Of course you're allowed to win. They're just not going to make it easy for you. But you can go into any casino, and every slot machine in there is required to be able to give whatever it's payout is supposed to be. If you play blackjack, they provide a non-marked deck, with all the standard cards in it.
You may not have good odds to win, but yes, you can win. The games are not rigged, and if you suspect they are, you can report the Casino.
I'm sure you can find some country that wouldn't substantially care, but then, all the other countries would, and they'd cut off that country from the internet.
No, it's like not getting the rebate being offered for this year's cars when you want to buy last year's.
Admittedly, in the case of most car lots, they do want to get rid of the older models, but I suspect if you went and demanded something offered on an out of date model, they'd push the newer one on you.
And then the Deaf would sue because Amazon was discriminating against them by making audio versions they couldn't hear, and then nothing would be published.
Or you know, maybe the courts aren't full of utter morons.
If Amazon were only offering this feature to disabled users, that'd be fine. They're not. They're offering it to pretty much anyone.
And that's the difference. The author's guild doesn't care about parents, school teachers or libraries, they care about Amazon.com making it a part of their commercial offering.
Dude, if it's aliens, we all get neuralyzed and forget there ever was a problem.
Either that, or we get some random explanation about a natural gas pipeline exploding in the middle of their datacenter and we should go fix ourselves up and marry a better man.
Microsoft can't do it because everybody would sue them for Anti-trust violations! Believe it or not, there are companies that make money selling installer/updater packages! Your suggestion would take them out of business.
I'm sure they'd like that.
But in case you didn't know, there's been unified updater programs around for a while. None of them seem to have really taken off though.
Or you could go onto any of the numerous websites that let you listen to sample tracks from an album, or go into stores that let you listen to CDs before you buy them.
Really, the companies do give some consideration to trying the music before you buy it. Yet you didn't even mention the other options...
Most of their court filings are public, and the lawyer puts his or her name on those. If you wish to see them, you can.
I cannot, however, support the idea of a website identifying the lawyers, which I believe would have too much risk of being used for the purposes of harassment and intimidation.
If you wish to deal with the RIAA, do so in a legal manner is fine. A website such as suggested above, would not likely aid in that so much as give people the opportunity to harass and intimidate people who are basically doing their job.
Sure, there are products like books and movies that wouldn't benefit too much from 3d models, but the art studio described in the article? Seems right up their alley. Sure, you could just take a bunch of photos of your sculpture and let people browse them, but I think I'd want something a little more.
I think the summary is missing much of the point of the article, and so are some of the readers. There's actually quite a number of products like furniture and automobiles that benefit from examining on site, at least to me, and it seems to me the "photo-reality" being described is a lot closer to the experience of walking into a furniture store than browsing overstock.
Well, in that case, you should contact the persons originating it, and tell them to stop. Possibly someone added you by a typo with the e-mail address, possibly something else. No telling without seeing the mails.
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Or Kamandi, the last boy on Earth. Whichever post-apoc scenario it is, caused by people playing around with this kind of stuff.
Not that I'm opposed to genetic engineering as a whole, I just realize there's all sorts of consequences to it.
Of course you're allowed to win. They're just not going to make it easy for you. But you can go into any casino, and every slot machine in there is required to be able to give whatever it's payout is supposed to be. If you play blackjack, they provide a non-marked deck, with all the standard cards in it.
You may not have good odds to win, but yes, you can win. The games are not rigged, and if you suspect they are, you can report the Casino.
Fairy-land perhaps?
I'm sure you can find some country that wouldn't substantially care, but then, all the other countries would, and they'd cut off that country from the internet.
No, it's like not getting the rebate being offered for this year's cars when you want to buy last year's.
Admittedly, in the case of most car lots, they do want to get rid of the older models, but I suspect if you went and demanded something offered on an out of date model, they'd push the newer one on you.
There's a surprising lack of porn to be found in the article. Really, I go to the trouble of RTFA and what do I get? NOTHING!
That's because of issues with food preparation rather than the customers themselves.
And then the Deaf would sue because Amazon was discriminating against them by making audio versions they couldn't hear, and then nothing would be published.
Or you know, maybe the courts aren't full of utter morons.
If Amazon were only offering this feature to disabled users, that'd be fine. They're not. They're offering it to pretty much anyone.
And that's the difference. The author's guild doesn't care about parents, school teachers or libraries, they care about Amazon.com making it a part of their commercial offering.
See the difference?
Dude, if it's aliens, we all get neuralyzed and forget there ever was a problem.
Either that, or we get some random explanation about a natural gas pipeline exploding in the middle of their datacenter and we should go fix ourselves up and marry a better man.
Go visit the Microsoft Research website. It might be informative for you.
Just pull the plug on them, on the whole internet for that matter. That'll teach those spammers a lesson!
Microsoft can't do it because everybody would sue them for Anti-trust violations! Believe it or not, there are companies that make money selling installer/updater packages! Your suggestion would take them out of business.
I'm sure they'd like that.
But in case you didn't know, there's been unified updater programs around for a while. None of them seem to have really taken off though.
Considering that they're probably volunteers in a rural area, they probably don't have the money to pay for it.
And you know HP would do the same thing if they were using Ubuntu instead.
Or you could go onto any of the numerous websites that let you listen to sample tracks from an album, or go into stores that let you listen to CDs before you buy them.
Really, the companies do give some consideration to trying the music before you buy it. Yet you didn't even mention the other options...
It is as easy to capture the data from a Copy and paste as it is from key-input.
Heck, that text file used to copy and paste could just as easily be e-mailed and then you lose all your passwords at once.
Are they looking for accuracy, or persuasiveness?
It's probably less functional, which is even more important.
That question might be re-stated: Can you name a feature that makes Vista better than Mac OSX?
Not having to buy from Apple.
Don't buy them a car. Don't buy them a cell-phone.
It's that simple.
Most of their court filings are public, and the lawyer puts his or her name on those. If you wish to see them, you can.
I cannot, however, support the idea of a website identifying the lawyers, which I believe would have too much risk of being used for the purposes of harassment and intimidation.
Not good at all.
If you wish to deal with the RIAA, do so in a legal manner is fine. A website such as suggested above, would not likely aid in that so much as give people the opportunity to harass and intimidate people who are basically doing their job.
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Sure, there are products like books and movies that wouldn't benefit too much from 3d models, but the art studio described in the article? Seems right up their alley. Sure, you could just take a bunch of photos of your sculpture and let people browse them, but I think I'd want something a little more.
I think the summary is missing much of the point of the article, and so are some of the readers. There's actually quite a number of products like furniture and automobiles that benefit from examining on site, at least to me, and it seems to me the "photo-reality" being described is a lot closer to the experience of walking into a furniture store than browsing overstock.
Well, in that case, you should contact the persons originating it, and tell them to stop. Possibly someone added you by a typo with the e-mail address, possibly something else. No telling without seeing the mails.