It's not stealing if the original programmers were not deprived of anything. Whether the good guys ("pirates") do it or the bad guys (the "content industry") do it, unauthorized copying is not stealing and never has been.
I believe the M3 report stopped being published because it did not provide enough additional information about inflation to justify the cost of its production.*
That is to say: most of what you're worried about can be analyzed from the M2 reports.
(btw this is just something I heard on the radio; don't mind being corrected)
*An actual cost-benefit analysis in the govt! Film at 11
I don't know if there's a name for it, but that fallacy is one of the most annoying: "This problem you're worried about isn't big enough; worry about this other bigger one"
Wouldn't a physicist, for example, be justified in saying the whole Zimbabwe thing is pretty unimportant and everyone should be worried about fusion power, which if achieved would be far more important.
'Internet access is not "necessary infrastructure".'
So true. Things were so much simple and we were so much more prosperous before these newfangled computamacalits started tromping around on my lawn.
Seriously, though: how come whenever someone talks about windows sucking (not up for debate) there's a li'l posse of gamers saying "waah, WoW etc. reet rah"?
Go buy windows and all its acoutrements if your games are that big a deal to you. Most people use their computers for work and when they're done with work they go and do something that doesn't involve computers.
You haven't addressed my point, which is that some people can use less oil by telecommuting part of the time.
However, you have successfully and concisely refuted the assertion that all people can telecommute all of the time. Strong work. Who made that assertion?
If your physical presence is *required at your place of employment, you have some options like
more efficient vehicle carpooling bicycles learning a new trade starting your own business
That's like saying there's no substitute for going-to-the-Louvre because it's the best and going to the Met is just not the same.
Here's a substitute for oil: tell your boss you have to work from home 2 days a week.
Going without is a perfectly viable substitute, in economic terms. If it's not worth demanding this from the boss, then gas is not yet expensive enough, or you live too close to the office.
"Next, people complain about Linux usability? apt-get install mplayer k3b, etc?"
Even better: Lx (at least Ubuntu) will tell you what to do.
My 6yo wanted to play the racing penguin game, and my wife remembered it was called "supertux" so she typed that in the terminal I always leave open on the desktop.
It told her "try 'sudo apt-get install supertux'", which she did. He was playing the game about 60 seconds later.
"Windows, for all it's warts, allowed almost everyone access to the world of computers."
Plus free strings attached to it! viz.
Your 'access to the world of computers' must be acknowledged as a service that you license from a vendor, rather than a skill that you acquire and use for your own purposes.
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Seriously, when I saw that views were likely to be cut I was going to ignore this product. But a line like that gets me onboard.
Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft, but that's only 'cause I don't make hiring decisions. Yet.
Second best disappearing pencil joke of the week!
"The matrix would have been thought provoking if there was a Matrix inside the Matrix..."
Yeah, or if one or more of the characters had said something along the lines of
"Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation"
or
"While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected"
So very, very profound.
Couldn't we *please get this in a pill already?
As I understand it, there's no such thing as a purchase with DRM. You're actually just licensing all the stuff you buy, not buying it.
So Netflix hates Linux (and mac) but Roku loves it?
Makes me think that what I actually want is a *Roku account.
"Windows or Mac..."
Country *and Western
It's not stealing if the original programmers were not deprived of anything. Whether the good guys ("pirates") do it or the bad guys (the "content industry") do it, unauthorized copying is not stealing and never has been.
"To us, it seems you're voting on what cartel is to rule the US."
Close; it's more like: we're voting on whether the cartel's mean old white guy or their nice young African-American guy will rule the US
I believe the M3 report stopped being published because it did not provide enough additional information about inflation to justify the cost of its production.*
That is to say: most of what you're worried about can be analyzed from the M2 reports.
(btw this is just something I heard on the radio; don't mind being corrected)
*An actual cost-benefit analysis in the govt! Film at 11
I don't know if there's a name for it, but that fallacy is one of the most annoying: "This problem you're worried about isn't big enough; worry about this other bigger one"
Wouldn't a physicist, for example, be justified in saying the whole Zimbabwe thing is pretty unimportant and everyone should be worried about fusion power, which if achieved would be far more important.
And so on.
Not totally following your point. Looking "like it was written in C" is.. a bad thing?
Nearly-as-important things like Folding!
I wish it were included in the "Operating Systems" section of their catalog.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?type=category&id=abcat0508001
Odd, the breadcrumps on the link say it's in that category, but it doesn't come up..
'Internet access is not "necessary infrastructure".' So true. Things were so much simple and we were so much more prosperous before these newfangled computamacalits started tromping around on my lawn.
"MS is going to be in the support business big time and needs to find ways to profit from support that are simple, easy and cheap for the end user."
They should outsource some of it to Psychic friends
They could organize a Sting.
I found that pretty funny, if trollish.
Seriously, though: how come whenever someone talks about windows sucking (not up for debate) there's a li'l posse of gamers saying "waah, WoW etc. reet rah"?
Go buy windows and all its acoutrements if your games are that big a deal to you. Most people use their computers for work and when they're done with work they go and do something that doesn't involve computers.
"If a mugger knew I didn't have a weapon"
Um, how does he know this? 'Cause it's illegal? Well, it's illegal and *he has one...
She has sudo privileges on her own box. It has Hardy Heron on it. I don't let her touch mine.
(You should all be smirking now)
You haven't addressed my point, which is that some people can use less oil by telecommuting part of the time.
However, you have successfully and concisely refuted the assertion that all people can telecommute all of the time. Strong work. Who made that assertion?
If your physical presence is *required at your place of employment, you have some options like
more efficient vehicle
carpooling
bicycles
learning a new trade
starting your own business
That's like saying there's no substitute for going-to-the-Louvre because it's the best and going to the Met is just not the same.
Here's a substitute for oil: tell your boss you have to work from home 2 days a week.
Going without is a perfectly viable substitute, in economic terms. If it's not worth demanding this from the boss, then gas is not yet expensive enough, or you live too close to the office.
"Next, people complain about Linux usability? apt-get install mplayer k3b, etc?"
Even better: Lx (at least Ubuntu) will tell you what to do.
My 6yo wanted to play the racing penguin game, and my wife remembered it was called "supertux" so she typed that in the terminal I always leave open on the desktop.
It told her "try 'sudo apt-get install supertux'", which she did. He was playing the game about 60 seconds later.
"Windows, for all it's warts, allowed almost everyone access to the world of computers."
Plus free strings attached to it! viz.
Your 'access to the world of computers' must be acknowledged as a service that you license from a vendor, rather than a skill that you acquire and use for your own purposes.
"Bob Greenberg (center of old photo, in red sweater), then a programmer and now a tech and financial consultant ... "