Sure I shafted Borland, AutoDesk and all the others, but then I bet they made a whole lot of money afterwards, when I and all the others like me hit the job market and started using their products professionally - on seats paid by the companies I worked for to the tune of many thousands more than a single user seat.
In the case of software, I think many software companies don't pursue individual or educational piracy for this reason. I had an Architectural Drawing instructor in college say that Autodesk willingly allowed and encourage piracy in developing countries to get their foot more in the door there, becoming the standard for CAD over competing products. If they weren't going to get paid for a license, might as well at least not let them go to the competition. Once they became the defacto standard for CAD in the area, then they swept in with licensing enforcement.
When I was in college I took an Analysis of Algorithms course as part of my CS degree. The textbook was $100-something and it was on it's 16th edition or so. Several weeks into the semester, my copy of the book was accidentally destroyed. Searching for a used copy online, I found one of the first several editions for about $10. I took a chance that no that much changed. Aside from the pages yellowing with age, I never found any differences to the current edition. The current edition actually had a few minor typos that the earlier edition that I had didn't have.
Sure they would. They would make large donations during the next election cycle to incumbents or other candidates that will introduce bills reversing the tax, or giving the company a grant or tax break or otherwise returning the money.
The NSA on the other hand will just have anyone associated with the current bill thoroughly investigated for ties to terrorism, drug dealing, child pornography, and movie/tv/music/software piracy. Those that don't capitulate get an all expense paid trip to the nearest federal deep, dark hole until they do.
Myself, I'd get a lawyer's advice when the threat comes in. At the least, I'd feel more comfortable sleeping assured. At best, you've already found someone to handle it if you DO get served.
So what reassuring words will your lawyer tell you so that you can sleep assured? That the other party has a case and your in trouble? Or the other party may or may not have a case, but can still file a case anyways and cost a non-trivial amount of money just to start to defend against it.
It's doubtful any lawyer would ever tell you that they have no case and you have absolutely nothing to worry about. If he does, then you need to find a new lawyer as the courts are full of cases where the plaintiff doesn't have a case but yet they are still there.
You're talking about consumables. What the vendors are doing is the same as a car manufacturer telling you to buy a new car because it's out of date - regardless if it still works or not.
It always comes down to does the cost of the piece of equipment breaking and you being out of commission for some period of time outweigh the cost of replacing it ahead of time when it can be scheduled to minimize downtime.
If you are a traveling salesman an rely 100% on your vehicle, replacing it prior to it's useful life may be beneficial in the long run due to maintenance costs as well as downtime as more and more maintenance is required to keep it in operational shape. Plus the cost of lost opportunity should the vehicle break down and a meeting's missed, a sale is lost, etc.
There's no charge for voting AFAIK, so the only charges are between the voter and their service provider. The show would have no ability to reverse those changes if they even wanted too.
In the first two cases though, the usual lunatic trying to ban them is doing so because it goes against their morals, ethics, beliefs, etc. It's not (usually) based on scientific fact of any dangers that could be lessened, minimized, or eliminated prevented with basic precautions and regulations. While they are entitled to have their own beliefs, they aren't necessarily those of everyone else.
The lunatic trying to ban cell phones is doing so based on unproven scientific "facts", not because of their beliefs one way or another. To me this is almost worst then the other two.
But to answer your question, he hasn't done anything for most of them other than being present at some event or being where he's at in the royal family. Explanation of many of the medals.
Instead of the jury-rigged lash-up this guy used, he could have written an app and taped a smart phone to the inside of the box with a hole cut out for the camera. Much smaller, lighter, self-powered, and it could have MMSd a picture back once an hour with GPS coordinates so he knew where it was.
And pray that: - His more expensive smart phone doesn't get lost. - It doesn't run out of juice because the package took more than the 12-24 hours your average smart phone lasts - It doesn't get discovered and create a stir why it was it was necessary to send frequent pictures/video of the mail facilities (will someone think of terrorism!1!!) - It provides you with GPS information that is more accurate then it usually is inside buildings that likely have poor cellular coverage...and really wouldn't tell you much anyways. - It doesn't take more effort to program a cell phone to take 3 seconds of video every minute and more when it's significantly moving, ultimately still requiring you to reacquire the package to download all the video as it probably was more than what you would want to send via MMS or some other wireless communication method.
Depends on what is being updated. I don't want a car where the ECM, BCM, or any other * control module needs updated except on the very rare occasion.
If I have a nav system, entertainment package, satellite radio, or some other software-controlled electronic device that isn't necessary for the continued safe operation of the vehicle, then yes I want it able to be updated and/or upgraded.
This. I wondered why people were complaining about ads before YouTube videos as I never got them. Adblock just transparently makes them disappear. Same goes for ads in Facebook, Google search results, etc...
Bose speakers are the Monster Cables of the speaker world. You can buy far better, but you can't pay much more. Actually, you can pay more. But if you are only looking at mass merchandised brands sold in major electronic retailers, you probably can't.
Actually, what I think he means is that even if a court grants an order, if the company does not track or have in place a method to monitor communications, then they could be fined in an escalating fashion.
For instance, most ISPs track what address gets assigned to which customer via DHCP, but there have been some ISPs that either don't, or won't give that information out as it's not guaranteed accurate. The FBI could get a court order for the information, but if the ISP doesn't track it, they can just say they don't have it. With the draft, the court could levy a fine against the company that can't or won't implement the necessary logging of that information.
No, not really. Cut the cord some time ago. Mainly rely on streaming. Broadband is great in that regard.
Used a GPS?
No, not recently. Cell tower triangulation and wifi assisted locating is usually enough.
How about looked up a weather report?
Not a weather report, but forecast sure. It was cool a few days ago, yesterday it was warmer so there's a decent chance that it was going to be warmer today since yesterday weather from the west was clear and warmer too. Today it was warmer indeed and pretty sunny, however the rain that ground radar is picking up over Illinois right now probably will make it's way over Northern Indiana sometime tonight, as that's where most weather this time of year comes from for us.
In this case though, barely is used as a adverb to quantify the adjective legal. If we use your simple term of just legal to describe the "barely legal 3-way action", then does the action describe three 18 year, 1 day old performers? Or three 100 year old performers? While there may be a market for either category, I'm guessing that the former is considerably larger than the latter.
Yeah, because your name and DOB pair is SOOOOO hard to find on the internet. It's not as if there are hundreds or thousands of different websites that post that type of information, either from other marketing databases, direct public records, birth announcements from $AGE years ago, etc.
While GAF about where you're birth date is submitted now is noble and all, that battle really was lost a LONG time ago.
My guess is it will be the Boston Marathon Relief Act, or the Stop Terrorism Act, or some feel good sounding name that makes people want to support it just because they don't want to be labeled as supporting terrorism...or not supporting victims of Boston or whatever.
Without TLDs, a single namespace wouldn't be enough for all domains to fit in it.
Sure it would. Some domain names just wouldn't be able to have domain names of their first choice. With 64 character limit for a domain name, and the 37 different characters available in non-internationalized domain names, there's 37^64 unique domain names available, significantly larger than the estimated number of particles in the known universe.
Slashdot Mirror
Things are always remembered bigger then what they really were.
In the case of software, I think many software companies don't pursue individual or educational piracy for this reason. I had an Architectural Drawing instructor in college say that Autodesk willingly allowed and encourage piracy in developing countries to get their foot more in the door there, becoming the standard for CAD over competing products. If they weren't going to get paid for a license, might as well at least not let them go to the competition. Once they became the defacto standard for CAD in the area, then they swept in with licensing enforcement.
When I was in college I took an Analysis of Algorithms course as part of my CS degree. The textbook was $100-something and it was on it's 16th edition or so. Several weeks into the semester, my copy of the book was accidentally destroyed. Searching for a used copy online, I found one of the first several editions for about $10. I took a chance that no that much changed. Aside from the pages yellowing with age, I never found any differences to the current edition. The current edition actually had a few minor typos that the earlier edition that I had didn't have.
Sure they would. They would make large donations during the next election cycle to incumbents or other candidates that will introduce bills reversing the tax, or giving the company a grant or tax break or otherwise returning the money.
The NSA on the other hand will just have anyone associated with the current bill thoroughly investigated for ties to terrorism, drug dealing, child pornography, and movie/tv/music/software piracy. Those that don't capitulate get an all expense paid trip to the nearest federal deep, dark hole until they do.
So what reassuring words will your lawyer tell you so that you can sleep assured? That the other party has a case and your in trouble? Or the other party may or may not have a case, but can still file a case anyways and cost a non-trivial amount of money just to start to defend against it.
It's doubtful any lawyer would ever tell you that they have no case and you have absolutely nothing to worry about. If he does, then you need to find a new lawyer as the courts are full of cases where the plaintiff doesn't have a case but yet they are still there.
It always comes down to does the cost of the piece of equipment breaking and you being out of commission for some period of time outweigh the cost of replacing it ahead of time when it can be scheduled to minimize downtime.
If you are a traveling salesman an rely 100% on your vehicle, replacing it prior to it's useful life may be beneficial in the long run due to maintenance costs as well as downtime as more and more maintenance is required to keep it in operational shape. Plus the cost of lost opportunity should the vehicle break down and a meeting's missed, a sale is lost, etc.
I wouldn't be so sure about the monastery route either.
Porn piracy tracked to computers in Vatican City
Wait, what!?!? It's fake? Crap. I guess I probably should go back to pirating movies and TV shows since those are real then.
There's no charge for voting AFAIK, so the only charges are between the voter and their service provider. The show would have no ability to reverse those changes if they even wanted too.
In the first two cases though, the usual lunatic trying to ban them is doing so because it goes against their morals, ethics, beliefs, etc. It's not (usually) based on scientific fact of any dangers that could be lessened, minimized, or eliminated prevented with basic precautions and regulations. While they are entitled to have their own beliefs, they aren't necessarily those of everyone else.
The lunatic trying to ban cell phones is doing so based on unproven scientific "facts", not because of their beliefs one way or another. To me this is almost worst then the other two.
He's got nothing on Prince Phillip.
But to answer your question, he hasn't done anything for most of them other than being present at some event or being where he's at in the royal family. Explanation of many of the medals.
No. They went to find it elsewhere where it was cheaper. Sales tax may or may not have contributed to why it was cheaper.
And pray that:
- His more expensive smart phone doesn't get lost.
- It doesn't run out of juice because the package took more than the 12-24 hours your average smart phone lasts
- It doesn't get discovered and create a stir why it was it was necessary to send frequent pictures/video of the mail facilities (will someone think of terrorism!1!!)
- It provides you with GPS information that is more accurate then it usually is inside buildings that likely have poor cellular coverage...and really wouldn't tell you much anyways.
- It doesn't take more effort to program a cell phone to take 3 seconds of video every minute and more when it's significantly moving, ultimately still requiring you to reacquire the package to download all the video as it probably was more than what you would want to send via MMS or some other wireless communication method.
Depends on what is being updated. I don't want a car where the ECM, BCM, or any other * control module needs updated except on the very rare occasion.
If I have a nav system, entertainment package, satellite radio, or some other software-controlled electronic device that isn't necessary for the continued safe operation of the vehicle, then yes I want it able to be updated and/or upgraded.
This. I wondered why people were complaining about ads before YouTube videos as I never got them. Adblock just transparently makes them disappear. Same goes for ads in Facebook, Google search results, etc...
Bose speakers are the Monster Cables of the speaker world. You can buy far better, but you can't pay much more. Actually, you can pay more. But if you are only looking at mass merchandised brands sold in major electronic retailers, you probably can't.
Every president since the 22nd amendment was passed at least, post FDR.
And FDR also had a 4th, but decided to slack a little too much early on during that term.
Actually, what I think he means is that even if a court grants an order, if the company does not track or have in place a method to monitor communications, then they could be fined in an escalating fashion.
For instance, most ISPs track what address gets assigned to which customer via DHCP, but there have been some ISPs that either don't, or won't give that information out as it's not guaranteed accurate. The FBI could get a court order for the information, but if the ISP doesn't track it, they can just say they don't have it. With the draft, the court could levy a fine against the company that can't or won't implement the necessary logging of that information.
IU is a public university. Would you prefer tax dollars get spent on a masterpiece of architectural design for a data center?
No, not really. Cut the cord some time ago. Mainly rely on streaming. Broadband is great in that regard.
No, not recently.
Cell tower triangulation and wifi assisted locating is usually enough.
Not a weather report, but forecast sure. It was cool a few days ago, yesterday it was warmer so there's a decent chance that it was going to be warmer today since yesterday weather from the west was clear and warmer too. Today it was warmer indeed and pretty sunny, however the rain that ground radar is picking up over Illinois right now probably will make it's way over Northern Indiana sometime tonight, as that's where most weather this time of year comes from for us.
In this case though, barely is used as a adverb to quantify the adjective legal. If we use your simple term of just legal to describe the "barely legal 3-way action", then does the action describe three 18 year, 1 day old performers? Or three 100 year old performers? While there may be a market for either category, I'm guessing that the former is considerably larger than the latter.
Yeah, because your name and DOB pair is SOOOOO hard to find on the internet. It's not as if there are hundreds or thousands of different websites that post that type of information, either from other marketing databases, direct public records, birth announcements from $AGE years ago, etc.
While GAF about where you're birth date is submitted now is noble and all, that battle really was lost a LONG time ago.
My guess is it will be the Boston Marathon Relief Act, or the Stop Terrorism Act, or some feel good sounding name that makes people want to support it just because they don't want to be labeled as supporting terrorism...or not supporting victims of Boston or whatever.
Sure it would. Some domain names just wouldn't be able to have domain names of their first choice. With 64 character limit for a domain name, and the 37 different characters available in non-internationalized domain names, there's 37^64 unique domain names available, significantly larger than the estimated number of particles in the known universe.
You've hurt my feelings since you didn't obscure SHIT.