Easy fix here. Give the artist the ability to revoke the licence after (just throwing out a number) 1 year. No exceptions.
If one of the big record labels/movie studios cheats a creator, they will end up losing access to the work in question. If the label/studio succeeds in making it popular, the creator can then take full advantage of it.
Now other labels/studios are more likely to give better licensing terms for something that's already hugely popular, assuming the creator of the work decides to go with another group. They could self-publish by that point in time.
I do tech support actually. Discovered for a particular caller that their DNS server was down because of ping results. What's funny is that everyone in the office she was in was unaffected, just her assigned station. Of course, I'm not high enough level to be allowed to have her switch DNS servers as a temporary fix, so I had to transfer to a higher tech support.
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Do you know who the ISP is through your HOA? You're talking over 14 times my current speed (downstream, upstream is far more vast a difference) at a mere 57% increase in price. I'm hoping Google Fiber begins to spread to force ISP prices down, but until then, the speeds and price you're getting sound awesome.
Not exactly. It's which tags you use for what purpose. For example, The h1 tag treats an item as the most important point of your website, and phrases that match anything inside the tags will rank you up more than matches elsewhere on your page. I'm sure a certain amount of gaming the system is going to be part of it, but Google apparently looks for that kind of thing and will stop websites from showing up if it looks like you're using underhanded tactics to gain a ranking you don't deserve.
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Technically, there are paid applications you can get for Linux that are officially licensed for playing the videos. In that way, it can be legal to watch DVD's on Linux. But it's far better to use libdvdcss2 so that you can watch it with what ever video player you prefer. (Or use Handbrake to simply rip the video)
I partly disagree here. Some games that truly use online as a feature for connecting to other players are great, and definitely worth encouraging. There are, for example, some great mmo's out there. But there will be times when your internet connection fails. Having something that works when your connection is down is invaluable. It means you have something you can do until the connection is back up. For people who live in areas where the connection is NOT stable, single player becomes even more important. We need games that work offline for when your connection goes down.
Maxis != EA. The same way that Ant != Colony. Maxis is part of EA, a development group purchased by EA, but is not itself EA. Maxis did the work in creating SimCity, the publisher would be another company under the EA umbrella.
The problem is that the drugs aren't affordable at all, and Bayer has a monopoly on this drug. What alternative is there when no one else is allowed to make the drug?
Bayer more than made their money back already, and will continue making money off this drug for some time. I'd say the risk is gone at this point. Now they're just required to accept competition. Competition is good, it forces prices down and quality up.
The whole point of the patent granting a monopoly is to mitigate risk. When you've turned a profit, there's no longer risk. The point of the monopoly is gone once the risk is gone. A monopoly is generally harmful to an economy as well as to the public. The moment the monopoly is no longer needed, it should be removed to lessen the harm caused by the monopoly as much as possible.
The fact that Bayer is resorting to flat out lying to try to maintain its monopoly, even after making a profit on this drug, says all I need to know about them and their motives.
Turns out, the exchange rate for euros to dollars is a bit higher. $1.36 per euro, that ends up being $2.72 billion. That would make the correct percentage 10.8% going by my math.
Interesting fact, he's not signed onto either of them. Here's his list of record labels internationally: Bidman, LNLT Entertainment, YG Entertainment, YGEX, Avex Trax, Republic, and Schoolboy. Unless one of those is an alias used by Universal or Sony (I'm not aware of that being the case) then they don't have authority to claim copyright. Further more, he became incredibly popular before signing on to some of these, so he may have been able to negotiate a contract in which he keeps his own copyright, and the label's just have to settle for a license to sell his work.
Just did a quick check. Psy's signed on to multiple record labels. He's signed onto several labels across multiple countries it looks like. The first one he signed on to was YG Entertainment in 2010.
The big thing that draws people to Facebook is often its games, sad as that is. Those games usually operate like a Skinner Box. Small rewards constantly (xp and currency), random larger rewards (new pony or something), and of course, electric shocks if you don't continue (crops withering). The idea is to keep you hooked. You want to play because of the rewards, and you feel compelled to play because of your friends playing, and the game's systematic punishments inflicted upon your "farm" if you don't continue to maintain it. This is why there's that 4th step.
If the building is on fire, just how are you going to be verifying if the user is out of the building? Generally, in the event of a fire, there's a specific plan people follow, and everyone gathers together into the same place to ensure that everyone is accounted for, and everyone made it out. Anyone not there is probably still in the building. Where is intense heat can damage the chip if the kid was caught in the fire, the sensors can also be damaged, making the RFID system unreliable at best, assuming you can even get to the system to make the check in the first place.
Here's another thought, what if the chip shows as active, and being in the school, because the owner gave it to a friend, who hid it in their bag, then left the bag in the school? Now you've got a false report of some one in the building who really isn't.
In regards to the comment about knowing what classes she was in, that's a simple solution. Traditional roll call already does that. RFID does not add some sort of magic new functionality, and in fact, is easier to abuse. Want to appear in school, but not actually be there? Give your card to a friend to carry with them along with their own. Traditional roll call involves the teacher actually verifying with their own eyes the presence of the student. Even using cards that you swipe, it can be fooled. In the aforementioned friend helping you appear present, simply carry the badge with their own, scan both, then enter.
Actually, it does. It only works from distance measured in feet, so you have to have multiple detectors scattered through the school. You can tell where they are based on which detector is scanning them.
It's not responsible for tracking, because in order to do their jobs, they need only make sure the student is in class. Making sure they are in the building, but not in class, doesn't make sense, taking credit for the student being present in the school but "playing hooky" is the opposite of what it should be doing.
Want to verify the student is in the building? Give them a scannable badge, not RFID, then have them scan to enter, and to leave. Problem solved. This with out going overboard on monitoring that tells the exact location of each and every student, where they go, and at what time of day.
That would be fine. The problem with RFID is the degree to which it enables you to be tracked, such as seeing when you go to the bathroom, as well as other safety concerns regarding the personal data stored on those cards in an unencrypted format. Simply having an accurate means of verifying you went to class is not such a big deal. Stick a QR code that represents your student ID number on a card, scan it as you enter class, and they know you are there, they know if you're on time or tardy, and they don't see what you do, or where you go, when you aren't in your classroom.
Truth is, we don't really even need a change to the traditional system, roll call is effective for this, and takes only a minute or two. The whole thing is just a ploy for more money from the district.
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If one of the big record labels/movie studios cheats a creator, they will end up losing access to the work in question. If the label/studio succeeds in making it popular, the creator can then take full advantage of it.
Now other labels/studios are more likely to give better licensing terms for something that's already hugely popular, assuming the creator of the work decides to go with another group. They could self-publish by that point in time.
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Bayer more than made their money back already, and will continue making money off this drug for some time. I'd say the risk is gone at this point. Now they're just required to accept competition. Competition is good, it forces prices down and quality up.
The whole point of the patent granting a monopoly is to mitigate risk. When you've turned a profit, there's no longer risk. The point of the monopoly is gone once the risk is gone. A monopoly is generally harmful to an economy as well as to the public. The moment the monopoly is no longer needed, it should be removed to lessen the harm caused by the monopoly as much as possible.
The fact that Bayer is resorting to flat out lying to try to maintain its monopoly, even after making a profit on this drug, says all I need to know about them and their motives.
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Here's another thought, what if the chip shows as active, and being in the school, because the owner gave it to a friend, who hid it in their bag, then left the bag in the school? Now you've got a false report of some one in the building who really isn't.
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It's not responsible for tracking, because in order to do their jobs, they need only make sure the student is in class. Making sure they are in the building, but not in class, doesn't make sense, taking credit for the student being present in the school but "playing hooky" is the opposite of what it should be doing.
Want to verify the student is in the building? Give them a scannable badge, not RFID, then have them scan to enter, and to leave. Problem solved. This with out going overboard on monitoring that tells the exact location of each and every student, where they go, and at what time of day.
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Truth is, we don't really even need a change to the traditional system, roll call is effective for this, and takes only a minute or two. The whole thing is just a ploy for more money from the district.
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