This is exactly my thought as well.
I care little for these four men, however, I care about justice being served.
And, the court ruling shouldn't be based on information obtained outside of court.
It sounds legally sound.
If you are indeed doing everything you can to cover up what you are doing, you show yourself extremely aware that you are in fact doing something illegal.
Sure, this can bring about loads of problems, just saying that the legal principle seems very sound.
Many swedes are quite cautious by nature, this dip is no bigger than the dip in chips and other products which produced large doses of acryl-amid which was a scary report a few years back. People are waiting for other people to tell them that it's actually quite all right to download, that the risks aren't all that high until they start downloading again.
The more conscious level of people are just waiting for a legal precedent, since the fact is that no-one currently knows exactly how easy it is to be caught using today's measures.
The thing is, there's the requirement of strong evidence and a proportionally big damage has to done. No-one knows what this means yet, uploading is being referenced as one of those things, massive scale is another. So, it might very well turn out that only original seeders are truly affected by this law.
Personally, I'm keeping my traffic down by not downloading in HD and only using private trackers. Also, I checked the private alternatives, and they all suck, seriously.
While I'm with you in principle, there's actually little need to be romantically and/or sexually involved with a life partner.
So, living with a close friend can easily be the emotional part.
Actually, this has several advantages, since you get the benefits of a long-term relationship and can still be quite free to do as you please with both sex and other stuff.
You see, what you're doing here is blaming the victim. Yes, the victim.
Very few file-sharers have the capacity to buy the stuff they download, they are just tagging along in what is a part of their culture, a culture which the media conglomerate has built very effectively.
So, the choice is to be left out of the loop on everyday culture or pirate.
Also, do you honestly believe that most of the restraints from the government wouldn't happen regardless? Governments want control, they will seize any opportunity to get greater control.
The web is about interoperability. Microsoft (as always) is trying to change this and make it about lock-ins.
That is the issue.
It's especially annoying when they decide to introduce unnecessary crap which no-one needs and convince people that they do. That's always been their strategy "Convince people that they need you, when you have, see that they do."
Not the point. The point is that it's pretty irrelevant where the government gets the money, it doesn't have to be earmarked since it's not a business.
So, if they do want # billion extra, they can give it through some fee or give it out as a tax. Giving it out as 0.1% tax raise means that no single person gets hit very hard, while a blanket fee does, while the rich folk pay hardly anything in relation to their disposable income, the poor folk do.
So, the point isn't that the government should force extra costs through cell phones, but they might choose to handle the taxes differently and more fairly.
The right way to go would be to require them to allow people to remove IE from the system and require them to provide plugins (or an SDK) for re-creating the unique things about IE.
Until you can rid yourself entirely of IE and have as nice an integration with other browsers, the market is indeed unfair. And, no, this is not the same as Apples "Our own products automatically integrate with each other", Apple lets ju delete them and lose those functions, and you can still integrate their alternate products as closely as most two sets of apps can be integrated. So, require windows update to be run without Explorer, require the integration between explorer and iexplore be terminated and instead made so that the window closes and a new one opens with your preferred browser, actually force them to see that when a browser is standard that it is the ONLY browser which pop-ups automatically.
Currently, they aren't tackling the issue, they are just annoyed with microsoft and trying to kick them in the nuts.
So, yeah, Sweden's got 19 inhabitants per square kilometer, and our gross income is less per capita than any US state.
And we're the second or third best in the world in these matters.
The tests aren't a problem actually. If they where, she would just have remake the tests.
This is even more silly, it's against the notes, I can't see any problem from other peoples notes, since, well, the only thing which can happen is that other people get the same notes, so, she must be afraid for competition or some such nonsense.
I know it's not the correct term, but what find fascinating is that they actually give more GB in that form factor than is available with ordinary drives.
I'm astonished, a year ago we we're looking at 64 GB, this is 8 times more than that.
Don't know about you guys, but I'm impressed with how fast this is going.
If only the prices would drop to actual consumer levels.
The thing which I find annoying with all these analysis is that they never, ever compare battery life, which to me is the singulary most important spec of a highly portable laptop (10-13 inches or so, above that is portable (14-17), below that is netbooks (7-9)).
The cheapest MacBook/iBook has, from at least 2005 (as long as I've checked out the market) been in the top cathegory for battery life in it's priceclass, and, they don't even lie that much with how long time they can actually be used responsibly.
Also, they are pretty much noiceless and doesn' generate extreme hot spots like many laptops do, making them more comfortable to use in your lap.
I've bought an EEEPC 901, and I must say that it's Xandros dist is terrible.
It's broken from boot (one of the three repositories doesn't work) and you lack a whole bunch of tools which can be useful and it's not very intuitive to use (why they skip the desktop, I'll never know).
If the other netbooks have as gimped installs, I can definitely see why they would be returned.
Oh, btw, installing a new OS on it is a really big hassle, I still haven't succeded with any of my external disc readers or any flavor of linux I've been able to put on my usb memory.
So, no wonder they are pissed, as shipped, it is not a very good machine at all.
Don't know how it is in the states, but in Sweden video stores and libraries do indeed have to pay a pretty hefty premium for being allowed to rent out/borrow away their products. And, no, I'm not talking double price, I'm talking quadruple or so.
In another source, the bad part seems to be left out though.
Even though this was the coldest year since 2000, it's still the among the ten hottest years since 1850.
So, no, this doesn't discredit the global warming theory at all.
Incidently, I'm not at all sure that CO2 is the primary source of the warming, but what we do know is that if we account only for things we know to affect global climate (seismological activity primarily), the temperature should've been decreasing, not increasing since the 1950s or so.
The question we need to be asking is; "What is screwing with our climate and can we do anything about it?" not; "Is there something wrong with our climate".
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This is exactly my thought as well. I care little for these four men, however, I care about justice being served. And, the court ruling shouldn't be based on information obtained outside of court.
It works fine in Opera though. Not in Midori though. Not in Dillo either.
It sounds legally sound. If you are indeed doing everything you can to cover up what you are doing, you show yourself extremely aware that you are in fact doing something illegal. Sure, this can bring about loads of problems, just saying that the legal principle seems very sound.
Many swedes are quite cautious by nature, this dip is no bigger than the dip in chips and other products which produced large doses of acryl-amid which was a scary report a few years back.
People are waiting for other people to tell them that it's actually quite all right to download, that the risks aren't all that high until they start downloading again.
The more conscious level of people are just waiting for a legal precedent, since the fact is that no-one currently knows exactly how easy it is to be caught using today's measures.
The thing is, there's the requirement of strong evidence and a proportionally big damage has to done.
No-one knows what this means yet, uploading is being referenced as one of those things, massive scale is another.
So, it might very well turn out that only original seeders are truly affected by this law.
Personally, I'm keeping my traffic down by not downloading in HD and only using private trackers.
Also, I checked the private alternatives, and they all suck, seriously.
I currently pay 65 SEK, that's less than 8 dollars, only 52 of those go to the company, the rest is taxes.
100/100 with a static IP.
I like living in Sweden.
While I'm with you in principle, there's actually little need to be romantically and/or sexually involved with a life partner. So, living with a close friend can easily be the emotional part. Actually, this has several advantages, since you get the benefits of a long-term relationship and can still be quite free to do as you please with both sex and other stuff.
You see, what you're doing here is blaming the victim.
Yes, the victim.
Very few file-sharers have the capacity to buy the stuff they download, they are just tagging along in what is a part of their culture, a culture which the media conglomerate has built very effectively.
So, the choice is to be left out of the loop on everyday culture or pirate.
Also, do you honestly believe that most of the restraints from the government wouldn't happen regardless?
Governments want control, they will seize any opportunity to get greater control.
Not so sure that it works though.
However, this is exactly how it should be, provided that they actually do it right.
When I can play them without having crud on my comp while using them.
The day when I can install them myself when my internet is down.
Not until then.
However, I hardly ever buy games.
The web is about interoperability.
Microsoft (as always) is trying to change this and make it about lock-ins.
That is the issue.
It's especially annoying when they decide to introduce unnecessary crap which no-one needs and convince people that they do.
That's always been their strategy "Convince people that they need you, when you have, see that they do."
Not the point.
The point is that it's pretty irrelevant where the government gets the money, it doesn't have to be earmarked since it's not a business.
So, if they do want # billion extra, they can give it through some fee or give it out as a tax.
Giving it out as 0.1% tax raise means that no single person gets hit very hard, while a blanket fee does, while the rich folk pay hardly anything in relation to their disposable income, the poor folk do.
So, the point isn't that the government should force extra costs through cell phones, but they might choose to handle the taxes differently and more fairly.
I do trust Google, but every time they go down I realize I really should backup all my info to some computer.
This is of course only rational, but still.
And, yes, I was affected, it was quite annoying.
The right way to go would be to require them to allow people to remove IE from the system and require them to provide plugins (or an SDK) for re-creating the unique things about IE.
Until you can rid yourself entirely of IE and have as nice an integration with other browsers, the market is indeed unfair.
And, no, this is not the same as Apples "Our own products automatically integrate with each other", Apple lets ju delete them and lose those functions, and you can still integrate their alternate products as closely as most two sets of apps can be integrated.
So, require windows update to be run without Explorer, require the integration between explorer and iexplore be terminated and instead made so that the window closes and a new one opens with your preferred browser, actually force them to see that when a browser is standard that it is the ONLY browser which pop-ups automatically.
Currently, they aren't tackling the issue, they are just annoyed with microsoft and trying to kick them in the nuts.
So, yeah, Sweden's got 19 inhabitants per square kilometer, and our gross income is less per capita than any US state.
And we're the second or third best in the world in these matters.
So, yeah, I can uhm, see your point.
Actually, this would rather be the result of dealing with computer illiterates all day long.
It has little to do with the ability to code and a lot to do with being an expert in a field where you can easily get narrowed vision.
The tests aren't a problem actually. If they where, she would just have remake the tests.
This is even more silly, it's against the notes, I can't see any problem from other peoples notes, since, well, the only thing which can happen is that other people get the same notes, so, she must be afraid for competition or some such nonsense.
Lenovo always did the manufacturing, it's just that IBM did the designs before.
I know it's not the correct term, but what find fascinating is that they actually give more GB in that form factor than is available with ordinary drives.
I'm astonished, a year ago we we're looking at 64 GB, this is 8 times more than that.
Don't know about you guys, but I'm impressed with how fast this is going.
If only the prices would drop to actual consumer levels.
The thing which I find annoying with all these analysis is that they never, ever compare battery life, which to me is the singulary most important spec of a highly portable laptop (10-13 inches or so, above that is portable (14-17), below that is netbooks (7-9)).
The cheapest MacBook/iBook has, from at least 2005 (as long as I've checked out the market) been in the top cathegory for battery life in it's priceclass, and, they don't even lie that much with how long time they can actually be used responsibly.
Also, they are pretty much noiceless and doesn' generate extreme hot spots like many laptops do, making them more comfortable to use in your lap.
I prefer a Pandora, which runs linux, has full gaming options and can be used kinda decently as a desktop if necessary.
I've bought an EEEPC 901, and I must say that it's Xandros dist is terrible.
It's broken from boot (one of the three repositories doesn't work) and you lack a whole bunch of tools which can be useful and it's not very intuitive to use (why they skip the desktop, I'll never know).
If the other netbooks have as gimped installs, I can definitely see why they would be returned.
Oh, btw, installing a new OS on it is a really big hassle, I still haven't succeded with any of my external disc readers or any flavor of linux I've been able to put on my usb memory.
So, no wonder they are pissed, as shipped, it is not a very good machine at all.
Don't know how it is in the states, but in Sweden video stores and libraries do indeed have to pay a pretty hefty premium for being allowed to rent out/borrow away their products.
And, no, I'm not talking double price, I'm talking quadruple or so.
Oh so true, 100/100 is included in my monthly rent.
Sometimes I do love being a swede.
Otoh, my parents pay 99 kronors (about 16$ or 10 ) a month for a 0.2 ADSL service.
It's just that we pay actual operational costs, not silly "we owns your moneys!" sums.
So, Psystar and the like has to buy one Mac you mean? I think they'll cry themselves to sleep for loosing 600 bucks on buying a mac mini.
In another source, the bad part seems to be left out though.
Even though this was the coldest year since 2000, it's still the among the ten hottest years since 1850.
So, no, this doesn't discredit the global warming theory at all.
Incidently, I'm not at all sure that CO2 is the primary source of the warming, but what we do know is that if we account only for things we know to affect global climate (seismological activity primarily), the temperature should've been decreasing, not increasing since the 1950s or so.
The question we need to be asking is; "What is screwing with our climate and can we do anything about it?" not; "Is there something wrong with our climate".