First off, let me say that as someone that likes to send people large files, I say hell yeah, upload speed is the shit. Do you like to send files to people? Like in email?
Anyways, a lot of their expenses go to not having people on their network that can tell the difference between an image 2KB versus 20MB. Maybe, just maybe, the ubiquitous upload speed is still a victim of computer illiteracy. For which ISP's pawn problems off on Microsoft, Microsoft pawn off on ISPs, ISPs then pawn off on software vendors, who then pawn off on the next person that calls in.
"Oh, sure, there are probably PhDs out there blogging. Okay, okay, I'm kidding - I sincerely doubt it - unless they were useless in their fields to begin with."
Holy crap, that's a mean thing to say. Maybe, some of these PhDs are useful in their field because they are a blogger. Shit man, almost everyone in the tech industry has an online presence of some sort somewhere. Many of them, I'm sure, consider themselves professional bloggers regardless of the amount of income they might derive from the status.
As for finding a mate, they one's who are primarily interested in the size of your wallet are much more likely to leave you if that wallet ever deflates.
I think this is a little unfair also. I prefer a woman that works, doesn't mean I'll leave her if she CAN'T work. You're talking about something like a trophy wife or a whore (not that either trophy wives or whores are necessarily this brittle). Many women will stick with the man that made the money, simply because he proved himself worthy of that pay and can probably do it again.
Also, if you look into the nature of things, "financial problems" are listed as one of the most common causes of divorce. This means I'll be telling both my kids that they shouldn't settle down until they make about 1.5-3 times local minimum wage (works for my area), and I'll tell them to look for someone that makes about the same, then I'll explain that only one of each couple can be unemployed at a time. It's called redundancy, combined with living below your means and an investment strategy, you can almost live out the American dream or even one-up the damned dream.
Sorry, it's more like a loss on the value of the name "Microsoft" and possibly explainable by return on investment, I'm not an accountant but that's my interpretation.
it's apples to apples, it's not much different than the fortune 500. Think about it, what they are measuring is the intrinsic (imaginary/perceived) value of their brand. Their brand is something that is accounted for, this means that coke can sell the brand "Coca-Cola" and have a fairly well documented method for proving the value of that name. Microsoft's brand falling as far as it did as fast as it did, means they either lost a significant amount of value for the name "Microsoft" or they simply did not invest enough in branding.
I liked it better the way I saw it. oh well, maybe, just maybe, the slashcode shouldn't draw a friggin' line from one comment to another one that is not directly related, but then again maybe I'm just being friggin retarded.
321 has seven days to pull its products, but the impact goes beyond that company. The judge wrote that federal law made it illegal to sell products that break through DVDs' antipiracy technology, even if consumers have a legal right to make personal copies of their movies.
"Legal downstream use of the copyrighted material by customers is not a defense to the software manufacturer's violation of the provisions (of copyright law)." - Judge Illsten
Hollywood studios sued to keep DeCSS offline, and a New York federal judge ultimately agreed that posting the software online violated parts of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bars distribution of tools that break through digital copy protection mechanisms.
It's legal to make copies of movies for use in your home, so long as you own the movies. You can even decrypt the movies if you would like to.
On the DMCA:
It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as DRM) and criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, even when there is no infringement of copyright itself.
So long as you don't give anyone else a copy of your decryption software, you're fine. If you gave away the decryption (or let someone use it) software you would violate the DMCA. If you gave away or sold your copies you would violate copyright. IANAL etc, etc, but unless I've forgotten how to read English I think you've made a pretty big ass of yourself today.
what makes you think copyright protection for movies is any different than copyright protection for music? you say fair use doesn't allow a backup copy of a movie, but what makes a DVR legal? Generally, it is legal to copy movies and music for personal use so long as you don't distribute the copies. That's why my Ipod is filled with music from my cd collection rather than newly purchased downloads. You're calling people thieves and citing Fair Use laws when you have no idea what you're talking about.
you don't get it. just another brown nosing stiff (STOP, blasphemous, thieving, hippies - LOL!) you just don't understand the law you're so desperately trying to support. First off, the law is just a decision, it can ALWAYS be argued and judges can decide in ways that more or less seem to contradict the laws. It's illegal to rip DVD's because they have the encryption methods in place (it's illegal to circumvent/hack encrypted security measures). Otherwise, itunes, real player, windows media player, and others would be in the same boat as DVD ripping software. Which, incidentally is still legal so long as the DVD ripping software doesn't bypass the encryption implemented to protect the disk. Now kindly STFU
Gen Y == Millennials
the oldest millenial is about 28 (born in 1980), so they could have about five years experience after college. funny thing I thought the job loyalty went out the window with the last half of Gen X, course I'm right there at the tail end so I could be a bit skewed, but wasn't it the 90's when the dot com bust hit and other industries suddenly panicked about paying for retirements and pensions for the baby boomers and started slashing middle management positions?
Isn't that for her to decide? I mean once you've built a rapport with a person there's a tempo and rhythm to be maintained that may include little intellectual traps like this.
Slashdot Mirror
I knew that once. Don't use it much anymore.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cybercarpet_walk.jpg
looks like a bunch of track balls.
First off, let me say that as someone that likes to send people large files, I say hell yeah, upload speed is the shit. Do you like to send files to people? Like in email?
Anyways, a lot of their expenses go to not having people on their network that can tell the difference between an image 2KB versus 20MB. Maybe, just maybe, the ubiquitous upload speed is still a victim of computer illiteracy. For which ISP's pawn problems off on Microsoft, Microsoft pawn off on ISPs, ISPs then pawn off on software vendors, who then pawn off on the next person that calls in.
Holy crap, that's a mean thing to say. Maybe, some of these PhDs are useful in their field because they are a blogger. Shit man, almost everyone in the tech industry has an online presence of some sort somewhere. Many of them, I'm sure, consider themselves professional bloggers regardless of the amount of income they might derive from the status.
As for finding a mate, they one's who are primarily interested in the size of your wallet are much more likely to leave you if that wallet ever deflates.I think this is a little unfair also. I prefer a woman that works, doesn't mean I'll leave her if she CAN'T work. You're talking about something like a trophy wife or a whore (not that either trophy wives or whores are necessarily this brittle). Many women will stick with the man that made the money, simply because he proved himself worthy of that pay and can probably do it again.
Also, if you look into the nature of things, "financial problems" are listed as one of the most common causes of divorce. This means I'll be telling both my kids that they shouldn't settle down until they make about 1.5-3 times local minimum wage (works for my area), and I'll tell them to look for someone that makes about the same, then I'll explain that only one of each couple can be unemployed at a time. It's called redundancy, combined with living below your means and an investment strategy, you can almost live out the American dream or even one-up the damned dream.
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Sorry, it's more like a loss on the value of the name "Microsoft" and possibly explainable by return on investment, I'm not an accountant but that's my interpretation.
it's apples to apples, it's not much different than the fortune 500. Think about it, what they are measuring is the intrinsic (imaginary/perceived) value of their brand. Their brand is something that is accounted for, this means that coke can sell the brand "Coca-Cola" and have a fairly well documented method for proving the value of that name. Microsoft's brand falling as far as it did as fast as it did, means they either lost a significant amount of value for the name "Microsoft" or they simply did not invest enough in branding.
I liked it better the way I saw it. oh well, maybe, just maybe, the slashcode shouldn't draw a friggin' line from one comment to another one that is not directly related, but then again maybe I'm just being friggin retarded.
dude you're talking to yourself
you're right, microsoft will always be the one and only operating system for joe sixpack, "there can be only one". /sarcasm
Screw 'em, second paragraph first sentence:
However FACT's name is misleading since there is no such offence within the United Kingdom of 'Copyright Theft' under the Theft Act 1968. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_Against_Copyright_Theftthey're wrong
http://www.news.com/2100-1025_3-5162749.html
It's legal to make copies of movies for use in your home, so long as you own the movies. You can even decrypt the movies if you would like to.
On the DMCA:
It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as DRM) and criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, even when there is no infringement of copyright itself.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
So long as you don't give anyone else a copy of your decryption software, you're fine. If you gave away the decryption (or let someone use it) software you would violate the DMCA. If you gave away or sold your copies you would violate copyright. IANAL etc, etc, but unless I've forgotten how to read English I think you've made a pretty big ass of yourself today.
what makes you think copyright protection for movies is any different than copyright protection for music? you say fair use doesn't allow a backup copy of a movie, but what makes a DVR legal? Generally, it is legal to copy movies and music for personal use so long as you don't distribute the copies. That's why my Ipod is filled with music from my cd collection rather than newly purchased downloads. You're calling people thieves and citing Fair Use laws when you have no idea what you're talking about.
you don't get it. just another brown nosing stiff (STOP, blasphemous, thieving, hippies - LOL!) you just don't understand the law you're so desperately trying to support. First off, the law is just a decision, it can ALWAYS be argued and judges can decide in ways that more or less seem to contradict the laws. It's illegal to rip DVD's because they have the encryption methods in place (it's illegal to circumvent/hack encrypted security measures). Otherwise, itunes, real player, windows media player, and others would be in the same boat as DVD ripping software. Which, incidentally is still legal so long as the DVD ripping software doesn't bypass the encryption implemented to protect the disk. Now kindly STFU
Gen Y == Millennials the oldest millenial is about 28 (born in 1980), so they could have about five years experience after college. funny thing I thought the job loyalty went out the window with the last half of Gen X, course I'm right there at the tail end so I could be a bit skewed, but wasn't it the 90's when the dot com bust hit and other industries suddenly panicked about paying for retirements and pensions for the baby boomers and started slashing middle management positions?
hmm, I thought it was considered bad form to comment on someone's sig.
I'm sorry, but did you just say that in a multibillion dollar confidence scheme, you blame the hustled?
No Shit!! Office 2007 is a piece of fucking dog shit. then again guess what all the current college students are learning to use right now?
if they were in control they wouldn't need to sue.
Isn't that for her to decide? I mean once you've built a rapport with a person there's a tempo and rhythm to be maintained that may include little intellectual traps like this.
oh, right rule out dumb girls, when exactly was the last time you hooked up with someone?
I'll remember to visit the ER the next time it rains.
I didn't believe it, so I had to look it up, apparently cops are pussies.
... then he could talk to a prison psych, brilliant!
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So, have you read "The Prince" or not?