They continued to make moves acting as a monopoly, refusing to believe they could ever have any competition.
That's what killed them here in Springfield. $4 rentals when Family Video was across the street with $1 rentals. They've been gone for a decade now, FamVid not only going strong but they branched out to a completely new business, the dollar store. But the video rentals are still going strong, too.
Whatever your complaints about your job, at least debugging your code doesn't involve stepping through assembly on a pencil and paper virtual machine.
Hell, back in 1982 I wrote a battle tanks game for a TS-1000, a 1 mHz Z-80 computer with 4K of RAM. The first one was in BASIC and was unplayably slow. So I re-wrote it in assembly -- and I had no assembler and no debugger. So I wrote it in small modules, assembled by hand and put in memory with BASIC POKE statements.
The way I actually finished the damned thing without a debugger was to write very small modules and test them. When they didn't act as expected I just studied my source. The final product needed timing loops to slow it down enough to be playable.
Wikioedia won't tell me how much money Greenpeace has, but the indication I got is that compared to the Koches, Greenpeace is a pauper. Koch could BUY the entire environmental movement if it were for sale. And you act like it's just them, when every oil company and other polluter wants to spread the disinformation.
My view is that over the decades, the environmentalism movement has fucked over a lot of people.
Yeah, DuPont, Monsanto, the oil companies, and all the other dirty bastards that foul my air and water.
The society-wide distrust of the AGW
Doesn't exist. It's only the right wing minority who have been brainwashed by the Koches. Everyone else listens to the scientists.
You know what? Fuck DuPont. Do a little research on those filthy bastards, it's sickening.
I see I'm the only one who RTFA (saw this yesterday). The most this will do is to slow global warming somewhat.
However, in 10,000 years when the seasons have flipped and the northern hemisphere has winter in June and summer in December they'll probably have another ice age. Ice ages are cyclical.
Of course the main reason people drink is to get intoxicated.
There are only two kinds of people I have ever heard say that -- teetotalers who look down on any use of alcohol, and alcoholics. Drinking a Guiness with your meal will not intoxicate you, neither will a glass of wine with your steak and potato.
I'm OK with 100 year copyright if after 10 works fall under some FRAND scheme and all the Netflix's of the world get to stream them for a nominal fee.
I'm not. Art is like tech or science, in that what is new builds on what is old. The reason I haven't put The Paxil Diaries in print and for sale is because of a single poem with 24 words written half a century ago by a dead woman. That chapter revolves around the poem and its place in the Illinois State Library. If I publish that book, the dead poet's rich heirs will surely sue the living shit out of me.
That poem should be in the public domain. Long copyright terms harm culture. There's no valid reason whatever for terms to be as insanely long as they are.
Windows needs to retain bug-for-bug compatibility with software written back in 1995
Then explain to me why FoxPro 6 won't run in XP? Why when they upgraded from Access 97 to Access 2003 none of my programs would work any more?
It's time for that truthy propaganda to die. Backwards compatibility can't be a reason for Windows's shittiness because so many Microsoft programs won't run when you upgrade Windows.
As it happens, separate stats show that the incidence of gun related murders is lowest in Northern states, and highest in Southern states.
That single line makes me doubt everything else. You can't go much farther north from Chicago without being in Canada, and they and New York are the murder capitols of the world. You're going to have to do better than "In Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature, he describes a study." He's a psychologist, and the one thing I took away from the general studies psychology class I took was, and I quote the instructor (who was as learned as Pinker and held the same degree) who said "there isn't a psychologist alive that there isn't a different one calling the first a gold-studded liar."
Psychology is even less of a science than economics.
How does Windows beat Linux? How is Doctorow a NYT best seller despite giving away the electronic versions on boingboing? How could PhotoShop beat free? Stop charging a king's ransom for it. There's no way a non-professional is going to get his money's worth out of Photoshop, it's horribly overpriced.
Again, how do you beat those that make it available even before you do as I outlined above.
How is it available before it's released? Because someone released it. If a movie is on BitTorrent before in the theaters, someone on the inside put it there, probably for the same reason Doctorow gives ebooks away -- to get noticed.
Doing the right thing involves education to know right from wrong.
Neither Hollywood nor Washington DC know right from wrong. Calling copyright infringement "stealing" is simply a lie that they perpetrate. "You wouldn't download a car, would you?" HELL YES I WOULD!!
In short, although they can't be counted as sales lost it can be argued that at least some of those that pirated would have purchased it legally had the illegal avenue not existed.
There are also people who pirate to see if the work sucks before they shell out their hard-earned money for it. Piracy generates sales, it doesn't take away from sales.
Absent copyright, or more importantly, copyright enforcement, open source itself couldn't exist.
Like it or not but the reason why Linux is lower than the margin for error on the desktop is because WINDOWS is stable and LINUX IS NOT.
That's rank bullshit and you should know it. I have never in ten years of using it see Linux crash or show any unstable behavior ever. I've seen X crash once or twice while shutting the computer down but that's all. Bluetooth works flawlessly without having to install drivers and programs like you have to in Windows. Likewise wifi.
Yeah, if you try to use a server distro as a desktop environment you're going to have problems, but only a clueless fool would do that. If Linux is so unstable why does it power the world's ten fastest computers?
Linux hasn't taken over the desktop because every non-Apple sold has Windows preinstalled. Nobody but us nerds have ever heard of it. Oh, and it HAS taken over tablets and phones; Android is Linux. There, Windows is a rounding error.
I realize that you make your money fixing and removing viruses from Windows computers, but come on, guy, you're not going to find any customers at slashdot.
If I were the MPAA I'd blame the small sales of my book so far on piracy. However, I'm not the MPAA and I'm not an idiot, there haven't been a lot of sales because almost nobody knows about it. Which is why only the physical copies are for sale.
The first two chapters are posted at my web site, Chapter 3 goes up Saturday.
Like Doctorow says, nobody ever went broke from piracy but many artists starve from obscurity (look at Van Gogh, only sold a single painting in his life, to his brother, for a pittance, to pay a debt).
You have to drink a metric fuckton before you start getting into that territory
Alcoholics do. Like many other psychoactive drugs, they build a tolerance up. One woman I know walked to the hospital one night with over a.4 blood alcohol content, that's twice as much as will kill most people.
Alcoholics start drinking as soon as they wake up in the morning and don't stop until they pass out.
Excuse me Mr. zidium but your ignorance and racism are showing.
No, they voted for him primarily because they were given more stuff belonging to others and told they deserved it ("entitlements") and because his skin color more closely matched their own.
Entitlements were done away with in 1996 with PWORA. The only entitlements are Medicare and Social Security, which WE FUCKING PAID FOR. White people who receive SNAP vastly outnumber black people on SNAP.
They didn't so much vote for Obama as voted against Mr. billionaire who stated he likes firing people, and said that in the middle of a recession. They voted for Obama because the Republicans became loonies.
I am upset, however, with how he has out-Bushed Bush
Oh, really? So he let his guard down and our country was attacked? Nope, he killed the man who attacked us. Did he start two wars, one with no justification at all? Nope, he ended them. He tried to close GITMO and was unsuccessful, none of the states would take them scary ter'sts. Did he crash the economy like Bush did? Nope, it's been slowly recovering since he took office. Did he lower taxes on the people who least need their taxes lowered? Nope.
Obama's biggest fault is not dismantling the domestic spying, but repealing the PATRIOT act is Congress' job, not the President's.
I've noticed that most racists are as clueless as you. Kudos for being honest about your racism, though, that takes guts.
No. One doesn't own a copyright, one merely holds a copyright, which is a "limited" time monopoly on publication. When you talk about "owning copyrights" you're playing into the MAFIAA's hands; that's weasel word language they came up with, and it's false.
That's because you're young yourself, kid. The human brain isn't fully developed until about age 25 (look it up). Most people don't obtain their bachelor's until they're at least 22, masters until 26, PhD until 30. You have to be 24 to be a US Congressman.
20 is a KID, kid. I was working at age 16 but that doesn't mean I wasn't young.
The gas and phone companies charge fees for e-pay, the electric company is handy, I drive past it often. I do pay the credit card company with e-pay sometimes.
Relax, the article and its author (who submitted it) is a troll. It's a windows online game worm that poses no threat. NASA says it's a minor annoyance.
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They continued to make moves acting as a monopoly, refusing to believe they could ever have any competition.
That's what killed them here in Springfield. $4 rentals when Family Video was across the street with $1 rentals. They've been gone for a decade now, FamVid not only going strong but they branched out to a completely new business, the dollar store. But the video rentals are still going strong, too.
Whatever your complaints about your job, at least debugging your code doesn't involve stepping through assembly on a pencil and paper virtual machine.
Hell, back in 1982 I wrote a battle tanks game for a TS-1000, a 1 mHz Z-80 computer with 4K of RAM. The first one was in BASIC and was unplayably slow. So I re-wrote it in assembly -- and I had no assembler and no debugger. So I wrote it in small modules, assembled by hand and put in memory with BASIC POKE statements.
The way I actually finished the damned thing without a debugger was to write very small modules and test them. When they didn't act as expected I just studied my source. The final product needed timing loops to slow it down enough to be playable.
It was fun. I learned a lot.
If she has an Android phone she's already on Linux.
Wikioedia won't tell me how much money Greenpeace has, but the indication I got is that compared to the Koches, Greenpeace is a pauper. Koch could BUY the entire environmental movement if it were for sale. And you act like it's just them, when every oil company and other polluter wants to spread the disinformation.
My view is that over the decades, the environmentalism movement has fucked over a lot of people.
Yeah, DuPont, Monsanto, the oil companies, and all the other dirty bastards that foul my air and water.
The society-wide distrust of the AGW
Doesn't exist. It's only the right wing minority who have been brainwashed by the Koches. Everyone else listens to the scientists.
You know what? Fuck DuPont. Do a little research on those filthy bastards, it's sickening.
I see I'm the only one who RTFA (saw this yesterday). The most this will do is to slow global warming somewhat.
However, in 10,000 years when the seasons have flipped and the northern hemisphere has winter in June and summer in December they'll probably have another ice age. Ice ages are cyclical.
Humorous, but possibly true... is the sun's climate changing?
5% of sales of a 200+ page book for 24 words? That's insane. You think I get all $24.95 for a copy of Nobots??
I see you've never drank a beer or glass of wine.
Of course the main reason people drink is to get intoxicated.
There are only two kinds of people I have ever heard say that -- teetotalers who look down on any use of alcohol, and alcoholics. Drinking a Guiness with your meal will not intoxicate you, neither will a glass of wine with your steak and potato.
I'm OK with 100 year copyright if after 10 works fall under some FRAND scheme and all the Netflix's of the world get to stream them for a nominal fee.
I'm not. Art is like tech or science, in that what is new builds on what is old. The reason I haven't put The Paxil Diaries in print and for sale is because of a single poem with 24 words written half a century ago by a dead woman. That chapter revolves around the poem and its place in the Illinois State Library. If I publish that book, the dead poet's rich heirs will surely sue the living shit out of me.
That poem should be in the public domain. Long copyright terms harm culture. There's no valid reason whatever for terms to be as insanely long as they are.
iTunes used to have a plugin that automatically grabbed the lyrics to the song you were playing and put them up on the screen.
Amarok does that. Once in a while a song will come up with two or three lines followed by {{Gracenote Shutdown}} but not very often.
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by greedy self-interest.
Windows needs to retain bug-for-bug compatibility with software written back in 1995
Then explain to me why FoxPro 6 won't run in XP? Why when they upgraded from Access 97 to Access 2003 none of my programs would work any more?
It's time for that truthy propaganda to die. Backwards compatibility can't be a reason for Windows's shittiness because so many Microsoft programs won't run when you upgrade Windows.
As it happens, separate stats show that the incidence of gun related murders is lowest in Northern states, and highest in Southern states.
That single line makes me doubt everything else. You can't go much farther north from Chicago without being in Canada, and they and New York are the murder capitols of the world. You're going to have to do better than "In Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature, he describes a study." He's a psychologist, and the one thing I took away from the general studies psychology class I took was, and I quote the instructor (who was as learned as Pinker and held the same degree) who said "there isn't a psychologist alive that there isn't a different one calling the first a gold-studded liar."
Psychology is even less of a science than economics.
How do you price fairly to beat free?
How does Windows beat Linux? How is Doctorow a NYT best seller despite giving away the electronic versions on boingboing? How could PhotoShop beat free? Stop charging a king's ransom for it. There's no way a non-professional is going to get his money's worth out of Photoshop, it's horribly overpriced.
Again, how do you beat those that make it available even before you do as I outlined above.
How is it available before it's released? Because someone released it. If a movie is on BitTorrent before in the theaters, someone on the inside put it there, probably for the same reason Doctorow gives ebooks away -- to get noticed.
Doing the right thing involves education to know right from wrong.
Neither Hollywood nor Washington DC know right from wrong. Calling copyright infringement "stealing" is simply a lie that they perpetrate. "You wouldn't download a car, would you?" HELL YES I WOULD!!
In short, although they can't be counted as sales lost it can be argued that at least some of those that pirated would have purchased it legally had the illegal avenue not existed.
There are also people who pirate to see if the work sucks before they shell out their hard-earned money for it. Piracy generates sales, it doesn't take away from sales.
Absent copyright, or more importantly, copyright enforcement, open source itself couldn't exist.
That's just too absurd to rebut.
Like it or not but the reason why Linux is lower than the margin for error on the desktop is because WINDOWS is stable and LINUX IS NOT.
That's rank bullshit and you should know it. I have never in ten years of using it see Linux crash or show any unstable behavior ever. I've seen X crash once or twice while shutting the computer down but that's all. Bluetooth works flawlessly without having to install drivers and programs like you have to in Windows. Likewise wifi.
Yeah, if you try to use a server distro as a desktop environment you're going to have problems, but only a clueless fool would do that. If Linux is so unstable why does it power the world's ten fastest computers?
Linux hasn't taken over the desktop because every non-Apple sold has Windows preinstalled. Nobody but us nerds have ever heard of it. Oh, and it HAS taken over tablets and phones; Android is Linux. There, Windows is a rounding error.
I realize that you make your money fixing and removing viruses from Windows computers, but come on, guy, you're not going to find any customers at slashdot.
If I were the MPAA I'd blame the small sales of my book so far on piracy. However, I'm not the MPAA and I'm not an idiot, there haven't been a lot of sales because almost nobody knows about it. Which is why only the physical copies are for sale.
The first two chapters are posted at my web site, Chapter 3 goes up Saturday.
Like Doctorow says, nobody ever went broke from piracy but many artists starve from obscurity (look at Van Gogh, only sold a single painting in his life, to his brother, for a pittance, to pay a debt).
I believe if you buy something it's yours.
You have to drink a metric fuckton before you start getting into that territory
Alcoholics do. Like many other psychoactive drugs, they build a tolerance up. One woman I know walked to the hospital one night with over a .4 blood alcohol content, that's twice as much as will kill most people.
Alcoholics start drinking as soon as they wake up in the morning and don't stop until they pass out.
Excuse me Mr. zidium but your ignorance and racism are showing.
No, they voted for him primarily because they were given more stuff belonging to others and told they deserved it ("entitlements") and because his skin color more closely matched their own.
Entitlements were done away with in 1996 with PWORA. The only entitlements are Medicare and Social Security, which WE FUCKING PAID FOR. White people who receive SNAP vastly outnumber black people on SNAP.
They didn't so much vote for Obama as voted against Mr. billionaire who stated he likes firing people, and said that in the middle of a recession. They voted for Obama because the Republicans became loonies.
I am upset, however, with how he has out-Bushed Bush
Oh, really? So he let his guard down and our country was attacked? Nope, he killed the man who attacked us. Did he start two wars, one with no justification at all? Nope, he ended them. He tried to close GITMO and was unsuccessful, none of the states would take them scary ter'sts. Did he crash the economy like Bush did? Nope, it's been slowly recovering since he took office. Did he lower taxes on the people who least need their taxes lowered? Nope.
Obama's biggest fault is not dismantling the domestic spying, but repealing the PATRIOT act is Congress' job, not the President's.
I've noticed that most racists are as clueless as you. Kudos for being honest about your racism, though, that takes guts.
No. One doesn't own a copyright, one merely holds a copyright, which is a "limited" time monopoly on publication. When you talk about "owning copyrights" you're playing into the MAFIAA's hands; that's weasel word language they came up with, and it's false.
Umm i don't consider 20 young.
That's because you're young yourself, kid. The human brain isn't fully developed until about age 25 (look it up). Most people don't obtain their bachelor's until they're at least 22, masters until 26, PhD until 30. You have to be 24 to be a US Congressman.
20 is a KID, kid. I was working at age 16 but that doesn't mean I wasn't young.
You're getting your documents confused; you quoted the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution says life, liberty, and property.
I don't believe I've ever tasted egglant before...
The gas and phone companies charge fees for e-pay, the electric company is handy, I drive past it often. I do pay the credit card company with e-pay sometimes.
Relax, the article and its author (who submitted it) is a troll. It's a windows online game worm that poses no threat. NASA says it's a minor annoyance.