But you are entitled to the ability to media-shift said book on your own. Just like you can copy a CD to a tape legally (for your own use blah blah blah) you can copy a book.
It's virtually the same thing. Artist (writer) creates content, label (publisher) puts it out there in the world. Usually, the publisher has all the important rights - just like the music industry.
This does bring up the issue of software copying, though. Software is created by a group of artists and published by a large company that retains the rights to the intellectual property. If it weren't for EULAs, you would have every right to copy software just like you can with music, books, and other IP.
The first three are already true. I, as a student, can go to the Apple Store for Education and buy one of these.
The only real step is to move them to normal retail shops - but I don't see that happening. Apple won't want to compete with and cannibalize the iMac's market.
Yes, I'm Blacking Out right now, or whatever...but this just had to be said.
The one comment that gets put out there by opponents of X *time after time* is that it's old and cobbled together. This is seen as a bad thing.
Then there's some MS article, where everyone attacks their old compatibility layers and old implementations.
Now, a story on XFree's birthday rolls around. "It's still compatible with stuff 10 years old!" Well good for you. Why is that a good thing? Sometimes the old has to go if you want to properly implement the new.
If there's one protocol that has been overridden adn axtended in more unnatural ways than X, it has to be HTTP. (At least X was intended for applications from the outset.)
The hip-hop background in a movie allegedly set in ancient Babylon is pretty neat.
No, really, it's not. Combining genres is nifty when it's original. When it's adding hip-hop to YET ANOTHER MOVIE, it's cliché.
I used to enjoy JonKatz writings...but now anything by him really strikes me as eternally sophomoric. It's like I went back to high school and got all popular kids' opinions on a movie.
Microsoft has been using a great strategy proven by the Romans.
The problem is, they rarely "do it better." They usually do it the same, but then add DRM or other "features" to it and mess everything up in the process.
I'd love to believe that, but I seriusly doubt it's true. eeach G4 uses (IIRC) between 15 and 25 W by itself. So you're bumping 50 W alone there. Figure in power for a monitor (including the Apple CRTs, not just LCDs) hard drives, optical drives (where the SuperDrive is a big power consumer) the motherboard itself, bus power for FireWire and USB, power for PCI cards...you're definitely using a power supply that's more than 125 W. I'd guess modern G4s have either a 250 or 300 W PSU.
The draw may be lower at times, but I bet a G4 at peak can use as much power as a PIII.
How long before companies like Creative step in to try to put a stop to our new proposed levies? My guess is never. Or, at least, a very long time. The market is considerably smaller in Canada. The money expended to protect a potential market is better spent on inproving products in an already-competitive market in the US. It's just the economics of it.
Going to the same school as Suppafly, I'll agree. The key reasons nobody uses the Macs: 1) We all used Windows machines in high school. 2) The campus Macs are fux0red. Insufficient RAM, poorly allocated RAM, out-of-date OS, and locked down to the point many apps don't work correctly.
If the campus used NetBoot/Macintosh Manager and took care of it, life would be so much better.
Its a shame the PC makers don't bribe schools to use PC's like Apple bribes schools to use Macs.
Other companies give discounts just as steep as Apple. Just because they were first in the door at schools doesn't mean they're still the only ones who figured out it's good business.
That's crazy talk...I can see including it, but tcsh really has much more powerful features (like more powerful tab complete) and is cooler by default just because it's a csh variant instead of straight-up sh.
There is a paragraph that mentions the SuperDrive, but it is mostly in reference to the "Yano AH80FC" drive - which, if you click the link, turns out to be a FireWire hard drive.
It does have one of the best cases to match G4s I've ever seen, though.
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No where on the home page does it mention that theres any ReplayTV/TiVo type functionality... hell, theres no tuner...
Look at the coax connector on the back labelled "ANT." There's a tuner. From that point, TiVo functionality is a matter of software. Now, as a TiVo owner, I'd be remiss if I didn't say that anything that claims "TiVo-like functionality" is usually lying. Such products are usually software VCRs, but a TiVo is much more. The software is what makes it. =)
I remember reading ~6 months ago that one of the key Ogg devs was working on an example fixed-point decoder. IIRC, it was assembly for a specific architecture, but was touted as being somewhat portable. theKompany may have used that decoder, or they may have written their own.
I suppose the point is, there is, or will be soon, a decoder for portable devices.
All I can say is read the book. The book does not address the issue of tax records (that I've seen yet, I'm only halfway through) but everything else you mentioned is covered.
With a title like that, you could see it as an advocacy book from the start, but the author was a noted atheist before he started researching for the book.
Fucking "slippery slope." It is perhaps the least valuable argument in the history of debate.
Someone will make a logical conclusion, and another person will chime in with "that's slippery slope! A fallacy of the worst kind!"
Why can't people see that just because a small hop of reasoning is required does not make an argument invalid. If you read the link you gave, it cites extreme examples such as banning pron transforming into book burning.
If you let yourself loose ground an inch at a time, you will eventually fall off the cliff. You can rationalize it and say "oh there are still three feet left!" Eventually you will run out of inches, though, and hit the really slippery slope.
The propbem is, there are multiple ways DNA can get damaged. Cell age is not the only cause; copying errors are also possible. Think slight generational loss, nowhere near as bad as VHS, but still there.
A man's sperm is a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, while a woman's ovum is a first-generation copy that has sat in a dusty closet for the past thirty years.
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Do you even know what "entitled" means? It means allowed. Legally privileged. Not required.
Re-read what I said, it was exactly right.
But you are entitled to the ability to media-shift said book on your own. Just like you can copy a CD to a tape legally (for your own use blah blah blah) you can copy a book.
It's virtually the same thing. Artist (writer) creates content, label (publisher) puts it out there in the world. Usually, the publisher has all the important rights - just like the music industry.
This does bring up the issue of software copying, though. Software is created by a group of artists and published by a large company that retains the rights to the intellectual property. If it weren't for EULAs, you would have every right to copy software just like you can with music, books, and other IP.
The first three are already true. I, as a student, can go to the Apple Store for Education and buy one of these.
The only real step is to move them to normal retail shops - but I don't see that happening. Apple won't want to compete with and cannibalize the iMac's market.
You are aware the "Nuclear Family" has nothing to do with nuclear weapons, right?
Just checking.
Yes, I'm Blacking Out right now, or whatever...but this just had to be said.
The one comment that gets put out there by opponents of X *time after time* is that it's old and cobbled together. This is seen as a bad thing.
Then there's some MS article, where everyone attacks their old compatibility layers and old implementations.
Now, a story on XFree's birthday rolls around. "It's still compatible with stuff 10 years old!" Well good for you. Why is that a good thing? Sometimes the old has to go if you want to properly implement the new.
If there's one protocol that has been overridden adn axtended in more unnatural ways than X, it has to be HTTP. (At least X was intended for applications from the outset.)
The hip-hop background in a movie allegedly set in ancient Babylon is pretty neat.
No, really, it's not. Combining genres is nifty when it's original. When it's adding hip-hop to YET ANOTHER MOVIE, it's cliché.
I used to enjoy JonKatz writings...but now anything by him really strikes me as eternally sophomoric. It's like I went back to high school and got all popular kids' opinions on a movie.
No, fool! It'll be Mac OS X11.
Incedentally, they are switching awar from the decimal-based (x.y.z) versioning system and moving to revision numbers.
I can't wait until X11R6!
Microsoft has been using a great strategy proven by the Romans.
The problem is, they rarely "do it better." They usually do it the same, but then add DRM or other "features" to it and mess everything up in the process.
A Powermac uses a 125W PSU
I'd love to believe that, but I seriusly doubt it's true. eeach G4 uses (IIRC) between 15 and 25 W by itself. So you're bumping 50 W alone there. Figure in power for a monitor (including the Apple CRTs, not just LCDs) hard drives, optical drives (where the SuperDrive is a big power consumer) the motherboard itself, bus power for FireWire and USB, power for PCI cards...you're definitely using a power supply that's more than 125 W. I'd guess modern G4s have either a 250 or 300 W PSU.
The draw may be lower at times, but I bet a G4 at peak can use as much power as a PIII.
How long before companies like Creative step in to try to put a stop to our new proposed levies?
My guess is never. Or, at least, a very long time. The market is considerably smaller in Canada. The money expended to protect a potential market is better spent on inproving products in an already-competitive market in the US. It's just the economics of it.
Doesn't apply? Fuck that.
If you were running a machine with an un-patched and un-updated Windows 95, you deserve what you get. Same with running un-patched versions of Mac OS.
What, you think just because it's a Mac it shouldn't get the required software updates?
(Tell me what the hell RevRDist is for, again, anyway...)
Going to the same school as Suppafly, I'll agree. The key reasons nobody uses the Macs:
1) We all used Windows machines in high school.
2) The campus Macs are fux0red. Insufficient RAM, poorly allocated RAM, out-of-date OS, and locked down to the point many apps don't work correctly.
If the campus used NetBoot/Macintosh Manager and took care of it, life would be so much better.
Its a shame the PC makers don't bribe schools to use PC's like Apple bribes schools to use Macs.
Other companies give discounts just as steep as Apple. Just because they were first in the door at schools doesn't mean they're still the only ones who figured out it's good business.
That's crazy talk...I can see including it, but tcsh really has much more powerful features (like more powerful tab complete) and is cooler by default just because it's a csh variant instead of straight-up sh.
I love how the third comment down on the left is our very own Dark Paladin. =)
There is a paragraph that mentions the SuperDrive, but it is mostly in reference to the "Yano AH80FC" drive - which, if you click the link, turns out to be a FireWire hard drive.
It does have one of the best cases to match G4s I've ever seen, though.
No where on the home page does it mention that theres any ReplayTV/TiVo type functionality... hell, theres no tuner...
Look at the coax connector on the back labelled "ANT." There's a tuner. From that point, TiVo functionality is a matter of software. Now, as a TiVo owner, I'd be remiss if I didn't say that anything that claims "TiVo-like functionality" is usually lying. Such products are usually software VCRs, but a TiVo is much more. The software is what makes it. =)
Whenever I see a site like that, I just assume it's a false/trojan site. I mean...use the damn "news.com" domain, not "*.com.com"
I remember reading ~6 months ago that one of the key Ogg devs was working on an example fixed-point decoder. IIRC, it was assembly for a specific architecture, but was touted as being somewhat portable. theKompany may have used that decoder, or they may have written their own.
I suppose the point is, there is, or will be soon, a decoder for portable devices.
Sounds like Apple's Quartz, but years later.
Or maybe the new version of Enlightenment, but with a release date in the next decade.
news.com.com? What the hell is that?
All I can say is read the book. The book does not address the issue of tax records (that I've seen yet, I'm only halfway through) but everything else you mentioned is covered.
With a title like that, you could see it as an advocacy book from the start, but the author was a noted atheist before he started researching for the book.
Maybe wehavethewayout.biz can be registered to a "our product can get you away from ICANN" site. =)
Fucking "slippery slope." It is perhaps the least valuable argument in the history of debate.
Someone will make a logical conclusion, and another person will chime in with "that's slippery slope! A fallacy of the worst kind!"
Why can't people see that just because a small hop of reasoning is required does not make an argument invalid. If you read the link you gave, it cites extreme examples such as banning pron transforming into book burning.
If you let yourself loose ground an inch at a time, you will eventually fall off the cliff. You can rationalize it and say "oh there are still three feet left!" Eventually you will run out of inches, though, and hit the really slippery slope.
The propbem is, there are multiple ways DNA can get damaged. Cell age is not the only cause; copying errors are also possible. Think slight generational loss, nowhere near as bad as VHS, but still there.
A man's sperm is a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, while a woman's ovum is a first-generation copy that has sat in a dusty closet for the past thirty years.