It's not using main MS products (i.e. Windows) that causes the problem.
It's them forcing you to use thier secondary products that actually have competition, which is the cause of this problem.
Yeah, I use windows, because like it or not, it's pretty much standard. But this doesn't mean that they should be able to make me use thier secondary products for things that i actually have a choice on.
Actually the problem was the DE-regulation of the power grid, ie, the ability to use "backup" power lines for the wholesale selling and transfer of power.
These emergency lines were never meant for this, and since the companies that were buying and selling power didn't own the lines, they had no motivation to upgrade the capacity.
I agree that children must learn the results of choice and responsibility, but wouldn't the parents come into play in that matter.
Just because some kid wears a name tag that lets him check out books and makes sure he is in class, doesn't mean that he isn't going to learn responibility in life.
Doesn't this fall under the same category as spam faxes? Since it costs you something that actually has a dollar value, i.e. your minutes, they can't call you without you volunteering for it.
My thought is that at first this was a screwup. The 12 year old was just the downloader. I am sure that her mother was the actual person named as the account holder. You have to sue the person paying the bill, not britneylover@kazaa.
Then the marketing assholes at the RIAA had an idea to try to scare little kids and parents into turning off and uninstalling kazaa.
How many people heard about this from the publicity and did just that. Alot more than you probably think.
It just brings it closer to home for alot of people.
And $2000 isn't chump change for the majority of people, although I doubt they actually paid anything.
Once again they managed to make it seem like they saved someone millions by letting them off with a $2000 fine.
Sounds like Eddie, the brother-in-law from National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.
"Had a metal plate in my head, but everytime I would fire up the microwave, I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for a half an hour."
Oh no, with the complexity that some of those puzzles had, like the crystal city. I would still be playing it without the help of the book.
By far the best RPG i have played.
Isn't there a huge loss of performance when it comes to the laptops screens? Are there actually screens available that will be able to handle 75hz refresh rate? (The rate needed to display 75 fps).
FPS look great on paper, but will it actually result in an improvement in the playability?
Well...
I am looking at the single user license right now.
And in section 1. Grant of License, the sub-paragraph labeled "restrictions". I count it as the 5th sentence. It's is smack dab in the middle of the paragraph. Over all about 2/3rds of the way down the front page of the EULA.
Maybe it's different on Office XP but i see it here.
So when some dim-bulbed judge orders the domain to be given up, Who gets it? The party who filed the complaint? Or does it go into the pool to get scarfed up again?
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How about the "open to one night stand" detector.
No kidding,
my pentium 266 laptop has a lot of crotch warming power. I couldn't imagine this this.
Comes with a special heat shield for your lap.
It's not using main MS products (i.e. Windows) that causes the problem.
It's them forcing you to use thier secondary products that actually have competition, which is the cause of this problem.
Yeah, I use windows, because like it or not, it's pretty much standard. But this doesn't mean that they should be able to make me use thier secondary products for things that i actually have a choice on.
[pinky]What are we going to do tonight, Brain? [/pinky]
[brain]Same thing we do everynight Pinky... try to take... er... Install Debian's new runtime conversion patch [\brain]
If they shouldn't have to pay for royalties, then why do I have to rebuy my music when they come out with a new format.
I should get free CD's of all my old cassette's, LP's and 8 tracks.
To quote Tommy Lee Jones,
"this means I have to buy the White Album again"
Actually the problem was the DE-regulation of the power grid, ie, the ability to use "backup" power lines for the wholesale selling and transfer of power.
These emergency lines were never meant for this, and since the companies that were buying and selling power didn't own the lines, they had no motivation to upgrade the capacity.
This article explains alot.
Your assuming that these aren't world wide drone PC's just waiting for an address to DDoS.
Finding the country of origin may be pretty difficult.
"I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something."
"Shit. I always do that."
I agree that children must learn the results of choice and responsibility, but wouldn't the parents come into play in that matter.
Just because some kid wears a name tag that lets him check out books and makes sure he is in class, doesn't mean that he isn't going to learn responibility in life.
Tell me why keeping track of children in a school is such bad thing?
Doesn't this fall under the same category as spam faxes?
Since it costs you something that actually has a dollar value, i.e. your minutes, they can't call you without you volunteering for it.
My thought is that at first this was a screwup. The 12 year old was just the downloader. I am sure that her mother was the actual person named as the account holder. You have to sue the person paying the bill, not britneylover@kazaa.
Then the marketing assholes at the RIAA had an idea to try to scare little kids and parents into turning off and uninstalling kazaa.
How many people heard about this from the publicity and did just that. Alot more than you probably think.
It just brings it closer to home for alot of people.
And $2000 isn't chump change for the majority of people, although I doubt they actually paid anything.
Once again they managed to make it seem like they saved someone millions by letting them off with a $2000 fine.
Senator writing time!!!
Um, yeah... right....
the general public won't notice.
If someone were to tamper with the things, they wouldn't make it a Saddam-ish, 100% of the vote.
Then again they might get Micheal Bolton to mess up the decimal point.
Reminds me of this parody.
Sounds like Eddie, the brother-in-law from National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.
"Had a metal plate in my head, but everytime I would fire up the microwave, I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for a half an hour."
Oh no, with the complexity that some of those puzzles had, like the crystal city. I would still be playing it without the help of the book.
By far the best RPG i have played.
Isn't there a huge loss of performance when it comes to the laptops screens? Are there actually screens available that will be able to handle 75hz refresh rate? (The rate needed to display 75 fps).
FPS look great on paper, but will it actually result in an improvement in the playability?
Well...
I am looking at the single user license right now.
And in section 1. Grant of License, the sub-paragraph labeled "restrictions". I count it as the 5th sentence. It's is smack dab in the middle of the paragraph. Over all about 2/3rds of the way down the front page of the EULA.
Maybe it's different on Office XP but i see it here.
Get a story submitted on Slashdot about thier company. Post a link to thier webpage, the let the slashdot community swamp thier site. :-)
I have never seen a post that even compares to this article in the flame bait arena.
for digital video and 14 year old girls that like pink computers. Other than that, give me an Athlon any day of the week.
Yeah 4 way was definately around back in the ppro day. But i still haven't seen that dual p4 machine make it's appearance yet either.
I know that there was a Star Trek episode that brought this issue up.
So when some dim-bulbed judge orders the domain to be given up, Who gets it? The party who filed the complaint? Or does it go into the pool to get scarfed up again?