In the case of scenario #1 you'll just be walking around looking at dark squares. The only images or videos you'll be able to see will be commercials!;-)
Someday all computers, tablets, cameras and phones will come with a hardware chip that will detect whatever watermark they embed into the image/video and prevent you from doing anything with the image other than seeing it. Even your camera will detect it and just not record anything. It's already around to some extent in the form of Macrovision, HDCP and other similar technologies that are used to prevent you from snapping screenshots or recording stuff off of your screen.
After all, Intel does make lots of those chip things...
I'm a pessimist, so I'll give it 5 years.
Or someone will come up with a way to encode the image so that it can only be viewed through human eyes, but creating some fancy brain-pattern thing, any alteration of the image, and the pattern is destroyed, leaving only gibberish behind... that would be cool. But also scary.
As far as I know, no Apple products support simultaneous online and offline searches...So whats the bug ruckus about?
iOS search shows local results and a link to do a Google search (oh the irony) in Safari when you search for something....
Makes me so angry that Apple can block a feature that they don't even implement in their own OS.
fah!
Please stop telling the OP to get a contract. Nowhere in the post is there a mention of legal issues or contracts or lack thereof.
S/he is specifically asking for the "industry convention" on support terms for custom software - not how to enforce said terms. I too am very interested in the answer to the question.
So unless you answer is 30 days, 60 days, 3.14 days, 5 bugs, 13.135 hours or anything else of relevance, please don't pollute the topic, I'd like to be able to see the actual answers.
Someone forgot to send out the memo about the "perks" of Freedom from Stalinist oppression; like poverty, unemployment, more corruption, crime, and more bullshit. Also, an interesting thought: back in the communist time, people knew who the enemy was - the man in the distinctly KGB-looking coat, and sometimes in a less subtle uniform.
The thing is; change for the better takes time, and Russians are not known for their patience or forward thinking. At least that's the opinion of this Russian... heh
Yes, the housing was truly top notch, I fondly recall visiting friends living in their lavish 5 room apartments.
But wait, what's this? 5 doorbells next to the door?
What is that you say? Five families have to share this 1 bedroom, 1 living room, 1 study and 2 kids rooms, as well as this one bathroom and kitchen?
Only 15 people in this one family 5 room apartment, you say? They should be happy they weren't living on the street!
Or perhaps we can remember fondly stories told by our grandparents, who in the 60's got to live in ultra-modern german-built single-family villas.
And share them with the same number of families as there were rooms in the house....
Or maybe how happy they were when the kind and all powerful Soviet government, in the 70's finally gave them the opportunity to move their family of 5 into a 2 room apartment, on the fifth floor, without an elevator... Carrying that stroller up those five flights of steps was a bitch, I recall my grandma saying.
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with all the Soviet-defenders these days. That shit should never be allowed to happen again.
Oh wait, Putin is working on bringing it all back now! Yay!
Actually there is at least one good use for a privacy mode. When you are travelling or just out without access to the intertubes, you can go to a computer store (like an Apple store) and use it to check your mail. If the privacy mode is on, all you need to do is quit the browser (or close the tab, depending on the implementation) and all your cookies are gone.
I've used safari's privacy mode on many occasions for this very reason.
An emac is basicly the same performance as the iMac but for about half the price.. Could be worth considering. Although I'd go with a 14" iBook (80 year old woman = needs larger screen)
However I wonder if they really were deprived of a sale. I mean, most people who download warez would probably not buy the movie/book/cd that they downloaded anyway. However those people that would buy it, they might buy it only after downloading it to make sure its worth it.
I download alot of warez, but I also buy DVDs and CDs and Movies, not even near as many as I download but the fact is that I would not buy the others anyway.
You can get something (entertainment) for nothing (duplicating a digital thing is free)...
How can you know that people who download stuff would buy it?
Lets see... I'll use imaginary figures so dont kill me over them...
10 years ago: 1000 records or videos you could buy A few pirates here and there copying stuff from each other. One tape here, one tape there.
Today: 1000000000000 records, movies, videos, games that you can buy. Almost everyone pirates something, but it doesnt seem to stop Matrix Revolutions from making 15 billion dollars on its opening day? (was it billion or million?)
That must mean that due to the increase of shit to buy, the copying has also increased. There is more to buy, but there is also more people copying.
I think in the end it evens out, and so far there has been no concrete proof that the movie or music industry has been hurt by pirating.
I mean can you actually imagine sifting through all the games, movies and music cd's out today to find something you like? Its like wading through a smelly sewer looking for a gold nugget that you heard "might" be there... And you also have to pay to be in it!
Also most media is way too expensive, I mean 20 bucks for a 2 hour movie? Give me a break! If the industry lowers prices and increases quality, more people would buy. However those that pirated shit before, will continue to do so because they'll never pay for it anyway!
It's weird that the deposit thing disappeared when plastic bottles came around.
Here (Sweden) almost all glass and plastic bottles can be recycled in every convenience store that sells them. And for stuff that is recyclable but not covered with deposits like pizza cartons and milk containers, you can find special recycling container-centers within every 10 block radius or so, at least in major cities, so its most often within a few minutes walk from your apt.
Nowdays the systems for returning bottles and things are pretty advanced, with nice lcd screens and stuff. You can but in a crate of bottles and it will even notice if you have one or two missing from the crate, so you'll get less cash. The large plastic bottles are simply inserted one by one into a machine and you get cash in the form of a reciept which you can give to the cashier and (s)he will give you the cash.
It's a very good system and encourages most people to recycle the cans and bottles, i mean it doesnt cost anything to take your used coke cans or bottles with you to the store when you go to get new ones...
I think the japanese should have made it so you actually get the recycling fee BACK when you turn in your comp, so you pay like 100$ extra for your comp, and when you return it you get the 100$ back..now that would roxorz... Right now it seems that since the fee is unavoidable there really isnt much incentive to bother recycling. Although since it seems that you can actually have them come and pick the stuff up, it might actually work.
I dunno, I live in Sweden now and for example if you buy a coke can or bottle you pay a small extra fee (like 5 cents for a can, 50 cents for a large bottle), and when you later return them to a shop (all supermarkets have recycling stations) to recycle you get that money back. It's not a new system, when I lived in USSR (back in the late 80's early 90's), even in that backward ass communist country you could return 3 empty bottles of pepsi (which was the only coke-like drink at the time) and get one new full one. (or get money for them, which was 1/3 of the price of a full bottle)
I can't believe that the US is still so backward that they don't have similar programmes. Or am I wrong?
Come on guys, even the soviets had it figured out!
I think the point is that if we assume hypothetically that research is prioritized before the military, then congress would not cut the budget of the researchers, but might instead cut the budget for the military (as the do for example in Sweden heh)...
So instead of wasting many billions of dollars on building a bunch of airplanes, and eventually knowledge from use of those airplanes is gained over many decades, you could direcly research material stability or whatever and work directly on building that space elevator, instead of hoping that someday those military planes will show the kind of materials that will be needed.
The problem is that there is an assumption that if a new cool tech is to be developed the military is the only one to do it, and in our world this is unfortunately true because scientists get alot less cash then the military and many bright scientists also get recruited into the military.
The human race is too focused on war, greed and conquest to actually be able to shift focus onto research. Perhaps in time, if the world's military powers don't nuke us all to exctincion, we might see an end to war. But that's a really naive thought eh?
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In the case of scenario #1 you'll just be walking around looking at dark squares. The only images or videos you'll be able to see will be commercials! ;-)
Someday all computers, tablets, cameras and phones will come with a hardware chip that will detect whatever watermark they embed into the image/video and prevent you from doing anything with the image other than seeing it. Even your camera will detect it and just not record anything. It's already around to some extent in the form of Macrovision, HDCP and other similar technologies that are used to prevent you from snapping screenshots or recording stuff off of your screen. After all, Intel does make lots of those chip things...
I'm a pessimist, so I'll give it 5 years.
Or someone will come up with a way to encode the image so that it can only be viewed through human eyes, but creating some fancy brain-pattern thing, any alteration of the image, and the pattern is destroyed, leaving only gibberish behind... that would be cool. But also scary.
As far as I know, no Apple products support simultaneous online and offline searches...So whats the bug ruckus about? iOS search shows local results and a link to do a Google search (oh the irony) in Safari when you search for something.... Makes me so angry that Apple can block a feature that they don't even implement in their own OS. fah!
Please stop telling the OP to get a contract. Nowhere in the post is there a mention of legal issues or contracts or lack thereof. S/he is specifically asking for the "industry convention" on support terms for custom software - not how to enforce said terms. I too am very interested in the answer to the question. So unless you answer is 30 days, 60 days, 3.14 days, 5 bugs, 13.135 hours or anything else of relevance, please don't pollute the topic, I'd like to be able to see the actual answers.
Someone forgot to send out the memo about the "perks" of Freedom from Stalinist oppression; like poverty, unemployment, more corruption, crime, and more bullshit. Also, an interesting thought: back in the communist time, people knew who the enemy was - the man in the distinctly KGB-looking coat, and sometimes in a less subtle uniform.
The thing is; change for the better takes time, and Russians are not known for their patience or forward thinking. At least that's the opinion of this Russian... heh
Yes, the housing was truly top notch, I fondly recall visiting friends living in their lavish 5 room apartments.
But wait, what's this? 5 doorbells next to the door?
What is that you say? Five families have to share this 1 bedroom, 1 living room, 1 study and 2 kids rooms, as well as this one bathroom and kitchen?
Only 15 people in this one family 5 room apartment, you say? They should be happy they weren't living on the street!
Or perhaps we can remember fondly stories told by our grandparents, who in the 60's got to live in ultra-modern german-built single-family villas.
And share them with the same number of families as there were rooms in the house....
Or maybe how happy they were when the kind and all powerful Soviet government, in the 70's finally gave them the opportunity to move their family of 5 into a 2 room apartment, on the fifth floor, without an elevator... Carrying that stroller up those five flights of steps was a bitch, I recall my grandma saying.
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with all the Soviet-defenders these days. That shit should never be allowed to happen again.
Oh wait, Putin is working on bringing it all back now! Yay!
Actually there is at least one good use for a privacy mode. When you are travelling or just out without access to the intertubes, you can go to a computer store (like an Apple store) and use it to check your mail. If the privacy mode is on, all you need to do is quit the browser (or close the tab, depending on the implementation) and all your cookies are gone. I've used safari's privacy mode on many occasions for this very reason.
I think you can configure Software update to run from console and run it as a cron job....
Just as I was, you'd be surprised at how many gui apps can be accessed in different ways from the console...
An emac is basicly the same performance as the iMac but for about half the price.. Could be worth considering. Although I'd go with a 14" iBook (80 year old woman = needs larger screen)
Good luck.
Yeah, everyone bought Award, including Phoenix ;)
And that ended that whole deal... hehehe
Well you do pay your own energy bill dont you? ;)
I have no sig. (I actually wrote that just now)
However I wonder if they really were deprived of a sale. I mean, most people who download warez would probably not buy the movie/book/cd that they downloaded anyway. However those people that would buy it, they might buy it only after downloading it to make sure its worth it.
I download alot of warez, but I also buy DVDs and CDs and Movies, not even near as many as I download but the fact is that I would not buy the others anyway.
You can get something (entertainment) for nothing (duplicating a digital thing is free)...
How can you know that people who download stuff would buy it?
Lets see...
I'll use imaginary figures so dont kill me over them...
10 years ago:
1000 records or videos you could buy
A few pirates here and there copying stuff from each other. One tape here, one tape there.
Today:
1000000000000 records, movies, videos, games that you can buy.
Almost everyone pirates something, but it doesnt seem to stop Matrix Revolutions from making 15 billion dollars on its opening day? (was it billion or million?)
That must mean that due to the increase of shit to buy, the copying has also increased. There is more to buy, but there is also more people copying.
I think in the end it evens out, and so far there has been no concrete proof that the movie or music industry has been hurt by pirating.
I mean can you actually imagine sifting through all the games, movies and music cd's out today to find something you like? Its like wading through a smelly sewer looking for a gold nugget that you heard "might" be there... And you also have to pay to be in it!
Also most media is way too expensive, I mean 20 bucks for a 2 hour movie? Give me a break!
If the industry lowers prices and increases quality, more people would buy. However those that pirated shit before, will continue to do so because they'll never pay for it anyway!
It's weird that the deposit thing disappeared when plastic bottles came around.
Here (Sweden) almost all glass and plastic bottles can be recycled in every convenience store that sells them.
And for stuff that is recyclable but not covered with deposits like pizza cartons and milk containers, you can find special recycling container-centers within every 10 block radius or so, at least in major cities, so its most often within a few minutes walk from your apt.
Nowdays the systems for returning bottles and things are pretty advanced, with nice lcd screens and stuff. You can but in a crate of bottles and it will even notice if you have one or two missing from the crate, so you'll get less cash.
The large plastic bottles are simply inserted one by one into a machine and you get cash in the form of a reciept which you can give to the cashier and (s)he will give you the cash.
It's a very good system and encourages most people to recycle the cans and bottles, i mean it doesnt cost anything to take your used coke cans or bottles with you to the store when you go to get new ones...
I think the japanese should have made it so you actually get the recycling fee BACK when you turn in your comp, so you pay like 100$ extra for your comp, and when you return it you get the 100$ back..now that would roxorz... Right now it seems that since the fee is unavoidable there really isnt much incentive to bother recycling. Although since it seems that you can actually have them come and pick the stuff up, it might actually work.
Yez komrade!
I dunno, I live in Sweden now and for example if you buy a coke can or bottle you pay a small extra fee (like 5 cents for a can, 50 cents for a large bottle), and when you later return them to a shop (all supermarkets have recycling stations) to recycle you get that money back. It's not a new system, when I lived in USSR (back in the late 80's early 90's), even in that backward ass communist country you could return 3 empty bottles of pepsi (which was the only coke-like drink at the time) and get one new full one. (or get money for them, which was 1/3 of the price of a full bottle)
I can't believe that the US is still so backward that they don't have similar programmes. Or am I wrong?
Come on guys, even the soviets had it figured out!
An ingenious plan!
I think once again the point has been missed.
I think the point is that if we assume hypothetically that research is prioritized before the military, then congress would not cut the budget of the researchers, but might instead cut the budget for the military (as the do for example in Sweden heh)...
So instead of wasting many billions of dollars on building a bunch of airplanes, and eventually knowledge from use of those airplanes is gained over many decades, you could direcly research material stability or whatever and work directly on building that space elevator, instead of hoping that someday those military planes will show the kind of materials that will be needed.
The problem is that there is an assumption that if a new cool tech is to be developed the military is the only one to do it, and in our world this is unfortunately true because scientists get alot less cash then the military and many bright scientists also get recruited into the military.
The human race is too focused on war, greed and conquest to actually be able to shift focus onto research. Perhaps in time, if the world's military powers don't nuke us all to exctincion, we might see an end to war. But that's a really naive thought eh?