False. The amount of money collected from gasoline/diesel taxes *far exceed* the amount spent on annual maintenance. Where does the excess go? I don't about your state, but in mine the gas taxes are used to subsizde the Light Rail trains. I've sat in the State House and seen the vote for myself - money taken from the road fund and used to build a new rail line from Tysons Corner to Towson.
[citation needed] Not about the misappropriation of funds -- but proof that the income far exceeds the repair, development, and maintenance costs.
Yes, that's what the federal government must do. But the state government must do such things as its constituents require it to do. And a municipal government -- essentially the voice of the community -- more so than state. That's kind of how the system is set up... I daresay that Jefferson would give a nod of approval.
Now if only there was a way to open the eyes of the masses who don't consider any of the above. This goes beyond saying "they don't care" -- it simply never occurs to ask the question, or think about it. at all.
If we can find an effective way to do that, then DRM'd sales will take a hit. Until then... people will buy it out of ignorance.
If I weren't aware of the DRM, and ebook prices were cheaper than paperback equivs, I'd buy a kindle - it's an impressive-looking device that -- by all reports -- works well at what it's designed for. For most people, that's all that matters.
If I were this developer, I would display ads to the pirates, be it within the game or on an HTML formatted score board. This would hopefully recoup some of the lost money, and would keep everybody happy. I would be interested in their take on the idea.
Sure, because people who feel entitled to free software are/so/ likely to click on and make purchases from embedded advertisements... That also doesn't take into account the additional money [time] it would cost for the extra development and testing.
I don't understand this. If it's something that's too expensive and/or cost isn't justified by the value you feel you receive -- especially luxury items like music, movies, and softwareyou're using for non-commercial purposes -- why are you getting it at all?
new headline: Hulu may begin loosing viewers next year.
Maybe. I'd pay for it, if it was a reasonable price and had no commercials. First time I saw a commercial, I'd drop the service. Increasingly, there is noplace you go without being blasted by ads... it's worth a few dollars to me to be able to get some entertainment without it.
I hope the message they send out is "you're an idiot if you believe the crap they're sending you." That's all the warning most people need.
If that were true, then these would almost never succeed. How often do you hear of these cases where family, friends, etc practically beg the mark to stop throwing good money after bad?
I was doing this for a while myself, but... it got to the point where it was like, "why bother?" My time is worth more than it takes to make some jerk...well, look like a jerk. Come to think of it... it's kind of how I felt when I gave up on Gentoo as taking up entirely too much time and yielding entirely too little return...
Compared to? Cats? An alien race you know of but the rest of us don't? A cherrypicked group of humans?
Well, will a dog or cat bring you its food in order that it might get a larger quantity of food? After getting no return at all, time and time again?
In terms of "doing needlessly stupid things", my untrained eye tells me that humans take the cake. Other species are concerned with survival, and tend to behave accordingly. They might make a stupid mistake - and if they live through it, they'll almost assuredly not repeat it.
p.
This is the down-side of having advanced cognitive skills -- we can think our way into trouble as well as out of it.
I agree with your point, but disagree in part with one of your arguments:
People do not go to grocery stores to hear Muzak. They go there to buy food.
This is true; but at the same time, music has long been proven to affect the shopping and spending habits of people -- this has been refined to a scientific level. Different music will be played based on time of day and day of week - music that has been proven to encourage certain shopping patterns and behavior within the demographic that's present at that time. Most of the people affected don't even realize it's happening (if they did, it wouldn't be nearly so effective).
I'm not so sure that this is what happened here - since the radio music isn't the same rather carefully planned and orchestrated selection of music that is ordinarily playing (which the markets DO pay for, as they should), I can't see how it fits into any category of requiring a royalty payment.
Eh? I install firefox once, tell it to change my settings (note that it gives me the choice) and I never have to do it again. And - call me kooky - but I kind of expect a modern operating system to come with default systems for web browsing, music listening etc. As long as I can change them at my discretion and without pain, I don't care.
If it did as you said on patches, then yes I would be offended by that as well. Fortunately it doesn't.
Hah, fair enough. I was actually extremely surprised when I read it. I ran Vista (for a few weeks) before I had to uninstall it and scurry back to XP on my laptop mostly due to performance.
These numbers , on the other hand, show Win7 running slower than Vista. My own experience puts Win7 as slower than XP...
So... I have to wonder two things. First: how accurate and comprehensive is the test? Second: if it is both, how much of the performance issues I've seen with both win7 and vista are due to poor design choices that make it seem slower than it is...
Seriously dude(ette)? LDAP can deploy software remotely based on group membership? Linux systems can be configured to use LDAP remotely after being connected to the network, without needing to remote shell into them first? LDAP can -- without extra configuration -- allow or block access to network shares, applications, and directory structures? Without assistance from any other systems? Wow, it sure has grown up in the six days since I was last using it for something.
Directory services (ie, ldap) are one only component of AD. You might want to learn about the rest before hurling more insults...
Wow - aren't we a bit touchy about our lack of knowledge and experience in the modern linux/unix world?
In other words, a certain AC is trying to hide the shortcomings of their preferred OS by shooting the messenger;)
I don't know about you, but I've been using Linux since Red Hat... 4? 3? (not RHEL, but the original RH...) And Unix for as long. Windows, Netware, DOS, Commodore 64, TRS-80, and Vic20 before that. I use Linux at home, and have been making slow inroads into getting it deployed at work -- where it's appropriate. Fully managed systems are not such an environment today. Tomorrow, who knows.
Though my primary job is software engineering, I've learned quite a bit about how to administer systems, and have been privileged to work with talented administrators for both Windows and Unix systems. (Also some really untalented ones on both sides...)
On those few occasions when I make my comments out of ignorance, I am generally aware of it and state it up front.
QuickTime is what iTunes uses for it's MP3/AAC decoding engine, which is why it's installing QuickTime. It's not just installing it to force it on you, it's actually a dependency.
I have no problem with quicktime getting installed. My issue is with its default (and non-overrideable, last time I checked) behavior of taking over playback settings for almost every movie and music format on your system, and injecting itself into IE and Firefox as an embedded player even when you don't/want/ an embedded player. The hefty "updater" background process doesn't make many friends, neither...
I am not sure what is so complicated about a music player that causes this.
This is simple - the Geniuses at apple haven't figured out this whole "multitasking UI" yet. "Determining gapless playback info" over a network drive is the perfect example of this. It seems to process files in groups of 10 or 20... and every time it starts a new batch, the UI locks up until it finishes (30s or so). Then you can move the mouse for a few seconds... until it starts the next batch.
It's not so noticeable on a local hard drive, but it's pretty damned hard to miss when you have 10k songs on the network. The concept of "worker thread" has not yet occurred to these people.
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You get a lollipop for getting the joke.
But since I just took his original lollipop from him, doesn't that mean that he's back where he started?
Those packets have to get routed to your server somehow...
False. The amount of money collected from gasoline/diesel taxes *far exceed* the amount spent on annual maintenance. Where does the excess go? I don't about your state, but in mine the gas taxes are used to subsizde the Light Rail trains. I've sat in the State House and seen the vote for myself - money taken from the road fund and used to build a new rail line from Tysons Corner to Towson.
[citation needed] Not about the misappropriation of funds -- but proof that the income far exceeds the repair, development, and maintenance costs.
Yes, that's what the federal government must do. But the state government must do such things as its constituents require it to do. And a municipal government -- essentially the voice of the community -- more so than state. That's kind of how the system is set up... I daresay that Jefferson would give a nod of approval.
No, but you may dream of electric sheep.
If we can find an effective way to do that, then DRM'd sales will take a hit. Until then... people will buy it out of ignorance.
If I weren't aware of the DRM, and ebook prices were cheaper than paperback equivs, I'd buy a kindle - it's an impressive-looking device that -- by all reports -- works well at what it's designed for. For most people, that's all that matters.
If I were this developer, I would display ads to the pirates, be it within the game or on an HTML formatted score board. This would hopefully recoup some of the lost money, and would keep everybody happy. I would be interested in their take on the idea.
Sure, because people who feel entitled to free software are /so/ likely to click on and make purchases from embedded advertisements... That also doesn't take into account the additional money [time] it would cost for the extra development and testing.
(if it was good and if it was on Cydia for a reasonable price, I have no problems opening up my wallet)
But the real questions: If it was good, on Cydia, and at a high price would you be interested in doing without?
I don't understand this. If it's something that's too expensive and/or cost isn't justified by the value you feel you receive -- especially luxury items like music, movies, and softwareyou're using for non-commercial purposes -- why are you getting it at all?
If the game sucked, it's likely that people wouldn't be playing long enough to submit high scores...
new headline: Hulu may begin loosing viewers next year.
Maybe. I'd pay for it, if it was a reasonable price and had no commercials. First time I saw a commercial, I'd drop the service. Increasingly, there is noplace you go without being blasted by ads... it's worth a few dollars to me to be able to get some entertainment without it.
I hope the message they send out is "you're an idiot if you believe the crap they're sending you." That's all the warning most people need.
If that were true, then these would almost never succeed. How often do you hear of these cases where family, friends, etc practically beg the mark to stop throwing good money after bad?
A wonderful story, but please don't stop there and put those emails themselves up on the Net!
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I was doing this for a while myself, but... it got to the point where it was like, "why bother?" My time is worth more than it takes to make some jerk ...well, look like a jerk. Come to think of it... it's kind of how I felt when I gave up on Gentoo as taking up entirely too much time and yielding entirely too little return...
Unfortunately, humans are quite stupid.
Compared to? Cats? An alien race you know of but the rest of us don't? A cherrypicked group of humans?
Well, will a dog or cat bring you its food in order that it might get a larger quantity of food? After getting no return at all, time and time again?
In terms of "doing needlessly stupid things", my untrained eye tells me that humans take the cake. Other species are concerned with survival, and tend to behave accordingly. They might make a stupid mistake - and if they live through it, they'll almost assuredly not repeat it. p. This is the down-side of having advanced cognitive skills -- we can think our way into trouble as well as out of it.
Not so sure about that. I was using XP at the time and upgraded SP2 to SP3... I didn't notice any degradation in performance.
People do not go to grocery stores to hear Muzak. They go there to buy food.
This is true; but at the same time, music has long been proven to affect the shopping and spending habits of people -- this has been refined to a scientific level. Different music will be played based on time of day and day of week - music that has been proven to encourage certain shopping patterns and behavior within the demographic that's present at that time. Most of the people affected don't even realize it's happening (if they did, it wouldn't be nearly so effective).
I'm not so sure that this is what happened here - since the radio music isn't the same rather carefully planned and orchestrated selection of music that is ordinarily playing (which the markets DO pay for, as they should), I can't see how it fits into any category of requiring a royalty payment.
If it did as you said on patches, then yes I would be offended by that as well. Fortunately it doesn't.
These numbers , on the other hand, show Win7 running slower than Vista. My own experience puts Win7 as slower than XP...
So... I have to wonder two things. First: how accurate and comprehensive is the test? Second: if it is both, how much of the performance issues I've seen with both win7 and vista are due to poor design choices that make it seem slower than it is...
Seriously dude(ette)? LDAP can deploy software remotely based on group membership? Linux systems can be configured to use LDAP remotely after being connected to the network, without needing to remote shell into them first? LDAP can -- without extra configuration -- allow or block access to network shares, applications, and directory structures? Without assistance from any other systems? Wow, it sure has grown up in the six days since I was last using it for something.
Directory services (ie, ldap) are one only component of AD. You might want to learn about the rest before hurling more insults...
You ARE the incompetent admin
Thank you, please play again.
Wow - aren't we a bit touchy about our lack of knowledge and experience in the modern linux/unix world?
In other words, a certain AC is trying to hide the shortcomings of their preferred OS by shooting the messenger ;)
I don't know about you, but I've been using Linux since Red Hat ... 4? 3? (not RHEL, but the original RH...) And Unix for as long. Windows, Netware, DOS, Commodore 64, TRS-80, and Vic20 before that. I use Linux at home, and have been making slow inroads into getting it deployed at work -- where it's appropriate. Fully managed systems are not such an environment today. Tomorrow, who knows.
Though my primary job is software engineering, I've learned quite a bit about how to administer systems, and have been privileged to work with talented administrators for both Windows and Unix systems. (Also some really untalented ones on both sides...)
On those few occasions when I make my comments out of ignorance, I am generally aware of it and state it up front.
This ain't one of 'em. ;)
That's excellent news, I wasn't aware of it. It's not quite there yet (from a quick perusal) but it does look like it's well on its way.
Indeed, it's a crappy deal - certainly not one I'd take. But a legal one if they agree to it...
QuickTime is what iTunes uses for it's MP3/AAC decoding engine, which is why it's installing QuickTime. It's not just installing it to force it on you, it's actually a dependency.
I have no problem with quicktime getting installed. My issue is with its default (and non-overrideable, last time I checked) behavior of taking over playback settings for almost every movie and music format on your system, and injecting itself into IE and Firefox as an embedded player even when you don't /want/ an embedded player. The hefty "updater" background process doesn't make many friends, neither...
I am not sure what is so complicated about a music player that causes this.
This is simple - the Geniuses at apple haven't figured out this whole "multitasking UI" yet. "Determining gapless playback info" over a network drive is the perfect example of this. It seems to process files in groups of 10 or 20... and every time it starts a new batch, the UI locks up until it finishes (30s or so). Then you can move the mouse for a few seconds... until it starts the next batch.
It's not so noticeable on a local hard drive, but it's pretty damned hard to miss when you have 10k songs on the network. The concept of "worker thread" has not yet occurred to these people.
Hah! And they say that Microsoft can't do anything right!