No. I think a subscription plus a nominal bandwidth cost (probably around 1 cent per megabyte or less) would be more fair.
With a system like this, the number of each track downloaded can be calculated and the appropriate percentage of the subscription income can be paid as royalties to the artists, while the service makes money from the bandwidth fee and a small part of the subscription. Perhaps the subscription fee level could be mandated by the government or WIPO or something like that, through some sort of compulsory licensing-like scheme.
You may not, but I know people who will pay that much just for the service of having all the mp3s organised and easily downloaded and good quality without the incredible hassle that you'd have to go through with kazaa et al. Me, for a start. Regardless of whether it's legal or not, I'll pay 1 cent per megabyte for a quality mp3 serving service.
And that's what the muppets at the RIAA need to get into their heads. People will pay for service - though they'll only pay a fair price. "copyright legality" is an insubtsantial concept that some people can be fooled into considering wortwhile, but at the end you're buying wind (quite literally in the case of music!). A service, though, is a service, a concrete thing that can't be copied at zero cost.
That's not always true. In the software industry, especially in projects which have not been structured as well as they should be, there always comes a "crunch time" where you just have to put in extra time to get the stuff done before the unrealistic deadline, and make the deadline realistic through your own sweat.
Now, sure, somebody fucked up along the line if you're working a 70+ hour week. But it's not necessarily you. It could be anyone all the way up the chain - you for being inefficient, the project manager for telling his boss that things can get done faster than they really can, his boss for putting too much pressure on the PM or simply being completely out of touch with reality, the boss above that for setting unrealistic targets in terms of how much a project should cost (which is directly correlated to how long it should take), etc...
So sometimes, when somebody above you fucked up majorly, you might find yourself having to do 1.5 days' worth of work every day. And you can do it - just not for extended periods of time. If you find yourself working big overtime for more than 2 months, and that's despite you being very efficient with your work, just get the hell out of the place as fast as possible - there's too many people fucking up around you and it will fuck you up as well eventually, and being at the bottom of the food chain you'll probably get all the blame too.
Yeah lol. I almost spillt my coffee when I read that. Nerdy car? Chick magnet? Which planet do you live on mate? Hahahaha... Best of luck in finding a girl - you'll need it.
Not just that, but the quality of experience counts a lot. Most importantly, "official" experience is not any more valid than coding at home as a hobby. I know some ppl who have many more years of experience than me, and their code stinks. Never seen such badly architected crap.
To work on my team, I'd rather have someone who's been coding as a hobby since they were 10 and is fresh out of uni on a completely different degree than someone who's done a degree in CS and has 5 years of experience in the software industry.
From the article, this isn't going to decrease how many chemicals they use, but increase it. It will mean they can use RoundUp where they couldn't before, to get rid of yellow clumps of grass that slow the ball.
As for golf, at the risk of being modded flamebait, you can shove that golf stick up your ass if "anything that makes it easier to make your tee time is fine with you". How about drenching the field with the blood of human babies? What if that worked?
What I want to know is WHO are these fucking idiots who go and blabber on about how genuine ads make the game more genuine for them? Can someone pinpoint these muppets and maim them into silence for our collective good?
While you're at it, get the dumbasses who buy stuff advertised in spam as well.
Nah. It was a move to get a bite of the outsourcing market, to get a "head-start". Except that they're about 3-4 years late in getting a head start, so it's more like a desperate move to get back in the game. IBM, PwC, Cap Gemini and the like have been left biting the dust after the dot crash when they suddenly noticed that the indian outsourcing companies stole the rug from under their feet in many markets.
Bullshit. If things go wrong once in a long while, then fair enough. Sometimes you have to do some overtime to make it all happen in a crisis. If you have a 2-4 hour/employee crisis every week, you're just an incompetent manager with no planning skills.
Damn, I replied to that but must have forgotten to post it. Look for a documentary called "The Tube" about the effects of the CRT. Also google for research by Herbert Krugman. He was hired by the TV/Advertisement industry to prove that the zombification of TV viewers was caused by the material they chose to watch, rather than the method through which they viewed it (ie content vs medium). The results of his research turned out to be that actually the medium is the cause. In effect, the CRT is an instant hypnosis device that turns you right into alpha brain wave mode (where you're more vulnerable to suggestion), and generally switches off your rational thinking and personality.
To paraphrase something heard in a crummy movie (Jurassic Park in this case), the fascinating thing about life is that it just adapts!...
Sure, it's unlikely that our garden variety bacteria would survive on Europa, but then, how likely is it that life would arise on its own? If you believe in the latter you have to allow the former, which is a lot more likely, statistically...
That does not in any way mean that subliminal things don't work. Just that they don't have the direct effect you seem to be expecting.
Hypnosis and Neuro-linguistic programming work, by affecting the subconscious mind. On most people they won't have effects like in the movies, but suggestion to the subconscious is a powerful and effective tool. Subliminal messages may similarly work, but expecting effects 10 minutes afterwards is like planting an apple seed and wanting apples tomorrow.
Finally, without being paranoid, given how the advertisement industry has squashed research on how the cathodic tube affects people's perceptions of what they see on the screen, I'd be surprised if they haven't squashed this type of research too.
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Just keep cutting until you have only one employee left. You'll be right on average then. Best part is you can pay that last remaining employee the 50th percentile of the market rates, because after all, he's quite average...
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No. I think a subscription plus a nominal bandwidth cost (probably around 1 cent per megabyte or less) would be more fair.
With a system like this, the number of each track downloaded can be calculated and the appropriate percentage of the subscription income can be paid as royalties to the artists, while the service makes money from the bandwidth fee and a small part of the subscription. Perhaps the subscription fee level could be mandated by the government or WIPO or something like that, through some sort of compulsory licensing-like scheme.
Daniel
You may not, but I know people who will pay that much just for the service of having all the mp3s organised and easily downloaded and good quality without the incredible hassle that you'd have to go through with kazaa et al. Me, for a start. Regardless of whether it's legal or not, I'll pay 1 cent per megabyte for a quality mp3 serving service.
And that's what the muppets at the RIAA need to get into their heads. People will pay for service - though they'll only pay a fair price. "copyright legality" is an insubtsantial concept that some people can be fooled into considering wortwhile, but at the end you're buying wind (quite literally in the case of music!). A service, though, is a service, a concrete thing that can't be copied at zero cost.
Daniel
Yeah I know, lol. I only RTFP'ed after I replied.
:-P
Well, whaddayawant.. I'm an impulsive physicist-turned-soft-eng......
Daniel
So what use are calculators in schools when students could be using Mathematica (or any other mathematical software of their choice) on their laptops?
I'm merely a physicist turned software engineer, so please forgive my audacity and insolence in reminding you that laptops are not allowed in exams.
Daniel
... but does it matter?
;-)
Daniel
That's not always true. In the software industry, especially in projects which have not been structured as well as they should be, there always comes a "crunch time" where you just have to put in extra time to get the stuff done before the unrealistic deadline, and make the deadline realistic through your own sweat.
Now, sure, somebody fucked up along the line if you're working a 70+ hour week. But it's not necessarily you. It could be anyone all the way up the chain - you for being inefficient, the project manager for telling his boss that things can get done faster than they really can, his boss for putting too much pressure on the PM or simply being completely out of touch with reality, the boss above that for setting unrealistic targets in terms of how much a project should cost (which is directly correlated to how long it should take), etc...
So sometimes, when somebody above you fucked up majorly, you might find yourself having to do 1.5 days' worth of work every day. And you can do it - just not for extended periods of time. If you find yourself working big overtime for more than 2 months, and that's despite you being very efficient with your work, just get the hell out of the place as fast as possible - there's too many people fucking up around you and it will fuck you up as well eventually, and being at the bottom of the food chain you'll probably get all the blame too.
Daniel
Yeah lol. I almost spillt my coffee when I read that. Nerdy car? Chick magnet? Which planet do you live on mate? Hahahaha... Best of luck in finding a girl - you'll need it.
Daniel
Not just that, but the quality of experience counts a lot. Most importantly, "official" experience is not any more valid than coding at home as a hobby. I know some ppl who have many more years of experience than me, and their code stinks. Never seen such badly architected crap.
To work on my team, I'd rather have someone who's been coding as a hobby since they were 10 and is fresh out of uni on a completely different degree than someone who's done a degree in CS and has 5 years of experience in the software industry.
Daniel
From the article, this isn't going to decrease how many chemicals they use, but increase it. It will mean they can use RoundUp where they couldn't before, to get rid of yellow clumps of grass that slow the ball.
As for golf, at the risk of being modded flamebait, you can shove that golf stick up your ass if "anything that makes it easier to make your tee time is fine with you". How about drenching the field with the blood of human babies? What if that worked?
Daniel
roflmao @ java server feces...
:-P
Daniel
2) Use barriers that most people already use to stop plant growth.
Yes, that's really worked with the rabbits in australia. Wonder how that's gonna work with plants whose seeds are carried by the wind? Hmm...
Daniel
What I want to know is WHO are these fucking idiots who go and blabber on about how genuine ads make the game more genuine for them? Can someone pinpoint these muppets and maim them into silence for our collective good?
While you're at it, get the dumbasses who buy stuff advertised in spam as well.
Daniel
Yeah, that's how you end up with an application that looks like one big hack.
Daniel
Nah. It was a move to get a bite of the outsourcing market, to get a "head-start". Except that they're about 3-4 years late in getting a head start, so it's more like a desperate move to get back in the game. IBM, PwC, Cap Gemini and the like have been left biting the dust after the dot crash when they suddenly noticed that the indian outsourcing companies stole the rug from under their feet in many markets.
Daniel
Yes, but they'll be bang on the average of "quality" within your company. :-)
Daniel
Bullshit. If things go wrong once in a long while, then fair enough. Sometimes you have to do some overtime to make it all happen in a crisis. If you have a 2-4 hour/employee crisis every week, you're just an incompetent manager with no planning skills.
Daniel
I can do that at work. I think my boss would object to me playing WoW on my office computer during working hours though... :-P
Daniel
Damn, I replied to that but must have forgotten to post it. Look for a documentary called "The Tube" about the effects of the CRT. Also google for research by Herbert Krugman. He was hired by the TV/Advertisement industry to prove that the zombification of TV viewers was caused by the material they chose to watch, rather than the method through which they viewed it (ie content vs medium). The results of his research turned out to be that actually the medium is the cause. In effect, the CRT is an instant hypnosis device that turns you right into alpha brain wave mode (where you're more vulnerable to suggestion), and generally switches off your rational thinking and personality.
Have fun googling.
Daniel
To paraphrase something heard in a crummy movie (Jurassic Park in this case), the fascinating thing about life is that it just adapts!...
Sure, it's unlikely that our garden variety bacteria would survive on Europa, but then, how likely is it that life would arise on its own? If you believe in the latter you have to allow the former, which is a lot more likely, statistically...
Daniel
The proper way to eliminate overtime is to hire enough people to get the work done without overtime...
Daniel
That does not in any way mean that subliminal things don't work. Just that they don't have the direct effect you seem to be expecting.
Hypnosis and Neuro-linguistic programming work, by affecting the subconscious mind. On most people they won't have effects like in the movies, but suggestion to the subconscious is a powerful and effective tool. Subliminal messages may similarly work, but expecting effects 10 minutes afterwards is like planting an apple seed and wanting apples tomorrow.
Finally, without being paranoid, given how the advertisement industry has squashed research on how the cathodic tube affects people's perceptions of what they see on the screen, I'd be surprised if they haven't squashed this type of research too.
Daniel
Cause I don't have the time to even think about playing it, much less buy it and play it when it comes out :-(
Daniel
HELLO,
MY NAME IS NUNTAGUJA IMOBANE. I AM THE SON OF THE LATE ATTORNEY LOKO IMOBANE, WHO DIED RECENTLY LEAVING MILLIONS IN A BANK ACCOUNT LOCKED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF MY COUNTRY. AS I HAVE BECOME AWARE THAT YOU ARE A MAN OF MANY SKILLS, I AM CONTACTING YOU TO ASK FOR YOUR SERVICES IN STEALING THAT MONEY BACK FROM THE MONEY-GRUBBING BASTARDS. PLEASE REPLY ASAP. I WILL NEED AN ADVANCE FEE OF $450 TO PAY YOUR BAIL. PLEASE SEND TO ADDRESS BELOW...
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Just keep cutting until you have only one employee left. You'll be right on average then. Best part is you can pay that last remaining employee the 50th percentile of the market rates, because after all, he's quite average...
Daniel
Yeah and we'll all have flying cars!
And a pony!
Daniel