It's like trying to make water not wet. Bits are easily copied. That's a plain and simple fact. Trying to pretend otherwise is stupid. What is stupid about the business is that they are trying to treat those bits as if they were scarce, just like they do with paper books. The problem is that physical goods ARE scarce. Sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "people are taking all my BITS!" is just pissing into the wind. Build a windmill instead of complaining about how all your paper hats are blowing away.
Man, you know that Shakespeare fellow really didn't do ANYTHING because he didn't have copyright over his work. Nor did Van Gogh, or Chopin, or Beethoven, or...
Except if people read it at the library, why would they need to buy it? The problem is that the economy has changed and you don't like it. The marginal cost of copying things is no longer a concern. Business models need to change to match that reality.
There's more than enough evidence that is public to make a decision. If I see someone slit the throat of someone else, I'm not going to wait until he is proven to be a murderer in a court of law to call him that.
Screw the money saved in the war on drugs. You remove the incentive, and the crime and all kinds of other associated social ills dry up. Money is no longer flowing into the black market, and without money, you can't have a market.
If he has an HDTV, make sure he has the component cables. That fixed all of the issues I had with the Wii's graphics (other than the resolution). Let the TV do the upscaling... most of them are pretty good at that any more.
Component is perfectly fine. It's just that it's 3-5 cables instead of one much smaller one. When you start getting 3 or 4 things connected to your receiver, that starts being an issue. I don't like having a rat's-nest behind my entertainment center... I'd love to just have 2 cables for each piece of additional equipment: HDMI and power. And that's it.
Hehe. I got halfway lucky... my wife likes the high-def TV, but couldn't care less about the 5.1 surround;) At least she doesn't complain about the speakers mounted on the walls and the wire tacked to the ceiling. I've gotta get some raceway one of these days.
...too easy to hit by mistake? I have never, ever even come close to hitting ctrl+alt+bksp by mistake. I mean... how would you actually go about doing that?
Ehhh... there's a certain amount of stuff that needs to be done to interest people in science. We have a culture where being smart is a bad thing. Little ways we can fight that is good... the MythBusters started out ok, until they started warning about the science content. Warning? WTF? There should be a "Now pay attention to this next bit!" tag, not a fucking warning.
The original arc still stands in it's own right;) Just because they did something later doesn't mean that the original didn't end. There's a difference between a nebulous "end" and then reboot like in comic books and a set story arc that is finished, and then re-examined or whatever.
It's one of the reasons I enjoy anime TV series and manga. Many times they have a single story, they tell it, and it's over. Just look at things like Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Alchemist, etc.
I just ordered an HP Envy, 15.6" 1920x1080 screen, i5-540 CPU, Radeon 5830(!) GPU, a 500GB internal drive, 6-cell internal battery and an extra 9-cell secondary "slab" type battery. All told, $1400, including shipping. It's as high-end as you get in a sub-16" machine. And I could have gotten it with an i7 had I not wanted the battery life of the i5 and integrated GPU switching. High end doesn't have the price tag it used to.
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That is almost it. The jpg is not worthless. It is not worth any money, but it is something that advertises the original.
But I can send a jpg of a Van Gogh around with no problem whatsoever. It costs nothing! It is totally making the original painting worth nothing!
Same with music. Same with books. Sell the scarcity. The thing that IS hard to do.
It's like trying to make water not wet. Bits are easily copied. That's a plain and simple fact. Trying to pretend otherwise is stupid. What is stupid about the business is that they are trying to treat those bits as if they were scarce, just like they do with paper books. The problem is that physical goods ARE scarce. Sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "people are taking all my BITS!" is just pissing into the wind. Build a windmill instead of complaining about how all your paper hats are blowing away.
Man, you know that Shakespeare fellow really didn't do ANYTHING because he didn't have copyright over his work. Nor did Van Gogh, or Chopin, or Beethoven, or...
Except that morse is a synchronous communication. Gotta have someone listening on the other end at the same time you're sending or it's useless.
Except if people read it at the library, why would they need to buy it? The problem is that the economy has changed and you don't like it. The marginal cost of copying things is no longer a concern. Business models need to change to match that reality.
The symptoms can be perfectly real and not have an external cause. It's called a psychosomatic illness
There's more than enough evidence that is public to make a decision. If I see someone slit the throat of someone else, I'm not going to wait until he is proven to be a murderer in a court of law to call him that.
That's about what a US minimum-wage worker makes.
Screw the money saved in the war on drugs. You remove the incentive, and the crime and all kinds of other associated social ills dry up. Money is no longer flowing into the black market, and without money, you can't have a market.
"Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?" - Bender
If he has an HDTV, make sure he has the component cables. That fixed all of the issues I had with the Wii's graphics (other than the resolution). Let the TV do the upscaling... most of them are pretty good at that any more.
Component is perfectly fine. It's just that it's 3-5 cables instead of one much smaller one. When you start getting 3 or 4 things connected to your receiver, that starts being an issue. I don't like having a rat's-nest behind my entertainment center... I'd love to just have 2 cables for each piece of additional equipment: HDMI and power. And that's it.
Hehe. I got halfway lucky... my wife likes the high-def TV, but couldn't care less about the 5.1 surround ;) At least she doesn't complain about the speakers mounted on the walls and the wire tacked to the ceiling. I've gotta get some raceway one of these days.
Why are those exclusive?
Will you throw in a case of headlight fluid for free?
My current T61 has the SysRq key as an Fn-modified key. They must be completely removing it.
...too easy to hit by mistake? I have never, ever even come close to hitting ctrl+alt+bksp by mistake. I mean... how would you actually go about doing that?
Ehhh... there's a certain amount of stuff that needs to be done to interest people in science. We have a culture where being smart is a bad thing. Little ways we can fight that is good... the MythBusters started out ok, until they started warning about the science content. Warning? WTF? There should be a "Now pay attention to this next bit!" tag, not a fucking warning.
We don't refer to ourselves like that in polite company
The original arc still stands in it's own right ;) Just because they did something later doesn't mean that the original didn't end. There's a difference between a nebulous "end" and then reboot like in comic books and a set story arc that is finished, and then re-examined or whatever.
It's one of the reasons I enjoy anime TV series and manga. Many times they have a single story, they tell it, and it's over. Just look at things like Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Alchemist, etc.
A mammogram still helps more than these scans ;) That was my point. And, they're not really interesting pictures unless you're a doctor.
A mammogram is proven to help, and is a decidedly un-sexy picture as compared to a full-body nude. Can't really say the same for these pictures.
I just ordered an HP Envy, 15.6" 1920x1080 screen, i5-540 CPU, Radeon 5830(!) GPU, a 500GB internal drive, 6-cell internal battery and an extra 9-cell secondary "slab" type battery. All told, $1400, including shipping. It's as high-end as you get in a sub-16" machine. And I could have gotten it with an i7 had I not wanted the battery life of the i5 and integrated GPU switching. High end doesn't have the price tag it used to.