Actually, customers largely refuse to buy based on service. Among the service-is-king tier, there's room in the market for Neiman Marcus and... uh... well, that's it. Everyone else that tries, regrets the move.
It's like newspapers blocking access to content behind a paywall. Everyone has to try eventually, and each time it fails: consumers race toward the bottom on cost far faster and more forcefully than they pay attention to quality and service.
I don't like this, but it's a dominant rule of market economics. Incidentally, the same market economics are behind America's jobs *sprinting* to China. The example I've been watching most recently is the Raspberry Pi team's decision that they can't afford to manufacture in the UK as they'd hoped. Time and costs were too much to overcome.
Actually, UK law made it impossible to offer the product at the price because of taxes. They found manufacturing houses that were willing to do the work.
Let's say that U2 has a new song that's almost out. It gets leaked (somehow) to the internet. Bono sends a copy to Edge on MegaUpload so that he can play it for a performer from their opening act so that they can hear it and end their act with a song that's not too similar. U2's manager sends a copy to an advertising agency to use in a commercial. The band sends a copy to the execs at Island Records so that they can send it to radio stations. Also, a pirate makes it and the Megaupload link available for download.
The lawyers for U2's label (rightfully) demand immediate takedown for the pirate link, because it's being used for piracy. How many of the 4 copies are illegal?
The answer is probably one. MegaUpload would be right to leave the other 3 identical copies alone. This is the problem with copyright infringement claims. The files don't come with dossiers explaining who is and is not allowed to listen to it. That's why copyright and fair use must be decided in a court of law.
Exactly. The earth seems remarkably resilient at growing more plants when there is more CO2. Venus had no such luxury. Comparing the 2 and saying that "look at the obvious outcome" is disingenuous.
And you can't give a digital download as a gift, but I have bought more packaged games as gifts for others than as digital downloads for myself. This move would cut my game spending by about 90% as I give my friends and kids other types of gifts.
Exactly. It even makes good investor sense for Google to buy, say, Universal or Viacom. Without buying them, one of their largest assets—YouTube—is in jeopardy. This even takes care of anti-trust issues.
Android is certainly the bargain option. Apple makes more money than Microsoft in the PC market, so you could say they are "winning". But that would neglect the fact that Microsoft has over 90% market share.
And that, although Apple had as much as 14% market share in the past, a couple bad decisions and they were nearly gone. Microsoft has made hundreds of bad decisions, and yet they survive no problem.
Because they wasted a lot of tax dollars investigating for a year to make sure the people indicted actually had a conspiracy to upload files themselves and not as third parties (I'm guessing). Do you know how much work that is?
I always wondered why Fry's Electronics opens shrink-wrapped products when you return them new. Of course, they will put stuff that you specifically returned as broken back on the shelf with a "Don't Buy Me" sticker.
And beyond that, anything that doesn't promote additional works should be unconstitutional. Taking dead authors' works out of the public domain doesn't encourage creation.
Care to explain how simply having NAT doesn't increase security a great deal? That's like saying that Web Services don't improve security over simple SQL security. True, you could do it either way, but most admins seem to be going with the web services for some odd reason.
Actually, I recently drove through New Mexico and was surprised by the green fields, grazing animals and tons of nice-looking farms/ranches along a long stretch of road. It was not what Looney Tunes said it would be (that was Arizona).
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Actually, customers largely refuse to buy based on service. Among the service-is-king tier, there's room in the market for Neiman Marcus and... uh... well, that's it. Everyone else that tries, regrets the move. It's like newspapers blocking access to content behind a paywall. Everyone has to try eventually, and each time it fails: consumers race toward the bottom on cost far faster and more forcefully than they pay attention to quality and service. I don't like this, but it's a dominant rule of market economics. Incidentally, the same market economics are behind America's jobs *sprinting* to China. The example I've been watching most recently is the Raspberry Pi team's decision that they can't afford to manufacture in the UK as they'd hoped. Time and costs were too much to overcome.
Actually, UK law made it impossible to offer the product at the price because of taxes. They found manufacturing houses that were willing to do the work.
Maybe they could sell American-made products.
OK, let's play this game.
Let's say that U2 has a new song that's almost out. It gets leaked (somehow) to the internet. Bono sends a copy to Edge on MegaUpload so that he can play it for a performer from their opening act so that they can hear it and end their act with a song that's not too similar. U2's manager sends a copy to an advertising agency to use in a commercial. The band sends a copy to the execs at Island Records so that they can send it to radio stations. Also, a pirate makes it and the Megaupload link available for download.
The lawyers for U2's label (rightfully) demand immediate takedown for the pirate link, because it's being used for piracy. How many of the 4 copies are illegal?
The answer is probably one. MegaUpload would be right to leave the other 3 identical copies alone. This is the problem with copyright infringement claims. The files don't come with dossiers explaining who is and is not allowed to listen to it. That's why copyright and fair use must be decided in a court of law.
Exactly. The earth seems remarkably resilient at growing more plants when there is more CO2. Venus had no such luxury. Comparing the 2 and saying that "look at the obvious outcome" is disingenuous.
When scientists start appealing to popularity instead of arguments, you may want to reconsider what they're saying...
Digital Intelligent Design at work you mean... These programs weren't created by /dev/null you know...
He said respect, not fear. There's a difference.
And you can't give a digital download as a gift, but I have bought more packaged games as gifts for others than as digital downloads for myself. This move would cut my game spending by about 90% as I give my friends and kids other types of gifts.
Exactly. It even makes good investor sense for Google to buy, say, Universal or Viacom. Without buying them, one of their largest assets—YouTube—is in jeopardy. This even takes care of anti-trust issues.
Android is certainly the bargain option. Apple makes more money than Microsoft in the PC market, so you could say they are "winning". But that would neglect the fact that Microsoft has over 90% market share. And that, although Apple had as much as 14% market share in the past, a couple bad decisions and they were nearly gone. Microsoft has made hundreds of bad decisions, and yet they survive no problem.
Because they wasted a lot of tax dollars investigating for a year to make sure the people indicted actually had a conspiracy to upload files themselves and not as third parties (I'm guessing). Do you know how much work that is?
Well, let's all switch to that then. They'll never catch us... (Dear FBI: I don't actually pirate anything.)
Interesting...with a name like 'Kim', I'd assumed it was a chick....
And with a name like 'Dotcom', I expected him to be a website...
That's what I don't get. Resisting arrest should not be allowed to stand alone. How is that even possible in a supposedly free country?
I always wondered why Fry's Electronics opens shrink-wrapped products when you return them new. Of course, they will put stuff that you specifically returned as broken back on the shelf with a "Don't Buy Me" sticker.
1 million years is limited...
Well, he did try to pick people familiar with the Constitution instead of activists...
Shouldn't that make this an Ex Post Facto law? Again, making it unconstitutional?
And beyond that, anything that doesn't promote additional works should be unconstitutional. Taking dead authors' works out of the public domain doesn't encourage creation.
Windows 8 sucks! Yeah!
The copyright hasn't been extended. It still expires 14 years after his death... Still, it seems like an eternity.
Definitely not. Have you seen the interface? No intelligence in sight.
Actually, because I use NotScript on Chrome, I didn't see the protest at all until I enabled JavaScript on wikimedia.org.
Care to explain how simply having NAT doesn't increase security a great deal? That's like saying that Web Services don't improve security over simple SQL security. True, you could do it either way, but most admins seem to be going with the web services for some odd reason.
Actually, I recently drove through New Mexico and was surprised by the green fields, grazing animals and tons of nice-looking farms/ranches along a long stretch of road. It was not what Looney Tunes said it would be (that was Arizona).