Given that the "right" way to handle any contract is to seek professional legal advice, and given that consumers are now seeing as many as 30 or 40 EULA's annually, my question is: how much would a diligent legal review of all purchases (per consumer) cost if consumers were to enter into these "agreements" with diligent review by a legal professional.
I think the answer to that question would be so eggregious that it would reveal the EULA system to be as silly as it seems.
Any experienced purchasers of legal services care to make an estimate for what a diligent review of a single EULA would cost?
Next thing you know they'll be preventing us transhumanists from wearing our transhumanist uniforms to work, or making us remove our cyberprosthetics for sporting events, or worse -- making fun of our multi-dimensional, posthuman kids.
They've offended my transhumanist family, the long history of my transhumanist ancestors, and come to think of it -- my whole friggin transhumanist community.
I knew I should have slept for another decade. This year sucks.
Interesting: anti-biotics and hostile microbial interaction, (and light itself) could endanger the data. I wonder how carefully these 'discs' would have to be stored?
Users of 1 minute token ID's can always just wait until there are 2 or 3 seconds left on their current # before logging in.
TFA states that phishers have 1 minute. That's not really true, unless the user logs in as soon as a new # appears. Giving phishers less time is just a matter of when you choose to log in.
If ODF is the reason for this new plethora of Office products, then why is "Reading and Writing Word documents" the very first feature they all brag about.
As much as I wish ODF were widely used, the reason OOo, Star and the rest exist is because of MS Office pricing. And these products do little to erode the prevelance of the.doc format. I use OOo daily, and no one has ever sent me a document in anything other than Word. I'd be amazed if it happened.
I have to say that AllOfMP3 is doing something right, and it shouldn't be ignored by the music industry.
I've spent about $200 since discovering the site a few months back. That's particularly interesting given that I've probably spent a total of $200 on music *period* in the last five years. I'm now entirely a downloader when it comes to music, and I do not listen, download or accept DRM'ed music or music that's under 320k quality.
I'm sure I'm not alone. Rather than shutting down AllOfMP3, the industry might want to pay attention to the hundreds of thousands of people who are actually spending on music and haven't done so in years.
I guess, the official school policy is to treat anti-social, disenfranchised young people, to a solitary year of introspection.
Yeah... that'll work. He'll be much calmer and better adjusted after a year by himself playing video games all day -- and he'll be much happier next year with a new set of younger classmates who know he's the "crazy kid" who got suspended for weird photoshopped artwork.
Should we arrest every hip hop artist now? And the creative staff over at Take2?
The class action could be far bigger though if damages were included. Can you imagine what lost revenues would look like for legitimate license holders if all those millions of machines shut down. The number far outweighs the total revenues generated by sales of XP.
If I've purchased a legitimate copy, and I installed it with a license agreement prior to the release of WGA, by what legal authority can Microsoft disable my operating system?
To say that Opensource programs don't offer benefits to handicapped people -- a group who continuously gets short shrift when it comes to state and government budgeting -- is a little ironic.
Why not transfer the cost savings of switching from MS Office to OO.org to a budget for handicapped services. I'm sure the handicapped population would be more than happy with that.
Agreed. There's a certain romantic aspect of fixing a 21st century computer with an ancient japanese folding trick, but the solution itself is a stretch. There are loads of other springy, resilient objects that would solve the problem more effectively.
Remaking games with better graphics is something I wish we'd see more of. I always wonder why someone doesn't remake Starcraft with a decent resolution. (Or in 3D).
Its not just MMORPG's that are going to bruise retail sales, its digital delivery.
People may not be talking about it so much yet, but the idea of selling digital information 'burned into plastic' is already as archaic for GameStop as it is for a record store.
I had a similar problem involving T-Mobile "T-Zones". While idle, my phone was apparently contacting T-Zones. In fact, once in a while I'd 'catch' it making an (autonomous) one minute T-Zones connection (because the phone would light up).
Since I wasn't a T-Zones subscriber, T-Mobile billed me for each and every connection, even though the connections were happening 'automatically'.
For the first few months I didn't notice it because I was on the road and running up massive phone bills anyway, but by the time I realized what was going on, I was $5,000 in the hole. It took months of phone calls to customer service for them to even acknowlege that there was a problem. I even made a short video of my phone 'turning itself on and connecting to T-Zones'.
I will say, that T-Mobile ended up being great, and clearing my bill of all the charges, but only after 50 or so calls to CS.
Your weight on the moon is approximately 1/6th of your weight on earth. So a 200 lb man weighs roughly 33 lbs on the moon.
So while it may seem necessary to use a sticky material to adhere one's boots to the floor -- its probably easier to carry 1000 lbs (Earthweight) of weights which would add an additional 166 lbs of Moonweight, making a 200lb earth person weigh 200 lbs on the moon.
The sticky stuff isn't requred. Just some evenly distributed body weights would do the trick. Although... no defense contractor gets rich with the simple solution.
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Mmmmmaaaat Daaaaammmmon
er... I thought it was "Time Shifting"
Here's a question I'd like to see answered:
Given that the "right" way to handle any contract is to seek professional legal advice,
and given that consumers are now seeing as many as 30 or 40 EULA's annually, my question
is: how much would a diligent legal review of all purchases (per consumer) cost if
consumers were to enter into these "agreements" with diligent review by a legal professional.
I think the answer to that question would be so eggregious that it would reveal the EULA
system to be as silly as it seems.
Any experienced purchasers of legal services care to make an estimate for what a
diligent review of a single EULA would cost?
Yeah, totally.
Next thing you know they'll be preventing us transhumanists from wearing our transhumanist uniforms to work, or making us remove our cyberprosthetics for sporting events, or worse -- making fun of our multi-dimensional, posthuman kids.
They've offended my transhumanist family, the long history of my transhumanist ancestors, and come to think of it -- my whole friggin transhumanist community.
I knew I should have slept for another decade. This year sucks.
In other news, (as long as we're dwelling on the irrelevant)
I hear the drummer for Modern English has a new solo album out.
Interesting: anti-biotics and hostile microbial interaction, (and light itself) could endanger the data.
I wonder how carefully these 'discs' would have to be stored?
Users of 1 minute token ID's can always just wait until there are 2 or 3 seconds left on their
current # before logging in.
TFA states that phishers have 1 minute. That's not really true, unless the user logs in as soon
as a new # appears. Giving phishers less time is just a matter of when you choose to log in.
Wait until your # is about to change.
Local man becomes bored easily reading stories about nothing.
Wouldn't external noise also cause your bones to vibrate?
If ODF is the reason for this new plethora of Office products, then why is
"Reading and Writing Word documents" the very first feature they all brag about.
As much as I wish ODF were widely used, the reason OOo, Star and the rest
exist is because of MS Office pricing. And these products do little to erode
the prevelance of the
me a document in anything other than Word. I'd be amazed if it happened.
I have to say that AllOfMP3 is doing something right, and it shouldn't be ignored by the music industry.
I've spent about $200 since discovering the site a few months back. That's particularly interesting given that I've probably spent a total of $200 on music *period* in the last five years. I'm now entirely a downloader when it comes to music, and I do not listen, download or accept DRM'ed music or music that's under 320k quality.
I'm sure I'm not alone. Rather than shutting down AllOfMP3, the industry might want to pay attention to the hundreds of thousands of people who are actually spending on music and haven't done so in years.
I guess, the official school policy is to treat anti-social, disenfranchised young people, to a solitary year of introspection.
Yeah... that'll work. He'll be much calmer and better adjusted after a year by himself playing video games all day -- and he'll be much happier next year with a new set of younger classmates who know he's the "crazy kid" who got suspended for weird photoshopped artwork.
Should we arrest every hip hop artist now? And the creative staff over at Take2?
The class action could be far bigger though if damages were included. Can you imagine what lost revenues would look like for legitimate license holders if all those millions of machines shut down. The number far outweighs the total revenues generated by sales of XP.
If I've purchased a legitimate copy, and I installed it with a license agreement prior to the release of WGA, by what legal authority can Microsoft disable my operating system?
To say that Opensource programs don't offer benefits to handicapped people -- a group who continuously gets short shrift when it comes to state and government budgeting -- is a little ironic.
Why not transfer the cost savings of switching from MS Office to OO.org to a budget for handicapped services. I'm sure the handicapped population would be more than happy with that.
Agreed. There's a certain romantic aspect of fixing a 21st century computer with an ancient japanese folding trick, but the solution itself is a stretch. There are loads of other springy, resilient objects that would solve the problem more effectively.
Why is this on Slashdot?
Or anything resilient.
The coolest toys I've bought this year are:
http://www.pascalbardel.com/design/52.htm
http://www.downtube.com/catalog/product_info.php?
http://tinyurl.com/b6yo4
Remaking games with better graphics is something I wish we'd see more of. I always wonder why someone doesn't remake Starcraft with a decent resolution. (Or in 3D).
Is a guy who wears this.
Its not just MMORPG's that are going to bruise retail sales, its digital delivery.
People may not be talking about it so much yet, but the idea of selling digital
information 'burned into plastic' is already as archaic for GameStop as it is for
a record store.
I had a similar problem involving T-Mobile "T-Zones". While idle, my phone
was apparently contacting T-Zones. In fact, once in a while I'd 'catch' it
making an (autonomous) one minute T-Zones connection (because the phone
would light up).
Since I wasn't a T-Zones subscriber, T-Mobile billed me for each and every
connection, even though the connections were happening 'automatically'.
For the first few months I didn't notice it because I was on the road and
running up massive phone bills anyway, but by the time I realized what was
going on, I was $5,000 in the hole. It took months of phone calls to customer
service for them to even acknowlege that there was a problem. I even made a
short video of my phone 'turning itself on and connecting to T-Zones'.
I will say, that T-Mobile ended up being great, and clearing my bill of
all the charges, but only after 50 or so calls to CS.
Total nightmare.
Flamebait!
Your weight on the moon is approximately 1/6th of your weight on earth.
So a 200 lb man weighs roughly 33 lbs on the moon.
So while it may seem necessary to use a sticky material to adhere one's boots
to the floor -- its probably easier to carry 1000 lbs (Earthweight) of weights
which would add an additional 166 lbs of Moonweight, making a 200lb earth person
weigh 200 lbs on the moon.
The sticky stuff isn't requred. Just some evenly distributed body weights would
do the trick. Although... no defense contractor gets rich with the simple
solution.