Although I'm sure at this point, even though the actual damages would by 0.99 per song, the court costs / lawyers fees are easily 25 thousand.
The point is, she *has* been found guily, and there comes a point where the appeal and counter-appeal process eventually has to end. At that point, do you want the RIAA claiming a 1.92 million "victory" or a 25 thousand "victory" ?
When are you going to learn, there is no such thing as *contractless* with Apple. You sell your soul to the Devil Jobs the minute you buy one of their products.
If it's not the fact that there's only one App store you are "allowed" to use, and that any App worth it's salt will cost real money plus the fact it can be remotely removed from your device on a whim, then it's the DRM lock in meaning any file you can read will probably have a price attached also.
And then of course, in 6 months to 1 year, he'll f**k you all over once more by bringing out version 2 of the tablet, containing some (never all) of the functionality it should have had from the start. And you'll gladly pay another exorbitant sum into the Apple machine just so you can stay up to date.
Buying a Rolex or a Ferrari, which really *are* exclusive status symbols, means you have something that will retain it's value, and be a talking point forever. Buying Apple means you can run with the "in-crowd" for 6 months, until the next "innovation" comes along and you pay yet again to stay trendy.
It beggars belief that people are so hopelessly fished in by this scam year after year... still, a fool and his money etc...
It might as well be censorship, because there is NO OTHER CHOICE where to get your apps. Oh, wait, I forgot, "If you don't like it, don't buy it".
What happens if you already bought it, and then you discover that the App you *really* cannot live without isn't available ? Or the App you've been using happily for 6 months suddenly disappears from your device because Steve was having a bad morning and decided to remote killswitch all Apps that had a yellow background ?
This is worse than censorship, or government "1984" style control, because as an iConsumer, you *really* have been brainwashed that what Apple does is acceptable behaviour.
Imagine if you'd bought a Ferrari for some ridiculous sum, and then were told that it doesn't actually run on gasoline, but on Beluga Caviar (North of the Caspian).
Having spent all that money, and then discovering there's only one place where you can obtain fuel to make it run, what would you do ?
There, a car analogy AND a 1960s Bond reference all in one post;-)
If ripping off it's potential customers by charging $100 for a $10 stick of 16GB flash, or $130 for a 3G connection when a lot of complete mobile phones don't cost that much, doesn't alienate them then nothing will.
As P.T. Barnum put it, "There's a sucker born every minute". Had he been alive today, he'd have been a billionaire... he'd simply of needed to set up his stall outside the Apple conference center right before a product launch.
And yet you don't do any error checking when connecting to the MySQL database, and then continue to try and issue commands to a database handle that is invalid.
So Postgre supports infinite simultaneous connections does it ? And if not, what does it do ? Yes, it craps out an error message just like MySQL, and it's up to the underlying code / webpage to decide how to handle that and display the fact to the user.
MySQL sensibly defaults to a max connections of (I think) 128... you can change that setting in your my.ini file, along with a lot of other stuff controlling how much memory he uses for joins, indexes, temporary tables etc...
But hell no, let's just declare the DB useless when in fact the DBA / coder was useless.
How do you explain our response to humanitarian catastrophes like the Indian Ocean tsunami or Haitian earthquake?
PR, nothing more. How do *you* explain why there was no US response to the catastrophe that was Haiti for the last 50 years... it's not like they suddenly became the poorest western nation overnight, and it's not the first time they've had floods, hurricanes or earthquakes. The entire country is one big fuckup, and the US did nothing.
The only reason the US is making such a big deal now, is that they don't want to be seen to be outdone by Italy or France or any of the other nations who arrived first (sound familiar ? 1940s, a rather large war that you also arrived late to and then tried to claim all the glory ?)
Racism is a general term for negative stereotyping now, and no long really pertains to a racial separation
No it isn't, the press and left-wing pressure groups would just like you to believe it is.
Because the moment you use the emotive "R" word, the party in question is automatically tarred with a certain kind of brush, regardless of whether what he said was actually racist or simply some other derogatory comment.
Same with stereotyping, again it carries a negative connotation, when in fact it simply means grouping a class of people or behaviour as common to that group, based on observational evidence that "a lot" or "most" of the group exhibit that behaviour.
So if I say "All Chinese have yellow skin", it is neither racist nor stereotyping, it's simply a god-damn fact. Even if only 50.0001% were true, it would still be acceptable to say "Most Chinese have yellow skin".
The problem in most countries now is that the prolls are so afraid to open their mouths, for fear of upsetting one group of people or another, be it on racial, religious or other basis. I will continue to call a spade a spade, opinions be damned.
I thought he'd left already, but there he was, back again, and Big Billy too !!!
Old characters are returning to the Whitehouse more times than a season finale of Doctor Who. I keep expecting Billie Piper to pop up behind Hilary Clinton.
Sometimes a spade *is* just a spade... damnit, when will I learn to proofread my posts ?
Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at the perl script actually launching a process that doesn't get timesliced into an hour long wait staring at the screen chanting "#!/usr/bin/perl, I believe, I believe".
even if a large amount of a certain demographic acts a certain way, its racist stereotyping to lump all of said group together. EG. "many Mac people commit crimes and are in gangs, therefore all Mac people should be treated as potential criminals"
Last time I checked, owning a Mac is NOT a race... where exactly is Maclandia, and what are the requirements for a Visa ?
And you seem to have some problem understanding the word stereotyping... just because some fact about some group is considered "a stereotype", can also mean that the fact is TRUE. Stereotypes can be positive or negative, but in any case where it applies to more than 50.0001% of the people in question, is also a fact when using the phrase "most people who do X are Y".
Slavery was abolished long ago. To keep Mac people picking cotton in your plantation is wrong and illegal. Views on keeping Mac people as slaves is wrong.
Saying someone is bought does not imply they are slaves... Lawyers, Politicians, Public Officials can all be "bought" in one form or another, usually referring to bribery, corruption etc. Why you chose to assume it meant slavery simply says a a lot about your own blinkered views of the world, and that you see racism at every turn, whether it actually exists or not.
Sometimes, a spade it just a spade (let's see what mileage you get out of that one).
And there was me thinking it was named after EVE T1 salvagable materials... looking foward to the "Burned Logic Circuit" version... oh, wait, maybe we've already had that one, it makes your RAM fry from overuse.
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Although I'm sure at this point, even though the actual damages would by 0.99 per song, the court costs / lawyers fees are easily 25 thousand.
The point is, she *has* been found guily, and there comes a point where the appeal and counter-appeal process eventually has to end. At that point, do you want the RIAA claiming a 1.92 million "victory" or a 25 thousand "victory" ?
has a photo of the jet.
So not *that* stealthy then ? Of course, I guess if it was that good, the pilot would never be able to find where he parked the thing.
When are you going to learn, there is no such thing as *contractless* with Apple. You sell your soul to the Devil Jobs the minute you buy one of their products.
If it's not the fact that there's only one App store you are "allowed" to use, and that any App worth it's salt will cost real money plus the fact it can be remotely removed from your device on a whim, then it's the DRM lock in meaning any file you can read will probably have a price attached also.
And then of course, in 6 months to 1 year, he'll f**k you all over once more by bringing out version 2 of the tablet, containing some (never all) of the functionality it should have had from the start. And you'll gladly pay another exorbitant sum into the Apple machine just so you can stay up to date.
Buying a Rolex or a Ferrari, which really *are* exclusive status symbols, means you have something that will retain it's value, and be a talking point forever. Buying Apple means you can run with the "in-crowd" for 6 months, until the next "innovation" comes along and you pay yet again to stay trendy.
It beggars belief that people are so hopelessly fished in by this scam year after year ... still, a fool and his money etc ...
It might as well be censorship, because there is NO OTHER CHOICE where to get your apps. Oh, wait, I forgot, "If you don't like it, don't buy it".
What happens if you already bought it, and then you discover that the App you *really* cannot live without isn't available ? Or the App you've been using happily for 6 months suddenly disappears from your device because Steve was having a bad morning and decided to remote killswitch all Apps that had a yellow background ?
This is worse than censorship, or government "1984" style control, because as an iConsumer, you *really* have been brainwashed that what Apple does is acceptable behaviour.
With the iPad, Apple have taken another huge technological leap forward ... this one doesn't come with ANY mouse buttons.
Imagine if you'd bought a Ferrari for some ridiculous sum, and then were told that it doesn't actually run on gasoline, but on Beluga Caviar (North of the Caspian).
Having spent all that money, and then discovering there's only one place where you can obtain fuel to make it run, what would you do ?
There, a car analogy AND a 1960s Bond reference all in one post ;-)
If ripping off it's potential customers by charging $100 for a $10 stick of 16GB flash, or $130 for a 3G connection when a lot of complete mobile phones don't cost that much, doesn't alienate them then nothing will.
As P.T. Barnum put it, "There's a sucker born every minute". Had he been alive today, he'd have been a billionaire ... he'd simply of needed to set up his stall outside the Apple conference center right before a product launch.
And yet you don't do any error checking when connecting to the MySQL database, and then continue to try and issue commands to a database handle that is invalid.
Draw your own conclusions, people.
So Postgre supports infinite simultaneous connections does it ? And if not, what does it do ? Yes, it craps out an error message just like MySQL, and it's up to the underlying code / webpage to decide how to handle that and display the fact to the user.
MySQL sensibly defaults to a max connections of (I think) 128 ... you can change that setting in your my.ini file, along with a lot of other stuff controlling how much memory he uses for joins, indexes, temporary tables etc ...
But hell no, let's just declare the DB useless when in fact the DBA / coder was useless.
So how would adding unique text to the UserAgent make you *less* recognizable ?
It's about lowering entropy bits, not adding them !!
How do you explain our response to humanitarian catastrophes like the Indian Ocean tsunami or Haitian earthquake?
PR, nothing more. How do *you* explain why there was no US response to the catastrophe that was Haiti for the last 50 years ... it's not like they suddenly became the poorest western nation overnight, and it's not the first time they've had floods, hurricanes or earthquakes. The entire country is one big fuckup, and the US did nothing.
The only reason the US is making such a big deal now, is that they don't want to be seen to be outdone by Italy or France or any of the other nations who arrived first (sound familiar ? 1940s, a rather large war that you also arrived late to and then tried to claim all the glory ?)
For some real fun, try applying a universal international standard to weights and measures
Erm, the Metric System ? AFAIK, the whole world EXCEPT for USA and some crappy island in the middle of nowhere use it.
And Quicktime *isn't* proprietary, and never had any attack vectors ?
Apple will no more support HTML5 than anyone else with a vested interest of selling their own spyware / nagware / crapware (delete as appropriate).
What gets me is the price step up for the memory ...
To get +16 GB the price increase is $100
To get +32 GB the price increase is another $200
So basically, we are talking $100 per 16GB of flash memory, when I could buy a 16GB USB dongle for any other device for $10 ???
And the $130 extra for 3G ? A lot of mobiles don't cost that, and have a hell of a lot more than 3G built in.
As usual, another iRipoff, and the fanbois will lap it up ... fucking mugs.
I have karma to burn, so do your worst, it won't change reality, only the visibility of this comment ...
Racism is a general term for negative stereotyping now, and no long really pertains to a racial separation
No it isn't, the press and left-wing pressure groups would just like you to believe it is.
Because the moment you use the emotive "R" word, the party in question is automatically tarred with a certain kind of brush, regardless of whether what he said was actually racist or simply some other derogatory comment.
Same with stereotyping, again it carries a negative connotation, when in fact it simply means grouping a class of people or behaviour as common to that group, based on observational evidence that "a lot" or "most" of the group exhibit that behaviour.
So if I say "All Chinese have yellow skin", it is neither racist nor stereotyping, it's simply a god-damn fact. Even if only 50.0001% were true, it would still be acceptable to say "Most Chinese have yellow skin".
The problem in most countries now is that the prolls are so afraid to open their mouths, for fear of upsetting one group of people or another, be it on racial, religious or other basis. I will continue to call a spade a spade, opinions be damned.
10 REM IPv6 WILL SERIOUSLY F*CK THIS CODE UP !!
20 DIM DOMAINS(255,255,255,255)
I made a start on the IP to Domain lookup code, I'll let you take it from here.
Unfortunately, all of the good OSS proxies have their source code hosted on sourceforge.
10 PRINT "CIRCULAR REFERENCE"
20 GOTO 10
I thought he'd left already, but there he was, back again, and Big Billy too !!!
Old characters are returning to the Whitehouse more times than a season finale of Doctor Who. I keep expecting Billie Piper to pop up behind Hilary Clinton.
Moving a company overseas might be difficult, moving a server is a piece of piss and a few hours work with FTP and getting your DNS fixed.
A couple years back malware was using 2/3 of the bandwidth, I shudder to think what it is now.
Ooo, must be at least 150% by now ...
I don't think Norton or Kaspersky would be too chuffed either.
Sometimes a spade *is* just a spade ... damnit, when will I learn to proofread my posts ?
Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at the perl script actually launching a process that doesn't get timesliced into an hour long wait staring at the screen chanting "#!/usr/bin/perl, I believe, I believe".
even if a large amount of a certain demographic acts a certain way, its racist stereotyping to lump all of said group together. EG. "many Mac people commit crimes and are in gangs, therefore all Mac people should be treated as potential criminals"
Last time I checked, owning a Mac is NOT a race ... where exactly is Maclandia, and what are the requirements for a Visa ?
And you seem to have some problem understanding the word stereotyping ... just because some fact about some group is considered "a stereotype", can also mean that the fact is TRUE. Stereotypes can be positive or negative, but in any case where it applies to more than 50.0001% of the people in question, is also a fact when using the phrase "most people who do X are Y".
Slavery was abolished long ago. To keep Mac people picking cotton in your plantation is wrong and illegal. Views on keeping Mac people as slaves is wrong.
Saying someone is bought does not imply they are slaves ... Lawyers, Politicians, Public Officials can all be "bought" in one form or another, usually referring to bribery, corruption etc. Why you chose to assume it meant slavery simply says a a lot about your own blinkered views of the world, and that you see racism at every turn, whether it actually exists or not.
Sometimes, a spade it just a spade (let's see what mileage you get out of that one).
I think you may have left off a few 9s at the end there ...
99.99% is probably closer to the mark.
And there was me thinking it was named after EVE T1 salvagable materials ... looking foward to the "Burned Logic Circuit" version ... oh, wait, maybe we've already had that one, it makes your RAM fry from overuse.