Maybe you can get disability for depression if you only show pictures of yourself on facebook depicting deep frowns and somber scenes! That's a diagnosis if I ever saw one!
If the perp's not crypto-savvy, this will work pretty well, I think. I use John The Ripper for password cracking the machine I admin, and it actually catches people from time to time. Once back in college (when computer people were friendly to this sort of thing) I wrote and ran a naive password cracker using/usr/dict/words--it caught an instructor with the password "sunshine". Most people, including most child pornography enthusiasts, will use shitty passwords.
If the perp uses 160 characters of plain English text, however, the PS3s are going to have their work cut out for them, cracking passwords in an average of 300 trillion years per.
I'm pretty sure the PS3s will be out of warranty by then, but the C3 will be able to run 37 quintillion full-speed PS3 emulators on the Dimension 37 Interuniversal Hadron Computer.
We have to be careful with Apples-to-apples, here. RH sells a "subscription" to 24x7 unlimited support for $2500 per year—you can buy their box of software for $50. For Apple server, you get unlimited 24x7 support for $20,000 per year. (If that's too pricey, you can get 12-hour 10-incident support for $6000.)
That $6500 price for RedHat you found is volume pricing for a three-year unlimited support subscription, which would cost $7500 if you purchased it on a year-by-year basis for three years. If you purchased Apple's unlimited 24x7 support subscription for three years, it would cost $60,000.
I'm not saying it's wrong for Apple to play in the high-price arena; I'm just saying they prefer to. The last thing they need is to be undercut by some cheap-ass cloners who have found a market. I think Jobs made this clear this when he came back to Apple.
That's why it would need to be someone you trusted completely who themselves had an interest in you not going to jail. Someone who loves you. In short, your father.
Honestly, is the Court going to believe the measurement of a piece of equipment on the defendant's car? The defense might as well include a photo of the speedometer at 35 MPH proving innocence! I have all kinds of data showing that I wasn't speeding, believe me.
I honestly don't know what the deal is, here--I'm sure a complex software system like that has bugs.
That being said, I'm certain that a small percentage of the Toyota-driving population accidentally steps on the gas instead of the brake, when they are 100% sure they are stepping on the brake. There are plenty of videos floating around of people in parking lots stomping on the gas at the last minute and plowing into cars or restaurants.
I think the parent poster wasn't quite clear when he said "scarcity". It's not so much that they're rare or hard to find--they just only run on Apple hardware, which is a small percentage of hardware out there.
And you are right that making OSX run on hardware it doesn't support (e.g. most of the PC hardware out there) can be quite tough. Which is why you start a company that actually figures that out on one set of PC hardware, and then sells a bunch of those at lower PC hardware prices, plus a copy of OSX. There's a market there. Companies that try to do this, however, tend to get their asses repeatedly sued off by Apple.
And, according to TFA, Apple seems to be deliberately going out of their way to not support certain hardware.
Why? It's almost like they don't want OSX on a wider supply of non-Apple hardware! In fact, it's exactly like that.
This is, I think, the "scarcity" that the parent poster was referring to.
The public has shown repeatedly that it will value cost above quality
Right, that is why Apple laptop sales have tanked in the downturn. Oh, wait.
Macs have a 10% market share. I'm not sure that really supports the suggestion that people value quality over cost, with 9/10 people voting against "quality".
Either that, or people don't think Macs are quality.
If the use of the replicator is universal, then pretty much all people who would have paid for it, won't. Until another scheme is put into place to incentivize production, this kills all but the gift economy.
While I generally agree, I submit the current software industry, existing in the face of 25 years of rampant piracy, as evidence that use of the replicator is not universal.
But an interesting diversion from this is the idea of a gift economy and how it relates to free software killing commercial software. What we have in the case of, say, Linux, is a piece of software for which use of the replicator is actually encouraged.
Has that damaged the software industry? Let's ask Sun Microsystems!
Linux isn't half-bad; the gift economy can be quite productive. But can huge amounts of development dollars be poured into it to make a better product and sell it even when the absolutely identical product (merely with a different name and logo) is available for legal free download? Let's ask Red Hat! (I admit this is a somewhat questionable example, as you also buy support services from Red Hat, but the software they spend money developing does end up being available for free.)
What if you sold a game and people were allowed to choose how much to pay for it? Would they still pay more than a single cent? It turns out, they would.
And I sell things online, even though the exact same content is available, on the same page, for free download.
So even with the universal replicator, there are still people who pay. The idea that it kills all but the gift economy is not quite complete; the two seem to coexist to a certain degree.
Intangible property is a reality. It's always been for centuries, millennia in almost every nation that has had a notion of property and trade secrets.
We don't get to wishy-wash it out of existence just prop a fallacious argument.
[...snip...]
Neglecting the existence of intangible properties is just an argument of convenience, not principle or reason, regardless of how many kittens get killed by Zeus or Dr. Bimbu.
I agree with everything you just said.
(I know you weren't attacking me for denying the existence of intangible property, because I did not take that position, and as such any attack on your part would have been a strawman.)
But getting back to it, comparing software piracy to physical theft makes no more sense than equating each instance of piracy with a lost sale.
If it took millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours to create that sod, then yes, it should be considered stealing.
But you must admit that wrt the OP's hypothetical, the nursery's revenue is unchanged by the "thief" using the replicator.
Without making a declaration of right or wrong, software piracy is not physical theft, and should not be compared to it for argument purposes.
I am a software developer and every time someone says that software piracy does not cost companies money should really re-consider when their future job may depend on it.
Well, then, I suggest write off all those piracy "losses" on your taxes and see what happens!
The status quo has been well-established in the last 25 years. There is a set of people who will not buy your software, and a subset of them will pirate it. This subset is a waste of time to pursue, since they will not give you any money. (We saw the conversion numbers in TFA.) Honestly, what is your plan to get money out of these guys? Perhaps if you put a gun to the pirates' heads then they would pay you!
There is a set of people who would buy your software, but didn't because they found a pirated copy. I don't know the number here, but I'm guessing for the iPhone it's very small since people who would buy your software frequent the app store. (Of course, a pile of them will only play the free demo version of your app and never pay for the full version, which is somehow completely acceptable despite the fact that probably even more dev hours went into the demo!)
People selling counterfeit software is another matter since it takes from the set of people who want to buy your software and try to buy your software--and that's your actual money source! This, more than a million teenagers who weren't going to buy your software no matter what, can cost you.
The situation is multifaceted and complex, and it's not particularly helpful to say, "You wouldn't steal an aardvark, so therefore you wouldn't steal software!" People know the difference, just like they know that smoking pot is "bad" for you, and shooting heroin is BAD for you.
If people want to be upset about piracy, that's fine. But if they want to have an impact, they're going to have to have more nuanced tactics that.
Half of my lawn died and need to be replaced with fresh sod. I need it before it deteriorates further causing damage to my property. But I can't afford that right now. Should I sneak out into a nursery and take the sod I need?
No, because that would be stealing. You should use a replicator and duplicate the sod (which you aren't going to pay for, anyway) from over the fence.
I'm not a fan of software piracy (and I am a software developer who enjoys earning money), but every time someone compares software piracy to physical theft, Zeus kills 10 kittens.
Except for the obvious fact that the country never did invest in the future, but was still great.
Not so--the US really did invest in its future in a lot of ways that really mattered. The question is, unlike 50 years ago, is higher education now one of those ways that really matters? That debate would be long, but I'd put my money on the "yes, it is" team.
I haven't been to Scotland, in my defense.:) And I'm sure there must be places that are much much worse for customs than the US... I'm not even convinced that our reputation is entirely deserved.
I have to admit that getting through US Customs takes longer and is more stressful for me than any European country I've been to. Undoubtedly part of that is that we've all heard how nightmarish it can be... and just being afraid of that is enough to make the experience decidedly unpleasant, let alone when it actual gets bad.
We need to fix this, seriously. I want as much tourism cash in this country as possible.
Its not a big deal, admitting you made a mistake is pretty easy and has almost 0 cost as in almost every case its easier to say 'I did it, I was wrong' than defend against it as people will just say 'thanks for admitting it' and move on.
I think you misunderstand my meaning. Of course it wasn't actually difficult to do once public opinion backed it (although it is still politically embarrassing), but that doesn't mean it wasn't a big deal. Admitting to the mistake is a line in the sand that has now been drawn.
Compare the government saying, "Turing is a national hero who saved our asses and we treated him like dirt, and we can do better, and we will do better," with the government saying nothing at all.
Whats even better, its it gets people like yourself to go away and stop bugging them at no cost.
In this case, I'm sorry, but I think you're wrong. Perhaps you think this event will cause gay rights proponents to fade away? Maybe all the gay marriage activists will be placated now that, at long last, the Prime Minister has apologized for Turing's treatment?
I'm pretty sure we both know this isn't going to happen. If anything, this apology will have the opposite effect.
Why is battery life on notebooks so poor when using Linux?
I wish I could tell you, but, like the above W500 owners, I've only ever gotten perfectly competitive battery life on Linux laptops.
Obviously Apple with their X86 hardware and BSD based OS have got it right because the MacBooks last for hours
Their new ones are better, but I have one of the old MacBook Pros from about a year ago which might get you through a feature-length movie if you're lucky. My Linux netbook completely owns my MacBook in terms of power usage--the Mac seems to be converting a lot of it to heat. The netbook will suspend seemingly forever.
Any time you install an OS on some hardware that didn't ship with it, you're taking a chance that it might not work. Vendors try to make their stuff work with Windows, so you'll probably have good luck there, but even vendors ship with specialized OEM versions of Windows. Trying to install Linux or OSX on machine that didn't ship with it, especially if the hardware is new, is going to be interesting. My advice to those not willing to tinker: leave it to the pros and buy a preinstall.
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Maybe you can get disability for depression if you only show pictures of yourself on facebook depicting deep frowns and somber scenes! That's a diagnosis if I ever saw one!
If the perp's not crypto-savvy, this will work pretty well, I think. I use John The Ripper for password cracking the machine I admin, and it actually catches people from time to time. Once back in college (when computer people were friendly to this sort of thing) I wrote and ran a naive password cracker using /usr/dict/words--it caught an instructor with the password "sunshine". Most people, including most child pornography enthusiasts, will use shitty passwords.
If the perp uses 160 characters of plain English text, however, the PS3s are going to have their work cut out for them, cracking passwords in an average of 300 trillion years per.
I'm pretty sure the PS3s will be out of warranty by then, but the C3 will be able to run 37 quintillion full-speed PS3 emulators on the Dimension 37 Interuniversal Hadron Computer.
We have to be careful with Apples-to-apples, here. RH sells a "subscription" to 24x7 unlimited support for $2500 per year—you can buy their box of software for $50. For Apple server, you get unlimited 24x7 support for $20,000 per year. (If that's too pricey, you can get 12-hour 10-incident support for $6000.)
That $6500 price for RedHat you found is volume pricing for a three-year unlimited support subscription, which would cost $7500 if you purchased it on a year-by-year basis for three years. If you purchased Apple's unlimited 24x7 support subscription for three years, it would cost $60,000.
I'm not saying it's wrong for Apple to play in the high-price arena; I'm just saying they prefer to. The last thing they need is to be undercut by some cheap-ass cloners who have found a market. I think Jobs made this clear this when he came back to Apple.
Cites:
https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/server/rhelap.html
http://www.apple.com/support/products/macosxserver_sw_supt.html
http://www.buy.com/prod/hp-red-hat-enterprise-linux-advanced-platform-with-3-years-24x7/q/loc/105/205856949.html
Exactly, and Apple owns the $1 to $1K server OS market too.
I dunno--there are an awful lot of Linux and BSD servers that cost less than $1K. But I'd welcome a citation.
And I call "taking a liberty" on the $1, since I don't even know what you can buy with OSX on it for less than $599.
In fact, Apple sells a Snow Leopard server (software+hardware) for total price of just $999.
I am forced to concede that $999 is less than $1000 and is therefore not part of the $1K-plus market.
Forgetting about the Mac mini, are we?
Not at all. Who is owning the $1K-plus market, then? Apple wants it, and they have it. "The Race to the Bottom"--they don't want that so much.
Apple could be a very serious threat to Microsoft if they changed their attitude towards businesses.
"Higher volume, lower price"? Doesn't sound like Apple to me. "Corner the $1K-plus market!" Now that's more Apple's game.
That's why it would need to be someone you trusted completely who themselves had an interest in you not going to jail. Someone who loves you. In short, your father.
"I'm going to take back some of the things I've said about you, Microsoft. You--you've earned it."
That data's impossible to fake.
Honestly, is the Court going to believe the measurement of a piece of equipment on the defendant's car? The defense might as well include a photo of the speedometer at 35 MPH proving innocence! I have all kinds of data showing that I wasn't speeding, believe me.
I honestly don't know what the deal is, here--I'm sure a complex software system like that has bugs.
That being said, I'm certain that a small percentage of the Toyota-driving population accidentally steps on the gas instead of the brake, when they are 100% sure they are stepping on the brake. There are plenty of videos floating around of people in parking lots stomping on the gas at the last minute and plowing into cars or restaurants.
I think the parent poster wasn't quite clear when he said "scarcity". It's not so much that they're rare or hard to find--they just only run on Apple hardware, which is a small percentage of hardware out there.
And you are right that making OSX run on hardware it doesn't support (e.g. most of the PC hardware out there) can be quite tough. Which is why you start a company that actually figures that out on one set of PC hardware, and then sells a bunch of those at lower PC hardware prices, plus a copy of OSX. There's a market there. Companies that try to do this, however, tend to get their asses repeatedly sued off by Apple.
And, according to TFA, Apple seems to be deliberately going out of their way to not support certain hardware.
Why? It's almost like they don't want OSX on a wider supply of non-Apple hardware! In fact, it's exactly like that.
This is, I think, the "scarcity" that the parent poster was referring to.
My German friend gets some-number-of-megabit tethering on his phone for something around $40/month. It's positively criminal.
The public has shown repeatedly that it will value cost above quality
Right, that is why Apple laptop sales have tanked in the downturn. Oh, wait.
Macs have a 10% market share. I'm not sure that really supports the suggestion that people value quality over cost, with 9/10 people voting against "quality".
Either that, or people don't think Macs are quality.
If the use of the replicator is universal, then pretty much all people who would have paid for it, won't. Until another scheme is put into place to incentivize production, this kills all but the gift economy.
While I generally agree, I submit the current software industry, existing in the face of 25 years of rampant piracy, as evidence that use of the replicator is not universal.
But an interesting diversion from this is the idea of a gift economy and how it relates to free software killing commercial software. What we have in the case of, say, Linux, is a piece of software for which use of the replicator is actually encouraged.
Has that damaged the software industry? Let's ask Sun Microsystems!
Linux isn't half-bad; the gift economy can be quite productive. But can huge amounts of development dollars be poured into it to make a better product and sell it even when the absolutely identical product (merely with a different name and logo) is available for legal free download? Let's ask Red Hat! (I admit this is a somewhat questionable example, as you also buy support services from Red Hat, but the software they spend money developing does end up being available for free.)
What if you sold a game and people were allowed to choose how much to pay for it? Would they still pay more than a single cent? It turns out, they would.
And I sell things online, even though the exact same content is available, on the same page, for free download.
So even with the universal replicator, there are still people who pay. The idea that it kills all but the gift economy is not quite complete; the two seem to coexist to a certain degree.
Intangible property is a reality. It's always been for centuries, millennia in almost every nation that has had a notion of property and trade secrets.
We don't get to wishy-wash it out of existence just prop a fallacious argument.
[...snip...]
Neglecting the existence of intangible properties is just an argument of convenience, not principle or reason, regardless of how many kittens get killed by Zeus or Dr. Bimbu.
I agree with everything you just said.
(I know you weren't attacking me for denying the existence of intangible property, because I did not take that position, and as such any attack on your part would have been a strawman.)
But getting back to it, comparing software piracy to physical theft makes no more sense than equating each instance of piracy with a lost sale.
If it took millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours to create that sod, then yes, it should be considered stealing.
But you must admit that wrt the OP's hypothetical, the nursery's revenue is unchanged by the "thief" using the replicator.
Without making a declaration of right or wrong, software piracy is not physical theft, and should not be compared to it for argument purposes.
I am a software developer and every time someone says that software piracy does not cost companies money should really re-consider when their future job may depend on it.
Well, then, I suggest write off all those piracy "losses" on your taxes and see what happens!
The status quo has been well-established in the last 25 years. There is a set of people who will not buy your software, and a subset of them will pirate it. This subset is a waste of time to pursue, since they will not give you any money. (We saw the conversion numbers in TFA.) Honestly, what is your plan to get money out of these guys? Perhaps if you put a gun to the pirates' heads then they would pay you!
There is a set of people who would buy your software, but didn't because they found a pirated copy. I don't know the number here, but I'm guessing for the iPhone it's very small since people who would buy your software frequent the app store. (Of course, a pile of them will only play the free demo version of your app and never pay for the full version, which is somehow completely acceptable despite the fact that probably even more dev hours went into the demo!)
People selling counterfeit software is another matter since it takes from the set of people who want to buy your software and try to buy your software--and that's your actual money source! This, more than a million teenagers who weren't going to buy your software no matter what, can cost you.
The situation is multifaceted and complex, and it's not particularly helpful to say, "You wouldn't steal an aardvark, so therefore you wouldn't steal software!" People know the difference, just like they know that smoking pot is "bad" for you, and shooting heroin is BAD for you.
If people want to be upset about piracy, that's fine. But if they want to have an impact, they're going to have to have more nuanced tactics that.
Half of my lawn died and need to be replaced with fresh sod. I need it before it deteriorates further causing damage to my property. But I can't afford that right now. Should I sneak out into a nursery and take the sod I need?
No, because that would be stealing. You should use a replicator and duplicate the sod (which you aren't going to pay for, anyway) from over the fence.
I'm not a fan of software piracy (and I am a software developer who enjoys earning money), but every time someone compares software piracy to physical theft, Zeus kills 10 kittens.
Except for the obvious fact that the country never did invest in the future, but was still great.
Not so--the US really did invest in its future in a lot of ways that really mattered. The question is, unlike 50 years ago, is higher education now one of those ways that really matters? That debate would be long, but I'd put my money on the "yes, it is" team.
I haven't been to Scotland, in my defense. :) And I'm sure there must be places that are much much worse for customs than the US... I'm not even convinced that our reputation is entirely deserved.
But a reputation, it is, deserved or not.
I have to admit that getting through US Customs takes longer and is more stressful for me than any European country I've been to. Undoubtedly part of that is that we've all heard how nightmarish it can be... and just being afraid of that is enough to make the experience decidedly unpleasant, let alone when it actual gets bad.
We need to fix this, seriously. I want as much tourism cash in this country as possible.
Its not a big deal, admitting you made a mistake is pretty easy and has almost 0 cost as in almost every case its easier to say 'I did it, I was wrong' than defend against it as people will just say 'thanks for admitting it' and move on.
I think you misunderstand my meaning. Of course it wasn't actually difficult to do once public opinion backed it (although it is still politically embarrassing), but that doesn't mean it wasn't a big deal. Admitting to the mistake is a line in the sand that has now been drawn.
Compare the government saying, "Turing is a national hero who saved our asses and we treated him like dirt, and we can do better, and we will do better," with the government saying nothing at all.
Whats even better, its it gets people like yourself to go away and stop bugging them at no cost.
In this case, I'm sorry, but I think you're wrong. Perhaps you think this event will cause gay rights proponents to fade away? Maybe all the gay marriage activists will be placated now that, at long last, the Prime Minister has apologized for Turing's treatment?
I'm pretty sure we both know this isn't going to happen. If anything, this apology will have the opposite effect.
This was long overdue, to be sure, but even now it means so much to so many people. I believe we all owe Turing, whether we know it or not.
Any time a government admits, "Ok, we screwed up," it's a big deal, and it's usually a sign of change for the better.
This guy reports 2.5-5 hours of battery depending on which graphics drivers you're running. Maybe there are some more pointers there.
Why is battery life on notebooks so poor when using Linux?
I wish I could tell you, but, like the above W500 owners, I've only ever gotten perfectly competitive battery life on Linux laptops.
Obviously Apple with their X86 hardware and BSD based OS have got it right because the MacBooks last for hours
Their new ones are better, but I have one of the old MacBook Pros from about a year ago which might get you through a feature-length movie if you're lucky. My Linux netbook completely owns my MacBook in terms of power usage--the Mac seems to be converting a lot of it to heat. The netbook will suspend seemingly forever.
Any time you install an OS on some hardware that didn't ship with it, you're taking a chance that it might not work. Vendors try to make their stuff work with Windows, so you'll probably have good luck there, but even vendors ship with specialized OEM versions of Windows. Trying to install Linux or OSX on machine that didn't ship with it, especially if the hardware is new, is going to be interesting. My advice to those not willing to tinker: leave it to the pros and buy a preinstall.
Someone should hurry up and tell Dell and HP to stop shipping Linux laptops, then.