Decisions like this are likely to improve our economy, living standards and interest in science in the long term. Of course, I should tell you... that I'm an offshore contractor for US companies living in Argentina.
Actually it doesn't have anything to do with the music itself, but with the PLAYERS.
I know ipods and other brand-name, DRM-happy players are popular in the US and parts of Europe, but in China and pretty much everywhere else, 90%* of the market correspond to chinese-made players that DON'T support any form of DRM.
So, selling music without DRM is the only way to get into those markets.
*: I made the number up, but just have a look at the local stores in non-central countries and compare the amount of chinese players with the brand-name ones.
This is how we did it in the pre-internet years (early 90s) with PGP.
There are two problems with this approach, however: 1. While it works fine for use between friends and with your company's sites, it's not practical to do with every site you interact with. 2. The tools (browsers, OSs) don't make it easy to add certificates. And, if they did, this would be quickly taken advantage of by malware.
I couldn't agree more. And yes, 0-click is the only way to make sure you get the information.
When I worked for Verizon, I implemented and maintained a critical provisioning web application. Whenever an error occurred, it sent an email containing the full stack trace, the server answering the request, the exact input leading to the error, the application user, etc. So, if we got an email from a user saying "the app is broken, boo!", we had all the information we needed to reproduce and fix the problem.
I used to do that when I worked for The Warranty Group. They had implemented Websense with INSANE restrictions like, for example, ALL BLOG SITES.
Newsflash: it's been several years since the majority of the useful up-to-date technical information is found mostly on blogs, not corporate sites. I NEEDED to access some of those blogs TO DO MY JOB.
But it was easier to setup the tunnel than to fight a ridiculously bad managed corporation.
Leela: Didn't you have ad's in the 20th century? Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
I think you are mixing concepts here. For source code sharing, this is probably a good time to introduce them to source control tools, either centralized (Subversion) or distributed (Mercurial, GIT, Bazaar). For actual pair programming, which implies two people looking at the same screen (one of them actually typing) I'd recommend any screen sharing application (SharedView, NetMeeting, the last Skype, etc).
I can't speak for the US or Europe... but I can tell you how it works in "developing" countries like mine. It's just simple economics:
* A computer here costs about 50% more than in the US because of import taxes.
* The salaries are about 30% of those in the US.
* This means, in average, it costs a whole month's salary to buy the cheapest desktop PC you can get (about u$s 600 including the monitor)
* Then, the reasoning is "I've paid a LOT of money for the computer. No way I'm paying for the software too!"
I used to think that way until I discovered Free Software. Now I don't use unlicensed software, but I don't buy it either (I also earn a lot more than the average, but I don't spend it on software)
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Badly, I guess. Considering current technology like Picasa has trouble handling my non-identical twins...
Decisions like this are likely to improve our economy, living standards and interest in science in the long term.
Of course, I should tell you... that I'm an offshore contractor for US companies living in Argentina.
I'm waiting on Ubuntu 13.04... Rapist Racoon.
Still, the real danger is in 12.04 LTS: Paedophile Penguin.
Actually it doesn't have anything to do with the music itself, but with the PLAYERS.
I know ipods and other brand-name, DRM-happy players are popular in the US and parts of Europe, but in China and pretty much everywhere else, 90%* of the market correspond to chinese-made players that DON'T support any form of DRM.
So, selling music without DRM is the only way to get into those markets.
*: I made the number up, but just have a look at the local stores in non-central countries and compare the amount of chinese players with the brand-name ones.
Does anyone know if Sumatra PDF is vulnerable?
I stopped using Foxit because of its frequent crashes and annoying updater, and I only use Acrobat for printing.
This is how we did it in the pre-internet years (early 90s) with PGP.
There are two problems with this approach, however:
1. While it works fine for use between friends and with your company's sites, it's not practical to do with every site you interact with.
2. The tools (browsers, OSs) don't make it easy to add certificates. And, if they did, this would be quickly taken advantage of by malware.
Should I shut down my Ubuntu and boot Ubuntu instead?
Actually, "Microsoft Windows Live Foundation Mobility Series .Net Professional Edition R2 SP1" could be it.
I couldn't agree more. And yes, 0-click is the only way to make sure you get the information.
When I worked for Verizon, I implemented and maintained a critical provisioning web application.
Whenever an error occurred, it sent an email containing the full stack trace, the server answering the request, the exact input leading to the error, the application user, etc.
So, if we got an email from a user saying "the app is broken, boo!", we had all the information we needed to reproduce and fix the problem.
Guilty!
I used to do that when I worked for The Warranty Group.
They had implemented Websense with INSANE restrictions like, for example, ALL BLOG SITES.
Newsflash: it's been several years since the majority of the useful up-to-date technical information is found mostly on blogs, not corporate sites. I NEEDED to access some of those blogs TO DO MY JOB.
But it was easier to setup the tunnel than to fight a ridiculously bad managed corporation.
IMHO, this is one of the areas where technology like Google Wave can really shine.
Of course we're still a year away from it being usable, and another two for it being popular enough.
Leela: Didn't you have ad's in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
I think you are mixing concepts here.
For source code sharing, this is probably a good time to introduce them to source control tools, either centralized (Subversion) or distributed (Mercurial, GIT, Bazaar).
For actual pair programming, which implies two people looking at the same screen (one of them actually typing) I'd recommend any screen sharing application (SharedView, NetMeeting, the last Skype, etc).
How about spending the resources on busting child molesters and exposing child trafficking rings instead?
There. Fixed it for you.
First, they (we!) would have to focus on the real criminals instead of the mentally ill (which should be treated, but in a different way)
...will it be legal to fuck her in 2 years?
I wrote about that option when I first read Nielsen's article: http://live2dev.blogspot.com/2009/06/should-we-stop-masking-passwords.html
Especially considering I'm a Senior .NET developer...
Yeah, they should have used Silverlight
Next iteration they'll be selling units with Vista on them.
What next iterations? They are already doing that (at least Bangho, the local integrator, does)
When system and reality collide, which one should we change?
Just like here in Argentina! ...only we don't get refunds. Or receipts. Or the average delay being between 5 and 30 minutes. For no particular reason.
But besides that, it's the same.
There's a better solution: hibernate.
You can start up and shut down in seconds, you don't have to close anything and, as a bonus, you don't have to care about power outages.
Let me explain it with a chart...
http://www.princeton.edu/~jchui/stuff/happiness_vs_intelligence.jpg
He's probably the kind of guy that gets mad at you because you spent TOO MUCH on his birthday present.
I can't speak for the US or Europe... but I can tell you how it works in "developing" countries like mine.
It's just simple economics:
* A computer here costs about 50% more than in the US because of import taxes.
* The salaries are about 30% of those in the US.
* This means, in average, it costs a whole month's salary to buy the cheapest desktop PC you can get (about u$s 600 including the monitor)
* Then, the reasoning is "I've paid a LOT of money for the computer. No way I'm paying for the software too!"
I used to think that way until I discovered Free Software.
Now I don't use unlicensed software, but I don't buy it either (I also earn a lot more than the average, but I don't spend it on software)