I can't use Amazon because I'm not in either the US or UK. Although I should be able to buypass their IP based regional restrictions with a simple SSH tunnel through a US server, it depends if they'll accept my non-US card or PayPal.
I am able to use 7digital because they don't seem to have regional restrictions and I can pay with PayPal. It seems I would only need to be from the UK if I were paying by credit card. 7digital also has the advantage of keeping all my purchases available to redownload whenever I need, which will be great if I ever loose any tracks by accident.
I can buy from the Australian or Norwegian iTunes (since I have credit card from those 2 countries), but I only do that when 7digital doesn't have the music and it's available from iTunes Plus.
I might also try BigPond Music (An Australian store), now that they're switching from WMA to MP3, but the usability of their site isn't very good.
I haven't tried Rhapsody yet. I might give it a try one day, if I'm able to buy from it despite not being in the USA.
You may not care right now, and nor might an average user. But just wait till the day you want to switch from iPod to some other MP3 player, or for the day when Apple threatens to switch off their licencing servers (as has happened to several others already). Unfortunately, that's when most users will find out about DRM: when it's already too late!
Thankfully, Requiem is available to strip Apple's FairPlay DRM, for those who care to look for it. Although, not everyone does.
I'm not aware of any service plan that charges a optional monthly fee for maintenance on wires within the home. Perhaps the system works differently in your country. But in my country, when there's a problem with wiring in the house, then people are well aware of the fact that they'll have to pay a tradesman to come and fix the problem.
I'd argue the reason people don't like paying for stuff like that is because it can be a rather expensive, unexpected cost, especially for people living on a limited budget. But that's the same regardless of whether it's getting their phone wiring fixed, or their electrical wiring, plumbing, washing machine, or whatever. It has nothing to do wither whether or not they think they own the wiring.
Most homeowners don't want to own the wiring inside their homes, let alone the wiring outside of it.
How is that "Insigntful"? Upon what evidence are you basing such an outrageous claim? I've never heard anyone want to disown the wiring in their house.
That's because what American's call Milky Ways are much more similar to what we in Australia and Europe call Mars Bars. Also note that the nougat in the middle of European Milky Ways (at least those I've tried in Norway) is different from that found in Australian Milky Ways. The Australian nougat is brown and chocolaty, European nougat is a lighter creamier colour and tastes more like Vanilla.
This is not child porn. The image is really low resolution, the cracked glass effect covers genitals. This is little different from the Nirvana's album Nevermind featuring a naked baby boy.
The real problem with child porn is the trauma that kids suffer from being sexually exploited and abused. There is clearly no such exploitation going on here. The issue is just that society is becoming increasingly paranoid about nudity, regardless of context.
There's nothing inherently wrong with the try-before-you-buy approach. In fact, many software developers offer free demos for just that purpose. If there was such a demo available, and it wasn't so overly restrictive in terms of game play, then ethically, the right thing to do is to download that instead. If there isn't one available, then I think pirating the game with the intention of either buying it or trashing it, and actually following through, is a reasonable alternative, even if it is frowned upon by the industry.
It's been known for a long time that piracy can lead to more sales. It's why music sales increased when Napster was running, and decreased when it got killed. And it's why many book sellers are offering free digital copies and seeing increased sales of printed versions.
I wonder if you could buy one now, and then buy another in a 1.5 years. Then in another 1.5 years after that, claim the new laptop from the first deal, and then claim the second a 1.5 years after that. So that gives a 3 year gap between each upgrade for each laptop, but you still get a new laptop every 1.5 years.
Europe is in the Northern hemisphere, and so the seasons are the same as North America. Therefore, Summer would refer to the period from around June to August.
Yep, I'm sure Shampoo did invent it, but Halliburton have now patented it and will sue him for it. But not to worry, as Shampoo also has a patent on a method of inventing an idea and will just countersue.
Also, people don't seem to realize there are hardly any real democracies in the world, only republics.
Either you must be using some strange definition for the word republic that I'm not familiar with, or you're excluding countries which certainly are not republics, like the UK, Australia and other countries in the monarchy, and many other countries around the world which are not republics.
"either I'm going blind, or the layout is evil (Most likely both)"
I have invented a system where readers may control the design and layout of a web page, altering that provided by the page author, by changing preferences in their web browser, or by loading a special file called a user stylesheet. This idea was invented by Shampoo.
"Praying to God for something physically impossible, and then for it to happen. If the sun stopped in the sky if, and only if, the Pope and 100,000 people prayed for it, that would be pretty convincing."
If the sun appeared to stop in the sky, then that would mean that the earth slowed its rotation so that 1 day is equal to 1 year. Much like the way that the same side of the moon always faces the earth, the same side of the earth would always face the sun. Hypothetically, that could happen if we made one side of earth significantly heavier than the other, and then given enough time, it would become gravitationally locked on that side.
That wouldn't prove the existence of god; but this may prove that I have too much time on my hands to work this out.
maybe i'm wrong, and Australians are more receptive to the voice of reason than Americans are. but then again, a rational society would not be facing this dilemma, since they wouldn't put anyone in power who'd even be considering this kind of nationwide internet censorship. i mean, the Chinese at least have an excuse since they don't really elect their government officials. but Australia?
When it comes to elections, there are generally a lot more issues involved than just this one, which I personally knew nothing about until quite recently. In particular, we had to get rid of John Howard to abolosh his mistakes like "Work Choices" (the highly controversial workplace laws he forced on us), and the way he followed Bush to war, and countless other issues.
Yeah, it would nice to get a government that's completely perfect in every way, and wouldn't try to introduce such an appalling internet censorship system. But in reality, there are problems with all governments and in the grand scheme of things, this government is still better than what we had for more than a decade before.
I wouldn't expect individual companies to register their own TLDs like that. However, I would expect various industry groups to register TLDs specific to their industry.
e.g. It would be a good idea for the film industry (or someone who wants to get in before them) to register a.mov and/or.film TLD, and offer them for around the same price range as.tv domains currently sell for, or more. A TLD like this would surely get a good Return on Investment selling them to the movie studios for each movie.
Indeed. Creating an optical mouse using a blue LED instead of a red one, and then having the marketing department come up with a fancy name like BlueTrack really is the pinnacle of American innovation.
It's sad that this is happening. As an Australian, I'm appalled that this is happening. Although I'm glad for many reasons that we finally got rid of little Bush Jr. (John Howard) and replaced him Kevin Rudd, it's a disaster that they now want to impose this crap on everyone.
Personally, I think the whole idea of content filtering to protect the children, as they claim, is bogus. Regardless of whether the filtering is done by the parents on their own computer or by the ISPs on the whole internet, I think it's bullshit.
Kids don't need overly restrictive blocks in place to prevent them getting access to porn, bomb making instructions or whatever else is deem inappropriate; nor do they need any kind of punishment if they do get access. Rather, they need good parental guidence to let them know what they should and should not look at, and be taught to be responsible with whatever they do get access to.
Besides, if some 13 or 14 year old boy looks up some porn, good for him. I did when I was that age, as did almost everyone else I knew back then, and it did me no harm at all. (Also, letting kids get porn for free from the internet is better then letting them resort to stealing porno mags that they're not allowed to buy legally)
Please read the other comments that said basically the same thing before posting, and then read my reply pointing out that this discussion is about HTML, not CSS.
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I can't use Amazon because I'm not in either the US or UK. Although I should be able to buypass their IP based regional restrictions with a simple SSH tunnel through a US server, it depends if they'll accept my non-US card or PayPal.
I am able to use 7digital because they don't seem to have regional restrictions and I can pay with PayPal. It seems I would only need to be from the UK if I were paying by credit card. 7digital also has the advantage of keeping all my purchases available to redownload whenever I need, which will be great if I ever loose any tracks by accident.
I can buy from the Australian or Norwegian iTunes (since I have credit card from those 2 countries), but I only do that when 7digital doesn't have the music and it's available from iTunes Plus.
I might also try BigPond Music (An Australian store), now that they're switching from WMA to MP3, but the usability of their site isn't very good.
I haven't tried Rhapsody yet. I might give it a try one day, if I'm able to buy from it despite not being in the USA.
You may not care right now, and nor might an average user. But just wait till the day you want to switch from iPod to some other MP3 player, or for the day when Apple threatens to switch off their licencing servers (as has happened to several others already). Unfortunately, that's when most users will find out about DRM: when it's already too late!
Thankfully, Requiem is available to strip Apple's FairPlay DRM, for those who care to look for it. Although, not everyone does.
They have published a member list.
http://www.riaa.com/aboutus.php?content_selector=aboutus_members
I'm not aware of any service plan that charges a optional monthly fee for maintenance on wires within the home. Perhaps the system works differently in your country. But in my country, when there's a problem with wiring in the house, then people are well aware of the fact that they'll have to pay a tradesman to come and fix the problem.
I'd argue the reason people don't like paying for stuff like that is because it can be a rather expensive, unexpected cost, especially for people living on a limited budget. But that's the same regardless of whether it's getting their phone wiring fixed, or their electrical wiring, plumbing, washing machine, or whatever. It has nothing to do wither whether or not they think they own the wiring.
Most homeowners don't want to own the wiring inside their homes, let alone the wiring outside of it.
How is that "Insigntful"? Upon what evidence are you basing such an outrageous claim? I've never heard anyone want to disown the wiring in their house.
my immediate question was, "did they try a PAL player?"
Don't DVD players in the US support both PAL and NTSC? We use PAL in Australia, but I'm fairly sure all TVs and DVD players still support NTSC.
That's because what American's call Milky Ways are much more similar to what we in Australia and Europe call Mars Bars. Also note that the nougat in the middle of European Milky Ways (at least those I've tried in Norway) is different from that found in Australian Milky Ways. The Australian nougat is brown and chocolaty, European nougat is a lighter creamier colour and tastes more like Vanilla.
Not everything will be blocked. Only the really dangerous stuff like cartoon porn!
I agree. It is child porn.
This is not child porn. The image is really low resolution, the cracked glass effect covers genitals. This is little different from the Nirvana's album Nevermind featuring a naked baby boy.
The real problem with child porn is the trauma that kids suffer from being sexually exploited and abused. There is clearly no such exploitation going on here. The issue is just that society is becoming increasingly paranoid about nudity, regardless of context.
There's nothing inherently wrong with the try-before-you-buy approach. In fact, many software developers offer free demos for just that purpose. If there was such a demo available, and it wasn't so overly restrictive in terms of game play, then ethically, the right thing to do is to download that instead. If there isn't one available, then I think pirating the game with the intention of either buying it or trashing it, and actually following through, is a reasonable alternative, even if it is frowned upon by the industry.
It's been known for a long time that piracy can lead to more sales. It's why music sales increased when Napster was running, and decreased when it got killed. And it's why many book sellers are offering free digital copies and seeing increased sales of printed versions.
The battery in my OLPC just says "Rechargeable Li-Fe Battery". It's not specific about being either of the alternatives you suggest.
I wonder if you could buy one now, and then buy another in a 1.5 years. Then in another 1.5 years after that, claim the new laptop from the first deal, and then claim the second a 1.5 years after that. So that gives a 3 year gap between each upgrade for each laptop, but you still get a new laptop every 1.5 years.
Europe is in the Northern hemisphere, and so the seasons are the same as North America. Therefore, Summer would refer to the period from around June to August.
The MIT licence is compatible with the GPL, and the Apache Licence v 2.0 is compatible with GPL3 (not GPL2)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
Yep, I'm sure Shampoo did invent it, but Halliburton have now patented it and will sue him for it. But not to worry, as Shampoo also has a patent on a method of inventing an idea and will just countersue.
I'm guessing you missed the link that was included in both the slashdot summary and the article!
Also, people don't seem to realize there are hardly any real democracies in the world, only republics.
Either you must be using some strange definition for the word republic that I'm not familiar with, or you're excluding countries which certainly are not republics, like the UK, Australia and other countries in the monarchy, and many other countries around the world which are not republics.
There are more inventions by Shampoo in this old post on Google Groups from 2003.
http://groups.google.com/group/z-netz.gesundheit.drogen/browse_thread/thread/2a3183d4db1eef10/4b35e280323eeea1
"Man, my eye hurts. I'm seeing weird spots now.
"either I'm going blind, or the layout is evil (Most likely both)"
I have invented a system where readers may control the design and layout of a web page, altering that provided by the page author, by changing preferences in their web browser, or by loading a special file called a user stylesheet. This idea was invented by Shampoo.
"Praying to God for something physically impossible, and then for it to happen. If the sun stopped in the sky if, and only if, the Pope and 100,000 people prayed for it, that would be pretty convincing."
If the sun appeared to stop in the sky, then that would mean that the earth slowed its rotation so that 1 day is equal to 1 year. Much like the way that the same side of the moon always faces the earth, the same side of the earth would always face the sun. Hypothetically, that could happen if we made one side of earth significantly heavier than the other, and then given enough time, it would become gravitationally locked on that side.
That wouldn't prove the existence of god; but this may prove that I have too much time on my hands to work this out.
maybe i'm wrong, and Australians are more receptive to the voice of reason than Americans are. but then again, a rational society would not be facing this dilemma, since they wouldn't put anyone in power who'd even be considering this kind of nationwide internet censorship. i mean, the Chinese at least have an excuse since they don't really elect their government officials. but Australia?
When it comes to elections, there are generally a lot more issues involved than just this one, which I personally knew nothing about until quite recently. In particular, we had to get rid of John Howard to abolosh his mistakes like "Work Choices" (the highly controversial workplace laws he forced on us), and the way he followed Bush to war, and countless other issues.
Yeah, it would nice to get a government that's completely perfect in every way, and wouldn't try to introduce such an appalling internet censorship system. But in reality, there are problems with all governments and in the grand scheme of things, this government is still better than what we had for more than a decade before.
I wouldn't expect individual companies to register their own TLDs like that. However, I would expect various industry groups to register TLDs specific to their industry.
e.g. It would be a good idea for the film industry (or someone who wants to get in before them) to register a .mov and/or .film TLD, and offer them for around the same price range as .tv domains currently sell for, or more. A TLD like this would surely get a good Return on Investment selling them to the movie studios for each movie.
Indeed. Creating an optical mouse using a blue LED instead of a red one, and then having the marketing department come up with a fancy name like BlueTrack really is the pinnacle of American innovation.
It's sad that this is happening. As an Australian, I'm appalled that this is happening. Although I'm glad for many reasons that we finally got rid of little Bush Jr. (John Howard) and replaced him Kevin Rudd, it's a disaster that they now want to impose this crap on everyone.
Personally, I think the whole idea of content filtering to protect the children, as they claim, is bogus. Regardless of whether the filtering is done by the parents on their own computer or by the ISPs on the whole internet, I think it's bullshit.
Kids don't need overly restrictive blocks in place to prevent them getting access to porn, bomb making instructions or whatever else is deem inappropriate; nor do they need any kind of punishment if they do get access. Rather, they need good parental guidence to let them know what they should and should not look at, and be taught to be responsible with whatever they do get access to.
Besides, if some 13 or 14 year old boy looks up some porn, good for him. I did when I was that age, as did almost everyone else I knew back then, and it did me no harm at all. (Also, letting kids get porn for free from the internet is better then letting them resort to stealing porno mags that they're not allowed to buy legally)
Please read the other comments that said basically the same thing before posting, and then read my reply pointing out that this discussion is about HTML, not CSS.