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The fact remains that more piracy leads to higher revenues. (In the content industry.)
I don't know where the notion of 'piracy' leaves off and 'entitlement' begins.
I decided it was better for my inner self if I just didn't go there.
- If I want something, or use something, I'll buy it. Always.
- I'll always prefer to sample or trial some things first. But if that's not possible, the burden of my satisfaction rests entirely on the shoulders of the seller.
- If I don't like it - or feel it was misrepresented by the seller - I'll return it and ask for my money back.
- If I can't have a refund, the person I paid is welcome to what they got. It's the last they'll ever get from me - and I'll bad mouth them to everyone I know plus anybody else who will listen.
- Conversely, if I do like what I get (and the way I was treated) I'll freely recommend them and their product(s) whenever asked, or when it's otherwise appropriate.
I make it a point to always act in good faith. And I make a far better friend and admirer than I do an adversary.
I think the same can be said of most of us here at DoCo.
Wise businesses know that.-40hz (November 23, 2014, 06:30 PM)
And beware, in this forum, there are unfortunately some people who happily take the side of governments - of governments of ANY mindset.-peter.s (November 21, 2014, 03:53 PM)
Where did you get this idea from? We support freely expressing whatever viewpoint you want to... this statement makes this a lot of advise tempered by unwarranted negativity. If anything, most here are anti-government control, or lean that way.-wraith808 (November 21, 2014, 04:30 PM)
I'd love to see some more photos of where people live..-mouser (November 20, 2014, 10:53 AM)
Finally! Rose-colored glasses made a reality.
-40hz (November 19, 2014, 06:51 AM)
I want the "Beer Goggles" app!-Stephen66515 (November 19, 2014, 08:20 AM)
Dude... Stop being such a lazy bum and just brew your own!-Renegade (November 19, 2014, 08:25 AM)
Finally! Rose-colored glasses made a reality.-40hz (November 19, 2014, 06:51 AM)
Yeah, sounds like BS, the whole thing-tomos (November 17, 2014, 03:37 PM)
Best of luck with the whole thing Stephen-tomos (November 17, 2014, 03:18 PM)
Sounds about par for the course for the UK? (Not trying to be offensive - but looking at successive UK governments' records does not inspire.)-tomos (November 17, 2014, 01:28 PM)
Sounds about par for the course for the UK? (Not trying to be offensive - but looking at successive UK governments' records does not inspire.)
Prime basement material, this is Stephen ;-)-tomos (November 17, 2014, 01:28 PM)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mandatory Work Activity (MWA) is a workfare programme in the United Kingdom that started in May 2011, whereby individuals must work for their benefits or risk being 'sanctioned' and losing them. An academic analysis by the Department of Work and Pensions cast doubt on the effectiveness of MWA, and despite finding "little evidence" that workfare improved claimants gaining paid employment, the DWP ignored the findings of the study, and in June 2012, the scheme received a £5m expansion. A similar but little-known scheme 'Jobseeker Mandatory Activity' (JMA), was piloted by New Labour in 2006, but did not last beyond 2008. JMA targeted those claimants 25 and over, who had been unemployed for 6 months or more and made claimants liable to 'sanction' for non-compliance.
Legal challenge to the scheme, and retrospective legalisation
The legality of the scheme was indirectly challenged in the case Caitlin Reilly and Jamieson Wilson v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The High Court partially found in the claimants' favour; they then appealed to the Court of Appeal, which ruled in February 2013 that the 2011 Regulations 'were unlawful and that the Secretary of State had acted beyond the powers given to him by Parliament by failing to provide any detail about the various “Back to Work” schemes in the Regulations'.
The Department for Work and Pensions appealed to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, it also drafted new regulations to ensure the continuance of the work placements. During the period of the scheme which had been ruled unlawful, perhaps 300,000 people had had benefits of an average of around £530-70 withheld, totalling around £130m which the DWP was potentially obliged to repay if Reilly and Wilson won their case in the Supreme Court. The Government sought to avoid having to make these repayments by retrospecively changing the law through the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill, which became law on 26 March 2013.
However, Mandatory Work Activity was created under its own set of regulations so though the ruling touched on many of the same issues and the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act amended the regulatory foundation of the scheme, it was not directly affected by the outcome of the Appeal Court ruling.
The law firm acting for Reilly and Wilson, Public Interest Lawyers, reportedly lodged submissions to the supreme court, arguing that 'the actions of the secretary of state … represent a clear violation of article 6 [of the European convention on human rights] and the rule of law, as an interference in the judicial process by the legislature'.
Legal challenge to non-disclosure of participating organisations
The Department for Work and Pensions has worked to keep secret the list of organisations participating in the MWP scheme. A freedom of information request submitted around March 2012 resulted in a first-tier tribunal ruling in May 2013 that the DWP must reveal these names. The deadline for appeals expired in October 2013, but no list has been forthcoming, as of December 2013. A provisional list of organisations using workfare has been collected by the Boycott Workfare campaign.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. Once again.
Beware of geeks bearing gifts.-40hz (November 13, 2014, 05:24 AM)
It's happening. It's the reason that a lot of us came to work for Microsoft, and I think it's both the end of an era but also the beginning of amazing things to come.
The .NET 2015 wave of releases is upon us. Here's what's happening and we announced it today in New York. There's a lot here, so drink it all in slowly.
Be sure to check out all the blog posts I'm linking to at the end, but here's my personal rollup and take on the situation.
We are serious about open source and cross platform.
.NET Core 5 is the modern, componentized framework that ships via NuGet. That means you can ship a private version of the .NET Core Framework with your app. Other apps' versions can't change your app's behavior.
We are building a .NET Core CLR for Windows, Mac and Linux and it will be both open source and it will be supported by Microsoft. It'll all happen at https://github.com/dotnet.
We are open sourcing the RyuJit and the .NET GC and making them both cross-platform.
ASP.NET 5 will work everywhere.
ASP.NET 5 will be available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mac and Linux support will come soon and it's all going to happen in the open on GitHub at https://github.com/aspnet.
ASP.NET 5 will include a web server for Mac and Linux called kestrel built on libuv. It's similar to the one that comes with node, and you could front it with Nginx for production, for example.
Developers should have a great experience.
There is a new FREE SKU for Visual Studio for open source developers and students called Visual Studio Community. It supports extensions and lots more all in one download. This is not Express. This is basically Pro.
Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 5 will support gulp, grunt, bower and npm for front end developers.
A community team (including myself and Sayed from the ASP.NET and web tools team have created the OmniSharp organization along with the Kulture build system as a way to bring real Intellisense to Sublime, Atom, Brackets, Vim, and Emacs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Check out http://www.omnisharp.net as well as blog posts by team members Jonathan Channon
Even more open source.
Much of the .NET Core Framework 4.6 and its Reference Source source is going on GitHub. It's being relicensed under the MIT license, so Mono (and you!) can use that source code in their .NET implementations.
There's a new hub for Microsoft open source that is hosted GitHub at http://microsoft.github.io.
Open sourcing .NET makes good sense. It makes good business sense, good community sense, and today everyone at Microsoft see this like we do.
