This is what makes acts like the CANSPAM act so silly. Does anyone really think we'll be able to deal with it, legally or otherwise, until we have the technology implimented to do so?
It's always a balancing act, in my view. Yes, I get frustrated with hardware problems, software problems (stupid Office...crashed on my 3 times just last night on an otherwise rock stable box) and the like, but I also realize that I am a lot more productive and entertained, even if there are distractions. I am always entertained by people that talk about how much time the computers take and then they say something silly like "back when I was on a typewriter, blah, blah, blah" and I usually retort that they are usually doing the jobs of 4 or 5 staff people because of the computer, including graphics design, secretary and assistant.
And magazine publishers (especially in Japan!) thought they had problems before with pirating articles...perhaps this is another forced movement towards changing the way we see and envision publishing content.
"Linux System Administration: A User's Guide" was one of my first Linux books. It was fairly informative and very easy to read. Now, mind you, I'm still addicted to Windows, but I thought that he had a very realistic slant on the strengths and weaknesses of various Linux options.
Who cares? Name me a movie that really does follow a text adaptation tried and true? It's nearly impossible because most great books are rarely good screenplays automatically.
I think part of it is because there are so many good hacks for 1.3 that don't necessarily work in 2, so migration is slow...
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I really like the cookbook format as it allows me to see solutions in application. I have often found solutions to different (but related problems) by using the skill set. I'd love to pick this up!
Well, to be honest, the concept of the "balanced diet" in modern nutrition is over-focused on carbs. If you read the full Adkins diet, the point of it is to eventually balanced the number of carbs in our diets, but at dramatically lower levels than the traditional Western diet, which is overdominated with carbs.
Of course, this is not a formal medical observation AT ALL but I am type II diabetic and I am also a fan of the Dr. Atkins diet (you know, eat a side of beef every day...LOSE WEIGHT!). Adkins doesn't like caffine and I went on it first and skipped my 10-soda-a-day-habit. (Diet, of course.) I went off of it and back on with soda (more moderate, but still a lot) and still lost weight and my diabetes numbers improved even more than they were. I have to wonder now reading the new research.
Well, it passed my test: I tried U2 (a must for any online service that I use:) ) and every major studio track appeared. What I cannot figure out, though, is how WalMart can turn a profit while Apple cannot. Is it volume? Do they have an even more special deal??
I can't speak for the way a film talks to one person and not to another, but I thought it all fit together very well. The fact that it is out of place, IMHO, is a reflection of the theme. The last five minutes are some of the best acting I've seen in years.
...is the fact that the legal charges are so high that the payback might not be worth it. The writing on the wall is that even if SCO wins, the remedy will be to remove the offending code. I want to meet the business planner that came up with this ass-dumb idea.
To be honest, I can't imagine what kind of support you need for an office suite once it is install (maybe that's it!), however, if this means the leary will consider OpenOffice, woo hoo! I work in education and OpenOffice has allowed once-useless donated computers to become a real tool without massive costs for licenses.
Interesting article, but... The missing point is that a lot of companies see outsourcing (especially overseas) as a solution but a lot of firms end up dumping projects or spending a lot of cash cleaning up mistakes and errors. I have a couple of close friends that are mid-level coders and project managers in for big-name retail firms that are constantly complaining that their jobs have been reduced to recoding poorly coded outsource projects. THE QUESTION IS: Can you really export intellectual work?
I think you are missing the point. Sure, $40 is a bargain to the Western pocketbook, but I assure you it is a hefty price for our brothers and sisters in Thailand. $40 may be several months salary.
OpenSource makes tons of sense in the "developing" and "cybercafe" world for several reasons. The flexibility in licensing and the diminished need for patching over the dialup lines (speaking of remote locations, of course...some of the best public access to the Internet I've seen is outside the traditional developing world) is a great asset to those on tight budgets.
However, it goes further than that. As the non-Western economies tend to have a different standard of living, even inexpensive licenses (compared to our costs) could be cost prohibitive. I have a close relationship with some teachers from Belarus and the piracy there is rampid not because people are necessarily out to steal from "the man," but rather a $50 or $75 dollar copy of Windows XP Pro (and come on, other than NFR copies or those that get on reseller deals...it's never that cheap here) would put the software out of reach for all but the elite.
That being said, if you want to following licensing (like in a school), the alternative is clear.
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i'm not sure if you get my point:)
Here is why people get away with it...
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I know we all have a sad story about this, and looking the person's post about medical fees, it reminds me of at least three or four times I have been screwed by medical misbilling. BUT, the simple truth is, these bastards know they can get away with it....the hotel know they can jack up the fee 10 bucks because it's late and you guarenteed it with a credit card...the e-tailer that sells you the memory or video card knows they can tack on 6 dollars special handling fee (or something else made up; I was charged $3.50 last week handling fee for an automated refund from a company that owed me $4.20) because i'm not going to return their card for a silly 6 bucks because i want to play games now, not wait 6 days for the return and rebuy elsewhere...and the most important one, people that don't know or are too ignorant to check...people get screwed alllllll the time and they just don't know enough to ask.
"Does that mean 10 years, five years, two years? I couldn't predict. Quite frankly, the thing that fights against it being quickly this time around is that the communities operating with these mutually incompatible protocols are quite large. If you look at AOL's cloud or the MSN cloud or the Yahoo cloud, you're talking about fairly large, significant systems. To have them migrate and interoperate with standard protocols will happen, but it is going to take time."
This also assumes that AOL or MSN or Yahoo will cry uncle first. Who serious believes that any one of them will be the first to abandon their standard for an open standard when it could mean the end of their software? Remember, we are dealing with some *SERIOUS* egos here...
I am a teacher and until they figure out a way to lecture about the French Revolution from home in my PJ's while still keeping students engaged, I'm going to have to watch from afar.:) I do wonder, though, how much the cubible-less world may lead to the wall-less school.:)
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This is what makes acts like the CANSPAM act so silly. Does anyone really think we'll be able to deal with it, legally or otherwise, until we have the technology implimented to do so?
It's always a balancing act, in my view. Yes, I get frustrated with hardware problems, software problems (stupid Office...crashed on my 3 times just last night on an otherwise rock stable box) and the like, but I also realize that I am a lot more productive and entertained, even if there are distractions. I am always entertained by people that talk about how much time the computers take and then they say something silly like "back when I was on a typewriter, blah, blah, blah" and I usually retort that they are usually doing the jobs of 4 or 5 staff people because of the computer, including graphics design, secretary and assistant.
And magazine publishers (especially in Japan!) thought they had problems before with pirating articles...perhaps this is another forced movement towards changing the way we see and envision publishing content.
"Linux System Administration: A User's Guide" was one of my first Linux books. It was fairly informative and very easy to read. Now, mind you, I'm still addicted to Windows, but I thought that he had a very realistic slant on the strengths and weaknesses of various Linux options.
Who cares? Name me a movie that really does follow a text adaptation tried and true? It's nearly impossible because most great books are rarely good screenplays automatically.
I think part of it is because there are so many good hacks for 1.3 that don't necessarily work in 2, so migration is slow...
I really like the cookbook format as it allows me to see solutions in application. I have often found solutions to different (but related problems) by using the skill set. I'd love to pick this up!
Well, to be honest, the concept of the "balanced diet" in modern nutrition is over-focused on carbs. If you read the full Adkins diet, the point of it is to eventually balanced the number of carbs in our diets, but at dramatically lower levels than the traditional Western diet, which is overdominated with carbs.
Of course, this is not a formal medical observation AT ALL but I am type II diabetic and I am also a fan of the Dr. Atkins diet (you know, eat a side of beef every day...LOSE WEIGHT!). Adkins doesn't like caffine and I went on it first and skipped my 10-soda-a-day-habit. (Diet, of course.) I went off of it and back on with soda (more moderate, but still a lot) and still lost weight and my diabetes numbers improved even more than they were. I have to wonder now reading the new research.
Well, it passed my test: I tried U2 (a must for any online service that I use :) ) and every major studio track appeared. What I cannot figure out, though, is how WalMart can turn a profit while Apple cannot. Is it volume? Do they have an even more special deal??
I can't speak for the way a film talks to one person and not to another, but I thought it all fit together very well. The fact that it is out of place, IMHO, is a reflection of the theme. The last five minutes are some of the best acting I've seen in years.
Just add an LCD projector and I can play a 3d shooter on the big screen while keeping track of network packets.
Well, yes, this is disturbing...but is it any different than the amazing records kept on us financially?
...is the fact that the legal charges are so high that the payback might not be worth it. The writing on the wall is that even if SCO wins, the remedy will be to remove the offending code. I want to meet the business planner that came up with this ass-dumb idea.
That's funny, because always wanted to call Microsoft and ask them "how the hell do I get rid of the damn paperclip?" :)
To be honest, I can't imagine what kind of support you need for an office suite once it is install (maybe that's it!), however, if this means the leary will consider OpenOffice, woo hoo! I work in education and OpenOffice has allowed once-useless donated computers to become a real tool without massive costs for licenses.
Interesting article, but... The missing point is that a lot of companies see outsourcing (especially overseas) as a solution but a lot of firms end up dumping projects or spending a lot of cash cleaning up mistakes and errors. I have a couple of close friends that are mid-level coders and project managers in for big-name retail firms that are constantly complaining that their jobs have been reduced to recoding poorly coded outsource projects. THE QUESTION IS: Can you really export intellectual work?
If there is penetration, I'd imagine that the vast majority of working copies are pirated.
I think you are missing the point. Sure, $40 is a bargain to the Western pocketbook, but I assure you it is a hefty price for our brothers and sisters in Thailand. $40 may be several months salary.
OpenSource makes tons of sense in the "developing" and "cybercafe" world for several reasons. The flexibility in licensing and the diminished need for patching over the dialup lines (speaking of remote locations, of course...some of the best public access to the Internet I've seen is outside the traditional developing world) is a great asset to those on tight budgets. However, it goes further than that. As the non-Western economies tend to have a different standard of living, even inexpensive licenses (compared to our costs) could be cost prohibitive. I have a close relationship with some teachers from Belarus and the piracy there is rampid not because people are necessarily out to steal from "the man," but rather a $50 or $75 dollar copy of Windows XP Pro (and come on, other than NFR copies or those that get on reseller deals...it's never that cheap here) would put the software out of reach for all but the elite. That being said, if you want to following licensing (like in a school), the alternative is clear.
i'm not sure if you get my point :)
I know we all have a sad story about this, and looking the person's post about medical fees, it reminds me of at least three or four times I have been screwed by medical misbilling. BUT, the simple truth is, these bastards know they can get away with it. ...the hotel know they can jack up the fee 10 bucks because it's late and you guarenteed it with a credit card ...the e-tailer that sells you the memory or video card knows they can tack on 6 dollars special handling fee (or something else made up; I was charged $3.50 last week handling fee for an automated refund from a company that owed me $4.20) because i'm not going to return their card for a silly 6 bucks because i want to play games now, not wait 6 days for the return and rebuy elsewhere ...and the most important one, people that don't know or are too ignorant to check...people get screwed alllllll the time and they just don't know enough to ask.
This article is totally right! I was just looking at my software bill for this month. What are all these $699 charges for Linux? I'm glad I checked!
"Does that mean 10 years, five years, two years? I couldn't predict. Quite frankly, the thing that fights against it being quickly this time around is that the communities operating with these mutually incompatible protocols are quite large. If you look at AOL's cloud or the MSN cloud or the Yahoo cloud, you're talking about fairly large, significant systems. To have them migrate and interoperate with standard protocols will happen, but it is going to take time." This also assumes that AOL or MSN or Yahoo will cry uncle first. Who serious believes that any one of them will be the first to abandon their standard for an open standard when it could mean the end of their software? Remember, we are dealing with some *SERIOUS* egos here...
I am a teacher and until they figure out a way to lecture about the French Revolution from home in my PJ's while still keeping students engaged, I'm going to have to watch from afar. :) I do wonder, though, how much the cubible-less world may lead to the wall-less school. :)