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by fnid2 16y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/187998/row-offset-in-ms-s...
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by fnid2 16y ago
What if it creates lots of little holes all around the area and the oil continues to leak. Now you have a bigger problem on your hands -- stopping lots of leaks a mile below the surface instead of just one.
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by fnid2 16y ago
I'd like to make it clear that I believe piracy is stealing.
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by fnid2 16y ago
You have no idea of what I have an idea. Why do conversations here seem to degrade into "You don't know what you're talking about?" Or as camperbob puts it, "Clearly you've thought a lot about this?" bit sharing and open source are two top
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by fnid2 16y ago
Yes, when you download it. Specifically, when you acquire possession of the material. If you steal someone's money, but don't spend it, you still stole it. It's not a victimless crime. The victim is the artist who should have received com
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by fnid2 16y ago
If you aren't paying for the music, you aren't paying for the production. If you were paying for the production, you'd pay what the artists' time was worth to create it, the studio time to record it, the post production editing... But you'd
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by fnid2 16y ago
If we have to stop calling equating it with stealing, then we also have to stop equating it with piracy, because pirates didn't make copies of the goods they stole either.
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by fnid2 16y ago
You're making the point that paying for content is good because it enables the artist to eat while concentrating on creating the content -- rather than some other task to earn money. And no, record labels may not always be around in some fo
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by fnid2 16y ago
It's called "checking out a book" or you could use the term "borrowing." Look, this "it's not stealing" argument is a bunch of hog wash. If you think it isn't stealing because the "stolen" goods are simply a copy, why do you use the term "
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by fnid2 16y ago
No I didn't.
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by fnid2 16y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. Everyone knows when you enter into a legal contract you should understand what the legal words mean or don't sign it. I don't care about the major labels, what I care about is maintaining a social structure wh
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by fnid2 16y ago
The reason no one uses Gimp is because the user interface is terrible. Photoshop kills gimp.
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by fnid2 16y ago
I know the motivation. They want it and they don't want to pay for it.
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by fnid2 16y ago
I'm saying that open office creators want you to use it for free. Creators of music do not want you to use it for free. They want to make some money that they can use to pay for rent and time to invest in more music. If you download a
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by fnid2 16y ago
There is a way, it's called the internet. They can put their music on their website and let paypal handle the transactions -- except people don't pay for it that way either and no one hears of the artist when they do...
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by fnid2 16y ago
I'd just do without. Just like I do without the latest version of photoshop or microsoft office. Instead, I use open office in a manner which its creators want me to use it.
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by fnid2 16y ago
The record labels never stole anything. They entered into agreements with the artists. They put cds in stores that consumers agreed to pay for. How can people on your side, in one argument say it isn't stealing to copy music, but it is s
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by fnid2 16y ago
I don't believe that two products are different simply because one is represented in bronze and the other in bits. No one would suggest it is okay to steal a bronze sculpture. I've heard the arguments and when you take something without co
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by fnid2 16y ago
1) Informational copies aren't infinite, they take server space, electricity, and maintenance. 2) and more importantly, how do you overcome the hurdle that production itself requires resource consumption? Stuff at the lower level of Maslow'
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by fnid2 16y ago
If you are of that philosophical mindset, there is no rational argument that will change it. The florist may offer only 5 flowers so she can give more to more people and still charge a reasonable rate. Or maybe she only has 5 left. If you
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by fnid2 16y ago
If every digital copy is charged the same as the old physical ones, the economic benefit of the internet's innovation is effectively obliterated. No way! There is still a huge benefit to the internet. There's no plastic to pollute the e
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by fnid2 16y ago
I don't think "that's the simplest way to get it" is a valid argument. The simplest way to get flowers is to pick them out of someone's flower bed, but we don't advocate that. For me, it's more philosophical. Consumers need to some self con
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by fnid2 16y ago
The main supporter of the global warming ... scam really, also charges thousands of dollars to crowds of people who want to give his talk to others. He is the manager of a hedge fund investing billions in "green" technology. He is one of
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by fnid2 16y ago
I was searching for some legitimate software the other day and a link to the pirate bay came up on google. I was shocked. As a producer of software and content including movies and pics, I am also shocked that websites like this find so mu
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by fnid2 16y ago
More like division into zero right? If it was by zero, then there'd be no engineers and an undefined supply of jobs. But more to the point, there are lots of ways to be technically engaged. Elance, guru.com, hireacoder kind of places n
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by fnid2 16y ago
You know, when you boil it all down, most things in life are about the approval process. Money has become the defacto standard for approval. If the FDA requires millions of dollars to be approved, then the people, law, and pharmacies believ
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by fnid2 16y ago
You imply that works of geniuses should be noticed, but geniuses are so esoteric, rare, and difficult to understand that most wouldn't notice. Since the majority of people don't care about what geniuses care about, it's unlikely they'll a
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by fnid2 16y ago
I work remotely with people on different continents, so I think they don't need to be local. Probably isn't going to be a local person because I live in a rural area with few technical/business people anyway. I use gotomeeting / phone and
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by fnid2 16y ago
Nothing serious or too time consuming. More in line with "every piece of software can be made better." Here's what's done: The data model is built, online forms to enter the data, reporting, an easy to administer setup system and accept ne
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Ask HN: Finding a business partner to sell my SaaS?
4 points by fnid2 16y ago|6 comments

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