Which is good for people with good sight. I'm extremely near-sighted, though, and can't focus on infinity (farthest I can focus is ~6cm without glasses).
If there aren't enough people who value mom and pop stores to keep them in business, as is obviously the case of the individual store when it closes up, they have been rated superfluous by the society. Their value was not enough, and if you believe in such a system, you should not mourn the loss. Put a product on the market? It will be valued monetarily.
That said, if a store is boycotted if they start laying people off, then people have proven to value the employees and as such, if the losses to boycott prove larger than the losses to salaries, they should obviously be kept hired.
Capitalism is about making things more effective. When will people stop complaining about small shops closing up, people being laid off, et cetera? That's the idea!
Agreed, even though I have some reservations on the lip-sync. Read in an interview later that it was because they had done the lip animations before the speech-track, which is an excusable mistake since they're students and their first time doing this stuff.
Overall I think it was a good thing, hopefully good for the university that did it and that they'll do it again. After all, it had great attention in the OSS-world, largest swarm I've ever seen on a torrent.
...anyone got a pair of laser-proof eyeglasses I can borrow?
Just like with the DMCA, if the industry puts big bucks into a new technology they will also put equally big bucks into lobbyism to enforce it. Expect your anti-RFID lead wallet and laser-proof eyeglasses to become illegal should these services grow.
This is true, and also the reason to why I hate when people say vote with your feet/dollars.
People who say that often don't take into account that some have more dollars than others, and thus have quite an advantage. It's just not a way to replace the democratic one-person-one-vote system. It's especially bad when people tell this to demonstrators, critics, or such, BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY VOTING WITH THEIR FEET.
Having this in digital format wouldn't necessarily be useful if the world needs rebuilding, but a bookcase full of these volumes in every bomb shelter would make me feel a bit better about war.
The loss they took from making IE "free" is redeemed by increased/shifted costs in other marketes such as Office and OS. It also kills off competitors that could have made their products portable (and thus migration to other operating systems easier).
Having a free market has never had anything with democracy to do, and I agree that it and patents detach control from any governing organ wether totalitarian or not (just look at China).
What would need to be investigated is wether this granted taxation right is good for the economy and the people or not. So far it has only shown to be good for technological innovation (non-IT such) and maybe medical science. I might be missing a few fields, though, so please correct me if you know better.
A patent is a government granted monopoly. The power of taxes has been granted to the government by the people, if your democratic system is working as it should.
This isn't EEE. Here, they try to make people ignore other's products (by offering their own for free) long enough for the competitors to die off, whereafter they can ignore the issue content that they are the prime leader in that software field aswell - making them capable of leveraging their office and server software, which is where their money is at.
The EEE technique is about conforming to standards, and then extending their products to use those standards along with proprietary parts. Quench competition since they aren't allowed to use this patented technology, and then rule supreme again.
Different tactics, same anti-competitive bullshit.
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It's not a service I want since I consider buying things that I wasn't specifically hunting for to be a very bad thing. Also, dataleaks.
They have no monopoly to leverage, they have made no direct commercials (though that doesn't mean their marketers have a low budget).
No, I do believe it was to get far away from expensive as fuck Unixes. Microsoft's take on those wasn't very successful.
It's that time again isn't it?
No quack.
Which is good for people with good sight. I'm extremely near-sighted, though, and can't focus on infinity (farthest I can focus is ~6cm without glasses).
Nice try, but your comment is a dupe. We've had many comments about dupes before.
It's propaganda for more responsible democracy, that's what it is!
If there aren't enough people who value mom and pop stores to keep them in business, as is obviously the case of the individual store when it closes up, they have been rated superfluous by the society. Their value was not enough, and if you believe in such a system, you should not mourn the loss. Put a product on the market? It will be valued monetarily.
That said, if a store is boycotted if they start laying people off, then people have proven to value the employees and as such, if the losses to boycott prove larger than the losses to salaries, they should obviously be kept hired.
Capitalism is about making things more effective. When will people stop complaining about small shops closing up, people being laid off, et cetera? That's the idea!
Will be hard for them as software isn't patentable in the EU (yet).
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No, no. They generally work as designed. :)
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Really, though. It's bound to be true, in time. (and bug reports!)
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Funniest Slashdot story ever, my sides!
Agreed, even though I have some reservations on the lip-sync. Read in an interview later that it was because they had done the lip animations before the speech-track, which is an excusable mistake since they're students and their first time doing this stuff.
Overall I think it was a good thing, hopefully good for the university that did it and that they'll do it again. After all, it had great attention in the OSS-world, largest swarm I've ever seen on a torrent.
Only Elephants Dream was like seven minutes long while the typical hollywood flick is over 60.
You've got nothing to hide, do you?
This is true, and also the reason to why I hate when people say vote with your feet/dollars.
People who say that often don't take into account that some have more dollars than others, and thus have quite an advantage. It's just not a way to replace the democratic one-person-one-vote system. It's especially bad when people tell this to demonstrators, critics, or such, BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY VOTING WITH THEIR FEET.
Having this in digital format wouldn't necessarily be useful if the world needs rebuilding, but a bookcase full of these volumes in every bomb shelter would make me feel a bit better about war.
The loss they took from making IE "free" is redeemed by increased/shifted costs in other marketes such as Office and OS. It also kills off competitors that could have made their products portable (and thus migration to other operating systems easier).
Having a free market has never had anything with democracy to do, and I agree that it and patents detach control from any governing organ wether totalitarian or not (just look at China).
What would need to be investigated is wether this granted taxation right is good for the economy and the people or not. So far it has only shown to be good for technological innovation (non-IT such) and maybe medical science. I might be missing a few fields, though, so please correct me if you know better.
A patent is a government granted monopoly. The power of taxes has been granted to the government by the people, if your democratic system is working as it should.
This isn't EEE. Here, they try to make people ignore other's products (by offering their own for free) long enough for the competitors to die off, whereafter they can ignore the issue content that they are the prime leader in that software field aswell - making them capable of leveraging their office and server software, which is where their money is at.
The EEE technique is about conforming to standards, and then extending their products to use those standards along with proprietary parts. Quench competition since they aren't allowed to use this patented technology, and then rule supreme again.
Different tactics, same anti-competitive bullshit.