While grandparent is probably exaggerating about missiles being worth $200 million, he does have a point. Keep in mind that $10 million is the entire development cost of the program to date. From the F-22 wikipedia article, $28 billion has been spent on its development so far.
What about software your organization doesn't find useful? Games, for instance? I have no doubt that some game developers would still be willing to make games motivated by passion. I do doubt that as many individuals and companies would be interested in making games if they knew they probably wouldn't see any profit from it.
Copyright law is preserving the right of the artist to attempt to profit from their work without the active interference of others.
...copyright is supposed to exist to encourage people to create works that they otherwise would not..
I don't see why you can't both be right. From what I remember learning, copyright law has its origins in the publishing of printed material (books, etc) - it protects an author/publisher's right to control the duplication & distribution of a printed work without some other publisher making copies available for cheaper and undercutting the first party's profits. In this way authors are encouraged to create things knowing that they stand a chance of making some income off of it, whereas they might not be inclined to do so if anyone anywhere could just print a cheaper copy of their book, sell it, and pocket the profits for themselves.
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shit car.
Might want to see a doctor about that.
Really, who modded this Troll? I don't have a stance on the ribbon but I don't see anything offensive or inflammatory in this post.
Maybe they should weight the participants by the amount of time they spend gaming?
This is amazingly exploitable. It even lets you inject arbitrary html in the query.
Hopefully the risk of running into the real cops doing the job? (I think impersonating a police officer is usually illegal...)
I have a simple solution to this. Whenever I reach 389 tabs, I just open another one to make 390.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Conrad_R%C3%B6ntgen
While grandparent is probably exaggerating about missiles being worth $200 million, he does have a point. Keep in mind that $10 million is the entire development cost of the program to date. From the F-22 wikipedia article, $28 billion has been spent on its development so far.
I agree with the +5 funny, but I think some line breaks would really have helped here.
...do not welcome those who would welcome our new robotic soldier overlords.
Yeah, that's what happens when you accidentally combine Element 8 with hydrogen instead of carbon.
What about software your organization doesn't find useful? Games, for instance? I have no doubt that some game developers would still be willing to make games motivated by passion. I do doubt that as many individuals and companies would be interested in making games if they knew they probably wouldn't see any profit from it.
Copyright law is preserving the right of the artist to attempt to profit from their work without the active interference of others.
...copyright is supposed to exist to encourage people to create works that they otherwise would not..
I don't see why you can't both be right. From what I remember learning, copyright law has its origins in the publishing of printed material (books, etc) - it protects an author/publisher's right to control the duplication & distribution of a printed work without some other publisher making copies available for cheaper and undercutting the first party's profits. In this way authors are encouraged to create things knowing that they stand a chance of making some income off of it, whereas they might not be inclined to do so if anyone anywhere could just print a cheaper copy of their book, sell it, and pocket the profits for themselves.
I can't speak for Edgy, but I ran Dapper just fine in Virtual PC.