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You lose the potential revenue for any item that is not purchased whether it is pirated or not. By that logic, the government should force everyone to buy CDs because otherwise they're taking away "potential sales".
It's not like pirates can mod their copies of Vista or Windows 7 and activate them regardless of any WGA. Or add some sort of loader in their boot sector to pretend their computers are OEM mass-licensed equipment such as Dell or Acer laptops that don't need activation, or actually flash the BIOS of the machines so that for all intents and purposes they tell Microsoft that they are one of said OEM computers with OEM serial numbers that are shared across all computers of the same brand. And then use Microsoft Update to get the latest updates.
Luckily, people won't be able to do any of that to their unauthorized copies. It seems that Microsoft has finally defeated piracy.
Nobody makes money from music now. It's all about, like, writing it down. Or playing it. Or recording it or something. Just having the music no longer makes money!
Owen: "Why don't we pay it off in Canadian dollars and save ourselves some money?"
Peter: "Alright, just so you know, if that's a route that you're interested in traveling, it's $50,000 american, it would be 70,000, roughly, Canadian dollars."
"But I will remind you when Mike links to this story in the future with a line like "Entertainment Giants want cable only", which would be attempting to make a fact out of opinion."
It seems to me you're making a fact out of your opinion right now. Bad AC, bad!
It's not like the UK has ever done anything wrong, like following the wrong suspect to a train and shot him in the head and chest repeatedly to make sure he was dead, because some other guy that dressed completely different with no resemblance whatsoever may or may not have been part of some bombings, and then said to their mother "though luck ma'am, we're doing our job" and refused any kind of responsibility.
A friend from work just told me when he was in school, he published a paper online with some criticism, the school freaked out, investigated who wrote the paper, interrogated him and finally expelled him.
"...think 'architecting a skyscraper while designing a shopping mall and a rocket engine.'"
Interestingly enough, this is the kind of multitasking that Managers love to inflict on software development. Usually followed by "x and x can multitask, why can't you?"
To me, multitasking (the inefficient kind) is for example, when you boss wants you to do task 1 in Project A, but then also wants task 2 in Project B, and task 9 in Project C. Since they all have a close due date, he wants you to work these projects "in parallel" by doing multitasking, advancing 5% of each task in a time period and showing the progress. Which means that in the time you would have finished 100% of a task, you somehow managed to do 10% of each of 3 different tasks, and probably with quite a few errors from all that "task switching" in your brain.
The "other kind" of multitasking, which I agree doesn't cause inefficiencies in my opinion, is for example, when you need to do Task A, you alt-tab to your mail, send a few mails, twitter about it, do a bit of photoshop, go back and do some PHP, then back to photoshop, then play 5 minutes of minesweeper, etc. That's the kind that keeps the mind active and productive.
"With rare exception, if any, my so-called "snide comments" have been directed to personal put-downs in response to comments otherwise made in good faith."
TRANSLATION: Well, um, in my case it's different because my farts don't stink.
Actually, you set the bar higher for yourself stating that you have "nothing to hide" and therefore don't mind all your information being known.
The rest of the people here have not stated that they want everyone to know their private information because they have "nothing to hide" and thus have made no requirement to themselves to reveal said info.
Is it that difficult to understand? By not revealing that info, you are actually agreeing with them tacitly, but you're saying the opposite in an attempt to troll or simply to make yourself look better (ex: the definition of hypocrisy).
Once upon a time, man invented language. And all was good.
But sometimes, language wasn't good enough to explain things, so the figure of speech was born. Then the simile. And hence cameth the metaphor.
So, now, instead of having to tell about every tiny bit of something that happened, man could use a figure of speech to compare two different yet related events.
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Hey, I just bought a new computer... wait, I'm not a journalist. It's my opinion that I just bought a new computer.
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Luckily, people won't be able to do any of that to their unauthorized copies. It seems that Microsoft has finally defeated piracy.
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Peter: "Alright, just so you know, if that's a route that you're interested in traveling, it's $50,000 american, it would be 70,000, roughly, Canadian dollars."
Owen: "How are we gonna come up with $120,000?"
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It seems to me you're making a fact out of your opinion right now. Bad AC, bad!
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Interestingly enough, this is the kind of multitasking that Managers love to inflict on software development. Usually followed by "x and x can multitask, why can't you?"
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The "other kind" of multitasking, which I agree doesn't cause inefficiencies in my opinion, is for example, when you need to do Task A, you alt-tab to your mail, send a few mails, twitter about it, do a bit of photoshop, go back and do some PHP, then back to photoshop, then play 5 minutes of minesweeper, etc. That's the kind that keeps the mind active and productive.
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TRANSLATION: Well, um, in my case it's different because my farts don't stink.
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The rest of the people here have not stated that they want everyone to know their private information because they have "nothing to hide" and thus have made no requirement to themselves to reveal said info.
Is it that difficult to understand? By not revealing that info, you are actually agreeing with them tacitly, but you're saying the opposite in an attempt to troll or simply to make yourself look better (ex: the definition of hypocrisy).
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Once upon a time, man invented language. And all was good.
But sometimes, language wasn't good enough to explain things, so the figure of speech was born. Then the simile. And hence cameth the metaphor.
So, now, instead of having to tell about every tiny bit of something that happened, man could use a figure of speech to compare two different yet related events.
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