Now that's what I call engineering ethics, letting people know the truth about what you're doing. Fine, maybe a computer should at least keep the software code to themselves (patent it so no one else could use it, I do believe in some intellectual property rights), but Diebold should have at least let us see the code so we can tell them how holey it is.
$0.0001 seems way too low for a song. At that price, no artist will be making any song period. I don't know about song making, but like any work of art, it must take a lot of effort. I would be happy to pay $0.50, or even $0.99 if its a good song as long as it has no restriction on what I do with it.
Hey, there are other companies distributing Linux. Who needs Red Hat? Sure Linux has a little less supporter now. But we still got several supporters backing us.
Sounds like a good idea. Scan the wanted building in, ask it to take snap shot of textures, add a few or move a few objects around. Bang, digitized, real world scenerio for those Counter Strike gamer to play in.
In a consumer's mind, nothing is better than the free stuff. The RIAA should understand that no matter how hard they try, any restriction on the digital content will be shunned by the consumer. Instead, they should sell unrestricted digital music at qualities higher than the free stuff, more reliable, and with more features (maybe like the complete information already in the MP3). Perhaps even services to buy CDs with custom songs, either in CD format or MP3 format. Not sure if they would do this, but I would definitely buy those kind of CDs if given the chance.
One major problem I see here. Some artists, almost all professional artists, depends on selling their work to feed themselves. If music were to be free, it's not just the artists, but musicians that performs the music will lose their job or have their pays cut. Sure, RIAA's actions are screwing themselves over. But we should not go to the extreme that music should be free. It is a difficult path to finding the right balance, but I believe sometime in the near future we could work something out that could benefit the artist and the consumers (not including the CEO and the big industries that steals the artist's money).
Of course, I'm an optimist, so this thing might go into a Dead Man's spiral.
It's not a duplicate. The Friday one is talking about a "rumor" about Microsoft's intention of merge Google. The Sunday posting was about Google's response against merger.
Considering they are only offering a small portion of their company stock to investor. So even if Microsoft bought all the shares they offered, they can't do much with it.
I don't think they have a choice letting people know that Microsoft is trying to buy them. Sure it boost their profile well, but I think the media would have dug this up even if they don't announce it. Google might just be trying to come out clean so no one would speculate about anything. Of course, the announcement helps with their IPO evaluation price, two birds with one stone.
Well, looks like Google just throw down the gauntlet against Microsoft. Now, it is time to see whether public support or big money business will win out. And as a side note, let's buy Google stock when they come out to show our support.
So basically the Department of Justice blame Memory Hole for their fault of putting a very bad protection on confidential material. Quite the finger pointing DoJ and get your acts straight.
Actually, that was the first thought that came to my mind. "I thought Lemming blew themselves up in the game... wait, why is the Science journal publishing this crap?... Oh, they're talking about the real Lemmings."
Actually the metal contributes very little. The noise from the launch is actually pressure wave created by the engine of the rocket, which would creat a pressure wave focused towards the tail end of the rocket. So people on the ground will get effected the most as the rocket took off, and very little pressure wave was emitted towards the astronauts.
From my past experience with Chinese history (I'm a Chinese, from Taiwan), they have a sizable army that will do just about anything the regime tells them to do. For one, they're very good at social engineering the masses.
On another point, China is willing to sacrifice millions in foot soldiers in any war. Are we willing to lose even one-hundredth of that number?
Communism isn't evil, it is the people who use it as an excuse that is evil. In fact, communism is a very good idea, just too bad it is an idealistic thought.
But I think Google will be able to convince the stockholders that their user-friendly policy will work better than profit-motivated policies. Google got a very good track record with that. And stockholders will hopefully see the light. One thing I would be interested to see is if they would have TV ads for Google (I hope not, since TV ads are expensive, and they are doing very well right now).
One point of note, all charged particles from the sun will get redirected by the earth's magnetic field to the polar region and be disipated in the upper atmosphere. Only a very, very powerful one (X with some ridiculously large number) can warp the earth magnetic field enough that it destroyed the ozone planetwide and ultimately, destroys us.
At last, a government entity who did the right thing (hopefully) by putting the cycle of chicken (digital tuners) and egg (programs) in motion. Although let's hope this doesn't open a can of worms.
Online gaming might actually help hinder this, since the servers that connect the game can check whether its a pirated copy or not (CD-keys and etc). Sure it might not be fool-proof, but it would help.
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Now that's what I call engineering ethics, letting people know the truth about what you're doing. Fine, maybe a computer should at least keep the software code to themselves (patent it so no one else could use it, I do believe in some intellectual property rights), but Diebold should have at least let us see the code so we can tell them how holey it is.
$0.0001 seems way too low for a song. At that price, no artist will be making any song period. I don't know about song making, but like any work of art, it must take a lot of effort. I would be happy to pay $0.50, or even $0.99 if its a good song as long as it has no restriction on what I do with it.
Hey, there are other companies distributing Linux. Who needs Red Hat? Sure Linux has a little less supporter now. But we still got several supporters backing us.
Then you write out all those artists who got good music but have stage frights.
Sounds like a good idea. Scan the wanted building in, ask it to take snap shot of textures, add a few or move a few objects around. Bang, digitized, real world scenerio for those Counter Strike gamer to play in.
In a consumer's mind, nothing is better than the free stuff. The RIAA should understand that no matter how hard they try, any restriction on the digital content will be shunned by the consumer. Instead, they should sell unrestricted digital music at qualities higher than the free stuff, more reliable, and with more features (maybe like the complete information already in the MP3). Perhaps even services to buy CDs with custom songs, either in CD format or MP3 format.
Not sure if they would do this, but I would definitely buy those kind of CDs if given the chance.
One major problem I see here. Some artists, almost all professional artists, depends on selling their work to feed themselves. If music were to be free, it's not just the artists, but musicians that performs the music will lose their job or have their pays cut. Sure, RIAA's actions are screwing themselves over. But we should not go to the extreme that music should be free. It is a difficult path to finding the right balance, but I believe sometime in the near future we could work something out that could benefit the artist and the consumers (not including the CEO and the big industries that steals the artist's money).
Of course, I'm an optimist, so this thing might go into a Dead Man's spiral.
It's not a duplicate. The Friday one is talking about a "rumor" about Microsoft's intention of merge Google. The Sunday posting was about Google's response against merger.
Considering they are only offering a small portion of their company stock to investor. So even if Microsoft bought all the shares they offered, they can't do much with it.
I don't think they have a choice letting people know that Microsoft is trying to buy them. Sure it boost their profile well, but I think the media would have dug this up even if they don't announce it. Google might just be trying to come out clean so no one would speculate about anything. Of course, the announcement helps with their IPO evaluation price, two birds with one stone.
Well, for a large company (not sure whether Google is considered large), it is not much.
Well, looks like Google just throw down the gauntlet against Microsoft. Now, it is time to see whether public support or big money business will win out.
And as a side note, let's buy Google stock when they come out to show our support.
So basically the Department of Justice blame Memory Hole for their fault of putting a very bad protection on confidential material. Quite the finger pointing DoJ and get your acts straight.
Actually, that was the first thought that came to my mind.
"I thought Lemming blew themselves up in the game... wait, why is the Science journal publishing this crap?... Oh, they're talking about the real Lemmings."
Actually the metal contributes very little. The noise from the launch is actually pressure wave created by the engine of the rocket, which would creat a pressure wave focused towards the tail end of the rocket. So people on the ground will get effected the most as the rocket took off, and very little pressure wave was emitted towards the astronauts.
From my past experience with Chinese history (I'm a Chinese, from Taiwan), they have a sizable army that will do just about anything the regime tells them to do. For one, they're very good at social engineering the masses.
On another point, China is willing to sacrifice millions in foot soldiers in any war. Are we willing to lose even one-hundredth of that number?
Communism isn't evil, it is the people who use it as an excuse that is evil. In fact, communism is a very good idea, just too bad it is an idealistic thought.
But I think Google will be able to convince the stockholders that their user-friendly policy will work better than profit-motivated policies. Google got a very good track record with that. And stockholders will hopefully see the light. One thing I would be interested to see is if they would have TV ads for Google (I hope not, since TV ads are expensive, and they are doing very well right now).
Perhaps they're still in the process of writing a patch for the older version.
Every system is insecure. Just depends on how much insecurity it has.
InSecurity ranking...
1. MicroSoft Windows
2. Apple
3. Linux
I'm no expert. But is there a possibility that it is only possible to patch this security hole on Panther?
One point of note, all charged particles from the sun will get redirected by the earth's magnetic field to the polar region and be disipated in the upper atmosphere. Only a very, very powerful one (X with some ridiculously large number) can warp the earth magnetic field enough that it destroyed the ozone planetwide and ultimately, destroys us.
It's rare to see a agency funded by government bureaucracy that actually works well.
At last, a government entity who did the right thing (hopefully) by putting the cycle of chicken (digital tuners) and egg (programs) in motion. Although let's hope this doesn't open a can of worms.
Online gaming might actually help hinder this, since the servers that connect the game can check whether its a pirated copy or not (CD-keys and etc). Sure it might not be fool-proof, but it would help.