Most people I know here would happily admit that there are aspects of the Indian political system that are crazy; however, it is hardly a crazy regime - India is not Iran...
Honestly not wanting to troll on this, but is it not possible that the definition of 'good' depends on the locale they are operating in? The idea that Freedom of Speech is 'good' and Censorship is 'bad' is not necessarily a universal truth?
I dunno. Too early to be thinking about this stuff.
Dark matter seems like far from settled science to me. But it always does amaze me how dark matter proponents tend to treat it's existence just like the followers of intelligent design treat God.
Look, enough is enough. I have suspected for a while now that String Theory is something that someone came up with while stoned, listening to Sun Ra. Now Black Saturn too? I predict that before the year is out someone will discover a connection between String Theory and the Ancient Egyptians, then its game over.
The internal restructuring is on the back of extremely bad financial results. Its also worth noting that since the CEO and CFO stepped down, a deal has been struck with a Chinese ISP which comes off the back of a failed legal action by EMI to sue the same ISP for linking to illegal downloads. EMI internally, believe it or not, has a fairly enlightened view of mp3 & DRM, but have been hampered by their old-fashioned board of directors. I think they're likely to be the first to ditch DRM and sell unfettered music downloads.
You think thats early? Back in '89 I was resizing partitions by manually dragging electrons across the surface of the disk with a tunneling electron scanning microscope and a really small pair of tweezers.
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I'll re-iterate; its *many, many* years since I studied this stuff, but here goes. What you've said is strictly true - you can represent anything on a computer using 1 & 0. This is the basis of the Turing machine. However to be able to use that you also need to add other operations; L,R,read,write.
Ok, its been a few years since I studied this stuff, but thats surely not true, is it? You'd need more than pure boolean logic to handle arithmetic. You'd need at least bit-shifting?
Wait much longer and it gets spent on other items...girlfriend... I'm sure I'm not the only one caught in this situation.
Err... You're probably in a pretty small minority. How much does one of those cost these days?
Lost sales are not the same thing as theft. By the same logic, if I decided to not go and watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster at my local cinema because it gets terrible reviews at imdb, then the MPAA could sue imdb for theft.
Disclaimer: I'm not Indian, but I do live in India. I've run software projects and managed dev teams on most continents, and the team I run here is
as creative and able to problem-solve as any other, and
far more hard-working than any other place I've worked
Its also a wonderful country to live in; in fact after Australia & Sweden this is the country I've most enjoyed my time in.
I really think that only by spending a few years away from your home country can you begin to gain some kind of perspective about how countries, people & world-views really compare.
The rubbish I read on Slashdot about India and the Indians is the kind of thing I'd expect to see in the Daily Mail.
My experience with XML Schema is exactly that; hard to write in the first place, hard to maintain, and regular interop problems between different implementations that make the theory of web services a practical nightmare (idrefs are the first example that spring to mind).
As for the '30 game rate to break even' 30 games isn't that many (Should imagine they're are quite a number of people with 30+ ps2 games), and don't forget Sony get money on Blu-ray discs too.
Remember, that '30 game rate to break even' means games sales for which Sony gets some money. Admittedly I'm a pretty casual gamer, but I used to buy a *lot* of my gamecube games either off eBay, or from second-hand stores. If I had a PS3, I think its pretty unlikely I'd buy 30 full price games.
And what company is going to deploy Linux just so it can virtualize Windows? Why wouldn't they save the time and expertise (and finger pointing) and just deploy Windows as the host and Windows as the guest?
The company who doesn't want to pay for an extra Windows license?
The OP mentioned required dues. I was just pointing out that, legally, for AllOfMp3.com, there weren't any required dues from them to the Artists. Therefore, in this case, unless he meant morally required, which doesn't mandate any payment by AllOfMp3.com (rightly or wrongly), there was no requirement.
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And your weak link is that, if they were operating legally with respect to the laws that governed them, whether or not the original vendors received their "required" due is irrelevant (it strikes me that, in their case, legally, that due wasn't required).
Maybe you consider they were acting immorally; they obviously didn't consider that a business imperative.
Maybe you consider the laws that govern them were at fault; again, that is not the fault of their business model.
Most importantly, in 50 or 60 years when the copyrights actually expire, will you still even want your 128kbps mp3? Of course not. The public domain file will be provided in a superior format from a master recording.Oh - like on Usenet now?;)
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I dunno. Too early to be thinking about this stuff.
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See also: String Theory proponents.
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Surely Nuremburg taught us the exact opposite?
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You think thats early? Back in '89 I was resizing partitions by manually dragging electrons across the surface of the disk with a tunneling electron scanning microscope and a really small pair of tweezers.
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None, but I take your point
I'll re-iterate; its *many, many* years since I studied this stuff, but here goes. What you've said is strictly true - you can represent anything on a computer using 1 & 0. This is the basis of the Turing machine. However to be able to use that you also need to add other operations; L,R,read,write.
Ok, its been a few years since I studied this stuff, but thats surely not true, is it? You'd need more than pure boolean logic to handle arithmetic. You'd need at least bit-shifting?
Err... You're probably in a pretty small minority. How much does one of those cost these days?
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...or get rid of all of Courtney Cox's wrinkles.
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Disclaimer: I'm not Indian, but I do live in India. I've run software projects and managed dev teams on most continents, and the team I run here is
- as creative and able to problem-solve as any other, and
- far more hard-working than any other place I've worked
Its also a wonderful country to live in; in fact after Australia & Sweden this is the country I've most enjoyed my time in.I really think that only by spending a few years away from your home country can you begin to gain some kind of perspective about how countries, people & world-views really compare.
The rubbish I read on Slashdot about India and the Indians is the kind of thing I'd expect to see in the Daily Mail.
Good general advice, really. They should put that on the Office packaging, like on a packet of cigarettes.
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On the other hand, RELAX NG "just works".
(all IME of course...:)
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Remember, that '30 game rate to break even' means games sales for which Sony gets some money. Admittedly I'm a pretty casual gamer, but I used to buy a *lot* of my gamecube games either off eBay, or from second-hand stores. If I had a PS3, I think its pretty unlikely I'd buy 30 full price games.
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The company who doesn't want to pay for an extra Windows license?
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The OP mentioned required dues. I was just pointing out that, legally, for AllOfMp3.com, there weren't any required dues from them to the Artists. Therefore, in this case, unless he meant morally required, which doesn't mandate any payment by AllOfMp3.com (rightly or wrongly), there was no requirement. ant.
Maybe you consider they were acting immorally; they obviously didn't consider that a business imperative.
Maybe you consider the laws that govern them were at fault; again, that is not the fault of their business model.
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Most importantly, in 50 or 60 years when the copyrights actually expire, will you still even want your 128kbps mp3? Of course not. The public domain file will be provided in a superior format from a master recording.Oh - like on Usenet now? ;)
"Chuck Fuqua" - I wonder how he pronounces his surname?!