Wow is that quite a swerve. You go from copyright as a protection for content creators to "each citizen is required to pay a tax to guarantee the livelihood of those creators". Sorry, that is a logical leap. Thanks for playing!
Hi... you notice a theme here... the items you listed are provided by the government for the common good. Royalties to an artist don't meet those criteria.
Fair compromise? Why in the hell should I be taxed $21/year because you are too cheap to buy music? What if I don't buy/share music on the internet? Why do I have to subsidize you?
I have mod points. I'd mod him down, but I would rather point out his obvious error. EA is free to express itself, it is not free from being criticized for its expression. I am constantly amazed at how many people don't get this.
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I considered modding down you post, but decided to mod it down with words instead.
Is it is ludicrous, please explain why. You might very well be right, but you also might just be a nine-year old who doesn't have a clue. Please elaborate.
I spent so many freaking hours playing the original Civilization that it was affecting my college grades. I had to break the damn CD. Back then $50 was a significant portion of my free money... I swear I almost cried as the CD shattered into pieces...
Can anyone point me to a good cost/watt chart over time? I would love to be able to see how prices have dropped over the past two decades. I keep hearing that solar has to drop in price... but have no baseline to judge our progress.
I am willing to bet that the "gigabyte" usage is simply a cost driver. Accounting simply needs to know how to divide up IT costs and settled on this as a cost driver, possibly one of many, to determine what it takes to support each department.
This is neither new nor entirely bad. Sometimes it is better to go with an easy-to-implement, but only partially accurate number than one that is perfectly accurate but impossible to implement.
It is kind of funny how the article seems to be non-inflammatory, saying that replacement won't happen "soon", but the headline reads like a nice troll. Anyone think the editor chose the headline for page hits?
This is a third party app. I doubt Microsoft would even care to make something this useless. But thanks for showing that you are clueless and so is the moderator.
I understand the math. I was being sarcastic, actually. yeah, I know it doesn't communicate well over the internet. The point is that 1 square meter is considerbly more than 9 square feet. The actual article is poorly written. If the topic weren't so terribly interesting, I wouldn't have wasted my time. However, I would have linked directly to NASA's page instead of the hack that wrote the article.
What I find most fascinating about people who want to be able to travel to exotic new worlds and find new life forms: so frequently these people spend their entire life behind a computer screen when there are so many worlds to visit here on Earth.
Ummmm.... no there aren't. No experiment has ever shown that information can be transmitted faster than light or even hinted at it. you might be thinking of quantum entanglement. This commonly gets translated as "faster than light communication", but this is not accurate.
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Wow is that quite a swerve. You go from copyright as a protection for content creators to "each citizen is required to pay a tax to guarantee the livelihood of those creators". Sorry, that is a logical leap. Thanks for playing!
Because it is sooooooo easy to game that system. We'd finally have a good economic incentive for botnets.
Hi... you notice a theme here... the items you listed are provided by the government for the common good. Royalties to an artist don't meet those criteria.
Thanks for playing.
Fair compromise? Why in the hell should I be taxed $21/year because you are too cheap to buy music? What if I don't buy/share music on the internet? Why do I have to subsidize you?
insert obligatory comment to tell you to go stuff yourself and learn how to capitalize and use punctuation
Seriously. There is nothing wrong with politics on Slashdot. It should be tech centered. Failing that, it should at least be relevant.
And your sig has been domain parked... check those links once a decade or so, please.
"The person who posted this image is incapable of reading directions. Feel free to publically ridicule him or her."
Consider yourself ridiculed.
Why is this on Slashdot?
I couldn't care less about the Tea Party or Colbert. It isn't real news. It certainly isn't for nerds.
What isn't there to like about an application that wants to update itself twice a day and requires you to agree to a new EULA each time?
I have mod points. I'd mod him down, but I would rather point out his obvious error. EA is free to express itself, it is not free from being criticized for its expression. I am constantly amazed at how many people don't get this.
I considered modding down you post, but decided to mod it down with words instead.
Is it is ludicrous, please explain why. You might very well be right, but you also might just be a nine-year old who doesn't have a clue. Please elaborate.
And to the baffoon who modded OP up: "why?"
I went and checked. It was Civ II which cost be a few tenths of a point off of my GPA...
I spent so many freaking hours playing the original Civilization that it was affecting my college grades. I had to break the damn CD. Back then $50 was a significant portion of my free money... I swear I almost cried as the CD shattered into pieces...
Can anyone point me to a good cost/watt chart over time? I would love to be able to see how prices have dropped over the past two decades. I keep hearing that solar has to drop in price... but have no baseline to judge our progress.
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Never mind you damn vegetarian freak!
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I am willing to bet that the "gigabyte" usage is simply a cost driver. Accounting simply needs to know how to divide up IT costs and settled on this as a cost driver, possibly one of many, to determine what it takes to support each department.
This is neither new nor entirely bad. Sometimes it is better to go with an easy-to-implement, but only partially accurate number than one that is perfectly accurate but impossible to implement.
It is kind of funny how the article seems to be non-inflammatory, saying that replacement won't happen "soon", but the headline reads like a nice troll. Anyone think the editor chose the headline for page hits?
Touche, Mr. Sault.... Touche!
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This is a third party app. I doubt Microsoft would even care to make something this useless. But thanks for showing that you are clueless and so is the moderator.
Then what is vibrate mode for?
I understand the math. I was being sarcastic, actually. yeah, I know it doesn't communicate well over the internet. The point is that 1 square meter is considerbly more than 9 square feet. The actual article is poorly written. If the topic weren't so terribly interesting, I wouldn't have wasted my time. However, I would have linked directly to NASA's page instead of the hack that wrote the article.
So one square meter isn't a square with 1 meter sides?
What I find most fascinating about people who want to be able to travel to exotic new worlds and find new life forms: so frequently these people spend their entire life behind a computer screen when there are so many worlds to visit here on Earth.
Ummmm.... no there aren't. No experiment has ever shown that information can be transmitted faster than light or even hinted at it. you might be thinking of quantum entanglement. This commonly gets translated as "faster than light communication", but this is not accurate.