I can't honestly believe you take your kids to church and make them believe that BS.
In fact since you do take your kids to church, and they went out and carjacked someone, you should be in jail for providing your child with an irresponsible upbringing.
or...
I can't believe you don't take your kids to church. Your all going to hell.
In fact since you don't take your kids to church, and they went out and carjacked someone, you should be in jail for providing your child with an irresponsible upbringing.
or...
Since your kid breathes air, and they went out and carjacked someone, you should be in jail for providing your child with an irresponsible upbringing.
Quit telling me video games cause the violence. Because you have to prove it was the cause, and I don't think that has been done yet.
There is no demand for spam. He's not filling a demand. He's sending you mail you don't want, and you can't refuse.
Spam and commercials are not even nearly the same. The only analogy you could make is junk mail, but that isn't nearly as bad as spam, due to the cost of sending mail vs sending an email.
But you just said if they make an informed choice, then it's okay.
What if I played the game and decided my 10 year old should be allowed to play GTA.
I go to jail?
I thought you said that if I make an informed choice, it's okay!
For one our entire office (which is a small company) can produce the same looking drawings. We have a standard of looks we maintain, and everyone can easily follow it. The looks of the drawings is far cleaner than what would be if was to be done by hand.
My company is a civil engineering firm and we do surveying. Countless hours are saved because the total station can input the data it records into AutoCAD. And the reverse is true too. Data from AutoCAD can be exported to the total station and laid out. I can't imagine how these things happened by hand before. (And these are done to the millimeter now)
Most importantly is the exactness of AutoCAD. We're drawing to the millimeter. Our angles to the second. You can attempt these things by hand, but no two distance and bearing lines may be exactly alike. Multiply that by a few thousand lines and you start getting issues.
And you totaly ignored the point about doing complex simulations that could never be done before. Wanna figure out the CD on a car? Do some CFD. [Note, any complex simulation needs to be done by someone who has had hours of practice and understand the concepts, which doesn't always happen, because these programs are easy to throw numbers into]
In my industry (Engineering) it makes a huge difference.
Have to change a drawing? Fire up AutoCAD. 10 minutes, done. No more getting out the eraser and spending a month fixing a few lines.
Have to do stress anaylasis on a complex structure? Use FEA, something that's impossible by hand. (and can take computers hours to do, depending on complexity and computer)
Let's ignore the fact this was not only about google, and assume it is...
So would you also say to [insert your news source here] "Quit doing stories on the Election , I've heard enough", or "I only cared about the war for 3 stories, who the fuck cares now? 4 is just too many"
If you don't want to read the google stories, don't read them. News is news, no matter what it is about.
Well it's easy. The original creator of the work is the one who 'owns' it. The GPL is a liscense, so if it is being violated, the owner should be contacted.
I work at a Civil Engineering firm. We do Civil engineering projects of various sizes. To do all our drafting, we use AutoCAD. We currently run AutoCAD 2005, which runs like $2-3000 a copy.
I work in a small company, so we don't do any real training for new versions. For example, we were using version 2000 of AutoCAD until about November of last year. We we upgraded, the new changes in software were left up to us (mostly me) to discover and incorporate into making the job easier. Now this wasn't so hard, since I know AutoCAD farily well, or at least for the stuff that we do here.
However AutoDesk, the makers of AutoCAD also have other software like Land Desktop, Civil Design, and Civil 3D that might make doing some of the stuff I do now easier and quicker. But those packages too, cost a lot (perhaps more, they don't readily post prices of these programs on their website). And when you need like 6 copies, including some for people that might be doing only a small amount of editing it adds up.
PLUS, if we got these new software packages, the drafting people, including myself, would need to learn how to use them. Unfortanatley, this is not as easy as it would seem, as these tools are quite complex. But guess what? AutoDesk, and their resellers, offer training! Well let's see... we've spent $20000 on new software, and we have to spend another several thousand on training (due to training costs, transportation and lodging at the training site since it is not near by, and then there are the 2-3 days of productive work lost)
So in the case of our small company, the more powerful fancier software gets neglected. The software costs, and training costs are too much. However, imagine if the software was cheaper (or free) Well then I could easily see my boss paying for training, to use the software.
Well this was long winded, but basically my whole point was in the subject. Charge for the services, not the product.
As an additonal example, we produce drawings that look a particular way, the standard that we have set. Now these more powerful tools have built in default standards, and they can be somewhat more difficult to setup for your individiual company. Consulting on how to setup our standards.. something else they could charge for and we might pay for.
[I'm sure however, that AutoDesk wont' change their ways, because large companies will continue to fork out the money for their products, and I'll have to slowly try to learn how to use their fancy software with the demo products and the tutorial files which are of limited use)
And this is exactly what the article is adressing.
That they are wrong about their pricing, and people have moved on, but not to radio, to downloading the songs for free. The only way to win back these people downloading for free is to offer a price of nearly free. Most people downloading 1000 songs a month would never pay $1 a song. But would they pay $0.05 a song? Maybe. And more likley are the people downloading 100 songs a month. $100 is a lot of money.. but $5? Do you think there are 20x the number of people downloading 100 songs a month than buying 100 songs a month? Probably. Therefore, there is money to be made.
And any mention of artists not liking this sort of distribution system is crap. "Um.. no I don't want to sell my songs for cheaper so that everyone can hear them, only those spending lots get to hear my songs"
Someone mentioned above something about higher pricing to make it appear the CDs (and by association, the music) 'worth more'. Well it's obvious by the number of downloaders that the CD's are not 'worth more' because of their price...
The only thing keeping my small office from switching over to OpenOffice is compatability with the Corel Suite, specifically Word Perfect and Quattro Pro.
It used to be what our officed used exclusivley, but several people have been having issues with them. I've slowly started a switch to Open Office, but opening old documents and spreadsheet is impossible with Open Office, if they are any of the Corel Formats.
You can get away with "a pair of jeans is a pair of jeans" but "a car is a car is a car" I'll have to say... no. Not in 95% of cases. I mean high price jeans ver1 vs low costs jeans ver2 can be very similiar, with only the name making a difference.
A ford crown victoria is not very similiar to a chevy corvette or a dodge ram or a honda civic. There are large, substandtial differences.
Because hiring someone involves forming and the agreement to a contract. There are different rights and means of compensation involved.
It's quite a bit more complex when you consider that any actual purchase is to a store, not the artist, and the store pays a publisher, not the artist, and the publisher probably pays the artist for each copy sold, unless the contract was a lump sum payment.
Your analogy would make a little more sense if itwas worded that you and 100,000 friends hired a guy to make you a song, and then some of you didn't pay him. But the problem still exists that the music was made first, and then marketed later for the end user. The end user didn't demand "Make me 10 shitty songs and call it a CD" (the publisher might have however) So I don't like your analogy at all.
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Now this is funny.
I can't honestly believe you take your kids to church and make them believe that BS.
In fact since you do take your kids to church, and they went out and carjacked someone, you should be in jail for providing your child with an irresponsible upbringing.
or...
I can't believe you don't take your kids to church. Your all going to hell.
In fact since you don't take your kids to church, and they went out and carjacked someone, you should be in jail for providing your child with an irresponsible upbringing.
or...
Since your kid breathes air, and they went out and carjacked someone, you should be in jail for providing your child with an irresponsible upbringing.
Quit telling me video games cause the violence. Because you have to prove it was the cause, and I don't think that has been done yet.
There is no demand for spam. He's not filling a demand. He's sending you mail you don't want, and you can't refuse.
Spam and commercials are not even nearly the same. The only analogy you could make is junk mail, but that isn't nearly as bad as spam, due to the cost of sending mail vs sending an email.
But you just said if they make an informed choice, then it's okay. What if I played the game and decided my 10 year old should be allowed to play GTA. I go to jail? I thought you said that if I make an informed choice, it's okay!
Offtopic, not informative.
Plus they were there because of a stolen vehicle, not because of the grow op.
I'm pretty sure it deals with trade laws (as it is a trade treaty) however, let's assume your right.
So...
What do commerce laws have to do with copyright?
What does NAFTA have to do with copyright?
Why will Canadians be able to host all this stuff?
The legal copyright owners can still sue the people distributing their copywrited material.
I would say things have definatley improved.
For one our entire office (which is a small company) can produce the same looking drawings. We have a standard of looks we maintain, and everyone can easily follow it. The looks of the drawings is far cleaner than what would be if was to be done by hand.
My company is a civil engineering firm and we do surveying. Countless hours are saved because the total station can input the data it records into AutoCAD. And the reverse is true too. Data from AutoCAD can be exported to the total station and laid out. I can't imagine how these things happened by hand before. (And these are done to the millimeter now)
Most importantly is the exactness of AutoCAD. We're drawing to the millimeter. Our angles to the second. You can attempt these things by hand, but no two distance and bearing lines may be exactly alike. Multiply that by a few thousand lines and you start getting issues.
And you totaly ignored the point about doing complex simulations that could never be done before. Wanna figure out the CD on a car? Do some CFD. [Note, any complex simulation needs to be done by someone who has had hours of practice and understand the concepts, which doesn't always happen, because these programs are easy to throw numbers into]
In my industry (Engineering) it makes a huge difference.
Have to change a drawing? Fire up AutoCAD. 10 minutes, done. No more getting out the eraser and spending a month fixing a few lines.
Have to do stress anaylasis on a complex structure? Use FEA, something that's impossible by hand. (and can take computers hours to do, depending on complexity and computer)
Let's ignore the fact this was not only about google, and assume it is...
So would you also say to [insert your news source here] "Quit doing stories on the Election , I've heard enough", or "I only cared about the war for 3 stories, who the fuck cares now? 4 is just too many"
If you don't want to read the google stories, don't read them. News is news, no matter what it is about.
Well it's easy. The original creator of the work is the one who 'owns' it. The GPL is a liscense, so if it is being violated, the owner should be contacted.
I belive thats really only good for attacking "the darkness"
I work at a Civil Engineering firm. We do Civil engineering projects of various sizes. To do all our drafting, we use AutoCAD. We currently run AutoCAD 2005, which runs like $2-3000 a copy.
I work in a small company, so we don't do any real training for new versions. For example, we were using version 2000 of AutoCAD until about November of last year. We we upgraded, the new changes in software were left up to us (mostly me) to discover and incorporate into making the job easier. Now this wasn't so hard, since I know AutoCAD farily well, or at least for the stuff that we do here.
However AutoDesk, the makers of AutoCAD also have other software like Land Desktop, Civil Design, and Civil 3D that might make doing some of the stuff I do now easier and quicker. But those packages too, cost a lot (perhaps more, they don't readily post prices of these programs on their website). And when you need like 6 copies, including some for people that might be doing only a small amount of editing it adds up.
PLUS, if we got these new software packages, the drafting people, including myself, would need to learn how to use them. Unfortanatley, this is not as easy as it would seem, as these tools are quite complex. But guess what? AutoDesk, and their resellers, offer training! Well let's see... we've spent $20000 on new software, and we have to spend another several thousand on training (due to training costs, transportation and lodging at the training site since it is not near by, and then there are the 2-3 days of productive work lost)
So in the case of our small company, the more powerful fancier software gets neglected. The software costs, and training costs are too much. However, imagine if the software was cheaper (or free) Well then I could easily see my boss paying for training, to use the software.
Well this was long winded, but basically my whole point was in the subject. Charge for the services, not the product.
As an additonal example, we produce drawings that look a particular way, the standard that we have set. Now these more powerful tools have built in default standards, and they can be somewhat more difficult to setup for your individiual company. Consulting on how to setup our standards.. something else they could charge for and we might pay for.
[I'm sure however, that AutoDesk wont' change their ways, because large companies will continue to fork out the money for their products, and I'll have to slowly try to learn how to use their fancy software with the demo products and the tutorial files which are of limited use)
And this is exactly what the article is adressing.
That they are wrong about their pricing, and people have moved on, but not to radio, to downloading the songs for free. The only way to win back these people downloading for free is to offer a price of nearly free. Most people downloading 1000 songs a month would never pay $1 a song. But would they pay $0.05 a song? Maybe. And more likley are the people downloading 100 songs a month. $100 is a lot of money.. but $5? Do you think there are 20x the number of people downloading 100 songs a month than buying 100 songs a month? Probably. Therefore, there is money to be made.
And any mention of artists not liking this sort of distribution system is crap. "Um.. no I don't want to sell my songs for cheaper so that everyone can hear them, only those spending lots get to hear my songs"
Someone mentioned above something about higher pricing to make it appear the CDs (and by association, the music) 'worth more'. Well it's obvious by the number of downloaders that the CD's are not 'worth more' because of their price...
The only thing keeping my small office from switching over to OpenOffice is compatability with the Corel Suite, specifically Word Perfect and Quattro Pro.
It used to be what our officed used exclusivley, but several people have been having issues with them. I've slowly started a switch to Open Office, but opening old documents and spreadsheet is impossible with Open Office, if they are any of the Corel Formats.
It's olds today.
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You can get away with "a pair of jeans is a pair of jeans" but "a car is a car is a car" I'll have to say... no. Not in 95% of cases. I mean high price jeans ver1 vs low costs jeans ver2 can be very similiar, with only the name making a difference.
A ford crown victoria is not very similiar to a chevy corvette or a dodge ram or a honda civic. There are large, substandtial differences.
"John A. Qwerty thinks he knows the way Linux can kill Redmond. Basing his premise on the relative dearth of device drivers available..."
I'm not sure that's a great analogy either.
Because hiring someone involves forming and the agreement to a contract. There are different rights and means of compensation involved.
It's quite a bit more complex when you consider that any actual purchase is to a store, not the artist, and the store pays a publisher, not the artist, and the publisher probably pays the artist for each copy sold, unless the contract was a lump sum payment.
Your analogy would make a little more sense if itwas worded that you and 100,000 friends hired a guy to make you a song, and then some of you didn't pay him. But the problem still exists that the music was made first, and then marketed later for the end user. The end user didn't demand "Make me 10 shitty songs and call it a CD" (the publisher might have however) So I don't like your analogy at all.
I live in Canada. We have lots of guns here too. We don't shoot other people.
It's not the guns that's the problem. The people that want guns to use them, will get guns.
This still doesn't solve the peak temperature problem for when you ARE using all of the processer power (games)
I like my eyecandy in games, and my AI, and my physics, and don't want to go back to not having those.
Fuuny, but of course untrue since we heat our homes here same as you. Except we all live in igloos, eat baby seals and ride dogsleds in Canada.
How does this help me when I'm playing games for 4 hours and my chip is using all it's power?
You have to design such a system for the peaks, not just lower th entire average temperature of the chip.