Actually, the loss of money is due to the fact there is no need to purchase the product.
I know its confusing but if you think *really* hard you'll see the relationship here. The consumer removes the need to buy the product by copying product illegally. The illegally copied files are then given out to 3 friends through some method of delivery also reducing the need for purchasing the product. So, 4 lost sales due to 1 act of illegally copying.
Now you could argue you wouldn't have bought it any way and the only reason you have it is because it was free. I honestly think that most artists would prefer that that you not buy instead of listening to a free copy.
As a musician, I don't agree with you. Sorry and I will continue to argue. Do I agree with RIAA suing everyone? No. However I do see the illegal copying of copyrighted material unethical and criminal.
Copying that mp3 is just like walking into a record shop, opening up a product, burning a copy of that product and putting it back on the shelf re-shrink wrapped. Walking out without paying but having the "data" that was contained on that CD.
Who did you just deprive from something?
1) The retailer
2) The record label
3) The artist
..and the list goes on and on. Please, if we ever meet...warn me not to let you visit my house. I'd be worried you'd steal from me as you have no clue what theft really is.
So I guess this article on how to configure Ubuntu to authentic through Active Directory is a figment of my imagination since Active Directory is 100% only available to Windows?
You do realize that Active Directory is based on LDAP right? Microsoft's ADSI API's can also be used to connect to LDAP stores as well as Active Directory. I don't think a solution would be hard to work on - a little time consuming, but I don't see Microsoft locking out everyone else 100%.
I'll fly my small foam electric plane with a Li-po 1500 mah 11.4 volt battery for 15 minutes. Tell me if the battery isn't hot;) Trust me, it gets hot and you cannot re-charge these things until the battery cools down.
True, its not a forceful explosion but the flames are so intense it wouldn't really matter (without the danger of shrapnel). NiMH and Nicad can explode as well but it takes a lot to get them to that point - usually overcharging. Lipos can go just from being dropped.
How many laptops do you see being dropped? Apparently there is enough lap top dropping that IBM was advertising how sturdy their laptops were a few years back.
I use both battery types in various aircraft. The lithium polymer is much less stable. I've seen a pack swell and be ready to vent just by knocking one off of a table onto the ground. Lithium ion will not do this. Also, keep in mind that any battery will explode if you overcharge it.
As my name implies I fly R/C aircraft as a hobby. Within the last few years electric powered models have really taken off. Most of this is due to the Li-Po battery. Lithium Polymer batteries are a subset of Lithium Ion batteries but the design of the cells are different.
Li-Po batteries are small and light and can produce a higher continue current than lithium ion. They are very powerful batteries.
One of the problems though...and why I generally stay away from them is that they explode. They can easily become unstable if dropped (or crashed). I don't claim to be an expert but the cells in a lithium ion battery are metal - they can sustain an impact and vibration where as the cells in a lithium polymer are mostly plastic which can cause a mix of the chemicals inside and cause the battery to heat up until it vents and then explodes.
I try to be a safe driver. So, I drive with the intention of leaving a couple of car lengths between me and the car in front. What happens? Someone sees that as an invitation to merge on over!! Next thing I know my "safe space" is down to inches. Best thing to do then...I upset the guy behind me and slow down opening up more of a gap trying to manage between not letting someone over and making sure I have some room to stop.
That sounds like Microsoft practices being filtered through ISO to me. Are you sure you want that? It would, in my opinion, degrade ISO if it was used for dirty tricks and to force people to choose one platform over another. OSS is about choice, not force.
Every single MMOPRG states in its own EULA that the virtual goods received in game are their own property. Now, even if they can't stop all E-bay auctions, web sites selling currency or characters it doesn't change the fact that the sellers do not own the property to begin with.
If anything, its trafficing in stolen goods. The EULA loans you the virtual item for gameplay then you go and sell it for real world currency? Tax the sell, not the game company so those people who do not sell it don't have to pay it.
Even in some states illegal drugs are taxable which is enforced on top of a fine in some cases.
Guess the browser wars are still alive. Hm, competition is supposed to be good for the consumer right? Usually it just means more work for the developer.
*sigh*
Why didn't I use preview. I'd like to correct that I do know the difference between "hear" and "here". It was some subconcious demon that took over and typed it for me.
But isn't that the problem with most Linux deployments? When you have the majority of the IT workforce out there not trained in Linux it makes for a tough hiring process to find someone qualified for a rollout like this. Then, when you do find someone qualified (I'm talking qualified here, not someone who has been running Linux at home as a hobby...but a true Linux Professional) the rates are through the roof.
As Linux matures in the marketplace you will have more people competent in undertaking a process like this rollout and rates will fall. Average time of deployment will fall as well and we'll see more successful rollouts. However, in the hear and now its difficult to get something like this to go off without a hitch due to just the sheer lack of experience in the world.
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Right next to the "Sky is falling" tag.
Actually, the loss of money is due to the fact there is no need to purchase the product. I know its confusing but if you think *really* hard you'll see the relationship here. The consumer removes the need to buy the product by copying product illegally. The illegally copied files are then given out to 3 friends through some method of delivery also reducing the need for purchasing the product. So, 4 lost sales due to 1 act of illegally copying.
Now you could argue you wouldn't have bought it any way and the only reason you have it is because it was free. I honestly think that most artists would prefer that that you not buy instead of listening to a free copy.
As a musician, I don't agree with you. Sorry and I will continue to argue. Do I agree with RIAA suing everyone? No. However I do see the illegal copying of copyrighted material unethical and criminal.
Wow!
..and the list goes on and on. Please, if we ever meet...warn me not to let you visit my house. I'd be worried you'd steal from me as you have no clue what theft really is.
Copying that mp3 is just like walking into a record shop, opening up a product, burning a copy of that product and putting it back on the shelf re-shrink wrapped. Walking out without paying but having the "data" that was contained on that CD.
Who did you just deprive from something?
1) The retailer
2) The record label
3) The artist
...then why am I not a steam engine? :(
I have also not seen a windows machine willing to authenticate in a "domain like" fashion using something else than AD
*This post brought to you buy a windows machine running on Novell with NDS. All *domain like authentication sponsored by Novell.
So I guess this article on how to configure Ubuntu to authentic through Active Directory is a figment of my imagination since Active Directory is 100% only available to Windows?
You do realize that Active Directory is based on LDAP right? Microsoft's ADSI API's can also be used to connect to LDAP stores as well as Active Directory. I don't think a solution would be hard to work on - a little time consuming, but I don't see Microsoft locking out everyone else 100%.
I'll fly my small foam electric plane with a Li-po 1500 mah 11.4 volt battery for 15 minutes. Tell me if the battery isn't hot ;) Trust me, it gets hot and you cannot re-charge these things until the battery cools down.
True, its not a forceful explosion but the flames are so intense it wouldn't really matter (without the danger of shrapnel). NiMH and Nicad can explode as well but it takes a lot to get them to that point - usually overcharging. Lipos can go just from being dropped.
How many laptops do you see being dropped? Apparently there is enough lap top dropping that IBM was advertising how sturdy their laptops were a few years back.
Actually Lipo are more likely to explode. Most Lipo battery cells contain plastic whereas lithium ion cells are metal.
Lipo battery warning for R/C aviation
I use both battery types in various aircraft. The lithium polymer is much less stable. I've seen a pack swell and be ready to vent just by knocking one off of a table onto the ground. Lithium ion will not do this. Also, keep in mind that any battery will explode if you overcharge it.
As my name implies I fly R/C aircraft as a hobby. Within the last few years electric powered models have really taken off. Most of this is due to the Li-Po battery. Lithium Polymer batteries are a subset of Lithium Ion batteries but the design of the cells are different.
Li-Po batteries are small and light and can produce a higher continue current than lithium ion. They are very powerful batteries.
One of the problems though...and why I generally stay away from them is that they explode. They can easily become unstable if dropped (or crashed). I don't claim to be an expert but the cells in a lithium ion battery are metal - they can sustain an impact and vibration where as the cells in a lithium polymer are mostly plastic which can cause a mix of the chemicals inside and cause the battery to heat up until it vents and then explodes.
Fire caused by overcharging
Video of a lipo battery going bad.
The first two paragraphs actually describe how Iran currently operates but just substitute Muslim for Christian.
I try to be a safe driver. So, I drive with the intention of leaving a couple of car lengths between me and the car in front. What happens? Someone sees that as an invitation to merge on over!! Next thing I know my "safe space" is down to inches. Best thing to do then...I upset the guy behind me and slow down opening up more of a gap trying to manage between not letting someone over and making sure I have some room to stop.
That sounds like Microsoft practices being filtered through ISO to me. Are you sure you want that? It would, in my opinion, degrade ISO if it was used for dirty tricks and to force people to choose one platform over another. OSS is about choice, not force.
Every single MMOPRG states in its own EULA that the virtual goods received in game are their own property. Now, even if they can't stop all E-bay auctions, web sites selling currency or characters it doesn't change the fact that the sellers do not own the property to begin with. If anything, its trafficing in stolen goods. The EULA loans you the virtual item for gameplay then you go and sell it for real world currency? Tax the sell, not the game company so those people who do not sell it don't have to pay it. Even in some states illegal drugs are taxable which is enforced on top of a fine in some cases.
SQL was based on Sybase.
Microsoft Content Management Server was based on a product by NCompass Labs (which MS Purchased)
Microsoft CRM was based on another product that was External.
Microsoft Commerce Server was originally Microsoft Merchant Server which was originally external.
Microsoft now also owns Great Plains so all of the CRM/financial applications from MS are pretty much GP - external.
Isn't the point of OSS that its FREE?
Is the 1% innaccurate part how it botched the hurricane predictions for 2006?
Guess the browser wars are still alive. Hm, competition is supposed to be good for the consumer right? Usually it just means more work for the developer.
Right...take ebonics for example.
*sigh*
Why didn't I use preview. I'd like to correct that I do know the difference between "hear" and "here". It was some subconcious demon that took over and typed it for me.
But isn't that the problem with most Linux deployments? When you have the majority of the IT workforce out there not trained in Linux it makes for a tough hiring process to find someone qualified for a rollout like this. Then, when you do find someone qualified (I'm talking qualified here, not someone who has been running Linux at home as a hobby...but a true Linux Professional) the rates are through the roof.
As Linux matures in the marketplace you will have more people competent in undertaking a process like this rollout and rates will fall. Average time of deployment will fall as well and we'll see more successful rollouts. However, in the hear and now its difficult to get something like this to go off without a hitch due to just the sheer lack of experience in the world.
Right, if John Kerry and John Edwards had have been elected, China would never have restricted Wikipedia in the first place.
Just need to get a life!
Gah!
Etu Brute?