Does it currently work, and have a lifetime program guide subscription? If so then sell it and use the money to buy something more general-purpose. If it doesn't have a lifetime subscription, I'd just junk it and find something else. The hardware is a bit specialized to it's task, and if it's a Series 2 then it's processor is a bit underpowered by today's standards. For cheap you could put together a micro-ATX box with an Atom processor based motherboard in it and not have to worry about proprietary hardware.
You mean people still use wired telephone service? I dropped wired service three years ago as the waste of money that it is and I have no regrets. Unless you have DSL for broadband internet access, or your work/business requires you to have it, or you live somewhere where there is no cell service, I see no reason to have wired telephone service anymore.
but I don't think anything realistic has been proposed here
It seems like every time I hear something from one of these enviromental groups, it's some sort of fantastic garbage like this. We do not live in an agrarian-dominated culture anymore, and nobody wants that! If that whack-job wants to raise and slaughter his own livestock, fine, but most people don't want anything to do with that!
Am I the only one who thought "Well Duh!" when they read this? Just because something is newer doesn't make it better, and it certainly doesn't make it cheaper either! In fact I'm still using paper tape for most of my data-storage needs. Granted, I need about 7-10 days prior notice before booting my copy of Windows XP from paper tape, but I only reboot about once a year anyway so it's not that big a deal.
Many people are also idiots with IQs below 100. They get what they deserve. To be fair, the idiots who would buy such trash would also complain about the ads and probably sue over them.
I visit http://sparkfun.com/ and I find a company that sells electronic parts and kits and things of that nature. I attempt to visit http://sparc.org/ and I get gigantic warnings from both Google and from Mozilla/Firefox telling me it's an "attack site" and it may "harm my computer". I see no basis for their lawsuit; Sparkfun obviously sells electronics, sparc.org obviously creates malware. Case closed.
..so software that creates unwanted advertising pop-ups is called "malware" and the authors of such are prosecuted, but then someone decides to write an operating system that does that by design!? What sort of Bizzarro universe did I wake up into this morning anyway? No fucking way, not even if the OS is free would I put up with that shit!
Read that as: "Comes pre-installed with spyware". Although, as some have previously commented, rural Chinese probably have enough of a time affording the basic necessities for living and can't even dream of affording a computer of any sort.
If I can't get a physical copy of something, then I'm not interested. If I don't want a physical copy of something (i.e. something I only want to see once) then I'm perfectly happy to rent it. I don't need or want so-called "solutions" like this, it's just another way to get me to part with my hard-earned money and give me nothing in return. GTFO.
It's no great surprise that the pro-copyright crowd, RIAA, MPAA, etc. would have criminalistic tendencies -- after all, it's all over the news, and this story is just the icing on the cake: they openly want to be allowed to conduct themselves in such a way that anyone else would be immediately jailed and prosecuted for. I say round all of them up and put 'em in jail now.
"Science Fiction" written the way it ought to be written would end up on the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, or maybe the History Channel, and it would practically be a documentary. The average person wouldn't be able to get through even five minutes of it before they'd go find something else to watch.
If you put an expiration date on my operating system, then I'd be dumping it all and moving to linux in short order. It's bad enough that the hardware goes obsolete in a few years and/or breaks!
I've had recruiters/headhunters who read through my resume, bring me in for an interview, have me spell out for them in detail what my experience and skills are, then stare at me blankly for a few moments and ask me in all seriousness "So what do you do?". I'm not kidding you. It would be helpful if these people were more than just salespeople/paper-pushers, it would help if they had some idea of what the work entails.
I'm sure this will work swimmingly well for them -- until citizens start reporting misbehaviour by the cops, then it'll all suddenly come crashing to the ground.
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Does it currently work, and have a lifetime program guide subscription? If so then sell it and use the money to buy something more general-purpose. If it doesn't have a lifetime subscription, I'd just junk it and find something else. The hardware is a bit specialized to it's task, and if it's a Series 2 then it's processor is a bit underpowered by today's standards. For cheap you could put together a micro-ATX box with an Atom processor based motherboard in it and not have to worry about proprietary hardware.
You mean people still use wired telephone service? I dropped wired service three years ago as the waste of money that it is and I have no regrets. Unless you have DSL for broadband internet access, or your work/business requires you to have it, or you live somewhere where there is no cell service, I see no reason to have wired telephone service anymore.
So can I only pay them 70% of my bill?
*facepalm*
The economy still sucks, DARPA; why are you wasting taxpayer money on bullshit like this?
Hey, now, I never actually mentioned the site in question, so I didn't violate any rules.
Also, THE GAME. XD
..with stone tool on head
/b/ro?
Cave paintings or it didn't happen.
Cave paintings with timestamp or it didn't happen.
People who want to buy will buy, people who don't will just wait. Ineffective policy is ineffective.
but I don't think anything realistic has been proposed here
It seems like every time I hear something from one of these enviromental groups, it's some sort of fantastic garbage like this. We do not live in an agrarian-dominated culture anymore, and nobody wants that! If that whack-job wants to raise and slaughter his own livestock, fine, but most people don't want anything to do with that!
Am I the only one who thought "Well Duh!" when they read this? Just because something is newer doesn't make it better, and it certainly doesn't make it cheaper either! In fact I'm still using paper tape for most of my data-storage needs. Granted, I need about 7-10 days prior notice before booting my copy of Windows XP from paper tape, but I only reboot about once a year anyway so it's not that big a deal.
Many people are also idiots with IQs below 100. They get what they deserve. To be fair, the idiots who would buy such trash would also complain about the ads and probably sue over them.
As someone else pointed out, I'm free to buy it or not buy it. I'm also free to call anyone who does buy it a CHUMP and laugh uproariously at them.
I visit http://sparkfun.com/ and I find a company that sells electronic parts and kits and things of that nature. I attempt to visit http://sparc.org/ and I get gigantic warnings from both Google and from Mozilla/Firefox telling me it's an "attack site" and it may "harm my computer". I see no basis for their lawsuit; Sparkfun obviously sells electronics, sparc.org obviously creates malware. Case closed.
..so software that creates unwanted advertising pop-ups is called "malware" and the authors of such are prosecuted, but then someone decides to write an operating system that does that by design!? What sort of Bizzarro universe did I wake up into this morning anyway? No fucking way, not even if the OS is free would I put up with that shit!
Read that as: "Comes pre-installed with spyware". Although, as some have previously commented, rural Chinese probably have enough of a time affording the basic necessities for living and can't even dream of affording a computer of any sort.
The notion that China is NOT doing the things they are accused of in this story is utter and complete bullshit .
If I can't get a physical copy of something, then I'm not interested. If I don't want a physical copy of something (i.e. something I only want to see once) then I'm perfectly happy to rent it. I don't need or want so-called "solutions" like this, it's just another way to get me to part with my hard-earned money and give me nothing in return. GTFO.
..and I'm not getting one this time, either.
It's no great surprise that the pro-copyright crowd, RIAA, MPAA, etc. would have criminalistic tendencies -- after all, it's all over the news, and this story is just the icing on the cake: they openly want to be allowed to conduct themselves in such a way that anyone else would be immediately jailed and prosecuted for. I say round all of them up and put 'em in jail now.
"Science Fiction" written the way it ought to be written would end up on the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, or maybe the History Channel, and it would practically be a documentary. The average person wouldn't be able to get through even five minutes of it before they'd go find something else to watch.
Scientists in Italy have developed which will move around the lower digestive tract using legs.
Did they accidentally the whole thing, too?
If you put an expiration date on my operating system, then I'd be dumping it all and moving to linux in short order. It's bad enough that the hardware goes obsolete in a few years and/or breaks!
I've had recruiters/headhunters who read through my resume, bring me in for an interview, have me spell out for them in detail what my experience and skills are, then stare at me blankly for a few moments and ask me in all seriousness "So what do you do?". I'm not kidding you. It would be helpful if these people were more than just salespeople/paper-pushers, it would help if they had some idea of what the work entails.
I'm sure this will work swimmingly well for them -- until citizens start reporting misbehaviour by the cops, then it'll all suddenly come crashing to the ground.