How can Microsoft be charging licensing fees for hardware manufacturers to put a non-MS OS on their products? There is some basic fact here that I'm missing; could someone please explain it to me?
Didn't see the point to Caprica, other than NBC/Syfy ("The Syphillis Channel") piling on, riding the coattails of BSG. BSG is done; they should have just let it rest instead of cheapening it by trying to squeeze every last penny of profit possible out of it's legacy. It may be years before I'll go back and watch BSG again from the beginning, but I will not watch Caprica.
..and I'll stick by my nice, ad-free, bullshit-free printed books, that need only my eyes and some light to read, that can be read as many times and as often as I want, that I can loan out to as many people as often as I like, that can't be altered or erased after I've purchased it (short of being physically destroyed, anyway). But by all means, please do use your e-book readers for your textbooks, newspapers, magazines, PDF files, and all other otherwise printed matter than before too long ends up in the recycle bin. That's a great use for them, I think.
You forgot a few: We need to get rid of TCP, UDP, DNS, and last but not least IP. After all, these protocols are also used for illegal file sharing, so they all have to go. Think of the children!
Yes. This. Once upon a time multiplayer used to require being in the same room or building, connected via LAN (or MIDI, if you want to go back that far), but once the Internet became ubiquitous, that all changed. Why bother putting tons of money and effort into solo gameplay when multiplayer is so much more attractive to everyone?
Really? Do you work for Google and have access to their (according to you) secret database of people's personal information? Can you prove that? Even if you can what has this to do with voluntarily listing your personal information on social networking sites not being a smart move in the first place?
How is that any of your business? If you don't like what I have to say then you can ignore it, and if you don't agree with it then you can give your whole life away to the fucking internet for all I care.
And really, what are they losing? Probably the same stuff we've all already given to Google.
Really? I do regular Google searches for my legal name and nothing comes up, because I was never so stupid as "give up" anything to them in the first place. Problem?
Don't you see, that's my point: most people haven't made an "informed decision", they didn't even think about it! All my friends are doing it, I should do it too!
Let's see how you feel about that when you become a victim of indentity theft, or when the number of telemarketing calls you receive every month goes up by an order of magnitude. Let's see how comfortable you are with your private and personal information being used by marketers or scammers (not that much difference these days) to specifically target you. Let's see how you feel when your employer demands access to all your social networking pages and/or your job is put in jeopardy because there's something they don't like on them. Let's see how you feel when your entire life is put under the microscope by people you don't even know!
Oh and by the way: if you REALLY feel that way about it, then why not put up live internet cameras in your bedroom so we can watch you have sex with your wife? After all, you have nothing to hide and you honestly don't care with what anyone does with your personal information, right?
Newpapers have put up paywalls in the past, and it hasn't worked for them. Television news is free, not counting cable or satellite TV monthly fees, which are moot if you put up an antenna and receive a local station for free; are local TV stations going to start charging a fee to the community they serve, or shut down their news departments? The Boy Scouts of America were once sent a demand from ASCAP to pay a licensing fee for singing campfire songs; is the AP going to start sending licensing fee bills to people who are overheard discussing news storie they've read with others? Is it just me, or is this turning into a Free Speech issue?
If you actually use your real name and personal information on any social networking site, then you are an idiot, plain and simple. You may not even be able to exercise damage control at this point by erasing everything and deleting accounts; it's all still out there somewhere and someone has it -- and in many cases, it's people you never even met in person who you allowed on your friends list in the neverending quest to have more "friends" than your buddies do. I already know I'm going to get modded down to -1, Troll or -1, Flamebait for posting this, but you can't escape the cold hard truth that so many of you have not been wise, and now you're paying the price.
If they bought an island: they'd get invaded by some nearby country or the private forces of some individual or coporation and told "tough shit" by anyone they appealed to. If they put it in international waters, pretty much the same scenario, except someone might decide to sink them. If they put a satellite in orbit, whatever country the controlling people were in would claim jurisdiction and shut it down anyway, or perhaps if they pissed the wrong people off, it would just simply disappear from orbit. I don't think having your own private army/navy/air force to protect them would even help, in fact it might create more excuses to invade/destroy them. I'm not on the side of the copyright jerks, that's for sure, but there are too many problems in making an idea like this work unless you have essentially the resources of an entire country watching your back.
Seriously: Are the rest of the myopic public going to finally come to their senses and realize this is now the truth? The good news is that it's not irrevocable: we can recover our privacy, it's just going to take effort and sacrifices to accomplish.
..assuming of course that Facebook allows you to change your permanent password after logging in with a temporary password. Sure hope they thought of that.
It seems that with some things, people just don't learn. Online chat sites and forum sites, not to mention spam filters, have tried for years and years now to do exactly what Apple is trying to do, but determined people will just obfuscate censored words, use completely different words, euphemisms, or use leet-speak. Combine all the above and they may as well be speaking in Navajo (and I wouldn't put it past them to try that, too). Aside from practical considerations, isn't this just treating the symptom rather than addressing the problem?
Was even Soviet-ear Russia as bad as this? Is Iran even as bad as this? Was Saddam-controlled Iraq as bad as this? I'm not sure which angers me more: the act itself, or the utter stupidity that underlies it!
They get paid regardless. I don't like ads, I won't willingly watch them. Neither you nor anyone else can make me watch them, and I'm not alone in this. Enjoy watching your brain-melting ads, I have better things to do with my time than be another consumer clone.
Gee, I wish I could cop a Polyanna attitude like that whenever I wanted to, but I can't. ALL unsolicited email is bad, just like all mail to "Resident" is bad and wasteful. All the above waste valuable resources and/or bandwidth that everyone has to pay for. It should be flat-out illegal with severe penalties for engaging in such activities.
If all the above fail, how about I just leave the room for 10 minutes, or minimize that window/switch to another tab and mute the sound for 10 minutes?
One word: Torrent
Can't find a torrent of it? I probably don't need to be watching it then.
In short: Screw you Google, and everyone else who keeps "monitizing" the living fuck out of everything. When I watched the movie Idiocracy, I only laughed for the first couple minutes. Then I got a stone-cold feeling in my gut because I realized that this is where the world really is heading!
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Wow. Some experiments go better than others.
I didn't "say" anything, I posted a link to a picture, which you interpreted any way that pleased you; don't put words in my mouth.
http://www.computermuseumgroningen.nl/terminals/teletypeclose.jpg
How can Microsoft be charging licensing fees for hardware manufacturers to put a non-MS OS on their products? There is some basic fact here that I'm missing; could someone please explain it to me?
Didn't see the point to Caprica, other than NBC/Syfy ("The Syphillis Channel") piling on, riding the coattails of BSG. BSG is done; they should have just let it rest instead of cheapening it by trying to squeeze every last penny of profit possible out of it's legacy. It may be years before I'll go back and watch BSG again from the beginning, but I will not watch Caprica.
What, no UUCP?
I think somebody doesn't get it! :D
..and I'll stick by my nice, ad-free, bullshit-free printed books, that need only my eyes and some light to read, that can be read as many times and as often as I want, that I can loan out to as many people as often as I like, that can't be altered or erased after I've purchased it (short of being physically destroyed, anyway).
But by all means, please do use your e-book readers for your textbooks, newspapers, magazines, PDF files, and all other otherwise printed matter than before too long ends up in the recycle bin. That's a great use for them, I think.
You forgot a few: We need to get rid of TCP, UDP, DNS, and last but not least IP. After all, these protocols are also used for illegal file sharing, so they all have to go. Think of the children!
Yes. This. Once upon a time multiplayer used to require being in the same room or building, connected via LAN (or MIDI, if you want to go back that far), but once the Internet became ubiquitous, that all changed. Why bother putting tons of money and effort into solo gameplay when multiplayer is so much more attractive to everyone?
Really? Do you work for Google and have access to their (according to you) secret database of people's personal information? Can you prove that? Even if you can what has this to do with voluntarily listing your personal information on social networking sites not being a smart move in the first place?
So? Why do you feel the need to protect everyone?
How is that any of your business? If you don't like what I have to say then you can ignore it, and if you don't agree with it then you can give your whole life away to the fucking internet for all I care.
And really, what are they losing? Probably the same stuff we've all already given to Google.
Really? I do regular Google searches for my legal name and nothing comes up, because I was never so stupid as "give up" anything to them in the first place. Problem?
..informed decision
Don't you see, that's my point: most people haven't made an "informed decision", they didn't even think about it! All my friends are doing it, I should do it too!
Let's see how you feel about that when you become a victim of indentity theft, or when the number of telemarketing calls you receive every month goes up by an order of magnitude. Let's see how comfortable you are with your private and personal information being used by marketers or scammers (not that much difference these days) to specifically target you. Let's see how you feel when your employer demands access to all your social networking pages and/or your job is put in jeopardy because there's something they don't like on them. Let's see how you feel when your entire life is put under the microscope by people you don't even know!
Oh and by the way: if you REALLY feel that way about it, then why not put up live internet cameras in your bedroom so we can watch you have sex with your wife? After all, you have nothing to hide and you honestly don't care with what anyone does with your personal information, right?
Newpapers have put up paywalls in the past, and it hasn't worked for them. Television news is free, not counting cable or satellite TV monthly fees, which are moot if you put up an antenna and receive a local station for free; are local TV stations going to start charging a fee to the community they serve, or shut down their news departments? The Boy Scouts of America were once sent a demand from ASCAP to pay a licensing fee for singing campfire songs; is the AP going to start sending licensing fee bills to people who are overheard discussing news storie they've read with others? Is it just me, or is this turning into a Free Speech issue?
If you actually use your real name and personal information on any social networking site, then you are an idiot, plain and simple. You may not even be able to exercise damage control at this point by erasing everything and deleting accounts; it's all still out there somewhere and someone has it -- and in many cases, it's people you never even met in person who you allowed on your friends list in the neverending quest to have more "friends" than your buddies do.
I already know I'm going to get modded down to -1, Troll or -1, Flamebait for posting this, but you can't escape the cold hard truth that so many of you have not been wise, and now you're paying the price.
If they bought an island: they'd get invaded by some nearby country or the private forces of some individual or coporation and told "tough shit" by anyone they appealed to. If they put it in international waters, pretty much the same scenario, except someone might decide to sink them. If they put a satellite in orbit, whatever country the controlling people were in would claim jurisdiction and shut it down anyway, or perhaps if they pissed the wrong people off, it would just simply disappear from orbit. I don't think having your own private army/navy/air force to protect them would even help, in fact it might create more excuses to invade/destroy them. I'm not on the side of the copyright jerks, that's for sure, but there are too many problems in making an idea like this work unless you have essentially the resources of an entire country watching your back.
Seriously: Are the rest of the myopic public going to finally come to their senses and realize this is now the truth? The good news is that it's not irrevocable: we can recover our privacy, it's just going to take effort and sacrifices to accomplish.
It seems that with some things, people just don't learn. Online chat sites and forum sites, not to mention spam filters, have tried for years and years now to do exactly what Apple is trying to do, but determined people will just obfuscate censored words, use completely different words, euphemisms, or use leet-speak. Combine all the above and they may as well be speaking in Navajo (and I wouldn't put it past them to try that, too). Aside from practical considerations, isn't this just treating the symptom rather than addressing the problem?
Was even Soviet-ear Russia as bad as this? Is Iran even as bad as this? Was Saddam-controlled Iraq as bad as this? I'm not sure which angers me more: the act itself, or the utter stupidity that underlies it!
Solar wind doesn't act like wind on Earth, and the satellite wouldn't generate electricity like a windmill.
*facepalm*
Are people really so dumb that they need this explained to them? Am I asking an obvious question?
They get paid regardless. I don't like ads, I won't willingly watch them. Neither you nor anyone else can make me watch them, and I'm not alone in this. Enjoy watching your brain-melting ads, I have better things to do with my time than be another consumer clone.
Gee, I wish I could cop a Polyanna attitude like that whenever I wanted to, but I can't. ALL unsolicited email is bad, just like all mail to "Resident" is bad and wasteful. All the above waste valuable resources and/or bandwidth that everyone has to pay for. It should be flat-out illegal with severe penalties for engaging in such activities.
In short: Screw you Google, and everyone else who keeps "monitizing" the living fuck out of everything. When I watched the movie Idiocracy, I only laughed for the first couple minutes. Then I got a stone-cold feeling in my gut because I realized that this is where the world really is heading!
How much are they paying you to post messages like this? Or are you one of the spammers?