Hmmm you know, on balance, it probably is good for the environment.
I guess a cost benefit analysis would need to look at the environmental cost of large numbers of customers and employees driving to the cinema or store. Combine with that of the construction of the store and cinema and the effect of the energy use of that store or cinema. Add in also the cost of the production of a great deal of plastic in the form of CDs and DVDs and the cost of distributing them.
Against that is the net marginal energy cost of downloading the files and in playing them, with possibly an additional cost of burning them to CD or DVD. However, with Xvid or whatever encoding you can bring a movie down to 700mb or so and store more than one movie on a DVD - thus there is a potential environmental saving there too.
Of course this is very simplistic. A proper CBA would need account for much more.
However my belief is yes, piracy is good for the planet:) Yo ho ho! Vote Pirate!
He's a PM. This means he has to be completely fluent in buzzwordspeak. This is the only language flexible enough to ensure that your ass is always fully covered in the corporate PM world.
Yes, but Wikipedia editors should also be very much more careful about extremism themselves. You should not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Not every expert in any field is also a skilled writer. Also, sometimes people do make mistakes when posting things. Some posters are schoolkids with good intentions but lacking the knowledge to deliver a great balanced article. You need to be very much more clear about what is vandalism specifically. Some editors need to be a hell of a lot more tolerant of humanity's failings.
If there was intent was to commit vandalism then fine, but I would seriously doubt that 1/3 of all IP posts had that actual intention regardless of whether that was the outcome. Don't be so cynical, most people are not that distructive.
There are as many pedants and grammar nazis out there as there are vandals - and some of those are active editors. I've seen editors use aggressive, pedantic and sarcastic tones with kids who tried their best to post interesting articles. Children threatened with having their IP blocked because they made a mistake in a posting.
Also, the discussion pages behind many articles are a terrifying glimpse into the nature of the fascist mind at times. Some of these discussions are utterly juvenile and über-pendantic.
I really enjoy Wikipedia and would love to see it grow, but aggressive editing and extremist reactionism will only stifle what is unique and positive about it.
Yes, deliberate acts of vandalism need to be curbed, but a balanace must be struck that allows inexperienced users the ability to learn and grow as worthy Wikipedia contributors.
I saw this article on the BBC earlier today. My immediate thought then was "Viral Marketing".
Note the prominence of the Nokia logo in many of the pics. My perhaps cynical belief is that someone at the BBC got a backhander for this piece of fluff. For those of you who don't know, the BBC is heavily restricted regards advertising, but somehow little pieces of infotainment sneak their way onto BBC output most days.
I don't really believe it's about the designs. It's to make Joe Sixpack go "ooh aah, Nokia clever, me buy Nokia!
Do we have time? No one knows. The Big Disaster could happen tomorrow, or it might not be for a thousand years. If we wait until we *do* know about it, it may be too late to avoid it.
Which is why those of you specially selected for passage on the B Ark should hurry right along and get ready now...
Yes, there is a special connecting bus from Redmond. Why yes of course Mr Dvorak, those in the A and C Arks will still be able to read your articles...
If the tune, lyrics, and performance aren't protected intellectual property then the first grader should call the police and have Captain Copyright arrested for child molestation.
Absolutely, and lets start with the song "Happy Birthday". That's copyright protected. So Canadians better stop singing that in school or Captain Copyright will come in the night..."
What I have noticed, and this has held true for everyplace I have ever worked or been to, is that in any given organization, 20% of the people do 80% of the work. That is ANY company, NGO, government, or organization on this planet. This means that the other 80% are slackers, screw offs, or just stupid. In other words, filler. The is right. 80% of the human race is nothing but filler.
My experience of similar organisations is slightly different. Here's how I see it broken down:
80% - avoiding work at every opportunity for a variety of reasons.
5% - actually doing meaningful useful work
15% - creating a great deal of tasks, chaos and mayhem which in turn causes a great deal of meaningless work for everyone else. (mostly middle management types)
Remove the 15% from society first and then the 80% would naturally decrease due to higher motivation, inspiration, and utility of their work.
...and do you seriously think that sending 50 police officers, paid for by Swedish taxes, to arrest and intimidate individuals with no history of violence is a responsible and appropriate use of money?
Do these type of protests help or hinder? Sure, wearing a hazmat suit will get you noticed, but will they remember you because of your voice, or your suit? Will they agree with you, or think you are a kook?
I'd love to think that these protests would 1. help and 2. get noticed. However, judging by the photos it looks like nearly 3 ordinary people saw the protests.
Maybe it is a beginning though. D-ReaM is a senseless futile waste of everyone's time and money and it shouldn't be difficult to convince the public of that, especially with the likes of Sony aiming-at-their-own-feet-when-pulling-the-trigger. That got lots of publicty, it should have been capitalized upon more at that time.
MTV doesn't even play music. I don't expect them to sell music. MTV is a pointless marketing creation designed to push an image onto a line of mediocre products purchased willingly by an unsuspecting public with way too much money and zero common sense.
I have to say that is is one of the most refreshingly accurate descriptions of MTV I've yet come across.
All the publicity, media, movies and well known conspiracy theories point to the US as being the ones with the UFO info. It's the logical 1st target if that's what you are into.
Also, once you hack into a Russian or Chinese computer system, how good do you think would his Russian and Chinese need to be to navigate the file system and to actually understand any UFO related documents?
Slashdot Mirror
that a page about a design magazine might just, maybe, break up that wall of text into something designed to be easier to read.
Sadly not everywhere in Europe. The German Government is unsuprisingly überfascist when it comes to property rights issues.
Hmmm you know, on balance, it probably is good for the environment.
:) Yo ho ho! Vote Pirate!
I guess a cost benefit analysis would need to look at the environmental cost of large numbers of customers and employees driving to the cinema or store. Combine with that of the construction of the store and cinema and the effect of the energy use of that store or cinema. Add in also the cost of the production of a great deal of plastic in the form of CDs and DVDs and the cost of distributing them.
Against that is the net marginal energy cost of downloading the files and in playing them, with possibly an additional cost of burning them to CD or DVD. However, with Xvid or whatever encoding you can bring a movie down to 700mb or so and store more than one movie on a DVD - thus there is a potential environmental saving there too.
Of course this is very simplistic. A proper CBA would need account for much more.
However my belief is yes, piracy is good for the planet
He's a PM. This means he has to be completely fluent in buzzwordspeak. This is the only language flexible enough to ensure that your ass is always fully covered in the corporate PM world.
Yes, but Wikipedia editors should also be very much more careful about extremism themselves. You should not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Not every expert in any field is also a skilled writer. Also, sometimes people do make mistakes when posting things. Some posters are schoolkids with good intentions but lacking the knowledge to deliver a great balanced article. You need to be very much more clear about what is vandalism specifically. Some editors need to be a hell of a lot more tolerant of humanity's failings.
If there was intent was to commit vandalism then fine, but I would seriously doubt that 1/3 of all IP posts had that actual intention regardless of whether that was the outcome. Don't be so cynical, most people are not that distructive.
There are as many pedants and grammar nazis out there as there are vandals - and some of those are active editors. I've seen editors use aggressive, pedantic and sarcastic tones with kids who tried their best to post interesting articles. Children threatened with having their IP blocked because they made a mistake in a posting.
Also, the discussion pages behind many articles are a terrifying glimpse into the nature of the fascist mind at times. Some of these discussions are utterly juvenile and über-pendantic.
I really enjoy Wikipedia and would love to see it grow, but aggressive editing and extremist reactionism will only stifle what is unique and positive about it.
Yes, deliberate acts of vandalism need to be curbed, but a balanace must be struck that allows inexperienced users the ability to learn and grow as worthy Wikipedia contributors.
Or worse.... Much worse...
In one word...
"Wasssssssuuupppp!!!!"
Be Afraid! Virii can kill!
I saw this article on the BBC earlier today. My immediate thought then was "Viral Marketing".
Note the prominence of the Nokia logo in many of the pics. My perhaps cynical belief is that someone at the BBC got a backhander for this piece of fluff. For those of you who don't know, the BBC is heavily restricted regards advertising, but somehow little pieces of infotainment sneak their way onto BBC output most days.
I don't really believe it's about the designs. It's to make Joe Sixpack go "ooh aah, Nokia clever, me buy Nokia!
Which is why those of you specially selected for passage on the B Ark should hurry right along and get ready now...
Yes, there is a special connecting bus from Redmond. Why yes of course Mr Dvorak, those in the A and C Arks will still be able to read your articles...
Yes, but the Fat Lady singing is from a recording that has DRM...
so that means that we live on a Beta?
That actually explains a lot...
Take me to your tailor!
sure, surgery and cancer and stuff...but what about the blackjack and hookers?
Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!! !!
sorry!
Absolutely, and lets start with the song "Happy Birthday". That's copyright protected. So Canadians better stop singing that in school or Captain Copyright will come in the night..."
My experience of similar organisations is slightly different. Here's how I see it broken down:
80% - avoiding work at every opportunity for a variety of reasons.
5% - actually doing meaningful useful work
15% - creating a great deal of tasks, chaos and mayhem which in turn causes a great deal of meaningless work for everyone else. (mostly middle management types)
Remove the 15% from society first and then the 80% would naturally decrease due to higher motivation, inspiration, and utility of their work.
...and do you seriously think that sending 50 police officers, paid for by Swedish taxes, to arrest and intimidate individuals with no history of violence is a responsible and appropriate use of money?
zzzzzzzzz...
mmm...uh...what?...
zzzzzzzzz...
I'd love to think that these protests would 1. help and 2. get noticed. However, judging by the photos it looks like nearly 3 ordinary people saw the protests.
Maybe it is a beginning though. D-ReaM is a senseless futile waste of everyone's time and money and it shouldn't be difficult to convince the public of that, especially with the likes of Sony aiming-at-their-own-feet-when-pulling-the-trigger
How about?
...criminals pwn you!
Someone can probably do better though...
Could we please please pretty please have a ban on the use of the name "da Vinci" for at least a year?
I'm totally overmarketed.
The tragic thing is that I was a big fan of the man himself until that trashy novel came out.
...evidence of the Missing Link?
I have to say that is is one of the most refreshingly accurate descriptions of MTV I've yet come across.
Not sure this is much of an argument...
All the publicity, media, movies and well known conspiracy theories point to the US as being the ones with the UFO info. It's the logical 1st target if that's what you are into.
Also, once you hack into a Russian or Chinese computer system, how good do you think would his Russian and Chinese need to be to navigate the file system and to actually understand any UFO related documents?
or Micro Hoo? and sell penis enlargement..
...that I welcome our new dark roasted overlords.