He can more than likely proceeded civil claims against against the constabulary there. The thing is its up to him to do that and it may prove costly. If he wins he can probably stick the police department with reasonable court costs as well but he will never get his time back.
The moral of the story here folks is that are justice system is an adversarial one at all levels. You should never never cooperate unless you feel it is in YOUR near term; best interest to do so. Its never a good idea to help law enforcement simply out of some concept of civic responsibility you will only find yourself on the wrong end of it for your trouble. They have long forgotten (systemically not always individually there are plenty of good cops out there) their job is to serve and protect the people. They now mostly exist to serve government and its all controlling pervasive aims.
There were two problems with HS in the late 90's I know I was there. The first problem was this weird stigma attached to anyone who was interested in the industrial technology or shop courses. They certainly were viewed in a negative light by most of the administration. The instructors of those courses were treated badly compared to the other teachers as well. The pervasive view was that that those courses were offered for people who could never complete enough credit hours in academic courses to graduate any other way. This certainly was true for some of those students, Having told my parents and guidance there pleas to avoid these subjects were falling on deaf ears, I know that there were plenty of other plenty smart people in those programs who like me could breeze through just about and HS course except maybe a subject or two that did not come entirely naturally.
The next problem was that they scheduled shop courses so they were only offered in periods that would conflict with the upper level academic courses. You could not take honors English and drafting, for instance. There was no way to schedule electronics and AP physics ( which ironically cover much the same materials ). The entire system was built to separate students into two groups and make sure that they never met again.
Well after being on the college preparatory side of the wall for the first two years, in possession of a 3.9+ GPA, I elected to jump the shark. I am not going to pretend there was not some adolescent neo-punk motivations as well driving me in what I was being lead to think was a radical direction. I could always read whatever literature the honers English group was working, all you had to do was visit the library. I did that, I still had friends over there so I knew what they were doing. I could not as easily afford a serviceable O-Scope or a drafting table and tools. It made far more sense to me to "run with the tough crowd." I could just as easily grab a calculus book from the school library and build on the math skills I had. Which again I did because it let me understand things in my electronics course.
I found most of the instructors of those courses were better teachers too. They had lots of problems the other instructors did not have. The biggest being all those kids who did not want to be there that had been put there for under performing in the other programs. Still if you were interested they were largely willing spend some extra time with you and go into the subjects in greater detail or let you work on your own more advanced projects for credit. They also were tell you when you made a mistake. They had all been there forever had tenure and nobody they could impress even if they were trying except us students. It was a much more honest and much more educational environment if you were as a student willing to participate and invest a little in it.
Despite the warnings from the establishment, shunning for the other prep students, I turned out ok. I went on to attend a good liberal arts college, where I graduated with honors. I never regraded or felt I had done myself an disservice by my decisions in high school, much the opposite.
We as a society need to learn some egalitarianism about knowledge. Its always good to know things. Sometime its more useful to spend your time learning one thing than another but knowledge is never bad. I am not some sorta hick because I can rebuild an automobile engine, frame a house, or any other odd skills I might have picket up. I can know those things still write SQL as well as one while I grow pale sitting in an office chair.
People are generally better at things they are interested in doing. It takes all kinds to run a society and we should value all skills.
Which is exactly why its a perfect legal remedy. Microsoft competed unfairly in many ways but one of the major identified ones was bundling a browser. They used this to among other things cement their desktop and web client monopoly. Since the harm is their having an monopoly damaging their ability to compete is a good retribution.
Microsoft should be barred from inclining software that renders HTML. That would force their users to bring their own browser. It was force developers to bring their own libraries, and try not to step on each other, if they want to use HTML in their app. That would make Windows less competitive in one way than the offerings of Apple, Linux distributors and others. Its a perfectly fair solution.
Doing this kind of work requires you invest tons of hours and probably a bit of money in expenses for which there is a high likelihood you can never recoup. Like any other investment the greater the risk the greater the rewards must be to attract anyone. Lawyers who do this sort of work are investing with time and materials that they could have been using to do work that was more likely or even certain to pay off.
Its often not something you can do on the side either. You are up against of team of lawyers with corporate backing, If you half ass it you probably don't stand a chance. How big a cut of something like this would it take for you to risk quiting your day job for? with odd that are probably quite long?
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Now consider you are a member of the represented class you have been abused by the RIAA directly. You fought them and lost, or settled and paid up. You though you were out your 100K settlement or damages. Now someone comes along and puts the smack down on the thugs you could not defeat or did not think it was even to your interest to try and fight. They also manage to return 70% of your losses to you. I suspect most people would be great full to get 70K refunded to them of 100K they thought they'd lost forever.
I don't find the lawyer's take on these types of things all that outrageous when you look at it objectively.
By that logic WINE is just as good an option. Its transparent to the application and provides compatibility prior versions of Windows. If you have load additional software on windows or develop compatibility layers on your own then there is no value in the backward compatibility any longer. You might as well pour the same efforts into getting your app running on WINE.
the spec only considers how much power a server consumes when it's idling, rather than gauging energy consumption at various levels of utilization. That's like focusing on how much gas a vehicle consumes at stop lights
While it would be better to include other metrics in a weighted average or something along with this its not entirely wrong. At least in the micro computer world most servers operate when businesses do. They may not in the majority of businesses be utilized even all of that time. Virtualization is helping to reduce idle time on machines but the way I figure it even VM hosts are likely to be idle more than they are not. In large enterprise these figures are different given time zones and global foot prints, although if your multinational you probably have multiple datacenters which host local services and put the numbers back in line somewhat there as well. I would wager of the total number of microcomputer servers out there most are owned by small to medium businesses, simply because most businesses are in the SMB class.
That means the machines run all the time but probably are idle all but eight to ten hours of the twenty four hours in a day and only five of the seven days in a week. That is roughly 29% of the time in use, the rest is idle time. So efficiency at idle is going to be the driving measure.
I agree most applications would be well suited to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or possibly Sybase if you need TSQL for legacy reasons and something bigger then the Express/Desktop Editions of SQL Server.
If however you were implying as you seemed to be that you one should just strain the licenses terms of SQL Server you are out of your mind. Why would a business risk getting itself sued into oblivion just to save a couple grand on SQL licensing?
I don't think its reasonable to suggest that modern clothing causes anywhere near the sort of encumbrance a 21lb ball of unknown but form the picture maybe 7in diameter or there abouts ball on a two foot chain around ones ankle would.
I agree with the parent there is an obvious safety problem here.
Even if the house does not catch fire, you still have to consider that 21 pounds with a little momentum behind it could be a heck of alot of force. Simply tripping and falling down the stairs could be a lot more dangerous with such a thing tied to you. Its more likely to happen with something like that tied about your ankle as well.
It kinda depends. I think if a parent is late to the party with RULZ then yea its going to create a negative association. You are after all infringing on what was a perceived freedom, with your demand that homework now be completed before these activities may be under taken.
On the other hand if you have some discipline from the start and play time always came after work time from their earliest memories, then you could create a positive association. IE Doing homework and or chores entitles one to these other activities which are otherwise not offered.
Now there is incentive to do the work. The message is work pays off. Which is generally true in most cases, and not a bad value to impart on children.
Disclaimer I am not a parent. I did have parents that more or less did the above. I would be exactly like my parents with children if I should have the opportunity.
You probably end up paying allot too. Deliberately remaining ignorant about something your are investing in is always stupid. Now I am not suggesting you should become expert automotive technician before you have someone else get your car fixed but when someone is offering to teach you about something you don't know you really should take them up on it.
I had an engine with a watter jacket problem. The repair shop started detailing what they knew they needed to do. Past experience with auto cooling systems gave me at least enough information to ask some follow up questions. I concluded it was all likely to get more expensive. Knowing a little about the labor required to various things, I was able to ask they "hey could we just get a new long block and drop it in cheaper?" A few phone calls later and we determined that would indeed be a better answer.
I am sure I save 2k or so on that. Where did I get most of this information by asking questions along the way and listening when people bothered to explain something to me.
Modern society means you can be a specialist rather then a generalist. Thats a good thing because it means you can learn to be great at something instead of just okay at anything. Knowing nothing outside your expertise however just makes you someone who can't see the forest through the trees.
Most of the default tool bars in 2k3 can be pulled off and moved to the side. You cannot do that with the ribbon. You also don't need to display the tool bars at all they can be turned off leaving only the menu.
My problem with the ribbon is that its in the way. Most of us are working most of the time on documents we intend to print portrait on 8x11 paper when we use Office software. The trend as of late is to monitors that are 16x9 or 16x10 aspect. That is not conducive for portrait work in the first place, its a real PITA when you start sucking up the remaining vertical space for your 200px think ribbon.
Ribbon might have been a good idea if it was done vertical up the side rather then along the top.
Sometimes things going the way of the dodo is capitalism as well. How many buggy whip manufacturers are there today? A more than few I imagine, for various equine sport but not the numbers that once existed.
Drive-In movies are all about gone too because we just don't need them any more. People have so many other options for entertainment and so many other venues including their homes to watch the same movies in the drive-in theater is just not a marketable service any more. It may be the same way with the papers. The question is where will investigative reporting and other hard news content come from? I think we all understand there is a need for and a market for that content. What needs to be figured out is how to deliver it profitably.
I suspect print newspapers and even online news sites as they exist to day are not that mechanism, nor is network broadcast news. I just don't know how it gets done, If I did I would be doing it.
The 3GB limit is the amount of memory a single process can address on a 32bit windows system. You can certainly put and use more than that in the professional and server versions of Windows. You can certainly make use of it as well provided you are running more than one big process. I am not suggesting that Windows make particularly good use of the system resources or that a desktop user should be expected to have 2gb of RAM, just that you can use more.
Yes Microsoft does test and Q/A things, or at least collect evidence that the manufacturers have done that. What do you think those windows logo stickers on some but not all products are all about? How rigorous they test and certify? I don't know but they are doing something.
There real problem is not is if Vendor A's montherboard X works with Vendor B's video card Y and while running Vista. Its does it work when Vendor C's sound card Z is also present in the system, then what happens when the end user decides to install Vendor D's video card W into the system as a second adapter.
Its not possible to test those combinations and make sure they all play nice, there are to many. Apple has a third party market but its mostly limited to external stuff connected by fairly abstract bus interfaces such as USB. Most of those devices don't ship with MAC drivers either they tend to conform to one of the standards and use the system driver from apple for USB storage, USB audio or whatever. Which is not to say they don't come with software just not much at the driver level.
Where stuff that can cause real trouble is concerned like anything that actually gets its own address space, the hardware market in the MAC world is pretty closed. Things are licensed and you have to work pretty closely with Apple. Apple probably can and probably does test most of the likely hardware permutations.
set some limits for yourself. Decide you are going to go to bed at 12:00 or whatever. I know you don't want to break concentration by watching the clock you setup an interrupt timer for yourself ahead of time. There is no reason why you can't use the alarm clock to tell you when to go to bed instead of when to get out of it. Maybe you will need two alarm clocks.. Get an extra to have by the computer.
I don't this is something that happens often under circumstances people normally experience.
First if it was we would already know and not need to be doing the research now, to find out if can be lethal. Second nature probably has its methods of preventing you from killing yourself in this fashion no matter how dumb you are about trying to stay up.
You usually cannot hold your breath until you die. You might be able to do it with some contrivance like a plastic bag tied around your neck or noose, but if you just sit there in your chair and attempt to hold your breath you will pass out before you die and start breathing automatically when that happens.
I suspect you can't keep yourself awake long enough to die either without getting pretty darn creative.
is not correct. History certainly would seem to disagree. Most cases prior the modern era art was commissioned. It was then either held in a private collection or displayed in public. Michael got paid for the Sisteen Chapel surly. but the church did not charge people to go prey there, or forbid them from looking up until they made an offering.
Still other painters simply sold their paintings. They if others copied them later, that was just to bad. If they were displayed for public exhibition by the new owner that was what happened. Its only very recently that this idea that everyone who experiences a work of art should pay something for it to the creator. Yes artists require patrons but this idea that everyone is a patron is new.
This skewed patronage concept seems to be applied most specifically to movies (TV included), and recored music, which gets back to my theory that our society is producing way to much of certain types of works.
I am sorry are you advocating a system where corporate entities have access to police powers and can reliable count on jailing their customers when they violate copyright or some other TOS?
I would rather live in a world without movies, tv, and recorded music. Live music and visual arts predate the idea of LAW itself are intrinsic to humanity we could give up those three specific forms and lose little as culture, at least in comparison to the total lack of freedom you seem to advocate.
The big problem here is an economic one at the root. Our society over produces and over consumes this type of art. There are finite good s and labor that go into these productions. Those have a cost and must be recouped. The producers have a price point that is to high, as evidenced by the vast black market distribution of these materials. The consumers are using to much because the price many of them pay is often little or nothing. The correct answer is to charge a little less and produce much less. People won't want to consume as much if they actually have to pay, they will be "satisfied", few will illegally distribute or go looking for and deal with illegal distribution because their simply won't be enough material out there to make the efforts of doing all that worth while.
Computer geeks aside you think joe public would bother learning about torrents and if there were only five movies or so a year he cared to see anyway? You think the geeks would take the trouble to make it easy to do something we would be doing much more infrequently. I don't think so.
Society is dumping to many resources into this particular kind of art. Because reproduction is so cheap and easy the economics around it are being tossed out of whack. The market is doing what it always does and correcting. The black market exists because there are artificial legal barriers to reproduction even if there were non the "free" reproduction would just happen sooner. Studios like MGM are on the verge of bankruptcy and will likely fail. Its a good thing thing actually. Eventually equilibrium will be reached and when it is there will be less waste.
actually MGM is about to be bankrupt, unless they pull off a major blockbuster with their next release they probably can't finance the production of another. They don't even have an entry in this summers movie season.
I think what the parent intended to say is their shrinkage used to be eaten by the retails, where it was due the theft, and the distributors did not care. If they experienced shrinkage it was because they had unsold and less marketable product and the occasional forklift accident prior to shipping.
Now they have to face "pirate" distributors on a grand scale yet each such distributor small and hard to find. The need infringement to be set equal to theft or would like it to be, for the preservation of their existing model.
Not always, my Bank will call me after the fact when they see something that might be suspicious. They *Only* call the number on the account, so there is little risk of anyone I don't know getting the call, as they would need to be in possession of my phone. Before they ask for any personal information from me they authenticate themselves by providing the password I gave them for that use when I got the card.
At issue here is if it is reasonable to doubt the validity of the results the machine produces. I would point out all the red flags. Just as you say bad codeing is likely to produce errors. Just like that rusted out junker is more likely to break down on a cross country trip then a better maintained or better build vehicle.
It is a perfectly valid argument in this case to say that the istrament is more likely to be fault because of the obviously poor craftsmanship that went into it.
They don't need to show the thing IS WRONG just that its reasonable to think it could be. Its the states job to show that its not reasonable to think it could be wrong, or to have case based on more than the machine. If they had testimony form people who were with the person before the started driving that said "yup we saw him consume several drinks right before he got in the car." and Officer that says "he was all over the road which is why I stopped him in the first place." then the readings of the machine are just more confirmation in the face of other evidence.
I suppose the justifiability of all that would depend on which is more correlative with BAC, the body of the breath or squeezed bit of residual air at the end of it. In fairness it might be the latter, I have no idea.
Programmer make a couple of changes so it doesn't have the original manufacturer's name embedded in it
You say the software is the only thing the makes one product different from the knock off and then prove that the software is in fact the easiest part to knock off. If you copy the hardware you can just borrow the software entirely.
I have seen lots of fake Cisco routers and phones. Honestly the fakes are manufactured to better standards then the real mccoy in many many cases. Its easy to copy a PCB and assemble it. Once you do that you have something that can run the same binaries and stealing the software is easy too closed source of not.
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He can more than likely proceeded civil claims against against the constabulary there. The thing is its up to him to do that and it may prove costly. If he wins he can probably stick the police department with reasonable court costs as well but he will never get his time back.
The moral of the story here folks is that are justice system is an adversarial one at all levels. You should never never cooperate unless you feel it is in YOUR near term; best interest to do so. Its never a good idea to help law enforcement simply out of some concept of civic responsibility you will only find yourself on the wrong end of it for your trouble. They have long forgotten (systemically not always individually there are plenty of good cops out there) their job is to serve and protect the people. They now mostly exist to serve government and its all controlling pervasive aims.
There were two problems with HS in the late 90's I know I was there. The first problem was this weird stigma attached to anyone who was interested in the industrial technology or shop courses. They certainly were viewed in a negative light by most of the administration. The instructors of those courses were treated badly compared to the other teachers as well. The pervasive view was that that those courses were offered for people who could never complete enough credit hours in academic courses to graduate any other way. This certainly was true for some of those students, Having told my parents and guidance there pleas to avoid these subjects were falling on deaf ears, I know that there were plenty of other plenty smart people in those programs who like me could breeze through just about and HS course except maybe a subject or two that did not come entirely naturally.
The next problem was that they scheduled shop courses so they were only offered in periods that would conflict with the upper level academic courses. You could not take honors English and drafting, for instance. There was no way to schedule electronics and AP physics ( which ironically cover much the same materials ). The entire system was built to separate students into two groups and make sure that they never met again.
Well after being on the college preparatory side of the wall for the first two years, in possession of a 3.9+ GPA, I elected to jump the shark. I am not going to pretend there was not some adolescent neo-punk motivations as well driving me in what I was being lead to think was a radical direction. I could always read whatever literature the honers English group was working, all you had to do was visit the library. I did that, I still had friends over there so I knew what they were doing. I could not as easily afford a serviceable O-Scope or a drafting table and tools. It made far more sense to me to "run with the tough crowd." I could just as easily grab a calculus book from the school library and build on the math skills I had. Which again I did because it let me understand things in my electronics course.
I found most of the instructors of those courses were better teachers too. They had lots of problems the other instructors did not have. The biggest being all those kids who did not want to be there that had been put there for under performing in the other programs. Still if you were interested they were largely willing spend some extra time with you and go into the subjects in greater detail or let you work on your own more advanced projects for credit. They also were tell you when you made a mistake. They had all been there forever had tenure and nobody they could impress even if they were trying except us students. It was a much more honest and much more educational environment if you were as a student willing to participate and invest a little in it.
Despite the warnings from the establishment, shunning for the other prep students, I turned out ok. I went on to attend a good liberal arts college, where I graduated with honors. I never regraded or felt I had done myself an disservice by my decisions in high school, much the opposite.
We as a society need to learn some egalitarianism about knowledge. Its always good to know things. Sometime its more useful to spend your time learning one thing than another but knowledge is never bad. I am not some sorta hick because I can rebuild an automobile engine, frame a house, or any other odd skills I might have picket up. I can know those things still write SQL as well as one while I grow pale sitting in an office chair.
People are generally better at things they are interested in doing. It takes all kinds to run a society and we should value all skills.
Which is exactly why its a perfect legal remedy. Microsoft competed unfairly in many ways but one of the major identified ones was bundling a browser. They used this to among other things cement their desktop and web client monopoly. Since the harm is their having an monopoly damaging their ability to compete is a good retribution.
Microsoft should be barred from inclining software that renders HTML. That would force their users to bring their own browser. It was force developers to bring their own libraries, and try not to step on each other, if they want to use HTML in their app. That would make Windows less competitive in one way than the offerings of Apple, Linux distributors and others. Its a perfectly fair solution.
IANAL, but consider this.
Doing this kind of work requires you invest tons of hours and probably a bit of money in expenses for which there is a high likelihood you can never recoup. Like any other investment the greater the risk the greater the rewards must be to attract anyone. Lawyers who do this sort of work are investing with time and materials that they could have been using to do work that was more likely or even certain to pay off.
Its often not something you can do on the side either. You are up against of team of lawyers with corporate backing, If you half ass it you probably don't stand a chance. How big a cut of something like this would it take for you to risk quiting your day job for? with odd that are probably quite long?
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Now consider you are a member of the represented class you have been abused by the RIAA directly. You fought them and lost, or settled and paid up. You though you were out your 100K settlement or damages. Now someone comes along and puts the smack down on the thugs you could not defeat or did not think it was even to your interest to try and fight. They also manage to return 70% of your losses to you. I suspect most people would be great full to get 70K refunded to them of 100K they thought they'd lost forever.
I don't find the lawyer's take on these types of things all that outrageous when you look at it objectively.
By that logic WINE is just as good an option. Its transparent to the application and provides compatibility prior versions of Windows. If you have load additional software on windows or develop compatibility layers on your own then there is no value in the backward compatibility any longer. You might as well pour the same efforts into getting your app running on WINE.
the spec only considers how much power a server consumes when it's idling, rather than gauging energy consumption at various levels of utilization. That's like focusing on how much gas a vehicle consumes at stop lights
While it would be better to include other metrics in a weighted average or something along with this its not entirely wrong. At least in the micro computer world most servers operate when businesses do. They may not in the majority of businesses be utilized even all of that time. Virtualization is helping to reduce idle time on machines but the way I figure it even VM hosts are likely to be idle more than they are not. In large enterprise these figures are different given time zones and global foot prints, although if your multinational you probably have multiple datacenters which host local services and put the numbers back in line somewhat there as well. I would wager of the total number of microcomputer servers out there most are owned by small to medium businesses, simply because most businesses are in the SMB class.
That means the machines run all the time but probably are idle all but eight to ten hours of the twenty four hours in a day and only five of the seven days in a week. That is roughly 29% of the time in use, the rest is idle time. So efficiency at idle is going to be the driving measure.
Spending thousands on SQL Server is for suckers
I agree most applications would be well suited to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or possibly Sybase if you need TSQL for legacy reasons and something bigger then the Express/Desktop Editions of SQL Server.
If however you were implying as you seemed to be that you one should just strain the licenses terms of SQL Server you are out of your mind. Why would a business risk getting itself sued into oblivion just to save a couple grand on SQL licensing?
I don't think its reasonable to suggest that modern clothing causes anywhere near the sort of encumbrance a 21lb ball of unknown but form the picture maybe 7in diameter or there abouts ball on a two foot chain around ones ankle would.
I agree with the parent there is an obvious safety problem here.
Even if the house does not catch fire, you still have to consider that 21 pounds with a little momentum behind it could be a heck of alot of force. Simply tripping and falling down the stairs could be a lot more dangerous with such a thing tied to you. Its more likely to happen with something like that tied about your ankle as well.
It kinda depends. I think if a parent is late to the party with RULZ then yea its going to create a negative association. You are after all infringing on what was a perceived freedom, with your demand that homework now be completed before these activities may be under taken.
On the other hand if you have some discipline from the start and play time always came after work time from their earliest memories, then you could create a positive association. IE Doing homework and or chores entitles one to these other activities which are otherwise not offered.
Now there is incentive to do the work. The message is work pays off. Which is generally true in most cases, and not a bad value to impart on children.
Disclaimer I am not a parent. I did have parents that more or less did the above. I would be exactly like my parents with children if I should have the opportunity.
You probably end up paying allot too. Deliberately remaining ignorant about something your are investing in is always stupid. Now I am not suggesting you should become expert automotive technician before you have someone else get your car fixed but when someone is offering to teach you about something you don't know you really should take them up on it.
I had an engine with a watter jacket problem. The repair shop started detailing what they knew they needed to do. Past experience with auto cooling systems gave me at least enough information to ask some follow up questions. I concluded it was all likely to get more expensive. Knowing a little about the labor required to various things, I was able to ask they "hey could we just get a new long block and drop it in cheaper?" A few phone calls later and we determined that would indeed be a better answer.
I am sure I save 2k or so on that. Where did I get most of this information by asking questions along the way and listening when people bothered to explain something to me.
Modern society means you can be a specialist rather then a generalist. Thats a good thing because it means you can learn to be great at something instead of just okay at anything. Knowing nothing outside your expertise however just makes you someone who can't see the forest through the trees.
Most of the default tool bars in 2k3 can be pulled off and moved to the side. You cannot do that with the ribbon. You also don't need to display the tool bars at all they can be turned off leaving only the menu.
My problem with the ribbon is that its in the way. Most of us are working most of the time on documents we intend to print portrait on 8x11 paper when we use Office software. The trend as of late is to monitors that are 16x9 or 16x10 aspect. That is not conducive for portrait work in the first place, its a real PITA when you start sucking up the remaining vertical space for your 200px think ribbon.
Ribbon might have been a good idea if it was done vertical up the side rather then along the top.
Sometimes things going the way of the dodo is capitalism as well. How many buggy whip manufacturers are there today? A more than few I imagine, for various equine sport but not the numbers that once existed.
Drive-In movies are all about gone too because we just don't need them any more. People have so many other options for entertainment and so many other venues including their homes to watch the same movies in the drive-in theater is just not a marketable service any more. It may be the same way with the papers. The question is where will investigative reporting and other hard news content come from? I think we all understand there is a need for and a market for that content. What needs to be figured out is how to deliver it profitably.
I suspect print newspapers and even online news sites as they exist to day are not that mechanism, nor is network broadcast news. I just don't know how it gets done, If I did I would be doing it.
The 3GB limit is the amount of memory a single process can address on a 32bit windows system. You can certainly put and use more than that in the professional and server versions of Windows. You can certainly make use of it as well provided you are running more than one big process. I am not suggesting that Windows make particularly good use of the system resources or that a desktop user should be expected to have 2gb of RAM, just that you can use more.
Yes Microsoft does test and Q/A things, or at least collect evidence that the manufacturers have done that. What do you think those windows logo stickers on some but not all products are all about? How rigorous they test and certify? I don't know but they are doing something.
There real problem is not is if Vendor A's montherboard X works with Vendor B's video card Y and while running Vista. Its does it work when Vendor C's sound card Z is also present in the system, then what happens when the end user decides to install Vendor D's video card W into the system as a second adapter.
Its not possible to test those combinations and make sure they all play nice, there are to many. Apple has a third party market but its mostly limited to external stuff connected by fairly abstract bus interfaces such as USB. Most of those devices don't ship with MAC drivers either they tend to conform to one of the standards and use the system driver from apple for USB storage, USB audio or whatever. Which is not to say they don't come with software just not much at the driver level.
Where stuff that can cause real trouble is concerned like anything that actually gets its own address space, the hardware market in the MAC world is pretty closed. Things are licensed and you have to work pretty closely with Apple. Apple probably can and probably does test most of the likely hardware permutations.
Umm,
set some limits for yourself. Decide you are going to go to bed at 12:00 or whatever. I know you don't want to break concentration by watching the clock you setup an interrupt timer for yourself ahead of time. There is no reason why you can't use the alarm clock to tell you when to go to bed instead of when to get out of it. Maybe you will need two alarm clocks.. Get an extra to have by the computer.
I don't this is something that happens often under circumstances people normally experience.
First if it was we would already know and not need to be doing the research now, to find out if can be lethal.
Second nature probably has its methods of preventing you from killing yourself in this fashion no matter how dumb you are about trying to stay up.
You usually cannot hold your breath until you die. You might be able to do it with some contrivance like a plastic bag tied around your neck or noose, but if you just sit there in your chair and attempt to hold your breath you will pass out before you die and start breathing automatically when that happens.
I suspect you can't keep yourself awake long enough to die either without getting pretty darn creative.
Your argument assumes that
wanting shit for free without paying the artist
is not correct. History certainly would seem to disagree. Most cases prior the modern era art was commissioned. It was then either held in a private collection or displayed in public. Michael got paid for the Sisteen Chapel surly. but the church did not charge people to go prey there, or forbid them from looking up until they made an offering.
Still other painters simply sold their paintings. They if others copied them later, that was just to bad. If they were displayed for public exhibition by the new owner that was what happened. Its only very recently that this idea that everyone who experiences a work of art should pay something for it to the creator. Yes artists require patrons but this idea that everyone is a patron is new.
This skewed patronage concept seems to be applied most specifically to movies (TV included), and recored music, which gets back to my theory that our society is producing way to much of certain types of works.
I am sorry are you advocating a system where corporate entities have access to police powers and can reliable count on jailing their customers when they violate copyright or some other TOS?
I would rather live in a world without movies, tv, and recorded music. Live music and visual arts predate the idea of LAW itself are intrinsic to humanity we could give up those three specific forms and lose little as culture, at least in comparison to the total lack of freedom you seem to advocate.
The big problem here is an economic one at the root. Our society over produces and over consumes this type of art. There are finite good s and labor that go into these productions. Those have a cost and must be recouped. The producers have a price point that is to high, as evidenced by the vast black market distribution of these materials. The consumers are using to much because the price many of them pay is often little or nothing. The correct answer is to charge a little less and produce much less. People won't want to consume as much if they actually have to pay, they will be "satisfied", few will illegally distribute or go looking for and deal with illegal distribution because their simply won't be enough material out there to make the efforts of doing all that worth while.
Computer geeks aside you think joe public would bother learning about torrents and if there were only five movies or so a year he cared to see anyway? You think the geeks would take the trouble to make it easy to do something we would be doing much more infrequently. I don't think so.
Society is dumping to many resources into this particular kind of art. Because reproduction is so cheap and easy the economics around it are being tossed out of whack. The market is doing what it always does and correcting. The black market exists because there are artificial legal barriers to reproduction even if there were non the "free" reproduction would just happen sooner. Studios like MGM are on the verge of bankruptcy and will likely fail. Its a good thing thing actually. Eventually equilibrium will be reached and when it is there will be less waste.
actually MGM is about to be bankrupt, unless they pull off a major blockbuster with their next release they probably can't finance the production of another. They don't even have an entry in this summers movie season.
I think what the parent intended to say is their shrinkage used to be eaten by the retails, where it was due the theft, and the distributors did not care. If they experienced shrinkage it was because they had unsold and less marketable product and the occasional forklift accident prior to shipping.
Now they have to face "pirate" distributors on a grand scale yet each such distributor small and hard to find. The need infringement to be set equal to theft or would like it to be, for the preservation of their existing model.
Not always, my Bank will call me after the fact when they see something that might be suspicious. They *Only* call the number on the account, so there is little risk of anyone I don't know getting the call, as they would need to be in possession of my phone. Before they ask for any personal information from me they authenticate themselves by providing the password I gave them for that use when I got the card.
At issue here is if it is reasonable to doubt the validity of the results the machine produces. I would point out all the red flags. Just as you say bad codeing is likely to produce errors. Just like that rusted out junker is more likely to break down on a cross country trip then a better maintained or better build vehicle.
It is a perfectly valid argument in this case to say that the istrament is more likely to be fault because of the obviously poor craftsmanship that went into it.
They don't need to show the thing IS WRONG just that its reasonable to think it could be. Its the states job to show that its not reasonable to think it could be wrong, or to have case based on more than the machine. If they had testimony form people who were with the person before the started driving that said "yup we saw him consume several drinks right before he got in the car." and Officer that says "he was all over the road which is why I stopped him in the first place." then the readings of the machine are just more confirmation in the face of other evidence.
I suppose the justifiability of all that would depend on which is more correlative with BAC, the body of the breath or squeezed bit of residual air at the end of it. In fairness it might be the latter, I have no idea.
Programmer make a couple of changes so it doesn't have the original manufacturer's name embedded in it
You say the software is the only thing the makes one product different from the knock off and then prove that the software is in fact the easiest part to knock off. If you copy the hardware you can just borrow the software entirely.
I have seen lots of fake Cisco routers and phones. Honestly the fakes are manufactured to better standards then the real mccoy in many many cases. Its easy to copy a PCB and assemble it. Once you do that you have something that can run the same binaries and stealing the software is easy too closed source of not.