Because Hyundai chooses not to include them, not because engine manufacturers are artificially locking them out.
The Apple faithful continue to come up with reasons why Apple has to do shitty things. The truth of the matter is that Apple is a business. Just like any other business, they'll fuck the consumers over if it helps their bottom line. Remember, Apple is just a corporate entity, albeit one with cooler tech than most.
The obvious difference is that you have given up possession of the items. Perhaps if you *Rented* space from the third party in which you store your originals, you could argue that you have no given up possession and as such are entitled to retain your fair use copies.
Police work SHOULD be hard. It SHOULD be time consuming. It SHOULD be inconvienent for those performing it. Because when they must expend effort and experience inconvienence they are only going to take the time to scrutinize people who they actually believe had done something. Otherwise they'll be doing it just to pass the time.
Every hoop that the police must jump though will save us all from harrassment.
When the summer 2000 iMacs were launched, I was working for an Apple dealer. We had to replace analog/power boards in so fucking many of those things that to this day I HATE summer 2000 iMacs.
I was working at a local computer shop and we got a bad batch of Amptron mobos that had substandard capacitors on them. Ususally, when they failed, it was within one minute of powering up. So we'd put them on the bench, cover the caps with the manual and power them up. If the caps didn't blow after one minute we'd put them in the systems.
Since the relationship between a private school and the pupil is essentially a business relationship, if the school sanctions a student for conduct that is not specifically forbidden in the agreed upon rules then the school has committed fraud. Fraud is a criminal act and would subject the school's administration to criminal penalties as well as civil liability.
There could be thousands of photos in someone's photo album, and only a few that actually contain data too, so that it's hard to even find the files used, let alone to figure out how they're used.
I have hundreds of thousands of image files on my hdd. Just imagine some poor schmuck trying to find anything hidden on it.
In the end there just isn't the budget or the manpower to enforce the same FCC political advertising guidelines online as are enforced in major boradcast media.
All it takes is one example. They don't have to go after every blog. Just a couple of them. A couple of high profile prosecutions will make political blogging a different sort of beast. FACE didn't require that every abortion protestor be prosecuted. A few prosecutions and everyone with half a brain and something to lose will conform.
What you donate may mean more to you than what Bill Gates donates means to him, but I ask. What means more to them? The thousands that you donate or the millions that he donates?
Seriously, why bother with the paper anyway? Electronic is quicker, easier, and less expensive to produce and distribute.
I'm reminded of a sketch from "You Can't Do That On Television" where someone tells the paperboy that the only reason they still have a newspaper subscription is because you can't line a birdcage with a computer screen.
The "Upgrade" versions of their OS don't require you to have the old OS installed. If you have the install media for an older OS it will allow you to proceed.
Black Death came and those with the mutation survived, they didn't find a cure.
Although they didn't find a "cure", they did find out that if you got rid of your garbage and sewage, you wouldn't get the disease. They may not have known that it was caused by the bacteria carried by fleas on rats, eventually they learned that not living in filth decreased your chances of getting sick.
Really, working for the military is a risky business for any private-sector operation, no matter how you slice it. Money to be made, sure, but you gotta be careful.
Not just the military. Anyone with more power than you. At a job that I had a few years back, higher ups in management wanted us to provided an outline of what we did as a part of our duties. I pleaded with my co-workers to give them what they asked for, "An Outline", but they went ahead and provided step, by step instructions to do what we did. Three months later, our jobs were given to another division and we were all demoted. Same pay, but the jobs weren't as good.
Fortunately I succeeded in planting a poison pill in the instructions. We left out a step. As a result, the people that got our jobs didn't know that they were missing a step so they went ahead and cost the company tens of thousands of dollars.
The point I'm making is this. Your father was right to hold back to goodies. It was his only leverage to keep from getting screwed. If someone has proven themselves willing and able to screw you, the only recourse you have is to protect yourself via whatever means you must employ.
In the Maxis games you never were just one person, making one city Hell On Earth.
In The Sims, I had a Dahmer kind of character who had three hostages locked up in a little room. They had a fridge and nothing else. No shower. No toilet. No chair. No bed. So they ate, cried and pissed on themselves. For those people that city WAS hell on earth. Well, at least until child services took the kid away.
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You don't see V12 engines in Hyundais either.
Because Hyundai chooses not to include them, not because engine manufacturers are artificially locking them out.
The Apple faithful continue to come up with reasons why Apple has to do shitty things. The truth of the matter is that Apple is a business. Just like any other business, they'll fuck the consumers over if it helps their bottom line. Remember, Apple is just a corporate entity, albeit one with cooler tech than most.
LK
The obvious difference is that you have given up possession of the items. Perhaps if you *Rented* space from the third party in which you store your originals, you could argue that you have no given up possession and as such are entitled to retain your fair use copies.
LK
Police work SHOULD be hard. It SHOULD be time consuming. It SHOULD be inconvienent for those performing it. Because when they must expend effort and experience inconvienence they are only going to take the time to scrutinize people who they actually believe had done something. Otherwise they'll be doing it just to pass the time.
Every hoop that the police must jump though will save us all from harrassment.
LK
When the summer 2000 iMacs were launched, I was working for an Apple dealer. We had to replace analog/power boards in so fucking many of those things that to this day I HATE summer 2000 iMacs.
I was working at a local computer shop and we got a bad batch of Amptron mobos that had substandard capacitors on them. Ususally, when they failed, it was within one minute of powering up. So we'd put them on the bench, cover the caps with the manual and power them up. If the caps didn't blow after one minute we'd put them in the systems.
LK
What better place would there be to hide them?
LK
Threatening someone and consumption of alcohol by minors are crimes. It's the job of the police to deal with them. Not a school.
If the disturbance is not caused by the student, but by the response of others to a student's words, the student in question has done nothing wrong.
LK
How's this angle?
Since the relationship between a private school and the pupil is essentially a business relationship, if the school sanctions a student for conduct that is not specifically forbidden in the agreed upon rules then the school has committed fraud. Fraud is a criminal act and would subject the school's administration to criminal penalties as well as civil liability.
LK
Frantic, hot, recursive wget'd jealousy.
I was thinking PgetD jealousy.
There could be thousands of photos in someone's photo album, and only a few that actually contain data too, so that it's hard to even find the files used, let alone to figure out how they're used.
I have hundreds of thousands of image files on my hdd. Just imagine some poor schmuck trying to find anything hidden on it.
LK
In the end there just isn't the budget or the manpower to enforce the same FCC political advertising guidelines online as are enforced in major boradcast media.
All it takes is one example. They don't have to go after every blog. Just a couple of them. A couple of high profile prosecutions will make political blogging a different sort of beast. FACE didn't require that every abortion protestor be prosecuted. A few prosecutions and everyone with half a brain and something to lose will conform.
LK
Midnight Commander is #1.
ddrescue #2.
and I'm not sure what else I need often enough to specifically include it. I'm working on a USB key system for emergency repairs and maintenence.
LK
What you donate may mean more to you than what Bill Gates donates means to him, but I ask. What means more to them? The thousands that you donate or the millions that he donates?
LK
I cant fathom the millions if not billions gates + his wife have contributed to humanitarian causes.
Wouldn't she be "Gates" too?
LK
Seriously, why bother with the paper anyway? Electronic is quicker, easier, and less expensive to produce and distribute.
I'm reminded of a sketch from "You Can't Do That On Television" where someone tells the paperboy that the only reason they still have a newspaper subscription is because you can't line a birdcage with a computer screen.
LK
The "Upgrade" versions of their OS don't require you to have the old OS installed. If you have the install media for an older OS it will allow you to proceed.
LK
Black Death came and those with the mutation survived, they didn't find a cure.
Although they didn't find a "cure", they did find out that if you got rid of your garbage and sewage, you wouldn't get the disease. They may not have known that it was caused by the bacteria carried by fleas on rats, eventually they learned that not living in filth decreased your chances of getting sick.
LK
I remember the guy who had the UID 69069, he even had a sig championing the greatness of his UID.
LK
Really, working for the military is a risky business for any private-sector operation, no matter how you slice it. Money to be made, sure, but you gotta be careful.
Not just the military. Anyone with more power than you. At a job that I had a few years back, higher ups in management wanted us to provided an outline of what we did as a part of our duties. I pleaded with my co-workers to give them what they asked for, "An Outline", but they went ahead and provided step, by step instructions to do what we did. Three months later, our jobs were given to another division and we were all demoted. Same pay, but the jobs weren't as good.
Fortunately I succeeded in planting a poison pill in the instructions. We left out a step. As a result, the people that got our jobs didn't know that they were missing a step so they went ahead and cost the company tens of thousands of dollars.
The point I'm making is this. Your father was right to hold back to goodies. It was his only leverage to keep from getting screwed. If someone has proven themselves willing and able to screw you, the only recourse you have is to protect yourself via whatever means you must employ.
LK
In the Maxis games you never were just one person, making one city Hell On Earth.
In The Sims, I had a Dahmer kind of character who had three hostages locked up in a little room. They had a fridge and nothing else. No shower. No toilet. No chair. No bed. So they ate, cried and pissed on themselves. For those people that city WAS hell on earth. Well, at least until child services took the kid away.
LK
It's considerably harder to suspend disbelief in San Andreas, since the character has such a strong personality of his own.
In other words "I can't pretent to be the character because he's black and I'm not."
Good! Now you know how I felt in EVERY OTHER GTA game before.
LK
It's not a DoS unless Denial Of Service is the intent.
If it's an unintended consequence of the actions of thousands of users who aren't trying to initiate a DoS, then it's clearly not a DoS.
LK
If I never see another unary program, it'll be too soon.
LK
Remember y2k? Who do you think caused the problem in the first place? It wasn't guys either my age or yours. :-)
Yeah, a lot of them are dead now. It was the managers and congressmen who were in charge back in the 60s, 70s and 80s.
LK
Speak for yourself. I got some this week.
And before you ask; yes, it was with a woman.
LK