Are there any other publishers that do that? Especially major ones? That's very nice of O'Reilly but they only do technical books as far as I'm aware and lend themselves very well to electronic format. However novels and magazines don't really.
I don't want to block people using cellphones completely, I spend an hour a day on the train and I'd like to read a book, study or just sit there in peace in the carriage designated for that purpose. It's not that much to ask surely. There are at least 3 other carriages on the trains I catch where people can make as much noise as they like.
I so wish these were legal in the UK. There are so many ignorant retards about. Train companies here were seriously considering painting windows of the so-called quiet carriages with something that blocks mobile phone signals to stop fuckwits using their phones there, despite the signs all over the place saying "please don't use your phones here".
I'm from the UK, home of the non-existent death panels that your fuckwitted right-wingers like to harp on about. I love going to a doctor and not having to worry about whether I can afford it. I love the fact that I had physiotherapy recently without having to ask my health insurance provider if it's ok. And just for the record I go to a doctor, get a prescription and wait around 10 minutes for the pharmacist to prepare it. In short you're clueless.
I've been to Mexico as well, and was amused to read that Puerto Vallarta was "just as safe as any US city" as if that was some kind of reassurance and nervous to see armed guards at the resort. I didn't have any trouble but then I didn't go wandering too far away into the surrounding countryside. It sounds like the liberals you're talking about are just a bit dim and not really representative of liberals in general.
And yet there's a huge movement in the US against such socialist evils as treating people's illness regardless of whether the insurance industry's death panels approve.
You can still break into your house if you lose your key. You don't need to phone an Indian call centre and try to get them to understand what you need.
This is an interesting article. Two phrases that jump out at me:
"while AT&T and Verizon are clearly the two biggest owners at the core (they dwarf Qwest, the other remaining baby bell), they don’t own anywhere near enough for us to be worried about a monopoly."
and
"it is pretty interesting to see the extent to which the telecommunications market has consolidated over the last decade."
What, in a completely free-market system, would stop AT&T and Verizon merging, buying Qwest and then running the rest of the companies out of business?
The LOL's on you if you think that the better product always wins. A quick look at the history of serial offender Microsoft will show you how many times companies with better products were stepped on or bought out to prevent them becoming a threat.
Let's try this in terms of the real world, not in terms of an industry where people are in short supply. You see in the real world there are an awful lot of people applying for one job, especially now when unemployment in your country is at around 10% and around 7% in mine. Now changing your job is easy in the IT industry where demand tends to outstrip supply. Where supply outstrips demand, and there is no protection for workers, those workers are exploited and can do fuck all about it. Hate your job? Try to find another one which will be just as shit for about the same money or less.
Now in your world making employers to treat employees properly would destroy businesses, but in the century since they were forced to do this didn't happen. In fact the opposite did. They and their employees have done spectacularly well in the last 100 years. Why? Must have been luck.
"Well well you can always invalidate the warranty."
"But I don't want to invalidate the warranty on something that costs hundreds of pounds."
"Well, well you can pay $99 per year on top of the £40 a month to your cellphone company to do what you want with it."
Incidentally can you install what you like using Windows or do you need to fork out for the Mac as well? If you need to buy a Mac as well then that makes it even more hilarious.
Perhaps they would. But so what. I don't give a shit about which platform is the most vulnerable, I'd just like several equivalent ones to choose from. At the moment if I want to run everything I need or want to run I've got a choice of Windows on native hardware or Windows virtualized.
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With the continuing use of XP we'll still be supporting IE6, 7 and 8 for the forseeable future, given that IE9 won't run on XP.
I hope the DRM will always be trivial to remove.
Are there any other publishers that do that? Especially major ones? That's very nice of O'Reilly but they only do technical books as far as I'm aware and lend themselves very well to electronic format. However novels and magazines don't really.
I don't want to block people using cellphones completely, I spend an hour a day on the train and I'd like to read a book, study or just sit there in peace in the carriage designated for that purpose. It's not that much to ask surely. There are at least 3 other carriages on the trains I catch where people can make as much noise as they like.
I don't mind "Hi I'm 5 minutes away pick me up" calls, it's the 20 minute wittering that drives me up the wall.
I so wish these were legal in the UK. There are so many ignorant retards about. Train companies here were seriously considering painting windows of the so-called quiet carriages with something that blocks mobile phone signals to stop fuckwits using their phones there, despite the signs all over the place saying "please don't use your phones here".
Nope it'll be something like this.
I'm from the UK, home of the non-existent death panels that your fuckwitted right-wingers like to harp on about. I love going to a doctor and not having to worry about whether I can afford it. I love the fact that I had physiotherapy recently without having to ask my health insurance provider if it's ok. And just for the record I go to a doctor, get a prescription and wait around 10 minutes for the pharmacist to prepare it. In short you're clueless.
I've been to Mexico as well, and was amused to read that Puerto Vallarta was "just as safe as any US city" as if that was some kind of reassurance and nervous to see armed guards at the resort. I didn't have any trouble but then I didn't go wandering too far away into the surrounding countryside. It sounds like the liberals you're talking about are just a bit dim and not really representative of liberals in general.
Got an example of that?
Or just come to the UK.
Ofcom doesn't have any control over what the media can or can't say, else most of the press would be in deep trouble.
And yet there's a huge movement in the US against such socialist evils as treating people's illness regardless of whether the insurance industry's death panels approve.
Which liberals are those? Not any I know.
You can still break into your house if you lose your key. You don't need to phone an Indian call centre and try to get them to understand what you need.
Oh yeh that's just what we want - OMG LOL crap I revoked my PK crypto.
Shouldn't it be spelt meedurr then to reflect how you actually say the word?
And any app vendors who don't comply will be sleeping with the fishes.
This is an interesting article. Two phrases that jump out at me:
"while AT&T and Verizon are clearly the two biggest owners at the core (they dwarf Qwest, the other remaining baby bell), they don’t own anywhere near enough for us to be worried about a monopoly."
and
"it is pretty interesting to see the extent to which the telecommunications market has consolidated over the last decade."
What, in a completely free-market system, would stop AT&T and Verizon merging, buying Qwest and then running the rest of the companies out of business?
It's getting harder and harder to find stuff made in the developed world. This is one man's attempt in 2005.
The LOL's on you if you think that the better product always wins. A quick look at the history of serial offender Microsoft will show you how many times companies with better products were stepped on or bought out to prevent them becoming a threat.
Let's try this in terms of the real world, not in terms of an industry where people are in short supply. You see in the real world there are an awful lot of people applying for one job, especially now when unemployment in your country is at around 10% and around 7% in mine. Now changing your job is easy in the IT industry where demand tends to outstrip supply. Where supply outstrips demand, and there is no protection for workers, those workers are exploited and can do fuck all about it. Hate your job? Try to find another one which will be just as shit for about the same money or less.
Now in your world making employers to treat employees properly would destroy businesses, but in the century since they were forced to do this didn't happen. In fact the opposite did. They and their employees have done spectacularly well in the last 100 years. Why? Must have been luck.
Its inability to run the software people want to use is what needs to change, nothing else.
Fanboys are hilarious aren't they.
"Well well you can always invalidate the warranty."
"But I don't want to invalidate the warranty on something that costs hundreds of pounds."
"Well, well you can pay $99 per year on top of the £40 a month to your cellphone company to do what you want with it."
Incidentally can you install what you like using Windows or do you need to fork out for the Mac as well? If you need to buy a Mac as well then that makes it even more hilarious.
Perhaps they would. But so what. I don't give a shit about which platform is the most vulnerable, I'd just like several equivalent ones to choose from. At the moment if I want to run everything I need or want to run I've got a choice of Windows on native hardware or Windows virtualized.