They counterfeit aswell. I guess if it was the real thing "stolen" from the factory that make them in the first place, that would be more or less alright.
But if you are going to do something illegal why not try to maximize your profit: there is more money to be done by just copying only the visible markings and slam it onto the cheapest hardware as possible.
"Sure, that's more that your Xbox 360, but I can do a lot more with a PC then I can with a gaming console."
Not anymore. Except if you are making full hd video editing or 3d movies it is very likely that any good computer from 4 years ago will be fast enough for *everything* but gaming. I own a 3 years old 1000$ gaming rig (nvidia 6800GT, 2Gb, AMD Single Core,...) - this machine is overkill for home usage even using Vista, even playing full HD H264 video,... What is the "lot more" I could do by throwing an additional 750$, except playing the recent games for the next 3 months ?
In my case, I cut the losses - I bought a less powerfull but *silent* mac mini and said bye bye to gaming on pc
"In ten years, efficient programming won't be difficult, it will be impossible"
I guess you are talking about local desktop programming. Because in enterprisy development, multiprocesses or multithreads programming on server with more than 4 CPU is the most common environment since the mainframe times.
Experienced developers have been used to deal with complex parallel problems. The basic experience that most slashdotter should be familiar with is forking a process to deal a socket connection in plain C.
So the difference is that youngling start to be interested because their open source whatever-clone project is not running faster on their QuadCore proc or because they start getting weird bugs out of nowhere. Don't get me wrong, that's a good thing ! The younger generation of developers will have first hand experience with multithreading issues and "feel" the value of forking vs multithread, singleton vs instance, framework or language that hides the plumbing,...
"The only other things that can be taken from Joe Sixpack are his resources; CPU and bandwidth."
You get that right ! Internet is 'perceived' safer because almost no recent virus/trojan/whatever format your disks... In the late 90's, if Joe sixpack spent 1 day online, the local script kiddies would nuke his win95 (winnuke), trash his disk(virus of the day), or make fun of the user while he is using it (backorifice)
Today, you will get a few mostly inefficient keyloggers (they are almost always targeted at US citizen), and be enrolled in a botnet. Most user have also broadband, a mostly stable OS and machine so uber powerful compared to what they need to check their mail that they will likely never realise their machine is compromised.
Also Internet is no more the scary strange place. It has entered the living room: who still think that a company is cutting edge because it puts its url in its ads?
Luckily for him, he didn't write banzai anywhere in his profile. Otherwise he would have shipped straight to guantanamo resort with all that evidence he is a suicide bomber.
If that study is right that means they will soon reboot the matrix and we will all restart from scratch again. Great, when I was just about to buy my house...
On another topic, is that another trick from the Intelligent Design crowd ?
Indeed with stealing you can get away with a mild sentence or some community service when caught. Copyright infringement, on the other hand, will probably put you in debt for the rest of your life.
Your numbers are 7 years old, a long long time ago in the mobile world. Now I think that it is closer to 60% - 220 million mobiles
However, in market penetration term, it is pathetic compared to europe. A lot of European countries have above or close to 100% market penetration ( i.e. more than 1 mobile per inhabitant )
That said, even with a shitty market penetration, the US is one the biggest market for mobile phone in the world with China ( 400 millions subscribers )
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As you say your competitor has a direct financial interest to pirate. But because he is making profit, even if he needs to pay 10,000$ for 150,000 songs, that's still a bargain for him and still give him an edge against you.
RIAA's job should be to sue your competitor, that's what it is meant to do. Losing time and money suing single mom or services essentially used by joe student should make you angry more than anything else. ( especially I think karaoke tracks are not the usual mp3 - so probably your competitor used more traditional methods like CD/DVD ripping )
I stopped to pirate long ago. The result is that I've become almost completely unaware of the 'music' world. The only result is that I stopped buying music ( still listen my old CD though ) and the last place I would think to go is a karaoke. Limiting access of your customer to music is not a good idea ( regardless how legally they get their music ) - imagine running your business if your customers never heard any of your songs
However, making sure all for-profit companies complies with the law IS what you should really hope for.
"only to eventually discover (through technical support or a KB article) that there's a command-line fix that isn't documented anywhere"
If you find it in the KB, that means it is documented at the place where it should be documented
Well - was just nitpicking:-) As a developer, I also spent a fair amount of time in the (archaic) command prompt. I had to use some of those mysterious fixes that were (god knows why) never rolled out in a patch or SP.
We can build observation facilities in our orbit. Problem solved. Right, like poverty is a problem solved since decades.
sit in a field and feel like they're floating around the galaxy while viewing stars in a dark night sky"...? Who cares Actually, that would be: saving money, improving visibility at night and, as a side effect, 'sit in a field and feel like they're floating around the galaxy while viewing stars in a dark night sky'.
Your proverbial cloud-watching is insignificant compared to the technological and industrial progress of civilization. Progress is improving the quality of human life. Modern comfort + clear sky is actually progress over just modern comfort.
"The BBC is funded by the UK TV licencing fee, & has therefore already been paid for by every Windows, Mac, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc. user in the UK with a TV licence"
Just some complementary information here. You pay for a TV License *only* if you have a way to view BBC channels. Currently that means that you have a TV or TVCard for your computer. So if a Linux user has a TV License, somehow, he is already capable of receiving the broadcast programs ( i.e. he has a TV )
The main difference between now and before, is that Windows users WITH a TV License will be able to access BBC Content using an *additional* medium for no extra-charge.
Other operating system users will still have the traditional methods to access the content.
Unfortunatly the code mostly contains spaces and new languages favor descriptive names (i.e. longer) and are quite verbose.
Look, the log.debug() in the following *very basic* example is already breaking the 80 char limit.
public class something {
public synchronized void initialize(Configuration configuration) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug("Initialisation with Configuration '" + configuration + "'");
}//...
}//... }
It should be broken into something like this: public class something {
public synchronized void initialize(Configuration configuration) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug( "Initialisation with Configuration '"
+ configuration + "'");
}//...
}//... }
So we are swapping a readibility problem because line are too long into a readibility problem because a simple line of code need to be broken into several chunk that are difficult to read or at the very least mutliple the size of the code
If cellphone is so important, just stick with a friend that has a mobile phone. He will tell you everything you need to know. You have time after all, you don't need to work. Also you are not banned from internet or other modern method of communication: just invest in a laptop and keep in range of a free wifi hotspot and use IM.
Why do you even bother answering marketing person ?
These surveys are worthless, and we all have a duty to make them more so. OK that's vengeance ! Did survey people stole your toys when you were a kid ?
So instead man created Companies and Ultra Liberalism. So he can fool his brain behind "The System" and still enjoy altruism when giving money to some orphan in Africa.
At least that help to demonstrate that a CEO only need to know how to make a keynote. Technical knowledge, experience,... : that's only required for low salary workers.
Yeah, Google is much more efficient than MS in detecting and buying evil companies. After seeing what MS has done in the past, I wonder why people are so happy to see another giant outwitting MS in its own game.
Oh, I almost forgot, Google, unlike Microsoft will not use the evil tactics of DoubleClick and they fight underground for human rights in China.
I don't want to say that **AA is right, because they are not. They managed to corrupt the system to create law that serve their selfish interests. And that's bad.
However you cannot do justice yourself. The logic "there is no proof I hurt them so that I should not be punished" sucks. If I want to marry 2 women, I still need to move abroad. If I sneak the law because I think it is unfair and even if I'm hurting nobody, I still go in jail.
US has a problem, it seems to have forgotten the meaning of the word 'corruption' and think companies dumping cash on politician do that by pure altruism.
There is no "evil" from a earth point of view. From a human being point of view however that's another matter.
- There could be change in habitable area, resulting in necessary population displacement and probably a lot of dead. - There could be change in local climate resulting in variation of vegetation and animal meaning there will be famine. That means there will also be migration of diseases and parasites. For example, tropical diseases in the UK. - Last time there was such a big warming there was also a massive extinction of animal(see TFA): the time evolution does its job and repopulate earth. Unfortunately human being will have to live in the meanwhile. ( For example in Europe, a lot of plant relies on the frost to clear the parasites. Without frost, that means the ecosystem will change a lot )
That enough to say that in case of real climate change humanity will enter a chaotic period with a lot of death and misery. Even the US and Europe will be impacted since they rely a lot on the poorest nations - and chaos is not good for business anyway.
That said, sure maybe a better humanity will emerge but I would rather live in the current one without a SUV.
Well, with the current trend in US laws and policies, a lot of people already consider the US as a prison by itself. ( Still a very comfortable prison )
When I was at University, going to the States was seen as one of the most cool experience anybody could wish for. That was the place to be. Now, none of my friends consider going there, while at the same time they would consider going to Hong Kong, Dubai or even China in the future ( yes I know that's completely irrational today but they have the feeling that US is getting worse while they feel other countries like China are opening up and getting better)
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They counterfeit aswell. I guess if it was the real thing "stolen" from the factory that make them in the first place, that would be more or less alright.
But if you are going to do something illegal why not try to maximize your profit: there is more money to be done by just copying only the visible markings and slam it onto the cheapest hardware as possible.
"Sure, that's more that your Xbox 360, but I can do a lot more with a PC then I can with a gaming console."
... What is the "lot more" I could do by throwing an additional 750$, except playing the recent games for the next 3 months ?
Not anymore. Except if you are making full hd video editing or 3d movies it is very likely that any good computer from 4 years ago will be fast enough for *everything* but gaming.
I own a 3 years old 1000$ gaming rig (nvidia 6800GT, 2Gb, AMD Single Core,...) - this machine is overkill for home usage even using Vista, even playing full HD H264 video,
In my case, I cut the losses - I bought a less powerfull but *silent* mac mini and said bye bye to gaming on pc
"In ten years, efficient programming won't be difficult, it will be impossible"
...
I guess you are talking about local desktop programming. Because in enterprisy development, multiprocesses or multithreads programming on server with more than 4 CPU is the most common environment since the mainframe times.
Experienced developers have been used to deal with complex parallel problems. The basic experience that most slashdotter should be familiar with is forking a process to deal a socket connection in plain C.
So the difference is that youngling start to be interested because their open source whatever-clone project is not running faster on their QuadCore proc or because they start getting weird bugs out of nowhere. Don't get me wrong, that's a good thing ! The younger generation of developers will have first hand experience with multithreading issues and "feel" the value of forking vs multithread, singleton vs instance, framework or language that hides the plumbing,
"The only other things that can be taken from Joe Sixpack are his resources; CPU and bandwidth."
... In the late 90's, if Joe sixpack spent 1 day online, the local script kiddies would nuke his win95 (winnuke), trash his disk(virus of the day), or make fun of the user while he is using it (backorifice)
You get that right ! Internet is 'perceived' safer because almost no recent virus/trojan/whatever format your disks
Today, you will get a few mostly inefficient keyloggers (they are almost always targeted at US citizen), and be enrolled in a botnet. Most user have also broadband, a mostly stable OS and machine so uber powerful compared to what they need to check their mail that they will likely never realise their machine is compromised.
Also Internet is no more the scary strange place. It has entered the living room: who still think that a company is cutting edge because it puts its url in its ads?
So why would they feel insecure ?
Luckily for him, he didn't write banzai anywhere in his profile.
Otherwise he would have shipped straight to guantanamo resort with all that evidence he is a suicide bomber.
To really hurt them ?
A spammer with good taste that use his botnet for a day or two to whois some random GUID.com
That would do what hundred of million requests a day ?
If that study is right that means they will soon reboot the matrix and we will all restart from scratch again. ...
Great, when I was just about to buy my house
On another topic, is that another trick from the Intelligent Design crowd ?
I guess that we now know for sure 1 of the features of the new firmware 1.1.3.
Compatibility with 2008 !
"Copyright infringement is a DIFFERENT THING."
Indeed with stealing you can get away with a mild sentence or some community service when caught. Copyright infringement, on the other hand, will probably put you in debt for the rest of your life.
Your numbers are 7 years old, a long long time ago in the mobile world. Now I think that it is closer to 60% - 220 million mobiles
However, in market penetration term, it is pathetic compared to europe. A lot of European countries have above or close to 100% market penetration ( i.e. more than 1 mobile per inhabitant )
See the numbers here: http://www.cellular-news.com/story/21065.php
That said, even with a shitty market penetration, the US is one the biggest market for mobile phone in the world with China ( 400 millions subscribers )
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As you say your competitor has a direct financial interest to pirate. But because he is making profit, even if he needs to pay 10,000$ for 150,000 songs, that's still a bargain for him and still give him an edge against you.
RIAA's job should be to sue your competitor, that's what it is meant to do. Losing time and money suing single mom or services essentially used by joe student should make you angry more than anything else. ( especially I think karaoke tracks are not the usual mp3 - so probably your competitor used more traditional methods like CD/DVD ripping )
I stopped to pirate long ago. The result is that I've become almost completely unaware of the 'music' world. The only result is that I stopped buying music ( still listen my old CD though ) and the last place I would think to go is a karaoke.
Limiting access of your customer to music is not a good idea ( regardless how legally they get their music ) - imagine running your business if your customers never heard any of your songs
However, making sure all for-profit companies complies with the law IS what you should really hope for.
"only to eventually discover (through technical support or a KB article) that there's a command-line fix that isn't documented anywhere"
:-) As a developer, I also spent a fair amount of time in the (archaic) command prompt. I had to use some of those mysterious fixes that were (god knows why) never rolled out in a patch or SP.
If you find it in the KB, that means it is documented at the place where it should be documented
Well - was just nitpicking
"The BBC is funded by the UK TV licencing fee, & has therefore already been paid for by every Windows, Mac, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc. user in the UK with a TV licence"
Just some complementary information here. You pay for a TV License *only* if you have a way to view BBC channels. Currently that means that you have a TV or TVCard for your computer.
So if a Linux user has a TV License, somehow, he is already capable of receiving the broadcast programs ( i.e. he has a TV )
The main difference between now and before, is that Windows users WITH a TV License will be able to access BBC Content using an *additional* medium for no extra-charge.
Other operating system users will still have the traditional methods to access the content.
30-60 character of instruction is probably ok.
//... //...
//... //...
Unfortunatly the code mostly contains spaces and new languages favor descriptive names (i.e. longer) and are quite verbose.
Look, the log.debug() in the following *very basic* example is already breaking the 80 char limit.
public class something {
public synchronized void initialize(Configuration configuration) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug("Initialisation with Configuration '" + configuration + "'");
}
}
}
It should be broken into something like this:
public class something {
public synchronized void initialize(Configuration configuration) {
if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
log.debug( "Initialisation with Configuration '"
+ configuration + "'");
}
}
}
So we are swapping a readibility problem because line are too long into a readibility problem because a simple line of code need to be broken into several chunk that are difficult to read or at the very least mutliple the size of the code
1 million pound is an average lifetime salary ...
If cellphone is so important, just stick with a friend that has a mobile phone. He will tell you everything you need to know. You have time after all, you don't need to work.
Also you are not banned from internet or other modern method of communication: just invest in a laptop and keep in range of a free wifi hotspot and use IM.
Difficult to get rid of human nature.
So instead man created Companies and Ultra Liberalism.
So he can fool his brain behind "The System" and still enjoy altruism when giving money to some orphan in Africa.
NeoOffice is based on OpenOffice ... but more Mac-looking and Mac-friendly
see http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
At least that help to demonstrate that a CEO only need to know how to make a keynote. Technical knowledge, experience, ... : that's only required for low salary workers.
"Google schools MS again"
Yeah, Google is much more efficient than MS in detecting and buying evil companies.
After seeing what MS has done in the past, I wonder why people are so happy to see another giant outwitting MS in its own game.
Oh, I almost forgot, Google, unlike Microsoft will not use the evil tactics of DoubleClick and they fight underground for human rights in China.
I don't want to say that **AA is right, because they are not. They managed to corrupt the system to create law that serve their selfish interests. And that's bad.
However you cannot do justice yourself. The logic "there is no proof I hurt them so that I should not be punished" sucks. If I want to marry 2 women, I still need to move abroad. If I sneak the law because I think it is unfair and even if I'm hurting nobody, I still go in jail.
US has a problem, it seems to have forgotten the meaning of the word 'corruption' and think companies dumping cash on politician do that by pure altruism.
There is no "evil" from a earth point of view. From a human being point of view however that's another matter.
- There could be change in habitable area, resulting in necessary population displacement and probably a lot of dead.
- There could be change in local climate resulting in variation of vegetation and animal meaning there will be famine. That means there will also be migration of diseases and parasites. For example, tropical diseases in the UK.
- Last time there was such a big warming there was also a massive extinction of animal(see TFA): the time evolution does its job and repopulate earth. Unfortunately human being will have to live in the meanwhile. ( For example in Europe, a lot of plant relies on the frost to clear the parasites. Without frost, that means the ecosystem will change a lot )
That enough to say that in case of real climate change humanity will enter a chaotic period with a lot of death and misery. Even the US and Europe will be impacted since they rely a lot on the poorest nations - and chaos is not good for business anyway.
That said, sure maybe a better humanity will emerge but I would rather live in the current one without a SUV.
Well, with the current trend in US laws and policies, a lot of people already consider the US as a prison by itself. ( Still a very comfortable prison )
When I was at University, going to the States was seen as one of the most cool experience anybody could wish for. That was the place to be. Now, none of my friends consider going there, while at the same time they would consider going to Hong Kong, Dubai or even China in the future ( yes I know that's completely irrational today but they have the feeling that US is getting worse while they feel other countries like China are opening up and getting better)