Presuming, of course that you took complete, relevant notes on all concepts, including those which seemed obvious to you at the time but which you can't quite remember how they worked now.
I would argue that scratches, etc. on physical media are visible and (more importantly) user-created in most cases. The buyer accepts the fact that their CD/record/what-have-you can get scratched/broken/sat on and takes responsibility for its care in that area. Digital files, on the other hand have no such drawbacks and if they become unavailable, it is by no action of the buyer nor can the buyer tell what has happened. The music simply no longer works.
If, by contrast, I bought a CD which was designed to erase itself after an undetermined period of time, then yes, I would demand a replacement.
And that's exactly how my school works. I'm on co-op now (just about to go on break in fact) and during the past three months I've made more than my loans for the rest of the year, not to mention the networking and real-life experience I'm getting as a result.
I had the choice between two schools, one that had co-ops, and one that would give me half as much debt. I'm still not sure if I made the right choice, but so far it seems to be working well in my favor.
I bought one CD a while back that had the stickers on all three sides... took me forever to get it open. A lot (though thankfully not all) of the discs I've seen of late have it on the top and bottom, presumably to defeat this very trick.
After all, once you've gotten the package open, you could do anything to it... you might even (gasp) listen to the music you just bought.
Then buy it online from some retailer (perhaps Amazon?) who doesn't need to put up with these things and can thereby sell the products more cheaply.
I once bought 3 SD cards off of woot, they came in a box about the size of a cassette with nothing but the cards in their protective cases and some bubble wrap and an invoice.
Yeah, really... let's think about that for a minute:
User installs Windows, only to find no browser installed by default. "That's okay," says the user, "I'll just download one... from the Internet... without a browser..."
Easily removable and decoupled from the system I could see. But let's not get silly.
You know, I should be watching, interested in the video and the technical details and how it handles and all, but I watch the video, and listen to the guy talking, and I just start laughing...
"It has *real* Linux... looks like Linux, uhhh, some kind of Linux is here..."
I was reading this as him hosting his games on a local server, within his network, thus making storage and bandwidth concerns almost negligible these days. I don't personally know what kind of sizes these games are, but I would imagine that they're small enough to comfortably stream over 54Mb/s.
Maybe the developers don't know how to do scroll bars Except that the text area doesn't rezize indefinitely... once it gets to around half the total size of the window, it starts scrolling again.
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True, but I'd rather have unlocking be a technical barrier and not a legal one.
Don't worry. If they can't have it be the one then I'm sure they can make it the other.
Especially when I already have this kickass robe and wizard hat...
I have never before wanted mod points more than I do right now.
More like this:
WM = PC + Mac
MW = Mac + PC
Trivially, WM = MW
tM = total # of Mac users
tW = total # of PC users
assuming tW = 9*tM, it therefore follows that tW/WM = (9*tM)/MW
(the first is absolute numbers, the second is relative percentages)
A "real" $1200 unladen road bike would probably bust 45 fairly easily down the same hill
African or European?
And all I can find is this ring.
Did you even read the post you're replying to?
Presuming, of course that you took complete, relevant notes on all concepts, including those which seemed obvious to you at the time but which you can't quite remember how they worked now.
But, I mean, surely everyone does that, right?
I would argue that scratches, etc. on physical media are visible and (more importantly) user-created in most cases. The buyer accepts the fact that their CD/record/what-have-you can get scratched/broken/sat on and takes responsibility for its care in that area. Digital files, on the other hand have no such drawbacks and if they become unavailable, it is by no action of the buyer nor can the buyer tell what has happened. The music simply no longer works.
If, by contrast, I bought a CD which was designed to erase itself after an undetermined period of time, then yes, I would demand a replacement.
And that's exactly how my school works. I'm on co-op now (just about to go on break in fact) and during the past three months I've made more than my loans for the rest of the year, not to mention the networking and real-life experience I'm getting as a result.
I had the choice between two schools, one that had co-ops, and one that would give me half as much debt. I'm still not sure if I made the right choice, but so far it seems to be working well in my favor.
unfortunately that does not always work...
I bought one CD a while back that had the stickers on all three sides... took me forever to get it open. A lot (though thankfully not all) of the discs I've seen of late have it on the top and bottom, presumably to defeat this very trick.
After all, once you've gotten the package open, you could do anything to it... you might even (gasp) listen to the music you just bought.
Then buy it online from some retailer (perhaps Amazon?) who doesn't need to put up with these things and can thereby sell the products more cheaply.
I once bought 3 SD cards off of woot, they came in a box about the size of a cassette with nothing but the cards in their protective cases and some bubble wrap and an invoice.
You can run X on 512K of ram?
I usually need at least 640K...
don't worry, I'm sure you'll find a way to keep your parents from finding your alien-tentacle-hentai.
I'm honestly more worried about the reverse...
Schadenfreude?
User installs Windows, only to find no browser installed by default. "That's okay," says the user, "I'll just download one... from the Internet... without a browser..."
Easily removable and decoupled from the system I could see. But let's not get silly.
I don't remember having accepted any EULA for firefox on mac or windows
You don't eh? Maybe you should check again
www.getfirefox.com
You know, I should be watching, interested in the video and the technical details and how it handles and all, but I watch the video, and listen to the guy talking, and I just start laughing...
"It has *real* Linux... looks like Linux, uhhh, some kind of Linux is here..."
Seriously? VC games fill a DVD? Or are you referring to entire Wii games, something I could easily see being harder to stream.
I was reading this as him hosting his games on a local server, within his network, thus making storage and bandwidth concerns almost negligible these days. I don't personally know what kind of sizes these games are, but I would imagine that they're small enough to comfortably stream over 54Mb/s.