Subscriptions also can work, just like a chapter-by-chapter written blook that continues as people fund the author's writing.
I recall Stephen King trying this and giving up.
King's 'experiment' should be a lesson in how NOT to sell subscriptions. He wanted people to pay for each chapter AFTER it was released, not before. That was so stupid that it makes me wonder if his intent (or whomever proposed it to him) was to deliberately fail.
A good subscription based system will give away a few chapters/episodes/songs and then start requiring a minimum amount of money in the bank before the next chapter/episode/song is released because such systems are all forms of the 'ransom' business model - no kidnapper would be stupid enough to return the kid and then demand a ransom, but that's the equivalent of how King ran his experiment.
The 'ransom' model actually has a lot of benefits all around - it reduces the risk of losing money to nearly zero since the money is in the bank before production work even has to get started. For consumers, it takes the middle-man, the guy who treats all content as just another product to be packaged up and resold, out of the middle. It allows people to much more accurately vote with their dollar for what productions they want to see get made.
Qwest stood up for our rights and turned down the requests. They also paid the price in the form of losing some lucrative government contracts that had previously been a lock.
Pop Quiz: Which Presidential aspirant voted for the FISA Amendments Act: A) John McCain B) Barack Obama C) A & B
It is almost like they both broke campaign promises - Obama said he would not support it, but voted for it, McCain said he WOULD support it, but took a pass and did not vote either way.
Otherwise that kind of non-compete would be so overbroad it's almost certainly illegal in most countries, it'd be like putting in the EULA of Windows that if you ever used it you could never do OS X/Linux/BSD development.
Illegal or not, you gotta go to court to find out. Who has the money to go to court, especially with a non-zero risk of losing?
Firmware is just software stored in flash memory. It is not generally considered a hardware mod to upgrade a cell phone or a dvd player or an ipod. Supertusse's definition is the common usage, your definition is not.
Just because kids idolize athletes/entertainers when they are young,
LA is full of these failures. It's not just pre-pubescent kids. Everybody has a headshot. Few even become SAG-eligible, even fewer make a living at it, much less end up living la vida loca.
The overwhelming number of "astronaut dreamers" are failures by your definition,
Nah, they are only failures by your misinterpretation of my definition.
Our society tells its young what is important by the amount of money you are paid. Look at the salaries that sport and entertainment stars get. Ask many students what they want to be and these occupations are very high (if not at the top) on the list.
Or, if those students were just a little bit more numerate they would realize that for every high-paid star there are 10,000+ burger-flippers who didn't make the cut. Its a lottery mentality at its worst that they can only see the exaggerated success of that 0.01% and not the corresponding failure of the other 99.99%.
But then, that lack of numeracy seems to be a real catch-22.
Also, they're elitist because they don't trust individuals to make decisions about their own lives.
Sounds like you have confused statism for elitism. A common, almost defining, error among those who think that working hard to meet high goals is undesirable.
Kind of like when someone underscores what they are expressing metaphorically by saying, "literally." Like: "I was so hungry I literally could have eaten a horse."
It's not that Verizon exposed "the wrong" 1200 emails, it's that Verizon exposed any email addresses at all.
It is a figure of speech - its like saying "The thieves choose the wrong van to break into when they burglarized an FBI SWAT team's van." Breaking into a vehicle is wrong, no doubt, but some vehicles are more worse for the burglar than others.
Similarly, the most likely people to raise a ruckus and thus embarrass Verizon about poor emailing procedures are security pros. Do it to a buch of joe sixpacks and chances are they won't even notice, much less publicize it.
The no fly list doesn't identify people, just names, and it's very exact, so changing charles to chuck will defeat it.
The FCC has the seven words that can not be broadcast over the air. The TSA has the million names that can not be flown in the air. The FCC really lost that competition.
For him, a risk analysis showed that Google is the better bet. Who are you to question him on how best to control his data?
Someone who has thought about it more than he has. Not all risk assessments are equal.
For example, your list of risks involving gmail is incomplete and apparently chosen to support a pre-determined position rather than lead to an accurate assessment.
This "it might suddenly vanish" argument is a strawman.
Keeping a file of the serial numbers that came in the mail is the same thing as keeping a backup of the mail. If that file can be lost so can a backup, and if the file isn't lost, what does gmail provide over just keeping that file of serial numbers handy?
Bingo. The OP did exactly what RMS is warning against - he confused convenience for freedom.
Whoever controls your data is the only one who can take responsibility for it. Who is likely to use that responsibility in your best interests - you or a company beholden to shareholders?
Worrying about the food poisoning boogeyman is ridiculous.
I'm not sure why you labor under the illusion that people don't die now. Most people die one way or another and are then packaged and sold to any willing buyer including Government entities.
Cancer? Kills people Abortion? This is a murky area, but I'm sure the U.S. health insurance co's would love to trade abortions for people who get sick later in life. No. HIPPAA didn't outlaw this. AIDS? Done. HIV, Pneumonia, Etc. Car Accidents? Fatal. Other deaths? Done. It's called old age.
There's lots of worthy things to contribute your personal energy to. This isn't one of them.
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Subscriptions also can work, just like a chapter-by-chapter written blook that continues as people fund the author's writing.
I recall Stephen King trying this and giving up.
King's 'experiment' should be a lesson in how NOT to sell subscriptions.
He wanted people to pay for each chapter AFTER it was released, not before.
That was so stupid that it makes me wonder if his intent (or whomever proposed it to him) was to deliberately fail.
A good subscription based system will give away a few chapters/episodes/songs and then start requiring a minimum amount of money in the bank before the next chapter/episode/song is released because such systems are all forms of the 'ransom' business model - no kidnapper would be stupid enough to return the kid and then demand a ransom, but that's the equivalent of how King ran his experiment.
The 'ransom' model actually has a lot of benefits all around - it reduces the risk of losing money to nearly zero since the money is in the bank before production work even has to get started. For consumers, it takes the middle-man, the guy who treats all content as just another product to be packaged up and resold, out of the middle. It allows people to much more accurately vote with their dollar for what productions they want to see get made.
How on earth can the middle east feel powerless when it is sucking a trillion dollars of oil money a year out of the western world?
Because >99% of those trillions go to 1% of the population?
Qwest stood up for our rights and turned down the requests.
They also paid the price in the form of losing some lucrative government contracts that had previously been a lock.
Pop Quiz:
Which Presidential aspirant voted for the FISA Amendments Act:
A) John McCain
B) Barack Obama
C) A & B
It is almost like they both broke campaign promises - Obama said he would not support it, but voted for it, McCain said he WOULD support it, but took a pass and did not vote either way.
If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".
That's what you say now, but once they are blown off, you aren't gong to have any interest in it.
much of our infrastructure is run by private companies.
So, basically privatization leads to nationalization?
Interesting.
Otherwise that kind of non-compete would be so overbroad it's almost certainly illegal in most countries, it'd be like putting in the EULA of Windows that if you ever used it you could never do OS X/Linux/BSD development.
Illegal or not, you gotta go to court to find out.
Who has the money to go to court, especially with a non-zero risk of losing?
Why doesn't Adobe go (L)GPLv3 with their flash plugin,
DRM. Flash now includes DRM to make it harder to capture certain kinds of streaming video (the kinds that turn on the DRM).
Now make them do the same with Photoshop.
Tomorrow MS will announce that Windows Paint runs under wine!
Firmware is just software stored in flash memory. It is not generally considered a hardware mod to upgrade a cell phone or a dvd player or an ipod. Supertusse's definition is the common usage, your definition is not.
The belief generally does not stem from actual accomplishment in a productive field.
So, a misapplication of the term 'elitist' just as my original post spelled out.
Just because kids idolize athletes/entertainers when they are young,
LA is full of these failures. It's not just pre-pubescent kids. Everybody has a headshot. Few even become SAG-eligible, even fewer make a living at it, much less end up living la vida loca.
The overwhelming number of "astronaut dreamers" are failures by your definition,
Nah, they are only failures by your misinterpretation of my definition.
Burglarized
Burglarized
There, I correctized it for you...
That you did.
Our society tells its young what is important by the amount of money you are paid. Look at the salaries that sport and entertainment stars get. Ask many students what they want to be and these occupations are very high (if not at the top) on the list.
Or, if those students were just a little bit more numerate they would realize that for every high-paid star there are 10,000+ burger-flippers who didn't make the cut. Its a lottery mentality at its worst that they can only see the exaggerated success of that 0.01% and not the corresponding failure of the other 99.99%.
But then, that lack of numeracy seems to be a real catch-22.
Also, they're elitist because they don't trust individuals to make decisions about their own lives.
Sounds like you have confused statism for elitism.
A common, almost defining, error among those who think that working hard to meet high goals is undesirable.
Kind of like when someone underscores what they are expressing metaphorically by saying, "literally." Like: "I was so hungry I literally could have eaten a horse."
I have literally eaten a horse you insensitive clod!
It was mighty tasty too.
It's not that Verizon exposed "the wrong" 1200 emails, it's that Verizon exposed any email addresses at all.
It is a figure of speech - its like saying "The thieves choose the wrong van to break into when they burglarized an FBI SWAT team's van." Breaking into a vehicle is wrong, no doubt, but some vehicles are more worse for the burglar than others.
Similarly, the most likely people to raise a ruckus and thus embarrass Verizon about poor emailing procedures are security pros. Do it to a buch of joe sixpacks and chances are they won't even notice, much less publicize it.
The no fly list doesn't identify people, just names, and it's very exact, so changing charles to chuck will defeat it.
The FCC has the seven words that can not be broadcast over the air.
The TSA has the million names that can not be flown in the air.
The FCC really lost that competition.
For him, a risk analysis showed that Google is the better bet. Who are you to question him on how best to control his data?
Someone who has thought about it more than he has.
Not all risk assessments are equal.
For example, your list of risks involving gmail is incomplete and apparently chosen to support a pre-determined position rather than lead to an accurate assessment.
This "it might suddenly vanish" argument is a strawman.
Keeping a file of the serial numbers that came in the mail is the same thing as keeping a backup of the mail. If that file can be lost so can a backup, and if the file isn't lost, what does gmail provide over just keeping that file of serial numbers handy?
where are your game serial numbers now
Bingo. The OP did exactly what RMS is warning against - he confused convenience for freedom.
Whoever controls your data is the only one who can take responsibility for it. Who is likely to use that responsibility in your best interests - you or a company beholden to shareholders?
1) My PC based DVR can record encrypted content. Tivo's edge here is gone now.
What hardware/software do you use for this?
A Motoroloa DCP501 plus a R5000 mod plus either an SVN Myth build or SageTV.
Does it come with Aeon Flux?
Worrying about the food poisoning boogeyman is ridiculous.
I'm not sure why you labor under the illusion that people don't die now. Most people die one way or another and are then packaged and sold to any willing buyer including Government entities.
Cancer? Kills people
Abortion? This is a murky area, but I'm sure the U.S. health insurance co's would love to trade abortions for people who get sick later in life. No. HIPPAA didn't outlaw this.
AIDS? Done. HIV, Pneumonia, Etc.
Car Accidents? Fatal.
Other deaths? Done. It's called old age.
There's lots of worthy things to contribute your personal energy to. This isn't one of them.
100% agree