Most bands I know only sold their CDs when they perform until very recently when they could start putting their music on iTunes. The majority of their money came from the gig.
I know a guy like this. He's a very talented musician that can play the guitar like no one else I've seen, plus many other instruments. But he has no desire to go the way of the unstable income of a starving artist, so he works as an EE Tech and does shows on weekends.
I see no indication that this software is at all up to the task for the needs of a large employer with well over 1000 employees, most with direct deposit, some with multiple accounts, and most with both 401a and 403b contributions that might be changed from day to day by the employee. The system requirements that they spec would be laughable for the volume of transactions that you could expect on a large university's payroll system.
It is impossible to know if any sales were actually lost or even gained for that matter. It just depends on who downloaded the content. Demanding damages for infringement is fair. The real problem here is that the damages being sought are an outright violation of due process. It is in no way reasonable to suggest that $80,000 were lost per song. It's not even reasonable to suggest that $1000 were lost per song. Depending on the situation and how many times she did upload the song, $100/file MIGHT be reasonable. That would indicate that she uploaded each song to a bare minimum of 100 people.
Depends on the scope of the project. In this case, it sounds like poor project planning resulted in inadequate investigation or documentation of requirements. So the initial fix which was probably a huge effort for a very large employer to have tailored to their needs, deployed, validated, and then integrated without hiccups. I don't know if $28.4 million was unreasonable to the situation, but don't underestimate the cost of deploying a highly secure, stable, expandable, and usable system without interruption. Not to mention the cost of training payroll employees and IT on the new system. This isn't just a simple upgrade. This is a complete overhaul that is probably expected to last for decades.
Have you ever tried to make a living by driving around the country doing shows? It is, after a short time, soul sucking and demeaning. But that is the only way even a great artist with fairly broad appeal can make a living in this day and age, because of morons like you.
Since when have musicians EVER made any significant living off of derivative works OTHER than performing live? Mozart did it, Elvis did it, Metallica did it. Artists have never been able to make a substantial income from record (or sheet music) sales. It wasn't until Beethoven that the idea of making money off of copies of musical works even really took off.
Running good code reviews are like running any good meeting. It's difficult and often requires special skills that most people just don't have. Keeping people on track and on topic is difficult. Especially with us technical types.
I think this needs to be done with great care. Suggestions can always be made, but if you halt progress to fix some code that works reliably for the sake of cleanliness, you can quickly get bogged down in word-smithing that adds little value. Findings in code reviews need to be prioritized. If it works but is written a bit ugly, make a note of it. If it works but has unacceptable holes in it, put it on a moderate priority. If it does not do what is intended at all, put it at the top of the list. And so on.
This is the most reasoned response. I would think that, like validation, code review activities should be appropriate to the level of risk involved. I also believe that good reviews, be it design, code, or documentation, should be kept on the topic of acceptability, not perfection. Code can very easily suffer from the word-smithing problem. If you start talking about a problem in code that really does not have a significant impact on quality, it's time to move to the next item. This is easier said than done however.
MS should be required to include a PCI and PCI Express card with Windows that provides a radioactive decay driven random number generator. These cards should be produced by random suppliers selected by the EU.
Alphabetical order creates an unfair advantage for products starting with the letter A. They should randomize the order each time the list is displayed.
Clearly what MS should do to appease the EC is bundle every copy of Windows with IE, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Netscape, SeaMonkey, K-Meleon, Amaya, Maxthon, Flock, Slim, KidRocket, PhaseOut, Crazy Browser, Smart Bro, ShenzBrowser, JonDoFox, Avant, xB, Sleipnir, spacetime, Browser3D, 3B Room, Bitty, Grail, Lynx, and Happy Browser. Clearly this will improve Windows performance and usability for the average consumer.
My biggest problem with Blu-ray is that there's a huge entry cost and the return is little to none. Most of the movies in my collection were never filmed in high definition, so the quality improvements in switching to Blu-ray would be minimal. To get those minimal improvements, I need an HD TV, a Blu-ray player, and then I need to pay the exorbitant extra cost for Blu-ray media. I can understand why the entertainment industry doesn't understand this though. They still have not figured out that originality and quality of story are far more important than special effects and rehashed garbage if they want people to continue to legitimately purchase their product.
In many cases, the only way to fight the good fight is through jury nullification, which would either be overturned by the judge on the spot or would be overturned in an appeal. Your only hope here is to go deep underground if you're doing this shit.
With two years of study, what can you honestly say that you know about astrophysics? After 2 years, you have received a foundation for upper level mathematics, a foundation for upper level physics, and a foundation for upper level chemistry. These are all well and good, but until you build on the foundation, you don't really know much, nor are you really able to apply what you have learned in a significantly meaningful way. To say you have a degree in Astrophysics suggests that you have had significant breadth and depth of education specifically in the field of astrophysics. This simply is not reasonably possible with an AA degree.
There's nothing wrong with community college. However, I think there's something severely deceitful about having an associates degree of liberal arts in a hard science.
To everyone in my former year level, I was 'the nerd who got promoted', and to the people in my new year level, I was 'that kid'.
Is that what you think you missed out on? The social skills I learned in high school were absolutely worthless beyond high school. The absurd notions of popularity and "fitting in" that exist in high school social environments amount to nothing in terms of success beyond it. The social skills that I learned in my final year of college and beyond have been far more conducive to achieving a fulfilling life. I recommend to any parents with smart kids, get them the hell out of high school so that they can move on with their lives.
An auditor should always demand requirements documentation from the customer before certifying anything. If there are no requirements, then what are you certifying against? If an auditor has requirements, and blatantly failed to verify or validate all of them, that's negligence.
Actually, my parents did drug me on school days. I certainly don't hold it against them. They were doing what all of the school officials, doctors, and politicians were saying was in my best interest. Indeed, the alternative was that I would have at a minimum been required to repeat Kindergarten and would probably have failed miserably in school. Schools today are still rarely equipped to keep students with ADD properly stimulated and engaged. When do try to address the issue, it usually falls into the special education category that lumps them in with the slow learning students, which really just aggravates the problem. Due to this poor setup, I believe that I could not have made it where I am today without the assistance of amphetamines, and I would never change the past on that choice. I am however paying a small price in terms of what I believe were slight permanent alterations of my autonomic system as a result. To new parents today, if you can afford it, I would highly suggest looking into schools that are fast paced enough to keep your kids stimulated and interested. ADD is aggravated by a lack of stimulation, not by an excess of it (which is why amphetamines work to treat it).
My guess is that she's 5 or 6, since the poster mentions that it only took 2 days for the school to lose his kid. By age 10, it's fair to demand that your child phone home or leave a note. It's also only fair to expect that they'll forget. Kids don't often learn responsibility if there isn't a combination of a carrot and a stick (I'm not suggesting beating your child with a stick mind you).
I think we just have not learned to comprehend statistics. Every high school education should take a fair chunk of time to dive into statistics, enough to understand a few key points. Statistical methods that use too many subjective parameters are bunk, and so are their results. The impact of false positives on accuracy. Correlation and causal relationships. Just to name a few.
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Most bands I know only sold their CDs when they perform until very recently when they could start putting their music on iTunes. The majority of their money came from the gig.
I know a guy like this. He's a very talented musician that can play the guitar like no one else I've seen, plus many other instruments. But he has no desire to go the way of the unstable income of a starving artist, so he works as an EE Tech and does shows on weekends.
I see no indication that this software is at all up to the task for the needs of a large employer with well over 1000 employees, most with direct deposit, some with multiple accounts, and most with both 401a and 403b contributions that might be changed from day to day by the employee. The system requirements that they spec would be laughable for the volume of transactions that you could expect on a large university's payroll system.
It is impossible to know if any sales were actually lost or even gained for that matter. It just depends on who downloaded the content. Demanding damages for infringement is fair. The real problem here is that the damages being sought are an outright violation of due process. It is in no way reasonable to suggest that $80,000 were lost per song. It's not even reasonable to suggest that $1000 were lost per song. Depending on the situation and how many times she did upload the song, $100/file MIGHT be reasonable. That would indicate that she uploaded each song to a bare minimum of 100 people.
Depends on the scope of the project. In this case, it sounds like poor project planning resulted in inadequate investigation or documentation of requirements. So the initial fix which was probably a huge effort for a very large employer to have tailored to their needs, deployed, validated, and then integrated without hiccups. I don't know if $28.4 million was unreasonable to the situation, but don't underestimate the cost of deploying a highly secure, stable, expandable, and usable system without interruption. Not to mention the cost of training payroll employees and IT on the new system. This isn't just a simple upgrade. This is a complete overhaul that is probably expected to last for decades.
Have you ever tried to make a living by driving around the country doing shows? It is, after a short time, soul sucking and demeaning. But that is the only way even a great artist with fairly broad appeal can make a living in this day and age, because of morons like you.
Since when have musicians EVER made any significant living off of derivative works OTHER than performing live? Mozart did it, Elvis did it, Metallica did it. Artists have never been able to make a substantial income from record (or sheet music) sales. It wasn't until Beethoven that the idea of making money off of copies of musical works even really took off.
Running good code reviews are like running any good meeting. It's difficult and often requires special skills that most people just don't have. Keeping people on track and on topic is difficult. Especially with us technical types.
I think this needs to be done with great care. Suggestions can always be made, but if you halt progress to fix some code that works reliably for the sake of cleanliness, you can quickly get bogged down in word-smithing that adds little value. Findings in code reviews need to be prioritized. If it works but is written a bit ugly, make a note of it. If it works but has unacceptable holes in it, put it on a moderate priority. If it does not do what is intended at all, put it at the top of the list. And so on.
This is the most reasoned response. I would think that, like validation, code review activities should be appropriate to the level of risk involved. I also believe that good reviews, be it design, code, or documentation, should be kept on the topic of acceptability, not perfection. Code can very easily suffer from the word-smithing problem. If you start talking about a problem in code that really does not have a significant impact on quality, it's time to move to the next item. This is easier said than done however.
MS should be required to include a PCI and PCI Express card with Windows that provides a radioactive decay driven random number generator. These cards should be produced by random suppliers selected by the EU.
Alphabetical order creates an unfair advantage for products starting with the letter A. They should randomize the order each time the list is displayed.
Clearly what MS should do to appease the EC is bundle every copy of Windows with IE, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Netscape, SeaMonkey, K-Meleon, Amaya, Maxthon, Flock, Slim, KidRocket, PhaseOut, Crazy Browser, Smart Bro, ShenzBrowser, JonDoFox, Avant, xB, Sleipnir, spacetime, Browser3D, 3B Room, Bitty, Grail, Lynx, and Happy Browser. Clearly this will improve Windows performance and usability for the average consumer.
How do they intend to get the image to my eye balls, by beaning it directly into my brain?
Rest at east knowing their engineers and scientists are working on this very problem.
My biggest problem with Blu-ray is that there's a huge entry cost and the return is little to none. Most of the movies in my collection were never filmed in high definition, so the quality improvements in switching to Blu-ray would be minimal. To get those minimal improvements, I need an HD TV, a Blu-ray player, and then I need to pay the exorbitant extra cost for Blu-ray media. I can understand why the entertainment industry doesn't understand this though. They still have not figured out that originality and quality of story are far more important than special effects and rehashed garbage if they want people to continue to legitimately purchase their product.
In many cases, the only way to fight the good fight is through jury nullification, which would either be overturned by the judge on the spot or would be overturned in an appeal. Your only hope here is to go deep underground if you're doing this shit.
This is why our national debt is so bad. Let's not forget the freeloaders Mexico and Canada who steal our air when it blows into their country.
With two years of study, what can you honestly say that you know about astrophysics? After 2 years, you have received a foundation for upper level mathematics, a foundation for upper level physics, and a foundation for upper level chemistry. These are all well and good, but until you build on the foundation, you don't really know much, nor are you really able to apply what you have learned in a significantly meaningful way. To say you have a degree in Astrophysics suggests that you have had significant breadth and depth of education specifically in the field of astrophysics. This simply is not reasonably possible with an AA degree.
you want him to starve through college like the rest of us?
I always thought that was an intentional trial for you to qualify for a degree.
There's nothing wrong with community college. However, I think there's something severely deceitful about having an associates degree of liberal arts in a hard science.
To everyone in my former year level, I was 'the nerd who got promoted', and to the people in my new year level, I was 'that kid'.
Is that what you think you missed out on? The social skills I learned in high school were absolutely worthless beyond high school. The absurd notions of popularity and "fitting in" that exist in high school social environments amount to nothing in terms of success beyond it. The social skills that I learned in my final year of college and beyond have been far more conducive to achieving a fulfilling life. I recommend to any parents with smart kids, get them the hell out of high school so that they can move on with their lives.
Is the defense attorney pro-bono? Could this just be a tactic by the RIAA to rack up the defense bill?
An auditor should always demand requirements documentation from the customer before certifying anything. If there are no requirements, then what are you certifying against? If an auditor has requirements, and blatantly failed to verify or validate all of them, that's negligence.
Actually, my parents did drug me on school days. I certainly don't hold it against them. They were doing what all of the school officials, doctors, and politicians were saying was in my best interest. Indeed, the alternative was that I would have at a minimum been required to repeat Kindergarten and would probably have failed miserably in school. Schools today are still rarely equipped to keep students with ADD properly stimulated and engaged. When do try to address the issue, it usually falls into the special education category that lumps them in with the slow learning students, which really just aggravates the problem. Due to this poor setup, I believe that I could not have made it where I am today without the assistance of amphetamines, and I would never change the past on that choice. I am however paying a small price in terms of what I believe were slight permanent alterations of my autonomic system as a result. To new parents today, if you can afford it, I would highly suggest looking into schools that are fast paced enough to keep your kids stimulated and interested. ADD is aggravated by a lack of stimulation, not by an excess of it (which is why amphetamines work to treat it).
My guess is that she's 5 or 6, since the poster mentions that it only took 2 days for the school to lose his kid. By age 10, it's fair to demand that your child phone home or leave a note. It's also only fair to expect that they'll forget. Kids don't often learn responsibility if there isn't a combination of a carrot and a stick (I'm not suggesting beating your child with a stick mind you).
I think we just have not learned to comprehend statistics. Every high school education should take a fair chunk of time to dive into statistics, enough to understand a few key points. Statistical methods that use too many subjective parameters are bunk, and so are their results. The impact of false positives on accuracy. Correlation and causal relationships. Just to name a few.