The difference is that if the ITMS is shut down then every iTunes program will, to all intents and purposes, be unable to connect to the internet. Ever.
You would have a very valid point, except that the guy made the site into an Olympics discussion site. If it was his neighborhood watch group (ZIP CODE 2016*) I can't imagine there would be any argument that he should keep it.
*Go to Australia, 4 digit zip codes. Trivia: Sydney has an area with zip code 2000
Not sure how it works on IE but you can install firefox plugins on the fly. If that is true on IE, imagine sites that rather than saying "runs best on IE7" instead say "This is gonna look crap if you don't click here
I KNOW a PC game will be over priced and packed full of bugs on release date. It's a simple fact of today's market. I also know that if I buy from certain companies (EA for example) the game will have an unacceptably high likelihood of just not working due to DRM.
Downloading it on release date achieves a few things: It let's me see if I can tolerate the bugs, allows me to play while I wait for a reasonable price ($75 as opposed to $110) and lets me get around DRM.
I'm picturing a horde of these microscopes planted around the inside of my body and a gem in my hand Logan's Run style. *BING* light goes on, you have cancer.
I have some friends in the Board/Card game industry. I'm not sure if this applies to Software but I expect it does
In a lot of cases you can order games from the US and come out at nearly half the local (Australian) price even with shipping. This is because the company doesn't want to own a local distribution network so they use a wholesale company. This adds another level of price doubling, jacking the price up quite painfully.
I've said this in a post in another story, and I like that post so here it is. This applies perfectly to bit torrent, but also to most P2P techniques:
The "average" ratio on, for example bit torrent should always be 100% since everyone downloading is getting the file from someone else that downloaded it. I guess the original seeder would put the ratio slightly above 100% but I'm sure you get my point.
The thing is that average is likely propped up by a small minority of high ratio users and your average john doe would have a low ratio. From reporting here, the RIAA has been going after average people rather than high ratio people. at a guess I'd say my ratio never topped 80%, which is pretty good IMO as my max upload was 1/4 of my max download. My point is that most people will only ever upload maximum 1 CD for each CD. Even with double dipping by charging both uploader and downloader it would make most people liable for 2X[cost of CD] not 100,000 X[cost of CD]
even sillier, $5 cable from earphone jack to mic jack, problem solved.
I'd be more likely to think this was just an under informed choice to make the built in mic less likely to clash with the sound output in anyway, thereby making the whole thing more user friendly.
one air conditioner
It's summer there isn't it? A website I just found recommends nearly 3 kilowatts of power to cool my bedroom, my computer's MAXIMUM power consumption is 0.55 Kilowatts. Turn of your Aircon, it will fix your bill problems better than using a crappy laptop.
This does highlight the fact that photo voltaic gizmos tend to get quite hot so using photo voltaic curtains seems to me to be a bad idea since air conditioners burn way more electricity than these curtains can feasibly provide any time soon. Actually, I just thought of an interesting use: wallpaper rather than curtains.
You see, that right there is why I don't get how these searches pass any common sense test. I could stop at any one of a hundred internet cafes on one side of the border, Gmail the "illegal" file to myself, delete it off my laptop, cross the border and go to another internet cafe and download it, deleting everything up to and including the Gmail account itself. If I was suspicious of Gmail's data retention policies there are hundreds of other ways to interweb some data.
It's like DRM, Inconveniencing innocent people in a big while doing little to nothing to stop whatever problem is trying to be stopped.
I guess it's an equilibrium, eventually the facts approach true but they swing either side of it for a variable amount of time. This is more evident in a high energy (controversial) situation.
While you are right and scientific journals/textbooks are usually the most accurate source I would argue that wikipedia is definitely peer reviewed and sometimes even more accurate than (some) textbooks.
A challenge for you: make a change to wikipedia that is blatantly wrong and have it stay for 24 hours. The point being that if you could achieve that for wikipedia then you'd likely be able to get the error into a textbook. The difference is that once it's in a textbook it's wrong until the next edition, wikipedia is wrong until someone notices.
The only problem is the stigma attached to this kind of lawsuit. Forget that he was cleared (everyone else will)This guy now has "arrested for kiddie porn" somewhere on his record. Imagine how hard life will now be for him. No working in any industry that deals with children for a start.
Not necessarily, I've seen malware that only opens popups when you open IE for instance. Maybe this one needed you to be connected to the internet to popup and the IT guys changed settings while off the network.
You do realize that the "this country" you are referring to is in this case still nominally under the rule of the Queen of england right? So in that sense they probably are still singing god save the queen.
Simple, thumb drives aren't for technical people, I'd assume anyone that cares about transferring data has a portable HDD that pushes 300+ GB. Thumb drives are for easy theft of office documents and quick trading of porn images.
Wow, you know, now that I think of it that really is quite a higher level of geekiness then I usually put out. In my defense I was in high school at the time.
Like the series or not they are extremely popular. At the time I was in that channel a lot so it was an interesting experience for me to see a book go from release to fully proofed and error free, especially since there were already 10's of thousands of books available that must have gone through a similar process.
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Damn, no mod points
Thanks for pointing this one out, I've been waiting for ages for some lawyer to argue that point.
That's ummm... well...hmmm.
Touche!
To be pedantic:
The term "laser" is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (Wikipedia)
So it is exactly like PIN number
The difference is that if the ITMS is shut down then every iTunes program will, to all intents and purposes, be unable to connect to the internet. Ever.
You would have a very valid point, except that the guy made the site into an Olympics discussion site. If it was his neighborhood watch group (ZIP CODE 2016*) I can't imagine there would be any argument that he should keep it.
*Go to Australia, 4 digit zip codes. Trivia: Sydney has an area with zip code 2000
Damn, should have said "runs best on firefox"
Not sure how it works on IE but you can install firefox plugins on the fly. If that is true on IE, imagine sites that rather than saying "runs best on IE7" instead say "This is gonna look crap if you don't click here
For me it's about 2 things: Price and Quality
I KNOW a PC game will be over priced and packed full of bugs on release date. It's a simple fact of today's market. I also know that if I buy from certain companies (EA for example) the game will have an unacceptably high likelihood of just not working due to DRM.
Downloading it on release date achieves a few things: It let's me see if I can tolerate the bugs, allows me to play while I wait for a reasonable price ($75 as opposed to $110) and lets me get around DRM.
I'm picturing a horde of these microscopes planted around the inside of my body and a gem in my hand Logan's Run style. *BING* light goes on, you have cancer.
I have some friends in the Board/Card game industry. I'm not sure if this applies to Software but I expect it does
In a lot of cases you can order games from the US and come out at nearly half the local (Australian) price even with shipping. This is because the company doesn't want to own a local distribution network so they use a wholesale company. This adds another level of price doubling, jacking the price up quite painfully.
I've said this in a post in another story, and I like that post so here it is. This applies perfectly to bit torrent, but also to most P2P techniques:
The "average" ratio on, for example bit torrent should always be 100% since everyone downloading is getting the file from someone else that downloaded it. I guess the original seeder would put the ratio slightly above 100% but I'm sure you get my point.
The thing is that average is likely propped up by a small minority of high ratio users and your average john doe would have a low ratio. From reporting here, the RIAA has been going after average people rather than high ratio people. at a guess I'd say my ratio never topped 80%, which is pretty good IMO as my max upload was 1/4 of my max download. My point is that most people will only ever upload maximum 1 CD for each CD. Even with double dipping by charging both uploader and downloader it would make most people liable for 2X[cost of CD] not 100,000 X[cost of CD]
even sillier, $5 cable from earphone jack to mic jack, problem solved.
I'd be more likely to think this was just an under informed choice to make the built in mic less likely to clash with the sound output in anyway, thereby making the whole thing more user friendly.
I thought it was something ludicrous like that, makes the 85% from legal torrents seem very generous.
I'm honestly curious because I don't know the answer but how much of a cut does iTunes get when an artist wants their song on there?
one air conditioner
It's summer there isn't it? A website I just found recommends nearly 3 kilowatts of power to cool my bedroom, my computer's MAXIMUM power consumption is 0.55 Kilowatts. Turn of your Aircon, it will fix your bill problems better than using a crappy laptop.
This does highlight the fact that photo voltaic gizmos tend to get quite hot so using photo voltaic curtains seems to me to be a bad idea since air conditioners burn way more electricity than these curtains can feasibly provide any time soon. Actually, I just thought of an interesting use: wallpaper rather than curtains.
You see, that right there is why I don't get how these searches pass any common sense test. I could stop at any one of a hundred internet cafes on one side of the border, Gmail the "illegal" file to myself, delete it off my laptop, cross the border and go to another internet cafe and download it, deleting everything up to and including the Gmail account itself. If I was suspicious of Gmail's data retention policies there are hundreds of other ways to interweb some data.
It's like DRM, Inconveniencing innocent people in a big while doing little to nothing to stop whatever problem is trying to be stopped.
I guess it's an equilibrium, eventually the facts approach true but they swing either side of it for a variable amount of time. This is more evident in a high energy (controversial) situation.
While you are right and scientific journals/textbooks are usually the most accurate source I would argue that wikipedia is definitely peer reviewed and sometimes even more accurate than (some) textbooks.
A challenge for you: make a change to wikipedia that is blatantly wrong and have it stay for 24 hours. The point being that if you could achieve that for wikipedia then you'd likely be able to get the error into a textbook. The difference is that once it's in a textbook it's wrong until the next edition, wikipedia is wrong until someone notices.
The only problem is the stigma attached to this kind of lawsuit. Forget that he was cleared (everyone else will)This guy now has "arrested for kiddie porn" somewhere on his record. Imagine how hard life will now be for him. No working in any industry that deals with children for a start.
Not necessarily, I've seen malware that only opens popups when you open IE for instance. Maybe this one needed you to be connected to the internet to popup and the IT guys changed settings while off the network.
You do realize that the "this country" you are referring to is in this case still nominally under the rule of the Queen of england right? So in that sense they probably are still singing god save the queen.
"Default Configuration" is for all intents and purposes the same as protocol standard for a significant portion of the population.
Simple, thumb drives aren't for technical people, I'd assume anyone that cares about transferring data has a portable HDD that pushes 300+ GB. Thumb drives are for easy theft of office documents and quick trading of porn images.
Wow, you know, now that I think of it that really is quite a higher level of geekiness then I usually put out. In my defense I was in high school at the time.
Like the series or not they are extremely popular. At the time I was in that channel a lot so it was an interesting experience for me to see a book go from release to fully proofed and error free, especially since there were already 10's of thousands of books available that must have gone through a similar process.
oh without doubt, you are completely correct and it's one of my pet peeves too.