IANAFOBG, but I do appreciate his initiative in attempting to help our school systems. It may not have worked out but we certainly know what doesn't work now.
I would attribute the failure to something similar of lottery shock. When people win the lottery they feel the urge to make up for a lifetime of pent up consumerism. These school districts suddenly had a ton of money thrown at them to buy and use new technology. (i.e. See the 2nd and 3rd Matrix Movies) Unfortunately it wasn't a slow, gradual, introduction. Instead the district, teachers and student were overwhelmed with trying to implement a brand new way of learning and it failed outright. In itself this is a lesson in teaching.
As an example look at laptops on a college campus. There is not doubt in any students mind how helpful their laptop can be during class. It can also be equally distracting. Now the reason why laptops work in college is because they were introduced at the rate the market would bare. There was a trickle down effect as laptops became more affordable and portable. If you went out and bought MacBook Air's for an entire class of freshman high school students I doubt you would see any positive side effects because the students would once again be overwhelmed and not know how to manage such a valuable asset. In my opinion high school teachers would end up spending a large amount of the first couple of years too heavily policing what the students were doing with their laptops. After this cultural issue is conquered I believe laptops (or tablets) would be a wonderful resource to high school students. The problem I for see is the school district not having the patience to wait out those first couple of years. Another option would be to introduce personal laptops at an earlier age to help gain more respect for them.
Just because I can't find it and login does not make it secure. You need to take into consideration the massive bot nets currently operating that constantly search IP addresses for security holes.
Even if a setup is never compromised it is not necessarily secure. I hate to get all philosophical but if you build they will hack it.
For example I give you any copy protection that has ever been implemented.
Glad to see you don't even know what is being talked about here. The idea is to steal what is on the users clipboard and submit it to the aggressor. Yes this is possible. I've written several web pages for my own reference that access the clipboard.
Feel free to take your foot out of your mouth now.
I don't know where you guys get your information but its pretty easy to access the clipboard from javascript even in firefox.
Try searching for "javascript clipboard functions" the first link gives an example. All he would have to do is paste the content into a hidden div and wait for it to resubmit itself.
I think the guy got kind of lucky stringing his trial out until Bush was out of office. I'm not saying the Obama administration is going to be lenient, but they are certainly softening the tones of all this terrorism crap.
They have plenty of test platforms out there that can drive a car down the road. That isn't the issue. The issue is being able to predict what a bunch of stupid humans are going to do to cause you an accident. The robotic car will always do the right thing because that is all it can do. The right thing is what is programmed. Now humans on the other hand will hardly ever do the right thing which is dangerous both for the robot and the humans around it.
It's called the prison industrial complex. What you didn't list are all the industries that are based off of prisons and all the services they require.
Pretty much anything in a prison has to be specially fabricated so that it cannot be converted into contraband easily. This is true for all the uniforms, TV's, phones, lunch trays and beds to name a few. Some prisons send laundry out for cleaning (read: sweetheart contracts).
It's all a matter of incentive. Right now there is no incentive to legalize any drug, whereas there is plenty of incentive to keep them prohibited. I don't think this is going to change until people realize that sending billions of dollars out of our country to purchase illicit drugs that we could be growing ourselves. Really if anyone bothered to stop and think about it prohibition funds the terrorists. Now I'm not typically someone to jump on that bandwagon, but it is well known that our own government uses the sale of cocaine to fund covert operations all over the world. If we grew the plants cocoa and marijuana in our own country the money would stay local instead of sending it to some South American drug lord or even worse the CIA.
I am one of those people who work an IT job without a degree. My duties include normal help desk stuff for our office of about 30 workers, otherwise I am working on our new dispatching client which is written in Java. I have now been a full-time Java programmer for a little over a year. I doubt I could get hired at another company at this point, possibly after 3-5 years experience.
The way I came about my position was from being hired from within the company. Admittedly I was low balled on pay but that is being fixed. Starting pay was about $23k a year, although then I was just doing web developing and help desk. Its been about two years since then and I make about $25k a year now all hourly. In a month or two I'll be getting promoted to making some where around $35k. Personally I think that's pretty damn good for being a high-school drop out.
The point to keep in mind is I work in a rather unique place. We are a worker owned and operated cooperative under a democratic structure. This is what kept me despite the low pay. I've also served on the Board of Directors and several committees.
The story of my father: My father on the other hand gave a go at two-year college, but then I happened so he had to drop out and get a real job. The real job turned out to be a pascal programmer. From there he moved up the ranks and jobs and now works for the local four-year university.
Given all of that I still plan to go to college, but instead of comp sci I was going to go electrical engineer.
So lesson learned unless you like getting low balled and otherwise taken advantage of, get your degree. Not that will guarantee that doesn't happen.
I would say that if you would normally pay for then do so otherwise don't. If you really want to ease your moral conscious you could buy the dead-tree version and pirate the etext.
I personally believe that DonationWare is one of the best ways to go, that is accept donations, but don't otherwise charge or license. For the following reasons:
1) People will pirate your shit either way. There is no stopping it. Pirating in itself is a game of sorts. 2) If its donation ware you don't have to feel bad providing absolutely no support. 3) Any kind of licensing system you can come up with will either be a huge time sync on your and people will crack it anyways. 4) The more your product is available to be distributed the more people will hear about it, increasing the possibility that someone may willingly send you money.
A recent article here on./ stated that there game was pirated at an 80-90% meaning that only between 10 and 20 percent actually paid for it. Since pirating is inevitable why not instead increase your market size by making it freely available. Then the 10-20% of that increased market is going to be much more then if you were to try and license it through some scheme or another.
A great analogy is Trojan condom's marketing tactic. Trojan controls the vast majority of the market because they are well known among other reasons. It is hard for them to increase their market share anymore because there are only so many people who buy condoms and there are a lot of variety out there. So instead of trying to market customers away from another company they instead try to increase the market be trying to appeal to a wider variety of people.
You do get that it was meant to be a conference on free software, but instead the gobmint decided they wanted to hijack that message by having novell as the main sponsor? right?
That is more a reflection on you then it is on the game. It is utterly simple if you follow the tutorials. They actually already have a pretty decent new player experience. But then again it doesn't sound like you have been playing mmorpgs for that long. Personally I started with Ultima Online over 10 years ago.
Disney is a great example of this. Every time the copyright on Mickey Mouse comes close to expiring they lobby to push it back. If Disney wouldn't keep changing the rules on copyright Mickey Mouse would now be public domain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act In the same way corporations use the shelter of a government to strong arm the people into buying an over priced product otherwise they risk jail and ridiculous fines.
Without copyrights business would have to seek a new model where their product was viable without the intervention of a government. That means their product would have to be of comparable price to the pirated media. This would be the natural balance between the business and the consumer. As it is currently the market is very much slanted against the consumer. Why do DVD's cost $20+? They certainly do not cost that much to produce, market and ship. The box office sales of most any movie more then pay for the costs. Why is it that people are willing to pay Joe the Pirate for a crappy hand camcorder recording of a new release?
You merely accept the current system because you are a lemming consumer. You're used to the stupid tax that corporations charge you. These are the same people who say just because you bought the DVD it doesn't mean you own the movie. They want to have their cake and eat it too. What if you loose the DVD you bought do then still own the movie? Corporations don't think so. What if you want to make a back-up copy in case your 3 yro destroys the original, is that ok? Is it legal? I mean you bought the movie right? Or did you merely lease the right to watch the movie until the media expires? Then are you really buying the movie or the media it is on? Because if I'm only buying the media why can't I copy the content at free will? What about when I buy music that comes with DRM attached and the company that sold it to me decides to quite operating their authentication servers? Does my right to listen to my music suddenly expire because the company realized they picked a failing business model?
My real point is copyrights shouldn't be needed to do business. If movies were worth what they are sold for then people wouldn't try to rip them off. They would just buy them instead because its a ton less hassle and they get a better product.
Another question I have is why entertainers are paid so much? Do they contribute that much to society? What about teachers are they worth more or less then movie stars? Entertainers are truly a drain on society and I freely include all athletes in this group also. They contribute absolutely nothing and only take in return. I have a lot more respect for the working stiff in factory.
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IANAFOBG, but I do appreciate his initiative in attempting to help our school systems. It may not have worked out but we certainly know what doesn't work now.
I would attribute the failure to something similar of lottery shock. When people win the lottery they feel the urge to make up for a lifetime of pent up consumerism. These school districts suddenly had a ton of money thrown at them to buy and use new technology. (i.e. See the 2nd and 3rd Matrix Movies) Unfortunately it wasn't a slow, gradual, introduction. Instead the district, teachers and student were overwhelmed with trying to implement a brand new way of learning and it failed outright. In itself this is a lesson in teaching.
As an example look at laptops on a college campus. There is not doubt in any students mind how helpful their laptop can be during class. It can also be equally distracting. Now the reason why laptops work in college is because they were introduced at the rate the market would bare. There was a trickle down effect as laptops became more affordable and portable. If you went out and bought MacBook Air's for an entire class of freshman high school students I doubt you would see any positive side effects because the students would once again be overwhelmed and not know how to manage such a valuable asset. In my opinion high school teachers would end up spending a large amount of the first couple of years too heavily policing what the students were doing with their laptops. After this cultural issue is conquered I believe laptops (or tablets) would be a wonderful resource to high school students. The problem I for see is the school district not having the patience to wait out those first couple of years. Another option would be to introduce personal laptops at an earlier age to help gain more respect for them.
Just because I can't find it and login does not make it secure. You need to take into consideration the massive bot nets currently operating that constantly search IP addresses for security holes.
Even if a setup is never compromised it is not necessarily secure. I hate to get all philosophical but if you build they will hack it.
For example I give you any copy protection that has ever been implemented.
I'm gonna laugh when they go out of business from disconnecting a large share of their customers. I suppose they deserve it though.
From a loudspeaker next to the camera: "Fear not citizen, you are being filmed for your own protection. Be Well."
That would sure make me feel better.
Glad to see you don't even know what is being talked about here. The idea is to steal what is on the users clipboard and submit it to the aggressor. Yes this is possible. I've written several web pages for my own reference that access the clipboard.
Feel free to take your foot out of your mouth now.
I don't know where you guys get your information but its pretty easy to access the clipboard from javascript even in firefox.
Try searching for "javascript clipboard functions" the first link gives an example. All he would have to do is paste the content into a hidden div and wait for it to resubmit itself.
I think the guy got kind of lucky stringing his trial out until Bush was out of office. I'm not saying the Obama administration is going to be lenient, but they are certainly softening the tones of all this terrorism crap.
EULA's are not legally binding in any court of law anywhere and never will be.
Which one?
They have plenty of test platforms out there that can drive a car down the road. That isn't the issue. The issue is being able to predict what a bunch of stupid humans are going to do to cause you an accident. The robotic car will always do the right thing because that is all it can do. The right thing is what is programmed. Now humans on the other hand will hardly ever do the right thing which is dangerous both for the robot and the humans around it.
I wouldn't count on that. The unemployment reserve is set to be depleted by the middle of February.
You think the first airport had an opposite?
What were they thinking when they built those airplanes with no place to go?
Silly aviators. //They really should have named it after Heinlein.
It gives new meaning to the phrase "Smile, big brother is watching.". No wonder they couldn't recognize Guy Faulks.
It's called the prison industrial complex. What you didn't list are all the industries that are based off of prisons and all the services they require.
Pretty much anything in a prison has to be specially fabricated so that it cannot be converted into contraband easily. This is true for all the uniforms, TV's, phones, lunch trays and beds to name a few. Some prisons send laundry out for cleaning (read: sweetheart contracts).
It's all a matter of incentive. Right now there is no incentive to legalize any drug, whereas there is plenty of incentive to keep them prohibited. I don't think this is going to change until people realize that sending billions of dollars out of our country to purchase illicit drugs that we could be growing ourselves. Really if anyone bothered to stop and think about it prohibition funds the terrorists. Now I'm not typically someone to jump on that bandwagon, but it is well known that our own government uses the sale of cocaine to fund covert operations all over the world. If we grew the plants cocoa and marijuana in our own country the money would stay local instead of sending it to some South American drug lord or even worse the CIA.
What could possibly go wrong?
I am one of those people who work an IT job without a degree. My duties include normal help desk stuff for our office of about 30 workers, otherwise I am working on our new dispatching client which is written in Java. I have now been a full-time Java programmer for a little over a year. I doubt I could get hired at another company at this point, possibly after 3-5 years experience.
The way I came about my position was from being hired from within the company. Admittedly I was low balled on pay but that is being fixed. Starting pay was about $23k a year, although then I was just doing web developing and help desk. Its been about two years since then and I make about $25k a year now all hourly. In a month or two I'll be getting promoted to making some where around $35k. Personally I think that's pretty damn good for being a high-school drop out.
The point to keep in mind is I work in a rather unique place. We are a worker owned and operated cooperative under a democratic structure. This is what kept me despite the low pay. I've also served on the Board of Directors and several committees.
The story of my father:
My father on the other hand gave a go at two-year college, but then I happened so he had to drop out and get a real job. The real job turned out to be a pascal programmer. From there he moved up the ranks and jobs and now works for the local four-year university.
Given all of that I still plan to go to college, but instead of comp sci I was going to go electrical engineer.
So lesson learned unless you like getting low balled and otherwise taken advantage of, get your degree. Not that will guarantee that doesn't happen.
I would say that if you would normally pay for then do so otherwise don't. If you really want to ease your moral conscious you could buy the dead-tree version and pirate the etext.
Way to pander fud.
"We mustn't cut spending lest the terrorist win."
I await being able to tell you so in 4 years when he gets re-elected.
Your sig speaks volumes about your (delusional) nature.
I personally believe that DonationWare is one of the best ways to go, that is accept donations, but don't otherwise charge or license. For the following reasons:
1) People will pirate your shit either way. There is no stopping it. Pirating in itself is a game of sorts.
2) If its donation ware you don't have to feel bad providing absolutely no support.
3) Any kind of licensing system you can come up with will either be a huge time sync on your and people will crack it anyways.
4) The more your product is available to be distributed the more people will hear about it, increasing the possibility that someone may willingly send you money.
A recent article here on ./ stated that there game was pirated at an 80-90% meaning that only between 10 and 20 percent actually paid for it. Since pirating is inevitable why not instead increase your market size by making it freely available. Then the 10-20% of that increased market is going to be much more then if you were to try and license it through some scheme or another.
A great analogy is Trojan condom's marketing tactic. Trojan controls the vast majority of the market because they are well known among other reasons. It is hard for them to increase their market share anymore because there are only so many people who buy condoms and there are a lot of variety out there. So instead of trying to market customers away from another company they instead try to increase the market be trying to appeal to a wider variety of people.
you're dumb.
You do get that it was meant to be a conference on free software, but instead the gobmint decided they wanted to hijack that message by having novell as the main sponsor? right?
Make her watch Good Will Hunting. Then maybe she'll move to California to see about a girl.
That is more a reflection on you then it is on the game. It is utterly simple if you follow the tutorials. They actually already have a pretty decent new player experience. But then again it doesn't sound like you have been playing mmorpgs for that long. Personally I started with Ultima Online over 10 years ago.
Imagine No Copyrights.
Disney is a great example of this. Every time the copyright on Mickey Mouse comes close to expiring they lobby to push it back. If Disney wouldn't keep changing the rules on copyright Mickey Mouse would now be public domain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act In the same way corporations use the shelter of a government to strong arm the people into buying an over priced product otherwise they risk jail and ridiculous fines.
Without copyrights business would have to seek a new model where their product was viable without the intervention of a government. That means their product would have to be of comparable price to the pirated media. This would be the natural balance between the business and the consumer. As it is currently the market is very much slanted against the consumer. Why do DVD's cost $20+? They certainly do not cost that much to produce, market and ship. The box office sales of most any movie more then pay for the costs. Why is it that people are willing to pay Joe the Pirate for a crappy hand camcorder recording of a new release?
You merely accept the current system because you are a lemming consumer. You're used to the stupid tax that corporations charge you. These are the same people who say just because you bought the DVD it doesn't mean you own the movie. They want to have their cake and eat it too. What if you loose the DVD you bought do then still own the movie? Corporations don't think so. What if you want to make a back-up copy in case your 3 yro destroys the original, is that ok? Is it legal? I mean you bought the movie right? Or did you merely lease the right to watch the movie until the media expires? Then are you really buying the movie or the media it is on? Because if I'm only buying the media why can't I copy the content at free will? What about when I buy music that comes with DRM attached and the company that sold it to me decides to quite operating their authentication servers? Does my right to listen to my music suddenly expire because the company realized they picked a failing business model?
My real point is copyrights shouldn't be needed to do business. If movies were worth what they are sold for then people wouldn't try to rip them off. They would just buy them instead because its a ton less hassle and they get a better product.
Another question I have is why entertainers are paid so much? Do they contribute that much to society? What about teachers are they worth more or less then movie stars? Entertainers are truly a drain on society and I freely include all athletes in this group also. They contribute absolutely nothing and only take in return. I have a lot more respect for the working stiff in factory.
Will it be enough to bait old players to come back? I doubt it. I certainly won't be.