That depends on what the writer agrees to in contract, they could refuse to sell it without profit sharing (i.e. writer gets paid % of total profit) which you think might be an idea for a script you're selling for 500k! But then it could flop (as many films based on high value IP have, just look at all the sequel flops out there). So you can get guaranteed 500k, or get a fair bit less, 100k and a % of profits. You accept the 100k and % but the director sucks and the film doesn't break even. Whoops. Or you take the 500k and abandon 5% of profit sharing on a movie which makes 100million profit. Again, whoops. It's just a matter of good business decisions, as you see everywhere in the world.
Abolishing copyright is not the solution to that. That would just make it so they don't get paid AT ALL for what they produce. OK, maybe you could implement an honour system but that's very untested, and there are a lot of immoral people out there who will take the content, think it's fantastic and never pay for it. I happen to think that's immoral and should be (financially) punishable.
Pretty sure on the list of 'Things not to do if you like your job', admitting you're inspired by the competition and complimenting their design TO THE PRESS has got to be in the top 3.
(oops).... and there is no good replacement for it that is instantaneous. If an email is not arriving in my experience most people will send a fax, because they know as they send it that within 5 minutes it will either be there or they'll get an error from the originating fax machine.
No instant messaging services (at least none that I've heard of) provide easy sending of attachments (usually they require a direct connection between the PCs running the software which is difficult in the land of NAT and firewalls), they only support a couple of sentences of text and most importantly they do not allow you to communicate with someone who you have not communicated with before easily.
Google Wave is close to what's needed here (it's very instantaneous, supports attachments, advanced formatting, communicating with anyone whose google wave address you know even if they haven't got you on their contacts list etc...
We need an upgrade of the delivery and read verification use and handling - say light up emails blue in the 'sent items' folder once they've been received by the recipients server, then green once they've been read. Have a combination indicator where there are multiple recipients and highlight their names in these colours in the To field when you check the email. The current implementation in outlook is horrible and not very supported among other email providers.
The problem is this is no longer consistent with how people use email. I'm well aware of how SMTP was designed, but these days people have an expectation of an email arriving within 5 minutes and it tends to disrupt business processes when it takes any longer than this.
Simply don't store the ENTIRE password. What I do is make my passwords out of chunks with a unique starting value, then say my password is Conquer9753. I write down in my passwords file name of site/domain/app : C______9___. The only place the entire chunk exists is in my head and when I type it in.
He said PARALLEL port, not serial port. Used a parallel port lately? They're about twice the width and nowhere near as useful.
I'm disappointed at the number of D-Sub ports still on laptops but glad DVI stayed around long enough that we can mostly skip HDMI for Display Port.
If the rods go flying off in different directions at high speed, there are explosives nearby. Well I guess WERE explosives nearby, technically.
(yes I read the article and realise they're not using ACTUAL dowsing rods)
The brakes assert a constant force, while the force the engine exerts increases with the engine's rotational speed. Therefore at the end of that 0 to 60 acceleration it's accelerating faster than the constant rate the brakes slow it in the 60 to 0 deceleration, QED bitch.
brAKEs aren't designed to counter the engine at full throttle, they will overheat and fade (look up 'brake fade', you might learn something). When your car locks you out of neutral because it thinks you're accelerating and is push button start there's pretty much nothing you can do but jump out or deliberately crash before you speed up too much
You're right, that's reasonable. most of us would pay that if that was how much _non crippled_ version of the OS would cost. Then there's also the issue that windows 7 over XP only really gives me a new direct x version (which they get paid for developing every time I buy a game which uses direct x), fancier task bar and a whole lot of features I will not use every day. The things I use every day when I start my computer (through windows) are a free browser, free instant messaging program, free music player (playing music which I spend 200-300 dollars a month buying legitimately btw) and playing games which I buy. In fact, windows is a lot less useful to the running of my computer than the $100 motherboard it runs on.
Because if you just take it the store is out of pocked $1000 for the suit. This is a completely different situation! More like if you can't afford that painting you admire and you instead take a photo.
Because linux doesn't 'just work' for a lot of things and most of us would rather not spend an hour making our new game work or app work on linux. I'm not anti-linux or anything - i've been using Ubuntu for ages - but I NEED a windows install as well, mainly for games but some other applications as well.
As others have said, the watt rating it says on the box is a peak figure, that is all. Most devices will consume a fraction of that figure most of the time, especially if they're running as an unloaded server with no GUI up. Personally I'd use a laptop but I guess this depends on the amount of storage space you need. My laptop (Core2Duo at about 2ghz off the top of my head) has a 65W power adapter, so 65W is the max it can supply, but this is what it will consume when the screen is on full brightness, processor running at high load etc. When idling with the screen off it'd be around 25-35W, though I haven't measured it.
Way to not know what you're talking about.
Any fixed frequency wireless network can be taken down by a single client behaving badly, computer WiFi networks included (well assuming the client has sufficient transmission strength). I'm not so sure how easy it would be with something like bluetooth which hops frequencies repeatedly, but it's still definitely still possible to disrupt.
Wired computer networks are a different matter these days because they're entirely switched, but a malicious client on an unmanaged switch can still wreak havoc with other PCs on that switch.
You could just (very delicately) drill the lens out and fill it in with epoxy, they might accept that if you cleared the idea with them first. God help you if you try to take it back on warranty though!
There are other digital distribution systems which are still common names and the market is still developing. Off the top of my head I know of direct2drive and I use Stardock's Impulse system when I can to buy games. It's a lot better than steam, not always cheaper for big games but you can add physical copies of any games you own to it, have it manage updates, your keys, reinstallation when you want without using the physical media. Has a lot less DRM, doesn't need to be running for you to run it's games.
Not that i'm hugely against steam, it does some things I don't like (automatically updates games - not an issue now that steam is unmetered with my isp but it used to be, restricts by country when certain publishers demand it).Though being Australian and having been ripped off by publishers through retail (90 to 110 $AUD for a new game, 1 AUD averages 0.8 USD but it varies a lot - 0.9 at the moment, dipped into the low 0.6's at one point), having $50-$60 games from most publishers is great, though there is one which kicked up a stink and made steam charge more to Australians so it wasn't cheaper than retail anymore).
I think google just sucks at bluetooth coding. I can't (well technically i can but i DONT) use A2DP from my Magic because the bluetooth process doesn't keep up - CPU is nowhere near maxed out but it skips, speeds up and slows down in pitch, changing tracks causes horrible, horrible stuttering and delays etc, yet this is all fine when playing through the included headset. There's a bug for it and it has 'medium' priority and it hasn't even been assigned - see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2765
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That depends on what the writer agrees to in contract, they could refuse to sell it without profit sharing (i.e. writer gets paid % of total profit) which you think might be an idea for a script you're selling for 500k! But then it could flop (as many films based on high value IP have, just look at all the sequel flops out there). So you can get guaranteed 500k, or get a fair bit less, 100k and a % of profits. You accept the 100k and % but the director sucks and the film doesn't break even. Whoops. Or you take the 500k and abandon 5% of profit sharing on a movie which makes 100million profit. Again, whoops. It's just a matter of good business decisions, as you see everywhere in the world.
Abolishing copyright is not the solution to that. That would just make it so they don't get paid AT ALL for what they produce. OK, maybe you could implement an honour system but that's very untested, and there are a lot of immoral people out there who will take the content, think it's fantastic and never pay for it. I happen to think that's immoral and should be (financially) punishable.
Pretty sure on the list of 'Things not to do if you like your job', admitting you're inspired by the competition and complimenting their design TO THE PRESS has got to be in the top 3.
You don't think spammers are capable of doing this anyway? I guarantee you they're already doing this for every major webmail provider out there.
(oops).... and there is no good replacement for it that is instantaneous. If an email is not arriving in my experience most people will send a fax, because they know as they send it that within 5 minutes it will either be there or they'll get an error from the originating fax machine.
No instant messaging services (at least none that I've heard of) provide easy sending of attachments (usually they require a direct connection between the PCs running the software which is difficult in the land of NAT and firewalls), they only support a couple of sentences of text and most importantly they do not allow you to communicate with someone who you have not communicated with before easily.
Google Wave is close to what's needed here (it's very instantaneous, supports attachments, advanced formatting, communicating with anyone whose google wave address you know even if they haven't got you on their contacts list etc...
We need an upgrade of the delivery and read verification use and handling - say light up emails blue in the 'sent items' folder once they've been received by the recipients server, then green once they've been read. Have a combination indicator where there are multiple recipients and highlight their names in these colours in the To field when you check the email. The current implementation in outlook is horrible and not very supported among other email providers.
The problem is this is no longer consistent with how people use email. I'm well aware of how SMTP was designed, but these days people have an expectation of an email arriving within 5 minutes and it tends to disrupt business processes when it takes any longer than this.
Simply don't store the ENTIRE password. What I do is make my passwords out of chunks with a unique starting value, then say my password is Conquer9753. I write down in my passwords file name of site/domain/app : C______9___. The only place the entire chunk exists is in my head and when I type it in.
At least it's not a Meteor Swarm
He said PARALLEL port, not serial port. Used a parallel port lately? They're about twice the width and nowhere near as useful. I'm disappointed at the number of D-Sub ports still on laptops but glad DVI stayed around long enough that we can mostly skip HDMI for Display Port.
I always thought it was
Hamlet + Church = Village
Village + Town Hall = Town
Town + Cathedral = City
If the rods go flying off in different directions at high speed, there are explosives nearby. Well I guess WERE explosives nearby, technically. (yes I read the article and realise they're not using ACTUAL dowsing rods)
Maybe if that's all you use it for. If you're constantly installing new and uninstalling old applications, games, drivers etc it tends to slow down.
The brakes assert a constant force, while the force the engine exerts increases with the engine's rotational speed. Therefore at the end of that 0 to 60 acceleration it's accelerating faster than the constant rate the brakes slow it in the 60 to 0 deceleration, QED bitch.
Not necessarily, if the engine is revving 2000rpm, sure. 5000 rpm? No way the brakes are going to counter that.
brAKEs aren't designed to counter the engine at full throttle, they will overheat and fade (look up 'brake fade', you might learn something). When your car locks you out of neutral because it thinks you're accelerating and is push button start there's pretty much nothing you can do but jump out or deliberately crash before you speed up too much
You're right, that's reasonable. most of us would pay that if that was how much _non crippled_ version of the OS would cost. Then there's also the issue that windows 7 over XP only really gives me a new direct x version (which they get paid for developing every time I buy a game which uses direct x), fancier task bar and a whole lot of features I will not use every day. The things I use every day when I start my computer (through windows) are a free browser, free instant messaging program, free music player (playing music which I spend 200-300 dollars a month buying legitimately btw) and playing games which I buy. In fact, windows is a lot less useful to the running of my computer than the $100 motherboard it runs on.
Because if you just take it the store is out of pocked $1000 for the suit. This is a completely different situation! More like if you can't afford that painting you admire and you instead take a photo.
They do if you'd like them to run at a speed faster than a crawl
Because linux doesn't 'just work' for a lot of things and most of us would rather not spend an hour making our new game work or app work on linux. I'm not anti-linux or anything - i've been using Ubuntu for ages - but I NEED a windows install as well, mainly for games but some other applications as well.
You rear ended a truck, while stopped? Did the truck back into you or when you say stopped do you mean something other than 'not moving'
As others have said, the watt rating it says on the box is a peak figure, that is all. Most devices will consume a fraction of that figure most of the time, especially if they're running as an unloaded server with no GUI up. Personally I'd use a laptop but I guess this depends on the amount of storage space you need. My laptop (Core2Duo at about 2ghz off the top of my head) has a 65W power adapter, so 65W is the max it can supply, but this is what it will consume when the screen is on full brightness, processor running at high load etc. When idling with the screen off it'd be around 25-35W, though I haven't measured it.
Way to not know what you're talking about. Any fixed frequency wireless network can be taken down by a single client behaving badly, computer WiFi networks included (well assuming the client has sufficient transmission strength). I'm not so sure how easy it would be with something like bluetooth which hops frequencies repeatedly, but it's still definitely still possible to disrupt. Wired computer networks are a different matter these days because they're entirely switched, but a malicious client on an unmanaged switch can still wreak havoc with other PCs on that switch.
You could just (very delicately) drill the lens out and fill it in with epoxy, they might accept that if you cleared the idea with them first. God help you if you try to take it back on warranty though!
There are other digital distribution systems which are still common names and the market is still developing. Off the top of my head I know of direct2drive and I use Stardock's Impulse system when I can to buy games. It's a lot better than steam, not always cheaper for big games but you can add physical copies of any games you own to it, have it manage updates, your keys, reinstallation when you want without using the physical media. Has a lot less DRM, doesn't need to be running for you to run it's games. Not that i'm hugely against steam, it does some things I don't like (automatically updates games - not an issue now that steam is unmetered with my isp but it used to be, restricts by country when certain publishers demand it).Though being Australian and having been ripped off by publishers through retail (90 to 110 $AUD for a new game, 1 AUD averages 0.8 USD but it varies a lot - 0.9 at the moment, dipped into the low 0.6's at one point), having $50-$60 games from most publishers is great, though there is one which kicked up a stink and made steam charge more to Australians so it wasn't cheaper than retail anymore).
I think google just sucks at bluetooth coding. I can't (well technically i can but i DONT) use A2DP from my Magic because the bluetooth process doesn't keep up - CPU is nowhere near maxed out but it skips, speeds up and slows down in pitch, changing tracks causes horrible, horrible stuttering and delays etc, yet this is all fine when playing through the included headset. There's a bug for it and it has 'medium' priority and it hasn't even been assigned - see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2765