In the sense that the act of modding is now also illegal, in addition to the piracy, your liability/culpability under the law is greater now than it was before. Just think: if they can't get you on piracy charges for lack of evidence, now they can get you on modding!
I have found both the dock and the carrying case to be nearly useless. Also, the dock probably costs Apple about two cents to make (assuming they've recovered the cost for their plastic mold), and the carrying case probably costs them about thirty cents (a little cardboard, some fabric and some elastic). I doubt this is where Apple is getting its cost savings. Anyway, your better off buying aftermarket items that are just plain better.
...and I'm sure it's just a slight coincidence that Apple announced that BMW is integrated iPod connectors into new models as a dealer-installed option. Hmmm...BMW vs Fiat...Apple vs Microsoft. I really can't understand why anyone thinks there's a decision to make there.
And I believe that State law was on my side. I doesn't matter anyway, since they didn't change the price for at least another few weeks. I lost patience with the channels of recourse for these things. Consumers are screwed in these situations. At least I went on record with the FTC and the NY State AG's office. There's too much red tape to justify actually pursuing this type of claim, though. Also, documenting the transaction and the website's offer is a pain in the ass, and subject to defenses by Best Buy that the printed docs are forged. In other words, I gave up and put Best Buy on my shit list and call them out as bastards every chance that I get.
...when charges are "pending" the CC company won't cancel them yet, but they still diminish your spending limit. That's what CapitalOne does anyway, and I'd imagine they're industry standard.
They'll take anything you bought there back anytime, under almost any circumstances. You know why? Because enough customers respect that and buy there because of that to offset the abusers. As a business person, you should not be so narrow minded as to assume that ANY of your customers are scamming you.
At the end of 2002, I was delighted to find a pair of CDJ-1000 CD players on sale at bestbuy.com for the ungodly low price of $800 and change each. I bought two immediately. Then I received an email indicating that they were revoking the offer. That's not allowed under the law, so I called them up and offered to file for fraud with the FTC.
They treated me like shit, and refused to honor the price. I filed against them at the FTC (yeah, a lot of good that did me--ho hum). I also demanded that they not process the charge on my card.
Not only did they charge my credit card, they double-charged it to the tune of $4000! Consequently, I spent the week Christmas 2002 with my credit card maxed out for a pair of turntables that I wasn't getting.
Obviously, Best Buy should be shot dead on the spot and dragged through the streets like the scum-sucking frauds that they are.
It's nonsense like your comment that causes Hollywood to ruin PKD stories. Have you read Minority Report? Was it necessary for them to create that fucking nonsense about child abusers? How about dulling down the KEY dynamic of Anderton as victim of his own ambitions? What about the dull rendition of Witwer as an ass-kissing punk who is playing Anderton in order ot get his job? What about the military character? How about the fact that precogs, who have been floating in jelly since childhood, can't get up and run around? Oh yeah, and let's completely fucking forget about how precogs work and what "minority report" means, because that's too boring for a film. We'd prefer jet packs and guys who look like they got lost on their way to the set for the Matrix. And God knows Tom Cruise is the kind of "everyman" character that PKD writes about.
As for punchcards being left out--it didn't seem to bother them that the precog results were delivered on balls through pneumatic tubing...LOL.
Why is it so fucking hard for people to understand that the protagonist of PKD stories is just some working class stiff who's trying to get from one day to the next. I actually think Arnold did a half-decent job of portraying that, despite his grotesque physical appearance. Based on his performance in the Fifth Element, Bruce Willis is also a worthy PKD "hero". Personally, I would cast Ed O'Neill or William Macy or Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the lead in a PKD story. FUCK KEANU! That asshole deserves multiple lifetimes of punishment for sucking even more life out of big budget Hollywood.
If you can't see the regional picture, that's your problem. Your shortsightedness doesn't mean it's a bad idea to turn Iraq upside down in order to flush out regional terrorism, bring the fight to the doorstep of the enemy, and scare the piss out of neighboring countries and their terror-sponsoring regimes. And stop saying that Iraq has no ties to terrorism. Two easy examples are the bounty Saddam paid to Palestinian "martyrs" and the existence of Ansar in Kurdish territories. Sure, no one has linked Saddam to Al Qaeda (yet), but why is that necessary? If you think that Al Qaeda is something categorically different than the PLO, Hamas, Fatah, IJ, etc., you're a fool. If you think that smashing Saudi terrorism in direct retaliation for 9/11 will solve the problem, you are an even bigger fool.
...so I'll just go to Romania to burn 8 thousand copies of illegally downloaded Britney and fly it to the USA and sell it to Tower Records on the cheap. I'm sure there's no violation there at all.
The USA does lots of things, some of which might be construed as causally connected to empowering despots and tyrants. But in every single case, the actions of those tyrants and despots are governed by free will. The USA does not "pull the trigger" so to speak, even if it provides the gun. There is a huge difference. Please cite credible sources that US citizens hacked innocent people to death with machetes. In turn, I will show you credible evidence that Saudis killed three thousand Americans.
Ask yourself: Is this the work product of a legal team that stands to gain many millions of dollars (and already has a few in the form of a retainer)? I don't think so. Get ready to see (God, it hurts just thinking about the recursion of it) SCO's lawsuit against its own lawyers.
Nerds might not be lawyers, but lawyers can be nerds. As a nerd in lawyering (IAAL), I find this letter amusing. I doubt it was written by an actual lawyer on behalf of the firm. Any self-respecting lawyer would identify himself as such on the signature line. Work product from a serious law firm is not spruced up with ALL CAPS and bold text unless it is total amateur night.
Of course, I work out of New Yor, but even Cali lawyers usually generate professionally acceptable output. The reference to the MoFo lawyer in the opening line is strange, too. Lawyers rarely team up between firms unless they are being forced to do so. I know a letter from me on behalf of my client is going to avoid speaking on behalf of another law firm except in some really rare instances!
Anyway, it looks like someone's playing lawyer to scare HardOCP. If not, there's a legal malpractice claim on the horizon. ; ) (I told you -- IAAL).
Sorry, but the parent post is just silly dumb. All you need to know is that Newton will allow you to write complete cursive sentences while translating them to typed text on the fly. The fact that this joker can't tweak his handwriting to make the interpreter more effective is entirely PEBKAC.
I like that you have some historical perspective on this. The real point, though, is that there is nothing novel about science fiction at all. The Greeks, being a readily-available historical counterpart to our civilization, are only a link in a much longer chain of storytelling history.
I know it's lame to follow a funny post with a serious one, but I've been bothered by the earnest complaints about a second mouse button for a long time. In my experience, contextual menus (which is presumably what people want those second buttons for) are implemented poorly in Windows 2000 and the apps that run on it. I know this because my Thinkpad's left button broke and I've been trying to work with only a right mouse button for a few weeks. There are just some situations where you can't right click to get what you want. Sure, it's often the application's fault, but it still sucks.
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In the sense that the act of modding is now also illegal, in addition to the piracy, your liability/culpability under the law is greater now than it was before. Just think: if they can't get you on piracy charges for lack of evidence, now they can get you on modding!
...nearly all decent new mobile phones have AM/FM. I know my k700 does, and I carry it more often than my iPod.
I have found both the dock and the carrying case to be nearly useless. Also, the dock probably costs Apple about two cents to make (assuming they've recovered the cost for their plastic mold), and the carrying case probably costs them about thirty cents (a little cardboard, some fabric and some elastic). I doubt this is where Apple is getting its cost savings. Anyway, your better off buying aftermarket items that are just plain better.
...and I'm sure it's just a slight coincidence that Apple announced that BMW is integrated iPod connectors into new models as a dealer-installed option. Hmmm...BMW vs Fiat...Apple vs Microsoft. I really can't understand why anyone thinks there's a decision to make there.
Read this article and you will see that a very successful business can be built on a customer focus (the urban legend is a peripheral point): link.
And I believe that State law was on my side. I doesn't matter anyway, since they didn't change the price for at least another few weeks. I lost patience with the channels of recourse for these things. Consumers are screwed in these situations. At least I went on record with the FTC and the NY State AG's office. There's too much red tape to justify actually pursuing this type of claim, though. Also, documenting the transaction and the website's offer is a pain in the ass, and subject to defenses by Best Buy that the printed docs are forged. In other words, I gave up and put Best Buy on my shit list and call them out as bastards every chance that I get.
...when charges are "pending" the CC company won't cancel them yet, but they still diminish your spending limit. That's what CapitalOne does anyway, and I'd imagine they're industry standard.
They'll take anything you bought there back anytime, under almost any circumstances. You know why? Because enough customers respect that and buy there because of that to offset the abusers. As a business person, you should not be so narrow minded as to assume that ANY of your customers are scamming you.
At the end of 2002, I was delighted to find a pair of CDJ-1000 CD players on sale at bestbuy.com for the ungodly low price of $800 and change each. I bought two immediately. Then I received an email indicating that they were revoking the offer. That's not allowed under the law, so I called them up and offered to file for fraud with the FTC.
They treated me like shit, and refused to honor the price. I filed against them at the FTC (yeah, a lot of good that did me--ho hum). I also demanded that they not process the charge on my card.
Not only did they charge my credit card, they double-charged it to the tune of $4000! Consequently, I spent the week Christmas 2002 with my credit card maxed out for a pair of turntables that I wasn't getting.
Obviously, Best Buy should be shot dead on the spot and dragged through the streets like the scum-sucking frauds that they are.
...appears to be a typical fansite.
As for punchcards being left out--it didn't seem to bother them that the precog results were delivered on balls through pneumatic tubing...LOL.
Why is it so fucking hard for people to understand that the protagonist of PKD stories is just some working class stiff who's trying to get from one day to the next. I actually think Arnold did a half-decent job of portraying that, despite his grotesque physical appearance. Based on his performance in the Fifth Element, Bruce Willis is also a worthy PKD "hero". Personally, I would cast Ed O'Neill or William Macy or Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the lead in a PKD story. FUCK KEANU! That asshole deserves multiple lifetimes of punishment for sucking even more life out of big budget Hollywood.
I'm an American and I've been using both a P800 and a P900 in New York since each of them came out. You can stuff that FUD where the sun don't shine.
...Apple could just be trying to keep the machine quiet in response to complaints by its users about the noisy fans in the previous G4/G5 cases.
...music.
If you can't see the regional picture, that's your problem. Your shortsightedness doesn't mean it's a bad idea to turn Iraq upside down in order to flush out regional terrorism, bring the fight to the doorstep of the enemy, and scare the piss out of neighboring countries and their terror-sponsoring regimes. And stop saying that Iraq has no ties to terrorism. Two easy examples are the bounty Saddam paid to Palestinian "martyrs" and the existence of Ansar in Kurdish territories. Sure, no one has linked Saddam to Al Qaeda (yet), but why is that necessary? If you think that Al Qaeda is something categorically different than the PLO, Hamas, Fatah, IJ, etc., you're a fool. If you think that smashing Saudi terrorism in direct retaliation for 9/11 will solve the problem, you are an even bigger fool.
Because America was just chugging right along before the Bush administration took over, save for the occasional TERROR ATTACK ON NEW YORK CITY.
...so I'll just go to Romania to burn 8 thousand copies of illegally downloaded Britney and fly it to the USA and sell it to Tower Records on the cheap. I'm sure there's no violation there at all.
The USA does lots of things, some of which might be construed as causally connected to empowering despots and tyrants. But in every single case, the actions of those tyrants and despots are governed by free will. The USA does not "pull the trigger" so to speak, even if it provides the gun. There is a huge difference. Please cite credible sources that US citizens hacked innocent people to death with machetes. In turn, I will show you credible evidence that Saudis killed three thousand Americans.
...it's copyright. Do you expect anyone to take you seriously if you can't even spell the name of your enemy?
Ask yourself: Is this the work product of a legal team that stands to gain many millions of dollars (and already has a few in the form of a retainer)? I don't think so. Get ready to see (God, it hurts just thinking about the recursion of it) SCO's lawsuit against its own lawyers.
Nerds might not be lawyers, but lawyers can be nerds. As a nerd in lawyering (IAAL), I find this letter amusing. I doubt it was written by an actual lawyer on behalf of the firm. Any self-respecting lawyer would identify himself as such on the signature line. Work product from a serious law firm is not spruced up with ALL CAPS and bold text unless it is total amateur night.
Of course, I work out of New Yor, but even Cali lawyers usually generate professionally acceptable output. The reference to the MoFo lawyer in the opening line is strange, too. Lawyers rarely team up between firms unless they are being forced to do so. I know a letter from me on behalf of my client is going to avoid speaking on behalf of another law firm except in some really rare instances!
Anyway, it looks like someone's playing lawyer to scare HardOCP. If not, there's a legal malpractice claim on the horizon. ; ) (I told you -- IAAL).
Sorry, but the parent post is just silly dumb. All you need to know is that Newton will allow you to write complete cursive sentences while translating them to typed text on the fly. The fact that this joker can't tweak his handwriting to make the interpreter more effective is entirely PEBKAC.
I like that you have some historical perspective on this. The real point, though, is that there is nothing novel about science fiction at all. The Greeks, being a readily-available historical counterpart to our civilization, are only a link in a much longer chain of storytelling history.
I know it's lame to follow a funny post with a serious one, but I've been bothered by the earnest complaints about a second mouse button for a long time. In my experience, contextual menus (which is presumably what people want those second buttons for) are implemented poorly in Windows 2000 and the apps that run on it. I know this because my Thinkpad's left button broke and I've been trying to work with only a right mouse button for a few weeks. There are just some situations where you can't right click to get what you want. Sure, it's often the application's fault, but it still sucks.