IMO, the part of the problem with outsourcing is that the jobs are mobile, but the people are not allowed to be as mobile as the jobs, due to immigration laws.
For instance, if my job were outsource to India for 1/3 of the salary they pay me, but that turns out to be a decent living wage in India, I can't say "fine, I'll take the pay cut and move to India!", even if I want to. If all the jobs in my area of expertise move out of the country, I can't follow them, I have to find a new field of employment, because of artificial barriers to my mobility.
If there are going to be artificial barriers to my mobility, I want artificial barriers to my job's mobility as well.
then expect there to be two "editions" of a product.
First, the non-DRM'd version, priced at $10M (cdn), establishing copyright, and then the DRM'd version, controlling access to a copyrighted work.
1 had completed just basic public education (high school)
15 had attended college or technical school
23 had an undergraduate degree (B.S., B.A., etc.)
19 had attended graduate school
15 had a graduate degree (M.S., M.A., etc.)
9 had done further graduate work
19 had a terminal degree (Ph.D., M.D., etc.)
and as for programming experience
4 had 1 year
10 had 2-4 years
31 had 5-9 years
40 had 10-20 years
16 had 20+ years
Then there is the Boston Consulting Group's Hacker Survey, which found
"Contrary to popular belief about hackers, the open source community is mostly comprised of highly skilled IT professionals who have on average over 10 years of programming experience."
When there is an abundance of goods and services, the scarcity is your attention. All the activities, music, movies, resturants etc. are competing for your time, attention and $$$.
I'll grant you, I like having more choices, but the time constraints point out where growth is likely: trendsetting. People want to be able to make decisions without having to read pages of data, or doing testing for themselves. So expect Branding to increase in value, as well as review sites like amazon, epinions, and consumer reports.
Lawyers today filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Jewish people everywhere, vs. Christianity. They claim that the Christians are infringing on their Intellectual Property, known in Christian circles as "The Old Testatment". They also seek to prove that the so-called "New Testament" is a derivative work, based upon characters created in the Old Testament, and thus the exclusive property of the Children of Ahbraham.
Someone decided to kill emusic.com, apparently.
"Unlimited" used to mean "under 2000 tracks a month". For $10, it was a good deal.
Now I'm being told as a subscriber, I have the privilege of paying $50/month to be able to download 300 tracks. That's more than a thirty-fold price increase! It's the same as saying my subscription cost is going from $10/month to $333/month. Not going to happen.
I would have put up with a 2x or even 3x price increase. But not this.
I also see the emusic message boards have been shut down, another bad sign.
At $10/month for a measly 40 tracks, I be going back to buying used CDs instead.
I suspect their customer base will be leaving in droves, and undoubtedly some of them will go back to running p2p apps they had shut down when they discovered emusic.
Emusic.com: it was too good, so it had to be killed.
You only have to sign up for a 3-month subscription at $15/month--basically, one CD a month, cost wise.
And you do keep emusic's mp3s when your subscription is up. They're standard VBR mp3s. You download them, they are yours, even if you don't resubscribe.
Actually, I meant that and govt employee convicted of a crime automatically gets the maximum possible sentence for that crime.
But you are right, I'm not extreme enough.
I think it is high time we started having extreme position bills of our own introduced. E.g., "Copyright shall not exceed 10 years". "All campaign donations must come from individual US citizens, and have SSN attached." "Manditory maximum sentences for crimes committed by government employees."
That means that copying (and all permutations thereof) of that material is restricted.
You know, I think the mistake was made when the monopoly right granted was named "copyright" instead of "publishingright".
Copying, in any and all forms, of any work, should be legal. *Publishing* (aka distributing copies to the public) is what should be restricted.
But, since it's called "copyright", we have lawyers that argue that running a program is a copyright infringment, since a copy of the program is made from disk to RAM, and we have to use "fair use" as a defense for private copying. If it were "publishingright", people wouldn't get into these silly arguements to start with.
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For instance, if my job were outsource to India for 1/3 of the salary they pay me, but that turns out to be a decent living wage in India, I can't say "fine, I'll take the pay cut and move to India!", even if I want to. If all the jobs in my area of expertise move out of the country, I can't follow them, I have to find a new field of employment, because of artificial barriers to my mobility.
If there are going to be artificial barriers to my mobility, I want artificial barriers to my job's mobility as well.
By singing! Obviously, these pills need to be able to disable singing to prevent file sharing.
then expect there to be two "editions" of a product. First, the non-DRM'd version, priced at $10M (cdn), establishing copyright, and then the DRM'd version, controlling access to a copyrighted work.
and as for programming experience
- 4 had 1 year
- 10 had 2-4 years
- 31 had 5-9 years
- 40 had 10-20 years
- 16 had 20+ years
Then there is the Boston Consulting Group's Hacker Survey, which found Occupation ChartHardly what Howard Strauss's article portrays.
Two tools you might want to look at: Swatch or SEC
I'll grant you, I like having more choices, but the time constraints point out where growth is likely: trendsetting. People want to be able to make decisions without having to read pages of data, or doing testing for themselves. So expect Branding to increase in value, as well as review sites like amazon, epinions, and consumer reports.
So the FFA is good, but not the FAA?
What about Fafa Island? or the AAFF?
Charles Parsons first steam turbine was about 1884, so you hat is 119 years old.
Lawyers today filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Jewish people everywhere, vs. Christianity. They claim that the Christians are infringing on their Intellectual Property, known in Christian circles as "The Old Testatment". They also seek to prove that the so-called "New Testament" is a derivative work, based upon characters created in the Old Testament, and thus the exclusive property of the Children of Ahbraham.
Look, if you don't want to comply with the GPL, don't use GPL'd code. It's that simple.
Someone decided to kill emusic.com, apparently. "Unlimited" used to mean "under 2000 tracks a month". For $10, it was a good deal. Now I'm being told as a subscriber, I have the privilege of paying $50/month to be able to download 300 tracks. That's more than a thirty-fold price increase! It's the same as saying my subscription cost is going from $10/month to $333/month. Not going to happen. I would have put up with a 2x or even 3x price increase. But not this. I also see the emusic message boards have been shut down, another bad sign. At $10/month for a measly 40 tracks, I be going back to buying used CDs instead. I suspect their customer base will be leaving in droves, and undoubtedly some of them will go back to running p2p apps they had shut down when they discovered emusic. Emusic.com: it was too good, so it had to be killed.
You only have to sign up for a 3-month subscription at $15/month--basically, one CD a month, cost wise. And you do keep emusic's mp3s when your subscription is up. They're standard VBR mp3s. You download them, they are yours, even if you don't resubscribe.
Actually, I meant that and govt employee convicted of a crime automatically gets the maximum possible sentence for that crime. But you are right, I'm not extreme enough.
I think it is high time we started having extreme position bills of our own introduced. E.g., "Copyright shall not exceed 10 years". "All campaign donations must come from individual US citizens, and have SSN attached." "Manditory maximum sentences for crimes committed by government employees."
And what's the problem with that? Why should we be giving artificial price supports to mediocre art?
Check again. Among other things, the DMCA made copyright violation into a criminal matter. One of the really nasty bits, imo.
You know, I think the mistake was made when the monopoly right granted was named "copyright" instead of "publishingright".
Copying, in any and all forms, of any work, should be legal. *Publishing* (aka distributing copies to the public) is what should be restricted.
But, since it's called "copyright", we have lawyers that argue that running a program is a copyright infringment, since a copy of the program is made from disk to RAM, and we have to use "fair use" as a defense for private copying. If it were "publishingright", people wouldn't get into these silly arguements to start with.
I don't know. Translating the analogy back, Linus Torvalds doesn't seem particularly screwed, though we would miss him if he stopped doing Linux.