Piracy is an economic problem. If people are stealing your shit then you are missing out on markets where they could be paying you for it(up until a point at any rate).
In Somlia Piracy started working because you could get a hostage of ship and crew and be paid millions of dollars for 6 months of work. As long as insurance companies keep paying the pirate problem there won't go away.
For media companies(music, video, news, books). the answer is simple people want to consume such stuff at a time, place and manner that they choose. The icon image of a woman jogging with a SONY Walkman, is hilarious when you stop and think something like 90% of joggers where listening to custom mix tapes that they dubbed off of other tapes, cd's, or from the Radio. People are very used to sharing music and video with their friends and neighbors. DRM is an attempt to stop that sharing. Piracy in many cases is doing just that.
The RIAA completely misunderstood Napster. they saw money being lost not a chance at making more money. It took 6 years and one billion itunes downloads before they realized just how badly they fucked up.
that's debatable. Bush one the popular vote by a couple thousand votes(over an even bigger idiot I might add) however in reality less than 1/6th the population voted for him. slightly less than 1/6th voted for Kerry and 4/6th decided that neither candidate was worth voting for.
When your country is growing copyright, patents, etc are often ignored by governement because there is always new ideas.
However once you start going down you keep extending and expanding your "Intellectual property" rights because you don't want people to do you want you do to others.
Therefore if you want to grow you need to cut copyright and patents back to short terms. I suggest the life of the author for copyright, and 10 years for patents without products and 15 years for patents with shipping products.
just because the laws are the same doesn't mean we understand them all. We have no f'ing clue on how gravity works only the few properties that we can measure.
16% for a combustion engine is a huge jump.
now we know Fusion is possible however according to you since we can't do it now that means it isn't actually possible.
We have made massive jumps in material science in the last 50 years(remember the spandex in your socks wasn't invented at that point.) We can push atoms around and built at levels only slightly above individual atoms.
There doesn't have to be new chemical elements we haven't fully explored the ones we have yet. Not even close.
If you understood economics then you know having a debt loadthat your grandchildren wont live to see paid off is a bad thing.
Real economists understood that during 2000-2008 we never recovered from the dot bomb. That the only thing moving forward was low interest rates driving new home sales and anything not in those industries barely grew at all. Yet we doubled our debt, and cut our income at the same time.
Now congress resists trying to restore income, and you say it is a good thing.
Let the moon help with that. it is rock, and tunnel machines can work robotically. Then it is a matter of sealing it off and letting the rock itself be your shielding.
two machines, and create a V shaped complex. It doesn't have to be very long at least as far as tunnels go. and once built the inner layers would be easy enough to seal off.
ah but that is the trick, if you want new designs you need to invest in the R&D.
for computers the R&D is done by companies looking to make money by selling the "Best", for military they have to foot their own R&D costs on top of procurement costs.
You can't have the "latest" without someone spending the R&D to build the damn thing to begin with.
Also as things age it gets harder to get replacement parts. look at the A-10. The Air Force has tried to discontinue it several times, however it keeps proving itself reliable in combat. Now they have to go so far as to reverse engineer new parts out of old parts in order to keep the planes flying.
If the Air Force would put up with a slow plane or simply let the Marines build the damn things then everything wouldn't be bad.
The F-117 over Kosovo was quite literally the product of bad generals and bad "theratre" management. it flew the same route every night. all they had to do was wait until late at night and throw up a couple of rockets. They knew when and where it will be and so failed not do to tech but bad field managers.
So you just admitted that the problem was going to solve itself.
You see china pollutes itself into death. they either clean up by creating their own EPA style regulations, or they die off either way the costs will begin to rise thus making it less useful to have stuff built in China.
40% of this country isn't earning enough to be taxed. 30% of this country has zero health insurance because health insurance is only for those with money. This is the problem of capitalism It doesn't make sense finically to let the poor live longer. if you don't like that attitude tough but that is one that the USA lives in. I don't like it but every time someone tries to change it the rich conservatives go ape shit.
sometimes they do, but most of it goes into their election coffers where more money means more ads, which means you can drown out your opposition through shear repetition See Newt grinch's recent win in South CArolina.
Made in the usa means more expensive and lower quality on mass produced goods. On short runs, or one offs the standard is higher but if you need more than 1 million units a quarter USA labor just isn't a good value.
Just remember not many will buy a $3,000 smart phone. Just remember when Apple announced the iPad at $499 every company on the market that was doing the same thing had to shelve all their designs and start over as they were expecting a $999 tablet.
Besides the USA is Capitalism. Capitalism means to exploit the workers for the least amount possible. I don't know why people have such a hard time understanding that Capitalism working means the workers get screwed. it isn't useful to have happy employees.
that's just it we have 100 years of accurate data. 100 years of data that can justify increases of showing 1 degree C.
Everything else is guessed based on guesses, and simulations those same simulations which can't tell the difference between a really bad weather spot in one location and world wide weather.
and why your dumber than a rock. with warmer weather will create an increase in snowfall look at alaska and the pacific northwest while NY is getting half of it's normal snowfall.
you can't take measurements from one place and figure out the worlds weather. however all data older than 100 years is basically that. you only get localized measurements based on that locations snowfall.
why don't you look at the data, and HOW it is gathered and from WHERE it is gathered.
no you just won't admit that the weather is far more complex than you can imagine.
the thing is not that the earth is getting warmer but why?
Most of the ice sheets that are melting are only 5-10 thousand years old. that means 10,000 years ago it was warm enough that they didn't fucking exist. We also know in the past the earth was a lot warmer than it is now.
So how come it is humans warming up the planet when the planet not only has been warmer in the past without humans, but has done so in the last 10,000 years before humans even had domesticated animals.
I can believe our burning CO2 into the atmosphere is bad. the smog is a great example of that. However that doesn't mean that this isn't part of a normal warming and cool trend the planet goes through. In fact not a single person who supports Global warming will even look at such data.
So water levels increase? It will be disastrous, but the majority will survive.
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The UAE is a progressive Islamic country. Getting drunk in public is illegal. Getting arrested for it is a nasty crime.
Women wearing certian skirts is also forbidden. At least they dont have to cover their heads and can go to school after 9 years old.
If thats what you mean by progressive at least. All that said their are christians that wantto treat women the same way.
Most likely not. However google is laying fiber where AT&T won't even update its breaking copper in most cities.
funny I use mine all the time.
Sort of like touch screen phones before the iphone.(note not since) you don't know what you are missing until someone shows it to you.
I can on my iphone at the same time.
Play music, run the GPS, and using bluetooth receive a call and continue following the GPS.
Can you? No then you never tried you can do one or the other but never both.
yea but you can't talk and surf at the same time. something that is possible on GSM.
you can't receive a text message with a link, and go to that link while getting voice directions for greater understanding.
Yes and no.
Piracy is an economic problem. If people are stealing your shit then you are missing out on markets where they could be paying you for it(up until a point at any rate).
In Somlia Piracy started working because you could get a hostage of ship and crew and be paid millions of dollars for 6 months of work. As long as insurance companies keep paying the pirate problem there won't go away.
For media companies(music, video, news, books). the answer is simple people want to consume such stuff at a time, place and manner that they choose. The icon image of a woman jogging with a SONY Walkman, is hilarious when you stop and think something like 90% of joggers where listening to custom mix tapes that they dubbed off of other tapes, cd's, or from the Radio. People are very used to sharing music and video with their friends and neighbors. DRM is an attempt to stop that sharing. Piracy in many cases is doing just that.
The RIAA completely misunderstood Napster. they saw money being lost not a chance at making more money. It took 6 years and one billion itunes downloads before they realized just how badly they fucked up.
Thats just it atoms have measurable sizes therefore it cant be a single point.
To put it in perspective if you look at the solar system from the side since it is only one planet thick then it is only a point.
Atoms have orbits wuth measurable distancesunderstanding those distance is a huge part of engineering on that level.
It can never be 2D. Thinking it as such limits understanding.
that's debatable. Bush one the popular vote by a couple thousand votes(over an even bigger idiot I might add) however in reality less than 1/6th the population voted for him. slightly less than 1/6th voted for Kerry and 4/6th decided that neither candidate was worth voting for.
If only not voting counted for something.
It is simple really.
When your country is growing copyright, patents, etc are often ignored by governement because there is always new ideas.
However once you start going down you keep extending and expanding your "Intellectual property" rights because you don't want people to do you want you do to others.
Therefore if you want to grow you need to cut copyright and patents back to short terms. I suggest the life of the author for copyright, and 10 years for patents without products and 15 years for patents with shipping products.
ah but the FDA says I can't touch food with my hands and the health care company calls it a hand.
How many servers? How much bandwidth?
Not even WOW was originally released every where at the same time to adjust to load.
The fact is until you get hard numbers you can't take it for granted exactly how much you need.
Apple added 37 million 4S users in the last quarter. did you know in October how many iphones they would sell?
just because the laws are the same doesn't mean we understand them all. We have no f'ing clue on how gravity works only the few properties that we can measure.
16% for a combustion engine is a huge jump.
now we know Fusion is possible however according to you since we can't do it now that means it isn't actually possible.
We have made massive jumps in material science in the last 50 years(remember the spandex in your socks wasn't invented at that point.) We can push atoms around and built at levels only slightly above individual atoms.
There doesn't have to be new chemical elements we haven't fully explored the ones we have yet. Not even close.
If you understood economics then you know having a debt loadthat your grandchildren wont live to see paid off is a bad thing.
Real economists understood that during 2000-2008 we never recovered from the dot bomb. That the only thing moving forward was low interest rates driving new home sales and anything not in those industries barely grew at all. Yet we doubled our debt, and cut our income at the same time.
Now congress resists trying to restore income, and you say it is a good thing.
Let the moon help with that. it is rock, and tunnel machines can work robotically. Then it is a matter of sealing it off and letting the rock itself be your shielding.
two machines, and create a V shaped complex. It doesn't have to be very long at least as far as tunnels go. and once built the inner layers would be easy enough to seal off.
ah but that is the trick, if you want new designs you need to invest in the R&D.
for computers the R&D is done by companies looking to make money by selling the "Best", for military they have to foot their own R&D costs on top of procurement costs.
You can't have the "latest" without someone spending the R&D to build the damn thing to begin with.
Also as things age it gets harder to get replacement parts. look at the A-10. The Air Force has tried to discontinue it several times, however it keeps proving itself reliable in combat. Now they have to go so far as to reverse engineer new parts out of old parts in order to keep the planes flying.
If the Air Force would put up with a slow plane or simply let the Marines build the damn things then everything wouldn't be bad.
The F-117 over Kosovo was quite literally the product of bad generals and bad "theratre" management. it flew the same route every night. all they had to do was wait until late at night and throw up a couple of rockets. They knew when and where it will be and so failed not do to tech but bad field managers.
So you just admitted that the problem was going to solve itself.
You see china pollutes itself into death. they either clean up by creating their own EPA style regulations, or they die off either way the costs will begin to rise thus making it less useful to have stuff built in China.
40% of this country isn't earning enough to be taxed. 30% of this country has zero health insurance because health insurance is only for those with money. This is the problem of capitalism It doesn't make sense finically to let the poor live longer. if you don't like that attitude tough but that is one that the USA lives in. I don't like it but every time someone tries to change it the rich conservatives go ape shit.
sometimes they do, but most of it goes into their election coffers where more money means more ads, which means you can drown out your opposition through shear repetition See Newt grinch's recent win in South CArolina.
Let me put it this way.
If apple was really making that much money on individual units then their should be lots of competition in the market.
Fact is it has taken nearly three years and most of the competition is more expensive for similar build quality.
Besides parts, labor, are only part of the costs, your forgetting shipping, management, storage, distribution, marketing, etc.
So your numbers mean jack shit in face of reality.
that 23% is also the difference between a successful product line and one shut down.
When your overall margin is 20-30% 23% is a big deal.
at five times the cost?
Made in the usa means more expensive and lower quality on mass produced goods. On short runs, or one offs the standard is higher but if you need more than 1 million units a quarter USA labor just isn't a good value.
Just remember not many will buy a $3,000 smart phone. Just remember when Apple announced the iPad at $499 every company on the market that was doing the same thing had to shelve all their designs and start over as they were expecting a $999 tablet.
Besides the USA is Capitalism. Capitalism means to exploit the workers for the least amount possible. I don't know why people have such a hard time understanding that Capitalism working means the workers get screwed. it isn't useful to have happy employees.
that's just it we have 100 years of accurate data. 100 years of data that can justify increases of showing 1 degree C.
Everything else is guessed based on guesses, and simulations those same simulations which can't tell the difference between a really bad weather spot in one location and world wide weather.
but that is just the point.
and why your dumber than a rock. with warmer weather will create an increase in snowfall look at alaska and the pacific northwest while NY is getting half of it's normal snowfall.
you can't take measurements from one place and figure out the worlds weather. however all data older than 100 years is basically that. you only get localized measurements based on that locations snowfall.
why don't you look at the data, and HOW it is gathered and from WHERE it is gathered.
no you just won't admit that the weather is far more complex than you can imagine.
the thing is not that the earth is getting warmer but why?
Most of the ice sheets that are melting are only 5-10 thousand years old. that means 10,000 years ago it was warm enough that they didn't fucking exist. We also know in the past the earth was a lot warmer than it is now.
So how come it is humans warming up the planet when the planet not only has been warmer in the past without humans, but has done so in the last 10,000 years before humans even had domesticated animals.
I can believe our burning CO2 into the atmosphere is bad. the smog is a great example of that. However that doesn't mean that this isn't part of a normal warming and cool trend the planet goes through. In fact not a single person who supports Global warming will even look at such data.
So water levels increase? It will be disastrous, but the majority will survive.
How do you put lights in the ceiling then? what about a second story?
Even modular homes, have such features. with this it would be impractical.
the $600 dollar price was because of the blue ray drive. now it isn't important but being playable only on 3D tv will be.
and yes you will have to have your sony PS4 3D glasses, to play said games.
No we will live in 8.3 file names as long as FAT is the defacto standard for all portable drives.
My only wish is for MSFT to support a filesystem they didnt create. That way a third paty FS can get used for portable media