Wow, that's quite radical. I love it! They are not just "founding a committee which might some day gather to speculate about reducing pollution" but instead applying real measures. I'm not sure if this license plate rule is the best way to do it, but it's relatively effective immediately.
They first named it "AbsolutelyFantasticCoin", but then they found that it was mostly just OK, so in name of honesty they renamed it humbly to "OKCoin".
If I was B.G. I would revisit Harvard to complete the degree just for completeness. Bill is a good learner and reads a lot of books anyway, so doing the missing parts of the degree should be a cakewalk.
Pirate groups are known to sometimes work around these issues. In this case they might rip away everything but English and tweak the game to still work. Then they might ship the audio compressed (MP3, for example) and a tool which does the conversion back to RIFF Wave (or whatever the game company is using). During the uncompression, that tool displays some pixel art animation and plays chiptune music, of course.;)
While Bill has a lot of resources to shove on these projects, he is also showing an example of "let's get up and go fix the world". I bet there are even more things to do and fix than the projects on which Gates is working on. It does not always even have to be based on some revolutionary technology or heaps of cash, there are possibilities that just have to be utilized. Let's do it.
You certainly raise a valid concern, but for that, we need arrangements where money is more effectively carried to the actors and musicians. Making a pirated copy ensures that no one gets money, which is the absolutely worst option.
if *I* make a copy, nothing is lost as i was not going to purchase the product the first place. You may think it diminishes the product's value, but it doesn't.
It does diminish it. You already acquired a free copy instead of getting the product through the official distribution chains intended by the creators. It does not matter if you "didn't plan to purchase the product in the first place" or if you don't even listen to the music at all and it's just sitting on your hard drive. When taking the free copy, you acquired the value of the product, but didn't give anything back for it.
Agreed, I hope no one does music just for the money! But they have to get reasonable kind of money as being a musician is often the main job of an artist.
However, I can make a copy of a song and listen to it in an infinite loop all day and as long as I never intended to purchase the song in the first place, I haven't devalued the song in any way.
You consumed the song's value when you listened to it. But before that you didn't pay for it. So you devalued the song.
You got value for listening the music, the artist got no value for making it.
Yeah, well, try to make a song once. It does not have to be a big hit, but you have to make a finished product. Write and sing some lyrics, play some guitar, record it with a computer. I assume that you would find that it's not as trivial as bottling air.
The solution in place was sabotaged and thus stopped working.
That's not true at all. If you follow the thread back up, Dan East said this:
It slightly blows my mind that companies (airlines) would buy a piece of hardware that costs hundreds of millions of dollars, which is incredibly mobile and used to travel thousands of miles at a time, with a huge amount of liability (billions potentially), and not include any kind of built in, always-on, hard-wired tracking device. Especially in this day and age. We're just talking about pinging tiny little packets of positional data every few minutes.
Where do you see a mention there that "a solution in place was sabotaged"?
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Wow, that's quite radical. I love it! They are not just "founding a committee which might some day gather to speculate about reducing pollution" but instead applying real measures. I'm not sure if this license plate rule is the best way to do it, but it's relatively effective immediately.
Yep. For truly secure and non-malicious software we need both open source and thorough code audits (à la OpenBSD).
Yes, it could be one solution.
ACPI WMI specs from the HW makers would be nice. It's frustrating how many laptops have broken hotkeys under Linux.
Getting rid of ACPI sounds also like a "good luck with that" plan.
How would this kind of research ever move forward if we did not have the make-up team who makes the cosmologists look good during their speeches.
They first named it "AbsolutelyFantasticCoin", but then they found that it was mostly just OK, so in name of honesty they renamed it humbly to "OKCoin".
If I was B.G. I would revisit Harvard to complete the degree just for completeness. Bill is a good learner and reads a lot of books anyway, so doing the missing parts of the degree should be a cakewalk.
Aaaand the Millennium Technology Prize goes to Anonymous Coward.
What is the problem?
Any citations?
Isn't solving anything?!
And since most onboard solutions are realtek, you get what you pay for. Complete shit.
Complete shit?! May you elaborate? Realtek produces quite damn advanced stuff.
What does "GCD" mean?
Why the odd 1408x792 resolution?
To make it impossible for him to play in full capacity so the joystick player gets an advantage.
Hahaa...
Pirate groups are known to sometimes work around these issues. In this case they might rip away everything but English and tweak the game to still work. Then they might ship the audio compressed (MP3, for example) and a tool which does the conversion back to RIFF Wave (or whatever the game company is using). During the uncompression, that tool displays some pixel art animation and plays chiptune music, of course. ;)
While Bill has a lot of resources to shove on these projects, he is also showing an example of "let's get up and go fix the world". I bet there are even more things to do and fix than the projects on which Gates is working on. It does not always even have to be based on some revolutionary technology or heaps of cash, there are possibilities that just have to be utilized. Let's do it.
You certainly raise a valid concern, but for that, we need arrangements where money is more effectively carried to the actors and musicians. Making a pirated copy ensures that no one gets money, which is the absolutely worst option.
if *I* make a copy, nothing is lost as i was not going to purchase the product the first place. You may think it diminishes the product's value, but it doesn't.
It does diminish it. You already acquired a free copy instead of getting the product through the official distribution chains intended by the creators. It does not matter if you "didn't plan to purchase the product in the first place" or if you don't even listen to the music at all and it's just sitting on your hard drive. When taking the free copy, you acquired the value of the product, but didn't give anything back for it.
Agreed, I hope no one does music just for the money! But they have to get reasonable kind of money as being a musician is often the main job of an artist.
However, I can make a copy of a song and listen to it in an infinite loop all day and as long as I never intended to purchase the song in the first place, I haven't devalued the song in any way.
You consumed the song's value when you listened to it. But before that you didn't pay for it. So you devalued the song.
You got value for listening the music, the artist got no value for making it.
Should commercial software also be distributed freely?
Yeah, well, try to make a song once. It does not have to be a big hit, but you have to make a finished product. Write and sing some lyrics, play some guitar, record it with a computer. I assume that you would find that it's not as trivial as bottling air.
The solution in place was sabotaged and thus stopped working.
That's not true at all. If you follow the thread back up, Dan East said this:
It slightly blows my mind that companies (airlines) would buy a piece of hardware that costs hundreds of millions of dollars, which is incredibly mobile and used to travel thousands of miles at a time, with a huge amount of liability (billions potentially), and not include any kind of built in, always-on, hard-wired tracking device. Especially in this day and age. We're just talking about pinging tiny little packets of positional data every few minutes.
Where do you see a mention there that "a solution in place was sabotaged"?