Yea, the fact that CDs could be ripped to tape and now to CDs didnt' stop the music industry from making them. The fact that the VCR was going to "ruin all media" thorugh piracy didnt' stop the MPAA from producing tapes.
Let's just hope Apple doesnt' start swinging the DMCA around. I'd hope they'd save something like that as a last resort, and you know how Apple's legal dept. gets...
You WILL get speeding tickets once this system has been 100% deployed.
I'm not so sure. I have a FastLane pass (known in states outside of Massachusetts as E-Z Pass) which is an automated toll collection device which works on all major toll highways in the New England/New York area. I've never gotten a speeding ticket mailed to me, dispite the obvious simplicity of discovering I must have been speeding to go from Exit 22 (Downtown Boston) to Exit 2 (Lee, Pittsfield, Adams.. i.e. the edge of the state next to New York) in about an hour and a half (at approx 123 miles, that puts me at an average of 80mph, which, yes, on a fast day of traffic can happen).
Then again, while I'm speeding, the State Police regularly pass me without so much as caring one bit that I'm bombing around at top speed, so perhaps Oregon is a bit more strict?
Radio Shack stopped this practice long ago, they no longer take your name when you purchase items from their store.
Apparently, between letting people go because they where illiterate morons who couldn't take the names down properly, and people quitting because they where worried that the boss was going to notice their purchase of two VCRs, S-Video cable, and an 8-pack of VHS tapes with their employee discount, the whole process was just more trouble than it was worth.
...beam give off alot of heat and eventualy cause a warming effect? Would a beam of this magnitude affect the weather and/or climate? We're not talking about your average satellite signal here, this thing would probably drop cooked birds on the ground arrays...
Turns out then when you place electrodes on the skin, the skin between the electrodes acts like a crude battery (we're full of electrolyte after all!)
Listen, copper-top, it's our way, or the highway.;-)
I can tell you're from here in the states...
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...because parents should NEVER be held accountable for their own children. Nah.
(PS: At first you said websites would have to take action, then later you said it would suck for the minors and their guardians... so assinine remarks aside, I'm left confused as to what you're saying...)
The real problem arises now with "Panther", the forthcoming Mac OS X release. Panther will cause a severe kernel panic on any old-world ROM machines, meaning the GUI (along with the rest of the OS, including the supplied version of the kernel) has been changed so as to break older machine support. Of course, these reports come from the rumor mill, but it wouldnt' be a suprise to me. However, I wonder if this would cause any problems with MOL, and it certainly won't work on a hacked boot loader.
Mac OS X is much more than Darwin. The other components of Mac OS X need to be adjusted to work on the non-standard hardware as well, althought I'm sure it's much less of a chore to do it for OSX than say, OS 9, where can we get the source for Mac OS X? Oh yeah...
Well, they way I see it, they loose $100 per unit sold. So if they sell 500 units, they loose $5000. Which sucks, until you realie that those 500 people might buy a total of 5 games apiece, let's say. If MS gets $5 per game, they make back $2500. Now imagine once they get caught up to Sony for the sheer number of titles availible. Each person, over the length of their X-Box ownership, buys say 20-25 games. It starts to add up in MS's favor, as slowly over time they make their money back. (These figures, you might note, are made up, but this is how the actual scheme of things is working).
If people bought X-Boxen just to watch movies and play music, Microsoft loses $100 on that unit, and has no chance of recovering it. Not that everyone would buy it and not play games, but it's better if 100% of customers are buying games. Even those who mod their X-Box are playing games, what geek doesn't love a good game now and then?
That made me think of something funny. Everyone buy X-Boxes for you AND your friends and mod them for video and music etc. Then dont' buy any games! DEATH TO MICROSOFT!!! Err....okay time for bed;-)
I'm not too worried about it, it as an AC. Most people who post something like that at all post for the same reasons I post in the forums on facethejury.com;-)
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Yea, the fact that CDs could be ripped to tape and now to CDs didnt' stop the music industry from making them. The fact that the VCR was going to "ruin all media" thorugh piracy didnt' stop the MPAA from producing tapes.
Let's just hope Apple doesnt' start swinging the DMCA around. I'd hope they'd save something like that as a last resort, and you know how Apple's legal dept. gets...
Then again, while I'm speeding, the State Police regularly pass me without so much as caring one bit that I'm bombing around at top speed, so perhaps Oregon is a bit more strict?
...and sue the shit out of AOL, MSN, Yahoo, any and all operators of IRC servers, VoIP systems, and the like.
The sad things is; if tommorow I saw a headline that someone did just that, I wouldn't be suprised in the least.
Radio Shack stopped this practice long ago, they no longer take your name when you purchase items from their store.
Apparently, between letting people go because they where illiterate morons who couldn't take the names down properly, and people quitting because they where worried that the boss was going to notice their purchase of two VCRs, S-Video cable, and an 8-pack of VHS tapes with their employee discount, the whole process was just more trouble than it was worth.
Aim for the face.
...beam give off alot of heat and eventualy cause a warming effect? Would a beam of this magnitude affect the weather and/or climate? We're not talking about your average satellite signal here, this thing would probably drop cooked birds on the ground arrays...
Fog is quite scathing on an April morning.
*wipes tear* LMFAO Dear God, why isn't this modded higher?
*blinks*
...as ridiculous as that sounds, I'd be cool to do "just cause".
Yes, I'll pay $50 for one!
Not Corel, Caldera.
...if he wasn't the one who put the code into the Linux Kernel.
Obviously he had to approve it, but if UNIX source is such a big secret how is Linus supposed to recognize submitted code as such?
*thank you*
I needed that.
...because parents should NEVER be held accountable for their own children. Nah.
(PS: At first you said websites would have to take action, then later you said it would suck for the minors and their guardians... so assinine remarks aside, I'm left confused as to what you're saying...)
Throw on wireless web and phone insurance and that's my plan. I just wish coverage was better in my area, I lose signal everywhere.
The real problem arises now with "Panther", the forthcoming Mac OS X release. Panther will cause a severe kernel panic on any old-world ROM machines, meaning the GUI (along with the rest of the OS, including the supplied version of the kernel) has been changed so as to break older machine support. Of course, these reports come from the rumor mill, but it wouldnt' be a suprise to me. However, I wonder if this would cause any problems with MOL, and it certainly won't work on a hacked boot loader.
Mac OS X is much more than Darwin. The other components of Mac OS X need to be adjusted to work on the non-standard hardware as well, althought I'm sure it's much less of a chore to do it for OSX than say, OS 9, where can we get the source for Mac OS X? Oh yeah...
Oh and FYI, Darwin runs on i386 just fine.
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Well, they way I see it, they loose $100 per unit sold. So if they sell 500 units, they loose $5000. Which sucks, until you realie that those 500 people might buy a total of 5 games apiece, let's say. If MS gets $5 per game, they make back $2500. Now imagine once they get caught up to Sony for the sheer number of titles availible. Each person, over the length of their X-Box ownership, buys say 20-25 games. It starts to add up in MS's favor, as slowly over time they make their money back. (These figures, you might note, are made up, but this is how the actual scheme of things is working).
If people bought X-Boxen just to watch movies and play music, Microsoft loses $100 on that unit, and has no chance of recovering it. Not that everyone would buy it and not play games, but it's better if 100% of customers are buying games. Even those who mod their X-Box are playing games, what geek doesn't love a good game now and then?
That made me think of something funny. Everyone buy X-Boxes for you AND your friends and mod them for video and music etc.
Then dont' buy any games!
DEATH TO MICROSOFT!!!
Err....okay time for bed
Now that I think about it, Neo's boss who bitched him out for oversleeping did seem a little like he could have been a relative of Agent Smith's.
I'm not too worried about it, it as an AC. Most people who post something like that at all post for the same reasons I post in the forums on facethejury.com