Have these licensing practices been tested in court? I mean, if I were running a cybercafe my angle would be that I'm charging for the computer and to share my internet access. Playing the legally purchased games on the hard drives is just a free benefit.
Coming soon, Half-Life with Team Fortress Heather Brooke mod. I can head the tagline already "You DON'T want to be on the losing end of a deathmatch in THIS game."
If the quote existed in a vacume, you'd have a point. However the numerous quotes from her and her husband let us all know where they are coming from.
Let's take a little look here.
"The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people." -Bill Clinton
"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say." -Bill Clinton
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." -Bill Clinton
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president." -Hillary Clinton
"God bless the America we are trying to create." -Hillary Clinton
She is a liberal elitist, she believes that she and her ilk are above the law. The qoute may be shown out of context, but her history speaks for itself and makes any such statement crystal clear.
You too are playing with numbers. For some reason people are putting MP3 decoder chips in all kinds of products like Digital Cameras, that means that not every MP3 decoder chip sold translates to an MP3 player produced. Moreover, an MP3 player produced does not equate to an MP3 player sold to a consumer.
People used to say the EXACT same thing about apple and the educational market.
Apples and Oranges, so to speak. Going after Apple's lead in the education market simply required a change in selling tactics. Going after Apple's lead in the portable music market requires money to be spent for R&D and production of a new class of devices. If anyone can afford it, I'm sure that it's Sony, but they are not only facing an uphill battle, they are facing an uphill battle while carrying a cinder block on each arm. Apple is already entrenched, Apple has a loyal fan following. And Sony has to spend a ton of money to bring the product to market and then spend a ton more to take away Apple's mindshare.
Actually Ashcroft was beaten by the WIDOW of the Governor who died.Although his name remained on the ballot the electorate voted knowing his wife was actually running.
Oddly enough, it still wasn't legal for the dead man's name to be on the ballots. To be on the ballot, one must be a resident of the state, to be a resident one must be alive.
Seriously. Apple owns the portable music market. Apple is the heavyweight champ. Let it go, the only thing other companies are going to do is waste money.
There is still money to be made in the $100 market. Maybe for a car mounted MP3 system, but the battle for mid/upper range pocket music is over. Apple won it.
Everything that Apple did wrong in the desktop computer war worked perfectly for the portable music market.
What a bizarre turn your search for hypocrisy takes. Oh my god, he had an affair with a woman who was much younger than him. Therefore, he wants to send them all back to the kitchen. How do you justify this enormous leap of logic? Connect the dots for me.
I wasn't talking about Monica. I was talking about Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaderick.
Their mandate is protecting the ocean. How are they supposed to get to the middle of the ocean without a big-ass boat? What a weird argument you are trying to make.
They have a "mandate" to protect the ocean? From whom? What authority does Greenpeace have? If someone is dumping toxic waste in international waters, clubbing baby seals, or killing the dolphins that get caught in their nets does Greenpeace have the right to do anything about it?
I'll even condone your SUV.
I neither need nor want you to condone my choice of vehicles.
If you regularly need to transport large groups of people through inhospitable terrain, then you're perfectly justified owning an SUV.
I neither need nor want you to understand/agree with my choice of vahicles.
I'll take the hit here, feel free to mod me down because this is going to be REALLY off-topic.
You see, people on the far left have no principles, save for the acquisition of power.
It's wrong to oppress women, unless you're Bill Clinton. If you're opposed to "abortion rights" you just want to subjugate women, but there's nothing wrong with Ted Turner saying that abortion should be legal because "I ilke to have sex". It's wrong for us to drive SUVs but Greenpeace can pollute the ocean in their big ass boat.
was when I spilled a cup of tobacco spit into my keyboard. It never worked right again.
My worst disaster was when I installed Mac OS 7.6 on my Performa 6400. There was a problem with the hard disk driver on that machine with that version of the OS. I lost the contents of the 2.4 GB drive. It took Applea couple of months to issue the 7.6.1 update that included a new hard disk driver.
Do you actually need a "live person" to handle this? It sounds a good task for a machine. No doubt all the "live person" is doing is acting as an interface to a machine anyway...
Eventually the wetware won't be necessary, but that day isn't today.
Then the Satellite TV company you worked for had moronic management. Make it a "minimum 30 day subscription" or "only one change per month" or something. Of all the possible abuses, the one you mention seems to be the easiest to thwart.
If you believe this, you have never worked for a large company doing customer service.
In the case of my former employer, it cost them approximately one dollar per minute to have a customer on the telephone. Cheapskates who want to haggle often get what they want because it's cheaper to give someone a $5.00 credit than it is to have a 30 minute telephone call with them. The goal is to take the call, resolve the issue and move on to the next call. Because of the economic considerations, I've seen people get $60 worth of porno PPV removed from their bills because it was cheaper than proving that the charges were accurate.
With a 30 day minimum, people will call in on the 28th day and haggle. This WILL increase costs for the providors, in turn it WILL increase your bill.
The ability to pick and choose individual channels sounds great in abstract, but when it's implemented it makes things worse.
If Congress doesn't pass this law though I suspect it will only be because of contributions from 'free market' capitalists heading these cable companies.
I used to think like that, until I worked for a Satellite TV company. You'd be surprised at how many people who just wanted to pay for only one premium channel used to call in and switch from HBO to Cinemax, to Starz to Showtime every day to watch the shows/movies that they wanted to see.
Imagine if EVERYONE was able to do this. You'd never be able to get a live person to answer the phone and your bill would go up because of the additional staffind needed.
Inertia. Gyros work for the same reason that it's not easy to push a stopped car. It takes a lot of energy to make an object change its rate of motion.
Until you eliminate the demand, their will always be people trying to serve that demand
If we were talking about drugs or prostitution, I'd agree with you. The potential for obscene profits will overshadow the threat of prosecution for many people. Having "bragging rights" for delivering a movie for free to a bunch of people over the internet doesn't have the same allure.
Of course it is. If its not easier to use than the other guy's product, then why use it?
Because it's cheaper. Because it's free. However, you're looking for me to support a cause that I don't believe in. I couldn't care less if the suits "get it" when it comes to linux. The more suits that get involved, the worse off linux users are apt to be.
What happens next time I bring a lady in with me and we sit up the back an eh... you know... do the things that slashdot never told you about... can this see us then?
One of my first jobs was at a movie theater. There were these two people that we nicknamed the "Swing Kids", every few Sundays they'd come to an afternoon movie. They'd get it on in a dark corner of the theater. As soon as the crowd died down, we'd take turns going into the theater to check on them. As long as no customers complained, we didn't really care.
It was pretty funny, the guy looked like Lurch from the Adams family. The girl was kind of cute but she had a gimpy leg and walked with a limp. (Maybe because of Lurch wearing her out)After every movie, Lurch would go and sit on the bench while little miss gimp limped her way into the ladies room, presumably to freshen up.
Your.sig... "I already have a job but I'm looking for a gf if any ladies are reading this in Perth West Australia. I am not pathetic.
You never have to worry about that scenario unfolding.
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Have these licensing practices been tested in court? I mean, if I were running a cybercafe my angle would be that I'm charging for the computer and to share my internet access. Playing the legally purchased games on the hard drives is just a free benefit.
LK
They name their engine pr0n?
Coming soon, Half-Life with Team Fortress Heather Brooke mod. I can head the tagline already "You DON'T want to be on the losing end of a deathmatch in THIS game."
LK
If the quote existed in a vacume, you'd have a point. However the numerous quotes from her and her husband let us all know where they are coming from.
Let's take a little look here.
"The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people."
-Bill Clinton
"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."
-Bill Clinton
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans."
-Bill Clinton
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
-Hillary Clinton
"God bless the America we are trying to create."
-Hillary Clinton
She is a liberal elitist, she believes that she and her ilk are above the law. The qoute may be shown out of context, but her history speaks for itself and makes any such statement crystal clear.
LK
You too are playing with numbers. For some reason people are putting MP3 decoder chips in all kinds of products like Digital Cameras, that means that not every MP3 decoder chip sold translates to an MP3 player produced. Moreover, an MP3 player produced does not equate to an MP3 player sold to a consumer.
LK
What is the ipods market share? Please provide links to your sources.
~50%, don't be so fucking lazy. You could have googled for it yourself. But, you only asked because you thought that no such link existed, right?
LK
People used to say the EXACT same thing about apple and the educational market.
Apples and Oranges, so to speak. Going after Apple's lead in the education market simply required a change in selling tactics. Going after Apple's lead in the portable music market requires money to be spent for R&D and production of a new class of devices. If anyone can afford it, I'm sure that it's Sony, but they are not only facing an uphill battle, they are facing an uphill battle while carrying a cinder block on each arm. Apple is already entrenched, Apple has a loyal fan following. And Sony has to spend a ton of money to bring the product to market and then spend a ton more to take away Apple's mindshare.
Possible, but highly unlikely.
LK
Actually Ashcroft was beaten by the WIDOW of the Governor who died.Although his name remained on the ballot the electorate voted knowing his wife was actually running.
Oddly enough, it still wasn't legal for the dead man's name to be on the ballots. To be on the ballot, one must be a resident of the state, to be a resident one must be alive.
LK
Seriously. Apple owns the portable music market. Apple is the heavyweight champ. Let it go, the only thing other companies are going to do is waste money.
There is still money to be made in the $100 market. Maybe for a car mounted MP3 system, but the battle for mid/upper range pocket music is over. Apple won it.
Everything that Apple did wrong in the desktop computer war worked perfectly for the portable music market.
LK
None of these incidents were proved.
I notice that you did not say that he didn't do it. That speaks volumes.
Anyway, what does his private life have to do with the public stands he takes on issues that matter to women?
His public stand on women's issues, specifically that he signed the Violence Against Women Act, is that made it legal to investigate his private life.
They have as much right to ram a whaling ship as the whaling ship does to poach whales.
Which is none. But when you damage someone's property there is a victim. One that has a right to legal recourse.
It's not just me, though. There is a mountain of empirical data showing why SUVs are bad.
My SUV gets better gas mileage and has lower emissions than the passenger car that I replaced when I bought it.
Even so, I don't need your approval.
LK
What a bizarre turn your search for hypocrisy takes. Oh my god, he had an affair with a woman who was much younger than him. Therefore, he wants to send them all back to the kitchen. How do you justify this enormous leap of logic? Connect the dots for me.
I wasn't talking about Monica. I was talking about Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaderick.
Their mandate is protecting the ocean. How are they supposed to get to the middle of the ocean without a big-ass boat? What a weird argument you are trying to make.
They have a "mandate" to protect the ocean? From whom? What authority does Greenpeace have? If someone is dumping toxic waste in international waters, clubbing baby seals, or killing the dolphins that get caught in their nets does Greenpeace have the right to do anything about it?
I'll even condone your SUV.
I neither need nor want you to condone my choice of vehicles.
If you regularly need to transport large groups of people through inhospitable terrain, then you're perfectly justified owning an SUV.
I neither need nor want you to understand/agree with my choice of vahicles.
LK
I'll take the hit here, feel free to mod me down because this is going to be REALLY off-topic.
You see, people on the far left have no principles, save for the acquisition of power.
It's wrong to oppress women, unless you're Bill Clinton. If you're opposed to "abortion rights" you just want to subjugate women, but there's nothing wrong with Ted Turner saying that abortion should be legal because "I ilke to have sex". It's wrong for us to drive SUVs but Greenpeace can pollute the ocean in their big ass boat.
LK
was when I spilled a cup of tobacco spit into my keyboard. It never worked right again.
My worst disaster was when I installed Mac OS 7.6 on my Performa 6400. There was a problem with the hard disk driver on that machine with that version of the OS. I lost the contents of the 2.4 GB drive. It took Applea couple of months to issue the 7.6.1 update that included a new hard disk driver.
LK
Do you actually need a "live person" to handle this? It sounds a good task for a machine. No doubt all the "live person" is doing is acting as an interface to a machine anyway...
Eventually the wetware won't be necessary, but that day isn't today.
LK
Then the Satellite TV company you worked for had moronic management. Make it a "minimum 30 day subscription" or "only one change per month" or something. Of all the possible abuses, the one you mention seems to be the easiest to thwart.
If you believe this, you have never worked for a large company doing customer service.
In the case of my former employer, it cost them approximately one dollar per minute to have a customer on the telephone. Cheapskates who want to haggle often get what they want because it's cheaper to give someone a $5.00 credit than it is to have a 30 minute telephone call with them. The goal is to take the call, resolve the issue and move on to the next call. Because of the economic considerations, I've seen people get $60 worth of porno PPV removed from their bills because it was cheaper than proving that the charges were accurate.
With a 30 day minimum, people will call in on the 28th day and haggle. This WILL increase costs for the providors, in turn it WILL increase your bill.
The ability to pick and choose individual channels sounds great in abstract, but when it's implemented it makes things worse.
LK
If Congress doesn't pass this law though I suspect it will only be because of contributions from 'free market' capitalists heading these cable companies.
I used to think like that, until I worked for a Satellite TV company. You'd be surprised at how many people who just wanted to pay for only one premium channel used to call in and switch from HBO to Cinemax, to Starz to Showtime every day to watch the shows/movies that they wanted to see.
Imagine if EVERYONE was able to do this. You'd never be able to get a live person to answer the phone and your bill would go up because of the additional staffind needed.
LK
re we heading into a channel-free future or do channels still have value?
I swear to god, I'll kick in the balls the first person to mention a "paradigm".
LK
can someone explain how gyros work w/o talking about calculus and conservation of angular momentum?
Your post was so awful, I had to reply to it twice.
You sir are an idiot.
LK
And I thought that democrats were in favor of the little guy and civil liberties.
You really need to share that weed you're smoking with the rest of the class.
LK
Inertia. Gyros work for the same reason that it's not easy to push a stopped car. It takes a lot of energy to make an object change its rate of motion.
LK
Until you eliminate the demand, their will always be people trying to serve that demand
If we were talking about drugs or prostitution, I'd agree with you. The potential for obscene profits will overshadow the threat of prosecution for many people. Having "bragging rights" for delivering a movie for free to a bunch of people over the internet doesn't have the same allure.
LK
Of course it is. If its not easier to use than the other guy's product, then why use it?
Because it's cheaper. Because it's free. However, you're looking for me to support a cause that I don't believe in. I couldn't care less if the suits "get it" when it comes to linux. The more suits that get involved, the worse off linux users are apt to be.
LK
This is exactly why a lot of people cast open source users as unresasonably demanding.
It's unreasonable to expect potential users to learn something?
So what if you can't use RH Linux anymore? Is there any fucking shortage of distributions that you can still use?
You just missed the point.
Can anyone even make a case that RH is the best choice?
RHCE, RHEL, to the suits, Red Hat IS Linux.
LK
Well, he does envy me and those like me.
What happens next time I bring a lady in with me and we sit up the back an eh... you know... do the things that slashdot never told you about... can this see us then?
.sig... "I already have a job but I'm looking for a gf if any ladies are reading this in Perth West Australia. I am not pathetic.
One of my first jobs was at a movie theater. There were these two people that we nicknamed the "Swing Kids", every few Sundays they'd come to an afternoon movie. They'd get it on in a dark corner of the theater. As soon as the crowd died down, we'd take turns going into the theater to check on them. As long as no customers complained, we didn't really care.
It was pretty funny, the guy looked like Lurch from the Adams family. The girl was kind of cute but she had a gimpy leg and walked with a limp. (Maybe because of Lurch wearing her out)After every movie, Lurch would go and sit on the bench while little miss gimp limped her way into the ladies room, presumably to freshen up.
Your
You never have to worry about that scenario unfolding.
LK
It's becuase the original poster, despite being completely wrong and having utterly no clue, has a homepage at stanford and a low user id.
I detect a certain Freudian-type envy coming from you.
Yes, I have a lower uid than Ryu2. Don't be jealous.
LK