Really?
I have a hobby business, and I sell music and books - pretty much flogging licences to IP. I don't exploit the creators of the IP, in fact, pretty much everything I sell comes straight from the author or artist, with them getting a reasonable cut of the profits.
These are the people that "sharing" is supposed to help, but in reality, it doesn't really work out for them. They sure need the money more than RHCP or Stephen King does - so each individual sale lost to piracy hurts like hell. It doesn't help me either, because the money that I spend promoting these wares, and developing the infrastructure to sell/distribute the materials is also lost when some pimply kid decides he'd rather "share" the music than pay for it.
I'm all for using new technology to distribute material, cut out the middlemen, and get artists an equitable share for their work. But if you want something, even IP, you have to pay for it, and no amount of feel-good "sharing" arguments are going to change that. Piracy isn't just hurting the big record company executives, it's hurting everyone else down the chain as well.
I think that astronauts are made of tougher stuff than that. I think that NASA have programmes to weed out the little whiners who don't want to eat the "yucky bits" of their space food sticks, or whatever.
There are nations in the world with large amounts of territorial water. Fiji, for instance, not only owns the actual islands that it's on, but also a LOT of the water around it, far more than the normal 20 nautical mile limit.
I suspect the Fijian government would be overjoyed to see an influx of new taxpayers moving into underwater cities in its territory.
Speed does not necessarily indicate quality. I'll take a slow, but steady programmer any day over someone who outputs crud at great speed.
Then again, I'd take someone who can generate good code quickly above those two - but when speed is your primary objective, like it is here, you're not likely to get particularly good quality code.
Okay, how about my own website then. It's most definitely not a geek-only thing.
http://www.halo-17.net/priv_stats/usage_200409.htm l
Firefox is at about 8%, and Opera at 5%. Not bad, and pretty realistic compared to the Internet at large, I'd guess.
Last time I travelled by ferry with my girlfriend, she was (violently) seasick while standing on the deck. If actually being outside doesn't help, then a fake window probably won't either.
You've obviously never heard the difference between Metropolitan French, Quebec French, and New Calendonian French. Each dialect is significantly different, having changed dramatically from the parent tongue.
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Really? I have a hobby business, and I sell music and books - pretty much flogging licences to IP. I don't exploit the creators of the IP, in fact, pretty much everything I sell comes straight from the author or artist, with them getting a reasonable cut of the profits. These are the people that "sharing" is supposed to help, but in reality, it doesn't really work out for them. They sure need the money more than RHCP or Stephen King does - so each individual sale lost to piracy hurts like hell. It doesn't help me either, because the money that I spend promoting these wares, and developing the infrastructure to sell/distribute the materials is also lost when some pimply kid decides he'd rather "share" the music than pay for it. I'm all for using new technology to distribute material, cut out the middlemen, and get artists an equitable share for their work. But if you want something, even IP, you have to pay for it, and no amount of feel-good "sharing" arguments are going to change that. Piracy isn't just hurting the big record company executives, it's hurting everyone else down the chain as well.
But you only need *one* toilet. Hell, if necessary, the astronauts can use the can on the shuttle, rather than building one into the station.
I think that astronauts are made of tougher stuff than that. I think that NASA have programmes to weed out the little whiners who don't want to eat the "yucky bits" of their space food sticks, or whatever.
Lousy? Actually, for what it is (a kids sci-fi action movie), it fits the bill quite well. It's not Shakespeare, but then, it never claimed to be.
Psst: I think that journal is a fake.
There are nations in the world with large amounts of territorial water. Fiji, for instance, not only owns the actual islands that it's on, but also a LOT of the water around it, far more than the normal 20 nautical mile limit. I suspect the Fijian government would be overjoyed to see an influx of new taxpayers moving into underwater cities in its territory.
So that is where all my tinfoil has gone!
Speed does not necessarily indicate quality. I'll take a slow, but steady programmer any day over someone who outputs crud at great speed. Then again, I'd take someone who can generate good code quickly above those two - but when speed is your primary objective, like it is here, you're not likely to get particularly good quality code.
Ugly Opera advertising? Where?
Okay, how about my own website then. It's most definitely not a geek-only thing. http://www.halo-17.net/priv_stats/usage_200409.htm l
Firefox is at about 8%, and Opera at 5%. Not bad, and pretty realistic compared to the Internet at large, I'd guess.
Erm, how is this relevant at all to what browsers people use when they're getting their info off Wiki?
Last time I travelled by ferry with my girlfriend, she was (violently) seasick while standing on the deck. If actually being outside doesn't help, then a fake window probably won't either.
May you be cursed for all eternity for even THINKING such a thing about the "Babysitter Bandit" episode.
You've obviously never heard the difference between Metropolitan French, Quebec French, and New Calendonian French. Each dialect is significantly different, having changed dramatically from the parent tongue.
But didn't you hear? The Internet is dying!
But does anyone actually *use* Usenet anymore for anything other than spamming advertisments for pornography of a questionable legality?