Do you think this will foster any improvements from telcos? Somehow I doubt it. It seems like they'd rather keep bitching and moaning than try to provide competitive service. I mean, isn't that what the RIAA does with peer 2 peer and bit torrent?
Trouble is, I'm sure there's some bit of our tax money being used to make this failnet, whether or not we as citizens use it. If my city decides to do something like this, I'll be sure to attend every city council meeting and read everything I can about it to try to gauge how well-built the network will be.
Ok, that's kinda funny! Here's your +1, my good AC!
I'm with the GP: I only play a few games, but none of them will work well in Linux. I've even grown sick of trying to get WoW to run in wine (granted, I tried on my old laptop with a 945GM chipset, which was notorious for linux incompatibility).
I'd like to learn to set up a complete linux shop, but our engineers need AutoCAD software that I doubt would work in linux. Even if it did, we don't have the know-how in the company to set up all our customizations for it in anything but Windows.
I'm excited for Windows 7. I hope our company migrates to it soon. XP is started to feel really dated.
This has a 17" screen (only 1440x900) with HDMI outputs. The gateway p-7811fx has a 17" screen that is WUXGA+ (or something, correct me if I'm wrong on that name) that is full HD.
I have this laptop (well, the q701 model (9700GTS, 200gb HDD). The flames have kind of grown on me. But as a desktop replacement, I rarely close the thing (the heat comes up through the keyboard (nothing scorching, yet) and closing the lid while it's running will eventually melt or wear out your screen. Plus, the speakers are muffled, and this thing sounds GREAT with 4 harmon-kardon speakers and a subwoofer under it). I rarely see the design as it sits on my desk.
A few cons to this particular model: the keyboard feels cheap, glossy, and flexes to the right towards the (not a con: full number pad). The screen is only 1440x900 (but it has HDMI for my (future purchase of a) 42+" 1080p tv). There's little else (so far) to complain about.
Grown up name? How is Suse (which brings to mind a certain doctoral author of children's books) any more grown up than Ubuntu (a foreign language word representing the philosophy behind the distribution and FOSS as a whole)?
Quote: (yeah yeah.. commercials... blah blah blah.. its still free when it comes right down to it. it doesnt cost ME anything to listen to the radio.)
In reality, the companies paying for those advertisements in turn use revenue from an increase in price of their services and products to fund them. You, as a consumer, in turn purchase those services and products.
Nothing is free.
I have no problem with paying a bit to support not only artists, but the production, promotion, and support of those artists done by record labels. However, I dislike the current methods of same labels.
I remember reading that when CDs were first promoted in the late 80s, promises were made that prices would drop, since the CD was so cheap to produce. Once publishers were able to cover start-up costs in purchasing new technologies, the actual disks would only cost pennies to press. Yet we still pay $15-25 for most CDs in stores.
I feel artists should receive the profits from the fruits of their labors. The labels give them loans to write and record an album, and once those loans are payed back (as well as the recuperation of production/publishing costs) then the album generates true profit, most of which should be returned to the artist.
I also feel that the artists should retain creative control and copyright to their work. As it seems to be now, they create beautiful works (well, the artists I choose to support do. IE: your favorite band sucks) but they cannot control it once it's in the hands of the labels. This situation makes me think of sweatshops: dirty, hungry children slaving away for pennies a day to create hundreds of thousands of pairs of your favorite $100+ sneakers.
Finally, I have no problem paying for music for these reasons: my favorite artists, unless they are mainstream like Slipknot or Opeth on Roadrunner Records, are usually distributed through European labels or American indie labels not associated with the RIAA. Therefore I usually don't support the labels that claim allegience to these thugs of the courtroom.
Whew! That got long-winded. TL;DR: stop calling it piracy, down with the RIAA, blah blah blah
I would definitely help out someone who is facing an actual court case against the RIAA, and I don't mean that farce of one with Jaimie Thomas in Minnesota!
Wonder how many companies actually care about video clips of their games being posted online? Seems like great publicity for them, and a good way to see how a game plays for someone who hasn't bought it yet. DNRTFA
Indeed. His dinosaurs scared the crap out of me before I even know about Terminators or Aliens or Predators.
I still have my Jurassic Park trading cards with the Stan Winston subset featuring his designs. I shall dust them off tonight in his memory.
My "Help Desk Support" position is so much more, like you said... and I'm making a good bit of money more at this new position in an engineering firm than my friend who manages IT for a local TV station for 3 years! So while it says "Help Desk" on my resumé, I'll be able to prove it was oh so much more than that.
I spoke from an ethical standpoint, not anything else. Yes, grandma Johnson didn't download NWA and Eazy-E tracks, yet got sued anyways.
I'm just saying that were I to get sued by the RIAA a year ago, I'd have been guilty. Now I have cleaned up my act... Helps though that the majority of music I download comes from Europe so I have a small percentage of files from an RIAA label, nor did I ever upload music, nor do I purchase music from RIAA labels (unless the album is worth it). That way I can breathe a little bit easier in this case.
My brother at university got a letter from the university staff about downloading, apparently somebody tracked it to him, but he only had to clean it off his hard drive to be clear, so I don't think it was the RIAA's usual strong-arm henchmen Media Defender who sent the letter...
While what you say does hold some truth (former music pirate here, who's reverted back to purchasing music), the matter is more the extortion-like tactics the RIAA uses to make the US Justice System their own personal marionettes. It shouldn't be allowed, but I suspect politicians would rather enjoy the money that lobbyist groups give them than to stand up for what is right.
That's American Politics in a nutshell.
"Hey Joe, this BadAnalogyGuy is downloading some weird shit... "encr, lbhgu, puvyq..." well at least none of it looks like porn. We won't worry about him...
"But throw him in to the terrorist watch list, just in case."
I hope the parent gets modded up. (S)he's right, we are GLOBAL citizens too.
Anyone want to admit to watching ALL the Star Wars movies? Art imitates life once again. This is EXACTLY what Palpatine did to become Emperor. He created a false war to hang on to power well past his limits, fooled the people into following him at least until he had the power and weapons to crush dissenters and induce fear to control them further. Then he dissolved the senate.
We're on step 2 and well on our way to step 3. Will we let step 4 come true?
Franklin said something about the people giving up freedom for security deserve neither. This applies in this matter, to a degree.
Google Earth doesn't peer into windows. This Street View situation could be construed as such. Invalid argument, in my opinion.
But to be so willingly blind to give up rights and freedoms? Not only is that so un-American (my apologies if you live elsewhere), it is downright stupid. Look at our current administration (and past administrations). Do you *really* want to give them more and more control of your life?
Go watch or read 1984. Or if you're more into action movies, watch Equilibrium. Or real-world events: identity theft that leaves people forever indebted and tainted in the eyes of their friends and families, Tibet and the Chinese government's actions against it. There's more than enough reason to not give up freedoms and rights (and privacy).
Follow the progression of the pictures. They weren't just on a private road. They were in the driveway, pulled all the way up parallel the garage doors, then backed out. There is no way a driver couldn't have seen it was a private drive before he could peer inside the garage windows.
Agreed with removing the pictures... the drivers should be able to turn off the camera, or at least log when they feel the pictures should be reviewed for removal (like when he says to himself "Oops, I'm in a driveway and pulled the 30 feet all the way in so much so that I can see inside this house!").
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Do you think this will foster any improvements from telcos? Somehow I doubt it. It seems like they'd rather keep bitching and moaning than try to provide competitive service. I mean, isn't that what the RIAA does with peer 2 peer and bit torrent?
Trouble is, I'm sure there's some bit of our tax money being used to make this failnet, whether or not we as citizens use it. If my city decides to do something like this, I'll be sure to attend every city council meeting and read everything I can about it to try to gauge how well-built the network will be.
Ok, that's kinda funny! Here's your +1, my good AC! I'm with the GP: I only play a few games, but none of them will work well in Linux. I've even grown sick of trying to get WoW to run in wine (granted, I tried on my old laptop with a 945GM chipset, which was notorious for linux incompatibility). I'd like to learn to set up a complete linux shop, but our engineers need AutoCAD software that I doubt would work in linux. Even if it did, we don't have the know-how in the company to set up all our customizations for it in anything but Windows. I'm excited for Windows 7. I hope our company migrates to it soon. XP is started to feel really dated.
As much as I'd like to agree with him, I think someone's reaching just a little too far...
I do what I've always done: shared. Passed the controller back and forth. Or played multiplayer games.
Oh boy, somebody's going to have stealth helicopters do a drop on their house from that comment... have you heard any thumps on your roof lately?
Meanwhile 5 US pilots retired very, very rich on sandy beaches of foreign countries...
This has a 17" screen (only 1440x900) with HDMI outputs. The gateway p-7811fx has a 17" screen that is WUXGA+ (or something, correct me if I'm wrong on that name) that is full HD.
I have this laptop (well, the q701 model (9700GTS, 200gb HDD). The flames have kind of grown on me. But as a desktop replacement, I rarely close the thing (the heat comes up through the keyboard (nothing scorching, yet) and closing the lid while it's running will eventually melt or wear out your screen. Plus, the speakers are muffled, and this thing sounds GREAT with 4 harmon-kardon speakers and a subwoofer under it). I rarely see the design as it sits on my desk. A few cons to this particular model: the keyboard feels cheap, glossy, and flexes to the right towards the (not a con: full number pad). The screen is only 1440x900 (but it has HDMI for my (future purchase of a) 42+" 1080p tv). There's little else (so far) to complain about.
My kingdom for mod points! Thread is over in one post!
Grown up name? How is Suse (which brings to mind a certain doctoral author of children's books) any more grown up than Ubuntu (a foreign language word representing the philosophy behind the distribution and FOSS as a whole)?
In reality, the companies paying for those advertisements in turn use revenue from an increase in price of their services and products to fund them. You, as a consumer, in turn purchase those services and products.
Nothing is free.
I have no problem with paying a bit to support not only artists, but the production, promotion, and support of those artists done by record labels. However, I dislike the current methods of same labels.
I remember reading that when CDs were first promoted in the late 80s, promises were made that prices would drop, since the CD was so cheap to produce. Once publishers were able to cover start-up costs in purchasing new technologies, the actual disks would only cost pennies to press. Yet we still pay $15-25 for most CDs in stores.
I feel artists should receive the profits from the fruits of their labors. The labels give them loans to write and record an album, and once those loans are payed back (as well as the recuperation of production/publishing costs) then the album generates true profit, most of which should be returned to the artist.
I also feel that the artists should retain creative control and copyright to their work. As it seems to be now, they create beautiful works (well, the artists I choose to support do. IE: your favorite band sucks) but they cannot control it once it's in the hands of the labels. This situation makes me think of sweatshops: dirty, hungry children slaving away for pennies a day to create hundreds of thousands of pairs of your favorite $100+ sneakers.
Finally, I have no problem paying for music for these reasons: my favorite artists, unless they are mainstream like Slipknot or Opeth on Roadrunner Records, are usually distributed through European labels or American indie labels not associated with the RIAA. Therefore I usually don't support the labels that claim allegience to these thugs of the courtroom.
Whew! That got long-winded. TL;DR: stop calling it piracy, down with the RIAA, blah blah blah
I would definitely help out someone who is facing an actual court case against the RIAA, and I don't mean that farce of one with Jaimie Thomas in Minnesota!
"You'll never con an honest John" - Mike Skinner, The Streets
I lack the mod points to mark this funny! Darnit!
Wonder how many companies actually care about video clips of their games being posted online? Seems like great publicity for them, and a good way to see how a game plays for someone who hasn't bought it yet. DNRTFA
Indeed. His dinosaurs scared the crap out of me before I even know about Terminators or Aliens or Predators. I still have my Jurassic Park trading cards with the Stan Winston subset featuring his designs. I shall dust them off tonight in his memory.
My "Help Desk Support" position is so much more, like you said... and I'm making a good bit of money more at this new position in an engineering firm than my friend who manages IT for a local TV station for 3 years! So while it says "Help Desk" on my resumé, I'll be able to prove it was oh so much more than that.
I'm just saying that were I to get sued by the RIAA a year ago, I'd have been guilty. Now I have cleaned up my act... Helps though that the majority of music I download comes from Europe so I have a small percentage of files from an RIAA label, nor did I ever upload music, nor do I purchase music from RIAA labels (unless the album is worth it). That way I can breathe a little bit easier in this case.
My brother at university got a letter from the university staff about downloading, apparently somebody tracked it to him, but he only had to clean it off his hard drive to be clear, so I don't think it was the RIAA's usual strong-arm henchmen Media Defender who sent the letter...
Anyways, GWB is a terrorist himself. 'Nuff said.
While what you say does hold some truth (former music pirate here, who's reverted back to purchasing music), the matter is more the extortion-like tactics the RIAA uses to make the US Justice System their own personal marionettes. It shouldn't be allowed, but I suspect politicians would rather enjoy the money that lobbyist groups give them than to stand up for what is right.
That's American Politics in a nutshell.
"Hey Joe, this BadAnalogyGuy is downloading some weird shit... "encr, lbhgu, puvyq..." well at least none of it looks like porn. We won't worry about him... "But throw him in to the terrorist watch list, just in case."
I hope the parent gets modded up. (S)he's right, we are GLOBAL citizens too. Anyone want to admit to watching ALL the Star Wars movies? Art imitates life once again. This is EXACTLY what Palpatine did to become Emperor. He created a false war to hang on to power well past his limits, fooled the people into following him at least until he had the power and weapons to crush dissenters and induce fear to control them further. Then he dissolved the senate. We're on step 2 and well on our way to step 3. Will we let step 4 come true?
On the other hand, Google should respect laws. It helps a lot.
Google Earth doesn't peer into windows. This Street View situation could be construed as such. Invalid argument, in my opinion.
But to be so willingly blind to give up rights and freedoms? Not only is that so un-American (my apologies if you live elsewhere), it is downright stupid. Look at our current administration (and past administrations). Do you *really* want to give them more and more control of your life?
Go watch or read 1984. Or if you're more into action movies, watch Equilibrium. Or real-world events: identity theft that leaves people forever indebted and tainted in the eyes of their friends and families, Tibet and the Chinese government's actions against it. There's more than enough reason to not give up freedoms and rights (and privacy).
Agreed with removing the pictures... the drivers should be able to turn off the camera, or at least log when they feel the pictures should be reviewed for removal (like when he says to himself "Oops, I'm in a driveway and pulled the 30 feet all the way in so much so that I can see inside this house!").