That's deceptive. I've said nothing about any stance on such things. Stay on topic, which, in this thread, is a scientific analysis of the results of Hitler's "final solution".
No, the topic is telemarketers, which have NOTHING to do with Hitler. (Well...not seriously, anyway.)
Fine. Click here and here, if you think this "criminal act" is effective. For that matter, why don't you go to my old site, which was hijacked by a porn king during a domain transfer screwup.
Is this the same guy writing for a sci-fi action game for the XBox? (Sorry, forgot the name, but it was a big article in Game Informer a few issues back.)
It's not about the long term. In the long term, even SCO knows that they'll lose. They are trying to grab cash as fast as they can before they crash and burn. It's a stock market scam of the highest degree.
It's not just known that Sobig.* uses forged headers; it ALWAYS uses forged headers. I send my own bounce message to idiot sysadmins, telling them that their system creates a problem just as big as the virus.
I don't see how this is good advertising. That's basically telling me "Yes, this AV package is fucking stupid because it doesn't know that the virus spoofs the From headers." Therefore, I'd turn the other way when I see their AV packages at a software store.
Nobody can, but really nobody can prove the opposite either. It's funny how marketing studies like to think that they are scientific, when there are WAAAAY too many variables to measure. The RIAA blames piracy for low sales, in the span of a year or six months, there could be anything from the economy to the latest video game to whatever that could REALLY be at fault.
I believe that P2P networks promote CD sales, but then again, I think CDs are too expensive in the first place. It's not the fault of the networks, but the fault of CD prices, if indeed P2P networks are dragging down prices.
i dont use spam filters because my experience with them has been very unkind, unconvienent and damn annoying. (from both the sending and recieving end) and i think you hit the nail on the head with one line Granted some things will screw up not an aaceptable instance, sorry pal the internet is my living i am NOT taking chances that some over zealous ISP level 2 twit thinks that.de needs to be blocked, then taking three days (or weeks or months depending on the ISP) to fix it.
One cannot have an e-mail account without spam filters. I get close to 25 spams a day.
As far as blocking ports, so be it. Block the ports and if you need to use those ports, simply go to a web site to turn them on. Our ISP has a spam filter, and we can turn if off very easily by going to a web site, logging in, and turning off the filter. That's a no brainer.
The main difference between cars and computers is the accessories (or software) you can buy with it. Apple software must be run on an Apple OS, which must be run on an Apple computer. No other computer company has that kind of lock on the three. Even the "Wintel empire" is composed of two companies, and is easily broken with AMD and/or Linux.
Now, the lines are slowly blurring with the software/OS layer (X support, BSD kernel, etc.), which I support, but it's still Apple hardware, which is a closed standard.
Wow, I had no idea that every artist who ever had a song on the radio sucked. Stop bullshitting the point, it only hurts your argument.
I didn't say that. Stop putting words on my keyboard. It's perfectly valid to have a song played on the radio, and have the other non-radio songs be good. It's also perfectly valid for the radio song to suck, but the rest of the album be good. One song on the radio is not a good judge of a band.
To say that one only listens to a few songs on the album implies that the rest suck, and if a band only produces mostly bad songs, it might be a good idea to try out other bands.
And, of course, this assumes that you know the method for creating great music. Please enlighten us all.
I have no clue, as I'm not a musician. Try asking your favorite musician how his/her music is so good.
You bought an eMac, a low-end model designed for education, and you want to judge the entire Mac platform based on it. That's like me judging Linux based on some kiddie's half-assed low-end Compaq box with Red Hat on it.
No, of course not. However, Apple's big advertising campaign seemed to be based around the iMac for a time, which ends up being a very crappy machine, even for an Apple. (Followed by the Switch campaign...so you want me to switch to an iMac? No thanks!) Now, they are trying to promote the "world's fastest computer", which has already been proven to be marketing spin. Even if the Apple is a respectable company, their marketing engine certainly needs work.
You fail to understand that because Apple makes both the hardware and software, they can guarantee quality in their product line. If, say, Compaq were to start making Apple-compatible hardware, it would be of very poor quality. People would judge Mac OS X to be poor-quality software because of the poor-quality hardware on which it runs.
And as such is a monopoly. How can you "guarantee quality" if there is only one company making it? For all you know, Apple might suck at making its own product. (IBM had to buyout a PC manufacturer to figure out how to make one.) How do you know that a clone could come along that is better AND cheaper than the original? Lord knows AMD has already done that to Intel a few times.
That sort of market promotes competition, while a monopoly is just that, a monopoly. A monopoly does not promote freedom of competition, and certainly doesn't care about your own freedoms.
But I'm feeding an obvious troll already. Please go away.
I disagree with an opinion and suddenly I'm a troll? I think we are both adults here and can have a sensible conversation without retorting to insults or automatic kneejerk responses. After all, if I'm going to spend 30 minutes a message on a subject I don't even care much about, at least respect the time I put into it. (Oh, and I saw the Fan mark, so I'll match it:)
Depleted Uranium are called "depleted" because they have been depleted of radioactivity. Thus, they are inert, and non-radioactive. Depleted Uranium is just a metal. I wouldn't recommending eating the stuff, but for the purpose of what it does, it's safe. (If you call a huge bullet hitting the side of a tank "safe", of course...)
So, the iMac (with all of its colors on the MONITOR, built-in to the computer, of course) and the G5 are not Apple hardware? Why isn't anybody making Apple clones, if the Apple is so F-R-E-E with its hardware? Why can't I buy a Apple motherboard myself in my own case, put my own chip in there, plug in the cards, and install the OS? For that matter, why can't I find a Apple-compatible motherboard/chipset that's not made by Apple?
Our company over here bought an Apple for testing purposes (an eMac). It has an Apple button-mouse (useless frelling mouse), Apple monitor (at least it has a big Apple on the front of it), Apple keyboard, Apple OSX (actually BSD's OSX, but whatever), etc. And yes, it's frelling expensive.
Trying to call Apple a free hardware model is like trying to call the PS2 a free hardware model. Sure, NVidia may have made the chipset for the video, but it still has Sony stamped all over it, and there's no way to replace that with something else.
Respects your freedom? What about my freedom to write my own applications without requiring Apple to approve it? What about my freedom to use my own hardware, instead of being forcing to use Apple's mouse, Apple's memory, Apple's monitor (with boat anchor attachment on the top), Apple's video card, etc.?
Sorry, but give me a PC with some competition, instead of talking about a monopoly that "respects your freedom".
I don't think that artists are perfect and create the perfect albums, but they should make more good songs than bad. Even then, you don't quite know if it's a bad song even if you listen to it once. I've had albums that I didn't like sitting on the shelf, then I'd try it again and didn't understand why I didn't like it.
I think the online offerings are expensive. They based their model around current CD prices (minus a dollar or two for the lack of artwork), so that the average artist with 12-13 songs is going to be the same cost as buying the CD. They should be something on the range of 50 cents a song --AND-- be in MP3 format. After all, there's no point in buying a song if I can't burn it onto a CD (with 10+ hours of music) and play it in my MP3/CD car stereo.
Dumbass! Even if you're buying the pop shit, support your local record store, not the ones you find in the mall. I have an Ear X-Tacy over here which is on average 25% lower than your Camelot Music or Suncoast Video crap.
I hate this argument. The album as a whole is a work of art, and if you're only listening to a few songs on each album, then the artists you've been listening to suck. A good artist will put out a solid albums (with maybe one or two bad songs). Yes, you have your favorite songs, but the whole album is still good and worth listening to.
$13 is still a high price for a CD. I'll wait until they drop to the original cassette prices.
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That's deceptive. I've said nothing about any stance on such things. Stay on topic, which, in this thread, is a scientific analysis of the results of Hitler's "final solution".
No, the topic is telemarketers, which have NOTHING to do with Hitler. (Well...not seriously, anyway.)
Fine. Click here and here, if you think this "criminal act" is effective. For that matter, why don't you go to my old site, which was hijacked by a porn king during a domain transfer screwup.
It would be better of IE did this. Unforunately, Mozilla just doesn't have enough market share (as kickass as it is).
Or gamefaq.com or many, many other sites. There is no "Amber Alert" legislation.
Is this the same guy writing for a sci-fi action game for the XBox? (Sorry, forgot the name, but it was a big article in Game Informer a few issues back.)
It's not about the long term. In the long term, even SCO knows that they'll lose. They are trying to grab cash as fast as they can before they crash and burn. It's a stock market scam of the highest degree.
It's not just known that Sobig.* uses forged headers; it ALWAYS uses forged headers. I send my own bounce message to idiot sysadmins, telling them that their system creates a problem just as big as the virus.
I don't see how this is good advertising. That's basically telling me "Yes, this AV package is fucking stupid because it doesn't know that the virus spoofs the From headers." Therefore, I'd turn the other way when I see their AV packages at a software store.
Somebody needs to take the One Question Test.
Nobody can, but really nobody can prove the opposite either. It's funny how marketing studies like to think that they are scientific, when there are WAAAAY too many variables to measure. The RIAA blames piracy for low sales, in the span of a year or six months, there could be anything from the economy to the latest video game to whatever that could REALLY be at fault.
I believe that P2P networks promote CD sales, but then again, I think CDs are too expensive in the first place. It's not the fault of the networks, but the fault of CD prices, if indeed P2P networks are dragging down prices.
i dont use spam filters because my experience with them has been very unkind, unconvienent and damn annoying. (from both the sending and recieving end) and i think you hit the nail on the head with one line Granted some things will screw up not an aaceptable instance, sorry pal the internet is my living i am NOT taking chances that some over zealous ISP level 2 twit thinks that .de needs to be blocked, then taking three days (or weeks or months depending on the ISP) to fix it.
One cannot have an e-mail account without spam filters. I get close to 25 spams a day.
As far as blocking ports, so be it. Block the ports and if you need to use those ports, simply go to a web site to turn them on. Our ISP has a spam filter, and we can turn if off very easily by going to a web site, logging in, and turning off the filter. That's a no brainer.
http://www.adcritic.com/search/?q=IBM (click on Flying Cars)
However, it's a subscription site. Anybody have a freebie one?
Then try Half.com. At least they aren't 18 bucks.
The main difference between cars and computers is the accessories (or software) you can buy with it. Apple software must be run on an Apple OS, which must be run on an Apple computer. No other computer company has that kind of lock on the three. Even the "Wintel empire" is composed of two companies, and is easily broken with AMD and/or Linux.
Now, the lines are slowly blurring with the software/OS layer (X support, BSD kernel, etc.), which I support, but it's still Apple hardware, which is a closed standard.
Wow, I had no idea that every artist who ever had a song on the radio sucked. Stop bullshitting the point, it only hurts your argument.
I didn't say that. Stop putting words on my keyboard. It's perfectly valid to have a song played on the radio, and have the other non-radio songs be good. It's also perfectly valid for the radio song to suck, but the rest of the album be good. One song on the radio is not a good judge of a band.
To say that one only listens to a few songs on the album implies that the rest suck, and if a band only produces mostly bad songs, it might be a good idea to try out other bands.
And, of course, this assumes that you know the method for creating great music. Please enlighten us all.
I have no clue, as I'm not a musician. Try asking your favorite musician how his/her music is so good.
Nah, music is like porn. You can play the old stuff over and over again, but the new stuff is more exciting.
You bought an eMac, a low-end model designed for education, and you want to judge the entire Mac platform based on it. That's like me judging Linux based on some kiddie's half-assed low-end Compaq box with Red Hat on it.
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No, of course not. However, Apple's big advertising campaign seemed to be based around the iMac for a time, which ends up being a very crappy machine, even for an Apple. (Followed by the Switch campaign...so you want me to switch to an iMac? No thanks!) Now, they are trying to promote the "world's fastest computer", which has already been proven to be marketing spin. Even if the Apple is a respectable company, their marketing engine certainly needs work.
You fail to understand that because Apple makes both the hardware and software, they can guarantee quality in their product line. If, say, Compaq were to start making Apple-compatible hardware, it would be of very poor quality. People would judge Mac OS X to be poor-quality software because of the poor-quality hardware on which it runs.
And as such is a monopoly. How can you "guarantee quality" if there is only one company making it? For all you know, Apple might suck at making its own product. (IBM had to buyout a PC manufacturer to figure out how to make one.) How do you know that a clone could come along that is better AND cheaper than the original? Lord knows AMD has already done that to Intel a few times.
That sort of market promotes competition, while a monopoly is just that, a monopoly. A monopoly does not promote freedom of competition, and certainly doesn't care about your own freedoms.
But I'm feeding an obvious troll already. Please go away.
I disagree with an opinion and suddenly I'm a troll? I think we are both adults here and can have a sensible conversation without retorting to insults or automatic kneejerk responses. After all, if I'm going to spend 30 minutes a message on a subject I don't even care much about, at least respect the time I put into it. (Oh, and I saw the Fan mark, so I'll match it
Depleted Uranium are called "depleted" because they have been depleted of radioactivity. Thus, they are inert, and non-radioactive. Depleted Uranium is just a metal. I wouldn't recommending eating the stuff, but for the purpose of what it does, it's safe. (If you call a huge bullet hitting the side of a tank "safe", of course...)
Really...where do they come up with these numbers? If I bought a CD for $15, shouldn't the song be worth $1.50 or so?
So, the iMac (with all of its colors on the MONITOR, built-in to the computer, of course) and the G5 are not Apple hardware? Why isn't anybody making Apple clones, if the Apple is so F-R-E-E with its hardware? Why can't I buy a Apple motherboard myself in my own case, put my own chip in there, plug in the cards, and install the OS? For that matter, why can't I find a Apple-compatible motherboard/chipset that's not made by Apple?
Our company over here bought an Apple for testing purposes (an eMac). It has an Apple button-mouse (useless frelling mouse), Apple monitor (at least it has a big Apple on the front of it), Apple keyboard, Apple OSX (actually BSD's OSX, but whatever), etc. And yes, it's frelling expensive.
Trying to call Apple a free hardware model is like trying to call the PS2 a free hardware model. Sure, NVidia may have made the chipset for the video, but it still has Sony stamped all over it, and there's no way to replace that with something else.
Respects your freedom? What about my freedom to write my own applications without requiring Apple to approve it? What about my freedom to use my own hardware, instead of being forcing to use Apple's mouse, Apple's memory, Apple's monitor (with boat anchor attachment on the top), Apple's video card, etc.?
Sorry, but give me a PC with some competition, instead of talking about a monopoly that "respects your freedom".
I don't think that artists are perfect and create the perfect albums, but they should make more good songs than bad. Even then, you don't quite know if it's a bad song even if you listen to it once. I've had albums that I didn't like sitting on the shelf, then I'd try it again and didn't understand why I didn't like it.
I think the online offerings are expensive. They based their model around current CD prices (minus a dollar or two for the lack of artwork), so that the average artist with 12-13 songs is going to be the same cost as buying the CD. They should be something on the range of 50 cents a song --AND-- be in MP3 format. After all, there's no point in buying a song if I can't burn it onto a CD (with 10+ hours of music) and play it in my MP3/CD car stereo.
Dumbass! Even if you're buying the pop shit, support your local record store, not the ones you find in the mall. I have an Ear X-Tacy over here which is on average 25% lower than your Camelot Music or Suncoast Video crap.
I hate this argument. The album as a whole is a work of art, and if you're only listening to a few songs on each album, then the artists you've been listening to suck. A good artist will put out a solid albums (with maybe one or two bad songs). Yes, you have your favorite songs, but the whole album is still good and worth listening to.
$13 is still a high price for a CD. I'll wait until they drop to the original cassette prices.
IANAL, but you're talking about criminal law, not civil law. I don't think the same thing applies.