that.
I think at least Norway has a somewhat similar system to ours at least on some fines. There are other countries I'm sure.
Like this $800000 fine with Bill, most laws like that still amount to a slap on the wrist even if the slap is a bit bigger than using the same fine for everyone.
Erm... I don't know about other cars but at least when buying an Alfa Romeo you get tires rated somewhere to the 2xx KPH speeds. Now, the argument for stock tires must be that since it's illegal to drive faster than 120 KPH anywhere in this country you probably won't be needing tires rated over that. Logical, huh?
This situation may - or, indeed, may not - be different in Germany, where you are allowed to drive as fast as you like on them big roads (Highways? Motorways? something like that anyway)
Someone mentioned insurances. Must be hell on the insurance company. Then again, they'd probably just rip the price of both car and boat insurance as it's likely anyone who has the $$$ to buy one of these won't complain.
Now if they only made a flying car and I won the lottery...
Wednesday: ???
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Saturday: Profit!!!
Seriously, though, that's about what would happen if it became completely open source and there is absolutely nothing funny about it.
So if you sneak in without a ticket it's legal? =)
you'll have to buy those infernal memory sticks instead if you wanna buy the recording?
I think CD or DVD are my preferred concert recording medias. I can compress them any which way I like afterwards. The last concert I saw was such that I would have liked to apply the physical kind of compression directly on the artist, though. R. Williams if you must know and yes, because the missus wanted to and yes, I was the dolt paying for it, thank you very much. Took 6 hours of AC/DC at high volumes and innumerable beers to recover.
You have a valid point there. But that exact same problem surely applies to smartphones equally. It's not like Nokia can miraculously do something that PalmOne and Sony can't.
Battery life would be extended much more by disabling the smartphone/PDA functionality. The screen and the processor are the biggest power users afaik. I might be wrong, though, so better find someone else to quote on this.
They don't? Why are they selling bluetooth SDIO cards, then? Have a look here
It just is cheaper to buy a PDA with bluespoon built in than to pay through your nose for the SDIO card, unless you happen to have a used to be high end PDA that you absolutely want to have connected to something.
Other options are available as extras as well, such as cameras, WiFi-cards here and lotsa other stuff.
7 models is too many? Why, then, is Sony making so many different models of Clie? Why are cars sold in so many different models and configurations? Have you noticed how many different types of laptops you can buy these days? Nokia and competitors are offering way over 7 different models of cellphones all the time. Variety has a definite plus side: you can buy the one that suits your needs best. I would welcome a new cellphone that doesn't have games, calculators, multitudes of ringtones, background images and all that. I don't see why I need a color display to make a phone call or to receive one.
I think Palm is finally getting to the point where they are trying to give people what they want, meaning a choise. If you want a PDA with a camera inbuilt, you can get it but if you don't and all that.
I think PDA:s will never reach the main-stream and may very well have seen their peak as consumer products.
Why would you say that? You might as easily say PDAs will eventually replace cellphones. They're already making PalmOs cellphones (the Treo 600 to mention one, have a look) and to me it makes more sense to have a PDA/cellphone than, say, a Nokia Communicator. I like the Palm way of doing things and have had a Palm for years so I guess I am biased.
To think they couldn't keep up with Nokia et al may be justified. That remains to be seen. I sure hope they will, because for most my needs Palm has been the right answer and Nokia most certainly has not.
I know PDAs are not selling as much as cellphones. But they ARE selling better than smartphones at the moment I think. To me that says people want a phone that is not too smart and prefer to use a PDA for stuff like that.
I don't get it. Nuclear energy: bad, because it can be misused. Cameras that help police fight crime: bad, because of potential big brother issues. Freedom to carry a gun everywhere: ???
If you want to go down the road of "can be misused" would you mind telling me why people are allowed to own cars anymore? Cars pollute. Cars kill!
Almost everything can be misused. Would you people really rather have no cameras and the knowledge the person next to you could very well be on a getaway trip from a bank robbery with a stolen car and that he has a badass shotgun inside his jacket? (ok, this was Florida, inside his shorts, then) Could you guys try to see that this might, in fact, be beneficial as well and not an automatic doomsday vision of 1984
Wouldn't it be much easier to get a bunch of false or stolen license plates instead? No way you get ID'd if the plate says it's a red 1982 Pinto belonging to a Utah salesman... unless you are, indeed, one. Brilliant, eh? Think I should patent this novel idea?
I don't know why parent is modded funny. Probably because there is no "sad but true"-modifier. Even in Europe DRM has gained foothold all the time. There is no way Media Companies with yearly budgets as big as a small country's will give up on their income even if it means twisting the arms and greasing the palms of a few politicians.
It would take some doing, but what would be the ideal solution (in my opinion) is to stop buying stuff from them. Get independent books, independent records etc that have no such restrictions. If the milk bottle you grab in the grocery store tries to restrict the ways you can use the milk, you don't buy the milk (ok, so you ignore the label and buy it anyway, which is what happens with CDs and DVDs, too)
What this has to do with Turbolinux is that if you feel the decisions done with it are wrong, don't buy it. I won't.
It's $12.5 billion going in, $200 million going out. Which means they've wasted more than 59/60th of the value.
What value is that, exactly? I just checked, and the price for www.lyyyycos.com would be $200 for 10 years (pricecheck done here, there are lots of others) so the way I see it, they haven't wasted value. They have started with a hugely inflated value which is now gradually nearing the boundaries of the real world (if there, indeed, is such a thing)
what is this country coming to?
Silly you, America is still safe for all that. It's those obnoxious Europeans that have problems. See, it's in Denmark. Lotsa problems there.
I learned DOS when I was 6 yrs old to play Montezuma's Revenge. So it cant be that hard.
Yes, but in most parts of Europe it is illegal to use underage labor force.
"No, honestly, it's just a very, very long email encrypted with the, umm, new rar-encrypter that just coincidentally opens into executables with this other program that also happens to be called rar"
Then again, O.J. Simpson was declared innocent and Georgey-boy is still president after not really having a justification to attack Iraq so stranger things have happened.
To get back to the topic of big email for free, though, I guess you can calculate it like this:
Most people won't use even close to the max quota allowed. (Assesment based on scientific Stetson-Harrison method. Or possibly not even that)
Let's assume 100M of quota used per user. This would mean your average 100 Gig SCSI-disk is enough for about 1000 users. Let's assume some sort of waste due to RAID so it'll be like 700 users per disk. Let's further assume about a $500 price tag per disk.That'd mean a final price of under $1 per user (plus of course bandwidth, which I guess would raise it to about $1 per user, using the same aforementioned Stetson-Harrison method)
Now, I have no idea how to calculate ad prices and Google was not a big help (or then I was lazy again) but I would assume that the auctions in Spymac bring in some revenue and the bigger your user base, the bigger your revenue (very surprising, eh?) To me it doesn't sound unreasonable to assume that your average user creates $1 worth of profit in a year's time. Then again, the Stetson-Harrison method is not quite scientific enough for me to start a business based on this model but what else is new?
Why would you want a device with 20GB storage in it if you only have a battery life of 13 hours? Using the scientific and incredibly complex formula 1Mb equals 1min you come to roughly 60Mb per hour or 13 * 60 = 780Mb per charge. Ok, it's nice to have some choise but to me that means you get to play roughly 5% of your disk before you run out of juice.
I got me a Palm with AeroPlayer and my 256M SD is just about right for the TT battery. I would believe that for 13 hours of charge a 1G flash chip would be ideal. I guess everyone has their opinion on this and recording sure is a plus. That 100mbit ethernet and webserver sure sound nice. Hmm... Now that I think of it, maybe it's a neat gizmo after all. Now where to cough up the doe for it? =)
Ever looked inside a hard drive? The stuff inside is not that hard to damage, either. This is why it's meant to be kept inside. I would imagine the same principle applies to paper drives.
That SOOO reminds me of "Beavis & Butt-Head discover a new species of butterfly... and pull it's wings off"
to answer your question, though, it's simple. No-one will take a FPS game seriously unless it's got lots of metal, dark foreboding and a plot that begins with "xyzzy has taken over the world..." or something very similar. Try selling a FPS with a plot like "lovely butterflies are flittering about peacefully and you with your butterfly collection kit must collect as many different samples as you can without disturbing the ecosystem seriously"
Jar Jar with two heads, auuugh!
Seriously, though, I seem to recall something mentioned in the books about the smallness of the puppeteer ears, something about evolution making sure they wouldn't get stuck anywhere or something. I could be wrong, it's not a bible to me or anything. Wouldn't be the first time they completely ignored the original book and just went on ahead anyway.
Ah yes, so in order to be contacted in case there's a problem with your code you will give out an address you don't primarily use? I think this is what Micro$oft troubleshooting team has done. But this is already way off topic so I'll stop now.
Haven't you ever heard of price fixing? This should be something along the same lines ;)
From the beginning of CD times, the price to manufacture a CD record has gone down all the time. Yet I haven't witnessed a single price drop in CD prices. Somehow the laws of supply and demand don't work in the record industry and I fail to see how this is not a monopoly/cartel. Think about it: Same companies all over the world. About the same price levels everywhere, regardless of record company or country.
Yes, I do believe politicians are indeed "fixing" things for the record industry. What else is new? Recording industry is just too powerful. The real question is what to do about it. My ignorant answer is that bands should become independent entreprenours and forget about the record companies altogether. 100% is a lot more than 5% or 10% even if you lower your prices a bit. I don't know what the current percentage of profits for the bands is but I do believe some the OSS principles could be applied to the music industry and the rest would be pretty simple to work out with common sense. Or then I'm puffing on the wrong ciggie again.
- Now they will take advantage of other weaknesses, like the ones the parent post mentions (mexican border, etc).
The upside of this is you can't fly the mexican border smack into the side of a big buildingGetting back to the topic, though: Most people don't have to realize how terrorist attacks are done and they don't really need to. It would be enough if the FBI did realize it and acted on that knowledge pre-emptively. My personal opinion is that fingerprints and mugshots isn't quite the answer.
- Oh, and to stay on topic. Yes, I do believe that one day MicroSofts flouting of anti-trust laws will actually get them in trouble. But, it took Janklow almost 30 years to get in trouble driving, so it might be a while.
I doubt mr. Janklow had quite as large funds or even the number of dirty political connections Micro$oft do, either. I'll believe the end for Micro$oft is near right about the same time SCO goes bankrupt