Think about the one-time cost of losing that 1st case.01% chance of losing 100 million, or 100% chance of losing 100 thousand, which would you choose? Now consider that if you do lose that 1st case a ton of other people will sue you using the results of the 1st case as preceident, which will make you very likly to lose the other cases. So the true cost (not including time and legal fees) becomes.01% of 100million * A lot more lawsuits, verse 100% of 100thousand * A few more lawsuits. Now add in the bad press and that kind of stuff and it ends up being a lot cheaper in many cases to just settle. Obviously the math needs to change depending on the situation, but at least some companies do this sort of analysis before deciding whether to settle or fight.
But if the DRM system has 1 flaw that they didn't think about, chances are over a few years someone will find it and exploit it tereby making everything that used that scheme useless.
Also, what happens to your music when your computer dies? With music downloaded from ITunes can you buy a new computer and easily transfer your whole library of DRMed music to it and then trash (donate, use as door stop, etc) your old one? What if a hardware failure occures? Issues like these prevent me from buying ebooks with DRM, and will prob prevent me from buying anything with DRM.
No you can't, that's why we have multiple OS's, and multiple Linux distros and multiple windowing enviorments. Personally I'd rather have everything start in the menu system and have an easy way to modify the menu's (I create a RarelyUsed submenu), but that's just me.
I just with companies would send out digitally signed paperless bills. That way one could keep them on CD and use them to show that a mistake was made (if one was made). Until that happens I will continue to keep paper bills.
Although now that I think about it, I audit stuff as soon as the bill gets sent to me (ok, so in my world that's a few weeks), if there is a problem I call and fix it right away. Whats the difference between paper and email when I call to say that my bill is wrong? For everything (except for maybe banks) you should have proof in another account, such as to prove you paid your credit card bill, just check your bank statement. Ok, now I'm confused about what I should do.
If I remember correctly I was able to play starcraft on a Pentium 133 MMX, it was in a machine meant for a K6-3 450 so the ram and video card were relativly fast, but starcraft can be played on (almost) any (x86) machine that people have these days.
If I remember correctly, small RFID devices can be powered by radio waves. So the act of sending a request to this device could give it enough power to send a response.
There are OSs other then Linux, and I think it's more benfitial to learn from scratch (with an instructor's assistence) then it is to look at Linux. If the only OS anyone ever looks at is Linux then people will think that that's the only way, but if people are able to be creative and solve the problems of building a basic OS like we had to do in our systems programming class, then they learn how an OS work AND how to solve problems AND when they look at Linux they can see how others solved the same problems.
I hated that one of my partners in systems programmer wanted our OS to be exactly like Linux in every way, he didn't want to do anything his own way.
It was really easy to show the difference between P and NP problems in my algorithms class and we ran all of our software on sun boxes from 2000ish. With an NP algorithm it took over a minute with 20-30 data points, but with a P algorithm it could do thousands of data points in the same amount of time. That did make me say "Wow" and it was on relativly modern hardware.
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Just be glad she didn't just say "I don't find you attractive" and then the next day say "Your exactly the type of guy I want to marry." and then a few months later start dating your roommate/best friend...no I'm not bitter
In quantum mechanics mass is energy is mass. It brings up the idea that photons sometimes act like particles and sometimes act like waves. And as far as I remember when an nuclear reaction occurs a small amount of mass is lost, and the amount of energy created is e=mc^2.
Could there be some system where the GPS system can be turned on and off? And in order to bill time the system must be turned on for the whole billable period. That way the operator can choose to remain private and not get paid, or get paid and be held accountable.
Of course this brings up all sorts of problems, such as "You shut your plow off for 45min while you were supposed to be billed, and a crime happened to of occured during those same 45min, you must be guilty."
Why aren't companies required to advertise the final price? I mean include taxes and all those other small things that seem to make a good deal not so good.
I currently have an Acura with a navigation system built in, and I can tell you that there is no need for a familiar windows interface in that car. It's easy to use, and the only complaint I have is that it's kinda slow and adding windows probably won't speed it up. As an added thought the 2004 Acura TL already has blue tooth, plays mp3 CDs, and has speech recognition for a navigation system thats better then mine. What does Honda gain by going with Microsoft?
I've also seen the navigation systems in both BMW's and Benz's, and both of them need to become much more user friendly, so I can see them asking Microsoft for help.
Having a piece of paper you can take home with you allows for the buying and selling of votes. I can just see some mob guys coming to my house, insisting I vote for person A, and telling me that they'll break my legs unless I bring them a receipt showing that I voted for person A.
Also, your assuming that some where along the line someone isn't adding votes. Personally I see no way to prove noone is adding votes without some sort of paper trail and no way to prove that the machine is working properly without some sort of auditing mechinism.
Because if people were to start doing this all someone would have to do is sending out spam claiming it's from an innocent company (amazon, buy.com, apple.com, etc) and then they have people DDoSing for them.
And if they do listen to the file and it turns out to be copyrighted by the party sending it, then can the party who sent it sue the ISP for listening to the song w/o a license?
I hope that people still consider softwrae piracy to be wrong. If a school project requires a piece of software (that is not provided by the school) then I'd hope my kids would come to me with that problem so I could chew out thier teachers. Just because it's not theft doesn't make it alright to do.
"I'd recommend you back of any kids above 13-14 as they're old enough to understand what's right and wrong and francly [sp] unless you live in Nebraska, they already know everything there is to know..."
Wait a few years...I used to think the same thing years ago...now all I truely know is that I will never know enough, I will never be wise, and I will never be able to spell correctly...
FYI: I'm only 23, college (especially grad school) teaches you that there is more to the world then you could have even considered in high school.
Think about it this way, how is it different then letting them hang out with friends? The evils of drugs and liquor are out in real life and the evils of piracy, hacking, etc are on the internet. The best thing you can do is to a) trust them to do what's best, b) gain their respect so that they don't want to let you down, and c) explain to them what you consider really bad and WHY you consider that stuff really bad.
For c, make sure to keep it to the really importent stuff because as the above post said they'll be looking at porn no matter what, but you need to make sure that they understand that faking credit card numbers or stealing passwords to gain access to anything is unacceptable. By explaining why you disapprove of something, you are showing that you respect them because it's more like your trying to convince them that something is bad instead of just saying it's bad.
As a 23 year old who had a computer in his room and internet access through most of high school I can say the main thing that kept me out of trouble was me not wanting to disappoint my dad, but the freedom he gave me allowed me to grow.
I wonder, what if people don't want to upgrade to the new media that doesn't have any significant benifits? Will they just look on the internet and pirate the music they want?
The article says that warming batteries reduces their life. Anyways, I've always heard that frezing a nearly dead battery will make it work well again for a short period of time.
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Think about it, the Baby Boomers will retire and fewer kids will go into computer science due to the lack of programming jobs.
Hopefully that will reduce the supply of programmers enough so that the good ones will still be able to find jobs.
Or maybe I should go and get my MBA in the next few years
Think about the one-time cost of losing that 1st case .01% chance of losing 100 million, or 100% chance of losing 100 thousand, which would you choose? Now consider that if you do lose that 1st case a ton of other people will sue you using the results of the 1st case as preceident, which will make you very likly to lose the other cases. So the true cost (not including time and legal fees) becomes .01% of 100million * A lot more lawsuits, verse 100% of 100thousand * A few more lawsuits. Now add in the bad press and that kind of stuff and it ends up being a lot cheaper in many cases to just settle.
Obviously the math needs to change depending on the situation, but at least some companies do this sort of analysis before deciding whether to settle or fight.
But if the DRM system has 1 flaw that they didn't think about, chances are over a few years someone will find it and exploit it tereby making everything that used that scheme useless.
Also, what happens to your music when your computer dies? With music downloaded from ITunes can you buy a new computer and easily transfer your whole library of DRMed music to it and then trash (donate, use as door stop, etc) your old one? What if a hardware failure occures? Issues like these prevent me from buying ebooks with DRM, and will prob prevent me from buying anything with DRM.
It's not easy to hear new music if all you do is listen to MP3s of CDs you legally own...
This only proves that you can't please everyone.
No you can't, that's why we have multiple OS's, and multiple Linux distros and multiple windowing enviorments. Personally I'd rather have everything start in the menu system and have an easy way to modify the menu's (I create a RarelyUsed submenu), but that's just me.
I just with companies would send out digitally signed paperless bills. That way one could keep them on CD and use them to show that a mistake was made (if one was made). Until that happens I will continue to keep paper bills.
Although now that I think about it, I audit stuff as soon as the bill gets sent to me (ok, so in my world that's a few weeks), if there is a problem I call and fix it right away. Whats the difference between paper and email when I call to say that my bill is wrong? For everything (except for maybe banks) you should have proof in another account, such as to prove you paid your credit card bill, just check your bank statement.
Ok, now I'm confused about what I should do.
If I remember correctly I was able to play starcraft on a Pentium 133 MMX, it was in a machine meant for a K6-3 450 so the ram and video card were relativly fast, but starcraft can be played on (almost) any (x86) machine that people have these days.
If I remember correctly, small RFID devices can be powered by radio waves. So the act of sending a request to this device could give it enough power to send a response.
There are OSs other then Linux, and I think it's more benfitial to learn from scratch (with an instructor's assistence) then it is to look at Linux. If the only OS anyone ever looks at is Linux then people will think that that's the only way, but if people are able to be creative and solve the problems of building a basic OS like we had to do in our systems programming class, then they learn how an OS work AND how to solve problems AND when they look at Linux they can see how others solved the same problems.
I hated that one of my partners in systems programmer wanted our OS to be exactly like Linux in every way, he didn't want to do anything his own way.
It was really easy to show the difference between P and NP problems in my algorithms class and we ran all of our software on sun boxes from 2000ish. With an NP algorithm it took over a minute with 20-30 data points, but with a P algorithm it could do thousands of data points in the same amount of time. That did make me say "Wow" and it was on relativly modern hardware.
Just be glad she didn't just say "I don't find you attractive" and then the next day say "Your exactly the type of guy I want to marry." and then a few months later start dating your roommate/best friend...no I'm not bitter
In quantum mechanics mass is energy is mass. It brings up the idea that photons sometimes act like particles and sometimes act like waves. And as far as I remember when an nuclear reaction occurs a small amount of mass is lost, and the amount of energy created is e=mc^2.
IBM and Sun support Linux just because it can make them money. Why is that bad? And if it's not, why can't Wal-Mart sell Linux just to make money?
I'm sure you agree that increasing the marketshare for Linux is a good thing.
Could there be some system where the GPS system can be turned on and off? And in order to bill time the system must be turned on for the whole billable period. That way the operator can choose to remain private and not get paid, or get paid and be held accountable.
Of course this brings up all sorts of problems, such as "You shut your plow off for 45min while you were supposed to be billed, and a crime happened to of occured during those same 45min, you must be guilty."
Oh well, nothing's perfect.
Why aren't companies required to advertise the final price? I mean include taxes and all those other small things that seem to make a good deal not so good.
I currently have an Acura with a navigation system built in, and I can tell you that there is no need for a familiar windows interface in that car. It's easy to use, and the only complaint I have is that it's kinda slow and adding windows probably won't speed it up. As an added thought the 2004 Acura TL already has blue tooth, plays mp3 CDs, and has speech recognition for a navigation system thats better then mine. What does Honda gain by going with Microsoft?
I've also seen the navigation systems in both BMW's and Benz's, and both of them need to become much more user friendly, so I can see them asking Microsoft for help.
Having a piece of paper you can take home with you allows for the buying and selling of votes. I can just see some mob guys coming to my house, insisting I vote for person A, and telling me that they'll break my legs unless I bring them a receipt showing that I voted for person A.
Also, your assuming that some where along the line someone isn't adding votes. Personally I see no way to prove noone is adding votes without some sort of paper trail and no way to prove that the machine is working properly without some sort of auditing mechinism.
Because if people were to start doing this all someone would have to do is sending out spam claiming it's from an innocent company (amazon, buy.com, apple.com, etc) and then they have people DDoSing for them.
And if they do listen to the file and it turns out to be copyrighted by the party sending it, then can the party who sent it sue the ISP for listening to the song w/o a license?
I hope that people still consider softwrae piracy to be wrong. If a school project requires a piece of software (that is not provided by the school) then I'd hope my kids would come to me with that problem so I could chew out thier teachers. Just because it's not theft doesn't make it alright to do.
"I'd recommend you back of any kids above 13-14 as they're old enough to understand what's right and wrong and francly [sp] unless you live in Nebraska, they already know everything there is to know..."
Wait a few years...I used to think the same thing years ago...now all I truely know is that I will never know enough, I will never be wise, and I will never be able to spell correctly...
FYI: I'm only 23, college (especially grad school) teaches you that there is more to the world then you could have even considered in high school.
Think about it this way, how is it different then letting them hang out with friends? The evils of drugs and liquor are out in real life and the evils of piracy, hacking, etc are on the internet. The best thing you can do is to a) trust them to do what's best, b) gain their respect so that they don't want to let you down, and c) explain to them what you consider really bad and WHY you consider that stuff really bad.
For c, make sure to keep it to the really importent stuff because as the above post said they'll be looking at porn no matter what, but you need to make sure that they understand that faking credit card numbers or stealing passwords to gain access to anything is unacceptable. By explaining why you disapprove of something, you are showing that you respect them because it's more like your trying to convince them that something is bad instead of just saying it's bad.
As a 23 year old who had a computer in his room and internet access through most of high school I can say the main thing that kept me out of trouble was me not wanting to disappoint my dad, but the freedom he gave me allowed me to grow.
I wonder, what if people don't want to upgrade to the new media that doesn't have any significant benifits? Will they just look on the internet and pirate the music they want?
The article says that warming batteries reduces their life. Anyways, I've always heard that frezing a nearly dead battery will make it work well again for a short period of time.