So why don't you take a copy of Harry Potter to your office copying machine and then stand on the street corner selling it. After all, it's just an abstract thing (a story).
The protection of intellectual property - like all property - has a direct causal relationship to it's existence. Extinguish the protection, you extinguish the development of all new IP.
And just to illustrate how much of a retard you are, McDs does have a monopoly on the Big Mac (try selling one) and Britney does have a monopoly on that song - try selling it and singing it - in both causes, jailarity will ensue.
MS's is natural. They are having to innovate to keep their market lead. Just like US Oil having to do everything they could to cut the price of oil. You may not like the method (making things more propriatory to raise transition costs) - and these methods may backfire (seems like they may be already), but they are one way or another trying to make their product more attractive than the next guys.
Now enter the US postal service. You try setting up a small time mail service in your city and go to jail. You try using FedEx for what the Postal Inspectors deem regular mail, and you go to jail. Similarly, if you try to stop paying into the government retirement system and start your own with higher returns.... guess what happens? Or what if you try to open your own liquir store in Virginia or Pennsylvania across from a state run ABC. Jail.
We throw this monopoly term around way to much without acknowledging the difference between a natural, earned monopoly and a violent, coercive one.
Well - just do as I do and metamoderate. Don't even bother to read the content that they are moderating - just unfair every negative and fair every positive.
I use to occasionally meta moderate and carefully read each moderation. I did it rarely because it took so long.
cannot believe someone modded me down to flamebait. I have a new policy now of metamoderating every day - not even reading the posts - and marking unfair to any negative moding and fair to any positive modding.
ST:TNG did so well because it was syndicated rather than being on a 2nd tier network. If Paramount would allow the fifth season to be sold and syndicated, an IPO or corporate bond sale would be an ideal way to raise the funds. The profit would come from advertising for that year.
On the operational side, a good comparison might be that show with McGiever going into the portal to fight minorities on other planets (can't recall the name). It started as a movie, then it was on one of those extra-pay pr0n channels, then it got to sci-fi channel. And somewhere along the way it might have also been showing new episodes through syndication.
I found it funny. Mods here seem more interested in modding down than up. I think for the next week I will metamoderate and thumbs down anyone who gave a negative score to anything when they could have been moddin gstuff up.
ST needs a rest. The problem is that they are run by fools and the best guy still breathing who was involved with ST is now the producer of BSG (Ron Moore).
I have seen the entire first season of this show and although it has bad moments, it doesn't come close to the bad moments in ST. Overall, it is simply AWESOME.
Notice that there are notes. User notes. Those are often more valuable to me than the documentation. No book has those. That is why the online/print it out solution is infinitly better.
But the part that has helped me the most is the reference (Appendices).
Appendix A: MySQL syntax (with all the optional parameters)
Appendix B: MySQL functions. For example, what command do we use to search a substring in mysql? Quick search Appendix B... there! LOCATE.
Appendix C: MySQL column types. I don't use MySQL commands often, except when I add a module to my PHP framework (programmed by myself). so when I want to know how to specify a certain type, it's all there.
And finally, Appendix D: PHP functions for working with MySQL.
Like I said. Waste of money. Those are sections in the free, downloadable.chm helpfile that YOU CAN PRINT OUT and put in your desk.
Maybe this really does work. I should find some well-documented OSS software, put my name on it, and try to sell it to folks like you.
Totally, 100% false. I can personally take credit for an ordinance banning obscene T-shirts in my home town when I was in High School. I organized the student group to go down to the city hall, I showed up to make sure it was read, I spoke before the council in favor of the law.
I can also take at least partial credit for defeating Al Gore in 2000 because I was involved in the voter targeting of Tennessee (his home state).
Anyway, go ahead and think that if yuo want, but teams get stuff done and they need people - especially leaders.
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Right. PErhaps SOE's all game pass that lets you play all of their games is a good idea (though all their games other than PS are lame.)
BAsed on this summary/review, this sounds like a re-write of the already free help files for PHP and MySQL. Truth is, you probably don't even need the MySQL help file as the PHP documentation covers interaction with the database pretty well and pretty much every webhost out there is running phpMyAdmin for the database management.
And really, if you don't already have an understanding of basic DB design (tables, fields, records, data types, etc.) are you really going to be designing such a site? If you didn't, there are plenty of free resources on the web to help you do that.
Programming is primarily a self-starter job. You learn by doing, and by using free resources out there on the web. Why pay money for a book that regurgitates already free information for two pieces of free software.
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Other players. Otherwise it becomes a single player RPG.
That's part of the problem with so many coming out. It doesn't matter how great the game is AS MUCH as it matters if you can find other people to co-operate with/fight online, or as much as it matters as that is the game your friends are playing. Hence the importance of marketing the game - something small developers can't afford to do well and players may not have the patience to wait around for word of mouth to succeed.
Case in Point: Allegiance was by far the best MMO I have ever played - but it died due to lack of players because MS dropped the ball in marketing it.
Class is relative. Income is absolute. Average income in the US is higher than anywhere else in the world, save for the UAE.
The reason some people earn so much more in this country than elsewhere is that this is where the disproportionate number of excellent individuals are due to all the foreigners who really want to succeed coming here. People in Germany are more equally paid because they are more equally stupid.
Too bad they don't get that way about RL
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I wish I could survey those participating in the protest and ask of those 18 or older:
Are you registered to vote?
If so, how often do you vote? Did you participate in the primary or just the general? What about school board races?
Have you ever written a letter to a newspaper to express your views?
Have you ever contacted your elected representative via phone, mail, or email about an issue that is important to you
Have you ever written a check to a political cause that is important to you to help fund the printing of fliers, to pay for advertising, or to support a full-time staff?
Have you ever collected petitions or volunteered for a candidate or cause? Have you ever even signed a petition?
Guessing the answer to every one of these is no for 90%+ of these guys. But they DO feel it is important enough to go to a march on a microchip in a place that exists in only ones and zeroes.
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True. An office recently got busted for doing this.
The protection of intellectual property - like all property - has a direct causal relationship to it's existence. Extinguish the protection, you extinguish the development of all new IP.
And just to illustrate how much of a retard you are, McDs does have a monopoly on the Big Mac (try selling one) and Britney does have a monopoly on that song - try selling it and singing it - in both causes, jailarity will ensue.
Now enter the US postal service. You try setting up a small time mail service in your city and go to jail. You try using FedEx for what the Postal Inspectors deem regular mail, and you go to jail. Similarly, if you try to stop paying into the government retirement system and start your own with higher returns.... guess what happens? Or what if you try to open your own liquir store in Virginia or Pennsylvania across from a state run ABC. Jail.
We throw this monopoly term around way to much without acknowledging the difference between a natural, earned monopoly and a violent, coercive one.
I use to occasionally meta moderate and carefully read each moderation. I did it rarely because it took so long.
With this new method, it works so much faster.
cannot believe someone modded me down to flamebait. I have a new policy now of metamoderating every day - not even reading the posts - and marking unfair to any negative moding and fair to any positive modding.
Don't new systems require a killer app at launch?
Heya - mind explaning the Everquestban for AC cheats? And what AC cheats?
On the operational side, a good comparison might be that show with McGiever going into the portal to fight minorities on other planets (can't recall the name). It started as a movie, then it was on one of those extra-pay pr0n channels, then it got to sci-fi channel. And somewhere along the way it might have also been showing new episodes through syndication.
I found it funny. Mods here seem more interested in modding down than up. I think for the next week I will metamoderate and thumbs down anyone who gave a negative score to anything when they could have been moddin gstuff up.
They had two awesome games - the GTA style game and the Crazy taxi style game. Both were good.
and more cow bell.
Sorry. For some reason my keyboard is all sticky and that happens from time to time. Thanks for the analysis.
I have seen the entire first season of this show and although it has bad moments, it doesn't come close to the bad moments in ST. Overall, it is simply AWESOME.
Take a look here
Notice that there are notes. User notes. Those are often more valuable to me than the documentation. No book has those. That is why the online/print it out solution is infinitly better.
Appendix A: MySQL syntax (with all the optional parameters)
Appendix B: MySQL functions. For example, what command do we use to search a substring in mysql? Quick search Appendix B... there! LOCATE.
Appendix C: MySQL column types. I don't use MySQL commands often, except when I add a module to my PHP framework (programmed by myself). so when I want to know how to specify a certain type, it's all there.
And finally, Appendix D: PHP functions for working with MySQL.
Like I said. Waste of money. Those are sections in the free, downloadable .chm helpfile that YOU CAN PRINT OUT and put in your desk.
Maybe this really does work. I should find some well-documented OSS software, put my name on it, and try to sell it to folks like you.
I am building such a site right now and I am a total hacker. We don' need no stinkin' BOOKS.
I can also take at least partial credit for defeating Al Gore in 2000 because I was involved in the voter targeting of Tennessee (his home state).
Anyway, go ahead and think that if yuo want, but teams get stuff done and they need people - especially leaders.
Right. PErhaps SOE's all game pass that lets you play all of their games is a good idea (though all their games other than PS are lame.)
And really, if you don't already have an understanding of basic DB design (tables, fields, records, data types, etc.) are you really going to be designing such a site? If you didn't, there are plenty of free resources on the web to help you do that.
Programming is primarily a self-starter job. You learn by doing, and by using free resources out there on the web. Why pay money for a book that regurgitates already free information for two pieces of free software.
That's part of the problem with so many coming out. It doesn't matter how great the game is AS MUCH as it matters if you can find other people to co-operate with/fight online, or as much as it matters as that is the game your friends are playing. Hence the importance of marketing the game - something small developers can't afford to do well and players may not have the patience to wait around for word of mouth to succeed.
Case in Point: Allegiance was by far the best MMO I have ever played - but it died due to lack of players because MS dropped the ball in marketing it.
The income is absolute becuase the figures I am quoting are determined using the Purchasing Parity dollars.
What retard moded this off topic?
Social unrest is a recipe for more inequality. Just get the government out of the way.
The reason some people earn so much more in this country than elsewhere is that this is where the disproportionate number of excellent individuals are due to all the foreigners who really want to succeed coming here. People in Germany are more equally paid because they are more equally stupid.
Guessing the answer to every one of these is no for 90%+ of these guys. But they DO feel it is important enough to go to a march on a microchip in a place that exists in only ones and zeroes.