Your music is yours forever, nothing short of amnesia can take it from you.
Granting a hundred year monopoly on having others performing derivative works is a completely different thing, and there should be a good reason for requiring the goverment police to forbid others to sing a song (written by you) that they like.
Copyright protection does not equal 'owning'. And why should someone be able to forbid others to use his ideas ? Should Newton be able to restrict how his ideas on calculating gravity be used ?
If there was any threat to their economy, the EU countries can void MS copyright, and allow any local company to copy and distribute MS products without paying Bill Gates.
Governments make the laws, and MS has copyright protection only because governments consider it good for their economy. And without copyright protection MS doesn't really have anything at all.
Email has many benefits even when you are sitting in the same room -
Absolute memory - if you need to know what was said a week ago about one of a dozen projects, you won't remember, but it's trivial to look up the email; And people tend to busy concentrating on real work, and asking non-urgent questions disturbs concentration, slowing down work. If it's not urgent, then it can be answered when people have time for you - leave a mail message then.
Hydrolectric stations tend to be the kind that you can start and stop in minutes; And they are often used as 'buffer' stations, stopped (accumulating water behind the dams) during most of the day, and then dumping that water for power during the peak hours (mornings and evenings).
They can balance the output of 'level' stations, which output pretty much the same power level 24/7. For example, nuclear plants, which might take as much as 48 hours to do a proper (non-emergency) transfer between no power and full power.
"Pay us for 100% of PC's or don't do business with us" is an illegal, prohibited demand in a monopoly situation.
The historical precedent is with the early railway companies, for which the first anti-monopoly laws were created. For more than a hundred years it has been clear that unrestricted monopolies are not good for the society.
EU could void the copyright. So that any distributor could buy a single copy of windows, and distribute a million copies for 5$ legally. Would consumers lose then ?
They cannot do this. I mean, suppose it happens your way. MS Spain refuses to sell Windows at all, and it hurts Spanish economy greatly.
The only thing that prevents any computer shop to install and distribute Windows is the Spanish law. If the Spanish economy (and the voters) will be hurt, then government can revoke the copyright overnight, and grant anyone in Spain full rights to copy and install Windows. (Without paying MS Spain, since they don't want to do business) Would MS want that to happen?
MS cannot threaten the governments that way. Copyrights only exist because the governments say so, if MS will try to disrupt economy by not distributing any updates to Europe (which they will not do), the next day there would be a law that anybody is free to re-distribute these updates irregardless of MS licencing, and there would be some new governmental bureaucratic agency that would be tasked of distributing said updates.
MS has as much rights to their software as the governments allow them to. They have allowed a near total rights in the past, to 'facilitate economy' - but if any serious damage to economy will be happening, then there are a LOT of other alternatives than begging MS. For example, jailing any managers of MS european branches that refuse to comply with whatever the court demands.
I have around 20 places where I need to have passwords, every one of them requires passwords to be changed every 30 days.
I use 5 of these systems daily, but most others I use, say, every two weeks, or every six weeks - basically, every time I log in, I need to think of a new password. Remembering them is nearly impossible.
Media player is just one of the many things they needed to do.
Licencing the patents/technologies to allow other vendors (including opensource) to interoperate with Windows - that is the significant part that they don't want to do, ever.
In financial institutions, you have all the changes and transactions securely logged - but it's generally assumed that any phone-monkey is able to view all customer information, because how else they are supposed to answer customer enquiries ?
The same is for IT and accounting people - what they can do and change is very limited and logged, but they have full read access. Forget about privacy if it slows down workflow - this is business after all.
The point is that in any case you are not using it all 24/7. Modern computers are very good at turning off inactive devices, using standby or low power modes, etc.
Even for a video card without any intervention from the OS, power usage will be far lower that peak power if you are not running 24/7 Doom3 at max settings.
During common computer usage, including all kinds of intensive tasks, I would bet that the average power usage (the only thing that matters for these statistics) is less than half of the peak power. And for these maxed-out computers, it would be less than third of the peak power - since adding more devices adds peak power, but rarely changes average power. (While playing games, you usually are not printing or burning DVD's. If you are, then that's a rare case anyway.)
You can compare the results of USA schools (all schools) against German schools (all schools, highschools+tradeschools).
Any inter-school competitions take the best students anyway, it's comparing the elites anyway.
I agree that you cannot compare the averages without counting in all the German students which study in the trade schools - you need to count all the students in.
But any differences in the education quality of the whole population at a specific age do objectively show the merits and faults of these education systems.
If a tiered system performs better than a system for 'everyone', then maybe USA should look at such possibility ?
German high schools do serve anyone - it's not a discrimination of race or income level, they serve all families - but from the same family the son who is inclined to become a biologist goes on to high school, and the son who wants to be an auto mechanic goes to trade schools.
And you can compare the total results of the population of 20-year olds or 30-year olds - that is a real, important indicator of education quality, no matter if they got there through an 'elite' school or a common one.
Last year I have had an index corruption on a sizeable (32 mil entries at 2kb) table on our live MSSQL server, and we couldn't find out a way to do anything with that index file, since all attempts to do this just returned error messages.
Indexes are recreatable, and we could easily have time for dropping all indexes, deleting any references to such indexes and recreating them - but the glitch wouldn't allow to do this.
The MS knowledge base for that error message contained a single sentence that basically said - 'Known issue since 2003, no workaround available'.
The phone support suggested us to reinstall the computer/SQL server, and populate the data from backups.
We had other issues with other, fairly niche commercial software - and it is clear that the vendor support is useless, and it is not an argument.
The real support will be provided either by in-house people or third-party support companies. Or by the vendor charging extra in an attempt to compete with these third parties.
This support is as available for open source programs as for closed-source programs. It is a separate service.
The current price seems to be, as in your comment, 700$ / gram - so 100 grams = 70,000 dollars.
The whole idea is about the expected cost reduction, making the stuff 7000 times cheaper.
MS software installs MSN as the default search engine in many places, and there are an awful lot of users who don't bother to change anything, so when they hit 'Search', it's going to be MSN.
The problem is in your sentence "for UK customers only".
If Apple has a storefront at.fr, then they are not allowed to deny UK customers to shop there. They wouldn't be required to offer this storefront in english, but there is no way the courts will allow them to deny an customer to shop there just because he is from UK.
That would be the case even if they were dealing with physical goods, but then they could refuse to ship to UK - but here no shipping is required.
People don't jump heights that way. Any sportsman who does a X feet jump does it in an arc where he is nearly horisontal, arched, his weight of gravity is about X feet max. In the middle of the jump, his waist is slightly over the pole, and feet and arms are slightly lower than X feet.
If you have the ability to get your center of gravity 9 feet up, then you can jump over a 9 feet pole.
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Your music is yours forever, nothing short of amnesia can take it from you.
Granting a hundred year monopoly on having others performing derivative works is a completely different thing, and there should be a good reason for requiring the goverment police to forbid others to sing a song (written by you) that they like.
Copyright protection does not equal 'owning'. And why should someone be able to forbid others to use his ideas ? Should Newton be able to restrict how his ideas on calculating gravity be used ?
If there was any threat to their economy, the EU countries can void MS copyright, and allow any local company to copy and distribute MS products without paying Bill Gates.
Governments make the laws, and MS has copyright protection only because governments consider it good for their economy. And without copyright protection MS doesn't really have anything at all.
Email has many benefits even when you are sitting in the same room -
Absolute memory - if you need to know what was said a week ago about one of a dozen projects, you won't remember, but it's trivial to look up the email;
And people tend to busy concentrating on real work, and asking non-urgent questions disturbs concentration, slowing down work. If it's not urgent, then it can be answered when people have time for you - leave a mail message then.
Hydrolectric stations tend to be the kind that you can start and stop in minutes; And they are often used as 'buffer' stations, stopped (accumulating water behind the dams) during most of the day, and then dumping that water for power during the peak hours (mornings and evenings).
They can balance the output of 'level' stations, which output pretty much the same power level 24/7. For example, nuclear plants, which might take as much as 48 hours to do a proper (non-emergency) transfer between no power and full power.
"free market" economy presumes multiple suppliers.
"Pay us for 100% of PC's or don't do business with us" is an illegal, prohibited demand in a monopoly situation.
The historical precedent is with the early railway companies, for which the first anti-monopoly laws were created. For more than a hundred years it has been clear that unrestricted monopolies are not good for the society.
EU could void the copyright. So that any distributor could buy a single copy of windows, and distribute a million copies for 5$ legally.
Would consumers lose then ?
They cannot do this. I mean, suppose it happens your way. MS Spain refuses to sell Windows at all, and it hurts Spanish economy greatly.
The only thing that prevents any computer shop to install and distribute Windows is the Spanish law. If the Spanish economy (and the voters) will be hurt, then government can revoke the copyright overnight, and grant anyone in Spain full rights to copy and install Windows. (Without paying MS Spain, since they don't want to do business) Would MS want that to happen?
MS cannot threaten the governments that way. Copyrights only exist because the governments say so, if MS will try to disrupt economy by not distributing any updates to Europe (which they will not do), the next day there would be a law that anybody is free to re-distribute these updates irregardless of MS licencing, and there would be some new governmental bureaucratic agency that would be tasked of distributing said updates.
MS has as much rights to their software as the governments allow them to. They have allowed a near total rights in the past, to 'facilitate economy' - but if any serious damage to economy will be happening, then there are a LOT of other alternatives than begging MS. For example, jailing any managers of MS european branches that refuse to comply with whatever the court demands.
The same is true in Europe.
All advertising information needs to list the price that the buyer will pay (including all taxes).
I can feel your pain.
I have around 20 places where I need to have passwords, every one of them requires passwords to be changed every 30 days.
I use 5 of these systems daily, but most others I use, say, every two weeks, or every six weeks - basically, every time I log in, I need to think of a new password. Remembering them is nearly impossible.
Media player is just one of the many things they needed to do.
Licencing the patents/technologies to allow other vendors (including opensource) to interoperate with Windows - that is the significant part that they don't want to do, ever.
In financial institutions, you have all the changes and transactions securely logged - but it's generally assumed that any phone-monkey is able to view all customer information, because how else they are supposed to answer customer enquiries ?
The same is for IT and accounting people - what they can do and change is very limited and logged, but they have full read access. Forget about privacy if it slows down workflow - this is business after all.
What's worse, there are people on the list who were coming from a pub, drunk, and pissed in a park - and got reported for 'exposing themselves'.
'Sexual predators' - bullshit.
Well, the point is that on Unix machines you don't have to bring down your database system to install a security fix for a webbrowser.
Note the difference between "where the file is" (which you answered) and "where in the file it is" (which was the question).
The point is that in any case you are not using it all 24/7. Modern computers are very good at turning off inactive devices, using standby or low power modes, etc.
Even for a video card without any intervention from the OS, power usage will be far lower that peak power if you are not running 24/7 Doom3 at max settings.
During common computer usage, including all kinds of intensive tasks, I would bet that the average power usage (the only thing that matters for these statistics) is less than half of the peak power. And for these maxed-out computers, it would be less than third of the peak power - since adding more devices adds peak power, but rarely changes average power. (While playing games, you usually are not printing or burning DVD's. If you are, then that's a rare case anyway.)
You can compare the results of USA schools (all schools) against German schools (all schools, highschools+tradeschools).
Any inter-school competitions take the best students anyway, it's comparing the elites anyway.
I agree that you cannot compare the averages without counting in all the German students which study in the trade schools - you need to count all the students in.
But any differences in the education quality of the whole population at a specific age do objectively show the merits and faults of these education systems.
You can compare the results on the population.
If a tiered system performs better than a system for 'everyone', then maybe USA should look at such possibility ?
German high schools do serve anyone - it's not a discrimination of race or income level, they serve all families - but from the same family the son who is inclined to become a biologist goes on to high school, and the son who wants to be an auto mechanic goes to trade schools.
And you can compare the total results of the population of 20-year olds or 30-year olds - that is a real, important indicator of education quality, no matter if they got there through an 'elite' school or a common one.
Last year I have had an index corruption on a sizeable (32 mil entries at 2kb) table on our live MSSQL server, and we couldn't find out a way to do anything with that index file, since all attempts to do this just returned error messages.
Indexes are recreatable, and we could easily have time for dropping all indexes, deleting any references to such indexes and recreating them - but the glitch wouldn't allow to do this.
The MS knowledge base for that error message contained a single sentence that basically said - 'Known issue since 2003, no workaround available'.
The phone support suggested us to reinstall the computer/SQL server, and populate the data from backups.
We had other issues with other, fairly niche commercial software - and it is clear that the vendor support is useless, and it is not an argument.
The real support will be provided either by in-house people or third-party support companies. Or by the vendor charging extra in an attempt to compete with these third parties.
This support is as available for open source programs as for closed-source programs. It is a separate service.
The current price seems to be, as in your comment, 700$ / gram - so 100 grams = 70,000 dollars.
The whole idea is about the expected cost reduction, making the stuff 7000 times cheaper.
MS software installs MSN as the default search engine in many places, and there are an awful lot of users who don't bother to change anything, so when they hit 'Search', it's going to be MSN.
The problem is in your sentence "for UK customers only".
.fr, then they are not allowed to deny UK customers to shop there. They wouldn't be required to offer this storefront in english, but there is no way the courts will allow them to deny an customer to shop there just because he is from UK.
If Apple has a storefront at
That would be the case even if they were dealing with physical goods, but then they could refuse to ship to UK - but here no shipping is required.
Well, that's the point - they cannot 'make sure' that, since they will be prohibited by the courts to do this.
Manufacturers have to provide the hacks themselves, so as the device could be sold in parts of Europe, and (AFAIK) Australia.
Players need region locking disabled to be sold legally there.
People don't jump heights that way.
Any sportsman who does a X feet jump does it in an arc where he is nearly horisontal, arched, his weight of gravity is about X feet max. In the middle of the jump, his waist is slightly over the pole, and feet and arms are slightly lower than X feet.
If you have the ability to get your center of gravity 9 feet up, then you can jump over a 9 feet pole.