... and out of those 35 mln Brits they pulled a group of 10 people. 3 of them said "sure, I bought some music". One of them was asleep at the time of questioning, so they counted him as half. The result: 35% of people buy music.
Seriously: That's what I've been saying in parent post: they get some shitty, non-representative data and try to generalise based on that. It's not only non-representative - it seems to favor "legal" music - UK is generally rich and it has long traditions in music (which probably co-relates with people being more willing to purchase recordings), etc., etc.
I've heard that those researchers are going to Nigeria to prove that 95% of the World's population is black.
Actually "legal downloaders", not "legal downloads".
I just hate when people quote statistical data and have no clue about what they're doing. They usually re-interpret the data and reproduce the information that's either incomplete or false. False this time... 35% of people download music and it's kinda stupid to write that it relates somehow strictly to the number of downloads.
On average I probably buy around one bar of candy a week. If it was free (that's what pirated music is about, right?), I bet I'd eat more.
Sorry if it seems unimportant, I just kinda get pissed when negligence leads to misinformation.
I don't even know how to reply to this "China is a sovereign nation. China is fully within her rights to say what her citizens are allowed to say on line and what they're not." crap, because a correct arguments would be just very trivial. What you're saying is basically "a bunch of powerful guys have a right to shut or kill anyone they want to".
I couldn't care less.
I wish you will not find yourself in a position where you'd really care about others giving a fuck about your rights to speak/do what you want/live/practice religion, etc.. Either grow up (if you're young and don't have a clue) or... I don't know, if you're a (already ethically formed) adult, then you're pretty much fucked up. Or... you just wanted to make a joke/start a flame. Can't say I'm impressed.
Personally I think that while some of the stuff is interesting, most of it is made up rather to confuse SEOs (google doesn't quite like them, you know that, right?). Before that, they had couple factors to think about and work on. Now, there's a shitload of stuff that just makes their work harder. Also, more factors influencing SERPS means it's much, much harder to make a trial-an-error research on what works well and what doesn't.
I'm a big fan of Simpsons (meaning I love to watch them, I don't harass Homer nor any other member of his family) and right after seeing the last available episode I felt an urge to find some other cartoon.
Some of my friends said Family Guy is way funnier. I got first 3 seasons... funny at the begining, but it gets boring and it's obvious to me they duplicated A LOT of ideas and concepts from The Simpsons (I hope it's not the same team:) ). Starting with the general setup (lower class family, father, mother, boy, girl and a baby), through traits (gambling problem of the mother), to some actual episode themes/jokes/etc. Didn't like it.
Then I got Futurama. Very funny in the begining (first episode's great), but later on they just repeat same stuff over and over. And characters are sooo flat.
I'm starting to believe we won't see any good cartoons after The S:(
I think they cripple students by giving them calculators during important tests. Let them use it during classes (for performance reasons), but make sure they can multiply, divide, add, substract on paper or "in head" (sorry, I don't know proper English term). The only way to make sure is to require those skills at some important step (a final exam being a good example). You can't do those simple things - you fail.
And I don't accept that "you don't need to be able to count, you have calculators" crappy argument. It trains your brain and you don't always have a calculator nearby.
I used to have a strict math teacher in high school. He would call your name, gave you a simple calculating task and count to 3 (which took like 6 seconds).
-- Mateusz. Come to the blackboard
-- Square root from 5329
-- One...
-- Two...
-- err... -- Three. 73. You failed. F
I bet most kids nowdays would say it's impossible to count it. I got shitloads of F's this way but I'm incredibly glad. Don't have to click KDE_thingy --> Utilities --> Calculator all the time or panick when I'm outdoors and need to calculate something.
I used to use Password Safe for couple years under Windows. I haven't looked for anything similar for Linux (I converted 3 months ago), but they mention some related linux projects on the website. Anyways, Password Safe is free (OS) and worked very well for me. One master password is needed to unlock database.
Once stolen copy may be identified at some point in the future, it's riskier for thieves and buyers to get involved. More risk, same money/fun --> folks are less interested in . Unless the price goes up, of course.
unfortunately, the project is finished and can't be improved in any way because it already completely fulfills all of it goals.
sincerely,
project leader
Every distro I've tried had tones of stuff bundled with it. How should this be considered? Same as IE/WMP in Windows? Hopefully not... here are my two reasons:
1. Any other OS does not have a monopoly - different rules apply (or, to be precise - antimonopolistic rules don't apply).
2. All that extra stuff in Linux is not integrated with OS (for example AFAIR you can't uninstall IE).
What do you think? Has this problem been mentioned/discussed somewhere?
Now, I think that we don't want to be unjust and count all those pages about specific kind of apples, so I googled Macintosh -apples (plural, so it won't ommit Apple company). macintosh -apples
# of results: 56,300,000
156M vs 56M. Google thinks Mac is at most a third option (BSD fans - now's your turn).
Seriously now... I'm from Poland and I don't have a single friend that uses Mac.
Not nicer for everybody... hopefully this will change soon, but currently ads give me 100% of my income (they're on a site with tones of free and original information... don't I deserve to get something out of it?). Ad blocking is not a very neat idea.
AFAIR Opera asks you what to do with middle click after you use it for the first time. Actually, I remember setting this many times before, but I have fresh Opera 8 install (fresh OS installed) and I think it didn't ask me... so from 8.0 it's set as default and you can change it...
I really wish that MS is going to copy not only usability features, but also the level of standard compliance (sorry if spelling's not all right) from its competitors. Would be nice, if they did nothing about security, though (after all, most of us don't want people using it...).
Yeah, in high school I spent a year in U.S. (1996/97). People constantly kept asking me if Poland is the same thing as Iceland (and neat stuff like "do you use cutlery over there?"). Even smart ones...
Getting further off-topic: I had a class couple of years ago, called "Which Europe and What Kind of Europe" and we had a long discussion on what is Europe and what's not... only geographic borders are clear - if you look at it from a different angle (political, cultural, etc.), you never can tell precisely. Two examples: inhabitants of some Pacific island (sorry, can't remember) are getting European Union passports; Israel plays in European Championships (soccer). But talking about Poland being non-European country (while it's "the most" central European) sure is funny.
Getting back to the topic. My neighbor has just came to copy some SCSI drivers, because he was re-installing Windows. He left my flat with no drivers and Ubuntu Live in his pocket:D
1. With 40k salary, $100 is still important. On the dark side: Lukas shits money (not sure if it's correct English), $xM is less for him then $50 for me.
2. I don't recall anybody but my friends/family worrying after I got robbed/stolen from (it happened few times... even after I got kicked multiple times in the head they told me to wait patiently at the hospital for several hours before any doctor spoke to me). Why in the world would we give a shit about people that aren't even "neutral strangers", but people we honestly dislike (MPAA)? I didn't go outdoors to find that guy and smash his head. And that's exactly what MPAA and other fatties are doing. Here's one recent example. They do a lot of nasty things, which are immoral to people that are far less strict than I am.
3. Stealing $100 from me means I'm losing $100. Downloading illegal movies means they are not getting extra $xx. Little difference, but still, a difference.
4. I personally believe that it's morally worse (yes, I'm a relativist) to be a fat guy that chases little ones than to be a little guy and steal intellectual property from fat guys.
In early nineties, SCO bought a "license" to UNIX from Novel. Ever since Linux got big, they started demanding money from companies that had anything to do with Linux (AFAIR at least one huge hosting company settled to pay couple million dollars).
In general, everybody but MS (trouble for linux = they're happy) thinks it's a bunch of crap. Novel even states that SCO doesn't own UNIX copyrights...
I'm from Poland. Let's say I've seen 50 private computers over the last few years (friends, family, etc). Vast majority is Win-based. One friend has legally purchased Win XP ("my dad wanted to buy it, I didn't oppose) and tones of pirated stuff.
Several of them have laptops that came bundled with (legal) Windows.
Average salary in Poland is ~500 Euro (~666 dolars) per month. Fresh university graduates usually earn around 250 Euro. MS Office costs ~250 Euros,
Photoshop costs... I don't know, 600 Euro? And so on, and so on. People need that stuff - everybody gets pirated soft, otherwise they would have to spend their entire earnings on software or... turn to open source if the law was enforced.
Piracy helps software companies - that's a common wisdom that everybody knows. Those young people that use illegal stuff eventually get older, start earning better money, buy legal stuff.
If the law was properly enforced, people would move their asses to open source and discover that it ain't bad. I bet all those evil monsters would be very happy.
Worldwide revenue loss due to software piracy was estimated at $33 billion for 2004 with about 1/3 of the software used being illegal.
Given every illegal copy would be purchased... which obviously wouldn't. I can't imagine any of those 50 people I mentioned suddenly found even 200 Euro to pay for anything. Seriously.
But within five years, that number could boom to two-thirds, with the value of pirated software nearing US$200 billion.
What a bunch of crap. "Come on, governments, protect Microsoft and other nice companies from the 33% of world population, which is pure evil and will turn 33% of other people into beasts. Oh, and please nuke Zambia in Vietnam. More and more people get cheap computers over there, but they don't want to spend 200% of their salaries on our divine technology. And while you're listening to us, we'd like to support big pharmacy companies that sued African governments for buying generic anti-AIDS drugs. We strongly believe those little black beggers should die if they can't pay for legal, but 10x more expensive equivalents."
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... and out of those 35 mln Brits they pulled a group of 10 people. 3 of them said "sure, I bought some music". One of them was asleep at the time of questioning, so they counted him as half. The result: 35% of people buy music.
Seriously: That's what I've been saying in parent post: they get some shitty, non-representative data and try to generalise based on that. It's not only non-representative - it seems to favor "legal" music - UK is generally rich and it has long traditions in music (which probably co-relates with people being more willing to purchase recordings), etc., etc.
I've heard that those researchers are going to Nigeria to prove that 95% of the World's population is black.
Actually "legal downloaders", not "legal downloads".
I just hate when people quote statistical data and have no clue about what they're doing. They usually re-interpret the data and reproduce the information that's either incomplete or false. False this time... 35% of people download music and it's kinda stupid to write that it relates somehow strictly to the number of downloads.
On average I probably buy around one bar of candy a week. If it was free (that's what pirated music is about, right?), I bet I'd eat more.
Sorry if it seems unimportant, I just kinda get pissed when negligence leads to misinformation.
I don't even know how to reply to this "China is a sovereign nation. China is fully within her rights to say what her citizens are allowed to say on line and what they're not." crap, because a correct arguments would be just very trivial. What you're saying is basically "a bunch of powerful guys have a right to shut or kill anyone they want to".
I couldn't care less.
I wish you will not find yourself in a position where you'd really care about others giving a fuck about your rights to speak/do what you want/live/practice religion, etc.. Either grow up (if you're young and don't have a clue) or... I don't know, if you're a (already ethically formed) adult, then you're pretty much fucked up. Or... you just wanted to make a joke/start a flame. Can't say I'm impressed.
The story is so old I can't believe it made it to slashdot.
Some more on info the subject:
1. U.S. Patent Application - it's best to read what's exactly been patented.
2. interesting discussion on webmasterworld
Personally I think that while some of the stuff is interesting, most of it is made up rather to confuse SEOs (google doesn't quite like them, you know that, right?). Before that, they had couple factors to think about and work on. Now, there's a shitload of stuff that just makes their work harder. Also, more factors influencing SERPS means it's much, much harder to make a trial-an-error research on what works well and what doesn't.
This site is great! Thanks a lot, mate!
You don't watch enough TV. Terrorists, just like aliens, always speak English to themselves.
I had a feeling that my correspondence wasn't invigilated enough.
I'm a big fan of Simpsons (meaning I love to watch them, I don't harass Homer nor any other member of his family) and right after seeing the last available episode I felt an urge to find some other cartoon. Some of my friends said Family Guy is way funnier. I got first 3 seasons... funny at the begining, but it gets boring and it's obvious to me they duplicated A LOT of ideas and concepts from The Simpsons (I hope it's not the same team :) ). Starting with the general setup (lower class family, father, mother, boy, girl and a baby), through traits (gambling problem of the mother), to some actual episode themes/jokes/etc. Didn't like it.
:(
Then I got Futurama. Very funny in the begining (first episode's great), but later on they just repeat same stuff over and over. And characters are sooo flat.
I'm starting to believe we won't see any good cartoons after The S
I think they cripple students by giving them calculators during important tests. Let them use it during classes (for performance reasons), but make sure they can multiply, divide, add, substract on paper or "in head" (sorry, I don't know proper English term). The only way to make sure is to require those skills at some important step (a final exam being a good example). You can't do those simple things - you fail.
And I don't accept that "you don't need to be able to count, you have calculators" crappy argument. It trains your brain and you don't always have a calculator nearby.
I used to have a strict math teacher in high school. He would call your name, gave you a simple calculating task and count to 3 (which took like 6 seconds).
-- Mateusz. Come to the blackboard
-- Square root from 5329
-- One...
-- Two...
-- err...
-- Three. 73. You failed. F
I bet most kids nowdays would say it's impossible to count it. I got shitloads of F's this way but I'm incredibly glad. Don't have to click KDE_thingy --> Utilities --> Calculator all the time or panick when I'm outdoors and need to calculate something.
sorry, I messed up the link, here's a correct one:
Password Safe
I used to use Password Safe for couple years under Windows. I haven't looked for anything similar for Linux (I converted 3 months ago), but they mention some related linux projects on the website. Anyways, Password Safe is free (OS) and worked very well for me. One master password is needed to unlock database.
Once stolen copy may be identified at some point in the future, it's riskier for thieves and buyers to get involved. More risk, same money/fun --> folks are less interested in . Unless the price goes up, of course.
I meant it may not be done better. It can be modified at will.
unfortunately, the project is finished and can't be improved in any way because it already completely fulfills all of it goals. sincerely, project leader
Cool, now I have the reason to release my echo 'Hello World'; script under GPL.
Every distro I've tried had tones of stuff bundled with it. How should this be considered? Same as IE/WMP in Windows? Hopefully not... here are my two reasons:
1. Any other OS does not have a monopoly - different rules apply (or, to be precise - antimonopolistic rules don't apply).
2. All that extra stuff in Linux is not integrated with OS (for example AFAIR you can't uninstall IE).
What do you think? Has this problem been mentioned/discussed somewhere?
Grab anyone off the street, and 10x more people will know what 'Macintosh' is as opposed to 'Linux'
I asked google what it thinks about it:
linux
# of results: 158,000,000.
macintosh
# of results: 67,400,000
Now, I think that we don't want to be unjust and count all those pages about specific kind of apples, so I googled Macintosh -apples (plural, so it won't ommit Apple company).
macintosh -apples
# of results: 56,300,000
156M vs 56M. Google thinks Mac is at most a third option (BSD fans - now's your turn).
Seriously now... I'm from Poland and I don't have a single friend that uses Mac.
Not nicer for everybody... hopefully this will change soon, but currently ads give me 100% of my income (they're on a site with tones of free and original information... don't I deserve to get something out of it?). Ad blocking is not a very neat idea.
AFAIR Opera asks you what to do with middle click after you use it for the first time. Actually, I remember setting this many times before, but I have fresh Opera 8 install (fresh OS installed) and I think it didn't ask me... so from 8.0 it's set as default and you can change it...
I really wish that MS is going to copy not only usability features, but also the level of standard compliance (sorry if spelling's not all right) from its competitors. Would be nice, if they did nothing about security, though (after all, most of us don't want people using it...).
Yeah, in high school I spent a year in U.S. (1996/97). People constantly kept asking me if Poland is the same thing as Iceland (and neat stuff like "do you use cutlery over there?"). Even smart ones...
:D
Getting further off-topic: I had a class couple of years ago, called "Which Europe and What Kind of Europe" and we had a long discussion on what is Europe and what's not... only geographic borders are clear - if you look at it from a different angle (political, cultural, etc.), you never can tell precisely. Two examples: inhabitants of some Pacific island (sorry, can't remember) are getting European Union passports; Israel plays in European Championships (soccer). But talking about Poland being non-European country (while it's "the most" central European) sure is funny. Getting back to the topic. My neighbor has just came to copy some SCSI drivers, because he was re-installing Windows. He left my flat with no drivers and Ubuntu Live in his pocket
I believe this isn't the first time someone associated with MS has done this. I've heard of a similar incident happening in Europe.
OT: Like it or not, Ukraine is in Europe.
Europe doesn't end neither at German, nor at Polish border...
On topic: I wonder what excuses did they give...
1. With 40k salary, $100 is still important. On the dark side: Lukas shits money (not sure if it's correct English), $xM is less for him then $50 for me.
2. I don't recall anybody but my friends/family worrying after I got robbed/stolen from (it happened few times... even after I got kicked multiple times in the head they told me to wait patiently at the hospital for several hours before any doctor spoke to me). Why in the world would we give a shit about people that aren't even "neutral strangers", but people we honestly dislike (MPAA)? I didn't go outdoors to find that guy and smash his head. And that's exactly what MPAA and other fatties are doing. Here's one recent example. They do a lot of nasty things, which are immoral to people that are far less strict than I am. 3. Stealing $100 from me means I'm losing $100. Downloading illegal movies means they are not getting extra $xx. Little difference, but still, a difference.
4. I personally believe that it's morally worse (yes, I'm a relativist) to be a fat guy that chases little ones than to be a little guy and steal intellectual property from fat guys.
In early nineties, SCO bought a "license" to UNIX from Novel. Ever since Linux got big, they started demanding money from companies that had anything to do with Linux (AFAIR at least one huge hosting company settled to pay couple million dollars).
In general, everybody but MS (trouble for linux = they're happy) thinks it's a bunch of crap. Novel even states that SCO doesn't own UNIX copyrights...
Take a look at http://www.dvorak.org/scotimelinewho'd be happy to piss on their grave? raise your hand.
I'm from Poland. Let's say I've seen 50 private computers over the last few years (friends, family, etc). Vast majority is Win-based. One friend has legally purchased Win XP ("my dad wanted to buy it, I didn't oppose) and tones of pirated stuff.
Several of them have laptops that came bundled with (legal) Windows.
Average salary in Poland is ~500 Euro (~666 dolars) per month. Fresh university graduates usually earn around 250 Euro. MS Office costs ~250 Euros, Photoshop costs... I don't know, 600 Euro? And so on, and so on. People need that stuff - everybody gets pirated soft, otherwise they would have to spend their entire earnings on software or... turn to open source if the law was enforced.
Piracy helps software companies - that's a common wisdom that everybody knows. Those young people that use illegal stuff eventually get older, start earning better money, buy legal stuff.
If the law was properly enforced, people would move their asses to open source and discover that it ain't bad. I bet all those evil monsters would be very happy.
Worldwide revenue loss due to software piracy was estimated at $33 billion for 2004 with about 1/3 of the software used being illegal.
Given every illegal copy would be purchased... which obviously wouldn't. I can't imagine any of those 50 people I mentioned suddenly found even 200 Euro to pay for anything. Seriously.
But within five years, that number could boom to two-thirds, with the value of pirated software nearing US$200 billion.
What a bunch of crap. "Come on, governments, protect Microsoft and other nice companies from the 33% of world population, which is pure evil and will turn 33% of other people into beasts. Oh, and please nuke Zambia in Vietnam. More and more people get cheap computers over there, but they don't want to spend 200% of their salaries on our divine technology. And while you're listening to us, we'd like to support big pharmacy companies that sued African governments for buying generic anti-AIDS drugs. We strongly believe those little black beggers should die if they can't pay for legal, but 10x more expensive equivalents."