Maybe one day the media companies will get a clue.
You know, I've always wondered what this proverbial clue would look like. That is, what model could the media companies adopt make the people who make this argument as an argument for stealing actually use it? As it is, you can go to your local Redbox and get a DVD for $1/day. What is wrong with that? Selection you say? Okay. So what you're looking for is some company who will somehow have literally anything that you're looking for available instantly for a nominal price? I think the logistics behind that are mind-boggling. Seriously, work up some numbers. Since you've implied that it should be easy to do, you should have no problem coming up with a model in which everyone wins. When you do that, go ahead and put yourself in business and make millions. You're welcome.
Do it just like they've been doing with food labeling for a very long time: put both units on the signs for a while with the intent for a cutover at the next refresh. Or, if you want to be really careful about it, you have things in the format of imperial/metric for round 1, then metric/imperial for round 2, then cutover to metric in round 3.
I don't know about paper, but I'd guess that shipping prices are highly correlated to the price of diesel. And, as you can see here, it's about triple what it was 10 years ago. That cost isn't just factored in to getting the book from the distributor to the store where you buy it, but in every step of the manufacturing process where something has to be moved from one place to another. And it's not like business to just eat those costs, so they pass them on to you.
Now imagine if the entire process of making a book were electronic. There's no reams of paper to ship to print it on, no sending the book from the distributor to the consumer. All of those shipping costs are now nil. The million dollar question is: what portion of the price of a book is shipping?
... or perhaps, being a blackberry developer, he's more tuned into what the reality is. Or at least the reality that matters most to him: selling apps.
INCOMPETENCE When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.
In other words, assuming that you're paid a salary (as opposed to an hourly wage), they're paying you for an output, not for time. If you can accomplish the tasks set before you in 10 hours, then the other 30 that you're mandated to be there by your manager are yours. Of course, a good manager will give you more work because they underestimated your abilities. And a wily employee will then ask for correspondingly more pay. But that's the circle of life.
If a soldier disobeys an order because that order goes against their conscience, is that a bad soldier?
Yes. When your job description says X and you willfully don't do X, that makes you bad at your job regardless of what that job is. Now, for your specific example, I think that as a result, soldiers should be absolved of anything that they were under orders to do. This creates situations like (as an extreme example) Nazi concentration camp guards not being prosecuted because they were under orders, but that's what you get.
"Enforcing stupid laws does not make him a bad judge," uh, yes it does.
No, it doesn't. A skimming of this page tells me that Italian system works similarly to how it works in America; there's a legislative branch and a judicial branch (and executive, but that's outside the scope of this discussion). The former is responsible for creating the laws and the judicial is responsible for (in a manner of speaking) enforcing them. For a member of one branch to do the job of the other violates the compartmentalization of the branches. If we start having members of the judicial branch refusing to enforce the laws set forth by the legislative, then neither has any power. That's not to say that an individual judge can't disagree with a law: he can, but has the same recourse as any other citizen to get it changed. But in his professional capacity, he must interpret the law as it was written. To do otherwise would make him a bad judge.
What happens when the company files bankruptcy? A likely sentiment will be "I already payed for recycling, I'm not going to pay again!" and into the garbage it goes. Better to keep it on the back end, imo. That way, you're not relying on the company staying around. If you want to factor in the cost of recycling, do it yourself (i.e. stash the money and use it when it comes time). A bonus there is you get interest because it's in your savings account!
Allow people to pay money to deliver electrical shocks to celebrities every time they "tweet" something stupid. They could make millions in a matter of minutes.
...and you'd be shocking annoying celebrities. Double bonus!
I respectfully have to disagree with you. My vote is with "Extreme Programming". Here's an idea: let's market it like we market Mountain fucking Dew...it's extreme.
Do they make changes to games based on feedback from pre-release versions? Yes. Do they use that data to make versions of the game that are adaptable to the play style of the person playing the game? No.
If only there was some mechanism by which they could collect this data before launching the game to the public. I'd call it an "alpha" release. I think I'll patent the concept...I'll be rich!;)
What is that thing on the cover? It looks kind of like Catwoman got a bunch of crappy henna tattoos. Though the idea of her with a tramp stamp does...things...for me. I'll be in my bunk.
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Maybe one day the media companies will get a clue.
You know, I've always wondered what this proverbial clue would look like. That is, what model could the media companies adopt make the people who make this argument as an argument for stealing actually use it? As it is, you can go to your local Redbox and get a DVD for $1/day. What is wrong with that? Selection you say? Okay. So what you're looking for is some company who will somehow have literally anything that you're looking for available instantly for a nominal price? I think the logistics behind that are mind-boggling. Seriously, work up some numbers. Since you've implied that it should be easy to do, you should have no problem coming up with a model in which everyone wins. When you do that, go ahead and put yourself in business and make millions. You're welcome.
I think the point was that it took them two weeks to arrive at that conclusion. I know I'd have been frustrated in his situation.
But you're assuming that mistakes are detrimental. Mutations are, by definition, a mistake in the genetic copying process.
Unfortunately, it's your bandwidth and power, too. Granted, I get your point about the scalability of this, but your attack ain't free.
President Rockefeller? Err... which president was that again?
Do it just like they've been doing with food labeling for a very long time: put both units on the signs for a while with the intent for a cutover at the next refresh. Or, if you want to be really careful about it, you have things in the format of imperial/metric for round 1, then metric/imperial for round 2, then cutover to metric in round 3.
Most people who use it do so to commit crimes, from trolling to murder.
Two things:
1) Do you have numbers to quantify "most"?
2) Since when is trolling a crime?
I don't know about paper, but I'd guess that shipping prices are highly correlated to the price of diesel. And, as you can see here, it's about triple what it was 10 years ago. That cost isn't just factored in to getting the book from the distributor to the store where you buy it, but in every step of the manufacturing process where something has to be moved from one place to another. And it's not like business to just eat those costs, so they pass them on to you.
Now imagine if the entire process of making a book were electronic. There's no reams of paper to ship to print it on, no sending the book from the distributor to the consumer. All of those shipping costs are now nil. The million dollar question is: what portion of the price of a book is shipping?
You also wouldn't like the internet without open-source software, plenty of it runs various parts of the internet, including DNS.
But the argument "open-source doesn't belong on the web" was never made. So what's your point again?
I suggest that you look up gerund.
No disrespect to those that practice the art of cartography, but for day to day communication... wow.
That word does not mean what you think it means.
... or perhaps, being a blackberry developer, he's more tuned into what the reality is. Or at least the reality that matters most to him: selling apps.
... that that's the variable for determining what the comment character is. perl... is there anything you can't do? ;)
Like Best Buy is going to take back an open movie.
No, but they will exchange it for the same thing. Do that a bunch of times. ("This one doesn't work either")
In other words, assuming that you're paid a salary (as opposed to an hourly wage), they're paying you for an output, not for time. If you can accomplish the tasks set before you in 10 hours, then the other 30 that you're mandated to be there by your manager are yours. Of course, a good manager will give you more work because they underestimated your abilities. And a wily employee will then ask for correspondingly more pay. But that's the circle of life.
If a soldier disobeys an order because that order goes against their conscience, is that a bad soldier?
Yes. When your job description says X and you willfully don't do X, that makes you bad at your job regardless of what that job is. Now, for your specific example, I think that as a result, soldiers should be absolved of anything that they were under orders to do. This creates situations like (as an extreme example) Nazi concentration camp guards not being prosecuted because they were under orders, but that's what you get.
"Enforcing stupid laws does not make him a bad judge," uh, yes it does.
No, it doesn't. A skimming of this page tells me that Italian system works similarly to how it works in America; there's a legislative branch and a judicial branch (and executive, but that's outside the scope of this discussion). The former is responsible for creating the laws and the judicial is responsible for (in a manner of speaking) enforcing them. For a member of one branch to do the job of the other violates the compartmentalization of the branches. If we start having members of the judicial branch refusing to enforce the laws set forth by the legislative, then neither has any power. That's not to say that an individual judge can't disagree with a law: he can, but has the same recourse as any other citizen to get it changed. But in his professional capacity, he must interpret the law as it was written. To do otherwise would make him a bad judge.
we are a 110% Linux household
You can't do more than 100%. To say that you do makes you a tool.
What happens when the company files bankruptcy? A likely sentiment will be "I already payed for recycling, I'm not going to pay again!" and into the garbage it goes. Better to keep it on the back end, imo. That way, you're not relying on the company staying around. If you want to factor in the cost of recycling, do it yourself (i.e. stash the money and use it when it comes time). A bonus there is you get interest because it's in your savings account!
I'm not quite sure based on the review, but is anything procedurally generated in this game?
Allow people to pay money to deliver electrical shocks to celebrities every time they "tweet" something stupid. They could make millions in a matter of minutes.
...and you'd be shocking annoying celebrities. Double bonus!
I respectfully have to disagree with you. My vote is with "Extreme Programming". Here's an idea: let's market it like we market Mountain fucking Dew...it's extreme.
Do they make changes to games based on feedback from pre-release versions? Yes. Do they use that data to make versions of the game that are adaptable to the play style of the person playing the game? No.
If only there was some mechanism by which they could collect this data before launching the game to the public. I'd call it an "alpha" release. I think I'll patent the concept...I'll be rich! ;)
What is that thing on the cover? It looks kind of like Catwoman got a bunch of crappy henna tattoos. Though the idea of her with a tramp stamp does...things...for me. I'll be in my bunk.