It isn't the opposite at all. There are plenty of known drug kingpins and crime figures that have significantly reduced their sentences by ratting out all their underlings. He who rats first gets all the cheese.
Actually I would say that being willing to pay puts you in a far far worse situation as I can't think of a single paid for product that is better than the free ones. The universal problem with the paid for ones is they are trying to distinguish themselves in a crowded market, they add uneeded features and options with fancy UI's that cause massive bloat and the inevitable crashes and issues that come with complex solutions, just look at Norton and Mcafee as prime examples of the garbage you get when you pay.
These are not your average criminals, they are technically savy, well financed underground organisations, they aren't some drugged up retard running into a liquor store to rob it with his mothers tights pulled over his face. Not every criminal is stupid and the possibility of getting caught is enough to keep smart ones from getting sloppy.
your maths is all arse backwards..
with your numbers the chance of a match in 214,597 is less than 0.01% and the chance in a pop of 300,000,000 of there being even one match is less than 10%.
What does Google's method of doing business have to do with their Yahoo! merger?
In any merger/deal of the size between 2 large companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo the companies are asked to show why their deal isn't anti competitive and doesn't adversely affect the competitive landscape, as such showing that google has a dominant market position that will be unaffected by the deal (except to provide more market competition) they are directly answering the question as to whether or not the deal should go forward.
We are talking about electronics and software here, It all has bugs and potential failures, you don't sue when your fridge breaks down, you don't sue when your TV shorts, you either return it under warranty or if out of warranty you buy a new one or get it repaired. I hate sony with a passion, but for christs sake it's a mass produced piece of electronics, it is gonna have bugs. People are just lucky they will probably get this fixed for free, now if sony refuses to fix it THEN we can talk about suing.
I think you have just extracted the exact opposite of what I did, it doesn't mean robots and software can be creative at all, rather it means that the task of creating music is far less creative and more mathematical than previously thought and that people like mozart were brilliant composers not because they were wonderfully creative but because they were awesome mathematicians.
So one can also conclude that as friel is publishing his as a book that his is also one huge fabrication and should not be taken seriously?
From a quick reading of some reviews and lomborgs response it sounds most likely that they are both just publicity Whores with very little credibility.
Yep, an MMO has to get the balance of risk and reward for such behaviour right as well as making the environment robust enough with proper planning to allow Open world PVP without creating an easily exploitable system. So far they all fail on at least one count.
Could not agree more. I don't mind loss of progress or even some loss of gear or money, however in every friggen new MMO that tries to implement these things there are griefers that go out of their way simply to make the experience miserable for everyone else, using everything from spawn point camping, to things like killing people as they are zoning (man that one really pissed me off in conan) to just plain cheating and using exploits to make everyone elses life misserable, the end results is those MMO's fail as people like me who also enjoy the play style, but not the Morons it attracts, all leave.
companies do themselves disservice every day. Sticking with IE 6 is a dumb move, but saying you will leave everytime a business does a dumb thing with IT is idiotic. IT is there to serve the business and if you can't bring yourself to do that then you probably need to find a different career. If you left everytime business did something stupid with IT you would be leaving most jobs within a month of being there and it doesn't actually achieve anything.
refusing to do what the business demanded is hardly profession ethics, in fact I would call it the opposite. As IT admin/developer you should be making sure they are informed of the consequences of their choices, but if they still choose to go with ie6 regardless it is their money and their choice not yours and to treat it otherwise is unethical on your part.
No this is the kind of thing a BETA is supposed to catch, i.e. bugs that were not caught by internal testing. The entire purpose of a beta is to find these sort of bugs.
I would probably stake all my money on the fact that "MOST" aussies use the word barbie. I know I have only ever lived in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne and few country towns, but considering it is common practise in all those cities and towns and that is a large proportion of the countries population I feel my money would be pretty safe. I would also like to bet your not an aussie and have probably never been there if you think we don't use that term.
The problem is not the checksum in these cases, if you have a compromised machine it is likely the compromising code has hooks and or drivers in the system, the result of then replacing what looks like a normal kernel to any checksum is it breaks the exploit code and hence blue screen the machine, unless you know to explicitly look for the exploit code you are pretty well hosed in detecting it during patching.
This is not cracker level high skill, This is deep understanding of intergrated circuit level high skill combined with high skill and precision of disolving out layers of the chip with Acid and then inner layers of mesh with rust remover all the while without damaging anything critical and then having the knowledge and skill to tap the necessary wire to monitor comms in the chip. This is well beyond the vast majority of high skilled crackers.
a) that they can track all goods he has sold, believe it or not most criminals don't like to make it easy to track any of their illegal goods.
b) he actually has the money to pay back, he could have hidden the funds in any number of ways to appear bankrupt or at least hide a nice portion off for himself, again he is a criminal and it doesn't take a genius to work out police may one day catch up to you therefore hide some for a rainy day.
The penalty here vs the risk involved seems very favourably balanced in the criminals favour here.
When your highest box office year is achieved through ticket price rises (which it was) and the annual rise was less than the ticket price wise percentage wise (which it was) then yeah I guess they can rightly argue that piracy is hurting them. You can't look at box office earnings without taking into account costs, that is just idiotic, Box Office has been flat or slightly negative since 2000.
The Wii itself is not suffering, however the wii game devs are, it is few and far between for best selling Wii titles, not because the games suck but because the Wii user base have a very low amount of time played compared to xbox,ps,pc. They buy less games and spend less time playing, so while wii sales are excellent the actual dev studios are not having such a joyous time of it.
I have been in IT now for just on 20 years, I do everything electronically and my house is fully wired. But give me a paper based book over an e-book any day. I have tried a few of the e-book readers now and I can honestly say I hate them all utterly and completely. I read on average a novel every 2-3 weeks and I will happily pay more for dead-tree books simply for the better experience they provide.
sorry your still off here. The size of the economy itself while important becomes irrelevant when dealing with such huge markets. If you invest 1 billion in the US with a 2% growth rate you expect to get 20 million in growth, if you invest that same 1 billion in india with a growth of 7% you would expect a 70 million dollar growth. You are confusing the overall market size with the value of your investment. Stagnant or low growth markets regardless of size are unpleasant prospects for investment as you have to beat the market growth rate just to even stay afloat.
your maths is horrendeous. 7% of 1.2 trillion is NOT 880 million, it is about 88 BILLION.
secondly percentages tell EXACTLY the right story here where as raw numbers do not, they tell us how fast and by how much the economy is growing which when it comes to where you want to invest is usually far far more important than the overall size of the economy.
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WTf you smoking, The last thing we want is a swing in labors favour. We want retards like conroy out not with more power.
It isn't the opposite at all. There are plenty of known drug kingpins and crime figures that have significantly reduced their sentences by ratting out all their underlings. He who rats first gets all the cheese.
For the vast majority of people simply enabling the builtin windows firewall is by far the best option.
Actually I would say that being willing to pay puts you in a far far worse situation as I can't think of a single paid for product that is better than the free ones. The universal problem with the paid for ones is they are trying to distinguish themselves in a crowded market, they add uneeded features and options with fancy UI's that cause massive bloat and the inevitable crashes and issues that come with complex solutions, just look at Norton and Mcafee as prime examples of the garbage you get when you pay.
These are not your average criminals, they are technically savy, well financed underground organisations, they aren't some drugged up retard running into a liquor store to rob it with his mothers tights pulled over his face. Not every criminal is stupid and the possibility of getting caught is enough to keep smart ones from getting sloppy.
your maths is all arse backwards.. with your numbers the chance of a match in 214,597 is less than 0.01% and the chance in a pop of 300,000,000 of there being even one match is less than 10%.
What does Google's method of doing business have to do with their Yahoo! merger? In any merger/deal of the size between 2 large companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo the companies are asked to show why their deal isn't anti competitive and doesn't adversely affect the competitive landscape, as such showing that google has a dominant market position that will be unaffected by the deal (except to provide more market competition) they are directly answering the question as to whether or not the deal should go forward.
We are talking about electronics and software here, It all has bugs and potential failures, you don't sue when your fridge breaks down, you don't sue when your TV shorts, you either return it under warranty or if out of warranty you buy a new one or get it repaired. I hate sony with a passion, but for christs sake it's a mass produced piece of electronics, it is gonna have bugs. People are just lucky they will probably get this fixed for free, now if sony refuses to fix it THEN we can talk about suing.
I think you have just extracted the exact opposite of what I did, it doesn't mean robots and software can be creative at all, rather it means that the task of creating music is far less creative and more mathematical than previously thought and that people like mozart were brilliant composers not because they were wonderfully creative but because they were awesome mathematicians.
So one can also conclude that as friel is publishing his as a book that his is also one huge fabrication and should not be taken seriously?
From a quick reading of some reviews and lomborgs response it sounds most likely that they are both just publicity Whores with very little credibility.
Yep, an MMO has to get the balance of risk and reward for such behaviour right as well as making the environment robust enough with proper planning to allow Open world PVP without creating an easily exploitable system. So far they all fail on at least one count.
Could not agree more. I don't mind loss of progress or even some loss of gear or money, however in every friggen new MMO that tries to implement these things there are griefers that go out of their way simply to make the experience miserable for everyone else, using everything from spawn point camping, to things like killing people as they are zoning (man that one really pissed me off in conan) to just plain cheating and using exploits to make everyone elses life misserable, the end results is those MMO's fail as people like me who also enjoy the play style, but not the Morons it attracts, all leave.
companies do themselves disservice every day. Sticking with IE 6 is a dumb move, but saying you will leave everytime a business does a dumb thing with IT is idiotic. IT is there to serve the business and if you can't bring yourself to do that then you probably need to find a different career. If you left everytime business did something stupid with IT you would be leaving most jobs within a month of being there and it doesn't actually achieve anything.
refusing to do what the business demanded is hardly profession ethics, in fact I would call it the opposite. As IT admin/developer you should be making sure they are informed of the consequences of their choices, but if they still choose to go with ie6 regardless it is their money and their choice not yours and to treat it otherwise is unethical on your part.
No this is the kind of thing a BETA is supposed to catch, i.e. bugs that were not caught by internal testing. The entire purpose of a beta is to find these sort of bugs.
I would probably stake all my money on the fact that "MOST" aussies use the word barbie. I know I have only ever lived in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne and few country towns, but considering it is common practise in all those cities and towns and that is a large proportion of the countries population I feel my money would be pretty safe. I would also like to bet your not an aussie and have probably never been there if you think we don't use that term.
Yep, they paid out their cash pile to stock holders a couple of years back in a once special payment and then in dividends since then.
The problem is not the checksum in these cases, if you have a compromised machine it is likely the compromising code has hooks and or drivers in the system, the result of then replacing what looks like a normal kernel to any checksum is it breaks the exploit code and hence blue screen the machine, unless you know to explicitly look for the exploit code you are pretty well hosed in detecting it during patching.
This is not cracker level high skill, This is deep understanding of intergrated circuit level high skill combined with high skill and precision of disolving out layers of the chip with Acid and then inner layers of mesh with rust remover all the while without damaging anything critical and then having the knowledge and skill to tap the necessary wire to monitor comms in the chip. This is well beyond the vast majority of high skilled crackers.
Your making some pretty big assumptions here.
a) that they can track all goods he has sold, believe it or not most criminals don't like to make it easy to track any of their illegal goods.
b) he actually has the money to pay back, he could have hidden the funds in any number of ways to appear bankrupt or at least hide a nice portion off for himself, again he is a criminal and it doesn't take a genius to work out police may one day catch up to you therefore hide some for a rainy day.
The penalty here vs the risk involved seems very favourably balanced in the criminals favour here.
When your highest box office year is achieved through ticket price rises (which it was) and the annual rise was less than the ticket price wise percentage wise (which it was) then yeah I guess they can rightly argue that piracy is hurting them. You can't look at box office earnings without taking into account costs, that is just idiotic, Box Office has been flat or slightly negative since 2000.
The Wii itself is not suffering, however the wii game devs are, it is few and far between for best selling Wii titles, not because the games suck but because the Wii user base have a very low amount of time played compared to xbox,ps,pc. They buy less games and spend less time playing, so while wii sales are excellent the actual dev studios are not having such a joyous time of it.
I have been in IT now for just on 20 years, I do everything electronically and my house is fully wired. But give me a paper based book over an e-book any day. I have tried a few of the e-book readers now and I can honestly say I hate them all utterly and completely. I read on average a novel every 2-3 weeks and I will happily pay more for dead-tree books simply for the better experience they provide.
sorry your still off here. The size of the economy itself while important becomes irrelevant when dealing with such huge markets. If you invest 1 billion in the US with a 2% growth rate you expect to get 20 million in growth, if you invest that same 1 billion in india with a growth of 7% you would expect a 70 million dollar growth. You are confusing the overall market size with the value of your investment. Stagnant or low growth markets regardless of size are unpleasant prospects for investment as you have to beat the market growth rate just to even stay afloat.
your maths is horrendeous. 7% of 1.2 trillion is NOT 880 million, it is about 88 BILLION. secondly percentages tell EXACTLY the right story here where as raw numbers do not, they tell us how fast and by how much the economy is growing which when it comes to where you want to invest is usually far far more important than the overall size of the economy.