I think this whole thing was an intentional stunt by Rockstar to boost sales and get free advertising. What marketing plan could possibly be better than this one? Nothing sells like controversy.
This would be assuming that they take the time to hire a reputable advertising firm, instead of a fly-by-night that just crapfloods their ads wherever they possibly can. Fortunately, I think corporate advertising departments are wising up to this kind of thing, since many companies recently realized their advertising agents were putting their ads into spyware apps.
I've always said that if people in rural areas want special taxes to pay for their phone and internet service then city dwellers should be able to get the rest of the country to subsidize their high housing costs. Afterall, aren't their supposed to be tradeoffs for living in city vs. rural areas?
The whole purpose of Wikipedia is that anyone, absolutely anyone, can add information to a topic. This alone should cause people to be at least somewhat skeptical of what is posted there, but it seems like many people believe all of what they read without even questioning it. You could ask them if they know things on the internet can be false and they'll say yes, but there is some sort of mental disconnect between knowing this fact and applying it to what people actually read.
CD-Rs and CD-RWs are pretty much disposable too. And as a bonus, they can actually hold more than 2 or 3 Word docs and can even hold a document with pictures in it. Unless you're only transferring plain text, there isn't much that fits into 1.44 MB of storage anymore.
This would involve creativity and progressive thought on the part of TV execs, all of which has been really lacking for the last few years. Remember, these are the folks that think the only thing anyone wants to watch is "reality TV".
I just wonder when Microsoft, along with some board manufacturers, will get their collective heads out of their collective asses and realize the 1980s are over and people don't use floppys anymore. We could officially consider the floppy disk to be dead and buried if it weren't required for certain system restores. It seems like a relatively easy fix to allow drivers to be loaded from CD or USB drives or something that holds more than a meg of data.
It's the way the American system of moral values works, as explained in the South Park movie: there's nothing wrong with gratuitous violence just as long as there's no sex.
Unlike all those other electronics companies that send you a free product whenever they come out with a new version? Sony didn't send me a free DVD player just because I bought a VCR from them a few years earlier.
I agree. I think it will be hard for them to be profitable with all of the customization they allow. People will be willing to pay for the novelty at first, but will they sustain a steady flow of business at prices that allow them to make a decent profit?
I've heard of these suits being filed, but the part that is usually less knows is how they usually get dismissed, either before trial or on appeal. The most outrageous cases, like the burglar falling through the skylight and suing, can be confirmed on snopes.com as urban legends. When a jury awards money to the perpitrator of a crime, usually the crime victim had set a booby trap or used very excessive force to defend their property. Juries aren't quite as stupid as popular rumors and legends would have you believe.
I don't think spammers will have much luck with the legal system. It's kind of like calling the cops when someone steals your cocaine. If a spammer sues a vigilante organizer of a DDOS attack, the attacker can simply counter-sue the spammer for costs incurred in dealing with the spam. Who will do better in front of a jury? Since most spammers are fly-by-nights that don't really have the resources for a prolonged legal battle, I'd say most won't bother and will just switch IP addresses like they already do anyway.
Wow. If we adopt your proposed "reforms", unemployment will be at 100% as nobody would hire workers under those conditions. Anyone would rather just fold their company than risk being locked up for firing people. Who would want to hire anyone knowing that they could never get rid of them despite changing business conditions? Please, take an econ class and inform yourself.
While HP quality has slipped in recent years, the Windows ME disaster is Microsoft's fault. Windows ME didn't work well with ANY computer. My brother's Dell came with Win ME and it was a useless lemon until I put XP on it. When Microsoft was testing ME, right before they rushed it out the door, they must have never tried to add peripherals, change network settings, or many other common tasks that were known to completely hose an ME system.
The problem with tough security policies is when politics comes into play. No company will fire their top sales guy or their best programmer for a network security violation, unless it caused catastrophic damage. When someone is discovered to be running an unauthorized server or access point, especially if they didn't necessarily know it was running, the most that can really happen is for IT to remove it and warn the person not to do it again. A well-protected network should include monitoring for this sort of thing so unauthorized devices can be quickly detected and removed before the damage is done.
We're not in 5th grade anymore. CEOs don't decide to commit fraud based on what the president is doing. They decide to commit fraud because of some or all of the following reasons: they have no morals, they don't think they'll get caught, they see an easy opportunity for huge profits, their victim might not fight back. I don't think any CEO waits to see what Bush is going to do before deciding whether to start a stock scam. Although I'm no fan of Bush, it is worth pointing out that the feds are prosecuting white collar crime more aggressively now than a few years ago.
Right. Just like copyrighted broadcasts aren't shown on TV since someone could copy them. And copyrighted movies aren't released to the public on DVD. As it is, studios are just testing the waters to see how much control they can grasp from the user. If the courts consistently rule they have no right to require "broadcast flags" or whatever they are calling it now, they'll get over it and go back to doing what they've done for years: releasing content knowing that someone can copy it if they want. Some people will pirate stuff, but the content producers will keep making money because enough people will buy.
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You must work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Mugabe only claimed to be redistributing the farms of the rich to the poor. In reality, most of them went to his family, friends and political cronies. The people who knew how to run the farms had them confiscated, therefore the farms are now non-productive and the people are starving. It's hard to tell if the man is just a nut or if he seriously believed his misguided policies would help the poor in his country.
Are you trying to imply that there is ANY country in the world where you can publicly threaten to kill it's leader and expect no consequences, or even an investigation by law enforcement?
Ask the starving people in Africa how well the UN has managed things. Ask the people of Darfur how the UN has failed to even try to protect them from genocide. But given that the UN lacks any real enforcement powers, I for one am not too worried about them trying to tax the internet.
The time a patent can be enforced starts at the date of filing, so when an applicant drags out the filing process, it does not gain them extra time. Yes, there are some exceptions to this rule, but it is not nearly as easy to create a submarine patent anymore. And in many cases, examiners are scrutinizing some of these internet patents a lot closer. The patent system certainly needs some improvement, but it is not so broken that it needs to be scrapped. A replacement system would have flaws as well.
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I think this whole thing was an intentional stunt by Rockstar to boost sales and get free advertising. What marketing plan could possibly be better than this one? Nothing sells like controversy.
This would be assuming that they take the time to hire a reputable advertising firm, instead of a fly-by-night that just crapfloods their ads wherever they possibly can. Fortunately, I think corporate advertising departments are wising up to this kind of thing, since many companies recently realized their advertising agents were putting their ads into spyware apps.
I've always said that if people in rural areas want special taxes to pay for their phone and internet service then city dwellers should be able to get the rest of the country to subsidize their high housing costs. Afterall, aren't their supposed to be tradeoffs for living in city vs. rural areas?
The whole purpose of Wikipedia is that anyone, absolutely anyone, can add information to a topic. This alone should cause people to be at least somewhat skeptical of what is posted there, but it seems like many people believe all of what they read without even questioning it. You could ask them if they know things on the internet can be false and they'll say yes, but there is some sort of mental disconnect between knowing this fact and applying it to what people actually read.
CD-Rs and CD-RWs are pretty much disposable too. And as a bonus, they can actually hold more than 2 or 3 Word docs and can even hold a document with pictures in it. Unless you're only transferring plain text, there isn't much that fits into 1.44 MB of storage anymore.
This would involve creativity and progressive thought on the part of TV execs, all of which has been really lacking for the last few years. Remember, these are the folks that think the only thing anyone wants to watch is "reality TV".
I just wonder when Microsoft, along with some board manufacturers, will get their collective heads out of their collective asses and realize the 1980s are over and people don't use floppys anymore. We could officially consider the floppy disk to be dead and buried if it weren't required for certain system restores. It seems like a relatively easy fix to allow drivers to be loaded from CD or USB drives or something that holds more than a meg of data.
It's the way the American system of moral values works, as explained in the South Park movie: there's nothing wrong with gratuitous violence just as long as there's no sex.
Unlike all those other electronics companies that send you a free product whenever they come out with a new version? Sony didn't send me a free DVD player just because I bought a VCR from them a few years earlier.
I agree. I think it will be hard for them to be profitable with all of the customization they allow. People will be willing to pay for the novelty at first, but will they sustain a steady flow of business at prices that allow them to make a decent profit?
I've heard of these suits being filed, but the part that is usually less knows is how they usually get dismissed, either before trial or on appeal. The most outrageous cases, like the burglar falling through the skylight and suing, can be confirmed on snopes.com as urban legends. When a jury awards money to the perpitrator of a crime, usually the crime victim had set a booby trap or used very excessive force to defend their property. Juries aren't quite as stupid as popular rumors and legends would have you believe.
I don't think spammers will have much luck with the legal system. It's kind of like calling the cops when someone steals your cocaine. If a spammer sues a vigilante organizer of a DDOS attack, the attacker can simply counter-sue the spammer for costs incurred in dealing with the spam. Who will do better in front of a jury? Since most spammers are fly-by-nights that don't really have the resources for a prolonged legal battle, I'd say most won't bother and will just switch IP addresses like they already do anyway.
The valuable lives got checks in the millions of dollars, the janitors families got 1/10th of that.
Do you have any evidence of this, like a link to support your claim? Didn't think so.
Western Europe has done an excellent job of achieving a healthy balance between the two extremes.
Which is why they have double digit unemployment.
Wow. If we adopt your proposed "reforms", unemployment will be at 100% as nobody would hire workers under those conditions. Anyone would rather just fold their company than risk being locked up for firing people. Who would want to hire anyone knowing that they could never get rid of them despite changing business conditions? Please, take an econ class and inform yourself.
While HP quality has slipped in recent years, the Windows ME disaster is Microsoft's fault. Windows ME didn't work well with ANY computer. My brother's Dell came with Win ME and it was a useless lemon until I put XP on it. When Microsoft was testing ME, right before they rushed it out the door, they must have never tried to add peripherals, change network settings, or many other common tasks that were known to completely hose an ME system.
The problem with tough security policies is when politics comes into play. No company will fire their top sales guy or their best programmer for a network security violation, unless it caused catastrophic damage. When someone is discovered to be running an unauthorized server or access point, especially if they didn't necessarily know it was running, the most that can really happen is for IT to remove it and warn the person not to do it again. A well-protected network should include monitoring for this sort of thing so unauthorized devices can be quickly detected and removed before the damage is done.
We're not in 5th grade anymore. CEOs don't decide to commit fraud based on what the president is doing. They decide to commit fraud because of some or all of the following reasons: they have no morals, they don't think they'll get caught, they see an easy opportunity for huge profits, their victim might not fight back. I don't think any CEO waits to see what Bush is going to do before deciding whether to start a stock scam. Although I'm no fan of Bush, it is worth pointing out that the feds are prosecuting white collar crime more aggressively now than a few years ago.
Right. Just like copyrighted broadcasts aren't shown on TV since someone could copy them. And copyrighted movies aren't released to the public on DVD. As it is, studios are just testing the waters to see how much control they can grasp from the user. If the courts consistently rule they have no right to require "broadcast flags" or whatever they are calling it now, they'll get over it and go back to doing what they've done for years: releasing content knowing that someone can copy it if they want. Some people will pirate stuff, but the content producers will keep making money because enough people will buy.
You must work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Mugabe only claimed to be redistributing the farms of the rich to the poor. In reality, most of them went to his family, friends and political cronies. The people who knew how to run the farms had them confiscated, therefore the farms are now non-productive and the people are starving. It's hard to tell if the man is just a nut or if he seriously believed his misguided policies would help the poor in his country.
Are you trying to imply that there is ANY country in the world where you can publicly threaten to kill it's leader and expect no consequences, or even an investigation by law enforcement?
Ask the starving people in Africa how well the UN has managed things. Ask the people of Darfur how the UN has failed to even try to protect them from genocide. But given that the UN lacks any real enforcement powers, I for one am not too worried about them trying to tax the internet.
The time a patent can be enforced starts at the date of filing, so when an applicant drags out the filing process, it does not gain them extra time. Yes, there are some exceptions to this rule, but it is not nearly as easy to create a submarine patent anymore. And in many cases, examiners are scrutinizing some of these internet patents a lot closer. The patent system certainly needs some improvement, but it is not so broken that it needs to be scrapped. A replacement system would have flaws as well.