it's being distributed to Celine Dion and Bryan Adams for the most part.
My girlfriend lovesBryan Adams. What's really scary is that some of his stuff actually starts to grow on you. Now if Motorhead and The Ramones started growing on her things would be perfect.:)
I always thought that this money will never be seen by the artists, and was essentially just a scam
The money is supposed to go to the Canadian artists' collective (whatever it's called). Personally I prefer having the levies. They are what allow us to download music legally here. Now that it seems that the levies are starting to be discarded we'll probably end up with a bunch of lawsuits ala-RIAA up here.
I get an offer in the mail for a Chase Visa card at least once a week. You would think that they would figure out that if I didn't sign up the first 50 times they sent something, I would still be unlikely to do so the 51st time.
Trying to think like a spammer here... perhaps they assume that many (most?) messages are automatically deleted so if the odd one makes it through then that's the hook.
Do you use any Linux?
As a policy, I don't run anything that competes with Microsoft. My goal is to make sure Microsoft products are the best products in the world.
If you don't run anything other than Microsoft products how can you "make sure Microsoft products are the best"? It's easy to compete with a field you get to choose.
Most of the time, when I read these "FOUND DEAD" posts, I do a google news search just in case, haha, that's usually what I do too. I almost fell for the "Mary-Kate Olsen died of anorexia" one a few months back. Google: is there anything it can't do?
Timothy: It's not clear from the article whether the modded consoles were
sold without copies of the games which had been installed on their hard
drives
Article: Pandora's Cube, Wright said, sold $500 "Super Xbox" consoles,
modified versions of Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research)
Xbox video game console, that had been modified to hold larger hard drives
and play pirated games.
The modified consoles, some holding 15 or more games already copied to the
hard drive, were on open display in the stores
It sounds to me like they'd stock up the drives with ripped off games to
warrant the $500 price tag. After the modchip, hard disk and cost of the
XBOX itself there isn't a lot left from the $500 to go towards games.
When reading the article my main thoughts were "Pretty cool sounding
tech..." then I read the final paragraph.
Varioptics has just filed a further two patents, and will pursue
an aggressive intellectual property strategy. "We think, and out patent
advisors think, that this is the only way you can do it [build an auto
focussing lens] with liquid," Paillard says. "So anyone who wants to build
something like this will need a licence from us."
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An effort to make device driver standards would mean a lot more to lots of us.
That would make it easier for manufacturers to make linux supported hardware and know that it worked.
I think you're putting the cart before the horse. The manufacturers are the ones that write the hardware specs to which drivers are written.
"Works with *BSD" would be easier. 3 main "distros" but each is its own complete package not just a kernel with various GNU packages thrown in.
It's getting bad when the person submitting the story doesn't even RTFA.
Reading the articles goes against the RFC.
Along the same lines I was wondering if the employee would have to file them as a taxable benefit/income.
that page just looks like a few columns of perl code to me.
it's being distributed to Celine Dion and Bryan Adams for the most part.
My girlfriend lovesBryan Adams. What's really scary is that some of his stuff actually starts to grow on you. Now if Motorhead and The Ramones started growing on her things would be perfect.
I always thought that this money will never be seen by the artists, and was essentially just a scam
The money is supposed to go to the Canadian artists' collective (whatever it's called). Personally I prefer having the levies. They are what allow us to download music legally here. Now that it seems that the levies are starting to be discarded we'll probably end up with a bunch of lawsuits ala-RIAA up here.
shes a well known sci fi author
Is her work better than L. Ron Hubbard's?
I live in the states and have several e-mail addresses from several different country TLD's.
Having a
Personally I want to be able to send a vibrating, two headed dildo, in the USPS mail to a random recipient
If you'd want to try an international destination I know this... person in Canada... eh?
A p2p app is pretty pointless without a network stack but no one counts that as part of the app or supporting code. Don't pick the nits too much.
Freedom to Tinker has written a 15 line P2P program in Python
Does anyone have a
Who is this guy, Jon Katz under a false name?
No, just a relatively new editor trying to advertise his presence under the guise of an "editorial".
I get an offer in the mail for a Chase Visa card at least once a week. You would think that they would figure out that if I didn't sign up the first 50 times they sent something, I would still be unlikely to do so the 51st time.
Trying to think like a spammer here... perhaps they assume that many (most?) messages are automatically deleted so if the odd one makes it through then that's the hook.
It's like doing a study on why people have sex.
Or a study on why over 3/4 of a million
hahahaha! Thanks for the laugh
Just think if this was in the IT section. There'd be a critical mass of ugly and the end of life as we know it would result.
Do you use any Linux?
As a policy, I don't run anything that competes with Microsoft. My goal is to make sure Microsoft products are the best products in the world.
If you don't run anything other than Microsoft products how can you "make sure Microsoft products are the best"? It's easy to compete with a field you get to choose.
OpenBSD does something similar with it's pf/spamd combo. Google for "greylisting"
Most of the time, when I read these "FOUND DEAD" posts, I do a google news search just in case,
haha, that's usually what I do too. I almost fell for the "Mary-Kate Olsen died of anorexia" one a few months back. Google: is there anything it can't do?
Timothy: It's not clear from the article whether the modded consoles were sold without copies of the games which had been installed on their hard drives
Article: Pandora's Cube, Wright said, sold $500 "Super Xbox" consoles, modified versions of Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Xbox video game console, that had been modified to hold larger hard drives and play pirated games. The modified consoles, some holding 15 or more games already copied to the hard drive, were on open display in the stores
It sounds to me like they'd stock up the drives with ripped off games to warrant the $500 price tag. After the modchip, hard disk and cost of the XBOX itself there isn't a lot left from the $500 to go towards games.
Sundials don't work, the one I've had in my basement hasn't changed time since I installed it.
Sheesh, man. You have a low enough ID that you should know better than to read the articles.
Uh... Liquid doesn't do too well in space...
When reading the article my main thoughts were "Pretty cool sounding tech..." then I read the final paragraph. I just lost so much enthusiasm for this idea.