I think at some point the risks and costs associated with their countries will be reflected in their wages. I do not think they will reach parity in absolute wages. Political instability in China could become a severe problem once enough people get to certain point and have met all their basic needs and start expecting a say.
The children of the current indian generation are not going to work nearly as hard as the current ones. We've seen that pattern in many countries for the last couple hundred years.
A nasty combination of paperwork and carpal tunnel has lowered the frequency of that glorious moment to the point that I finally am drifting out of the field.
If you absolutely love coding, read coding books to relax after hours, it's the center of your life, then you need to avoid big corporations unless their main business is selling a software product. The bureaucracy will smother out all your happy feelings. The funnest places to work are small.
If you like coding, then your options are more open. Big companies often give you a shot at expensive training and new technologies.
Take frequent breaks to save your hands. Get books on carpal tunnel and read them *NOW* before you develop problems.
If you only "like" it, then learn about project management and when you get tired of programming you can move up instead of out.
since you can easily pickup new laptops for $400 ish at the local fry's.
Probably because of the "true" cost that estimates costs like a drunken RIAA lawyer estimates the value of songs that no one is buying in the first place.
If you give the mayor $25,000 for his reelection commitee it's also legal. If you give the mayor $25,000 with the understanding that he'll give you a zoning variance, it's illegal. If you give the mayor $25,000 with no understanding he gives you a zoning variance, it's legal.
Okay... so give me a provably best period for copyright.
You know 1+1=2 level of proof.
We have the original term arbitrarily. We have any new term equally arbitrarily.
15 years may be perfect. Or it could be 27 years. Or it could change as our average lifespans change. Or it could change based on a countries welfare system (a lot of artists lived off welfare in the past).
I agree- it's utilitarian. I don't agree that 15 years is provably the absolute best period. I've seen no data to back that up. And even data would only allow us to reasonably conclude under very tightly defined terms which might not exist in the real world.
And oddly, as the quality increases and the market size increases, then the quality declines since so much money is at stake that the backers only want to go with "safe" bets.
I'm saying it is logical that they would think things that benefit them are reasonable even if they are not. You ask 4500 artists who are making money off 50 year old copyrighted material if it is reasonable to extend the copyright and change the rules (even for dead people) and of course-- they feel it is.
It's also logical that as a cover band performer you would feel differently.
It's very difficult to find what is truly reasonable. Everyone asserts "Well the thing that benefits ME is obviously reasonable." A lot of time, the first person to baldly assert something as true sets the play field and everyone else goes along even tho it was basically random.
It is equally reasonable to set the copyright period for 5 years, 10 years, 30 years, 50 years. They all are someone arbitrary. It's clearly unreasonable to set it for 0 years and clearly unreasonable to set it to "forever and one day". (Well.. at least most people would agree to that- there are folks on both ends who feel 0 years or "forever" are emminantly reasonable).
The problem is there is no obvious way to measure this and pick a rational value where we get the most creative work of the highest quality for the lowest price.
A lot of rock and roll would probably not be legal since it includes older music that would have been protected by copyright (killing rock and roll in the cradle).
The hypocrisy of a band suing another band for "stealing their song" when it includes blues riffs that they stole from the public domain using their rules is amusing and irritating at the same time.
Copyright was instituted for society so work would be created. It was not instituted for the creators. It was instituted to encourage them to create for society. I do not see any evidence that creators are boycotting and refusing to create new works because they "only" have copyright for 50 years.
try something obvious like... www.searchengines.com (nope... some kind of placeholder site) www.searchengine.com (yup-- appears to be a search engine). www.searchweb.com (maybe-- looks like a placeholder page but sort of looks like search page)
Look at people that rate search engines Typed this in since it seemed logical www.searchenginerating.com (appears to be more about getting a high rating on search engines) found this with a search engine http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=21 56451
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I think at some point the risks and costs associated with their countries will be reflected in their wages. I do not think they will reach parity in absolute wages. Political instability in China could become a severe problem once enough people get to certain point and have met all their basic needs and start expecting a say.
The children of the current indian generation are not going to work nearly as hard as the current ones. We've seen that pattern in many countries for the last couple hundred years.
At current rates of inflation india would exceed US wages in 8 years.
Chinese inflation rates are even higher (100% per 3 years).
And all the american programmers start retiring in 2012.
IT is going to be so sweet from 2013 to 2017 or 2018.
If it is based on education... why can't they educate themselves cheaper than us folks too.
We have to face facts that wages will average.
They are going up really fast- we are going down pretty slowly.
But our costs are still going up (that's the crazy part-- but it's partially false rules. we pay $20 for a DVD that sells for $2.50 to them. WHY?)
Lol.
I was hearing peter graves myself
Partially it was my phone-- It worked but I guess had taken too many falls or something.
But even with my new phone there are lots of dead areas where the call just suddenly goes away.
I've been sitting stationary and seen it briefly drop to zero bars, drop the call, then go back up to five bars.
"followed by AHA! moments"
This is why I loved programming.
A nasty combination of paperwork and carpal tunnel has lowered the frequency of that glorious moment to the point that I finally am drifting out of the field.
If you absolutely love coding, read coding books to relax after hours, it's the center of your life, then you need to avoid big corporations unless their main business is selling a software product. The bureaucracy will smother out all your happy feelings. The funnest places to work are small.
If you like coding, then your options are more open. Big companies often give you a shot at expensive training and new technologies.
Take frequent breaks to save your hands. Get books on carpal tunnel and read them *NOW* before you develop problems.
If you only "like" it, then learn about project management and when you get tired of programming you can move up instead of out.
I would say the very existence of humans creates extremism.
Religion is just one of the many ways they express their extremism.
Does the robot vehicle hit and run or stay?
Does it recognize a human laying in the road?
How many artists are played on MTV? Not many.
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Yes but this article is about RIAA, not about reality shows.
I agree -- food isn't the issue.
more food = more people = more conflict.
more food = less time working to make food, find food = more time to think = more conflict.
Humans are wired for conflict, especially between the ages of 13 and 30.
More children = more conflict.
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As long as we respect other people's rights to raise their children by teaching them other people are not human then the problem.
Only by teaching their children different beliefs can we change their culture.
I suppose the laptops might help in that regard- the children would see concepts they would otherwise not be exposed to.
Wow.
This one post by Baxtered actually makes me less likely to buy the product.
Iraqi civilians armed with primitive weapons seem to be doing a pretty good job.
If there ever was a coup, there is enough firepower in the US to give them unholy hell.
The average drug gang has sufficient firepower to do that now.
I agree, a citizcen army couldn't defeat the military army on the field.
Wouldn't a DVD deteriote quickly too then?
My old CDR's died if there were any problems with their storage
Oh! So Mr Witherspoon is behind all this!
(And he would have gotten away with opposing the laptops too if not...)
since you can easily pickup new laptops for $400 ish at the local fry's.
Probably because of the "true" cost that estimates costs like a drunken RIAA lawyer estimates the value of songs that no one is buying in the first place.
Grr... 3 little letters.
If you give the mayor $25,000 with no understanding AND he gives you a zoning variance, it's legal.
If you give the mayor $25,000 for his reelection commitee it's also legal.
If you give the mayor $25,000 with the understanding that he'll give you a zoning variance, it's illegal.
If you give the mayor $25,000 with no understanding he gives you a zoning variance, it's legal.
Okay... so give me a provably best period for copyright.
You know 1+1=2 level of proof.
We have the original term arbitrarily.
We have any new term equally arbitrarily.
15 years may be perfect.
Or it could be 27 years.
Or it could change as our average lifespans change.
Or it could change based on a countries welfare system (a lot of artists lived off welfare in the past).
I agree- it's utilitarian. I don't agree that 15 years is provably the absolute best period. I've seen no data to back that up. And even data would only allow us to reasonably conclude under very tightly defined terms which might not exist in the real world.
It's a classic catch 22.
99% of their accounts are on windows so they focus on windows.
99% of their accounts are on windows BECAUSE they focus on windows.
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I have the same everquest situation.
Openoffice, firefox, azureus, audacity, gimp, etc are slowly removing any need for windows other than this.
And oddly, as the quality increases and the market size increases, then the quality declines since so much money is at stake that the backers only want to go with "safe" bets.
You are preaching to the choir.
I'm saying it is logical that they would think things that benefit them are reasonable even if they are not. You ask 4500 artists who are making money off 50 year old copyrighted material if it is reasonable to extend the copyright and change the rules (even for dead people) and of course-- they feel it is.
It's also logical that as a cover band performer you would feel differently.
It's very difficult to find what is truly reasonable. Everyone asserts "Well the thing that benefits ME is obviously reasonable." A lot of time, the first person to baldly assert something as true sets the play field and everyone else goes along even tho it was basically random.
It is equally reasonable to set the copyright period for 5 years, 10 years, 30 years, 50 years. They all are someone arbitrary. It's clearly unreasonable to set it for 0 years and clearly unreasonable to set it to "forever and one day". (Well.. at least most people would agree to that- there are folks on both ends who feel 0 years or "forever" are emminantly reasonable).
The problem is there is no obvious way to measure this and pick a rational value where we get the most creative work of the highest quality for the lowest price.
A lot of rock and roll would probably not be legal since it includes older music that would have been protected by copyright (killing rock and roll in the cradle).
The hypocrisy of a band suing another band for "stealing their song" when it includes blues riffs that they stole from the public domain using their rules is amusing and irritating at the same time.
Copyright was instituted for society so work would be created. It was not instituted for the creators. It was instituted to encourage them to create for society. I do not see any evidence that creators are boycotting and refusing to create new works because they "only" have copyright for 50 years.
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AltaVista
Metacrawler
dogpile
yahoo
MSN
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try wikipedia: Yup a nice list on wiki at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine
try something obvious like...
www.searchengines.com (nope... some kind of placeholder site)
www.searchengine.com (yup-- appears to be a search engine).
www.searchweb.com (maybe-- looks like a placeholder page but sort of looks like search page)
Look at people that rate search engines
Typed this in since it seemed logical
www.searchenginerating.com (appears to be more about getting a high rating on search engines)
found this with a search engine
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2
And when you lose the songs (hard drive crash, CD goes bad, etc.) you are not going to have allofmp3 going forward.
It was nice - I used it- but it was driving through a loophole and it couldn't contribute as much for donations as the record companies.