All they had to do was publish "product keys" with the CDs. No need to use invasive DRM to ensure that a particular CD is associated with a particular product key, just make sure the product key is associated with a particular online account. That way, if you find several online accounts associated with a particular product key, you can just ban all of those accounts at once without having to interfere with legitimate players, and without having to install a rootkit on the computers of legitimate paying customers.
First of all, I've never had a letter take two weeks to deliver. Anyway, how exactly do you figure that the for-profit letter carriers are "more efficient" if they charge orders of magnitude more money for their service? You're using a definition of "efficient" that I am not familiar with.
Cuba has a functional health care system with higher average lifespans and lower infant mortality rates. Wouldn't it be better for them to mention North Korea instead of Cuba?
How does your argument prove that warrantless wiretapping is not illegal?
More importantly, why are conservatives so eager to have the government spy on us all? What was the point of defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War if we're just going to turn ourselves into a bad copy of their government?
If choosing between something that could save the lives of mothers or something that is promoted by religious extremists, which do you think this nation would choose? This is, after all, a Christian nation.
but most understand that the Mac platform gets fewer instances of malware in the wild because their platform is less popular, and that "fewer" is not the same thing as "none". There are — of course — Mac users who do not understand this distinction.
On a related note, can you imagine the humiliation of whoever owns that web site? "LOL, UR WEBZ GOT WTFPWNZORED BY MACS"
People don't appreciate the value of this kind of thing. I for one have never forgiven the city of Chicago for getting rid of those monochromatic green lights in Lower Wacker drive. The creepy lighting attracted low budget sci-fi film crews like you wouldn't believe. ^.^
Under a certain distance, high speed rail is actually faster than flying. Because getting on a plane is so much more time-consuming these days, that maximum radius is considerably larger now than when people first realized this fact about high speed rail.
So as long as there is a high speed rail service to a place I want to go that is under that particular radius, then the high speed rail would be faster than making the same trip by air, so of course I would use the service. For destinations beyond the critical radius, probably not.
The restaurants buy raw food from the suppliers and turn that stuff into prepared meals. We're talking about something that many people download completely independently from the OS provider.
A better analogy would be if you bought takeout dinner from restaurant X and then bought beer from convenience store Y, then getting mad at restaurant X because you cut your finger on the bottlecap of the beer.
I mean, if you're going to judge Microsoft for the bad quality drivers on the Windows platform, are you going to judge the LINUX platform equally harshly for totally lacking drivers for many hardware products?
It really depends on what you're playing. With most of my characters, I don't spend any more time in instances than I have to, but leveling up in instances is the only thing that made it possible for me to level up my heal-spec priest before 3.1. Trying to do solo PvE with that kind of character is like trying to dent a brick wall with ping pong balls.
They didn't name the entire station after Colbert even after he won the competition? Clearly, NASA hates America and wants the bears to win. I will now pray for the salvation of our nation's soul.
It was entirely reasonable for him to assume that such tactics would continue to work in the face of that. Unfortunately for him, I think times have changed.
Obama made it clear during the campaign that he would not prosecute Bush administration officials in the interest of "bringing the country back together" or whatever.
Nothing shows as clearly as this why that is a bad idea. In an effort to protect Bushies from prosecution, he is now in danger of making things far, far worse from the perspective of anyone interested in the rule of law. For f*ck's sake, are we going to throw the Magna Carta out the window along with the constitution?
This whole thing is becoming absurd. Obama needs to bite the bullet and figure out which of the Bushies were guilty and which ones were innocent. Protecting the Bushies is doing enormous damage to the rule of law, and has all kinds of unintended consequences like this one.
...of the people who believe in heliocentrism haven't read the arguments for or against geocentrism. Most of the people who believe in the Germ Theory of Disease have not read the arguments by members of the Christian Science movement who claim that diseases are caused by not praying enough. Most of the people who believe the world is round have not read the arguments by Christians, Muslims, and Hindus (whose arguments involved the stars traveling through tunnels) about why the world is flat.
You can't expect people to vigorously study every bit of kookery that appears on the radar just because a bunch of primitives want you to dance naked around a fire shouting "Woo woo" at the invisible spirits.
If people want to believe in nonsense, that's fine. This is a free country. However, I draw the line at presenting nonsense as fact to everyone else's children.
...which as you note is brought up often on these boards. What is not brought up is that most people replace their computers long before the HD is even thinking about going south on you.
I've had hard drives physically fail on me before, but in my personal experience it's been pretty rare, and I'm used to working on computers that are over half a decade old.
Cripes, why is it that there are so many people on both sides of this argument who don't seem to know what a "law" and "theory" is? The theory of evolution is proved to the point where it would be absurd to consider alternative explanations, much like the Germ Theory of Disease, but like the GToD, it's a theory, not a law, and always will be.
Gravity is a fact, a theory, and a law. Learn the difference. The law of gravity mathematically describes the force of gravity between any two masses. The theory of gravity explains how and why gravity works. Interestingly, the theory of gravity (unlike the law of gravity or the theory of evolution) isn't proven (it won't be until someone proves the existence of a graviton).
Do you deny that the Germ Theory of Disease is JUST A THEORY? Everyone knows that we don't get sick by exchanging tiny invisible organisms. We get sick from not PRAYING enough to GAWD! Hellelujah! Praise Jeebus!
I do not claim to be an expert on this subject, but I was always told that the quoted excerpt needs to be less than 10% of the source material to fall under fair use rules.
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but here in Chicago, they charge way too much money for Internet.
All they had to do was publish "product keys" with the CDs. No need to use invasive DRM to ensure that a particular CD is associated with a particular product key, just make sure the product key is associated with a particular online account. That way, if you find several online accounts associated with a particular product key, you can just ban all of those accounts at once without having to interfere with legitimate players, and without having to install a rootkit on the computers of legitimate paying customers.
I kind of like Comic Sans myself, but the linked article includes examples of the typeface being used in ways that it should never be used.
PS — Comic Sans 12 pt bold is a font. Comic Sans is a typeface. Please try to keep it straight.
First of all, I've never had a letter take two weeks to deliver. Anyway, how exactly do you figure that the for-profit letter carriers are "more efficient" if they charge orders of magnitude more money for their service? You're using a definition of "efficient" that I am not familiar with.
Cuba has a functional health care system with higher average lifespans and lower infant mortality rates. Wouldn't it be better for them to mention North Korea instead of Cuba?
The Christians are going to be hopping mad about this one.
How does your argument prove that warrantless wiretapping is not illegal?
More importantly, why are conservatives so eager to have the government spy on us all? What was the point of defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War if we're just going to turn ourselves into a bad copy of their government?
If choosing between something that could save the lives of mothers or something that is promoted by religious extremists, which do you think this nation would choose? This is, after all, a Christian nation.
but most understand that the Mac platform gets fewer instances of malware in the wild because their platform is less popular, and that "fewer" is not the same thing as "none". There are — of course — Mac users who do not understand this distinction.
On a related note, can you imagine the humiliation of whoever owns that web site? "LOL, UR WEBZ GOT WTFPWNZORED BY MACS"
People don't appreciate the value of this kind of thing. I for one have never forgiven the city of Chicago for getting rid of those monochromatic green lights in Lower Wacker drive. The creepy lighting attracted low budget sci-fi film crews like you wouldn't believe. ^.^
Under a certain distance, high speed rail is actually faster than flying. Because getting on a plane is so much more time-consuming these days, that maximum radius is considerably larger now than when people first realized this fact about high speed rail.
So as long as there is a high speed rail service to a place I want to go that is under that particular radius, then the high speed rail would be faster than making the same trip by air, so of course I would use the service. For destinations beyond the critical radius, probably not.
Bad analogy
The restaurants buy raw food from the suppliers and turn that stuff into prepared meals. We're talking about something that many people download completely independently from the OS provider.
A better analogy would be if you bought takeout dinner from restaurant X and then bought beer from convenience store Y, then getting mad at restaurant X because you cut your finger on the bottlecap of the beer.
I mean, if you're going to judge Microsoft for the bad quality drivers on the Windows platform, are you going to judge the LINUX platform equally harshly for totally lacking drivers for many hardware products?
It really depends on what you're playing. With most of my characters, I don't spend any more time in instances than I have to, but leveling up in instances is the only thing that made it possible for me to level up my heal-spec priest before 3.1. Trying to do solo PvE with that kind of character is like trying to dent a brick wall with ping pong balls.
They didn't name the entire station after Colbert even after he won the competition? Clearly, NASA hates America and wants the bears to win. I will now pray for the salvation of our nation's soul.
Just sayin'.
It was entirely reasonable for him to assume that such tactics would continue to work in the face of that. Unfortunately for him, I think times have changed.
Obama made it clear during the campaign that he would not prosecute Bush administration officials in the interest of "bringing the country back together" or whatever.
Nothing shows as clearly as this why that is a bad idea. In an effort to protect Bushies from prosecution, he is now in danger of making things far, far worse from the perspective of anyone interested in the rule of law. For f*ck's sake, are we going to throw the Magna Carta out the window along with the constitution?
This whole thing is becoming absurd. Obama needs to bite the bullet and figure out which of the Bushies were guilty and which ones were innocent. Protecting the Bushies is doing enormous damage to the rule of law, and has all kinds of unintended consequences like this one.
...of the people who believe in heliocentrism haven't read the arguments for or against geocentrism. Most of the people who believe in the Germ Theory of Disease have not read the arguments by members of the Christian Science movement who claim that diseases are caused by not praying enough. Most of the people who believe the world is round have not read the arguments by Christians, Muslims, and Hindus (whose arguments involved the stars traveling through tunnels) about why the world is flat.
You can't expect people to vigorously study every bit of kookery that appears on the radar just because a bunch of primitives want you to dance naked around a fire shouting "Woo woo" at the invisible spirits.
If people want to believe in nonsense, that's fine. This is a free country. However, I draw the line at presenting nonsense as fact to everyone else's children.
...which as you note is brought up often on these boards. What is not brought up is that most people replace their computers long before the HD is even thinking about going south on you.
I've had hard drives physically fail on me before, but in my personal experience it's been pretty rare, and I'm used to working on computers that are over half a decade old.
That is not normal behavior for either XP or Vista. Are you running Windows in an emulator or something?
Cripes, why is it that there are so many people on both sides of this argument who don't seem to know what a "law" and "theory" is? The theory of evolution is proved to the point where it would be absurd to consider alternative explanations, much like the Germ Theory of Disease, but like the GToD, it's a theory, not a law, and always will be.
Gravity is a fact, a theory, and a law. Learn the difference. The law of gravity mathematically describes the force of gravity between any two masses. The theory of gravity explains how and why gravity works. Interestingly, the theory of gravity (unlike the law of gravity or the theory of evolution) isn't proven (it won't be until someone proves the existence of a graviton).
Do you deny that the Germ Theory of Disease is JUST A THEORY? Everyone knows that we don't get sick by exchanging tiny invisible organisms. We get sick from not PRAYING enough to GAWD! Hellelujah! Praise Jeebus!
At least they stopped blaming heavy metal bands for this sort of thing. *sigh*
Someone needs to send this nitwit a letter containing only the words post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
I do not claim to be an expert on this subject, but I was always told that the quoted excerpt needs to be less than 10% of the source material to fall under fair use rules.
I see you've bought into the lies by the International Conspiracy of Climatologists. Why do you hate America?