Aha! but then there is a chance to make intelligent databases that manage all that things automagically, creating indexes and managing data integrity for the created tables/databases.
I am an A.I. computer scientist, my undergrad was Software Engineering which concentrated basically in building relational database systems (I do not blame my university, it is indeed what is *most* needed/demanded back there in Mexico). I always thought that database management was something stupid, you do not *need* a lot of intelligence to manage a database, you only need to apply certain rules of knowledge.
I am sure it may be possible to create [semi]autonomous systems that can handle all the optimizations/underground management of the database while people create tables, relations and queries. I always found that object oriented database management systems were very interesting and every time I did a system with a database (yes I did comercial applications using databases before turning to AI) it made no sense to me to have this "chunk" of the system based on structured "logic" while all the other modules were object oriented (using for example UML modelling).
Anyway, it may be a very interesting research project, I should write it on my ideas book.
I have been looking for a RAID solution that can be plugged into my notebook. I would like to have a RAID 0 or RAID 0+1 (but It would be nice if I could get RAID 5) unit that I could plug into my system maybe using a PCMCIA RAID controller card (although I do not know if that is even possible).
It seems (doh, I just made a google and found a possible answer) that there are eSata PCMCIA adapters that do RAID 0,1.
There is something I have not read in any of the comments and I think it is interesting. It may not be directly to parent post but I did not see where to attach it.
Talking about games sold at Walmart, Walmart is a store that sells goods for the general public, they profit for selling quantity, that is why they can have very cheap prices (of course they also reduce costs). One of the key factors of Walmart success in bringing industries to their knees is the diversification of productds, as a side example there is the Record industries case, you can not find a more evil industry than the RIAA and they are whinning because for Walmart they are just another comodity (in that way I love Walmart).
Something similar is happening with the games industry. Walmart will push publishers in order to sell more and more items. But for Walmart games are not the primary income, and they could easly remove games from their inventory without a big loss, on the other side for the game industry (and the other industries) being removed from Walmart is absolutely unthinkable.
Now where I wanted to get is to the point that, Walmart will always sell what *sells more* to the masses, and here, Nintendo comes to my mind. You see, the question is, how many of the people that go to buy at Walmart have games that will be a good one. On that way, it is on this shop where potential consumers are. You will never see a non gamer (for example, my father) go to Gameworld or Nintendo shop or whatever, but he, as I usually goes through all the aisles in Walmart every month or 15 days when he does shopping.
So the question is, how to get the attention of those persons. I think Nintendo has it right because of its *gimmick*. Take for example if my father passes through the games/videos aisle and, after glancing at the movies sees the playstation or the xbox, he might see the box and the controllers, and he will quickly associate it as something difficult. But with Nintendo he surely will see that new *gimmick* and maybe try to give it a try (at the Nintendo demo units). And who knows maybe he will liike it.
Anyways, it may seem as a unrelated plug but I believe there is a great potential there. Walmart will always push the products that sell more, if any of the game companies can attract the people that buy tomatoes at walmart they will surely win.
As for the related article/summary, I think Walmart does "control" game design, but just because of the demand/supply economy, not because they are evil.
As another irrelevant note, I remember a professor expert in Data Mining who told us that part ofthe WalMart success is that they have on the biggest databases in existence, because for every purchase you do they save *every item* you get and all the corresponding information (date/time and quantity). He told us a story about the reason of why pampers are at the side of the beers, and that is because on fridays the husband returns very tired to the house after working, and the wife asks him to go to buy pampers for the baby, he then goes to the shop and when he grabs the pampers and sees the beer he thinks "okey, I have done good coming to buy pampers, then my wife wont be mad if I return and drink a six". It seems stupid but it is quite relevant, and is one of the things that Data Mining provide (which simple data bases query does not provide) which is data relations (information) that you do not know that existed.
Look, the problem with the article and almost all the articles is that they try to add labels and properties to "Linux" as an operating system. Linux is not an operating system it is a kernel, Mandriva, Gentoo or whatever you want is an operating system, some of them are Fat, some of them are bloated, some or them are insecure and whatever.
But you can not say that "Linux is a fat operating system" because linux is not an operating system.
I am sure you must be white or less than 15 (or both of them). Do not ask me why =o)
Darn, I had not seen that video before, not only is it not funny it is pretty stupid. I have seen just one or two of the Family Guy episodes and personally I do not find where is the "fun" in there. Of course I also dislike those TV series where the audience laughs at every stupid thing people does (Friends? Malcolm? whatever).
OTOH I like the simpsons very much, I have seen them since I was a kid and although I dislike the fact that the producers have tried to make homer look *more* and *more* stupid it still makes me laugh sometimes.
I do not know, maybe this Family Guy is what current americans laugh at, and the overall "intellience" in the audience is just droping more this generations
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I know this may sound stupid but, one thing I have been expecting from virtualization applications it the ability of "throtling" (spell?) the internal system, something like the [`] key in ZSNES or the [TAB] in SNES9x, I know they are different things in principle but it would be nice to have a similar capability.
Other capabilites I am waiting for are: - Ability to scale the image (something similar to what TightVNC does) so that I can have a 800x600 VM scaled to 2/3 - High integration with the host OS (copy paste and things like that). - Multiple screen emulation
Anyway, it is great to see that there are lots of players on the virtualization game! Although for my needs I believe something like WINE is better as I do not need total platform emulation to run some applications (of course other people need it to debug/test or other issues).
Anyway, there are several nice disks to learn english. If you, like me want to do it the "pirata" way, goto emule and downlaod some japanese e-books (I downloaded an interesting reading about the basis of writting) and then look for some iso torrents.
Oh, for other languages (french, spanish and german) there are some Michel Thomas courses they are Sehr gute! I downloaded the french and german courses (although I studied German for 1 year).
Anyway, IMHO nothing is better than a course (a good one of course)I do not know about USA but in Mexico Universities, as a student you can subscribe to ANY language course free, that is how I studied my 1 year of German.
Oh! and for you people in USA(I know, maybe you already know Español) another nice way to learn Spanish is to go to some state in Mexico (yes, self advertisment here, sorry =-) for example to La Paz,BCS[English] where you will find everything cheap AND you can subscribe to the University Spanish courses (of course will also be able to practice).
I met a lot of American and Canadian people when I was studying there, they used to go in their boats to stay for the winter (they found pretty warm the water =oS). So, a year over there would be really nice (oh and it would be a great way to convince mom and dad to sponsor a year at the beach).
Anyway, sorry for the shameless plug, unfortunately there is no such thing for Japanese (although for French the east of Canada might be all right).
You see, some Open Source projects can be compared to this playboy pictures as they are product of "averaging" a lot of opinions and features from different people then what you get is a "something" that is like the real thing but just is not the same. I mean, just because there are more than 50 girl images in that picture does not make you "lose control";-).
Sometimes it is the law that is wrong, not the offender. That's why laws are changed all the time. The RIAA has found a loophole in the law which allows them to get away with price-fixing, so it's the law that needs to be fixed. Soon.
Do you realize that my argument and yours are not opposite? I completely agree with you, copyright law is flawed, I am not completely against copyright but I am against the way it has been enforced or the way it has been driven. Irghtnow it is completely UNFAIR. There are several ways to make it fair, one of them is reducing the years of monopoly, the second is (and it is more difficult) enforcing an adecuate price model.
Of course the pricing model that the music distributors are trying to enforce is irremediably broken as there is no way you can mantain a mole of a company that big (and all the supply chain) without reducing the prices. Of course as we all know nowadays there is *no need* for the same supply chain that was required before, there are better methods of delivery available.
The problem here is that, it is the companies in the middle of the supply chain the ones that have acquired the most power and they are the same that are not needed anymore. The effect is that they are trying to *force* the marke to make them needed, of course it is a dead end for them.
What they should do (and some of them will become that) is change their role in the chain, or change the way they made the role. They have not/discovered/ that they could use this shake in the supply chain to their beneffit, making for example a www.sonymusic.com/buymp3online.html portal where they will control from the manufacturing (record, production, even "stars" creation ala Spice Backstreet Kids on the block) to the consumer selling.
The first mega corporation that realizes this will be the one that will rule them all:).
Well, returning to what I was answering to, event hough the law is broken, it is a law. It is like speeding, there are highways that have a 100kph limit although they are really good and you could go to 130kph without problem, or the contrary some places where the max is 90kph and there is a school above the street, the law might be broken (ok, here it is not speciffically the law but, i hope you get it) but meanwhile it is like that *you can NOT brake the law*. In a democratic country (working the way it was supposed to work) you could/try/ to change it, but of course even if you do not like and try to change the law it does not warranty you nothing, because a democracy is based on the *mayority* so, the mayority of citizens should want to change the law.
Of course in capitalism that may not work too fine as money is what really moves everything and you only get that the government becomes a kind of corporation where the "wealth" is defined in power.
Now that I am on that, let me write something related, there is a phrase in Spanish (at Mexico) to name the president of a country, it is "Primer Mandatario" and it is translated to "First Mandatary", now it is interesting that the meaning of the phrase is somebody *who is mandated* and not somebody who *mandates*. I think this is something that has been lost thorough the times as the Government is supposed to be *mandated* by the people but nowadays it seems that is not the case.
Of course it is *really* difficult to govern a country where you have a 50% division on the preferences of the citizens.
should be zero tolerance for unauthorized music distribution.
Sorry for being the devil's advocate here (as I dislike what the music industry is doing) but, what the girl was doing was something illegal, she commited a crime (called copyright infringement, not theft). Any person commiting a crime must not be tolerated and the law should apply completely on them, otherwise it is called corruption.
Of course, the practice of the RIAA settlements should be examined by the government in some way. I mean, that just can not be right!
You got the word from my fingertips. Email is the principal collaboration tool because it is common knowledge that everybody has it, and, it is more than less sure that the message will be read by the person receiving the message, even if she is offline and that is a great advantage.
Even when working with more than 2 persons, there are lots of email software applilcations that make life really easy to handle them.
THere is also chatting, forums and even Voip (even with video) but they have this "live" requirment (not counting forums) and the most important thing is they are not as ubiuquitous as mail.
Do not mod me, just wanted to post some thoughts:)
Oh god, I just read your comment and laughed really hard when I saw that XOXOOX thing, a friend of mine (a 20 year old girl that deffinetely was not psichologically mature) used to add that to her emails, after I told her to stop sending me that crap she told me it meant "kisses and hugs" haaha.
Of course, she is studying "international buisness relations" and his boyfriend is a football player, and before you ask it, yes she has a really nice body. [Un]fortunately we are not friends anymore (because of my decision, call me stupid or whatever but I decided not to cope with stupid girls.).
Come on fanboy that is the the most fanboist comment I have read in a while.
While you link to an illegal file (and I agree in that, downloading a copy of OSX that you do not own is Illegal), there is nothing illegal in patching your owned copy of OSX or whatever software I BUY. It is stupid, you know, I bought Windows XP, and I have notepad.exe and I cracked it to make it display the cursor line number.
I did it just for fun, not because I am a pira8ter. So what if people run OSX in their beige boxes? nothing wrong will happen to Apple, the PC is an unsopported platform, it is like running Internet Explorer on Linux with wine, Linux is not a supported platform so they [Microsoft] do not care if it breaks or if it fscks your computer.
Oh come on, really, wake up and stick that one button mouse out of your arse...
p.s. Mods, sorry for the inflammatory comment but this troll really pissed me off
My question is do you have an internal monetary transfer system to the poor regions from the richer ones or an appropriate taxation system in place? We have one in Canada called equalization that transfers money from the rich provinces to the poorer ones(granted we aren't in the same fiscal situation).
Well, this is quite complex, I believe there are programs developed to help the poors. Although the taxation systems are *not* developed to do this (we have a 15% V.A.T.). Also, unfortunately we do have a lot of corruption and usually the people in the government are more concerned in grabbing all they can from the public funds.
As an example, I have a friend that worked on the Transport and Communication Secretary [SCT] (in charge of roads and transpoprt and communication permits through all the counry). He worked as a sysadmin in the secretary office on La Paz, BCS (far south of the California Peninsula near "Los Cabos").
The thing is, there was a hurrican in the state and a lot of roads got very damaged. The governor of the state declared "disaster zone" and was granted a big sum of money from country federal funds. Specifically, some funds went to this SCT secretary. My friend told me that of that money, the director (Secretary) in charge of the state grabbed (read stole) a paert of that money, from the money that was left, the sub-secretary grabbed another part and other high rank members did the same.
The rest was used to make some half baked low quality roads in order to make it appear as the money has been spent.
Oh, and the same happened similarly in Chiapas (the place I told before), where the government asked the Natural Resources secretary for funds to make a "crocodileraium" (lique an accuarium but for crocodiles) and the money given to them again by the federal authority. After some time, the Natural Resources authority sent an inspector (who was my friend doing his PhD btw) to see if the money was spent rightly. To his [not really] surprise the crocodile place was really bad, people had just spent the minimum required to do that thing (I wont go into details but from what my friend told me it was like they spent something like $200 dlls, when the government gave something like $7,000). All the rest of the money of course was stolen by the people over there.
My friend returned and made a report. Of course as it seems everyone in the government has a tail, nobody made anything.
Btw, I have been to Canada. I was in the west side of the country and it was really beautiful. I went to some national parks like Banf (I do nto remember the name of the others). I went also to Vancouver and Edmonton (I loved the underground malls, and when I saw a rollercoaster I was completely astonished).
Also, I remember reading (or hearing) somewhere that in Canada, people that does not have a job still get a check for some good cash and that there are places where they can spend the night and all that.
Also, an uncle told once, when my brother started studying vetrinary something I found may be insighful. He said that, it would be good for my borhter to go to Canada, as, in those kind of countries they tend to spend more money on pets (cats and dogs insurance and all that triviality [triviality for people in Mexico for which having a dog means putting a plate with food rests outside the house so the street dog has something to eat =op]) because over there the government has almost all the social problems solved. In mexico people is more concerned about what are they going to eat so everything else is trivial.
Oh, and as a interesting trivia data: "como dato final -y nomas para el breviario cultural- la cifra de pobres extremos practicamente coincide con la del numero de habitantes indigenas"
The quantity of extreme poor people (misserables) is very similar to the one of the indigenous people.
All this information is from a friend that is making his PhD in sustainable development of the Chiapas zone (Selva Lacandona). Somewhat I know his information is right.
Well, when I was in primary and secondary school, teachers taught me that there are 1st and 3rd world couuntires and that Mexico (and I am from Mexico, and very proud of it =o) is a 3rd world country.
Granted, Mexico is not as bad as other countries "overall", if you go to places like Chiapas or Yucatan peninsula (I grew up there in a city called Campeche) you certainly can see all "bells and whistles" of a undeveloped country, like misery and poverty and all that. Btw, just as a interesting information, of all the Mexico population, 40% is poor and 15% is misserable (extreme poverty).
And, one thing to define here is poverty, as some people have noted before a poor person in USA has television and a car, whereas a poor person in Mexico seldomly has a house made of wood and of metal plates ceiling (sorry, do not know the exact word en English).
Tell that to my mother I you will surely be hit with her purse, let me rephrase what she told me when I bought her this cute robot, it was something like "wow, and think that this gadget manages to clean better than you did" (as I hated to clean my room when I was a kid).
Now you're an obvious troll. If you're not, then you are a complete idiot. A moron. A dipshit. If you are an idiot, please have your slashdot account deleted immediately. Please refrain from breeding. Please leave your parents home address before you leave so we can all send them condolence flowers for birthing you.
Wow, what a deep asshole, it really interesting to see the way you took it personally haha, did I hurt you?. Sorry to dissappoint you but, while you are fixing PeeCees at your internet coffee waiting for the hour to close to go home I am actually doing a PhD abroad of my country spnosored by my own government after winning the scolarship in a contest.
Dont know about you, but I have already participated in the development (design & programming) of two real world applications one used in the E-commerce and the other used in high risk situations (contingency management systems for Oil platforms using multi agent system technologies, you wont understand it anyway). And befre you name it I have also made the 5 or 6 stupid database systems for some restaurants and POS for stores. Yeah, using Linux (POS with ELOtouch and ) and windows.
Oh, and I do know about the OSS/Alsa architecture differences I was pointing at a real problem on Linux these days, but you can get your head into your ass again and forget what I have said.
Not that It actually matters but I just wanted to make you really feel bad, as it seems you take slashdot very seriously hahaha.
Oh in that way sorry, I was just recalling that when I saw the movie, the first half reminded me of a Marlboro TV ad I saw sometime ago in Mexico, it had really similar photography as the movie (the cowboys and the sheep herd and all that) and at some time a man said: "come to where the flavor is", hehe, I was holding my breath to avoid laughing when at the movie theatre, personally I did not like the movie anyway.
Why would somebody be embarrased to see a 2 hours Marlboro commercial? well ok ok, only the first half of the movie was, but seriously I was just waiting to listen to the man saying "come to where the flavor is, come to the Marlboro Country" (or the equivalent in the USA ad)
It is called "cafe internet" in developing nations (like Mexico) where people can rent a PC for 1 hour for as low as US$2 (I think even $1 in Mexico City...
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"indexes", "data integrity" or "normal form".
Aha! but then there is a chance to make intelligent databases that manage all that things automagically, creating indexes and managing data integrity for the created tables/databases.
I am an A.I. computer scientist, my undergrad was Software Engineering which concentrated basically in building relational database systems (I do not blame my university, it is indeed what is *most* needed/demanded back there in Mexico). I always thought that database management was something stupid, you do not *need* a lot of intelligence to manage a database, you only need to apply certain rules of knowledge.
I am sure it may be possible to create [semi]autonomous systems that can handle all the optimizations/underground management of the database while people create tables, relations and queries. I always found that object oriented database management systems were very interesting and every time I did a system with a database (yes I did comercial applications using databases before turning to AI) it made no sense to me to have this "chunk" of the system based on structured "logic" while all the other modules were object oriented (using for example UML modelling).
Anyway, it may be a very interesting research project, I should write it on my ideas book.
I am in a kind of third category.
I have been looking for a RAID solution that can be plugged into my notebook. I would like to have a RAID 0 or RAID 0+1 (but It would be nice if I could get RAID 5) unit that I could plug into my system maybe using a PCMCIA RAID controller card (although I do not know if that is even possible).
It seems (doh, I just made a google and found a possible answer) that there are eSata PCMCIA adapters that do RAID 0,1.
There is something I have not read in any of the comments and I think it is interesting. It may not be directly to parent post but I did not see where to attach it.
Talking about games sold at Walmart, Walmart is a store that sells goods for the general public, they profit for selling quantity, that is why they can have very cheap prices (of course they also reduce costs). One of the key factors of Walmart success in bringing industries to their knees is the diversification of productds, as a side example there is the Record industries case, you can not find a more evil industry than the RIAA and they are whinning because for Walmart they are just another comodity (in that way I love Walmart).
Something similar is happening with the games industry. Walmart will push publishers in order to sell more and more items. But for Walmart games are not the primary income, and they could easly remove games from their inventory without a big loss, on the other side for the game industry (and the other industries) being removed from Walmart is absolutely unthinkable.
Now where I wanted to get is to the point that, Walmart will always sell what *sells more* to the masses, and here, Nintendo comes to my mind. You see, the question is, how many of the people that go to buy at Walmart have games that will be a good one. On that way, it is on this shop where potential consumers are. You will never see a non gamer (for example, my father) go to Gameworld or Nintendo shop or whatever, but he, as I usually goes through all the aisles in Walmart every month or 15 days when he does shopping.
So the question is, how to get the attention of those persons. I think Nintendo has it right because of its *gimmick*. Take for example if my father passes through the games/videos aisle and, after glancing at the movies sees the playstation or the xbox, he might see the box and the controllers, and he will quickly associate it as something difficult. But with Nintendo he surely will see that new *gimmick* and maybe try to give it a try (at the Nintendo demo units). And who knows maybe he will liike it.
Anyways, it may seem as a unrelated plug but I believe there is a great potential there. Walmart will always push the products that sell more, if any of the game companies can attract the people that buy tomatoes at walmart they will surely win.
As for the related article/summary, I think Walmart does "control" game design, but just because of the demand/supply economy, not because they are evil.
As another irrelevant note, I remember a professor expert in Data Mining who told us that part ofthe WalMart success is that they have on the biggest databases in existence, because for every purchase you do they save *every item* you get and all the corresponding information (date/time and quantity). He told us a story about the reason of why pampers are at the side of the beers, and that is because on fridays the husband returns very tired to the house after working, and the wife asks him to go to buy pampers for the baby, he then goes to the shop and when he grabs the pampers and sees the beer he thinks "okey, I have done good coming to buy pampers, then my wife wont be mad if I return and drink a six". It seems stupid but it is quite relevant, and is one of the things that Data Mining provide (which simple data bases query does not provide) which is data relations (information) that you do not know that existed.
find me a Linux distribution that lets you customer a Linux kernel at install time.
*Raises hand* Me me! that one is easy!
Gentoo, slackware
Or what about NeoMagiclux
Neat uh?
Look, the problem with the article and almost all the articles is that they try to add labels and properties to "Linux" as an operating system. Linux is not an operating system it is a kernel, Mandriva, Gentoo or whatever you want is an operating system, some of them are Fat, some of them are bloated, some or them are insecure and whatever.
But you can not say that "Linux is a fat operating system" because linux is not an operating system.
I am sure you must be white or less than 15 (or both of them). Do not ask me why =o)
Darn, I had not seen that video before, not only is it not funny it is pretty stupid.
I have seen just one or two of the Family Guy episodes and personally I do not find where is the "fun" in there. Of course I also dislike those TV series where the audience laughs at every stupid thing people does (Friends? Malcolm? whatever).
OTOH I like the simpsons very much, I have seen them since I was a kid and although I dislike the fact that the producers have tried to make homer look *more* and *more* stupid it still makes me laugh sometimes.
I do not know, maybe this Family Guy is what current americans laugh at, and the overall "intellience" in the audience is just droping more this generations
I know this may sound stupid but, one thing I have been expecting from virtualization applications it the ability of "throtling" (spell?) the internal system, something like the [`] key in ZSNES or the [TAB] in SNES9x, I know they are different things in principle but it would be nice to have a similar capability.
Other capabilites I am waiting for are:
- Ability to scale the image (something similar to what TightVNC does) so that I can have a 800x600 VM scaled to 2/3
- High integration with the host OS (copy paste and things like that).
- Multiple screen emulation
Anyway, it is great to see that there are lots of players on the virtualization game! Although for my needs I believe something like WINE is better as I do not need total platform emulation to run some applications (of course other people need it to debug/test or other issues).
just translate it. Spanish saying
Anyway, there are several nice disks to learn english. If you, like me want to do it the "pirata" way, goto emule and downlaod some japanese e-books (I downloaded an interesting reading about the basis of writting) and then look for some iso torrents.
Oh, for other languages (french, spanish and german) there are some Michel Thomas courses they are Sehr gute! I downloaded the french and german courses (although I studied German for 1 year).
Anyway, IMHO nothing is better than a course (a good one of course)I do not know about USA but in Mexico Universities, as a student you can subscribe to ANY language course free, that is how I studied my 1 year of German.
Oh! and for you people in USA(I know, maybe you already know Español) another nice way to learn Spanish is to go to some state in Mexico (yes, self advertisment here, sorry =-) for example to La Paz,BCS[English] where you will find everything cheap AND you can subscribe to the University Spanish courses (of course will also be able to practice).
I met a lot of American and Canadian people when I was studying there, they used to go in their boats to stay for the winter (they found pretty warm the water =oS). So, a year over there would be really nice (oh and it would be a great way to convince mom and dad to sponsor a year at the beach).
Anyway, sorry for the shameless plug, unfortunately there is no such thing for Japanese (although for French the east of Canada might be all right).
You see, some Open Source projects can be compared to this playboy pictures as they are product of "averaging" a lot of opinions and features from different people then what you get is a "something" that is like the real thing but just is not the same. I mean, just because there are more than 50 girl images in that picture does not make you "lose control" ;-).
Sometimes it is the law that is wrong, not the offender. That's why laws are changed all the time. The RIAA has found a loophole in the law which allows them to get away with price-fixing, so it's the law that needs to be fixed. Soon.
/discovered/ that they could use this shake in the supply chain to their beneffit, making for example a www.sonymusic.com/buymp3online.html portal where they will control from the manufacturing (record, production, even "stars" creation ala Spice Backstreet Kids on the block) to the consumer selling.
:).
/try/ to change it, but of course even if you do not like and try to change the law it does not warranty you nothing, because a democracy is based on the *mayority* so, the mayority of citizens should want to change the law.
Do you realize that my argument and yours are not opposite? I completely agree with you, copyright law is flawed, I am not completely against copyright but I am against the way it has been enforced or the way it has been driven. Irghtnow it is completely UNFAIR. There are several ways to make it fair, one of them is reducing the years of monopoly, the second is (and it is more difficult) enforcing an adecuate price model.
Of course the pricing model that the music distributors are trying to enforce is irremediably broken as there is no way you can mantain a mole of a company that big (and all the supply chain) without reducing the prices. Of course as we all know nowadays there is *no need* for the same supply chain that was required before, there are better methods of delivery available.
The problem here is that, it is the companies in the middle of the supply chain the ones that have acquired the most power and they are the same that are not needed anymore. The effect is that they are trying to *force* the marke to make them needed, of course it is a dead end for them.
What they should do (and some of them will become that) is change their role in the chain, or change the way they made the role. They have not
The first mega corporation that realizes this will be the one that will rule them all
Well, returning to what I was answering to, event hough the law is broken, it is a law. It is like speeding, there are highways that have a 100kph limit although they are really good and you could go to 130kph without problem, or the contrary some places where the max is 90kph and there is a school above the street, the law might be broken (ok, here it is not speciffically the law but, i hope you get it) but meanwhile it is like that *you can NOT brake the law*. In a democratic country (working the way it was supposed to work) you could
Of course in capitalism that may not work too fine as money is what really moves everything and you only get that the government becomes a kind of corporation where the "wealth" is defined in power.
Now that I am on that, let me write something related, there is a phrase in Spanish (at Mexico) to name the president of a country, it is "Primer Mandatario" and it is translated to "First Mandatary", now it is interesting that the meaning of the phrase is somebody *who is mandated* and not somebody who *mandates*. I think this is something that has been lost thorough the times as the Government is supposed to be *mandated* by the people but nowadays it seems that is not the case.
Of course it is *really* difficult to govern a country where you have a 50% division on the preferences of the citizens.
should be zero tolerance for unauthorized music distribution.
Sorry for being the devil's advocate here (as I dislike what the music industry is doing) but, what the girl was doing was something illegal, she commited a crime (called copyright infringement, not theft). Any person commiting a crime must not be tolerated and the law should apply completely on them, otherwise it is called corruption.
Of course, the practice of the RIAA settlements should be examined by the government in some way. I mean, that just can not be right!
Noh? are you serious?
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Only on slashdot does people reply with comments with that kind of insight pointing those kind of things
I love slashdot
You got the word from my fingertips. Email is the principal collaboration tool because it is common knowledge that everybody has it, and, it is more than less sure that the message will be read by the person receiving the message, even if she is offline and that is a great advantage.
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Even when working with more than 2 persons, there are lots of email software applilcations that make life really easy to handle them.
THere is also chatting, forums and even Voip (even with video) but they have this "live" requirment (not counting forums) and the most important thing is they are not as ubiuquitous as mail.
Do not mod me, just wanted to post some thoughts
XOXOXOXOXO
Oh god, I just read your comment and laughed really hard when I saw that XOXOOX thing, a friend of mine (a 20 year old girl that deffinetely was not psichologically mature) used to add that to her emails, after I told her to stop sending me that crap she told me it meant "kisses and hugs" haaha.
Of course, she is studying "international buisness relations" and his boyfriend is a football player, and before you ask it, yes she has a really nice body. [Un]fortunately we are not friends anymore (because of my decision, call me stupid or whatever but I decided not to cope with stupid girls.).
LOLOLOLOLOL LMAO (ponies if you want)
Come on fanboy that is the the most fanboist comment I have read in a while.
While you link to an illegal file (and I agree in that, downloading a copy of OSX that you do not own is Illegal), there is nothing illegal in patching your owned copy of OSX or whatever software I BUY. It is stupid, you know, I bought Windows XP, and I have notepad.exe and I cracked it to make it display the cursor line number.
I did it just for fun, not because I am a pira8ter. So what if people run OSX in their beige boxes? nothing wrong will happen to Apple, the PC is an unsopported platform, it is like running Internet Explorer on Linux with wine, Linux is not a supported platform so they [Microsoft] do not care if it breaks or if it fscks your computer.
Oh come on, really, wake up and stick that one button mouse out of your arse...
p.s. Mods, sorry for the inflammatory comment but this troll really pissed me off
. There is software to burn my DVDs to memory stick and DVDs I can use elsewhere.
Oh my god, and what is the device called? SD-card frier?
My question is do you have an internal monetary transfer system to the poor regions from the richer ones or an appropriate taxation system in place? We have one in Canada called equalization that transfers money from the rich provinces to the poorer ones(granted we aren't in the same fiscal situation).
Well, this is quite complex, I believe there are programs developed to help the poors. Although the taxation systems are *not* developed to do this (we have a 15% V.A.T.). Also, unfortunately we do have a lot of corruption and usually the people in the government are more concerned in grabbing all they can from the public funds.
As an example, I have a friend that worked on the Transport and Communication Secretary [SCT] (in charge of roads and transpoprt and communication permits through all the counry). He worked as a sysadmin in the secretary office on La Paz, BCS (far south of the California Peninsula near "Los Cabos").
The thing is, there was a hurrican in the state and a lot of roads got very damaged. The governor of the state declared "disaster zone" and was granted a big sum of money from country federal funds. Specifically, some funds went to this SCT secretary. My friend told me that of that money, the director (Secretary) in charge of the state grabbed (read stole) a paert of that money, from the money that was left, the sub-secretary grabbed another part and other high rank members did the same.
The rest was used to make some half baked low quality roads in order to make it appear as the money has been spent.
Oh, and the same happened similarly in Chiapas (the place I told before), where the government asked the Natural Resources secretary for funds to make a "crocodileraium" (lique an accuarium but for crocodiles) and the money given to them again by the federal authority. After some time, the Natural Resources authority sent an inspector (who was my friend doing his PhD btw) to see if the money was spent rightly. To his [not really] surprise the crocodile place was really bad, people had just spent the minimum required to do that thing (I wont go into details but from what my friend told me it was like they spent something like $200 dlls, when the government gave something like $7,000). All the rest of the money of course was stolen by the people over there.
My friend returned and made a report. Of course as it seems everyone in the government has a tail, nobody made anything.
Btw, I have been to Canada. I was in the west side of the country and it was really beautiful. I went to some national parks like Banf (I do nto remember the name of the others). I went also to Vancouver and Edmonton (I loved the underground malls, and when I saw a rollercoaster I was completely astonished).
Also, I remember reading (or hearing) somewhere that in Canada, people that does not have a job still get a check for some good cash and that there are places where they can spend the night and all that.
Also, an uncle told once, when my brother started studying vetrinary something I found may be insighful. He said that, it would be good for my borhter to go to Canada, as, in those kind of countries they tend to spend more money on pets (cats and dogs insurance and all that triviality [triviality for people in Mexico for which having a dog means putting a plate with food rests outside the house so the street dog has something to eat =op]) because over there the government has almost all the social problems solved. In mexico people is more concerned about what are they going to eat so everything else is trivial.
No!
Gringos does not control the south latin american immigration MUWAHAHAHAHAAH
USTED SERA ASIMILADO!
Oh, and the disparity may will be explained by the difference between rich and poor people
Oh, and as a interesting trivia data:
"como dato final -y nomas para el breviario cultural- la cifra de pobres extremos practicamente coincide con la del numero de habitantes indigenas"
The quantity of extreme poor people (misserables) is very similar to the one of the indigenous people.
All this information is from a friend that is making his PhD in sustainable development of the Chiapas zone (Selva Lacandona). Somewhat I know his information is right.
Well, when I was in primary and secondary school, teachers taught me that there are 1st and 3rd world couuntires and that Mexico (and I am from Mexico, and very proud of it =o) is a 3rd world country.
Granted, Mexico is not as bad as other countries "overall", if you go to places like Chiapas or Yucatan peninsula (I grew up there in a city called Campeche) you certainly can see all "bells and whistles" of a undeveloped country, like misery and poverty and all that. Btw, just as a interesting information, of all the Mexico population, 40% is poor and 15% is misserable (extreme poverty).
And, one thing to define here is poverty, as some people have noted before a poor person in USA has television and a car, whereas a poor person in Mexico seldomly has a house made of wood and of metal plates ceiling (sorry, do not know the exact word en English).
Tell that to my mother I you will surely be hit with her purse, let me rephrase what she told me when I bought her this cute robot, it was something like "wow, and think that this gadget manages to clean better than you did" (as I hated to clean my room when I was a kid).
Now you're an obvious troll. If you're not, then you are a complete idiot. A moron. A dipshit. If you are an idiot, please have your slashdot account deleted immediately. Please refrain from breeding. Please leave your parents home address before you leave so we can all send them condolence flowers for birthing you.
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Wow, what a deep asshole, it really interesting to see the way you took it personally haha, did I hurt you?. Sorry to dissappoint you but, while you are fixing PeeCees at your internet coffee waiting for the hour to close to go home I am actually doing a PhD abroad of my country spnosored by my own government after winning the scolarship in a contest.
Dont know about you, but I have already participated in the development (design & programming) of two real world applications one used in the E-commerce and the other used in high risk situations (contingency management systems for Oil platforms using multi agent system technologies, you wont understand it anyway). And befre you name it I have also made the 5 or 6 stupid database systems for some restaurants and POS for stores. Yeah, using Linux (POS with ELOtouch and ) and windows.
Oh, and I do know about the OSS/Alsa architecture differences I was pointing at a real problem on Linux these days, but you can get your head into your ass again and forget what I have said.
Not that It actually matters but I just wanted to make you really feel bad, as it seems you take slashdot very seriously hahaha.
Que tengas un buen dia
Oh in that way sorry, I was just recalling that when I saw the movie, the first half reminded me of a Marlboro TV ad I saw sometime ago in Mexico, it had really similar photography as the movie (the cowboys and the sheep herd and all that) and at some time a man said: "come to where the flavor is", hehe, I was holding my breath to avoid laughing when at the movie theatre, personally I did not like the movie anyway.
Why would somebody be embarrased to see a 2 hours Marlboro commercial? well ok ok, only the first half of the movie was, but seriously I was just waiting to listen to the man saying "come to where the flavor is, come to the Marlboro Country" (or the equivalent in the USA ad)
It is called "cafe internet" in developing nations (like Mexico) where people can rent a PC for 1 hour for as low as US$2 (I think even $1 in Mexico City...