The reason is that the poor breed like cockroaches. They're more likely to be short and fat. The well off take care of themselves and they also work so they're less likely to have kids or as many.
We're effectively stalling evolution and will take a step back thanks to protecting the ignorant and lazy. Time to start making people jog on the tread mill to earn those welfare checks.
While I agree that just taking the music isn't right. Who says music should be the price that it is? It's only a relatively recent thing where most musicians could be rich spoiled jerks.
We have to assume society deemed them worthy of it. Maybe things have gone too far and people have realise they're not worth it. I see a legitimate reason why, for example, Madonna deserves to have millions as do the people working for her record label.
Surely not having a job where you have to scoop shit out of a public toilet should be payment enough.
Musicians are just doing what any other employee would do once their job has been devalued but I don't think they'll be able to stop it. Mainly because so few of them can actually sing and play an instrument without the computer doing the bulk of the work. Quite frankly, I'd be happy to what they're asking as long as the money goes towards the one doing most of the work - the computer.
No, the entertainment factor injected into news has put a lot of people, including myself, off of looking at most news. A newspaper is ideal for sitting on the shitter but when what's coming out of me is less shit than what I'm reading them I won't pay for the paper.
If you exclude content from people they will still get it and while those you have excluded it from are downloading it then some people will access will opt to obtain it illegally since so many people are doing it.
They need to get rid of all those old dinosaurs running these media companies.
It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the old way of doing things and protecting distributors in other regions who sell the company's physical content.
This is dumb. The internet should be consider its own region and those distributors can get fucked.
Best I can tell is that automatics aren't as popular in some areas because, at least initially, small engines are shit with an automatic transmission. So when you're in a country with expensive petrol, it's hard to justify a big engine.
I'm sure that has changed and will continue to change. There is just no real reason for manual transmissions. Especially when a lot of people aren't coordinated enough to shift, drive, talk to someone and whatever else they feel like doing.
People who think it makes them more manly to shift are just out dated dickheads who can't afford a real sports car that likely won't be truly manual either.
The roads are becoming more crowded. Imo, something has to change. I don't think ticketing people is necessarily the answer. They just need to take away licences for a minimum of 5 years when people do something stupid.
This is in the UK and I'm buying loads of old movies for anywhere from £1 to £5. Considering, if I recall, last time I went to Blockbuster it was around £3 or £5 to get a movie, I don't see the point. Hell, even a new release can be £9 to £12 and if you have any intention of watching it more than once then it still works out in your favour.
I think it's still beneficial in the US. Your upper end of the scale accounts for Blu-Ray (or poor shopping skills) and, for me personally, I won't move to Blu-Ray yet. I don't have an HD-TV and I'm just not interested.
Maybe I'm different but I've watched all my movies at least 3 times, even the rubbish like Hercules in New York. I've watch Reservoir Dogs about a million times. That would not be sensible with renting.:P
They are the same except often the consumer one states you can't rent it or use it for public viewings. While there is no button to signal whether you disagree or not, I doubt Blockbuster would get away with it.
At the moment you can get most DVDs for the cost or near cost of renting it and you get to keep it. I honestly don't know why you'd want to throw your money away on what is essentially borrowing movie.
I first started on some site I can't even remember but it was super basic so I moved to Tripod and then also opened up some stuff on Geocities.
There was a load of shit on Geocities especially after Yahoo bought them but it was also full of tons of useful info. After all that's all some people had to share info and all sites were ugly even if most were but let's face it the web in general is a bit ugly compared to now.
Geocities could at least give people a platform to learn web design and development. You don't get that really with most social sites these days and most people's myspace site is ugly as sin so in some ways we haven't really advanced.
Clearly you have issues with reading as I pointed out I do backup to two places.
I'm sure it's not the biggest worry in the world but it's still potentially a risk and one I'd rather do without since I can't always access rsync.net or my own machine 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
Yeah amazingly absolutely no thieves thought it was good yet people who bought the game have liked it and his sales are increasing thanks in part to word of mouth.
I love Ubuntu and have it on my desktop and netbook. I don't put it on my main laptop because, as I understand, it's had issues with killing the hard drive in laptops. I know they've implemented fixes and what not but I've yet to get a solid answer on whether this is definitely fixed. I just can not risk losing my hard drive when I may be away from home and unable to dump my work onto rsync.net or my home server.
Can anyone find me some solid proof that this has been sorted? I'm still having odd issues with Ubuntu and WEP. It may be fine to say you should use WPA but I can't force everyone I interact with to use it and quite frankly it shouldn't be having issues when it's like the biggest distro around.
Sun is not Sparc but a Sparc compliant company. As a trademark holder I know the US gov makes it very clear that you can lose your trademark for not defending it. I would bet Sparc doesn't care about sparkfun but their lawyers do because Americans do stupid things like vote a load of lawyers into the government who watch over their own and have made it so what Sparc's lawyers are doing is effectively a requirement for having a trademark.
Lawyers love to make work for their own which is why lawyers should be banned from running for office.
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Mobile games are shit. Books on mobiles isn't so bad so e-books will definitely over take one of the shittiest forms of gaming.
The reason is that the poor breed like cockroaches. They're more likely to be short and fat. The well off take care of themselves and they also work so they're less likely to have kids or as many.
We're effectively stalling evolution and will take a step back thanks to protecting the ignorant and lazy. Time to start making people jog on the tread mill to earn those welfare checks.
While I agree that just taking the music isn't right. Who says music should be the price that it is? It's only a relatively recent thing where most musicians could be rich spoiled jerks.
We have to assume society deemed them worthy of it. Maybe things have gone too far and people have realise they're not worth it. I see a legitimate reason why, for example, Madonna deserves to have millions as do the people working for her record label.
Surely not having a job where you have to scoop shit out of a public toilet should be payment enough.
Musicians are just doing what any other employee would do once their job has been devalued but I don't think they'll be able to stop it. Mainly because so few of them can actually sing and play an instrument without the computer doing the bulk of the work. Quite frankly, I'd be happy to what they're asking as long as the money goes towards the one doing most of the work - the computer.
Look at the guy. I think there's a fair chance he's definitely more of a geek than Ballmer will ever be.
No, the entertainment factor injected into news has put a lot of people, including myself, off of looking at most news. A newspaper is ideal for sitting on the shitter but when what's coming out of me is less shit than what I'm reading them I won't pay for the paper.
If you exclude content from people they will still get it and while those you have excluded it from are downloading it then some people will access will opt to obtain it illegally since so many people are doing it.
They need to get rid of all those old dinosaurs running these media companies.
Hopefully he'll die from AIDS.
It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the old way of doing things and protecting distributors in other regions who sell the company's physical content.
This is dumb. The internet should be consider its own region and those distributors can get fucked.
If only someone could invent locale based ads.
No, it's true. Being a big sports fan and pop music lover does indeed make you a moronic dick head.
Best I can tell is that automatics aren't as popular in some areas because, at least initially, small engines are shit with an automatic transmission. So when you're in a country with expensive petrol, it's hard to justify a big engine.
I'm sure that has changed and will continue to change. There is just no real reason for manual transmissions. Especially when a lot of people aren't coordinated enough to shift, drive, talk to someone and whatever else they feel like doing.
People who think it makes them more manly to shift are just out dated dickheads who can't afford a real sports car that likely won't be truly manual either.
The roads are becoming more crowded. Imo, something has to change. I don't think ticketing people is necessarily the answer. They just need to take away licences for a minimum of 5 years when people do something stupid.
Companies want everyone to get into IT. Once you have too many candidates, you can drive wages down.
This is in the UK and I'm buying loads of old movies for anywhere from £1 to £5. Considering, if I recall, last time I went to Blockbuster it was around £3 or £5 to get a movie, I don't see the point. Hell, even a new release can be £9 to £12 and if you have any intention of watching it more than once then it still works out in your favour.
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I think it's still beneficial in the US. Your upper end of the scale accounts for Blu-Ray (or poor shopping skills) and, for me personally, I won't move to Blu-Ray yet. I don't have an HD-TV and I'm just not interested.
Maybe I'm different but I've watched all my movies at least 3 times, even the rubbish like Hercules in New York. I've watch Reservoir Dogs about a million times. That would not be sensible with renting.
They are the same except often the consumer one states you can't rent it or use it for public viewings. While there is no button to signal whether you disagree or not, I doubt Blockbuster would get away with it.
At the moment you can get most DVDs for the cost or near cost of renting it and you get to keep it. I honestly don't know why you'd want to throw your money away on what is essentially borrowing movie.
Yeah but what good is an empty tube let alone a series of empty tubes?
I first started on some site I can't even remember but it was super basic so I moved to Tripod and then also opened up some stuff on Geocities.
There was a load of shit on Geocities especially after Yahoo bought them but it was also full of tons of useful info. After all that's all some people had to share info and all sites were ugly even if most were but let's face it the web in general is a bit ugly compared to now.
Geocities could at least give people a platform to learn web design and development. You don't get that really with most social sites these days and most people's myspace site is ugly as sin so in some ways we haven't really advanced.
You'll have to install something and AIR is better than some other options.
Clearly you have issues with reading as I pointed out I do backup to two places.
I'm sure it's not the biggest worry in the world but it's still potentially a risk and one I'd rather do without since I can't always access rsync.net or my own machine 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
If you delete it after 24 hours then it's ok. Al Gore made sure to include that law when inventing the internet.
Yeah amazingly absolutely no thieves thought it was good yet people who bought the game have liked it and his sales are increasing thanks in part to word of mouth.
Yeah because Windows or Snow Leopard are so much better. I suspect if they were advertising in TV and print it would be known only as Ubuntu 9.10.
I love Ubuntu and have it on my desktop and netbook. I don't put it on my main laptop because, as I understand, it's had issues with killing the hard drive in laptops. I know they've implemented fixes and what not but I've yet to get a solid answer on whether this is definitely fixed. I just can not risk losing my hard drive when I may be away from home and unable to dump my work onto rsync.net or my home server.
Can anyone find me some solid proof that this has been sorted? I'm still having odd issues with Ubuntu and WEP. It may be fine to say you should use WPA but I can't force everyone I interact with to use it and quite frankly it shouldn't be having issues when it's like the biggest distro around.
Sun is not Sparc but a Sparc compliant company. As a trademark holder I know the US gov makes it very clear that you can lose your trademark for not defending it. I would bet Sparc doesn't care about sparkfun but their lawyers do because Americans do stupid things like vote a load of lawyers into the government who watch over their own and have made it so what Sparc's lawyers are doing is effectively a requirement for having a trademark.
Lawyers love to make work for their own which is why lawyers should be banned from running for office.
Staring at a 20 inch LCD screen and a 4 inch screen are two different things to be fair.