Nice idea in theory but India basically does not allow permanent economic immigration with perhaps a few exceptions. You're basically stuck here in the USA unless you are very wealthy in the first place.
Labor is certainly an important input of production. But how is it any more or less important than the other inputs:
raw materials
capital (infrastructure, equipment, etc)
entrepreneurship (leadership/direction)
Production is impossible without all four major inputs. Like the parent poster said, if "labor" feels it is being deprived of its "fruits" then labor needs to start its own company and produce a competitive product.
This is the inherent failure and contradiction of Marxism. "Labor" by itself alone is no more capabable of generating new wealth than a sack of money buried in the backyard is. Labor itself is a commodity in a market like any other.
Technically, when you "LGPL" your code, you sign away license rights for that software release to the FSF. That is why if someone violates the license of your GPL'ed program, the FSF can step in (with their lawyers) to defend your licensing rights.
Completely wrong. The only way the FSF will defend the GPL on a particular piece of software is if you explicitly sign over the copyright to them.
Hmmm... don't you think pretending you had a girlfriend instead would have been slightly more effective in persuading people that you are not interested in gay sex?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
I'm just curious what about that exactly establishes "rights to copy material." Freedom of speech? Isn't that a bit of a stretch?
That's probably because you're a new Netflix customer. You are prioritized for popular titles. Wait around a year or so. I canceled my Netflix membership after two years partially because I was never able to get the popular titles I wanted.
Oh, please. And city dweller's housing and other costs are far higher than rural people. I'm not saying that it "all balances out" or that everything's fair, but since when is life supposed to be fair?
Don't bother looking for actual evidence-based arguments or rational debate from someone like Bill O'Reilly. It's all theatre, or to be more precise, with O'Reilly it's really more of a monologue.
At the moment, there exists no good way to maximize the seeders, other than intially seeding a file that's 99% done, and then putting the remaining 1% up when there are lots of seeders.
If the initial seeder only makes 99% available, then there will never be another seed. By definition, a seed is a site with 100% of the file.
We're not about to require that potential customers install Cygwin to evaluate our software. It has to be a Win32-native version. Besides, the cygwin version of postgresql wasn't very stable last time I checked. (About 6 months ago.)
My company uses Microsoft's MSDE. It's basically got most of the core features of SQL Server 2000, and it's free. However, it can be a pig (20mb download) and a bitch to install. In general, though, it does the job. We ship Postgresql on our other platforms.
Of course, we also ship Postgresql on all our supported Unix platforms. We also have high hopes for a future Windows version of Postgresql, but this DB2 Express product will also be available for most of our Unix platforms.
It's easy. If it's anything at all better than MSDE, the redistributable SQL Server 2000 Lite, then companies that need to distribute a database with their product (like mine) will gladly eat it up. We would definitely pay $1000 to get a redistributable database that is better than MSDE (and as 'invisible' as possible.) I have some hopes that IBM's product may indeed be worthwhile, but I haven't had a chance to evaluate it yet.
One of the main factors is how easily and reliably it installs.
One of my company's worst problems right now is that when they try to install our product, often the MSDE version fails to install for various obscure reasons that are basically out of our control.
The customer says "what a piece of shit" and never looks at our product again. If this DB2 Express product installs rock-solid (and is a reasonable download size) then we will jump all over it.
Those laws can be changed. Trade in illegal contraband will never be fully eradicated, so rational steps should be taken to minimaze the overall level of harm that comes from the contraband. In most cases with drugs, the most expensive negative effects stem from the black market around them, not from any inherent properties of the substances themselves.
Actually, they did put my account on hold after about the 6th lost disc. (And almost 2 years of membership.) I called them up. There was no argument or anything. They immediately reinstated my account. No questions or anything. I gather this is an atypical experience for a Netflix customer in this situation.
One strange thing was that in all of these lost disc cases, I was sending multiple movies back at once (though in separate envelopes.) It may just be a coincidence, but I never had a movie lost when I mailed them on different days.
I've since started dropping the films in the post drop box near my office (instead of the one near my home, which is handled by contract postal employees anyway.)
Another poster above may be right -- it could be that Netflix is screwing these up, not the post office. It is certainly convenient for them to blame the customer where possible.
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Nice idea in theory but India basically does not allow permanent economic immigration with perhaps a few exceptions. You're basically stuck here in the USA unless you are very wealthy in the first place.
raw materials
capital (infrastructure, equipment, etc)
entrepreneurship (leadership/direction)
Production is impossible without all four major inputs. Like the parent poster said, if "labor" feels it is being deprived of its "fruits" then labor needs to start its own company and produce a competitive product.
This is the inherent failure and contradiction of Marxism. "Labor" by itself alone is no more capabable of generating new wealth than a sack of money buried in the backyard is. Labor itself is a commodity in a market like any other.
Hear, hear!!! Let's introduce a little sanity to "The System."
Completely wrong. The only way the FSF will defend the GPL on a particular piece of software is if you explicitly sign over the copyright to them.
Hmmm... don't you think pretending you had a girlfriend instead would have been slightly more effective in persuading people that you are not interested in gay sex?
Transactions Per Second.
Believe me, I know from experience that Europeans of all kinds can be as fat, as stupid, and as you have demonstrated, as prejudiced as anyone else.
What explanation do you need other than simple animal power? They did not leave because no one could make them leave.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
I'm just curious what about that exactly establishes "rights to copy material." Freedom of speech? Isn't that a bit of a stretch?
The problem is that these "Darwin Award candidates" tend to take out a few of us innocents with them.
I doubt it was a typo.
That's probably because you're a new Netflix customer. You are prioritized for popular titles. Wait around a year or so. I canceled my Netflix membership after two years partially because I was never able to get the popular titles I wanted.
Oh, please. And city dweller's housing and other costs are far higher than rural people. I'm not saying that it "all balances out" or that everything's fair, but since when is life supposed to be fair?
Don't bother looking for actual evidence-based arguments or rational debate from someone like Bill O'Reilly. It's all theatre, or to be more precise, with O'Reilly it's really more of a monologue.
If the initial seeder only makes 99% available, then there will never be another seed. By definition, a seed is a site with 100% of the file.
We're not about to require that potential customers install Cygwin to evaluate our software. It has to be a Win32-native version. Besides, the cygwin version of postgresql wasn't very stable last time I checked. (About 6 months ago.)
Actually, my company has implemented (a kind of) clustering in Python. What is your big problem?
See my other post here.
Of course, we also ship Postgresql on all our supported Unix platforms. We also have high hopes for a future Windows version of Postgresql, but this DB2 Express product will also be available for most of our Unix platforms.
It's easy. If it's anything at all better than MSDE, the redistributable SQL Server 2000 Lite, then companies that need to distribute a database with their product (like mine) will gladly eat it up. We would definitely pay $1000 to get a redistributable database that is better than MSDE (and as 'invisible' as possible.) I have some hopes that IBM's product may indeed be worthwhile, but I haven't had a chance to evaluate it yet.
One of the main factors is how easily and reliably it installs.
One of my company's worst problems right now is that when they try to install our product, often the MSDE version fails to install for various obscure reasons that are basically out of our control.
The customer says "what a piece of shit" and never looks at our product again. If this DB2 Express product installs rock-solid (and is a reasonable download size) then we will jump all over it.
Those laws can be changed. Trade in illegal contraband will never be fully eradicated, so rational steps should be taken to minimaze the overall level of harm that comes from the contraband. In most cases with drugs, the most expensive negative effects stem from the black market around them, not from any inherent properties of the substances themselves.
You forgot:
0. Kill Linux.
That has been my assumption all along.
;-)
Though I have a feeling that the thief has often been disappointed in my taste in film.
Actually, they did put my account on hold after about the 6th lost disc. (And almost 2 years of membership.) I called them up. There was no argument or anything. They immediately reinstated my account. No questions or anything. I gather this is an atypical experience for a Netflix customer in this situation.
One strange thing was that in all of these lost disc cases, I was sending multiple movies back at once (though in separate envelopes.) It may just be a coincidence, but I never had a movie lost when I mailed them on different days.
I've since started dropping the films in the post drop box near my office (instead of the one near my home, which is handled by contract postal employees anyway.)
Another poster above may be right -- it could be that Netflix is screwing these up, not the post office. It is certainly convenient for them to blame the customer where possible.